Stranica 200 [200]
178 THE CHURCHES
Mounthaw, Somerset,
and Abchurch? Let
us take these first and
in order. They all
seem to have been
parts of one great
parish, dedicated at a
very remote period to
the Blessed Virgin,
and as they were one
by one built and en¬
dowed were distin¬
guished in popular
speech by some man s
name or nickname or by some local or other peculiarity. While
Westcheap was an open market-place there flowed along its eastern
side a. stream, now
hidden far under¬
ground, known as the
Wallbrook, generally
written Walbrook. On
the western side of this
brook was the parish
church of St. Mary—
ot. Mary Aldermary
—the original church,
as its second name de¬
notes, from which the
others are derived. In
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VESTRY IN ST. OLAVES CHURCH, HART STREET, FENCHURCH STREET
process of time, but