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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 endowed 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 underground, 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 denotes, from which the others are derived. In ij fy k : ae fF Pa 4 2 + - ale Ún pi 7 * 1" eng VESTRY IN ST. OLAVES CHURCH, HART STREET, FENCHURCH STREET process of time, but
