Oldal 201 [201]
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THE CHURCHES 179
exactly when it is not easy to
Say, except that it was prob¬
ably early in the twelfth
century and after the Great
Fire of 1136, there was a
great multiplication of small
churches, and three or four of
them seem to mark landing¬
places, now otherwise obliter¬
ated, on the Walbrook. First
we have St. Mary Somerset,
which Stow very judiciously
interprets Somer’s hithe,
quoting the name of Edred’s
hithe, afterwards Queenhithe, which was
close by. Then we come to a lock or
“hatch.” This is marked by St. Mary
Mounthaw, where it is not easy to accept
otow s Monthaunt family, of which no records
exist. Then we have another “hatch,” St.
Mary Bothaw, usually said to mean Boat¬
hatch, but more probably a wooden gate-lock
called in some early documents Board-hatch
or " la Bord-hawe.” Next we reach St. Mary AR
Woolchurch Haw; in " Woolchurch” I think
there is an allusion to the neighbouring
“ DOOR OF ST. DUNSTAN'S CHURCH