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ee ül. MEN: see he - om. eS ee LULU = tanai THE CHURCHES 179 exactly when it is not easy to Say, except that it was probably 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 landingplaces, now otherwise obliterated, 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 Boathatch, 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
