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THE CHURCHES. 197
flowed with pure poison; and a second
spring near the wall, which was arched over
by Whittington, cannot have been much
better.
We may now enter within the circuit
of the walls at Bishopsgate, and we shall
come immediately to a very small but very
ancient church, about whose history, how¬
ever, the records seem to be wonderfully
silent. This is St. Ethelburga’s, a curious
little place, with a few lancet windows, but
no other features to detain us, the most
remarkable thing about it being the en¬
trance through an archway under
a shop. This was a common
arrangement, which we may trace
at St. Katherine Coleman and
St. Giles’s, Cripplegate, the
church we have just left, as well
as at St. Helen’s, to which we
are just coming. Very few great
. names are connected with St.
Ethelburga’s ; for though we find
Robert Kilwardby among the
rectors, it cannot have been the
famous Dominican friar who