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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, however, 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
