Stranica 252 [252]
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230 d Éz IRS Ed lé tép AS. he ae converted Jews. Its full history, how many converts it contained, and its eradual transfer into a record office, are things which have never been detailed. The visitor will observe, when, ah = 7 Sens pe err re = ar új 4 j ke i ÍJ fi | - * i — like Dr. Johnson, he takes a walk down Fleet Street, that his way is, literally, downhill. He is, in fact, Lc descending into the valley from which the street takes its name. “ Fleet” is an Anglo-Saxon word which denotes a tidal estuary. The Fleet was that part of the Hole-bourne into which the tide from the Thames flowed and out of which it ebbed. This ebb and flow probably extended almost to Temple Bar before the twelfth century. At Temple Bar there was a spur of higher ground which was reached from Holborn by Fetter OLD HOUSE BY TEMPLE BAR and Shoe Lanes. I do not know the meaning of the name of Fetter Lane, but the other name is a corruption of Show-well Lane, the show well being some distance to the northward. The ‘‘ Show” may have been of rags and ribbons, such as are still to be seen round sacred wells in superstitious countries, —
