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son’s Court, which, by the way,
is not called after him, and in
1776 he took up his residence
in Bolt Court, in a house after¬
wards pulled down, and died
there in 1784. We must not
forget that Izaak Walton kept
a shop at the south-west corner
of Chancery Lane, the exact
site of which would now be in
the middle of the roadway.
When we reach Salisbury
Court, on the south side, we
are in the heart of the Whitefriars’ pre¬
cinct. The privilege of sanctuary, en¬
joyed by the Carmelites, clung to the
place after the dissolution ; and if we want
to know what it was like in the time of
the Stuarts we may read Sir Walter
Scott's account of Alsatia in 7he For¬
tunes of Nigel. Now, the whole place
is covered with printing-houses, and the
Office of the SZ. James's Gazette stands
as nearly as possible on the site of the
mansion of the Earls of Dorset, one of
OLD HOUSES IN SOUTH SQUARE, GRAYS INN