Stranica 256 [256]
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234 THE CITY AS IT IS 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 afterwards 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’ precinct. The privilege of sanctuary, enjoyed 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 Fortunes 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
