Stranica 259 [259]
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At the old-fashioned little office of Mr. Punch we come to a fine view, greatly improved of late years, of St. Bride’s Church, the steeple of which is one of Wren’s masterpieces. Mr. Hawkins, the present vicar, says of it, with a pardonable partiality, that "its interior is only surpassed by that of St. 23/ whom obtained it from Bishop Jewell of Salisbury. Here John Locke was living when he wrote the famous Assay on the fluman Understanding. Richardson, the novelist, was a printer in Salisbury Court, or Square, as it is now called, and here for a short time employed Oliver Goldsmith to correct the press. Ihe house was at the north-western corner. Side ok > — ah Sa 5 . \ » | , ma 4 | La u . 4 ah a" P > a OLD SERJEANTS' INN
