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Stephen’s, Walbrook, its steeple only by St. Mary le Bow.” The
removal of the entrance-gate to a place whence it can be seen from
Fleet Street is a great improvement. John Milton lived for some
years in a house near the church on a site now covered by the back
of Punch Office.
We now come to the foot of the slope mentioned above, and find
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SOUTH SQUARE, GRAY'S INN
ourselves in Ludgate Circus, a fine open space surrounded with mean
modern buildings. On the right was formerly the palace of Bridewell,
sometime inhabited by Henry VIII after the palace at Westminster
was burnt, and before the palace at Whitehall had been taken from
Cardinal Wolsey. No remains exist of Bridewell, nor yet of the
‘ Hospital” or workhouse, established on its site by the authorities of