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238 THE CIty “AS ZÁST 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 « # = 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
