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i te ee ee ee | a í Ce tan SE § ez BARNARD'S INN opposite house of the Blackfriars. A little higher up stream than the Blackfriars was the famous Fleet Prison, which figures in so many books, memoirs, and novels. The exact site is marked by one of the city eyesores, a hall built in a kind of mock-Gothic for a meeting-place for Dissenters. The prison was taken down in 1844. The Fleet river still runs in a kind of sewer underground, and discharges 2 I the city in the reign of Edward VI; and now chiefly memorable as having given its name to the smaller local houses of detention throughout the country. In front of us is the place through which formerly flowed the tidal waters of the Fleet ; and we read in Sfow that when the fmperor Charles V visited Henry VIII, his suite was lodged in Bridewell, and a bridge having been specially made for the purpose, the Emperor occupied the
