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Bird Cage alley. 1. Anchor street.* 2. In
the Borough.* 3. St. Margaret's Hill,
Southwark.*
Birdcatchers alley, Whitechapel.
Bird in hand alley, Cheapside.*
Bishop's court. 1. Ailsbury street. 2.
Brook's street. 3. Chancery lane, from
the Bishop of Chichester's house near
that place. 4. Coleman street. 5. Dur-
ham yard in the Strand. 6. Fore street.
7. Gray's Inn lane. 8. Little Old Bailey.
9. Lothbury. 10. Old Soho. 11. Old
street.
Bishop's yard, Charles street, Grosvenor
square.
Bishopsgate, is situated 1440 feet
north west of Aldgate. Mr Strype ima-
gines that it was erected by Erken-
wald Bishop of London about the year
675, a conjecture founded only on the
effigies of two Bishops wherewith this
gate was formerly adorned, and from
which it might take its name: but
it is probable that it was not erected so
early, since Mr. Stow could not find
it mentioned before the year 1210.
In the reign of King Henry III. the
Anseatic company residing in this city, in
consideration of several privileges granted
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them, obliged themselves and their
successors, not only to keep this gate
in repair, but to defend it, whenever
it should be attacked by an enemy:
and by this company it was rebuilt
in a beautiful manner in the year
1479. On the south side over the
gateway, was placed a stone image of
a Bishop with a mitre on his head;
he had a long beard, eyes sunk, and an
old mortified face, and was supposed to
present St. Erkenwald. On the north
side was another Bishop with a smooth
face, reaching out his right hand to be-
stow his benedictions, and holding a
crosier in his left, who is thought to
have been the courtly Bishop William
the Norman: this last was accompanied
by two other figures in stone, supposed to
be King Alfred, and his son Eldred Earl
of Mercia. The present structure is a plain
neat edifice erected in 1735. On the top
over the gateway, which is very lofty, is
the city arms supported by dragons; and
on each side of the gate is a postern for
the convenience of foot passengers.
Bishopsgate street extends from Corn-
hill, thro' the gate, to Norton Fal-
gate, that part between the gate and
Cornhill being called Bishopsgate street
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