Thus the appearance of the city, with
respect to its buildings, ornaments, and in-
habitants, received a considerable altera-
tion from the abolition of popery in
these kingdoms; and the reader will pro-
bably be pleased at seeing, at one view,
a list of these religious houses, which will
the better enable him to form an idea of
the difference between London at that
time and the present.

The priories then were, that of St. John
of Jerusalem, near Clerkenwell.

That of the Holy Trinity of Christ
church, or Creechurch, within Aldgate.

That of St. Bartholomew the Great,
between Newgate street and West Smith-
field.

The priory or abbey of Bermondsey,
Southwark.

The priory of the Knights Templars,
in Fleet street.  And

The old Temple of Holborn.

The friaries were, that of the crutched
or crossed friars, in St. Olave's, Hart
street.

That of the brethren de Sacca, or
de pœnitentia Jesu Christi, in the Old
Jewry.

The Charter house monks, or the house
of the Carthusians, between St. John's
street and Goswell street.

The New Abbey, by East Smithfield.

And that of Westminster Abbey.

The five following were convents of
begging friars;

Black friars in Holborn, and

The black friars, Dominicans, or
preaching friars, near Ludgate.

The gray friars, or Franciscans, near
Newgate.

The Augustine friars, in Broad street.

And the white friars, or Carmelites, in
Fleet street.

The convents of women were, that of
Clerkenwell.

That of St. Helen, within Bishopsgate.

That of St. Clare, in the Minories.

And that of Holiwell by Shoreditch.

The guilds or fraternities were, the
brotherhood of St. Fabian and St. Sebas-
tian, in St. Botolph's, Aldgate.

The fraternity and chapel of the Holy
Trinity, in Leadenhall; and innumerable
others, founded in most churches.

In the reign of Queen Elizabeth, the
far greatest part of this metropolis was
contained within the walls, and even in
these narrow limits were many gardens,
which have been since converted into
lanes, courts, and alleys.  The buildings
of London were, on the west, bounded
by the monastery of St. Catharine's;