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to Waltham Forest: on which side lies
one ward of the parish called Leyton
Stone, in a pleasant and healthful situa-
tion, insomuch that the number of the in-
habitants being greatly increased, a chapel
of ease has been lately built for their for their con-
venience.
The parish church is a small building
consisting of a chancel and two isles. It
is dedicated to the Virgin Mary; and the
patronage of the vicarage is vested in Mr.
Gansel.
LOWER court, Little Minories.
LOWER GUN alley, Green Bank, Wapping.
LOWER SHADWELL, near Shadwell dock.
LOWER street, 1. East Smithfield. 2. Isling-
ton. 3. Shadwell.
LOWER Turning lane, Shadwell.
LOWER WELL alley, Green Bank, Wap-
ping.
LOWER WET DOCK, near Deptford.
LOWER'S yard, Long Walk, King John's
court.
LOWMAN'S pond, a narrow street or lane in
Southwark, so called from its being built
on a spot which was before a pond. In
this street is the house of ------ Clark,
Esq; the front of which faces the garden.
It is remarkable, that this front, which
has a mixture of Gothic and modern ar-
chitecture, is completely covered with
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flints and shells; as are also the garden
walls, which are crowned with little tur-
rets of grotto work; the garden is laid
out with great order, and every thing has
a neat, whimsical, and grotesque ap-
pearance.
LOWMAN'S street, Gravel lane.
LUCAS'S alley, Quaker street, Spitalfields.
LUCAS'S street, Rotherhith.
LUCAS'S yard, Cock alley, Wapping.
LUDGATE, is situated 797 feet south of
Newgate, and according to Geffry of
Monmouth, took its name from King
Lud; but as that historian has justly for-
feited all credit among the learned, his
assertion has no weight; for it is certain
that the ancient Britons had no walled
towns. The name of this gate is there-
fore with much greater propriety derived
from its situation near the rivulet Flood,
Flud, Vloet, Fleote or Fleet, which ran in-
to Fleet Ditch.
The present gate was erected in the
year 1586, with the statue of Queen Eli-
zabeth on the west front, and those of
the pretended King Lud, and his two
sons Androgeus and Theomantius or Te-
manticus on the east. Strype's edit. of
Stow.
LUDGATE PRISON. This gate was in the
year 1373, constituted a prison for poor
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