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" out. I can't help thinking too that, in
" complaisance to the galleries, the ar-
" chitect has reversed the order of the
" windows, it being always usual to have
" the large ones nearer the eye, and the
" small, by way of Attic story, on the
" top."
This church is a vicarage, in the gift
of the Bishop of London.
St. MARTIN'S Church yard, St. Martin's
lane, Charing Cross.
St. MARTIN'S court, a large, handsome
court, with a free stone pavement in St.
Martin's lane, Charing Cross.
St. MARTIN'S Ironmonger lane, a church
which stood at the corner of Church alley,
in Ironmonger lane, and in Cheap ward;
but being destroyed by the dreadful fire of
London, and not rebuilt, the parish was
united to St. Olave Jewry. Newc. Rep.
Eccles.
St. MARTIN'S lane, 1. Opposite Northum-
berland house in the Strand; thus named
from the church of St. Martin's in the
Fields. 2. Canon street, Walbrook; so
named from the church of St. Martin's
Orgar, which was formerly on the east
side of it.
St. MARTIN'S LE GRAND, extends from
the corner of Blowbladder street to Al-
dersgate. This street, as far as Bell court
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near St. Anne's lane, as well as all the
courts on each side, is within its own li-
berty, and in the government of West-
minster. It took its name from a colle-
giate church founded here by one Ingal-
ricus and his brother Edward, in the
year 1056, for a Dean, secular Canons,
and Priests, and dedicated to St. Martin.
Afterwards the addition of le Grand was
added, from the extraordinary privileges
of sanctuary granted to it by several Mo-
narchs. Hither thieves, ruffians, and
murderers used to fly for safety; here
robbers brought their stolen goods, which
they shared among themselves, or sold to
the inhabitants: here also lived the makers
of picklocks; the counterfeiters of keys
and seals; the forgers of false evidence;
those who made chains, beads, and plate
of gilt copper, which they sold for gold;
and, in short, gamesters, bawds, and
strumpets. To so great a height of li-
centiousness was this sanctuary grown,
that in the reign of Henry VII. the She-
riffs of London venturing to take from
thence by violence a person who had
taken sanctuary there, the Abbot of West-
minster exhibited a bill to the King against
them, upon which the cause was heard
in the Star-chamber, and the Sheriff se-
verely fined. Maitland.
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