_1. The first ST. GILES'S CHURCH._
_2. Remains of the Walls, antiently enclosing the Hospital precincts._
_3. Site of the Gallows and afterwards of the Pound_
_4. Way to Uxbridge now OXFORD ST._
_5._ ELDE-STRATE, _since called HOG-LANE_.
_6._ LE-LANE, _now MONMOUTH ST._
_7. Site of the_ SEVEN DIALS, _formerly called COCK and PYE FIELDS_.
_8._ ELM CLOSE _since called LONG-ACRE_.
_9. Site of_ LINCOLNS-INN-FIELDS _formerly called FICKETS-FIELDS_.
A VIEW _of part of the North-west Suburbs_ OF LONDON, _as they appeared,
anno 1570. Including the whole of the parish of ST. GILES in the FIELDS and
its immediate Neighbourhood, its_ PAROCHIAL CHURCHES _erected at different
periods &c._
_The part of the North West Suburbs of London, since called Saint Giles's
was about the time of the Norman Conquest an un-built tract of country, or
but thinly scattered with habitations.--The parish derived its name if not
its origin from the ancient Hospital for Lepers, which was built on the
site of the present church by MATILDA queen of King Henry I and dedicated
to Saint Giles: before which time there had been only a small Chapel or
Oratory on the spot.--It is described in old records as abounding with
gardens and dwellings in the flourishing times of Saint Giles's Hospital,
but declined in population and buildings after the suppression of that
establishment and remained but an inconsiderable village till the end of
the reign of Elizabeth, after which period it was rapidly built on and
became distinguished for the number and rank of its inhabitants. The great
increase of St. Giles's Parish occasioned the separation of St. Georges
Bloomsbury Parish from it anno 1734.--The above view (which is partly
supplied by the great Plan of London by Ralph Aggas, and partly from
authorities furnished by parochial documents) was taken anno 1570._
The Seal of the Antient Hospital of St. Giles.
_pp. 190, 191._
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