DEACON’S _court_, Quakers street, Spitalfields.†
DEADMAN’S _place_, near Dirty lane, Southwark.
DEAL _street_, Coverley’s fields.
DEAN AND FLOWN _street_, Fashion street.
DEAN’S _court_, 1. Bedfordbury.† 2. Dean street, Fetter lane.† 3. Dean
street, Red Lion square, Holborn.† 4. Dean street, Soho.† 5. Great
Carter lane. 6. Little Old Bailey. 7. St. Martin’s le Grand.† 8. New
Round court in the Strand.† 9. St. Paul’s Church yard, where the
house belonging to the Dean of St. Paul’s stands.
DEAN’S _passage_, Huggen lane, Thames street.
DEAN _street_, 1. A very neat street in Fetter lane, Fleet street.† 2.
High Holborn.† 3. Little Cock hill, Shadwell.† 4. Soho.† 5. Tyburn
lane.† 6. Westminster.
DEAN’S _yard_, 1. Shoreditch.† 2. Near Tothill street.†
DEARING’S _rents_, Liquorpond street.†
DEFOE’S _court_, New Bond street.†
DEFORD’S _court_, Broad street, Marshall street.†
DELAHAY’S _street_, by Duke’s street, Westminster.†
_Court of_ DELEGATES. This is the highest court for civil affairs
belonging to the church, to which appeals are carried from the
spiritual courts; for upon the abolishing of the papal power within
this kingdom by Henry VIII. in the year 1534, it was enacted by
parliament, that no appeals should from thenceforward be made to
Rome; but in default of justice in any of the spiritual courts, the
party aggrieved might appeal to the King in his court of Chancery;
upon which a commission under the great seal should be directed to
such persons as his Majesty should think fit to nominate. These
Commissioners to whom the King thus delegates his power, generally
consist of Noblemen, Bishops, and Judges, both of the common and
civil law; and as this court is not fixed, but occasional, these
Commissioners, or Delegates, are varied at the pleasure of the Lord
Chancellor, who appoints them. No appeals lie from this court; but
upon good reasons assigned, the Lord Chancellor may grant a
commission of review.
DENHAM’S _yard_, Drury lane.†
DENMAN’S _court_, East Smithfield.†
DENMARK _court_, in the Strand.
DENMARK _street_, 1. Ratcliff Highway. 2. St. Giles’s.
DENNIS _passage_, James’s street.†
DENTRY’S _yard_, Wall street, Spitalfields.†
DENT’S _alley_, Red Cross alley, St. Margaret’s hill.†
DEPTFORD, anciently called West Greenwich, is said to have received
its present name from its having a deep ford over the little river
Ravensbourn, near its influx into the Thames, where it has now a
bridge. It is a large and populous town in Kent, four miles and a
half from London, and is divided into Upper and Lower Deptford,
which contain together two churches, several meeting houses, and
about 1900 houses. It is most remarkable for its noble dock, where
the royal navy was formerly built and repaired, till it was found
more convenient to build the larger ships at Woolwich, and other
places, where there is a greater depth of water: but notwithstanding
this, the yard is enlarged to more than double its former
dimensions, and a vast number of hands are constantly employed. It
has a wet dock of two acres for ships, and another of an acre and a
half, with vast quantities of timber and other stores, and extensive
buildings, as storehouses, and offices, for the use of the place,
besides dwelling houses for those officers who are obliged to live
upon the spot, in order to superintend the works. Here the royal
yachts are generally kept, and near the dock is the seat of Sir John
Evelyn, called Say’s Court, where Peter the Great, Czar of Muscovy,
resided for some time, and in this yard completed his knowledge and
skill in the practical part of naval architecture.
In this town are two hospitals, one of which was incorporated by
King Henry VIII. in the form of a college, for the use of the
seamen, and is commonly called _Trinity House_ of Deptford Strond;
this contains twenty-one houses, and is situated near the church.
The other called _Trinity Hospital_, has thirty-eight houses
fronting the street. This is a very handsome edifice, and has large
gardens well kept belonging to it. Though this last is the finest
structure, yet the other has the preference, on account of its
antiquity; and as the Brethren of the Trinity hold their corporation
by that house, they are obliged at certain times to meet there for
business. Both these houses are for decayed pilots or masters of
ships, or their widows, the men being allowed 20_s._ and the women
16_s._ a month. For a particular account of the corporation called
the Brothers of the Trinity, see the article TRINITY HOUSE.
DEPTFORD _court_, Rotherhith.
DEPUTY _court_, Aldersgate street.
DERBY _street_, 1. Aldersgate street, 2. Rosemary lane.
DEVEREUX _court_, 1. Basinghall street. 2. Without Temple Bar, near
the place where the Lord Essex’s mansion house formerly stood.
DEVIL TAVERN _yard_, Charing Cross.*
DEVONSHIRE _court_, Pickax street; or rather Long lane, West
Smithfield.
[Illustration:
_Devonshire House._
_S. Wale delin._ _B. Green sculp._
]
DEVONSHIRE HOUSE, in Piccadilly, is the residence of his Grace the
Duke of Devonshire when in London. The house is built principally of
brick, and though plain is very elegant and well proportioned, and
the rooms of state are very rich and magnificent. The offices on
each side are properly subordinate to the house, so as to make a
consistent whole. The collection of pictures, with which this house
is adorned, is surpassed by very few either at home or abroad; of
which the following is an exact list.
In the great Withdrawing Room.
Moses and the burning bush, Jac. Bassan. Landscape, Claude Lorrain.
An historical subject, Paul Veronese.
Moses in the bullrushes, Van Dyck.
Wise men offering, P. Veronese.
Archbishop of Spoletto, Tintoret.
Cleopatra, Luca Giordano.
Family Piece, Dobson.
Arthur Goodwin, Van Dyck.
A Lady, its companion, ditto.
Diana and Acteon, figures C. Marat,
Landscape G. Poussin.
Joseph and his mistress, Carlo Cignani.
Solomon and the Q. of Sheba, Le Sueur.
Landscape, St. John in the wilderness, Titian.
Sine Baccho & Cerere friget Venus, Albano.
Two Portraits, Lord Falkland and Col. Cavendish, Van Dyck.
A drunken conversation, M. Angelo Caravaggio.
Susannah and the Elders, Annib. Carrache.
Jacob’s ladder, Salvator Rosa.
A holy family, Titian.
In the second Drawing Room.
A holy family with boys, N. Poussin.
Christ and the woman of Samaria, F. Mola.
An old man in a Turkish dress, Rembrant.
A ruin, N. Poussin.
An emblematic picture, Andrea Sacchi.
Venus and Cupid, L. Giordano.
A portrait, Tintoret.
Portrait of an Abbess, over the door, Van Dyck.
Angel and Tobit, C. Marat.
Holy family, A. del Sarto.
Death of St. Peter, over the chimney, Donato Creti.
A piece of ruins, Viviano.
A portrait, Titian.
Two round landscapes, G. Poussin.
A woman and child, portraits, Van Dyck.
Head of a Saint, L. Giordano.
Adam and Eve, Domenichino.
A woman Saint taken up to heaven, Lanfranc.
Two circular landscapes, G. Poussin.
Andromeda, Guido.
Head of a Saint, M. Angelo Caravaggio.
Et in Arcadio Ego, N. Poussin.
In the third Withdrawing Room.
A beggar boy with a bird’s nest, Amoroso.
Two portraits, one of Titian, the other Carlo Cignani by himself.
Sampson and Dalilah, Tintoret.
Two landscapes, F. Mola.
A holy family, C. Marat.
A landscape, G. Poussin.
A perspective view, Viviano.
A holy family, Guercino.
Whole length of Philip of Spain, Titian.
Whole length, Tintoret.
Holy family, over the chimney, Rubens.
Two battle pieces, Bourgognone.
Virgin and child, Cantarini.
Jacob wrestling with the Angel, S. Rosa.
David and Goliath, its companion, ditto.
Landscape, P. da Cortona.
Moses rescues the Priest of Midian’s daughters from the fury of the
shepherds, Ciro Ferri.
An assumption, L. Giordano.
A girl feeding chickens, Amoroso.
St. Jerome, Domenichino.
A sleeping boy, C. Marat.
In the Library.
Several portraits, and two historical pictures,
Mars and Venus, and Venus and Cupid, both by Vanloo.
In the Little Dressing Room.
The transfiguration, over the chimney, Camillo Procacini.
Landscape, Horizonti.
Holy family, Baroche.
History from a romance, Romanelli.
Jupiter and Juno, A. Carrache.
Temptation of St. Anthony, a landscape, Teniers.
Cincinnatus, P. da Cortona.
Landscape, Teniers.
St. Veronica, Romanelli.
Angel and Child, S. Rosa.
St. Jerome, Titian.
Crucifix, A. Carrache.
Landscape, Jean Francesco.
Holy family.
Lot entertaining the angels, Schiavone.
Charity, C. Cignani.
Christ bearing his cross, Domenichino.
Duke of Braganza, L. da Vinci.
Magdalen, Corregio.
Alexander and Campaspe, Solimini.
Apelles and the Grecian virgins, ditto.
Cupid and Psyche, Alessandro Veronese.
Cephalus and Procris, Poussin.
Peter denying Christ, Caravaggio.
Women sewing, ditto.
Ditto making lace, ditto.
Landscape, Domenichino.
Adoration, Ditto.
Old woman’s head, Guido.
Woman of Samaria, M. Ang. Buonarotti.
Landscape, Paul Brill, figures Elsheimer.
Marriage of a virgin, Albert Durer.
Mars and Venus, Tintoret.
Two heads.
Isaac blessing Jacob.
Rebecca.
St. Joseph.
Mignard, Carlo Marat.
Holy family, Nic. Berettoni.
Two landscapes, Bourgognone.
Two ditto, Brughel.
Water-fall.
Flight into Egypt, Polenburgh.
Holy family, Albano.
Death of Dido, Paris Bourdon.
Pantheon.
Pope and Cardinals, John Van Eyck.
Landscape.
Plague at Athens, Bourdon.
Holy family, Parmegiano.
Ruins, Both.
Portrait of a sculptor, Sir Peter Lely.
Madona, Titian.
Portrait, A. Carrache.
Ditto, Fra. Hals.
Jupiter and Europa, Sir Peter Lely.
Saint and Angel, Ph. Laura.
Woman and Child, C. Cignani.
Holy family, C. Marat.
Soldier, woman and child, S. Rosa.
Murder of the innocents, Rottenhammer.
Two people counting money, Teniers.
Head, Raphael.
Ditto, Holbein.
Madona, Schidoni.
Holy family.
St. Jerome, Phil. Laura.
In the Great Dining Room.
The royal yacht, over the door, Vandevelde.
Sophonisba, L. Giordano.
Trophy with the head of Lewis XIV.
Fruit piece, M. Angelo.
Country wake, Bamboccio.
Piece of still life.
Fruit piece with a carpet, Maltese.
Duke of Albemarle, Sir Peter Lely.
Fruit piece, M. Angelo.
Ship piece, Bourgognone.
Landscape, ditto.
Battle of Lewis XIV., Vandermeulen.
A chapel.
Susanna and the elders, Guercino.
Landscape, Tillemans.
A perspective view.
In the Hall several portraits of Vandyke, Sir Peter Lely, Sir Godfrey
Kneller, &c.
In a Dressing Room.
Several portraits, among which are historical and other subjects, viz.
An historical subject, P. da Cortona.
Achilles and the Centaur, S. Rosa.
A battle piece, M. Angelo Battaglio.
Death of St. Peter, Guido.
In the Lower Room among many others are the following.
Consecration of Thomas a Becket, J. Van Eyck.[4]
Pope with his Cardinals in procession.
The presentation of Christ in the Temple, Hans Holbein.
Two pictures, Watteau.
Roman amphitheatre.
A conversation, candlelight.
Shoeing a horse, Wouwerman.
Landscape, Rowland Savory.
The beasts going into the ark. Jacopo Bassano.
Chymist’s laboratory, Teniers.
View of Newmarket, Tillemans.
Boar hunting, M. de Vos.
Two small pictures, Teniers.
Landscape, Domenichino.
Apollo and Marsyas, Titian.
Apollo and Midas, ditto.
Landscape, Bergham.
A conversation, candlelight, Bamboccio.
Footnote 4:
This picture is supposed to have formerly belonged to the Arundel
collection, and from thence came to Henry Duke of Norfolk, from
whose steward Mr. Fox, it was bought by Mr. Sykes, who afterwards
sold it to the Duke of Devonshire, 1722.
The tradition concerning it was, that King Henry V. received it as
a present, about a year before his death, from the famous John
Duke of Bedford then Regent of England, and afterwards Regent of
France in the reign of Henry VI. The Duke of Bedford bespoke it of
John Van Eyck the painter, who invented the art of painting in
oil. Thomas a Becket, whose consecration this painting is supposed
to represent, was the favourite saint of King Henry V.
The length of this picture is forty-five inches, its breadth
twenty-nine, and the height of the principal figure twenty-one and
a half.
DEVONSHIRE _square_, Bishopsgate street. Here was formerly a very
large and fine house, built by Jasper Fisher, one of the six clerks
in Chancery, which on account of his being a man of no great birth
or fortune, and much involved in debt, was called in derision,
Fisher’s Folly; this house afterwards belonged to the Earl of
Oxford, and lastly to the Earl of Devonshire, whose name is still
preserved in the street and square built upon its ruins. _Maitland._
This is a neat but small square, surrounded with good houses, with
rows of trees before them; and adorned in the middle with the statue
of Mercury gilt, placed on a pedestal, which is ornamented on each
of the four sides with figures in bas relief. This square is
inhabited by wealthy merchants.
DEVONSHIRE _street_, 1. Leading from Bishopsgate street to Devonshire
square. 2. Queen square, Great Ormond street.
DIAMOND _court_, 1. Pearl street. Tite’s alley.
DICE KEY _lane_, Billingsgate, Thames street.
DICE KEY _passage_, Thames street.
DICK’S _court_, Crown alley, Upper Moorfields.
DICK’S SHORE, Fore street, Limehouse.
DICK’S SHORE _alley_, by Dick’s shore.
DICK’S SIDE _alley_, Hermitage.
DICKENSON’S _court_, Quakers street, Spitalfields.†
DICKENSON’S _alley_, Long lane.†
DIGBY’S _rents_, In the Minories.†
DIGG’S _rents_, Blue Anchor alley.†
DIMMOCK’S _yard_, Stoney street.†
_St._ DIONIS _Backchurch_, situated near the south west corner of Lime
street, owes its name to St. Dionis, Dennis, or Dionysius, an
Athenian _Areopagite_, or Judge, who being converted on St. Paul’s
preaching at Athens, became the first Bishop of that city, and at
length Patron of France. This is the celebrated Saint, who,
according to the absurd and ridiculous fables of the Papists,
carried his head two miles after it was cut off. The epithet of
Backchurch, was given to this edifice from its situation behind a
row of houses, to distinguish it from St. Gabriel’s church, which
stood in the middle of Fenchurch street. The old church was
destroyed by the great fire in 1666, and the present edifice, which
is built with stone, was erected in its room.
This parish is a rectory, and one of the peculiars belonging to the
Archbishop of Canterbury. The rector receives 120_l._ a year in lieu
of tithes.
DIPPING _alley_, Fair street, Horselydown.
DIRTY _alley_, 1. Fashion street.║ 2. Ratcliff highway.║
DIRTY _hill_, near Gray’s Inn lane.║
DIRTY _lane_, 1. Blackman street.║ 2. Brewer’s street.║ 3. High
Holborn.║ 4. Hoxton.║ 5. Long Acre.║ 6. In the Mint, Southwark.║ 7.
Old Place yard.║ 8. Shoreditch.║ 9. Stony lane.║ 10. In the Strand.║
_Court of_ DISPENSATIONS. See _Court of_ FACULTIES _and_
DISPENSATIONS.
DISTAFF _lane_, Old Change.
DISTILLERS, a company incorporated by letters patent granted by
Charles I. in the year 1638. This corporation is governed by a
Master, three Wardens, nineteen Assistants, and 122 Liverymen, each
of whom pay on their admission a fine of 13_l._ 6_s._ 8_d_.
DISTILLERS _yard_, 1. Great Tower hill. 2. Shoreditch.
DITCH _alley_, Green alley, Tooley street.☐
DITCH _side_, 1. Collingwood street.☐ 2. Cuckolds Point.☐
DITCH _side row_, Holiwell lane, Shoreditch.
DITTON PARK, is in the parish of Datchet, in Berks. The house, which
is an ancient and venerable mansion, was built by Sir Ralph Winwood,
Secretary of State to King James I. and afterwards came into the
noble family of Montague; but on the demise of the late Duke, the
house and manor of Datchet came to the present Earl of Cardigan. The
former is built in the manner of a castle, surrounded by a large
moat, in the middle of a pleasant park well planted with timber. The
apartments are large and beautifully painted, and in the picture
gallery is a good collection of paintings, many of them by the
greatest masters.
DIZZLE’S _court_, Beech lane.†
DOBBIN’S _rents_, Whitechapel.†
DOBBS’S _court_, Swithin’s alley, Cornhill.†
DOBEY’S _court_, Monkwell street.†
DOCK HEAD, St. Saviour’s Dock.
DOCK HEAD _row_, St. Saviour’s Dock.
DOCK SIDE, Hermitage Dock.
DOCTOR FRIER’S _alley_, Little Britain.†
DOCTORS COMMONS, a college for the study and practice of the civil
law, where courts are kept for the trial of civil and ecclesiastical
causes under the Archbishop of Canterbury, and the Bishop of London;
as in the court of Arches, and the Prerogative court. There are also
offices in which wills are deposited and searched, and a court of
faculties and dispensations. Causes are likewise tried here by the
court of Admiralty, and by that of Delegates. The epithet of
_Commons_ is given to this place, from the Civilians commoning
together as in other colleges.
This edifice is situated in Great Knight Rider street, near the
College of Arms, on the south side of St. Paul’s Cathedral. The old
building which stood in this place was purchased for the residence
of the Civilians and Canonists, by Henry Harvey, Doctor of the civil
and canon law, and Dean of the Arches; but this edifice being
destroyed by the general devastation in 1666, they removed to Exeter
House in the Strand, where the Civilians had their chambers and
offices; and the courts were kept in the hall; but some years after
the Commons being rebuilt in a far more convenient and sumptuous
manner than before, the Civilians returned thither.
The causes of which the civil and ecclesiastical law do, or may take
cognizance, are blasphemy, apostasy from Christianity, heresy,
ordinations, institutions of clerks to benefices, celebration of
divine service, matrimony, divorces, bastardy, tithes, oblations,
obventions, mortuaries, dilapidations, reparation of churches,
probate of wills, administrations, simony, incest, fornication,
adultery, solicitation of chastity, pensions, procurations,
commutation of penance, right of pews, and others of the like kind.
The practisers in these courts, are of two sorts, Advocates and
Proctors. The _Advocates_ are such as have taken the degree of
Doctor of the civil law, and are retained as counsellors or
pleaders. These must first upon their petition to the Archbishop,
obtain his _fiat_; and then they are admitted by the Judge to
practise. The manner of their admission is solemn. Two senior
Advocates in their scarlet robes, with the mace carried before them,
conduct the Doctor up the court with three reverences, and present
him with a short Latin speech, together with the Archbishop’s
rescript; and then having taken the oaths, the Judge admits him, and
assigns him a place or seat in the court, which he is always to keep
when he pleads. Both the Judge and Advocates, if of Oxford, wear in
court scarlet robes, and hoods lined with taffata; but if of
Cambridge, white minever, and round black velvet caps.
The _Proctors_, or _Procurators_, exhibit their proxies for their
clients; and make themselves parties for them, and draw and give
pleas, or libels and allegations, in their behalf; produce
witnesses, prepare causes for sentence, and attend the Advocates
with the proceedings. These are also admitted by the Archbishop’s
_fiat_, and introduced by two senior Proctors. They wear black robes
and hoods lined with fur.
The terms for the pleading and ending of causes in the civil courts,
are but little different from the term times of the common law. The
order as to the time of the sitting of the several courts, is as
follows. The court of Arches having the pre-eminence, sits first in
the morning. The court of Admiralty sits in the afternoon on the
same day; and the Prerogative court also sits in the afternoon. See
ARCHES, PREROGATIVE _court_, &c.
DOCTORS COMMONS LIBRARY. This is a spacious room, containing a great
number of books of all sorts, more particularly on civil law and
history. It was greatly increased by the addition of the whole
library of Sir John Gibson, Judge of the Prerogative Office, given
by James Gibson, Esq; one of his descendants; and it must be
continually improving, as every Bishop, at his consecration, gives
at least 20_l._ and some 50, towards purchasing books for it.
_Maitland._
DODDINGTON _street_, Leather lane, Holborn.†
DODD’S _alley_, Nightingale lane, East Smithfield.†
DODD’S _yard_, Nightingale lane, East Smithfield.†
DODWELL’S _rents_, Barnaby street, Southwark.†
DOG _alley_, 1. Bowling alley, Westminster.* 2. Fore street, Lambeth.*
DOG AND BEAR _alley_, 1. Fore street, Lambeth.* 2. Horselydown.* 3.
Tooley street.*
DOG AND BEAR _yard_, 1. In the Borough.* 2. Crucifix lane.*
DOG AND DUCK _alley_, New Bond street.*
DOG AND DUCK _stairs_, near Deptford.*
DOG AND PORRIDGE _yard_, Old street.*
DOGHOUSE _bar_, Windmill hill, Old street, so called from its being
near the Doghouse, where the city hounds are kept.
DOGHOUSE _street_, Old street.
DOG _lane_, Five Feet lane, Barnaby street.*
DOG _row_, Mile end.*
DOG _Tavern yard_, Thames street.
DOG _yard_, 1. College street, Westminster.* 2. Castle street, Long
lane.* 3. Bear Inn yard, St. Margaret’s hill.*
DOG’S HEAD AND POTTAGE POT _alley_, Old street.*
DOG’S HEAD AND POTTAGE POT _court_, Whitecross street, Cripplegate.*
DOGWELL _court_, Lombard street; White Friars.†
DOLBIN’S _court_, 1. Black Eagle street.† 2. Monkwell street.†
DOLBY’S _court_, Peter’s lane.†
DOLEMAN’S _yard_, Holiwell street.†
DOLITTLE’S _alley_, Little Carter lane.†
DOLITTLE’S _rents_, Fashion street, Spitalfields.†
DOLLISHIRE _court_, Cable street.†
DOLPHIN _alley_, 1. Blackman street.* 2. St. Catharine’s court, St.
Catharine’s.* 3. Cock lane, Snow hill.* 4. Gun street,
Spitalfields.* 5. Long alley, Moorfields.* 6. Wapping.*
DOLPHIN _court_, 1. Gun street, Spitalfields.* 2. St. Catharine’s
lane.* 3. High Holborn.* 4. Little Distaff lane.* 5. Ludgate hill.*
6. Lombard street, Spitalfields.* 7. Noble street, Foster lane.* 8.
Tower street, Tower hill.*
DOLPHIN _yard_, 1. Blackman street.* 2. Butcher row, Ratcliff Cross.*
3. Dean street.* 4. Wapping.* 5. West Smithfield.*
DOLPHIN AND THREE COLTS _yard_, Crutched Friars.*
DOLPHIN _Inn yard_, Bishopsgate street.*
DONNE’S _alley_, Noble street, Foster lane.†
DONNET’S _court_, Maddox street.*
DORLSTON, a small but pleasant village near Hackney, to which parish
it belongs.
DORMER’S _hill_, by Stratton’s Grounds.†
DORRINGTON _street_, Cold Bath fields.†
DORSET _court_, 1. Canon row. 2. Dorset Gardens. 3. Gunpowder alley.
DORSET _gardens_, Salisbury court, so called from this place being
formerly the gardens belonging to the Earl of Dorset’s house.
DORSET _stairs_, Dorset street.☐
DORSET _street_, 1. Near Crispin street, Spitalfields. 2. Fleet
street, from the Earl of Dorset’s house, which formerly stood in
Salisbury court. See SALISBURY _court_. 3. Red Lion street.
DOUBLE HAND _court_, by Campion lane, Thames street.*
DOUBLE HOOD _court_, Campion lane.
DOVE _court_, 1. Addle hill, Great Carter lane.* 2. Gutter lane,
Cheapside.* 3. Labour in vain hill, Thames street.* 4. Leather
lane.* 5. Old Fish street.* 6. Old Jewry. 7. St. Swithin’s lane.* 8.
Turnmill street.* 9. White Friars.*
DOVER _court_, Dover street.
DOVER _street_, Piccadilly.
DOWGATE, according to Stow, was originally called _Downgate_, and was
only a principal key for ships and vessels, to load and land goods
and provisions: while Mr. Maitland contends for its being originally
the south gate of this city, where was anciently the _trajectus_, or
ferry of Watling street, one of the four great Roman military ways,
and that it was by the Britons, under the Roman government, called
Dourgate, that is Watergate.
DOWGATE _hill_, Thames street.
DOWGATE _stairs_, Couzen’s lane, Thames street.
DOWGATE WARD, is bounded on the north by Walbrook ward; on the west,
by Vintry ward; on the south, by the Thames; and on the east, by
Candlewick and Bridge wards: extending from St. Martin’s lane in the
east, to Cloak lane in the west, and from thence both east and west
to the Thames, in almost a strait line.