which terminated in the defeat of the great Spanish Armada, 1588." The monument in question was raised to his memory by the Vestry on the Tercentenary of the Armada. Elsewhere in the Church there are memorials of John Foxe, the martyrologist, who spent his last years in the parish, but not, as erroneously affirmed, as the Vicar; and of John Speed, the geographer and historian. A successor of Bishop Andrewes in the incumbency was Dr. Buckeridge, who was made Bishop of Ely in 1628. A noted parishioner was Daniel Defoe, who, however, lies buried in Bunhill Fields, not in the parish Church or cemetery.

Plate XIV shows a group of buildings, now removed, which, it is true, obstructed the view of the Church from the street, but were extremely pleasing. One of them was known as the Quest House, so called from the body of officials who met there to investigate the business of the Ward. The lower portion of the house contained a fine vestry room, and the upper portion provided a lodging for the sexton. It must be admitted that the loss of this old range of houses has to some extent been compensated with the gain of a better view of the north side of the Church, which has now been externally restored with a new porch added to take the place of the old entrance. When one thinks what might have been the consequence of this demolition, there is every reason to be thankful that in this case even something has been gained. Plate XV gives an excellent idea of the old houses as seen from the churchyard, which, by the way, is a delightful green oasis on which the wanderer through dreary streets of great ugly warehouses and offices comes suddenly to find there wonderful refreshment. In the garden of the Vicarage, which is a portion of the enclosure, there is a fine bastion, some 36 feet wide and 12 feet high,

being the best preserved remnant of the ancient London Wall. Near it once stood the Cripplegate that gives its name to the district. Twenty years ago there were few bits of London that retained the look of an old-fashioned town so much as the part of Cripplegate adjacent to the Church. We must be content that, in spite of other changes, this, at least, will continue, with its green and peaceful churchyard, to remind us of an older day.

A. R.

Maou

GREEN DRAGON COURT

AS in other places, so especially in London, the quest of the

picturesque and quaint was, and to some extent still is, most fruitfully followed in hunting out the old inns and taverns. If it were only for their names and signs, they would be worthy of notice, for they preserve old heraldic traditions and family history, or illustrate the playful fancy of our ancestors, or (see Plate XXIX) keep alive the memory of some otherwise forgotten worthy. The Dragon, familiar as an heraldic emblem and as a well-known accompaniment of the miracle-plays, was a favourite tavern sign. Dragons red and Dragons green are legion in the land, and London possessed not a few of them. The Green Dragon, in particular, the back view of which was (see Plate XVI) a strange huddle of buildings, was an old house on the slope of St. Andrew's Hill in Blackfriars. The Hill is named from the Church, which has the curious title of St. Andrew by the Wardrobe. This was derived from its proximity to the King's great Wardrobe, a house built by Sir John Beauchamp, son of Guy, Earl of Warwick, and sold by him to King Edward III. Here the Master of the Royal Wardrobe resided, having under his care the robes required for State ceremonies, and, as it appears, at one time the State Papers were stored here. A quiet little court leading out of Carter Lane at the top of St. Andrew's Hill bears the name of Wardrobe Place. It is conceivable that the servants wearing the King's livery refreshed