to drink; but Carlile and Irving, turning about to cock the pistol, came back immediately, and Carlile, drawing it from under his coat, discharged it upon Turner, and gave him a mortal wound near the left pap; so that Turner, after having said these words, Lord have mercy upon me! I am killed,' immediately fell down. Whereupon Carlile and Irving fled, Carlile to the town, and Irving towards the river; but the latter, mistaking his way, and entering into a court where they sold wood, which was no thoroughfare, he was taken. The Baron of Sanquhar likewise fled. The ordinary officers of justice did their utmost, but could not take them; for, in fact, as appeared afterwards, Carlile fled into Scotland, and towards the sea, thinking to go to Sweden, and Sanquhar hid himself in England." They did not long, however, elude the vigilance of justice. Having been severally tried and found guilty, Lord Sanquhar was hanged in New Palace Yard, opposite to the entrance to Westminster Hall, and Irving and Carlile in Fleet Street, opposite to the entrance to Whitefriars. Lord Sanquhar's body was allowed to remain suspended a much longer time than usual, in order that "people might take notice of the King's greater justice," in putting the laws in force against a powerful nobleman and one of his own countrymen. Peyton, however, in his "Divine Catastrophe," relates a curious anecdote, which, if true, places the conduct of James in a very different light. Lord San 66 quhar, he says, was on one occasion present at the Court of Henry the Fourth of France, when some one happened to speak of his royal master as the English Solomon." King Henry,- alluding to the supposed attachment of James's mother to David Rizzio,-observed sarcastically,-"I hope the name is not given him because he is David the fiddler's son." This conversation was repeated to James, and, accordingly, when, some time afterwards, the friends of Lord Sanquhar implored him. to save his life, he is said to have refused the application, on the ground that Lord Sanquhar had neglected to resent the insult offered to his sovereign. Whitefriars continued to enjoy the privilege of a sanctuary till 1697, when, in consequence of the riotous proceedings which constantly took place within its precincts, and the encouragement which it held out to vice and crime, it was abolished by act of Parliament. The other sanctuaries, whose privileges were swept away at the same time, were those of Mitre Court, Ram Alley, and Salisbury Court, Fleet Street; the Savoy in the Strand; Fulwood's Rents, Holborn; Baldwin's Gardens, in Gray's Inn Lane; the Minories, and Deadman Place, Montague Close; and the Clink, and the Mint, in Southwark. In the "Tatler" of the 10th of September, 1709, Alsatia is spoken of as in ruins. We find the great lawyer, John Selden,-James Shirley, the dramatic poet,-John Ogilvy, the poet, and Sir Balthazar Gerbier, the painter, residing at different periods in Whitefriars. Selden died here, in 1654, in the Friary House, the residence of the Countess of Kent, to whom there is reason to believe that he was privately married. LONDON BRIDGE. ANTIQUITY OF OLD LONDON BRIDGE.-LEGEND OF THE FIRST EREC- Of the ancient structures which have been swept away in our own time, there is not one which was more replete with historical and romantic associations than Old London Bridge. At the time of its demolition in 1832, it had existed upwards of six centuries. From the days of the Normans till the reign of George the Second, it had been the only thoroughfare which had united not only the southern counties of England but the whole of Europe, with the great metropolis of the West. Apart from its connection with ancient manners and customs, we must remember that, for a long lapse of years, it was over this famous causeway that the wise, the noble, and the beautiful, from all countries and all climes,— the adventurer in search of gold,—the Jesuit employed on his dark mission of mystery and intrigue,—the ambassador followed by his gorgeous suite,-philoso VOL. I. H phers, statesmen, and poets,-passed in their journey to the great commercial capital of the world. Every princely procession from the continent of Europe, every fair bride who has come over to be wedded to our earlier sovereigns,-every illustrious prisoner, from the days of Cressy and Agincourt to those of Blenheim and Ramillies, has passed in succession over Old London Bridge. Westminister Abbey, the Tower, and the Temple Church, still remain to us as venerable relics of the past; but Old London Bridge, with its host of historical àssociations, has passed away for ever! Stow, on the authority of Bartholomew Linsted, alias Fowle, the last prior of the Church of St. Mary Overy's, Southwark, relates a curious legend in regard to the circumstances which first led to the erection of a bridge over the Thames at London. "A ferry," he says, "being kept in place where now the bridge is builded, at length the ferryman and his wife deceasing, left the same ferry to their only daughter, a maiden named Mary, which, with the goods left by her parents, and also with the profits arising out of the said ferry, builded an house of Sisters in place where now standeth the east part of St. Mary Overy's church, above the quire, where she was buried, unto which house she gave the oversight and profits of the ferry. But afterwards the said house of Sisters being converted into a college of priests, the priests builded the bridge of (timber,) as all the other the great bridges of this land were, and from time to time kept the same in good reparations; |