Part 1 — 40. ELIZABETHAN LONDON. PART I.
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40. ELIZABETHAN LONDON. PART I.
Stow (born 1525, died 1605): a famous writer in Queen Elizabeth's reign on the antiquities of London and other places.
Whitechapel takes its name from a white chapel-of-ease built to relieve Stepney, in which parish this district was till 1763.
tenters: pegs for stretching cloth. Sometimes hooks were used, from which we get the phrase 'to be on tenter hooks'—to be on a stretch with anxiety.
St. Katharine's has given its name to the great docks east of the Tower.
bull-, bear-baiting: the sport of setting dogs to worry bulls or bears.
Alsatia: for a vivid picture of this haunt of rogues in the reign of James I. the reader is referred to Sir W. Scott's 'Fortunes of Nigel.'
Austin Friars: the space known as Drapers' Gardens (because the hall of the Drapers' Company is adjoining) in Throgmorton Street is on the site of this monastery.
Canwicke (now Cannon) Street was so called because the wax-chandlers and candle-makers lived in that part.