name--Orgar.

Or, again, there are the people who are buried or were baptised in these
churches.

In All Hallows, Bread Street, now pulled down, was baptised the greatest
poet of our country, John Milton. For this cause alone the church should
never have been suffered to fall into decay. It was wickedly and
wantonly destroyed for the sake of the money its site would fetch in the
year 1877. When you visit Bow Church, Cheapside, look for the tablet to
the memory of Milton, now fixed in that church. It belonged to All
Hallows, Bread Street.

Three poets in three distant ages born,
Greece, Italy, and England did adorn:
The first in loftiness of thought surpassed,
The next in majesty--in both the last.
The force of Nature could no further go;
To make a third she joined the other two.

Christ Church, Newgate, stands on part of the site once occupied by the
splendid church of the Grey Friars. Four Queens lie buried here, and an
immense number of princes and great soldiers and nobles.

Very few people, of the thousands who daily walk up and down Fleet
Street, know anything about the statue in the wall of St. Dunstan's
Church. This is the statue of Queen Elizabeth which formerly stood on
the west side of Lud Gate. This gate was taken down in the year 1760,
and some time after the statue was placed here. One of the sights of
London before the old church was pulled down was a clock with the figure
of a savage on each side who struck the hours and the quarters on a bell
with clubs. London has seldom been without some such show. As long ago
as the fifteenth century there was a clock with figures in Fleet Street.
Tyndal the Reformer, and Baxter the famous Nonconformist were preachers
in this church.

St. Mary le Bow, was so called because it was the first church in the
City built on arches--bows--of stone. The church is most intimately
connected with the life and history of the City. Bow Bell rang for the
closing of the shops. If the ringer was late the prentice boys reminded
him pretty plainly.

'Clarke of the Bow Bell with thy yellow lockes:
In thy late ringing, thy head shall have knockes.'

To which the clerk replied:

'Children of Chepe, hold you all stille:
For you shall have Bow Bell ring at your will.'

St. Mary's Woolnoth was for many years the church of the Rev. John
Newton, once the poet Cowper's friend. He began his life in the merchant
service and was for many years