ns, who were a religious party in the times of Elizabeth and the
Stuarts, and were desirous of a purer and simpler doctrine and mode of
living.

56. UNDER GEORGE II. PART II.

~Predecessors~: those that went before them.

~cruciform~: in the form of a cross. The ground plan of many churches is
shaped like a cross.

~St. Stephen's, Walbrook~, stands behind the Mansion House, where the
Walbrook used to flow.

~lectureship~: the office of a lecturer, one who gives lectures,
discourses, or (as in this case) sermons. Money was left to pay for
these sermons, that is, the lectureships were ~endowed~.

~harbouring~: sheltering.

~organisers~: those who get up and arrange anything.

~Haymarket~ (obviously once a hay market) is near Trafalgar Square, and
~Coventry Street~ near Leicester Square.

~innovations~: novelties, new things.

57. UNDER GEORGE II. PART III.

~Broad Street~: between the Royal Exchange and Liverpool Street.

~Whitecross Street~ is near the Barbican, Aldersgate Street;
~Whitechapel~, in which is ~Middlesex Street~ (commonly known as
Petticoat Lane), is reached through Aldgate.

~Hogarth~ (born 1697, died 1764): a celebrated English painter, chiefly
famous for moral, satirical and humorous pictures drawn from everyday
life.

~asphalt~: a kind of mineral pitchy substance which melts in heat and
can be laid down so as to form a hard, smooth roadway.

~Vauxhall~: in Surrey, in the parish of Lambeth, on the south of the
Thames. There was once an old manor house here called Faukes or Fox
Hall.

~Bermondsey Spa~: so called from a mineral spring discovered there in
1770. (Spa, a place where there is a mineral spring, gets its name from
a celebrated watering-place in Belgium of that name.)

~punch~: a drink containing five ingredients--water, spirits, sugar,
lemon-juice, spice.

58. UNDER GEORGE II. PART IV.

~Decorous~: behaving in a decent and respectable way.

~appreciation~: estimate, judgment about.

~congregation~: gathering together.

~Benjamin Franklin~ (born 1706, died 1790): a native of Boston, U.S.A.,
who lived for some time in England. As a scientist he is famous for
electrical experiments; as a politician, for the share he took in
upholding the independence of the American States.

~transmission~: handing down from father to son.

~externally~: outwardly.

~St. Katharine's~, ~Ratcliff~, ~Shadwell~, ~Stepney~, are all in the
East End of London.

~jurisdiction~: leg