connection with it. According to Stow (_Ed. Strype_, vol. 1),
the manor-house was rebuilt by Prior Bolton, whose rebus on the
walls of the tower seemed to prove that it was either his work,
or erected shortly after his time to his memory. The house is a
plain brick structure with gable ends, and the tower (of the
same material) covers a rather large square. The spacious rooms
within it have some literary interest, as at one time occupied
by Ephraim Chambers, the encyclopaedist (1680-1750), and by the
more famous Oliver Goldsmith. The whole building, renovated
within and without, is now held by a social club. For many
years a fable was believed that a subterranean passage
connected it with the Smithfield Priory.

[4] The new bronze railing to the sanctuary forms part of the
memorial to the late Rector, the Rev. Sir Borradaile Savory,
Bart. It is in the Renaissance style, and the words from the
_Gloria in Excelsis_ ("We praise Thee," etc.), in each of its
four divisions, were selected by his successor, the present
Rector, as suitable to the place, and expressing the governing
principle of Sir Borradaile's life, as well as that of Rahere
the Founder.

[5] The substructure in the chamber of the Pix, at Westminster,
will be remembered among the surviving examples of this early
kind of vaulting in England.

[6] Francis Anthony (1550-1623) lived in Bartholomew Close. He
had obtained the M.A. degree at Cambridge, but none in
medicine, and having practised for six months in London without
a licence, he was summoned before the President and Censors of
the College of Physicians to give an account of himself.
Failing to satisfy his examiners, he was interdicted from
practice, but ignored the prohibition, and suffered more than
one imprisonment in consequence. The medicine "of purest gold"
was a panacea, known as _Aurum potabile_, which was supposed to
be made from the precious metal, and certainly put a great deal
of it into the inventor's pocket, as a fashionable remedy for
all kinds of diseases.

(See article in the "Dictionary of National Biography" for a
sketch of his life.)

[7] A tablet, in the Renaissance style, has recently been
affixed to the north wall in memory of Sir Borradaile Savory,
Bart., the late Rector. It was unveiled and form