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MONUMENT TO GOLDSMITH, TEMPLE CHURCH have seemed little better than open boats; and a fleet of still smaller boats would be above the bridge at Dowgate. Southwark bridge was not built for many centuries, and while the old bridge still existed, a short distance farther east than its successor, the chief fish-market was here, and the line of Old Fish Street probably marks the site and also shows us how much the edge of the river has receded. Before the Conquest the city wall east of Billingsgate came down to the water just where the Wakefield Tower is now, and there can have been no such street as [Thames Street. Goods were landed at the gate of Billing and sold hundred years, from the Conquest to Henry III, we shall observe a great mie change. We might 19911 | pause at Fitz Stephen’s account of EFT PA LL It London in 1170, or thereabouts; but it has been very often quoted, and tells us more about the citi 2" AA are MEGY MMLC IRIEL ADE AS” of x i
