of St. John, the only remaining relics are the Norman crypt of the old priory church and St. John's Gate, dating from 1502, which still spans St. John's Lane.

Mark Lane is one of the busiest centres in London, and contains the Corn Exchange. On the east side of Mark Lane is Hart Street, and the church of which we give an engraving is one of three in London dedicated to Olaf the Saint, the typical Norwegian hero, the man under whose influence Norway became nominally Christian, and who was killed in 1028 at the battle of Stiklestad. He was afterwards canonized. It was not in the area devastated by the Great Fire, and consequently escaped the fate of so many sister churches. In the graveyard multitudes of the victims of the Great Plague were buried. The skulls over the gateway grimly commemorate this fact. Samuel Pepys lived in this parish, and regularly attended the church. He frequently refers to it in his Diary as 'our owne church.' He was buried here in 1703. His wife and his brother also lie here. In the famous Diary there is this characteristic reference to the church after the Plague: This is the first time I have been in the church since I left London for the Plague; and it frightened me to go through the church more than I thought it could have done, to see so many graves lie so high upon the churchyard, and where people have been buried of the Plague. I was much troubled at it, and do not think to go through it again a good while.' On a brass erected to the memory of John Orgone and his wife Ellyne, 1584, is the following inscription:

'As I was, so be ye;

As I am, ye shall be;
That I gave, that I have;

That I spent, that I had;

Thus I ende all my coste,

That I lefte, that I lost.'

The last of London's churches to which we can here refer, is by no means one of the least. It is now known as St. Saviour's, Southwark, but the ancient name was St. Mary Overey. It has had an even more chequered history than has usually fallen to the lot of a City church. Though possessing some of the finest architecture in London, it has suffered more from the hands of restorers than perhaps any structure in London. In 1839, for some undiscoverable reason, the fine harmonious nave was pulled down and a building erected in its place admirably adapted for modern worship, in which the sermon is a conspicuous and important part, but as much out of keeping with the transepts and choir to which it is united as it is possible to conceive. Great efforts are now (1890) being

made to obtain funds for the destruction of this and the restoration of a nave that shall resemble the original. Here also in early times stood a priory, and to this the church belonged. It was founded in Henry the

First's reign. Poor at first, when the fame of Thomas à Becket thronged the road to Canterbury with pilgrims, it began to get rich. It gradually obtained possession of the two parishes of St. Margaret and St. Mary Magdalene, and in 1540 these were united to form the parish of St. Saviour's, and the old priory church became the church of the new parish. The church was built by Gifford, Bishop of Winchester, in the thirteenth

century, and Winchester House, the town residence of the bishops of that see, formerly stood between St. Saviour's and the river.

The choir is a beautiful specimen of Early English architecture, a special feature in it being the magnificently carved screen, separating it from the Lady Chapel, erected by Fox, Bishop of Winchester, in 1528. Upon it can be seen his device, the pelican. The Lady Chapel is interesting in itself, but doubly so for all Protestants for the memory of scenes that have

occurred in it. Here in 1555 Gardiner, Bishop of Winchester, held the court which condemned two notable men to death. One was Bishop Hooper, the other was John Rogers, Vicar of St. Sepulchre's, the editor of the first great English Bible, that known as Matthew's Bible, printed and published in 1537. This, rather than Coverdale's, which was published in 1535, is the true primary English Bible, being, with the exception of II. Chronicles to the end of the Old Testament, chiefly the work of Tyndale. So strong was the popular sympathy for Rogers that he had to be taken secretly to Newgate, whence he was led out to be burnt in Smithfield, his martyrdom taking place in full view of the gateway leading to St. Bartholomew the Great.

is exceptionally
rich in monuments.
In the Lady Chapel
is the tomb of Lan-
celot Andrewes,
Bishop of
of Win-
chester, who died
in 1626, and called
in the inscription
meritissimum lumen
orbis Christiani.
In the south tran-
sept is the tomb
of Gower, author
of Confessio Aman-
tis, who died in

1402. Many of

the monumental in

scriptions deserve attention for their quaint and curious wording. Perhaps the most outrageous is the rhyme placed over a certain Miss Barford:

'Such grace the King of Kings bestowed upon her,
That now she lives with Him, a Maid of Honour.'

The neighbourhood is closely associated with Shakespeare and the great dramatic writers of the Elizabethan age. Hence it is not surprising to find traces of them in the church registers. Among the entries are these: 'March 20, 1639-40, buried Philip Massinger, a stranger;' and under 1607, 'Edmond Shakespeare, a player, in the church'; the former being the dramatist, the latter a brother of England's greatest poet.

In London, naturally Nonconformity has been an increasing power ever since the days of Elizabeth. The Act of Uniformity of 1662 not only

ever becoming a stronger influence for good in the life of the metropolis and of the nation, Nonconformity cannot point to her St. Paul's or Westminster Abbey. But traces of her presence are not lacking. She has greatly suffered, it is true, at the hands of the