Tudor houses on the corner of Chancery Lane

Tudor houses on the corner of Chancery Lane, Fleet Street, 1789. External specimen of the Grotesque Bracketed Front and Projecting Stories of the reign of Edward VI. Demolished 1799. The street characters include the Welsh dwarf Jeremiah Davies, legless Samuel Horsey, King of the Beggars. Copperplate engraving drawn and etched by John Thomas Smith from his Topography of London, 1812

Beggars Chancery Cobbles Dwarf Grotesque Horsey Jeremiah Plaster Projecting Topography

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