Cripplegate, Finsbury, and Moorfiekls. By Ernest K. W. Ryan. (Adams
Brothers and Shardlow. 2a. net.)--This interesting little essay relates the history of the =bud, that grew up outside the City wall on the moor where Lord Mayors of London once hunted the boar or the stag. Cripplegate probably took its same from the covered way originally leading to the gate from the Barbican. J0101 Milton-was the most famous inhabitant of the district ; his house in Artillery Walk, or Dunhill Row, as it is now called, was in his day within easy roach of the open country. It is curious to learn that BunliiII Fields was named after the bone-hill or hoop of human remains removed by Somerset in 1549 from the charnel- house of Old St.. Paul's, which he was demolishing in order to use the atone for his new mansion, Somerset House. Another famous resident was John Keats, who was born at 28 Finsbury Pavement in 1795.
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