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For some years after the Restoration Baxter lived at Acton, a village on the Uxbridge Road, five miles beyond the Marble Arch, in a house no longer standing, and only described as being 'near the Church.' While here he was arrested and confined for a short time in the King's Bench Prison, then on the east side of the Borough High Street, Southwark, immediately adjoining the Marshalsea (see DICKENS). This building was taken down towards the close of the last century; and the new prison, built on the Borough Road, corner of Blackman Street, not very far distant, has itself since disappeared. Of his life here he wrote:

My imprisonment was no great suffering to me, for I had an honest jailer who showed me all the kindness he could. I had a large room and liberty to walk in a fair garden, and my wife was never so cheerful a companion to me as in prison, and was very much against miy seeking to be relieved, and she brought me so many necessaries that we kept house as contentedly and comfortably as at home, though in a narrower room; and I had a sight of more friends in a day than I had at home in half a year.

His wife died in his 'most pleasant and convenient house' in Southampton Square, now Bloomsbury Square, in 1681.

He preached and lectured frequently in London: in the old church of St. Dunstan-in-the-West, Fleet Street, just inside Temple Bar; in St. Mary Magdalen's, Milk Street, Cheapside, destroyed in the Great Fire, and never rebuilt; in Park Street, Southwark, 'not far from the Brewery' (of Barclay and Perkins); in Swallow Street, Piccadilly; in Pinner's Hall, and in St. James's Market Place.

Biographia

After the indulgence in 1672, he returned into the city, and was one of the Tuesday lecturers in Pinner's Hall, and had a Friday lecture in Fetter Lane [near Neville Britannica: Court]; but on the Lord's days he for some time preached only occasionally, and afterwards more statedly, in St.

Baxter.

James's Market Place, where, in 1671, he had a wonderful delivery, by almost a miracle, from a crack in the floor.

Swallow Street ran from Piccadilly in a direct line to Oxford Street, a few yards west of what has since been called Oxford Circus. Its site is the present Regent Street, built in 1813 to connect Carlton House with Regent's Park. Strype described it as 'being very long . . . but of no great account for buildings or inhabitants.' Swallow Street, Piccadilly, and Swallow Place, Oxford Street, perpetuated its name as late as 1885. .Of course no traces of Baxter's chapels remain, either here or in the neighborhood of Park Street, the enormous works of the great brewing firm having replaced whole blocks of houses in Southwark (see SHAKSPERE).

Pinner's Hall stood behind Pinner's Court, No. 541 Old Broad Street. The modern Pinner's Hall, on the corner of Old Broad and Great Winchester Streets, and built partly on its site, was, in 1885, entirely devoted to business purposes.

St. James's Market, very much curtailed, stood, in 1885, in the block of buildings between Jermyn Street, Charles Street, the present Regent Street, and the Haymarket.

Another of his chapels was in Oxendon Street, on the west side, near Coventry Street. It backed upon the gardens of Mr. Secretary Coventry, who was not in sympathy with Baxter, or his form of worship, and who drove the congregation to other quarters by the disturbances he caused to be made under the chapel windows. This building stood until within a few years, and was latterly the home of a Scottish congregation.

Baxter spent the last years of his life in Charter House Lane, where he died December 8, 1691. He was buried, a few days later, in Christ Church, Newgate Street, by the side of his wife, 'next to the old altar, or table, in the

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chancel.' On his tomb was inscribed 'The Saint's Rest,' but no trace of it is now to be found.

Pink's

Among the many houses demolished in 1864, for the purposes of the Metropolitan Meat Market and Metropolitan Railway Extensions, was that in which once resided, and where died, this eminent Non-conformist minister [Baxter], History of in 1691. The dwelling stood for many years; and Clerkenwell, although it was frequently repaired, the larger portion of it remained until 1864, on the eastern side of Charter House Lane, near to the Charter House.

Appendix.

Charter House Lane was the eastern end of the present Charter House Street, running from St. John Street to the Square.

FRANCIS BEAUMONT.

1585-1615-16.

was entered a member of the Inner Temple

November 3, 1600; but of his life in London little is known, and that only during his association with Fletcher (see FLETCHER). Aubrey says:

There was a wonderful consimilarity of phansy between him and Mr. Jo. Fletcher, which caused that dearnesse of friendship between them. I thinke they were both of Queene's Coll, in Cambridge. I have heard Dr. Jo. Earle say, who knew them, that his maine business was to correct the overflowing of Mr. Fletcher's witt. They lived together on the Bankside, not far from the Play House. [They had] the same cloaths and cloaks &tc. between them.

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The Play House was the Globe Theatre, the site of which is now covered by the Brewery of Barclay and Perkins,

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