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LOMBARD STREET.

THE STREET OF BANKERS.

The Roman remains recently revealed by certain excavations in Lombard-street, writes Mr. E. Beresford Chaticellor, carry one's mind very much further back than does the pame of this thoroughfare, which rings rather of the Middle Ages; in fact, of the time when Pope Gregory IX. sent certain Jews over to this coun try for the purpose of advancing money to those unable to pay the heavy taxes levied in the reign of Henry III. The Longobards gave their name to the quarter of the city in which they do miciled themselves, and, according to Stow, were accustomed to assemble talde a day there in order to carry on their usury.

When the street WALA first actually famed is difficult to determine, but here are extant records showing it to have been called Lumbarde-stret in 15%. Hither came many merchants flying from the strifes of the Guelphs and Ghibellines to find a relatively quiet harbour for. their avocations But the word relative- ly should be stressed, for these "fugitives found no little jealousy on the part of the citizens, and were obliged to invoke the influence of the court in order to procure a centra for residence in the city. It was Edward II. who, in 1318, gave them these facilities, and thence- forth they traded here as goldsmiths, as money lenders, and as jewellers, times long before banking as we know it was thought of.

THE LOMBARDS.

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Many were the loans which successive English Sovereigas obtained from these alien traders, and the protection -the latter obtained was not infrequently the sole return they had for solid benefits conferred. But the Lombards, as they were afterwards termed, flourished, and it is said that by the end of the fifteenth century they had drawn into their nets a large proportion of the country's trade...

They had no regular exchange or. bourse, and even in the time of the Tudors they are found assembling for business in Lombard-streot "more like pedlars than merchants," as it was pathetically observed at the time by one of them. The powerful support which had guarded them under the Plantagenets gradually declined. Native merchants, of the Gresham type, became deadly rivals; and by the close of Elizabeth's reign the last of them had left the country where they had." been undoubtedly useful, but never really at home.

But the Lombard-strect we know is not the Lombard-street of those far-off days. It was totally destroyed in the Great Fire and although it was quickly robuilt with what, in 1720, Strype describes as good and lofty buildings, among which are many that surpass those in other. streets, and was then inhabited by "goldsmiths, bankers, merchants, and other eminent tradesmen," you may seek far and long ere you will find any re mains of those picturesque structures with which the eighteenth century filled the gaps left by the destruction of the still more attractive buildings seventeenth.

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But the sites are there, and No. 89 stands whore Sir Thomas Gresham's business preraises once stood, and the grasshopper is the sign still of a famous bank, as it was in. 1877, when Charles Duncombe (an ancestor of the Earl of Feversham) and Richard Kent carried on business under it as goldsmitha..

"THOMAS GUY.

Another well-known banker who liveu and traded here was Sir Robert Vyner, once Lord Mayor, remembered for the monetary assistance he afforded Charles 11.

All sorts of interesting names, indeed, crop up in the annals of Lombard-street. Thomas Guy, who founded the hospital, once kept a bookseller's shop here; Pope's father was here p linen-draper, a fact the poet was never anxious to remember, and here, in 1888, that 'famous son was born. Penn and Fox were frequenters of the Quakers' meeting house in a court off the main thoroughfare, and at least two noted signs were in the street, the Cardinal'e Cap, in the fifteenth century, and that "Jubter's head whither Falstaff was invited to dine by. Master Smooth, the silk merchant

Change Alley conjures up memories of the South Sea Bubble, and Abelarch-Jane of the once famous Pontarks, the French. cating-house, where the solemn members of the Royal Society used to dine, and where, on one occasion, Mr. Delany, was entertained by the Duke and Duchess of Portland,

A book has been written on the old signs that used to swing picturesquely, but, as Gay hints, perilously, over Lombard street one of these days another book will be written on the splendid business structures that have arisen here.

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ALL INDIA ASSOCIATION'S CASE `AGAINST: MR; JACOB.

RULE "VIOLATED;"

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By request of Colonel B. O. Boe, pre Speaking to the Ely Diocesan Confer-sident of the All-India Lawn Tennis cace, the new Dean of Westminster, Dr circumstances which led to the suspension Association, a memorandum detailing the Fozley Norris (Inte Dean of York), Baid of 8 M. Jacoo from taking part he wondered whether he was destined to tournaments for a year, is published remala in London for any length of By Zawa Tennis, a time, having regard to a letter he had received since his appointment,

According to the memoriadum

Quite apart from the morality of Mr. Jaco's action in taking for himself ex- herkes witch we had expressly refused to SEDction, out of money belonging to the All India Association which had been temporarily Entrusted to him, it is mani fest the rule regarding amateurs has been A flagrantly violated,

It was sigued by a principal partner of a large funeral stociation, and said that they were prepared to carry on any instructions he might leave with the atment promptitude and what appealed to his feeling for comfort-with the greatest efficiency.

Mr. Jacob's bill for expenses in the above his hotel bill at Phyllis Court, match against Belgium Except the Henley Mr. Vane Petey paid them: railway fare, these are supposed to be un

al expenses incurred specially on ac- count of the match:--:

Soap

Message

•Porter

Expenses at henley

0. 4. 5.

0.12

0.109

21:1:10

Mr. Jacob was actually paid £7,12 d.

Taxi to Paddington

Ticket

Railway Hare

21.112

Taxis, porters, etc. ..... Dinner...

0,19,-8.

Taxi at Hentoy,

04,6

Telegram Barcelona

0-4, 6

On 0.

Telegram for rockets

10:30

0,18, D

Restringing racket

0.0

Washing..

080

•Return, ticket

2.7.4

Contingencies at Brüssels (no

details)

1:15, 0

Porters, return journey

0.0

06.9

Tea

Lunch on boat..

020

out of bis Brussels bill by Mr. Vine Percy, which sum we considered fully adequate, map, b

"Attached to the memorandum fa a copy of a letter sent by Colonel Roo to Mr. Jacob, saying that 24 134, 6d. must ba returned, to Mr. Vane Perey. "If we do not hour that this has been done within ten days of receipt of this, we shall as: sume you have refused to make this r fund In that case our Association will

Mr. Jacob also demanded we should pay have to consider the question of your Thim the following expenses, OVET and status as no amateur