MRP: The Guildhall
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The Guildhall
The French traveller and writer, Samuel Sorbière, visited London circa 1663. He stayed in Covent Garden, and explored the City of London. Commenting on the London Guildhall, he found it "an inconsiderable building," which stood in a narrow street.
"It serves instead of a Hall for Clothiers, where they bring all the Cloth they have to Sell on certain Days in the Week, tho' Drapers-hall stands near the Old-Exchange, which has a Fine Garden to it."[1]
Elizabeth Dallison had dealings at the Guildhall, as she mentions in a letter to her brother in XXXX 16XX. It was just a few hundred yards from her lodgings in Throgmorton Street
Sources
Primary
3rd April 1663, Letter from Elizabeth Dalyson to Sir GO, London Frogmorton Street
- ↑ Samuel Sorbière, A voyage to England: containing many things relating to the state of learning, religion, and other curiosities of that kingdom (London, 1709), p. 16
