[161] A large open Cheap is put in various parts by different writers. Mr. Joseph Jacobs, in an interesting inquiry as to the Jewry, makes the ground south of the Guildhall an open market.
[162] Codex Dip. i. p. 133. The Wilton Domesday gives a Magnus Vicus at Winchester.
[163] Parentalia.
[164] London and Middlesex Transactions, vol. ii.
[165] See J. E. Price, Safe Deposit. Price claims that the crypt found by Wren at Bow Church and described as Roman by him is not the now existing crypt. But the text and index of Parentalia plainly prove that the present church was built on it, and therefore it was the existing Norman structure.
Price says that remains of a bridge were found in Bucklersbury, and that a Roman road, possibly a continuation of that by Bow Church, passed here.
[166] Hudson Turner’s Domestic Archr., vol. i. App.; Calendar of St. Paul’s Documents, Sharpe’s Calendar of Wills, Calendar of Ancient Deeds, etc. In the last it is called Aphelingestrate in 1232.
[167] Dr. Sharpe’s Calendar of Wills.
[168] Sharon Turner, History of the Anglo-Saxons.
[169] Alfred Memorial volume, 1899.