St. Katherine Cree: this church is in Leadenhall Street, near Aldgate. Cree in this name is for Christ.
Portsoken is one of the City wards near Aldgate and the Minories.
[13. FITZSTEPHEN'S ACCOUNT OF THE CITY. PART I.]
St. Bartholomew the Great in Smithfield is part of St. Bartholomew's Hospital.
St. Ethelburga is in Bishopsgate Street, not far from Liverpool Street Railway Station.
crypt is a chapel or vault underground.
St. Swithin's Church is near Cannon Street Railway Station. 'London Stone,' supposed to be a Roman milestone, is let into the wall of this church. St. Swithin, to whom the church is dedicated, was a Saxon Bishop of Winchester, under whose care the youth of Alfred was spent at Winchester.
Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, was murdered in his own cathedral by four knights, who thought they were executing the wishes of Henry II. (1170 A.D.).