The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction - Volume 14, No. 380, July 11, 1829

The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, by Various This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Vol. 14, Issue 380, July 11, 1829 Author: Various Release Date: March 8, 2004 [EBook #11516] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK MIRROR OF LITERATURE, NO. 380 *** Produced by Jonathan Ingram, Lazar Liveanu, David King, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team [pg 17] THE MIRROR OF LITERATURE, AMUSEMENT, AND INSTRUCTION. Vol. 14. No. 380.] SATURDAY, JULY 11, 1829 [PRICE 2d. MERCERS' HALL, AND CHEAPSIDE The engraving is an interesting illustration of the architecture of the metropolis in the seventeenth century, independent of its local association with names illustrious in historical record. In former times, when persons of the same trade congregated together in some particular street, the mercers principally assembled in West Cheap, now called Cheapside, near where the above hall stands, and thence called by the name of "the Mercery.