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Myddelton Street, Exmouth Street, Mount
Pleasant, to the boundary of the Parish, thence
along the line of the Old Fleet Ditch to the new
street opposite Clerkenwell Green, and thence
along Clerkenwell Green (north side of Sessions
House) and Aylesbury Street to St. John Street,
thence up the centre of St. John Street to Percival
Street, along the centre of Percival Street, and up
Goswell Road to Spencer Street.
This Ward contains 2,445 assessments, of a rateable
value of <£105,050, and returns eighteen
members to the Vestry.
Ward No. 5 (St. John's), comprises all that
portion of the Parish which lies south of the
southern boundary of Ward 4, bounded on the east
by a line drawn along the centre of Goswell Road
from Percival Street to Clerkenwell Road, on the
west by the Old Fleet Ditch, and on the south by
a line drawn from Goswell Road down Clerkenwell
Road, thence irregularly, accordingly to the
boundary of the Parish, to the Old Fleet Ditch.
This Ward contains 1,498 assessments, of a rateable
value of £75,604, and returns fifteen members
to the Vestry.
Muswell Hill.—With regard to this outlying
portion of the Parish, the following extract from
Cromwell's History of Clerkenwell will be of interest,
especially to those unacquainted with its history:—
" There is a small detached portion of the Parish, situate at Muswell,
or Muswell Hill, about five miles and a half from London, and
on the north-western confines of Hornsey. This little tract (about
65 acres) was given to the Nunnery of Clerkenwell by Beauvais,
Bishop of London, about the year 1112; and having become famous
through a legendary tale of a ' great cure performed upon a King of
Scots, who was, by some divine intelligence, advised to take the
water of a well in England, called Muswell,' a Chapel was erected
on the spot, ' sometime bearing the name of our Lady of Muswell.
Here was placed an image of ' Our Lady, whereunto was a continual
resort in the way of pilgiimage.' This Chapel (which of course was
an appendage to the Nunnery) had sunk, along with many other
fabrics originating in religious romance, before the reign of