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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 2419 assesments, of a rateable
value of £102,488 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, according to the boundary
of the Parish, to the Old Fleet Ditch.
This Ward contains 1722 assessments, of a rateable
value of £85,366 and returns fifteen members
to the Vestry.
Muswell Hill.— With regard to this outlaying
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 Scot, 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
pilgrimage.' This Chapel (which of course was an appendage