Around the church the trade-gilds were ranged as in some vast encampment.

To the south of it lay Spicery and Vintnery, the quarter of the richer burgesses.

Fish-street fell noisily down to the bridge and the ford.

The Corn-market occupied then as now the street which led to Northgate.

The stalls of the butchers stretched along the "Butcher-row," which formed the road to the bailey and the castle.
Close beneath the church lay a nest of huddled lanes, broken by a stately synagogue, and traversed from time to time by the yellow gaberdine of the Jew.