Shoreditch

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LEONARD), a parish in the Tower division of the hundred of OSSULSTONE, county of MIDDLESEX, adjoining the north-eastern portion of the metropolis, and, with Haggerstone and Hoxton, which, by a recent act of parliament, have been constituted distinct parishes, containing 52,966 inhabitants. This parish, in ancient records called Sordig, Soresdich, and Shordych, appears to have derived its name from the great common sewer, or ditch, which passed through it, and to have given name of the family of Sir John de Sordig, lord of the manor, and one of the ambassadors of Edward III. to Philip of France, more than a century prior to the time of Jane Shore, from whom, according to a legendary tradition, it is supposed to have been originally derived. The Roman military way leading from London wall to the ford at Hackney, passed through part of the churchyard, and there are still some vestiges of the old artillery ground, anciently a Roman Campus Martis, which was subsequently celebrated for archery and other military exercises practised there by the citizens of London, but now covered with houses. The parish, which is very extensive, consists of numerous streets connecting it with the metropolis, and of several ranges of building on the roads to Kingsland, Hackney, and Bethnal Green; it is well paved, lighted with gas, and amply supplied with water. There are some remains of ancient houses, but by far the greater number are of modern appearance, and many of them of recent erection. Among the more ancient is one near the bath of St. Agnes de Clare, rebuilt after the fire of London, in which the practice of inoculation for the small-pox was first brought to perfection, previously to the erection of the Small-pox hospital in the parish of St. Pancras, to which the original establishment was removed in 1765. The only branches of manufacture carried on in the parish are such as are connected with the silk-factories of the adjoining parish of Spitalfields, and there are several breweries, and some extensive foundries for church bells. The parish is within the jurisdiction of a court of requests for the Tower Hamlets, established under an act passed in the 23rd of George II., and 19th of George III., for the recovery of debts under 40s., and within the limits of the new police act. </div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>