London and Its Environs Described, vol. 2 (of 6) Containing an Account of Whatever is Most Remarkable for Grandeur, Elegance, Curiosity or Use, in the City and in the Country Twenty Miles Round It

IV. That no more than ten tickets be delivered out for each hour of admittance, which tickets, when brought by the respective persons therein named, are to be shewn to the porte...

The first sacred edifice in this place, and of this name, was built under the Saxon heptarchy: but the last old church was destroyed in the fire of 1666, and the present structu...

_House of_ COMMONS, also called _St. Stephen’s Chapel_, joins to the south east angle of Westminster hall. The print represents a view as seen from the Cotton Garden. King Steph...

CHRIST’S CHURCH, Church street, Spitalfields. The district in which this edifice stands was till lately considered as a hamlet in the parish of Stepney: but the kind reception g...

DULWICH, a very pleasant village in Surry, five miles from London, where there is a spring of the same medicinal waters as those of Sydenham wells, with which the master of the...

In the infancy of this hospital, those children not exceeding two months old, who were brought first were received, till the number the Governors had agreed to admit was complet...

“No part of this talk which you impose is uneasy; except the necessity of using the singular number so often. That one letter (I) is a most dangerous monosyllable, and gives an...

CROWN _Office_, in Bell yard, Chancery lane. This is an office of great importance, under the Clerk of the crown, who is either by himself, or his deputy, continually to attend...

The whole edifice, which was built by the great Sir Christopher Wren, consists of a vast range of buildings. The front toward the north opens into a piece of ground laid out in...

FLOWER DE LUCE _court_, 1. Black Friars.* 2. Cow Cross.* 3. Fleet street.* 4. Gray’s Inn lane.* 5. Grub street.* 6. Houndsditch.* 7. Ludgate hill.* 8. St. Michael’s lane.* 9. Pa...

To this court belong twelve masters in chancery; an accountant general; six head clerks; sixty-two sworn clerks, who purchase their places, and twelve waiting clerks, whose plac...

CAMP’S _Almshouse_, in Wormwood street, was founded by Mr. Laurence Camp, for the relief of six poor people of the parish of Allhallows London Wall, who had an allowance of 1_l....

Before the Commissioners of Excise are tried all frauds committed in the several branches of the revenue under their direction; and if any person thinks himself injured by their...

CLERKENWELL _Priory of Nuns_, was founded by Jordan Briset, a wealthy Baron, about the year 1100, in a field adjoining to Clerks, or Clerken Well, and dedicated to the honour of...

BREAD street ward, so called from Bread street in Cheapside, which was formerly a bread market, is encompassed on the north and north west by Faringdon ward; on the west by Cast...

CORDWAINERS, or SHOEMAKERS. This company was incorporated by letters patent granted by King Henry IV. in the year 1410, by the name of _Cordwainers and Coblers_, the latter of w...

This picture is supposed to have formerly belonged to the Arundel collection, and from thence came to Henry Duke of Norfolk, from whose steward Mr. Fox, it was bought by Mr. Syk...

● Transcriber’s Notes: ○ Pound, shilling and pence abbreviations (_l. s. d._) were regularized to be italic. ○ On page 232, the name of the painter of “The beasts going into the...