Part 17

LITTLE PORTLAND _street_, Portland street.

LITTLE PRESCOT _street_, Goodman’s fields.†

LITTLE PRINCE’S _street_, 1. Near High Holborn. 2. Old Soho.

LITTLE QUEEN _street_, 1. Dean street, Soho. 2. High Holborn. 3. King street, Rotherhith. 4. Queen street, Wapping. 5. Westminster.

LITTLE RIDER’S _court_, Little Newport street.†

LITTLE RIDER _street_, St. James’s street.†

LITTLE ROPE _walk_, Goswell street.

LITTLE RUSSEL _street_, 1. Bloomsbury. 2. Drury lane.

LITTLE RUTLAND _court_, Addle hill.

LITTLE SANCTUARY, King street, Westminster.

LITTLE SCOTLAND _yard_, Whitehall.

LITTLE SHEER _lane_, Sheer lane, Temple bar.

LITTLE SMITH _street_, Smith street, Marsham street.†

LITTLE SPRING _street_, Spring street, Shadwell.

LITTLE STAR _alley_, Mark lane.*

LITTLE STONE _stairs_, Ratcliff.

LITTLE SUFFOLK _street_, Haymarket.

LITTLE SWALLOW _street_, Swallow street.

LITTLE SWAN _alley_, 1. Coleman street.* 2. Goswell street.* 3. Mount Mill.* 4. St. John’s street, West Smithfield.* 5. Three colts yard, London Wall.*

LITTLE SWORDBEARERS _alley_, Chiswell street.

LITTLE _St._ THOMAS APOSTLE’S _lane_, Queen street, Cheapside.

LITTLE THOMPSON’S _rents_, Half Moon alley, Coleman street.†

LITTLE THREE TUN _alley_, Near Whitechapel.*

LITTLE TOWER HILL, At the bottom of the Minories.

LITTLE TOWER _street_, At the west end of Tower street.

LITTLE TRINITY _lane_, In Trinity lane, Bow lane.

LITTLE TURNSTILE _alley_, High Holborn.

LITTLE TWYFORD’S _alley_, St. Ermin’s hill.†

LITTLE VINE _street_, Vine street.*

LITTLE WARDOUR _street_, Tweed street.

LITTLE WARNER _street_, Cold Bath fields.†

LITTLE WARWICK _street_, Cockspur street.

LITTLE WHITE BEAR _court_, Black Friars.*

LITTLE WHITE LION _street_, Seven Dials.*

LITTLE WILD _street_, Great Wild street.†

LITTLE WINCHESTER _street_, London Wall.

LITTLE WINDMILL _street_, Near Cambridge street.

LITTLE WOOD _street_, Cripplegate.

LITTLE YORK _street_, Cock lane, Shoreditch.

LITTLETON _street_, Golden lane.†

LITTON _street_, Golden lane.†

LLOYD’S _court_, 1. Denmark street, Soho.† 2. Hog lane, St. Giles’s.†

LLOYD’S _street_, Prince’s street, Soho.†

LLOYD’S _yard_, Skinner’s street.†

LOCK HOSPITAL, near Hyde Park Corner, for the cure of the venereal disease. This charitable foundation was established, and is still supported by the voluntary contributions of gentlemen, who have had the humanity to consider, that pain and misery, however produced, entitle frail mortals to relief from their fellow creatures. They therefore, in imitation of the munificence of the Almighty, who causes his sun to shine on the evil and the good, afford relief equally to the innocent and the guilty.

Patients were first received into this hospital on the 31st of January 1747, since which time to the 10th of March 1752, there were discharged from it 1432; besides those who received benefit from it, by being out-patients; and the in-patients cured from the 10th of March 1752, to the 10th of March 1753, amounted to 308; besides twenty-one cured as out-patients. In that year four died, and at that last period, there were forty patients in the house, and five out-patients.

Among the above unhappy objects were several married women, children and infants, many of whom were admitted by the weekly committee, even without any other recommendation than their distress, they being almost naked, pennyless and starving. The virtuous, the humane reader will be astonished at reading, that at the end of the above period, among the other miserable objects who found relief, were upwards of sixty children from two to ten or twelve years old, who became infected from ways little suspected by the generality of mankind; from the absurd opinion, imbibed by the lower class, both males and females, that by communicating this loathsome disease to one that is sound, they will get rid of it themselves; and from this principle, which is contradicted by daily experience, the most horrid acts of barbarity have been frequently committed on poor little infants; and thus these vile wretches have entailed the most dreadful disease on these innocent infants, without affording the least relief to themselves. This the Governors have thought their duty to publish, in order, as much as possible, to root out from among mankind an opinion at once so base, so false, and productive of such cruelty.

From the above account of the happy success of this charity, its great usefulness must appear extremely obvious to every humane well disposed person: and many such may be induced to contribute to it, when they are informed that any sum not less than a guinea a year, will be acceptable.

Every gentleman subscribing 5_l._ a year, or upwards, is a Governor of this hospital; and whoever gives a benefaction of 50_l._ at one time, is a Governor for life: but no Governor above two years in arrear, can have any power or privilege as a Governor, till he has paid his arrears.

A committee of at least five of the Governors meet every Saturday morning at ten o’clock, to admit and discharge patients, adjust the weekly accounts, receive the reports of the visitors, and examine the affairs of the house.

Two of the contributors are appointed weekly by the committee to examine every day into the behaviour of the patients and nurses, and make their report, as it shall appear to them, at the next weekly board.

The orders of the house are:

I. That no patient is to be admitted but who brings a recommendation in writing, signed by a Governor, or one of the weekly committee.

II. That all recommendations for the admission of patients are received every Saturday morning till eleven o’clock.

III. Every patient is obliged to submit to the rules and orders of the house, or be discharged for irregularity.

IV. No person discharged for irregularity, can ever be received into the house again, on any recommendation whatsoever.

V. That no Governor have more than one patient in the house at a time; and that a preference be always given to those who subscribe the largest sums, so far as the case of the patient will admit.

VI. That no nurse, or any other person belonging to this hospital, do presume to take any reward whatsoever from any patient, either at their admission, continuance in the house, or discharge out of it, on pain of being immediately expelled, by order of the next weekly board.

VII. That no security at the admission of any patient be required for his burial; but when any patient dies in the hospital, he or she shall be buried at the expence of the society, unless it be otherwise desired by the friends of the deceased.

The contributors are desired to send their subscriptions to the Treasurer at the weekly board, held every Saturday morning in the hospital; and in order to supply the current expence of the charity, the subscribers are requested to pay their annual subscriptions in advance.

There is a poor’s box in the public hall, for the reception of small sums, or from such as are not willing to have their names inserted in the list of subscribers.

LOCK HOSPITAL, at the south east corner of Kent street, in Southwark, was anciently a house for the reception and cure of lepers: but at present it belongs to St. Bartholomew’s hospital in this city, and with the Lock at Kingsland, is appropriated to the cure of venereal patients.

It is a small neat edifice, and has been lately rebuilt. It has a row of trees before, and a garden behind, with a wall next the street. At the south end is the chapel, built about an hundred and twenty years ago.

LOCK HOSPITAL, at Kingsland. See KINGSLAND.

LOCKWOOD’S _yard_, Saffron hill.†

LODISE’S _alley_, Saltpetre Bank.†

LODISE’S _court_, Saltpetre Bank.†

LOGSDOWN _yard_, Middle row, Holborn.

LOLLARDS TOWER, the southernmost of two stone towers which stood at the west of St. Paul’s cathedral before the fire of London; which being used as the Bishop of London’s prison for such as were found guilty of the supposed crime of maintaining opinions contrary to the faith of the church of Rome, and many of the followers of Wickliff, who were called Lollards, being here imprisoned, it obtained the name of the Lollards Tower. Among these persecuted people were Mr. Richard Hunne, a citizen of London, a person well beloved, and of a fair character, who in the year 1515 was imprisoned here, under the pretence of having Wickliff’s bible; tho’ the occasion of his ruin was a dispute he had with a clerk about a mortuary, which was made the cause of the whole clergy. This man however submitted to the Bishop’s correction, upon which he ought to have been enjoined penance and set at liberty; but he was found hanging in his chamber, with his neck broken; and the Bishop’s sumner owned that he, with Dr. Horsey the Bishop’s chancellor, and the bell-ringer, had committed the murder. Upon this the coroner’s inquest proceeded to trial; but the Bishop began a new process against the dead body for heresy, and his persecutors not satisfied with having him murdered, caused the corpse to be burnt in Smithfield. _Maitland._

LOLLARDS TOWER, at Lambeth. See LAMBETH.

LOMBARD _court_, 1. Seven Dials. 2. West street, Soho.

LOMBARD _street_, 1. On the back of Cornhill, extends from the mansion house of the Lord Mayor, to Gracechurch street. Lombard street was anciently, as well as at present, inhabited by bankers, the first of whom were Italians chiefly from Lombardy, whence the word Lombards became anciently applied to all bankers, and this street retained the name of Lombards or Bankers street. _Stow._ 2. In Coverley’s fields. 3. In White Friars. 4. In the Mint, Southwark.

_The End of the_ THIRD VOLUME.

● Transcriber’s Notes: ○ Some of the illustrations have been moved to be closer to their descriptions. ○ The decorative line that separates chapters was missing from chapter “L”. Perhaps because it is the only chapter, after the first, that begins at the top of a page. The decorative line from an earlier chapter was used. ○ There is no section for streets and buildings beginning with the letter “I”. They are mixed in with the “J”s. ○ Missing or obscured punctuation was silently corrected. ○ Typographical errors were silently corrected. ○ Inconsistent spelling and hyphenation were made consistent only when a predominant form was found in this book. ○ The use of a carat (^) before one or more letters shows they were intended to be superscripts, as in S^t Bartholomew or L^{d.} Egemont. ○ Text that was in italics is enclosed by underscores (_italics_).