London and Its Environs Described, vol. 4 (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

II. For the accommodation of such persons as are desirous of being assured for a term of years, this Corporation will assure (on such buildings or goods as aforesaid) any sum no...

This act of Common Council being soon after confirmed by an order of Parliament, the following forts were raised, 1. A bulwark and a half, at the north end of Gravel lane. 2. A...

It was usual, on the first of May, for all the citizens who were able, to divert themselves in the woods and meadows with May-games, diversions not confined to the lower class,...

The Monday after every monthly election, the accounts are audited and passed, and the balance divided; but if it amounts to 3s. 4d. _per_ man, the keeper of the prison, says our...

The qualification of an annual Governor of this charity is a subscription of three guineas or upwards _per annum_; and of a perpetual Governor, the payment of thirty guineas at...

The rest of this reign exhibited a dreadful scene of religious bigotry, by a most cruel persecution of the Protestants; for the principal instance she gave of her tender materna...

LONDON, the metropolis of Great Britain, and one of the largest and richest cities upon earth, is of such antiquity that it is impossible to give any certain account of its orig...

It is a plain stone building, likely to stand for ages; the body is well enlightened by a range of large well-proportioned windows, and the corners are wrought with rustic: it i...

“And may God Almighty long preserve your Majesty, for the good of these your kingdoms, and your Royal Consort the Prince. So pray we, your little children: and let all your peop...

Between the piazzas, market places, and churches, might be placed the halls for the Companies; and these, if fronted with stone, and adorned with statues and other ornaments, wo...

It is a spacious and massy stone building; plain, and yet well ornamented. The corners have rustic quoins, and the body is enlightened by tall arched windows, over each of which...

The fire began on Tuesday the 11th of April 1758, at about eleven at night; and by nine o’clock the next morning, the whole temporary bridge was consumed; though the drawbridge...

This is the plan of this noble charity; and though this work has subsisted but eighteen years, yet such has been the extraordinary encouragement given to it, that since the 3d o...

For the better inquiry into the proficiency of all the scholars, there are four probations in the year performed only by the Master and Ushers; the first on the 11th of March; t...

Our author, who was one of the committee, observes, that from this society may be seen the great business that may be done for a trifling expence; for the Treasurer, Commissione...

_St._ MARY’S STAINING, a small church, formerly seated on the north side of Oat lane, in the ward of Aldersgate within. The reason why it received the additional epithet of _Sta...

5. For the greater convenience of citizens resorting to country fairs, they are granted the privilege of holding a court of Pye-powder in such places, for the determination of a...

Subscriptions and benefactions are likewise taken in at Messrs. Honywood, Fuller, and Co. bankers in Birchin lane; and at Mr. Gislingham Cooper’s, banker in the Strand. _From th...