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 ItAnonymous
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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
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London (England) -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800; London (England) -- Gazetteers -- Early works to 1800
FARTHING _street_, Phenix street, Spitalfields.║
FASHION _street_, Artillery lane, Spitalfields.
FAUSTIN’S _court_, Bowl alley, St. Giles’s.† 2. Vinegar lane, Drury
lane.†
FEATHERS _alley_, 1. Bedfordbury.* 2. Holborn.* 3. Long Acre.* 4. St.
Martin’s lane, Charing Cross.* 5. In the Strand.*
FEATHERS _court_, 1. Bury court, Piccadilly.* 2. Drury lane.* 3. Fox
court, Gray’s Inn lane.* 4. High Holborn.* 5. Milk street,
Cheapside.*
FEATHERSTONE’S _buildings_, High Holborn.†
FEATHERSTONE’S _court_, Featherstone street.†
FEATHERSTONE _street_, Bunhill row.†
FELL _court_, Fell street.†
FELL _street_, Little Wood street.†
FELL’S _Almshouse_, at Blackwall, was erected by Capt. Fell for the
accommodation of four poor families, but without any allowance for
their support.
FELLOWSHIP _Porters_. See PORTERS.
FELTMAKERS. The Felt hat-makers being anciently a branch of the
company of Haberdashers of hats, they applied in the year 1576 for
an exclusive charter; but being opposed by the Haberdashers, their
endeavours proved abortive; but at last all disputes being adjusted,
they were separately incorporated by letters patent granted by King
James I. in the year 1604. They are governed by a Master, four
Wardens, and twenty-five Assistants, with a livery of sixty members,
who at their admission pay a fine of 5_l._ each, but they have no
hall. _Maitland._
FEN _court_, 1. Fenchurch street. 2. St Michael’s lane.†
FENCHURCH _buildings_, Fenchurch street.
FENCHURCH _street_, Gracechurch street. It took its name from the
Lang-bourn, a rivulet or bourn, that arose near the place which is
now Magpye alley, and spreading near the spring head, rendered the
contiguous street so moorish or fenny, especially about the church,
which stood in the broad way between Mincing lane and Rood lane,
that it from thence obtained the name of Fenchurch street.
_Maitland._
FENWICK’S _court_, High Holborn.
FETCHAM, a village near Leatherhead, where is the seat of Thomas
Revel, Esq; on which no cost has been spared to render a most
beautiful situation by nature, more delightful by art.
FETTER _lane_, Fleet street, in old writings called Feuter lane; it
was then what Drury lane is now.
FETTER LANE _court_, Bernard’s Inn.
FIELD _court_, Gray’s Inn.
FIELD _lane_, Holborn hill.
FIGTREE _court_, 1. Barbican.‡ 2. Inner Temple.‡
FIGTREE _yard_, Maudlin’s rents.‡
FINCH _lane_, Cornhill.†
FINCHLEY, a village in Middlesex between Hendon and Coneyhatch, is
seven miles north of London.
FINSBURY, Moorfields, formerly called Fensbury, from a neighbouring
fen or moor. _Maitland._
FINSBURY COURTS, in this place the steward of the manor holds a court
leet and court baron, in which are transacted the business peculiar
to each court.
FINSBURY _yard_, Chiswell street.
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