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
FOX ORDINARY _court_, a handsome well-built court in St. Nicholas
lane, Lombard street; so called from a public eating house formerly
there. _Stow._
FOX _yard_, Duke street, Great Russel street.*
FOGWELL _court_, Charterhouse lane.†
FRAMEWORK-KNITTERS, or STOCKING-WEAVERS, are a society incorporated by
letters patent granted by Charles II. in the year 1663, by the
extraordinary title of _The Master, Wardens, Assistants and Society
of the art and mystery of Framework-knitters in the cities of London
and Westminster, the kingdom of England and dominion of Wales_.
This company consists of a Master, two Wardens, eighteen Assistants,
and fifty-eight Liverymen, whose fine for the livery is 10_l._ They
have a small hall in Redcross street.
FRANCIS’S _court_, Bartlet’s street.†
FRANCIS _street_, Golden square.†
FRANCIS _yard_, Brook street.†
FRANKLIN’S _row_, Chelsea.†
FRANSHAW’S _court_, Leadenhall street.†
FREEDOM OF THE CITY OF LONDON, a space of ground without the gates,
and within the liberty of the city, bounded by an irregular line,
which separates the freedom from the county of Middlesex. This line
begins at Temple Bar, which is the only gate fixed at the extremity
of the city liberties, and extending by many turnings and windings,
through part of Shear lane, Bell yard, Chancery lane, by the Rolls
liberty, &c. extends into Holborn, almost opposite to Gray’s Inn,
where there are bars to shew its utmost limits on that side.
From Holborn Bars it passes with many turnings, by Brook street,
Furnival’s Inn, Leather lane, Hatton Garden, Ely House, Field lane
and Chick lane, to the common sewer, where it returns westward to
Cow Cross, and so to Smithfield Bars.
From Smithfield Bars it runs with several windings between Long lane
and Charter house lane to Goswell street, and up that street
northward to the bars.
From Goswell street Bars, where the manor of Finsbury begins, it
winds across Golden lane at the posts and chain set up there, to the
posts and chain in Whitecross street, and from thence to the posts
and chain in Grub street; and then thro’ Ropemakers alley to the
posts and chain in the highway from Moorgate; and from thence by the
north side of the four quarters of Moorfields, all abutting upon
Finsbury manor, where it returns northward up to the bars in
Bishopsgate street; and from thence eastward into Spitalfields,
abutting upon Norton Falgate.
From Norton Falgate it returns southward by Spitalfields, and then
southeast by Wentworth street to Whitechapel Bars.
From Whitechapel Bars it winds more southerly, leaving out the
Little Minories and Goodman’s fields, from which it returns westward
to the posts and chain in the Minories, and thence more westerly
till it comes to London Wall, where it abuts upon the Tower liberty,
and there ends.
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