Though this line in its several turnings is of great length, yet the ground between it and the wall is but narrow, so that the extent in acres is not answerable to its circumambulation. It is in length 21,370 feet, which is about four miles, and yet the ground comprehended between the line of the city wall, and this line of separation, is but 300 acres. _Stow._ FREEMAN’S _court_, Cornhill.† FREEMAN’S _lane_, Horselydown.† FREEMAN’S _yard_, Cornhill.† FREE SCHOOL-HOUSE _street_, Horselydown.☐ FREESTONE _alley_, Eagle court, St. John’s lane. FREESTONE _court_, Artillery lane. FRENCH _alley_, 1. Goswell street. 2. Quaker street, Spitalfields. FRENCH _Almshouse_, in Black Eagle street, Spitalfields, contains convenient apartments for forty-five poor men and women, who are every week allowed 2_s._ 3_d_. a bushel of coals each, and apparel every other year. This house belongs to the French church in Threadneedle street, near the Royal Exchange, and to that in Black Eagle street. The society by which it is supported, Mr. _Maitland_ observes, appears to be the most charitable and generous, from an inscription round a large pewter dish in the possession of Mr. Henry Guinand, an eminent French merchant in Little St. Helen’s, (when deacon of the church) who collected the under-mentioned sum in gold, bank notes, &c. The inscription is as follows: _La collecte qui s’est faite a l’eglise Françoise de Londres, & à celle de l’hopital dans Black Eagle street, pour les pouvre de la dite eglise, le 10 Mars, 1727–28. a produit £1248 7 6._ That is: The collection made in the French church of London, and that of the hospital in Black Eagle street, for the poor of the said churches, amounted to 1248_l._ 7_s._ 6_d_. FRENCH HOSPITAL, contiguous to the Pesthouse on the south side of St. Luke’s parish, was erected in the year 1717, and the Governors by letters patent of the 4th of King George I. in 1718, were constituted a body politic and corporate, by the name of _The Governor and Directors of the hospital for the poor French Protestants, and their defendants, residing in Great Britain_. This hospital at present contains 220 poor helpless men and women, 146 of whom are upon the foundation, and are plentifully supplied with all the necessaries of life, at the expence of the hospital; but the other seventy-four are paid for by their friends, at the rate of 9_l._ a year each. This charity also extends to lunatics, for whose accommodation a large infirmary is provided. To this foundation belong a Chaplain, Physician, Surgeon, and other proper officers, who carefully attend the pensioners, and administer to their several necessities. _Stow, last edit._