The _petty Canons_ who are twelve in number, are chosen out of the ministers and officers belonging to the cathedral, and should be persons of unspotted characters, with harmonious voices, and skilled in vocal music. These were constituted a body politic and corporate by letters patent granted by King Richard II. in the year 1399, by the title of _The College of the twelve petty Canons of St. Paul’s_; and allowed a common seal, with one of their number for a Warden. _Newc. Repert._ CANTERBURY _court_, 1. Black Friars, 2. Phenix street. CAR _court_, Rotten row, Old street. CAR _yard_, 1. Moor lane. 2. Redcross street. 3. White’s yard, Rosemary lane. CARD _court_, West Smithfield. CARDINALS OF THE CHOIR, two officers chosen out of the petty Canons of St. Paul’s, by the Dean and Chapter. Their office is to superintend the behaviour and attendance of the several officers belonging to the choir; and to take minutes of the several crimes of which they are guilty when on duty, in order to their being corrected for them by the Dean and Chapter. CARDINAL’S CAP _alley_, Bank side.* CARDMAKERS, were incorporated by letters patent of Charles I. in the year 1629. This company is governed by a Matter, two Wardens, and eighteen Assistants, but they have neither livery nor hall. CARY _lane_, Foster lane, Cheapside.† CARY _street_, Lincoln’s Inn fields.† CARLISLE _street_, Soho square. CARMAN’S _yard_, Pepper alley. CARMEN, were constituted a fellowship of this city, by an act of Common Council in the reign of Henry VIII. and incorporated by letters patent granted by James I. in 1606, with the fraternity of Fuellers, under the denomination of Woodmongers, with whom they continued till 1668, when the Woodmongers were convicted by parliament of many enormous frauds in the sale of coals, and other fuel, and being apprehensive of suffering the punishment due to their crimes, threw up their charter in order to avoid it, upon which the Carmen were again appointed a fellowship by an act of Common Council, under the title of _The free Carmen of the city of London_. They are governed by a Master, two Wardens, and forty-one Assistants, under the direction of the court of the Lord Mayor and Aldermen, but have neither livery nor hall. CARNABY, or MARLBOROUGH _Market_, by Carnaby street, has Marlborough street on the north, and Broad street on the south west. This is lately become a very plentiful market for flesh and other provisions. CARNABY _street_, 1. Silver street, Bloomsbury. 2. Silver street, Golden square. CAROLINE _court_, Saffron hill. CARON’S _Almshouse_, in Kingston road, Vauxhall, consists of seven rooms for as many poor women, and was founded by his excellency the Right Hon. Noel Baron of Caron, Ambassador from the States General in the year 1623. This almshouse he endowed with a handsome estate, out of which each of his almswomen receives 4_l._ a year.