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
There are eight wards for the children’s beds; that of the girls is
separated from the rest; and there is also a ward for the sick. Each
of the masters have 100_l._ a year, and the grammar master an
additional salary of 20_l._ for catechising the boys, and his usher
has 50_l._ a year; in short, 12 or 1300_l._ a year is expended in
salaries to the officers, clerks, and servants; and the sum expended
for the support of the hospital, amounts to between 11 and
12,000_l._ a year. To defray this expence, the hospital has a great
annual revenue in houses and lands; the benefit of licensing and
looking after the 420 carts allowed in the city, each of which pays
a certain sum for sealing. The hospital has likewise a duty of about
three farthings upon every piece of cloth brought to Blackwell hall,
where clerks are kept to receive it. The Governors, amount to about
three hundred, and these chuse their officers and servants, both men
and women, and also the President and Treasurer.
The building of this hospital is partly Gothic and partly modern,
being built at various times, and has very little regularity. That
part represented in the print belongs to the mathematical school,
and is in Gray Friars. The niche contains a statue of Charles II. in
the royal robes, which, considering the difficulty the statuary had
to encounter, is a very good one. At a distance is the steeple and
part of the front of the church, which was rebuilt, after being
burnt down by the fire of London, by Sir Christopher Wren.
CHURCHES. These are very numerous; and the reader may see an account
of each under the names of the patrons to whom they are dedicated,
as _St._ ALBAN’S, ALLHALLOWS, _St._ ALPHAGE, _St._ ANDREW’S, &c.
CHURCH _alley_, 1. Basinghall street.☐ 2. Black Friars.☐ 3. Denmark
street, St. Giles’s.☐ 4. Giltspur street.☐ 5. Harp alley, Shoe
lane.☐ 6. St. Mary hill.☐ 7. New Rents, Compter street.☐ 8. Noble
street, Foster lane.☐ 9. Old Jewry.☐ 10. Puddle dock hill.☐ 11. In
the Strand.☐ 12. Thames street.☐ 13. Tooley street.☐ 14. Wapping.☐
15. Watling street.☐ 16. Whitechapel.☐
CHURCH _court_, 1. Church passage, Piccadilly.☐ 2. Clement’s lane,
Canon street.☐ 3. Duke’s place.☐ 4. Little Chapel street.☐ 5. St.
Margaret’s church yard.☐ 6. In the Strand.☐ 7. Church Entry, Austin
Friars.☐ 8. Black Friars.☐
CHURCH _hill_, Black Friars.☐
CHURCH _lane_, 1. Dyot street.☐ 2. Elephant lane, Rotherhith.☐ 3.
Houndsditch.☐ 4. Islington.☐ 5. Ropewalk, Limehouse.☐ 6. St. Mary
Overies.☐ 7. Newington Butts.☐ 8. In the Strand.☐ 9. Near Three
Cranes lane, Thames street.☐ 10. Whitechapel.☐ 11. White street,
Southwark.☐ 12. Wood street, Cheapside.☐
CHURCH _passage_, 1. Cloth Fair.☐ 2. Dorset street.☐ 3. Piccadilly.☐
CHURCH _row_, near Aldgate.☐
CHURCH _stairs_, Rotherhith.☐
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