COAL _yard_, 1. Goswell street. 2. High Holborn. 3. Willow street, Bank side. COALMAN’S _alley_, Puddle dock.† COALMETERS, fifteen officers in the port of London, to whom belong the care and inspection of the just measure and weight of coals; each of whom is allowed four deputies or under-meters, who must be approved by the Lord Mayor and Aldermen, as upon them the care of weighing and measuring coals principally depends; their business being to attend each ship, in order to observe the due weight and admeasurement, to top the vats, and to return an account of the coals measured to the coal office, by which return or certificate of the under-meters, the duties on coals are collected. For this trouble they receive the fee of a penny _per_ chaldron for all coals measured, and two pence _per_ ton for all coals weighed: and both the principal and under-meters take an oath at their admission into their office, to give just measure to rich and poor without partiality or favour; to buy no coals except for their own use, nor ever to sell coals while in that office, or to take any more for their trouble than was anciently allowed. COALMETERS _Office_, in Church alley, St. Dunstan’s hill. In this office, which belongs to the fifteen upper coalmeters, is entered all the ships that arrive in the port of London with coals, and the quantity measured or weighed; in order to ascertain the duties to be paid, as well as to prevent impositions and frauds with respect to the subject. Mr. Maitland gives the following septenary account, from the Custom House entry book, of the coals imported into the port of London. ┌───────┬────────┬────────┬────────┬────────┬────────┐ │Years. │ 1726. │ 1727. │ 1728. │ 1729. │ │ │Chald. │479,336 │417,974 │536,019 │497,167 │ │ ├───────┼────────┼────────┼────────┼────────┼────────┤ │Years. │ 1730. │ 1731. │ 1732. │ Total. │ Medium │ │Chald. │460,615 │478,411 │453,503 │3,323,025│474,717 │ └───────┴────────┴────────┴────────┴─────────┴──────── But as both London and Westminster have been prodigiously increased since the last of these years, by a vast number of entire streets being built, we may conclude that this account falls extremely short of the quantity now annually imported into the same port. COAT’S _farm_, Coat’s lane.† COAT’S _lane_, Bethnal green.† COBB’S _court_, Black Friars.† COBB’S _yard_, 1. Blackman’s street.† 2. Petticoat lane.† COBHAM, a town in Surry, situated on the river Mole, six miles from Epsom, in the road from London to Guilford.