London and Its Environs Described, vol. 3 (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. 3 (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
GLASSHOUSE LIBERTY, a part of the parish of St. Botolph Aldersgate
street, situated in Goswell and Pickax streets, thus named from a
glasshouse which anciently stood there. There was formerly but one
government in the parish; but the poor of this liberty increasing
considerably, the city liberty ungenerously separated from them, and
obliged those in this district to maintain their own poor.
GLASSHOUSE _street_, Swallow street.☐
GLASSHOUSE _yard_, 1. Black Friars.† 2. Goodman’s fields.☐ 3. Old Barge
stairs.☐ 4. Old Bethlem.☐ 5. Pickax street.☐ 6. Red Maid lane.☐ 7.
Upper Ground.☐ 8. Well street.☐ 9. White Friars.☐ 10. White’s yard.☐
11. Willow street.☐
GLASS SELLERS, a company that were incorporated with the Looking-glass
makers by letters patent granted by King Charles II. in the year 1664,
by the title of _The Master, Wardens, Assistants and Commonalty of
Glass sellers of the city of London_.
This fraternity is governed by a Master, two Wardens, twenty-four
Assistants, and forty-four Liverymen, who on their admission pay a
fine of 5_l._ But they have no hall. _Maitland._
GLASS _yard_, Cut-throat lane.
GLAZIERS, a company incorporated with that of the glass painters, by a
charter granted by Charles I. in the year 1637.
They consist of a Master, two Wardens, twenty-one Assistants, and
ninety-one Liverymen, whose fine is 3_l._ Their hall being consumed in
the fire of London, has never yet been rebuilt. _Maitland._
GLAZIER’S _rents_, Fore street, Limehouse.
GLEAN _alley_, Tooley street.
GLOBE _alley_, 1. Deadman’s Place.* 2. Fish street hill.* 3. Narrow
street, Limehouse.* 4. Quaker street.* 5. In the Strand.* 6. Wapping.*
GLOBE _court_, 1. Seven Stars alley.* 2. Sheer lane.* 3. Shoe lane.*
GLOBE _island_, Rotherhith.
GLOBE _lane_, Mile-end road.*
GLOBE _stairs_, Rotherhith.*
GLOBE _stairs alley_, 1. Jamaica street.* 2. Rotherhith.*
GLOBE _yard_, 1. New Fish street hill.* 2. Old Bethlem.* 3. Schoolhouse
lane, Ratcliff.* 4. Wapping.*
GLOUCESTER _court_, 1. Beer lane. 2. Black Friars. 3. St. James’s
street. 4. Whitecross street, Cripplegate.
GLOUCESTER _street_, 1. Liquorpond street. 2. Queen’s square,
Bloomsbury.
GLOVERS, a company incorporated by letters patent granted by King
Charles I. in the year 1638.
This company is governed by a Master, four Wardens, thirty Assistants,
and a livery of 130 members, who upon their admission pay a fine of
5_l._ 13_s._ 4_d._ They have a hall in Beech lane.
GLOVERS _court_, Beech lane.☐
GLOVERS _yard_, Beech lane.☐
GOAT _alley_, 1. St. Catharine’s lane.* 2. Ludgate hill.* 3. Upper
Ground, Southwark.* 4. Whitecross str. Cripplegate.*
GOAT INN _yard_, St. Margaret’s hill.*
GOAT’S HEAD _alley_, Skinners street.*
GOAT _stairs_, Bank side.*
GOAT _yard_, 1. Free school street, Horselydown.* 2. In the Maze, Tooley
street.* 3. Whitecross street, by Old street.*
GOAT _yard passage_, Horselydown.*
GOATHAM _alley_, Shoreditch.‖
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