GRANGE _walk_, King John’s court, Bermondsey. GRANGE _yard_, Bermondsey fields. GRANGER’S _rents_, Near Barbican.† GRAPE _street_, By Little Moorfields. GRASSCHURCH _street_, Cornhill; now generally called and spelt Gracechurch street. GRASSHOPPER _alley_, 1. Fore street.* 2. Whitecross street.* GRASSHOPPER _court_, Charterhouse street.* GRAVEL _court_, Old Gravel lane.* GRAVEL _lane_, 1. Near the Falcon stairs. 2. Houndsditch. GRAVEL _street_, Brook street, Holborn. GRAVEL _walk_, 1. Blue Anchor alley. 2. Collingwood street. GRAVE’S _dock_, Fore street, Limehouse.† GRAVE’S _wharf_, near Fishmongers hall, Thames street.† GRAVESEND, a town in Kent, twenty-two miles from London, situated on the Thames, opposite to Tilbury Fort, about six miles east from Dartford, and about the same distance from Rochester. In the reign of Richard II. the French and Spaniards sailed up the Thames to this town, and having plundered and burnt it, carried away most of the inhabitants. To enable the town to recover this loss, the Abbot of St. Mary le Grace on Tower hill, to whom King Richard II. had granted a manor belonging to Gravesend, obtained that the inhabitants of Gravesend and Milton should have the sole privilege of carrying passengers by water from hence to London, at 2_d._ a head, or 4_s._ the whole fare; but the fare is now raised to 9_d._ a head in the tilt boat, and 1_s._ in the wherry. The former must not take in above forty passengers, and the latter no more than ten. The Watermens company are by act of parliament obliged to provide officers at Billingsgate and at Gravesend, who at every time of high water by night and day, are at their respective places to ring publicly a bell set up for that purpose, for fifteen minutes, to give notice to the tilt boats and wherries to put off; and coaches ply at Gravesend at the landing of people from London to carry them to Rochester. King Henry VIII. raised a platform here and at Milton, and these towns were incorporated by Queen Elizabeth, by the name of the Portreve (which has been changed to that of Mayor) the jurats and inhabitants of Gravesend and Milton. The whole town being burnt down in 1727 the parliament in the year 1731 granted 5000_l._ for rebuilding its church. Here is a very handsome charitable foundation, Mr. Henry Pinnock having in 1624, given twenty-one dwelling houses and a house for a master weaver to employ the poor: and a good estate is also settled for the repairs.