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
GREAT YORK _street_, Cock lane, Shoreditch.
GREAVE’S _court_, George yard, Whitechapel.†
GREEN _alley_, 1. Broad Sanctuary. 2. Coleman street, Wapping. 3. St.
Saviour’s Dock. 4. Tooley street.
GREEN ARBOUR _court_, 1. French alley. 2. Lambeth hill, Thames street.
3. Little Moorfields. 4. Little Old Bailey.
GREEN BANK, 1. Horselydown. 2. Coleman street, Wapping. 3. St. Olave
street. 4. Wapping.
_Board of_ GREEN CLOTH, a court of justice continually sitting in the
King’s house. This court is under the Lord Steward of the King’s
houshold, and is composed of the Treasurer of the houshold, the
Comptroller, Cofferer, Master of the houshold, two clerks of the Green
Cloth, and two clerks comptrollers; and receives its name from a green
cloth spread over the table, at which they sit.
In the absence of the Lord Steward, the Treasurer of the King’s house,
in conjunction with the Comptroller, and other officers of the board,
together with the Steward of the Marshalsea, have power to determine
treasons, felonies and other crimes committed within the verge. By the
direction and allowance of this board, the Cofferer pays the wages of
the King’s servants above and below stairs, and the bills for
provisions. Also before this board the Averner to the Master of the
horse lays the accompts of the stables for horse meat, livery wages,
and board wages, in order to be passed and allowed. See the article
LORD STEWARD OF THE KING’S HOUSHOLD.
GREEN COAT HOSPITAL, Tothill fields. Several of the inhabitants of
Westminster having resolved to settle an hospital like that of Christ
Church in the city of London, where poor orphans might not only be
furnished with all the necessaries of life, but instructed in manual
arts, in the year 1633 obtained a charter from King Charles I. by
which they were constituted a body politic and corporate, by the
appellation of _The Governors of the hospital of St. Margaret’s
Westminster, of the foundation of King Charles_; to consist of twenty
Governors, inhabitants of Westminster, with the right of purchasing
lands, tenements, &c. in mortmain, to the value of 500_l._ _per
annum_. But the civil war soon after breaking out, in a manner quashed
this noble design. However, by the charitable benefactions of King
Charles II. and others, the estate amounts to above 300_l._ a year,
and there are at present twenty boys maintained upon this foundation.
_Maitland._
GREEN _court_, 1. Green Bank, Wapping. 2. Knaves Acre. 3. Little
Minories. 4. Marshal street, Shoreditch.
[Illustration:
_M^r. Spencer’s._
_S. Wale del._ _B. Green sculp._
]
GREEN DRAGON _alley_, 1. Narrow street, Limehouse.* 2. Surry street, in
the Strand.* 3. By Wapping Wall.*
GREEN DRAGON _court_, 1. Broadway, Westminster.* 2. Cow lane.* 3. Foul
lane.* 4. New Crane, Wapping.* 5. Old Change.*
GREEN DRAGON _yard_, 1. Long lane, West Smithfield.* 2. Whitechapel.*
GREEN ELM _court_, in the Savoy.
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