GREY FRIARS, a court in Newgate street, near the gate, adjoining on one side to Christ’s hospital. Here, in the reign of King Henry III. was erected a convent of Franciscans or Grey Friars, and some time after a spacious church, which was not compleatly finished till the year 1380, tho’ it was consecrated in 1325. This church, which was 300 feet in length, eighty-nine in breadth, and sixty-four feet two inches in height from the ground to the roof, was built at different times, at the expence of different persons, and among its benefactors were several Queens of England. In the year 1429, Richard Whittington here founded a library, 129 feet in length and thirty-one in breadth, which was finished the following year, and within three years after furnished with books. However, at the general suppression of monasteries, the friery, with all the edifices belonging to it, was surrendered to Henry VIII. and the ornaments and utensils taken away, and applied to the King’s use: after which the church was shut up for some time, and used as a storehouse for goods taken as prizes from the French; but in January 1546, this church, with the friery, library, chapter house, cloisters and gardens, were given by King Henry to the Mayor and Commonalty of London, with the hospital of St. Bartholomew in West Smithfield, the parishes of St. Nicholas and St. Ewin, and so much of St. Sepulchre’s parish as is within Newgate, to be made one parish belonging to the church in the Grey Friars, which was from thenceforward to be called Christ Church. In short, in the year 1552, the house of the Grey Friars began to be repaired for the reception of poor fatherless children, and in November following near four hundred were taken in. _Stow._ See CHRIST’S HOSPITAL. GREYHOUND _alley_, 1. St. Mary Ax.* 2. Newgate street.* GREYHOUND _court_, 1. Aldersgate street.* 2. St. Catharine’s lane.* 3. Chick lane.* 4. Lamb street.* 5. Milford lane.* 6. Moor’s street, Soho.* GREYHOUND _Inn yard_, St. Margaret’s hill.* GREYHOUND _lane_, Three Colts street.* GREYHOUND _street_, Whitechapel.* GREYHOUND _yard_, 1. Portpool lane.* 2. Upper Ground street.* GREY PEA _alley_, Red Maid lane. GREY’S _yard_, Duke street, Piccadilly.† GRIDIRON _alley_, Whitechapel.* GRIDIRON _court_, High Holborn.* GRIFFIN _alley_, Blackman street.* GRIFFIN _street_, Shadwell Dock.* GRIFFIN _yard_, Long lane, West Smithfield.* GRIFFIS’S _rents_, Barnaby street.† GRIGG’S _court_, Goodman’s yard.† GRIPEY _alley_, Artichoke lane.