London and Its Environs Described, vol. 4 (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. 4 (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
Some years ago the Governors built a very large, strong and useful
building, with three long rooms or galleries one over another, which are
filled with boys and girls at work, who have a proper number of men and
women to instruct them. They have here also a large and convenient
brewhouse for brewing their own drink, and over that a malthouse. In
short, every thing here is managed with the greatest prudence and
œconomy. _Maitland._
LONDON WORKHOUSE _yard_, by the London Workhouse in Bishopsgate street.
LONG ACRE, so called from its being built on a long narrow piece of
ground, anciently called The Seven Acres. It begins at Drury lane, by
the end of Great Queen street, and reaches to St. Martin’s lane.
LONG ALLEY, 1. Black Friars. 2. Cable street. 3. Moor fields. 4. In the
Strand.
LONG BOW STRING MAKERS, a company by prescription, and not by charter:
but which still subsists, though bows and arrows have been so long out
of use. It has, however, a coat of arms, and is governed by two Wardens
and nineteen Assistants; but this fraternity have neither hall nor
livery. _Maitland._
LONG CELLAR _court_, 1. Lower East Smithfield. 2. St. Catharine’s.
LONG _court_, near Whitechapel.
LONG _ditch_, Tothill street, Westminster. This street took its name
from a water course there so called. _Maitland._
LONG _lane_, 1. Aldersgate street. 2. Barnaby street. 3. Shoreditch.
LONG _walk_, 1. Christ’s hospital. 2. Cross Keys court, Whitecross
street, Cripplegate. 3. King John’s court, Barnaby street.
LONG’S _alley_, Roper lane in Crucifix lane, Barnaby street.†
LONG’S _court_, 1. Jamaica street, Rotherhith.† 2. Near Leicester
fields.†
LONG’S _yard_, 1. East Smithfield.† 2. In the Green Walk.†
LOOKER’S _court_, King’s street, Oxford street.†
LOOM _alley_, Old Bethlem.
LORD MAYOR. See _Lord_ MAYOR.
LORD MAYOR’S _court_. See _Lord_ MAYOR’S COURT.
LORD MAYOR AND ALDERMENS COURT. Also see under the article MAYOR.
_House of_ LORDS, an edifice situated near Westminster Hall, by the
Painted Chamber and Court of Requests. The print represents the stairs
up which his Majesty enters, and adjoining is the office of ordnance.
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