London and Its Environs Described, vol. 5 (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. 5 (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
SALT OFFICE, in York Buildings, is under the government of five
Commissioners, each of whom has a salary of 500_l._ _per annum_. Under
these Commissioners are the following officers: a Treasurer, who has
430_l._ a year, for himself and three Clerks; he has also a Deputy: two
Billmen: a Comptroller, who has 350_l._ a year, with a Deputy and two
Clerks: the Comptroller’s Secretary has 200_l._ a year, and an
Assistant: an Accomptant General, who has 200_l._ _per annum_, and his
Clerk 40_l._ a year: a Correspondent, who has 100_l._ a year, and his
Clerk 60_l._ a Chief Accomptant and Clerk of Securities, who has 180_l._
_per annum_: two Accomptants, who have 70_l._ a year each, a Clerk, who
has 60_l._ and another 40_l._ _per annum_: a Storekeeper and Clerk of
the charities and diaries, who has 60_l._ a year; a Collector of the
port of London, who has 60_l._ an Assistant Searcher 60_l._ and two
Surveyors who have 40_l._ a year each.
Besides these, there are in this office an housekeeper who has 100_l._ a
year, and several other servants.
SALTERS, one of the twelve principal companies, and the ninth in order of
precedency, is of considerable antiquity, since they had the grant of a
livery from Richard II. in the year 1394; but it does not appear that
they were incorporated before the first year of the reign of Queen
Elizabeth, in 1558.
This company has a Master, two Wardens, twenty-seven Assistants, and a
livery of 190 members, who upon their being admitted, pay a fine of
20_l._ They have a very considerable estate, out of which they pay
500_l._ _per annum_ to charitable uses. Their hall, which is a plain
brick building, is situated in a neat court in Swithin’s lane.
SALTERS _alley_, 1. Green bank, Wapping. 2. Nightingale lane.
SALTERS _court_, Piccadilly.
SALTERS HALL _court_, in Swithin’s lane, where is Salters hall, in which
is a handsome presbyterian meeting-house.
SALTPETRE BANK, 1. East Smithfield, by Little Tower hill. 2. By Rosemary
lane.
SALUTATION _court_, St. Giles’s Broadway.*
SAMBROOK’S _court_, Old Broad street.†
SAMBRUGH’S _court_, Basinghall street.†
SAMSON’S _rents_, Green Walk.†
SANDWICH _court_, Houndsditch.†
SANDY’S _rents_, Coverley’s fields.†
SANDY’S _street_, Widegate alley, Bishopsgate street without.†
SARAH’S _street_, New Gravel lane.
SARN _alley_, Rotherhith Wall.†
SATCHELL’S _rents_, 1. Shoreditch.† 2. Whitecross street, Cripplegate.†
SAVAGE _gardens_, Tower hill.†
SAVAGE’S _court_, Widegate alley, Bishopsgate street.†
SAVAGE’S _rents_, Black Friars.†
SAVERY’S _alley_, Farmer’s street, Shadwell.†
SAVILE _row_, near New Bond street.†
_St._ SAVIOUR’S _Bermondsey_, a priory, and afterwards an abbey, founded
by Alwin Child, a citizen of London, in the year 1082, in the place now
denominated St. John’s court Bermondsey.
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