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
To each of these courts belong four Attorneys, a Secondary, a Clerk of
the papers, a Prothonotary, and four Clerks sitters. See the article
COMPTER.
SHERWOOD _street_, near Golden square.
SHIP _alley_, 1. Broad street, Ratcliff.* 2. Fore street, Limehouse.* 3.
Phœnix street, Spitalfields.* 4. Ratcliff highway.* 5. Wellclose
square.*
SHIP _court_, in the Old Bailey.*
SHIP _street_, near New Gravel lane, Shadwell.*
SHIP _yard_, 1. Bishopsgate street without.* 2. In the Borough.* 3. Golden
lane, Barbican.* 4. Green bank, Wapping.* 5. King street, New Gravel
lane.* 6. Monkwell street.* 7. Petty France, Westminster.* 8. Phœnix
street.* 9, Redcross street, Cripplegate.* 10. Without Temple Bar.*
SHIP _back yard_, in the Minories.*
SHIPPEY’S _yard_, in the Minories.†
SHIPPING _stairs_, Limehouse.
SHIPWRIGHTS, a company by prescription for several ages, were incorporated
by letters patent granted by King James I. in the year 1605.
This corporation consists of a Master, two Wardens, and sixteen
Assistants; but have neither livery nor hall: for though they had
formerly a hall near Ratcliff cross, yet that being demolished they
occasionally meet at different places to transact their affairs.
SHIPWRIGHTS _street_, Rotherhith.
SHITTEN _alley_, Chamber street, Shadwell.‖
SHOE _lane_, extends from Fleet street to Holborn.
SHOEMAKER _row_, 1. By Aldgate. 2. Black friars.
SHOEMAKERS. See the article CORDWAINERS.
SHOEMAKERS _yard_, Deadman’s place.
SHOOTER’S _court_, Basinghall street.
SHOREDITCH, extends from Nortonfalgate to the end of Old street.
Shoreditch was anciently a village situated along the Roman highway, by
the Saxons denominated Eald street, or Old street, and according to
Maitland, owes its name to one of the predecessors of Sir John Sordig,
or Sordich, who was Lord thereof in the year 1339, and not, as vulgarly
supposed, to Jane Shore, concubine to Edward IV. This village was at a
considerable distance north of the city of London, though it is now
joined to it.
SHOREDITCH _alley_, Shoreditch.
SHOREDITCH _church_, at the north end of Shoreditch. See the article _St._
LEONARD _Shoreditch_.
SHOREY’S _alley_, King’s alley, Rotherhith†
SHORTER’S _court_, Throgmorton street.†
SHORTER’S _street_, Cable street, Rag fair.†
SHORT’S _buildings_, Clerkenwell.†
SHORT’S _gardens_, Drury lane.†
SHOVEL _alley_, 1. Back lane, Rag fair.* 2. Cable street.* 3. St.
Catharine’s.* 4. East Smithfield.* 5. Great Gardens, St. Catharine’s
lane.* 6. Wood street, Cheapside.*
SHOULDER OF MUTTON _alley_, Limehouse.*
SHOULDER OF MUTTON _walk_, Hackney.*
SHOULDER OF MUTTON _yard_, Butcher row, without Temple Bar.*
SHREEVE’S _rents_, Duke street, Bloomsbury.†
SHREWSBURY _court_, 1. Stony lane.† 2. Whitecross street, Fore street.†
SHUG _lane_, near Piccadilly.
SHUTTER’S _alley_, Whitechapel.†
SIDNEY’S _alley_, Leicester fields.†
SIDNEY’S _street_, Leicester fields; so named from Sidney Earl of
Leicester.
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