PACKINGTON’S _Almshouse_, in White Friars, Fleet street, commonly called Clothworkers almshouses, was founded by the Lady Anne Packington, relict of Sir John Packington, Chirographer of the court of Common Pleas, about the year 1560, for the accommodation of eight poor women, each of whom receives annually of the Clothworkers company, who have the trust of this charity, the sum of 4_l._ nine bushels of coals, and new apparel every third year. _Maitland._ PACKSON’S _rents_, Jamaica street. PACKTHREAD _ground_, 1. Bandy Leg walk. 2. End of Barnaby street. 3. Coleman street. 4. Gravel lane. 5. Near Maiden lane. PADDINGTON, a village in Middlesex, situated on the north side of Hyde Park. PAGE (Sir Gregory) for an account of his house and pictures. See BLACKHEATH. PAGEANT’S _stairs_, Rotherhith. PAGE’S _walk_, King’s Road.† PAGE’S _yard_, Brewhouse lane, Wapping.† PAIN’S _alley_, Wapping Wall.† PAIN’S _yard_, Swan alley, East Smithfield.† [Illustration: _A Scene in the Gardens of Pain’s Hill._ _S. Wale delin._ _F. Vivares sculp._ ] PAIN’S _hill_, near Cobham, in Surry, is the seat of the Honourable Charles Hamilton, who has made great improvements, by inclosing a large tract of barren land, which though so poor as to produce nothing but heath and broom, he has so well cultivated and adorned, that few places are equal to it. The whole place is about five miles round; it is laid out in the modern taste, and planted with a beautiful variety of trees, plants, and flowers. The fine inequalities of the ground give a perpetual variety to the prospects, especially on that side next the river Mole, which river, though it lies lower than the level of the gardens by twenty feet, is brought into them by means of a wheel curiously contrived, which is turned by the river. Every time it turns round it takes up the water and conveys it through a spiral pipe from the circumference of the wheel to the center of it, from whence it is discharged into a trough, and from thence through pipes into the gardens, where by the joint assistance of nature and art, it is formed into a fine winding lake or piece of water, with an island in it, planted and laid out in walks, with bridges over to it of the most simple contrivance, and the whole surrounded with rising grounds, clumps of trees, and hanging woods, in as romantic and picturesque a manner as imagination can conceive. These gardens are but lately laid out, and consequently some of the plantations will appear to more advantage as they advance in growth. But the place upon the whole is very beautiful, and extremely well worth seeing. PAINTER’S _court_, Berry street. PAINTER’S _rents_, Ratcliff highway. PAINTER STAINERS, a company incorporated by letters patent granted by Queen Elizabeth in the year 1582; by the name of _The Master, Wardens and Commonalty of the freemen of the art and mystery of painting, called Painter Stainers, within the city of London_.