PARSON’S _court_, 1. Bride lane, Fleet street.† 2. White street.† PARSON’S _rents_, Cow lane, Smithfield.† PARSON’S _yard_, 1. Fore street, Lambeth.† 2. Shoreditch. PASSAGE, Lambeth. PATENT _Office_, Palsgrave Head court, near Temple Bar. PATER NOSTER _alley_, Pater noster row. PATER NOSTER _row_, extends from Cheapside to Amen corner. This street was anciently so called on account of the number of stationers, or writers who lived there before the invention of the noble art of printing; who wrote and sold the little books most in use in those times of ignorance, as alphabets with the Pater noster, the Ave Maria, the Creed and Graces. In the same place also dwelt the turners of beads for rosaries, who were also called Pater noster makers. At the end of Pater noster row near Amen corner is Ave Mary lane, which was also so called from the writers and beadmakers, who resided there. Pater noster row is still inhabited by many eminent wholesale booksellers and publishers. _Maitland._ 2. Dorset street, Spitalfields. PATIENCE _street_, Anchor street. PATRICK’S _court_, Houndsditch.† PATTENMAKERS, a company incorporated by letters patent granted by King Charles II. in the year 1670; consisting of a Master, two Wardens, twenty-four Assistants, and forty-six Liverymen, who at their admission pay a fine of 6_l._ but have no hall. PATTEN RING _alley_, Maze Pond, near Snow fields. PAV’D _alley_, 1. Charles’s street, St. James’s. 2. Lime street, by Leadenhall street. 3. London House yard. 4. Water lane, Black Friars. 5. White Friars. PAV’D _court_, 1. Bell Inn yard. 2. Five Feet lane. 3. Fleetwood’s rents. 4. George yard. 5. Green Bank. PAV’D _entry_, London Wall. PAVEMENT _row_, Moorfields. PAVIOURS, a fellowship by prescription, and not by charter. This company is governed by three Wardens and twenty-five Assistants; but though they have a coat of arms, they have neither hall nor livery. PAVIOURS _alley_, Drury lane. PAVIOURS _court_, Grub street, by Fore street, Moorgate. PAULIN’S _street_, Hanover street.† PAULIN’S _wharf_, Durham yard, in the Strand. PAUL’S _alley_, 1. Fenchurch street. 2. St Paul’s Church yard. 3. Redcross street. 4. Wood street, Cheapside. _St._ PAUL’S _Cathedral_, the most magnificent Protestant church in the world. This edifice has been generally supposed to have been founded in the place where anciently stood a temple dedicated by the Romans to the goddess Diana; an opinion derived from the tradition, of the heads of oxen, the horns of deer, and the tusks of boars having been commonly dug up there; but as Sir Christopher Wren in clearing the foundations of this ancient structure, found none of these, he justly discredited the opinion, and his son, in his _Parentalia_, has given a different account of the origin of the ancient edifice. [Illustration: _S^t. Paul’s_ _S. Wale delin._ _E. Rooker sculp._ ]