PETTICOAT _lane_, extends from Whitechapel into Spitalfields. On both sides of this lane were anciently hedges, and rows of elm trees, and the pleasantness of the neighbouring fields induced several gentlemen to build their houses here, among whom was the Spanish ambassador, whom Strype supposes to be Gondomar: but at length many French refugees settling in that part of the lane near Spitalfields in order to follow their trades, which in general was weaving of silk, it soon became a row of contiguous buildings. This lane is very long and very disagreeable, both on account of its nastiness and offensive smells, it being the chief residence of the horners, who prepare horns for other petty manufacturers. PETTICOAT _square_, Petticoat lane. PETTY BAG OFFICE, next the Rolls chapel, Chancery lane. The clerks in this office, who are three in number, are under the Master of the Rolls, and make all patents for customers, comptrollers, and _congé d’elires_: they also summon the Nobility, Clergy, Knights, Citizens, and Burgesses to parliament, &c. This office takes its name from each record being there put into a little bag. PETTY CANONS _of St. Paul’s_. See the article Canons. PETTY CANONS _alley_, St. Paul’s Church yard. PETTY FRANCE, Tothill street, Westminster; thus named from its being at first inhabited by the people of that nation. PETTY FRANCE _alley_, Old Bethlem; so called from Petty France there, now called New Broad street, which was originally inhabited chiefly by the French. PETTY WALES _yard_, Halfmoon alley. PETTY’S _court_, Hanoway street, Tottenham court road.† PEWTERERS, a company incorporated by letters patent, granted by King Edward IV. in 1474. In the year 1534, the Wardens of the Pewterers company, or their deputies, were impowered by act of parliament to have the inspection of pewter in all parts of the kingdom, in order to prevent the sale of the base pewter, and the importation of pewter vessels from abroad. As a farther encouragement, all Englishmen are by that act strictly enjoined, not to repair to any foreign country to teach the art or mystery of pewterers, on pain of disfranchisement: and for the more effectually preventing the art being carried abroad, no Pewterer is to take the son of an alien as an apprentice. This corporation has a Master, two Wardens, twenty-eight Assistants, and seventy-eight Liverymen, who on their admission pay 20_l._ Their hall is in Lime street, almost facing the west end of Cullum street. PEWTER PLATTER _alley_, Grace church street.* PHEASANT _court_, Cow lane, Snow hill.* PHEASANT COCK _court_, Angel alley, Houndsditch.* PHENIX _alley_, Long Acre.* PHENIX _court_, 1. Butcher row.* 2. High Holborn.* 3. Newgate street.* 4. Old Change, Cheapside.* PHENIX _street_, 1. Dyot street, St. Giles’s.* 2. Hog lane, St. Giles’s.* 3. Monmouth street, Spitalfields.* PHENIX _yard_, Oxford street.* PHILIP _lane_, London wall.* PHILIP’S _court_, Grub street.†