The College of Physicians is a building of great delicacy, and eminently deserves to be considered among the noblest ornaments of this city, is yet so unlucky in its situation, in a narrow and dirty part of the lane, that it can never be seen to advantage. There is here a hall, in which the Physicians sit to give advice to the poor gratis; a committee room; a library, furnished with books by Sir Theodore Mayerne and the Marquis of Dorchester, who was one of the Fellows; a great hall for the quarterly meetings of the Doctors, adorned with pictures and sculpture; a theatre for anatomical dissection; a preparing room, where there are thirteen tables, containing all the muscles in the human body; and over all garrets to dry the herbs for the use of the dispensatory. PICCADILLY, Haymarket. There were formerly no houses in this street, and only one shop for Spanish ruffs, which was called the Piccadilly or Ruff shop. At present there are several noble houses in it. See DEVONSHIRE HOUSE, BURLINGTON HOUSE. The last house built in Piccadilly is the Earl of Egremont’s. It is of stone, and tho’ not much adorned, is elegant and well situated for a town house, having a fine view over the Green Park, which would be still more extended if the houses on each side were set farther back. PICKAX _street_, Aldersgate street. PICKERING’S _court_, St. James’s street.† PICKLEHERRING _stairs_, Pickleherring street, Southwark. PICKLEHERRING _street_, near Horselydown, Southwark. PICTURE _yard_, Back lane, near Rag Fair. PIE-CORNER, Giltspur street, Smithfield. PIEPOWDER _court_, a court of record incident to a fair, as a court baron is to a manor; it is derived from the French _pié poudre_, and is said to be so called from its expeditious proceedings in the decision of all controversies that happen in fairs; since for the encouragement of all traders, justice is supposed to be as quickly administered as _dust_ can fall from the feet. _Coke’s Institutes._ During the time of Bartholomew fair, this court is held in Cloth fair by the city of London and Mr. Edwards, for hearing and determining all differences committed against the tenor of the proclamation made by the Lord Mayor, on the eve of old St. Bartholomew, for the better regulation of that fair. PIERPOINT’S _rents_, Islington.† PIERPOINT’S _row_, Islington.† PIG _court_, St. Catharine’s lane.* PIG _street_, extends from Threadneedle street to Broad street. PILLORY _lane_, 1. Butcher row. 2. Fenchurch street. PIN _alley_, near Rosemary lane. PINDER’S _alley_, Shoreditch.† PINDER’S _court_, Gray’s Inn lane.† PINEAPPLE _court_, Woolpack alley, Houndsditch.* PINNERS, or PINMAKERS, a company incorporated by letters patent granted by King Charles I. in the year 1636. They consist of a Master, two Wardens, and eighteen Assistants; but have no livery.