PLAISTOW, a village in Essex, in the parish of West Ham. PLAISTOW, a village near Bromley in Kent. PLANTATION OFFICE in the treasury. See the article TRADE and PLANTATION OFFICE. PLAYHOUSE _passage_, 1. Bow street; leading to Covent Garden playhouse. 2. Drury lane, leading to the playhouse there. PLAYHOUSE _yard_, 1. Black Friars, where a playhouse was formerly situated. 2. Whitecross street, Old street, where, according to Maitland, the first playhouse in London was erected; on the east side of that yard are still to be seen the ruins of the theatre. _Clerk of the_ PLEAS OFFICE, in Lincoln’s Inn. In this office all the officers of the Exchequer, and other privileged persons, as debtors to the King, &c. are to have their privilege to plead, and be impleaded as to all matters at the common law: and the proceedings are accordingly by declarations, pleas, and trials as at the common law; because they should not be drawn out of their own court, where their attendance is required. In this office are four sworn Attornies. _Chamberlain’s Present State._ _Common_ PLEAS. See _Court of_ COMMON PLEAS. PLOUGH _alley_, 1. Bankside, Southwark.* 2. Barbican.* 3. Carey street, Lincoln’s Inn Fields.* 4. Wapping. PLOUGH _court_, 1. Fetter lane. 2. Gray’s Inn lane.* 3. Lombard street.* PLOUGH AND HARROW _walk_, Nag’s Head Buildings, Hackney road.* PLOUGHMAN’S _rents_, 1. Cow cross, near Smithfield.† 2. Turnmill street.† PLOUGH _street_, Whitechapel.* PLOUGH _yard_, 1. Barnaby street, Southwark.* 2. Brown’s gardens, St. Giles’s.* 3. Holborn hill.* 4. Harrow yard, Green bank.* 5. Seething lane, Tower street.* 6. Tower ditch.* PLOUGH YARD _School_, in Plough yard, Seething lane, was founded by James Hickson, Esq; about the year 1689, for the education of twenty boys; for the instruction of whom he allowed the head Master 20_l._ _per annum_, a dwelling house, and two chaldrons of coals yearly; and to a Writing Master 8_l._ a year. Fourteen of the children are to be of the parish of Allhallows, Barking, and six of the hamlet of Wapping. _Maitland._ PLUMBERS, a company incorporated by letters patent granted by King James I. in the year 1611. This corporation is governed by a Master, two Wardens, and twenty-four Assistants; with a livery of fifty-seven members, who upon their admission pay a fine of 10_l._ They have a small hall in Chequer yard, Dowgate hill. _Maitland._ PLUMBER’S _court_, High Holborn.† PLUMTREE _court_, Plumtree street, Shoe lane.† PLUMTREE _square_, Plumtree street, St. Giles’s. PLUMTREE _street_, 1. St. Giles’s. 2. Shoe lane.† POLAND _court_, Poland street. POLAND _street_, Oxford street. POLAND _yard_, Oxford street. POLLIN’S _street_, Hanover street. _The_ POND _yard_, Bankside, Southwark. POOR JEWRY _lane_, Aldgate; so called from its being inhabited by the Jews, on their return to England, after being expelled the kingdom by Edward I. See OLD JEWRY.