By an act of Common Council, a sermon is preached to them, in the parish church of St. Mary at Hill, the next Sunday after every Midsummer day; when overnight they furnish the merchants and families about Billingsgate with nosegays, and in the morning they proceed from their place of meeting in good order, each having a nosegay in his hand: walking through the middle isle to the communion table, every one offers something into the two basons, for the relief of the poor, and towards the charges of the day; and after they have passed, the deputy, the merchants, their wives, children, and servants walk in order from their seats, and bestow their offerings also; which is a ceremony of much variety. The charges of their nosegays have amounted sometimes to near 20_l._ in one year. III. The Ticket porters land and ship off goods imported or exported to all parts of America, &c. and house all merchants goods, metals, &c. They give ample security for their fidelity and honesty, and such as employ them need only take notice of their names stamped on a ticket that hangs at their girdles; that upon complaint being made to their Governor, satisfaction may be given to such as have been injured by them. IV. Tackle porters are such of the Ticket porters as are furnished with weights, scales, &c. and their business is to weigh goods. _Rates taken by_ PORTERS _for shipping, landing, houseing and weighing_. Sugar the hogshead, 3_d._—For weighing 4_d._ Sugar the tierce or barrel, 2_d._—For weighing 3_d._ Sugar the butt, 6_d._—For weighing 8_d._ Cotton, wool, the bag, 3_d._—The same for weighing. Ginger, the bag, 1_d._—The same for weighing. Melasses, the hogshead, 3_d._—For weighing 4_d._ Logwood, the ton, 1_s._—The same for weighing. Fustick, the ton, 1_s._—The same for weighing. Young fustick, the ton, 1_s._ 6_d._—The same for weighing. Lignum rhodium, the ton, 1_s._ 6_d._—The same for weighing. Lignum vitæ, the ton, 1_s._—The same for weighing. Tobacco, the hogshead, 2_d._—The same for weighing. Tobacco, the bundle, 1_d._—The same for weighing. Danish, or Swedish iron, the ton, 1_s._—The same for weighing. Narva and Riga hemp, the bundle, 6_d._—The same for weighing. Any porter has the liberty of bringing goods into London; but may not carry any out of the city, or from one part of it to another, unless he be a freeman; otherwise he is liable to be arrested. PORTERS _alley_, Basinghall street. PORTERS _block_, Smithfield bars. PORTER’S _court_, Basinghall street.† PORTER’S _field_, Porter’s street.† PORTERS _key_, Thames street. PORTER’S _street_, 1. Blossom’s street.† 2. Newport market.† PORTER’S _yard_, 1. Holiwell lane, Shoreditch.† 2. Whitecross street, Cripplegate.† PORTLAND _street_, Oxford street. PORTPOOL _lane_, extends from Gray’s Inn lane to Leather lane. PORTSMOUTH _corner_, Lincoln’s Inn Fields.