WAX CHANDLERS, a company incorporated by letters patent granted by King Richard III. in the year 1483. This corporation is governed by a master, two wardens, and twenty assistants; with 113 liverymen, who upon their admission pay a fine of 5_l._ They have a handsome hall in Maiden lane, Wood street. WEATHERBY’S _rents_, Whitecross street Cripplegate.† WEAVER _alley_, near Spicer’s street, Spitalfields. WEAVERS, this company, which was anciently denominated _Thenarii_, appears to have been the most ancient guild of this city, for in the reign of Henry I. they paid 16_l._ a year to the crown for their immunities. Their privileges were afterwards confirmed at Winchester by letters patent granted by Henry II. which are still in the company’s possession; but are without a date; and in these letters, the annual sum payable to the crown is fixed at two marks of gold, to be paid yearly at Michaelmas, on the penalty of 10_l._ This company originally consisted of the cloth, and tapestry weavers, who in the seventh of Henry IV. were put under the management, and authority of the Lord Mayor and Aldermen of the city. They are now governed by two bailiffs, two wardens, and sixteen assistants, with a livery of 279 members, whose fine upon their admission is 6_l._ The weavers have a handsome hall in Basinghall street, adorned on the inside with hangings, fretwork, and a screen of the Ionic order. _Maitland._ WEAVERS ARMS _yard_, Booth street, Spitalfields.* WEAVERS _lane_, Horselydown.† WEAVERS _street_, Fleet street Spitalfields. WEBB’S _court_, Red Lion alley.† WEBB’S _square_, Shoreditch.† WEBB’S _yard_, Vine yard, Old Horselydown lane.† WEDDON _street_, Chancery lane, Fleet street. WEIGH-HOUSE, at the north-west corner of Love lane, entering into Little Eastcheap. This house stands on the ground where the church of St. Andrew Hubbard stood before the fire of London, at which time the weigh-house was in Cornhill. In the weigh-house were weighed, by the King’s beam, foreign merchandize brought to London. It was under a master, and four master porters, with labouring porters under them; who used to have carts and horses to fetch the merchants goods to the beam, and to carry them back. The house belongs to the grocers company, who chose the several porters, _&c._ but of late years little is done in this office, as a compulsive power is wanting to oblige merchants to have their goods weighed, they alledging it to be an unnecessary trouble and expence. In a large room over the weigh-house is a commodious meeting-house used by a congregation of Protestant dissenters.