WROTHAM, or WORTHAM, a town in Kent, twenty-five miles from London, and three miles and a half from West Malling, received its name from the great quantity of the herb wort, which grows near it. It has a very large church, in which are sixteen stalls supposed to have been made for the clergy who attended the Archbishops of Canterbury, to whom the manor formerly belonged, and who had a palace here, till Simon Islip the Archbishop in the fourteenth century, pulled it down, and built another at Maidstone; the rectory is however still reckoned one of the best livings in Kent. It has a market on Tuesdays. WYCH _street_, Drury lane. WYCH’S _court_, Wych street.† WYNAM’S _court_, Great Russel street.† Y. YEAT’S _court_, 1. Clements lane, Temple bar.† 2. Redcross street.† YEAT’S _rents_, Jamaica street.† YEAT’S _street_, Lincoln’s Inn fields.† YELLOW _street_, in the Minories. YORK _alley_, St. Mary Magdalen’s church-yard. YORK _buildings_, in the Strand, so denominated from the Archbishop of York’s house there, purchased by Nicholas Heath the Archbishop, about the year 1556, of the Bishop of Norwich, but afterwards coming to John Duke of Buckingham, he demised the house and garden to several builders, and they erected there several handsome streets and alleys, in which his name and title are recorded, _viz._ John street, Villars street, Duke street, Off alley, and Buckingham street. However these streets together are still denominated York buildings. YORK BUILDINGS WATERWORKS, an edifice with a high tower, erected behind York buildings by the Thames, for raising water for the supply of that neighbourhood. The company to whom it belongs were incorporated by act of parliament in the year 1691. YORK BUILDINGS _stairs_, Terrace walk, York buildings. The beautiful design for these stairs is of the celebrated Inigo Jones, of the Tuscan order with rustic work, as the print shews, and is admirably adapted to the situation. The print is on the same plate with that of the Temple, which See. YORK _street_, 1. Anchor street: 2. Bridges street: 3. Jermain street. YORK _yard_, Long lane, East Smithfield. YORKSHIRE _court_, 1. Mile-end New Town: 2. Whitechapel. YORKSHIRE _yard_, 1. Bishopsgate street: 2. Brick lane. YOUNG’S ALMSHOUSE, in College church-yard, Southwark, was founded by Mr. Henry Young in the year 1694, for two poor women, with an allowance of only one shilling per week each. _Maitland._ YOUNG’S _court_, 1. Basinghall street.† 2. Nightingale lane.† YOUNG’S _key_, Thames street.† Z. ZOAR _street_, Gravel lane. FINIS. [Illustration] Directions to the Binder for placing the Cuts. VOL. I. To face Page