SOMERSET _stable yard_, a large yard to the west of Somerset house, in which are coach-houses, stables and a guard-room, where a detachment of foot guards do duty daily, as well as at Somerset house, to which it belongs. SOMERSET _stairs_, Strand.† SOMERSET WATER-GATE _stairs_, Strand.† SOMERSET _street_, Whitechapel. SOMMER’S _key_, near Thames street.† SOMMER’S _rents_, Old Gravel Lane, Ratcliff Highway.† SOMMER’S _street_, Hockley in the Hole.† SOPE _yard_, Harrow Corner Deadman’s Place. SOPEMAKERS, a fraternity incorporated by letters patent granted by King Charles I. in the year 1638. This company is governed by a master, two wardens, and eighteen assistants; they have however neither livery nor hall, and therefore, manage their affairs in Guildhall. SOPER’S _alley_, Whitecross street, Cripplegate.† SOPER’S _yard_, Harrow Corner, Deadman’s Place.† SOUTHAMPTON _buildings_, 1. Chancery Lane: 2. in High Holbourn, where the Bishop of Lincoln had his city mansion; but that edifice afterwards coming to the Earls of Southampton, it was taken down, and on the site thereof was erected the above buildings. _Stow’s Survey._ SOUTHAMPTON _court_, 1. Southampton Buildings: 2. Southampton row. SOUTHAMPTON _row_, Queen’s square, Bloomsbury. SOUTHAMPTON _street_, 1. High Holbourn: 2. in the Strand. SOUTHAMPTON’S ALMSHOUSE, near Monmouth street. The ground upon which this house stands, together with a piece of ground adjoining, were granted by lease to the parish of St. Giles’s in the Fields, by the Earl of Southampton, in the year 1656, for the use of the poor, for the term of five hundred years. And towards the support of twenty poor inhabitants, Henry Carter, in the year 1674, gave the sum of 50_l._ the profits whereof to be destributed among them, out of which, and the produce of the ground which is now built upon, each of the poor women have an allowance of 2_l._ 8_s._ and twelve bushels of coals annually. They also receive out of the Lady Dudly’s gift at Christmas and Whitsuntide 20_s._ _Maitland._ SOUTHMOULTON _row_, David street. SOUTHMOULTON _street_, Hanover square. SOUTH SEA _alley_, in the Mint, Southwark. SOUTH SEA COMPANY. This company had the following origin: in the glorious and successful war against France, in the reign of Queen Anne, due care was not taken of the regular payment of seamen employed in the royal navy; for those necessitous and useful men, had tickets granted them instead of pay; which they were frequently obliged to get discounted at 40_l._ and sometimes 50_l._ _per cent._ to avaricious men, who taking advantage of the necessities of those brave fellows, raised great estates upon their ruin.