SPINGEL’S _alley_, Cable street, Ragfair.† SPINNERS _yard_, Windmill hill.† SPIT _alley_, St. Giles’s pound. SPITALFIELDS, a place of very considerable extent on the east side of Bishopsgate street, formerly fields belonging to St. Mary Spital; but now formed into a great number of streets, lanes, and alleys, wherein the weaving business is carried to the greatest perfection by the descendents of French refugees, especially silks, and the richest brocades. SPITALFIELDS _market_, by Spitalfields church, is a very great market chiefly for roots and greens. SPITAL _square_, Bishopsgate street without. SPITAL SQUARE _passage_, Lamb street, Spitalfields. SPITAL _street_, Pelham street, Spitalfields. SPRAT’S ALMSHOUSE, in College church-yard, Deadman’s place, Southwark, was founded by Mr. Henry Sprat, in the year 1709, for two poor old men, who have an allowance of 4_l._ _per annum_, each. SPREAD EAGLE _alley_, 1. Kingsland road.* 2. Whitechapel.* SPREAD EAGLE _court_, 1. Bread street, Cheapside.* 2. Church lane, Rotherhith.* 3. Gray’s Inn lane, Holbourn.* 4. Hand alley, Petticoat lane.* 5. Kingsland road.* 6. Threadneedle street.* SPREAD EAGLE _yard_, Kingsland road.* SPRING GARDEN, Charing cross. SPRING GARDEN _mews_, Spring Garden. SPRING _street_, Fox lane, Upper Shadwell: 2. Middle Shadwell. SPUR _inn yard_, St. Margaret’s Hill.* SPUR _street_, Leicester Fields.* SPURSTOWE’S ALMSHOUSE, in Back lane, Hackney, was founded by Mr. William Spurstowe, in the year 1666; but dying before it was endowed, his brother Henry, settled lands upon it, for the payment of 4_l._ _per annum_, to each of the six poor widows therein. _Maitland._ SQUIRREL _alley_, in the Minories.* SQUIRRIES, a fine seat near Westerham. See the article WESTERHAM. STABLE _yard_, 1. Jockey Fields, near Grays Inn: 2. St. James’s street Pallmall: 3. Northumberland alley, Fenchurch street: 4. near Smith’s street, Marsham street: 5. Warner street, Cold Bath Fields. STACEY’S _street_, Monmouth street.† STAFFORD’S ALMSHOUSE, at the lower end of Gray’s Inn lane, was founded by Alexander Stafford, Esq; in the year 1633, for four poor men and six women, who have an annual allowance of 6_l._ and half a chaldron of coals each, besides a coat and gown every other year. STAFFORD _street_, Bond street. STAG’S _alley_, Bedfordbury.* STAINING _lane_, 1. Maiden lane: 2. near Wood street, Cheapside. STAINS, or STANES, a populous town in Middlesex, situated on the Thames, nineteen miles from London, it obtained its name from the Saxon word _Stana_ or stone, because there anciently stood a boundary stone in this place to denote the extent of the city of London’s jurisdiction upon the river. It has a bridge over the Thames, and is governed by two constables, and four headboroughs appointed by his Majesty’s steward, on account of its being a lordship belonging to the crown. The church stands alone, at almost half a mile distance from the town.