STAMFORD HILL, a hill with a small village on its side between Newington, and Tottenham Highcross. STAMFORD’S _buildings_, Old street.† STAMP _corner_, Old street. STAMP OFFICE, on the west side of Lincoln’s Inn Square, extends from the passage leading to Lincoln’s Inn Fields to near the south-west corner. This office is under the government of five commissioners who have 400 _l._ a year each. There are besides a receiver general who has 500_l._ _per annum_, under whom are four clerks, one who has 100_l._ a year, and three who have 60_l._ A secretary, who has 300_l._ a year, who has four clerks, one of whom has 130_l._ _per annum_, another 70_l._ another 60_l._ and another 50_l._ a year. A comptroller, who has 400_l._ _per annum_, and has three clerks, one who has 100_l._ and two others who have 60_l._ a year each. The other officers are an accomptant clerk, a sollicitor, a teller of stamps, three inspectors of courts and corporations in the country, and one inspector of courts in town, and also a supervisor of the stamps, each of whom has a salary of 100_l._ a year. There are likewise a register and comptroller of the apprentice duty, who has 150_l._ a year; a register of warrants, who has 140_l._ and a warehouse keeper of stampt goods who has 160_l._ a year: and besides these there are many inferior officers, who have smaller sallaries. STANBURY’S _court_, Picadilly. STANES, a town in Middlesex. See STAINS. STANGATE _stairs_, Lambeth. STANGATE _street_, Lambeth. STANHOPE’S _court_, Charing Cross.† STANHOPE’S _street_, Clare Market.† STANLEY’S _yard_, Stony lane.† STANBURY’S _court_, Picadilly.† STANTON’S _rents_, Rotherhith Wall.† STANTON’S _Wharf_, near Stony lane, Southwark.† STAPLES _court_, Beck street.† STAPLES INN, one of the inns of chancery, is seated on the south side of Holbourn, near the bars, and consists of two large courts surrounded with good buildings. STAPLES _rents_, Love lane.† STAR _alley_, 1. Barnaby street, Southwark.* 2. East Smithfield, Tower Hill.* 3. Fenchurch street.* 4. in the Minories.* STAR _court_, 1. Bread street, Cheapside.* 2. Bread street hill, Thames street.* 3. Butcher Row, Temple Bar.* 4. Castle street.* 5. Chancery lane.* 6. Cheapside.* 7. Compton street.* 8. Cross lane, Parker’s lane.* 9. Great Eastcheap.* 10. Grub street, Fore street.* 11. Little Britain.* 12. London Wall.* 13. in the Minories.* 14. Old Fish street.* STAR _street_, Wapping Wall.* STAR _yard_, 1. Barnaby street.* 2. Huggen lane, Thames street.* 3. Kingsland road.* 4. Moor lane.* STARCH _alley_, 1. Greenback, Southwark: 2. Rotten Row, Goswell street. STARCH _yard_, 1. Back lane, Lambeth: 2. Old Gravel lane. STARCHMAKERS, a company incorporated by letters patent granted by King James I. in the year 1622. They are governed by a master, two wardens, and twenty-four assistants, but have neither livery nor hall.