STEPNEY _rents_, Shoreditch.☐ STERN’S _yard_, Kent street, Southwark.† STERRY’S _rents_, in the Minories.† STEVENS’S _alley_, Chanel row, New Palace yard.† 2. King’s street, Westminster.† STEVENS’S _court_, New Palace yard, Westminster.† STEVENS’S _yard_, Poplar.† STEWARD’S _court_, Clerkenwell green.† STEWARD’S _rents_, Great Wild street.† STEWARD’S _street_, Artillery lane, Spitalfields.† STEWART’S SCHOOL, for the benefit of twenty poor boys of the parish of St. George Hanover square, was founded and endowed by lieut. general Stewart, who about the year 1728, bequeathed the sum of 500_l._ for that purpose. _Maitland._ STEW _lane_, High Timber street. STEWS, a number of brothels anciently situated on the Bank-side, Southwark, and licensed by the bishop of Winchester. There were at first eighteen of these houses, but afterwards only twelve were allowed: they stood in a row, and had signs on their fronts towards the Thames, not hung out, but painted on the walls, as the Boar’s Head, the Cross Keys, the Castle, the Cardinal’s Hat, the Bell, the Swan, _&c._ These houses which were frequently kept by Flemish bawds, were under very strict regulations, among which were the following, confirmed by act of parliament, in the reign of Henry II. That no stewholder or his wife should hinder any single woman from going and coming as often as she pleased. That no stewholder should board any single woman; but she should board abroad at her pleasure, and that no more should be taken for the woman’s chamber than 14_d._ a week. That the doors should be shut up on all holidays, and no single woman suffered in the house. That no single woman desirous of forsaking her sins, should be kept against her will. That no stewholder should receive a nun, or any man’s wife. That no man should be drawn or inticed into any of these houses, nor any single woman take money for lying with a man, unless he lay all night. That no stewholder should keep any woman that had the perilous infirmity of burning; [the venereal disease;] nor sell bread, flesh, fish, ale, wood, coals, or any kind of food; and that the constables, bailiffs and others should search every stewhouse weekly. These and many other orders were to be observed, under the penalty of suffering great pains and punishments; and any woman leading a life of lewdness was forbidden the rights of the church, and denied Christian burial, if she was not reconciled before her death. And therefore there was a plot of ground called the single woman’s church-yard, appointed for these women at a distance from the parish church. These stews were put down by order of Henry VIII. in the year 1546, when it was proclaimed by sound of trumpet, that this row of stews was no longer to be privileged, and used as a common brothel. _Stow’s Survey._ STICHBONE’S _court_, High Holbourn.†