_N. B._ For the farther encouragement of persons insuring, there are provided several fire engines, and there are also employ’d in the service of the said office, (within the bills of mortality) thirty ablebody’d firemen, cloath’d in blue liveries, having silver badges with the Sun mark upon their arms, and twenty able porters, likewise wearing silver badges with the Sun mark, who are always ready to assist in quenching fires and removing goods, having given bonds for their fidelity: And also, all cities and great towns may receive assistance and encouragement for purchasing engines and proper machines for putting out fires, upon application to the said office, agreeable to the number of insurances made by this office in such respective cities or great towns. From the _proposal delivered by the office in_ Threadneedle _street_, September 21, 1758. This office is governed by twenty-four directors, under whom is a secretary, and several clerks. SUN _street_, Bishopsgate street without.* SUN TAVERN _fields_, Shadwell.* SUN TAVERN _fields lane_, Ratcliff.* SUN _yard_, 1. Bishopsgate street within.* 2. Blackman street, Southwark.* 3. Bread street, London wall.* 4. Brown street, Bunhill fields.* 5. Ivy lane, Newgate street.* 6. Nightingale lane, East Smithfield.* 7. Stepney rents, Shoreditch.* 8. Swan alley Golden lane.* SUPERSEDEAS OFFICE, in the Poultry Compter. See the article COMPTER. SURGEONS, a company incorporated with the barbers by Edward IV. in the year 1461, by the name of _Barbers_, who were then the only surgeons; but afterwards others practising surgery, who were not barbers, soon erected themselves into a separate company commonly called the surgeons of London; but were not incorporated, which the parliament taking into consideration, united them, with the barbers in the thirty-second year of the reign of Henry VIII. exempting those practising surgery from bearing arms, or serving ward and parish offices: by the same act those who practised shaving were enjoined not to meddle with the art of surgery, except drawing of teeth; and those who practised surgery forbid to shave.