The author of _The Critical Review of the public buildings_, mentioning this steeple says, “It is not a glaring pile that strikes the eye at the first view with an idea of grandeur and magnificence; but then the beautiful pyramid it forms, and the just and well proportioned simplicity of all its parts, satisfy the mind so effectually, that nothing seems to be wanting, and nothing can be spared.” The patronage of this church was anciently in the prior and convent of Canterbury, till coming to the archbishop of that see in the year 1352 it has been in him and his successors ever since, and is one of the thirteen peculiars in the city belonging to the archiepiscopal see. To this church the parish of St. Michael Quern is united, and the rector receives 160_l._ a year in lieu of tithes. _Maitland._ VERE _street_, 1. Beer street: 2. Brook’s street, Ratcliff: 3. Clare Market: 4. Oxford street. Thus named from the Lady of the late Earl of Oxford. VICTUALLING OFFICE, on the upper part of Little Tower Hill near the end of King street; is separated from Tower Hill by a wall and gates, and contains some houses for the officers, with store rooms, slaughter houses, a brewhouse, for salting, barrelling, &c. of provisions. This office is under the direction of seven commissioners, each of whom has his separate department, as in the Navy Office, and a salary of 400_l._ _per annum_, as the first commissioner and comptroller, the commissioner of the bakehouse, another of the cutting house, another of the brewhouse; another of the accounts; another of the cooperage; and another who is hoytaker. Under these commissioners is a secretary who has 200_l._ _per annum_, and five clerks; a cash accomptant who has 120_l._ _per annum_, and four clerks, besides an extra-clerk; an accomptant for stores, who has 100 _l._ _per annum_, and five clerks, besides an extra-clerk; the clerk of the bakehouse and master baker, who has 130_l._ a year, and two clerks, besides an extra-clerk, a clerk of the cutting house who has 110_l._ a year, a clerk and extra-clerk. Besides these there are a storekeeper of the brewhouse, who has 60_l._ a year; a master cooper; a muster master of the workmen; a master butcher; a surveyor of oxen and hogs; clerks to keep charge on pursers, a clerk for stating a purser’s accounts, a short allowance clerk, and a clerk to bring up accounts of stores in arrears, most of these have clerks under them: and there are also a few other officers and servants. VIGO _lane_, 1. Burlington Gardens: 2. Swallow street. VILLAR’S _court_, 1. Huggen lane: 2. St. James’s street. VILLAR’S _street_, in the Strand, so called from its being built on the ground where the house of Villars Duke of Buckingham formerly stood. See YORK BUILDINGS. VINCENT’S _court_, Silver street.†