London (England) -- Description and travel; London (England) -- History -- 18th century
The second market yard is called the Greenyard, as being once a green
plot of ground; afterwards it was the City’s storeyard for materials for
building and the like; but now a market only for veal, mutton, lamb, &c.
This yard is 170 feet in length from east to west, and ninety feet broad
from north to south; it hath in it 140 stalls for the butchers, all
covered over. In the middle of this Greenyard market from north to south
is a row of shops, with rooms over them, for fishmongers: and on the
south side and west end are houses and shops also for fishmongers.
Towards the east end of this yard is erected a fair market-house,
standing upon columns, with vaults underneath, and rooms above, with a
bell tower, and a clock, and under it are butchers’ stalls. The
tenements round about this yard are for the most part inhabited by cooks
and victuallers; and in the passages leading out of the streets into this
market are fishmongers, poulterers, cheesemongers, and other traders in
provisions.
The third market belonging to Leadenhall is called the Herb Market, for
that herbs, roots, fruits, &c., are only there sold. This market is
about 140 feet square; the west, east, and north sides had walks round
them, covered over for shelter, and standing upon columns; in which walks
there were twenty-eight stalls for gardeners, with cellars under them.
The public buildings in this ward are Leadenhall, the East India House,
Pewterers’ Hall, and Fletchers’ Hall.
Leadenhall is situated on the south side of Leadenhall Street. It is a
large stone fabric, consisting of three large courts or yards, as has
been observed already; part of it is at present a warehouse, in the
occupation of the East India Company, where the finest calicoes, and
other curiosities of the Eastern part of the world, are reposited;
another part of it is for Colchester baize, and is open every Thursday
and Friday. Here was also anciently a chapel, and a fraternity of sixty
priests constituted to celebrate Divine Service every day to the market
people; but was dissolved with other religious societies at the
Reformation.
On the south side of Leadenhall Street also, and a little to the eastward
of Leadenhall, stands the East India House, lately magnificently built,
with a stone front to the street; but the front being very narrow, does
not make an appearance answerable to the grandeur of the house within,
which stands upon a great deal of ground, the offices and storehouses
admirably well contrived, and the public hall and the committee room
scarce inferior to anything of the like nature in the City.
There is not one church in this ward at present. The officers of the
ward are, an alderman, his deputy, four common-council men, four
constables, two scavengers, sixteen for the wardmote inquest, and a
beadle.
5. Bishopsgate Ward is divided into two parts, one within Bishopsgate,
and the other without.
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