called Preaching Friars. This monastery was erected by Robert Kilwarby
Archbishop of Canterbury, about the year 1276, who also built the
church of Black Friars, to which King Edward I. and Queen Eleanor were
great benefactors, and even the reputed founders. This church was
large and richly furnished with ornaments. In the monastery several
parliaments were held, and the Emperor Charles V. who was also King of
Spain, lodged there in the year 1522. There the ancient Kings had
their records and charters kept, as well as at the Tower: and, tho’
this monastery was dissolved with the rest by King Henry VIII. yet in
the reign of Queen Elizabeth, Black Friars was inhabited by many
noblemen and gentlemen; parliaments still continued to be often held
there, and being a place of refuge, malefactors frequently took
shelter in its liberties, and the inhabitants were free from arrests:
but these pernicious privileges have been many years lost; and as it
has been lately made part of the ward of Faringdon within, the
shopkeepers and tradesmen are obliged to be free of the city; two
Common Council men are annually elected out of it, and added to the
number that used to serve this ward.
BLACK FRIARS _bridge_. The Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council of
this city, have been empowered by a late act, to build a bridge cross
the Thames from Black Friars to the opposite side in the county of
Surrey; to fill up the channel of Bridewell dock, or Fleet ditch, and
to purchase and pull down such buildings as shall be thought proper
for forming and widening streets and avenues. This bridge is to have a
free and open passage thro’ the arches of 750 feet at least within the
banks of the river. A sufficient number of glass lamps are to be fixed
on proper parts of it, to burn from sun setting to sun rising; and a
number of watchmen placed for the security of passengers.
For the erecting and support of this work, when finished, they are to
receive as toll, any sum they shall direct, not exceeding the
following rates:
For every coach, chariot, berlin, chaise, chair or calash, drawn by
six horses, 2_s._
Drawn by four horses, 1_s._ 6_d._
Drawn by less than four, 1_s._
For every waggon, wain, cart or car, drawn by four or more horses, or
other beasts, 1_s._
For either of the same carriages drawn by less than four horses, &c.
6_d._
For every horse, mule or ass, laden or unladen, and not drawing, 1_d._
For every foot passenger on Sunday, 1_d._
And every other day ½d.
Upon the credit of these tolls, the Lord Mayor and Common Council are
impowered to raise any sums of money not exceeding 30,000_l._ in one
year, till they have raised 160,000_l._ in the whole, which they are not
to exceed.
BLACK FRIARS _school_, was founded by Peter Joy, Esq; in the year 1716,
who also endowed it with 160_l._ 17_s._ 3_d._ _per annum_, for
cloathing and instructing forty boys and thirty girls, in reading,
writing and accounts. This school he left in trust with the Governors
of Sion College, who allow the master 40_l._ and the mistress 30_l._ a
year.
BLACK FRIARS _stairs_, near Fleet ditch.
BLACKHEATH, a large plain on the south of Greenwich, on which Watt
Tyler, the Kentish rebel, mustered 100,000 men. In this place, which
is admired for the fineness of its situation, and its excellent air,
is a noble house built by Sir Gregory Page, Bart. a view of which we
have here given.
This is a very magnificent edifice, built in the modern taste,
consisting of a basement state and attick story. The wings contain the
offices and stables, which are joined to the body of the house by a
colonade. It stands in the midst of a park with a large piece of water
before it. The back front has an Ionic portico of four columns, but
having no pediment does not make so agreeable a figure as could be
wished.
This is one of the finest seats in England belonging to a private
gentleman; it is adorned with many capital pictures, a list whereof is
here given; and the gardens, park, and country around, render it a
most delightful seat: yet this fine edifice was begun, raised, and
covered, in the space of eleven months. At a small distance is the
College erected by Sir John Morden, Bart. for a particular account of
which see MORDEN COLLEGE.
[Illustration: _S. Wale delin._ _B. Green sc. Oxon._ _S^r. Gregory
Pages Seat._]
A Catalogue of the Pictures of Sir GREGORY PAGE, Baronet, at his
House at _Blackheath_.
│ Height.│ Breadth.│Painted by
│ Feet Inc.│ Feet Inc.│
Sampson and Dalilah │ 5 6│ 8 3│_Vandyke._
St. Cyprian a ¾ │ 4 3│ 3 1½│_Ditto._
length │ │ │
The three royal │ 2 0│ 3 8│_Ditto._
children ½ │ │ │
lengths │ │ │
Juno and Ixion │ 6 0│ 8 0│_Rubens._
Rubens and his │ 6 8│ 6 3│_Ditto._
mistress │ │ │
Rubens, two figures,│ 5 3│ 8 0│_Ditto and Snyders._
fowls and fruit │ │ │
Figures by Rubens, a│ 2 3│ 3 1│_Ditto and Brughel._
landskip │ │ │
David and Abigail │ 6 2│ 6 9½│_Ditto._
A maid milking a │ 4 10│ 6 7│_Jordans of Antwp._
goat │ │ │
The good Samaritan │ 7 0│ 7 8│_Systi Baldelochi._
The return of the │ 7 0│ 9 0│_Chev. Calabreze._
prodigal son │ │ │
Moses striking the │ 7 0│ 9 0│_Valerio Castello._
rock │ │ │
The woman taken in │ 3 8│ 5 2│_Paul Veronese._
adultery │ │ │
Moses and Pharaoh’s │ 4 4│ 6 0│_Paul Veronese._
daughter │ │ │
A counsellor, his │ 3 10½│ 4 9½│_Titian._
wife and daughter │ │ │
Peter’s denial of │ 4 2│ 4 10│_M. A. daCaravagio._
our Saviour │ │ │
A holy family │ 2 2│ 1 0│_Parmegiano._
Moses striking the │ 3 1│ 4 10½│_Giacomo Bassan._
rock │ │ │
A landskip with │ 2 4│ 3 10½│_Ditto._
cattle │ │ │
The angels appearing│ 4 2│ 5 5│_Bassan._
to the shepherds │ │ │
History of Cupid and│ 1 10│ 2 2½│_Luca Giordano._
Psyche, twelve │ │ │
pieces │ │ │
Venus, Cupid and │ 1 1½│ 1 4½│_Philippo Lauro._
Satyrs │ │ │
Venus, Cupid and │ 1 1½│ 1 4½│_Ditto._
Satyrs │ │ │
A landskip with │ 2 0│ 1 6│_Salvator Rosa._
figures │ │ │
A landskip with │ 2 0│ 1 6│_Francisco Mola._
figures │ │ │
Judith and │ 4 4½│ 3 11│_Manfredo._
Holofernes │ │ │
│ 3 10½│ 3 2½│_Lewis Carrachi._
A sacrifice │ 3 2│ 4 3│_Nich. Poussin._
A Venus, Cupid and │ 2 2│ 1 8│_Ditto._
Satyrs │ │ │
Daphne changed into │ 2 2½│ 1 10│_Nich. Poussin._
a laurel │ │ │
A landskip with │ 3 0│ 4 3│_Gaspar Poussin._
figures │ │ │
Architecture and │ 3 9│ 5 3│_Viviano._
figures │ │ │
Architecture and │ 3 2│ 4 4½│_Ditto._
figures │ │ │
Joseph and his │ 3 0│ 4 2│_Paraccini._
brethren │ │ │
Jacob embracing │ 3 0│ 4 2│_Ditto._
Benjamin │ │ │
A landskip with │ 2 0│ 2 9│_Claude Lorrain._
figures │ │ │
A landskip with │ 2 6│ 3 11½│_Francisco Mille._
figures │ │ │
A landskip with │ 1 5│ 1 10│_Ditto._
figures │ │ │
Three figures ½ │ 3 10│ 3 1│_after Car.
lengths │ │ │Maratti._
A quarter length │ 2 9│ 2 0│_Albert Durer._
A battle piece │ 2 3│ 3 2│_Bourgognone._
A battle piece │ 2 3│ 3 2│_Ditto._
An holy family │ 3 0│ 3 9│_Solomini._
Paris and Helena │ 2 0│ 3 2½│_L’Araise._
The judgment of │ 3 9│ 4 1½│_Pompeio._
Solomon, gallery │ │ │
chimney piece │ │ │
Hector and │ 3 4│ 3 6│_Imperialis._
Andromache, │ │ │
drawing room │ │ │
chimney piece │ │ │
Coriolanus, saloon │ 3 9│ 3 9│_Imperialis and
chimney piece │ │ │Masucci._
Architecture and │ 4 8│ 4 0½│_Paulo Panini._
figures, dressing │ │ │
room chimney piece│ │ │
Architecture with │ 2 5│ 2 4½│_Ditto._
figures, │ │ │
bedchamber chimney│ │ │
piece │ │ │
Ditto, yellow │ 3 4½│ 3 3│_Ditto._
bedchamber chimney│ │ │
piece │ │ │
Ditto, library │ 4 7½│ 4 0½│_after Panini._
chimney piece │ │ │
Ditto, yellow │ 2 10│ 3 7½│_Harding aft.
dressing room, │ │ │Panini._
ditto │ │ │
Ditto, red dressing │ 3 6│ 3 4½│_Ditto._
over the chimney │ │ │
piece, ditto │ │ │
Ditto, store room │ 2 9½│ 2 8½│_Ditto._
chimney piece, │ │ │
ditto │ │ │
Ditto, over the │ 1 9│ 3 3│_after P. Panini._
doors of the red │ │ │
drawing room │ │ │
Ditto, over the │ 1 9│ 3 3│_Harding aft.
doors of the red │ │ │Panini_
drawing room │ │ │
Ditto, with figures │ 2 4│ 3 8│_Ditto._
over the door in │ │ │
the saloon │ │ │
Ditto, ditto │ 2 4│ 3 8│_Ditto._
A landskip with │ 3 8½│ 3 8½│_Lambert._
figures, dining │ │ │
room chimney piece│ │ │
A landskip with │ 2 10½│ 3 2½│_Ditto._
figures, green │ │ │
dressing room │ │ │
chimney piece │ │ │
A landskip with │ 2 4½│ 2 4½│_By_
figures, green │ │ │
bedchamber chimney│ │ │
piece │ │ │
Fruit and flowers, │ 2 5│ 2 5│_By_
breakfast chimney │ │ │
piece │ │ │
Pharaoh’s daughter │ 2 3½│ 1 10½│_Chev. Vanderwerff._
and Moses │ │ │
Message by the │ 2 2│ 1 7½│_Ditto._
angels to the │ │ │
shepherds │ │ │
King Zeleucus giving│ 2 4│ 1 8│_Ditto._
his kingdom to his│ │ │
son │ │ │
Shepherds and │ 1 10│ 1 5½│_Chev. Vanderwerff._
shepherdesses │ │ │
dancing │ │ │
Hercules between │ 1 11│ 1 5│_Ditto._
Virtue and Vice │ │ │
Roman Charity │ 1 11½│ 1 5│_Ditto._
Joseph and │ 1 11│ 1 5½│_Ditto._
Potipher’s wife │ │ │
Mary Magdalen │ 1 11│ 1 6│_Ditto._
reading in a │ │ │
grotto │ │ │
Bathsheba bathing │ 1 10│ 1 3½│_Ditto._
Our Saviour and Mary│ 2 4│ 1 8½│_Ditto._
Magdalen │ │ │
Venus and Cupid │ 1 5½│ 1 0│_Ditto._
Chevalier │ 2 1 0│ 2 2½│_Ditto._
Vanderwerff, his │ │ │
wife and daughter │ │ │
Adam and Eve │ 1 6│ 1 0│_Peter Vanderwerff._
and Stratonica │ 1 6│ 1 0│_Ditto._
A landskip with many│ 2 8│ 3 8│_Sir D. Teniers._
figures, a fair at│ │ │
Ghen │ │ │
Ditto with figures │ 2 8│ 3 9½│_Ditto._
Fruit and flowers │ 2 7│ 2 0│_Van Huysan._
Ditto │ 2 7│ 2 0│_Ditto._
Fruit and flowers │ 2 0│ 1 9│_Van Huysan._
Ditto │ 2 0│ 1 9│_Ditto._
Ditto │ 1 3│ 1 0│_Ditto._
A view of Venice, │ 2 4│ 3 8│_Harding af.
over the saloon │ │ │Canaleti._
door │ │ │
Ditto, ditto │ 2 4│ 3 8│_Ditto._
Architecture, over │ 2 6│ 4 0│_Ditto after
the door in the │ │ │Panini._
gallery │ │ │
Ditto, ditto │ 2 6│ 4 0│_Ditto._
The golden age │ 2 1│ 2 8│_Limburg._
The great church at │ 2 7│ 2 3│_De Witt._
Harlem │ │ │
A landskip with │ 0 7│ 0 10│_Velvet Brughel._
figures │ │ │
Ditto │ 0 4½│ 0 6│_Ditto._
A poulterer’s shop │ 1 5│ 1 3│_Old Meiris._
A fishmonger’s shop │ 1 5│ 1 3│_Ditto._
A water piece │ 0 10│ 1 1│_Zagtleven._
An hunting piece │ 2 2│ 2 8│_Berchem._
An Italian playing │ 1 2│ 1 0│_Brower._
on the guitar │ │ │
A landskip with │ 1 10½│ 2 2½│_Wouvermans._
figures and cattle│ │ │
A landskip with │ 1 6│ 1 10│_Wouvermans._
figures and cattle│ │ │
The holy family │ 2 3│ 1 7│_Scalchen._
Ditto │ 2 3│ 1 7│_Ditto._
A woman with a torch│ 1 0½│ 0 10½│_Ditto._
A schoolmaster │ 1 2│ 0 11│_Gerard Dowe._
The offering of the │ 1 4│ 1 0│_Polenburgh._
kings │ │ │
Two small figures, │ 1 3½│ 1 6½│_Young Meiris._
Venus and Adonis │ │ │
A landskip with │ 1 7½│ 2 7│_Edema._
cattle │ │ │
A landskip with │ 2 0│ 2 5½│_Craddock._
fowls and a dog │ │ │
In the Gallery 52 pictures
Drawing room 13
Saloon 8
Dressing room 32
Bedchamber 1
Library 1
Dining room 2
Attick story 9
——
118 In
all
BLACK HORSE _alley_. 1. Barbican.* 2. Near Snow hill.*
BLACK HORSE _court_. 1. Aldersgate street.* 2. In the Minories. 3. Old
Change.* 4. White street, Southwark.* 5. Windmill street.*
BLACK HORSE _yard_. 1. Green street, Leicester fields.* 2. In the
Curtain, Hog lane, Shoreditch.* 3. Gravel lane, Houndsditch.* 4.
Gray’s Inn lane.* 5. Harrow alley, Petticoat lane.* 6. Nightingale
lane.* 7. Pickax street.* 8. Poor Jewry lane, within Aldgate.* 9.
Tottenham Court road.* 10. Townditch, Little Britain.* 11. Tower
hill.* 12. Whitechapel.* 13. Great Windmill street.*
BLACK JACK _alley_. 1. East Smithfield.* 2. Great Windmill street.* 3.
Old street.*
BLACK LION _alley_, Wentworth street.*
BLACK LION _court_. 1. Bank side.* 2. Foster lane.* 3. Old Change.*
BLACK LION _stairs_, near York Buildings.*
BLACK LION _yard_. 1. Bedfordbury.* 2. Stony lane, Petticoat lane.* 3.
Whitechapel.*
BLACKMAN’S _court_. 1. Great Peter street.* 2. Price’s alley.*
BLACKMAN’S _street_, St. George’s church, Southwark.*
BLACK MARY’S _hole_, a few stragling houses near the Cold Bath fields,
in the road to Hampstead. It took its name from a Blackmoor woman
called Mary, who about thirty years ago lived by the side of the road
near the stile in a small circular hut built with stones.
BLACKMOOR’S HEAD _yard_, near St. James’s square.*
BLACKMOOR _street_, Clare-market.*
BLACKMOOR’S _alley_. 1. Farthing fields.* 2. Green bank, Wapping.* 3.
St. Martin’s lane, Charing cross.*
BLACK RAVEN _alley_. 1. Coleman street.* 2. Leadenhall street.* 3. Near
Fishmongers hall in Thames street.*
BLACK RAVEN _court_. 1. Chiswell street.* 2. Golden lane.* 3. Grub
street. 4. Leadenhall street.* 5. St. Olave’s street.* 6. Seething
lane.*
BLACK RAVEN _passage_, Fetter lane.*
BLACK ROD, an officer of the King’s palace, so called from his carrying
a black staff, is the chief of the four Gentlemen Ushers of the
presence chamber, and attends the House of Lords every day during the
sitting of Parliament, where his seat is within the bar. When the King
sends to order the House of Commons to attend him in that house, he
always sends the Black Rod. This gentleman is also employed in fitting
up the House of Lords before the meeting of the Parliament; he
introduces the Lords into that house, and to his custody delinquents
are committed by the Lords. This gentleman is likewise Usher to the
order of the Garter.
BLACK’S _alley_, East Smithfield.
BLACK’S _fields_, Shad Thames.
BLACKSMITHS, an ancient guild, or fraternity, which was continued by
prescription, till the Blacksmiths were incorporated by letters patent
granted by Queen Elizabeth, and confirmed by King James I.
This company is governed by a Master, three Wardens, and twenty-one
Assistants, and has a livery of 220 members, whose fine is 8_l._ They
have a pleasant hall on Lambeth hill, for the dispatch of their
affairs.
BLACKSMITHS _yard_, Upper Ground, Southwark.
BLACK SPREAD EAGLE _alley_. 1. Blackman street.* 2. Kent street.* 3.
Turnmill street.*
BLACK SPREAD EAGLE _court_. 1. Blackman street.* 2. Finch lane,
Cornhill.*
BLACK SWAN _alley_. 1. Golden lane.* 2. Corbet’s court, Eagle street.*
3. Holiwell street.* 4. Little Carter lane.* 5. Opposite Garlick Hill,
Thames street.* 6. London wall.* 7. St. Margaret’s hill.*
BLACK SWAN _court_. 1. Bartholomew lane.* 2. Canon street.* 3. Golden
lane.* 4. In the Maze.* 5. Market street.* 6. St. Paul’s Church yard.*
7. Shore ditch.* 8. Great Tower street.*
BLACK SWAN _yard_. 1. Brown’s lane.* 2. In the Borough.* 3. Newington
Butts.* 4. Ropemakers fields, Limehouse.*
BLACK SWAN INN _yard_, Holborn.*
BLACKWELL, Poplar.
BLACKWELL _hall_, Basinghall street, a very ancient edifice, employed
for several ages as a market for all kinds of woollen cloth brought to
London. This edifice was originally called Basing’s Haugh or Hall;
probably from the family of the Basings, who first built the house,
and whose arms were placed in many parts of it, painted on the walls,
and cut in the stone-work. From this family, who were owners also of
the adjoining ground. Stow supposes, that “the ward itself took its
name, as Coleman street ward of Coleman, and Faringdon ward, of
William and Nicholas Faringdon.” Of this family the same author
observes, that Solomon Basing was Mayor in the year 1216; and that to
Adam Basing his son, who was also afterwards Mayor, King Henry III.
gave the advowson of the church at Basing Hall, and several liberties
and privileges.
In the 36th year of Edward III. this house was inhabited by Mr. Thomas
Bakewell, whence it obtained the name of Bakewell Hall; a name that
was afterwards corrupted to that of Blackwell Hall. At length it was
purchased, with the garden and appurtenances, of King Richard II. by
the city, for the sum of 50_l._ and from that time has been chiefly
employed as a weekly market for all the broad and narrow woollen
cloths brought out of the country.
This house at length growing ruinous, was rebuilt in the form of a
handsome store house in the year 1558, at the charge of 2500_l._ but
an hundred and eight years after was destroyed by the fire of London,
and again rebuilt in 1672; this last is the present edifice.
It is a square building with a court in the middle surrounded with
warehouses, and has two spacious entrances for carriages, one from
Basinghall street, and the other opposite to it by Guildhall. This
last is the principal front, and has the door-case adorned with two
columns of the Doric order, with their entablature, and a pediment, in
which are the King’s arms, and a little lower the city arms enriched
with Cupids, _&c._
In this edifice are the Devonshire, Gloucester, Worcester, Kentish,
Medley, Spanish, and Blanket Halls, in which each piece of cloth pays
one penny for pitching, and a half-penny per week resting; and the
profits, which are said to amount to about 1100_l._ _per annum_, are
applied towards the support of Christ’s Hospital, the Governors
whereof have the whole management of these warehouses. There are
several statutes relating to the regulation of this market, with
respect to the factors, and others concerned.
BLACKWELL HALL _court_, London Wall, Basinghall street. ☐
BLACKWELL HALL _passage_, Cateaton street. ☐
BLACKWELL HALL _yard_, Basinghall street. ☐
BLAKE’S _alley_, Holiwell lane. †
BLAKE’S _court_, Catharine street, in the Strand. †
BLAKE’S _yard_, Old street. †
BLAND _court_, Narrow street. †
BLAND’S _dock_, Rotherhith. †
BLAND’S _yard_, In the Minories. †
BLANK _yard_, Great Pearl street.
BLECHINGLY, a small parliamentary borough in Surrey, said to have
enjoyed that privilege ever since parliaments had a being, and yet it
has no market. The Bailiff, who returns the members, is annually
chosen at the Lord of the Mannor’s court. The town, which is five
miles from Ryegate, and twenty from London, being situated on a hill,
on the side of Holmsdale, affords a fine prospect, as far as Sussex
and the South Downs, and from some of the ruins of the castle, which
are still visible, tho’ in the midst of a coppice, one may take a view
to the west into Hampshire, and to the east into Kent. Here is a free
school and an almshouse; but the spire of the church was consumed by
lightning and all the bells melted in the year 1606.
BLEEDING HEART _yard_, Cross street, Hatton garden. †
BLENHEIM _street_, Oxford street.
BLEWGATE _fields_, Ratcliff Highway.
BLEWIT’S _buildings_, Fetter lane. †
BLEWIT’S _court_, Fetter lane. †
BLICK’S _row_, Oxford row. †
BLIND BEGGARS _alley_, Cow Cross. †
BLOOD’S _ground_, Mersham street. †
BLOODWORTH’S _dock_, Wapping. †
BLOODWORTH’S _yard_, Wapping wall.
BLOODY BRIDGE, King’s Road, Chelsea.
BLOOMSBURY, the district thus named was anciently a village denominated
Lomsbury, in which were the King’s stables, till they were destroyed
by fire in 1354. _Maitland._
BLOOMSBURY _church_. See ST. GEORGE’S _Bloomsbury_.
BLOOMSBURY _court_, Bloomsbury market.
BLOOMSBURY _market_, by Bloomsbury square.
[Illustration: _S. Wale delin._ _C. Grignion sculp._ _Bedford House._]
BLOOMSBURY _square_, Southampton street, Holborn. This square has been
lately embellished with many goodhouses, and the grass plats in the
middle surrounded with neat iron rails. The north side is entirely
taken up with Bedford House, which is elegant, and was the design of
Inigo Jones. Besides the body of the house, are two wings, and on each
side the proper offices. One of the wings is a magnificent gallery in
which are copies of the Cartoons at Hampton Court, as large as the
originals, by Sir James Thornhill. Behind the house are extensive
gardens, which command a view of the country, and particularly of
Highgate and Hampstead.
BLOSSOM’S INN _entry_, Blossom’s Inn yard, Laurence lane, Cheapside.
BLOSSOM’S INN _yard_, Honey lane market, Cheapside.
BLOSSOM’S _street_. 1. Briant street. 2. White-Lion street, Norton
Falgate.
BLOWBLADDER _street_, from Cheapside to St. Martin’s le Grand. It
obtained its present name from the bladders formerly sold there, when
the shambles were in Newgate street.
BLOW’S _court_, Saffron hill. †
BLUE ANCHOR _alley_. 1. Barnaby street. * 2. Brook’s street, near
Ratcliff Cross. * 3. Bunhill row. * 4. Cable street. * 5. Green Bank.
* 6. Great Minories. * 7. Old street. * 8. Pesthouse row. * 9. Petty
France. * 10. Rosemary lane. * 11. St. Catharine’s. * 12. Tooley
street. * 13. Tower ditch. * 14. Whitecross street, Cripplegate. *
BLUE ANCHOR _court_. 1. Butcher row, without Temple Bar. * 2. Coleman
street. * 3. Salisbury court, Fleet street.
BLUE ANCHOR _road_, West lane, Rotherhith wall. *
BLUE ANCHOR _yard_. 1. Green Bank. * 2. Little Tower hill. * 3. London
wall. * 4. Petty France, Westminster. * 5. St. Catharine’s lane. * 6.
Rosemary lane. *
BLUE BALL _alley_. 1. In the Mint, Southwark. * 2. Saffron hill. *
BLUE BALL _court_. * 1. Artichoke lane. * 2. Canon street. * 3. Drury
lane. * 4. Little Hart street, Covent Garden. * 5. Salisbury court,
Fleet street. *
BLUE BALL _yard_, Fell street, Little Wood street. *
BLUE BELL _yard_. 1. Dirty lane. * 2. Petty France, Westminster. *
BLUE BEAR _alley_. 1. Blackman street. * 2. Field lane. * 3. White
street. *
BLUE BEAR _court_. 1. Canon street. * 2. Chick lane. * 3. Friday street.
* 4. Rosemary lane. *
BLUE BOAR _yard_. 1. Field lane, Holborn. * 2. Great Russel street. *
BLUE BOAR HEAD _yard_, King’s street, Westminster. *
BLUE BOAR INN _yard_, Whitechapel. *
BLUE BOAR’S HEAD _alley_. 1. Barbican. * 2. White street. *
BLUE BOAR’S HEAD INN _yard_, Whitechapel.*
BLUE _court_, Saffron hill.
BLUE CROSS _street_, Hedge lane, Charing cross.
BLUE GATE _alley_, Whitecross street, Southwark.*
BLUE GATE _field_, Upper Shadwell.
BLUE GATE _street_. 1. Dirty lane, Blackman street. 2. Ratcliff Highway.
BLUE GATE _yard_. 1. Carter’s Rents. 2. East Smithfield. 3. Harrow yard,
Whitechapel.
BLUE HART _court_, Little Bell alley.*
BLUE MAID _alley_, St. Margaret’s hill.*
BLUE POST _alley_, Blue Gate field.
BLUE _yard_, Gravel lane.
BLUNDERBUSS _alley_, 1. King’s Gate street.* 2. St. Thomas Apostles.*
BOAR _alley_, Grub street, Fore street.*
BOARDED _alley_, Baldwin’s gardens.
BOARDED _entry_. 1. Crutched Friars. 2. London wall. 3. Surrey street.
BOAR’S HEAD _alley_. 1. Whitechapel.* 2. White street.*
BOAR’S HEAD _court_. 1. In the Borough.* 2. Fleet ditch.* 3. Gracechurch
street.* 4. Grub street.*
BOAR’S HEAD _yard_. 1. Petticoat lane.* 2. West Smithfield. *
BOAR’S HEAD INN _yard_, Compter lane, St. Margaret’s hill.*
BOATBUILDERS _yard_. 1. Bank side. 2. College street.
BOCK’S _alley_, Wapping wall.†
BODD’S _court_, Philip lane, London wall.†
BODDINGTON _court_. Cloak lane, Dowgate hill.*
BODDY’S BRIDGE _yard_, Upper Ground.
BODDY’S _rents_, Gravel lane.†
BOLT AND TUN _alley_. 1. In the Strand.* 2. Whitechapel.*
BOLT AND TUN _court_, Fleet street.*
BOLT _court_, Fleet street.
BOND’S _stables_, by Fetter lane.†
BOND’S _stables yard_, near Fetter lane.†
BOND’S _street_, Piccadilly.†
BOND’S _court_, Walbrook.†
BOND’S _rents_, Marigold street, Rotherhith wall.†
BOND’S _yard_, White Horse street, Ratcliff.†
BOOK’S _alley_, Wapping wall.†
BOOKER’S _gardens_, Leadenhall street.†
BOOT _alley_. 1. Abchurch lane.* 2. Grub street, Fore street,
Cripplegate.* 3. Kent street, Southwark.* 4. St. James’s street,
Westminster.* 5. Upper Ground street, Southwark.*
BOOT _passage_, Piccadilly.*
BOOT _Street_. 1. Hoxton.* 2. Brick lane, Spitalfields.*
BOOTH _street_, Spitalfields.†
BOOTH _yard_, Wapping.†
BOROUGH, a street in the borough of Southwark, extending from London
bridge to St. Margaret’s hill.
BOROUGH COURT. This is a court of record by prescription, and is held
every Monday by the Lord Mayor’s steward, at the hall on St.
Margaret’s hill, Southwark, where are tried actions for any sum of
money, damage, trespasses, &c. To this court belong three attornies,
who are admitted by the steward. _Maitland._ See _St._ MARGARET’S
HILL.
There are also, besides this, three courts leet held in the Borough;
for it contains three liberties or manors, viz. the Great Liberty, the
Guildable, and the King’s manor, in which are chosen constables,
aleconners, &c. and other business is dispatched peculiar to such
courts. In this neighbourhood court leets are also kept at Lambeth,
Bermondsey, and Rotherhith.
BOSS _alley_. 1. Near Trig stairs, Thames street. 2. St. Mary hill. 3.
Shad Thames.
BOSS _court_, Peter’s hill, Thames street.
BOSVILL’S _rents_, George street, Spitalfields.†
BOSVILLE _court_, 1. Devonshire street, Theobald’s row.† 2. Carey
street, Lincoln’s Inn fields.†
BOSTWICK’S _alley_, Whitechapel.†
BOSTWICK’S _street_, Old Gravel lane.†
_St._ BOTOLPH’S _Aldersgate_, so denominated from St. Botolph, a monk
born in Cornwall, is situated at the south east corner of Little
Britain, and tho’ the fire in 1666 did not reach this edifice, it from
that time fell into decay, and was great part of it rebuilt in 1757.
It is a plain brick edifice with a tower supported on a kind of arch
work, and crowned with an open turret, and its fane. It is a curacy in
the patronage of the Dean and Chapter of Westminster Abbey; but is
subject to the Bishop and Archdeacon of London, to whom it pays
procuration.
_St._ BOTOLPH’S _Aldgate_, situated on the east side of Houndsditch,
fronting the Minories. The old church escaped the fire in 1666, and
stood till the year 1741, when it was taken down, and the present
edifice finished in 1744. It is built with brick, and is a plain,
massy, and yet elegant structure. It consists of a body of a regular
shape, and a lofty and well-proportioned steeple, formed of a tower
and spire. Its greatest ornament is a bold rustic with which it is
strengthened at the corners. This church is a curacy, and the
impropriation is held in fee of the Crown. The Curate, besides other
considerable advantages, receives 400_l._ a year by tithes. _Newc.
Rep. Eccles._