SHOEMAKERS _yard_, Deadman’s place.
SHOOTER’S _court_, Basinghall street.
SHOREDITCH, extends from Nortonfalgate to the end of Old street.
Shoreditch was anciently a village situated along the Roman highway, by
the Saxons denominated Eald street, or Old street, and according to
Maitland, owes its name to one of the predecessors of Sir John Sordig,
or Sordich, who was Lord thereof in the year 1339, and not, as vulgarly
supposed, to Jane Shore, concubine to Edward IV. This village was at a
considerable distance north of the city of London, though it is now
joined to it.
SHOREDITCH _alley_, Shoreditch.
SHOREDITCH _church_, at the north end of Shoreditch. See the article _St._
LEONARD _Shoreditch_.
SHOREY’S _alley_, King’s alley, Rotherhith†
SHORTER’S _court_, Throgmorton street.†
SHORTER’S _street_, Cable street, Rag fair.†
SHORT’S _buildings_, Clerkenwell.†
SHORT’S _gardens_, Drury lane.†
SHOVEL _alley_, 1. Back lane, Rag fair.* 2. Cable street.* 3. St.
Catharine’s.* 4. East Smithfield.* 5. Great Gardens, St. Catharine’s
lane.* 6. Wood street, Cheapside.*
SHOULDER OF MUTTON _alley_, Limehouse.*
SHOULDER OF MUTTON _walk_, Hackney.*
SHOULDER OF MUTTON _yard_, Butcher row, without Temple Bar.*
SHREEVE’S _rents_, Duke street, Bloomsbury.†
SHREWSBURY _court_, 1. Stony lane.† 2. Whitecross street, Fore street.†
SHUG _lane_, near Piccadilly.
SHUTTER’S _alley_, Whitechapel.†
SIDNEY’S _alley_, Leicester fields.†
SIDNEY’S _street_, Leicester fields; so named from Sidney Earl of
Leicester.
SIGNET OFFICE, Whitehall; an office under the Principal Secretaries of
state, who have the custody of the King’s seal, called the signet; the
use and application whereof gives name to this office, which constantly
attends the court.
In this office there are four chief Clerks, and two Deputies. These
chief Clerks wait alternately by months, and prepare such writings as
are to pass the signet. They have no fee from the King, but only 200_l._
a year board wages. One of them always attends the court wheresoever it
removes, and, by warrant from his Majesty, prepares such bills or
letters for the King to sign, as not being matter of law, they are
directed by warrant to prepare.
In their office all grants, either prepared by the King’s Counsel at
law, or by themselves, for the King’s hand, when signed, are returned,
and there transcribed again; and that transcript is carried to one of
the Principal Secretaries of state, and sealed; and then it is called a
signet. This being directed to the Lord Privy Seal, is his warrant for
issuing out a privy seal upon it. Privy seals for money, however, now
always begin in the Treasury, from whence the first warrant issues,
counter-signed by the Lord Treasurer: but when the nature of the grant
requires the passing of the great seal, then the privy seal is an
authority to the Lord Chancellor, to pass the great seal; as the signet
was to the Lord Privy Seal to affix that seal to the grant. But in all
these three offices, the signet, privy seal, and great seal, the grant
is transcribed; and therefore every thing which passes from the King has
these several ways of being considered before it is perfected.
_Chamberlain’s Present State._
SILKMEN, a company incorporated by letters patent granted by King Charles
I. in the year 1631. They have a Governor and twenty Assistants; but
neither hall nor livery. _Maitland._
SILK THROWERS. This trade was first practised in London in the reign of
Queen Elizabeth, by foreigners, whose dependents, and those to whom they
had taught the art of silk throwing, were constituted a fellowship of
the city in 1622, and were afterwards incorporated by letters patent
granted by King Charles I. in the year 1630.
They are governed by a Master, two Wardens, and twenty Assistants; but
have neither hall nor livery. _Maitland._
_Office of Clerk of the King’s_ SILVER, in the Inner Temple. To this Clerk
every fine or final agreement upon the sale of land, is brought, after
it has been with the Custos Brevium, when he makes an entry of what
money is to be paid to the King’s use. This office belongs to the court
of Common Pleas, and is executed by a Deputy. _Chamberlain’s Present
State._
SILVER _court_, 1. Oxford street, 2. Woodstock street, Oxford street.
SILVER _street_, 1. Bloomsbury. 2. Bridgewater square. 3. Near Golden
square. 4. Green alley, Tooley street. 5. Hare street, Spitalfields. 6.
Near New Gravel lane, Shadwell. 7. Pelham street, Spitalfields. 8. Soho
square. 9. White Friars, Fleet street. 10. Wood street, Cheapside.
SIMMOND’S INN. See SYMOND’S INN.
SING’S _court_, Little Mitchell street, Old street.†
_The End of the_ FIFTH VOLUME.
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