1688. Parochial charity schools, for the education of the children of
poor persons, were instituted in London and its vicinity.
1748. A fire broke out at one o’clock in the morning in ’Change-alley,
Cornhill, London, which raged for ten hours, consuming all the buildings
in ’Change-alley and Birchin-lane; and in Cornhill, from ’Change-alley
to St. Michael’s-alley, including several celebrated taverns and
coffee-houses, and many valuable shops, including five booksellers.
There were eighty houses destroyed by this conflagration.
1809. Anna Seward, the friend of Dr. Darwin, and recollected for her
life of him, and for her poetry and correspondence, died in the bishop’s
palace at Lichfield, aged 66. She was born at Eyan, in Derbyshire. Her
poetry is easy, rather than vigorous.
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