by Henry VII. for the accommodation of twelve poor watermen and their
wives, who annually receive of the Dean and Chapter of Westminster
7_l._ 2_s._ 4_d._ each couple, with a purple gown every other year;
and for the burial of a Duke, Marquis, or their Ladies in the Abbey,
1_l._ 6_s._ 6_d._ and for that of an Earl, Baron, or their Ladies,
10_s._ 6_d._
LITTLE _St._ ANDREW’S _street_, Seven Dials.
LITTLE _St._ ANN’S _lane_, 1. Old Pye street. 2. Peter street,
Westminster.
LITTLE ARGYLE _street_, Argyle street, Great Marlborough street.†
LITTLE ARTHUR _street_, Great Arthur street, Goswell street.†
LITTLE ASHENTREE _court_, Water lane.‡
LITTLE AYLIFF _street_, Goodman’s Fields.†
LITTLE BACON _street_, Brick lane.†
LITTLE BAILEY _street_, Little Tower hill.†
LITTLE BANDYLEG _walk_, Queen street.
LITTLE BARTHOLOMEW CLOSE, Little Britain.
LITTLE BEAR _key_, Thames street. See BEAR _key_.
LITTLE BELL _alley_, 1. Coleman street.* 2. Grub street.*
LITTLE BENNET’S _court_, Marygold court.†
LITTLE BLACK HORSE _court_, Aldersgate street.
LITTLE BOOTH _street_, Coverley’s fields.
LITTLE BOSS _alley_, Thames street.
LITTLE BRICK _lane_, Nicol’s street.
LITTLE BRIDGES _street_, Bridges street.†
LITTLE BRITAIN, extends from Aldersgate street to Duck lane. This was
anciently called Britain street, from the Duke of Britany’s palace
situated in it near St. Botolph’s church.
LITTLE BROAD _street_, Broad street, London wall.
LITTLE BROOK’S _street_, Grosvenor square.†
LITTLE BUSH _lane_, Thames street.
LITTLE BUR _street_, Nightingale lane, East Smithfield.†
LITTLE CABLE _street_, 1. Cable street, Rag Fair.† 2. Wellclose square.†
LITTLE CARTER _lane_, Old Change.†
LITTLE CASTLE _street_, Winsley street.*
LITTLE CATHARINE _street_, In the Strand.
LITTLE CHANDOS _street_, St. Martin’s lane.
LITTLE CHAPEL _street_, 1. Great Wardour street. 2. By New Chapel
street, Westminster.
LITTLE CHEAPSIDE, Three Cranes, Thames street.
LITTLE CHEAPSIDE _yard_, Three Crane alley.
LITTLE COCK _alley_, 1. Redcross street, Cripplegate.* 2. Whitecross
street, Cripplegate.*
LITTLE COCK _hill_, Ratcliff.†
LITTLE _court_, 1. Duke’s Place, by Aldgate. 2. St. Mary Overies church
yard.
LITTLE CROW _alley_, Whitecross street, Cripplegate.*
LITTLE CROWDER’S WELL _alley_, Jewin street.
LITTLE CROWN _alley_, Long Alley, Moorfields.*
LITTLE DEAN’S _court_, St. Martin’s le Grand.
LITTLE DEAN’S _yard_, Dean’s Yard, Westminster.
LITTLE DICE _key_, Thames street.
LITTLE DISTAFF _lane_, Old Change.
LITTLE DRURY _lane_, in the Strand.
LITTLE DUKE’S PLACE, or _court_, Leadenhall street.
LITTLE DUNNING’S _alley_, near Bishopsgate street.†
LITTLE EARL _street_, Seven Dials.†
LITTLE EASTCHEAP, Gracechurch street.
LITTLE ELBOW _lane_, 1. In Great Elbow lane, Thames street. 2. Ratcliff.
LITTLE ESSEX _street_, Essex street, in the Strand.
LITTLE FLOWER DE LUCE _court_, Cowcross.*
LITTLE FRIARS _gate_, Fleet street, leading to White Friars.
LITTLE FRIDAY _street_, Friday street, Cheapside.
LITTLE GEORGE _street_, 1. Great George street, Conduit street. 2. Great
George street, Spitalfields.
LITTLE GLOUCESTER _court_, Chequer alley, Whitecross street.
LITTLE GLOUCESTER _street_, Whitecross street, Cripplegate.
LITTLE GRAY’S INN _lane_, Gray’s Inn lane, Holborn.
LITTLE GREENWICH, Aldersgate street.
LITTLE GREENWICH _alley_, Aldersgate street.
LITTLE GROSVENOR _street_, Grosvenor square.
LITTLE GUN _alley_, Orchard, Wapping.*
LITTLE HART _street_, near Covent Garden.
LITTLE _St._ HELEN’S, Bishopsgate street. See _St._ HELEN’S.
LITTLE _St._ HELEN’S _Almshouse_, was erected by the Leathersellers
company, pursuant to the will of John Hasilwood, of Waltham, Esq; in
the year 1544, for the reception of four men and three women, who were
allowed by the founder only 8_d._ per week each; but by other
benefactions, and the bounty of the company, they now receive 2_s._
weekly, and six bushels of coals at Christmas. _Maitland._
LITTLE _St._ HELEN’S _court_, Bishopsgate street within.
LITTLE HERMITAGE _street_, Wapping.
LITTLE HOLLIS’S _street_, Hanover square.†
LITTLE HOWARD’S _yard_, Angel alley.†
LITTLE JERMAIN _street_, St. James’s street.
LITTLE JOHN’S _street_, Davis’s street.
LITTLE ISLAND, New Gravel lane.
LITTLE IVY _lane_, Ivy lane.‡
LITTLE KING’S HEAD _court_, near Shoe lane, Fleet street.
LITTLE KING’S _street_, St. James’s street.
LITTLE KIRBY _street_, Hatton garden.†
LITTLE KNIGHTRIDER _street_, Great Knightrider street, by Addle hill.
LITTLE LAMB _alley_, Blackman street.*
LITTLE LAST _alley_, East Smithfield.*
LITTLE LOMBARD _street_, Lombard street, by the Mansion house.
LITTLE LOVE _lane_, Wood street, Cheapside.
LITTLE MADDOX _street_, New Bond street.
LITTLE MARLBOROUGH _street_, Carnaby street.
LITTLE MARSH _yard_, near Wapping.
LITTLE _St._ MARTIN’S _lane_, Charing Cross.
LITTLE MATCH _walk_, Upper Shadwell.
LITTLE MAYPOLE _alley_, St. Margaret’s hill.
LITTLE MAZEPOND _street_, in the Maze.
LITTLE MINORIES, that part of the Minories which is railed in, and is
out of the city liberties. See the article MINORIES.
LITTLE MINORIES _court_, Little Minories.
LITTLE MITCHELL’S _street_, Old street.†
LITTLE MONTAGUE _court_, Little Britain.
LITTLE MONTAGUE _street_, 1. Crispin street, Spitalfields. 2. Pelham
street.
LITTLE MOORFIELDS, Fore street, Moorgate.
LITTLE MOOR _yard_, St. Martin’s lane, Charing Cross.†
LITTLE MOUSE _alley_, East Smithfield.
LITTLE NEW _court_, Lamb alley.
LITTLE NEWPORT _street_, Great Newport lane.
LITTLE NEW _street_, New street, Shoe lane.
LITTLE NEW STREET _hill_, near Shoe lane.
LITTLE NIGHTINGALE _lane_, Burr street.
LITTLE NORTHUMBERLAND _alley_, Crutched Friars.
LITTLE NOTTINGHAM _street_, Dyot street.
LITTLE OLD BAILEY, Great Old Bailey.
LITTLE ORMOND _street_, 1. Southampton row. 2. Red Lion street, Holborn.
LITTLE ORMOND _yard_, Ormond street.
LITTLE PEARL _street_, Lamb street, Spitalfields.*
LITTLE PETER _street_, 1. Little Windmill street. 2. Tufton street.
LITTLE PORTLAND _street_, Portland street.
LITTLE PRESCOT _street_, Goodman’s fields.†
LITTLE PRINCE’S _street_, 1. Near High Holborn. 2. Old Soho.
LITTLE QUEEN _street_, 1. Dean street, Soho. 2. High Holborn. 3. King
street, Rotherhith. 4. Queen street, Wapping. 5. Westminster.
LITTLE RIDER’S _court_, Little Newport street.†
LITTLE RIDER _street_, St. James’s street.†
LITTLE ROPE _walk_, Goswell street.
LITTLE RUSSEL _street_, 1. Bloomsbury. 2. Drury lane.
LITTLE RUTLAND _court_, Addle hill.
LITTLE SANCTUARY, King street, Westminster.
LITTLE SCOTLAND _yard_, Whitehall.
LITTLE SHEER _lane_, Sheer lane, Temple bar.
LITTLE SMITH _street_, Smith street, Marsham street.†
LITTLE SPRING _street_, Spring street, Shadwell.
LITTLE STAR _alley_, Mark lane.*
LITTLE STONE _stairs_, Ratcliff.
LITTLE SUFFOLK _street_, Haymarket.
LITTLE SWALLOW _street_, Swallow street.
LITTLE SWAN _alley_, 1. Coleman street.* 2. Goswell street.* 3. Mount
Mill.* 4. St. John’s street, West Smithfield.* 5. Three colts yard,
London Wall.*
LITTLE SWORDBEARERS _alley_, Chiswell street.
LITTLE _St._ THOMAS APOSTLE’S _lane_, Queen street, Cheapside.
LITTLE THOMPSON’S _rents_, Half Moon alley, Coleman street.†
LITTLE THREE TUN _alley_, Near Whitechapel.*
LITTLE TOWER HILL, At the bottom of the Minories.
LITTLE TOWER _street_, At the west end of Tower street.
LITTLE TRINITY _lane_, In Trinity lane, Bow lane.
LITTLE TURNSTILE _alley_, High Holborn.
LITTLE TWYFORD’S _alley_, St. Ermin’s hill.†
LITTLE VINE _street_, Vine street.*
LITTLE WARDOUR _street_, Tweed street.
LITTLE WARNER _street_, Cold Bath fields.†
LITTLE WARWICK _street_, Cockspur street.
LITTLE WHITE BEAR _court_, Black Friars.*
LITTLE WHITE LION _street_, Seven Dials.*
LITTLE WILD _street_, Great Wild street.†
LITTLE WINCHESTER _street_, London Wall.
LITTLE WINDMILL _street_, Near Cambridge street.
LITTLE WOOD _street_, Cripplegate.
LITTLE YORK _street_, Cock lane, Shoreditch.
LITTLETON _street_, Golden lane.†
LITTON _street_, Golden lane.†
LLOYD’S _court_, 1. Denmark street, Soho.† 2. Hog lane, St. Giles’s.†
LLOYD’S _street_, Prince’s street, Soho.†
LLOYD’S _yard_, Skinner’s street.†
LOCK HOSPITAL, near Hyde Park Corner, for the cure of the venereal
disease. This charitable foundation was established, and is still
supported by the voluntary contributions of gentlemen, who have had
the humanity to consider, that pain and misery, however produced,
entitle frail mortals to relief from their fellow creatures. They
therefore, in imitation of the munificence of the Almighty, who causes
his sun to shine on the evil and the good, afford relief equally to
the innocent and the guilty.
Patients were first received into this hospital on the 31st of January
1747, since which time to the 10th of March 1752, there were
discharged from it 1432; besides those who received benefit from it,
by being out-patients; and the in-patients cured from the 10th of
March 1752, to the 10th of March 1753, amounted to 308; besides
twenty-one cured as out-patients. In that year four died, and at that
last period, there were forty patients in the house, and five
out-patients.
Among the above unhappy objects were several married women, children
and infants, many of whom were admitted by the weekly committee, even
without any other recommendation than their distress, they being
almost naked, pennyless and starving. The virtuous, the humane reader
will be astonished at reading, that at the end of the above period,
among the other miserable objects who found relief, were upwards of
sixty children from two to ten or twelve years old, who became
infected from ways little suspected by the generality of mankind; from
the absurd opinion, imbibed by the lower class, both males and
females, that by communicating this loathsome disease to one that is
sound, they will get rid of it themselves; and from this principle,
which is contradicted by daily experience, the most horrid acts of
barbarity have been frequently committed on poor little infants; and
thus these vile wretches have entailed the most dreadful disease on
these innocent infants, without affording the least relief to
themselves. This the Governors have thought their duty to publish, in
order, as much as possible, to root out from among mankind an opinion
at once so base, so false, and productive of such cruelty.
From the above account of the happy success of this charity, its great
usefulness must appear extremely obvious to every humane well disposed
person: and many such may be induced to contribute to it, when they
are informed that any sum not less than a guinea a year, will be
acceptable.
Every gentleman subscribing 5_l._ a year, or upwards, is a Governor of
this hospital; and whoever gives a benefaction of 50_l._ at one time,
is a Governor for life: but no Governor above two years in arrear, can
have any power or privilege as a Governor, till he has paid his
arrears.
A committee of at least five of the Governors meet every Saturday
morning at ten o’clock, to admit and discharge patients, adjust the
weekly accounts, receive the reports of the visitors, and examine the
affairs of the house.
Two of the contributors are appointed weekly by the committee to
examine every day into the behaviour of the patients and nurses, and
make their report, as it shall appear to them, at the next weekly
board.
The orders of the house are:
I. That no patient is to be admitted but who brings a recommendation
in writing, signed by a Governor, or one of the weekly committee.
II. That all recommendations for the admission of patients are
received every Saturday morning till eleven o’clock.
III. Every patient is obliged to submit to the rules and orders of the
house, or be discharged for irregularity.
IV. No person discharged for irregularity, can ever be received into
the house again, on any recommendation whatsoever.
V. That no Governor have more than one patient in the house at a time;
and that a preference be always given to those who subscribe the
largest sums, so far as the case of the patient will admit.
VI. That no nurse, or any other person belonging to this hospital, do
presume to take any reward whatsoever from any patient, either at
their admission, continuance in the house, or discharge out of it, on
pain of being immediately expelled, by order of the next weekly board.
VII. That no security at the admission of any patient be required for
his burial; but when any patient dies in the hospital, he or she shall
be buried at the expence of the society, unless it be otherwise
desired by the friends of the deceased.
The contributors are desired to send their subscriptions to the
Treasurer at the weekly board, held every Saturday morning in the
hospital; and in order to supply the current expence of the charity,
the subscribers are requested to pay their annual subscriptions in
advance.
There is a poor’s box in the public hall, for the reception of small
sums, or from such as are not willing to have their names inserted in
the list of subscribers.
LOCK HOSPITAL, at the south east corner of Kent street, in Southwark,
was anciently a house for the reception and cure of lepers: but at
present it belongs to St. Bartholomew’s hospital in this city, and
with the Lock at Kingsland, is appropriated to the cure of venereal
patients.
It is a small neat edifice, and has been lately rebuilt. It has a row
of trees before, and a garden behind, with a wall next the street. At
the south end is the chapel, built about an hundred and twenty years
ago.
LOCK HOSPITAL, at Kingsland. See KINGSLAND.
LOCKWOOD’S _yard_, Saffron hill.†
LODISE’S _alley_, Saltpetre Bank.†
LODISE’S _court_, Saltpetre Bank.†
LOGSDOWN _yard_, Middle row, Holborn.
LOLLARDS TOWER, the southernmost of two stone towers which stood at the
west of St. Paul’s cathedral before the fire of London; which being
used as the Bishop of London’s prison for such as were found guilty of
the supposed crime of maintaining opinions contrary to the faith of
the church of Rome, and many of the followers of Wickliff, who were
called Lollards, being here imprisoned, it obtained the name of the
Lollards Tower. Among these persecuted people were Mr. Richard Hunne,
a citizen of London, a person well beloved, and of a fair character,
who in the year 1515 was imprisoned here, under the pretence of having
Wickliff’s bible; tho’ the occasion of his ruin was a dispute he had
with a clerk about a mortuary, which was made the cause of the whole
clergy. This man however submitted to the Bishop’s correction, upon
which he ought to have been enjoined penance and set at liberty; but
he was found hanging in his chamber, with his neck broken; and the
Bishop’s sumner owned that he, with Dr. Horsey the Bishop’s
chancellor, and the bell-ringer, had committed the murder. Upon this
the coroner’s inquest proceeded to trial; but the Bishop began a new
process against the dead body for heresy, and his persecutors not
satisfied with having him murdered, caused the corpse to be burnt in
Smithfield. _Maitland._
LOLLARDS TOWER, at Lambeth. See LAMBETH.
LOMBARD _court_, 1. Seven Dials. 2. West street, Soho.
LOMBARD _street_, 1. On the back of Cornhill, extends from the mansion
house of the Lord Mayor, to Gracechurch street. Lombard street was
anciently, as well as at present, inhabited by bankers, the first of
whom were Italians chiefly from Lombardy, whence the word Lombards
became anciently applied to all bankers, and this street retained the
name of Lombards or Bankers street. _Stow._ 2. In Coverley’s fields.
3. In White Friars. 4. In the Mint, Southwark.
_The End of the_ THIRD VOLUME.
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● Transcriber’s Notes:
○ Some of the illustrations have been moved to be closer to their
descriptions.
○ The decorative line that separates chapters was missing from
chapter “L”. Perhaps because it is the only chapter, after the
first, that begins at the top of a page. The decorative line from
an earlier chapter was used.
○ There is no section for streets and buildings beginning with the
letter “I”. They are mixed in with the “J”s.
○ Missing or obscured punctuation was silently corrected.
○ Typographical errors were silently corrected.
○ Inconsistent spelling and hyphenation were made consistent only
when a predominant form was found in this book.
○ The use of a carat (^) before one or more letters shows they were
intended to be superscripts, as in S^t Bartholomew or L^{d.}
Egemont.
○ Text that was in italics is enclosed by underscores (_italics_).