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St. Gabriel’s, a church which stood opposite to Cullum street, the middle of Fenchurch street, in Langbourn ward; but being destroyed by the fire of London and not rebuilt, the parish was annexed to the church of St. Margaret Pattens.

Gainsford street, Horselydown lane.†

Gallard’s Almshouse, in Golden lane, was founded by Richard Gallard of Islington, Esq; for thirteen poor men and women, who were to receive only two pence a week each, and a load of charcoal yearly amongst them all. By this small allowance, it appears that this house must be of a very ancient foundation. Maitland.

Gap yard, Stepney Causeway.

Gardens court, 1. Baldwin’s gardens.? 2. St. Botolph Bishopsgate church yard.? 3. Clement’s Inn.? 4. Clifford’s Inn.? 5. Furnival’s Inn.? 6. Lincoln’s Inn.? 7. Middle Temple.? 8. Petticoat lane.? 9. Serjeants Inn.? 10. Sion College.? 11. Staple’s Inn.? 12. Star street, Wapping Wall.? 13. Thavie’s Inn.?

Garden row, 1. Inner Temple.? 2. Lower street, Islington.? 3. Unicorn alley, Shoreditch.?

Gardeners, a company incorporated by letters patent granted by King James I. in the year 1616. They are governed by a Master, two Wardens, and eighteen Assistants; but have neither hall nor livery.

Gardiner’s court, Gardiner’s lane, King street, Westminster.†

Gardiner’s ground, Collingwood street.

Gardiner’s lane, 1. High Timber street. 2. King street, Westminster. 3. Maiden lane. 4. Neathouse lane. 5. Petty France, Westminster. 6. Willow street.

Gardiner’s row, Chelsea.

Garland alley, Bishopsgate street.

Garland court, 1. Ocean street, Stepney. 2. Trinity lane.

Garlic hill, Thames street; so called from the garlick market formerly held thereabout. Stow.

Garrat street, Cock lane, Shoreditch.†

Garret’s Almshouse, in Porter’s fields, and in the liberty of Norton Falgate, was founded in the year 1729, by Nicholas Garret, Esq; citizen and weaver, for the accommodation of six poor members of his company, each of whom has also an annual allowance of 8l., a chaldron of coals, and dozen and a half of candles. Maitland.

Garret’s rents, Coleman street.†

Garter court, Barbican.*

Garter yard, Ratcliff Highway.

Gasson, a village in the parish of Blechingley, in Surry, at the source of the river Medway.

Gatehouse, Tothill street, Westminster, is so called from two gates, erected there in the reign of Edward III. Here is a prison for debtors and criminals.

Gate street, Lincoln’s Inn fields.

Gatton, a very small borough in Surry, eighteen miles from London, under the side of a hill in the road to Ryegate. This is a very ancient town; and from the Roman coins and other antiquities found there, is supposed to have been well known to the Romans; but though it is a borough by prescription, and has sent members to parliament ever since the 29th of Henry VI. and though it was formerly a large and populous place, it now resembles a very mean village; it having only a small church, and neither a fair nor market. The members are returned by its constable, who is annually chosen at the Lord of the manor’s court. This parish is famous for a quarry of white stone, which, though very soft, will endure the fire admirably well; but neither the sun nor the air; on which account it is much used for glass houses, and by chemists and bakers.

Gaunt’s key. Thames street.†

Geneva row, Tyburn road.†

Gentee’s passage, Nibb’s Pound.†

George alley, 1. Aldgate street, within.* 2. Bishopsgate street.* 3. In the Borough.* 4. Coleman street.* 5. Field lane, at the bottom of Holborn hill.* 6. George street, York buildings.* 7. Holles street, Clare market.* 8. King Tudor’s street.* 9. Lombard street, Gracechurch street.* 10. Lower Shadwell. 11. St. Margaret’s hill.* 12. New George street, Spitalfields.* 13. Rotherhith.* 14. Saffron hill.* 15. Shoe lane, Fleet street.* 16. Stony street.* 17. In the Strand.* 18. Thames street.* 19. Turnmill street.* 20. York buildings.*

George and Vulture alley, Cornhill.*

S. Wale delin. Elliot sculp.
Bloomsbury Church.

George court, 1. Bennet’s hill.* 2. Coleman street.* 3. East Smithfield.* 4. George street, Conduit street.* 5. George street in the Mint.* 6. Gravel lane.* 7. Hatton Wall.* 8. St. John’s lane.* 9. Little St. Thomas Apostles.* 10. Near Newington Turnpike.* 11. Prince’s street, Spitalfields.* 12. Seacole lane, Snow hill.*

George Inn yard, in the Borough.*

George lane, St. Botolph lane.*

George’s buildings, 1. Catharine Wheel alley, Whitechapel.† 2. Near Rosemary lane.† 3. Jermain street.†

St. George’s Bloomsbury, is one of the fifty new churches appointed to be built by act of parliament within the bills of mortality. The name of St. George was given to it in honour of his present Majesty; and it received the additional epithet of Bloomsbury, from its situation, to distinguish it from others of the same name.

The portico through which you enter the church stands on the south side, as is represented in the print. It is of the Corinthian order, and makes a very good figure in the street, but has no affinity to the church, which is very heavy, and would be better suited with a Tuscan portico. The tower and steeple at the west, is a very extraordinary structure. On the top standing on a round pedestal or altar, is a colossal statue of the late King, supported by a pyramid. At the corners near the base are alternately placed the lion and unicorn the British supporters, with festoons between: these animals being very large, are injudiciously placed over columns very small, which makes them appear monsters. The under part is heavy enough, but not connected with the church. The introduction of figures and other pieces of sculpture into steeples, which are so much the work of fancy, and where the artist is not so much confined as in the other parts of the building, if managed with taste and propriety might be made elegant ornaments, and would make a fine variety with the architectonic ones with which the city already abounds.

This church was erected at the public expence, and consecrated in January 1731. A district for its parish was by authority of parliament taken out of that of St. Giles’s, and the sum of 3000l. was given towards the support of its Rector, to which being added 1250l. by the inhabitants of St. Giles’s parish, both sums were ordered to be laid out in the purchase of lands, tenements, &c. in fee simple, as a perpetual fund for the maintenance of the Rector and his successors; but the poor of this parish and that of St. Giles’s in the Fields, are to be maintained by the joint assessment of both parishes, in the same manner as before their being divided.

St. George’s Botolph lane, is like all the other churches of this name, dedicated to St. George of Cappadocia, the martyr and tutelar saint of the English nation, and is situated on the west side of Botolph lane, Thames street. The old church was destroyed by the fire of London in 1666, and the present edifice built in its stead. It is enlightened with a single series of tall windows, and the steeple consists of a plain tower ornamented with vases at the four corners.

This is a rectory in the gift of the Crown; and to this parish that of St. Botolph’s Billingsgate is united by act of parliament.

St. George’s fields, a large space between Lambeth and Southwark, where have been found many Roman coins, chequered pavements, and bricks, it being the center of three Roman ways. Since the building of Westminster bridge, a new road has been made across these fields, which leading into the Borough forms a communication between the two bridges.

St. George’s Hanover square, is situated on the east side of George street, near the square, whence it had its additional epithet. This is one of the churches that were found necessary, upon the great increase of public buildings in this part of the town; for the church of St Martin’s in the Fields being at too great a distance from the new streets, and too small for the inhabitants, the Commissioners for the fifty new churches gave orders for erecting one in the skirts of the parish, on which this august pile arose, and was consecrated in 1724.

This church, considering the extent of the parish, is too small. It has a plain body with an elegant portico: the columns, which are Corinthian, are of a large diameter, and the pediment has its acroteria, but without farther ornament. It has a tower, which, above the clock, is elegantly adorned at the corners with coupled Corinthian columns that are very lofty. These are crowned with their entablature, which at each corner supports two vases, and over these the tower still rises till it is terminated by a dome crowned with a turret which supports a ball, over which rises the weather-cock.

This church is a rectory; the parish at first consisted of the two out wards of that of St. Martin’s in the Fields; but it has now four wards, named Conduit street, Grosvenor street, Dover street, and the out ward. The advowson is settled upon the Bishop of London and his successors. The profits arising to the Rector, are said to amount to about 600l. per annum. Lieutenant General Stewart gave the ground on which this church was erected, and some time after bequeathed to this parish the sum of 4000l. towards erecting and endowing a charity school in it.

St. George’s Middlesex, situated on the north side of Ratcliff Highway, is another of the churches occasioned by the increase of buildings in a part of the town opposite to the former. The Commissioners for erecting fifty new churches caused the foundation to be laid in the year 1715, and the structure was finished in 1729.

This is a massy structure, erected in a very singular taste. The floor is raised a considerable height above the level of the ground; and to the principal door, which is in the west front of the tower, is an ascent by a double flight of steps, cut with a sweep, and defended by a low wall of the same form; but what is most singular in this structure, is, there are two turrets over the body of the church, and one on the tower, which last is in the manner of a fortification, with a staff on the top for an occasional flag. The author of The Review of the Public Buildings calls this edifice a mere Gothic heap of stone, without form or order.

The parish is taken out of that of Stepney; and by act of parliament the hamlet of Wapping Stepney is appropriated to that purpose, and in all respects rendered independent of Stepney parish. Towards the maintenance of the Rector and his successors, the parliament gave the sum of 3000l. to be laid out in the purchase of lands, tenements, &c. in fee simple; and as a farther provision, the churchwardens are annually to pay him the sum of 100l. to be raised by burial fees. The advowson of this rectory, like that of Stepney, is in the Principal and Scholars of King’s hall, and Brazen nose college, Oxford.

St. George’s Queen square, also arose from the increase of buildings. Several gentlemen at the extremity of the parish of St. Andrew’s Holborn, having proposed the erecting of a chapel for religious worship, Sir Streynsham Master, and fourteen of the other neighbouring gentlemen, were appointed trustees for the management of this affair. These gentlemen in the year 1705, agreed with Mr. Tooley to give him 3500l. for erecting a chapel and two houses, intending to reimburse themselves by the sale of pews; and this edifice being finished the next year, they settled annual stipends for the maintenance of a chaplain, an afternoon preacher who was also reader, and a clerk, giving to the first and second a salary of 100l. each, and to the last 50l. But the Commissioners for erecting fifty new churches resolving to make this one of them, purchased it, caused a certain district to be appointed for its parish, and had it consecrated in the year 1723, when it was dedicated to St. George in compliment to Sir Streynsham Master, who had been Governor of Fort St. George in the East Indies. Maitland.

This church is a plain common building void of all elegance; it is however convenient and well enlightened. The rectory, like that of St. Andrew’s, is in the Duke of Montague’s gift.

St. George’s Southwark, is situated at the south east corner of St. Margaret’s hill. There was a church in this place before the year 1122, which in 1629, was repaired and beautified within. This edifice was preserved by its situation, from the dreadful conflagration in 1666; but the decays of age rendered it necessary to take it down in 1734, when the present church was begun, and finished in 1736.

To this church there is an ascent by a flight of steps, defended by plain iron rails. The door case, which is Ionic, has a circular pediment, ornamented with the heads of Cherubims in clouds; and on each side of this pediment, which reaches to the height of the roof, the front is adorned with a ballustrade and vases. From this part the tower rises plain, strengthened with rustic quoins, as is the body of the building, and on the corners of the tower are again placed vases. From this part the diminution is too great; and from hence are raised a series of Ionic columns supporting the base of the spire, which has ribs on the angles, and openings in all the faces. The top is crowned with a ball from which rises the vane.

This church is a rectory in the gift of the Crown; the profits of which to the Incumbent amount to about 220l. a year. English Architect. Maitland.

St. George’s Hospital, near Hyde Park Corner. This undertaking was set on foot soon after Michaelmas 1733, by some gentlemen who were before concerned in a charity of the like kind in the lower part of Westminster. This house they judged convenient for their purpose, on account of its air, situation, and nearness to town; they therefore procured a lease of it, and opened a subscription for carrying on the charity here, which increased so fast, that on the 19th of October they were formed into a regular society, and actually began to receive patients on the first of January following.

Here are admitted the poor, sick, and lame, who are supplied with advice, medicine, diet, washing, lodging, and some of the miserable with cloaths also. The Physicians visit their patients on Mondays and Fridays, and on all intermediate days whenever occasion requires; but the Surgeon attends every day; and on every Friday morning there is a general consultation of all the Physicians and Surgeons. No security for the burial of the patients is required, nor any money, gift, or reward taken of them or their friends, on any account whatsoever. Those who die, if their friends are unable to bury them, are interred at the charge of the society. And the money collected in the poor box at the door, is kept as a separate fund for furnishing those with some little sum of money, whose distance from their habitations, or other particular necessities, require it.

The apothecaries, who are Governors, are appointed to attend by rotation as visitors, to see that the apothecary of the house takes due care of the medicines and patients. Two visitors are chosen weekly out of the subscribers, to attend daily, and take care, by examining the provision and patients, that the orders of the society are punctually observed, that the patients are treated in every respect with order and tenderness, and to make a report in writing of their observations.

Prayers are read daily to the patients; a sermon is preached every Sunday, the communion is administered every month, and the chaplain attends at other times to catechize and perform other religious offices, as often as their cases require; and when the patients are discharged, religious tracts are given to each of them, for their farther edification.

A board of Governors meet every Wednesday morning, to do the current business of the hospital, to receive and examine the reports of the visitors, to discharge and admit patients, to receive the complaints and proposals of all persons, and to prepare such matters as are proper for the consideration of general boards. A general board of the Governors meet regularly five times a year.

The Governors are in number upwards of three hundred. No person receiving salary, fee, or reward from the hospital, is capable of being a Governor; but every other gentleman subscribing 5l. a year, or upwards, or giving one benefaction of 50l. although he be not an annual subscriber, is thereupon put in nomination to be a Governor, and at the first general court, which is held one month afterwards, is accordingly ballotted for by the Governors. The subscriptions are received by the Treasurers, at the weekly board, held every Wednesday morning in the hospital.

The other rules and regulations of this excellent hospital, are as follow:

I. No person is to be admitted a patient, except in cases of accidents, without a note from a Governor or contributor, specifying the name and place of abode of such patient, and that he or she is a proper object of this charity.

II. All recommendations are to be delivered every Wednesday morning, by nine of the clock.

III. In case any out-patients neglect coming two weeks successively on the day and hour they are ordered to attend, such out-patients shall be discharged for irregularity, except they have had leave from their Physician.

IV. No person discharged for irregularity is to be ever again admitted into the hospital, upon any recommendation whatsoever.

V. No patient is to be suffered to go out of the hospital without leave in writing; and to avoid giving offence, no leave is to be given to any patient to go into St. James’s Park, or the Green Park, called Constitution hill, upon any pretence whatsoever.

VI. No Governor, officer, or servant, must at any time presume, on pain of expulsion, to take of any tradesman, patient, or other person, any fee, reward, or gratification of any kind, directly, or indirectly, for any service done, or to be done, on account of this hospital.

VII. No person subscribing less than two guineas a year, can recommend more than two in-patients in the year.

VIII. When there is not room for all the patients recommended at one time to be received into the hospital, those are taken in whose admission the board are of opinion, will most effectually answer the end of the charity; and the rest, if proper objects, are admitted out-patients, till there is room for them in the hospital. Most consumptive and asthmatic cases are more capable of relief as out-patients, than as in-patients.

By this noble foundation, there have been discharged from the hospital, since its first receiving of patients on the first of January 1733, to the 27th of December 1752, 60,188. Those in the house on the 27th of December 1752, amounted to 273. The out-patients in the books at the same time were 645, which in all made 61,106. From the account published by the General Board.

This hospital enjoys a fine situation, and has all the benefit of a clear and pure air: it has the advantage of being a very neat, though not an expensive building; and though it is extremely plain, it is not void of ornament. It has two small wings, and a large front, with only one door, which is in the middle, and to which there is an ascent by a few steps. On the top of this part of the building is a pediment raised above the rest of the edifice, and under this ornament is a stone with an inscription, expressing the noble use to which this structure is applied.

St. George’s court, Newington causeway.

George stairs, 1. Deptford.* 2. Shad Thames.*

George street, 1. Cambridge Heath.* 2. Foster lane, Cheapside.* 3. Hanover square. 4. Little Chapel street. 5. In the Mint.* 6. Near Tothill side. 7. Pall Mall. 8. Ratcliff highway. 9. Tyburn road. 10. White row, Spitalfields.* 11. Windsor street. 12. York buildings. See Great George street.

Some of the new streets of this name, were thus denominated in honour of King George I. and II.

A list of the pictures belonging to General Guise, at his house in George street, Hanover square.

On the left hand of the staircase.

A piece of architecture, rather large, adorned with many small figures very graceful. The architecture, by Viviani. The figures, in his best manner, by Sebastiano Ricci.

Two heads in one picture, a little smaller than life. They exhibit two caricaturas, by Spagnoletto.

A portrait of some Spanish nobleman, half length, after the life, nobly painted and well preserved, by Moriglio.

A head with part of the shoulders, and it seems to be the portrait of some great man. In his first manner, by Titiano.

A picture, with many figures two feet high, representing Solomon’s judgment. The invention, disposition, and colouring are equally wonderful, by Pasqualini Romano, disciple of Andrea Sacchi.

A representation of our Saviour on his doleful way to Calvary. The figures almost as big as the life, by Andrea Mantegna.

Mantegna was Correggio’s master, and this picture was in the collection of King Charles the First.

The rape of the Sabines. A picture of great merit both for invention and colouring, the author unknown.

A figure as big as the life, of particular beauty, exhibiting St. Jerome fervently praying, by Domenichino.

A head with part of the shoulders, as big as the life. It is the portrait, painted by himself, of Francesco Mola.

A small sketch representing a sacrifice, with the temple of Diana. The figures are many and wonderfully well disposed, by Pietro da Cortona.

It goes about in print.

A small sketch in light and shadow, with many figures representing a Saint, ready to suffer martyrdom, drawn with great liveliness and taste, by Ant. Vandyke.

A small octagonal picture on a black stone, representing our Saviour carried to the sepulchre, by Annibal Caracci.

A picture containing several figures about three feet high, exhibiting St. Laurence’s martyrdom, by Tintoretto.

A landscape with figures one foot high, representing the martyrdom of St. Peter Martir. The figures, by Agostino Caracci. The landscape, by Gobbo de Caracci.

A sketch representing a victorious Prince carried in triumph. The figures are many, a foot and a half high, and many of them allegorical, by Giordano d’Anversa.

A large piece of architecture with figures. In his first manner, by Nicol. Poussin.

A picture, containing some half lengths a little bigger than the life, exhibiting Faith that gives her sword to a General, by Pietro della Vecchia.

The portrait of a General, half length, a little bigger than the life. It is believ’d to be a copy from Titian, by Luca Giordano.

A figure very artfully foreshorten’d, representing our Saviour dead, as big as the life, by Lodovico Caracci.

A picture exhibiting a battle, full of figures about one foot high; and one of the noblest performances of Bourgognone.

Apollo and Marsyas. The figures about three feet high, by Sebastiano Ricci.

In the first and second rooms of the
ground floor.

A large picture containing some half lengths as big as the life, and representing the taking our Saviour in the garden, by Giacomo da Bassano.

A piece containing many half length figures as big as the life, representing the prodigal son received by his father. A famous performance of Guercino da Cento.

Sophonisba dying with grief in the arms of her damsel on receiving doleful news. The figures are half lengths as big as the life. A celebrated piece, by Domenichino.

Our Saviour known by the two disciples in the breaking of the bread. The figures bigger than the life, by Lodovico Caracci.

The flight into Egypt. The figures as big as the life. A noble work, by Guido Reni.

The heads of St. Andrew and St. Paul, bigger than the life. A valuable performance, by Andrea Sacchi.

St. Elizabeth with St. John when a babe, musing on a cross made of reeds. The figures smaller than the life. A renowned piece, by Leonardo da Vinci.

Judith holding Holofernes’s head. A half length, very beautiful, by Francesco Salviati.

Our Saviour’s nativity. The figures a little more than one foot high, finished with extreme diligence. A rare work, by Baldassare Peruzzi.

Our Lady contemplating her babe. The figures about two feet and a half, wonderfully well done after Correggio’s manner, by Francesco Mazzuoli, commonly called Parmigianino.

A half length, as big as the life, representing a naked woman, by Titiano.

It is thought that this is the portrait of the woman that was Titian’s model, when he drew the famous Venus now existing in the room called La Tribuna, in the Medicean gallery at Florence.

Our Saviour taken down from the cross. The figures a little more than one foot high, by Daniele da Volterra.

This appears to be the sketch from which Daniel made the large famous picture, that is now in one of the chapels of the church called La TrinitÀ de Monit, at Rome.

An oval picture representing Medusa’s head, bigger than the life, painted with astonishing expression, by Rubens.

A holy family. The figures one foot high, compleatly finished, by Annib. Caracci.

Our Saviour crowned with thorns. The figures a foot and a half high. One of the best works in his first manner, by Correggio.

Our Lady with the two babes Jesus and John laying hold of a lamb, and two angels devoutly looking on them, by Fran. Mazzuoli, called Parmigianino.

It was formerly in Charles the First’s collection.

Socrates and Alcibiades. Half lengths of about a foot and a half, by Giorgione da Castelfranco, who was Titiano’s master.

A small picture representing our Lady’s assumption, and the apostles, by Francesco Naldini.

This was the sketch of a celebrated picture now in Florence.

Our Saviour’s circumcision. An original sketch, by Polidoro da Caravaggio.

A picture in light and shadow, representing Diana and her nymphs in the bath, changing Acteon into a stag. An original beautiful sketch. The figures one foot high, by Nicolo dell’ Abate.

A small sketch for a ceiling in light and shadow, by Correggio.

Our Saviour’s supper, a small and most beautiful performance, by Innocenzo da Imola.

Innocenzo was one of Raphael’s best disciples.

A Venetian history, by Paolo Veronese.

This is an original sketch of one of the large pictures painted by Paolo in the Sala del Consiglio, at Venice.

A boy’s head, as big as the life, by Annibal Caracci.

Diana’s head, as big as the life, by Camillo Procaccini.

St. Catharine, a foot and a half high. A celebrated and well preserved performance, by Benvenuto da Garofolo.

A landscape exhibiting the hunting of the hare, a beautiful work, by Gobbo de Caracci.

Adam and Eve driven out of paradise by the angel. The figures one foot high. A famous and well preserved work, by the Cavaliere Giuseppe d’ Arpino.

The head of a woman smiling, smaller than the life, by Leonardo da Vinci.

A child’s head, smaller than the life, by Fra. Bartolomeo di San Marco.

The pale of an altar with figures bigger than the life, representing St. Lucy,

St. John the Evangelist, St. Humphrey, and St. Francis. A famous performance, by Correggio: except St. Humphrey’s figure, which having been left unfinish’d by Correggio, was afterwards finished by Spagnoletto.

The family of the Caracci’s, represented in a butcher’s shop, and those celebrated painters in butchers dresses. Annibal is weighing some meat to a Swiss of the Cardinal of Bologna’s guard. Agostino is shaking a nail and trying if it holds fast, that he may hang on it a leg of mutton which he holds in his left hand. The Gobbo is lifting up half a calf to hang it on a beam, and Lodovico stoops down killing a sheep. The mother of them is represented as a servant-maid that comes to buy some meat. The likenesses are traditionally said to be wonderful; and the whole of this no less odd than beautiful picture was the most celebrated performance of Annibal Caracci.

Three half figures as big as the life, representing three ladies diverting themselves with music, and a gentleman listening to them. In all probability they were portraits, by Titiano.

A sketch of one of the most capital pictures in Venice, and preserved there in a church. It represents our blessed Lady with St. Peter and St. Francis, and a Venetian General of the Capello’s family come back victorious from a battle against the Turks, who offers the standard and the trophies of his victory to the altar of our Lady. The whole Capello family is exhibited in this picture. A celebrated work, by Titiano.

A landscape with figures. It represents part of the country near Bologna, by Domenichino.

A woman representing Simplicity, with a dove in her hand. A half length as big as the life, by Francesco Furino.

The good Samaritan. The figures are two feet high. A valuable picture, by Sisto Badalocchi.

Our Lady with her babe, about two feet high, painted much after Correggio’s manner, by Sebastian Ricci.

The head of a youth, a little smaller than the life, by Raphael.

Two small pictures, exhibiting two different martyrdoms of two saints, by Giacomo del Po.

A small sketch, by Ciro Ferri, a disciple of Pietro da Cortona.

A picture exhibiting our Saviour’s nativity. The devotion and maternal affection of our blessed Lady looking on her babe, is prodigiously well expressed. St. Joseph stands admiring the compunction of two shepherds contrasted by another that takes care of the ass. Of two other shepherds, placed at some distance, one holds a light in his hand and shows the other the manger, expressing a pious wonder. Further off there is a most beautiful angel in the clouds proclaiming the birth of our Saviour to the other shepherds. No picture ever surpassed this most elaborate performance of Titiano.

It was one of King Charles the First’s collection; and there are two prints of it, an ancient one in wood, the other in copper-plate.

Another nativity, painted likewise with his usual delicacy and noble expression, by the same Titiano.

Our Lady with her babe in her arms, near as big as the life, standing on the clouds, supported and attended by cherubs and angels. Under it there is a sight of the town of Bologna, and adjacent villages, all painted in his best manner, by Annibal Caracci.

Susan tempted by the two old men, boldly and vigorously painted as big as the life, by Agostino Caracci.

The slaughter of the innocents, containing nineteen figures as big as the life. A master-piece both for composition and colouring, by Valerio Castelli.

Two children bigger than the life, representing holy Love the conqueror of profane Love; one of the best performances in his first manner, by Guido Reni.

A lively figure of an Italian buffoon, drinking merrily, an half figure, as big as the life, by Annibal Caracci.

The portrait of some Nobleman, a little more than a half length, by Francesco Torbido, commonly called, il Moro Veronese.

This painter was much admired by Titian himself.

A nativity of our Saviour. The figures about one foot high. The effect of the light that shines out of the babe, and irradiates the whole picture, is astonishing. This is a celebrated piece, by Cavalier Cavedone.

A head as big as the life, representing our Saviour, painted in a bold manner, by Agostino Caracci.

Apollo in the attitude of slaying Marsyas. The figures about two feet high, by Andrea Sacchi.

Two small pictures, the one representing a mountebank drawing a tooth to a clown, surrounded by many spectators; the other exhibiting many people playing at balls upon the ground. Tho’ both these pictures are copious in figures, yet there is none of them but has some posture or meaning most lively and naturally expressed, by Michelangelo delle Battaglie.

A small picture, containing our Lady and her babe, St. Joseph, and St. Catharine, half figures, finely painted, by Bartolomeo Schidone.

A small picture, representing an angel that contemplates with a most afflicted look one of the nails with which our Saviour was crucified, holding it up in his hand, by Correggio.

A most beautiful sketch, representing our Saviour laid in the sepulchre, with the Virgin who has swooned and is supported by the three Marys, by Giacomo da Bassano.

Four small pictures, containing some figures two feet high, most masterly painted, by Francesco Mazzuoli, called il Parmigianino.

A small picture with many figures, representing our Saviour shewn to the people by Pilate. A noble performance, by Federigo Barocci.

A small picture, representing our Saviour appearing to Mary Magdalen in the gardener’s form, by Raphael’s master Pietro Perugino.

The infant Jesus and St. John embracing. An excellent performance and well preserved, by Raphael. Three heads in water colours, bigger than the life, by Raphael.

A head of Joseph of Arimathea, as big as the life, by Federigo Barocci.

Pictures in the rooms of the first floor.

A half length, a little smaller than the life, representing St. Catharine. A rare ancient picture, by Vettori Carpacio.

Our Lady with her babe and St. John. The proportion of the figures two feet high. An incomparable performance of Andrea del Sarto.

A small picture representing a father with his two children praying, by Giovanni Holbens.

A Nativity of our Saviour, containing eighteen figures two feet high. The posture of our Lady that offers her breast to her babe, and that of the babe itself, are most graceful; St. Joseph with them completes one of the best groups that the art of painting ever produced; and equally graceful is another group of three angels playing upon musical instruments. Two other angels descend from heaven in an attitude of adoration. Many more beautiful attitudes of devotion are those of the shepherds, that fill up the left side of this astonishing performance of the immortal Raphael.

There are two fine prints of this picture.

Our Lady with her babe, St. Catharine and St. Francis. The proportion of the figures two feet. An excellent and well preserved performance of Paolo Veronese.

The view of a noble temple, our Saviour coming out of it, meets with Magdalen, who is by him converted in the presence of some other women. An excellent and well preserved performance, done in his first manner, by Andrea del Sarto.

Two half lengths as big as the life of two women, one the mistress, the other her maid. The mistress was probably a portrait. She holds the looking glass with one hand, and with the other adjusts her head, listening to the maid that speaks to her. This is one of the best works of Domenichino.

Our Lady with her babe, the Magdalen, St. John, and St. Jerome. The figures are about three feet high, painted with the greatest gracefulness, by Francesco Mauzzoli, called il Parmigianino.

A Cupid drawn by two doves in a golden carr, and two other Cupids playing about him encircled by a flower garland. A picture extremely well preserved, as well as masterly done by Domenichino.

A copy of the famous nativity known under the name of Correggio’s night; the figures two feet high, by Carlo Cignani.

Diana in the bath converting Acteon into a stag, with her nymphs about her. An elegant composition nobly coloured, the figures a foot and a half, by Tintoretto.

The communion of the Apostles, the figures a little above two feet. There is a kindled lamp in this picture, which has a striking effect, and the whole is painted with great vigour, by Tintoretto.

St. John preaching in the desart, beautified with many well-disposed figures, by Gobbo de Caracci.

The fable of Erictonius delivered to the nymphs to be educated. Their fear and wonder in spying the boy’s serpentine feet, and their different attitudes, are most beautifully expressed. Each figure is about half the bigness of nature, and painted with great spirit, by Salvator Rosa.

A landscape, exhibiting Moses delivering from the snares of the shepherds, the daughters of Reuel the Priest of Midian, that came, to give drink to their cattle, by Domenichino.

Another small landscape, exhibiting some fishermen, and women washing linen, by the same Domenichino.

A youth little less than the life, that plays upon the guitar, with a boy behind that listens with pleasure to him. By the celebrated Spanish disciple of Titian, Fernandos.

A half length, representing our Lord tempted in the desart, by Titiano.

Two most beautiful Cherubs heads as big as the life, by Domenichino.

A St. John’s head with a lamb, as big as the life, in his best manner, by Guercino da Cento.

Marsyas and Apollo, with Mydas that sits as their judge. The figures about a foot high. A fine performance both for invention and colouring, by Andrea Schiavone.

A copy of the famous Correggio’s Cupid as big as the life, by Annibal Caracci.

An Ecce Homo, as big as the life, painted with great force of expression by Lodovico Caracci.

Our Lord laid in the sepulchre, the figures a little more than a foot, another noble work of Lodovico Caracci.

St. Francis in a vision supported by Angels. The proportion of the figures about two feet high, admirably well painted, by Annibal Caracci.

A little landscape, adorned with some pretty little figures, and it looks as if painted after nature, by Gobbo de’ Caracci.

A Venus and Cupid as big as the life. An astonishing performance, by Titiano.

A copy of one of the celebrated pictures of Raphael in the Roman Vatican. This represents an achievement of the Emperor Constantine. This copy appears to be the work of some great painter of the Florentine school, being done in the most masterly manner.

A choir of Angels playing on several musical instruments, their proportion about a foot and a half. God the Father supported by three Cherubs, by Guido Reni.

This is thought to be the original sketch of a picture done in fresco by Guido, in St. Gregory’s church at Rome.

The martyrdom of St. Erasmus, the figures about two feet high. This is the original sketch of the famous picture preserved in St. Peter’s at Rome, by Nicolo Poussin.

Two pictures adorned with many beautiful figures, whose proportion is about two feet. One represents the age of iron, the other the age of copper; and they are the original models of the two pictures in fresco, that are in the palace of Pitti at Florence, by Pietro da Cortona.

The original sketch of one of the ceilings painted in the Barberini’s palace at Rome, by Pietro da Cortona.

It represents many allegorical figures.

A half length portrait as big as nature. The figure has a letter in one hand, by Lodovico Caracci.

The portrait of Maria Robusti; a half length as big as nature, by Paris Bourdon.

The picture of a woman as big as life, half length, by Giorgione da Castelfranco.

A head with part of the shoulders, representing a Greek merchant, as big as the life, by Michael Angelo da Caravaggio.

Our Lady with her babe, and St. John; the figures near as big as the life. An excellent performance, by Titiano.

A half length with the hands, representing Diogenes the Cynic; masterly done by Spagnoletto.

A half length portrait of himself, by Tintoretto.

A portrait down to the knee, of the celebrated Naugerius, as big as the life, by Tintoretto.

The nativity of our Saviour, enriched with many beautiful figures about one foot high, by Francesco Zuccarelli.

A carton in water colours representing the holy family. The figures near as big as the life, by Andrea del Sarto.

An Emperor on horseback, the horse white, the proportion about two feet; a bold and noble work of Giulio Romano.

It was once in King Charles the First’s collection.

A finished sketch of King Charles the First’s white horse, its proportion about two feet, by Vandyke.

The slaughter of the Innocents, and Herod on a throne commanding it, by Bourgognone.

Ariadne abandoned by Theseus, a naked figure as big as the life, by Francesco Furino.

George yard, 1. Beer lane, Tower street.* 2. Bow lane.* 3. Bishopsgate street.* 4. Cable street.* 5. Dean street, Soho.* 6. Dorset garden, Fleet street.* 7. Duke street, Grosvenor square.* 8. Fore street, Lambeth.* 9. Golden lane.* 10. High Holborn.* 11. Hog lane, St. Giles’s pound.* 12. Islington.* 13. Kent street, Southwark.* 14. Little Britain.* 15. Little Tower hill.* 16. Gracechurch street, Lombard street.* 17. Long Acre.* 18. Old street.* 19. Plough yard, Broadway.* 20. Redcross street, Southwark.* 21. Saffron hill.* 22. Seacoal lane, Snow hill.* 23. Thames str.* 24. Tower hill.* 25. Turnmill street.* 26. Whitechapel.*

Georgia Office, lately under the government of the Trustees for settling the colony of Georgia, is now united to the Office of Trade and Plantations, and kept in the Treasury.

Gerrard’s Hall, on the south side of Basing lane, a large and very old house built upon stone arches, supported by sixteen pillars, called Gerard’s Hall from a giant of that name, which it is ridiculously supposed lived there. In the high roofed hall stood for some time a large fir pole, which it is pretended Gerard the giant used to run with in the wars, and a ladder of the same length, said to be made in order to ascend to the top of the staff. Stow justly supposes that these circumstances are fabulous, and observes that John Gisors, Mayor of London, was the owner of this edifice in the year 1245, and that it was a long time possessed by others of the same name and family; whence he with great probability concludes, that Gisor’s Hall was by corruption called Gerard’s Hall. Maitl.

German’s yard, Stepney rents, Shoreditch.

Gerrard’s court, Little Bell alley.†

Gerrard street, Prince’s street, Soho.†

Gerrard’s Cross, a village in Buckinghamshire, situated about 28 miles from London, between Uxbridge and Beconsfield. Here is a charity school built and endowed by the late Duke of Portland, for 20 boys and 15 girls, who are taught and cloathed, and two of the children put out apprentices every year. Near this place is also a fine seat of the Duke of Portland.

Gibralter, Shoreditch.

Gibson’s Almshouse and School, at Ratcliff, were founded by Nicholas Gibson, Esq; in the year 1537, for fourteen poor widows, seven of whom to be of Stepney parish, and the other seven of the Coopers company. The pensioners to have 1l. 6s. 8d. a year each; the school-master a salary of 10l. and an usher 6l. 13s. 4d. a year. But the estate with which this foundation is endowed being vastly improved, the Coopers company, who are his trustees, have lately increased the pensions to 5l. and 30 bushels of coals per annum, with a bounty of 10s. to each at Christmas; and the schoolmaster’s salary is also advanced to 23l. 6s. 8d. and the usher’s to 9l. 13s. 4d. Maitland.

Gibson’s court, 1. Marybon street.† 2. Narrow wall.†

Giddy Hall, at the farther end of Rumford in Essex, a very fine mansion house erected by the late Sir John Eyles, Lord Mayor of London.

Gilbert’s court, Monkwell street.†

Gilbert’s passage, Clare market.†

Gilbert’s street, Bloomsbury.†

St. Giles’s Cripplegate, at the east end of Redcross street, without the walls of London, is so denominated from its dedication to St. Giles, a Grecian and citizen of Athens, in the year 700, and from the neighbouring gate. A church was built in this place in the year 1030, which was destroyed by the fire of London in the year 1545; but the edifice erected in its room escaping the dreadful conflagration in 1666, is still standing, and is likely to continue so a long time.

This Gothic structure is 114 feet in length, 63 in breadth, 32 in height, and the tower with its turret 122 feet high. This tower is not gross in proportion to its height; and the turret on the top is light and open.

This church is a vicarage, the patronage of which is in the Dean and Chapter of St. Paul’s, and it is constituted a prebend of that cathedral by the name of Mora. The Vicar receives about 360l. a year by tithes.

In this church are many tombs, and here lies the body of the incomparable John Milton, the author of Paradise Lost.

St. Giles’s in the Fields, on the south side of St. Giles’s street, is so named to distinguish it from St. Giles’s Cripplegate. The place in which it stands was formerly a village of the same name as the church, which was standing so early as the year 1222, tho’ it was not made parochial till 1547. The little edifice for divine worship being taken down in the year 1623, a church of brick was erected in its room; but the ground in its neighbourhood being gradually raised to the height of eight feet higher than the floor, it became very damp and unwholesome. Upon this the inhabitants, by consent of parliament, had it rebuilt, the sum of 8000l. being granted for that purpose. The present structure is built in a very substantial manner, as indeed all churches should for the sake of duration. The old fabric was taken down in 1730, and the new one erected in two years and a half.

The church and steeple are built with Portland stone. The area of the church within the walls is sixty feet wide, and seventy-five feet in length, exclusive of the recess for the altar. The roof is supported with Ionic pillars of Portland stone, on stone piers, and is vaulted underneath. The outside of the church has a rustic basement, and the windows of the galleries have semicircular heads, over which is a modillion cornice. The steeple is 165 feet high, and consists of a rustic pedestal, supporting a Doric order of pilasters, and over the clock is an octangular tower with three quarter Ionic columns supporting a balustrade with vases, on which stands the spire, which is also octangular and belted.

In 1758 the organ was repaired; and in 1759, two magnificent chandeliers were hung up, each containing thirty-six lights.

“The new church of St. Giles’s, says the author of The Review of the Public Buildings, is one of the most simple and elegant of the modern structures: it is raised at a very little expence, has very few ornaments, and little beside the propriety of its parts, and the harmony of the whole, to excite attention, and challenge applause: yet still it pleases, and justly too; the east end is both plain and majestic, and there is nothing in the west to object to, but the smallness of the doors, and the poverty of appearance that must necessarily follow. The steeple is light, airy, and genteel, argues a good deal of genius in the architect, and looks very well both in comparison with the body of the church, and when ’tis considered as a building by itself, in a distant prospect. Yet after all I have confessed in favour of this edifice, I can’t help arraigning the superstition of situating churches due east and west; for in complaisance to this custom, the building before us has lost a great advantage it might have otherwise enjoyed; I mean, the making the east end the front, and placing it in such a manner as to have ended the vista of what is called Broad St. Giles’s; whereas now it is no where to be seen with ease to the eye, or so as justly to comprehend the symmetry and connection of the whole.”

There is a marble monument on the outside of the north isle to the memory of Hugh Merchant, Gent. who died on the 17th of January, 1714, with this inscription:

When, by inclemency of air,
These golden letters disappear,
And Time’s old cankered teeth have shown
Their malice on this marble stone,
Virtue and Art shall write his name
In annals, and consign his fame
To monuments more lasting far,
Than marble stones, or golden letters are.

The expence of erecting this church amounted to 10,026l. 15s. 9d. It is a rectory in the gift of the Crown.

Gilham’s court, Rotherhith Wall.†

Gilham’s rents, the Folly, Dock head.†

Giltspur street, without Newgate.*

Gingerbread alley, 1. Holiwell lane. 2. Old Change, Cheapside.

Gingerbread court, 1. Lamb alley, Bishopsgate street. 2. Old Change.

Girdlers, a company incorporated by letters patent granted by Henry VI. in the year 1449, and confirmed by Queen Elizabeth in 1568, when the Pinners and Wiredrawers were incorporated with them.

This fraternity consists of a Master, three Wardens, twenty-four Assistants, and seventy-seven Liverymen, who upon their admission pay a fine of 10l. They have a convenient hall in Basinghall street.

Glassenbury court, Rose street, Covent Garden.

Glasshouse alley, White Friars.?

Glasshouse fields, Cock hill, Ratcliff.?

Glasshouse hill, Well street.?

Glasshouse Liberty, a part of the parish of St. Botolph Aldersgate street, situated in Goswell and Pickax streets, thus named from a glasshouse which anciently stood there. There was formerly but one government in the parish; but the poor of this liberty increasing considerably, the city liberty ungenerously separated from them, and obliged those in this district to maintain their own poor.

Glasshouse street, Swallow street.?

Glasshouse yard, 1. Black Friars.† 2. Goodman’s fields.? 3. Old Barge stairs.? 4. Old Bethlem.? 5. Pickax street.? 6. Red Maid lane.? 7. Upper Ground.? 8. Well street.? 9. White Friars.? 10. White’s yard.? 11. Willow street.?

Glass Sellers, a company that were incorporated with the Looking-glass makers by letters patent granted by King Charles II. in the year 1664, by the title of The Master, Wardens, Assistants and Commonalty of Glass sellers of the city of London.

This fraternity is governed by a Master, two Wardens, twenty-four Assistants, and forty-four Liverymen, who on their admission pay a fine of 5l. But they have no hall. Maitland.

Glass yard, Cut-throat lane.

Glaziers, a company incorporated with that of the glass painters, by a charter granted by Charles I. in the year 1637.

They consist of a Master, two Wardens, twenty-one Assistants, and ninety-one Liverymen, whose fine is 3l. Their hall being consumed in the fire of London, has never yet been rebuilt. Maitland.

Glazier’s rents, Fore street, Limehouse.

Glean alley, Tooley street.

Globe alley, 1. Deadman’s Place.* 2. Fish street hill.* 3. Narrow street, Limehouse.* 4. Quaker street.* 5. In the Strand.* 6. Wapping.*

Globe court, 1. Seven Stars alley.* 2. Sheer lane.* 3. Shoe lane.*

Globe island, Rotherhith.

Globe lane, Mile-end road.*

Globe stairs, Rotherhith.*

Globe stairs alley, 1. Jamaica street.* 2. Rotherhith.*

Globe yard, 1. New Fish street hill.* 2. Old Bethlem.* 3. Schoolhouse lane, Ratcliff.* 4. Wapping.*

Gloucester court, 1. Beer lane. 2. Black Friars. 3. St. James’s street. 4. Whitecross street, Cripplegate.

Gloucester street, 1. Liquorpond street. 2. Queen’s square, Bloomsbury.

Glovers, a company incorporated by letters patent granted by King Charles I. in the year 1638.

This company is governed by a Master, four Wardens, thirty Assistants, and a livery of 130 members, who upon their admission pay a fine of 5l. 13s. 4d. They have a hall in Beech lane.

Glovers court, Beech lane.?

Glovers yard, Beech lane.?

Goat alley, 1. St. Catharine’s lane.* 2. Ludgate hill.* 3. Upper Ground, Southwark.* 4. Whitecross str. Cripplegate.*

Goat Inn yard, St. Margaret’s hill.*

Goat’s Head alley, Skinners street.*

Goat stairs, Bank side.*

Goat yard, 1. Free school street, Horselydown.* 2. In the Maze, Tooley street.* 3. Whitecross street, by Old street.*

Goat yard passage, Horselydown.*

Goatham alley, Shoreditch.?

Gobb’s alley, Grey Eagle street.†

Gobions. See Gubbins.

Goddard’s rents, 1. Holiwell street.† 2. Wheeler street.†

Godliman’s street, 1. Little Carter lane.† St. Paul’s Chain.†

Godfrey’s court, Milk street, Cheapside.†

Godwel stairs, near Limehouse.†

Gold and Silver Wiredrawers, a company incorporated by letters patent granted by K. James I. in the year 1623.

This fraternity is governed by a Master, two Wardens, and eighteen Assistants, but has neither livery nor hall.

Goldby’s rents, Golden lane.†

Golden Anchor alley, Old street.*

Golden Ball court, Great Wild street.*

Golden Cross court, Cateaton street.*

Golden Fleece yard, Tothill street.*

Golden Key court, 1. Basinghall Postern.* 2. Fore street.*

Golden lane, Barbican.

Golden Leg court, Cheapside.*

Golden Lion alley, Long ditch, Westminster.*

Golden Lion court, 1. Aldersgate street.* 2. By St. George’s church, Southwark.*

Golden square, near Great Windmill street, a very neat but small square, containing about two acres. A large space on the inside adorned with grass plats and gravel walks, was till lately surrounded with wooden rails; but these have been removed, and handsome iron ones placed in their room.

Gold’s hill, Dean street.

Goldsmiths, one of the twelve principal companies, is of great antiquity; for in the reign of Henry II. in the year 1180, it was among other guilds, fined for being adulterine, that is, setting up without the King’s special licence. But at length, in 1327, Edward III. in consideration of the sum of ten marks, incorporated this company by letters patent, and granted the Goldsmiths the privilege of purchasing an estate of 20l. per annum in mortmain, for the support of their valetudinary members, which in the year 1394, was confirmed by Richard II. for the sum of twenty marks. These grants were afterwards confirmed by Edward IV. in the year 1462, who also constituted this society a body politic and corporate, to have perpetual succession, and a common seal. They had now likewise the privilege of inspecting, trying, and regulating all gold and silver wares, not only in this city, but in all other parts of the kingdom; with the power of punishing all offenders concerned in working adulterated gold and silver, and the power of making by-laws for their better government.

This fraternity is governed by a Prime, three other Wardens, and ninety-eight Assistants; with a livery of 198 members, who upon their admission pay a fine of 20l.

Goldsmiths Hall, a spacious building in Foster lane, Cheapside, was originally built by Drew Barentin, about the year 1407, but was destroyed by the fire in 1666, and the present edifice arose in its place. It is an irregular structure built with brick, and the corners wrought in rustic of stone. The door is large, arched, and decorated with Doric columns, which support a pediment of the arched kind, but open for a shield, in which are the arms of the company. The hall room is spacious, and both that and the other rooms well enlightened.

In this hall are, among others, the pictures of Sir Martin Bowers, and Sir Hugh Middleton, both of this company, and great benefactors to it. They both enjoyed the office of Lord Mayor of London. The latter is worthy of immortal honour, for bringing the New River water to the city: out of the rents of which he gave 30l. a year to this company, which is now worth near the annual revenue of 300l. They have also a very great estate, and apply above 1000l. a year to charitable uses.

By an act passed in the 12th year of the reign of his present Majesty George II. it is ordered that no goldsmith, silversmith, or other person dealing in gold or silver wares, shall make any gold vessel, plate, or manufacture, of less fineness than 22 carats of fine gold in every pound troy weight; nor any of silver, of less fineness than 11 ounces, two pennyweights, of fine silver in every pound troy. And that no goldsmith, silversmith, or other dealer in gold or silver wares, shall sell, exchange, or expose to sale, any gold or silver plate, or export the same, without its being marked with the first letters of the christian and surname of the maker, and, if in London, with the marks of the Goldsmiths company, namely, the leopard’s head, the lion passant, and a distinct variable mark, denoting the year in which such plate was made; or with the mark of the worker, and the marks appointed to be used by the assayers of York, Exeter, Bristol, Chester, Norwich, or Newcastle upon Tyne; on the penalty of forfeiting 10l. for every omission. The forging of the company’s marks, exposes the maker to the penalty of 100l. or two years imprisonment. However, such pieces of gold or silver, as are either too small or too thin to receive the marks, and do not weigh ten pennyweights of gold or silver each, are not to be stamped. The price of assaying is fixed by the Wardens of the company.

Goldsmith’s alley, 1. Jewin street.† 2. Lukener’s lane, Drury lane.†

Goldsmith’s court, 1. Goldsmith’s alley, Jewin street.† 2. New street.†

Goldsmith’s rents, East Smithfield.†

Goldsmith’s street, 1. Crucifix lane, Barnaby street, Southwark.† 2. Wood street, Cheapside.

Gold’s square, Golston street, Whitechapel.† See Gould’s square.

Gold street, 1. Near New Gravel lane. 2. Wood street, Cheapside.

Golston’s court, Drury lane.†

Gonson’s rents, Bluegate fields, Upper Shadwell.†

Goodchild’s alley, Market street, Westminster.

Goodman’s fields, a considerable piece of ground lying behind the houses on the south side of Whitechapel, the east side of the Minories, and the north side of Rosemary lane. Mr. Stow observes, that in his time, this was a large field and farm kept by one Goodman, whose son afterwards let it out, and lived like a gentleman upon the rent it produced: and it still retains the same name, though it has now no appearance of a field. It principally consists of four handsome streets, inhabited by merchants, and other persons in affluent circumstances: these streets are on the four sides, and in the center is a tenter ground, which being surrounded by the houses, is excluded from public view. About fifteen years ago there was a very neat but small play house in one of these streets, and in this theatre Mr. Garrick first distinguished himself as an actor.

Goodman’s wharf, St. Catharine’s.†

Goodman’s yard, In the Minories, leading into Goodman’s fields.†

Good’s rents, In the Minories.†

Goodwin’s court, 1. Oxford street.† 2. St. Martin’s lane, Chancery lane.† 3. Noble street.†

Goodyear’s rents, Wapping.†

Goose alley, 1. Bow Church yard, Cheapside.* 2. Fleet Ditch.*

Goosetree’s yard, Peter street, Westminster.†

Gorhambury, a little to the west of St. Alban’s, was formerly the paternal estate of the great Francis Bacon, Lord Verulam, and Viscount of St. Alban’s, and is now the seat of the Lord Viscount Grimston.

Gosling’s rents, Swordbearer’s alley, Chiswell street.†

Gossips rents, Tooley street.?

Gossips row, Glean alley, Tooley street.?

Goswell street, extends in a line from the corner of Barbican, where Aldersgate street ends, to Mount Mill.

Gough’s square, near Fleet street; a very small oblong square, with a row on each side of handsome buildings.†

Gough’s yard, Back street, Lambeth.†

Gould’s court, Woodrofe lane.†

Gould’s square, Woodrofe lane.†

Goulston’s square, Whitechapel.†

Gracechurch street, Cornhill, was originally called Grass church street, from a grass or herb market, near Allhallows Lombard street, which from that market was called Grass church. Stow.

Grace court, Fenchurch street.

Grace’s alley, Well street, Wellclose square.

Grafton buildings, Long lane.

Grafton street, Soho.

Graham’s Almshouse, in Hog lane, Soho, was founded in the year 1686, by Mrs. Graham, for four decayed Clergymen’s widows, their maiden daughters, or other gentlewomen, each of whom has a handsome apartment, and 10l. per annum; and for fuel and a servant to attend them all, the additional sum of 10l. a year.

Grange, Near the King’s road.

Grange court, Carey street, Lincoln’s Inn fields.

Grange lane, Bermondsey.

Grange road, Bermondsey.

Grange street, Chapel street, in Red Lion street, Holborn.

Grange walk, King John’s court, Bermondsey.

Grange yard, Bermondsey fields.

Granger’s rents, Near Barbican.†

Grape street, By Little Moorfields.

Grasschurch street, Cornhill; now generally called and spelt Gracechurch street.

Grasshopper alley, 1. Fore street.* 2. Whitecross street.*

Grasshopper court, Charterhouse street.*

Gravel court, Old Gravel lane.*

Gravel lane, 1. Near the Falcon stairs. 2. Houndsditch.

Gravel street, Brook street, Holborn.

Gravel walk, 1. Blue Anchor alley. 2. Collingwood street.

Grave’s dock, Fore street, Limehouse.†

Grave’s wharf, near Fishmongers hall, Thames street.†

Gravesend, a town in Kent, twenty-two miles from London, situated on the Thames, opposite to Tilbury Fort, about six miles east from Dartford, and about the same distance from Rochester. In the reign of Richard II. the French and Spaniards sailed up the Thames to this town, and having plundered and burnt it, carried away most of the inhabitants. To enable the town to recover this loss, the Abbot of St. Mary le Grace on Tower hill, to whom King Richard II. had granted a manor belonging to Gravesend, obtained that the inhabitants of Gravesend and Milton should have the sole privilege of carrying passengers by water from hence to London, at 2d. a head, or 4s. the whole fare; but the fare is now raised to 9d. a head in the tilt boat, and 1s. in the wherry. The former must not take in above forty passengers, and the latter no more than ten. The Watermens company are by act of parliament obliged to provide officers at Billingsgate and at Gravesend, who at every time of high water by night and day, are at their respective places to ring publicly a bell set up for that purpose, for fifteen minutes, to give notice to the tilt boats and wherries to put off; and coaches ply at Gravesend at the landing of people from London to carry them to Rochester. King Henry VIII. raised a platform here and at Milton, and these towns were incorporated by Queen Elizabeth, by the name of the Portreve (which has been changed to that of Mayor) the jurats and inhabitants of Gravesend and Milton. The whole town being burnt down in 1727 the parliament in the year 1731 granted 5000l. for rebuilding its church. Here is a very handsome charitable foundation, Mr. Henry Pinnock having in 1624, given twenty-one dwelling houses and a house for a master weaver to employ the poor: and a good estate is also settled for the repairs.

Within a few years past, great improvements have been made in the lands near this town, by turning them into kitchen gardens, with the produce of which Gravesend not only supplies the neighbouring places for several miles round, but also sends great quantities to the London markets, particularly of asparagus, that of Gravesend being preferred to that of Battersea. As all outward bound ships are obliged to anchor in this road till they have been visited by the custom house officers, and as they generally stay here to take in provisions, the town is full of seamen, and in a constant hurry.

Gray Friars. See Grey Friars.

Gray’s court, Duke street, Piccadilly.†

Gray’s Inn.
S. Wale delin. B. Green sculp.

Gray’s Inn, on the north side of Holborn, near the Bars, is so called from its being formerly the residence of the ancient and noble family of Gray of Wilton, who in the reign of Edward III. demised it to several students of the law. It is one of the four Inns of Court, and is inhabited by Barristers and Students of the law, and also by such gentlemen of independent fortune, as chuse this place, for the sake of an agreeable retirement, or the pleasure of the walks.

The members of the house are to be in commons a fortnight every term, for which they pay 16s.

The officers and servants belonging to the Inn, are, a Treasurer, a Steward, a chief and three under butlers, an upper and under cook, a pannier man, a gardener, the steward, the chief butler’s men, and two porters.

This Inn has its chief entrance out of Holborn through a large gate, though it is seated far backwards, and though with its gardens it takes up almost all the west side of Gray’s Inn lane. It consists of several well-built courts, particularly Holborn court, Coney court, and another at the entrance into the garden. The hall where the gentlemen of the society dine and sup is large and commodious; but the chapel is too small; it is a Gothic structure, and has marks of much greater antiquity than any other part of the building.

The chief ornament belonging to this Inn, is its spacious garden, the benefit of which is enjoyed by the public, every body decently dressed being allowed the recreation of walking in it every day. This garden consists of gravel walks, between vistas of very lofty trees, of grass plats, agreeable slopes, and a long terras with a portico at each end; this terras is ascended by a handsome flight of steps. Till lately there was a summer-house erected by the great Sir Francis Bacon, upon a small mount: it was open on all sides, and the roof supported by slender pillars. A few years ago the uninterrupted prospect of the neighbouring fields, as far as the hills of Highgate and Hampstead, was obstructed by a handsome row of houses on the north; since which the above summer-house has been levelled, and many of the trees cut down to lay the garden more open. The part represented in the print is the lower side of Coney court, containing the chapel, hall, &c. and is the principal square of this Inn (which is a very considerable one) belonging to the gentlemen of the long robe.

Gray’s Inn lane, Holborn Bars.

Gray’s Inn Library, which is kept in Coney court, Gray’s Inn, consists of a considerable number of books in several languages, and on different branches of learning; but more particularly on law, for the use of the gentlemen of the Inn.

Gray’s Inn passage, 1. Field court, Gray’s Inn. 2. Red Lion street, Holborn.

Grays Thurrock, a town in Essex, nineteen miles from London, so called from its ancient Lords the Grays of Codnor. It has a very good market for corn and cattle.

Great Almonry, Tothill street, Westminster. See Almonry.

Great Arthur street, Goswell street.†

Great Ashentree court, White Friars.‡

Great Bacon yard, Goswell street.

Great Bear key, Thames street. See Bear Key.

Great Black Horse court, Aldersgate street.*

Great Carter lane, St. Paul’s church yard.†

Great Chapel street, Oxford street.

Great Cock alley, 1. Fore street, Cripplegate.* 2. Redcross street.*

Great Cow alley, Whitecross street, Old street.*

Great Dean’s yard, Westminster.

Great Dice key, Thames street.

Great Distaff lane, Old Change.*

Great Earl street, Seven Dials.†

Great Eastcheap, Canon street, Fish street hill. See Eastcheap.

Great Elbow lane, College hill.

Great Friars Gate, Fleet street: so called from its leading into White Friars.

Great Garden, St. Catharine’s lane.

Great George street, 1. A fine new built street, that extends from the end of Bridge street into St. James’s Park. The great uniformity observed in the buildings, their grandeur, and the length and straightness of this street, form a noble vista, terminated at the end next the park by very handsome iron gates supported on stone piers, and by the tall trees of the park, which at a distance resemble a thick grove. 2. A very noble street which extends from Hanover square into Conduit street; this is also broad and well paved, and has several very fine houses built and inhabited by noblemen and people of the first rank. See Hanover Square.

The other streets of this name, are, 3. By Great New George street, Spitalfields: and 4. by King street, Westminster. These streets were thus named in honour of his present Majesty and his royal father.

Great Hart street, James’s street, Long Acre.

Great Hermitage street, in the Hermitage.

Great Jermain street, Near Piccadilly.†

Great Kirby street, Hatton Garden.†

Great Knightrider’s street, by Addle hill.

Great Lamb alley, Blackman street.

Great Maddox street, Hanover square.

Great Marlborough street, Poland street.

Great Montague court, Little Britain.

Great Montague street, near Brick lane, Spitalfields.

Great Moor yard, St. Martin’s lane, Charing Cross.

Great New street, Fetter lane.

Great Newport street, near Long Acre.

Great Nottingham street, Plumtree street.

Great Old Bailey, Ludgate hill.

Great Ormond street, Red Lion street, Holborn.

Great Ormond yard, Ormond street.

Great Pearl street, Grey Eagle street, Spitalfields.

Great Peter street, by Great Poulteney street.

Great Poulteney street, near Brewer’s street, Soho.

Great Queen street, 1. Lincoln’s Inn fields. 2. Westminster.

Great Rider street, St. James’s street.

Great Russel street, 1. Bloomsbury, from the Duke of Bedford’s house near it. 2. Covent garden, from its being built upon the same Duke’s estate.

Great St. Andrew’s street, Seven Dials.

Great St. Ann’s lane, by Orchard street, Westminster.

Great St. Helen’s court, Bishopsgate street within. See St. Helen’s.

Great St. Thomas Apostle’s lane, by Queen street, Cheapside. See St. Thomas Apostles.

Great Stone stairs, Ratcliff.

Great Suffolk street, Cockspur street.

Great Swallow street, Piccadilly.

Great Swordbearers alley, Chiswell street.

Great Tower hill, by Great Tower street.

Great Tower street, the broad part on the east end.

Great Trinity lane, Bow lane.

Great Turnstile, Holborn.

Great Turnstile alley, High Holborn.

Great Wardour street, Oxford street.

Great Warner street, Cold Bath street.

Great White Lion street, Seven Dials.

Great Wild street, Great Queen street, Lincoln’s Inn fields.

Great Winchester street, Broad street, London Wall.

Great Windmill street, Piccadilly.

Great yard, Parish street, Horselydown.

Great York street, Cock lane, Shoreditch.

Greave’s court, George yard, Whitechapel.†

Green alley, 1. Broad Sanctuary. 2. Coleman street, Wapping. 3. St. Saviour’s Dock. 4. Tooley street.

Green Arbour court, 1. French alley. 2. Lambeth hill, Thames street. 3. Little Moorfields. 4. Little Old Bailey.

Green Bank, 1. Horselydown. 2. Coleman street, Wapping. 3. St. Olave street. 4. Wapping.

Board of Green Cloth, a court of justice continually sitting in the King’s house. This court is under the Lord Steward of the King’s houshold, and is composed of the Treasurer of the houshold, the Comptroller, Cofferer, Master of the houshold, two clerks of the Green Cloth, and two clerks comptrollers; and receives its name from a green cloth spread over the table, at which they sit.

In the absence of the Lord Steward, the Treasurer of the King’s house, in conjunction with the Comptroller, and other officers of the board, together with the Steward of the Marshalsea, have power to determine treasons, felonies and other crimes committed within the verge. By the direction and allowance of this board, the Cofferer pays the wages of the King’s servants above and below stairs, and the bills for provisions. Also before this board the Averner to the Master of the horse lays the accompts of the stables for horse meat, livery wages, and board wages, in order to be passed and allowed. See the article Lord Steward of the King’s Houshold.

Green Coat Hospital, Tothill fields. Several of the inhabitants of Westminster having resolved to settle an hospital like that of Christ Church in the city of London, where poor orphans might not only be furnished with all the necessaries of life, but instructed in manual arts, in the year 1633 obtained a charter from King Charles I. by which they were constituted a body politic and corporate, by the appellation of The Governors of the hospital of St. Margaret’s Westminster, of the foundation of King Charles; to consist of twenty Governors, inhabitants of Westminster, with the right of purchasing lands, tenements, &c. in mortmain, to the value of 500l. per annum. But the civil war soon after breaking out, in a manner quashed this noble design. However, by the charitable benefactions of King Charles II. and others, the estate amounts to above 300l. a year, and there are at present twenty boys maintained upon this foundation. Maitland.

Green court, 1. Green Bank, Wapping. 2. Knaves Acre. 3. Little Minories. 4. Marshal street, Shoreditch.

Mr. Spencer’s.
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Green Dragon alley, 1. Narrow street, Limehouse.* 2. Surry street, in the Strand.* 3. By Wapping Wall.*

Green Dragon court, 1. Broadway, Westminster.* 2. Cow lane.* 3. Foul lane.* 4. New Crane, Wapping.* 5. Old Change.*

Green Dragon yard, 1. Long lane, West Smithfield.* 2. Whitechapel.*

Green Elm court, in the Savoy.

Greenford, in the vale, a village two miles south of Harrow on the Hill.

Greenhill’s rents, Smithfield bars.†

Greenland stairs. Deptford.

Green lane, 1. Lambeth. 2. Tottenham Court fields.

Green Lettice court, Fore street, Cripplegate.*

Green Lettice lane, Canon street.*

Green market, Leadenhall street.

Green Park, between St. James’s Park and Hyde Park. This Park adds greatly to the pleasantness of the houses which are situated so as to overlook it, among which the most conspicuous by far is that lately built by Mr. Spencer. Altogether it appears very noble, but considering it as a front, we are disappointed in not seeing any entrance, which surely should have been made conspicuous. The pediment being extended over so many columns is too large and heavy, and the bow window has no relation at all to the building, and offends every eye; but the figures and vases on the top have indeed a fine effect. The irregularity of the other side or principal front (which is in St. James’s Place) is excusable, as the adjoining houses can’t yet be purchased, but the flatness of it, having no columns or great projections, will always make it subordinate to the side that fronts the Park, which is that we have given a view of in the print.

Green’s court, Lothbury.†

Green’s rents, Bride lane, Fleet street.†

Green School court, London Wall.

Green street, 1. Near Grosvenor square. 2. Leicester fields. 3. Theobald’s row.

Green walk, 1. Broad Wall. 2. Gravel lane.

Greenwich, a very pleasant town in Kent, situated six miles from London, has been the birth place of several of our Monarchs, particularly Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth: and here King Edward VI. died. Their palace was first erected by Humphry Duke of Gloucester, who named it Placentia. This palace was enlarged by Henry VII. and completed by Henry VIII. but being afterwards suffered to run to ruin, was pulled down by King Charles II. who began another, a most magnificent edifice, and lived to see the first wing finished. See Greenwich Hospital.

King Charles II. also enlarged the park, walled it round, planted it, and caused a royal observatory to be erected on the top of the steep of the hill. This edifice his Majesty erected for the use of the celebrated Mr. Flamstead, and it still retains the name of that great astronomer: his Majesty likewise furnished it with mathematical instruments for astronomical observations, and a deep dry well for observing the stars in the day time.

That which is properly the palace here, is an edifice of no great extent, and it is now converted into apartments for the Governor of the Royal Hospital, and the Ranger of the park. This park is well stocked with deer, and affords a noble and delightful view of the fine hospital, the river Thames, and the city of London.

Greenwich is said to contain 1350 houses. Its parish church, which has been lately rebuilt by the Commissioners for erecting the fifty new churches, is a very handsome structure, dedicated to St. Alphage, Archbishop of Canterbury, who is said to have been slain by the Danes in the year 1012, on the spot where the church now stands. There is a college at the end of the town, fronting the Thames, for the maintenance of 20 decayed old housekeepers, twelve out of Greenwich, and eight who are to be alternately chosen from Snottisham and Castle-Rising in Norfolk. This is called the Duke of Norfolk’s College, though it was founded and endowed, in 1613, by Henry Earl of Northampton, the Duke of Norfolk’s brother, and by him committed to the care of the Mercers company. To this college belongs a chapel, in which the Earl’s body is laid, which, as well as his monument, was removed hither a few years ago, from the chapel of Dover Castle. The pensioners, besides meat, drink, and lodging, are allowed 1s. 6d. a week, with a gown every year, linen once in two years, and hats once in four years.

In the year 1560 Mr. Lambard, author of the Perambulation of Kent, also built and founded an hospital called Queen Elizabeth’s College, said to be the first erected by an English protestant. There are likewise two charity schools in this parish, one founded by Sir William Boreman, Knt. for twenty boys, who are cloathed, boarded, and taught; they wear green coats and caps: and the other by Mr. John Roan, who left his estate for teaching also twenty boys reading, writing, and arithmetic, and allowing 2l. per annum for each boy’s cloaths. These wear grey coats.

The river Thames is here very broad, and the channel deep; and at some very high tides the water is salt, though it is usually sweet and fresh.

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Greenwich Hospital.

Greenwich Hospital, stands on the spot, where stood the palace of several of our Kings. The first wing of this noble and superb edifice, erected by K. Charles II. was designed to be applied to the same use. Indeed from the magnificence of the structure, it can scarcely be taken for any thing less than the palace of a great monarch. However King William III. being very desirous of promoting the trade, navigation, and naval strength of this kingdom, by inviting great numbers of his subjects to betake themselves to the sea, gave this noble palace, and several other edifices, with a considerable spot of ground, for the use of those English seamen and their children, who by age, wounds, or other accidents, should be disabled from farther service at sea, and for the widows and children of such as were slain in fighting at sea, against the enemies of their country. King William also by his letters patent, in 1694, appointed commissioners for the better carrying on his pious intentions, and therein desired the assistance of his good subjects, as the necessity of his affairs did not permit him to advance so considerable a sum towards this work, as he desired. In conformity to this request, many benefactions were made both in that and the succeeding reigns, to this noble charity, which, according to the tables hung up at the entrance of the hall, amount to 58,209l. and afterwards the estate of the Earl of Derwentwater, who bore a principal part in the rebellion in 1715, amounting to 6000l. per annum, was given by parliament to this hospital. The first range had cost King Charles II. 36,000l. and another was ordered to be built on the same model: this has been completed with equal magnificence, and the whole structure entirely finished.

The front to the Thames consists of these two ranges of stone buildings, with the Governor’s house at the back part in the center, behind which the park, well planted with trees, rises with a noble ascent. These buildings, between which is a large area, perfectly correspond with each other, and each range is terminated by a very noble dome.

In each front to the Thames, two ranges of coupled Corinthian columns finely wrought, support their pediments, and the same order is continued in pilasters along the building. The projection of the entablatures gives an agreeable diversity of light and shade. In the center of each part, between these ranges of Corinthian columns, is the door, which is of the Doric order, and adorned above with a tablet and pediment. Within the height of these lofty columns are two series of windows, enlightening two floors. The undermost, which are the smallest, have rustic cases crowned with pediments; while the upper series, which are larger, and more lofty, are adorned with the orders, and with upright pointed pediments. Over these is an Attic story; the entablature of the Corinthian columns and pilasters supports a regular Attic course: the pilasters of this order rising over every column, and pilaster of the Corinthian below, between which the windows are regularly disposed, and the top is crowned with a handsome balustrade.

The buildings, which are continued from these, and face the area, correspond with them, though in a finer, and more elegant manner. In the center of both is a range of columns supporting a pediment, and at each corner a range of Corinthian pilasters. The front is rusticated, and there are two series of windows. The domes at the end, which are 120 feet high, are supported on coupled columns, as are the porticos below; and under one of these is the chapel, which is adorned on the inside with the greatest elegance and beauty.

On the sides of the gate which opens to these buildings from the park, are placed a large celestial and terrestrial globe, in which the stars are gilt; and in the center of the area, is fixed on a pedestal, a statue of his Majesty King George II.

The hall of this hospital is finely painted by Sir James Thornhill, particularly the ceiling and upper end; on the latter are represented in an alcove, the late Princess Sophia, King George I. King George II. Queen Caroline, the Queen Dowager of Prussia, Frederic Prince of Wales, the Duke of Cumberland, and the five Princesses, the daughters of his present Majesty. On the ceiling over the alcove are her late Majesty Queen Anne and Prince George of Denmark: and on the ceiling of the hall are King William and Queen Mary, with several fine emblematical figures. All strangers who see this hall pay two pence each, and this income is applied to the support of the mathematical school, for the sons of sailors.

For the better support of this hospital every seaman in the royal navy and in the service of the merchants pays 6d. a month. This is stopped out of the pay of all sailors, and delivered in at the Six penny Receiver’s office on Tower hill. And therefore a seaman who can produce an authentic certificate of his being disabled, and rendered unfit for the sea service, by defending any ship belonging to his Majesty’s British subjects, or in taking any ship from the enemy, may be admitted into this hospital, and receive the same benefit from it, as if he had been in his Majesty’s immediate service.

There are at present near 2000 old or disabled seamen, and an hundred boys, the sons of seamen, instructed in navigation, and bred up for the service of the royal navy: but there are no out-pensioners, as at Chelsea. Each of the mariners has a weekly allowance of seven loaves, weighing sixteen ounces each; three pounds of beef; two of mutton; a pint of pease; a pound and a quarter of cheese; two ounces of butter; fourteen quarts of beer, and 1s. a week tobacco money: the tobacco money of the boatswains is 2s. 6d. a week each; that of their mates 1s. 6d. and that of the other officers in proportion to their rank. Besides which, each common pensioner receives once in two years, a suit of blue cloaths, a hat, three pair of stockings, two pair of shoes, five neck cloths, three shirts, and two night caps.

This hospital has about 100 Governors, composed of the nobility, great officers of state, and persons in high posts under the King. The principal officers of the house, with their annual salaries, are:

The Governor £1000
Lieutenant Governor 300
Treasurer 200
Three Captains, each 200
Six Lieutenants, each 100
Two Chaplains, each 100
A Physician and Surgeon, each 200
A Clerk of the cheque 100
Auditor 100

Greenwich alley, Brickhill lane.

Greenwich street, Dowgate wharf.

Greenwood’s court, Nightingale lane.†

Green yard, 1. Basinghall Postern. 2. East Smithfield. 3. Fore street, Cripplegate. 4. Goswell street. 5. Green Bank, Wapping. 6. Horselydown. 7. Milk yard, New Gravel lane. 8. Pepper alley. 9. Tooley street. 10. Upper Ground street. 11. White’s yard, Rosemary lane.

Gregory’s court, High Holborn.

St. Gregory’s, so called from its being dedicated to Pope Gregory the Great, who sent Austin the Monk to convert the English, stood at the south west corner of St. Paul’s cathedral; but being burnt by the fire of London in 1666, and not rebuilt, the parish was by act of parliament annexed to the church of St. Mary Magdalen in Old Fish street.

Greg’s court, Goodman’s yard.†

Grenadier’s mews, Portland street.†

Gresham’s Almshouse in Broad street, on the west side of Gresham College, was founded by Sir Thomas Gresham in the year 1575, for eight poor men; the trust of which he committed to the Lord Mayor and Commonalty of London, who annually pay these Almsmen 6l. 13s. 4d. each, and a gown every other year.

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Gresham College.

Gresham College, situated within the walls between Bishopsgate street and Broad street, and was formerly the dwelling of the founder Sir Thomas Gresham, Knt. a merchant of London, and one of the company of Mercers, who after he had built the Royal Exchange, bequeathed half the revenue thereof to the Mayor and Commonalty of London, and their successors, and the other moiety to the company of Mercers, in trust that the Mayor and Commonalty should find in all times to come four able persons to read in his dwelling house in Bishopsgate street, lectures on divinity, astronomy, geometry, and Music, and allow each of them besides handsome lodgings in that house, the sum of 50l. a year: and that the company of Mercers should find three other able men to read lectures in the civil law, rhetoric, and physic, pay them the same salary, and allow them the same accommodations. These salaries and other bequests of Sir Thomas Gresham, amounting in the whole to 603l. are payable out of the rents of the Royal Exchange, and there is a grand committee for the management of the affairs of this college and the Exchange, which consists of four Aldermen, whereof the Lord Mayor is always one; twelve of the company of Mercers, and eight of the Common Council, for the city. These lectures were first read in Trinity term, 1597, and with some interruptions have been continued to the present time.

The order of reading every term time is, Monday, divinity; Tuesday, civil law; Wednesday, astronomy; Thursday, geometry; Friday, rhetoric; Saturday, anatomy in the morning, and music in the afternoon. Stow, last edit. But since the institution of the Royal Society, these lectures are in a manner deserted, the professors having seldom above three or four auditors, and those of the most ordinary people. The print represents the inside of the quadrangle in its present state.

Gresham College court, Bishopsgate street.†

Grevil street, Leather lane.†

Grey-coat Hospital, Tothill fields, Westminster. In the year 1698 this charity school was erected in St. Margaret’s parish, for the education of poor children, and named The Grey-coat School, from the colour of the children’s cloaths; but the trustees being at length greatly encouraged by charitable contributions, in the year 1701, not only increased the number of children, but supplied them with all the necessaries of life, in a large and commodious building near Tothill fields: and for the encouragement of so laudable an undertaking Queen Anne, in 1706, by her letters patent, constituted the trustees of this school a body politic and corporate, by the name of The Governors of the Grey-coat hospital in Tothill fields, of the royal foundation of Queen Anne, with the power of purchasing lands, tenements, &c. in mortmain, to the yearly amount of 2000l. These children, besides being taught the usual learning, are employed in spinning, knitting, sewing, &c. to inure them early to industry; and having attained the necessary qualifications at school, they are put out apprentices.

This hospital, in the year 1727, was in so flourishing a condition that it contained eighty boys, and fifty girls, in which year the charge of all its disbursements amounted to 1457l. 7s. 6d. At Michaelmas 1739, a mathematical school was erected, and a proper master employed to instruct the boys in the art of navigation, to fit them for the service of their country, several of whom since the erection of this school have been put apprentice to captains in the King’s service.

The expence of each child is about 8l. a year, besides the salaries of the masters and mistresses, the wages of servants, and other charges attending the hospital.

Grey Eagle street, Brick lane, Spitalfields.*

Grey Friars, a court in Newgate street, near the gate, adjoining on one side to Christ’s hospital. Here, in the reign of King Henry III. was erected a convent of Franciscans or Grey Friars, and some time after a spacious church, which was not compleatly finished till the year 1380, tho’ it was consecrated in 1325. This church, which was 300 feet in length, eighty-nine in breadth, and sixty-four feet two inches in height from the ground to the roof, was built at different times, at the expence of different persons, and among its benefactors were several Queens of England. In the year 1429, Richard Whittington here founded a library, 129 feet in length and thirty-one in breadth, which was finished the following year, and within three years after furnished with books. However, at the general suppression of monasteries, the friery, with all the edifices belonging to it, was surrendered to Henry VIII. and the ornaments and utensils taken away, and applied to the King’s use: after which the church was shut up for some time, and used as a storehouse for goods taken as prizes from the French; but in January 1546, this church, with the friery, library, chapter house, cloisters and gardens, were given by King Henry to the Mayor and Commonalty of London, with the hospital of St. Bartholomew in West Smithfield, the parishes of St. Nicholas and St. Ewin, and so much of St. Sepulchre’s parish as is within Newgate, to be made one parish belonging to the church in the Grey Friars, which was from thenceforward to be called Christ Church. In short, in the year 1552, the house of the Grey Friars began to be repaired for the reception of poor fatherless children, and in November following near four hundred were taken in. Stow. See Christ’s Hospital.

Greyhound alley, 1. St. Mary Ax.* 2. Newgate street.*

Greyhound court, 1. Aldersgate street.* 2. St. Catharine’s lane.* 3. Chick lane.* 4. Lamb street.* 5. Milford lane.* 6. Moor’s street, Soho.*

Greyhound Inn yard, St. Margaret’s hill.*

Greyhound lane, Three Colts street.*

Greyhound street, Whitechapel.*

Greyhound yard, 1. Portpool lane.* 2. Upper Ground street.*

Grey Pea alley, Red Maid lane.

Grey’s yard, Duke street, Piccadilly.†

Gridiron alley, Whitechapel.*

Gridiron court, High Holborn.*

Griffin alley, Blackman street.*

Griffin street, Shadwell Dock.*

Griffin yard, Long lane, West Smithfield.*

Griffis’s rents, Barnaby street.†

Grigg’s court, Goodman’s yard.†

Gripey alley, Artichoke lane.

Grocers, the second of the twelve principal companies, was anciently denominated Pepperers; but having changed their name to that of Grocers, were under that denomination incorporated by letters patent granted by King Edward III. in the year 1345, which were confirmed by Henry VI. in 1429. These grants were afterwards confirmed by a new charter of Charles I. in the year 1640, with an additional power of searching and inspecting the goods and weights of all Grocers within the city and suburbs of London, and three miles round. They had anciently the management of the King’s beam in this city, with the right of appointing a master-weigher, and four porters to attend it.

This corporation consists of a Prime and three other Wardens, fifty-two Assistants, and one hundred and twenty-seven Liverymen, whose fine upon admission is 20l. They have a great estate, out of which they annually pay to the poor about 700l. Maitland.

Grocers alley, 1. In the Poultry.? 2. Shoreditch.

Grocers Hall, on the north side of the Poultry, and at the farther end of Grocers alley, is situated on a spot of ground purchased by the Grocers company in the year 1411, of Robert Lord Fitzwalter, for three hundred and twenty marks. The building is well designed for the purpose of a common hall; and is not only a stately edifice, but is so capacious, that for many years it served for the uses of the Bank of England, which was kept in this hall, till the edifice in Thread-needle street was erected for that purpose. The ancient stone and brick building at the north west corner of the garden, inhabited by the beadle of the company, is probably part of the ancient city mansion of the noble family of Fitzwalter, and consequently the oldest building within the city walls. Maitland.

Grocers Hall yard, Grocers alley.

Grocers rents, East Smithfield.

Groom Porter, an officer of the King’s palace under the Lord Chamberlain. It is his duty to see that his Majesty’s lodgings are furnished with tables, chairs, stools and firing; to provide cards, dice, &c. Chamberlain’s Present State.

Groom of the Stole, the first Lord of the Bedchamber, who is groom of the long robe or vestment worn by the King on solemn occasions, and called the stole. It is his office to present or put on his Majesty’s shirt every morning, and to order the things of the bedchamber. His salary is 2000l. a year.

Grosvenor’s gate, Grosvenor street.†

Grosvenor’s mews, a street of stables near Grosvenor square.†

Grosvenor’s passage, Grosvenor street.†

Grosvenor square, is bounded on the north by Oxford road; on the east by Hanover buildings; on the south by Mayfair; and on the west by Hyde Park, It is however entirely surrounded with buildings, which are very magnificent, though the fronts are far from being uniform, some of them being entirely of stone, others of brick and stone, and others of rubbed brick, with only their quoins, facios, windows and door cases of stone. Some of them are adorned with stone columns of the several orders, while others have only plain fronts. Indeed here is the greatest variety of fine buildings that are any where to be met with in so small a compass, and they are so far uniform, as to be all sashed and to be pretty near of an equal height. The area of this square contains about five acres, and in the middle is a large garden surrounded with palisado pales placed upon a circular dwarf wall. This garden is laid out into walks, and adorned with an equestrian statue of King George I. gilt, which stands upon a pedestal in the center.

This square and the adjacent places are thus named from Sir Thomas Grosvenor.

Grosvenor street, 1. Horse ferry, Westminster.† 2. New Bond street.†

A list of Pictures that are at present hung up in the two first floors of the house of Paul Methuen, Esq; in Grosvenor street.

N. B. In this list, after the description of the pictures, the names of those by whom they are thought to be painted are added, for the information of such as may be great admirers of the art of painting, and lovers of pictures, and yet may not have knowledge or experience enough in that art to distinguish the several hands by which they are done.

But as it is very possible, and even probable, that the owner of them may, for want of sufficient skill, have been mistaken in the naming of the authors of some of them; tho’ at the same time he begs it may be believed, that he has done nothing of that kind, without such reasons for it, as appeared very good to him; nor has been guided in it by partiality to the pictures, or any other consideration, but regard to truth, which he always thought should take place of every thing: so those who are better judges, are at liberty to name the pictures as they please, and restore them to the authors to which they may think they really belong.

On the FIRST FLOOR.
In the hall and stair case.
Over the chimney.

A naked boy blowing bubbles and treading on a death’s head, representing Vanity, by Elizabetha Sirani.

Near the street door.

A large picture of dogs and foxes, by Peter Sneyders.

Over the door that goes into the first parlour.

A man’s head, by Giuseppe de Ribera, commonly call’d Il Spagnoletto.

On the landing place.

A large picture of David and Abigail, by Sir Peter Paul Rubens.

Over the door.

The adventure of Don Quixote and the barber, by a Spanish painter.

Fronting the landing place at the top.

The portrait of the Duchess of Mantua, grand daughter to the Emperor Charles the Fifth, with her son in her lap, who was the last Duke of Mantua, with some allegorical figures, armour, &c. by Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione.

Under it.

A landscape, and a musical conversation, painted by Sir Peter Lely; being the portraits of himself and his whole family, drawn by the life.

Fronting the windows.

The judgment of Paris, by Gerard Lairest.

Under it.

The judgment of Midas, by the same hand.

Over the looking glass.

A young lad blowing bubbles, said to be painted by Hannibal Caracci.

In the first parlour.
Over the chimney.

A Dutch kermis or country fair, painted by Old Pieter Bruegel.

On each side of the chimney.

Next the window, the portrait of a Turk, by Rembrandt van Rijn.

David with the head of Goliath and his sling, by Leonello Spada.

Between the windows.

A man’s head, said to be that of Massaniello the fisherman who caused the great revolution of Naples, by Salvator Rosa.

The portrait of Francisco de Taxis, the first inventor of the posts in Europe, for which reason the direction of them has always remained in one of his family in all the dominions that belongs to the house of Austria, by a hand not certainly known.

Over the doors out of the hall,

The folly of spending our lives in the pursuit of love, wine, music and play, an emblematical picture, by Johannes Schorel.

The Virgin, our Saviour, St. Mary Magdalen, St. Peter, St. John the Baptist, and St. Jerome; by Jacobo Palma, senior, commonly called Old Palma.

Over the marble table.

The birth of our Saviour, and the adoration of the shepherds, by Giac. Bassan.

Under it, in the middle.

St. John the Baptist asleep in the desert, by Andrea del Sarto.

On both sides of it.

Two small sea pieces, a port in the Mediterranean, and a fight with the Turks, by William Vanderveld, junior.

Under them, in the middle.

An emblematical picture, representing a guardian angel pointing out the way to heaven to a soul, under the figure of a young girl, by Carlino Dolce.

On both sides of it.

Two very highly finished landscapes on copper, by Salvator Rosa.

Between the two doors.

The portrait of the Duke of Richmond and Lenox, of the Stuart family, at whole length, with a dog, by Sir Anthony Vandyck.

Over the door to the back parlour.

Vulcan at his forge, with the Cyclops, by Jacob Jordaans of Antwerp.

Over against the windows.
In the middle.

The head of our Saviour crown’d with thorns, by Ludovico Caracci.

On both sides of that.

Two fruit pieces, by Michael Angelo Pase, called Michael Angelo del Campidoglio.

Under them, in the middle.

A Bacchanal in two colours, by Rubens.

On both sides of it.

A landscape with a robbery, and a battle, both painted by Giacomo Cortese, commonly called Il Bourgognone.

Under them, in the middle.

A pretty large landscape and figures of Dutch boors, by Adrian Van Ostade.

On both sides of it.

A stag hunting, and another of hern hawking, by Philip Woverman.

Under them.

Two conversations of boors within doors, by Adrian Van Ostade.

In the second parlour.
Over the chimney.

Lot and his two daughters, with the city of Sodom on fire, by Lorenzo Lotti, a great imitator of Giorgione and Titian.

Over the closet doors.
Next the window.

The great amphitheatre at Rome, and other buildings, by Viviano Cadahorra.

A sea port with buildings and ruins, by Salviouch, and the figures by John Miele.

Over the door to the first parlour.

Omphale the mistress of Hercules, with the lion’s skin and his club by her, by Augustin Caracci.

Over the two other doors.

Two battles in the stile of Bourgognone, but the hands not certainly known.

In the passage room.
Over the doors.

A philosopher with a book in his hand, by Pier Francesco Mola.

Mary Magdalen, by Giacinto Brandi.

Our Saviour meditating on the sins of the world, by Giovanni Antonio Regillio, a competitor of Titian’s, and commonly called Il Pordenone.

In the great room.
Over the door at which you go in.

The portrait of a young man on wood, by Andrea del Sarto.

Between that door and the window.

The head of St. James the apostle.

The head of St. John the evangelist.

N. B. These two last pictures are by
a hand that is not certainly known.
Under them.

A Bacchanal painted on copper, by Cornelius Polembergh.

Between the door and the wall.
In the middle.

A pretty large picture of our Saviour and the Samaritan woman, by Giovanni Francesco Barbiori da Cento, commonly called Il Guercino.

On the side towards the door.

The Virgin and Child, by Il Cavalier Giovanni Lanfranchio.

On the side towards the wall.

Venus dressing, and Cupid holding her looking-glass, by Paolo Veronese.

Under them, in the middle.

The Virgin and Child, by Raphael de Urbino.

On the side towards the door.

The Virgin and Child in the clouds, and several angels, by Bartolomeo Murillo.

On the side towards the wall.

The Virgin and our Saviour, by Carlo Cignani.

Next to the door.

The annunciation of the Virgin Mary, by Paolo Veronese.

Next to the wall.

The birth of our Saviour, &c. by Jacapo Robusti, commonly called Tintoretto.

Over the chimney.

Tobit and the angel, by Michael Angelo Amerighi, commonly called Michael Angelo Caravaggio.

Between the wall and the chimney.
In the middle.

The portrait of a man, by Antonio Allegri, commonly called Il Correggio.

Towards the wall.

The head of some Spanish general, by Giovanni Giachinette, commonly called Il Bourgognone delle Teste.

Towards the chimney.

The portrait of the famous Hernando Cortes, conqueror of Mexico, by Titiano Vecelli, called Il Titiano.

Under them.

A large battle in an oval, painted by Luca Jordano.

Between the chimney and farthest wall.
In the middle.

St. Sebastian, by Guido Reni.

Next the chimney.

The portrait of Sir Anthony Vandyck, painted by himself.

Next to the wall.

The portrait of a young girl, with a little dog asleep in her hands, by Rembrandt van Rijn.

Under them.

A large oval battle, painted by Luca Jordano.

Over the closet door.

The portrait of a man with a book in his hand, said to be the famous satirist Berni, by Giorgio Barbarelli, called Il Giorgione.

Between the door and the wall.

A she saint, with angels, by Pietro Berettini, called Pietro Cortona.

Under it, in the middle.

A small battle, by Bourgognone.

Two small pictures, done from the gallery of Archduke Leopold, the one from Paris Bourdon, and the other from young Palma, by David Teniers.

Between the door and the window.

A large picture, representing our Saviour at the Pharisee’s house, and Mary Magdalen anointing his feet, with the portrait of the person for whom it was painted, as a servant waiting at table, by Carlo Dolce.

N.B. This picture is out of the stile of Carlo Dolce’s paintings, who never before attempted so great a subject and composition; and was done by him, after the drawing of Ludovico Cigoli.

Under it, in the middle.

The portraits of three of Henry the Seventh’s children, viz. Prince Arthur, Henry the VIII. and Princess Mary, who was afterwards Queen of France, and Duchess of Brandon, by a hand not certainly known.

On both sides of it.

Two pieces of the history of Judith, the one where she is presented to Holofernes, and the other where she is entertained by him at a feast, by Paolo Veronese.

On the SECOND FLOOR.
In the dining room.
Over the door as you go into it.

A fortune teller, with several figures consulting him, by Giorgio Barbarelli, called Il Giorgione.

Over the door.

The history of Tancred and Erminia, out of Tasso, by Pietro Berettini, called Pietro de Cortona.

Between the doors.

A large picture, representing the baptism of our Saviour by St. John in the river Jordan, with angels, by Guido Reni.

Between the wall and middle door.

A Bacchanal, with Silenus and satyrs, by Jacob Jordaans of Antwerp.

Under it.

A large landscape, by Claude Gille, commonly called Claude de Lorraine.

Between that door and the wall.

The Virgin and our Saviour, St. John the Baptist and his lamb, St. Peter, and the three cardinal virtues, Faith, Charity, and Hope, by Titiano Vecelli, called Il Titiano.

N.B. This is an emblematical picture, by which the painter meant to represent the several virtues that are necessary to form the character of a good Christian.

Under it, in the middle.

The holy family, by Paolo Veronese; the saint which is represented in armour, being the portrait of Paolo himself.

Next to the door.

A landscape and naked figures, by Cornelius Polembergh.

Next to the wall.

The flight into Egypt, by Filippo Lauri.

Between the wall and chimney.

Scipio and the fair captive at Carthagena, by Pietro de Cortona.

Under that.

A battle, by Giacomo Cortese, called Il Bourgognone.

Between the chimney and the window.

The dead body of our Saviour, with the Virgin Mary, and St. John, by Hannibal Caracci.

Under it.

A landscape, representing a temple of Bacchus, and the sun setting, by Claude Gille, commonly called Claude de Lorraine.

Dressing room.
Over the chimney.

The ordination of St. Dennis, patron of France, by Eustache le Sueur.

Between the chimney and the window.

Women at work by candle light, by Giacomo Bassan.

Under it, in the middle.

The annunciation of the blessed Virgin, with God the Father, and several angels in the clouds, by Francesco Albani.

N.B. This picture belonged to Pope Innocent X. as may be seen by his arms on the back side of it; and the frame, which is of silver, was made by the famous statuary Alessandro Algardi.

Under that.

St. Augustine in an ecstasy, contemplating the mystery of the holy Trinity, and the incarnation of our Saviour; a very high finished sketch by Vandyck, of the finest picture he ever painted, which is in the church of St. Augustine at Antwerp.

On both sides, at the top.

A man and a woman smoaking, and a man and woman drinking, by David Teniers.

Underneath, on each side.
Next the window.

Cephalus and Procris, by Adam Elsheimer.

Next to the chimney.

The will of Eudadimus the Corinthian, a sketch, by Nicholas Poussin.

Between the chimney and the wall.

The flight into Egypt, by Il Cavalier Giovanni Lanfrancho.

Under it, in the middle.

The portrait of Antonio Caracci, son of Augustino, by Annibal Caracci.

Under that.

A garland of flowers, painted on looking glass, by Old Baptiste.

On both sides at top.
Next the chimney.

A satyr squeezing grapes, with a tyger and leopard, by Rubens.

Next the wall.

Cupid shaving his bow, and two other little Cupids, by Parmegiano.

Under them.

Dutch boors in a fury against the Spaniards, by Pieter Bruegel, and a barber surgeon’s shop, with a cat and monkies, by David Teniers.

Over against the windows.
In the middle.

St. Francis Xavier dying in an island on the coast of China, by Carlo Maratti.

On both sides of it.

Two sea pieces, by William Vanderveld, jun.

Under them, in the middle.

The Virgin and Child, St. Joseph, St. Anne, and St. Catherine, by John Abeyk, commonly called John of Bruges.

On both sides of it.

Four pieces of the history of Judith and Holofernes, by Paolo Veronese.

Under them, in the middle.

The martyrdom of the Innocents on copper, by Alessandro Turchi.

On both sides of it.

A small battle piece, by Bourgognone.

A march of soldiers, by the same.

Over the door to the dining room.

The portrait of Cosmus the 3d. Duke of Florence, when a child, by Giustus Subtermans.

Over the two other doors.

Our Saviour breaking the bread, and blessing the cup, and St. Bruno founder of the order of Carthusians, both of them by Carlo Dolce.

Between the two doors.

The marriage of Jacob, by Ciro Ferri.

Under it.

The Virgin and our Saviour in the clouds, and the several saints, patrons of the city of Bologna, by Guido Reni.

Under that.

The nativity of our Saviour, by young Palma.

Over against the chimney.

A large landscape, with the baptism of Queen Candace’s eunuch by St. Philip, by John Both.

Under it, in the middle.

The inside of a church, by Henry Stenwix, and the figures by Velvet Brughell.

Under each corner of it.

Two little round pictures, one of them being the head of Mary Magdalen, and the other that of our Saviour crown’d with thorns; both of them by Francesco Albani.

Under them.

The shipwreck of St. Paul on the island of Malta, by Adam Elsheimer.

On each side of it.

Two small landscapes on copper, by John Brughell, commonly call’d the Velvet Brughell.

On both sides of them.

The martyrdom of St. Laurence, by Titiano Vecelli, commonly called Il Titiano; and St. Sebastian, and other saints, by Filippo Lauri.

Between the door and the window.

The education of Bacchus, by Simon Vouet.

Under it.

The Virgin and our Saviour, and several saints, by Ludovico Caracci.

Under that.

The judgment of Paris, by Giovanni Rottenhammer, the landscape by Paul Brill.

Between the windows over the glass.

A portrait of a Dominican friar, by Giovanni Lanfrancho.

In the passage room, over the doors.

The portrait of Don Antonio de Leyva, General to Charles the Fifth, who took Francis the First prisoner at the battle of Pavia. By Il Dosso di Ferrara.

The portrait of Charles Lewis, the eldest Prince Palatine, by Vandyke.

The portrait of the Lady Anne Carre, Countess of Bedford, by the same.

Over the chimney.

Our Saviour carried before Pontius Pilate, in water colours, by Lucas of Leyden.

In the bedchamber, over the door.

The portrait of a man in a ruff, by Rubens.

Over the chimney.

A large picture of a curtain, carpet, fruit, &c. by the Maltese, and Mich. Angelo del Campidoglio.

In the closet.
Over the chimney.

A copy of Raphael’s picture of the Madonna della Seggiola in the palace of Pitti, at Florence.

Under it.

A small flower piece on copper, by Velvet Brughell.

Over the little closet door.

The portrait of Sir Paul Methuen when a boy.

Over the door next the window.

The picture of a woman, &c. by Albert Durer.

Over the bedchamber door.

A man’s head, by Tintoretto, said to be that of the famous Andrea Vesalio.

Grove street, Hackney.

Grub street, 1. Fore street, Cripplegate. 2. Market street, Westminster.

Grub’s rents, Whitechapel.†

Gubbins, or Gobions, near North Mims in Hertfordshire, had its name from its ancient Lord Sir Richard Gobion. In the reign of Henry VII. it belonged to the family of the Mores, when it was called More Hall; but on the attainder of the great Sir Thomas More, Lord High Chancellor of England, it was forfeited to the Crown, and settled on the Princess, afterwards Queen Elizabeth, who held it till her death. It afterwards came into the possession of several families, and was at length purchased by the late Sir Jeremy Sambroke. The manor house and gardens are very beautiful.

Guild Hall.
S. Wale delin. B. Green sc. Oxon.

Guildhall, at the north end of King street, Cheapside, is the hall for holding the courts, and transacting the business of the city. The old hall in Aldermanbury being fallen to decay, the present structure was begun in the year 1411, upon a larger and more noble plan, and ten years were employed in compleating it. The executors of the famous Richard Whittington, long celebrated in song, gave a Purbeck pavement to the hall, and glazed some of the windows, on every one of which Whittington’s arms are placed; others of the Aldermen glazed different windows, and had also their arms painted on the glass.

The hall being however much damaged by the fire of London in 1666, was repaired and beautified two years after, at the expence of 2500l. in so effectual a manner, that it has stood till this time.

The entrance has a stately Gothic frontispiece, with the King’s arms under a cornice, pediment and vase; under which are niches; and in the middle of the front are the following words done in gold:

Reparata & ornate Thoma Rawlinson, Milit. Majore, An. Dom. MDCCVI.

That is,

Repaired and adorned in the year 1706, during the Mayoralty of Thomas Rawlinson.

Over the gate is a balcony, above which are placed in niches on each side, the figures of Moses and Aaron; and in niches on each side of the gate below, the four cardinal virtues; also under the balcony are depicted the arms of twenty-four companies.

On entering this Gothic arch, you come into the hall, which is one hundred and fifty-three feet long, forty-eight feet broad, and fifty-five feet high. The roof is flat, and divided into panels; the walls on the north and south sides are adorned with four Gothic demi-pillars, painted white with blue veins, and gilt capitals, upon which are the royal arms, and those of Edward the Confessor.

Nearly fronting the gate, are nine or ten steps, leading to the Lord Mayor’s court, over which is a balcony supported at each end by four iron pillars in the form of palm trees; by these is a small enclosure on each side on the top of the steps, used on some occasions as offices for clerks to write in, each being just sufficient to hold one person. Under these are two prisons called Little Ease, from the lowness of the ceiling, by which prisoners were obliged to sit on the floor; these prisons are intended for city apprentices, who upon complaint and a strict examination into the offence, were sometimes committed thither by the Chamberlain, whose office is at the right hand at the head of the steps. In the front of this balcony is a clock, on the frame of which is carved the four cardinal virtues, with the figure of Time, on the top, and a cock on each side of him. But the most extraordinary figures are yet behind; these are two monstrous giants which stand on the outside of the balcony close to the wall, one on each side: they have black and bushy beards; one holds an halbert, and the other a ball set round with spikes, hanging by a chain to a long staff. These absurd ornaments, which Mr. Strype supposes were designed to represent an ancient Briton and a Saxon, are painted, as if to give them the greater appearance of life, and render them more formidable to children.

Round the hall are hung up, the standards and colours taken from the French, at the battle of Ramilies. At the east end are the King’s arms between the pictures of his present Majesty King George II. and Queen Caroline; close by the first is Queen Anne, and by the last his late Majesty King George I. and at the same end of the hall, but on the north and south sides, are the pictures of King William III. and Queen Mary fronting each other. The hall is likewise adorned with the portraits of eighteen Judges, put up by the city as a testimony of public gratitude for their signal services, in determining the differences which arose between landlords and tenants, without the expence of law suits, on rebuilding the city after the fire. These Judges are all painted at full length in their scarlet gowns; and in the Lord Mayor’s court there are the portraits of five other Judges painted in the same manner.

On the east end of the hall is held the court of Hustings weekly, and occasionally that of the Exchequer; and before the Hustings is held the court of Conscience. At the west end is held alternately the Sheriff’s court for the Poultry and Wood street counters. Opposite to the Chamberlain’s office, already mentioned, as situated up the steps underneath the giants, is the office of Auditors of the city accounts, within which is the Lord Mayor’s court office, where the Lord Chief Justice occasionally sits in trials by nisi prius. On the west side of the Mayor’s court office is the court of Orphans, where the Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas occasionally sits. Adjoining to this court on the north, is the old council chamber, now used by the Commissioners of bankrupts. Contiguous to it is the new council chamber. Beneath the Mayor’s court is the Town Clerk’s office, where are deposited the city archives. To the east and north are the residences of the Chamberlain and Town Clerk; near which are two rooms wherein the business of bankrupts are dispatched. Contiguous to the north west is the kitchen; in the porch is the Comptroller’s office, and over it the Irish chamber. Over the piazzas on the west, are the common Serjeant’s, Remembrancer’s, and city Solicitor’s offices. See an account of each of these courts under the articles, Court of Common Council. Lord Mayor’s Court. Court of Hustings, &c.

Guildhall is at the end of a tolerable vista, which shews the building to some advantage, though the Gothic front has nothing very extraordinary in it. The hall within is a fine one, but the entrance would have been better at the lower end than in the middle, for by this means all the beauty of the perspective is lost. The ascent of steps across the hall not being opposite the gate, as it ought to have been, is another material defect. A noble front in the situation of Guildhall, would have had an advantage hardly to be met with elsewhere, and give an architect a fine opportunity of displaying his genius. But the present front is full of little parts which have no effect at a distance.

Guildhall alley, Basinghall street, leading to Guildhall.

Guildhall Chapel, situated between Blackwell hall, and Guildhall, was founded in the year 1299, dedicated to St. Mary Magdalen and All Saints, and called London College. A chantry was founded in this chapel for four chaplains, and lands and tenements left for their support. It was rebuilt in the reign of Henry VI. and received new endowments: but at the suppression of religious houses it reverted to the Crown, and was bought of King Edward VI. with other lands and tenements, for the sum of 456l. 13s. 4d. and the city holds it in soccage of the manor of Greenwich. It was defaced, but not burnt down by the fire of London in 1666, and has been since repaired.

This edifice is perfectly in the Gothic taste. In several niches are set the figures in stone of King Edward VI. of Queen Elizabeth, with a phoenix under her; and of King Charles I. treading on a globe. The windows are extremely large, and on the inside the walls are hung with tapestry. Over the Aldermen’s seats there is a wainscot covering, and a particular seat for the Lord Mayor, adorned with cartouches. There is a gallery at the west end, a handsome wainscot pulpit and desk, and a neat altar piece inclosed with rails and banisters.

On the south side of this chapel was formerly a library belonging to Guildhall and the College. But it is said that in the reign of King Edward VI. Edward Duke of Somerset, then Lord Protector, sent for the books with a promise of returning them shortly; upon which three carriages were loaded with them; but they being never returned, the room has been long made a storehouse for cloths.

Guildhall yard, 1. King street, Cheapside.? 2. King street, Westminster.

Guilford, or Guildford, a considerable borough in Surry, situated on the river Wey, thirty miles from London, and governed by a Mayor, Recorder, and Aldermen. Here the assizes are sometimes held, and always elections for members of parliament, the town itself returning two. Not far from the town are the ruinous wails of an old castle, this having been in the Saxon times a royal villa, where many of our Kings long after kept their festivals. Here were formerly two or three convents, one of which was not long ago the seat of Daniel Coswall, Esq; and had a delightful park adjoining to it. There were also three churches in the town; but one of them fell down in the year 1740. Here is a charity school founded by King Edward VI. and an almshouse founded by George Abbot, Archbishop of Canterbury, who endowed it with lands worth 300l. a year, 100l. of which he ordered to be employed in setting the poor at work, and the other 200l. he allotted for the maintenance of a master, twelve brethren, and eight sisters, who are to have 2s. 6d. a week: the Archbishop’s birth day is annually commemorated in it; and the Archbishop of Canterbury is its visitor. There are here likewise two charity schools for thirty boys, and twenty girls; and a fine circular course for horse races, which begin when the Newmarket races are ended. Guilford had formerly a considerable manufacture of cloth, of which there are still some remains. The great road from Chichester and Portsmouth lies through the town, which has been always famous for good inns, the cleanest of linen, and other excellent accommodations; and as the river Wey is made navigable to this town, a great quantity of timber is carried down it to London, not only from this neighbourhood, but from the Sussex and Hampshire woods, above thirty miles off, from whence it is brought to Guilford in the summer by land carriage.

The road from hence to Farnham is very remarkable, for it runs along the ridge of a high chalky hill, no wider than the road itself, and the declivity begins on either hand, at the edge that bounds the highway, and is very steep and high. From this hill is a surprizing prospect; to the north and north west over Bagshot Heath; to the south east into Sussex, almost to the South Downs; and to the west it is so unbounded that the view is only terminated by the horizon. On this hill, which is called St. Catharine’s, stands the gallows in such a position, that the town’s people of Guilford may, from the High street, sit at their shop doors and see the criminals executed.

Guillam’s wharf, St. Catharine’s.†

Gullyhole alley, Wheeler street.

Gulston’s square, Gulston’s street.†

Gulston’s street, Whitechapel.†

Gum alley, Barnaby street.

Gummery’s alley, Dorset street.†

Gun alley, 1. Barnaby street.* 2. Little Moorfields.* 3. St. John’s street, West Smithfield.* 4. Wapping.* 5. Well street.*

Gun dock, Wapping.

Gun-house stairs, near Vauxhall.

Gun lane, Three Colts street.*

Gunpowder alley, 1. Poor Jury lane. 2. Shoe lane.

Gunnersbury.
S. Wale delin. B. Green sculp.

Gunnersbury House, near Ealing, a noble and elegant structure, built by Inigo Jones, or, as some say, by Mr. Web, who was son-in-law to Inigo Jones. Indeed the architecture shews that if the plan was not drawn by that celebrated architect himself, it was designed by some of his scholars, for the building has that majestic boldness and simplicity which grace all the works of that excellent artist. It is situated on a rising ground; the approach to it from the garden is remarkably fine. The loggia has a beautiful appearance at a distance, and commands a fine prospect of the county of Surry, the river of Thames, and of all the meadows on its banks for some miles, and in clear weather of even the city of London.

The apartments are extremely convenient and well contrived. The hall, which is large and spacious, is on each side supported by rows of columns, and from thence you ascend by a noble flight of stairs to a saloon, which is a double cube of twenty-five feet high, and most elegantly furnished. This fine room has an entrance into the portico on the back front, which is supported by columns, and from the finest of the prospect over the Thames, is a delightful place to sit in, during the afternoon in the summer season; for it being contrived to face the south east, the sun never shines on it after two o’clock; but extending its beams over the country, enlivens the beautiful landscape that lies before this part of the edifice. On entering the garden from the house, you ascend a noble terrace, which affords a delightful view of the neighbouring country; and from this terrace, which extends the whole breadth of the garden, you descend by a beautiful flight of steps, with a grand balustrade on each side. But the gardens are laid out too plain, having the walls in view on every side. This was the house of the late Henry Furnesse, Esq; who had a fine collection of pictures in it.

Gunsmiths, a company incorporated by letters patent, granted by King Charles I. in the year 1638. This fraternity consists of a Master, two Wardens, and eighteen Assistants; but has neither livery nor hall. Maitland.

Gun street, Artillery lane, Spitalfields.*

Gun wharf, 1. Near Battle bridge.* 2. Wapping Dock.*

Gun yard, 1. Bishopsgate street without.* 2. Houndsditch.* 3. Maiden lane, Southwark.* 4. Pepper alley.* 5. Petticoat lane.* 6. Rosemary lane.* 7. Sugar Loaf alley, Moor lane.* 8. Tower ditch.*

Gutter lane, Cheapside, originally called Guthurn lane, from Guthurn, the owner thereof. Maitland.

Guttige’s rents, Whitechapel.†

Guy of Warwick’s court, 1. Duke street.* 2. Upper Ground.*

Guy’s court, Playhouse passage, Drury lane.†

Guy’s Hospital.
S. Wale delin. B. Green sc. Oxon.

Guy’s Hospital, in Southwark, for the cure of sick and lame persons, was founded by Mr. Thomas Guy, a citizen and bookseller of London, who from a small beginning amassed an immense fortune, by his industry and frugality; and more particularly by purchasing seamen’s tickets in the reign of Queen Anne; and by his success in buying and selling South Sea stock in the year 1720. He was never married, and had no near relations; and therefore towards the close of his life, considering how he should dispose of his wealth, after many ruminations, resolved to be the founder of the most extensive charity ever established by one man. He was seventy-six years of age when he took this resolution, and having no time to lose, immediately took of the President and Governors of St. Thomas’s hospital in Southwark, a lease of a piece of ground opposite to that hospital, for the term of nine hundred and ninety-nine years, for a ground rent of 30l. a year; and as this was covered with small houses that were old and ill tenanted, he immediately gave the inhabitants notice of his intention, and when they had removed their effects, pulled down the buildings in the year 1721, and proceeding with all the expedition of a youth of fortune erecting a house for his own residence; he caused the foundation of the intended hospital to be laid the following spring, and this vast fabric was roofed before the death of the founder, which happened on the 27th of December 1724.

The only motive that induced Mr. Guy to erect this hospital in so low and close a situation, was his design of putting it under the management and direction of the Governors of that of St. Thomas. But by the advice of his friends he altered his resolution; it was then however too late to think of chusing another situation, for the building was raised to the second story, but he rendered the place as agreeable as possible by its elevation above the neighbouring streets.

The expence of erecting and furnishing this hospital amounted to the sum of 18,793l. 16s. great part of which he expended in his life time; and the sum he left to endow it, amounted to 219,499l. both together amounting to 238,292l. 16s. a much larger sum than was ever before left in this kingdom by one single person to charitable uses.

The edifice is situated at a small distance from the foot of London bridge, and consists of two quadrangles, besides what the print exhibits, which is intended when the old buildings are removed to be made regular. At your approach, which is a very narrow street, you first see the side of the square, which is very elegant, and a noble iron gate, with very handsome piers, but are much disappointed when you come nearer, to find the most contemptible front you can imagine. The whole side could not be represented in the print, as there was not distance in the street to bring it into the visual angle. The iron gates open into a square, in the middle of which is a brazen statue of the founder, by Mr. Scheemakers, dress’d in his livery gown, very well executed.

In the front of the pedestal is this inscription:

Thomas Guy sole founder of this hospital in his life time. A.D. MDCCXXI.

On the west side of the pedestal is represented in basso relievo, the parable of the good Samaritan; on the south side is Mr. Guy’s arms; and on that side of the pedestal facing the east, is our Saviour healing the impotent man.

The superstructure of this hospital has three floors besides the garrets, and the same construction runs through the whole building, which is so extensive as to contain twelve wards, in which are four hundred and thirty-five beds; and in short the whole has a plainness that becomes the nature of the institution, and at the same time a regularity that does some honour to the builder, the whole being disposed for the mutual accommodation of the sick, and of those who attend them.

Soon after Mr. Guy’s decease, his executors, pursuant to his last will, applied to parliament to get themselves, and fifty-one other gentlemen nominated by the founder, to be incorporated Governors of the intended hospital; upon which all these gentlemen were constituted a body politic and corporate, by the name of the President and Governors of this hospital: they were to have perpetual succession and a common seal, with the power of possessing the real and personal estates of the late Thomas Guy, Esq; for the purposes of the will, and to purchase in perpetuity, or for any term of years, any other estate whatsoever, not exceeding 12,000l. a year.

This corporation was no sooner established by parliament, than the President and Governors set heartily about the work, by finishing and furnishing the hospital, chusing their officers and servants, and taking in patients, whose number at first amounted to 402. For the more effectual preventing inferior servants preying upon poor patients, or their friends, they resolved to give them handsome salaries, and the following were appointed and are still given.

The Treasurer 00 0 0
His Clerk 40 0 0
Steward 80 0 0
Chaplain 80 0 0
Two Physicians, 40l. each 80 0 0
Apothecary 80 0 0
Apothecary’s two servants 78 0 0
Surgeryman 30 0 0
Butler, with his horse 67 2 8
Cook and her servant 32 0 0
Porter 35 0 0
Beadle 30 0 0
Matron 50 0 0
Eleven sisters, 25l. each 275 0 0
Eight nurses, 16l. each 128 0 0
Twelve watch-women, 10l. 8s. each 124 16 0
One brother belonging to the lunatics 35 0 0
One sister belonging to the lunatics 25 0 0
Sum total, 1349 18 8

These officers and servants are chosen by the sixty Governors, who have carried on this noble charity in such a manner as to restore ease and health to many thousands of their fellow subjects.

Besides which the out-patients who receive medicines gratis, frequently amount to about 1600 in a year.

Before we conclude this article, it may be proper to mention some other particulars relating to Mr. Guy, in order to do justice to the character of that great benefactor to the public, by which the reader will see the little foundation there is for the general opinion of his being remarkable for nothing more than his parsimony and avarice. He was a patron of liberty and of the rights of his fellow subjects, which, to his great honour, he strenuously asserted in several parliaments, whereof he was a member for the borough of Tamworth in Staffordshire, the place of his birth. To this town he was a general benefactor; and early in his life he not only contributed towards the relief of private families in distress, but erected an almshouse, with a library, in that borough, for the reception of fourteen poor men and women, to whom he allowed a certain pension during his life, and at his death he bequeathed the annual sum of 125l. towards their future support, and for putting out children apprentices, &c.

In the year 1701 Mr. Guy built and furnished at his own expence, three wards on the north side of the outer court of St. Thomas’s hospital, and gave to those wards 100l. a year, for eleven years immediately preceding the foundation of his hospital. Some time before his death, he removed the frontispiece of St. Thomas’s hospital, which stood over the gateway in the Borough, and erected it in the place where it now stands, fronting the street: he also enlarged the gateway; rebuilt the two large houses on its sides, and erected the fine iron gate between them, all at the expence of 3000l. To many of his relations he gave while living, a settled allowance of 10 or 20l. a year; and to others money to advance them in the world. At his death, he left to his poor aged relations the sum of 870l. a year during their life; and among his younger relations, who were very numerous, and his executors, he left the sum of 75,589l. He left the Governors of Christ’s hospital a perpetual annuity of 400l. for taking in four children annually, at the nomination of the Governors; and bequeathed 1000l. for discharging poor prisoners within the city of London, and the counties of Middlesex and Surry, who could be released for the sum of 5l. by which sum, and the good management of his executors, there were above 600 poor persons set at liberty, from the several prisons within the bills of mortality. Maitland.

Guy’s yard. Vinegar yard, Drury lane.†

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

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