Quakers, a body of dissenters who have the following places of worship in this metropolis:

1. Devonshire street, Bishopsgate street. 2. Ewer’s street, Southwark. 3. Fair street, Horselydown. 4. Little Almonry, Westminster. 5. St. John’s lane. 6. Sandy’s court, Houndsditch. 7. School house lane, Ratcliff. 8. Savoy in the Strand. 9. Wapping. 10. White hart yard, Gracechurch street. 11. Workhouse, Clerkenwell.

Quakers street, Spitalfields.

Quakers Workhouse, in Bridewell Walk, Clerkenwell, contains about eighteen or twenty old men and women; but they are not confined to any number. These are provided with all the necessaries of life in a very decent manner: as are also forty boys and twenty girls; who are not only taught reading, writing and arithmetic; but to spin, sew, knit, and make thrum-mops, &c. in order to inure them to early labour: the boys, when put out apprentice, have 5l. given with each. These children are cloathed in very good cloth and callimancoes, and supported at the expence of about 600l. per annum.

Quality court, Chancery lane.

Quart Pot alley, George street, Petty France, Westminster.*

Queen Anne’s street, a very handsome regular street, building north of Cavendish square, and parallel to that and Wigmore street. It being built on the estate of the late Lord Harley, Earl of Oxford, it received its name in honour of his Royal Mistress.

Queen Elizabeth’s School, in School house lane, Tooley street, Southwark, was founded by that Princess, for instructing the boys of St. Olave’s parish in English, grammar and writing.

This school generally consists of near three hundred boys, for the teaching of whom the master of the grammar school has a salary of 61l. per annum; his usher 41l. 10s. the writing-master has 60l. out of which he is obliged to supply the school with pens and ink; the English master has 37l. 10s. and his usher 20l. These sums, together amounting to 220l. per annum, are chiefly raised from an estate in Horselydown, which, pursuant to the letters of incorporation, is, with the school, under the management of sixteen of the parishioners. Maitland.

Queenhithe, in Thames street, a hithe or harbour for large boats, lighters, barges, and even ships, which anciently anchored at that place, as they do now at Billingsgate, the draw-bridge being drawn up for their passage through; Queenhithe being then the principal key for lading and unlading in the heart of the city. Hither vast numbers of these vessels came laden with corn, as the barges do now with malt and meal, this being the great meal market of the city.

Queenhithe alley, near Thames street.

Queenhithe stairs, Queenhithe.

Queenhithe little stairs, Queenhithe.

Queenhithe Ward, is bounded on the north by Bread street ward, and Cordwainers ward; on the east by Dowgate ward; on the south by the Thames, and on the west by Baynard’s castle ward. The principal streets and lanes in this ward, are, next to Queenhithe, a part of Thames street, from St. Bennet’s hill to Townsend lane; Lambert hill, Fish street hill, Five foot lane, Bread street hill, Huggen lane, Little Trinity, with the south side of Great Trinity lane, and Old Fish street.

The most remarkable buildings, are the parish churches of St. Nicholas Cole Abbey, St. Mary Somerset, and St. Michael’s Queenhithe; Painterstainers hall, and Blacksmiths hall.

This ward is governed by an Alderman and six Common Council men, including the Alderman’s Deputy; thirteen inquest men, eight scavengers, nine constables, and a beadle. The jury-men returned by the Wardmote inquest, serve in the several courts of Guildhall in the month of October. Maitland.

Queen’s Arms alley, 1. Shoe lane.* 2. Shoreditch.*

Queen’s Arms court, Upper Ground.*

Queen’s court, 1. St. Catharine’s lane, East Smithfield.* 2. Great Queen street.* 3. High Holborn.* 4. King street, Covent Garden.*

Queen’s Head alley, 1. Hoxton.* 2. Newgate street.* 3. Shadwell.* 4. Wapping.* 5. Whitechapel.*

Queen’s Head court, 1. Fleet street.* 2. Giltspur street.* 3. Gray’s Inn lane.* 4. Great Windmill street.* 5. High Holborn.* 6. King street, Covent Garden.* 7. Pye corner.* 8. In the Strand.* 9. Turn again lane.*

Queen’s Head yard, 1. Gray’s Inn lane, Holborn.* 2. White Horse street.*

Queen’s Library, a handsome building erected by that learned Princess her late Majesty Queen Caroline, into which books were put in the month of October 1737. This is a very noble room, furnished with a choice collection of modern books in several languages, consisting of about 4500, finely bound, and placed in great order, with brass net-work before them. Maitland.

Queen’s square, 1. St. James’s Park. 2. Little Bartholomew close. 3. Ormond street, by Red Lion street, Holborn. This, as a late writer justly observes, is an area of a peculiar kind, it being left open on one side for the sake of the beautiful landscape formed by the hills of Highgate and Hampstead, together with the adjacent fields. A delicacy worthy, as it is an advantage to the inhabitants, and a beauty even with regard to the square itself.

Queen’s Square street, Long Ditch, Westminster.

Queen street. Many of these streets were thus named after the restoration, in honour of the royal family. 1. Bloomsbury. 2. Opposite King street in Cheapside; this street was widened, and had its name changed to Queen street, by act of Parliament, after the fire of London. 3. Great Russel street, Bloomsbury. 4. Great Windmill street. 5. Hog lane, St. Giles’s. 6. Hoxton. 7. Long Ditch, Westminster. 8. In the Mint, Southwark. 9. Moorfields. 10. Near New Gravel lane, Shadwell. 11. Old Paradise street, Rotherhith. 12. Oxford street. 13. In the Park, Southwark. 14. Ratcliff. 15. Redcross street, Southwark. 16. Rosemary lane. 17. Rotherhith. 18. Seven Dials. 19. Soho square. 20. Tower hill. 21. Mews, Great Queen street.

Quickapple’s alley, Bishopsgate street without.†

Quiet row, Red Lion street.