Chapter 3

Second floor.

Second floor.

Second floor.

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.

Georgeyard, 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 toascend 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’syard, Stepney rents, Shoreditch.

Gerrard’scourt, Little Bell alley.†

Gerrardstreet, 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’sAlmshouseandSchool, 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 withwhich 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 coalsper 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’scourt, 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’scourt, Monkwell street.†

Gilbert’spassage, Clare market.†

Gilbert’sstreet, Bloomsbury.†

St.Giles’sCripplegate, 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, andthe 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 ofParadise Lost.

St.Giles’sin 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 substantialmanner, 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 ofThe Review of the Public Buildings, is one of the most simple and elegant of the modern structures: it israised 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 theoutside 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 shownTheir malice on this marble stone,Virtue and Art shall write his nameIn annals, and consign his fameTo monuments more lasting far,Than marble stones, or golden letters are.

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

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

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’scourt, Rotherhith Wall.†

Gilham’srents, the Folly, Dock head.†

Giltspurstreet, without Newgate.*

Gingerbreadalley, 1. Holiwell lane. 2. Old Change, Cheapside.

Gingerbreadcourt, 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 theiradmission pay a fine of 10l.They have a convenient hall in Basinghall street.

Glassenburycourt, Rose street, Covent Garden.

Glasshousealley, White Friars.☐

Glasshousefields, Cock hill, Ratcliff.☐

Glasshousehill, 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.

Glasshousestreet, Swallow street.☐

Glasshouseyard, 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 ofThe 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.

Glassyard, 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’srents, Fore street, Limehouse.

Gleanalley, Tooley street.

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

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

Globeisland, Rotherhith.

Globelane, Mile-end road.*

Globestairs, Rotherhith.*

Globestairs alley, 1. Jamaica street.* 2. Rotherhith.*

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

Gloucestercourt, 1. Beer lane. 2. BlackFriars. 3. St. James’s street. 4. Whitecross street, Cripplegate.

Gloucesterstreet, 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.

Gloverscourt, Beech lane.☐

Gloversyard, Beech lane.☐

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

Goat Innyard, St. Margaret’s hill.*

Goat’s Headalley, Skinners street.*

Goatstairs, Bank side.*

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

Goatyard passage, Horselydown.*

Goathamalley, Shoreditch.‖

Gobb’salley, Grey Eagle street.†

Gobions.SeeGubbins.

Goddard’srents, 1. Holiwell street.† 2. Wheeler street.†

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

Godfrey’scourt, Milk street, Cheapside.†

Godwelstairs, 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’srents, Golden lane.†

Golden Anchoralley, Old street.*

Golden Ballcourt, Great Wild street.*

Golden Crosscourt, Cateaton street.*

Golden Fleeceyard, Tothill street.*

Golden Keycourt, 1. Basinghall Postern.* 2. Fore street.*

Goldenlane, Barbican.

Golden Legcourt, Cheapside.*

Golden Lionalley, Long ditch, Westminster.*

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

Goldensquare, 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’shill, 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 annumin 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 silverwares, 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’salley, 1. Jewin street.† 2. Lukener’s lane, Drury lane.†

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

Goldsmith’srents, East Smithfield.†

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

Gold’ssquare, Golston street, Whitechapel.† SeeGould’ssquare.

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

Golston’scourt, Drury lane.†

Gonson’srents, Bluegate fields, Upper Shadwell.†

Goodchild’salley, Market street, Westminster.

Goodman’sfields, 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, whichbeing 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’swharf, St. Catharine’s.†

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

Good’srents, In the Minories.†

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

Goodyear’srents, Wapping.†

Goosealley, 1. Bow Church yard, Cheapside.* 2. Fleet Ditch.*

Goosetree’syard, 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’srents, Swordbearer’s alley, Chiswell street.†

Gossipsrents, Tooley street.‖

Gossipsrow, Glean alley, Tooley street.‖

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

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

Gough’syard, Back street, Lambeth.†

Gould’scourt, Woodrofe lane.†

Gould’ssquare, Woodrofe lane.†

Goulston’ssquare, Whitechapel.†

Gracechurchstreet, 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.

Gracecourt, Fenchurch street.

Grace’salley, Well street, Wellclose square.

Graftonbuildings, Long lane.

Graftonstreet, Soho.

Graham’sAlmshouse, 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.

Grangecourt, Carey street, Lincoln’s Inn fields.

Grangelane, Bermondsey.

Grangeroad, Bermondsey.

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

Grangewalk, King John’s court, Bermondsey.

Grangeyard, Bermondsey fields.

Granger’srents, Near Barbican.†

Grapestreet, By Little Moorfields.

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

Grasshopperalley, 1. Fore street.* 2. Whitecross street.*

Grasshoppercourt, Charterhouse street.*

Gravelcourt, Old Gravel lane.*

Gravellane, 1. Near the Falcon stairs. 2. Houndsditch.

Gravelstreet, Brook street, Holborn.

Gravelwalk, 1. Blue Anchor alley. 2. Collingwood street.

Grave’sdock, Fore street, Limehouse.†

Grave’swharf, 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. hadgranted 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 housesand 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.SeeGrey Friars.

Gray’scourt, Duke street, Piccadilly.†

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

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

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 ofan 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 Innlane, 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 Innpassage, 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. SeeAlmonry.

Great Arthurstreet, Goswell street.†

Great Ashentreecourt, White Friars.‡

Great Baconyard, Goswell street.

Great Bearkey, Thames street. SeeBear Key.

Great Black Horsecourt, Aldersgate street.*

Great Carterlane, St. Paul’s church yard.†

Great Chapelstreet, Oxford street.

Great Cockalley, 1. Fore street, Cripplegate.* 2. Redcross street.*

Great Cowalley, Whitecross street, Old street.*

Great Dean’syard, Westminster.

Great Dicekey, Thames street.

Great Distafflane, Old Change.*

Great Earlstreet, Seven Dials.†

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

Great Elbowlane, College hill.

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

Great Garden, St. Catharine’s lane.

Great Georgestreet, 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. SeeHanover 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 Hartstreet, James’s street, Long Acre.

Great Hermitagestreet, in the Hermitage.

Great Jermainstreet, Near Piccadilly.†

Great Kirbystreet, Hatton Garden.†

Great Knightrider’sstreet, by Addle hill.

Great Lamballey, Blackman street.

Great Maddoxstreet, Hanover square.

Great Marlboroughstreet, Poland street.

Great Montaguecourt, Little Britain.

Great Montaguestreet, near Brick lane, Spitalfields.

Great Mooryard, St. Martin’s lane, Charing Cross.

Great Newstreet, Fetter lane.

Great Newportstreet, near Long Acre.

Great Nottinghamstreet, Plumtree street.

Great Old Bailey, Ludgate hill.

Great Ormondstreet, Red Lion street, Holborn.

Great Ormondyard, Ormond street.

Great Pearlstreet, Grey Eagle street, Spitalfields.

Great Peterstreet, by Great Poulteney street.

Great Poulteneystreet, near Brewer’s street, Soho.

Great Queenstreet, 1. Lincoln’s Inn fields. 2. Westminster.

Great Riderstreet, St. James’s street.

Great Russelstreet, 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’sstreet, Seven Dials.

Great St. Ann’slane, by Orchard street, Westminster.

Great St. Helen’scourt, Bishopsgate street within. SeeSt.Helen’s.

Great St. Thomas Apostle’slane, by Queen street, Cheapside. SeeSt.Thomas Apostles.

Great Stonestairs, Ratcliff.

Great Suffolkstreet, Cockspur street.

Great Swallowstreet, Piccadilly.

Great Swordbearersalley, Chiswell street.

Great Towerhill, by Great Tower street.

Great Towerstreet, the broad part on the east end.

Great Trinitylane, Bow lane.

Great Turnstile, Holborn.

Great Turnstilealley, High Holborn.

Great Wardourstreet, Oxford street.

Great Warnerstreet, Cold Bath street.

Great White Lionstreet, Seven Dials.

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

Great Winchesterstreet, Broad street, London Wall.

Great Windmillstreet, Piccadilly.

Greatyard, Parish street, Horselydown.

Great Yorkstreet, Cock lane, Shoreditch.

Greave’scourt, George yard, Whitechapel.†

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

Green Arbourcourt, 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 ofGreen 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 articleLord 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 ofThe 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.

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

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