Bustos, Statues, Bas Reliefs, &c.
Bustos, Statues, Bas Reliefs, &c.
Bustos, Statues, Bas Reliefs, &c.
A girl’s head, marble, after the antique, by Scheemaker.
A model of St. John Baptist in the wilderness, by Bernini, in terra cotta.
The judgment of Midas, an ivory Bas Rel.
Orpheus playing to the beasts, Bas Rel. Bronze.
Erato, Bronze, antique.
The statue of Fides Christiana, by Roubiliac, marble.
A model of St. Andrew, by Fiamingo, terra cotta.
A madona and child, in imitation of Rubens’s manner of painting, terra cotta.
Ceres, after that in the Capitol, by Scheemaker, terra cotta.
St. Jerome, by Mich. Angelo, terra cotta.
A Bacchanalian boy, after Camillo Ruscoin, by Hayward.
A bust of Aratus, after the antique, by ditto, marble.
A model of Mr. Roubiliac’s statue of Fides Christiana, in terra cotta.
A model of Moses, by Mich. Angelo, terra cotta.
A model of Flora, by Roubiliac. ter. cotta.
A vestal, after the antique, by Hayward, marble.
A small antique bust of Æsclepiades, the Greek physician, marble.
Ormondyard, Great Ormond street.
Court ofOrphans. This court is occasionally held at Guildhall, by the Lord Mayor and Aldermen, who are guardians to the children of freemen under the age of twenty-one years at the decease of their fathers, and take upon them not only the management of their goods and chattels, but likewise that of their persons, by placing them under the care of tutors, to prevent disposing of themselvesduring their minority, without their approbation.
By this court the common serjeant is authorised to take exact accounts and inventories of all the deceased freemen’s estates; and the youngest attorney of the Lord Mayor’s court being clerk to that of the orphans, is appointed to take securities for their several portions, in the name of the Chamberlain of London, who is a corporation of himself, for the service of the said orphans; and to whom a recognizance or bond, made upon the account of an orphan, shall by the custom of London, descend to his successor.
It may not be improper to add, that when a freeman dies and leaves children in their minority, the clerks of the several parishes are according to a law of the city, to give in their names to the common crier, who is immediately to summon the widow, or executor, to appear before the court of Lord Mayor and Aldermen, to bring an inventory of, and security for the testator’s estate; for which two months time is commonly allowed: and, in case of non-appearance, or refusal of security, the Lord Mayor may commit the contumacious executor to Newgate.Lex Lond.
Overman’scourt, Pepper alley.†
Owen’sAlmshouse, near the south end ofIslington, was erected by the company of Brewers, in the year 1610, for ten poor widows of the parish of St. Mary’s Islington, pursuant to the will of the Lady Alice Owen, who allowed each widow 3l.16s.per annum, three yards of cloth for a gown every other year, and 6l.to be laid out annually in coals for the use of the whole.
Oxendonstreet, Coventry street.
Oxford ArmsInn lane, Warwick lane, near Newgate market.*
Oxford Armspassage, Warwick lane.*
Oxford Armsyard, in the Haymarket.*
Oxfordcourt, 1. Camomile street. 2. Salter’s Hall court, Swithin’s lane. Here was anciently the house of the Prior of Torrington in Suffolk, which afterwards fell to the Earls of Oxford; but that edifice being at length demolished, and this court built in its room, it retained the name of the former possessor. 3. Oxford street.
Oxfordmarket, Oxford street, so called from its being on the estate of the late Earl of Oxford.
Oxfordstreet, St. Giles’s pound. This street, the market, and court of the same name, are all on the estate of the late Earl of Oxford.