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St. John's square, account of, 409;-the gate described, ib.

Luke's hospital for lunatics, its institution and government, 413.
Margaret's Hill, the site of a church, 491.

Saviour's close, called also Montague close, anecdotes of, 468.
-Thomas's hospital, its origin and history, 464.

Salisbury house, its situation and history, 207.

square, so called from being the residence of the bishops of
that see, 15;-afterwards possessed by the earl of Dorset, 16.
Saviour, St. its history and description, 478.

Savoy, The, formerly the residence of the earls of that title, 199.
Scotland Yard, built on the site of a palace, 233.

Scottish corporation, account of, 105.- portralts in the hall, ib.
Scroope's Inn, now called Scroope's court, 82.

Serjeants Inn, Chancery lane, its hall described, 129.

at law, their origin and history, 129.

Inn Fleet street, its history, 42;-account of the Amicable So-
ciety, 43.

Shadwell, origin of the name, 442;-antiquities found there, ib, n.
Shakespeare Gallery. See Pall Mall and Boydell.

Shipwrights, company of, 135.

Shoe lane, formerly garden grounds, Oldbourne hall, Bangor palace, 92.
conduit, Fleet street, its history, 48.

Shoreditch, anecdotes of, 421, n.

Silkmen, company of, 135.

throwers, company of, 135.

Soap makers, company of, 135.

Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce,
their house described, 213;-fine paintings by Barry, in the Great
Room, 214.

Somerset house, formerly a church, 172;-converted to a palace by the
protector Somerset, 179;—converted to various public offices, &c. 183.
Southampton house, Holborn, history of, 119. See Wriothesley.
Southwark, borough of, its history, 451.

Spa Fields chapel, litigations concerning, 401.
Spencer house, described, 324.

Spectacle makers, company of, 135.

Spital Fields, formerly a hamlet to Stepney, 425.

Stanley, John, Esq. the eminent musical composer, anecdotes of, 65, n.
Staple Inn, account of, pictures in the hall, 118.

Starch makers, company of, 135.

Strand, its ancient history, 141;-and progressive improvement, 142. -
Stratford place, account of, 361.

Stephen's chapel, St. historical anecdotes of, 256;-appropriated by Ed-
ward VI. for the use of the house of commons, 258. See House of
Commons.

Store-houses, antient regulations concerning them, 470.

Suffolk place (now the Mint) anecdotes of, 498.

Surrey chapel, account of, 512.

Swedenbourgh, Emanuel, his religious tenets, 341.
Swedes church, Princes square, described, pictures, 440.

T.

Tabard Inn, Borough, its history, 491.

Tabernacle, Whitfield's, account of, 416.

Tart-hall, the residence of viscount Stafford, 314;-anecdotes of him, ib.
Temple, The, why so called, 22;-history of the Knights Templars,
their riches, and dissolution, ib. et seq.-their first residence in Lon-
don, 23.

Temple

Temple Bar, described, 131;-retrospect of, 156.

Inner, described, periods of constructing the principal build-
ings, 25.

church, history and description of, 27;-its beautiful structure, 28
Middle, its divisions, 35;-hall, and custom of mooting, 36.
Thaive's Inn, an antient mansion, in the reign of Edward III, 87.
Thomas, St. Southwark, history and description of, 463.
Tinplate workers, company of, 136.
Tobacco-pipe makers, company of, 136.
Tothil Fields, notices concerning it, 312.
Treasury, The, described, 235.

Trinity chapel, its singular history, 362.

Tufton street, the supposed residence of colonel Blood, 267.
Turners, company of, 136.

Tyborn, account of the manor of, 355.

Tyrconnel, duchess of, see New Exchange.

U.

Unitarians, their tenets, 145. See Devereux.
Upholders, company of, 136.
Uxbridge house, described, 347.

Wapping, its antient state, 446.

W.

Wellclose square, its church described, 489.

Westminster Abbey, fabulous accounts concerning its foundation, 268;-
its history, and benefactors, ib.-erected into a bishopric, dissolved, 209.
formed into a college by queen Elizabeth, ib.—the building described,
270-Henry the Seventh's chapel, particularly described, 297;-the
Jerusalem chamber, 299.

bridge, described, 246;-expence of building it, 248.

city of, its origin and history, 137;-account of the monas
tery, and its dissolution, 138;-government and magistrates, ib.
hall, first built by William Rufus, 250;-re-constructed by
Richard II. ib.-described, the coronation feasts held here, 251.
Infirmary, 311.

Lying-in hospital, objects of the charity, 530.
school, of very antient foundation, 300.

Wheelwrights, company of, 136.

Whitechapel Mount, account of, 435.

Friars, history of that order, 44;-its foundation and suppres
sion, 45.

hall, built by Hubert de Burgh, 236;-afterwards the residence of
the archbishops of York, cardinal Wolsey's housekeeping, ib, 237;-
upon his disgrace appointed as a royal residence, 239.

Wilson, Samuel, Esq. abstract of his will, 65.

Wimbledon house, the residence of the earls of Exeter, 194.

Winchester house, Southwark, its history, 426;-its present state, 470.

Winter, rev. Richard, anecdotes of, 161.

Woodmongers. See Carmen.

Woolmen, company of, 136.

staple, held in Palace yard, 248.

Worde, Wynkyn de, an eminent antient printer, his residence, 48.
Wriothesley, earl of Southampton, anecdotes of him, 119.

Y.

York Buildings, why so called, 221;-anecdotes of, ib.

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