The advowson of this church is in the dean and chapter of St. Paul's, and it is not to be held in commendam; all licences and dispensations for that purpose being declared void by the before mentioned act.

Near OLD STREET SQUARE, in PESTHOUSE Row, is THE FRENCH HOSPITAL, erected in the year 1717. By letters patent, granted by George I. in the next year, the governors were constituted a body politic and corporate, by the name of "The Governors and Directors of the Hospital for the poor French Protestants, and their Descend ants, residing in Great Britain."

This foundation is plentifully supplied'; and the benefaction extends to lunatics.

To this charity belongs a chaplain, physician, surgeon, and other assistants, who carefully attend the pensioners, and administer to their several necessities.

Near this hospital is a set of almshouses, founded by GEORGE PALYN, citizen and Girdler, for six poor members of that company; he also endowed the same with an estate of 40l. per annum, which he left in trust to the Girdlers Company.

Nearly opposite to the above is another set of almshouses, founded in the year 1616, by EDWARD ALLEYN, a comedian, founder of Dulwich College, for ten poor men and women, who receive sixpence a week each, and a coat and gown every other year.

St. LUKE'S HOSPITAL is appropriated for the reception of lunatics, and supported by private subscriptions.

No person is to be admitted who has been a lunatic above twelve calendar months; or discharged as an incurable from any other hospital for the reception of lunatics; or who has the venereal disease; is troubled with epileptic or convulsive fits, or is deemed an ideot; nor any woman with child. The patients are not exposed to public view; nor is any money received for the use of the charity expended in entertaining the general court of committee at any of their meetings,

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The general committee receive immediately any patient who shall have been discharged cured, in case such patient relapses within two months. They likewise take in by rotation such patients as are discharged uncured; but the number of these in the house must not exceed twenty *.

At the corner of the City Road, where it crossed by Old Street, is situated THE CITY OF LONDON LYING-IN HOSPITAL.

This building consists of a centre and two wings, the latter of which project a little from the main building. In the front of the centre is a very neat but plain pediment,

At the back of this hospital is an elegant pleasure bath, which has been denominated PEERLESS POOL, a name very different from its antient distinction; for on the spot was a dangerous pond, which, on account of the many persons who were drowned in it, was called Perilous Poole; in which state it continued till the year 1743, when Mr. Kemp, an ingenious projector, filled up great part of it, converted it to the purposes for which it has been lately used, and altered the name.

This pleasure bath, esteemed the compleatest of a public nature of any in the kingdom, is one hundred and seventy feet long, and above one hundred feet hroad, having a smooth gravel bottom, five feet deep in the middle, four feet at the sides, and but three feet at one end. The descent to it is by several flights of steps conveniently disposed round it, adjoining to which are boxes and arbours for dressing and undressing, some of them open, and others enclosed. On the south side is a neat arcade, under which is a looking-glass over a marble slab; and a small collection of books for the entertainment of the subscribers. The ground about the pleasure bath is agreeably laid out and well planted with trees.

Here is also a cold bath, generally allowed to be the largest in England; being forty feet long, and twenty feet broad, with flights of steps and dressing rooms at each end.

To add to these, there is also a very large fish-pond, three hundred and twenty feet in length, and well stocked with fish, for the use of those subscribers who admire the amusement of angling. On each side of this pond is a very handsome terrace walk, well planted with lime trees, and the slopes are agreeably covered with shrubs.

This useful appendage to a large metropolis will shortly give way to the rage of improvement which has spread itself to this neighbourhood; and Peerless Pool, with its romantic and pleasant garden, is about to be su perseded by low, mean rows of houses, extending to the New Road, called the The City Road.

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and beneath it, in a circle, is painted the representation of Charity. In this part of the building is a very neat chapel with a handsome organ, and the top of it is crowned with a light open turret terminated by a vane. The wards for

the patients are in the wings, and are eight in number, each of which is so formed as to contain ten beds; behind the building are regular and convenient offices. In the front of the left wing is this inscription: ERECTED BY SUBSCRIPTION MDCCLXXI.; beneath which is painted at full length the figure of Faith. In the front of the other wing are these words: SUPPORTED BY VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTIONS; beneath which is the figure of Hope. On a slip of stone in the centre, and on the south side, are these words: CITY OF LONDON LYING-IN HOSPITAL.

Though this is a plain building, yet it is very neatly constructed. It stands in an airy and pleasant situation, and is well adapted to the purposes for which it was erected.

This charity was formerly kept in Shaftsbury House, Aldersgate Street, as hath been already mentioned; where also the objects and benefits of this excellent charity have been ascertained.

To the south of the Lying. in Hospital, in St. Luke's parish, lies the antient manor of Finsbury, or Fensbury, which obtained its name from the neighbouring fen or moor now called Moorfields. The antiquity of this manor must have been very considerable, as it appears to have had a prebend in St. Paul's cathedral so far back as the year 1104. We have sufficiently noticed this tract under Moorgate, and Finsbury Square.

The ARTILLERY GROUND is a very spacious piece of gronnd, and has for many years preserved the name it bears, from having been the place of exercise for the Artillery Company, of whom we have given an account under Bishopsgate. It is only necessary to add, that this most respectable body of men have been constantly attentive on all occasions to exert themselves, to perform their duty to their fellow citizens and their country as occasion offered.

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The present Artillery Ground, together with the land on the north side, as far as Old Street, was antiently denomihated BONHILL, or BUNHILL FIELDS *; part whereof, at present called Tindal's, or the Dissenters burial ground, was, by the mayor and citizens of London, in the year 1665, set apart and consecrated as a common cemetry, for the interment of such bodies as could not be admitted in their parochial grounds. However, it not being made use of for the purpose intended, Tindal took a lease of it, and converted it into a burial ground for the use of the Dis senters. This burial ground contains a prodigious multitude of grave stones with inscriptions, besides a great number of raised monuments, with vaults underneath, be longing to particular families, and eminent persons.

Opposite is a very handsome chapel, built by the late rev. JOHN WESLEY, for those of the Arminian persuasion. It is a plain structure of brick; the interior very neat; there is also a spacious court before the building, and uniform houses on each side.

This building was erected in place of another, called THE FOUNDERY, which stood on the side of the street, for merly called WINDMILL HILL. Of this foundery it is related, that in the year 1716 it was a place for casting cannon, and that "on the 12th of May that year, about a quarter past nine at night, as the workmen were casting three pieces of cannon of an extraordinary size, soon after the second was poured into the mould, it burst (occasioned by some fmall damp) whereby Mr. Hall, one of the clerks belonging to the ordnance, was so mangled, that he soon died." It was in this foundery that St. Paul's great bell

was cast.

Further on is a strect, formerly calld TABERNACLE WALK, on account of a meeting house for the Methodists, built by the late rev. George Whitfield; it is a large square building without elegance, and appropriated for the nu merous congregations with which it is filled.

* It should be remembered that the great MILTON died at Bunhill + Dawks's News Letter.

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At the end of this street, in OLD STREET ROAD, is a famous spring, dedicated to St. Agnes; and from the transparency and salubrity of its waters, denominated ST. AGNES LA CLAIR, or vulgarized to ANISEED CLEAR. It has claims to antiquity; for it appears that in the reign of Henry VIII. it was thus named: "Fons voc' Dame Agnes a Clere;" and among the possessions of the prebendal estate of Halliwell, alias Finsbury, from a survey taken in 1567, it is noticed as "The well called Dame Agnes the Cleere." In 1622, it was valued at forty shillings per annum, and appears to have risen from some small springs at Stoke Newington. It seems to have belonged to the crown; for among the parliamentary surveys taken in 1650, it is stated to have lain upon waste land, and to have belonged to Charles Stuart, late king of England.

The spring is eighteen feet deep, and is said to be of great efficacy in all rheumatic and nervous cases, head achs, &c. A good house for the accommodation of visitors and patients, fronts the street; and the spring is divided into two baths, the larger for the use of gentlemen, and the smaller for females.

On the opposite side of the road, at the north end of PITFIELD STREET, is situated ASKE'S HOSPITAL, vulgarly called the THE HABERDASHERS ALMSHOUSES.

This edifice was erected in 1692, by the company of Haberdashers, pursuant to the will of ROBERT ASke, Esq, one of their members, who left thirty thousand pounds for the building, and the relief of twenty poor members of the company of Haberdashers, besides the maintenance and education of twenty boys, sons of decayed freemen of the same company. The men, who are all to be single, have each an apartment of three rooms, with proper diet and firing, a gown once in two years, and 31. per annum in money. The boys have also a ward to themselves, with all necessaries their master, who reads prayers twice a day in the chapel, has, besides a house, 40l. per annum, which, together with the salaries of the clerk, butler, porter, and other domestics, amounts to about 8007. a year, 3 I

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