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A38421 England's remarques giving an exact account of the several shires, counties, and islands in England and Wales. In every of which you have I. How the county is bounded. II. The length, breadth, and circumference. III. The temperature of the air, and fertility or barrenness of the soil. IV. What commodities each shire or county affordeth. V. In what dioces, and how many parishes in it. VI. The number of Parliament-men, hundreds, and market-towns. VII. In every shire you have the name of the city or shire-town, with the latitude thereof, and how it bears, with the reputed and measured distance of the same from London, the road to the same; how governed, and the coat of arms, and what other things are therein remarkable. VIII. You have the names of such noble families as have been dukes or earls of each county since their first constitution. IX. Whatsoever is eminent or remarkable thorow-out the whole kingdom. To which is added a travelling map, describing the principal roads thorow-out England. 1682 (1682) Wing E3027; ESTC R218203 95,213 312

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hath a peculiar Alderman as an Overseer or Guardian assigned thereunto who hath a greater latitude of Power than any ordinary Justice of Peace This Alderman hath one Deputy and in some Wards more there are also a certain number of Common-Council-Men Constables Men of the Ward-Mote-Inquest Scavengers some more some less with Beadles belonging to every Ward This last Ward differs from all the rest in this That the Alderman appointed here hath three Deputies but no Common-Council-Man In this Ward is a Bayliff also for execution of Legal Process and other Affairs under the Government of the City of London This City for Divine Worship before the late dreadful Conflagration on Sunday the second of September 1666 and continued until Wednesday following in which space of time two thirds within its Wall and Freedom was consumed had 125 Parish-Churches the most stupendious Fabrick of which was the Cathedral of St. Pauls founded by Ethelbert King of Kent 610. It was the Bishops Sea of London endowed with fair Revenues and Livings the proportion of this Building was 690 foot in length 130 foot in breadth the height of the West erected Roof from the ground 102 the new Fabrick from the ground was 88 foot this was the only remaining Work of the English Saxons in London the which is now rebuilding The Inns of Court and Chancery belonging to this City are twelve viz. the Inner and Middle Temple Grays Inn and Lincolns Inn which are called Inns of Court and these Inns are taken up by the Benchers Barresters and Students at Law There are also two other Inns of Court which are called Sergeants Inn one in Chancery-lane the other in Fleet-street where the Judges and Sergeants have their Lodgings The Inns of Chancery are Cliffords Inn Clements Inn Staple Inn Furnivals Inn Lions Inn Bernards Inn and Thavies Inn all which are inhabited by Attorneys and Sollicitors at Law The Courts belonging to the City of London The Hustings Court is the House of Causes or Pleadings this Court preserveth the Laws Rights Franchises Customs and Dignities of the City this Court is held Tuesday as formerly The Court of the Lord Mayor and Aldermen a most ancient Court of Record for all Matters of Law and Equity There is the Inner Court where the Lord Mayor and Aldermen sit in Council on Tuesday and Thursday weekly and the Outer Court held every day but Holydays and certain other times of the year for Proceedings at Law The Court of Orphans The two Sheriffs Courts one for each Compter Wednesday and Friday for Tryal of Wood-street and Thursday and Saturday for the Poultrey The Court of Common Council for making of Laws and transacting of other Matters of publick concernment to the state of the City The Sessions of Peace held ordinarily once a month throughout the year The Court for the Conservation of the Water and Rivers of Thames and Medway The Court of the Coroner and the Easchetor The Chamberlains Court for Apprentices The Court of Requests commonly called the Court of Conscience All which Courts are kept within the Guildhal London The Sessions of Oyer and Terminer and Goal-delivery of Newgate for the City of London and County of Middlesex holden at Justice-Hall in the Old Baily whereof the Lord Mayor is the Chief Judg and hath power of Reprieving c. The Court of the Tower of London held within the verge of the City before the Steward by prescription of Debt Trespass and other Actions All which Courts are kept within the Guildhall London a fair and large Structure for the negotiating of the Affairs of the City The Court of Policies and Assurances to Merchants that Venture and Traffick on the Seas where Ships and Goods are Ensured at so much in the Hundred in the Royal Exchange The Court of Halmote or Hall-Court for every Company in London appropriate to each Hall they belong The Court of Wardmote or Wardmote Inquest for every VVard the Inquest consisteth of twelve or more as the custom of the VVard is chosen in each VVard St. Thomas's day Besides these Structures are several others as the Charter house or Sutton's Hospital a fair and large Building being one of the noblest Hospitals in England in which are constantly maintained 80 old Men and 40 Boys who have generous Education bestowed on them and after disposed of either to the University or to Trades Doctors Commons the Habitation of the Civilians that practise the Civil Law The Heralds Office or Colledg for preserving Genealogies of Families Coats of Arms c. The Colledg of Physicians a fine new built Structure in which Colledg there is a President four Censors and eight Elects to whom the management of Affairs of the said Society is committed The Halls belonging to the several Companies which are most of them very fair and large Structures There are four Free-schools in this City The Free-school of St. Pauls now built in ample manner and richly endowed Anno 1512 by Dr. Colet Dean of St. Pauls for 153 poor Mens Children for which there was a chief Master and Usher and Chaplain ordained Moreover in the year 1553 after the Erection of Christ's Hospital which arose out of the ruins of the Grey Fryers that stood there a great number of poor Children of the City taken in and a fair School appointed at the Charge of the City though Edward the Sixth bears the name of the Patron Also another School was founded in Christ's Hospital at the Charge of the Lady Ramsey There is also another lately erected by his Majesties Liberality for the instructing of forty Boys in Geometry Navigation and other parts of the Mathematicks yearly for ever Anno 1561 the Merchant-Taylors of London founded a School in the Parish of St. Lawrence Poultney near Thames-street Anno 1579 Sir Thomas Gresham gave the Royal Exchange with all the Buildings thereunto appertaining viz. the one Moiety to the Mayor and Commonalty of London and their Successors and the other moiety to the Mercers to find four to read Lectures of Divinity Astronomy Musick and Geometry within that dwelling in Bishopsgate-street called Gresham-House or Colledg and to bestow 50 pounds per Annum to every Reader the Mercers also are to find three Readers in the same place that is the Civil Law Reader Physick and Rhetorick and every Reader to have 50 pounds yearly stipend These Lectures are to be read every day in the week in Term-time Sundays excepted at nine a clock in the Morning in Latine and at two of the clock in the Afternoon in English only the Musick Lecture is at ten on Saturday in the Morning and at three in the Afternoon Sir John Cutler also set up a Lecture for Mechanicks at two of the clock on so many Fridays after the Term as there is weeks in the Term. All which are fair large Buildings It s House of Correction Bridewel for Vagabonds and Idle Persons It s Sessions House for Malefactors And its New Bethlehem in Moor-fields for