Essex street, 1. In Ratcliff Highway. 2. In the Strand; so called from the Lord Essex’s house formerly there. 3. White Friars.
Clerk of the Essoins, or excuses for lawful cause of absence; an officer belonging to the court of Common Pleas, whose office is in Searle street, Lincoln’s Inn.
St. Ethelburga’s Church, on the east side of Bishopsgate street, is so denominated from the first Christian Princess in Britain, the daughter of Ethelbert King of Kent. It escaped the fire in 1666. The body is irregular and in the Gothic style, with very large windows; and the steeple is a tall spire supported on a square tower.
This church is a rectory, the advowson of which was in the Prioress and Nuns of St. Helen’s in Bishopsgate street, till the suppression of their convent in 1536, when falling to the Crown, it was afterwards granted to the Bishop of London, who has ever since collated and inducted to it. The Rector receives about 60l. a year in lieu of tithes.
Eton College.
S. Wale delin. J. Green sc. Oxon.
Eton College, justly celebrated for the many learned men it has produced, is situated in Buckinghamshire on the banks of the Thames opposite to Windsor, and was founded by Henry VI. for the support of a Provost and seven Fellows, one of whom is Vice-Provost, and for the education of seventy King’s scholars, as those are called, who are on the foundation. These when properly qualified, are elected, on the first Tuesday in August, to King’s College, Cambridge, but they are not removed, till there are vacancies in the college, and then they are called according to seniority; and after they have been three years at Cambridge, they claim a fellowship. Besides those on the foundation, there are seldom less than three hundred scholars, at this time there are many more, who board at the masters houses, or within the bounds of the college. The school is divided into upper and lower, and each of these into three classes. To each school there is a master and four assistants or ushers. The revenue of the college is about 5000l. a year. Here is a noble library enriched by a fine collection of books left by Dr. Waddington, Bishop of Chester, valued at 2000l. and Lord Chief Justice Reeves presented to this library the collection left him by Richard Topham, Esq; keeper of the records in the Tower. In the great court is a fine statue of the founder, erected at the expence of the late Provost Dr. Godolphin, Dean of St. Paul’s. The chapel is in a good style of Gothic architecture. The schools and other parts, which are in the other style of building, are equally well, and seem like the design of Inigo Jones.
Evangelists court, Stonecutters alley, Black Friars.
Evan’s court, Basinghall street.†
Evan’s rents, Grub street.†