Hind’s alley, Maiden lane.†
Hind’s rents, Maze Pond street.†
Hinton’s Almshouse, in Plough alley, Barbican, was erected in the year 1732,pursuant to the will of Alice Hinton, of Hackney, widow, who bequeathed the sum of 2000l. for erecting and endowing an almshouse for twelve poor widows of the parish of St. Giles, Cripplegate; but the building was only erected for six, occasioned, it is said, by the loss of effects at sea, and 700l. by African stock. Each widow has, however, two neat rooms, and the house is endowed with 22l. per annum, arising from ground rent. Maitland.
Hitchcock’s yard, Newington Causeway.†
Hoar’s yard, Bishopsgate street.†
Hobbin’s court, Long lane, Southwark.†
Hobb’s rents, Marigold street.†
Hockenhuil’s court, Black Eagle street, Spitalfields.†
Hockley in the Hole, near Clerkenwell.
Hoddesdon, a hamlet situated on the river Lea, in the parish of Amswell and Brocksbourn in Hertfordshire, nineteen miles from London. Queen Elizabeth granted a grammar school to be kept here, and an almshouse was founded in the reign of King Henry VI. by Richard Rich, Sheriff of London. It is a great thoroughfare on the north road, and has a market on Thursday, and fair eleven days after St. Peter’s.