Such gentlemen and ladies as chuse to favour this laudable charity, are desired to send their subscriptions, with their names and places of abode, to the Treasurer, Charles Maynard, Esq; in Aldersgate street; to Messrs. Vere, Glyn, and Halifax, bankers, in Birchin lane; or to the weekly committee, on Tuesday in the forenoon, at the said hospital, where proper receipts will be given,
| Account of Women delivered, from the institution of the hospital to the 17th Jan. 1758. | ||
|---|---|---|
| Women delivered, 19 of whom had twins, and one delivered of three children | 1914 | |
| Children born | 1935 | |
| Males | 961 | |
| Females | 974 | |
| 1935 | ||
| Monies received from the institution of the hospital to the 13th. Jan. 1758 | 7010 13 0¾ | |
| Monies expended from the institution of the hospital to 29th Sept. 1757 | 5774 3 6 | |
| £1000 Old South Sea annuities, which cost | 1064 12 6 | |
| Cash in Treasurer’s hands | 171 17 0¾ | |
| 7010 13 0¾ | ||
| The account published by order of the Governors. | ||
See an account of the other hospitals of the same kind, under the articles Lying-in Hospital in Brownlow street, and Lying-in Hospital for unmarried as well as married women in Duke street.
London ’Prentice yard, in the Minories.*
London Stone, a very great piece of antiquity, that has been carefully preserved from age to age, and is mentioned by the same name so early as in the time of Ethelstan, King of the West Saxons.
This stone, which stands close under the south wall of St. Swithin’s church, was formerly a little nearer the channel facing the same place, and being fixed very deep in the ground was so strongly fastened by bars of iron, as to be in no danger from the carriages.
It seems very surprizing that so great a piece of antiquity has been constantly preserved with such care, and yet so little has been said of it, that the original cause of its erection, and the use for which it was intended, are entirely unknown. A very ingenious author observes, that as London appears to have been a Roman city, it will be no improbable conjecture, that this stone was the center, from whence they extended its dimensions, and might serve as the standard at which they began to compute their miles. Of this opinion was also Mr. Maitland, and the great Sir Christopher Wren, who grounded his conjecture upon proofs which are not every day to be obtained, for by rebuilding many of the churches after the fire of London, he had an opportunity of discovering and tracing the ancient boundaries of London, with a greater nicety than is ever to be expected again: on clearing the foundations of St. Mary le Bow in Cheapside, he found, upon opening the ground, the walls with the windows and pavement of a Roman temple, entirely buried under the level of the present street; this temple stood about forty feet backwards; but having occasion to bring the steeple of the new church to range with the high street, he again began to dig through the made ground, till having proceeded eighteen feet deep, to his surprize he discovered a Roman causeway of rough stone four feet thick, close and well rammed, with Roman brick and rubbish at the bottom, all firmly cemented; he was therefore of opinion, that this was the northern boundary of the Roman colony, and that the breadth from north to south was from this causeway, now Cheapside, to the Thames; the extent east and west from Tower hill to Ludgate: the principal or Prætorian Way, he supposed to be Watling street; whence London Stone appears to have been nearly in the center of the ancient city before it was destroyed by Boadicea, and when it was not encompassed with walls. Curiosities of London and Westminster. Parentalia.
London street, 1. A spacious, handsome, and well-built street, on the south side of Fenchurch street. 2. Mill street, Rotherhith. 3. Rose lane, Ratcliff.
London Wall, the wall which formerly surrounded the city of London, as a defence against the attacks of an enemy. It was strengthened with lofty towers, and had originally only four gates, tho’ the making of new roads has increased the number to seven, which are now standing, viz. Aldgate, Bishopsgate, Moorgate, Cripplegate, Aldersgate, Newgate, and Ludgate. See each of these described in their proper places.
This wall, which is by some supposed to have been built by Constantine the Great, and by others by his mother Helena, was probably not erected till the time of Valentinian I. about the year 368. Britain had been reduced to very great misery, by the joint attacks of the Scots, Picts, Attacots, Saxons, and Franks; and the Romans, till the arrival of Theodosius the Elder, were defeated in several engagements: but that General having routed some parties of the enemy, entered the city of London in triumph. And we are told by Am. Marcel, lib. 27. that Theodosius, by repairing some cities and castles, and fortifying others, left every thing in so good a situation, that peace was preserved in Britain till the departure of the Romans in the reign of the Emperor Honorius.