Petticoat square, Petticoat lane.
Petty Bag Office, next the Rolls chapel, Chancery lane. The clerks in this office, who are three in number, are under the Master of the Rolls, and make all patents for customers, comptrollers, and congé d’elires: they also summon the Nobility, Clergy, Knights, Citizens, and Burgesses to parliament, &c. This office takes its name from each record being there put into a little bag.
Petty Canons of St. Paul’s. See the article Canons.
Petty Canons alley, St. Paul’s Church yard.
Petty France, Tothill street, Westminster; thus named from its being at first inhabited by the people of that nation.
Petty France alley, Old Bethlem; so called from Petty France there, now called New Broad street, which was originally inhabited chiefly by the French.
Petty Wales yard, Halfmoon alley.
Petty’s court, Hanoway street, Tottenham court road.†
Pewterers, a company incorporated by letters patent, granted by King Edward IV. in 1474.
In the year 1534, the Wardens of the Pewterers company, or their deputies, were impowered by act of parliament to have the inspection of pewter in all parts of the kingdom, in order to prevent the sale of the base pewter, and the importation of pewter vessels from abroad. As a farther encouragement, all Englishmen are by that act strictly enjoined, not to repair to any foreign country to teach the art or mystery of pewterers, on pain of disfranchisement: and for the more effectually preventing the art being carried abroad, no Pewterer is to take the son of an alien as an apprentice.