Pissing alley, St. John’s street, Smithfield.‖
Pitcher’s court, White’s alley, Coleman street.†
Pitfield street, Hoxton.†
Pitman’s alley, Gardener’s lane, Westminster.†
Plaisterers, a company incorporated by letters patent, granted by King Henry VIII. in the year 1501, and confirmed by a charter granted by Charles II. in 1667, by the name of The Master, and Wardens of the guild or fraternity of the blessed Mary, of Plaisterers, London.
This company is governed by a Master, two Wardens, and thirty-two Assistants, and has seventy-seven Liverymen, who upon their admission pay a fine of 8l. They have a neat hall on the north west side of Addle street.
Plaistow, a village in Essex, in the parish of West Ham.
Plaistow, a village near Bromley in Kent.
Plantation Office in the treasury. See the article Trade and Plantation Office.
Playhouse passage, 1. Bow street; leading to Covent Garden playhouse. 2. Drury lane, leading to the playhouse there.