Playhouse yard, 1. Black Friars, where a playhouse was formerly situated. 2. Whitecross street, Old street, where, according to Maitland, the first playhouse in London was erected; on the east side of that yard are still to be seen the ruins of the theatre.
Clerk of the Pleas Office, in Lincoln’s Inn. In this office all the officers of the Exchequer, and other privileged persons, as debtors to the King, &c. are to have their privilege to plead, and be impleaded as to all matters at the common law: and the proceedings are accordingly by declarations, pleas, and trials as at the common law; because they should not be drawn out of their own court, where their attendance is required. In this office are four sworn Attornies. Chamberlain’s Present State.
Common Pleas. See Court of Common Pleas.
Plough alley, 1. Bankside, Southwark.* 2. Barbican.* 3. Carey street, Lincoln’s Inn Fields.* 4. Wapping.
Plough court, 1. Fetter lane. 2. Gray’s Inn lane.* 3. Lombard street.*
Plough and Harrow walk, Nag’s Head Buildings, Hackney road.*
Ploughman’s rents, 1. Cow cross, near Smithfield.† 2. Turnmill street.†
Plough street, Whitechapel.*
Plough yard, 1. Barnaby street, Southwark.* 2. Brown’s gardens, St. Giles’s.* 3. Holborn hill.* 4. Harrow yard, Green bank.* 5. Seething lane, Tower street.* 6. Tower ditch.*
Plough yard School, in Plough yard, Seething lane, was founded by James Hickson, Esq; about the year 1689, for the education of twenty boys; for the instruction of whom he allowed the head Master 20l. per annum, a dwelling house, and two chaldrons of coals yearly; and to a Writing Master 8l. a year. Fourteen of the children are to be of the parish of Allhallows, Barking, and six of the hamlet of Wapping. Maitland.