Needlemakers, a company incorporated by letters patent granted by Oliver Cromwell, in 1656, consisting of a Master, two Wardens, eighteen Assistants, and forty-eight Liverymen, who upon their admission pay a fine of 3l. 6s. 8d. but having no hall they transact their business in Guildhall.
It is remarkable that by an act of Common Council in 1658, it was ordered that every needlemaker free of the city, of whatever company they be, should from thenceforward be subject to the search and survey of this company; that no needlemaker of any other company should bind an apprentice to himself, till he had first bound him to the Master or one of the Wardens or Assistants of the Needlemakers company, who should turn over such an apprentice to him, before the Chamberlain of London, in order that all such apprentices might be made free of the Needlemakers company; and that any such master, not being free of that company, who should take an apprentice in any other manner, should forfeit the sum of 20l.
Nell’s wharf, St. Catharine’s.
Nelmes, a village in Essex, on the east side of Rumford.
Nelson’s court, 1. Drury lane.† 2. Rosemary lane, Tower hill.†
Neptune street, Wellclose square.
Netherhall, a village in Essex, on the north side of Chipping Ongar.
Netherhall, a village in Essex, near Great and Little Parndon, and at the conflux of the Lee and the Stort.
Nettleton’s court, Aldersgate street.†
Nettlewell, a village on the south west side of Harlow.