Quakers Workhouse, in Bridewell Walk, Clerkenwell, contains about eighteen or twenty old men and women; but they are not confined to any number. These are provided with all the necessaries of life in a very decent manner: as are also forty boys and twenty girls; who are not only taught reading, writing and arithmetic; but to spin, sew, knit, and make thrum-mops, &c. in order to inure them to early labour: the boys, when put out apprentice, have 5l. given with each. These children are cloathed in very good cloth and callimancoes, and supported at the expence of about 600l. per annum.
Quality court, Chancery lane.
Quart Pot alley, George street, Petty France, Westminster.*
Queen Anne’s street, a very handsome regular street, building north of Cavendish square, and parallel to that and Wigmore street. It being built on the estate of the late Lord Harley, Earl of Oxford, it received its name in honour of his Royal Mistress.
Queen Elizabeth’s School, in School house lane, Tooley street, Southwark, was founded by that Princess, for instructing the boys of St. Olave’s parish in English, grammar and writing.
This school generally consists of near three hundred boys, for the teaching of whom the master of the grammar school has a salary of 61l. per annum; his usher 41l. 10s. the writing-master has 60l. out of which he is obliged to supply the school with pens and ink; the English master has 37l. 10s. and his usher 20l. These sums, together amounting to 220l. per annum, are chiefly raised from an estate in Horselydown, which, pursuant to the letters of incorporation, is, with the school, under the management of sixteen of the parishioners. Maitland.
Queenhithe, in Thames street, a hithe or harbour for large boats, lighters, barges, and even ships, which anciently anchored at that place, as they do now at Billingsgate, the draw-bridge being drawn up for their passage through; Queenhithe being then the principal key for lading and unlading in the heart of the city. Hither vast numbers of these vessels came laden with corn, as the barges do now with malt and meal, this being the great meal market of the city.
Queenhithe alley, near Thames street.
Queenhithe stairs, Queenhithe.
Queenhithe little stairs, Queenhithe.