Royal vineyard, St. James’s Park.
Rug row, Cloth fair, Smithfield.
Rumford, a town in Essex, 12 miles from London, and 5 from Burntwood, is a very great thoroughfare, and is governed by a Bailiff and Wardens, who are by patent impowered to hold a weekly court for the trial of treasons, felonies, debts, &c. and to execute offenders. It has a market on Mondays and Tuesdays for hogs and calves, and on Wednesday for corn, all of which are chiefly bought up for the use of London.
Rummer court, Charing Cross.
Run-horse yard, David street, Grosvenor square.*
Rupert street, 1. Coventry street. 2. Goodman’s fields.
Russel court, 1. Blue Anchor alley, Rosemary lane.† 2. Cleveland row, St. James’s.† 3. Drury lane.† 4. Ratcliff highway.†
Russel’s Mill stairs, Rotherhith.†
Russel street, Covent Garden; so called from the Duke of Bedford, upon whose estate it is built.
Russia Company, a body of merchants incorporated by letters patent, granted by Queen Mary on the 6th of February 1555, by which they were not only impowered to carry on an exclusive trade to all parts of the Russian empire, but to all such countries as they should discover in those northern parts. In consequence of this charter, they soon after discovered the Cherry Islands, Greenland, Nova Zembla, Newfoundland, Davis’s Streights, and Hudson’s Bay; and their first Governor was that celebrated mariner Sebastian Cabot.