Salmon’s lane, Ratcliff.†
Salt Office, in York Buildings, is under the government of five Commissioners, each of whom has a salary of 500l. per annum. Under these Commissioners are the following officers: a Treasurer, who has 430l. a year, for himself and three Clerks; he has also a Deputy: two Billmen: a Comptroller, who has 350l. a year, with a Deputy and two Clerks: the Comptroller’s Secretary has 200l. a year, and an Assistant: an Accomptant General, who has 200l. per annum, and his Clerk 40l. a year: a Correspondent, who has 100l. a year, and his Clerk 60l. a Chief Accomptant and Clerk of Securities, who has 180l. per annum: two Accomptants, who have 70l. a year each, a Clerk, who has 60l. and another 40l. per annum: a Storekeeper and Clerk of the charities and diaries, who has 60l. a year; a Collector of the port of London, who has 60l. an Assistant Searcher 60l. and two Surveyors who have 40l. a year each.
Besides these, there are in this office an housekeeper who has 100l. a year, and several other servants.
Salters, one of the twelve principal companies, and the ninth in order of precedency, is of considerable antiquity, since they had the grant of a livery from Richard II. in the year 1394; but it does not appear that they were incorporated before the first year of the reign of Queen Elizabeth, in 1558.
This company has a Master, two Wardens, twenty-seven Assistants, and a livery of 190 members, who upon their being admitted, pay a fine of 20l. They have a very considerable estate, out of which they pay 500l. per annum to charitable uses. Their hall, which is a plain brick building, is situated in a neat court in Swithin’s lane.
Salters alley, 1. Green bank, Wapping. 2. Nightingale lane.
Salters court, Piccadilly.
Salters Hall court, in Swithin’s lane, where is Salters hall, in which is a handsome presbyterian meeting-house.
Saltpetre Bank, 1. East Smithfield, by Little Tower hill. 2. By Rosemary lane.
Salutation court, St. Giles’s Broadway.*