Onslow street, Vine street, Hatton wall.†
Oram’s court, Water lane, Tower street.†
Orange court, 1. Castle street, Leicester fields, 2. King’s street, Soho, 3. Wapping.
Orange street, 1. Castle street, Leicester fields, 2. Lowman’s street, Gravel lane. 3. Red Lion square, Holborn. 4. Swallow street. 5. Sun Tavern fields.
The Orchard, 1. Bread street, Ratcliff. 2. Butcher row. 3. Limehouse causeway. 4. New street, Shadwell. 5. In Wapping. 6. Near Wapping.
Orchard street, 1. Near the Stable yard, Westminster, from the royal orchard formerly there. 2. Windmill street.
Office of Ordnance, in the Tower. This office is a modern building, a little to the north east of the white tower; and to the officers belonging to it, all other offices for supplying artillery, arms, ammunition, or other warlike stores to any part of the British dominions, are accountable; and from this office all orders for the disposition of warlike materials are issued. It is therefore of very great importance, as it has under its care the ammunition necessary for the defence of the kingdom, and the protection of our allies.
In ancient times before the invention of guns, this office was supplied by officers under the following names; the Bowyer, the Cross Bowyer, the Galeator, or Purveyor of helmets, the Armourer, and the Keeper of the tents; and in this state it continued till King Henry VIII. placed it under the management of a Master, a Lieutenant, a Surveyor, &c. as it still continues with some improvements.
The office of ordnance is now divided into two branches, the civil and the military; the latter being subordinate and under the authority of the former.
The principal officer in the civil branch of the office of ordnance is the Master General, who has a salary of 1500l. per annum, and is invested with a peculiar jurisdiction over all his Majesty’s engineers employed in the several fortifications of this kingdom, to whom they are all accountable, and from whom they receive their particular orders and instructions, according to the directions and commands given by his Majesty and council.