In this library is a register, wherein parents may enter the birth of their children. This is of the greater use to the dissenters, as few or none of the dissenting meeting houses have any register of christenings, and as a great body of them do not allow of the baptising of infants. Here also are some curiosities, as an Egyptian mummy, and a glass bason, which held the water wherewith Queen Elizabeth was baptized. This last is kept in a bag, whereon is fixed a paper that shews how this bason came into the possession of the managers of the library.
Williams’s rents, Millbank, Westminster Horseferry.†
Willifrid’s rents, Shad Thames, Horselydown.†
Willow street, Bank-side, Southwark.‡
Willow-tree alley, 1. Nightingale lane.‡ 2. Wapping dock.‡
Willow-tree court, 1. Charter House lane.‡ 2. Lower Shadwell.‡
Willow-tree yard, Maudlin’s rents.‡
Wilson’s alley, Fore street, Lambeth.†
Wilson’s court, Rosemary lane, Little Tower Hill.†
Wiltshire lane, East Smithfield.