river Thames, where for enience of taking water e fine ftairs called York treet is thus called from Duke of Buckingham. BUILDINGS, and YORK Red Lion ftreet, White Y, Cheapfide. Mr. Maitthat it is more properly as it was originally fo named, or and tenements belonging ies, who dwelt and kept his ents, Rotherhith wall.† court, Bambridge ftreet. s buildings, St. John street, Smith y, 1. Back alley, in Three hamalley, Tooley ftreet.* 2. Brick lane, Street.* 3. Broad ftreet, London 1.* 4. Bull ftairs, Upper Ground eet, Southwark.* 5. Fore ftreet, LamE 3 beth.* * 66 "After all this, to a friend I'll expose my weakness, as an inftance of the "mind's unquietnefs under the most pleafing enjoyments. I am oftener miffing a pretty gallery in the old "houfe I pulled down, than pleased "with a faloon which I built in its "stead, though a thousand times bet❝ter in all manner of refpects. "And now (pour fair bonne bouche, "with a grave reflection) it were well "for us, if this incapacity of being en tirely contented was as fure a proof "of our being reserved for happiness in "in another world, as it is of our frail"ty and imperfection in this. I confefs "the divines tell us fo, but tho' I believe "a future ftate more firmly than a great 66 many of them appear to do, by their "inordinate defires of the good things in "this; yet I own my faith is founded, "not on thofe fallacious arguments of preachers, but on that adorable conjunction of unbounded power and goodness, which certainly must some way recompenfe hereafter fo many "thoufand of innocent wretches creat"ed to be fo miferable here." BUCKINGHAM ftreet, a handsome street, and well inhabited, extends from the Strand - Strand to the river Thames, where for for the convenience of taking water are built those fine stairs called York ftairs. The street is thus called from John Villars Duke of Buckingham. See YORK BUILDINGS, and YORK STAIRS. BUCKLE Street, Red Lion street, Whitechapel. BUCKLERSBURY, Cheapfide. Mr. Maitland obferves that it is more properly Bucklesbury, as it was originally fo named, from a manor and tenements belonging to one Buckles, who dwelt and kept his courts there. BUCKLER's rents, Rotherhith wall.† BUCKRIDGE alley, George ftreet, Spitalfields.+ BUCKRIDGE court, Bambridge ftreet. BUFFORD's buildings, St. John ftreet, Smithfield.+ BULL alley, 1. Back alley, in Three hammer alley, Tooley ftreet.* 2. Brick lane, Old street.* 3. Broad ftreet, London wall.* 4. Bull ftairs, Upper Ground ftreet, Southwark.* * 5. Fore street, LamE 3 beth.* beth.* 6. Kent ftreet, Southwark.* Nicholas lane, Lombard ftreet.* 8. Turnmill street.* 9. Upper Ground, Southwark.* 10. Whitechapel.* BULL bridge, 1. Horfelydown. 2. Limehouse. 2. BULL court, I. Bifhopfgate street,* the Hole.* BULL HEAD Court, 1. Broad ftreet, Lon don wall.* 2. Cow lane.* 3. Great 4. Jewin Queen ftreet, Drury lane.* ftreet, Alderfgate street.* 5. Laurence lane.* 6. Newgate ftreet.* 7. Peter ftreet, Cow Crofs.* 8. Wood street, Cheapfide.* BULL HEAD paffage, Gracechurch street.* BULL HEAD yard, near Blackman street, Southwark.* BULL INN court, in the Strand.* BULL lane, Stepney.* BULL AND MOUTH ftreet, St. Martin's le Grand.* BULL fairs, Bull alley, Upper Ground ftreet, Southwark.* BULL STAKE alley, Whitechapel.* BULL WHARF, near Brook's wharf," BULL BULL WHARF lane, Thames street.* BULL yard, 1. Dunning's alley, Bishopfgate street without.* 2. Gofwell street.* 3. St. John's ftreet, near Clerkenwell.* 4. Kingfland road, Shoreditch.* 5. Old Horfelydown.* BULLEN's rents, Shoe lane, Fleet street.† BULLIFORD court, Fenchurch street. BULLOCK's court, 1. Chequer alley, Old Bethlem. 2. Minories. BULLOCK's yard, 1. Shoreditch. 2. Nightingale lane.+ BULL'S rents, 1. Freeman's lane.† 2. Lambeth marsh. BULSTRODE, the feat of the Duke of Portland, near Beaconsfield in Buckinghamfhire. It is a large handsome house finely fituated in a pleasant park, and you have a good view of it from the road to Beaconsfield, which goes clofe to the park gate. BUNCH'S alley, Thrall street. BUNHILL court, Bunhill fields. BUNHILL FIELDS, formerly called Bonhill fields, was anciently a tract of ground of confiderable extent, reaching from the north fide of Chifwell street to Old ftreet. BUNHILL FIELDS Burial ground, a large piece of ground near Upper Moorfields. Mait E 4 |