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the Sons of the Clergy, and the several
poor families that participate of the
King's annual charity, amount in the
whole to about 8000 persons, and the
sum employed for their relief to 80,000l.
Maitland.
Almshouse yard. 1. Little Almonry,
Westminster. 2. Dormer's Hill. 3.
Little Chapel street. 4. Coleman street.
5. Snow Hill, in which Hammond's
alms-house is situated.
St. Alphage, in Aldermanbury near
London-wall, owes its name to its dedi-
cation to St. Alphage, or Elphege, a
noble Saxon Saint, and Archbishop of
Canterbury, who was murdered at
Greenwich by the pagan Danes, in the
year 1013. This church escaped the
flames in 1666, and is still standing;
tho' it is as mean a structure as can well
be conceived.
The living is a rectory in the patron-
age of the Bishop of London, and the
Rector receives about 75l. a year in tithes.
Amble court, near Wellclose square.
Amen corner, at the end of Pater-noster-
row, near St. Paul's. See Pater-
noster-row.
Amersham, or Agmondesham, a small
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but very ancient borough, in Bucking-
hamshire, situated in a vale between
woody hills, 29 miles from London.
This town does not come within the
compass which we have prescribed round
London, but our map of the environs
not being a circle, the angles of it take
in some few places at a greater distance
than 20 miles; and these being inserted
in our map, we thought we could not
dispense with taking notice of them, as
well as of those within the prescribed
limits. The town consists of a long street,
divided about the middle by a shorter
cross-street; in the intersection of which
stands the church, said to be the best
rectory in the county; it being well en-
dowed by Geoffery de Mandeville, Earl
of Essex, in the reign of King Stephen.
There is here a handsome market-house,
built with brick on arched pillars, about
80 years ago, by Sir William Drake,
Knt. It has a free-school founded in the
reign of Queen Elizabeth; and here is
also a fine seat called Shardelowes, the
manor of which formerly belonged to
the noble family of the Russels; but a-
bout the time of the restoration it was
sold, with the borough, to Sir William
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