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Five members of the Society are an-
nually elected auditors, who are by their
office to inspect every transaction of the
Society, to examine all vouchers for re-
ceipts and payments, and upon oath to
lay before the quarterly and annual gene-
ral courts, the quarterly and annual ac-
counts of the Society: and on the day
before the holding each court of direc-
tors, the auditors are to state and enter in
the directors minute book a balance of
the cash of the Society.
Attendance is daily given at the So-
ciety's ofice from nine in the morning,
till two in the afternoon, holidays ex-
cepted. From the proposals printed by the
Society.
Amsterdam court, Upper Shadwell.
Amyas's Almshouse was erected in
George yard, Old street, in the year
1655, by Mrs. Susanna Amyas, for eight
poor single men or women, who have an
allowance of 4l. per annum each; besides
6l. to furnish them all with coals, 1l. for
water, and 1l. for one of the eight to read
prayers daily.
Anabaptists, or, as they chuse to call
themselves, Baptists. See an account of
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their several places of worship, under the
article Baptist.
Anchor alley. 1. Mint street, Southwark.*
2. Worcester place, Thames street.*
Anchor and Hope alley, Green bank,
near Wapping.*
Anchor court, Anchor street, Spital-
fields.*
Anchor lane, Thames street.*
Anchor street. 1. By Webb's square, Spital-
fields.* 2. Thames street.*
Anchor yard, Barnaby street, Southwark.*
Anderson's yard, Oxford street.†
St. Andrew's Holborn, a plain but not
inelegant church, situated on the south
side of Holborn, and at the corner of
Shoe lane. It is dedicated to St. An-
drew the Apostle, who was distinguished
by being the first person Christ called for
a disciple; and his suffering martyrdom
in Achaia. There was a church in this
place called by the name of the same
Apostle, so early as the year 1297. The
old church escaped the flames in the
dreadful fire of London, that proved
fatal to so many others; but ten years
after being found too ruinous for repair,
was taken down in 1687, and the pre-
sent structure erected in its place, except
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