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columns of the Tuscan order. The ceil-
ing of the court room and hall is orna-
mented with fret work, and the latter
wainscotted fourteen feet high. In the
hall room is the portraiture of King
James I. and also the bust of Dr. Gideon
Delaun, that King's apothecary, who
was a considerable benefactor to the com-
pany. In this building are two large
laboratories, one chemical, and the
other for galenical preparations, where
vast quantities of the best medicines are
prepared, for the use of apothecaries and
others, and particularly of the Surgeons
of the royal navy, who here make up their
chests.
The Apothecaries company have a
spacious and beautiful physic garden at
Chelsea, which contains almost four
acres, and is enriched with a vast variety
of plants both domestic and exotic. This
was given by Sir Hans Sloane, Bart. on
condition of their paying a quit rent of
5l. per annum, and annually delivering
to the President and Fellows of the Royal
Society, at one of their public meetings,
fifty specimens of different sorts of plants,
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well cured, and of the growth of this
garden, till the number of specimens
amounts to 2000.
Appleby's court, Barnaby street.†
Applebee's School is kept in St. Sa-
viour's churchyard in Southwark, and
was founded in 1681 by Mrs. Dorothy
Applebee, who endowed it with 20l.
per annum, for instructing thirty poor
boys in reading, writing and arithmetic.
Appletree yard, York street, St. James's
square.‡
Arch row, the west side of Lincoln's inn
fields.
Archbishop's wall, near Lambeth.
Arch yard, Harrison's court, near Brook
street.
Archdeacon. As the bishopric of Lon-
don includes the ancient kingdom of the
East Saxons, which contained the counties
of Middlesex, Essex, and part of Hert-
fordshire, it has five archdeaconries, viz.
those of London, Essex, Middlesex, Col-
chester, and St. Alban's. It is the of-
fice of these Archdeacons to visit annual-
ly the several cures in their respective
archdeaconries, in order to enquire into
the deportment of the several incumbents,
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