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day in November to the last Wednesday
in May, and at other times on the
first and third Wednesday of every month.
They are exceedingly well attended, and
'tis pleasing to behold with how laudable
a zeal every one endeavours to promote
the public good, by encouraging whatever
may improve the arts and manufactures,
or increase the commerce of this king-
dom and its colonies. They are not in-
corporated, nor seem much to want a
charter, as their business can be carried
on very well without one, and the ex-
pence would be too considerable; but it
is hoped their generous disinterested
intentions, and their extensive views to
promote the trade, the riches and ho-
nour of their country, will in time recom-
mend them to partake the royal bounty,
and that they will long continue to
prove themselves to be, what they are at
present, as respectable and useful a society
as ever was established in any nation.
Arundel stairs, Arundel street.†
Arundel street, Strand, so called from
Lord Arundel's house there.
Arundelian Library. See Royal So-
ciety.
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Ashentree court. 1. White Friars. 2.
Shoreditch.
Ashford, a village near Stains in Middlesex,
adorned with the seats of rhe Earl of
Kinoul, and the Duke of Argyle.
Ashted, a village in Surry, near Epsom
Wells, in one of the finest situations in
England, was lately in the possession of
Sir Robert Howard, brother to the Earl
of Berkshire, who erected a noble edifice
in this place, which he enclosed with a
park. This afterwards became the estate
and seat of Mr. Fielding, uncle to the
late Earl of Denbigh. The church, which
stands on the side of the park, has seve-
ral fine monuments.
Aske's Hospital, a handsome edifice at
Hoxton, erected by the Haberdasher's
company in the year 1692, pursuant to
the will of Robert Aske, Esq; who
left 30,000l. for building and endowing
it, in order to afford lodging and board
for twenty poor men of that company,
and for as many boys to be instructed in
reading, writing, and arithmetic. Each
of the pensioners hath an apartment con-
sisting of three neat rooms, with proper
diet at a common table, and firing; the
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