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Ave-Mary lane, Ludgate street. See
Pater-noster Row.
Avery farm, Chelsea.
Avery row, by May-fair.
Augmentation Office in Dean's yard,
Westminster. This office belongs to a
corporation established by an act pas-
sed in the second and third years of the
reign of Queen Anne, for the better
maintenance of the poor Clergy, by the
augmentation of small livings. This
body corporate consists of the Lords of
the Privy Council, the Lords Lieuten-
ants and Custos Rotulorum, the Arch-
bishops, Bishops, and Deans of cathe-
drals, the Judges, the King's Serjeants
at law, the Attorney, Sollicitor, and
Advocate General, the Chancelors and
Vice-Chancellors of the Universities, the
Lord Mayor and Aldermen of London,
and the Mayors of all other cities with-
in the kingdom; seven of whom may
compose a court, provided three of that
number be a Privy Counsellor, a Bishop,
a Judge, or one of the King's Council,
and this court may appoint committees
of Governors, and invest them with such
powers as they think proper.
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The business of the Governors is to
find out the value of every benefice un-
der 80l a Year, with the distance of
each from London, &c. and to lay the
state thereof before his Majesty, with
the value of the tenths, first-fruits, &c.
in order that the royal bounty may be
applied to support those of the clergy,
who are in the greatest distress: and this
corporation has actually augmented a
great number of small livings.
Austin Friars, near Broad street, was
a priory founded for the Friars Eremites,
of the order of St. Augustine, in the
year 1253, by Humphrey Bohun, Earl
of Hereford and Essex. The Friars
of this priory were Mendicants, and
continued in the possession of this place
till its dissolution by King Henry VIII.
since which time the greatest part has been
pulled down, and many handsome houses
built; but a part of the old church be-
longing to the priory is still standing.
King Edward VI. granted all the church,
except the choir, to a congregation of
Germans, and other strangers, who fled
hither for the sake of religion, ordering
it to be called the Temple of the Lord
Jesus, and several successive Princes have
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