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appoint 24 governors, by whom the
master and usher are chosen to teach
seven children gratis, and all the other
children of the parish for 5s a quarter.
Here is also an almshouse founded and
endowed by James Ravenscroft, Esq;
for six widows.
This place is remarkable for the de-
cisive battle fought there between the
houses of York and Lancaster, on Easter
day, 1468, in which the great Earl of
Warwick, stiled the Setter up, and Pul-
ler down of Kings, was slain, with many
others of the principal nobility. The
place supposed to be the field of battle,
is a green spot, a little before the meet-
ing of the St. Alban's and Hatfield roads:
and here, in the year 1740, a stone co-
lumn was erected, on which is inscrib-
ed a long account of that battle.
Barnet (East) a pleasant village in
Hertfordshire, near Whetstone and En-
field Chace, formerly much frequented
on account of its medicinal spring, which
was discovered in a neighbouring com-
mon about an hundred years ago.
The church is a mean edifice; but the
rectory is very beneficial.
Here is the fine seat of the Lord
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Trevor, to which Queen Elizabeth
gave the name of Mount Pleasant.
Barnet's yard, Mill bank.†
Baron's Almshouse, in Elbow lane,
Shadwell, was founded in the year 1682,
by George Baron, for fifteen poor wo-
men, who also endowed it with 5l. 4s.
per annum for bread.
Barrat's rents, Stepney Causeway.†
Barrat's court, Horselydown, Fair street.†
Barrow's rents, Windmill hill.†
Bartholomew close, near Smithfield,
so called from its being situated near the
church of St. Bartholomew the Great.
Bartholomew court. 1. Houndsditch.
2. Throgmorton street.
St. Bartholomew's Church, situated at
the south east corner of Bartholomew
lane, behind the Royal Exchange, was
one of the churches consumed in the
general conflagration in 1666, and this
structure arose in its place. It consists
of a very irregular body, with a tower
suited to it, the top of which, instead
of pinnacles, a spire, or turrets, is
crowned with arches, supported by
columns of the Corinthian order. It
is a rectory, in the gift of the Crown,
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