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seventeen wardmote inquestmen, two scavengers, two constables, and a beadle: and the jurymen returned by the ward- mote-inquest in this ward, serve in the several courts of Guildhall in the month of March. Batch's walk, Ratcliff highway.† Bateman's Bridge yard, Upper Ground street, Southwark.† Bateman's street, May fair.† Battersby court, near King street, West- minster.† Battersey, a village in Surrey, situated on the river Thames, four miles from London, and at the same distance from Richmond. The gardens about this place are noted for producing the finest asparagus. It gave the title of baron to the Late Lord Viscount St. John, who has a seat here, which is a plain old building. Here Sir Walter St. John founded a free school for twenty boys. Bates street, Ratcliff highway.† Bath court, Queen street. Bath street. 1. Cold Bath fields, thus named from the Cold Bath near it. 2. Welbeck street, thus named from the Earl of Bath.
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Battlebridge. 1. Gray's-inn lane, 2. Mill lane, Tooley-street, Southwark; it was so called from Battle's abbey; it stand- ing over a water-course, which flows out of the Thames, and formerly be- longed to that abbey. This bridge was therefore built and repaired by the Ab- bots of that house. Stow. Battlebridge stairs, near Mill lane, Tooley street. Batt's rents, Whitechapel Common.† Baxter's court, Church street, Hackney.† Baynard's castle lane, Thames street, so called from a castle of that name built there by William Baynard Lord of Dun- mow. Camden. Bayning's Almshouse, in Gunpowder alley, Crutched Friars, was erected in the year 1631, by Paul Viscount Sud- bury, for ten poor housekeepers; but being surrendered to the parish, they have made it their almshouse. Beach lane, Whitecross street, Cripplegate.‡ Beaconsfield, a small town in Bucking- hamshire, in the road to Oxford, about 23 miles from London. It has several good inns, and is remarkable for being the birth-place of Mr. Waller, the celebrat- ed poet, who had a great estate, and a
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