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Blackburn's court, Portpool lane.†
Blackburn's mews, Grosvenor street.†
Black Dog alley. 1. Bowling alley,
Dean's yard, Westminster.* 2. East
Smithfield.*
Black Dog yard. 1. Near Vauxhall.*
2. Shoreditch.*
Black Eagle court, Whitechapel.*
Black Eagle street, Brick lane, Spital-
fields.*
Black Eagle yard, Black Eagle street.*
Black Fields, Horselydown.
Black Friars, near Fleet ditch, was a
monastery of that order, otherwise cal-
led Preaching Friars. This monastery
was erected by Robert Kilwarby Arch-
bishop of Canterbury, about the year
1276, who also built the church of
Black Friars, to which King Edward I.
and Queen Eleanor were great benefac-
tors, and even the reputed founders.
This church was large and richly
furnished with ornaments. In the mo-
nastery several parliaments were held,
and the Emperor Charles V. who
was also King of Spain, lodged there in
the year 1522. There the ancient Kings
had their records and charters kept,
as well as at the Tower: and, tho'
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this monastery was dissolved with the
rest by King Henry VIII. yet in the reign
of Queen Elizabeth, Black Friars was
inhabited by many noblemen and gentle-
men; parliaments still continued to be
often held there, and being a place
of refuge, malefactors frequently took
shelter in its liberties, and the inha-
bitants were free from arrests: but
these pernicious privileges have been
many years lost; and as it has been
lately made part of the ward of Fa-
ringdon within, the shopkeepers and
tradesmen are obliged to be free of
the city; two Common Council men
are annually elected out of it, and added
to the number that used to serve this
ward.
Black Friars bridge. The Lord
Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Coun-
cil of this city, have been empowered
by a late act, to build a bridge cross
the Thames from Black Friars to the
opposite side in the county of Surry;
to fill up the channel of Bridewell
dock, or Fleet ditch, and to purchase
and pull down such buildings as shall
be thought proper for forming and
widening streets and avenues. This
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