London and its Environs Described, Volume II, Page 32 & 33

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tables and insects, H animals in spirits, and N artificial curiosities. You now descend the small stair-case adjoining, and passing thro' the room (n), in which is the magnetic appara- tus given by Dr. Knight, you come to the rooms (h a) which contain the royal libraries, collected by the Kings and Queens of England from Henry VII. to Charles II. Then you enter the rooms b c d e f and g, which contain the li- brary of Sir Hans Sloane, consisting of not less than 40000 volumes. From hence you enter into (m), which is a withdraw- ing room for the Trustees, then into (l), which contains Major Edwards's library, consisting of about 3000 vo- lumes, and lastly enter the room (k), that contains a part of the King's library, which in the whole consists of about 12000 volumes. The wings marked (o o) are the a- partments of the offices, and (p p) is the colonade. BRITON'S alley, Freeman's lane. BRITT'S court, Nightingale lane. BROAD ARROW court, Grub street, Crip- plegate. BROAD BRIDGE, Shadwell. BROAD BRIDGE lane, Upper Shadwell.
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BROAD court, 1 Drury lane. 2 Duke's Place. 3 Shoemaker row, Aldgate. 4 Turnmill street. BROAD PLACE, 1 Flower and Dean street, Spitalfields. 2 King's street. 3 Broad St. Giles's. BROAD SANCTUARY row, near the Ab- bey, Westminster: is thus called from its being formerly a sanctuary or place of refuge. It is now called by the vul- gar the Century. BROAD street, 1. extends from Pig street to London wall, and was thus named from there being few streets within the walls of such a breadth before the fire of London. 2. Near Old Gravel lane. 3. Poland street. 4. Ratcliff. BROAD STREET buildings, a very hand- some street regularly built, leading from Moorfields to Broad street. BROAD STREET WARD, so called from Broad street lying in the center of it, is bounded on the north and east by Bi- shopsgate ward; on the west by Cole- man street ward; and on the south by Cornhill ward. The principal streets in this ward are, Threadneedle street, Prince's street almost as far as Catharine court, Lothbury from the church to Bartholomew lane, Throgmorton street,
VOL. II.	D	Broad