London and its Environs Described, Volume II, Page 58 & 59

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BURR street, Lower East Smithfield. BURTON'S rents, Holiwell street. BURY court, St. Mary Ax. BURY street, 1. Duke's place. 2. Piccadilly. BUSH alley, St. Catharine's lane. BUSH lane, Canon street, Walbrook. BUSHE'S rents, St. John's court, Cow lane. BUSHELL court, Lothbury. BUSHELL'S rents, Wapping. BUSHY, a small village near Watford in Hertfordshire, adjoining to which is a spacious common, called Bushy Heath, extending towards Stanmore, in the county of Middlesex. This heath rises to a considerable height, and from its top affords a most delightful prospect. On the one hand we have a view of St. Alban's, and of all the space between, which appears like a garden: the in- closed corn fields seem like one grand par- terre: the thick planted hedges resemble a wilderness or labyrinth: the villages interspersed thro' the landscape, appear at a distance like a multitude of gentle- men's seats. To the south east is seen Westminster Abbey, more to the south appears Hampton Court, and on the south west Windsor Castle, with the Thames winding between both, through the most beautiful parts of Middlesex
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and Surry, its banks adorned with towns, and a multitude of magnificent seats of the nobility. BUTCHERHALL lane, Newgate street. For- merly a market being kept in Newgate street, the slaughter houses of the butchers were in this lane, when from the nasti- ness of the place it was called stinking lane: but the market being removed after the fire, and this lane rebuilt, here the company of butchers had their hall, whence it took its name. BUTCHER row, 1. East Smithfield. 2. Rat- cliff cross. 3. Without Temple Bar. BUTCHERS, a fraternity that seems to have been very ancient, since they were fined by Henry II. in the year 1180, as an adulterine guild, for being set up with- out the King's licence; though they were not incorporated till the year 1605. This company consists of a Master, five War- dens, twenty-one Assistants, and two hundred and fouteen Liverymen, who pay a fine of 2l. each upon their admis- sion into the livery. They have a neat and convenient hall in Pudding lane, in which are three handsome rooms neatly wainscoted and adorned with fretwork. BUTCHER'S alley, 1. Cable street. 2. St.
		John