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CARNABY, or MARLBOROUGH Market,
by Carnaby street, has Marlborough
street on the north, and Broad street on
the south west. This is lately become
a very plentiful market for flesh and other
provisions.
CARNABY street, 1. Silver street, Blooms-
bury. 2. Silver street, Golden square.
CAROLINE court, Saffron hill.
CARON'S Almshouse, in Kingston road,
Vauxhall, consists of seven rooms for as
many poor women, and was founded by
his excellency the Right Hon. Noel Baron
of Caron, Ambassador from the States
General in the year 1623. This alms-
house he endowed with a handsome
estate, out of which each of his almswo-
men receives 4l. a year.
CARPENTERS, a fraternity incorporated
by Edward III. in the year 1344; with
the power of making by-laws. This
company is governed by a Master, three
Wardens, and twenty Assistants, with a
livery of 100 members, who pay a fine
of 8l. upon their admission.
Their hall is situated on the south side
of London Wall almost facing the east
end of Bethlem hospital, in a court called
Carpenters hall yard, to which there is
an entrance through a large pair of gates.
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The building is composed of timber and
plaister; and though very old, is not with-
out its peculiar ornaments.
CARPENTERS alley, Wych street.
CARPENTERS building, London wall.
CARPENTERS court, 1. Aldermanbury.
2. Bett's street, Ratcliff. 3. Charter-
house lane. 4. Long Acre.
CARPENTERS street, Mount row. †
CARPENTERS yard, 1. Beech lane. 2.
Coleman street. 3. Near Blackman street.
4. Deadman's place. 5. London wall.
6. Long lane, West Smithfield. 7. Peter
street, Westminster. 8. Poor Jewry lane.
9. Skinner street. 10. Town Ditch, Little
Britain. 11. Upper Ground street.
CARRIERS street, Buckeridge street.
CARSHALTON, a village in Surry, situated
among innumerable spings, which all
together form a river in the very street
of the town, and joining other springs
that flow from Croydon and Beddington,
from one stream called the Wandell.
Though this village is thus situated among
springs, it is built upon firm chalk, and
on one of the most beautiful spots on
that side of London, on which account
it has many fine houses belonging to the
citizens of London, some of them built
with such grandeur and expence, that
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