London and its Environs Described, Volume II, Page 90 & 91

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Popish Chapels of Foreign Ministers. 1. French Ambassador's in Greek street. 2. Imperial Ambassador's, Hanover square. 3. Portuguese Ambassador's, in Golden square. 4. Sardinian Ambassador's Lin- coln's Inn fields. 5. Venetian Ambassa- dor's Suffolk street. Chapel alley. 1. near Oxford street. † 2. Long Acre. † Chapel court. 1. Audley street. † 2. Gil- bert street, Bloomsbury. † 3. Henrietta street, Cavendish square. † 4. Lincoln's Inn. † Chapel passage, Gray's Inn. † Chapel street. 1. Audley street. † 2. Broad Way, Westminster. † 3. Long Acre. † 4. Red Lion street, Holborn. † 5. War- dour street. † Chapman's court, George street, Tothill side.† Chapman's rents, Barnaby street.† Chapman's yard, Goodman's fields.† Chapter House, on the north side of St. Paul's church yard. This is a hand- some building, belonging to St. Paul's, in which the Convocation of the province of Canterbury sat to consult about eccle- siastical affairs, and to form canons for the government of the church: but tho' the upper and lower house are called by
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the King's writ at every session of par- liament, they are now constantly pro- rogued, and dismissed by his Majesty's authority. Chapter House court, St. Paul's church yard. † Charing Cross, opposite the west end of the Strand, is so denominated from a village called Charing, in which Ed- ward I. caused a magnificent cross to be erected in commemoration of his beloved Queen Eleanor, part of which continued till the civil wars in the reign of Charles I. when it was entirely destroyed by the po- pulace, as a monument of popish super- stition. Stow. However, after the re- storation an equestrian statue of King Charles I. was erected on the spot where this cross stood, which is still, tho' very improperly, called Charing Cross. This statue has the advantage of being well placed; the pedestal is finely elevated, and the horse full of fire and spirit; but the man is not perhaps equally well executed: so that upon the whole it can neither be generally condemned, nor universally admired.* Its situation is * It is said that Oliver Cromwell after King Charles I. was beheaded, ordered this statue to
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