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row to the Poultry. 2. There is another street called Cheapside in the Mint, Southwark. Cheap Ward, is situated in the very cen- ter of the city; it being bounded on the north by Cripplegate ward, Bassishaw ward, and Coleman street ward; on the west by Queenhithe ward, and Cripplegate ward; on the south by Cordwainers ward; and on the east by Broad street ward, and Wallbrook ward: it takes its name from the Saxon word Chepe, a mar- ket, there being one kept in this division of the city. This market was from its situ- ation known by the name of West Cheap, to distinguish it from the market, between Candlewick street, and Tower street, called East Cheap. The principal streets in this ward are, Bucklersbury, the north side of Pancras lane, part of Queen street, the Poultry, the south end of the Old Jewry, Iron- monger lane, King street, Laurence lane, the east end of Cheapside as far as to the midway between the paved passage into Honey lane market and Milk street, and part of Cateaton street. The most remarkable buildings are, the parish churches of St. Mildred in the Poultry, and St. Mary's Colechurch;
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Guildhall, Mercer's hall, or Chapel, and Grocer's hall, with the Poultry Compter. This ward has an Alderman, and his Deputy, eleven other Common Council men, twelve wardmote inquest men, nine Scavengars, eleven constables, and a beadle. The jurymen returned by the wardmote inquest, serve in the courts in Guildhall in the month of February. Chelsea, a very large and populous vil- lage, two miles from London, pleasantly situated on the banks of the Thames almost opposite to Battersea. Here is the physic garden belonging to the company of Apothecaries of London, a particular account of which the reader may find in the article relating to that company. Sir Robert Walpole, the late Earl of Orford, had here for some time a house adorned with a noble collection of pictures, which was afterwards removed to Hough- ton-hall in Norfolk, and is now thought the finest collection in England. There are several other private buildings worthy of the observation of the curious. 1. At this place is the house and fine gardens that belonged to the late Earl of Ra- nelagh. See Ranelagh Gardens. See an account lately published, entitled Ædes Walpolianæ.
	H 3	Salter's