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This fraternity is governed by a Master,
four Wardens, thirty-eight Assistants, and
394 Liverymen, who upon their admis-
sion pay a fine of 20l. The company is
possessed of a great estate, out of which
they pay to charitable uses, pursuant to
the wills of the respective donors, about
2000l. per annum.
This company has a spacious hall on
the south side of Threadneedle street.
Strype's Stowe.
MARCHANT TAYLORS Almshouse, near the
west end of Rosemary lane, contains
twenty-six apartments for so many poor
widows, the relicts of deceased members,
who annually receive 6l. and a chaldron
of coals each, with a gown every third
year. Maitland.
MERCHANT TAYLORS rents, Moor lane.
MERCHANT TAYLORS SCHOOL, in Suf-
folk lane, Thames street, was founded by
the company of Merchant Taylors in the
year 1568, for the education of boys. It
was anciently kept in a house which be-
longed to the Duke of Buckingham, and
was called the Manor of the Rose; but
that edifice being destroyed by the fire of
London in 1666, the present structure
was erected upon the same spot.
The school is a long and spacious build-
ing, supported on the east by many stone
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pillars that form an handsome cloister,
within which are apartments for the three
Ushers. Adjoining to the school is a li-
brary supported also by stone pillars, and
well furnished with books. And on the
south of the library is the part called the
chapel. Contiguous to these is a large
house appropriated to the use of the head
Master.
The school consists of eight forms, in
which near three hundred boys have their
education; an hundred of whom, accord-
ing to the constitutions of the company,
are taught gratis; an hundred more at 5s.
and fifty at 2s. 6d. a quarter.
The head Master receives from the
company a salary of 10l. 6s. per annum,
and thirty shillings for water; besides the
quarterage from the scholars, which ren-
ders his salary very considerable. The
first Usher has 30l. a year, and the two
last 25l. per annum, and all of them have
proper apartments.
Several of the scholars are annually sent
to St. John's College, Oxford, which
seems to have been founded by Sir Tho-
mas White chiefly for their use, as they
have no less than forty-six fellowships in
that college.
For the better inquiry into the profici-
ency of all the scholars, there are four
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