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Hornsey, a village in Middlesex, five miles from London. About a mile nearer this, is a coppice of young trees, called Hornsey Wood, at the entrance of which is a genteel public house, to which great numbers of persons resort from the city. This house being situated on the top of a hill, affords a delightful prospect of the neighbouring country.

Horns yard, 1. Cloth fair, East Smithfield.* 2. Kent street.* 3. Peter street, Westster. 4. Stony street.* 5. Whitechapel.*

Master of the Horse. See the article Master of the Horse.

Horse and Groom yard, Wood street, Westminster.*

Horse and Trumpet yard, Poor Jewry lane, Aldgate.

Horse Guards, a noble modern edifice opposite to the Banquetting-house, Whitehall. It consists of a center and two wings, and has an air of solidity perfectly agreeable to the nature of the building. It receives its name from the horse guards, who while the King is at St. James’s 202are here on duty, two at a time being constantly mounted and completely armed, under two handsome slope porches detached from the building, and erected to shelter them from the weather. This structure is equally calculated for the use of the foot as well as the horse on duty.

In the center of this edifice is an arched passage into St. James’s Park, and the building over this has a pediment, in which are the King’s arms in bass relief. But this arch, as it is the passage of his Majesty to and from the house of Peers, should have been more lofty and noble. At each extreme of this center is a pavilion. But the cupola, which is not seen in the view represented in the plate of the Treasury, has but little to recommend it. The middle face of the cupola presents a dial; and the aperture in the lower part of this, and on the several stages of the other, are well calculated to break the plainness, without weakening the building, either in reality or appearance. The wings are plainer than the center. They each consist of a fore front, projecting a little, with ornamented windows in the principal story, and a plain one in the sides. Each has its pediment, with a circular window in the center: and the whole has a proper air of strength and plainness.

203Horse walk, Windmill hill, Moorfields.

Horse and Cart yard, St. John’s street.

Horseferry bank, Millbank, Westminster.

Horseferry lane, Fore street, Lambeth.

Horseferry road, Tothill fields.

Horselydown, Tooley street. All the tract called Horselydown, including the streets, square and lane of the same name, was originally a grazing ground, whence it was denominated Horse Down, which by corruption was changed to Horselydown. Stow, last edit.

Horselydown fair street, near Free school street.

Horselydown Old lane, Horselydown.

Horselydown square, Shad Thames.

Horselydown stairs, Horselydown.

Horselydown street, St. Olave’s, Southwark.

Horsemonger lane, near Blackman street.

Horseshoe alley, 1. Anchor street.* 2. Bank side, Southwark.* 3. Bunhill row.* 4. Fashion street.* 5. Golden lane.* 6. Maiden lane.* 7. Moorfields.* 8. Petticoat lane. 9. Petty France. 10. Thread-needle street.* 11. Whitechapel.*

Horseshoe Alley stairs, Bank side.*

Horseshoe court, 1. Bridge yard, Tooley street.* 2. Clement’s lane, near Temple Bar.* 3. Cock lane, West Smithfield.* 2044. Fashion street.* 5. Giltspur street, without Newgate.* 6. Old street.* 7. Peter street, Hicks’s hall.* 8. Seething lane.*

Horseshoe passage, Blowbladder street.*

Horseshoe yard, 1. Brook street.* 2. Old Gravel lane.*

Hosier lane, West Smithfield; so called from its being formerly inhabited by the hosiers. Stow.

Hoskin’s court, Hartshorn lane, in the Strand.†

Hospital passage, leading from Christ’s hospital into Butcherhall lane.*

Hospital walk, Hoxton.

Houghton street, Clare market.†

Hotwater alley, Paris Garden lane.

Hovel, Hog lane, Norton Falgate.

Houndsditch, extends from Bishopsgate street without to Aldgate street within, and runs along the outside of the city wall. Here was formerly the city moat, which obtained the name of Houndsditch, from the number of dead dogs flung into it; and this ditch being filled up, the street built upon it obtained the same name. Maitland.

Hounslow, a village 12 miles north of London, on the edge of the heath of the same name, which is equally famous for horse-races and robberies. There are here a 205chapel and a charity school. The village belongs to two parishes, the north side of the street to Hefton, and the south to Isleworth. In this place was formerly a convent of mendicant friars, who by their institution were to beg alms for the ransom of captives taken by the infidels. On its dissolution by King Henry VIII. that Prince gave it to the Lord Windsor, and it was afterwards purchased by Mr. Auditor Roan.

Housewife alley, Old Bethlem.

Master of the Houshold. See the article Master of the Houshold.

Howard street, Norfolk street. Lord Arundel’s house stood there, and from thence both Arundel and Norfolk street had their names.

Howard’s alley, 1. Angel alley.† 2. Back street, Lambeth.† 3. Clerkenwell close.†

Howard’s Causeway alley, Narrow Wall.†

Howford’s court, 1. Fenchurch street.† St. Nicholas lane, Lombard street.†

Hoxton, near Shoreditch. This was for many ages a village, and in the Conqueror’s Survey is named Hocheston: but by the increase of buildings it has been for some time past joined to this metropolis.

206Hoxton market, Hoxton.

Hoxton road, Hoxton.

Hoxton square, Hoxton.

Hoyle’s court, Noble street, Foster lane.†

Hubbart’s rents, Houndsditch.†

Hubbart’s yard, Brown’s lane.†

Hucker’s court, St. Nicholas lane.†

Hudson’s Bay Company. Though the extensive countries to which this Company trade, were discovered by Sir Sebastian Cabot, in the year 1497, yet this commerce does not seem to have been fully settled till after the year 1670, at which time King Charles II. by his letters patent incorporated the adventurers by the title of The Governor and Company of the Adventurers of England trading into Hudson’s Bay, and granted them and their successors for ever, all the streights, bays, seas, rivers, lakes, creeks, islands, shores, lands, territories and places whatsoever, within Hudson’s Streights and Hudson’s Bay.

This Company carry on a considerable trade to the above places by a joint stock, and have settled several small factories, to which the natives repair with their rich furs, skins, and other commodities of the country, which they exchange for those of England.

This corporation is under the direction of a Governor, Deputy Governor, and 207seven Assistants, who have a hall which stands backward in the south side of Fenchurch street. This is a very fine brick building, adorned with pilasters, architraves, &c. Maitland.

Hudson’s court, 1. Tower hill.† 2. Vine street, Little Chandos street.†

Huet’s court, in the Strand.†

Huet’s rents, Grub street, Fore street.†

Huggen alley, 1. Wood street, Cheapside. 2. Huggen lane.

Huggen lane, Thames street.

Hugh’s court, Water lane, Black Friars.†

Hulbert’s Almshouse, a very handsome building contiguous to St. Peter’s hospital at Newington Butts. See Fishmongers Almshouse.

Humfrey’s alley, Shoreditch.†

Hungerford market, near the west end of the Strand, and at a small distance from the Thames. In this place was anciently a large house, with a garden, the seat of Sir Edward Hungerford, which he converted into buildings. There is here a good market house, and over it a French church: but the market house turns to little account, notwithstanding its convenient situation for the gardeners to land their greens, &c. at the stairs.

Hungerford stairs, Hungerford market.†

208Hungerford Stairs passage, Hungerford market.†

Hungerford street, in the Strand, leading to the market.†

Common Hunt. See Common.

Hunt’s court, 1. Castle street, Leicester fields.† 2. Hunt’s street.† 3. St. Martin’s lane, Charing Cross.†

Hunt’s rents, Goswell street.†

Hunt’s street, Spicer’s street.†

Hunt’s wharf, near Thames street.†

Hurst’s gardens, St. George’s fields.†

Husband’s street, 1. Near Berwick street.† 2. By Knave’s acre.†

Hussey’s alley. Wood street.†

Hutchinson’s wharf, Milford lane.†

Hydon square, near the east end of the Minories.†

Hydon square court, Hydon square.†

Hydon yard, leading from the Minories to Hydon square.†