Maitland fays it was formerly called Bonhill, or Goodhill. It was fet apart, confecrated and walled at the expence of the city, in 1665, the dreadful year of peftilence, as a common cemetery for the interment of fuch corps as could not have room in their parochial burial grounds but it not being used on this occafion, Mr. Tindal took a lease of it, and converted into a burial ground for the use of the diffenters. There are a great number of raised monuments with vaults underneath belonging to particular families, and a multitude of graveftones with infcriptions. The price of opening the ground, or of interment, is 159. BUNHILL FIELDS School, was erected by the company of Haberdashers, in the year 1673, purfuant to the gift of Mr. Throgmorton, who endowed it with 801. per annum, for the education of thirty poor boys of the parish of St. Giles, Cripplegate. BUNHILL row, near Bunhill fields. BURGE'S Court, Wood ftreet, Cheapfide.+ BUR BURLEIGH Street, in the Strand, near the houfe which formerly belonged to the great Lord Treasurer Burleigh. BURLINGTON gardens, a fireet by Bond ftreet; took its name from its being built on the spot, which was formerly the Earl of Burlington's garden. BURLINGTON HOUSE, in Piccadilly. The front of this houfe, which is of ftone, is remarkable for the beauty of the defign and workmanship. The print reprefenting the body of the house and a part of the wings, was all that could be taken into the visual angle. The circular colonade of the Doric order which joins the wings, is very noble and ftriking. The houfe is hardly grand enough for the colonade, and feems to want fomething in the center to make the entrance more confpicuous. The houfe is of an older date than the front, which was built by the late Earl of Burlington. The rooms within are in a fine tafte, and the staircafe is painted by Seb. Ricci, with great fpirit and freedom. BURLINGTON mews, Great Swallow street. BURLINGTON freet, Great Swallow street. The Earl of BURLINGTON's feat at Chifwick. See the article CHISWICK. BURNTWOOD. See BRENTWOOD. BURR BURR ftreet, Lower Eaft Smithfield. BURY Street, 1. Duke's place. 2. Piccadilly. BUSH lane, Canon ftreet, Walbrook. BUSHE'S rents, St. John's court, Cow lane.† BUSHELL Court, Lothbury. BUSHELL'S rents, Wapping. BUSHY, a small village near Watford in Hertfordshire, adjoining to which is a fpacious common, called Busby Heath, extending towards Stanmore, in the county of Middlefex. This heath rifes to a confiderable height, and from its top affords a most delightful profpect. On the one hand we have a view of St. Alban's, and of all the space between, which appears like a garden: the inclofed corn fields feem like one grand parterre: the thick planted hedges resemble a wilderness or labyrinth: the villages interspersed thro' the landscape, appear at a distance like a multitude of gentlemen's feats. To the fouth eaft is feen Westminster Abbey, more to the south appears Hampton Court, and on the fouth west Windfor Castle, with the Thames winding between both, through the most beautiful parts of Middlesex and and Surry, its banks adorned with towns, -and a multitude of magnificent feats of the nobility. BUTCHERHALL lane, Newgate street. Formerly a market being kept in Newgate ftreet, the flaughter houses of the butchers were in this lane, when from the naftinefs of the place it was called ftinking lane: but the market being removed after the fire, and this lane rebuilt, here the company of butchers had their hall, whence it took its name. BUTCHER row, 1. Eaft Smithfield. 2. Ratcliff crofs. 3. Without Temple Bar. BUTCHERS, a fraternity that seems to have been very ancient, fince they were fined by Henry II. in the year 1180, as an adulterine guild, for being fet up without the King's licence; though they were not incorporated till the year 1605. This company confifts of a Mafter, five Wardens, twenty-one Affiftants, and two hundred and fourteen Liverymen, who pay a fine of 21. each upon their admiffion into the livery. They have a neat and convenient hall in Pudding lane, in which are three handfome rooms neatly wainscoted and adorned with fretwork. BUTCHER'S alley, 1. Cable ftreet. 2. St. John John street, Weft Smithfield. 3. Windmill hill, Moorfields. BUTCHERS ARMS yard, Gofwell street.* BUTCHER'S clofe, King ftreet, Moorfields. BUTCHER'S dock, Rotherhith wall.† BUTCHER'S yard, Brick lane. It BUTLER'S alley, 1. Grub ftreet, Cripplegate. 2. Windmill hill row.+ BUTLER'S Almshoufe, in Little Chapel street, Westminster, was founded by Mr. Nicholas Butler, in the year 1675, who endowed it with 121. per annum. confifts of only two large rooms, for two poor men and their wives. BUTLER'S court, Houndsditch.† BUTLER'S yard, Monkwell ftreet.† BUTTERFLY court, Grub ftreet, Cripplegate.* BUTTERMILK alley, Phenix ftreet, Spitalfields. BUTT's ftreet, Lambeth.+ BUTTONMOULD row, Dean's court, St. Martin's le Grand. BY AS rents, Crucifix lane. BYFIELD's paffage, Petticoat lane.† BYFLEET, a village in Surry, fituated on a branch of the river Mole, adorned with feveral gentlemen's feats, and a fine park in its neighbourhood. At this place is a hand |