. The history and antiquities of London, Westminster, Southwark and parts adjacent. llowing is an account of the number of criminals : Received into this hospital during the last year, 1827,under committments by the lord mayor and tha aldermen ofthis city, as pilferers or disorderly persons, who have beenkept to hard labour (or received correction) 564 Apprentices sent by the chamberlain for solitary confine-ment , 24 HISTORY OF LONDON. 673 Received into this hospital during the same period sun-dry poor persons who have been committed for wanderingabroad and begging in the city of London 132 T
. The history and antiquities of London, Westminster, Southwark and parts adjacent. llowing is an account of the number of criminals : Received into this hospital during the last year, 1827,under committments by the lord mayor and tha aldermen ofthis city, as pilferers or disorderly persons, who have beenkept to hard labour (or received correction) 564 Apprentices sent by the chamberlain for solitary confine-ment , 24 HISTORY OF LONDON. 673 Received into this hospital during the same period sun-dry poor persons who have been committed for wanderingabroad and begging in the city of London 132 Total 720 On the south side of Fleet-street is Dorset-street and Salisburysquare, so called from its being the site of the mansion-house ofthe bishops of Salisbury, which was afterwards inhabited by theearls of Dorset. Between Salisbury-square and the Thames, was the office belong-ing to the New River Company; a handsome brick edifice, built ina very neat and uniform style. At the bottom of the street fronting the Thames, was formerly amagnificent and spacious theatre, called the. Dukes Theatre. The theatre occupied by sirW. Davenants company in Portugal-street, Lincolns Inn fields, proving too small, and otherwise incom-modious, sir W. Davenant, some time before his death, set abouterecting a new one, on a larger and more splendid scale. For itssite he fixed on Dorset gardens near Water-lane, Fleet-street, con-tiguous to the spot upon which the Salisbury-court theatre stood,and very near to the water-side. This building, however, he didnot live to see completed, as he died in April, 1668, and it was notready for the performance of plays until the 9th of November, 1671when it was opened by the company under the management of ladyDavenant, his widow, with Drydens sir Martin Marall, whichwas played three nights to crowded audiences, although it had beenpreviously acted thirty at the old theatre; but the attraction pro-bably lay more in the novelty of the house, than in the merit o
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