EXETER _street_, Catharine street, so called from its being situated near Exeter ’Change.
_Court of_ FACULTIES _and_ DISPENSATIONS, in Doctors Commons, under the Archbishop of Canterbury. When the papal power was abolished in England by King Henry VIII. this court was established by act of parliament, that the Archbishop in the Pope’s stead, might grant dispensations and indulgences for eating flesh upon prohibited days; for marrying without banns or on holydays; for a son to succeed his father in his benefice; for a plurality of livings, non-residence, and other cases of the like nature. To this court belongs an officer called _Magister ad Facultates_, and a register.
_St._ FAITH’S, a parish church once under the east end or choir of St. Paul’s cathedral. It owes its name to its being dedicated to St. Faith, or _Sancta Fides_, a French virgin of the city of Agen, in the province of Aquitain, who is said to have suffered martyrdom in the reign of the Emperor Dioclesian, for refusing to sacrifice to idols. No records however remain of the antiquity of this church, in which several persons of note were formerly interred, nor is it known at what time divine service was performed in it, other than by chauntry priests for the souls of their departed benefactors. This church however having suffered with St. Paul’s cathedral, it was thought proper entirely to demolish it, and to unite the parish to that of St. Austin’s.
FALCON _alley_, 1. Barnaby street.* 2. King street, Westminster.* 3. Redcross street.
FALCON _court_, 1. In the Borough.* 2. Fleet street.* 3. Lothbury.* 4. Near Rag street, Clerkenwell.* 5. Shoe lane.* 6. Shoemaker row, Aldgate.
*FALCON _lane_, 1. Falcon stairs.* 2. Maiden lane, Southwark.
*FALCON _row_, 1. Codpiece row.* 2. Fleet street.* 3. Long lane, Southwark.* 4. Lothbury.* 5. St. Margaret’s hill.* 6. Shoe lane.* 7. White street.
*FALCON _yard_, 1. Kent street.* 2. Shoemaker row, Aldgate.* 3. Tooley street.
*FALCONBRIDGE _court_, Hog lane, St. Giles’s.†
FALCONER’S _alley_, 1. Cow Cross, West Smithfield.† 2. Cross street, by Lukener’s lane.† 3. Turnmill street.†
FANMAKERS, a company incorporated by letters patent granted by Queen Anne, in the year 1709. This fraternity is governed by a Master, two Wardens, and twenty Assistants; but they have neither hall nor livery. _Maitland._