The land whereon this structure was erected was lately purchased by Mr. Hallet, an eminent cabinet-maker, who acquired a large fortune in that business, and he has built an elegant small house upon the ruins of the Duke of Chandos’s large and magnificent seat.
EDMONTON, a village in Middlesex, in the road to Ware, seven miles and a half from London.
_St._ EDMUND THE KING, a church situated on the north side of Lombard street, in Langborne ward, and thus denominated from its dedication to St. Edmund King of the East Angles, who was barbarously murdered by the Pagan Danes in the year 870, for his steadfast adherence to the Christian religion. The name Grasschurch was once added to this; but it is now disused: this last name took its rise from an herb market near the church.
The first sacred edifice in this place, and of this name, was built under the Saxon heptarchy: but the last old church was destroyed in the fire of 1666, and the present structure was finished in 1690. The length of this structure from north to south is 69 feet, and the breadth from east to west 39. The altar is placed at the north end. It has a square tower, upon which a short spire rises, with its base fixed on a broad lanthorn.
This church is a rectory in the patronage of the Archbishop of Canterbury; but in ecclesiastical affairs it is subject to the Archdeacon of London; and the parish of St. Nicholas Acons being united to it, the profits of the Rector are almost doubled; he receives in lieu of tithes 180_l._ a year.
EDWARDS’S _Almshouse_, in the parish of Christ Church, Surry, was built and endowed by the trustees of Mr. Edward Edwards, a citizen and mason of London, for such poor persons of that parish as receive no alms from that or any other parish. Each person has one room, an allowance of 40_s._ a year; and once in two years a purple gown of twenty shillings value.
EDWARD’S _court_, 1. Oxendon street.† 2. Panton street.†
EDWARD’S _street_, 1. Berwick street.† 2. Hare street, Spitalfields.†
EDWARD’S _wharf_, Durham yard in the Strand.†
EGHAM, a town in Surry, situated on the bank of the Thames almost opposite to Stanes, and three miles on this side of Windsor. It has several good inns, a noble charity school, and an almshouse built and endowed by Baron Denham, Surveyor of the works to King Charles II. for five poor old women, each of whom have an orchard. The parsonage house was formerly the seat of Sir John Denham, who rebuilt it. This Sir John was the father of the poet of that name, who took great delight in this place.