This corporation consists of two Wardens, thirty Assistants, and 147 Liverymen, who upon their admission, pay a fine of 15_l._
Their hall, which was formerly situated near Old Swan lane, Thames street, being destroyed by the dreadful conflagration in 1666, and a number of warehouses erected in its place, the company have converted one of their houses in Little Elbow lane, Dowgate hill, into a hall to transact their affairs in. _Maitland._
DYERS _Almshouse_, in Dyer’s buildings, Holborn, was erected by the Dyers company, and contains eight rooms for so many poor women, who are only allowed two pence per week, an evident proof of the antiquity of the foundation.
The Dyers have another almshouse in St. John’s street, near Spitalfields, erected by the master Dyers for the benefit of six poor widows, each of whom is allowed 1_l._ 10_s._ a year.
DYER’S _court_, 1. Aldermanbury. 2. Holborn hill. 3. Noble street, Foster lane.
DYER’S _yard_, 1. Church lane, Whitechapel. 2. Old Bethlem. 3. Whitechapel.
EAGLE AND CHILD _yard_, Broad street, St. Giles’s.
*EAGLE _court_, 1. In the Strand.* 2. St. John’s street, West Smithfield.
*EAGLE _street_, 1. Piccadilly.* 2. Plumtree street.* 3. Red Lion street, Holborn.
EARL’S _court_, 1. Drury lane. 2. Great Earl’s street. 3. Little Newport street.
EAST HARDING _street_, New street, Shoe lane.§
EAST INDIA COMPANY, was first incorporated by a charter granted by Queen Elizabeth in 1601, when the first subscription for carrying on this trade amounted to 739,782_l._ 10_s._ and a year or two after by an additional subscription of 834,826_l._ the stock was raised to 1,574,608_l._ 10_s._ and with this capital they established a commerce by the Red sea to Arabia, and to Persia, India, China, and several of the East India islands. But about the beginning of the protectorate of Oliver Cromwell, it being imagined that the laying open the trade to the East Indies would be of advantage to the whole nation, that commerce was made general, and thus continued till the year 1657, when it being found that the separate trade was of disadvantage to the undertakers, they were for the good of the whole united to the company by the legislature. _Stow’s Survey, last edit._