This parish is a rectory, and one of the peculiars belonging to the Archbishop of Canterbury. The rector receives 120_l._ a year in lieu of tithes.
DIPPING _alley_, Fair street, Horselydown.
DIRTY _alley_, 1. Fashion street.║ 2. Ratcliff highway.║
DIRTY _lane_, 1. Blackman street.║ 2. Brewer’s street.║ 3. High Holborn.║ 4. Hoxton.║ 5. Long Acre.║ 6. In the Mint, Southwark.║ 7. Old Place yard.║ 8. Shoreditch.║ 9. Stony lane.║ 10. In the Strand.║
_Court of_ DISPENSATIONS. See _Court of_ FACULTIES _and_ DISPENSATIONS.
DISTILLERS, a company incorporated by letters patent granted by Charles I. in the year 1638. This corporation is governed by a Master, three Wardens, nineteen Assistants, and 122 Liverymen, each of whom pay on their admission a fine of 13_l._ 6_s._ 8_d_.
DISTILLERS _yard_, 1. Great Tower hill. 2. Shoreditch.
DITCH _alley_, Green alley, Tooley street.☐
DITCH _side_, 1. Collingwood street.☐ 2. Cuckolds Point.☐
DITCH _side row_, Holiwell lane, Shoreditch.
DITTON PARK, is in the parish of Datchet, in Berks. The house, which is an ancient and venerable mansion, was built by Sir Ralph Winwood, Secretary of State to King James I. and afterwards came into the noble family of Montague; but on the demise of the late Duke, the house and manor of Datchet came to the present Earl of Cardigan. The former is built in the manner of a castle, surrounded by a large moat, in the middle of a pleasant park well planted with timber. The apartments are large and beautifully painted, and in the picture gallery is a good collection of paintings, many of them by the greatest masters.
DOBBS’S _court_, Swithin’s alley, Cornhill.†
DOCTORS COMMONS, a college for the study and practice of the civil law, where courts are kept for the trial of civil and ecclesiastical causes under the Archbishop of Canterbury, and the Bishop of London; as in the court of Arches, and the Prerogative court. There are also offices in which wills are deposited and searched, and a court of faculties and dispensations. Causes are likewise tried here by the court of Admiralty, and by that of Delegates. The epithet of _Commons_ is given to this place, from the Civilians commoning together as in other colleges.
This edifice is situated in Great Knight Rider street, near the College of Arms, on the south side of St. Paul’s Cathedral. The old building which stood in this place was purchased for the residence of the Civilians and Canonists, by Henry Harvey, Doctor of the civil and canon law, and Dean of the Arches; but this edifice being destroyed by the general devastation in 1666, they removed to Exeter House in the Strand, where the Civilians had their chambers and offices; and the courts were kept in the hall; but some years after the Commons being rebuilt in a far more convenient and sumptuous manner than before, the Civilians returned thither.