CUMBER’S _paved court_, Blackman street.†
CUPER’S _bridge stairs_, Cuper’s bridge.†
CUPER’S GARDENS, near the south bank of the Thames, opposite to Somerset house, and in the parish of Lambeth, was for several years a place of public entertainment: the gardens were illuminated, and the company entertained by a band of music, and fire works; but this, with other places of the same kind, has been lately discontinued by an act that has reduced the number of these seats of luxury and dissipation. Here are several statues, &c. the remains of Greek and Roman antiquities, that have been much disfigured by time and bad usage, supposed to be part of the famous collection of the Earl of Arundel, but being broken and defaced, were not thought good enough to be presented to the university of Oxford, and put among the _Marmoria Arundeliana_; they were therefore removed hither, when Arundel house on the other side of the Thames was turned into a street.
CURE’S _Almshouse_, in College yard, Deadman’s Place, Southwark, was founded by Thomas Cure, Esq; in the year 1584, for the reception of sixteen poor men and women, with an allowance of twenty pence a week each; and by the additional benefactions of his son and Mrs. Appleby, each of them receives an additional allowance of 16_s._ a year.
CURRIERS, a company of considerable antiquity, since, according to Mr. Stow, they founded a religious fraternity in the convent of White Friars, Fleet street, so early as in the year 1367; they were however not incorporated by letters patent till the year 1605. This company consists of a Master, two Wardens, twelve Assistants, and 103 Liverymen, whose fine is 9_l._ 13_s._ 4_d_. They have a pretty handsome hall near Cripplegate.
CURRIERS _alley_, 1. Bristol street, 2. Shoe lane.
CURSITORS _Office_, in Chancery lane, where is made out original writs. The Clerks, who are twenty-four in number, were anciently called _Clerici Brevium de Cursu_, and each hath certain counties and cities allotted them, for which they make out such original writs as are required; they are a distinct corporation, and each of them executes his respective duty by himself or his deputy. This office was erected by Sir Nicholas Bacon, Lord Keeper, in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, and the father of the celebrated Sir Francis Bacon.