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 SOHO IN THE OLDEN TIME. 
 
 BEING THE SUBSTANCE OF 
 
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 DE LIVE RED AT 
 
 THE WOEKING MEN'S BEADING BOOM AND PEOPLE'S 
 LIBKAEY, VESTRY ROOM, DEAN STREET, SOHO, 
 
 On Easter Monday, and again on Monday, July MIi, 1859, 
 
 BY 
 
 REV. CHARLES BULL, 
 
 Curate at §i. |inn«'s, Sol^stiuiust^r. 
 
 WITH 
 
 AN APPENDIX, 
 
 CONTAINING 
 
 SOME ACCOUNT OF ST. ANNE'S PARISH, SCHOOLS, LIBRARY, 
 PARISH|OFFICERS, &c. DOWN TO THE PRESENT TIME. 
 
 W. H. J. CARTEE, Caelton Libbary, 12, Regent Steeet. 
 
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 MDCCCXLIX.
 
 LONDON : 
 PEINTED BY J. MILES & CO. 105, WAEDOUE ST. OXFOED ST.
 
 SOHO IN THE OLDEN TIME. 
 
 I do not know whether any separate account of Soho 
 exists, but, having been at some httle pains to collect 
 information respecting the history of the Parish in 
 which my lot has been cast, in order that I might 
 afford the members of the Beading Eoom an hour's 
 amusement, I have yielded to the wish, kindly ex- 
 pressed by many of the Parishioners of St. Anne's, 
 and rushing into print offer to them in the present 
 form, the substance of a lecture which at any rate 
 afforded some little interest to those who heard it. 
 Most persons will be able to appreciate the wish to 
 know something about the olden days and associations 
 of the localities by which they are surrounded. The 
 very names of the streets in which we live recall 
 recollections of names some of them famous in the 
 history of our land ! 
 
 It will be well in the first place, to trace the 
 derivation of the word " Soho," in which indeed, 
 some part of St. James's parish is included, Berwick 
 street being in Soho. In Queen Elizabeth's reign
 
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 it is said that the "wild boar was hunted in the woods 
 which adorned this vicinity of London, and that the 
 name v/as given from the usual hunting expression 
 " Soho." The name was used as the battle-cry of the 
 followers of the ill-fated Monmouth, at Sedgemoor 
 in 1C87. This watch-word was given in allusion to 
 Monmouth's ducal residence in Soho square, 1683. 
 Soho fields are mentioned at a very early date ; most 
 probably from a small village or hamlet existing here, 
 called from the two Saxon vfords Soe Hoe, South 
 hill. " Soho" also means stop ; a term which might be 
 the origin of the name of our Parish, for when upon the 
 fire of London, buildings spreading further than was 
 thought right by those in authority, a royal procla- 
 mation Yviis issued by Charles II, forbidding speculating 
 builders from building in the fields about St. Giles's 
 pond, Kempe's field, Bunche's close, &c., Soho yow 
 builders, might not unreasonably be suggested as the 
 derivation of " Soho." Alas ! the proclamation was 
 little heeded, bricks and mortar grew faster and faster, 
 till in these days, a twelvemonth is sufficient to mystify 
 a stranger in all the mazes of a new neighbourhood 
 with parks, crescents, squares, places, and streets. In 
 spite of the proclamation of the " Merrie Monarch,'* 
 Soho square and its neighbourhood was soon occupied 
 by the stately mansions of the noble of the land, 
 squares and streets soon occupied the fields where the 
 citizens of Westminster had delighted to roam in the 
 summer days. 
 
 Sohoe fields have long since^ been numbered with 
 
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 the past, as St. Martin's fields, St. Giles's, and all 
 the green spots which once delighted our childhood 
 days, all swallowed up in this wondrous London. The 
 very spot on which is erected St. Anne's Church, Soho, 
 was, a little more than a hundred and fifty years ago, 
 a mere meadow for the grazing of a few cows ; a poor 
 and sorry fare any cattle would he ahle to pluck from 
 all the grass growing in every part of St. Anne's ! The 
 fields ahout the church were called Kempe's fields, 
 Bundle's close, Coleman's Hedge fields. Dog House 
 fields. Brown's close ; Princes street was Hedge lane. 
 Seven Dials v/as Coch and Fie fields ! In a map of 
 London puhlished in 15G3 it seems there was not a house 
 in Sohoe fields, only one house in a line from St. Martin's, 
 then a village church, to St. Giles's, another sweet 
 suhurhan spot. The proclamation of Charles II, was 
 in 1671, it included in its prohibitory declarations, 
 huilding in Windmill fields, and Dog and Drake fields, 
 we can hardly imagine a windmill in full swing in tlie 
 middle of Soho, or hoys hunting ivild ducks in the 
 ponds ahout Tottenham Court road and 'Oxford street. 
 Soho belonged originally to St. Martin's parish ; till 
 a very late date the Aim's houses of St. Martin's were in 
 Crown street, Soho, where CJiapel place now stands. 
 St. Anne's, had no separate or distinct existence as a 
 parish till 1678, when the good folks who had settled 
 in this then fashionable neighbourhood, found them- 
 selves inconveniently situated with regard to their 
 parish church I Before that period the Duke of 
 Monmouth had his palace in Soho or King's square,
 
 where Bateman's buildings now stand. The Earls 
 of Leicester, Carlisle, and Nottingham, were there 
 resting in the sunshine of the Eestoration, after 
 the turmoils of the civil war. Foreigners quickly 
 followed in the train of English noblemen, and from 
 its first formation St. Anne's has been the resort of 
 most of the foreign political refugees, down to the time 
 of the Neapolitans who landed on the shores of 
 Ireland, and found a temporary refuge in Soho, in fact, 
 as St. Giles's is the Irish quarter of the town, Soho is 
 peopled to a very great extent with Italians, French, 
 Germans, Swiss, Spaniards, and Portuguese. 
 
 The house now occupied by Mr. Charles Jefferys in 
 
 Soho square, together with the premises behind (now 
 
 St. Patrick's Chapel), is the site, and indeed part of the 
 
 original " Carlisle house," there are figures to Minerva 
 
 and other heathen deities still ornamenting the Komish 
 
 chapel, that part of the house having been the banquet 
 
 room. Messrs. Crosse and Blackwell's place on the 
 
 other side of Sutton street, was the original Whitehouse 
 
 at one time infamous as the resort of the roues and 
 
 pickles of the day, — now famous for preserves and 
 
 pickles of another kind ! The noblemen and gentry 
 
 who had established themselves in King's or Soho 
 
 square, Dean street, and other places having made their 
 
 spiritual wants known, obtained an Act of Parliament to 
 
 sever their neighbourhood from St. Martin's parish, at 
 
 that time the greatest " parochial cure" in England, where, 
 
 John Baxter said, " people lived like Americans, without 
 
 hearing a sermon once in many years ;" a reproach which
 
 can never be true of any parish of London in these days — 
 for all, however poor or neglected, may hear sermons 
 week by week, and those, too, from Bishops. An Act of 
 Parliament then was passed in 1678 to form the new 
 parish, and to enable the new fledged parishioners to 
 proceed with the building of their church. They had 
 laid the foundation of a chapel of ease, in Kempe's fields, 
 but they were enabled to make this intended chapel of ease 
 a parish church. It is singular to remark the exactness 
 with which the boundaries of the parish are laid down, 
 an instance of attention to small technicalities which 
 marked the slow progress of great works in those days. 
 It took a good eight years to complete the church and to 
 model the parish, and then it was not done completely, 
 for, when the church was consecrated on the 21st day of 
 March, 1686 — or old style, 1685 — writes a chronicler 
 of those times, " by the Lord Bishop of London, that 
 most pious prelate and admirable governor, Compton. 
 The consecration was the more hastened as it was* to 
 be a parish from the Lady Day after its consecrating, by 
 the terms of the Act. Had it not been consecrated that 
 day it would have lost the benefit of a year, there being 
 no other Sunday before Lady Day." (We may remark 
 here, that the notion of those days was that a church 
 could only be consecrated on a Sunday.) " The material 
 part was finished, though the pews were not set neither 
 below nor in the galleries." (What a joyful thing it would 
 have been to some of the parishioners if the said pews, 
 either below or in the galleries, had never been set at 
 ^11, or, at least, had been a little less like the great sleeping
 
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 boxes I hope we shall soon get rid of.) " But his 
 liOrdship made no scruple of consecrating it, yet he 
 would ascertain that all the workmen were paid or 
 secured their money or dues first, and to that end made 
 particular inquiries of the workmen." The same writer 
 speaks afterwards of a Countess of Dorchester taking 
 a pew in St. Anne's, I have seen a portrait somewhere 
 of this Countess, not unlike in one article of dress — 
 the ladies of the present time — a hoop of immense 
 dimensions performed the office of Punch's much 
 ridiculed and unfortunate crinoline. How she got past 
 the 2^cw door is difficult to imagine I 
 
 The new church was dedicated, hy Bishop Compton, 
 by the name of St. Anne, in memory of the mother of the 
 Virgin Mary. Alas ! we are reminded that the worship 
 of man interfered rather in this designation. The 
 name chosen was in honour of Ann, the daughter of the 
 reigning sovereign, James, then married to the crown 
 prince of Denmark, — a supposition home out by the fact 
 that the steeple of St. Anne's was made to correspond 
 to the model of a Danish steeple. A very singular one 
 truly it was, and nearly, but not quite, so unsightly as 
 the tower we now possess, erected, in 1806, by 
 Cockerell. The worship of mammon interfering even 
 in the dedication of houses of prayer is exemplified at 
 St. George's, Bloomsbury, the saint being George, Duke 
 of Bedford, whose statue, ornaments, shall I say, the 
 steeple of Bloomsbury church ? Now we have under our 
 notice the consecrated church, from which flows, indeed, 
 all our existence as a parish. As a parish church — ^we
 
 may as well remark on tlie different matters of interest 
 connected with it. If not designed by Cliristoplier Wren 
 it was certainly the work of one of his 2^U2yU^' With, 
 the most unsightly exterior, if has within noble pro- 
 portions and decent ornamentation. A ceiling w^hich, 
 for richness of tracery, is not to be surpassed by any 
 church of the kind in London. It wants only the touch 
 of the magic brush of an Owen Jones, to bring out in 
 beautiful relief as fine a ceiling as the one in St. 
 Martin's. 
 
 The Eev. John Hearn, a Bachelor of Divinity, was 
 made rector April 1st, 1686. Very shortly indeed after 
 the consecration of the church, 20th March, 1687, 
 Evelyn writes : " I went to hear Mr. Wake, at the new 
 built church of St. Anne, on Mark viii, 35, upon the 
 subject of taking up the cross and strenuously behaving 
 ourselves in time of persecution as this now threatened 
 to be." This Dr. Wake afterwards was Archbishop of 
 Canterbury, he made several presentations to t]^e 
 church — branches for the gallery, two surplices, &c. 
 
 The first baptism took place on the 25th of March, 
 in the same year- I give here a few of the earlier 
 baptisms of the church : — 
 
 Here hegines a registei' of tJiose that have been 
 baptised in y" new Parish of St. Ann's, in 'if Liberty of 
 Westminster — 
 
 March, 1686. 
 
 BAPTISMS. BIRTHS. 
 
 25. — Joseph Campion of Richard and Eliz. bom 5 
 May, 1686.
 
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 13. — William Foote, of William and Sarah. 
 
 Very often we meet with registries such as the fol- 
 lowing : — 
 
 August. 
 
 31. — Nicholas Lesle, a child found. 
 May 1687. 
 
 24. — Henry Barbados, a blackmoor. (Probably a 
 gentleman's servant.) 
 
 The more fashionable baptisms still seem to have 
 continued at the old mother church of St. Martin's for 
 some years. In 1688, 1689, we find a baptism of one 
 Meriall Talbot, of Sherrington and Sarah, born Feb. 8. 
 A record which proved of service in the great law 
 suit before the House of Lords last year, known as the 
 great Shrewsbury Peerage Case. The way in which I 
 hit upon this important entry was an extraordinary 
 one ; a clerk stated that he wanted the record of some 
 Talhots as having lived in St. Ann's, — the case would be 
 decided against the Duke of Norfolk's son that very next 
 week, unless they could prove such parties as having 
 existed. I opened the record and found this very Sherring- 
 ton as having a daughter Meriall, and a son Sherrington; 
 and as having been married in St. Ann's church him- 
 self. Subsequently we found a Sherrington Talbot 
 in the rate books ; the evidence caused a delay in the 
 decision of the case till the next session, and the present 
 Earl of Shrewsbury and Talbot would, in all human 
 probability, not have been Earl of Shrewsbury till 
 this session of Parliament had I not given his Soli- 
 citors the same facilities of searching the records
 
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 that I did to the Duke of Norfolk's Solicitors. It was 
 an anxious time to me, I assure you. I had to 
 give twenty pages of evidence before the House 
 of Lords. I must confess that an hour's exami- 
 nation hy the great men of the day, — Brougham, 
 Lyndhurst, Wensleydale, &c. is no pleasant way of 
 sipending a morning. However, I trust I did good 
 seorvice to the Earl of Shreivshury, and was heartily 
 gjad to he able to congratulate him on attaining his 
 title. 
 
 However, to return from our digression, we find 
 no great names in the earlier records of baptism, 
 or rather the mere surname of the parents being given, 
 it leads to some little difficulty of identification ; but 
 wh€fli the church had been open some thirty years, then 
 the tide of aristocratic wealth had flowed into the parish. 
 
 1721. 
 
 April 15. — His Highness William Augustus, of their 
 Eoyal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales, 
 was baptised in St. Ann's. 
 
 He was baptised privately, at Leicester House, May 
 2nd, by Dean Harris. 
 
 1723. 
 
 Peb. 22. — Her Eoyal Highness Princess Mary^ of 
 their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of 
 Wales. 
 
 December 27, 1724. 
 
 Her Royal Highness Princess Louisa, of their Royal 
 Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales (this 
 Prince of Wales was afterwards our King George II.)
 
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 Of course there are the young scions of nobility, re- 
 corded as being baptised here in thick abundance too. 
 In 1743, about the time of the rebellion of Charles 
 
 Stuart in Scotland, we come upon another great Ipaptism, 
 
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 His Eoyal Highness William Henry, of their Eoyal* 
 Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales, was 
 born 14th of November, 1743, and baptised 25th of 
 November. Then there was a Prince Henry Frederick, 
 November 1745, a Princess Louisa Anne, in 1749, a 
 Prince Frederick in June 1750. And then a Princess^ 
 Carolina Mathilda, born Uth day of June, 1751, 
 baptised 22nd July 1751, her father having died 
 a few weeks previously, (her brother was now the- 
 heir apparent, he became afterwards our good King 
 George III). The Prince of Wales seems to have 
 set the example of a large progeny, an example which 
 his great grand daughter our most gracious Majesty 
 very successfully imitates. In fact large families seem 
 to be a characteristic of the parish, — nine, eleven, 
 and thirteen children in one family being frequent. It 
 was only the other day that a fellow parishioner had 
 presented to him by his wife, three girls at a 
 birth. 
 
 The first marriage in the parish was that of Lot 
 Haycock and Dorothy Cheesman of this Parish, per 
 licence. May 13th, 1686, the marriages averaged one a 
 month for the first few years. 
 
 The first burial was that of " Ann Bickerton, March 
 26, 1686." In 1756, a Baron de Newhoff, of Chapel 
 Street, was buried here, better known as Theodore, King
 
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 of Corsica, to whose memory, Horace Walpole erected 
 a tablet in the church, on the tower wall : — 
 
 " Near this place is interred, Theodore, King of 
 Corsica, who died in this parish, December 11th, 1756, 
 shortly after leaving the King's Bench prison, by the 
 benefit of the Act of Insolvency, in consequence of 
 which he registered his kingdom of Corsica for the 
 benefit of his creditors." 
 
 " The grave Great Teacher to a level brings, 
 Heroes and beggars, galley slaves and Idngs, 
 But Theodore this moral learned ere dead, 
 Fate poured its lessons on his living head, 
 Bestow'd a kingdon and denied him bread." 
 
 He was buried at the expense of an oilman of 
 Compton street, who said " he would for once bury 
 a king." 
 
 There used to be service in this church four times a 
 day, even to the reign of George III. if not down to 
 the time of Dr. Mac Leod, at seven, eleven, a.m. three, 
 and seven o'clock p.m. ; the revival of the daily service by 
 the present Rector was a return to a good old custom. 
 
 We have now little more to do before we finish what 
 we have to say about the church, than to glance at the 
 monuments of a few of the great of the land, who were 
 till the last few days lying there, but whose dust 
 and ashes, for the sake of the health of the living, have 
 been removed. We are not rich in monumental tablets, 
 but there are names of great note and deep interest. 
 
 Of the first Rector I find little mention. The second 
 (1703) was the Rev. John Pelhng, D.D. Senior Canon of
 
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 the royal chapel of St. George, Windsor, Prehendary of the 
 cathedral church of St. Paul's, and forty-seven years Kector 
 of St. Anne's, Westminster. He died the 30th of March, 
 1750, aged 82 years, and his remains were interred in 
 the chancel of St. Anne's, Soho, April 7th, 1750. His 
 pall was supported hy the Bishops of Worcester, Bristol, 
 Norwich, St. David's, Carlisle, and Peterborough. 
 
 " He was truly pious, benevolent without worldly 
 views, and liberal without ostentation, his charities were 
 extensive, the distribution of them secret, by his 
 doctrine and practice he promoted ' peace on earth and 
 goodwill towards men,' By his death the church has 
 lost a valuable ornament, the poor a dayly father, to his 
 family and friends is left a bright example of christian 
 love and goodness, and to all mankind a plain and 
 glorious path to follow him." 
 
 We have a portrait or print of him in our vestry 
 
 room, the only Kector who has been so honoured, 
 
 — the walls of the vestry rooms of St. Martin's and 
 
 St. Giles's are covered with the portraits of the Vicars 
 
 and Kectors. 
 
 Samuel Squire was the next Kector, he died 1766, he 
 had also the living of East Greenwich and was Bishop 
 of St. David's, in those days of sloth, pluralists, and 
 simony. What should we say of a Kector in our days 
 holding East Greenwich and the Bishopric of St. David's, 
 while he retained St. Anne's; no wonder then that 
 centuries of neglect fell with twofold force upon us and 
 drove many ardent and loving spirits from the fold of 
 the church of England. Thank God we hve in holier
 
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 and better days, when men are not found seeking, 
 (even if they were allowed to hold) plurality of livings, 
 which could never have been of advantage to their 
 flocks, or good for their own spiritual interests. 
 
 The next rector was Dr. Robert Richardson, F.R.S., 
 Prebendary of lincoln, he also was rector of a country 
 parish as well, Walhngton, in Hertfordshire, he died 
 1781, aged only 50 years. For fifteen years he had 
 been rector here, and certainly there are indications of 
 his having done a great deal of good during the time he 
 presided over the parish ! Archdeacon Eaton was the 
 next rector, whose time reached to the present century. 
 One old pensioner of the church remembers being 
 prepared for confirmation by him. He was succeeded 
 by Dr. Mac Leod, about 1805, who was, for nearly forty 
 years, rector. The present rector, who succeeded Jan. 
 1846, makes the seventh. The living is in the gift of 
 the Bishop of London, its value from ^909 a year, in 
 1849, has been reduced nearly one third. ♦ 
 
 There is one fine monument, over the east end, to the 
 memory of Lady Grace Pierpoint, it cost £450, and by 
 way of bringing out the beauty of the marble it has 
 ridiculously been daubed over with paint. There is also a 
 monument to the memory of Jane Cottrell, spinster, 
 daughter of Sir Charles Lode^Vick Cottrell, Kt. of whom 
 the monument records that she was " the best of friends 
 and the worthiest of women. They ever loved her most 
 who knew her best. That she was happy too in the 
 love of God shall best be known at the last day, when 
 humility and charity, jDenitence and prayer shall be
 
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 acceptable in Christ Jesus. She died September 3, 1762, 
 and lies in the vault of this church, near the remains of 
 her beloved brother, Dr. William Cottrell, late Bishop 
 of Leighlin and Ferns, in Ireland. He was promoted 
 to that See from the Deanery of Kapho, where he resided 
 many years, and built an elegant house for his successors. 
 His benevolent disposition, learning, piety, charity, and 
 hospitality, rendered him universally lamented, when 
 taken from this world, 1747." We must hasten to 
 remark on one other tablet in the church — that to the 
 memory of MacPherson — he was a poor cottier's boy, 
 in the Isle of Skye. Eose to distinction in India — 
 came home, laden with wealth and honour, found those 
 settled in London, upon whom he must have looked in 
 his younger days with respect — and lies buried beside 
 the Mac Leods, of Harris, the leading people of the part 
 of the country from which he came. It would be 
 analagous to a farm labourer having made his way in 
 the world, seeking to lay his bones when he died in 
 the church of which the squire's son was rector. 
 
 Sir John MacPherson rose to be Governor- General 
 of India. He recovered the Carnatic, and annexed 
 Penang to the Crown of England. 
 
 We have in the churchyard the tombstone of William 
 Hazlitt — a name respected by a large class of persons 
 even to this time. A man whom all must admire for his 
 ability and learning. I should be glad if his tombstone 
 were preserved from thorough rack and ruin, and were 
 again re-written, for the words of it are now nearly 
 illegible.* 
 
 * Vide Note, page 24,
 
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 Of the church generally we have ourselves all 
 an opportunity of expressing an opinion. Of the- 
 present steeple of St. Anne's, a writer says : " It must 
 be unavailing to describe what is indescribable, but that 
 the distant reader may not be deprived of the knowledge 
 of a happy contrivance that distinguishes the steeple of 
 St. Anne's from all others, here it is — a monstrous 
 copper globe, elevated within a few feet of the summit 
 containing the dial plates of the clock — as ugly and 
 unmeaning as anything can well be, to the utter ex- 
 clusion of all taste and proj^ortion." 
 
 We must hasten on to say something about some of 
 the streets of this Soho. Oxford street was first Tyburn 
 road, Acton road, a dusty highway, mudi used, on 
 Monday morning, when men, by scores, were hung, 
 women and children too, merely for petty larceny, the 
 mournful procession passed by St. Giles on to Tyburn, 
 while I doubt not, the bells of St. Anne's were ringfinff 
 out for the worship of that God of love and merQy, 
 whom yet his creatures would not follow nor obey. 
 Happy we, that the gallows are not so much called into 
 use now — that we are not shocked by w^eekly details of 
 mere children being launched into eternity. Alas ! some- 
 times children not more than eight years of age have 
 been suspended by the neck till they were dead, in 
 vindication of the offended laws. 
 
 Wardour street, was named, perhaps, from the 
 military guard who were posted here when there were 
 but pleasant fields in the neighbourhood. Mount street, 
 Grosvenor square, is an instance in point of places 
 
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 retaining a quasi military designation, for there was a 
 battery erected there by the citizens of London to keep 
 off the troops of King Charles I. A good many mihtary 
 men took up their residence in Wardour street from an 
 early date. Perhaps there was a station here for the 
 Guards on duty at Leicester house. Sometimes, indeed, 
 it is said this street is named from Lo7'd Wardour, of 
 Wardour and Arundel, — I do not find anything to 
 confirm this. 
 
 Comj^ton street, named after Compton, Bishop of Lon- 
 don. Nassau street, named after the House of Naussa, 
 or Orange. Gerrard street, after Gerrard, Earl of Mac- 
 clesfield. Greek street, probably because the Greek church 
 in Hog lane, now Crown street, was entered from that 
 quarter. This Greek church afterwards was used by the 
 French Protestants, and is introduced into one of Hogarth's 
 pictures. It is now St. Mary's church. That very Hog 
 lane caused an immense deal of trouble to the good 
 people of St. Anne's. About the ditches of Hog lane the 
 boys of the parish assembled in great numbers, causing 
 annoyance to all. So troublesome were they, that a 
 school was begun, — a school which was the nucleus of St. 
 Anne's parochial schools, in the records of which there is 
 much that may interest us. A clergyman was appointed 
 as the first master. From the earlier records of the school, 
 I claim distinctly for St. Anne's parish the formation of 
 the first ragged school, long before the days of the Earl 
 of Shaftesbury. It is true that a higher character 
 is now imparted to the schools, the instruction given 
 there is of the most useful kind, the object being to %
 
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 impart such instruction as may tend to the children's 
 spiritual and temporal well-being. I must only take this 
 opportunity of inviting any of the parishioners who may 
 he able to do so, to visit, from time to time, the schools 
 in Kose street: I am convinced that they will receive 
 a favourable impression of the work of education which 
 is being carried out in them. 
 
 There are some wealthy men living in this parish, 
 who received their first education in St. Anne's schools. 
 
 We do not now number among our subscribers the 
 highest personage in this realm, as in former days. 
 George III. George IV. and WilHam IV. all subscribed 
 annually to St. Ann's schools. 
 
 Frith street, which was all garden ground formerly, 
 was built upon by a Mr. Frith, just as Meard's court 
 was the speculation of a Mr. ]\ieard, and Richmond 
 Buildings of a Mr. Kichmond. I cannot trace the 
 derivation of the name Dean street, but it is full of 
 literary associations ; for many years it Avas the abode 
 of the literati of the kingdom. Alas ! how are the 
 mighty fallen ! In the house Dr. Eogers now has, the 
 comer of Queen street, there was once an hotel kept, 
 in which Johnson and Goldsmith met before they es- 
 tablished, with others, the Literary Club in Gerrard street. 
 
 In Soho square, to a much later date, lived Sir Joseph 
 Banks. Dr. Broivn who died a few months since, was 
 his successor in that place, and also in the ranks of the 
 learned world. At the corner of Bateman's Buildings 
 lived George Coleman the elder. In 1807, the remains 
 of Sir Cloudlesly Shovel, the famous admiral who had
 
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 fought many a battle in defence of our Island home, 
 were laid in state here. Alderman Beckford, tiuice Lord 
 Mayor of London, lived in Soho square upon his second 
 election to the Mayoralty, he feasted the poor of St. 
 Anne's. The statue in the middle of the square, is 
 in honour of Charles 11. some say of the Duke of 
 Monmouth. The figures at the base were emblematical 
 of the Thames, Humber, Severn, &c. Alas ! the whole 
 has fallen to decay. A little care and attention would 
 render it as pleasant as any square in London. In 
 these days of fountains, why should not the square be 
 thrown more open and a fountain erected within it. 
 
 In order to shew who lived in Soho in former 
 times, I have, at some little trouble, collected a few 
 returns from old rate books which came into my pos- 
 session in making searches for the Shrewsbury Peerage 
 Case. In 1(393, five years after the consecration of the 
 church, on the north side of Leicester fields, now 
 called Leicester square, where, to a much later period, 
 there was a stately row of goodly elms, under which 
 Sir Joshua Eeynolds and others Avalked and sauntered ; 
 the Earls of Aldsbury, and of Londslow, had their 
 residences, and were rated to the poor at a half yearly 
 rate of four pence in the pound. 
 
 In Leicester tlouse (built 1650) in 1661, Elizabeth, 
 Queen of Bohemia, died. How different to Heulelherg 
 Castle, her former residence. 
 
 The Marquis of Caermathen entertained Peter the 
 Great at his house in Leicester Fields. 
 
 Perhaps I ought here to say a good word for the
 
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 overseers, and say that tlie actual taxes, even tlie 
 poor rates, in those clays, were niucli heavier than at 
 present. 
 
 Leicester House, the only trace of which is that part of 
 Saville House, now occupied hy Mr. Warne, sen. was, as we 
 read, the " pouting place' of the Princes of Wales ; more 
 than one royal prince liaving retired there upon quarrel- 
 hng with his royal parents. George II. vvdien Prince of 
 Wales and again liis eldest son resided here. They are 
 mentioned in our parish hooks over and over again. 
 George III. when Prince of Wales, resided here with 
 his tutor, the Marquis of Bute, and heard of his 
 accession to the throne when here. May it he that the 
 present Prince of Wales may never require a pouting 
 house : never cause one moment's care or anxiety to 
 that noble-hearted lady who rules this realm of England, 
 whom may God long preserve over us. 
 
 In Newport street lived the Countess of Anglesey, 
 Lady Plamhleton. Newport market was called Cock l(flie. 
 In Gerrard street we find a Mr. Dryden, the poet, rated 
 on £10, Countess of Suffolk rated on £120, Earl of 
 Macclesfield on £120, 8ir Philip Meadov>'S on £65. 
 "Savage the poet was horn here. Time would hiil 
 to run through the names of the rich people of noble 
 rank who once lived in this parish. We cannot even 
 speak of those who are famous as statesmen, war- 
 riors, divines, and literary characters ; men whose 
 pictures have ornamented our museums and gal- 
 leries, whose sculptures hand down, in imperishable 
 marble, the lineaments of some of the mighty men
 
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 of our land. Sir Joshua Eeynolds, Hogarth, Sir James 
 Thornhill, all lived in Solio. There are houses in Dean 
 street hearing on their walls the traces of their master 
 hand, traces fast fading and yielding to the rapid increase 
 of a commercial spirit. 
 
 Soho has given hirth to j)olitical agitators, for it is 
 not every parish that can hoast of a Home Tooke, who 
 with all his political failings had a fund of rich and 
 genial humour. He was the son of a poulterer of 
 Neivport Market, and used to say that his father was a 
 Turkey merchant. 
 
 As I think of Soho in olden time, I think of it as the 
 place where have dwelt many earnest, good men : I 
 think of it as the scene of many of Doctor Johnsons 
 v/alks and ramhles, — that great and good man whose 
 every sentence was as gold. Whose works are standards 
 in English literature, whose colossal Dictionai-y is still 
 unrivalled in its immense learning and infoimation. 
 
 But while we rememher those worthies who have 
 gone hefore us, let us not who remain despise our 
 fellow parishioners of this generation ; to the present 
 day Soho is known throughout the wide world, why when 
 I was at the Cape of Good Hope and required a hottle 
 of pickles, I was presented with the autograph of 
 Crosse and Blackicell ; the very paint hoxes and 
 drawing materials for the children of my acquaintance 
 were from Newman, the coloiirman 1 
 
 Here, likewise, we manufacture delicate works of 
 art, musical instruments are sent from Soho square in 
 ahundance ; the pianos gracing our drawing rooms
 
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 are many of them from Kirkman's or D'Almaine's of 
 Soho square. No longer the locaUty of aristocracy, 
 Soho has a popuhition of sturdy ivorhnen, there 
 are kind hearts and friendly hands, though the 
 hand may he rougher and the tones louder. I can 
 speak from my own experience, that for upwards of 
 two years I have ever found a welcome to every house, 
 a home in every heart. Though Soho is not now what 
 it was in the " Olden Time," let us hear in mind the 
 poet's promise — 
 
 " That old friends, old scenes, will lovelier be, 
 As more of heaven in each we see, 
 Some soft'ning gleam of love and prayer, 
 Shall dawn on every cross and care." 
 
 ST. ANNE'S CHURCH. 
 
 The bodies of all interred in the nave and chancel of the church 
 have been removed, and entombed in the vaults, a proceeding neces- 
 sary for the health of the congregation, and which was carried out 
 with great judgment by those entrusted with a very delicate duty. 
 
 The church has been recently rei)aired and i)ainted. The following 
 is the inscription painted over the clock in front of the organ 
 gallery : — 
 
 " This church repaired, and pnrt rebuilt, I80O — 1831." By order 
 of Her Majesty in Council, April, 1859, all bodies interred within this 
 church were removed and entombed in the vaults adjacent. 
 
 " Key. NUGENT WADE, Rector. 
 "JOSEPH SMITH, 
 " JOHN B. OSBOKNE 
 
 \ Churchwardens!' 
 NE, J
 
 Note, page 10, 
 " The v.'ords of it arc now nearly illegible." 
 
 Since the Lecture was deliv^red some Idndly hand lias reiiaired the 
 tombstone of Hazhtt. The following is the inscription : — 
 
 " Here rests 
 
 WILLIAM HAZLITT, 
 
 Born April 10th, 1778, died 18th Sept. 1830. 
 
 He lived to see his deepest Avislies gi'atitied, 
 As he has expressed tlieni in his Essay on 
 
 ^ht ^ifrnr of J^atlj, 
 
 viz. 
 
 To see the downfall of the Borirbons, 
 And some prospect of good for Mankind, 
 
 CHARLES X. 
 
 Was driven from France, 2i)th July, 1800. 
 
 To leave some sterhng work to the world, 
 
 He lived to complete his Life of Nai^oleon. 
 
 His desire 
 
 That some friendly hand should consign 
 
 Him to the grave, Avas accomplished to a 
 
 Limited but profound extent, on 
 
 These conditions he was ready to depart 
 
 And to have inscribed on his tomb, grateful and contented. 
 
 He was 
 
 The first (unanswered) Metaphysician of the age, 
 
 A despiser of the merely rich and great, 
 
 A lover of the people poor or oppressed, 
 
 A hater of the pride and power of the few. 
 
 As opposed to the happiness of the many. 
 
 A man of true moral courage. 
 
 Who sacrificed profit and present fame 
 
 To Principle 
 
 And a yearning for the good of human nature. 
 
 He was a burning wound to our aristocracy. 
 
 That could not answer him before men, and 
 
 AVho may confront him before their Maker. 
 
 He Hved and died the unvanquished champion 
 
 Of 
 
 Truth, Liberty, and Humanity, 
 
 ' Bubitantes opera legite.' 
 
 This Stone 
 
 Was raised by one whose heart is 
 
 With him in his grave."
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 In this Lecture I have brouglit down some of the incidents con- 
 nected with our parochial history, to the time of Dr. Mac Leod's 
 incumbency ; he died in 184:5, and was succeeded hy the Eev. Nugent 
 Wade, M.A. of Trinity College, Dublin, January 30th, 1840. The 
 character of the parish is year by year changing ; most of the trades- 
 men reside out of town and only come in for business; in fact, 
 St. Anne's, were it not for the foreigners and lodgers in the 
 place, would present the appearance on Sundays of a city parish. 
 The total population is 17,8G0, there are 1414 houses in the parish. 
 It is a curious fact that the Death Rate is lower than in any other 
 part of London, proving Soho to be the healthiest town residence in 
 the world. 
 
 The following is a list of the Parochial Officers : — 
 
 Eev. Nugent "Wade, M.A. Rector, Rectory House, Dean Street. 
 Eev. Charles Bull, 45, Frith Street. 
 The Clergy are in attendance at the Church every day, between 10 and 12 o'clock. 
 
 Cljurcbburbtiis. w 
 
 jNIr. Joseph Smith, 14, Greek Street. 
 
 Mr. John Benjamin Osborne, 9, Nassiiu Street, and 5, Princes Street. 
 
 Mr. Henry Eadclyffe, 58, Fritli Street. 
 Mr. Richard Chatter, 40, Lisle Street. 
 Mr. Edward Mummery, 420, Oxford Street. 
 Mr. James Waghorn, 34, Soho Square. 
 
 The Churchwardens and Overseers meet on tlie second and fourth Thursday in every 
 month, at the Vestry Kooni, Dean Street, at Six o'clock in the Evening, to transact 
 
 Parochial Business. 
 
 Eev. Nugent Wade, M.A. Rector, Rectory House, Dean Street. \ .2 
 
 Mr. Joseph Smith, 14, Greek Street 1 . a 
 
 Mr. John Benjamin Osborne, 0, Nassau St. I Churchwardens. 9 
 
 and 5, Princes Street. J -'a
 
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 Mr. Heniy Colyer Purvis, 20, Greek Street. 
 
 Mr. John Wellby, 57, King Street. 
 
 Mr. John Tyrrell, 2, Greek Street. 
 
 Mr. Arthur Cribb, -'38, Soho Square, and 20, Carlisle Street. 
 
 Mr. John Tyars, 7, Charles Street. 
 
 Mr. George Bonham, 12, Leicester Street. 
 
 Mr. G. W. Goulborn, 43, Greek Street. 
 
 Mr. Heniy Pascoe, 23, Compton Street. 
 
 Mr. Eichard James Jefferys, 428, Oxford Street. 
 
 Mr. James Hetley, 35, Soho Square. 
 
 Mr. Charles Wakeling, 36, Gerrard Street. 
 
 Mr. William Huntley Bailey, 418, Oxford Street. 
 
 Mr. Thomas Wood, 19, Greek Street. 
 
 Mr. Edmund Warne, the younger, 31, Soho Square. 
 
 Mr. Henry Eadclytfe, 58, Frith Street. 
 
 Mr. Joseph Flavell Hedgecock, 14, Little Compton Street. 
 
 Mr. William Addis, 0, Leicester Street. 
 
 Mr. Samuel Bonsor, 433, Oxford Street. 
 
 Mr. Eichard Chaffer, 4C, Lisle Street. 
 
 Mr. William Fitchew, 339, Oxford Street. 
 
 Mr. Eichard Haylett, 38, Old Compton Street. 
 
 Mr. Wingfield WiUis, 3, Charles Street. 
 
 Mr, Charles James Jefferys, 21a, Soho Square. 
 
 Mr. James Waghorn, 34, Soho Square. ' h 
 
 ^ubitors. 
 Mr. Jonathan Turner, 33, Gerrard Street. 
 Mr. William Samuel Miller, 25, Gerrard Street. 
 Mr. Joseph Medworth, and 7, Old Compton Street- 
 Mr. Cornelius Serjeant, 29, Grafton Street. 
 Mr. Egbert Lambley, 10, Charles Street. 
 
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 Mr. George Allen, 17, Carlisle Street, Soho Square. 
 
 Eobert Francis Home, 10, Macclesfield Street. 
 
 6u;trbi;ins of iht IJoor. 
 
 Mr. William Fitchew, 339, Oxford Street. 
 
 Mr. Charles Nosotti, 398, Oxford Street. 
 
 Mr. Charles J. Jefferys, 21a, Soho Square. 
 
 Mr. Wingfield WilUs, 3, Charles Street. 
 
 Mr. John Benjamin Osborne, 9, Nassau Street, and 5, Princes Street. 
 
 Mr. Henry Pascoe, 23, Old Compton Street. 
 
 Mr. Eichard Haylett, 38, Old Compton Street. 
 
 Mr. Joseph Smith, 14, Greek Street. 
 
 Mr. John Tyrrell, 3, Greek Street.
 
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 ^Ulicbing Officer. 
 Mr. Lockhart, Strand Union Office, G, Bow Street. 
 
 lUgistor of ^irtljs imb Jjcuths. 
 H. D. Jones, Esq. 23, Solio Square. 
 
 Pcbiol ©fficu'. Out-poor |Joor. 
 Henry Jones, Jun. Esq. 93, Solio Square. 
 
 IVtcbical Officer. Iit-goor ^oor. 
 Josej)]! Eogcrs, Eaq. JM.D. 3;J, Dean Street. 
 
 ^iTccinutors. 
 
 H. D. Jones, Esq. 23, Solio Square. 
 Joseph Eogers, Esq. M.D. 33, Dean Street. 
 
 gTibfoifc. 
 Mrs. Jones, 10, Leicester Street. 
 
 ^XTjjcrhtlcttbent ^Icgistntr of llirtb, p^'^^'j^* ^"^ P^tirrrages. 
 Mr. James Kilner, Strand Union Office, G, Bow Sti'eet. 
 
 ^nrhtl-bouvb. , 
 
 Mr. Joseph George, 81, Dean Street. (Chairman.) 
 
 Mr. Samuel Bonsor, 433, Oxford Street. 
 
 Mr. Edmund Warne, the younger, 31, Solio Square. 
 
 Mr. WiUiam G. Goulborn, 43, Greek street. • 
 
 Mr. Eichard Haylett, 38, Old Coinpton street. 
 
 Mr. Eichard James Jefferys, 428, Oxford Street. 
 
 Mr. Joseph Smith, 14, Greek Street. 
 
 Mr. John Benjamin Osborne, !), Nassau Street, and 5, Princes Street. 
 
 Mr. Wingtield WiUis, 3, Charles Street. 
 
 Clcrli ia Ibc ^hirial-boarb. 
 
 Mr. George Allen, 17, Carlisle Street, Soho Square. 
 
 To •whom applications respecting Burials may be made between the hours of 10 and 5, 
 All necessary infonnatiou may also be obtained at the Vestry'Koom, in Deau Street, 
 daily, between the hours of 10 and 12. 
 
 Ittcssenger tcr i\^t ^uriul-boiub. 
 
 Eobert Francis Home, 10, Macclesfield Street. 
 To whom infonnatiou of any death reiiuiring a Coroner's inquest should be given.
 
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 IVttmbtrs of the .pistrtct-bourir of wlorhs. 
 
 Mr. William Huntley Bailey, 418, Oxford Street. 
 
 Mr. George Bouham, 12, Leicester Street. 
 
 Mr. Eichard Chaffer, 40, Lisle Street. 
 
 Mr. WiUiam Fitchew, 339, Oxford Street. 
 
 Mr. James Hetley, 35, Soho Square. 
 
 Mr. Charles Wakeling, 30, Gerrard Street. 
 
 Mr. Samuel Bonsor, 433, Oxford Street. 
 
 Mr. Charles James Jefterys, 21a, Soho Square. 
 
 Mr. Eichard James Jefferys, 428, Oxford Street. 
 
 Mr. John Benjamin Oshorue, 5, Princes St. and 9, Nassau St. 
 
 Mr. John Tyars, 7, Charles Street. 
 
 Mr. Wingfield Willis, 3, Charles Street. 
 
 Mr. William Addis, C, Leicester Street. 
 
 Mr. Henry Colyer Purvis, 20, Greek Street. 
 
 Mr. Edmund Warne, the younger, 31, Soho Square. 
 
 Mr. Joseph Smith, 14, Greek Street. 
 
 Mr. John Tyrrell, 2, Greek Street. 
 
 Mr. James Waghorn, 34, Soho Square. 
 
 
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 Eepeesektative at the METKoroLiTAN Board oe Health. 
 Mr. John Samuel Phillips, Bishop's Court, Chancery Lane. 
 
 Clerk to the Board. 
 Mr. James H. F. Lewis, Tavjstock Street, Covent Garden. 
 
 Medical Officer or Health. 
 Dr. Conway Evans, Tavistock Street, Covent Garden. 
 
 Surveyor and Chief Inspector of Nuisances. 
 
 Mr. George F. Fry, Tavistock Street, Covent Garden. 
 
 The Office of the District Board of Works is at Tavistock Street, Covent Garden ; 
 where applications respecting the removal of Dust, Watering the Streets, and 
 Jvuisances are to be made. 
 
 District Surveyor. 
 H. E. KendaU, Esq. 17, Suff*olk Street, Haymarket. 
 
 Collectors. 
 
 Mr. E. Warne, 41, Lisle Street, — of Land, Assessed, and Income and 
 Pro^Derty Tax. 
 
 At home every Morning until 10, and on every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday 
 
 Evening from 6 to 8. 
 
 Mr. Thomas Hull Pettitt, 23, Frith Street,— of Poor Kate, General 
 Eate, Sewer Eate, and Main Drainage Eate. 
 
 Who attends every Afternoon to receive Rates, between 2 and 3 o'clock.
 
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 In case of Fike, 
 
 Apply to liENEY SPINDELOW, at the ravish Engine House in Dean Street, or 
 at the London Fire Establishment, George Yard, Crown Street. 
 
 The Parish Fire Ladders may be had on application at the Engine House. 
 
 The FiiiE Escape 
 Is stationed at night at the corner of Dean Street and Oxford Street. 
 
 TUKNCOCKS. 
 
 James Bonus, 0, Church Street, Soho. 
 S. Newman, 5, Phmnix Street. 
 
 Police. — Tlie nearest Pulico Station is in Vine Street, Piccadilly.
 
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 THE WORKING MEN'S 
 
 READING ROOM AND PEOPLE'S LIBRARY 
 
 Have been in full operation for some mouths now. There are Lectures 
 and Headings on various subjects, on alternate Mondays, and it is a plea- 
 sant sight, to see working men assembled to read the newspapers, play 
 at chess, and join in rational amusements and studies, mixing with the 
 other parishioners and gentry, who are glad to show a genial feeling 
 of sympathy with their fellow men. 
 
 The Eev. W. E. Cosens, Secretary to x\dditional Curates' Society, 
 the Eev. F. D. Maurice, of Lincoln's Inn, the Eev. James Wright, 
 M.A., and Mr. James Leonard, F.E.C.S., have from time to time 
 lectured to those assembled in those Eooms. The Library, formed 
 some years ago, was much improved by the kindness and generosity 
 of Mr. W. H. J. Carter, of the Carlton Library, 12, Eegent street, 
 PaUmall, who contributed many useful volumes to swell the shelves, 
 and most of the shelves, as well as giving his gratuitous ser^ices as 
 Librarian to an institution which it is hoped may be of benefit to 
 thousands of the future parishioners of St. Anne's, Soho, 
 Westminster. 
 
 The following is a list of the Services at the church, of aU the 
 Charitable Institutions connected with the Parish : — 
 
 ST. ANNE'S CHURCH, 
 
 Mcslmhtsftr, 
 
 DEAN STREET, SOHO. 
 
 The Eector of the Parish is anxious to place before his parishioners 
 a short statement of the different Services held in the Church, as well 
 as of the various Parochial Institutions and Charities. 
 
 SEEVICES :— 
 
 Sundays, at 11, 3, 7, with a Sermon at each Service. 
 Week-days : — 
 
 MoENiNGS — Every Day, at 8 ; also, 
 
 Wednesdays, Fridays, and Holidays, at 11. 
 Evenings — ^Wednesdays, at 8, with Sermon. 
 Fridays, at 8i, with Sermon.
 
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 HOLY COMMUNION, every Sunday, at 11 ; also on the last Sunday 
 in the month, at 8 a.m. 
 
 BAPTISMS AND CHURCHINGS, Sunday afternoons, at 3. 
 Wednesday evenings, at 8. 
 Other days, if required, at 11 a.m. 
 No Fee for Baptism, and no Charge to the Poor for Registration. 
 
 The Clergy are in attendance at the Vestry daily, from 11 to 12 
 o'clock, when Banns and Notices of Marriage, and applications for 
 Certificates, &c. are received ; and information given on any matters 
 required. 
 
 The Clergy are anxious to he kept informed of cases of Illness, and 
 desire to he allowed to call upon Invalids at the earliest stages of their 
 Sickness. They will he glad to make the acquaintance of any of the 
 parishioners who may desire their Pastoral Visits. 
 
 INSTITUTIONS. 
 
 Parochial Day Schools : — For Boys, Girls, and Infants, situated 
 in Eose street, are mainly supported hy voluntary coutrihutions, which 
 may he paid to the Eector, or to the Honorary Secretary, the Rev. 
 Charles Bull, at the Vestry. Twopence weekly is paid for each child; 
 •which charge is reduced to One Penny in cases of poverty. 
 
 Sunday Schools, at half-past 9, a.m. and half-past 2 p.m. For 
 the children of the Parochial Schools, in the Boys' and Girls' 
 School Rooms, Rose street; for young men, and hoys not in the 
 Parochial Schools, in the Infants' School Room, Rose street ; for Girls, 
 in the Vestry Room, in Dean street, at the same hours. Sunday 
 School Library, at the Vestry Room. 
 
 Evening School, for Young Men, in the Infants' School Room, 
 Eose street, on Tuesday and Thursday evenings, at Si. For Young 
 Women, Monday and Friday evenings, from 7 till 9. 
 
 Provident Fund, at the Vestry Room, Dean Street, on Tuesdays, 
 from 12 till 1 p.m. Payments from One Penny to Two Shillings 
 weekly may he received. 
 
 District Visiting Society. — Committee and Visitors meet on the 
 last Wednesday in each month, at the Rectory, at 7 o'clock. Subscrip- 
 tions received by the Rector, or the Secretaries, the Rev. C. BuU, and 
 Mr. C. Nichols. 
 
 Working Men's Reading Room and People's Library, Vestry Room, 
 Dean street, open each evening from 8 till 10. Admission Twopence,
 
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 per Aveek. Books also given out on Tuesday mornings from 12 till 1, 
 at One Halfjienny a week. 
 
 FoKEiGN Missions in connection with the Society for the Propaga- 
 tion of the Gospel, Secretary, Eev. C. Bull. Meetings, second 
 Wednesday in March, June, Septemher, and Decemher. Collecting 
 Boxes will be furnished by the Secretary, to whom also Subscriptions 
 may be j)aid. 
 
 Key. NUGENT WADE, Eectory, Dean Street. 
 
 Eey. C. bull, 45, Frith Street. 
 
 ST. ANNE'S PAROCHIAL SCHOOLS 
 
 FOR BOYS, GIRLS, AND INFANTS. 
 
 Instituted 1G99. 
 
 With regard to the schools, it may be as well to remark that at no 
 time was more attention paid to the education of the children than at 
 present, a fact Avhich Avill call forth in creased interest in the good work. 
 
 There are now nearly 400 Children on the books of the school. — 
 Of whom 25 boys and 25 girls are clothed. The schools have been 
 favourably reported to Her Majesty in Council by the Inspector. . The 
 expenses annually can never be safely estimated at less than £400 ; to 
 meet which £100 a year should be secured in Annual Subscriptions. 
 The list of Subscribers printed at the beginning of the year, for 1858, 
 shows contributions to the amount of £70 2s. It is hojied that the 
 continued improving state of the schools will prompt the parishioners 
 to respond to the call now made upon them. 
 
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