14. Inhabitants of the Alms-House-Blaney 191

15. Inhabitants of the Alms-House-Clelia - 201

16. Inhabitants of the Alms-House-Benbow 211

17. The Hospital and Governors

18, The Poor and their Dwellings

223

235

19. The Poor of the Borough-The Parish Clerk 253

20. The Poor of the Borough-Ellen Orford - - 267

21. The Poor of the Borough-Abel Keene 283

22. The Poor of the Borough-Peter-Grimes

23. Prisons

24. Schools

- 299

- 315

329

THE BOROUGH,

THE BOROUGH.

LETTER I.

GENERAL DESCRIPTION.

These did the Ruler of the Deep ordain,
To build proud Navies, and to rule the Main.
Pope's Homer's Iliad, Book vi. line 45.

Such scenes has Deptford, Navy-building town,
Woolwich and Wapping, smelling strong of pitch;

Such Lambeth, envy of each band and gown,
And Twickenham such, which fairer scenes enrich.

Pope's Imitation of Spense

-Et cum cœlestibus undis

quoreæ miscentur aquæ: caret ignibus æther, Cacaque nox premitur tenebris hiemisque suisque ; Discutient tamen has, præbentque micantia lumen Fulmina: fulmineis ardescunt ignibus undæ.

Ovid. Metamorph. lib. xi. ver. 520.