S50 A. D. 1795. 



As fome relief to the wool-combers for the hardfhips they alleged 

 they had fuflamed from the introdudion of machinery *, all of them, 

 who had ferved an apprenticefhip to the bulinefs, or were legally entit- 

 led to carry it on, and were willing to apply to other branches of the 

 woolen manufadlure, or to any other trade, and alfo the wives and 

 children of all fuch, were authorized to exercife any trade whatever in 

 '.n\y town or place of the kingdom without any obftrudlion, notwith- 

 ilanding the ftatute of the fifth year of Queen Elizabeth, which prohib- 

 ited the ufe of certain trades to any perion who had not ferved an ap- 

 prenticefhip of feven years, [r. 114] 



One of the principal alterations, which have taken place of late years 

 in the metropolis, was made under the authority of an ad for enlarging 

 the entrance into the city on the weft fide of Temple -bar by removing 

 the houfes, which ftood between the Strand and Butcher-row (the north 

 fide of which has thei'eby become the north fide of the Strand) and 

 thofe on the north fide of S\ Clement's church, whereby a fpacious en- 

 trance is effeded. At the fame time the lord mayor and magiftrates of 

 the city were empowered to make a fi:reet in a ftreight and commodious 

 line from the eaft end of Snow-hill to the bottom of Holburn inftead of 

 the crooked and fteep avenue called Snow-hill f . [c. 1 26] 



The merchants trading to the iflands of Grenada and S'. Vincent's 

 reprefented to parliament the loflcs they had fufFered, and the hardfliips 

 fuftained by their commerce, in conlequence of the infiirredions in 

 thofe iflands, and petitioned for relief. The great and important bene- 

 fit, conferred upon the commercial intereft in general by the expedient 

 of exchequer bills in the year 1793, fuggefled a repetition of the fame 

 meafure as the bell: mode of relief to the iutlerers on the prefent occafion. 

 Therefor the honourable Henry Hobart, the right honourable Charles 

 Townfliend, Sir William Pulteney, Sir John Sinclair, Sir Grey Cooper, 

 Sir Francis Baring, Meflieurs Richard Muilman Trench Chifwell, John 

 William Anderlon, William Curtis, Charles Grant, Jofeph Nutt, Robert 

 Hunter, Thomas Plummer, Gabriel Tucker Steward, and Benjamin 

 Savage, were appointed commillioners for advancing exchequer bills to 

 an amount not exceeding ^i^i ,500,000, bearing intereft at the rate of 

 three pence per day for every ;^ioo, and all payable on the 5"' of July 

 1796, to any perfons in any part of Great Britain conneded with, or 

 trading to, the iflands of Grenada and S'. Vincent's, who fliould apply 

 for them, and give bond with fufficient fecurity, or depofit exchequer 

 bills, India bonds, bills of exchange, or other negotiable fecurities, to 

 the value of >C4<^° ^^^ £3^^ ^^ ^^ advanced in exchequer bills. The 

 payments were required to be made at the bank of England by three 

 ■equal inflallments on or before 5"' January 1797, 10" Odober 1797, 



* See above, p. 292. xHi of local ads) the city was empowered to enlarge 



.-f By a fubfcquent ad (39, 40, Geo. IIIj C. the funds allotted for thcfe iniprorements. 



