NOTTINGHAM. 
the laft century. Its boundaries now probably include a 
{pace of fomewhat more than four miles, exclufive of many 
detached houfes, which conftitute partial {uburbs. The 
county of the town extends about ten miles in circuit, and 
twice a year by ajury chofen for the eee who are like- 
wife bound to walk cecaionally through the ftreets to pre- 
vent encroachments and nuifances. In this part of their duty, 
however, they are not fo effeCtive as might be withed ; for 
it is believed that there are few towns more irregularly built 
The ftreets, with the exception of Caftle- 
of jae 
are of ancient erection. 
vicinity of the caitle ; Market-ward, including the market- 
place, and the Long Row and lanes leading to the north of 
its North-ward, which embraces the north-eaft divifion of 
alderman, 
cae 
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lic purp pofes. The paar fituated on the ret Parent, 
is a large building, three {tories high, with aap ae 
on the ground floor. Behind this edifice i 
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quir ey) d plete ; the 
fame thing may be r d of the town-bridewell, which 
ftands in St. John’s-ftreet, and was till paul a difgrace to 
the town. The workhoufes are inte inn r, and are 
all laid cut upon a convenient plan, aid kept exceedingly t 
clean. But the chief 
The firft ftone of this ftru€ture 
was laid in 1781, clofe to ‘the {pot on which king Charles 
erected his ftandard ti: LOA, whence the place is {till diftin- 
guifhed by the name of ftandard-hnll The total number 
of patients to whom uffitaace had been afforded from this 
inftitution, -_ its opening, up to March 1811, amounted 
to 33,926 pe The lunatic afylum is likewife an ele- 
gant buildng. 2 a in every re{pect admirably adapted to its 
objea. It wes opened foe admifficn in February 1812. 
According to the prefent regulations, the patients form 
three elaffes; perlons whe can pay for their care and mainte- 
nance in proportion to their ability ; perfons admitted on the 
payment of very fmall fums; and paupers, for whom a cer- 
tain rate mut se paid by the county  Befides thefe infti- 
tutions for the relief of the poor, there are perhaps a greater 
number of hofp:ta's here thaa in any other town in the 
— Plomptre’ « hofpitsi, founded in the reign of Riche 
‘ 
ard II., has been lately repaired and augmented bv a de. 
fcendant of the fo under ; and now {fupports thirteen = 
old women, under the management of a chaplain and mafter 
Collin’s hofpical, built in 1704, affords an afyl um re tw wenty- 
four poor men and women, each hav aving two comfortable 
apartments, ~ two fhillings per week, with a ton and a h 
of coals per annum. ‘The other hofeiah are Willoughby’s 
hofpital in ite oo 3 Gregory’s hofpital in Houndf- 
gate; Woolley’s hofpital in Beck-lane ; Handley’ s hofpital 
in Storey-ftreet ; Labourer’s hofpital on Tollhoufe-hill; 
Mlesaar Saar hofpital, &c.3; the whole of which afford relief to 
upwards of 70 poor and infirm individuals ; and indes 
pendent of them are feveral alms-houfes, and charity oe 
blifhments in the town, of which laft the moft important are 
ean by the appellation of the Peckham and Coventry 
chariti 
The churches of Nottingham belonging to the eftablifh- 
ment are four in number; St. Mary’s, St. Peter’ s, and 
the earls of Clare, and of the Plumptre family. 
church is reckoned a handfome edifice, ‘and is adorned with 
a lofty {pire but, upon examination, grea 
pears in the ftyle of its architeCture, arifing from the shee 
auto pulled oe n during the civil wars, on account of its 
pro xim Oo 
dered it aay toa a befieging army. ‘This ftructure is of 
brick, ornamente ftone corners. It confifts of a ipa 
of which a bee: 
each one 
were deitroyed a the great rebellion. 
days are Wednefday and Saturday ; and there are three lage 
fairs during the year. of thefe are for cattle and horfes, 
and the laft alfo particularly for cheefe. The new exchange 
is fituated at the eaftern corner of the market area. It was 
erected by the ; corporation in the early part of the laft cen- 
tury, and 1s a handfome brick building, four ftories high, 
and 123 feet in lengthy In i it isfupported by a a bo of 
