of the borough of Southwark, and also his Majesty's military forces, to muster and exercise arms upon the said ground. The election for Southwark was held at the Artillery Hall in 1680; and at the following sessions, then held at the Bridge House, Slingsby Bethel, Esq., Sheriff of London, who had been a losing candidate at the election, was indicted for and convicted of an assault on Robert Mason, a waterman from Lambeth, who was standing on the steps of the hall, with others, and obstructing Mr. Bethel's friends. Mr. Bethel was fined five marks.
In the year 1725 the Artillery Hall was converted into a workhouse for the parish.
In 1736 the parish church of St. John, Horsleydown (one of the fifty new churches built under the provisions of the Act of Queen Anne, commonly called Queen Anne's Churches), was built on part of the martial yard; and, in pursuance of the act for establishing the new parish of St. John (which was taken out of St. Olave's), the workhouse was divided between the parishes of St. Olave and St. John.
The drawings, which were made under the direction of the late Mr. G. Allen daring the demolition of the building, are careful restorations of the old structure; and as they may be engraved or lithographed for our proceedings, I omit any verbal description of them, especially as these notices have already extended to so unreasonable a. length, that I fear they must have tried the patience of my hearers.[1]
G. R. C.
- ↑ As the drawings are not engraved, our Honorary Secretary, Mr. George Bish Webb, has favoured me with the following description of the building from the drawings:—
The building was in the form of a parallelogram, having on one of
