At the west end of the Rectory house of St. Botolph's Bishopsgate.
Erected by Mr. Underwood for sixteen poor old women. Moved to Lamb Alley 1730. Site now occupied by Liverpool Street Station and the railway lines.
·noun A house appropriated for the use of the poor; a poorhouse. ...
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