When any are discharged on having attained the age appointed for that purpose, by act of parliament, that is, twenty-four for the males, or twenty-one for the females; or when any of the girls shall be married, with the consent of the committee; the general committee may, at their discretion, give them cloaths, money, or necessaries, not exceeding the value of 10_l._ but as it is hoped, that the males and females will be able at those years to get an honest livelihood by their industry, this charity is to be cautiously and seldom practised, except on the marriage of the girls.
FOUNTAIN _alley_, 1. Maiden lane, Southwark.* 2. Silver street, Bloomsbury market.
FOUNTAIN _court_, 1. Aldermanbury.* 2. Bread street, Cheapside.* 3. Chandos street.* 4. Cheapside. 5. Lothbury.* 6. St. Martin’s lane, Charing Cross.* 7. Middle Temple.* 8. In the Minories.* 9. Shoe lane.* 10. In the Strand.
FOUR DOVE _court_, 1. St. Martin’s le Grand.* 2. Noble street, Foster lane.
FOX _court_, 1. Fox lane, Wapping.* 2. Gray’s Inn lane.* 3. St. James’s street.* 4. Newgate street.* 5. Queen square.* 6. Snow hill.
*FOX AND HOUNDS _yard_, Bishopsgate street.
*FOX AND KNOT _court_, Cow lane, West Smithfield.
*FOX ORDINARY _court_, a handsome well-built court in St. Nicholas lane, Lombard street; so called from a public eating house formerly there. _Stow._
FOX _yard_, Duke street, Great Russel street.
*FRAMEWORK-KNITTERS, or STOCKING-WEAVERS, are a society incorporated by letters patent granted by Charles II. in the year 1663, by the extraordinary title of _The Master, Wardens, Assistants and Society of the art and mystery of Framework-knitters in the cities of London and Westminster, the kingdom of England and dominion of Wales_.
This company consists of a Master, two Wardens, eighteen Assistants, and fifty-eight Liverymen, whose fine for the livery is 10_l._ They have a small hall in Redcross street.
FREEDOM OF THE CITY OF LONDON, a space of ground without the gates, and within the liberty of the city, bounded by an irregular line, which separates the freedom from the county of Middlesex. This line begins at Temple Bar, which is the only gate fixed at the extremity of the city liberties, and extending by many turnings and windings, through part of Shear lane, Bell yard, Chancery lane, by the Rolls liberty, &c. extends into Holborn, almost opposite to Gray’s Inn, where there are bars to shew its utmost limits on that side.