Section XXI Streets herein named to be enlarged.

And whereas many auntient Streets and Passages within the said Citty and Libertyes thereof, and amongst others those which are hereafter mentioned were narrow and incommodious for Carriages and Passengers and prejudiciall to the Trade and Health of the Inhabitants and are necessary to be inlarged as well for the Convenience as Ornament of the Citty Be it enacted by the Authoritie aforesaid That the Maior Aldermen and Coo[m]mons of X1 the said Citty for the time being in Coo[m]mon Councill assembled shall and may and are hereby impowered and required to inlarge all and every the Streets and Places hereafter mentioned where and in such manner as there shall be cause by and with the Approbation of his Majestie and not otherwise that is to say, The Streete called Fleete Streete from the place where the Gray hound Taverne stood to Ludgate and from thence to Saint Pauls Church yard, The Streete leading from the East end of Saint Pauls Church into Cheapeside, The Streete and Passage at the East end of Cheapeside leading into the Poultry, The Streete and Passage out of the Poultry leading into the West end of Cornhill at or neere the place X2late called the Stocks, The Streete called Blow bladder streete leading from the West end of Cheapeside towards Newgate Market, and to inlarge the streete and passage from thence towards Newgate Market by laying the Ground where the Midle Row in the Shambls there lately stood into the said streete, and in like manner to inlarge the passage from Newgate Market towards Newgate by laying the Ground of the late fower Houses betweene Warwicke lane end in Newgate Market and the late Bell Inne there into the Streete, And in like manner to inlarge as there shall be cause the Lane called X3Ava Maria Lane leading from Pater noster Row to Ludgate Streete, And the Streete or Passage at the end of Saint Martins le Grand towards Blow bladder Streete aforesaid; And alsoe the Passage from Saint Magnus Church to the Conduit in Gratious Streete and the North end of Gratious Streete, and alsoe Thames Streete from the West corner of Saint Magnus Church aforesaid to the Tower Docke and to inlarge Old Fish Streete by laying the Midle Row there into the Streete.