The survey of London containing the original, increase, modern estate and government of that city, methodically set down : with a memorial of those famouser acts of charity, which for publick and pious vses have been bestowed by many worshipfull citizens and benefactors : as also all the ancient and modern monuments erected in the churches, not only of those two famous cities, London and Westminster, but (now newly added) four miles compass / begun first by the pains and industry of John Stow, in the year 1598 ; afterwards inlarged by the care and diligence of A.M. in the year 1618 ; and now compleatly finished by the study & labour of A.M., H.D. and others, this present year 1633 ; whereunto, besides many additions (as appears by the contents) are annexed divers alphabetical tables, especially two, the first, an index of things, the second, a concordance of names.

The survey of London containing the original, increase, modern estate and government of that city, methodically set down : with a memorial of those famouser acts of charity, which for publick and pious vses have been bestowed by many worshipfull citizens and benefactors : as also all the ancient and modern monuments erected in the churches, not only of those two famous cities, London and Westminster, but (now newly added) four miles compass / begun first by the pains and industry of John Stow, in the year 1598 ; afterwards inlarged by the care and diligence of A.M. in the year 1618 ; and now compleatly finished by the study & labour of A.M., H.D. and others, this present year 1633 ; whereunto, besides many additions (as appears by the contents) are annexed divers alphabetical tables, especially two, the first, an index of things, the second, a concordance of names.

The survey of London containing the original, increase, modern estate and government of that city, methodically set down : with a memorial of those famouser acts of charity, which for publick and pious vses have been bestowed by many worshipfull citizens and benefactors : as also all the ancient and modern monuments erected in the churches, not only of those two famous cities, London and Westminster, but (now newly added) four miles compass / begun first by the pains and industry of John Stow, in the year 1598 ; afterwards inlarged by the care and diligence of A.M. in the year 1618 ; and now compleatly finished by the study & labour of A.M., H.D. and others, this present year 1633 ; whereunto, besides many additions (as appears by the contents) are annexed divers alphabetical tables, especially two, the first, an index of things, the second, a concordance of names.

Table of contents

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Title page

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To the Reader.

The Contents of the severall Chapters of this BOOKE.

The REMAINES, wherein is contained:

All the Churches in and about LONDON, foure miles compasse (Alphabetically digested) with reference to the severall places where their Situation, Monuments, Reparations, and other memorable things recorded thorowout this whole Booke.

The 97. Churches within the Walls.

The 16. Churches without the Walls, standing part within the Liberties, and part without.

The 9. out Churches in Middlesex and Surry.

The 17. Churches foure miles compasse about London, and in the City of Westminster.

All the Companies in LONDON, Alphabetically ordered, together with their severall Halls, and Armes, with reference to the places where they are spoken of in this Worke.

The Companies of the Merchants.

A Catalogue of Authors, venerable for Antiquity, out of whom the Truth of those worthy and Ancient Matters contained in this Booke is excerpted: Ranged into an Alphabeticall order.

THE SURVEY OF LONDON: Containing the Originall, Antiquity, Increase, Moderne Estate, and Description of that Citie.

Wall about the Citie of LONDON.

Of Ancient and present Rivers, Brooks, Boorns, Pooles, Wels, and Conduits of fresh Water, serving the Citie, as also of the Ditch compassing the Wall of the same, for Defence thereof.

The Speech at the Cisterne, according as it was delivered to me.

Of the Ancient and famous River of Thames, whence it deriveth her head or originall, and so conveyeth it selfe on to the Cities service, being supplyed by divers other sweet Rivers in her course,

A further testimony concerning the River of Thames, and of the right and authority of the Lord Maior of London, to the conservancie of the said River, &c.

1. By Prescription.

2. In Eire.

3. By Charters.

4. By Acts of Parliament.

5. By Inquisition.

6. By Decrees.

7. By Letters Patents.

8. By Proclamations.

9. By Report.

10. By Quo Warranto.

For proofe of Vsage.

1. By ancient Ordinances. 2. By punishment of offenders.

3. By Writs and Precepts.

4. By Accompts.

5. By Commissions.

6. By continuall claime.

The Towne-ditch without the Wall of the CITIE.

Sum. 95. l. 3. s. 4. d.

Bridge of this Citie.

Gates in the Wall of this Citie.

The first Gate Eastward.

Ealdgate.

Bishopsgate.

Posterne of Mooregate.

Posterne of Creplegate.

Aldersgate.

Posterne out of Christs Hospitall.

Newgate.

Ludgate.

Bridgegate.

Of Towers and Castles.

The demands made by the Rebelles to the King at Miles-end.

The Confession of Iack Straw, to the Lord Maior of London, before his death.

Tower on London Bridge.

Tower on the South of London Bridge.

Baynards Castle.

The rights that belonged to Robert Fitzwater, Chastilian and Banner-bearer of London, Lord of Wodeham were these.

Tower of Mountfiquit.

Of Schooles and other Houses of Learning.

Houses of Students in the Common Law.

Of Orders and Customes.

Great Families of old time kept.

Of charitable Almes in old time given.

Sports and Pastimes of old time used in this Citie.

Of Watches in this Citie, and other matters commanded, and the cause why.

Honour of Citizens, and worthinesse both of men and women in the same.

Having thus in a generality handled the Original, the Wals, Gates, Ditches, and fresh Waters; the Bridges, Towers and Castles; the Schooles of Learning, and Houses of Law; the Orders and Customes, Sports and Pastimes, Watchings and Martiall Exercises; and lastly, the honour and worthinesse of the Citizens: I am now to set downe the distribution of this Citie into Parts; and more especially, to declare the Antiquities (note worthy) in every of the same: and how both the whole and parts have bin (from time to time) ruled and governed.

OF PORTSOKEN VVARD: The first Ward in the East part.

TOWER-STREET VVARD.

The forme of a Precept of the Lieutenant of the Tower, for the taking of one in execution, with the returne of the same Precept.

RESPONS.

The forme of a Protection, granted by the Lieutenant of the Tower, to a Prisoner being in execution for debt, to goe at large.

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The Certificat, touching as well the Articles and Complaints made to your Honours, by Robert Smith and VVilliam VVikius, against Sir Owen Hopton, Knight, Lieutenant of the Tower, as the controversies between the Maior and Citizens of London and the said Lieutenaut.

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At Non such, the third day of October. 1585.

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EALDGATE VVARD.

An Epitaph on the death of the Noble, vertuous, and charitable Gentlewoman, Mistris Barners, whose body lyeth under the stone you tread on.

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LIMESTREET VVARD.

BISHOPSGATE VVARD.

August 10. 1626.

The Copie of an ancient Deed of Gift, given to Bethlem or Bedlem, by Simon the sonne of Mary.

BROADSTREET VVARD.

Robert Beale, Esquire, 1601.

Item Memoriae.

H. M. Moest. P.

Buried in this Church:

To Gods Glory.

Vxor Foelix.

Maritus moestissimus.

Obiit 1532. aetatis vero suae, Au. 40.

The last Will and Testament of Mr. Iohn Kendrick, Citizen and Draper of London:

Who departed this life the 30. day of December, Anno, 1624.

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CORNE HILL VVARD.

A Copie taken out of the Table, fast chained in S. Peters Church on Cornehill.

Nemo ante obitum felix.

LANGBOVRNE VVARD, And Fenny about.

D. D. M. S.

Animae super Aethera vivunt.

M. H. F. C. Christo duce, & ossa resurgent.

Memoriae Sacrum.

BELINSGATE VVARD.

An Epitaph upon the death of Dame Margaret Blancke, who departed this life the second of February, An. Dom. 1596.

Beati qui moriuntur in Domino.

BRIDGE VVARD VVithin.

CANDLEWICKE STREET VVARD.

Deo & Posteris.

Vixit Annos 39. Obiit Aprilis die tertio, Anno Dom. 1598.

WALBROOKE VVARD.

In Obitum viri verè Venerabilis, Domini Ioannis Hart, Equitis, olim hujus Civitatis Praetoris, & hujus Ecclesiae Patroni, Carmen Funebre.

DOWNEGATE VVARD.

WARDS ON THE VVEST SIDE OF WALBROOKE: AND FIRST, OF VINTRIE VVARD.

In mortem suam haec Carmina dum vixerat scripsit D. Katharina Killigreia.

Elizabethae in Obitum Katharinae Sororis Epicaedia.

Felicissimae & in Christo charissimae Memoriae Katharinae Kiligreiae, Robertus Massonus Formanus Pastor Ecclesiae Londino-Gallicae, his Versibus parentavit.

Epitaphium praestant. Feminae, Katharinae Kiligreiae Autore Andrea Melvino.

Aliud Epitaphium Autore Guilielmo Charco.

CORDWAINER STREET VVard.

CHEAPE VVARD.

Thomas Iken, qui obiit 10. die Martii, 1590.

In the Vault there by,

Qualis vita, finis ita.

COLEMAN STREET VVard.

Memoriae.

Pietatis ergo moerens posuit Rich. Anderson filius haeres.

Ecclesiast. 44. ver. 8. Reliquit nomen, narrantur laudes.

Se piu Si puote.

BASSINGS HALL VVARD.

CREPLEGATE VVARD.

Deo Opt. Max. & memoriae.

A briefe remembrance of SYON Colledge, in the Parish of Saint Alphage.

Decus vitae, est honorata Mors.

Misericordiam Dei per Jesum Christum obtinuimus.

Spe resurgendi ad vitam aeternam requiescimus.

In Christo filii sumus Dei, & haeredes aeternae vicae.

Mentis vis magna.

Amor conjugalis aeternus.

Deo Trino & Vno opt. max. sacrum, ac

Conjugis,

Cui

IOB 17. Vers. 5. My breath is corrupt, my dayes are cut off, the Grave for me.

Christo S. S.

Obiit die 18. Mens. April. An. Dom. 1587. jam septuagenarius. Vita vitae mortalis est, Spes vitae immortalis.

Obiit An. Dom. 1587. April. 16.

Christus mihi vita, Mors mihi lucrum.

Obiit Anno Salutis, 1573. Aetatis suae, 19. Februarii vicessimo quarto. Tolerandum, Sperandum.

A Remembrance of Tho. Busbie, Citizen and Cooper of London, who departed this life in the yeere 1575. and was buried the 11. day of Iuly.

A Remembrance of Master Richard Roper, &c.

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The circuit of the Parish of S. Giles without Creplegate.

ALDERSGATE VVARD.

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A Remembrance of Master IOHN BANESTER, Chirurgeon, and Licentiate in Physicke.

Live to Dye.

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Memorare novissima, & in aeternum non peccabis. Eccles. 7.

Henricus Dei gratia, Rex Angliae & Franciae, & Dominus Hyberniae: Omnibus ad quos presentes literae perventium, salutem. Inspeximus tenorem quondam ordinationis, concessionis, & stabilimenti certorum Articulorum infra Sanctuarin liberae Capellae nostrae, S. Martini infra Civitatem nostram London observandam & custodiendam, coram Nobis & Concilio nostro, 5. die Februarii ultimo praeterito, apud Westmon. in Camera Stellata, ordinatorum & stabilitorum, Nobis in Cancellar. nostram de mandato nostro missum factū in haec verba:

DEO.

Pars Terrestris.

An. Dom. 1604. Martii 31. Obiit.

D. O. M.

Fraternae Pietatis Symbolum.

Katharina Mountague obiit 7. die Decembris, Anno Domini, 1612.

Obiit 19. die Aprilis, 1569.

FARINGDON VVARD Infra, or within.

Anno Reg. Ed. fil. R. Hen. xxj.

Times Triumph on the death of Master Robert Rogers, who deceased Anno. 1601. in the manner of a Dialogue, between Time, Death, and Rogers.

Death.

Time.

Rogers.

Time.

TIMES Epitaph.

Behold the Workes of God, done by his Servant, Dame MARY RAMSEY.

The rest of the godly Workes done by this good Lady.

S. Memoriae.

D. Opt. Max. Laus.

Ioanna uxor ejus moestiss. posuit.

Vita.

He deceased the 24. day of Iune, Anno Domini, 1583.

Quae obiit 29. die Decembris, Ann. Dom. 1559.

Natus octavo Mensis Julii, 1510. Obiit septimo Februarii, 1576.

William Babham, and Alice Butcon his wife, An. Dom. 1577.

Epitaphium ejus super Tumulo.

Anno 1308.

Perpetuae pietati Sacrum.

Obiit Anno, 1566.

Virtuti & Honori Sacrum.

Obiit Apr. 6. 1590.

Veniet iterum qui me in lucem reponet dies.

Obiit Anno 1595.

Floruit sub Henrico 7. & Henrico 8. Reg. Obiit Anno Domini, 1519.

Memoriae S.

M. S.

Obiit 20. Octob. An. Dom. 1626. Et Aetatis suae 66.

Sacrum Memoriae.

Franciscus Florus ad memoriam Heri sui defuncti luctus que sui solatium posuit. Anno Domini, 1593.

Adventum in pace expectat.

Obiit Anno Salutis 126•.

Thomae Lynacro clarissimo Medico, Ioannes Caius posuit, Anno 1557.

Memoriae Sacrum.

Memoriae Sacrum.

Prosopopeia.

Dies mortis, aeternae vitae natalis est.

Notes and Articles for maintenance of the ancient Liberties and Priviledges of the late dissolved Black Friers, neere Ludgate in London.

The saying of Thomas Vlverston, alias Wolverston, of Garlicke Hithe, Officer to the Vintners of London, and sometime a Frier of the Blacke Friers: Taken before mee Sir Thomas Saunders, Knight, the 30. day of May, Anno Domini, 1562.

The true Copie of the Vicar of Bromleys Letter in Kent, sent to Master Thomas Walsingham of Scadborough in the said County, Esquire: who sent the same Letter to Sir Tho. Saunders, Knight, he being also one of the Queenes Iustices of the Peace in the said Countie; to examine the severall particulars therein, concerning the libertie of the said Friers, &c.

The fatall VESPER, or dismall EVENSONG, happening at the Blacke Friers on Sunday in the afternoone, it being the 26. day of October. 1623.

A Note of such persons as were slaine, by the fall of the Roome wherein they were, in the Blacke Friers, at Father Druries Sermon, Octob. the 26. 1623.

BREADSTREET VVARD.

Respice & prospice finem.

Beati mortui qui in Domino moriuntur. APOC. 14.

Ever doe well.

QVEENE HITH VVARD.

He died on Whitsunday, Anno Domini 1591.

CASTLE BAYNARD VVard.

Shee dyed the fourth of March, Anno Domini, 1581.

Memoriae Sacrum.

Memoriae Sacrum.

THE WARD OF FARINGDON Extra, or without.

Vana salus hominis.

Mors nobis lucrum.

Qualis vita, finis ita.

In Ioannem Brewster Armigerum, in obitum D. Elizabethae Deane, uxoris ejus. Obiit 24. die Octob. 1609.

Memoriae Sacrum.

Vincemus mundi Praelia pace Dei.

Ioannes Corbettus, à Chri. bene mot.

Quid superbis terra & cinis?

Mors mihi lucrum.

Anno Domini 1556.

Memoriae Sacrum.

Quem saepe transcit casus, aliquando invent.

BRIDGE WARD WITHOVT, The 26. in number, consisting of the Borough of Southwarke, in the County of Surrey.

Houses most notable, be these.

Epics•ion Thomae Cure, Southwarchiensis Armigeri.

An Epitaph upon John Trehearne, Gentleman Porter to King James the first.

Anno Regis Caroli 11o. Aetatis S. LXXIo. Christi MDCXXVIo.

Arvum hoc Sepulchrale.

Anna

Monumentum viri justi.

Ex Registro Curiae Praerogativae Cant. extracto. Master Sampsons Will.

THE SVBVRBS WITHOVT THE Wals of the said City, briefly touched. As also, without the Liberties, more at large described.

Written upon a high beame in the middest of the Chappell.

Richardus Gardenerus Whitechappell 〈◊〉 1617. An. Resident. suae 47. Aetatissaae 77. 1617.

To the right worshipfull his Majesties Iustices of the Peace for the County of Meddlesex, and Commissioners for annoyances, and to all other his Majesties Officiars, whom in this case it shall concerne.

To the Kings most excellent Maiesty. The humble Petition of your Majesties Liege-people and Subjects, being in number many thousands, inhabiting within one mile compasse of your Majesties Tower of London, within Middlesex and Surrey, and the Borough of Southwarke.

At White-Hall the 25. of Iuly, 1627. Present,

At White Hall the 12. of September, Anno 1627. Present,

To the right Honorable Lords, and others of his Majesties most Honorable Privie Councell: The humble petition of the Inhabitants of S. Buttolphs Ealdgate, S. Katharines, White-Chappell, Stepney, Redriffe, S. Olaves, and others adjacent and neere his Majesties Tower of London.

At White Hall the 12. of December, Anno 1627.

He died the 25. day of November, Anno Domini, 1545.

A Tombe on the South side of the chancell.

Sacred to the Glory of God, in gratefull memory of Thomas Sutton, Esquire.

An Epitaph written by a Friend to Goodnesse.

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In obitum Generosissimae, charissimae que Elizabethae Croftes, nuper uxoris Caroli Croftes, Armigeri: Christoph. Brooke devotissimus, hoc memoriae pignus posuit. Obiit 20. Decemb. 1597.

LIBERTIES OF THE DVTCHIE OF LANCASTER.

THE CITIE OF VVESTMINSTER, VVith the Antiquities, Bounds, and Liberties thereof.

Edwardus primus Scotorum malleus hic est. Pactum serva.

Otherwise:

Disce mori.

Learne to Dye.

Disce Vivere.

Learne to live.

The Chaire of the Kings of Scotland.

In the great and Kingly Chappell of King HENRY the seventh.

On the other side, under the Queenes Image.

Memoriae Sacrum.

Obiit 24. Martii, Anno salutis, MDCII. Regni XLV. Aetatis LXX.

Vxor.

Maritus.

Anno. 1563.

Misericordia & Charitate.

Fide conjugali.

Sepulturae familiae de Hunsdon Consecratum.

In Australi plaga Ecclesiae.

Aerumnarum requies, Mors.

D. O. M.

Vlt. Idus Februaril. Anno Christi, MDLXXXVII. Aetatis, XXXXVI.

Another.

Not farre from Westminster, by the River, there is erected a goodly Building, not yet finished, for Students in Divinity commonly knowne by the name of Chelsey Colledge, whereof I thought fit to make mention, because I finde an Act of Parliament made in the seventh yeere of King, Iames, in the behalfe of the same Colledge, as also a Declaration published by Authority in the yeere 1616. containing the Reasons that moved his Majesty and the State to erect the same which here followeth.

A briefe Declaration of the reasons that moved his MAIESTIE and the STATE to erect a Colledge of Divines, and other Learned men, at CHELSEY, together with the Copy of his Majesties Letters in favouring the same; and an addition of some Motives forcible to excite good Christians zeale to a voluntary and liberall contribution.

Right trusty and well-beloved Councellour, we greet you well.

These Letters my Lord Archbishop of Canterbury sendeth abroad to the Bishops of his Province, and secondeth them in these termes:

The like Letters are written to my Lord Chancellour, and my Lord Maior of London.

GOVERNORS OF THE CITIE OF LONDON. And first of Ecclesiasticall Bishops; and other Ministers there.

THE TEMPORALL GOVERNMENT OF THIS CITY, SOMEWHAT Discoursed in briefe manner.

OF THE TWELVE HONOVRABLE COMPANIES OF THIS ANCIENT AND Famous Citie; out of which the Lord Maior is to be chosen yeerely, because those of inferiour rancke, are not capable of such dignitie. MERCERS.

GROCERS.

DRAPERS.

FISHMONGERS

GOLDSMITHS.

SKINNERS.

MERCHANT-TAILORS.

HABERDASHERS.

SALTERS.

IRONMONGERS.

VINTONNERS.

CLOTHWORKERS

NOW FOLLOW THE COMPANIES OF Merchants, and their seuerall Armes, so many as I could attaine vnto.

MERCHANTS Of the Staple.

Merchants Adventures.

Merchants of Russia.

Merchants of Elbing.

Merchants of Levant, or Turkie Merchants.

Merchants of Spaine.

Merchants of East-India.

New French Merchants Adventurers.

The Company of French Merchants.

Merchants of Virginia.

THE OTHER COMPANIES following the Twelve.

DYERS.

BREWERS.

LETHER SELLERS.

PEWTERERS.

Barbers-Chirurgions.

ARMOVRERS

WHITE-BAKERS.

VVax-Chandlers.

Tallovv-Chandlers.

CVTLERS.

GIRDLERS.

BVTCHERS.

SADLERS.

CARPENTERS.

CORDWAINERS.

PAINTERS.

CVRRIERS.

MASONS.

PLVMBERS.

INHOLDERS.

FOVNDERS.

EMBROIDERERS.

POVLTERS.

COOKES.

COOPERS.

Brick-layers and Tylers.

BOWYERS.

FLETCHERS.

BLACK-SMITHES.

IOYNERS.

PLAISTERERS.

WEAVERS.

FRVITERERS.

SCRIVENERS.

Bottle-makers and Horners.

STATIONERS.

MARBLERS.

WOOLL-PACKERS.

FARRIERS.

PAVIOVRS.

LORINORS.

BROWN-BAKERS.

WOOD-MONGERS.

VPHOLSTERS.

TVRNERS.

GLASIERS.

CLEARKES.

WATERMEN.

APOTHECARIES.

SILKE-THROVVERS.

LONDON.

The names of the Wards, and their Aldermen, as they now are.

Wards on the East side of VValbrooke.

These Gentlemen beare Offices of especiall respect in the City.

Officers belonging to the Lord Maiors house, according as they were first published by Master STOWE.

According to a TABLE hanging in the ancient Councell Chamber, and their dayes of waiting.

The Sheriffes of London, their Officers.

Of the Maiors and Sheriffes Liveries somewhat.

The order observed by the Lord Maior, the Aldermen, and Sheriffes for their meetings, and wearing of their Apparell throughout the whole yeere.

Vpon Midsummer day, for the election of the Sheriffes of LONDON, &c.

On BARTHOLOMEVV Eve, for the Fayre in Smithfield.

On BARTHOLOMEVV day, for the Wrastling.

For the day of our LADY Fayre in Southwarke.

For swearing the Sheriffes upon Michaelmas Eve.

Vpon Michaelmas day, for the election of the Lord Maior.

For presenting the Lord Maior Elect to the Lord Chancellor, or Keeper.

The morrow after Michaelmas day, for the new Sheriffes going to Westminster to bee sworne there.

The ancient Order for the day of Simon and Iude.

On the morrow after the day of Simon and Iude, for the new Lord Maior his going to take his Oath at Westminster.

For going to PAVLS on All-Saints day, Christmas day, Twelfe day, and Candlemas day.

On Saint Thomas day.

For the CHRISTMAS Holydayes.

On INNOCENTS day.

For Munday after Twelfe day.

For GOOD-FRYDAY.

For Munday and Tuesday in Easter weeke.

For Wednesday in Easter weeke.

For Lowe Sunday.

For Whitsunday.

For Munday and Tuesday in Whitsun weeke.

For the day of the Lord Maiors Knighthood.

For going to Pauls the first Sunday of every Terme.

For Election of Knights and Burgesses of the Parliament.

For the LORDS of the Councell, when they come about the Subsidies.

For Election of Master Chamberlaine, and the Bridge-Masters, if any of them depart within the yeere.

At such time as a King is to bee Crowned.

At what times the Lord Maior weareth his Cloake.

For the first day of every Quarter Sessions.

For the buriall of Aldermen.

At the Nomination of an Alderman.

For the Orphanes Court.

Orders taken and enacted for Orphans and their Portions. Anno 1580.

For the election of Governours at Christs Hospitall, &c.

A Note of Observation.

Courts of Aldermen.

The Lavves of the Market.

THE STATVTES OF THE STREETS OF THIS CITY, against Annoiances.

Old Lawes and Customes of this City.

AN ACT FOR THE REFORMATION OF DIVERS ABVSES VSED IN the Wardmote Inquest: Together with the Articles of the charge of the said Inquest. By the Maior. To the Alderman of the Ward.

Wardmote Inquest for a yeere.

Inquest dying.

Non appearance.

Watch, Light, Vizard.

Common Councell.

The Oath.

Constables, Scavengers, Beadle, Raker.

Roll of names.

Constable. Roll.

Inholder, Lodger, Sojourner.

Search. New commers.

Franke pledge.

Beadle.

Fire.

Streets.

Hucksters of Ale and Beere.

Measures sealed.

Stranger borne.

Billets and fire-wood.

Streets. Paine 40. s.

Vagarants.

Iury-men.

Harlots.

Articles.

An Act for the Reformation of divers abuses, used in the Wardmote Inquest.

Fire and Candle, &c. Recreation.

The Articles of the charge of the Wardmote Inquest.

Peace.

Franke pledge.

Outlawes, Traitors, Fellons, &c.

Thames.

Congregations.

Riotor, Barrator.

Peace, hue and cry.

Hucksters, receivers of Apprentices Artificers, &c.

Inholder, Taverner, Victualer.

Curfue.

Bawds, maintainers of quarrels.

Strumpet, Adulterer, Witch, Scold.

Hot-house.

Thames, ditches, streets, &c.

Chanell.

Hogs, Kine, Oxen, Ducks.

Vsury.

Persons indited in one Ward, flying into another.

Colouring forraine goods.

Forraine buying and selling.

Freemen not resident.

Orphans, Wards, Marriages.

Officers.

Boatman, Ferriour.

Purprestures.

Pent-houses, Ietties, Stalls, &c.

Way, Watercourse.

Pavements.

Regrators, Forestallers.

Price of victuall.

Hay.

Victuall unwholsome. Price.

Measures unsealed.

Weights and Measures.

Inholder, Browne-Baker.

House, Tyle.

Leper, Begger.

Bakers, Brewers.

Painted Vizage.

Candle-light.

Tall-wood, Billets, Faggots.

Wood, Country.

Cheese, Butter.

Freemen to shew their Copies.

Melting Tallow.

Fire-Presses.

Appraysers.

Beames.

Clothes.

Carmen.

Buildings, divided Houses, Inmates.

Hawkers.

Freedome.

Collectors.

Women receivers of Servants.

Privies.

Vagabonds.

Poore.

Legacies.

Drunkard, Whoremonger, Sabbath-breaker, Iesuite, Seminary Priest, Secular Priest, popish Recusant, Coozeners, &c.

Masse.

Roman Catholike Religion.

Stable-Dung.

Assembly monthly.

AN ACT OF PARLIAMENT FOR THE PRESERVATION OF the River of Thames, made in the 27. yeere of the raigne of our most dread Soveraigne Lord, King HENRY the eighth.

AN ACT OF COMMON COVNCELL, CONCERNING the Conservation and Cleansing of the River of THAMES, made the 28. of September, in the thirtieth yeere of the Reigne of our Soveraigne Lord King Henry the 8.

The Oath of the Constables within the City of LONDON.

The Oath of the Scavengers.

Instructions for the Apprentices in the City of LONDON.

The Oath of every Free-man of this City of LONDON.

Commune Concilium tentum die Veneris primo die Iunii, An. Regni Regis Henrici octavi, &c. decimo octavo, in praesentia Iohannis Allen Maioris, Gulielmi Butler Militis, Iohannis Milbourne Militis, Iohannis Mundi Militis, Thomae Baldri Militis, Gulielmi Bayly Militis, Thomae Semer Militis, Iacobi Spencer Militis, Iohannis Rudstone, Radulphi Dodmer, Iohannis Browne, Nicholai Lambert, Stephani Peacocke, Iohannis Harding, Nicho. Iennings, Hen. Dacres, Iohan. Canulen, & Christopheri Askew, viz.

A DISCOVRSE OF THE NAMES AND FIRST CAVSES OF THE INSTITVTION of Cities and peopled Townes: And of the commodities that doe grow by the same: and namely, of the City of LONDON. Written by way of an Apology (or defence) against the opinion of some men, which thinke that the greatnesse of that City standeth not with the profit and security of this Realme.

The Singularities of the City of LONDON.

An Appendix containing the examination of such causes, as have heretofore moved the Princes, either to fine and ransome the Citizens of LONDON, or to seize the Liberties of the City it selfe.

The Author to the Reader.

DESCRIPTIO NOBILILISSIMAE Civitatis LONDONIAE.

De Situ ejusdem.

De Clementia aëris.

De Religione.

De Firmitate Vrbis.

De Hortis.

De Pascuis & Sationalibus.

De Fontibus.

De honore Civium.

De Matronis.

De Scholis.

De dispositione Vrbis.

De Ludis.

A DESCRIPTION OF THE MOST HONOVRABLE CITY OF LONDON.

The Situation thereof.

The temperatenesse of the Aire.

Of Religion.

Of the strength of the City.

Of the Gardens.

Of Pasture and Tillage.

Of their Wells.

Of the Citizens honour.

Of their Matrones.

Of their Schooles.

How the Affaires of the City are disposed.

Of Exercise and Pastimes.

AN ABSTRACT OR BRIEFE RELATION OF THE TVVO MANNORS OR Lordships of Stebunheath, alias, Stepney; and Hackney, in the County of Middlesex; with the free customes, benefits, and priviledges to them belonging; and how they are holden by the Copy-hold Tenants, of the right Honourable, Thomas Lord Wentworth: with some other especiall and remarkeable notes, both of reverend Antiquity, and moderne memory.

Concerning the Indenture of Covenants, &c.

The Scedules, containing the free Customes, Orders, Immunities, Discharges, Benefits, and Priviledges of the Mannors of Stepney, alias, Stebunheath and Hackney, in the County of Middlesex: Agreed vnto, approved, allowed, and ratified, as well by the Right Honourable, Thomas, Lord Wentworth, Lord of the said Mannors; as also by his Lordships Copy-hold, or Customary Tenants, or reputed Copy-hold, or Customary Tenants of the said Mannors, or of either of them, named parties to the said Indenture, where vnto those Scedules are annexed. By which, all and every the same Copy-holders or Customary Tenants, their, and every of their Heires and Assignes, are to hold, vse, and enjoy, inherit, alien, demise, or dispose all and every, or any the said Lands, Messuages, Tenements, Cottages, and Hereditaments, which they, every, or any of them respectively doe hold, claime, or enjoy, byforce, or pretext of any grant heretofore made by the Copy of Court Roll of the said Mannors, or either of them, the day of the date of the said Indentures: That is to say, the twentieth day of Iune, in the yeeres of the Raigne of our Soveraigne Lord IAMES, by the grace of God of England, France, and Ireland King, Defender of the Faith, &c. the fifteenth, and of Scotland the fiftieth.

These Copy-holds are of inheritance, held of the Lord by the Rod, according to the custome.

Quit-rents are to be paid yeerely at Michaelmas.

At what Courts Tenants are bound to appeare.

Tenants failing to appeare, and not essoined, or reasonable excuse, shall be amended.

What the Tenants are to be allowed at set Courts.

The like allowance for view, partitions, and other summons.

How Tenants way be righted against Encroachments, Annoyances, &c.

The Homage at every generall Court, is to present deceased Tenants.

Also they must present the deaths of Free-holders, &c.

What shall bee done, if the next heire bee not knowne.

No dower for women, nor courtesie of England for men.

Estates of inheritance shall descend according to Gavelkind.

Touching descents where the Tenant left issue.

How Lands shall descend to those of the whole blood, where the Tenant left no issue.

Males and Females of one wombe, cannot joyne to be co-heires.

Touching Descents.

Descents.

Descents.

How Copy-holders of inheritance may surrender.

Surrenders taken by the Headborough or Reeve, inpresence of sixe Tenants.

Surrender of women Covert-Baron, in extremity of sicknesse.

All Surrenders taken by the Reeve or Headborough, must be presented at the first or second next generall Court.

The Homage must write Billa Vera upon their Presentments and good Surrenders.

What Women Covert-baron may doe.

Surrenders taken out of Court by the Steward or his Deputy.

The Fines are certaine, and not arbitrary.

If the Lord refuse to admit, then, &c.

Surrender to make the Wife a Ioynture.

Duties to the Homage and Tenants for Bills and Surrenders.

Though an heire be admitted, yet upon a new claime, the Homage shall enquire, &c. for a Co-heire.

Where Tenants are admitted, and after that another claimeth the whole: the Homage is not bound to enquire, but he is driven to his suit.

How Lands descended are to bee taken up.

They to whose use Lands are surrendred, ought within three yeeres after the presentment take them up.

The Lord may distrain for the Fines; or by default of distresse, seize the Lands.

The like he may doe for non payment of the Quit-rent.

Who shall be the Gardian.

Tenants may let Leases for 31. yeeres and foure moneths, without any Licence or Fine.

Either Mannor is vpon every change of Lord, to pay five pounds for Recognition money.

How the Reeve of either Mannor is to bee chosen.

In what cases the Lord may seize the Reeves Lands.

No Reeves within this composition, shall be charged with the Leet, or Court Baron, otherwise then in Article 45. Nor provide for any dinners, except, &c.

What Tenants may be chosen Reeves.

What allowances the Reeve is to have of the Lord.

The Reeve to deliver the Rentall to his Successour.

What the Copy-holders may freely doe without forfeiture.

Copy-holders may lop Trees growing upon the waste before their houses.

Letting of Lands for more then 31. yeeres and foure moneths, is a forfeiture.

For what offences these Copy-holders may forfeit their estates.

The Act or Neglect of Tenant for lives or yeeres, shall not prejudice those in remainder.

Private Acts of Tenants, hurt not the customes of the rest.

Tenant for life or yeeres, making waste, shall be fined by the Homage.

The Lord may distraine, but not seize.

How partition is to be made betweene Co-heires, Ioynt-Tenants, or Tenants in common.

Copy-holders shall pay but a penny for poundage.

Cattell impounded to be delivered by two Copy-holders.

No Suits for title of Copy-holds out of the Lords Court, without licence.

Cattell offending, shall bee driven to the Lords Pound.

How Stakes, Markes, and Meares, betweene Tenant and Tenant ought to bee set.

Drivers of Commons, when to be chosen.

How surcharging the Commons is to be remedied.

The Drivers shall account to the Homage.

The Homage may make by-Lawes, which shall binde the Tenants.

Recoveries may be suffered to barre Entailes.

Tenants not appearing a• set Courts, shall not be amerced above 4. pence.

The Stewards Fees.

Buildings to bee erected, shall pay Fines, as those already built.

The Lord shall not sever from the Mannor any of these Copy-holders, to any persons in Fee-simple, or other estate of Free-hold.

HERE FOLLOVVETH THE COPY OF THE CHARTER OF London, of the first grant, and of the confirmation of divers Kings after.

A Statute for the Hustings in the time of Saint Edward to be holden in London.

The Charter of London grant by William Conquerour and of his Sonne.

Hoc est transcriptum in latinum.

The Ordinance for the Assise and Weight of Bread in the City of London.

The Copy of the Bull for the Offerings to the Curates of the Parishes of the City of LONDON in Latine and English, and of the composition of the same. Chap. LXXXVI.

The Copy of the Bull of Pope Nicholas for the same matter.

The Letters of Innocent Bishop.

Thomas Archbishop of Canterbury, Primate of England, to the Mayer, Sheriffes, Aldermen, and Citizens of London, greetings.

The composition of all Offrings within the City of London, and Suburbs of the same.

In this Chapter is shewed the Patrones of all the Benefices in London.

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The Colledge of Gods-Gift, at Dulwich, in the County of Surry: founded, raised, and builded, at the cost and charges of Master EDWARD ALLEYNE, Esquire, in Anno Dom. 1614.

A briefe recitall of the particulars.

A briefe Remembrance of such Noble and Charitable deeds, as have beene done by the late Right Honourable, Baptist Lord Hicks, Viscount Campden, as well in his life as at his death: Recorded to the glory of God, his owne honour, and good example of others.

Good deeds done to the Towne of Campden, in the County of Gloucester.

To the Church of Campden.

Within the County of Middlesex.

In the City of London.

Impropriations purchased, and bestowed upon the Church.

An Epitaph made in his Memoriall.

Vpon a Tombe in the Temple Church in London.

Vpon a Tombe in the Chancell in Saint Botolphs Aldersgate.

At the bottome.

This Tombe is in Saint Brides Church.

This Tombe stands in Saint Giles Cripplegate Church.

Memoriae Sacrum.

This Monument stands in St. Andrewes Church in Holborne.

This Tombe was made 1629. and stands in the Temple Church.

Memoriae Sacrum.

This Monument stands in Christs Church, and was made 1627.

This Tombe was made 1631. and stands neere the South doore in Westminster.

The Foundation of the Armory of that remarkable Nurcery of Military Discipline, called the Artillery Garden London, was begun to be erected the first day of May, An. Dom. 1622. and was finished the last day of November then next following, Colonell Hugh Hammersley being then President, Edward Pierce Treasurer, Henry Petowe Marshall, and Iohn Bingham Esquire, Captaine, and one of the Councell of warre for this Kingdome.

Londons Honour, and her Citizens approved Love, exercising Armes in the Artillery Garden London.

On a Tombe in the South wall of Saint Botolphs Church without Aldersgate, London.

In Saint Botolphs Church, on a Tombe there.

The Gift of Sir Paul Pinder to Saint Pauls Church in London.

Of the ancient Court of the Hustings.

A briefe Collection how the Court of Request, commonly called the Court of Conscience, in London, hath beene established and continued for many yeeres past, for the reliefe of poore Debtors in London, and the Liberties thereof, viz.

This Tombe stands in St. Giles Cripplegate Church.

P. M. S.

MARIA,

Vpon a Tombe in Grace Church, being at the corner as you goe into Fen-Church street, with this Inscription.

On a Grave-stone there.

Vpon a Gravestone in St. Fosters Church in Faringdon Ward within, with this Inscription on it.

This Monument stands in Saint Margarets Church in Westminster, and hath this Inscription.

In the same Church is a new Monument lately erected, in the North Ile, and this Inscription on it.

This Monument stands in Westminster Abbey, and hath this Inscription.

This Monument stands in Westminster Abbey with this Inscription. Deo Optim. Maxim.

This Monument of Master Camden is in Westminster Abbey, where hee holds a Booke with Britannia on it. There followes this Inscription.

IOHN KING Bishop of London, descended from the Ancient KINGS of Devonshire by his Father, and from the CONQVESTS of Haughton Conqnest, in Bedfordshire, by his Mother, lyes buried in the South Ile of Saint Pauls, behind the Bishops Seat, having onely a plaine Marble over him, and RESVRGAM written on it for his Epitaph; as himselfe directed in his Will.

IOANNIS KING Episcopi Londinensis, quicquid mortale est in hoc pulvere componitur.

In Diem Obitus.

Anagram: Nominis, & Chronogr: Aetatis 62. currentis.

Chronogramma Anni Domini 1621.

EPITAPHIVM.

Valentine Cary, sometimes Deane of Saint Pauls Church, and after Bishop of Excester, lyes buried on the South side of the Quire, vnder a plaine Stone, with this Inscription about it.

In the South side of the Quire of Saint Pauls Church stands a white Marble Statue on an Vrne, with this Inscription over it.

Vpon a faire Monument standing in the South Ile of Saint Pauls Church this is written.

W. S.

Hîc situs est.

Hîc situs est.

Hîc sepulta sunt.

Hîc sepulta sunt.

Vpon another faire Monument standing by it is this Inscription. Memoriae S.

§

The Inscription.

The Stone bearing this Inscription, is in the middle Ile of this Church, not farre from the steps to the Chancell.

Not farre from this, a Stone with these words about it.

Not farre from the other.

This Monument is in Saint Giles Cripplegate Church, on the South side the Chancell, and hath this Inscription.

Piae Memoriae Charissimorum Parentum.

On the other side of him.

Another Monument on the North side the Quire, with this Inscription.

Memoriae Sacrum.

Another Monument neere to this last, with this Inscription on it.

Another Monument on the South side of the Quire, with this Inscription.

To the Memory

Thus farre written upon the figure or resemblance of a Coffin.

This Table is on the South side of the Quire in Saint Sepulchers, with this Inscription.

Accordamus, vincere est vivere.

Coya Shawsware.

Camera Dianae.

Of the three Brethen appointed to preach at Saint Maires Spittle at Easter 1632.

A briefe relation of the six children drowned at the Ducking pond, Ianuary 19. 1633.

A briefe Relation of that lamentable Fire, that hapned on London Bridge, the 13. of February 1633.

A PERAMBVLATION OR, CIRCVIT-VVALKE foure miles about LONDON: And what Memorable matters and Monuments wee have found and met withall in our Iourney. In the Church at Fulham are these ensuing Monuments.

This Monument is at the upper end of the Chancell, and hath this Inscription.

Another Monument on the South side the Quire, with this Inscription.

D. O. M.

Another Monument on the South side the Quire, with this Inscription. Epitaphium D. Gulielmi Brutij Equitis Aurati, & Medici Regis Henrici octavi, qui obiis An. Dom. 1545. Novem. 17.

Another Monument neere to this last, with this Inscription on it.

In the Church at Putney are these ensuing Monuments.

This Monument is in the Chancell on the North side, and hath this Inscription.

Memoriae Sacrum.

To Thomas Knivet.

On the same Monument is this Inscription. Quam Diu Domine. Siste Siste Hospes:

In the Church at Chelsey, are these ensuing Monuments.

In the South side of the North Ile is this inscription.

In the same Ile on the South side is this inscription.

Another on the South side, thus inscribed. In obitum Nobilissimorum Conjugum Gregorij D. Dacres, & Annae uxoris.

Another Monument on the North side the Chancell, and hath this inscribed.

Another on the North side with this inscription.

On the South side

a Monument of Sir Thomas Moore, dated Anno Domini. 1532.

Another Monument in the same Church, with this inscription.

In the Church at Stepney are these ensuing Monuments.

On a Monument in the Chancell is this Inscription.

In the upper end of the Chancell.

On the North side of the Chancell, as followeth.

A little Monument on the South side in the Chancell, and hath this Inscription.

This Monument is at the upper end of the Chancell, and hath this Inscription.

Sacrae Memoriae.

On a little brasse Monument in the South side of the Chancell is thus written.

In that Chancell likewise this is written.

D. O. M.

Another Monument in the same Chancell.

In Stratford-Bow, and Bromley, are these ensuing Monuments.

This Monument is in the South side of the Chancell, with this Inscription.

Hic tumulus

Valete Posteri.

On another Monument in the same Church is thus written.

In the same Church this is written.

In the Church at Lambeth are these insuing Monuments.

On the North side on a Marble Tombe as followeth.

In the Chancell on the North side is an old Tombe of Marble, thus written on.

On a flat Stone there is thus written.

On another flat Stone thus is written.

On the South side

In the South Chapell is a faire Monument of Marble, ingraven as followeth.

On the upper end on the wall, a Monument as followeth.

On the North side of the Quire is this Inscription.

This Monument is neere unto the other, and hath this Inscription.

Over against the other in the same Ile, lieth the body of Elizabeth Bayly, late wife of Iohn Bayly. Obijt 24. of Iune, Aetatis suae 25.

Another Monument on the South side the Quire, with this Inscription.

In the Church at Newington, on the North side, is this Monument.

Deo viventium. Pietati sacrum.

In Saint Georges Church in Southwarke, on the North side are these Monuments thus written on.

Another Monument on the North side, having this Inscription.

In the Church at Wansworth, are these insuing Monuments.

In the North side of the Chancell is thus written.

At the upper end of that Chancell, is thus written.

Another Monument on the South side the Quire, with this Inscription.

At the upper end of this Chancell is this Inscription.

In the Church at Battersey, are these ensuing Monuments.

On the North side of the Quire is this Inscription.

Deo Trino & Vni Sacrum.

This Monument is in the South side of the Chancell, with this Inscription.

Memoriae Sacrum.

D. G.

Another Monument in the same Chancell with this Inscription.

In the Church at Hackney are these ensuing Monuments.

A Monument made for Sir Henry Row, with this Inscription.

This Monument is neere unto the other, and hath this Inscription.

Memoriae Sacrum.

An ancient plaine Monument in the Chancell, with this Inscription.

Another Monument there also, with this Inscription.

An Epitaph upon the death of the vertuous & worthy Gentleman, Edward Saunders Esquire, Obijt vltimo die Novembris Anno 1599.

On the North side of the Chancell, as followeth.

A memory of the right Honourable, the Lady Lucy Latimer.

A Monument of Sir Thomas Rowe, who lieth buried in this Church, and hath this Inscription. Anno Domini 1570. September 2. day.

In the Church at Islington, are these ensuing Monuments.

In the South side of the Chancell is this inscription. Vnder the hope of the Resurrection.

On a faire Stone in the Chancell is this Inscription. Hinc Sperat Resurrectionem (Filius Harbottelli Grimeston, Militis & Baronetti Natu Tertius.)

Henricus Grimeston. Anagramma. En Christi Regno sum.

In the North side of the Chancell is thus written.

Another Monument on the North side the Chancell, and hath this inscribed.

Vivit post funera virtus.

A Monument in the South Ile, with this inscription.

Mors mihi vita.

In the Church at Kenzington, is this ensuing Monumeat.

An Epitaph in memory of Sir William Blake, Knight, who deceased the 30. day of Oct. An. Dom. 1630.

In Saint Giles Church in the Fields, are these ensuing Monuments.

On the North side of the Quire is this Inscription.

M. S.

Another Monument on the North side, having this Inscription.

In Saint Martins Church in the Fields, are these ensuing Monuments.

On the South side is a faire Monument, with this Inscription.

Arthur Gregory married Christian.

Another Monument there also, with this Inscription.

Another on the South side, thus inscribed.

Expectans Gloriam.

This Monument is neere unto the other, and hath this Inscription.

In the same Ile on the South side is this inscription.

Another Monument on the same side, with this Inscription.

On the same side is another Monument, with this Inscription.

This Monument is in the South side of the Chancell, with this Inscription.

Another Monument in the same Church, with this inscription.

On the North side of the Chancell is this Inscription.

Gardez la foy.

Another Monument in the same Church, with this Inscription.

Vixit circa 84. Anno obijt Novemb. 30. 1616.

On a flat Stone in the Chancell, is this written.

Hem viator, Infans te paucis vult

In the Church at Greenewich, are these ensuing Monuments.

In the Chancell, on the South side, this is written.

Another Monument on the South side the Quire, with this Inscription. D. O. M. Et salvatori. I. C. S. In Memoriam.

On a Monument on the North side of the Chancell is this Inscription. In piam Memoriam Dilectissimae suae conjugis.

In an Ile on the North side is this Inscription.

Next to the other is this Inscription.

Next to the other is this Inscription.

In the Church at Detford, or West Greenwich, are these ensuing Monuments.

This Monument is at the upper end of the Chancell, and hath this Inscription. M. S.

Death. Richardus, praenobilis Comes Corcagiensis Vxoris suae Patruo. B. M. P.

At the upper end of that Chancell, on the North side, is thus written. Sacrae perpetuae que Memoriae Gulielmi Haukyns, de Plimouth Armigeri.

In the upper end of the Chancell.

In the Church at Roderith, are these ensuing Monuments.

In the South Ile, on the wall, is this written.

Post tenebras, spero Lucem.

In the middle Ile of this Church is thus written.

Trinitas in vnitate.

This was made at the charge of Robert Bell.

1627.

In Saint Margarets Church at Westminster, are these ensuing Monuments.

On a very ancient Monument in Brasse, at the upper end of the North Ile, is thus written.

Sacrum doloris.

Ejusdem in eundem.

Thus in English.

Margaretta Cole posuit. In another columne of the same Table.

This Monument is in the North Ile, and hath this Inscription.

On a Monument on the North side of the Chancell is this Inscription.

Another Monument in the same Ile, with this Inscription.

Neere unto the other, in a faire Plate, is this following Epitaph.

In the same Ile, in the body of the Church, is this Inscription.

At the upper end of the South Ile in the Chancell, as followeth. Frances Haughton, in token of her love to her Husband, caused this Monument to be erected.

On an ancient brasse Monument close by the other, is thus written.

On another neere to that is thus written.

On another neere to that is thus written.

Close to this a very faire Monument in the South wall of the Chancell, thus written on.

Another faire Monument in the fame Ile, in the Chancell, thus written on.

At the foure corners of this Monument are these inscriptions.

On a faire Stone in the middle of the Chancell is this written.

A faire Monument at the lower end of the North Ile in the wall, thus written on.

In the middle of the same Ile, in the wall, is a faire Monument, thus written on.

M. S.

Another in the same wall, thus inscribed.

D. M. M. S.

On the same Wall, in a Table, is this Epitaph.

On a Table hanging at the upper end of the South Ile is this written.

Another faire Monument at the vpper end of the Chancell, thus inscribed.

This Monument is neere unto the other, having this Inscription.

A faire Monument at the upper end of the North Ile, with this inscription.

On a faire Marble in the Chancell is thus written.

Depositum

In Westminster Abbey are these ensuing Monuments.

In Obitum Serenissimae

Responsio Familiae.

Vpon a very rich and stately Monument in the same Church is thus written.

2 Sam. 3. 38. Chronog:

On the other side of the same Monument is thus written.

On a Table in the same Quire, is this following Inscription.

P. M. S.

Quem

Quem

Quem

Quem

This Monument is in a Chappell on the North side of the high Altar.

Georgio Holles

Declaratus est.

This Monument is in a Chappell on the South side of the high Altar.

This Monument is in another Chappell on the South side the high Altar.

Bonae Memoriae

D. O. M. OSSA

Descensus oriunde

On a Pillar on the North side of the high Altar is this Inscription.

Iuliana Crem

In the Abbey, in the North Ile, about the middle of the Ile, is thus written.

Spe Resurgendi▪

In another Chappell on the South side the high Altar, is this Inscription.

A RETVRNE TO LONDON:

S. Albanes Woodstreet.

Alhallowes Barking.

In the South wall is a Monument with this Inscription.

Alhallowes Bredstreet.

To the sacred Memory▪

A faire new Monument in the South Ile, on the wall, almost at the upper end.

Queene Elizabeths Monument.

Alhallowes the great.

Queene Elizabeths Monument.

In the figure of a Booke over Her, these words.

On the one side.

On the other side.

Vnder her.

Alhallowes Honylane.

Alhallowes the lesse.

Queene Elizabeths Monument.

Alhallowes Lumberstreet.

Alhallowes Stayning.

In the South wall of this Church is a Monument with this Inscription on it.

Alhallowes at the Wall.

Queene Elizabeths Monument.

S. Alphage.

In the South Ile, upon a faire Marble stone is this Inscription.

On another faire stone in the same Ile.

Andrew Hubbard.

Andrew Vndershaft.

A faire Monument in the middle of the wall of the South Ile, with this Inscription.

On a faire Grave-stone lying in the same Ile, is thus written.

I. H. S. Mors Christi, mihi vita.

Andrew Wardrope.

A very faire Window on the South side of this Church, with this Inscription.

In the South Ile, at the lower end of the Church, is this Epitaph.

Anne Aldersgate.

An Epitaph in the Chancell, with this Inscription.

Anne Black-Fryers.

A faire Monument at the South end of this Church, with this Inscription.

P. M.

Quueene Elizabeths Monument.

On the other side of the Monument.

S. Antholines.

S. Austin.

Bartholomew Exchange.

At the West doore is a very faire Screene, with this Inscription.

Monument in the South side of the Chancell thus written on.

In the same Church, and the same Ile, upon a faire stone, is this Inscription.

Queene Elizabeths Monument.

Bennet Fynck.

Bennet Grace-Church.

Queene Elizabeths Monument.

As in the figure of a Booke.

On the one side.

On the other side.

Vnder her.

Bennet Pauls-Wharfe.

A faire Monument at the upper end of the South Ile, standing under and adjoyned to the Monument of his Father, Master David Smith, Imbroytherer to Queene Elizabeth, with this inscription.

Bennet Sherehog.

Botolph Billingsgate.

A very faire Monument in the wall of the South Ile, with this Inscription.

Queene Elizabeths Monument. Eliza Beata,

Vnder the figure of three Crownes. Vltimum manet in Coelo.

Christs Church.

A Table of Armes for the Lady Digby, of all her quarterd Coats, which by the right of Heires generall are involved into the Noble Family of her Fathers.

Hard by the other this, and thus written on.

Vpon a faire Stone in the North Ile, is this Inscription.

Vpon a faire stone at the entrance into the upper Church, with this Inscription.

Vpon a faire stone in the middle Ile, is this Inscription.

In a Table in the Quire, hanging upon the Organs, is this written.

These two Stones lie close together, and close to the Communion Table. In which place also lyeth buried the body of that learned and worthy Divine, Doctor Sampson Price.

Fui Claphamus, pater Istius Iohannis subter hunc ••pidem sepulti.

S. Christophers.

In the same Church is this following Epitaph.

C. V.

Clements Eastcheape.

Queene Elizabeths Monument. Monumentum Elizabethae. In the figure of a Booke. Psal. 125.

On the one side.

On the other side.

Dionis Back-Church.

A Monument in the North Ile, with this Inscription.

S. Dunstans in the East.

A faire Monument in the North Ile of the Chancell, with this inscription.

Edmonds Lumbardstreet.

In the first yeere

In the last

S. Ethelborough.

S. Faith.

A very faire Marble stone in the Chancell under the Communion Table, with these words.

About it.

Vpon it.

A faire Monument on the North side of the Chancell, with this Inscripion.

M. S.

A faire Monument at the upper end of the Chancell, with this inscription.

A very faire Table hanging about the middle of the South Ile of Saint Faiths Church. Anno Dom. 1630.

S. Fosters.

Gabriel Fen-Church.

Over the head, Touch not mine anointed. Vnder them,

George Botolph-lane.

Queene Elizabeths Monument.

Gregories by Pauls.

S. Hellens.

In the South Ile of this Church, is a very faire Window with this inscription.

About this Tombe these words.

On the one side these Verses.

On the other side these Verses.

About the bottome these words.

Iames Dukes-place.

James Garlick-hithe.

John Baptist.

Queene Elizabeths Monument.

Iohn Evangelist.

S. John Zachary.

A faire Monument in the South Ile, with this Inscription.

Katherin Coleman.

Katherine Cree-Church.

Queene Elizabeths Monument.

Lawrence Jurie.

Vnder the middle window in the Chancell, a very rich and costly one, is thus written.

A faire Window on the North side of it.

A faire Window on the South side of it.

A faire Window next to this, at the upper end of the South Ile.

A faire Window downeward next to this.

A faire Window next to this downeward.

A faire Window next to this downeward.

A faire Window, the lowest on this side.

At the Westend of this Ile, a faire Window.

On the North side, the lowest Window.

A faire Window next to this upward, the resemblance of a blazing Starre on it.

At the bottome of this Window thus.

The next Window upward.

The next Window upward.

The next Window upward.

The uppermost Window on the North side.

A faire Monument in the Chancell, on the North side, with this Inscription.

Deo O. M.

Gulielmus Bosvelus, hujus Ecclesiae Vicarius per An. 15.

A very faire Monument over against it, on the South side of the Chancell.

At the lower end of this rich Tombe this.

On the North side of the Chancell, a very faire Monument, with this Inscription. M. S.

A very faire Stone in the South Ile, with this inscription about it.

Queene Elizabeths Monument.

Lawrence Pountney.

A Monument at upper end of the North Ile, with this Inscription.

Leonard Eastcheape.

Abraham Colfe Rector.

Leonards Fosterlane.

S. Magnus.

A very faire Monument in the South Ile of the Chancell, with this inscription.

Margaret Lothbury.

A faire Monument in the South Ile, at the upper end, with this Inscription.

Margaret Moses.

A very faire Monument on the South side, with this inscription.

Margaret New-fishstreet.

Margaret Pattons.

A pretty fine Monument on a Pillar in the Chancell, on the North, with this inscription.

On a faire Marble in the Chancell is this inscription.

Mary Abchurch.

A faire Monument in the Chancell, at the upper end, with this inscription. An Epitaph Vpon the departure of the Illustrious President of bounty and pious industry, Master Roger Montague, Esquire.

Mary Aldermanbury.

A very beautifull Tombe at the upper end on the South side of the Chancell, with this inscription.

Ioyning with this in the same Monument.

A very faire Monument in the Chancell, over against the other, with this inscription.

A very faire Monument on the North side of the Chancell, with this Inscription. Deo Trino & Vai-sacrum.

Mary Aldermary.

Queene Elizabeths Monument. Monumentum Elizabethae Angliae Reginae. In the figure of a Booke.

On the one side.

On the other side.

Vnder her Monument.

Mary le Bow.

In a little Chappell on the South side of the Church, is a Monument thus written on.

A faire Monument in the Chancell, with this Inscription.

Queene Elizabeths Monument. In the Table onely this.

Vpon the Wall, on either side of this Table, these lines.

Was

A Prince Incomparable.

On the other side.

Mary Bothaw.

Queene Elizabeths Monument.

Mary Colechurch.

Mary Hill.

Mary Mounthaw.

Mary Summerset.

Queene Elizabeths Monument.

Mary Staynings.

The Armoriall Atchievements of Sir Arthur Savage, Knight.

Mary Woollchurch.

Queene Elizabeths Monument.

Mary Woollnoth.

Martins Ironmonger lane.

A faire Monument at the upper end of the Chancell, on the North side, with this Inscription.

A very faire Stone in the North Ile, with this inscription about it.

Martins Ludgate.

A very handsome Monument in the Wall, at the upper end of the Chancell, with this Inscription.

M. S.

Martins Orgars.

A rich and very beautifull Monument in the Chancell, with this Inscription. M. S.

Queene Elizabeths Monument.

Martin Outwitch.

Martins Vintrey.

Queene Elizabeths Monument.

Matthew Frydaystreet.

Maudlin Milkestreet.

Queene Elizabeths Monument.

On the other side.

Maudlins Oldfishstreet.

A very Monument in the same Church with this Inscription.

Queene Elizabeths Monument.

Michael Bassishaw.

Michael Cornehill.

A very faire Monument on the Wall, in the North Ile, with this Inscription.

Michael Crookedlane.

A rich and very beautifull Monument on the South side the Chancell, this Ile called The Fish-mongers Chappell.

S. S.

Vpon a Marble stone in the Chancell is this Inscription.

Queene Elizabeths Monument.

Michael Queenehithe.

Queene Elizabeths Monument.

Michael Querne.

A faire Monument in the North Ile, with this Inscription.

A faire Monument in the South Ile, with this Inscription.

Queene Elizabeths Monument.

Michael Royall.

Michael Woodstreet.

Queene Elizabeths Monument.

Mildred Breadstreet.

Queene Elizabeths Monument.

The Powder Plot. 1605.

The great Plague 1625.

The Founders figure, with his Wife, Children, and their Armes.

A faire Stone in the South side of the Chancell.

A faire Monument belonging to this Stone standing over it, with this Inscription.

Mildred Poultrey.

A Monument on the wall in the North Ile, with this inscription.

Queene Elizabeths Monument.

On the other side of the top of the Monument.

On the other side.

In the figure of a Booke over Her, these words.

Vnder her.

Nicholas Acons.

A handsome Monument on the South side of the Chancell, with this Inscription.

Over these lines, as in a Booke in the hands of this Gentleman, these words:

A Monument on the North side the Chancell, with this Inscription.

Nicholaes Coleabby.

Nicholas Olaves.

Olaves Hartstreet.

A very faire Monument on the North side of the Chancell, with this Inscription.

Consecrated to the Memory of Paul and Andrew Bayning, Esquires.

This Monument of his Brother adjoyning to this.

Next to that of Paul Bayning, Esquire, is this, having this Inscription.

Lectori.

Neere unto the other this, having this Inscription. D. O. M. S. Viator Commorare, Rimare, Mirare.

Fili ad Parent.

On a faire Stone in the middle Ile, with these words about it.

In the middle of the Stone, with their Armes over it, these words.

Olaves Jewrie.

A faire Monument in the same Church with this Inscription.

Olaves Silverstreet.

Pancras Soperlane.

Queene Elizabeths Monument. Mors mihi lucrum Spiritus Astra petat.

Peters Cheape.

Peters Cornehill.

Neere to this in the Chancell, about a faire Marble stone is this inscription.

Vpon it thus:

Peters Pauls Wharfe.

Queene Elizabeths Monument.

Peters Poore.

A very faire Monument at the upper end of the North Ile in the Chancell, with this Inscription.

In the North Ile, upon a faire Marble Stone is this Inscription.

A faire Monument at the upper end of the Chancell, with this Inscription. Anno 1624. Aetatis 54. A Memoriall Of the Worshipfull Master Robert Wadson, late Citizen and Merchant-Taylor of London. Epitaphium.

Stevens Colemanstreet.

To the memory Of that ancient Servant to the City, with his Pen, in divers imployments, especially the Survey of London, Master Anthony Munday, Citizen and Draper of London.

Queene Elizabeths Monument.

Stevens Walbrooke.

S. Swithins.

A very faire Monument on the South side of the Chancell, with this inscription. This Monument

Epitaph.

Over against the other, in the same Ile, is a faire Monument, with this Inscription. Epitaphium

Thomas Apostle.

Queene Elizabeths Monument.

Monumentum Elizabethae Angliae Reginae. As in a Booke. Psal. 112.

On the one side.

On the other side.

Vnder her Monument.

Trinity Parish.

A Review also of the sixteene Parishes without the Walls of this City.

Andrew Holborne.

A very comely Monument upon a Pillar in the South Ile, with this Inscription. Aspice, Respice, Prespice.

On the South side of the Quire, upon a faire Marble stone, is this Inscription.

On a stone neere unto the other, is this Inscription.

Vpon a Brasse plate, neere the North doore, is this Inscription.

Bartholomew the Great.

A Monument in the North Ile in the Chancell, with this Inscription.

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Another Monument neere the Pulpit, with this Inscription.

Coelebs à suis procul periit.

A faire Monument in the South Ile, close by the Vestry doore.

Vpon a faire Marble Stone close by the last Monument, is this Inscription.

Vpon a faire Stone close to the other is this Inscription.

Bartholomew the Lesse.

S. Brides.

A very faire Monument standing in the South Ile, in the Chancell, with this Inscription.

In the same Ile, at the upper end of this Church, on a faire Monument, in this Inscription.

Bridewell Precinct.

Close by the Pulpit hangs the Picture of King EDVVARD the sixt, with these lines under it.

Queene Elizabeths Monument.

Botolph Aldersgate.

The charge of all this 415. li.

A very faire Monument on the South wall of the Chancell, with this Inscription.

Vpon a Stone in the Chancell, is this Inscription.

On a Stone neere to the other, is this Inscription.

A very handsome Monument on a Pillar on the South side of the Chancell, thus inscribed. Pars Terrestris

A very faire Table full of rich Coats of Armes, hanging on a Pillar in the middle Ile, over against the Pulpit, with these severall Inscriptions in it.

Botolph Algate.

A faire Monument upon a Pillar on the South side of the Chancell, over against the Pulpit the figure of the Gentleman for whom it was erected leaning upon a Deaths head.

To the Company.

Vpon a Marble Stone (in the middle of this Church) under the figure of a Deaths-head is this Inscription.

Botolph Bishopsgate.

A Monument on the South side of the middle Ile, with this Inscription.

Dunstans West.

A faire Table in Glasse, upon a Pallar in the middle Ile, thus written on.

A faire Albaster Monument at the upper end of the South Ile, with this Inscription.

A very faire Monument on the North side of the South Ile, at the upper end, with this Inscription. M. S. Nicholai Hare▪

A faire Monument in the South Ile, on the wall, under the Monument of one Cuthbert Fetherstone.

A Table with a faire Coat Armes, encompast with a Wreath of Lawrell, upon a Pillar in the Chancell, over against the Vestrey, thus inscribed.

A faire Monument over the Vestrey doore in the Chancell, with this Inscription.

A Table hanging upon a Pillar, in the middle row of Pewes, with this Inscription.

Queene Elizabeths Monument.

George Southwarke.

Vnder these this Inscription.

The upper Window of the South Ile, is thus inscribed:

Sed Sanguine.

A very faire Table, with a rich Coate Armes, hanging on the South side of the Chancell, with this Inscription.

Vpon a Marble Stone in the Chancell, neere the Communion Table, is this Inscription.

Vpon another Stone close to the former, is this Inscription.

Giles Cripplegate.

A very faire Table, with a rich Coat Armes hanging upon a Pillar in the middle Ile, about it this Inscription.

Vpon a very faire Marble Stone, in the South Ile, is this Inscription.

Olaves Southwarke.

Queene Elizabeths Monument. Monumentum Elizabethae.

Saviours Southwarke.

A faire Monument on the North wall of the new Chappell, with this Inscription.

In the same Chappell and Ile, upon à Grave-stone is thus written.

Vpon a faire stone close to this, under the Grocers Armes, is this Inscription.

In the same Ile, upon a faire Marble stone, with the Merchantaylors Armes at the head of it, is this Inscription.

Next to this, upon a brasse plate, is this Inscription.

Queene Elizabeths Monument. Elizabetha Regina.

Sepulchres Parish.

Anno 1624.

Anno 1625.

Anno 1626.

Anno 1627.

Anno 1628.

Anno 1629.

Anno 1630.

Anno 1631.

Annis 1632. & 1633.

Thomas Southwarke.

A Table with this Inscription. 1632.

Trinity Minories.

A handsome Monument on the North wall of the Chancell, with these following lines.

About a faire Marble stone in the Chancell, close by the Communion Table, are these words.

Vpon it these:

On another Stone, neerè unto the last, is this Inscription.

In the body of the Church, is a Monument with this Inscription.

The figure of a Child.

A Review also of the nine out Parishes in Middlesex and Surrey.

Clement Danes.

A faire Monument in the Chancell, on the North side, at the upper end, with this Incription.

A faire Monument over against this, on the South side, with this Inscription.

A very faire Monument neere unto the other, with this Inscription.

Next to this another handsome small Monument, with this Inscription.

A faire Monument on the South side of the Chancell, with this Inscription.

A very faire Monument on the North side of the Chancell, with this Inscription. M. S.

A faire Monument at the upper end of the South Ile, with this Inscription.

On the same wall downeward, another faire Monument, with this Inscription.

Memento Mori.

A faire Table in Glasse, hanging close by the Pulpit, with this Inscription. S. Memoriae Virg.

A faire Monument on the North side, with this Inscription.

A very faire Monument in the same wall, neere unto the other, with this Inscription.

Vpon a faire Marble Stone in the middle Ile, is this Inscription.

Vpon a Stone in the middle Ile, is this Inscription. Memoriae sacrum, & Deo opt. max. Sacrum.

On another Stone neere to the former is this Inscription.

A faire Stone in the middle Ile, neere the Chancell, having this Inscription.

Another in the same Ile, with this Inscription.

A handsome Monument on the Wall, in the South Ile, with this Inscription.

On the same Tombe, under that above, is this written.

Filius Ararhnes Cyllenii, Factor paterque Tanaquillae. Vnder her. Memoriae Sacrum

Giles in the Fields.

Of the second is this:

Of the third this:

Of the fourth this:

Vnder the first thefe Verses:

Vnder the other these:

A very faire Window, with the Kings Armes in it, over the entrance into the Chancell,

A very faire Window at the upper end of the South Ile,

Another next to this downeward, bearing the figure of a Lyon in the Wildernesse,

Another next to this downeward, having the Figures of Saint Iohn, Saint Philip, and Saint Matthew,

Next to this downeward, a very faire Window,

Next to this downeward, a very faire Window,

I·H✚·S·

On one side of him this,

On the other side,

Over the great West doore, is a faire Window, with the Carpenters Armes, and a faire Coat Armes close by it.

Woman, Behold thy Sonne.

Behold thy Mother.

Another next to this downeward,

Another next to this downeward,

A faire Window over the doore in the middle of the North Ile, bearing a worthy Coat Armes, with these words: Whitaker & Egerton.

Vnder the second thus:

Vnder the third thus:

A faire Window next to this downeward, bearing a very faire Coat Armes, with these words: Cope & Aston.

A very rich Window next downward, divided into three parts, bearing the curious Figures of the three Theologicall Vertues, under them, Fides, Spes, Chaeritas. Vnder Faith this:

Vnder Hope this:

Vnder Charity this:

Vpon a faire Grave-stone in the middle Ile, is this Inscription.

Vpon a faire Stone neere to the other, it this Inscription.

On another Stone neere to the former, is this Inscription.

Close by the former

In the South Ile

Alexander Barnes

Laus Deo.

A very faire Tombe-stone in the Church-yard, about it these Verses.

Vpon it.

On a faire Stone in the Church-yard, is this Inscription. I·H✚·S·

Expecta donec veniat.

Honesta mors initium vitae.

James at Clarkenwell. 1623.

Vpon my very worthy Friend, Master Iohn Weaver, a learned Antiquary.

Katherines Tower.

Vpon the South wall in the Chancell, is this inscribed.

Neere unto the former is another Inscription, as followeth.

On the same South Wall, this Monument done at the charges of William Beereblocke, Goldsmith, one of his Executors.

Leonards Shorditch.

Martins in the Fields.

Nascendo Morimur.

The Epitaph.

Over the figure of Death: Ibimus omnes.

Vpon her Tomb-stone, at the foot of this Monument.

A faire Tomb-stone in the Chancell, with this Inscription.

A very faire Table, with a rich Coat Armes, hanging on the North side of the Chancell, with this Inscription.

Mary Whitechappell.

A faire Monument on the North wall of the Chancell, with this Inscription.

A handsome Tombe, encompast with Iron grates in the Churchyard, hath this Inscription.

Another close by the former, with this Inscription.

Magdalens Bermondsey.

Savoy Parish.

A very faire Monument at the upper end of the Church, having this Inscription.

A faire Monument on the West side, close to the former, with this Inscription. Morieris. Resurges. Ianua vitae sepulchrum.

Next to the other is a very Ancient Monument, with this Inscription.

Over the Vestry doore in the Chancell, is a very faire Tombe with these words.

Vpon a faire Marble Stone in the Chancell, is this Inscription.

Close to the other this:

Close to the other this:

Close by the former

Close to the other is this.

At the upper end of the Chancell, in the East corner, is a very ancient Monument, with this Inscription.

A very faire Table with a rich Coat Armes, on the East wall, toward the lower end of the Church. Over it these words:

Vnder it these:

In the wall on the West side of the Church, is this ancient Memoriall.

On an ancient Plate close to the formes, is this Inscription.

In the body of the Church, upon a brasse plate on the ground, is this Inscription.

A very faire Stone, with a faire Picture of the party buried wrought in Brasse, having these severall Inscriptions.

Neere unto the other is this Inscription.

Neere vnto the former is this Inscription.

Neere unto the other is this Inscription.

On a faire Stone close to the other, is this Inscription.

Neere to the other.

Next unto the other is this Inscription.

On the next unto the other, is this Inscription.

A Table, or Memoriall of all such Benefactors as have given any summes of Money or Legacies, to the value of five pounds and upwards, to this Parish of Saint Mary Strand, alias Savoy, for the use of the poore, or to other pious uses within this Parish; beginning from the yeere of our Lord God 1597. And as touching all other Legacies and summes of Money under five pounds, given by Benefactors in this kinde, since the time aforesaid, they are registred in a Booke kept for that purpose.

Anno Dom. 1622.

A second Memoriall.

To the Reader.

A Schedule indented, Containing a Survey taken the xxx. day of December, Anno Dom. 1567. and the tenth of Queene Elizabeth, of the Mannor of Finsbury, in the County of Middlesex, belonging to the Prebend of Hallywell and Finsbury, in the Cathedrall Church of Saint Paul, London. Wherein are particularly specified, as well the capitall Messuage and Scite of the said Mannor, and all other Messuages, Houses, Gardens, Orchards, Lands, Tenements, Medowes, Pastures, Leasures, and other Grounds, being of the Demaynes of the said Mannor; with the Butts and Bounds thereof. As also the Rents and Services belonging to the said Mannor: and the names of the Tenements by whom the same are to be paid. With mention also, for what Lands the same Rents and Services are due: with the Butts and Bounds thereof.

The Demayne Lands.

Golding lane.

The Free Tenants

Beech lane.

White-crosse street.

Finsbury Field.

Additions out of severall Charters of Kings, &c. concerning the ancient Liberties, bounds and privileges, of Saint Martins le grand in Aldersgate Ward; to bee inserted Page 330. in the second Columne, betwixt the words Gospell and lower downe. An Abstract out of King William the Conquerors Charter, mentioned Page 327. of this Booke.

Notes out of King Henry the third his Charter, Anno Regni 50.

A Declaration of William Abbot of the Monastery of St. Peter of Westminster, concerning his title to the Privilege and Sanctuary of St. Martins le grand in London: with the precincts, Circuit, and Bounds of the same.

A very ancient Deed, to prove Lambs-Chappell to have anciently beene in the Parish of Saint Olaves Silverstreet.

Notes upon this Deed.

The Circuit of the Hospitall or Free Chappell of Saint Katharine neere the Tower of London.

An Ancient Record concerning East Smithfield to bee inserted Page 268.

Of King Henry the first his Charter this is the Abstract.

More concerning the Liberties and extent of the said Guild.

More, concerning the Tower Ditch before mentioned; and of the enclosing the whole City of London with a Ditch.

More concerning this matter, out of a french Record in Booke H. folio 199. and in Booke Dunthorne, folio 88. Which is a desire of the Master of Saint Katherines Hospitall, to have leave of the City to enclose a certaine peece of ground neere the Tower of London.

To prove that the Hospitall of Saint Katherines, with the Mils, and all that belong to it, together with the Tower Ditch, all East-Smithfield without the Posterne, before the Abbey of Grace, with the right hand part of the street leading along by Duddings Pond, are, and time out of minde have beene within the Liberty of the City of London, and parcell of Portsoken Ward without Algate, in the Suburbes.

Of the founding of Trinity Church within Aldgate, and of the beginning of the Canons Regular, and Augustine Fryers in ENGLAND. Insert this in page 145.

Other things given by Queene Maud, to the same Church.

Notes upon the foresaid Charters.

Of the setting up of the Stone Conduit by the Stockes. To be inserted pag. 244. after the fifth line.

A Note concerning Bretaske lane in Downegate Ward. To be inserted page 253. Col. second, after, Edward the fourth.

Concerning Blackwell Hall; An Act of Common Councell held August the first, in the 8. of Henry 8. To be inserted Page 129. Col. 1. after these words: This house (of late yeeres)

Of the enlargement of the Crossed Fryars Church.

Of the Conduit of Saint Giles Creplegate. To be inserted pag. 319.

Something to be added to page 281. concerning Saint Thomas of Acons in West-Cheape.

Of Leaden Hall. To be inserted page 206. Columne 2. after Chamber of London.

Of the new Seale of the Bridge-house.

Of the priviledge of Saint Bartholomewes Hospitall. To be inserted, Pag. 345.

Against abuses offered to Pauls. To bee inserted Page 371. Col. 2. after To his Will.

The Abstract of an Act of Common Councell, held September 19. in the third and fourth yeeres of Philip and Mary, for the removing of the Compter Prison out of Breadstreet into great Woodstreet. To bee inserted pag. 312. or pag. 395. Col. 1. after Pitifull Prisoners.

The Abstract of an Act of Common Councell, the last of February, the second and third of Philip and Mary, concerning Bridewell. To be inserted Page 436. Col. 2. after By Queene Mary.

Leystow by Baynards Castle removed. To be inserted page 405.

Something about Ludgate.

Something about Broken wharfe. To be inserted page 403.

Of the opening of a Lane in Downegate Ward.

Something to be inserted page 217. Col. 2. after Royall Exchange.

Something of Queenhith. To be inserted page 402. Col. 2. after Edward the third.

Something concerning the Iurisdiction of the River of Thames. To be inserted page 26. Col. 2. after these words, And the like Sessions kept there for the same purpose. To my Honorable Friend Sir HENRY MARTEN, Knight, Iudge of the High Court of the Admiralty.

To the Master and Wardens of the Company of Stationers.

The first Table Containing all the Ancient and Memorable places, Charitable and Noble Acts of Citizens, and most Honourable and Worthy Monuments recorded in this Booke; Alphabetically digested: Wherein the Figures referre to the Page, the Letters to the Columne, and the Asteriskcs * to the top of both Page and Columne. † to the middle of both Page and Columne. ¶ to the bottom of both Page and Columne.

The second Table Containing the Sirnames of all those, whom Honorable Dignities, Memorable Benefactions, Remarkeable Actions, and Venerable Monuments, have made worthy to be recorded in this Worke; Alphabetically digested: Wherein the Figures referre to the Page, the Letters to the Columne, and the Asteriskes * to the top of both Page and Columne. † to the middle of both Page and Columne. ¶ to the bottome of both Page and Columne.

The survey of London containing the original, increase, modern estate and government of that city, methodically set down : with a memorial of those famouser acts of charity, which for publick and pious vses have been bestowed by many worshipfull citizens and benefactors : as also all the ancient and modern monuments erected in the churches, not only of those two famous cities, London and Westminster, but (now newly added) four miles compass / begun first by the pains and industry of John Stow, in the year 1598 ; afterwards inlarged by the care and diligence of A.M. in the year 1618 ; and now compleatly finished by the study & labour of A.M., H.D. and others, this present year 1633 ; whereunto, besides many additions (as appears by the contents) are annexed divers alphabetical tables, especially two, the first, an index of things, the second, a concordance of names.[1]

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THE SURVEY OF LONDON: CONTAINING The Original, Increase, Modern Estate and Government of that City, Methodically set down.

With a Memorial of those famouser Acts of Charity, which for publick and Pious Ʋses have been bestowed by many Worshipfull Citizens and Benefactors.

As also all the Ancient and Modern Monuments erected in the Churches, not only of those two famous Cities, LONDON and WESTMINSTER, but (now newly added) Four miles compass.

Begun first by the pains and industry of JOHN STOW, in the year 1598.

Afterwards inlarged by the care and diligence of A. M. in the year 1618.

And now compleatly finished by the study & labour of A. M. H. D. and others, this present year 1633.

Whereunto, besides many Additions (as appears by the Contents) are annexed divers Alphabetical Tables: especially two,

The first, and Index of Things.

The second, a Concordance of Names.

LONDON, Printed for Nicholas Bourn, and are to be sold at his Shop at the South Entrance of the ROYAL-EXCHANGE▪ 1633.

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TO THE RIGHT HONORABLE RALPH FREEMAN, now Lord Maior of the City of LONDON, Sir Edward Barkham, Sir Martin Lumley, Sir Iohn Gore, Sir Hugh Ham [...]rsley, Sir Richard Deane, Sir Iames Cambell, Sir Robert Ducy, Sir George [...]hitmore, Sir Nicholas Raynton, Knights; Edward Litleton, Esquire, Recorder of LONDON: And to all the other Aldermen, Brethren-Senators in the state of so famous a City; All of them being my Honorable and worthy Masters: A. M. Wisheth the fruition of all temporall Felicities in this life; and the never-failing fulnesse of blessednesse in the life to come.

RIGHT HONORABLE,

THis famous City hath now enioyed the peacefull succession of more than one and thirty worthy Lord Maiors, since Master Iohn Stow (the painfull Searcher into Reverend Antiquity) did first present LONDONS SVRVEY to this Honourable Senate, Sir Robert Lee, then Lord Maior, with gracious and favourable acceptance.

Who purposing to adde increase to this Worke (according to the dignity of the Subiect) but prevented by infirmity, and Sicknesse-bringing Death, imparted not only his good Intentions, but best Collections also unto me, by his importunacy now perswaded both to correct the Errors, and perfect so well deserving a VVorke: And had his request beene wanting, the respect and honour I owe to this Royall City (the tender Mother and Nurse to us both) had beene incitement enough to further a Booke of such consequence, as far as my weake abilities would give leave.

[Page] Having therefore at first drawne a briefe Discourse thereof, lest I might unadvisedly dash on the Rocks of Displeasure, I delivered it to the Right VVorshipfull, Sir Henry Mountague, then Recorder of London, by whom commanded to appeare before your Worships in the Councell Chamber at Guild-Hall, I received Encouragement and Authority, with promise of helpe and furtherance, to perfect this worthy Monument. VVhich accordingly (after the care and paines of twelve yeeres travell about it) I presented unto this Honourable Senate, in the yeere 1618.

But now that I might adde a Complement to this Survey, which might best become it, have I done my diligent endevour (unto which have I called the assistance of other learned Antiquaries) to set downe Methodically,M. D. the Originall, Increase, Moderne Estate, and Government of this City; as also by what Name, or Office rather, whether of Port-graves, Port-reeves, Barons, Provosts, or Bayliffes, the Governours, Rulers, and Magistrates were anciently distinguished.

Before all other, I find the name of Alderman, well worthy observation, as being derived from most venerable Antiquity: C [...]mbd. in Brit. For ancient Records say, that in the dayes of King Edgar, there was a worthy Noble man, of the Blood Royall, named Ailwine, in great authority and favour with the King, insomuch that he was therefore termed, Healf-Koning, as much to say, as Halfe-King; and by Office was stiled, Alderman of all England: as appeares by this Epitaph engraven on his Tombe, in that Famous Monastery (by him founded) in the Ile of Ely:

Hic requiescit D. Ailwinus, incliti Regis Edgari Cognatus, totius Angliae Aldermannus, & huius sacri Coenobii miraculosus Fundator.

Here resteth Lord Ailwine, Cousin to the Noble King Edgar, Alderman of all England, and miraculous Founder of this holy Abbey.

[Page] VVhich plainly sheweth, that in those times of ancient and venerable respect, this Title of Alderman, was only given, for a further addition of Repute and Honour.

Some Authors have delivered,Math. Paris. Geffery Monm. Will, Malmes. Pol▪ Virgil. that men bearing such a Stile, were sometimes called Doomesmen, sometimes Ealdermen, Judges of the Kings Courts, &c. As being distinguished by those additions of Honour and Esteeme from other men, for their greater maturity of Iudgement, gravity of yeeres, experience and person; and therefore the fitter for weighty imployment in the State-affaires, by apt correspondency of their trust and fidelity. Which name of dignity declaring the most eminent degree of Magistracy, doth still (as heretofore it hath) extend it selfe thorowout all England, in Cities, Townes, and Corporations; and in some the Alderman only is the chiefe Commander: Even so is it much more Maiesticall here, in the supreme City of the whole Land, London, the Metropolis of Great Britaine, the Mother of authentike Memory, the Ancient and Moderne Seat of our Kings, yea, the very Chamber Royall for Maiesty it selfe, and the open Haven for all Merchandise and Commerce, as being the rich Store-house of Peace and Plenty.

It shall be needlesse to trouble your Honour, and the rest of my worthy Masters, with repetition here of those Officers and Governours, that ruled this Great City in elder times, because you shall finde them sufficiently set downe in their apt and distinct places, untill this higher degree of Honour came to full perfection, I meane the Maioralty, which some hold to be in King Iohns time, but most maintaine & avouch it to bee in the first yeere of King Richard the first, whose Vertue and Courage won him the name of Cueur-de-lion. From which happy beginning, it hath neither beene mine, nor my most industrious and helpfull Friends good fortune,W. W. to ranke downe in formall order the successive line of the Sheriffes, Maiors, and Aldermen, according to my former intended purpose, concerning their Birth-place, and Parentage; nor how many of them this Honourable City it selfe [Page] then yeelded, as challenging them her owne Off-spring, she being as well a loving Mother to breed them in her owne Bowels, as a carefull Nurse afterward to bring them up.

For my selfe, Londons Off-spring, though the meanest, yet hold I it no small attribute of Honour to record it, how much more Glory then for you (equall in worth and ranke) to reade it, and what comfort for Posterity to remember and acknowledge it, that this Ancient, Famous, and Renowned Mother City, never wanted from time to time Honourable Sonnes of her owne bearing and breeding, to sit at Sterne, to undergoe all Offices of Credit and Authority, yea, even the Maioralty, from Father to Son in the third Generation; and they to boast their Grandfathers, and great Grandfathers, Witnesse Garrards. Bar [...]es. Rowe [...]. Branch, &c. borne & bred in this worthy City, some to the fourth, others the third, but many the second Generation, as in the Reportary following will more at large appeare.

I forbeare to speake of such as have beene Aldermen and Sheriffes;Witnesse Barnhams, Father and Son. first, the Fathers; then, the Sonnes; yet neither living to enioy the Maioralties Dignity. As also what fluent plenty of Magistrates in the same high Office, the severall Sheirffes of England have yeelded, wherewith the said Discourse will more familiarly acquaint you.

And now, let me beseech your Honour and VVorships, to allow this Survey of London your gracious entertainment; and the rather, for that it now comes in a fairer Volume than ever, replete with plenty and enlargement of memorable Additions, not only with the splendor of Armes, and other glorious Ensignes of Honour, but with speciall observations of venerable Antiquity, and infinite supplements of Ancient and Moderne Monuments, as well of the Churches in the famous Cities of London and Westminster, as in foure miles compasse round about them, such as before this instant were never published.

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To the Reader.

THat I may give you a reason of such things as the Iudicious and severe Censurer may deeme blemishes and imperfections in this Worke: For the Order, you may be pleased to understand, it is not so absolutely Methodicall as I could wish it were, yet needs none other Apologie, than the length of time it hath beene growing to this Bulke, and Mortality of the Authors, who have spent (two of them now) their lives in the disquisition of venerable Antiquity concerning this City. The Learned know, Men are all various in their Opinions, as in their Faces you hardly finde of a Nation two that resemble in all proportions, so in their Minds is there as much discrepancy, and then must there needs be the same or more in their Writings, the expresse Image of their Minds. And this is the Fate of our present Worke, which begun Methodically, hath not beene so well prosecuted, whether out of difference in Iudgement, or want of Information, I dispute not: Probable it may be, the desire of inserting all things for the delight of the Reader, might breed this want of Method, and the rather am I induc'd to incline thereto, since every dayes Experience teaches, how unstable oftentimes and incertaine Friendship is, when she promises Information in this kinde: Yet this, the ingenuity of a courteous Reader will excuse, since the Benefit compensates the Wrong.

And to administer a salve to this sore, and prevent Distraction in the Reader, in this last Impression have you variety of Tables, succinct and pithy, yet not obscure: In the beginning, the whole body of the Book dissected into sixtie Chapters, whose short Contents epitomize the Substance of the Work: Then briefe Schemes as well of all the Churches in and about London and Westminster foure miles compasse, as of all the Halls and Companies of this Honourable City, both Alphabetically ranged with reference to their proper places. Lastly, that nothing might be wanting which should bring ease and furtherance to the Studious Reader, have you a Catalogue of Authors, on whose authority the truth of our Assertions may depend.

Neither leave we you heare: In the end also have we furnished it with two exact Tables; The first an Index, containing in it the chiefe Streets, Lanes, Conduits, stately Houses of Noblemen, Innes of Court, Chancery, and other ancient Monuments of this City, not without the admixion also of worthy Actions and Customes of Citizens. The other a Concordance of those, whose Honour in their Office, Charity in their Almes, Memory in their Monument, [Page] hath acquainted Posterity with their Names: By this Guide, hee who boasts his Birth in a Magnificent City (as the Ancient did in Rome or Athens) may with great facility finde his Ancestors in their Honours, Almes giving, Tombes, or other memorable and worthy Actions here recorded: For instance (not to exceed our Memories) finde the name of Anderson in the Concordance, and according to the first figures (105. a. ¶) turne to the Page, and you have his Liberality or Benefaction to Brazen-nose College in Oxford; then consult the second (291. a. ¶) in like manner, and you have his Monument in Saint Olave Vpwel's Church: so the third (592. b. ¶.) and you shall finde him there Sheriffe, Anno Dom. 1601. The same order is observed in the rest, onely for distinction sake, I have added these letters. B. to such as have beene Bishops, and M. to those that have borne the Office of Maior.

Thus have we endevored to prevent Distraction, and reduce the copious Variety of this Worke to heads, for the Readers ease; not without a great deale of Paines, Care, and Charge: The [...]udicious can give the best estimate of the Paines; of the Care none better than he that hath reaped benefit by the reading; as for the Charge, the proportion of the Volume speakes, especially to the skilfull in that Mystery; to which if you adde the length of time (now almost three yeeres) it hath lyen under the Presse, there is none but may conceive the greatnesse thereof. Yet no small satisfaction to all these may you afford (Gentle Reader) by your candide and courteous acceptance, with a future encouragement (in this, or the like) to the ready endevours of him that will study to be

Your Servant, C. I.

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The Contents of the severall Chapters of this BOOKE.

CHAP. I.

OF the Originall, Antiquity, and Increase of this City of London. Fol. 1

CHAP. II.

Of the Wall about the City. 4

CHAP. III.

Of the ancient and present Brookes, Boornes, Pooles, Wels, and Conduirs of fresh Water, serving the City: as also of the D [...]ch compassing the Wall of the same for defence thereof. 8

CHAP. IV.

Of the ancient and famous River of Thames, from whence she deriveth her head or [...]rig [...] nall, and so conveyeth her selfe to the Ci [...]ies service, being supplyed by divers other sweet Rivers in her course. 14

CHAP. V.

A further testimony concerning the River of Thames, and of the right and authority of the Lord Maior of London, to the conservacy and defence of the said famous River. 20

CHAP. VI.

Of Towne-Ditch about the City Walls. 26

CHAP. VII.

Of the Bridges of this City. 27

CHAP. VIII.

Of the severall Gates in the Wall of the City, and of their increasing and new building from time to time, as occasion served. 31

CHAP. IX.

Of Towers and Castles in and about this City. 40

CHAP. X.

Of the rights that belonged anciently to Robert Fitz-walter, Chastillion and Banner-bearer of London, Lord of Wadeham, &c. 50

CHAP. XI.

Of Schooles and other houses of Learning. 63

CHAP. XII.

Of Houses and Innes of Students in the Common Law. 66

CHAP. XIII.

Of orders and customes observed by the Citizens in elder times. 67

CHAP. XIV.

Of great Families kept in [...]lder times. 70

CHAP. XV.

Of charitable Almesgiving in ancient times. 74

CHAP. XVI.

Of Sports and Pastimes used of old in this City. 75

CHAP. XVII.

Of Watches in this City, and other Matters commanded, and the causes why. 83

CHAP. XVIII.

Of the honour of Londons Citizens, and the worthinesse of men and women dwelling in the same City, by their liberall bounty and charity to good and godly uses from time to time. 86

CHAP. XIX.

The division of the City of London into Parts, Precincts, and Wards. 113

Of the 26. WARDS.

CHAP. XX.

1 Portsoken Ward, with the Parish Churches, Monuments, and Halls of Companies therein 115

CHAP. XXI.

2 Towerstreet Ward. 225

CHAP. XXII.

3 Ealdgate Ward. 144

CHAP. XXIII.

4 Limestreet Ward. 161

CHAP. XXIV.

5 Bishopsgate Ward. 16 [...]

CHAP. XXV.

6 Broad-street Ward. 183

CHAP. XXVI.

7 Cornehill Ward. 206

CHAP. XXVII.

8 Langborne Ward, and Fenny about. 217

CHAP. XXVIII.

9 Belinsgate Ward. 225

CHAP. XXIX.

10 Bridge Ward within. 230

CHAP. XXX.

11 Candlewickstreet, or Candlewright street Ward. 234

CHAP. XXXI.

12 Walbrooke Ward. 241

CHAP. XXXII.

[Page]13 Downegate Ward. 248

CHAP. XXXIII.

14 Vintrie Ward. 254

CHAP. XXXIV.

15 Cordwainer street Ward. 264

CHAP. XXXV.

16 Cheape Ward. 272

CHAP. XXXVI.

17 Coleman street Ward. 287

CHAP. XXXVII.

18 Bassings Hall Ward. 297

CHAP. XXXVIII.

19 Creplegate Ward. 301

CHAP. XXXIX.

20 Aldersgate Ward. 320

CHAP. XL.

21 Faringdon Ward within. 335

CHAP. XLI.

22 Breadstreet Ward. 390

CHAP. XLII.

23 Queenehiche Ward. 397

CHAP. XLIII.

24 Castle Baynard Ward. 404

CHAP. XLIV.

25 Faringdon Ward without. 414

CHAP. XLV.

26 Bridge Ward without, consisting of the Borough of Southwarke, in the County of Surrey. 442

CHAP. XLVI.

Of the Suburbes without the Wall of London, as also without the Liberties. 461

CHAP. XLVII.

Of the Liberties of the Duchy of Lancaster without the Suburbes. 489

CHAP. XLVIII.

Of the City of Westminster, with the Antiquities, Bounds, and Liberties thereof: As also a Breviate of the first Foundation, Alterations, and Rebuilding of that famous ancient Abbey, from time to time, till it came to be called a Collegiate Church; together with a briefe description of most of the worthy Monuments in that Church. 493

CHAP. XLXIX.

Of the Government of the City of London: and first of the Ecclesiasticall Governours, the Bishops of London, what time they sate in that See, with the places of their burialls. 527

CHAP. L.

Of the Temporall Government of this City, with the Names and Armes of all the Lord Maiors, as also the Order and Armes of all the Companies in London. 535

Whereunto is added also:

The Statutes of the Streets. 665

An Act for Reformation of divers abuses crept into the Wardmote Inquest. 669

CHAP. LI.

An Apologie for the City of London. 631

CHAP. LII.

Stephanides, or a description of London. 703

CHAP. LIII.

A Relation of the two Lordships of Stepney and Hackney, together with their free Customes, Privileges, &c. 715

CHAP. LIV.

The Charter of London: and an Ordinace for the Affiz [...] and Weight of Bread. 739

CHAP. LV.

The Popes Bull, and other Bishops their Letters, concerning the Offerings (or Tithes) of the Parishes of London, to their Curates. 747

CHAP. LVI.

The Patrons (anciently) of all the Benefices in the City of London. 751

The REMAINES, wherein is contained:

CHAP. LVII.

First, many memorable things which should have beene inserted in due place, had the Authors friends supplied them in due time, as the College of Dulwich, &c. 757

CHAP. LVIII.

Then, a Perambulation foure miles about London, with the Monuments of all the Churches in that compasse, and observation of many other worthy matters. 783

CHAP. LIX.

Besides, a Returne of London, with particular notes of the Reparations and Adornments of every Church therein. 819

CHAP. LX.

And lastly, a Review of the sixteene Parishes without the Walls, and the nine out Parishes. 872. 889

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All the Churches in and about LONDON, foure miles compasse (Alphabetically digested) with reference to the severall places where their Situation, Monuments, Reparations, and other memorable things recorded thorowout this whole Booke.

The 97. Churches within the Walls.

Names. Fol.

Albanes Woodstreet. 308. 819

Alhallowes

Barking. 130. 820

Breadstreet. 391. 820

Great. 251. 821

Honilane. 282. 822

Lesse. 251. 822

Lumbardstreet. 219. 822

Stayning. 222. 822

The Wall. 183. 823

Alphage. 305. 823

Andrew Hubbard. 228. 824

Audrew Vndershaft. 151. 824

Andrew Wardrobe. 407. 825

Anne Aldersgate. 326. 825

Anne Black-Friers. 374. 826

Antholins. 265. 827

Austins. 351. 827

Bartholomew Exchange. 191. 827

Bennet Fink. 189. 828

Bennet Grasse-Church. 231. 773. 828

Bennet Pauls wharfe. 406. 829

Bennet Sherehog. 276. 829

Botolph Belinsgate. 225. 829

Christs Church. 341. 763. 830

Christophers. 192. 831

Clements East-cheape. 235. 832

Dionis Backe-Church. 218. 832

Dunstans East. 138. 832

Edmunds Lumbard street. 221. 833

Ethelborough. 178. 833

Faiths. 355. 833

Fosters. 338. 773. 836

Gabriel Fenchurch. 217. 836

George Botolphlane. 228. 836

Gregories by Pauls. 411. 836

Hellins. 178. 837

Iames Dukes place. 148. 837

Iames Garlikhithe. 262. 838

Iohu Baptist. 246. 838

Iohn Evangelist. 395. 838

Iohn Zacharie. 321. 838

Katherine Coleman. 158. 839

Katherine Creechurch. 149. 839

Lawrence Iewrie. 284. 840

Lawrence Pountney. 239. 843

Leonard Eastcheape. 231. 843

Leonard Fosterlane. 325. 844

Magnus. 230. 844

Margaret Lothbury. 292. 845

Margaret Moses. 395. 845

Margaret New fishstreet. 230. 845

Margaret Pattons. 137. 228. 846

Mary Abchurch. 235. 846

Mary Aldermanbury. 303. 847

Mary Aldermary. 266. 847

Mary le Bow. 268. 848

Mary Bothaw. 246. 849

Mary Colechurch. 275. 850

Mary Hill. 227. 850

Mary Mounthawe. 400. 850

Mary Summerset. 400. 850

Mary Staynings. 321. 851

Mary Wooll-church. 244. 851

Mary Woollnoth. 223. 852

Martins Ironmonger lane. 282. 852

Martins Ludgate. 372. 852

Martins Orgars. 2 [...]8. 853

Martins Oteswich. 188. 853

Martins Vintry. 261. 853

Matthew Frydaystreet. 350. 854

Maudlins Milkestreet. 306. 854

Maudlins Oldfishstreet. 409. 855

Michael Bassingshall. 299. 855

Michael Cornehill. 212. 856

Michael Crookedlane. 236. 856

Michael Queenhithe. 400. 857

Michael Querne. 387. 857

Michael Royall. 256. 859

Michael Woodstreet. 311. 859

Mildred Breadstreet. 392. 859

Mildred Poultrey. 273. 861

Nicholas Acons. 223. 862

Nicholas Coleabby. 398. 863

Nicholas Olaves. 399. 863

Olaves Harestreet. 134. 863

Olaves Jewrie. 290. 863

Olaves Silverstreet. 324. 865

Pancras Soperlane. 277. 866

Peters Cheape. 337. 866

Peters Cornehill. 210. 867

Peters Pauls wharfe 400. 867

Peters Poore. 184. 868

Stevens Colemanstreet. 293. 869

Stevens Walbrooke. 244. 870

Swithins. 241. 870

Thomas Apostle. 258. 871

Trinity Church. 397. 872

The 16. Churches without the Walls, standing part within the Liberties, and part without.

Andrew Holborne. 4 [...]8. 763. 770. 872

Bartholomew great. 420. 873

Bartholomew lesse. 415. 874

Brides Church. 437. 762. 875

Bridewell Precinct. 312. 876

Botolph Aldersgate. 330. 772. 867

Botolph Algate. 118. 878

Botolph Bishopsgate. 169. 780. 879

Dunstans West. 431. 879

George Southwarke. 454. 793. 882.

Giles Criplegate. 312. 762. 778. 883

Olaves Southwarke. 457. 884

Saviours Southwarke. 450. 884

Sepulchres. 423. 779. 885

Thomas Southwarke. 457. 887

Trinity Minories. 146. 888

The 9. out Churches in Middlesex and Surry.

Clement Danes. 491. 889

Giles in the Fields. 488. 800. 894

Iames Clarkenwell. 484. 899

Katherine Tower. 117. 900

Leonard Shorditch. 471

Martins in the Fields, 493. 800. 901

Mary Whitechapell. 469. 903

Magdalens Bermondsey. 460. 905

Savoy Church. 490. 905

The 17. Churches foure miles compasse about London, and in the City of Westminster.

Battersey. 795

Chelsey. 786

Detford. 805

Fulham. 783

Greenwich. 803

Hackney. 796

Islington. 798

Kenzington. 799

Lambeth. 790

Westmin.

Marg. 499. 519. 773. 807

Peter. 500. 763. 774. 814.

Putney. 784

Newington. 792

Roderith. 806

Stepney. 787

Stratford Bow and Bromley. 789

Wandsworth. 793

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All the Companies in LONDON, Alphabetically ordered, together with their severall Halls, and Armes, with reference to the places where they are spoken of in this Worke.

Their Halls.

Armes.

ARmorers. 293. 624

Apothecaries. [...] 645

Bakers

White.

Browne. 138.

624

642

Barber-Surgeons. 339. 623

Black-Smithes. 409. 635

Bottle-makers, and Home-makers 638

Bowyers. 312. 634

Brewers. 311. 622

Bricklayers and Tylers. 144. 634

Butchers. 340. 627

Carpenters. 184. 628

Clerkes. 255. 644

Clothworkers. 137. 610

Cooks and Pastelars. 330. 633

Coopers. 299. 633

Cordwainers. 395. 628

Curriers. 311. 629

Cutlers. 258. 626

Diers. 249. 621

Drapers. 187. 601

Farriers. 640

Fishmongers. 231. 602

Fletchers. 156. 635

Founders. 293. 631

Fruterers. 256. 637

Girdlers. 297. 626

Glasiers. 261. 644

Goldsmiths. 323. 603

Grocers. 274. 600

Haberdashers. 312. 606

Imbroderers. 338. 632

Inne-holders. 249. 631

Ioyners. 249. 636

Ironmongers. 156. 608

Leathersellers. 179. 622

Lorimers. 641

Masons, or Marblers. 297. 630

Mercers. 281. 599

Merchantaylors. 188. 605

Painter-Stayners. 399. 629

Paviers. 641

Pewterers. 217. 623

Pinners, now Plaisterers. 310. 636

Plummers. 256. 630

Poulters. 632

Sadlers. 338. 627

Saltars. 392. 607

Scriveners. 638

Skinners. 248. 604

Stationers. 372. 639

Tallow-Chandlers. 248. 625

Turners. 643

Vintners. 255. 609

Vpholsters. 643

Watermen. 645

Waxe-Chandlers. 312. 625

Weavers. 297. 637

Woodmongers. 408. 642

Wooll-packers. 640

The Companies of the Merchants.

Their Armes.

ADventurers. 612

Adventurers new French Merchants. 618

East Indian. 617

Of Elbing. 614

French. 619

Turkish. 615

Russian. 613

Spanish. 616

Of the Staple. 611

Virginian. 620

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A Catalogue of Authors, venerable for Antiquity, out of whom the Truth of those worthy and Ancient Matters contained in this Booke is excerpted: Ranged into an Alphabeticall order.

ABbas Floriacensis

Alfred of Beverley.

Antonius Florentinus.

Arnold Rich.

Asserius Menevensis.

Baconthorpe Iohn.

Baldock Ralph.

Bale Iohn.

Bannester Iohn.

Beda.

Benedict of Whirhall.

Beware the Cat.

Body William.

Bradshaw Henry.

Buchanan.

Burchard.

Caesars Commentaries.

Camden Clarencieux.

Capgrave Iohn.

Caxtons Chronicle.

Chancery Rolls.

Chaucer.

Chronica Chronicorum.

Chronicle of Abingdon.

Chronicle of S. Albans.

Chronicle of Britaine.

Chronicle of Dunstable.

Chronicle of Scarborow.

Clifford Thomas.

Cooper Thomas.

Dedicato Radulphus.

Dector Dee.

Dion Rom.

Dunthorne William.

Dyson Humphrey.

Edm [...]rus.

Edmond de Hadenbam.

Elderton William.

Eversden Ioh.

Fabians Chronicle.

Fabians Manuscript.

Fitz-Stephen.

Flores Historiarum.

Floria [...]nsis Wigorniensis

Fox his Monuments.

Froisard.

Gaguin Rebert.

Geffery of Monmouth.

Gervase of Tilburie.

Glastenbury Antiquities

Giraldus Cambrensis.

Gower Iohn.

Grafton Richard.

Guildas.

Halls Chronicle.

Hall Edward.

Hardings Chronicle.

Harrison William.

Henry of Leicester.

Henry of Marleborow.

Higeden Ranulph.

Historia Tripartita.

Holinshed Raphael.

Horne Andrew.

Hoveden Roger.

Huntingdon Henry.

Ioceline of Furneis.

Iohn de Bavow.

Iohn of Beverley.

Ingulphus.

Iucliffe Roger.

Knighton Henry.

Lambert William.

Lanquet Thomas.

Leyland Iohn.

Lhuyd Humphrey.

Lib. Albo.

Lib. S. Bartholomew.

Lib. Bermondsey.

Lib. Burton sup. Trent.

Lib. Bury S. Edmonds.

Lib. Chartsey.

Lib. de Clarkenwell.

Lib. Colchester.

Lib. Constitutionum.

Lib. Customes London.

Lib. Dunmow.

Lib. Dunthorne.

Lib. Ely.

Lib. Erswicke.

Lib. Fleetwood.

Lib. de S. Katharines.

Lib. de Knighton Guild.

Lib. S. Mariae Eborum.

Lib. S. Mariae Overies.

Lib. S. Martins.

Lib. Osney.

Lib. de Papie.

Lib. Roffens.

Lib. Tewkesbury.

Lib. Trinitatis.

Lib. Waverley.

Lib. de Woodbridge,

Lidgate Iohn.

Lilie George.

Lilie William.

Livius.

London Iohn.

Lucan.

Magna Charta.

Malverne Iohn.

Manuscripts.

Manuscript French.

Marianus Scotus.

Mathew Paris.

Mathew of Westminster.

Melancthon.

Merimouth Adam.

More Thomas, Knight.

Mountgomery Iohn.

Nevil Alexander.

Osbernus Dorobernensis.

Otherborne Henry.

Packenton William.

Paradine William.

Paston William.

Patten William.

Pattent de Iugham.

Philip Com [...]ines.

Politianus.

Poly Chronicon.

Polydore Virgil.

Pomponius M [...]la.

Price Iohn, Knight.

Ptolomaeus.

Ralph Cogshall.

Records Canterbury.

Records of Guildhall.

Records Parliament.

Records Patent.

Records of Pontfract.

Records in the Rolls.

Records of the Tower.

Records of the Vintry.

Register of Brockesden.

Rishanger William.

Robert de Amesbury.

Roger of Wendover.

Rouse Iohn.

Savage Dennis.

Scoggan Henry.

Simon of Durham.

Smith Thomas, Knight.

Socrates.

Sorocold Thomas.

Spelman Henry.

Spot Thomas.

Strabo.

Sulcardus.

Tacitus.

Textor Iohn.

Thorne William.

Tuke Brian, Knight.

Vita Erkenwaldi.

Walsingham Thomas.

Walter of Coventry.

Whethamsted.

William of Huntingdon.

William of Malmesbury.

Witchendus.

Wolfe Reginald.

To these might be added many more, who cover rather the benefit and furtherance of so necessary a Worke, than vain-glory and reputation amongst men.

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THE SURVEY OF LONDON: Containing the Originall, Antiquity, Increase, Moderne Estate, and Description of that Citie.

AS the Romane Writers, to glorify the Citie of Rome, drew the Originall thereof from gods & demygods, by the Trojan progenie: so Geoffrey of Monmouth, the Welsh Historian, deduceth the foundation of this famous Citie of London, for the greater glorie thereof, and emulation of Rome, from the very same Originall. For he reporteth, that Brute lineally descended from the demy-god Aeneas, the sonne of Venus, daughter of Iupiter, about the yeere of the world 2855. and 1108. before the nativity of Christ, builded this Citie neere unto the River now called Thames, Trinobantū hath the written copie. Livi [...]. and named it Troynovant, or Trenovant. But herein, as Livie (the most famous Historiographer of the Romanes) writeth, Antiquity is pardonable, and hath an especiall priviledge, by interlacing divine matters with humane, to make the first foundation of Cities more honourable, more sacred, and as it were, of greater Majestie.

King Lud (as the aforesaid Geoffrey of Monmouth noteth) afterward, not only repaired this Citie; but also increased the same with faire Buildings, Towers and Walls, and after his owne name, called it Caire-Lud, Caire Lud, the Citie of Lud, but Luds-towne is a Saxon word. as Luds Towne, and the strong Gate which he builded in the West part of the Citie, he likewise (for his owne honour) named Ludgate.

This Lud had issue two sonnes, Androgeus, and Theomantius, or Tenanticus, who beeing not of age to governe at the death of their Father; their Vncle Cassibelan tooke upon him the Crowne; about the eighth yeere of whose reigne, Iulius Caesar arrived in this Land, with a great power of Romanes to conquer it. The manner of which Conquest, I will summarily set downe out of his owne Commentaries, which are of farre better credit, than the relations of Geoffrey Monmouth.

The chiefe government of the Britains, Caesars cō mentaries, lib. 5. and ordering of the Warres, was then (by common advice) committed to Cassibelan, whose Signiorie was separated from the Cities towards the Sea-coast, by the River called Thames, about 80. miles off from the Sea. This Cassibelan in times past, had made continuall warre upon the Cities adjoyning; but the Britains being moved with the Romanes invasiton, had resolved in that necessity to make him their Soveraigne and Generall of the Warres. Caesar having knowledge of their intent, marched with his Army to the Thames, The River of Thames to be passed afoot in Caesars time. into the Signory of Cassibelan. This River can be passed but onely in one place on foot, and that very hardly. When he came thither, he saw a great power [Page] of his enemies in battaile array, on the other side of the River. Now was the Banke sticked full of stakes, sharpned at the end; and likewise other stakes (of the same making) were driven into the Channell, and hidden with the water. Caesar having understanding thereof, by his Prisoners and Runneawaies, sent his Horsemen before, and commanded his Footmen to follow immediately after them. But the Romane Souldiers went with such speed and force, having no more than their heads onely above the water: that the enemy being not able to withstand the violence of the Footmen, and the men of Armes, forsooke the banke, and tooke them to flight. Cassibelan despairing of his good successe, by fighting in plaine battaile, sent away all his greater powers,The policie of Cassibelan upon his ill successe. and keeping still about foure thousand Waggoners, watched which way the Romanes went, and drew somewhat aside out of the way, hiding himselfe in cumbersome and woody places. And wheresoever hee knew the Romanes should march, hee drave both Cattell and people thence into the Woods. When the Romanes Horsemen ranged any thing freely abroad into the fields for forrage, or to harry the Countrey: he sent his Waggoners by allwaies and paths out of the woods, upon their men of Armes,His advā tage against the Romane horsemen. and encountred with them to their great prejudice, through the feare whereof, he kept them short from ranging at their pleasure.

So the matter was brought to this passe, that Caesar would not suffer his Horsemen to stray any farnesse from his maine Battaile of Footmen, and adventured no further to annoy his enemies, in wasting their fields, and burning their houses, than he could compasse by the travaile of his Footmen, as they were able to journey.

In the meane while,Trinobants Citizens of London. the Trinobants, which was the strongest Citie, wel-neere, of all those Countries, and out of which Citie, a yong Gentleman called Mandubrace, upon confidence of Caesars helpe, comming unto him into the maine Land of Gallia, now called France, had thereby escaped death, which he should have suffered at Cassibelans hand, (as his Father Imanuence had done, who had reigned in that Citie:) sent Ambassadours to Caesar, Mandubrace and the Trinobants yeeld to Caesar, and he defended them. promising to yeeld unto him, and to doe what hee should command them. Instantly desiring him, to protect Mandubrace from the furious Tyranny of Cassibelan, and to send him into the City, with authority to take the government thereof upon him. Caesar accepted the offer, and appointed them to give unto him 40. Hostages, and withall to finde him graine for his Armie, and so sent hee Mandubrace unto them.

When others saw that Caesar had not only defended the Trinobants against Cassibelan, but had also saved them harmlesse from the pillage of his owne Souldiers: then also did the Cenimagues, Segontians, Aucalits, Bibrokes, and Cassians likewise submit themselves unto him,Cassibelans Towne west from London, for Caesar saith, 80. miles from the Sea. and by them he learned, that not farre from thence was Cassibelans Towne, (fortified with woods and marish grounds) into the which he had gathered a great number both of men and cattell.

For the Brittans call that a Towne,Cities of the Britains were cumbersome woods fortified. when they have fortified a cumbersome wood with a ditch and Rampire, and thither they resort to eschew the invasions of their enemies. To this place therefore marched Caesar with his Legions; hee found it excellently fortified, both of nature, and by mans advice: neverthelesse, he resolved to assault it in two severall places at once; whereupon the Britaines being not able to endure the force of the Romanes, fled out at another part, and left the Towne unto him: a great number of cattell he found there, and many of the Britaines he slew, and others hee tooke in the chase.

Whilest these things were a doing in these quarters, Cassibelan sent messengers into Kent, which lyeth upon the Sea, and in which there reigned then foure particular Kings, named, Cingetorix, Carvil, Taximagul, and Segonax, whom he commanded to raise all their forces, and suddenly to set upon, and assault the Romanes in their Trenches by the Sea side: the which when the Romans perceived, they sallied out upon them, slew a great sort of them, and taking Cingetorix their noble Captaine prisoner, retired themselves to their Campe in good safetie.

When Cassibelan heard of this, and had formerly taken many other losses, and found his Countrey sore wasted, and himselfe left almost alone, by the defection of the other Cities, he sent Ambassadours by Comius of Arras to Caesar, to intreat him concerning his owne submission: the which Caesar did accept; and taking Hostages, assessed the Realme of Britaine to a yeerely Tribute, [Page] to be paid to the people of Rome, Britaine ses [...]ed to pay a yeerely tribute to Rome. giving straight charge to Cassibelan, that he should not seeke any revenge upon Mandubrace, or the Trinobants, and so withdrew his Armie to the Sea againe.

Thus farre out of Caesars Commentaries, concerning this History, which hapned in the yeere before Christs nativity, 54. In all which processe, there is for this purpose to be noted, that Caesar nameth the Citie of Trinobantes, which hath a resemblance with Troy nova, or Trinobantum, Trinobant, new Londō. having no greater difference in the Orthography, than changing (b) into (v), and yet maketh an errour, whereof I will not argue. Onely this I will note, that divers learned men doe not thinke Civitas Trinobantum, to bee well and truely translated, the Citie of the Trinobantes: but it should rather bee the state, communalty, or Signiorie of the Trinobantes, for that Caesar in his Commentaries useth the word Civitas, onely for a people living under the selfesame Prince and Law. But certaine it is,Cities of the Britains not artificially builded with houses, nor walled with stone that the Cities of the Brittaines were (in those daies) neither artificially builded with houses, nor strongly walled with stone, but were onely thicke and cumbersome Woods, plashed within, and trenched about: and the like (in effect) doe other the Romane and Greeke Authors affirme,Strabo. as Strabo, Pomponius Mela, Pomponius Mela. and Dion, a Senator of Rome, which flourished in the severall reignes of the Romane Emperours,Tacitus. Tiberius, Dion. Claudius, Domitian, and Severus: to wit, that before the arrivall of the Romanes, the Brittaines had no Townes, but called that a Towne, which had a thicke intangled Wood, defended (as I said) with a ditch and banke, the like whereof the Irishmen, our next neighbours, doe at this day call Fastnes. But after that these hither parts of Britains were reduced into the forme of a Province, by the Romans, who sowed the seeds of civility over all Europe; this Citie, whatsoever it was before, began to be renowned and of fame.London most famous for merchants and entercourse. For Tacitus, who first of all Authors nameth it Londinium, saith, that in the 26. yeere after Christ, it was, albeit no Colonie of the Romanes, yet most famous for the great multitude of Merchants, provision, and entercourse. At which time, in that notable revolt of the Britaines from Nero, in which threescore and ten thousand Romanes and their confederates were slaine; this Citie, with Verulamium, neere Saint Albans, and Maldon in Essex, then all famous, were ransacked and spoiled. For Suetonius Paulinus, then Lieutenant for the Romanes in this Ile, abandoned it, as not then fortified, and left it to the spoile.

Shortly after,The Britaines had no houses, but cottages. Iulius Agricola, the Romane Lieutenant, in the time of Domitian, was the first that (by adhorting the Britaines publikely, and helping them privately) wonne them to build houses, for themselves, Temples for the gods, and Courts for Justice, to bring up the Noble mens children in good Letters, and humanity, and to apparell themselves Romane like.The Britaines wen [...] naked, their bodies painted. Whereas before (for the most part) they went naked, painting their bodies, &c. as all the Romane Writers have observed.

True it is, I confesse, that afterward many Cities and Townes in Britaine, under the Government of the Romanes, were walled with Stone, and baked Brickes,Richborrow in Kent. or Tyles; as Richborrow, Ryptachester, Verulamiū. in the Ile of Thanet, till the channell altered his course;Cilcester. besides Sandwich in Kent, Wroxcester. Verulamium, besides Saint Albanes in Hartfordshire, Kencester. Cilcester in Hampshire, Leyland. Wroxcester in Shropshire, Kencester in Herefordshire, there miles from Hereford Towne; Ribcester, seven miles above Preston, on the water of Rible; Aldeburge, a mile from Borrowbridge, or Wathelingstreet, on Vre River, and others.

And no doubt but this Citie of London was also walled with Stone,Of the wal about London. in the time of the Romane Government here, but yet very lately. For, it seemeth not to have beene walled in the yeere of our Lord 296. because in that yeere, when Alectus the Tyrant was slaine in the Field, the Franks or Franconians easily entred London, and had sacked the same, had not GOD (of his great favour) at the very instant, brought along the River of Thames, certaine Bands of Romane Souldiers, who slew those Franks in every street of the Citie.

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Wall about the Citie of LONDON.

IN few yeeres after, as Simeon of Durham, Simeon of Durham. an ancient Writer, reporteth, Helen, the Mother of Constatine the great, was the first that inwalled this Citie, about the yeere of Christ, 306. But howsoever those wals of stone might be builded by Helen, yet the Britaines (I know) had no skill of building with stone, as it may appeare by that which followeth, about the yeere of Christ, 399. when Arcadius and Honorius, the sonnes of Theodosius Magnus, governed the Empire, the one in the East, the other in the West. For Honorius having received Britaine, the Citie of Rome was invaded and destroyed by the Gothes; The Romanes left to govern in Britaine. after which time the Romanes left to rule in Britaine, as being imployed in defence of their Territories neerer home. Whereupon the Britaines, not able to defend themselves against the invasions of their enemies, were many yeeres together under the oppression of two cruell Nations, the Scots and Picts, The Scots and Picts invade this Land. and at length were forced to send their Ambassadours, with Letters and lamentable supplications to Rome, requiring aide and succour from thence, upon promise of their continuall fealtie, so that the Romanes would rescue them out of the hands of their enemies. Hereupon, the Romanes sent unto them a Legion of armed Souldiers, which comming into this Iland, and encountring with the enemies, overthrew a great number of them, and drave the rest out of the frontiers of the Country. And so setting the Britaines at liberty, counselled them to make a Wall, extending all along between the two seas, which might be of force to keepe out their evill neighbours, and then returned home with great triumph. The Britaines wanting Masons, builded that wall,Britaines unskilfull of building with stone. not of stone (as they were advised) but made it of turfe, and that so slender, that it served little or nothing at all for their defence. And the enemy perceiving that the Romane Legion was returned home, forthwith arrived out of their Boats, invaded their borders, overcame the Countrey, and (as it were) bare downe all that was before them.

Whereupon, Ambassadours were eftsoones dispatched to Rome, lamentably beseeching, that they would not suffer their miserable Countrey to bee utterly destroyed. Then againe, another Legion was sent, which comming on a sudden, made a great slaughter of the enemy, and chased him home, even to his owne Countrey. These Romanes at their departure told the Britaines plainly, that it was not for their ease or leasure, to take upon them (any more) such long and laborious journies for their defence, and therefore bade them practise the use of Armour and Weapons, and learn to withstand their enemies, whom nothing else did make so strong, as their faint heart and cowardise. And for so much as they thought, that it would be no small helpe and encouragement unto their tributarie friends, whom they were now forced to forsake: they builded for them a wall of hard stone,Witchendus. from the West Sea to the East Sea,Wall of stone builded by the Romanes, betwixt the Britains and Scots. right betweene those two Cities, which were there made to keepe out the enemies, in the selfe-same place where Severus before had cast his Trench: the Britaines also putting to their helping hands as labourers.

This Wall they builded eight foot thicke in bredth, and twelve foot in height, right as it were by a line from East to West; as the ruines thereof, (remaining in many places till this day) doe make to appeare. Which worke thus perfected, they gave the people straight charge to looke well to themselves, they teach them to handle their weapons, and instruct them in warlike feats. And lest by the Sea side Southwards, where their Ships lay at harbor, the enemie should come on Land; they made up sundry bulwarkes, each somewhat distant from other, & so bid them farewell, as minding no more to return. This hapned in the dayes of Theodosius the yonger, almost 500. yeeres after the first arrivall of the Romanes here, about the yeere after Christs Incarnation, 434.

[Page] The Britaines after this continuing a lingring and doubtfull warre with the Scots and Picts; made choice of Vortiger to be their King and Leader: which man (as saith Malmesbury) was neither valorous of courage,Malmesb. nor wise of counsell,Bede. but wholly given over to the unlawfull lusts of his flesh.The Britains given to gluttony, drunkennesse, pride, and contention. The people likewise (in short time) being growne to some quietnesse, gave themselves to gluttony and drunkennesse, pride, contention, envie, and such other vices, casting from them the yoke of Christ. In the meane season, a bitter Plague fell among them,The Brī taines Plagued for their sinful life. consuming in short time such a multitude, that the quicke were not sufficient to burie the dead: and yet the remnant remained so hardned in sinne, that neither death of their friends, nor feare of their owne danger, could cure the mortality of their soules; wherupon a great stroke of vengeance ensued upon the whole sinfull Nation. For, being now againe infested with their old neighbours, the Scots and Picts, they consult with their King Vortiger, Witchendus. and send for the Saxons, who shortly after arrived here in Britaine; Bede. where,The Saxons Sent for to defend the Britaines, but they drave thē into the Mountaines. saith Bede, they were received as friends: but as it proved, they minded to destroy the Countrey as enemies. For after they had driven out the Scots and Picts, they also drave the Britaines, some over the Seas, some into the waste mountaines of Wales and Cornwall, and divided the Countrey into divers Kingdomes amongst themselves.

These Saxons were likewise ignorant of building with stone,Saxons unskilfull of building with stone. untill the yeere 680. for then it is affirmed, that Bennet, Abbot of Wirrall, Master to the reverend Bede, Bennet, a Monke, brought in Masons. first brought Artificers of stone houses, and glasse windowes into this Iland, amongst the Saxons: Arts, before that time, unto them unknowne, and therefore used they but woodden buildings. And to this accordeth Polychronicon, Woodden churches, and goldē priests. who saith, that then had yee woodden Churches; nay woodden Chalices, and golden Priests; but since, golden Chalices, and woodden Priests. And, to knit up this Argument, King Edgar, in his Charter to the Abbey of Malmesbury, dated the yeere of Christ 974. hath words to this effect: All the Monasteries in my Realme, Monasteries of rotten timber to the outward sight, are nothing but worm-eaten and rotten Timber, and boords; and that worse is, within they are almost empty and void of divine Service.

Thus much be said for walling, not onely in respect of this Citie, but generally also of the first within the Realme. Now to returne to our Trinobant, (as Caesar cals it;) the same is (since) by Tacitus, Ptolomaeus, and Antonius, called Londinium, Longidinium; of Ammianus, Lundinum, and Augusta, who calleth it also an ancient Citie. Of our Britaines, Lundaine; of the old Saxons, Lundenceaster, Lundenbirig, Londennir. Of strangers, Londra and Londres; of the inhabitants, London: whereof you may read a more large and learned Discourse, and how it tooke the name, in that Worke of my loving friend, Master Camden, now Clarenceaulx, which is called Britania.

Concerning Mr. Camden, in his more absolute relation of London, the Argument we have now in hand; I will be so bold as to borrow his owne words, as he hath set them downe in his Britania. Summing over the severall names then given and attributed thereto, as formerly hath beene declared: hee comes to his owne iudgement:

For mine owne part,Camden in his Britannia concerning the name of London. (saith hee) seeing that Caesar and Strabo doe write, that the ancient Britaines called those Woods and Groves, by the name of Cities and Townes, which they had fenced with Trees, cast down and plashed, to stop up all passage: Seeing also I have understood, that such Woods or Groves are in the British Tongue named Llhwn: Of British Townes and Cities I incline a little to the opinion, that London thence tooke name, as one would say, by way of excellencie; The Citie, or A Citie thicke of Trees. But if herein I faile of the truth; let me (with good leave) give my conjecture. And here would I have no man to charge me with inconstancie, while I disport in conjecture; that whence it had the fame,London received nama frō Ships and shipping. thence also it took name, even from Ships, which the Britaines in their language call Lhong: so that Londinum may seeme to sound as much as a Ship-Road, or Citie of Ships. For the Britaines terme a Citie Dinas, Dinas Brit. whence the Latines have fetched their Dinum. Dinum Lat. And hence it is, that elsewhere it is called Longidinium; and in the Funerall Song or Dumpe of a most ancient British Po [...]. Bard, Lhong-porth, that is, [Page] An Harbour or Haven of Ships. And by this very terme Bononia, or Bolen in France, which Ptolomee calleth Gessoriacum Navale, in the British Glossarie is named Bolunglhong:How many cities have derived their names frō Ships. as Naupactus, Naustathmos, Nauplia, Navalia Augusti, &c.

But of these, none hath better right to assume unto it the name of a Ship-Roade, or Haven, than our London. For in regard of both Elements, most happy and blessed it is;The situation of London. as being situated in a rich and fertile soile, abounding with plentifull store of all things, and on the gentle ascent and rising of an Hill, hard by the Thames side, the most milde Merchant (as one would say) of all things that the world doth yeeld: which swelling at certaine houres with the Ocean Tides, by his safe and deepe Channell (able to entertaine the greatest Ships that be) daily bringeth in so great riches from all parts,The benefit of the Thames ebbing and flowing, & also of the shipping. that it striveth at this day with the Mart-Townes of Christendome for the second Prize, and affordeth a most sure and beautifull Road for Shipping. A man would say that seeth the Shipping there, that it is (as it were) a very Wood of Trees, disbranched to make glades and let in light: So shaded it is with Masts and Sayles.

Who was the first Founder,Concerning the first founder of London. is by length of time growne out of knowledge: and intruth, very few Cities there are, that know theier owne first Founders, considering they grew up to their greatnesse by little and little. But as other Cities, so this of ours, fathereth her originall upon the Trojans, as verily beleeving that Brute (the Nephew in the third descent of great Aeneas) was the builder thereof.Brute supposed to bee the builder. But whosoever founded it; the happy and fortunate estate thereof hath given good proofe, that built it was in a good houre, and marked for life and long continuance. Antiquity of London. And that it is for Antiquity Honourable, Ammianus Marcellinus giveth us to understand; who called it in his time, (and that was 1200. yeeres agoe) An old Towne. And Cornelius Tacitus in like manner, who in Nero's dayes, 1540. yeeres since, reported it to have bin a place Very famous for fresh trade, concourse of Merchants, & great store of victuals, and all things necessary. This onely at that time was wanting to the glory thereof,London no free Citie, nor Colonie in the Romanes time. that it had the name neither of a free City, nor of a Colony. Neither verily could it have stood with the Romanes profit, if a Citie flourishing with Merchandize, should haue enjoyed the right of a Colonie or Free Citie. And therefore it was (as I suppose) that they ordained it to be a Praefectura: London a Praefectura, governed by Officers yeerely sent to it from Rome. for so they termed all Townes where Marts were kept, and Iustice ministred: Yet so, as that they had no Magistrates of their owne: but Rulers were sent every yeere to governe in them, and for to minister Law, which in publike matters, namely of Taxe, Tributes, Tolles, Customes, Warfare, &c. they should have from the Senate of Rome. Hence it commeth that Tacitus, the Panegyrist, and Marcellinus call it onely a Towne.

And although it was not in name loftier;London flourished equall with any other place. yet in wealth, riches and prosperity, it flourished as much as any other: yea and continued in manner alwaies the same, under the dominion of Romanes, English-Saxons, and Normans, seldome or never afflicted with any great calamities. In the reigne of Nero, when the Britaines had conspired to recover and resume their liberty under the leading of Boadicia; Suetonius Paulinus, Lieutenant for Rome. the Londoners could not with all their weeping teares, hold Suetonius Paulinus, but that after he had levied a power of the Citizens to aide him, he would needes dislodge and remove from thence, leaving the Citie naked to the enemy; who forthwith surprized and slew some few, whom either weaknesse of sexe, feeblenesse of age, or sweetnesse of the place had detained there.

This City of Londō having bin destroyed & burnt by the Danes & other Pagan enemies,The Citie of London destroyed by the Danes and againe repaired. about the yeere of Christ 839; was, by Alfred, King of the West-Saxons, in the yeere 886. repaired, honourabley restored,The Citie of London lay waste, & not inhabited for the space of almost 50 yeeres. and made againe habitable: Who also committed the custody thereof unto his sonne in law, Ethelred, Earle of Mercia, unto whom before he had given his daughter Ethelfled.

And that this Citie was then strongly walled, may appeare by divers accidents; W. Malmesbury. whereof William of Malmesbury hath,Assur. that about the yeere of Christ, 994 the Londoners did shut up their gates,Marianu [...]. and defended their King,Florentius. Ethelred, within their Wals against the Danes.

In the yeere 1016. Edmund Ironside, reigning over the West-Saxons, Canutus the Dane, bringing his Navy unto the west part of the Bridge, did cast a trench about the Citie of London, and then attempted to have won it by assault: but [Page] the Citizens repulsed him, and drave them from their Wals.

Also in the yeere 1052. Earle Godwin, with his Navie sayled up by the South end of the Bridge, and so assailed the Walles of this Citie.

William Fitzstephen,W. Fitzstephen. in the reigne of Henry the second, writing of the Wals of this Citie, The Citie of London walled round about by the River of Thames. hath these words: the wall is high and great, well towred on the North side, with due distance betweene the Towres. On the South side also, the Citie was walled and towred: but the fishfull River of Thames, by his ebbing and flowing, hath long since subverted them.

By the North side, he meaneth from the River of Thames in the East, to the River of Thames in the West: for so stretched the Wall in his time, and the Citie being farre more in length from East to West, than in breadth from South to North; and also narrower at both ends, than in the middest, is therefore compassed with the Wall on the Land side, in forme of a bow, except denting in betwixt Cripplegate and Aldersgate. But the Wall on the South side, along by the River of Thames, was straight, as the string of a bow, and all furnished with Towres or Bulwarkes, (as we now terme them) in due distance every one from other, as witnesseth our Author, and our selves may behold for the Land side. This may suffice for proofe of a Wall, and forme thereof about this Citie, and the same to have beene of great Antiquity, as any other within this Realme.

And now touching the maintenance and repairing the said Wall,Wals of London repaired. I read, that in the yeere 1215. the 6. of King Iohn, the Barons entring the City by Ealdgate, Roger of Randover. first took assurance of the Citizens,Mat. Paris. then brake into the Iews houses,Ranul. searched their coffers,Co [...]shal. to fill their owne purses: and after, Mat. Paris. with great diligence repaired the wals and gates of the Citie, with stones taken from the Iewes broken houses. In the yeere 1257. Henry the third caused the wals of this Citie, which were sore decayed, and destitute of Towres and Towrets, to be repaired in more seemely wise than before, at the common charges of the Citie. Also, in the yeere 1282 King Edward the first, having granted to Robert Kilwarby, Archbishop of Canterbury, licence for the enlarging of the Blacke Friers Church, to breake and take downe a part of the Wall of the Citie, from Ludgate to the River of Thames: He also granted to Henry Waleis, Maior, and the Citizens of London, the favour to take toward the making of the wall, and inclosure of the Citie, certaine customs, or toll, as appeareth by his Grant. This wall was then to be made from Ludgate west to Fleetbridge, along behinde the houses, and along by the water of the Fleet unto the River of Thames. Moreover, in the yeere 1310. Edward the second commanded the Citizens to make up the Wall already begunne, and the Tower at the end of the same Wall, within the water of Thames, neere unto the Blacke Friers, &c. 1322. the second of Edward the third, the Wals of this Citie were repaired.Patent. It was also granted by King Richard the second, in the tenth yeere of his reigne, that a toll should be taken of the wares, sold by Land or by Water, (for tenne yeeres) towards the repairing of the Wals, and cleansing of the Ditch about London. In the 17. of Edward the fourth, Ralph Ioseline Maior, caused part of the Wall about the Citie of London to be repaired; to wit, betwixt Ealdgate and Aldersgate. He also caused the Moore-field to be searched for clay, and bricke thereof to be made and burnt: he likewise caused chalke to be brought out of Kent, and to be burnt into lime in the same Moore-field, for more furtherance of the worke. Then the Skinners, to beginne in the East, made that part of the Wall, betwixt Ealdgate and Buries markes, towards Bishopsgate; as may appeare by their Armes in three places fixed there. The Maior, with his Companie of Drapers, made all that part betwixt Bishopsgate and Alhallowes Church in the same Wall, and from Alhallowes towards the Posterne called Mooregate. A great part of the same Wall was repaired by the Executors of Sir Iohn Crosby, late Alderman, as may appeare by his Armes in two places there fixed: And other Companies repaired the rest of the VVall to the Posterne of Cripplegate.

In a Record which I have seene, and affirmed also by Iohn Rouse, and (after him) by Raphael Holinshed, I finde thus [Page] written: In Anno 1477. by the diligence of Ralph Ioseline, Maior of London, the Wall about London was new made, betwixt Aldgate and Creplegate. He caused the Moore-fields to be searched for clay, and bricke to be made and burnt there. He caused chalke also to be brought out of Kent, and in the same Moore-fields to be burnt into lime, onely for the furtherance of that worke. The Maior, with his company of Drapers, made all that part betwixt Bishopsgate and Alhallowes Church in the same wall.Bishopsgate new builded. Bishopsgate it selfe was new built by the Merchants Almanes of the Stillyard. And from Alhallowes Church in the wall, towards Mooregate, a great part of the same was builded, of the goods, and by the Executours of Sir Iohn Crosby, sometimes an Alderman, and Maior of London, as may appeare by his Armes thereon fixed in two places. The Company of Skinners made that part of the wall betweene Ealdgate and Buries markes, towards Bishopsgate; as may appeare by their Armes in three places fixed. The other Companies of the Citie, made the other deale of the wall: which was a great worke to be done in one yeere.

The Goldsmiths repaired from Creplegate towards Aldersgate, and there the worke ceased. The circuit of the wall of London on the lands side, to wit, from the Tower of London in the East, unto Ealdgate, Circuit of the Wall from the East to the West, and accordingly to every gate. is 82. Perches: from Ealdgate to Bishopsgate, 86. Perches: from Bishopsgate in the North, to the Posterne of Creplegate, 162. Perches: from Creplegate to Aldersgate, 75. Perches: from Aldersgate to Newgate, 66. Perches: from Newgate in the West, to Ludgate, 42. Perches: in all, 513. Perches of assise. From Ludgate to the Fleet-Dike West about 60. Perches: from Fleet-bridge South to the River Thames, about 70. Perches: and so the Totall of these Perches amounteth to 643. every Perch consisting of 5. yardes and an halfe; which doe yeeld 3536. yards and an halfe, containing 10608. foot, which make vp two English miles, and more by 608. foot.

Of Ancient and present Rivers, Brooks, Boorns, Pooles, Wels, and Conduits of fresh Water, serving the Citie, as also of the Ditch compassing the Wall of the same, for Defence thereof.

ANciently, untill the Conquerours time, and two hundred yeeres after, the Citie of London was watred (besides the famous River of Thames on the south part) with the River of Wels, as it was then called: on the west, with water called Walbrooke, running thorow the midst of the Citie into the River of Thames, serving the heart thereof: and with a fourth water or Boorne, which ranne within the Citie, through Langboorne Ward, watring that part in the East. In the West Suburbs was also another great water, called Oldborne, which had his fall into the River of the Wels.

Then were there three principall fountains or wels in the other Suburbs; to wit, Holy-Well, Clements Well, and Clarkes Well. Neere unto this last named Fountaine, were divers other wels; to wit, Skinners Well, Fags Well, Tode Well, Loders Well, and Radwell. All which said Wels having the fall of their overflowing into the foresaid River, much increased the streame, and in that place, gave it the name of Well. In west Smithfield there was a Poole, in Records called Horsepoole, and another neere unto the parish Church of S. Giles without Creplegate. Besides all which, they had in every street and lane of the Citie, divers faire Wels, and fresh Springs: and after this manner was this Citie then served with sweet and fresh waters, which being since decayed, other means have beene sought to supply the want; as shall be shewed: but first of the afore-named Rivers and other waters, is to be said as followeth:

[Page] Thames, River of Thames. the most famous River of this Iland, beginneth a little above a Village called Winchcomb in Oxfordshire, and still increasing, passeth first by the Vniversity of Oxford, and so (with a marvellous quiet course) to London, and thence breaketh into the French Ocean by maine tides, which twise in twenty foure houres doth ebbe and flow, more than threescore miles in lenght, to the great commodity of Travailours, by which all kinde of Merchandises are easily conveyed to London, the principall Storchouse, and Staple of all commodities within this Realme. So that, omitting to speake of great ships, and other vessels of burthen, there appertaineth to the Citie of London, Westminster, and the Burrough of Southwarke, above the number (as is supposed) of two thousand Wherries,Wherries on the Thames. and other small Boats, wherby three thousand poore men (at least) be set on worke, and maintained.

That the River of Wels in the West part of the Citie,River of Wels. was of old so called of the VVels, it may bee proved thus: William the Conquerour, in his Charter to the Colledge of Saint Martin le grand in London, hath these words: I doe give and grant to the same Church, all the land and the Moore without the Posterne which is called Creplegate, on eyther part of the Posterne: that is to say, from the North corner of the Wall (as the River of the Wels, there neere running, departeth the same Moore from the Wall) unto the running water which entreth the Citie. This water hath beene long since called, the River of the Wels; which name of River continued, and it was so called in the Reigne of Edward the first: as shall be shewed, with the decay also of the said River.

In a faire book of Parliament records, D [...]cay of the River of the Wels. now lately restored to the Tower, it appeareth, Parliament Record. that a Parliament being holden at Carlile, in the yeere 1307. the 35. of Edw. the first, Henry Lacy, Earle of Lincolne, complained, that whereas (in times past) the course of water, running at London under Oldborne-bridge, and Fleet-bridge into the Thames, had beene of such bredth and depth, that ten or twelve Ships,River of Wels bare Ships. Navies at once with Merchandises, were wont to come to the foresaid Bridge of Fleet, and some of them unto Oldborne-bridge: Now the same course (by filth of the Tanners, and such others) was sore decayed; also by raising of Wharfes, but especially, by a diversion of the water, made by theni of the New Temple, for their Milles standing without Baynards Castle, Patent Record. in the first yeere of King Iohn, Milles by Baynards Castle, made in the first of K. Iohn. and by divers others impediments, so as the said Ships could not enter as they were wont, and as they ought. Wherefore hee desired, that the Maior of London, with the Shiriffes, and other discreet Aldermen, might be appointed to view the said course of the said water, and that by the oathes of good men, all the foresaid hindrances might bee removed, and it to be made as it was wont of old. Whereupon Roger le Barbason, the Constable of the Tower, with the Maior and Shiriffes, were assigned to take with them honest and discreet men, and to make diligent search and enquirie, how the said River was in former time, and that they leave nothing that may hurt or stoppe it,River so called in the yeere 1307. but keepe it in the same estate that it was wont to be. So farre the Record.

Whereupon it followed, that the said River was at that time cleansed, these Milles removed, and other things done for the preservation of the course therof: notwithstanding never brought to the old depth and bredth: wherupon the name of River ceased, and it was since called a Brooke; namely, Turnemill or Tremill Brooke,Turnemill Brooke. for that divers Milles were erected upon it, as appeareth by a faire Register Booke, containing the foundation of the Priorie at Clarken-well, and donation of the lands thereunto belonging, as also by divers other Records.

This Brooke hath beene divers times since cleansed, namely, and last of all to any effect, in the yeere one thousand five hundred and two, the seventeenth of Henry the Seventh, the whole course of Fleet-Dike, then so called, was scowred (I say) downe unto the Thames, so that Boats with Fish and Fewell were rowed to Fleet-bridge and Oldborne-bridge, as they of old time had beene accustomed, which was a great commodity to all the inhabitants in that part of the Citie.

In the yeere 1589. was granted a fifteen by a common Councel of the City, [Page] for the clensing of this Brooke or Dike: Fleet-Dike promised to be clensed, the mony collected, and the Citizens deceived. the money amounting to a thousand marks, was collected, and it was undertaken, that by drawing divers Springs about Hampsted Heath into one head and course, both the Citie should bee served of fresh water in all places of want, and also, that by such a follower, (as men call it) the channell of this Brooke should be scowred into the River of Thames. But much money being therein spent, the effect failed; so that the Brooke, by meanes of continuall incrochments upon the banks, getting over the water, and casting of soylage into the streame, is now become worse cloyed than ever it was before.

The running water, so called by William Conqueror in his said Charter, which entreth the Citie, &c. (before there was any ditch) betweene Bishopsgate and the late-made Posterne called Mooregate, entred the wall, and was truely of the wall called Walbrooke, not of Gualo, as some have farre fetched. It ran through the Citie, with divers windings from the North towards the South, into the River of Thames; and had (over the same) divers Bridges along the streets and lanes through which it passed. I have read in an old Booke, long since printed, that the Prior of holy Trinity within Ealdgate, ought to make over Walbrooke in the VVard of Broadstreet, against the stone wall of the Citie, viz. the same bridge that is next the Church of All Saints at the VVall. Also, that the Prior of the New Hospitall, S. Mary Spittle, without Bishopsgate, ought to make the middle part of one other Bridge next to the said Bridge towards the North: and that in the 28. yeere of Edward the first, it was by Inquisition found before the Mayor of London, that the Parish of S. Stephen upon Walbrooke, ought of right to scowre the course of the said Brooke; and therefore the Shiriffes were commanded to distraine the said Parishioners so to do. In the yeere 1300. the keepers of those bridges at that time, were William Iordan, and Iohn de Bever. This water-course having divers Bridges, was afterwards vaulted over with Bricke,Walbrooke vaulted and paved over. and paved levell with the streets and lanes, where-through it passed; and since that also, houses have been builded thereon, so that the course of Walbrooke is now hid under ground, and thereby hardly knowne.

Langborne water,Langborne. so called of the length thereof, was a great streame breaking out of the ground in Fen Church street, which ranne downe with a swift course, west, through the street, thwart Grastreet, and downe Lumbard street, to the west end of Saint Mary Wolnoths Church, and then turning the course South,Shareborne Lane. downe Shareborne Lane (so termed of sharing or dividing) it brake into divers rilles or rillets to the River of Thames. Of this Boorne that VVard tooke the name, and is to this day called Langborne VVard.Langborne Ward. This Boorne is also long since stopped up at the head, and the rest of the course filled up, and paved over, so that no signe thereof remaineth, more than the names aforesaid.

Oldborne or Hilborne, Oldborne. was the like water, breaking out about the place where now the Barres doe stand, and it ranne downe the whole street to Oldborne bridge, and into the River of the Wels, or Turne-mill brooke. This Boorne was likewise (long since) stopped up at the head, and in other places, where the same hath broken out: but yet till this day, the said street is there called, high Oldborne hill, and both the sides thereof, (together with all the grounds adjoyning, that lye betwixt it and the River of Thames) remaine full of Springs, so that water is there found at hand, and hard to be stopped in every house.

There are (saith Fitzstephen) neere London, Fitzstephen. on the North side, speciall Wels in the suburbs, sweet, wholsome and cleere, among which, Holy VVell, Clarkes VVell, and Clements VVell, are most famous, and frequented by schollers and youths of the Citie in summer evenings, when they walke forth to take the Ayre.

The first,Holy Well, to wit, Holy Well, is much decayed and spoiled, with filthines purposely laid there, for the heightning of the ground for Garden plots.

The Fountaine called Saint Clements Well, Clements Well. North from the Parish Church of S. Clements, and neere unto an Inne of Chancerie, called Clements Inne, is faire curbed square with hard stone, cleane for common use, and is alwaies full.

[Page] The third is called Clarkes Well, Clarks Well. or Clarken-Well, and is curbed about square with hard stone: not farre from the west end of Clarken-well Church, but close without the VVall that incloseth it. The said Church the tooke name of the Well; and the Well tooke name of the Parish Clarkes in London, who (of old time) were accustomed there yeerely to assemble, and to play some large Historie of holy Scripture. For example, of later time, to wit, in the yeere 1390. the 14. of Richard the second, I read,Playes by the Parish Clarks at Clarks Well. that the Parish Clarkes of London, on the 18. of Iuly, plaid Enterludes at Skinners Well, neere unto Clarkes Well, which Play continued three dayes together, the King, Queene, and Nobles being present. Also the yeere 1409. the tenth of Henry the fourth, they played a Play at the Skinners Well, Playes at the Skinners well. which lasted eight dayes, and was of matter from the Creation of the world: there were to see the same, the most part of the Nobles and Gentiles in England, &c.

Other smaller Wels were many neere unto Clarkes well; Skinners well. namely Skinners well, so called, for that the Skinners of London held there certain Playes, yeerely plaid of holy Scripture, &c. In place whereof,Wrestling place. the wrestlings have of latter yeeres beene kept, and is in part continued at Bartholomewtide.

Then was there Fags well, Fags well. neere unto Smithfield, by the Charter-house, now lately dammed up. Todwell, Loders well, and Radwell are all decayed, and so filled up, that their places are hardly now discerned.

Somewhat North from Holy well, is one other Well, curbed square with stone, and is called Dame Annis the cleere; and not farre from it, but somewhat west, is also another cleere water, called Perilous Pond, because divers Youths (by swimming therein) have beene drowned. And thus much be said for Fountaines and Wels.

Horsepoole in West smithfield, was sometime a great water; and because the inhabitants in that part of the Citie did there water their Horses, the same was in old Records called Horsepoole. It is now much decayed, the Springs being stopped up, and the Land-water falling into the small bottome, remaining inclosed with Bricke, is called Smith-field Pond.

By S. Giles Churchyard was a large water,Poole without Creplegate. called a Poole: I reade in the yeere 1244. that Anne of Lodbury was drowned therein. This Poole is now (for the most part) stopped up; but the Spring is preserved, and was coopeped about with stone, by the Executors of Richard Whittington.

The said River of Wels, the running water of Walbrooke, the Boornes aforenamed, and other the fresh waters that were in and about this Citie, being in processe of time, by incroachment for buildings, and heightnings of grounds, utterly decayed, and the number of Citizens mightily increased; they were forced to seeke fresh waters abroad; whereof some, at the request of King Henrie the third, in the 21. yeere of his reigne,Patent, 1236. were (for the profit of the Citie, and good of the whole Realme thither repairing; to wit, for the poore to drink, and the rich to dresse their meat) granted to the Citizens,Water conveyed from Teyborne. and their Successors, by one Gilbert Sanford, with liberty to convey water from the Towne of Teyborne, by pipes of lead into their Citie.

The first Cisterne of lead,Andr. Horn. Great Conduit in west Cheape. castellated with stone in the Citie of London, was called the Great Conduit in west Cheap, which was begun to be builded in the yeere 1285. Henry Wales being then Maior:Water coēveyed frō Teyborne to London. the water-course from Padington to Iames hed, hath 510. rods; from Iames hed on the hill, to the Mewsgate, 102. rods; from the Mewsgate to the Crosse in Cheape, 484. rods.

The Tonne upon Cornhill was cisternated in the yeere 1401.Tonne upon Cornhill. Iohn Sandworth then being Maior.

Bosses of water at Belinsgate, Bosse of Belinsgate, and other Bosses. by Pauls wharfe, and by S. Giles Church without Creplegate, made about the yeere 1423.

Water conveyed to the Gaoles of Newgate and Ludgate, 1432.

Water was first procured to the Standard in west Cheap, about the yeere 1285. which Standard was againe new builded by the Executors of Iohn Welles, as shall bee shewed in another place.

King Henry the sixth, in the yeere 1442. granted to Iohn Hatherley, Maior, [Page] licence to take up 200. fodar of Lead, for the building of Conduits, of a common Granery, and of a common Granery, and of a new Crosse in west Cheape, for the honour of the Citie.

The Conduit in west Cheap, by Pauls gate, (commonly called, The little Conduit) was builded about the yeere 1442. one thousand markes was granted by common Councell for the building thereof, and repairing of the other Conduits.

The Conduit in Aldermanbury, and the Standard in Fleetstreet, were made and finished by the Executors of Sir William Eastfield, in the yeere 1471. A Cisterne also was added to the Standard in Fleetstreet, and a Cisterne was made at Fleet bridge, and another without Creplegate, in the yeere 1478.

Conduit in Grastreet, in the yeere 1491.

Conduit at Oldborne Crosse, about 1498. againe new made by Mr. William Lambe, 1577.

Little Conduit by the Stockes Market, about 1500.

Conduit at Bishopsgate, about 1513.

Conduit at London wall, against Colemanstreet, about 1528.

Conduit at Ealdgate without, about 1535.

Conduit in Lothbury, and in Colemanstreet, neere to the Church, 1546.

Conduit of Thames water at Dowgate, 1568.

Thames water conveyed into mens houses by pipes of Lead,Thames water conveyed into mens houses in the east part of the City. from a most artificiall Forcier standing neere unto London Bridge, and made by Peter Morbis, Dutchman, in the yeere 1582. for the service of the Citie on the East part thereof.

Conduits of Thames water by the parish Churches of S. Mary Magdalen, Conduits in old Fishstreet. and S. Nicholas cole-Abbey, neere unto old Fishstreet, in the yeere 1583.

One other new Forcier was made neere to Broken Wharfe,Thames water conveyed into the west part of the Citie. to convey Thames water into mens houses of west Cheape, about Pauls, Flectstreet, &c. by an English Gentleman, named Bevis Bulmer, in the yeere 1594.

Another Conduit was also built at Aldersgate, without the Gate, in Anno 1610. and Thames water conveyed unto it in pipes of wood and stone, by an English Gentleman, named Mr. Thomas Hayes.

Next to the Conduit water thus conveyed to Aldersgate, and as you have already heard; that famous (and never to be forgotten) new River, brought from Chadwell and Amwell, by the onely care, cost, and liberall expences of one worthy man, Sir Hugh Middleton, Knight and Barornet, Citizen and Goldsmith of London, deserveth to be recorded in everlasting memory.

I spare here to speake of the length of time that such an intent was in talking on, like much good matter, well motioned, though little minded; long debated, but never concluded, till courage and resolution lovingly shooke hands together, as it appeares it did in the Soule of this (no way to bee daunted) well-minded Gentleman.

For,Malignant enemies to all honest and commendable actions. if those enemies to all good endevours, Danger, Difficulty, Impossibility, Detraction, Contempt, Scorne, Derision, yea, and Desperate Despight, could have prevailed by their accursed and malevolent interposition, either before, at the beginning, in the very birth of proceeding, or in the least stolen advantage of the whole prosecution; this Worke of so great worth had never bin accomplished.

I am not ignorant of an Act of Parliament, In or about the 10. yeere of her reigne. granted by Queene Elizabeth of blessed memory, to her Citizens of London, for cutting and conveying a River from any part of Middlesex or Hertfordshire, to the Citie of London, with a limitation of ten yeeres time for the performance thereof: But the expiration of her Royall life sooner came, than any such matter would be undertaken.

Also our late gracious Soveraigne King Iames pleased to grant the like Act (but without date of time) for the same effect: and when all else refused, Sir Hugh Middletō undertook it, to bring his intended River from Chadwell and Amwell, to the North side of London, neere Is [...]ington, where he builded a large Cisterne to receive it.

The Worke began the 20. day of February, VVhen the River began at the first, and finished in 5. yeeres. Anno Dom. 1608. and in five yeers space was fully accomplished: concerning the conveyance of it along to [Page] London, from Chadwell and Amwell, I my selfe (by favour of the Gentlemen) did divers times ride to see it, and diligently observed, that admirable Art, paines and industry were bestowed for the passage of it, by reason that all grounds are not of a like nature, some being ozie and very muddy, others againe as stiffe, craggy and stony.

The depth of the Trench (in some places) descended full thirty foot,The ingenious conveying of the River in some places. if no [...] more; whereas (in other places) it required as sprightfull Art againe, to mount it over a valley in a Trough, betweene a couple of hils, and the Trough all the while borne up by woodden Arches, some of them fixed in the ground very deepe, and rising in heighth above 23. foot.

Being brought to the intended Cisterne, The Lord Maior and Aldermen rode to see the Cisterne. but not (as yet) the water admitted entrance thereinto: on Michael-masse day, in Anno 1613. being the day when Sir Thomas Middleton, Knight, (Brother to the said Sir Hugh Middleton) was elected Lord of London for the yeere ensuing; in the afternoone of the same day, Sir Iohn Swinerton, Knight, and Lord Maior of London, accompanied with the said Sir Thomas, Sir Henry Montague, Knight, and Recorder of London, and many of the worthy Aldermen, rode to see the Cisterne, and first issuing of the River thereinto: which was performed in this manner:

A troope of Labourers,The workmen in the Cisterne. to the number of 60. or more, well apparelled, and wearing greene Monmouth Caps, all alike, carryed Spades, Shovels, Pickaxes, and such like instruments of laborious imployment, marching after Drummes twice or thrice about the Cisterne, presented themselves before the Mount, where the Lord Maior, Aldermen, and a worthy company beside, stood to behold them, and one man (in behalfe of all the rest) delivered this Speech.

The Speech at the Cisterne, according as it was delivered to me.

LOng have we labour'd, long desird & pray'd

For this great works perfection: & by th'ayd

Of Heaven, and good mens wishes, 'tis at length

Happily conquer'd by Cost, Art, and Strength.

And after five yeeres dcare expence in dayes,

Tr [...]vaile and [...], beside the infinite Wayes

Of Malice, [...], false suggestions;

Able to daunt the spirits of mighty ones

In wealth and courage: This, a worke so rare,

Onely by one mans industry, cost and care,

Is brought to [...] effect, so much withstood;

His onely ayme, the Cities generall good.

And where (before) many [...] complaints,

Enviously [...] oft restraints,

Stops, and great crosses, to our Masters charge,

And the Works hindrance: favour n [...]w at large

Spread it selfe open to him, and commends

To admiration both his paines and ends.

(The Kings most gracious love) Perfectiō draws

Favour from Princes, and (from all) applause.

Then worthy Magistrates, to whose content,

(Next to the State) all this great care was bent,

And for the publike good (which grace requires)

Your loves and furtherance chiefly he desires,

To cherish these proceedings, which may give

Courage to some that may hereafter live,

To practise deedes of Goodnesse, and of Fame,

And gladly light their Actions by his Name.

Clarke of the Worke, reach me the Booke to show,

How many Arts from such is Labour flow.

First, hered the Overseer,

All this he readeth in the Clarks Booke.

this tride man,

An ancient Souldier, and an Artizan.

The Clarke, next him Mathematician,

The Master of the rimber-worke takes place

Next after these; the Measurer, in like case,

Brick-layer, and Enginer; and after those;

The Borer and the Pavier. Then it showes

The Labourers next; Keeper of Amwell-head,

The VValkers last: so all their names are read.

Yet these but parcels of six hundred more,

That (at one time) have beene imployd before.

Yet these in sight, and all the rest will say,

That all the weeke they had their Royall pay.

Now,

At the letting open of the Sluce.

for the fruits then: Flow forth; precious Spring,

So long and dearely sought for, and now bring

Comfort to all that love thee: loudly sing,

And with thy Chrystal murmurs strook together,

Bid all thy true wel-wishers welcome hither.

At which words the Flood-gates flew open, the streame ranne gallantly into the Cisterne, Drummes and Trumpets sounding in triumphall manner, and a brave Peale of Chambers gave full issue to the intended entertainment.

Thus much for waters serving this Citie; first by Rivers, Brookes, Boorns, Fountaines, Pooles, &c. And since by Conduits, partly made by good and charitable Citizens, and otherwise by charges of the Communalty, as shall bee more amply shewed in our description of the Wards wherein they are placed.

[Page] And now some Benefactors to these Conduits shall be remembred.Benefactors towards the Water-Conduits.

In the yeere 1236. certain Merchant strangers, of Cities beyond the Seas, to wit, of Amiens, Corby, and Nele, for priviledges which they enjoyed in this Citie, gave 100 l. towards the charges of conveying water from the Towne of Teyborne.

Robert Large, Mayor, 1439. gave to the new water Conduits then in hand, 40. Markes; and towards the vaulting over of Walbrooke, neere to the parish Church of S. Margarets in Lothbury, 200. Markes.

Sir William Eastfield, Maior, 1438. conveyed water from Teyborne to Fleetstreet, to Aldermanbury, and from Hightory to Creplegate.

William Combes, Sheriffe, 1441. gave to the worke of the Conduits. 10. l.

Richard Rawson, one of the Sheriffes, 1476. gave 20. l.

Robert Revel, one of the Sheriffes, 1490. gave 10. l.

Iohn Mathew, Maior, 1490. gave 20. l.

William Bucke, Taylor, in the yeere 1494. towards repairing of Conduits, gave 100. Marks.

Dame Thomasin widdow, late wife to Sir Iohn Percivall, Merchant Taylor, Maior, in the yeere 1498. gave toward the Conduit in Oldborne, 20. Marks.

Richard Shore, one of the Sheriffes, 1505. gave to the Conduit in Oldborne, 10. l.

The Lady Ascue, widdow to Sir Christopher Ascue, 1543. gave towards the Conduits, 100. l.

David Woodroofe, Sheriffe, 1554. gave toward the Conduit at Bishopsgate, 20. l.

Edward Iackman, one of the Sheriffes, 1564. gave towards the Conduits, 100. l.

Barnard Randulph, common Serjeant of the Citie, 1583. gave to the water Conduits, 900. l.

Thus much for the Conduits of fresh water to this Citie.

Of the Ancient and famous River of Thames, whence it deriveth her head or originall, and so conveyeth it selfe on to the Cities service, being supplyed by divers other sweet Rivers in her course,

YOV have already heard, what Rivers, Brookes, Boornes, Pooles and Conduits of fresh water have liberally afforded (out of their plenty) most commodious helpe for the service of so great a Citie. And yet the River of Thames, The River of Thames a chife honour to the whole Land, and especially to the Citie of London. much more famous than all the reft, yeelding by Forniers, Conduits, and other meanes of conveyance, inestimable benefit to the Citie, we have said little or nothing of her due worth, neither of her antiquity, course and originall, all which deserve to be more especially respected. According therefore to the advice of very wise and learned judgements, and borrowing such helps as they have gladly lent me, I will begin with the head or spring of this famous River, and shew how it glideth along in current, untill it come to imbrace the bosome of the Sea, and there to take up her entertainement in his liquid armes. Giving credit to such mens writings,The head or beginning of the Thames out of the side of an Hill in Cotswold, neete to Tetbury. as have (of set purpose) sought out the Spring of the Thames, it is faithfully affirmed, That this famous streame hath her head or beginning, out of the side of an Hill, standing in the Plaines of Cotswold, about a mile from Tetbury, neere unto the Fosse, (an highway so called of old) where it was sometime named Isis, Isis, or the Ouse. or the Ouse, although divers doe (ignorantly) call it Thames even there; rather of a foolish custome, than any skill, because they either neglect, or are utterly ignorant, how it was named at the first. From hence it runneth directly toward the East, (as all good Rivers should doe) and meeteth with the Cirne or Churne, a Brooke,The Cirne called corinium. called in Latine Corinium: whereof Cirncester Towne (by which it commeth) doth take the denomination in most opinions.

From hence it hasteth unto Creekelade, Creekelade. [Page] alias Crekanford, Lechlade. Lechlade, Radcotebridge, Newbridge, Radcotebridge. and Evesham, receiving (by the way) an infinite sort of small Streames,Newbridge. Brookes,Evesham. Beckes, Waters and Rundels. And here (on this side of the Towne) divideth it selfe into two courses, of which one goeth straight to Botley and Hinksey; the other passeth by Godstow, a Village not farre off. This later spreadeth it selfe also (for a whi [...]) into sundry smaller branches, which [...] not farre, before they be reunited, and then beclipping sundry pleasant Meddowes, Oxford or Ouseford, so called of the River Charwell. it passeth at length by Oxford, of some supposed rather to be called Ouseford, of this River, where it meeteth with the Charwell. A little from whence the originall branches doe joyne, and goe together by Abbandune (alias Sensham or Abbington, Abbandune or Abbington. as wee call it,) although no part of it (at the first) came so neere the Towne as it now doth,Some write that the maine streamè was brought thither, which ran before betweene Andredes [...] & Culingham. till a branch thereof was led thither from the maine streame, through the industry of the Monkes, as (beside the testimony of old Records thereof, yet extant to be seene) by the decay of Cair Dour, now Dorchester it selfe, sometime the thorow-fare from Wales, and the West Countrey unto London, which ensued upon this fact,Cair Dour, Dorchester. is easie to bee seene.

From hence it goeth to Dorchester, and so unto Thame, where joyning with a River of the same denomination, it loseth the name of Isis or Ouse, Ousenie at Oxford. (whereof Ousennie at Oxford is producted) and from thence is called Thamesis all along as it passeth.Thamesis at Thame, and so forward From Thame it goeth to Wallingford, and so to Reding, which (in time past) of the number of Bridges there,Reding sometime Pontium. was called Pontium. Albeit that the English name doth rather proceed from Rhe or Ree, the Saxon word for a water-course or River: which may bee seene in Overee, S. Maryover Rhee. or Suthree, for over the Ree, or south of the Ree; as to the skilfull doth readily appeare. Yet some hold, (and not altogether against probability and likelihood) that the word Sutheree, is so called of Sudrijc; Sudrijc the South Kingdom. to wit, the south Kingdome, whereunto (in part) the Thames is a bound. But that holdeth not in denomination, either of the said Chruch, or name of the foresaid Countie. Other affirme likewise, that Reding is so called of the Greeke word (REO) which is to overflow.(REO) Reding, to overflow.

Surely, as neither of these conjectures are to be contemned, so the last commeth most neere to mine ayd, who affirme, that not only the course of every water it selfe; but also his overflowing, The Saxon name to water-courses & over-flowes. was in times past called Rhee, by such Saxons as inhabited this Iland. And even to this day, in Essex, I have oft observed, that when the lower grounds (by rage of waters) hath beene over-flowne; the people beholding the same have said;All is on a Rhee, All is now a River. All is on a Rhee; as if they would have said; All is now a River. Albeit the word River is derived from the French, and borrowed by them from the Latines: but not without corruption, as it was brought to them. I will not here give notice how far they are deceived, which call the aforesaid Church by the name of Saint Mary Auderies, S. Mary Auderies, S. Mary over Isis or Ise. or Saint Mary over Isis, or Ise: but I will proceede with the course of this Noble Streame; which, howsoever these matters stand,Reding. it hath passed by Reding, and there received the Kenet, Kenet. which commeth from the Hills that lye West of Marleborough; Thetis, cō ming from Thetisford. and then the Thetis, commonly called the Tide, that commeth from Thetisford. It hyeth thence to Sudlington, Sudlington. otherwise called Maidenhead, Maidenhead Windleshore. and so to Windleshore, or Windsore, Aeton, Eaton. and then to Chertsey, where Erkenwald Bishop of London, Chertsey. sometime builded a Religious House or Cell, as I doe reade.

From Chertsey it hasteth directly unto Stanes, Stanes. and receiving another Streame by the way,Cole. Colebrooke. called the Cole, (whereupon Colebrooke standeth) it goeth by Kingstone, Kingstone. Shene, Shene. Sion. Sion, and Brentford, or Bregentford: Brentford, where it meeteth with the Brane or the Brene, Bregētford. another Brooke descending from Edgeworth. Brane, Brene. Vpon this Brooke also, Sir Iohn Thinne had sometime a sumptuous and stately House,Mortlach. with a marvellous provision to inclose and retaine such Fish,Putney. as should come about the same.Fulham. From Brentford it passeth by Mortlach, Battersey. Putney, Chelsey. Fulham, Battersey, Lambeth. Chelsey, Lambeth, and so to London. London.

Our famous River being thus brought to London, and hasting on apace, to meete with Oceanus her amorous Husband: [Page] the first water that it then meeteth withall,Tham [...]s beyond London, eastward. is the Brome on Kent side, west of Greenwich, whose head is Bromis in Bromley Perish,Brome on Kent side. and going thence to Lewsham, Lewsham. it taketh in a water from the East, and so directeth its course forthright unto the Thames.

The next water that it meeteth withall, Wolwich. Lee or Luie on Essex side. is on Essex side, almost against Wolwich, and that is the Lee or Luie. And being past that, the Darwent also meeteth with our Thames on Kent side,Darwent on Kent side. two miles and more beneath Erith, it rising at Tanridge. The next River that falleth into the Thames, The Wany Iles. is West of the Wanie Iles, a Rill of no great fame, neither long course: for, rising about Coringham, it runneth not many miles East, and by South, till it fals into the mouth of this River, which I doe now describe. Last of all we come to the Medway, a notable River, in mine opinion, watering all the South, and Southwest parts of Kent, in whose description we cannot (at this time) proceed any further.

Having (in this manner) briefely touched this Noble River, and such Brookes as fall into the same: I will insert a word or two,Commodities of this noble River. concerning the commodities of the said River, which I will performe with so much brevity as is possible; hereby also finding out her whole tract and course from the head, to the fall thereof into the Sea. It appeareth evidently, that the length thereof is (at the least) an hundred and eighty miles,The lēgth of the Thames, frō the head to the fall into the Sea. if it be measured by the journies of the Land. And as it is in course, the longest of the three famous Rivers of this Ile: so is it nothing inferiour to them, in abundance of all kind of Fish, whereof it is hard to say, which of the three have either most plenty, or greatest variety, if the circumstances be duly weighed.

What some other write, concerning the Rivers of their Countries, it skilleth not, neither will I (as divers doe) invent strange things of this Noble streame, therewith to nobilitate,An honorable affirmation of the River of Thames. and make it more honourable: But this will I in plaine termes affirme, That it neither swalloweth up bastards of the Celtish Brood, nor casteth up the right-begotten, that are throwne in, (without hurt) into their Mothers lappe: as Politian fableth of the Rhene, Position in lib. 8. Epist. Epist. [...]. Epistolarum lib. 8. Epist. 6. nor yeeldeth clots of gold, as the Tagus doth: but an infinite plenty of excellent, sweet and pleasant Fish, wherwith such as inhabit neere to her banks, are fed and fully nourished.

What should I speake of the fat and sweet Salmons,The great plenty of fat & sweet Salmons taken in the Thames daily. dayly taken in this streame, and that in such plenty, (after the time of the Smelt is past) as no River in Europe is able to exceed it? But what store also of Barbels, Trowts, Chevins, Pearches, Smelts, Breames, Roches, Daces, Gudgeons, Flounders, Shrimps, Eeles, &c. are commonly to be had therein, I refer me to them that know by experience better than I, by reason of their daily trade of fishing in the same. And albeit it seemeth from time to time, to be (as it were) defrauded in sundry wise,The spoile and havok of covetous Fishermen. of these her large commodities, by the insatiable avarice of Fishermen: yet this famous River complaineth commonly of no want, but the more it loseth at one time, the more it yeeldeth at another.Carps a Fish late brought into England, and later into the Thames. Onely in Carpes it seemeth to be scant, sith (not long since) that kinde of Fish was brought over into England, and but of late (to speake of) into this streame; by the violent rage of Land-floods, that breake open the heads and dammes of divers Gentlemens Ponds, by which meanes it became somewhat partaker also of this said commodity, whereof (before) it had no portion that I could ever heare.

Oh that this worthy River might bee spared but one yeere from Nets, &c. but alas, then should many a poore man be undone.The River choaked up with sands and shelves in many places, a matter much pitttied, and requiring redresse. In the meane time it is lamentable to see, how it is and hath beene choked of late, with sands and shelves, by the penning and wresting of the course of the water for commodities sake. But as this is an inconveniency easily remedied, if good order were taken for the redresse thereof: so now, the fine or pay set upon the Ballast, sometimes freely given to the Merchants by Patent, even to the Lands end, (Iusques aupoinct) will be another cause of harme to this noble streame: and all through an advantage taken at the want of an (i) in the word ponct: which grew through an errour committed by an [Page] English Notarie, unskilfull in the French tong, wherein that Patent was granted.

Furthermore, the said River floweth and filleth all her chanels,The River ebbeth & floweth every 12. houres, for the length of seventy miles. twice in the day and night; that is, in every 12. houres once, and this ebbing and flowing holdeth on for the space of 70. miles within the maine Land: the streame or Tide being alwaies highest at London, when the moon doth exactly touch the northeast, and south or west points of the heavens, of which one is visible, the other under the earth,The alteration and difference of the tides. & not in our sight. These Tides also differ in their times, each one comming later than other, by so many minutes as passe, yet the revolution and naturall course of the heavens do reduce and bring about the said Planet, to these her former places, wherby, the common difference between one Tide & another, is found to consist of 24. minutes, which wanteth but 12. of a whole houre in 24. as experience doth confirme. In like sort,The just distance between one tide & another. we see by daily tryall, that each Tide is not of equall height and greatnesse. For at the full and change of the Moone, we have the greatest floods, and such is their extraordinary course, that as they diminish from their changes & fuls, unto the first and last quarters: so afterwards they increase againe, untill they come to the full and change.

Sometimes also they rise so high,The extraordinary rising of the tides, and how caused. (if the wind be at the North or North-east, which bringeth in the water with more vehemency, because the Tide that filleth the channell, commeth from Scotland ward) that the Thames overfloweth her bankes neere unto London: which hapneth especially in the fuls and changes of Ianuary and February, wherein the lower grounds are (of custome) soonest drowned. This order of flowing in like sort is perpetuall, so that when the Moone is on the South-west and North of points, then is the water at London at the highest. Neither doe the Tides alter, except some rough winds out of the West or South-west, doe keepe backe and checke the streame in her entrance:The streame oftētimes checkt in her entrance into the Land. as the East and North-east doe hasten the comming in thereof, or else some other extraordinary occasion put by the ordinary course of the Northerne Seas, which doe fill the said River by their naturall returne and flowing. And that both these doe happen eftsoones among, I referre me to such, as have not seldome observed it: as also the sensible chopping in of three or foure Tides in one naturall day, whereof the unskilfull doe descant many things, according to their minds.

But howsoever these small matters doe fall out,Two severall times of the Moone, the waters finde their true course and how often soever this course of the streame doth happen to be disturbed: yet at two severall times of the Moone, the Waters returne to their naturall course and limits of time exactly. Polydore saith,The error of Polydore Virgil. that this River is seldome increased, or rather never overfloweth her banks by land-flouds: but he is herein very much deceived, as it shall more apparantly be seene hereafter. For the more that this River is put by of her right course, the more the water must (of necessity) swell with the white waters, which run downe from the Land: because the passage cannot bee so swift and ready in the winding, as in the straight course.

The Land-flouds also doe greatly staine the finenesse of the streame,Land-floods doe much staine the streames finenesse. insomuch that after a great land-floud, you shall take up Haddocks with your hands beneath the Bridge, as they float aloft on the water: whose eyes are so blinded with the thicknesse of that element, that they cannot see where to become, and make shift to save themselves before death take hold on them.Thames water as cleere as that of the Sea. Otherwise, the water (of it selfe) is very cleere, and, in comparison, next unto that of the Sea, which is most subtill & pure of all other; as that of great Rivers is most excellent in comparison of smal brooks.The objection of Aristotle answered. Although Aristotle will have the salt water to be most grosse, because a Ship will beare a greater burden on the Sea, than on the fresh water, and an Egge sinks in this, that swimmeth in the other. But he may easily be answered, by the quantity of roome, and abundance of waters in the Sea, whereby it becommeth of more force, to sustaine such vessels as are committed to the same, and whereunto the greatest Rivers are nothing comparable.

I would here make mention of sundry Bridges over this noble streame: of which, that of London is most chiefely to be commended: for it is (in a manner) [Page] a continuall street, well replenished with large and stately houses on both sides, and situate upon twenty Arches, whereof each one is made of excellent free stone, every of them being threescore foot in height, and full twenty in distance one from another, as I have often viewed. In the like manner, I could entreat of the infinite number of Swans daily to be seene upon this River, and of two thousand Wherries and small Boats,Two thousand boats upon the Thames, and 3000. pooremen maintained by the same, whole gaines come in most in the Terme time. whereby three thousand poore Watermen are maintained, through the carriage and recarriage of such persons as passe or repasse (from time to time) upon the same. Beside, those huge Tide-boats, Tilt-boats, and Barges, which eyther carry passengers, or bring necessary provision from all quarters of Oxfordshire, Barkeshire, Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire, Middlesex, Essex, Surrey, and Kent, unto the Citie of London.

Having thus farre proceeded in the description of this famous River, even from her head and originall, till her imbracing the Sea: I thought good to go on a little further, concerning the extent of the Thames jurisdiction,The extēt of the River of Thames under the jurisdiction of the L. Maior, Communalty and Citizens of London. from a place called Colnie Ditch, a little above the Bridge of Stanes westward, to London Bridge: and from thence to a certaine place called Yendall, alias Yenland, alias Yenleete, and of the Water of Medway, as being matter more proper to the Citie of Londons Survey, than any other discourse else whatsoever. For many yeeres, the authority and jurisdiction of this River, hath undoubtedly belonged to the Lord Maior, Communalty, and Citizens of London, by the sufficient testimony of divers Grants, Charters, and Confirmations, made by the precedent Kings and Queenes of this Land,Acts of Parliamēt for the Cities prerogative on the River. and by our late deceased King Iames of happy memory, besides sundry Acts of Parliament ordained to that end.

But because some question appeared to be not long since made by the Lord high Admirall of England, concerning that case of Power or Jurisdiction, a full and finall conclusion was at length established, betweene the Lord high Admirall, and the Lord Maior and Communalty of London also, concerning the Prerogative then questioned.

Whereby, as in former ancient priviledges, the right and title hath beene alwaies evident; so then it appeared a plaine and manifest case, that the Lord Maior of London for the time being, and his successors for ever in that eminent dignity,The Lord Maior of London his title and authority over the River, and to inflict punishmēt on all offenders. have full power and authority over the said Rivers, the Lord Maior bearing the stile and title of Conservator or preserver of them, within the forenamed bounds and limits; Having absolute power, of inflicting punishment for all unlawfull fishings, eyther by Fishermen or any other, fishing within the same at any time: yea, and to search, oversee and punish all such, as shall abuse his lawfull authority in those proceedings from time to time. And because his great and serious imployments withhold him from such attending on this important businesse, as the urgent necessity thereof doth (almost continually) require:The water Bailiffe of London, his power on the River under the L. Maior. he hath a Deputy or Substitute, named the Water-Bayliffe of London, who under his Honours authority, and by vertue of his more absolute power, doth continually search, oversee and punish all offenders, that dare infringe those rights of duty, belonging to so famous a River, or make spoile of that intended for generall benefit.

And whereas there are a certaine company of Fishermen,Tinckermen mighty destroyers of the Frie of Fish. called Tinckermen, frequenting the River of Thames, Eastward, who (in times past) not onley have beene reported, but also manifestly approved, and found out, to make an infinite destruction of the yong brood and Fry of Fish, by use of unlawfull Nets, and unpermittable Engines, feeding and glutting their Hogges with them, as M. Doctor Dee reporteth: By the diligent and extraordinary cost and care of the Lord Maior, his Brethren, and the rest of the Citizens of London, as also the vigilant respect of his worthy Officer the Water-Bayliffe, day and night attending to cut off such an horrible abuse; those unlawfull Nets and Engines are now quite supprest, and a true & orderly forme of fishing brought into use,Waste and spoile very providently prevented and cut off. that such waste and havocke may no more be made. Through which restraint of robberie, and application of continuall providence, our River of [Page] Thames (the honour and beauty of this whole Iland) is become againe most rich and plentifull, yeelding daily out of her bountifull bosome, great store of Fish of all kindes, and at much more reasonable rate, than in many yeeres past hath beene seene, as our weekely Markets in this Honourable Citie, can better testifie, than I report: a matter highly to bee commended, and (no doubt) but will bee as heedfully continued.

Vpon a great complaint lately made to the Lord Maior,Timbers in the Thames at Tilbury hope no meane hurt to the River. concerning Timbers being and standing in Tilbury Hope, beneath Gravesend, a matter not onely perillous to passengers upon the River, but a cause also to destroy (infinitely) the yong brood and fry of Fish, by the harmes those Timbers did to Fishermens Nets, by reason of their continuall standing in the maine course, and speedy current of the streame, which was mightily annoyed and injured thereby: his honourable care extended so farre, that by the paines and diligence of his Water-Bayliffe, being thereto by his Office and place warrantably directed, those grievous hurts and annoyances were all taken up, and conveyed to the Guildhall in London, as an example to all that should dare to offend in the like nature, or presume to prejudice such an honourable course of our fishing, as it is faithfully reported, at every Tide, by day and night, foure Bushels of small Fish and Fry, (continually throughout the whole) are saved and preserved by this worthy providence,The benefit ensuing by taking up those annoying Timbers out of the streame. which otherwise had remained to the former desperate spoile, and continued a great hindrance to the abounding increase now likely to ensue thereby.

The Lord Maior and Communalty, not many yeeres since, have caused this Noble River of Thames westward,The clearing and clensing of the River westward of stops & hatches. to be cleered and cleansed of 79. stops or hatches, consisting of divers great stakes and piles, purposely erected by Fishermen for their private gaine, and standing dangerous for passengers neere unto the faire deepe: so that none of them doe now remaine upon the River, but onely such as stand out of the passable to faire way, and can bee no prejudice to passengers. For otherwise, they serve as a great succour to the young breed and Frie, being planted at the waters bottome, and placed so remotely on the River; that they releeve and comfort many poore Fishermen thereon dwelling. Some things seeming hurtfull, may be beneficiall as they are used. Beside, in the great heate and drought of Summer, when usually water is most scanty, these are then the cause of raising it so high, that Barges may well and safely passe, with all kind of goods to our ancient Mother Citie; whereas else they would be grounded, how many soever, and be void of passage, by lownesse of the water.

There are likewise a number of Fishermen belonging to the River of Thames, Tinckermen, Hebbermen, Petermen, Trawlermē, All great abusers of Gods blessings in the River. some stiled by the name of Tinckermen, others, Hebbermen, Petermen, Trawlermen, &c. that have lived (in precedent times) by very unlawfull fishing on this River, and to the great injurie of her abounding store. But by meanes of this wel-provided restriction, so forwarded in the maine Magistrate, and followed in the diligent endevour of the carefull Water-Bayliffe, (making no spare of his paines at all times whatsoever) their insolence hath beene reduced to a more temperate qualification, and the awfull hand of civill Government appeareth to carry much better respect, than formerly it did.

Nor let this provident care, both for the safety of passengers on the River,Care had of the River of Thames in former times. and preservation of the Breed, Frie, and Fish in the River, bee understood as a matter of novelty, without any precedent example in elder dayes; when it plainely appeareth, that the very like course was kept and effected in the time of King Henry the fourth, the seventh yeere of his reigne, Anno Dom. 1405. Also more late in the dayes of King Henry the eighth, &c. As appeareth by Records in divers Chronicles, and so warranted and avouched, as already hath beene said, and shall (in more ample manner) hereafter appeare.

Concerning the controversiall question, The end of controversie concerning the Thames and Medway. about the Rivers of Thames and Medway, all variance and difference was absolutely concluded, in the yeere 1613 the twentieth day of Mary: Sir Iohn Swynnerton Knight, being then Lord Maior, and carefull Conservator of the said Rivers rights; and Thomas Sparrey, [Page] Esquire, his Substiture, and respective Water-Bayliffe, for the performing of such a maine trust reposed in him, appertaining justly unto his place and office.

At eight severall times yeerely,Courts kept for the yeerely preservation of the River. within the foure Countries of Middlesex, Surrey, Kent, and Essex, the Lord Maior of London for the time then being, with his Brethren the Aldermen, for the better maintaining of the Rivers rights and priviledges, doe sit in person judicially, and charge foure Juries by oath, to make inquisition after all offences, committed upon the River of Thames. And as the verdict (presented by the said Jurie) maketh appearance, so doe they accordingly proceed to the punishment of the transgressors, answerably to the nature of their offences, and as to Justice shall see me expedient: Wherein, the Rivers prosperity, safety of passengers, and generall good of the Common-wealth, are their chiefest respects.

And because it may appeare more probably unto all men,A late and honorable testimony what care the Citie hath for the Rivers conservation. in what worthy manner the Lord Maior and his Brethren doe proceed in this case, by the helpe of Master Edmund Howes, Gent. I have hereto added, the last Courts that were kept about this Rivers service, in the time of Sir Iohn Iolles, Knight, to take away all sinister scruple or doubt, that can be otherwise alledged. For he being present in the Journey, (as I my selfe might also have beene, if my leasure would have so permitted) observed the course of all that then passed, and as hee delivered it to mee, so have I set it downe, with some other few collections of mine owne, out of such Antiquities as have come to my hands.

A further testimony concerning the River of Thames, and of the right and authority of the Lord Maior of London, to the conservancie of the said River, &c.

IN the yeere 1616. on Wednesday, being the third of Iuly, Sir Iohn Iolles, Knight, L. Maior of the Citie of London, and Conservator of the River of Thames, What Aldermen & other went with the L. Maior in the journey. and waters of Medway, assisted and accompanied by Francis Iones, Edward Rotheram, Alexander Prescot, Martin Lumley, Aldermen of London; and William Gore, Alderman, and Shiriffe (at that time) of the said Citie; Thomas Iones Esquire, Common Serjeant of the said Citie, in the absence of Sir Henry Mountague, Recorder of the same Citie, attended by Thomas Sparrey, Esquire, Subconservator of the said River of Thames, with fifty Officers and other servants, tooke Barges at Belinsgate, and (within few houres) arrived at Gravesend in Kent, where a Session for the Conservancie of the said River was kept, before the said Lord Maior, and his forenamed Assistants.

At which time and place,A Iury of Freeholders of the said countrey. a Jurie of Freeholders of the said Countrie, being sworne to enquire of all offences committed in any part of that River whatsoever within the said County; Master Common Serjeant delivered them a charge to this effect:

That,The effect of Mr. Cō mon Serjeants charge to the Iury. forasmuch as there had not been any Session of Conservancy in many yeeres past, kept by any Lord Maior of London in that place: it was probable and evident, that they could not be well informed, neither of the Lord Maiors jurisdiction and power, to reforme annoyances and offences there, and to inflict due punishment vpon the offenders, nor of the nature of the service by them to bee performed, in the course of their enquirie. And therefore hee thought it convenient, to make knowne unto them, both the one and the other.

And hereupon he shewed them, that the Jurisdiction of the Citie of London, The extē dure of the Citie of Londons Iurisdictiō in the River of Thames. in the River of Thames, from Stanes Bridge Westward, unto the points of the River next the Sea Eastward, appeared to belong to the Citie, in manner and forme as followeth:

In point of Right

[Page]1. By Prescription.

2. By allowance in Eire.

3. By ancient Charters.

4. By Acts of Parliament.

5. By Inquisitions.

6. By Decrees upon Hearing Coram Rege ipso, & in Camera Stellata.

7. By Letters Patents.

8. By Proclaimations.

9. By Report of the Kings Councell learned.

10. By a Quo Warranto.

In point of Vsage

1. By ancient Ordinances.

2. By punishment of offenders.

3. By Writs and Precepts.

4. By accompts for charges of Searches, from 17. R. 2. till 2. Eliz. Regina.

5. By Commissions.

6. By continuall claime ever since 37. Hen. 8. when the Lord Admirall first interrupted the Citie, to exercise her authority below London Bridge.

And to crowne all these points both of right and usage,To cut off all controversies in times to come. Et ad omnem controversiam temporibus futuris tollendam: the Citie of London hath King Iames his most gracious and liberall Charter in that point granted, in the third yeere of his Majesties happy reigne.

1. By Prescription.

IT appeareth by an ancient Booke, called Dunthorne,Ex Lib. vocat. Dunthorn. that Civitatis fundationis, aedificationis & constructionis, causa erat Thamesis Fluvius; quorum vero Civitatis & fluminis gubernationem tam Duces, Maiores, Custodes, Vicecomites, Aldr.The Cities go [...]vernment of the River. & Magnates Civitatis memoratae hucus (que) obtinuerunt & habuerunt. So as the government of the River hath belonged to the Citie time out of minde.

In 21. H. 3. Iorden Coventry, Kidels removed by the Shiriffe of London, sent by the Maior and Aldermen. one of the Shiriffes of London, was by the Maior and Aldermen sent, to remove certaine Kiddels that annoyed the Rivers of Thames and Medway; who ultra Yenland versus Mare, did take divers persons that were offenders, and imprisoned them. Whereupon, complaint being made to King H. 3. hee tooke the matter ill at the first, and sent for the Lord Maior & Citizens to Kennington; and upon hearing of the matter before the said King,The Cities Iurisdiction on the River, approved before King Hen. 3. the Cities Jurisdiction on the River was set forth and allowed, and the Complainants convicted, and every of them amerced at 10. pounds, and the Amercements adjudged to the Citie; and their Nets were afterwards burned, by judgement given by the Lord Maior and Aldermen in the Hustings.

37. H. 3.In the 37-yeere of King Hen. 3. Eodem Anno, ante Pentecostem, Vicecomites London, quia aqua Thamisiae pertinet ad London, per praecetum dict. Dom. Regis, deriverunt omnes alios gurgites à London usabque; Mare.

1. R. 2. Writs to the Shiriffes of Kent and Essex, The Citizens not to be troubled in their liberties. reciting the Cities title, with command, not to suffer the Citizens of London to be molested, contrary to the liberties formerly granted and allowed unto them.

2. In Eire.

In 41. H. 3. Before Hugh Bigot, The Cities Iurisdiction on the River, called in question. being Justice Itinerant, the Shiriffes and Citizens of London were called in question, for their jurisdiction exercised on the Thames. Before whom, it was found by a Jurie in Southwarke, Quod nullus aliquid juris habet in Thamisia, usque ad novum gurgitem, nisi Cives London.

14. Ed. 2. Lib. Antiq. Reg. 156. The Constable of the Tower was indicted by divers Wards of London,The Constable of the Tower indicted by the Wards of London. before the Justices in Eire at the Tower: De muneris & recep. cove. pro Kidellis in Thamisijs. Et Constabularius ad Kidellas respondet, quod Iustic. non habent jurisdictionem extra London, plitum. inde cognoscere cum praedict. Kidelli sunt in alijs Comitatibus. Et Iustic, dixerunt, aqua Thamisiae pertinet ad Civitatem London, usque mare; & si velit respondeat: who then pleaded, Not guilty.

3. By Charters.

8. R. 1. Dom.K. Richard the first his Charter. Richardus Rex, filius Regis Henrici secundi, concessit & firmiter praecepit, ut omnes Kidelli qui sunt in Thamisia amoveantur, ubicun (que) fuerint in Thamisia.

1. Ioh. Rex concessit & firmiter praecepit, K. Iohn his Charter. ut omnes Kidelli qui sunt in Thamisia vel in Medway amoveantur, & ne caeteri Kidelli alicubi ponantur in Thamisia vel in Medway, super forf. x. li. sterlingorum.

[Page] Henry the third, sonne to King Iohn, granted this Charter to the Citie, in forme following:

HENRY by the Grace of God,The Charter of K. Hen. 3. as it is recorded in the ancient Booke called the Customes of London. King of England, Lord of Ireland, Duke of Normandie and Aquitaine, and Earle of Anjou: Vnto Arch-Bishops, Bishops, Abbots, Priors, Earles, Barons, Iustices, Sheriffes, Stewards, Ministers, and to all Bailiffes, and to all his true men, greeting: Weteth well, that we, for the health of our soule, and the health of the soule of King Iohn our Fader, and the soules of all our Ancestours; and also for common profit of our Citie of London, and of all our Realme, have granted and stedfastly commanded: That all the Weares that beene in Thames or in Medway, where that ever they be in Thames or in Medway, be done away: And that from henceforth, no Weares be set in Thames nor in Medway, upon the forfaiture of ten pounds. Also wee claime quite to our Citizens of London, all that that the Constable of our Tower of London was wont to take of the said Weares. Wherefore we will, and stedfastly command, that no Constable of the aforesaid Tower, at any time from henceforth forward, any thing aske, nor any grievance doe to any of the same Citie, by enchesen of the same Weares. It is to us knowne enough, and by our true men doe us to understand, that most privacie and least profit might fall unto the same Citie, and to the whole Realme, by enchesen of the same weares: which we make forever firme and stable to the same Citie, as the Charter of our Lord King Iohn our Fader, which our Barons of London thereof have reasonably witnessed. Witnesses, Eustace of London, Peter of Winchester, Ioceline of Bath, Richard of Salisbury, Bishops: Hubert of Burgh, Earle of Kent, our Iustice; Gilbert of Clare, Earle of Glocester and Hertford; Raufe Fitz-Nichol, and Richard of Argentine, our Stewards. Given by the hand of our Worshipfull Fader, Raufe, Bishop of Chichester, our Chauncellour, at Westminster, the 18. day of February, the yeere of our reigne, eleven.

In the 68. Article also are these words: Authority of the Citizens for punishmēt. And that the said Citizens remene and doe away all the Weares in Thames and Medway, and that they have the punishment thereof longing to us.

Likewise in the 68. Article are these words:The Constable of the Tower to make no prices of victuals. And the Constable of the Tower of London make no prices by Land nor by water, of vitaile or any other things whatsoever they beene, of men of the aforesaid Citie, nor of none other, comming to the Citie, nor going out. Nor he shall not arresten by any manner of way, Ships ne Boats, bringing or leading vitaile or other merchandises to the Citie, or fro the Citie aforesaid.

11. H. 3. Concessimus etiam eisdem Baronibus nostris,Anno 11. Hen. 3. & Carta nostra confirmavimus, quod habeant bone & in pace libere & quiete, omnes libertates suas quibus hactenus usi sunt, tam in Civitate London, quàm extra; tam in aquis, quàm in terris & omnibus aliis locis.

7. E. 3. Volumus & concedimus,Anno 7. Ed. 3. quod dicti Cives amoveant & capiant omnes Kidellas in aqua Thamistae & Medway, & habeant punitiones ad nos inde pertinentes.

4. By Acts of Parliament.

W. 2. Ca. 47. An. 13. L. 1. No Salmons to be taken,Against taking of Salmons. from the nativity of our Lady, unto S. Martins day, in all points. Nor none to be taken in Mill. pooles, from the midst of April, untill Midsummer.

1. Offence,Punishment of offenders. burning the Nets and Engines.

2. Imprisonment for a quarter of a yeere.

3. For a whole yeere.

13. R. 2. Cap. 19. Confirmes the other, Anno 13. Ric. 2 [...]. and restraines the taking of yong Salmons in many waters, from the middest of April untill Midsummer, upon the same paine.

None (within that time) to use any Nets called Stalkers, Nets cal'd Stalkers. nor any other Engines, by which the Frie may bee destroyed, upon the same paine.

17. R. 2. Cap. 9. Justices of peace shall be Conservators,Iustices of peace conservators for destruction of the Frie & brood. and to survey all offences against the said Statutes, and shall survey and search all the Weares, that they be not strait, for the destruction of the Frie and brood, but of reasonable widenesse,Appointment of under-conservators, and their charge. after the old assize. And they shall punish according to the said Statutes; and they to appoint under-conservators, who shall bee sworne. And the same Justices shall enquire, as well [Page] ex officio, as by information of the under-conservators: And such as be indicted, they shall cause to come before them; and if they be thereof convicted, they shall have imprisonment, and make fine after the discretion of the same Justices. And if the same be at the information of any of the under-conservators, he shall have halfe the fine.

11. Hen. 7. Cap. 15. The like power is granted to the Maior of London, Power of the Lord Maior of London, in breaches and creeks▪ in Breaches and in Creeks, as in the River, so farre as it ebbeth and floweth: except in the Kings ground, or in the liberties and franchises of others.

1. Eliz. Chap. 17. None shall with any maner of Net,Against Nets, Weeles, and other Engines, for the destroying of Fish. Weele, But-eayning, Kepper, Lymecreele, Raw Fagnet, Trolnet, Trymnet, Scalboat, Weblister, Sturlamet, or with any other device or engines, made of cheare, woollbine, canvas; or shall by any heeling-Nets, or Trimbleboat, or any other device, engine, cautelles, wayes or means soever, heretofore made or devised, or hereafter to bee made or devised, take and kill any yong brood, spawne, or frie of Eeles, Salmon, Pike or Pickerell, or of any other Fish, in any floudgate, pipe or the taile of any Mill, Weare, or in any straites, streames, brookes, Rivers, salt or fresh.

Secondly,For killing of Salmons and Trow [...]s out of season. none shall take and kill any Salmons and Trowts, not being in season, being kepper Salmons, or kepper Trowts, or shedder Salmons or shedder Trowts.

Thirdly,Length of Pike, Pickerel, Salmon, Trowt, Barbel, &c. none shall take and kill any Pike or Pickerell, not being in length ten intches Fish, and more; nor any Salmon, not being 16. intches fish, and more; nor any Trowt, not being eight intches; nor any Barbell, not being 12. intches, and more.

Fourthly,Order for fishing with Nets and Tramels. none to fish with any Nets, Tramels, Keep, Weare, Helme, Creele; or by any other Engine, device, wayes or meanes; but onely with Net or Tramell; wherof every mesh or mash shall be two intches and an halfe broad; Angling excepted.

A Provisio,An Exception. that this shall not extend to Smelts, Roches, Minoes, Bulheads, Gudgeons or Eeles, in place where the same have beene used to be taken.Penalty for offenders.

The Offenders to lose for every offence 20. shillings, and the fish; and also the unlawfull Nets, Engines and Instruments.

The Maior of London (inter alia) shall have full power and authority by this Act,The Mayor of London his power for enquirie, &c. to enquire of all offences committed contrary to this Act, by the oathes of twelve men or more, and to heare and determine all and every the same.

The paines and forfeitures to be at the use of every such person and persons (being no body politick nor corporate,For the paines & forfeitures. or head of the same) before whom such conviction shall be had: and to the use of every body politicke and corporate, that hereafter have lawfully had any fines, &c. upon such conviction.

5. By Inquisition.

By two Inquisitions,Inquisitions at Raynam & at Gravesend, before the Lord Maior of London, Conservator, &c. the one taken at Raynam in Essex, the other at Gravesend in Kent: 9. Hen. 5. before William Cambridge, Grocer, then Lord Maior of London, and Conservator of the waiters of Thames and Medway; it was presented, That where by the ancient ordinances of London, the Mesches of Nets should be two intches in the forepart, and one intch in the hinder-part. And further, it was thereby found, that the offences in the same Inquisition, are contra libertates & consuetudines Civitatis. And it was adjudged, that the Nets should be burned, according to the ancient custome in that behalfe provided.

6. By Decrees.

In 8. H. 4. The Maior and Aldermen of London did exhibite their humble Petition to the Kings Councell,The long conservation of the River of Thames exhibited to the Councell of K. Hen. 4. reciting that (time out of minde) they have had the Conservation and correction of the River of Thames, and of all Trinckes, Nets and other Engins whatsoever, in the Rivers of Thames and Medway placed, and have used to make a Subconservator under them: And complained, that Alexander Bonner, then Subcōservator, having done his duty in removing Kiddels,Abusers of the subconservator of the River. he was evil entreated by the owners: the same owners dwelling in Erith, Pratriferry, Barking, Woolwich, and other places in the Counties of Kent and Essex. And upon hearing of the matter in Camera Stellata, they were found guilty, and constrained to submit [Page] themselves to the Lord Maior, and ordered (alwaies) to bring their Nets to the Lord Maior, before they should use them: And that the Kiddels then taken, should be at the disposition of the Lord Maior: and the offenders made their submission accordingly.

7. By Letters Patents.

A Grant made by King E. 4. to the E. of Pembrooke, A Grant to the Earle of Pembrooke for building of a Weare in the Thames cancelled afterward. for building a Weare in the River of Thames: which Grant was canceled at the request of the Lord Maior and Aldermen, upon shewing of their right, for that it was contrary to their ancient liberties. At which time the Cities title to the conservacie of the River of Thames and Medway, was at large set forth, and is recited to have beene shewne to the Lord Chancelour, and to the Earle and his Councell; and was afterward allowed, and the Patent thereupon cancelled.

8. By Proclamations.

By Proclamation made by King H. 8. in 34. of his Reigne,The conservacy of the Thames to the Lord Maior, without interruption. it is affirmed, that the Lord Maior and his predecessors, have had by divers Grants of the Kings of England, and by Acts of Parliament, and have also long enjoyed the conservacy of Thames, without interruptiō or impediment of the said King Hen. 8. or of any of his Subjects. And by the same Proclamation it was commanded, that none should resist, deny, or impugne the Lord Maior and his Deputy, in doing or executing any thing, for the conservacie of the River, and of the Fish and Frie within the same.

9. By Report.

A Controversie being betweene the Lord Admirall and the Lord Maior,For measuring of Coales, and other things on the River of Thames, a controversie. for the measuring of Coales and other things upon the Thames: it then fell into consideration, to whom the conservacie of the said River did belong. Which cause, in Anno 1597. was by the Lords of the Queenes most Honourable Privie Councell, referred to the then Atturney generall, and Solliciter; who certified (among other things) that the conservacy of the River of Thames did, and ought to belong to the Citie of London.

10. By Quo Warranto.

3. Iacobi Regis, A Quo Warranto brought against the Citie for the Rivers conservacie. A Quo Warranto was brought against the Citie in the Exchequer, to know, by what title they claimed the conservacie of the River of Thames, and of the waters of Medway: The Citie made their title to the same, by antient prescription: and judgement was given for them.

For proofe of Vsage.

1. By ancient Ordinances. 2. By punishment of offenders.

THe Lord Maior and Aldermen have (time out of minde) made Ordinances,Times & manner of fishing. concerning the good governement of the River of Thames, for the times and manners of Fishing beneath London Bridge Eastward, to be observed upon paines. And it appeareth, (that from time to time) from the time of King Hen. 3. and so downeward,Removing of all unlawfull Engines for fishing. the Lord Maior hath removed Kiddels, Weares, Trinkes, and other unlawfull Engines, and hath reformed the disorders of such as have offended in the River of Thames; Punishment of offenders. and punished offenders, sometimes by imprisonment, sometimes by Fine, and by burning of their unlawfull Nets.

3. By Writs and Precepts.

9. H. 5. Precepts under the Teste of the Lord Maior,Precept for the recurning of Iuries. to the Shiriffes of Kent and Essex, for the returning of Juries before the Lord Maior, to enquire of offences done in the River of Thames.

4. By Accompts.

In the accompts of the Chamberlaine of London, Accompts of the Chamberlaine of London. from 17. of R. 2. to 11. of Eliz. Reginae, it appeareth, that the Water-Bailiffe of London hath made search for unlawfull Nets, in the waters of Thames and Medway.

5. By Commissions.

9. H. 5. Commission to the Lord Maior,Commission for execution of Acts of Parliament. to put in execution the Acts of Parliament, made for the conservacie of Thames and Medway; and to enquire of all offences made or done in the said waters, and to punish the delinquents for the same.

[Page]A like Commission 3. H. 6.

A like Commission 1. Eliz.

A like Commission 1. Iacobi.

And all these, or the like Commissions in this case, were and are directed to the Lord Maior for the time being.

6. By continuall claime.

37. H. 8. Letters from the Lord Admirall, A stay moved for matters in question, by letters from my Lord Admirall. for stay of such matters as were then in question, betweene his Lordship and the Citie, concerning the Jurisdiction of this Citie upon the Thames.

3. Edw. 6. Order, that the Chamberlaine should take care,An order for stay of Inquests. for stay of certaine Inquests, charged by vertue of a Commission, directed to the Lord Admirall, to enquire of abuses used in fishing beneath the Bridge.

4. Edw. 6. Master Common Serjeant, The Cities authority to pull downe weares in the River. appointed to repaire to the Duke of Somerset, and to informe his Lordship of the Cities authority, in pulling downe Weares within the River of Thames.

6. Edw. 6. Order, that suit should be made to the Kings Majesty and his Councell,Determination of the Cities jurisdictiō. for the determination and allowance of the Cities Jurisdiction and interest in the River of Thames.

1. Mariae Reginae, A great number of the Fishermen of the East side of London, present in the Court of the Lord Maior and Aldermen,Obediēce commanded to the Water-Bayliffe. were commanded to obey the Water-Bayliffe: And that one Hunter of the Admiraltie, should be warned to be before the Lord Maior and Aldermen, at the next Court to be holden for the same matter.

1. Eliz. Reginae, Committees appointed about the controversie. Certaine Committees appointed to conferre with the L. Admirall, touching the controversie betweene his Honour and the Citie, concerning the conservacie of the River of Thames.

3. Eliz. Committees for the jurisdiction of the River. Certaine Committees appointed to attend the Lord Admirall, concerning the Jurisdiction of the River of Thames.

7. Eliz. For the same cause. The Lord Admirall to bee conferred with, touching the Cities Jurisdiction in the River of Thames.

8. Eliz. The Cities right to the conservacy. L. Admirall to be conferred with, touching the Cities right to the conservacy of the River of Thames.

13. Eliz. L. Admirall to be moved, that the Citie may enjoy their liberties in Thames and Medway. The Cities liberty in the River.

17. Eliz. The Cities title Eastward. Aldermen and others, to conferre with the Lord Admirall, for the Cities title in the River eastward.

23. Eliz. The Conservacy below the Bridge. Mr. Norton and others appointed to attend on the Lord Treasurer of England, and to informe his Lordship touching the Cities title to the conservacie of the River of Thames below London Bridge.

23. Eliz. Sessions appointed for the conservancie of the River of Thames, Sessions for the conservacy Eastward. the ninth of October at Barking in Essex, and on Wednesday following, to be kept at Woolwith in Kent.

24. Eliz. Aldermen about the cōservacy. Certaine Aldermen appointed to treat with the Lord Admirall, touching the conservacy.

29. Aldermen appointed to the L. Admirall,Aldermen againe appointed about the Cities right. and to informe his Lordship touching the Cities right to the conservacie of the River of Thames, from London Bridge, to Yenland and the Reculvers.

In the Letters Patents,The kings letters patents to the City. granted by King Iames of happy memory, in the 3. yeere of his reigne; the Cities title to the conservacie of the River of Thames and the waters of Medway, is recited and set downe at large. And therein mention is made, that the Citie hath beene interrupted in the said office, and a doubt conceived, that the same did not belong to his Highnesse Citie of London. His Majestie therefore (of his especiall grace and favour to the Citie of London) Ad omnem controversiam in hac parte temporibus tam praesentibus quàm futuris tollendam, ac omne dubium amovendum: did by those his Letters Patents, grant, ratifie and confirme to the Citie of London, the conservacie of the said River of Thames, and waters of Medway.

So much concerning the Right and Vsage.

Now,Concerning the extent of the word cōservacy. de re ipsa. This word Conservancie, doth extend it selfe to the preservation of the streame, and the banks of the River; as also the Fish and Frie within the same. For by the Lawes of the Land, all navigable Rivers are the high streames of the King,Navigable Rivers are as Via Regia. for the passage of Ships, Boats, &c. As the highway is Via Regia, for the people to passe [Page] by. And if the bankes be not kept from decaying and incroachment: it will not only be an annoyance to the River it selfe, by diverting the water, and hindring the Navigation; but will also annoy the grounds next adjoyning to the same.Due seasons for taking fish And if the Fish be taken at undue seasons, and the Frie not kept and preserved, the fishing will be soone destroyed.

And first touching the streame:Enquirie for the streame, Weares, Kidels, Engines, &c. in the Rivers for hindring passage. you are to enquire whether any person or persons have erected any Weares, Kiddels, or Engines, or knocked any Posts, Piles, or Stakes within the Rivers, or any part thereof, which may (in any sort) hinder the streame, or the navigation, or passage of any Ships, Barges, Boats, or vessels within the same. And whether any have cast any soyle, dust or rubbish, or other filth whatsoever, into the same. You are to present the persons, times, and places, touching the committing of every such offence.

Secondly, you are to enquire of all encroachments upon the River, and the bankes of the same:For encrochmēts on the River and bankes. and of all Bridges, Flood-gates, Mill-dammes, and such like annoyances, erected and builded upon, or neere to the bankes of the same River; and where, and by whom, and when the same were done.

Thirdly,For fishing at undue seasons, & with unlawfull nets, &c. for the preservation of the Fish and Frie within the River, you are to enquire, whether any Fishermen, or others, have fished at any undue or prohibited seasons, or with any unlawfull and prohibited Nets, or Engines: and when, where, and by whom every such offence was committed.

Thus much for a generall direction. But for your more particular instruction, and for the ease of your memories, here are certain printed Articles,Articles for more particular instructiō. which you shall have with you; to every one of which you shall give a particular answer.

The like charge was given by the said Master Common Serjeant, on the next day following, at Lee, in the County of Essex; and the like Sessions kept there for the same purpose.

The Towne-ditch without the Wall of the CITIE.

THe Ditch, which partly now remaineth,Lib. Dunstable. and compassed the wall of the Citie, Ditch about London 200. foot broad Lib. Trin. was begun to be made by the Londoners, in the yeere 1211. and finished 1213. the 15. of K. Iohn: this ditch being then made of 200. foot broad, caused no small hindrance to the Canons of the holy Trinitie, whose Church stood neere Ealdgate, for that the said ditch passed through their ground from the Tower unto Bishopsgate. This Ditch being originally made for the defence of the Citie, was also long time together carefully cleansed and maintained, as need required: but now of late neglected, and forced eyther to a very narrow, and the same a filthy channell, or altogether stopped up, for Gardens planted, & houses builded thereon, even to the Wall, and in many places upon both Ditch & Wall, houses are builded, to what danger of the Citie, I leave to wiser consideration than mine owne: and can but wish that reformation might be had.

In the yeere of Christ 1354. 28. Ed. 3. the ditch of this Citie flowing over the banke into the Tower ditch,Ditch of the Citie overflowed the banke, into the Tower Ditch. the King commanded the said ditch of the Citie to be cleansed and so ordered, that the overflowing thereof, should not force any filth into the Tower ditch.

Ann. 1379. Iohn Philpot, Maior of London, caused this ditch to be clensed, and every houshold to pay 5. d. which was for a dayes worke toward the charges therof. R. 2. in the 10. of his reigne, granted a Toll to be taken of wares sold by water or by land for 10. yeeres, towards repairing the wall, & clensing the ditch.

Thomas Fawconer Maior, 1414. caused the ditch to be clensed.

Ralph Ioseline Maior, 1477. caused the whole ditch to be cleansed, and so from time to time it was cleansed and otherwise reformed: namely, in 1519. the 10 of Hen. 8. for clensing and scowring the [Page] ditch, betweene Ealdgate and the Posterne next the Tower ditch: the chiefe ditcher had by the day 7. pence, the second ditcher 6. pence, the other ditchers, 5. pence. And every vagabond (for so were they then termed) one penny the day, meat and drink, at the charges of the Citie.

Sum. 95. l. 3. s. 4. d.

In my remembrance also the same was cleansed, namely the Moore ditch, when Sir William Hollies was Maior, in the yeere 1540. and not long before, from the Tower of London to Ealdgate.

It was againe cleansed in the yeere 1549. Henry Ameotes being Maior, at the charges of the Companies. And againe 1569. the 11. of Q. Eliz. for cleansing the same Ditch, betweene Ealdgate and the Posterne, and making a new Sewere, and Wharfe of Timber, from the head of the Posterne into the towne ditch, 814. l. 15. s. 8. d. Before the which time, the said ditch lay open, without wall or pall, having therein great store of very good fish,Plenty of good fish in the Towne ditch. of divers sorts, as many men yet living, who have taken and tasted them, can well witnes: but now no such matter, the charge of cleansing is spared, and great profit made by letting out the bankes, with the spoile of the whole ditch.

I am not ignorant of two Fifteenes granted by a common Councell, in the yeere 1595. for the reformation of this ditch, and that a small portion thereof, to wit, betweene Bishopsgate and the Posterne called Mooregate, was cleansed, and made somewhat broader than it was before: but filling againe very fast, by reason of over-raising the ground neere adjoyning, therefore never the better: and I will so leave it, for I cannot helpe it.

Bridge of this Citie.

THe originall foundation of London bridge, London Bridge first of [...]imber. by report of Bartholomew Linsted, alias Fowle, last Prior of Saint Mary Overees Church in Southwarke, A Ferry over the Thames betweene London Bridge & Southwark. was this: A Ferry being kept in the place where now the Bridge is builded, at length the Ferry-man and his wife deceasing, left the same Ferry to their onely Daughter, a Maiden, named Mary, which with the goods left her by her parents, as also with the profits rising of the said Ferry, builded an House of Sisters, in place where now standeth the East part of Saint Mary Overees Church, above the Queere, where shee was buried, unto which house shee gave the oversight and profits of the Ferry. But afterward, the said House of Sisters being converted into a Colledge of Priests, the Priests builded the Bridge of Timber, as all other the great Bridges of this Land were, and from time to time kept the same in good reparations; till at length, considering the great charges which were bestowed in the repairing the same, there was (by ayd of the Citizens and others) a Bridge builded with stone, as shall be shewed.

But first of the Timber Bridge,W. Malmes. the Antiquity thereof being great, but uncertaine: I remember to have read, that in the yeere of Christ 994. Sweyn King of Denmarke besieging the Citie of London, both by water and by land, the Citizens manfully defended themselves, and their King Ethelred, so as part of their enemies were slaine in battaile, and part of them were drowned in the River of Thames, because in their hastie rage they tooke no heed of the Bridge.

Moreover, in the yeere 1016. Can [...] tus the Dane, with a great Navie came up to London, and on the South of the Thames, caused a Trench to bee cast, through the which his Ships were towed into the west side on the Bridge, and then, with a deepe Trench and straight siege he compassed the City about.

Also 1052. E. Goodwin, with the like Navy, taking his course up the River of Thames, and finding no resistance on the Bridge, he sailed up the South side. Further, 1067. Will. Conq. in his Charter to the Church of Saint Peter at [Page] Westminster, confirmed to the Monkes, serving God there, a Gate in London, then called Buttolphs Gate, with a Wharfe, which was at the head of London Bridge.

We read likewise, that in the yeere 1114. the 14. of Henry the first, the River of Thames was so dryed up, and such want of Water there, that betweene the Tower of London & the Bridge, and under the Bridge,Men went dry-shod under London bridge. not only with horse, but also a great number of men, women and children did wade over on foot.

In the yeere 1122. the 22. of Hen. 1. Thomas Arden gave to the Monkes of Bermondsey, Lib. Bermond. the Church of S. George in Southwarke, and five shillings rent by the yeere, out of the Land pertaining to London Bridge.

I have also seene a Charter under seale, to the effect following:

Henry King of England, Henry 1. to Ralfe Bishop of Chichester, and all the Ministers of Sussex, sendeth greeting. Know ye, &c. I command by my Kingly authority, that the Mannor called Alceston, which my Father gave, with other Lands, to the Abbey of Battle, be free and quiet from Shires and Hundreds, and all other Customes of earthly servitude, as my Father held the same, most freely and quietly; and namely, from the worke of London bridge, and the worke of the Castle at Pevensey: and this I command upon my forfeiture. Witnesse William de Pontlearche at Berry.

The which Charter, with the seale very faire, remaineth in the custody of Ioseph Holland, Gent.

In the yeere 1136 the first of King Stephen, Lib. Berm. a fire began in the house of one Ailewarde, Lib. Trin. neere unto London stone, which consumed East to Ealdgate, and West to S. Erkenwalds shrine in Pauls Church:London Bridge brent. the Bridge of Timber over the River of Thames was also burnt, &c. but afterwards againe repaired. For Fitz stephen writeth, that in the Reigne of King Stephen, and of Henry the 2. when pastimes were shewed on the River of Thames, men stood in great number on the Bridge, Wharfes, and Houses, to behold.

Now in the yeere 1163. the same Bridge was not onely repayred but new made of timber,London Bridge of Timber new built. as before, by Peter Cole-church, Priest and Chaplaine.

Thus much for the old timber-bridge, maintained partly by the proper Lands thereof, partly by the liberality of divers persons, and partly by taxations in divers Shires, as I have proved for the space of 215. yeeres, before the Bridge of stone was built.

Now touching the foundation of the stone Bridge,London Bridge of stone founded. it followeth: About the yeere 1176. the stone Bridge over the River of Thames at London, was begun to be founded by the foresaid Peter of Cole-Church, neere unto the Bridge of Timber, but somewhat more towards the West: for I reade, that Buttolph-Wharfe was in the Conquerours time at the head of London Bridge.Lib. Waverley. The King assisted this worke: A Cardinall then being Legate here, and Richard Archbish. of Cant. gave one thousand marks towards the foundation. The course of the River (for the time) was turned another way about by a Trench, cast for that purpose; beginning (as is supposed) east about Radriffe, and ending in the west about Patricksey, now termed Battersey. This worke, to wit, the Arches, Chappell, and stone Bridge over the Thames at London, London Bridge 33. yeeres in building. having been 33. yeers in building, was in the yeere 1209. finished by the worthy Merchants of London, Serle Mercer, William Almaine, and Benedict Botewrite, principall masters of that worke: for Peter Cole-Church deceased foure yeeres before, and was buried in the Chappell on the Bridge, in the yeere 1205.

King Iohn gave certaine void places in London to build on, the profits thereof to remaine towards the charges of building and repayring of the same Bridge. A Mason, being Master-workman of the Bridge, builded (from the foundation) the large Chappell on that Bridge,Chappell on the Bridge, on the East side. of his owne charges; which Chappell was then endowed for two Priests, foure Clarkes, &c. besides Chanteries; since founded by Iohn Hatfield, and others. After the finishing of this Chappell, which was the first building upon those Arches, sundry houses (at times) were erected, and many charitable men gave lands,Gifts givē to London Bridge, in a table noted for posterity. tenements, or summes of money towards the maintenance thereof; all which was sometimes noted, and in a Table faire written for posterity: [Page] remaining in the Chappell, till the same Chappell was turned to a dwelling house, and then removed to the Bridge-house. The effect of which Table I was willing to have published, in this Booke, if I could have obtained the sight thereof: but making the shorter worke, I finde by the accompt of William Mariner and Christopher Eliot, Wardens of London Bridge, from Michaelmas the 22. of Hen. 7. untill Michaelmas next ensuing, by one whole yeere, that all the payments and allowance came to 815. l. 17. s. 2. d. ob. as there is shewed by particulars: by which accompt then made, may be partly ghessed the great charges and discharges of that Bridge at this day, when things bee stretched to so great a price. And now to actions on this Bridge.

The first action to be noted, was lamentable: Actions on London Bridge to be noted. for within foure yeeres after the finishing thereof, to wit, in the yeere 1212. on the 10. of Iuly at night, the Borrought of Southwarke, upon the South side of the River of Thames, as also the Church of our Lady of the Canons there, being on fire, and an exceeding great multitude of people passing the Bridge, either to extinguish and quench it, or else to gaze and behold it; suddenly the North part,Liber Dunmew. by blowing of the South wind, was also set on fire, and the people which were even now passing the Bridge,Gua [...]t. Covent. perceiving the same,W. Packētō. would have returned,London Bridge perished by fire. but were stopped by the fire; and it came to passe, that as they stayed or protracted the time, the other end of the Bridge also, namely, the South end, was fired; so that the people thronging themselves betweene the two fires, did nothing else but expect present death. Then there came to aide them many ships and vessels, into which the multitude so unadvisedly rushed, that the ships being thereby drowned, they all perished. It was said, that through the fire and shipwracke, there were destroyed above three thousand persons, whose bodies were found in part, or halfe burned, besides those that were wholly burnt to ashes, and could not be found.Five arches of London Bridge borne downe.

About the yeere one thousand two hundred eighty two, through a great frost and deepe snow, five Arches of London Bridge were borne downe, and carried away.

In the yeere 1289. the Bridge was so sore decayed for want of reparations,Patent the 14. of Edw. the 2. that men were afraid to passe thereon, and a Subsidy was granted towards the amendment thereof, Sir Iohn Britaine being Custos of London, 1381. a great collection or gathering was made, of all Archbishops, Bishops, and other Ecclesiasticall persons, for the reparations of London Bridge.

In Anno 1381. Wat Tyler, and other Rebels of Kent, by this Bridge entred the Citie, as yee may reade in my Summary and Annales.

In the yeere 1395. on S. Georges day, was a great Justing on London Bridge, betwixt David Earle of Craford of Scotland, and the Lord Wels of England: In the which, the Lord Wels was at the third course borne out of the Saddle: Which History proveth, that at that time the Bridge (being coaped on eyther side) was not replenished with houses builded thereupon, as since it hath beene, and now is.

The next yeere,Nine persons crowded to death on London Bridge. on the 30. of November, the yong Queene Isabel, commonly called the little, (for she was but 8. yeeres old) was conveyed from Kennington, beside Lambeth, through Southwarke, to the Tower of London; and such a multitude of people went out to see her, that on London Bridge nine persons were crowded to death, of whom the Prior of Tiptre, a place in Essex, was one, and a Matron on Cornehill, was another.

The Tower on London Bridge, at the North end of the draw-bridge,Tower on London Bridge builded. (for that bridge was then readily to bee drawne up, as well to give passage for ships to Queenehith, as for the resistance of any forreigne force) was begun to be builded in the yeere 1426. Iohn Rainwell being Maior.

Another Tower there is on the said Bridge, over the Gate at the South end towards Southwarke, whereof in another place shall be spoken.

In the yeere 1450. Iacke Cade, Iacke Cade entred the Citie by the Bridge and other Rebels of Kent, by this Bridge entred the Citie, hee strake his sword on London stone, and said himselfe then to be Lord of the Citie; but they were by the Citizens overcome on the same [Page] Bridge, and put to flight, as in my Annales.

In the yeere 1471. Thomas the Bastard Fawconbridge besieged this Bridge,Bastard Fawconbridge besieged the Bridge. burned the Gate, and all the Houses to the draw-bridge, being at that time 13 in number.

In the yeere 1481. an house,An house of the Bridge fell downe. called The common siege, on London Bridge, fell downe into the Thames: through the fall whereof five men were drawned.

In the yeere 1553. the third of February, Sir Thomas Wyat lay in Southwarke at the Bridge foot. Sir Thomas Wyat and the Kentish men, marched from Depeford towards London, after knowledge whereof, forthwith the draw-bridge was cut downe and the Bridge gates shut.The drawbridge cùt downe. Wyat and his people entred Southwarke, where they lay till the 6. of Feb. but could get no entry of the Citie by the Bridge, the same was then so well defended by the Citizens, the Lord W. Howard assisting: wherefore bee removed towards Kingstone, &c. as in my Annales.

To conclude, of this Bridge over the said River of Thames, The bridge described. I affirme, as in other my descriptions, That it is a worke very rare, having with the draw-bridge 20. arches, made of square stone, of height 60. foot, and in bredth 30. foot, distant one from another 20. foot, compact and joyned together with vaults and cellars; upon both sides be houses builded, so that it seemeth rather a continuall street than a bridge: for the fortifying whereof, against the incessant assaults of the River, it hath overseers and officers, (viz.) Wardens, as aforesaid, and others.

Fleet-bridge in the west,Fleet bridge. without Ludgate, a bridge of stone, faire coaped on either side with iron pikes, on the which towards the South, bee also certaine Lanthornes of stone, for lights to be placed in Winter evenings, for commodity of travellers. Vnder this Birdge runs a water, sometimes called (as I have said) the River of the Wels; since, Turnemill brooke; now, Fleet Dike, because it runneth by the Fleet, and sometime about the Fleet, so under Fleet-bridge into the River of Thames.

This Bridge hath beene farre greater in times past; but lessened, as the water-course hath beene narrowed.

It seemeth, this last Bridge to bee made or repaired at the charges of Iohn Wels Maior, in the yeere 1431: for on the coping is ingraved, Wels imbraced by Angels, like as on the Standard in Cheape, which hee also builded. Thus much of the Bridge: for of the watercourse and decay thereof, I have spoken in another place.

Oldborne-bridge, Oldborne bridge. over the said River of Wels more towards the North, was so called, of a Boorne that sometimes randowne Oldborne Hill, into the said River: This bridge of stone, like as Fleet-bridge, from Ludgate west, serveth for passengers, with carriage or otherwise, from Newgate toward the West and by North.

Cowbridge, more North over the same water,Cowbridge. by Cowbridge street, or Cow-lane: this bridge being lately decayed, another of timber is made somewhat more North, by Chicklane, &c.

Bridges over the Towne-ditch, there are divers:Bridges over the TowneDitch. to wit, without Ealdgate, without Bishopsgate, the Posterne called Mooregate, the Posterne of Creplegate, without Aldersgate, the Posterne of Christs Hospitall, Newgate and Ludgate: all these be over-paved levell with the streets. But one other there is of Timber, over the River of Wels, or Fleet dike, betweene the precinct of the Blacke Friers, and the House of Bridewell.

There have beene of old time also,Bridges over the course of Walbrooke. divers bridges in sundry places over the course of Walbrooke, as before I have partly noted; besides Horshooe bridge, by the Church of S. Iohn Baptist, Horshooe bridge. now called S. Iohns upon Walbrooke. I reade that of old time, every person having Lands on either side of the said brooke, should cleanse the same, and mend and repaire the bridges so far as their Lands extended.

More, in the eleventh of Edward the third, the inhabitants upon the course of this brooke, were forced to pile and wall the sides thereof.

Also, that in the third of Henry the fifth, this water-course had many bridges,Walbrooke vaulted over, and paved with stone since vaulted over with bricke, and the streets where-through it passed, so paved, that the same water-course is now hardly discerned. For order was taken in the second of Edw. the fourth, [Page] that such persons as had any ground lying on eyther side of the River of Walbrooke, should vault and pave it over, so farre as his ground extended. And thus much for Bridges in this Citie may suffice.

Gates in the Wall of this Citie.

GAtes in the Wall of this Citie of old time, were foure:Gates of London, 4. East, West, North, & South. to wit, Ealdgate, for the East, Aldersgate for the North, Ludgate for the West, and the Bridgegate over the River of Thames for the South; but of later times, for the ease of Citizens and passengers, divers other Gates and Posternes have beene made, as shall be shewed.

In the reigne of Henry the second (saith Fitzstephen) there were seven double gates in the wall of this City, Seven double gates in the wall of this Citie. but he nameth them not. It may therefore bee supposed, hee meant for the first, the Gate next the Tower of London, now commonly called, the Posterne: the next, to be Ealdgate; the third, Bishopsgate; the fourth, Aldersgate; the fist, Newgate; the sixth, Ludgate; the seventh, Bridgegate. Other gates builded beside.

Since the which time hath been builded the Posterne called Mooregate, a Posterne from Christs Hospitall towards S. Bartholomewes Hospitall, &c. Now of every of these Gates, and Posternes in the Wall, and also of certaine watergates over the River of Thames, severally somewhat may, and shall be noted, as I finde authority, or reasonable conjecture to warrant me.

The first Gate Eastward.

FOr the first,Posterne by the Tower. now called the Posterne by the Tower of London, it sheweth by that part which yet remaineth, to have beene a faire and strong arched Gate, partly builded of hard stone of Kent, and partly of stone brought from Cane in Normandy, since the Conquest, and foundation of the high Tower, and served for passengers on foot out of the East, from thence through the Citie to Ludgate in the West. The ruine and overthrow of this Gate and Posterne began in the yeere 1190. the second of Richard the first, when William Longshampe, Bishop of Ely, Chancelour S. England, caused a part of the Citie Wall; to wit, from the said Gate towards the River of Thames, to the white Tower, to be broken downe,Wall embattelled about the Tower of London. for the enlarging of the said Tower, which he then incompassed farre wide about with a Wall embattelled, and is now the outer Wall.Ditch about the Tower. He also caused a broad and deepe ditch to be made without the same Wall, intending, to have derived the River of Thames with her Tides, to have flowed about it, which would not be. But the South side of this Gate, being then by undermining at the foundation loosed, and greatly weakned; at length, to wit, after 200. yeeres and odde,Posterne sell downe. the same fell downe, in the yeere 1440. the 18. of Henrie the sixth, and was never since by the Citizens re-edified. Such was their negligence then, which hath bred some trouble to their successors; since, they suffered a weake and woodden building to bee there made, inhabited by persons of lewd life, often by inquest of Portsoken Ward presented, but not reformed: whereas in former times, the said Posterne was accounted of, as other Gates of the Citie, and was appointed to men of good credit. Amongst other, I have read, that in 49. Ed. 3. Iohn Cobbe was admitted Custos of the said Postern, and all the habitation thereof, for terme of his life, by W. Walworth, then Maior of London, 1374. being the first time of his Maioralty; for he was L. Maior againe in An. 1380. More, that Iohn Credy Esquire, in the 21. of Rich. 2. was admitted Custos of the said Posterne and appurtenances, by R. Whittington, Maior, the Aldermen and Communalty, &c.

Ealdgate.

THe next Gate in the East,Ealdgate. is called Ealdgate, of the antiquity or age thereof. This is one, and the first of the foure principall Gates, [Page] and also one of the seven double Gates, mentioned by Fitzstephen. It hath had two paire of Gates, though now but one, the hookes of them both remaine.

Also there hath beene two Portcloses, the one of them remained till the new building of the Gate, the other wanteth, and the place of letting downe was manifest. For Antiquity of the Gate, it appeareth by a Charter of King Edgar, Lib. Trinit. to the Knights of Knighton Guild, that in his dayes, the said Port was called Ealdgate, as ye may read in the Ward of Portsoken. Also Matild the Queene, wife to Henrie the first, having founded the Priorie of the Holy Trinity within Ealdgate, gave to the same Church, to Norman, the first Prior, and the Canons that devoutly served God there in the Port of Ealdgate, Soke or Court. the Soke or Franches thereunto belonging, with all customes, as free as shee held the same. In the which Charter, she nameth the House Christs Church, and reporteth Ealdgate to be of its demaine.

More,Mat. Paris. I read in the yeere 1215. that in the civill Warres betweene King Iohn and his Barons, the Londoners assisting the Barons faction, who then besieged Northampton, and after came to Redford Castle, where they were well received by William Beauchampe, and Captane of the same: having then also secret intelligence, that they might enter the Citie of London, if they would; they removed their Campe to Ware, from whence in the night comming to London, they entred Ealdgate, and placing guardians or keepers of the Gates, they disposed of all things in the Citie at their pleasure.

They spoiled the Friers houses,Radul. co [...]sh. and searched their coffers: which being done, Robert Fitzwater, Ieffrey Magnavile, Earle of Essex, and the Earle of Glocester, chiefe Leaders of the Armie, applyed all diligence to repaire the Gates and Walles of this Citie, with the stones taken from the Iewes broken houses; namely Ealdgate, being then most ruinous, (which had given them an easie entire) they repaired,Ealdgate new builded. or rather newly builded, after the manner of the Normans, strengly arched, with bulwarkes of stone, brought from Cane in Normandy, and small Bricke, called Flanders tile, was brought from thence, such as hath beene here used since the Conquest, and not before.

In the yeere 1471. the 11. of Edward the 4. Thomas the Bastard Fawconbridge, W. Dunthorne. having assembled a riotous companie of Shipmen and other,Thomas L. Fawconbridge set upon Ealdgate. in Essex and Kent, came to London with a great Navie of Ships, neere to the Tower: whereupon the Maior and Aldermen, by consent of a common Councell, fortified all along the Thames side, from Bainards Castle to the Tower, with armed men, Gunnes, and other instruments of war, to resist the invasion of the Mariners, whereby the Thames side was safely preserved and kept, by the Aldermen and other Citizens, that assembled thither in great numbers. Whereupon the Rebels being denyed passage thorow the Citie that way, set upon Ealdgate, Bishopsgate, Creplegate, Aldersgate, London bridge, and along the River of Thames; shooting arrowes and gunnes into the Citie,Suburbs burnt. fired the Suburbs, and burned more than threescore houses. And further, on Sunday the eleventh of May, five thousand of them assaulting Ealdgate, wanne the Bulwarkes,Rebels wanne the Bulwarks of Ealdgate. and entred the Citie; but the Portclose being let downe, such as had entred, were slaine: and Robert Basset, Alderman of Ealdgate Ward, with the Recorder, commanded in the Name of God to draw up the Portclose: which being done, they issued out, and with sharpe shot and fierce fight, put their enemies backe so farre as Saint Buttolphus Church; by which time the Earle Rivers, and the Lieutenant of the Tower,Lieutenāt of the Tower assisted the Citizens against the Rebels. was come with a fresh companie; which joyning together, discomfited the Rebels, and put them to flight; whom the aforesaid Robert Basset, with other Citizens, chased unto the Miles end, and from thence, some to Popular, some to Stratford; flew many, and tooke many of them prisoners. In the meane while, the Bastard having assaied other places upon the Water side, and little prevailing, fledde towards his Ships. Thus much for Ealdgate, as it was, and continued in those elder dayes: But the new building thereof remaineth till I come to speake of the Ward wherein the same Gate is situated.

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Bishopsgate.

THe third and next Gate toward the North,Bishopsgate. is called Bishopsgate: for that (as it may be supposed) the same was first builded by some Bishop of London; though now unknown, when, or by whom: but true it is, that this Gate was first builded for the case of passengers toward the East, and by North; as into Norfolke, Suffolke, Cambridge-shire, &c. The travellers into which parts (before the building of this Gate) were forced (passing out at Eald-gate) to goe East till they came unto the Miles end, and then turned on the left hand to Blethenhall-greene, to Cambridge-heath, and so North, or East and by North, as their journies lay. If they tooke not this way,A further way winding about. by the East out at Ealdgate, they must then take their way by the North out at Aldersgate, through Aldersgatestreet, and Goswellstreet, towards Iseldon, and by a crosse of stone on their right hand, set up for a marke by the North end of Golding-lane, to turne eastward through a long street, unto this day called Alderstreet, to another crosse then there standing, where now a Smiths forge is placed, by Sewers ditch Church; and then to turne againe North towards Totenham, Enfield, Waltham, Ware, &c.

The eldest note that I read of this Bishopsgate, is, that Wiliam Blund one of the Shiriffes of London, in the yere 1210 sold to Serle Mercer, & william Almaine, Procurators or Wardens of London Bridge,Lib. Trim. all his Land, with the Garden, in the Parish of Saint Buttolph without Bishopsgate, between the Land of Richard Casiarin, towards the North, and the Land of Robert Crispie towards the South, and the high-way called Bearewards lane on the East, &c.

Next,Charter. I read in a Charter, dated the yeere 1235. that Walter Brune, Citizen of London, and Rosia his Wife, having founded the Priorie or new Hospitall of our blessed Lady, since called S. Mary Spittle, Bishopsgate street without. without Bishopsgate, confirmed the same to the honour of God and our blessed Lady, for Canons regular.

Also in the yeere 1247. Simeon FitzMary, Record. one of the Shiriffes of London, in the 29. of Henrie the third, founded the Hospitall of S. Mary called Bethlem, without Bishopsgate. Thus much for antiquity of this Gate.

And now for repairing the same:Reparations of Bishopsgate. I finde, that Henry the 3. confirmed to the Merchants of the Haunce▪ that had a house in the Citie, called Gi [...]alla Theutonicorum, certaine Liberties and Priviledges: Edward the first also confirmed the same; in the tenth yeere of whose reigne it was found, that the said Merchants ought of right to repaire the said Gate, called Bishopsgate.

Whereupon Gerard Marbod, Bishopsgate repaired by the merchants of the Haunce. Alderman of the Haunce, and other, then remaining in the Citie of London, for themselves and all others, Merchants of the said Haunce, granted 210. markes sterling to the Maior and Citizens: and covenanted, that they and their successors should (from time to time) repaire the same Gate.Bishopsgate new builded. This Gate was againe beautifully builded in the yeere 1479. in the reigne of Edward the fourth, by the said Hannce Merchants.

Moreover,Bishopsgate provided to have been new builded. in the yeere 1551. These Haunce Merchants, having prepared stone for that purpose, caused a new Gate to be framed, there to have beene set up: but then their liberties, through suit of our English Merchants, wer seazed into the Kings hand, and so that worke was stayed, and the old Gate yet remaineth.

Posterne of Mooregate.

TOuching the next Posterne, called Mooregate, Posterne called Mooregate. I finde, that Thomas Falconer, Maior about the yeere 1415. the third of Henry the 5. caused the Wall of the Citie to be broken neere unto Colemanstreet, and there builded a Posterne now called Mooregate, upon the Mooreside, where was never Gate before. This Gate he made for ease of the Citizens, that way to passe upon Cawseys into the Field for their recreation:The Fiold a meere marish ground. for the same Field was (at that time) a Marish. This Posterne was re-edified by William Hampton, Fishmonger, Maior, in the yeere 1472. In the yeere also 1511. the third of Hen. 8. Roger Achely Maior, caused Dikes and Bridges to be made, and the ground to be levelled, and made more commodious for passage; since which time the [Page] same hath beene heightned so much, that the Dikes and Bridges are covered: and it seemeth to me, that if it be made levell with the Battlements of the City Wall, yet will it be little the dryer, such was then the moorish nature of that ground.

Posterne of Creplegate.

THe next is the Posterne of Creplegate, Posterne of Creplegate. so called long before the Conquest. For I reade in the History of Edmund, King of the East Angles, Abba Floriacensis. written by Abba Floriacensis, and by Burchard, Burchard. sometime Secretary to Offa, King of Mertia; but since then, by Iohn Lidgate, Monke of Bury, that in the yeere 1010. the Danes spoiling the Kingdome of the East Angles, Alwyne Bishop of Helmeham, caused the body of King Edmund the Martyr, to bee brought from Bedrisworth, (now called Bury S. Edmunds) through the Kingdome of East Saxons, and so to London, in at Creplegate. A place, saith mine Author, so called of Cripples begging there: and at which Gate, (it was said) the body entring, miracles were wrought, and some of the lame to goe upright, praising God. The body of King Edmund rested, for the space of three yeers, in the Parish Church of Saint Gregory, neere unto the Cathedrall Church of Saint Paul. Moreover, the Charter of William the Conquerour, confirming the foundation of the Colledge in London, Martin le grand. called Saint Martin the great, hath these words: I doe give and grant to the same Church, Liber S. Barlilmew. and Canons serving GOD therein, all the lands, and the Moore without the Posterne, which is called Creplegate, on either part of the Posterne. More I read, that Alfune builded the Parish Church of S. Giles, nigh a Gate of the Citie, called Porta contractorum, or Cripplesgate, about the yeere 1090.

This Posterne was sometime a Prison, Creplagate a prison for trespassers whereunto such Citizens and others, as were arrested for debt, or common trespasses, were committed, as they be now to the Compters. Which thing appeareth by a Writ of Edward the first in these words: Rex Vic. London salutem. Record. Ex gravi querela B. capt. & detent. in prisona nostra de Criplesgate pro x. l [...]. quas coram Radulpho de Sandwico, tunc Custod. Civitatis nostrae London, & I. de Blackwell Civis recognit. debit. &c.

This Gate was new builded by the Brewers of London, Creplegate new builded. in the yeere 1244. as saith Fabians Manuscript.

Edmund Shaw Goldsmith, Maior in the yeere one thousand foure hundred eighty three, at his decease, appointed by his Testament his Executors, with the cost of foure hundred Markes, and the stuffe of the old Gate, called Cripplesgate, to build the same Gate anew, which was performed and done in the yeere one thousand foure hundred ninety one.

Aldersgate.

THe next is Aeldersgate or Aldersgate, Aldersgate. so called, not of Aldrich, or of Elders, that is to say, ancient men, builders thereof; nor of Elderne trees, growing there more abundantly than in other places, as some have fabuled [...]but for the very antiquity of the Gate it selfe,In a booke called, Bew [...]re the C [...]t. as being one of the first foure Gates of the Citie, and serving for the Northerne parts, as Ealdgate for the East; which two Gates being both old Gates, are for difference sake called, the one Ealdgate, and the other Aldersgate. This is the fourth principall Gate, and hath at sundry times beene increased with buildings; namely, on the South side, or inner side, a great frame of Timber hath beene added and set up, containing divers large roomes and lodgings. Also on the East side, is the addition of one great building of Timber,A Well of great depth at Aldersgate. with one large floore, paved with stone, or tile, and a Well therein curbed with stone, of a great depth, and rising into the said Roome, two stories high from the ground: which well is the onely peculiar note belonging to that Gate; for I have not seene the like in all this Citie, to be raised so high. Iohn Day Stationer, a late famous Printer of many good Bookes, in our time dwelled in this Gate, and builded much upon the Wall of the Citie, towards the Parish Church of Saint Anne.

Concerning the late new building of this Gate, we shall speake more thereof, in the description of the Ward.

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Posterne out of Christs Hospitall.

THen there is also a Posterne gate made out of the Wall, [...] postern out of Christs Hospitall. on the North side of the late dissolved Cloister of Friers Minors, commonly of their habit called Gray Friers, now Christs Church and Hospitall.

This Posterne was made in the sixth yeere of Edward the sixth, to passe from the said Hospitall of Christs Church, unto the Hospitall of Saint Bartholomew in Smithfield: and licence was given to the Lord Maior and Aldermen, to breake downe so much of the Cities Wall as should suffice to make the same passage: by vertue of an Act of common Councell, made 1. Augusti, Anno 6. E. 6. in the Maioralty of Sir Richard Dobbes, Knight.

Newgate.

THe next Gate on the West and by North,Newgate. is termed Newgate, a latelier builded than the rest, & is the fifth principall Gate. This Gate was first erected about the reigne of Henry the first, or of King Stephen, upon this occasion. The Cathedrall Church of Saint Paul, Pauls Church in London new builded. being burnt about the yeere 1086. in the Reigne of William the Conqueror, Mauritius, then Bishop of London, repaired not the old Church, as some have supposed; but began the foundation of a new worke, such as men then judged would never have beene performed, it was to them so wonderfull for heighth, length, and breadth; as also in respect it was raised upon Arches or vaults, a kinde of workmanship brought in by the Normans, and never knowne to the Artificers of this Land before that time, &c. After Mauritius, Richard Beaumore did wonderfully advance the worke of the said Church, purchasing the large Streets and Lanes round about, wherein were wont to dwell many lay people; which grounds he beganne to compasse about with a strong wall of stone, and Gates.

By meanes of this increase of the Church territory, but more by inclosing of ground for so large a Coemitery, or Church-yard; the high and large Street, stretching from Ealdgate in the East, to Ludgate in the West, was in this place so crossed and stopped up, that the carriage through the City westward, was forced to passe without the said Churchyard wall on the North side, through Pater noster row, and then South down Ave Marie lane, and againe West through Bowyer row to Ludgate: or else out of Cheape, or Wathelingstreete, to turne South, through the old Change, then West through Carter lane, againe North up Creed lane, and then west to Ludgate. Which passage, by reason of so often turning, was very cumbersome and dangerous, both for horse and man. For remedy whereof, a new Gate was made,Newgate first builded, and the cause why. and so called, by which men and cattell, with all manner of carriages, might passe more directly (as before) from Ealdgate, through West Cheape by Pauls, on the North side, through S. Nicholas shambles and Newgate Market, to Newgate: and from thence to any part Westward over Oldborne-bridge, or turning without the Gate into Smithfield, and through Iseldon, to any part North and by West.

This Gate hath of long time beene a Gaole or Prison for Felons and Trespassers, as appeareth by Records in the reigne of King Iohn, and of other Kings: amongst the which, I finde one testifying, that in the yeere 1218. the third of King Henry the third,Close Roll. the King writeth unto the Shiriffes of London, Newgate a Gaole or prisonhouse. commanding them to repaire the Gaole of Newgate, The King repaired it for the safe keeping of his prisoners, promising that the charges laid out, should be allowed unto them upon their accompt in the Exchequer.

Moreover, in the yeere 1241. the Iewes of Norwich were hanged, for circumcising a Christian child, their house called the Thor, was pulled downe and destroyed. Aaron, the sonne of Abraham, a Iew, at London, and the other Iewes were constrained to pay twenty thousand Marks, at two Termes in the yeere, or else to be kept perpetuall prisoners in Newgate of London, and in other prisons.

1255. King Henry the third lodged in the Tower of London, upon displeasure conceived towards the Citie of London, for the escape of Iohn Offrem, a prisoner, being a Clarke convict, out of Newgate, which had killed a Prior that [Page] [...] [Page] [...] [Page] wa [...], of alliance to the King, as Cousin to the Queene: he sent for the Mayor and Sheriffes to come before him, to answer the matter. The Maior laid the fault from him to the Sheriffes, forasmuch as to them belonged the keeping of all prisoners within the Citie, and so the Maior returned home; but the Sheriffes remained there prisoners,The Sheriffes of London prisoners in the Tower, for escape of a prisosoner out of Newgate by the space of a moneth and more; and yet they excused themselves, in that the fault chiefly rested in the Bishops Officers: For whereas the prisoner was under custodie, they (at his request) had granted licence, to imprison the offender within the Gaole of Newgate; but so, as the Bishops Officers were charged to see him safely kept. The King notwithstanding all this, demanded of the Citie 3000. Marks for a fine.

In the yeere 1326. Robert Baldocke, The Kings Chancellour prisoner in Newgate. the Kings Chancelour, was put in Newgate the third of Edward the 3.

In the yeere 1237. Sir Iohn Poultney gave foure Markes by the yeere, to the reliefe of prisoners in Newgate.

In the yeere 1358. William Walworth gave somewhat, to relieve the prisoners in Newgate, so have many others since.

In the yeere 1414. the Gaolers of Newgate and Ludgate dyed, and prisoners in Newgate, to the number of 64.

In the yeere 1418. the Parson of Wortham in Kent was imprisoned in Newgate.

The yeere 1412. the first of Henry 6. licence was granted to Iohn Coventre, Ienken Carpenter, and William Grove, executors to Richard Whittington, to re-edifie the Gaole of Newgate, Newgate new builded. which they did with his goods.

Thomas Knowels, Grocer, sometimes Maior of London, by licence of Reynold, Prior of S. Bartholomews in Smithfield, and also of Iohn Wakering, Master of the Hospitall of S. Bartholomew, and his brethren, conveyed the waste of water, at the Cesterne neere unto the common. Fountaine,VVater conveyed to Newgate & Ludgate. and Chappell of S. Nicholas, (situate by the said Hospitall) to the Gaoles of Newgate and Ludgate, for the reliefe of the prisoners.

Tuesday next after Palme Sunday, 1431. all the prisoners of Ludgate were conveyed into Newgate, Prisoners of Ludgate removed to Newgate by Walter Chartsey and Robert Large, Sheriffes of London. And on the 13. April, the same Sheriffes (through the false suggestion of Iohn Kingesell, Gaoler of Newgate) did fetch from thence 18. persons, freemen, and these were led to the Compters pinioned, as if they had beene Felons. But on the 16. of Iune, Ludgate was againe appointed for freemen, prisoners for debt, and the same day, the said freemen entred by ordinance of the Maior, Aldermen and Commons, and by them Henry Deane Taylor, was made keeper of Ludgate.

In the yeere 1457. a great Fray was in the North Countrey, betweene Sir Thomas Percie, Lord Egremond, and the Earle of Salisburies Sonnes, whereby many were maymed and slaine: but in the end, the Lord Egremond being taken, was by the Kings Councell found in great default, and therefore condemned in great summes of money, to bee payed to the Earle of Salisbury, and in the meane time committed to Newgate. Not long after,L. Egremond and others, brake prison out of Newgate. Sir Thomas Percy Lord Egremond, and Sir Richard Percie his Brother, being in Newgate, brake out of Prison by night, and went to the King, the other prisoners tooke the Leads of the Gate, and defended it (a long while) against the Sheriffes and all their Officers, insomuch that they were forced to call more ayd of the Citizens, whereby at last they subdued them, and laid them in Irons. And this may suffice for Newgate.

Ludgate.

IN the West is the next; and sixth principall Gate,Ludgate. and is called Ludgate, at first builded (saith Geoffrey Monmouth) by King Lud, a Britaine, about the yeere before Christs Nativity, 66. Of which building, and also of the name, as Ludsgate or Fludsgate, hath bin of late some question among the learned, wherefore I overpasse it, as not to my purpose; onely referring the Reader to that I have before written out of Caesars Commentaries, Roger Windover. and other Romane Writers,Mat. Paris. concerning a Towne or Citie amongst the Britains. This Gate I suppose to be one of the most ancient; and as Ealdgate was builded for the East, so was this Ludsgate for the West. I read, as I told you, that in the yeere 1215. [Page] the 17. of King Iohn, the Barons of the Realme, being in Armes against the King, entred this Citie, and spoiled the Iewes Houses: which being done, Robert Fitzwater, and Geffrey de Magna villa, Earle of Essex, and the Earle of Glocester, chiefe leaders of the Armie, applyed all diligence to repaire the Gates and Wals of this Citie, with the stones of the Iewes broken houses; especially (as it seemeth) they then repaired (or rather new builded) Ludgate. Ludgate new built. For in the yeere 1586. when the same Gate was taken downe, to bee new builded, there was found couched within the wall thereof, a stone taken from one of the Iewes houses, wherein was graved in Hebrew Characters,Iewes houses spoiled. these words following: [...] Haec est statio Rabbi Moses, filij insignis Rabbi Isaac: which is to say, This is the Station or Ward of Rabbi Moses, the sonne of the Honourable Rabbi Isaac. And it had beene fixed upon the front of one of the Iewes houses, as a note or signe that such an one dwelled there.

In the yeere 1260. this Ludgate was repaired,Patent. and beautified with Images of Lud, and other Kings, as appeareth by Letters Patents of licence given to the Citizens of London, to take up stone for that purpose, dated the 25. of Henrie the third. These Images of Kings, in the reigne of Edward the sixth, had their heads smitten off, and were otherwise defaced, by such as judged every Image to be an Idoll; and in the reigne of Queene Mary were repaired, as by setting new heads on their old bodies, &c. All which so remained, untill the yeere 1586. the 28. of Queene Elizabeth, Iudgate againe new builded. when the same Gate (being fore decayed) was cleane taken downe, the prisoners in the meane time remaining in the large South-east quadrant of the same Gate adjoyning; and the same yeere, the whole Gate was newly and beautifully builded, with the Images of Lud and others (as afore) on the East side, and the picture of her Majesty, Queene Elizabeth, Ludgate inlarged in the reigne of Queen Elizabeth. on the West side. All which was done at the common charges of the Citizens, amounting to 1500. pounds, or more.

This gate was made a free Prison in the yeere 1378. the first of Richard the second,Ludgate a free prison. Nicholas Bremer being Maior. The same was confirmed in the yeere 1382. Iohn Northampton being Maior,Record Guildhall. by a Common Councell in the Guildhall: by which it was it was ordained, that all free-men of this Citie, should for debt, trespasses, accompts, and contempts, be imprisoned in Ludgate; and for Treasons, Felonies, and other criminall offences, committed to Newgate, &c.

In the yeere 1439. the tenth of King Henrie the 6. Iohn Wels being Maior, a Court of common Councell established ordinances, (as William Stanley and Robert Chicheley, late Maiors before had done) touching the Guard and government of Ludgate, and other Prisons.

Also in the yeere 1463. the third of Edward the fourth, Mathew Philip being Maior, in a common Councell, at the request of the wel-disposed,Memory of worthy wodan. blessed, and devout Woman, Dame Agnes Forster, Widdow, late wife to Stephen Forster, Fishmonger, sometime Maior, for the comfort and reliefe of all the poore prisoners,Articles for reliefe of the poore prisoners in Ludgate. certaine Articles were established. Imprimis, That the new workes, then lately edified by the same Dame Agnes, for the enlarging of the Prison of Ludgate, from thenceforth should be had and taken, as a part and parcell of the said Prison of Ludgate, so that both the old and new worke of Ludgate aforesaid, to be one Prison, Gaole, Keeping, and charge for evermore.

The said Quadrant,The lēgth, bredth, & largenesse of the quadrant. strongly builded of stone, by the forenamed Stephen Forster and Agnes his Wife, containing a large walking-place by ground, of 38. foot and an halfe in length, besides the thicknesse of the wals, which are at the least 6 foot, makes all together 44. foot and an halfe; the breadth within the wals is 29. foot and an halfe; so that the thicknes of the wals maketh it 35. foot and an halfe in breadth. The like roome it hath over it for lodgings, and over it againe faire Leads to walke upon, well embattelled, all for fresh ayre, and ease of prisoners, to the end they should have lodging and water free without charge; as by certaine Verses graven in Copper, and fixed on the said Quadrant, I have read,At Ludgate engraved on a Copper plate. in forme following:

Devout soules that passe this way,

[Page] For Stephen Forster, late Maior,

heartily pray,

And Dame Agnes his spouse,

to God consecrate,

That of pitty, this house made

for Londoners in Ludgate.

So that for lodging and water,

prisoners here nought pay,

As their keepers shall all answer

at dreadfull doomes-day.

This place, and one other of his Armes, being 3. broad Arrow-heads, taken downe with the old Gate, I caused to be fixed over the entry of the said Quadrant: but the verses being unhappily turned inward to the wall, procured the like in effect to be ingraven outward in prose, declaring him to bee a Fishmonger, because some, upon a light ocasion (as a Maydens head in a glasse window) had fabled him to be a Mercer, and to have begd there at Ludgate, &c. Thus much for Ludgate.

Next this,A breach in the Wall against Bridewell. there is a breach in the Wall of the Citie, and a Bridge of Timber over the Fleet-dike, betwixt Fleet-bridge and Thames, directly over against the house of Bridewell. Thus much for the Gates in the Wall.

Water-gates on the banks of the River Thames, Watergates. have beene many, which being purchased by private men, are also put to private use, and the old names of them forgotten. But of such as remaine, from the West, towards the East, may be said as followeth.

The Blacke Friers stayres,Black Friers. a free landing place.

Then a Water-gate at Puddle wharfe,Puddle wharfe. of one Puddle, that kept a wharfe on the West side thereof, and now of Puddle water, by meanes of many horses watered there.

Then Paules wharfe, also a free landing place with stayres,Paules wharfe. &c.

Then Broken wharfe,Broken wharfe. and other such like.

But Ripa Regina, Queen Hith the Queenes Banke, or Queene hithe, may well be accounted the very chiefe and principall Watergate of this Citie, being a common strand or landing place, yet equall with, and (of old time) farre exceeding Belinsgate, as shall be shewed in the Ward of Queene Hithe.

The next is Downgate, so called of the sudden descending, or downe going of that way, from Saint Iohns Church upon Walbroke unto the River of Thames, whereby the water in the Chanell there hath such a swift course, that in the yeere 1574. on the fourth of September after a strong showre of raine,A Lad of 18 yeeres old drowned in a Channell at Downegate. a Lad of the age of eighteene yeeres, minding to have leapt over the Channell, was taken by the feet, and borne downe with the violence of that narrow streame, and carried toward the Thames with such a violent swiftnesse, as no man could rescue or stay him, till hee came against a Cart-wheele, that stood in the Watergate, before which time, he was drowned and starke dead.

This was sometime a large water-gate frequented of ships, and other vessels, like as the Queenes Hithe, An inquisition concerning Dewnegate. and was a part thereof, as doth appeare by an inquisition, made in the 28. yeere of Henry the third, wherein was found, That aswell corne as fish, and all other things comming to the Port of Downgate, were to be ordered after the customes of the Queens Hith for the Kings use. Merchants of the Hanse, landed their corn betwixt their house and the Black Friers. As also, that the corne arriving betweene the gate of the Guildhall of the Merchants of Cullen: the (Stil-yard) which is East from Downegate, and the house then pertaining to the Archbishop of Canterbury, west from Bainards Castle; was to bee measured by the measure, and measurer of the Queenes Soke, or Queen Hithe. I read also, in the 19. of Edward the third, That customes were then to bee paid for ships and other vessels, resting at Downgate, as if they roade at Queene Hith, and as they now doe at Belinsgate. But now it is fallen to such great decay, that not onely there is no use made thereof, but also by reason that the Water-gates are not repaired, it is very dangerous to passengers travelling through in the night season. And thus much for Downegate may suffice.

The next was called Wolfes gate in the Ropary, Wolfes gate in the Ropary. in the Parish of Alhallowes the lesse, of later time called Wolfes lane, but now out of use: for the lower part was builded on by the Earle of Shrewsbury, and the other part was stopped up, and builded on by the Chamberlaine of London.

[Page] The next is Ebgate, Lib. Horne. a Water-gate so called of old time,Lib. S. Albane. as appeareth by divers Records of tenements,Ebgate. neere unto the same adjoyning.Lib. Trinitat. It standeth neere unto the Church of Saint Laurence Pountney, Lib. S. Albane. but is within the Parish of Saint Marten Ordegare. Record E. 3. In place of this gate, is now a narrow passage to the Thames, and is called Ebgate lane, but more commonly the Old Swanne.

Then is there a Watergate at the Bridge foot,Oystergate. called Oystergate, of Oysters that were there (of old time) commonly to be sold, and was the chiefest Market for them, and for other shell Fish. There standeth now an engine or Forcier, for the winding up of water to serve the Citie, whereof I have already spoken.

Bridgegate.

THe next is the Bridgegate, so called of London Bridge,Bridge-Gate. whereon it standeth: This was one of the foure first and principall Gates of the Citie, long before the Conquest, when there stood a Bridge of Timber; and is the seventh and last principall Gate mentioned by W. Fitzstephen, The Bridg-Gate often times repaired by divers good Benefactors. which gate being new made, when the Bridge was builded of stone, hath beene often-times since repayred. This Gate, with the Tower upon it, in the yeere 1436. fell downe, and two of the farthest Arches Southwards also fell therewith, and no man perished or was hurt thereby. To the repayring whereof, divers wealthy Citizens gave large summes of money, namely Robert Large, sometime Maior, 100. Markes, Stephen Forster, 20. l'. Sir Iohn Crosby Alderman, 100. l'. &c. But in the yeere 1471.W. Dunthorne. the Kentish Mariners, Gate at the Bridge foot burned. under the conduct of Bastard Fauconbridge, burned the said Gate, and thirteene houses on the Bridge, besides the Beere houses at Saint Katherines, and many other in the Suburbs.

The next is Buttolphs gate so called of the Parish Church of S. Buttolph neere adjoyning. Buttolphs Gate. This Gate was sometime given, K. William the Conquerour his gift of the Gate. or confirmed by William Conquerour, to the Monks of Westminster, in these words: VVill. Rex Angliae, &c. VVilliam King of England, sendeth greating to the Sheriffes, and all his Ministers, as also to all his loving subjects, French and English, of London. Know yee, that I have granted to God and Saint Peter of VVestminster, and to the Abbot Vitalis, the gift which Almundus, of the Port of S [...]nt Buttolph, gave them, when he was there made Monke: that is to say, his Lords Court, with the houses, and one Wharfe, which is at the head of London Bridge, and all other his lands which hee had in the same Citie, in such sort, as King Edward more beneficially, and amply granted the same: And I will and command, that they shall enjoy the same well, and quietly, and honourably, with sake and soke, &c.

The next is Belinsgate, Belinsgate. used as an especiall Port, or Harbour for small Ships and Boats comming thereto, and is now most frequented, the Queene Hith being almost forsaken. How this Gate tooke that name, or of what Antiquity the same is, 1 must leave uncertaine, as not having read any ancient Record thereof,Geffery Monmouth. more than that Geffrey Monmouth writeth, that Belin, a King of the Britans, about 400. yeeres before Christs Nativity, builded this Gate, and named it Belinsgate, after his owne Name: And that when he was dead, his body being burned, the Ashes in a Vessell of Brasse,Belins Vrne of Brasse. were set upon a high pinacle of stone over the same Gate. But Caesar, and other Roman writers affirme of Cities, Walls and Gates, as ye have before heard, and therefore it seemeth to mee, not to be so ancient; but rather to have taken that name, of some later owner of the place, haply named Beling, or Biling, as Somars key, Smarts key, Frosh wharfe, and others there-by, tooke their names of their owners: Of this Gate more shall bee said, when we come to speake of Belinsgate Ward.

Then have you a Water-gate on the West side of Wool-wharfe, Watergate by the Custome house. or Customers key, which is commonly called the Watergate, at the South end of Water lane.

One other Water-gate,Watergate by the Tower. there is by the Bulwarke of the Tower, and this is the last and farthest Water gate East ward on the River of Thames, so farre as the Citie of LONDON extendeth [Page] within the Wals: both which last named Water-gates be within the Tower Ward.

Besides these common Water-gates,Wharfes and keyes. were divers private Wharfes and Keies, all along from the East to the West of this Citie, on the banke of the River of Thames; where Merchants (of all Nations) had landing places, Ware-houses, Cellars, and stowage of their goods and Merchandises, as partly shall bee touched in the Wards adjoyning to the said River. Now for the ordering and keeping of these Gates of this Citie in the night time, it was appointed in the yeere of Christ 1258. by Henry the 3. the 42. of his reigne, that the Ports of England should be strongly kept,Mat. Paris. Gates of London to be kept & watcht. and that the Gates of London should bee new repaired, and diligently kept in the night, for feare of French deceits, whereof one writeth these verses:

Per noctem portae clauduntur Londoniarum, Moenia, ne fortè fraus frangat Francigenarū.

Of Towers and Castles.

THE Citie of London (saith Fitzstephen) hath in the East,The Tower of London. a very great, and a most strong Palatine Tower, whose Turrets and Wals doe rise from a deepe foundation, the mortar thereof being tempred with the blood of beasts. In the West part are two most strong Castles, &c.

To begin therefore with the most famous Tower of London, situate in the East, neere unto the River of Thames; it hath beene the common opinion, and some have written, (but of none assured ground) that Iulius Caesar, the first Conquerour of the Britaines, was the originall Author and Founder, aswell thereof, as also of many other Towers, Castles, In my Annales. and great buildings within this Realme. But (as I have already before noted) Caesar remained not here so long, nor had he in his head any such matter; but onely to dispatch a conquest of this barbarous Countrey, and to proceed to greater matters. Neither doe the Romane Writers make mention of any such buildings erected by him here.

And therefore leaving this, and proceeding to more grounded authority, I finde in a faire Register Booke, containing the acts of the Bishops of Rochester, Edmund de Hadenham. set downe by Edmund de Hadenham: that William the first, surnamed Conquerour, builded the Tower of London; Tower of London built by W. Cōquerour, namely the white Tower. to wit, the great white and square Tower there, about the yeere of Christ, 1078. appointing Gundulph then Bishop of Rochester to be principall Surveyor and Overseer of that worke; who was (for that time) lodged in the house of Edmere, a Burgesse of London. The very words of which mine Author are these in Latine:

Gundulphus Episcopus, mandato Willielmi Regis magni praefuit operi magnae Turris London, quo tempore hospitatus est apud quendā Edmerum, Burgensem London, qui dedit unum Were Ecclesiae Roffen.

Ye have before heard, that the wall of this Citie was all round about furnished with Towers and Bulwarkes, in due distance every one from other, and also that the River of Thames, with her ebbing and flowing, on the South-side, had subverted the said Wall, and Towers there. Wherefore King William, for defence of this Citie, in place most dangerous, and open to the enemy, having taken downe the second Bulwarke in the East part of the Wall, from the Thames, builded this Tower, which was the great square Tower, now called the white Tower; and hath beene since (at divers times) enlarged with other buildings adjoyning, as shall bee shewed. This Tower was bytempest of wind sore shaken, [...]. Huntington. in the yeere 1092. the 4. of Wil. W. Malmes. Rufus, Mat. Paris. and was againe, by the said Rufus and Henry the first repaired.Ioh. London. They also caused a Castle to be built under the said Tower;Castle by the Tower builded. namely, on the South-side toward the Thames, and also incastellated the same round about.

Henry Huntington, libro sexto, hath these words: William Rufus challenged the investure of Prebates, he pilled and shaved the people with Tribute, especially to [Page] spend about the Tower of London, and the great Hall at Westminster.

Othowerus, First Constables of the Tower Acolinillus, Otto; and Geffrey Magnaville Earle of Essex, were 4. the first Constables of this Tower of London by succession: all which held by force, a portion of Land (that pertained to the Priorie of the holy Trinity within Ealdgate) that is to say,Eastsmith field a Vineyard. Eastsmith field, neere unto the Tower, making thereof a Vineyard, and would not depart from it,Ex Charta. till the second yeere of King Stephen, when the same was adiudged and restored to the Church.

This Geffrey Magnaville was Earle of Essex, Geffrey Magnaville Earle of Essex, Constable of the Tower and Sheriffe of London. Constable of the Tower, Shiriffe of London, Middlesex, Essex, and Hertfordshire, as appeareth by a Charter of Maude the Empresse, 1141. Hee also fortified the Tower of London against King Stephen; but the King tooke him in his Court at S. Albanes, and would not deliver him, till he had rendred the Tower of London, with the Castles of Walden and Plashey in Essex.

In the yeere 1153. the Tower of London and the Castle of Windsore were by the King delivered to Richard de Lucie, Richard de Lucy Custos of the Tower. to be safely kept.

In the yeere 1155. Thomas Becket, being Chancellour to Henry the second,Roger Windover. caused the Flemmings to be banished out of England, their Castles lately builded, to be pulled downe, and the Tower of London to be repaired.

About the yeere 1190. the second of Richard the first,Iohn Bever. William Longshampe, Bishop of Ely, Chancelour of England, for cause of dissention betwixt him and the Earle Iohn, the Kings Brother, that was Rebell;The Tower of London compassed about with a wall and a ditch. inclosed the Tower and Castle of London with an outward wall of stone embattailed; and also caused a deepe Ditch to be cast about the same, thinking (as I have said before) to have environed it with the River of Thames. By making of this inclosure and ditch in Eastsmithfield, the Church of the holy Trinity in London, lost halfe a mark rent by the yeere; and the Mill was removed, that belonged to the poore brethren of the Hospitall of S. Katherine, S. Katherins Mill stood where is now the Iron gate of the Tower. and to the Church of the holy Trinitie aforesaid; which was no small losse and discommodity to either part. And the Garden, which the King had hyred of the brethren for sixe markes the yeere, for the most part was wasted and marred by the ditch. Recompence was often promised, but never performed, till King Edward comming after, gave to the Brethren five Markes and an halfe, for that part which the ditch had devoured: and the other part thereof without he yeelded them againe, which they hold; and of the said rent of five Markes and an halfe, they have a Deed, by vertue whereof they are well paid to this day.

It is also to be noted, and cannot bee denyed, but that the said inclosure and ditch, tooke the like or greater quantity of ground from the Citie within the VVall; namely, on that part called the Tower Hill, besides breaking downe of the Citie VVall, from the white Tower to the first Gate of the Citie, called the Posterne. Yet have I not read of any quarrell made by the Citizens, or recompence demanded by them for that matter; because all was done for good of the Cities defence thereby, and to their good likings.

But Matthew Paris writeth, Mat. Paris. that in the yeere 1239. King Henry the third fortified the Tower of London to another end;Bulwarkes of the Tower builded. wherefore the Citizens fearing, lest that was done to their detriment, complained, and the King answered: That hee had not done it to their hurt; But (saith he) I will from henceforth doe as my brother doth, in building and fortifying Castles, who beareth the name to be wiser than I am.

It followed in the next yeere,West gate and Bulwarkes of the Tower fell downe (saith mine Author) the said Noble buildings of the stone Gate and Bulwarke, which the King had caused to be made by the Tower of London, on the West side thereof, was shaken as it had beene with an Earthquake, and fell downe; which the King againe commanded to be built in better sort than before, which was done.

And yet againe, in the yeere 1241. the said Wall and Bulwarkes that were newly builded,Wall and Bulwarkes againe fall downe, and new builded. wherein the King had bestowed more than twelve thousand Markes, were unrecoverably quite throwne downe, as afore: for the which chance, the Citizens of London were nothing sorry: for they were threatned, that the said wall and Bulwarkes were builded, to the end, that if any of them would contend for the liberties of the Citie, [Page] they might be imprisoned: And that many might be laid in divers prisons, many lodgings were made, that no one should speake with another.

Thus much Matthew Paris avoucheth for this building.

More of Henry the third his dealings against the Citizens of London, we may read in the said Author, in 1245. 1248. 1249. 1253. 1255. 1256. &c. But concerning the said Wall and Bulwarke, the same was finished, though not in his time. For I read, That Edward the first, in the second of his reigne, commanded the Treasurer and Chamberlaine of the Exchequer, to deliver out of his Treasurie, unto Miles of Andwarp, 200. Markes, of the fines taken of divers Merchants, Ditch made about the Bulwarke, without the West gate of the Tower. or Vsurers of London (for so be the words of the Record) toward the worke of the ditch, then new made about the said Bulwarke; now called the Lion Tower.

I find also recorded, that Henry the third, in the 46. of his reigne, wrote to Edward of Westminster, commanding him, H. 3. his Orchard by the Tower. That hee should buy certaine Perie Plants, and set the same in the place without his Tower of London, the ninth of Edward the second.

Edward the fourth in place whereof builded a wall of Bricke. But now for the Lion-Tower, and Lions in England, the originall, as I have read, was thus:

Henry the first builded the Mannor of Woodstocke,First Parke in England. with a Parke which hee walled about with stone, seven miles in compasse, destroying for the same, divers Villages, Churches and Chappels, and this was the first Parke in England; the words of the Record are these following: He appointed therein (beside great store of Decre) divers strange beasts, to be kept and nourished, such as were brought to him from far Countries; as Lions, Leopards, Lions in Woodstocke Parke. Linxes, Porpentines, and such other: For such was his estimation among outlandish Princes, that few would willingly offend him.

More I read, that in the yeere 1235. Fredericke the Emperour sent to Henry the third, three Leopards,Lions sent to Hen. 3. and kept in the Tower. in token of his regall Shield of Armes, wherein three Leopards were pictured: since which time, those Lions, and others, have beene kept in a part of this Bulwarke, now called the Lion Tower, and their keeper there lodged. King Edward the second, in the twelfth yeere of his reigne, commanded the Sheriffes of London, to pay the keeper of the Kings Leopards in the Tower of London, 6. d the day, for the sustenance of the Leopards; and three halfe-pence a day, for dyet of the said keeper, out of the fee-farme of the said Citie.

More, the 16. of Edward the third, one Lion, one Lionesse, one Leopard, and two Cattes Lions, in the said Tower, were committed to the custody of Robert, the sonne of Iohn Bowre.

Edward the fourth fortified the Tower of London, Edw. the 4. builded bulwarks without the Tower▪ and inclosed with Bricke (as is aforesaid) a certaine piece of ground, taken out of the Tower hill, west from the Lion Tower, now called the Bulwarke. His Officers also, in the fifth of his reigne, set upon the said Hill both Scaffold and Gallowes,Seaffold and Gallowes first set on Tower Hill. for the execution of offenders; whereupon the Maior & his brethren cōplained to the King, and were answered, that the same was not done in derogation of the Cities Liberties; and therefore caused proclamation to be made, &c. as shall be shewed in Towerstreet.

Richard the third repaired and builded this Tower somewhat.Rich. 3. repaired the Tower.

Henry the 8. in 1532. repaired the white Tower,White Tower repaired by Hen. 8. and other parts thereof.

In the yeere 1548. the second of Edward the sixth, on the 22. of November, in the night, a Frenchman lodged in the round Bulwarke, betwixt the West Gate and the Posterne, or draw bridge, called the Warders Gate, by setting fire on a barrell of Gunpowder,A bulwark of the Tower blown up. blew up the said Bulwarke, burnt himselfe, and no moe persons. This Bulwarke was again forthwith new builded.

And here, because I have (by occasion) spoken of the west gate of this Tower; the same (as the most principall) is used for the receipt and delivery of all kindes of carriages;Gates and Posterne [...] of the Tower. without the which Gate, be divers Bulwarkes and Gates, turning towards the North, &c. Then neere within this West gate, opening to the South, is a strong Posterne for passengers, by the Ward-house, over a draw-bridge, let downe for that purpose. Next, on the same South side, toward the East, is a large water-gate, for [Page] receipt of Boats and small vessels, partly under a stone bridge, from the River of Thames. Beyond it is a small Posterne, with a draw-bridge, seldome let down, but for the receipt of some great persons, prisoners. Then towards the East is a great and strong Gate, commonly called the Iron gate, but not usually opened. And thus much for the foundation, building, and repairing of this Tower, with the Gates and Posternes, may suffice. And now somewhat of accidents in the same, shall be shewed.

In the yeere 1196.Actions of the Tower William Fitzosbert, a Citizen of London, seditiously moving the common people to seeke liberty, and not to be subject to the rich and more mighty; at length was taken, and brought before the Archbishop of Canterbury in the Tower,Iustices sate in the Tower. where he was by the Judges condemned, and by the heeles drawne thence to the Elmes in Smithfield, and there hanged.

1214. King Iohn wrote unto Geffrey Magnaville, Patent the 15. of King Iohn. to deliver the Tower of London, with the Prisoners, Armour, and all other things sound therein, belonging to the King; to William, Archdeacon of Huntington.

The yeere 1216. the first of Henry the third,Mat. Paris. the said Tower was delivered to Lewes of France, and the Barons of England.

In the yeere 1206. Plees of the Crown were pleaded in the Tower:Plees of the crown pleaded in the Towers likewise in the yeere 1220. and likewise in the yeere 1224. and againe in the yeere 1243. before William of Yorke, Richard Passelew, Henry Brahe, Ierome of Saxton, Justicers.

In the yeere 1222. the Citizens of London having made a tumult against the Abbot of Westminster; Mat. Paris. Hubert of Burgh, chiefe Justice of England, came to the Tower of London, and called before him the Maior and Aldermen, of whom hee inquired for the principall Authors of that sedition: Amongst whom,Constantine Fitz Aelulfe hang'd one named Constantine Fitz Aelulfe avowed, that he was the man, and had done much lesse than he thought to have done. Whereupon, the Justice sent him (with two other) to Falks de Brent, who with armed men brought them to the Gallowes, where they were hanged.

In the yeere 1244.Griffith of Wales fell from the Tower. Griffith the eldest sonne of Leoline, Prince of Wales, being kept prisoner in the Tower, devised meanes of escape; and having (in the night) made of the hangings, sheets, &c. a long line, he put himselfe downe from the top of the Tower. But in the sliding, the weight of his body, being a very bigge and a fat man, brake the Rope, and he fell on his necke, and brake his necke withall: whose miserable carkas, being found in the morning by the Tower wall, was a most pitifull sight to the beholders: for his head and necke were driven into his brest, between both the shoulders. The King hearing thereof, punished the watch-men, and caused Griffiths sonne, that was imprisoned with his Father, to bee more straitly kept.

In the yeere 1253.Sheriffes of London prisoners in the Tower. King Henry the third imprisoned the Sheriffes of London in the Tower more than a moneth, for the escape of a prisoner out of Newgate, as ye may read in the Chapter of Gates.

In the yeere 1260. King Henry, K. Henrie lodged in the Tower and held his Parliament there. with his Queene (for feare of the Barons) were lodged in the Tower. The next yeere he sent for his Lords, and held his Parliament there.

In the yeere 1263. when the Queene would have removed from the Tower by water,Citizens of London despised the Qu. Wife to Hen. 3. towards Windsore, sundry Londoners got them together to the Bridge, under the which she was to passe, and not onely cryed out upon her with reprochfull words, but also threw mire and stones at her, by which she was constrained to returne for the time. But in the yeere 1265. the said Citizens were faine to submit themselves to the King for it, and the Maior, Aldermen, and Sheriffes were sent to divers prisons, and a Custos also was set over the Citie; to wit, Othon, Constable of the Tower, &c.

Leoline Prince of Wales, Leoline, Prince of Wales, his head set on the Tower. came downe from the Mountaine of Snowdon, to Mountgomery, and was taken at Bluith Castle: where using reprochfull words against the Englishmen, Roger le Strange ran in upon him, and with the Sword wherewith he was girt, cut off his head, leaving his dead bodie on the ground. Sir Roger Mortimer caused the head of [Page] this Leoline to be set upon the Tower of London, crowned with a wreath of Ivie. Such was the end of Leoline, betrayed by the men of Bluith: And this was the last Prince of the Britaines blood, that bare rule and dominion in Wales.

In the yeere 1290. divers Justices,Iustices of the bench sent to the Tower. as well of the Bench, as of the Assises, were sent prisoners to the Tower, which with great summes of money redeemed their liberty.

Sir Thomas Weyland had all his goods,Adam Meri. chro. Dun. Rad. Bald. Sca. Chro. Io. Rouse. both moveable and unmoveable, confiscated, and himselfe banished. Sir Rafe Hengham, chiefe Justice of the higher Bench, offered seven thousand Markes: Sir Iohn Lovelet, Justice of the lower Bench, three thousand Markes. Sir William Bromtone, Justice, sixe thousand Markes. Of their Clarkes, for their redemption; of Robert Littlebury, 1000. Markes; and of Roger Leicester, 1000. Markes: And of a certaine Clarke of the Courts, called Adam de Straton, 32000. Markes, of old money and new; beside Jewels (without number) and precious vessels of Silver, which were found in his house, and a Kings Crown, which some men said was King Iohns. Moreover, the King constrained the Justices to sweare, that (from thenceforth) they should take no pension, see or gift of any man, except onely a breakfast or such like present.

Edward 2. the 14. of his reigne, appointed for prisoners in the Tower, a Knight, 2. d. the day, an Esquire, 1. d. the day, to serve for their dyet.

In the yeere 1320. the Kings Justices sate in the Tower,Iustices sate in the Tower. for tryall of matters: whereupon, Iohn Gissors, late Maior of London, and many other, fled the City, for feare to be charged of things which they had presumptuously done.

In the yeere 1321. the Mortimers yeelding themselves to the King, hee sent them prisoners to the Tower, where they remained long, and were judged to be drawne and hanged.

But at length, Roger Mortimer of Wigmore, Mortimer made an escape out of the Tower. by giving his Keepers a sleepy drinke, escaped out of the Tower, and his Vnckle Roger being still kept, there dyed about five yeeres after.

In the yeere 1326. the Citizens of London wanne the Tower,Citizens of London wrested the keyes of the Tower from the Constable. wresting the keyes out of the Constables hands, delivered all the prisoners, and kept both the Citie and Tower to the use of Isabel. the Queene, and Edward her sonne.

In the yeere 1330. Roger Mortimer, Earle of March, Mortimer drawne from the Tower to the Elmes, and there hanged. was taken and brought to the Tower, from whence hee was drawne to the Elmes, and there hanged on the common Gallowes, where hee hung two dayes and two nights by the Kings commandement, and then was buried in the Gray Fryers Church. Hee was condemned by his Peeres, and yet never was brought to answer before them. For it was not then the custome, after the death of the Earles of Lancaster, Winchester, Glocester, & Kent: wherfore this Earle had that law himselfe, which before hee had appointed for others.

In the yeere 1344. King Edward the third, in the 18. yeere of his reigne,A Mint in the Tower, Florences of gold coyned there. commanded Florences of Gold to bee made, and coyned in the Tower; that is to say, a penny a peece, of the value of 6. shillings and eight pence; the halfepenny peece, of the value of 3. shillings and foure pence; and a farthing peece, worth 20. pence. Percevall de Port of Lake, being then Master of the coine. And this is the first coyning of Gold in the Tower, whereof I read, and also the first coynage of Gold in England.

I finde also recorded, that the said King,The Kings exchange in Buckles bury. in the same yeere, ordained his Exchange of money to be kept in Sernes Tower, a part of the Kings house in Buckles Bury. And here, to digresse a little (by occasion offered) I finde, that in times before passed, all great summes were paid by weight of gold or silver, as so many pounds,Round plates, called blanks, delivered by weighr, Argent. and Pecunia, after called Easterling. or markes of silver, or so many pounds or markes of gold, cut into blankes, and not stamped, as I could prove by many good authorities, which I overpasse. The smaller summes also were paid in starlings, which were pence so called: for other coynes they had none.

The antiquity of this starling penny usually in this Realme, is from the reigne of Henry the second: notwithstanding the Saxon coynes (before the Conquest) were pence of fine silver, the full weight and somewhat better than the latter [Page] starlings, as I have tryed by conference of the pence of Burghrede King of Mercia, Aelfred, Edward, and Edelred, Kings of the West Saxons, Plegmond Archbishop of Canterbury, and others.

William the Conquerours penny also was fine silver, of the weight of the Easterling, and had on the one side stamped, IV. Conquerour did weare no beard. an armed head, with a beardlesse face, (for the Normans ware no beards) with a Scepter in his hand. The Inscription in the circumference,IV. Malmesbury. was this, Le Rei Wilam. On the side, a crosse double to the Ring, betweene 4. rowels of six points.

King Henry the first his penny was of the like weight, finenesse, forme of face, crosse, &c.

This Henry, in the eighth yeere of his reigne, ordained the penny which was round, so to be quartered by the crosse, that they might easily bee broken into halfe pence and farthings.

In the first, second, third, fourth, and fifth of King Richard the first his reigne,R. Hoveden. and afterwards, I finde commonly Easterling money mentioned, and yet ofttimes the same is called Argent, as afore, and not otherwise.

The first great sum that I read of to be paid in Easterlings, was in the fifth of Richard the first, when Robert Earle of Leicester, being prisoner in France, proffered for his ransome a thousand marks Easterlings; notwithstanding, the Easterling pence were long before.

The weight of the Easterling penny may appeare by divers Statutes, namely, of weights and measures, made in the 51. yeere of Henry the third, in these words:Weight of starling pence 32. graines of wheat. Thirty two graines of Wheat, dry and round, taken in the middest of the eare, should be the weight of a starling penny; twenty of those pence should weigh one ounce, twelve ounces a pound Troy. It followeth in the Statute, Eight pound to make a gallon of Wine, and eight gallons, a bushell of London measure, &c. Notwithstanding which Statute, I finde in the eighth of Edward the first, Gregorie Rokesley, Maior of London, being chiefe Master or Minister of the Kings Exchange or Mints, a new coyne being then appointed, the pound of Easterling money should containe (as afore) 12. ounces, to wit, fine silver, such as was then made into foyle, and was commonly called silver of Guthurons lane; 11. ounces, two Easterlings, and one ferling or farthing, and the other 17. pence halfepenny farthing to be lay. Also the pound of money ought to weigh 20. shillings 3. pence by account; so that no pound ought to be over 20. shillings 4. pence, nor lesse than 20. shillings 2. pence by account; the ounce to weigh 20. pence, the penny weight 24. graines. Which 24. by weight then appointed, were as much as the former 32. graines of Wheat: a penny force, 25. graines and an halfe; the penny deble or feeble, 22. graines and an halfe, &c.

Now for the penny Easterling,The penny Easterling how it tooke the name. how it tooke that name, I think good briefely to touch. It hath beene said, that Numa Pompilius, the second King of the Romanes, commanded monies first to be made, of whose name they were called Numi; and when copper pence, silver pence, and gold pence were made, (because every silver penny was worth ten copper pence, and every gold penny worth ten silver pence) the pence were therefore called in Latine, Denarij; and oftentimes, the pence are named of the matter or stuffe of gold or silver. But the Money of England was called of the workers and makers thereof: as the Floren of gold is called of the Florentines,H. 2. made a new coyne in the third of his reigne. that were the workers thereof; and so the Easterling pence tooke their name of the Easterlings, which did first make this money in England, in the reigne of Henry the second.

Thus have I set downe, according to my reading in Antiquity, of money matters;Starling money, when it tooke beginning in this Land. omitting the imaginations of late Writers; of whom some have said, Easterling money to take that name of a starre stamped in the border or ring of the penny: othersome, of a bird, called a Stare or Starling, stamped in the circumference: and other (more unlikely) of being coyned at Strivelin or Starling, a Towne in Scotland. &c.

Now concerning halfepence and farthings, Of halfe pence and farthings. the accompt of which is more subtiler than the pence, I need not speak of them more, than that they were only made in the Exchange at London, and no where else: First, pointed to be made by Edward the first, in the eighth of his [Page] reigne: and also at the same time, the said Kings coine was some few groats of silver, but they were not usuall. The Kings Exchange at London was neere unto the Cathedrall Church of S. Paul, and is to this day commonly called, the Old Change; The Old Change. but in Evidences, the Old Exchange.

The Kings Exchanger in this place, was to deliver out to every other Exchanger throughout England, or other the Kings Dominions, their Coyning Irons, that is to say, one Standard or Staple, and two trussels, or Punchions: and when the same were spent and worn, to receive them with an account, what summe had been coyned, and also their Pix, or Box of assay, and to deliver other Irons new graven, &c. I finde that in the 9. of King Iohn, Mints in England. Patent 9. John. there was, besides the Mint at London, other Mints, at Winchester, Excester, Chichester. Canterbury, Rochester, Ipswich, Norwich, Linne, Lincolne, Yorke, Carleil, Northampton, Oxford, S. Edmondsbury, and Durham. The Exchanger, Examiner and Tryer,Diminishing of coyne. buyeth the silver for coynage: answering for every hundred pound of silver, bought in Bolion, or otherwise 98. l. 15. s. for hee taketh 25. s. for coynage.

King Edward the first, in the 27. of his reigne,Starling mony forbidden to be transported. held a Parliament at Stebunbeth, in the house of Henry Waleis, Maior of London, wherein amongst other things there handled, the transporting of starling money was forbidden.

In the yeere 1351. William Edington, Bishop of Winchester,Thom. Wals. and Treasurer of England, a wise man, but loving the Kings commodity more, than the wealth of the whole Realme and common people (saith mine Author) Caused new coyne,First groats and halfe coyned. called a Great and halfe a Groat to be coyned and stamped, the Groat to bee taken for 4. d. and the halfe Groat for 2. d. not conteyning in weight according to the pence called Easterling, but much lesse, to wit, by 5. s. in the pound: by reason whereof, victuals and merchandizes became the dearer through the whole Realme.

About the same time also, the old coyne of gold was changed into a new; but the old Floren or Noble, then so called, was worth much above the taxed rate of the new. And therefore the Merchants ingrossed up the old, and conveied them out of the Realme, to the great losse of the Kingdome.Coyns of gold enhaunced. Wherefore a remedy was provided, by changing of the stampe.

In the yeere 1411. King Henry the fourth caused a new coyne of Nobles to be made, of lesse value than the old, by 4. d. in the Noble, so that fifty Nobles should be a pound, Troy weight.

In the yeere 1421. was granted to Henry the fifth a fifteene to be paid at Candlemas, and at Martinmasse, of such money as was then currant gold, or silver, not overmuch clipped or washed, to wit, That if the Noble were worth 5. s. 8. d. then the King should take it for a full Noble, of 6. s. 8. d. And if it were lesse of value, than 5. s. 8. d. then the person that gold, to make it good to the value of 5. s. 8. d. the King alway receiving it for an whole Noble of six shillings 8. d. And if the Noble so payed were better than 5. s. 8. d. the King to pay againe the surplusage, that it was better than 5. s. 8. d. Also this yeere was such scarcity of white mony,More plē ty of coyn in gold than in silver. that though a Noble were so good of gold, and weight, as six shillings eight pence; men could get no white money fro them.

In the yeere 1465. King Edward the fourth caused a new coyne, both of gold and silver to be made,Coines of gold allayed, and also raised in value. whereby he gained much, for he made of an old Noble, a Royall: which he commanded to goe for ten s. Neverthelesse to the same Royall was put 8. d. of allay, and so weyed the more,Rose Nobles. being smitten with a new stampe, to wit, a Rose. Hee likewise made halfe Angels of 5. s. And farthings of 5. s. 6. d. Angelets of 6. s. 8. d. And halfe Angels 3. s. 4. d. Hee made silver money of three pence, a groat, and so of other coynes after that rate, to the great harme of the Commons.

W. Lord Hastings the Kings Chamberlaine, being Master of the Kings Mints, saith the Record, undertooke to make the monies under forme following: to wit, of gold a peece of 8. s. 4. d. starling, which should be called a Noble of gold, of the which there should be fifty such peeces in the pound weight of the Tower. Another piece of gold, 4. s. 2. d. of starling, and to be of them an [Page] hundred such pieces in the pound. And a third piece of gold, 2. s. 1. d. starling, two hundred such pieces in the pound, every pound weight of the Tower to be worth 20. l', 16. s. 8. d. of starlings, the which should be 23. Carits, 3. graines, and halfe 5. &c. and for silver, 37. s. 6. d. of starlings, the piece of 4. pence, to be 112. Groats, and 2. pence in the pound weight.

In the yeere 1504. King Henry the seventh appointed a new coyne;Halfe faced groats. to wit, a Groat, and halfe a Groat, which bare but halfe faces. The same time also was coyned a Groat, which was in value 12. d. but of those but a few, after the rate of forty pence the ounce.

In the yeere 1526. the 18. of Hen. the eight, the Angell Noble, being then the sixt part of an ounce Troy, so that six Angels were just an ounce, which was 40. shillings starling, and the Angell was also worth two ounces of silver; so that six Angels were worth 12. ounces of silver,Gold and silver enhaunced. which was 40. s. A Proclamation was made on the 6. of September, that the Angell should goe for 7. s. 4. d. the Royall for 11. s. and the Crowne for 4. s. 4. d. And on the 5. of November following, againe by Proclamation, the Angell was enhaunced to 7. s. 6. d. and so every ounce a gold to be 45. s. and the ounce of silver at 3. 9. d. in value.

In the yeere 1544. the 35. of Henry the 8. on the 16. of May, Base monies coyned and currant in England. Proclamation was made, for the enhauncing of gold to 48. shillings, and silver to 4. shillings the ounce. Also the King caused to bee coyned base monies, towi, pieces of 12. d. 6. d. 4. d. & 1. d. in weight as the late starling, in shew good silver, but inwardly Copper. These pieces had whole or broad faces, and continued currant after that rate, till the 5. of Edward the 6. when they were on the 9. of Iuly called downe, the shilling to 9. d. the Groat to 3. d. &c. and on the 17. of August from 9. d. to 6. d. &c. And on the 30. of October, was published new coynes of silver and gold to bee made,Crownes and halfe Crownes of silver coyned. a piece of silver 5. s. starling, a piece 2. s. 6. d. of 12. d. of 6. d. a penny with a double Rose, a halfe penny a single Rose, and a farthing with a Portclose. Coyns of fine Gold, a whole Soveraigne of [...]0. s. an Angell of 10. s. an Angeler of 5. s. Of Crowne gold, a Soveraigne 20. S. halfe Soveraigne 10. s. 5. s. 2. s. 6. d. and base monies to passe as afore, which continued till the 2. of Queene Elizabeth then called to a lower rate, taken to the Mint, and refined, the silver whereof being coyned with a new stampe of her Majesty, the drosse was carried to foule highwaies, to heighten them. This base monies (for the time) caused the old starling monies to be hoorded up,Starling monies hoorded up, 21. c. currant, given for an Angell of gold. so that I have seene 21. s. currant, given for one old Angell to gild withall. Also rents of lands and tenements, with prices of victuals, were raised farre beyond the formerrates, hardly since to be brought downe. Thus much for base monies, coyned and currant in England have I knowne: But for Leather monies, as many people have fondly talked, I find no such matter.Philip Comin. I read that King Iohn of France, being taken prisoner, by Edward the blacke Prince, at the Battell of Poytiers, payed a ransome of 3. Millions of Florences, whereby, he brought the Realme of France into such poverty,Leather mony in France. that many yeeres after they used Leather money, with a little stud or nayle of silver in the midst thereof. Thus much for Mint, and coynage, by occasion of this Tower (under correction of other more skilfull) may suffice. And now to other accidents there.

In the yeere 1360. the peace betweene England and France being confirmed, French K. prisoner in the Tower. King Edward came over into England, and straight to the Tower, to see the French King then prisoner there, whose ransome hee assessed at 3. Millions of Florences, and so delivered him from prison, and brought him with honour to the Sea.

In the yeere 1381. and the fourth yeere of the reigne of King Richard the second,A grievous taxe and tallage granted to the King, which caused a great rebellion in England. was granted to the King a grievous tax and tallage of his subjects, both spirituall and temporall: through the which was raised in England a shipwracke of great troubles. For divers Courtiers, desirous to enrich themselves with other mens goods, enformed the King and his Court, that the tallage was not gathered up faithfully to the Kings use by the Collection. Whereupon, they offered to the King, that [Page] they would pay a great summe of money for the farme of that, which they would gather over and above that which had beene paid, if they might be by the King thereunto authorized.

Some of them getting the Kings Letters and Authority,The people misused in very base manner. sate in divers places of Essex and Kent, and handled the people sore and uncourteously, almost not to be spoken, for the levying of the said summe of money: which some of the people taking in evill part; they secretly tooke counsell together, gathered assistants, and resisted the exactors, rising against them, of whom, some they slew, some they wounded, and the rest fled.

This tumult beganne principally in Kent, The Kentish men arise in a tumult, for there the mischiefe began. and after this manner, as I finde the same set downe in a Chronicle of S. Albans: One of the Collectors of the Groats, or pole money, comming to the house of Iohn (others say Watt) Tylar, in the Towne of Dartford in Kent, demanded of the Tylars wife, for her Husband, for her selfe, for her servants, and for their daughter (a young maiden) every one of them a Groat;The pole groat called (by some) the groape groat. which the Tylars wife denyed not to pay, saving for her daughter; who (she said) was a childe, and not to bee accounted as a woman. That will I soone wete (answered the Collector) and taking the yong maiden dishonestly turned her up to search whether shee were under-growne with haire, or not; for in many places they had made the like shamefull tryall. Whereupon,The husband commeth home hastily from his worke. her mother cryed out, which caused neighbours to come in, and her husband (being at worke in the same Towne, tyling of an house) when he heard thereof, caught his Lathingstaffe in his hand, and ran presently home: where reasoning with the Collector; who made him to be so bold? The Collector answered with stoutwords, & strake at the Tylar. But the Tylar avoyding the blow,The Collector slaine by the Tylar. smotethe Collector with his Lathing-staffe, that the braines flew out of his head: where-through great noyse arose in the streets, and the poore people being glad, every one prepared to support the said Iohn Tylar.

Thus the Commons being drawne together,The Commons flocke together in the Tylars defence. went to Maidstone, and from thence backe againe to Black-heath, and so (in short time) they stirred all the Country (in a manner) to the like commotion. Then, besetting the waies that led to Canterbury, arrested all passengers, compelling them to sweare:An oath exacted by the Rebels on all passengers. First, that they should keepe allegeance to King Richard, and to the Commons: And that they should accept no King that was named Iohn: in envy they bare unto Iohn Duke of Lancaster, who named himselfe King of Castile: And that they should bee ready whensoever they were called, and that they should agree to no taxe, to be levied (from thenceforth) in the Kingdome, nor consent to any, except it were a fifteene.

The Fame of these doings spread into Sussex, Evill news do alwaies quickly spread themselves. Hertford, Essex, and Cambridgeshires, Norfolke, suffolke, &c. And when such assembling of the common people daily tooke encrease, and that their number was now made almost infinite, so that they feared no man to resist them: they began to shew some such desperate Acts, as they had rashly considered on in their minds: And tooke in hand to behead all men of Law,Iustice, Lawyers, and Iurors beheaded. as well Apprentices, as utter-Baristers, and old Justices, with all the Jurors of the country, whom they might get into their hands. They spared none whom they thought to be learned, especially, if they found any to have a Pen and Inke-horne about him: they pulled off his Hood, and all with one voyce crying, Hale him out, and cut off his head. Bondmen of Essex joyne with them of Kent. The bondmen and other of Essex, being joyned with them of Kent on Black-heath, there came Knights to them from the King, to enquire the cause of their assembly: to whom they made answer, That for certaine causes, they were come together, to have talke with the King: And therfore willed the Knights to tell him, that he must needs come unto them, that he might understand the desire of their hearts.

The King was counselled by some, to make haste unto them:Ex Chron. Dun. but Simon Sudbury, Archbishop of Canterbury, Lord Chancelor, and Robert Hales of Saint Iohns, Treasurer, affirmed: that it was not meet for the King to goe to such a rude company, but rather some order to be taken for their suppression.Insolent fury is easily moved. Which when the Commons heard, being moved to a furious rage, they swore, that they would goe seeke the Kings Traytors, [Page] to take off their heads. Forthwith they took their journey towards London, and came to Southwarke, where they felled all the places of that Borough, and in the Countrey about.The Palace of the Archbishop at Lambeth spoiled. They spoiled the Archbishops Palace at Lambeth, for despight they bare him. The Lord Maior of London and Aldermen (fearing the Cities spoyle) decreed to shut up the Gates: But the Commons of the City, especially the poorer people, favouring the Commons of the Country; would not suffer the Maior to shut them out, but threatned death to them that went about it.

All the night following, to wit, Corpus Christi Even,The Commons of London hartned on by the Rebels. the Rebels enjoyed free ingate and outgate, and encouraged the Commons of London, as also of all the Realme, to favour their cause. For, said they, their purpose was but to search out the Traytors of the Land, and so to cease. The more credit was given to speeches, because they tooke nothing from any man, but at a just price: and if they found any man wich theft, they beheaded him. The morrow after, to wit, on Corpus Christi day, comming into the Citie, talking with the Commons of procuring liberty to them, and apprehending of Traytors (as they tearmed them) especially the Duke of Lancaster: they shortly got all the poorer Citizens to conspire with them.The poorer Citizens joyn with the Rebels, and burne the Savoy, the Duke of Lancasters house. And the same day after it was waxen somewhat warm, and that they had tasted divers Wines (for the Citizens did set open their Cellers for them, to enter at their pleasure) they exhorted each other, that going to the Savoy, the Duke of Lancasters house (to the which there was none in the whole Realme to be compared, for beauty and statelinesse) they might set it on fire, and burne it downe to the ground.

Straightway they ran thither, and setting fire on it round about, applied their travell to destroy it. And that it might appeare to the Communalty, that they did not any thing for avarice: they caused to be proclaimed, that none (upon paine of losing his head) should presume to convert to his owne use,The Rebels would have nothing to any private mans use. any thing that was there; but that they should breake such Plate, and vessels of Gold and Silver (as was there in great plenty) into small pieces, and then to throw the same into the Thames, and to all (whatsover) was destroyed. But one of the Rebels (saith Henry Kniton) contrary to the Proclamation,Ex Hen. Kniton. tooke a goodly silver piece, and hid it in his bosome: but another that espied him, told his fellowes, who (forthwith) hurled him and the piece of Plate into the fire,The Rebels burne one of these fellowes. saying, We be zealous of Truth and Iustice, and not theeves or robbers. Also, two and thirty of those Rebels entred a Celler of the Savoy, Two and thirty Rebels mured up in a Celler. where they dranke so much of sweet Wines, that they were not able to come out againe in time: but were shut in with wood and stones, that mured up the doore, where they were heard crying and calling seven dayes after, but none came to helpe them our, till they were all dead.

These things being done,The new Temple of London burnt, in anger to Sir Robert Hales. they brake downe the place called the new Temple at the Barre, in which place, Apprentices at the Law were lodged: for anger which they had conceived against Sir Robert Hales, Master of Saint Iohns Hospitall, unto which Hospitall of St. Iohns the Temple belonged, where many Monuments, which the Lawyers had in their custody, were consumed with fire. After a number of them had sacked this Temple: what with wearinesse of labour, and what with Wine, being overcome,The Rebels murther one another. they lay downe under the wals and housing, and were slaine like Swine; one of them killing another for old grudges, and other also made quick dispatch of them.

Another troope (in the meane time) set fire on the noble house of Saint Iohn at Clarkenwell, The Priory of Saint Iohn beyond Smithfield burnt. causing it to burne by the space of seven dayes together, not suffering any to quench it. On Friday, they burned the Manor of Highburie, The Manor of Highbury burnt. the whole number of the Common people (being at that time) divided into three parts. Of the which division,The Rebels divided into 3. bands. one part was attending to destroy the Manor of Highbury, and other places belonging to the Priory of Saint Iohn. Another company lay at the Miles-end, East of the City. The third kept at the Tower-hill, There to spoile the King of such victuals, as were brought toward him. The company that were assembled on the Miles-end, sent to command the King, [Page] that hee should come to them without delay,The Rebels command the King, and hee goeth to them to the Miles-end. unarmed, or without any force: which if he refused to doe, they would pull downe the Tower, neither should he escape alive. The King taking counsell, with a few unarmed, went toward them in great feare on Horseback: and so the Gates of the Tower being set open, a great multitude of them entred into it.

There was (at the same time) within the Tower 600. Armed valiant persons,The Rebels entred into the Tower of London, and their impudent behaviour there. and expert in Armes, and sixe hundred Archers: all which did quaile in stomacke, and stood as men amazed. For the basest of the Rusticks (not many together, but every one by himselfe) durst presume to enter the Kings Chamber, and his Mothers, with their weapons, to put in feare each of the men of War, Knights and other. Many of them went into the Kings Privie-Chamber, and played the wantons, in sitting, lying and sporting them on the Kings Bed. And that which is much more sawcily,Their bold insolence to the Kings Mother. invited the Kings Mother, to kisse with them: yet durst none of those men of Warre (strange to bee said) once withstand them: they went in and out like Masters, that were but base slaves, and of most vile condition.

While these rude wretches sought for the Archbishop,The Rebels sought for the Archbishop of Canturbury. running up and downe with terrible noyse and fury: at length, finding one of his servants, they charged him to bring them where his Master was, whom they named Traytor. The servant not daring to displease them, brought them to the Chappell: where, after Masse had been said, and having received the Communion, the Arch-bishop was busie in his prayers: for,The Archbishop dreadlesse of the Rebels cruelty, and his speeches with them. not unknowing of their comming and purpose, he had passed the last night in confessing of his sinnes, and in devout prayers. When therefore he heard that they were come, with great constancy, he said to his men: Let us now goe, surely it is best to dye, when it is no pleasure to live. The Archbishop is fetcht out of the Tower, and dragged to the Tower hil. And with that, the tormentors entring, cryed, Where is the Traytor? The Archbishop answered: Behold, I am the Archbishop, whom you seeke, not a Traytor. They therfore laid hands on him, and dragging him out of the Chappell, they drew him forth of the Tower gate, to the Tower-hill, where being compassed about with many thousands, and seeing swords about his head drawn in excessive manner, threatning death to him, he spake unto them in these words.

What is it (deare brethren) you purpose to doe? The Archbishops words to the Rebels on Tower hill. What is mine offence committed against you, for which you will kill me? You were best to take heed, that if I be killed, who am your Pastor, there come not on you the indignation of the iust Revenger, or (at the least) for such a fact, all England be not put under interdiction. Vnneath could hee pronounce these words, before they cryed out with an horrible noise: That they neither feared the interdiction, nor allowed the Pope to be above them. The Archbishop seeing death at hand, with comfortable words (as hee was an eloquent man, and wise, beyond all the wise men of the Realme) spake fairely to them.The Archbishop of Canturbury most cruelly beheaded by the Rebels. Lastly, after forgivenesse granted to the executioner, that should behead him, kneeling down, he offered his necke to him that should imite off his head. Being stricken in the necke, but not deadly, hee putting his necke, said, Aha, it is the hand of God. He had not removed his hand from the place where the paine was, but that being suddenly stricken againe, his fingers ends being cut off, and part of the Arteries, he fell downe, but yet he dyed not, till being mangled with 8. severall strokes in the necke and head, he fulfilled most worthy Martyrdome.The inhumanity to his body after hee was dead There lay his body unburied all that Friday, and the morrow till afternoone, none daring to deliver his body to Sepulture. His head those wicked villaines tooke, and nayling thereon his Hood, they fixed it on a pole, and set it on London Bridge, in place where before stood the head of Sir Iohn Minstarworth.

This Archbishop, Simon Tibald, alias Sudbury, A further relation concerning this worthy Archbishop, and his religious actions. Son to Nicholas Tibald, Gentleman, borne in the Towne of Sudbury in Suffolke, Doctor of both Lawes, was eighteene yeeres Bishop of London, in the which time, hee builded a goodly Colledge, in place where his Fathers house stood, and endued it with great possessions: furnishing the same with secular Clarks, and other Ministers, being valued at the suppression, at 122. [Page] l. 16. s. in Lands by the yeere. Hee builded the upper end of St. Gregories Church at Sudbury. Afterward, being translated to the Archbishopricke of Canturbury, The Wals of Canturbury re-edified by this Archbishop. in An. 1375. he re-edified the Wals of that City, from the Westgate (which he builded) to the Northgate: which had been destroyed by the Danes, before the Conquest of King Williane the Bastard.

Hee was slaine, as you have heard, and afterward buried in the Cathedrall Church of Canturbury. The Lord Prior of Saint Iohns beheaded with the Archbishop. There died with him Sir Robert Hales, a most valiant Knight, Lord of Saint Iohns, and Treasurer of England, and Iohn Degge, one of the Kings Serjeants at Armes, and a Franciscane Fryer, named W. Apledore, the Kings Confessor. Richard Lyons also, a famous Lapidary and Goldsmith, late one of the Sheriffs of London, was drawn out of his house,Many beheaded both Flemmings and English to fulfill the headstrong cruelty of the commons. and beheaded in Cheap. Many that day were beheaded, as well Flemmings, as Englishmen, for no cause; but only to fulfill the cruelty of the rude Commons. For it was a solemne pastime to them, if they could take any that was not sworne to them, to take from such a one his Hood, with their accustomed clamours, and forthwith to behead him. Neither did they shew any reverence to sacred places; for in the very Churches they did kill any whom they had in hatred. They fetched 13. Flemmings out of the Augustines Fryers Church in London, and 17. out of another Church, and 32. in the Vintry, and so in other places of the Citie, as also in Southwarke, all which they beheaded: except they could plainely pronounce Bread and Cheese.The villaines made a pastime of putting men to death. For if their speech sounded any thing on Brot or Cawse, off went their heads, as a sure marke that they were Flemmings.

The King comming to the Miles-end, the place before recited, was greatly afraid, beholding the mad-headed Commons: who (with froward countenances) required many things, which they had put in writing, and to be confirmed by the Kings Letter Patents.

The demands made by the Rebelles to the King at Miles-end.

THat all men should be free from servitude and bondage;The first Article. so as (from thenceforth) there should be no bondmen.

That hee should pardon all men,The second Article. of what estate soever, all manner actions and insurrections committed, and all manner of Treasons, Felonies, transgressions and extortions, by any of them done, and to grant them peace.

That all men (from thenceforth) might bee enfranchised to buy and sell in every County,The third Article. City, Borough, Towne, Faire, Market and other place within the Realme of England.

That no Acre of Land,The fourth Article. holden in bondage or service, should bee holden but for foure pence: And if it had been holden for lesse in former time, it should not hereafter bee inhaunsed.

These, and many other things they required:Reprehension of the Kings government. And told him moreover, that hee had beene evilly governed till that day: but from that time forward hee must be governed otherwise.

The King perceiving that he could not escape,A hard extreamity for a king. except hee granted to their request, yeelded to the same: and so, craving Truce departed from them,The Essex men returned home. and the Essex men returned homeward. On the morrow, being Saturday, and the 15. of Iune, the King (after dinner) went from the Wardrobe in the Royall in London, to Westminster, to visite the Shrine of Saint Edward the King,The King goeth to Westminster. and to see if they had done any mischiefe there. Then went he to the Chappell, called our Lady in the Piew, where hee made his prayers: and returning by the Suburbes of West Smithfield, he found all that place full of people, to wit, the Kentish men. The King sendeth to the Kentish men. Wherfore he sent to shew them, that their fellowes the Essex men were gone home, and that hee would grant to them the like forme of Peace, if it liked them to accept thereof.

Their chiefe Captaine, named Iohn, or,Walter Hilliard, alias, Tylar their chiere Captaine. as other affirme, Walter Hilliard, alias Tylar, being a crafty fellow, and of an excellent wir, but wanting grace, answered, That he desired peace, but with conditions to his liking, meaning, to seed the King with faire words untill next day, that hee might in the night time have compassed his purpose. For they thought (the same night) to have [Page] spoiled the Citie,The wicked and bloody intent of the Rebels in the night time. the King being first slaine, and the great Lords that were about him: then to have burnt the City, by setting fire in foure parts thereof. But God that resisteth the proud, did suddenly disappoint him. For whereas the forme of peace was written in three several Charters, and thrice sent to him: none of them could please him. Wherefore at length,The King sendeth Sir Iohn Newton to Wat Tylar about his owne demands. the King sent to him one of his Knights, named Sir Iohn Newton, not so much to command, as to intreat him (for his pride was well enough knowne) to come and talke with him, about his owne demands, to have them put into his Charter: of which demands I will set downe one, that it may plainly appeare, how contrary to reason all the rest were.

First,One of Wat Tylars arrogant demands made to the King. he would have a Commission to behead all Lawyers, Escheators, and others whatsoever, that were learned in the Law, or communicated with the Law, by reason of their office. For hee had conceived in his mind, that this being brought to passe, all things afterward should bee ordered, according to the fancy of the Common people. And indeed it was said, that he had (but the day before) made his vaunt, putting his hand to his own lips:A hold brag of a Rebell. that before foure daies came to an end, all the Lawes of England shuld proceed from his mouth. When Sir Iohn Newton was in hand with him for dispatch, he answered with indignation: If thou art so hasty, thou maist get thee to thy Master, for I will come when it pleaseth mee. Notwithstanding, he followed on horsebacke a slow pace: and by the way,Iohn Tickle the Doubblet maker his comming to Wat Tylar, and what answer he made him. there came to him a Doublet maker, who had brought to the Commons threescore Doublers, which they bought and wore, and hee demanded thirty Markes for them, but could have no payment, Wat Tylar ansered him, saying, Friend, appease thy selfe, thou shalt be well payed before this day be ended: keep thee neere to me, I will be thy Creditor.

Setting spurs to his horse, he departed from his company,Wat Tylar his comming to the King, and his audacious words to him. and came so neere to the King, that his horse had touched the crooper of the Kings horse, and the first words he spake, were these: Sir King, seest thou all yonder people? Yea truely, quoth the King, wherefore saist thou so? Because (said he) they be all at my commandement, and have sworne to mee their faith and truth, to doe all that I will have them. In good time, replyed the King, I beleeve it well. Then said Wat Tylar, beleevest thou, King that these people,A lamentable case when a King should bee in such distresse. and as many moe as be in London, at my command, will depart from thee thus, without having thy Letters? No, said the King, yee shall have them, they bee ordained for you, and shall bee delivered to every one of them.

At these words, Wat Tylar seeing the Knight Sir Iohn Newton neere to him on horsebacke, bearing the Kings sword, was offended, and said,Wat Tylars words to Sir Iohn Newton who did heare the Kings sword. It had become him better to be on foot inhis presence. The Knight (not having forgot his old accustomed manhood) answered, That it was no harme, seeing himselfe was also on horsebacke. Which words so offended Wat, that he drew his Dagger, and offered to strike the Knight, calling him Traitor. The Knight answered, that he lied, and drew his Dagger likewise. Wat Tylar, not suffering such an indignity to be done him, and before his rustick companions, made as if he would have run upon the Knight.The Knight commanded to alight on foot before the Rebell. The King therefore, seeing the Knight in danger, to asswage the rigor of Wat for the time, commanded the Knight to alight on foot, and to deliver his Dagger to Wat Tylar. But when his proud mind could not bee so pacified, but hee would also have his Sword: the Knight answered, It was the kings sword, and (quoth he) thou art not worthy to have it, nor durst thou aske it of me, if here were no more but thou and I. By my faith, said Wat Tylar, I shall never eat, untill I have thy head, and would have run in upon the Knight.

At that very instant came to the King William Walworth, The comming of William Walworth L. Maior of London to checking and his worthy words to him. Lord Maior of London, a bold, couragious and brave minded man, with many Knights and Squires to assist the King, and hee said; My Liege, it were a great shame, and such as never had before been heard of, if in that presence, they should permit a Noble knight to be shamefully murthered, and before the face of their Soveraigne: wherefore hee ought to bee rescued, and Tylar the Rebell to be ararrested. [Page] Which words being heard, the king, although he were but of tender yeers, taking boldnesse and courage to him, commanded the Maior of London to lay hand upon him. The Maior, being a man of an incomparable spirit and boldnes, without any further delay or doubting, straight arrested him with his Mace upon the head,William Walworth Lord Maior of Lond. arrested VVat Tylar and felled him to the ground. and in such sort, that he fell downe at the feet of his horse. By and by, they which attended on the king, environed him round about, whereby he was not seene of his companie. And an Esquire of the Kings, called Iohn Cavendish, alighted from his horse, and thrust his Sword into Wat Tylars belly: albeit more opinions do hold, that the Maior did it with his Dagger, and many beside did thrust him in, in many places of his body, and then drew him from among the people,VVat Tylar the Rebell slaine in Smithfield. into the Hospitall of Saint Bartholomew. Which when the Commons perceived, they cryed out, that their Captaine was traiterously slaine, heartning one another to fight, and to revenge his death, bending their Bowes. But the King rode to them, saying,The kings kinde words to the rude multitude What a worke is this, my men? What meane you to doe? Will you shoot at your king? Be not quarrellous, or sorry for the death of a Traytor and Ribald: I am your king, I will be your Captaine and Leader: follow me into the Field, there to have whatsoever you will require.

This the king did, lest the Commons, being bitterly bent in minde, should set fire on the houses in Smithfield, where their Captain was slaine. They therfore followed him into the open Field,They followed the King into the field. and the Souldiers that were with him, not knowing as yet, whether they would kill the king, or be in rest, and depart home with the kings Charter. In the meane while, worthy Walworth, the (for ever) famous Maior of London, to second his first peece of service, that fell out to so good purpose, onely with one servant, riding speedily into the Citie, began to cry, You good Citizens, come to helpe your king,Another worthy action performed by the Lord Maior. that is in doubt to be murdered, and succour me your Maior, that am in the like danger: Or if you will not succour me, yet leave not the king destitute. When the Citizens heard this, in whose hearts the love of the king was ingrafted, suddenly, and very seemely prepared,A Noble and loyall forwardnesse in true-hearted Citizens, for the succor of their king, being in great distresse. (to the number of a thousand) they tarried in the streets, for some one of the knights to lead them (with the Lord Maior) to the king. And by good fortune, Sir Robert Knowles, a Freeman of the Citie, came in the very instant, whom they all required to bee their Leader. Hee gladly undertooke part of them; and Perducas Dalbert, the Lord Maior, and some other knights, led on the rest to the kings presence. The king, and all that were with him, rejoycing not a little at the unhoped for comming of these brave armed Citizens, suddenly compassed the whole multitude of the Commons.

There might a man have seene a wonderfull change of Gods right hand,A wonderfull alteratiō among the Rebels how the Commons did now throw downe their weapons, and fall to the ground, beseeching pardon; who lately before did glory that they had the kings life in their power; and now were glad to hide themselves in caves, ditches, cornefields, &c. The knights therefore, desirous to be revenged, besought the king to permit them to take off the heads of and hundred or two ofthem.Great wisdome and discretion in the king being so yong. But the king would not condiscend to their request, but commanded the Charter which they had demanded, written and sealed, to be delivered to them for the time, to avoid any more mischiefe: As knowing well, that Essex was not yet pacified, nor Kent stayed, the Commons and Rusticks of which Countries were ready to rise again, if he did not satisfie them the sooner. The Commons having got the Charter, departed homeward, and the rude people being disperted and gone, the king called for his valiant Maior of Lond. W. Walworth, VV VValworth, L. Maior of London knighted in the field and other Aldermen with him. whom (with great honour) he knighted there in the field, and as he had very worthily deserved. The like he did to Nicholas Brember, Ioh. Philpot, Robert Lawnd, Iohn Standish, Nicholas Twiford, and Adam Frances, Aldermen. Afterward, the king, with his lords and his company, orderly entred into the Citie of London with great joy, and went to his royal Mother, who was lodged in the Tower Royall, called then the Queenes Wardrobe, and there shee had remained two dayes and two nights, very much abashed and amazed. [Page] But when shee saw the king her sonne, she was highly comforted, and said, Ah faire Sonne, what great sorrow have I suffered for you this day!The comfortable words of the King to his mother. The king answered, and said: Certainely, Madame, I know it well: but now rejoyce, and thanke God, for I have this day recovered mine Heritage, and the Realme of England, which I had neere-hand lost. The Archbishops head was taken off the Bridge, and Wat Tylars head set up in the place.

Here we are further to consider, that for an eternall remembrance of this happy day,The Arms or London augmented by addition of a Dagger. and the Cities honour withall, the king granted, that there should be a Dagger added to the Armes of the Citie, in the right quarter of the shield, for an augmentation of the same Armes, and a memory of the Lord Maior his valiant act, as doth appeare unto this day. For till that time, the Citie bare onely the Crosse without the Dagger.

And whereas it hath been farre spred abroad by vulgar opinion,Concerning vulgar mistaking the Captaines name of the Rebels that the Rebell smitten downe so manfully by Sir William Walworth, the then worthy Lord Maior of London, was named Iack Straw, and not Wat Tylar: I thought good to reconcile this rash conceived doubt, by such testimony as I find in ancient and good Records. The principall Leaders and Captaines of the Commons, were Wat Tylar, The name of the chiefe Captaines and ringleaders in the rebellion. as the first man that tooke himselfe to be offended. The second, was Iohn or Iack Straw: the third, was Iohn Kirkby: the fourth, Allen Thredder: the fifth, Thomas Scot: the sixth, Ralfe Rugge. These and many other were Leaders of the Kentish and Essex men. At Mildenhall and Burie in Suffolke, was Robert Westbrome, that made himselfe a king; and was most famous, next to Iohn Wrawe, who being a Priest, could not set Crowne upon Crowne: but left the name of king and Crowne to the same Robert. At Norwich, Iohn Litester a Dyer, exercised the name and power of a king, till he was taken and hanged for his paines. Thus dangerously had this Rebellion dispersed it selfe abroad.The rebellion had extended it selfe into many places. But the happy and prosperous successe at London, with other good care for them further off, gave a gracious issue to all in the end. After the death of Wat Tylar, and Iack Straw being taken, with divers other, as chiefe actors in this monstrous disorder: the fore-named Lord Mayor sate in judgement upon the offenders, and pronounced the sentence of death upon them.The Lord Maior sate in judgement on the Rebels, and his words that he used to Iack Straw. At which time, the Lord Maior spake openly to him thus: Iohn (quoth he) behold, thy death is at hand without all doubt, and there is no way through which thou mayst hope to escape: wherefore, for thy soules health, without making any lye, tell us what you purposed to have done among you, and to what end you did assemble the Commons. When hee had stayed a while, as doubtfull what to say, the Maior began thus againe to him: Surely thou knowest, Iohn, that the thing which I demand of thee, if thou doe it truely, it will redound to thy soules health, &c. He therefore, animated by the Lord Maiors good words, began as followeth:

The Confession of Iack Straw, to the Lord Maior of London, before his death.

NOw it booteth not to lye, neither is it lawfull to utter any untruth: especially, understanding that my Soule is to suffer more straiter torments if I should so doe. And because I hope for two commodities by speaking the truth: first, that what I shall speake, may profit the Common-wealth: and secondly, after my death, I trust by your suffrages to be succoured, according to your promises, which is to pray for me: I will speake faithfully, and without any deceit.

At the same time as wee were assembled upon Black-heath, What they intended to doe at Black heath. and had sent to the King to come unto us: our purpose was, to have slaine all such Knights, Squires and Gentlemen, Their intent for keeping the King. as should have given their attendance thither upon him: And as for the King, we would have kept him among us, to the end that the people might more boldly have repaired to us: sith they would have thought, that whatsoever we did, the same had beene done by his authority. Finally, when we had gotten power enough, that wee needed not to feare any force which might be made against us, we would have slaine all such Noblemen as might either have given counsell, or made any resistance against us: especially, we would have slaine the Knights [Page] of the Rhodes or Saint Iohns, The killing of all Noblemen. Killing the King & all that had any possessions. and lastly, were would have killed the King himselfe, and all men of possessions: with Bishops, Monks, Canons, and Parsons of Churches. Onely Friers Mendicants wee would have spared, that might have sufficed for Ministration of the Sacraments.

When we had made a riddance of all those,Lawes devised by thēselves. we would have devised Lawes, according to which Lawes the subjects of the Realme should have lived. For we would have created Kings,Creation of kings among thē. as Wat Tylar in Kent, and other in other Countries. But because this our purpose was disappointed by the Archbishop of Canturbury, Their malice to the Archbishop. that would not permit the King to come to us: wee sought by all meanes to dispatch him out the way, as at length we did. Moreover, the same evening that Wat Tylar was kild, wee were determined (having the greatest part of the Commons of the City bent to joyne with us) to have set fire in foure corners of the Citie,Their intent to burue London. and so to have divided among our selves, the spoile of the chiefest riches that might have been found at our [...] pleasure. And this (said he) [...], as God may helpe me now at [...].

After this confession [...]de hee was beheaded, and [...] [...]ad set on London bridge by Wat Tylars, and many other.

In the yeere 1387. King Richard held his feast of Christmas in the Tower.Richard the 2. prisoner in the Tower. And in the yeere 1399. the same King was sent prisoner to the Tower.

In the yeere 1414. Sir Iohn Oldcastle brake out of the Tower.Porter of the Tower beheaded. And the same yeere a Parliament being holden at Leicester, a Porter of the Tower was drawn, hanged and headed, whose head was sent up, and set over the Tower Gate, for consenting to one Whitlooke, that brake out of the Tower.

In the yeere 1419. Fryer Randulph was sent to the Tower, and was there slaine by the Parson of Saint Peters in the Tower.

In the yeere 1426. there came to London a lewd fellow,A counter, feit Physician his head set on the Tower of London. feining himselfe to be sent from the Emperour, to the yong king Henry the sixt, calling himselfe the Baron of Blackamoore, and that he should be the principall Physician in this Kingdome: but his subtilty being knowne, he was apprehended, condemned, drawne, hanged, headed and quartered, his head set on the Tower of London, and his quarters on toure Gates of the Citie.

In the yeere 1458. in Whitson-week, the Duke of Somerset, with Anthony Rivers, lusting in the tower. and other foure, kept Iusts before the Queen in the Tower of London against three Esquires of the Queenes, and others.

In the yeere 1465. King Henry the sixt was brought prisoner the Tower, where he remained long.

In the yeere 1470. the Tower was yeelded to Sir Richard Lee Maior of London and his Brethren the Aldermen, who forthwith entred the same, delivering King Henry of his imprisonment,Henry the 6 murthered in the Tower. and lodged him in the Kings lodging there, but the next yeere he was againe sent thither prisoner, and there murdered.

In the yeere 1478. George Duke of Clarence, Duke of Clarence drowned in the Tower. was drowned in a Butte of Malmesey in the Tower: and within 5. yeeres after King Edward the fift, with his Brother,Edward the 5. murthered in the Tower. were said to be murthered there.

In the yeere 1485. Iohn Earle of Oxford was made Constable of the Tower,Pacent 1. of Henry the 7. Iuste and turneying in the Tower. and had custody of the Lyons granted him.

In the yeere 1501. in the moneth of May, was royall Turney of Lords and Knights in the Tower of London before the king.

In the yeere 1502. Queen Elizabeth, wife to Henry the 7. died of Childbirth in the Tower.

In the yeere 1512. the Chappell in the high white Tower was burned. In the yeere 1546. Queene Anne Bullein was beheaded in the Tower. 1541. Lady Katherine Howard, wife to king Henry the eighth, was also beheaded there.

In the yeere 1546. the 27. of April, VVilliam Foxley slept in the Tower 14. dayes and more without waking. being Tuesday in Easter weeke William Foxley, Potmaker for the Mint of the Tower of London, fell asleepe, and so continued sleeping, and could not bee wakened with pricking, cramping, or otherwise burning whatsoever, till the first day of the tearme, which was full 14. daies, and 15. nights, or more, for that Easter tearme beginneth not afore 17. dayes after Easter. The cause of his thus sleeping could not bee knowne, though the same were diligently searched [Page] after by the Kings Physicians, and other learned men: yea, the king himselfe examined the said Wil. Foxley, who was in all points found at his wakening, to be as if he had slept but one night, and he lived more than forty yeeres after in the said Tower, to wit, untill the yeere of Christ, 1587. and then deceased on Wednesday in Easter weeke.

Thus much for these accidents: and now to conclude thereof in summary. This Tower is a Cittadell, to defend or command the Citie:Vse of the Tower to defend the Citie. a Royall place for assemblies and treaties: a Prison of Estate, for the most dangerous offenders: The onely place of coynage for all England at this time: the Armorie for warlike provision: the Treasurie of the Ornaments and Iewels of the Crowne, and generall conserver of the most Records of the kings Courts of Iustice at Westminster.

Tower on London Bridge.

THe next Tower on the River of Thames, Tower at the north end of the Drawbridge. was on London Bridge, at the north end of the Drawbridge. This Tower was new begun to be builded 1426. Iohn Reynwell, Maior of London, laid one of the first cornerstones in the foundation of this worke; the other three were laid by the Sheriffes and Bridge-masters: upon every of these foure stones was ingraven in faire Romane letters, the name of Ihesus. And these stones I have seene laid in the Bridge Storehouse, since they were taken up, when that Tower was of late newly made of timber.

This Gate and tower was at the first strongly builded up of stone, and so continued untill the yeere 1577. in the moneth of April, when the same stone arched gate and tower, being decayed, was begun to be taken downe, and then were the heads of the traytors removed thence, and set on the tower over the gate at the Bridge foot, towards Southwarke. This said tower beeing taken downe, a new foundation was drawne, and Sir Iohn Langley, Lord Maior, laid the first stone, in the presence of the Sheriffes and Bridge masters.

On the 28 of August, and in the moneth of September, the yeere 1579. the same tower was finished, a beautifull and chargeable peece of worke, all above the Bridge being of timber.

Tower on the South of London Bridge.

ANother tower there is on London Bridge, Tower at the south end of the bridge. to wit, over the gate at the South end of the same Bridge, toward Southwarke. This gate, with the tower thereupon, and two Arches of the Bridge fell downe, and no man perished by the fall thereof, in the yeere 1436. Towards the new building whereof, divers charitable Citizens gave large summes of monies: which Gate being then againe new builded,W. Dunthorne. was, with thirteene houses more on the Bridge,The fourth gate on London bridge burned. in the yeere 1471. burned by the Mariners and Saylers of Kent, Bastard Fawconbridge being their Captaine.

Baynards Castle.

IN the west part of this Citie (saith Fitzstephen) are two most strong Castles, Baynards Castle. &c. Also Gervasim Tilbury, Fitzstephen. in the Reigne of Henry the second,Gervas. Tilbery. writing of these Castl [...] [...] to this effect: Two Castles (saith he) [...] built with wals and rampires, whereof one is in right of possession Baynards: the other, the Barons of Mountfitchet. The first of these Castles, banking on the River Thames, was called Baynards Castle, of Baynard, a Nobleman that came in with the Conquerour, and then builded it, and deceased in the reigne of William Rufus: after whose decease Geffrey Baynard succeeded, and then William Baynard, in the yeere 1111 who by forfeiture for Felonie, lost his Baronry of little Dunmow, and king Henry gave it wholly to Robert, the sonne of Richard, the sonne of Gilbert of Clare, and to his heires, together with the honour of Baynards Castle. This Robert married Maude de Sent Licio, Lady of Bradham, and deceased 1134. was buried at Saint Needes by Gilbert of Glare his Father: Walter his sonne succeeded him, he tooke to wife Matilde de Bocham; and after her decease, Matilde the daughter and coheyre of Richard de Lucy, on whom hee begate Robert, and other: hee deceased in the yeere 1198. and was buried at Dunmow: after whom succeeded Robert Fitzwater, a valiant knight.

[Page] About the yeere 1213. there arose a great discord betwixt king Iohn and his Barons,Lib. Dunmow. because of Matilda, surnamed the faire, daughter to the said Robert Fitzwater, whom the king unlawfully loved, but could not obtain her, nor her Father would consent thereunto: wherupon, and for other like causes, ensued warre through the whole Realme. The Barons were received into Lond. where they greatly endamaged the King, but in the end, the king did not onely (therefore) banish the said Fitzwater amongst other,Robert Fitzwater banished. out of the Realme, but also caused his Castell, called Baynard, and other his houses to bee spoiled.Baynards Castell destroyed. Which then being done, a Messenger being sent unto Matilda the faire,Virginity defended with the losse of worldly goods and life of the body, for life of the soule. about the kings suit, whereunto shee would not consent, she was poysoned: Robert Fitzwater, and other being then passed into France and some into Scotland, &c.

It hapned in the yeere 1214. king Iohn being then in France with a great Army, that a truce was taken betwixt the two kings of England and France, for the tearme of five yeeres, and a River, or arme of the Sea [...] then betwixt either host. There was a Knight in the English host, that cryed to them of the other side, willing some one of their Knights, to come and just a course or twaine with him: whereupon, without stay, Robert Fitzwater, being on the French part, made himselfe ready, ferried over, and got on horsebacke, without any man to helpe him, and shewed himselfe ready to the face of his challenger, whom at the first course, hee strooke so hard with his great Speare, that horse and man fell to the ground: and when his Speare was broken, hee went back againe to the king of France. Which when the king had seene, by Gods tooth,King Iohns oath. quoth hee (after his usuall oath) he were a king indeed, that had such a Knight. The friends of Robert hearing these words, kneeled downe and said:Robert Fitzwater restored to the Kings favour. O king, he is your knight; it is Robert Fitzwater, and thereupon the next day hee was sent for, and restored to the kings favour: By which meanes, peace was concluded,Baynards Castell again builded. and he received his livings, and had licence to repaire to his Castell of Baynard, and other Castles.

The yeere 1216. the first of Henry the third, the Castell of Hartford, being delivered to Lewes the French, and the Barons of England, The keeping of Hertford Castell belonged to Robert Fitzwater. Robert Fitzwater requiring to have the same; because the keeping thereof did by ancient right and title pertaine to him, was answered by Lewes; That English men were not worthy to have such holds in keeping, because they did betray their own Lord, &c. This Robert deceased in the yeere 1234. and was buried at Dunmow, and Walter his sonne succeeded him, 1258. and his Barony of Baynard, was in the ward of King Henry in the nonage of Robert Fitzwater. This Robert tooke to his second wife, Aelianor, daughter and heire to the Earle of Ferrars, in the yeere 1289. and in the yeere 1303. on the 12. of March. Before Iohn Blondon, Maior of London, he acknowledged his service to the same Citie, and sware upon the Evangelists, that he would be true to the liberties thereof, and maintaine the same to his power, and the counsell of the same to keepe, &c.

The rights that belonged to Robert Fitzwater, Chastilian and Banner-bearer of London, Lord of Wodeham were these.

THe said Robert and his heires,Robert Fitzwater, Castilian and Banner bearer of London. ought to be, and are chiefe Bannerers of London, in fee for the Chastilary, which he and his ancestors had by Castell Baynard, in the said Citie. In time of warre, the said Robert and his heyres ought to serve the City in manner as followeth: that is;

The said Robert ought to come, hee being the twentieth man of Armes on horsebacke, covered with cloth, or Armour, unto the great West doore of St. Paul, with his Banner displaied before him, of his Armes. And when hee is come to the said doore, mounted and apparelled, as before is said, the Maior with his Aldermen and Sheriffs, armed in their Armes, shall come out of the said Church of Saint Paul unto the said doore, with a Banner in his hand all on foot,Banner of S. Paul. which Banner shalbe Gules, the Image of Saint Paul gold: the face, hands, feet, and sword of silver: and assoone as the said Robert shall see the Maior, Aldermen, and Sheriffs come [Page] on foot out of the Church, armed with such a Banner, he shall alight from his horse, and salute the Maior, and say to him; Sir Maior, I am come to doe my service, which I owe to the Citie.

And the Maior and Aldermen shall answer:

We give to you, as to our Banneret of fee in this Citie, the Banner of this Citie to beare and governe, to the honour and profit of this Citie, to your power.

And the said Robert and his heires shall receive the Banner in his hands, and shall goe on foot out of the gate, with the Banner in his hands; and the Maior, Aldermen, and Shiriffes shall follow to the doore, and shall bring an horse to the said Robert, worth twenty pound, which horse shall bee saddled with a saddle of the Armes of the said Robert, and shall be covered with sindals of the said Armes.

Also they shall present to him twenty pounds starling money, and deliver it to the Chamberlaine of the said Robert, for his expences that day. Then the said Robert shall mount upon the horse which the Maior presented to him, with the Banner in his hand, and as soone as he is up, hee shall say to the Mayor, that he cause a Marshall to be chosen for the host, one of the Citie; which Marshall being chosen, the said Robert shall command the Maior and Burgesses of the Citie, to warne the Commons to assemble together, and they shall all goe under the Banner of S. Paul, and the said Robert shall beare it himselfe unto Ealdgate, and there the said Robert and Maior shall deliver the said Bauner of Saint Paul from thence, to whom they shal assent or think good. And if they must make any issue forth of the Citie; then the said Robert ought to choose two forth of every Ward, the most sage personages, to foresee to the safe keeping of the Citie, after they be gone forth. And this counsell shall bee taken in the Priorie of the Trinity neere unto Ealdgate. And againe, before every Towne or Castle, which the host of London shall besiege, if the siege continue a whole yeere, the said Robert shall have for every siege, of the Communalty of London, one hundred shillings for his travell, and no more.

These be the rights that the said Robert hath in the time of warre.Rights belonging to Robert Fitzwater in the time of peace. Rights belonging to Robert Fitzwater and to his heires in the Citie of London in the time of peace, are these; that is to say, The said Robert hath a Soke or Ward in the Citie; that is, a wall of the Canonrie of Saint Paul, as a man goeth down the street before the Brewhouse of Saint Paul, unto the Thames, and so to the side of the Mill, which is in the water that commeth downe from the Fleetbridge, and goeth so by London wals, betwixt the Friers preachers and Ludgate, and so returneth backe by the house of the said Fryers, unto the said wall of the said Canonrie of Saint Paul; that is, all the Parish of Saint Andrew, which is in the gift of his Ancestors, by the said Signiority: and so the said Robert hath appendant unto the said Soke, all these things under-written: That he ought to have a Sokeman, and to place what Sokeman he will, so he be of the Sokemanrie, or the same Ward; and if any of the Sokemanry be impleaded in the Guildhall, of any thing that toucheth not the body of the Maior that for the time is, or that toucheth the body of no Sheriffe, it is not lawfull for the Sokeman of the Sokemanrie of the said Robert Fitzwater, to demand a Court of the said Robert; and the Maior and his Citizens of London ought to grant him to have a Court,A Court to bee granted Robert Fitzwater for his Sokeman. and in his Court hee ought to bring his judgements, at it is assented and agreed upon in the Guildhall, that shall be given them.

If any therefore be taken in his Soke. manry, he ought to have his Stocks and imprisonment in his Soke; and he shall be brought from thence to the Guildhall, before the Maior, and there they shall provide him his judgement that ought to be given of him: but his judgement shall not be published till he come into the Court of the said Robert, and in his liberty.

And the judgement shall bee such,Iudgemēt for diversity of offence [...]. that if he have deserved death by treason, he to be tyed to a post in the Thames at a good Wharfe, where Boats are fastned, two ebbings and two flowings of the water.

And if he be condemned for a common thiefe, he ought to bee led to the [Page] Elmes, and there suffer his judgement as other Theeves. And so the said Robert and his heires hath honour, that he holdeth a great Franches within the Citie, that the Maior of the Citie and Citizens are bound to doe him of right; that is to say, that when the Maior will hold a great Councell, he ought to call the said Robert and his heires, to be with him in councell of the Citie; and the said Robert ought to be sworne, to be of counsell with the Citie, against all people, saving the King and his heires. And when the said Robert commeth to the Hustings in the Guild hall of the Citie, the Maior or his Lieutenant ought to rise against him, and set him downe neere unto him, and so long as hee is in the Guild-hall, all the judgements ought to be given by his mouth, according to the Record of the Recorders of the said Guild-hall. And so many waifes as come so long as he is there, he ought to give them to the Bayliffes of the Towne, or to whom he will, by the counsaile of the Maior of the Citie.

These be the Franchises that belonged to Robert Fitzwater in London, in time of peace, which, for the antiquity thereof, I have noted out of an old Record.

This Robert deceased in the yeere 1305 leaving issue, Walter Fitzrobert, who had issue, Robert Fitzwalter, unto whom, in the yeere 1320. the Citizens of London acknowledged the right, which they ought to him and his heires for the Castle Baynard. He deceased 1325. unto whom succeeded Robert Fitzrobert, Fitzwalter, &c. More of the Lord Fitzwater may ye read in my Annales, in the 51 of Edward the third. But how this honour of Baynards Castle, with the appurtenances, fell from the possession of the Fitzwaters, I have not read: only I find, that in the yeere 1428. the seventh of Henry the sixth,Baynards Castle perished by fire. a great fire was at Baynards Castle, and that Humfrey Duke of Gloucester builded it new. By his death and attaindor,Humfrey, Duke of Gloucester, new builded it. in the yeere 1446. it came to the hands of Henry the sixth, and from him to Richard Duke of Yorke, of whom wee reade,Richard, Duke of Yorke, owner of Baynards Castle. that in the yeere 1457. he lodged there as in his owne house.

In the yeere 1460. the 28 of February, the Earles of March and of Warwicke, with a great power of men, (but few of name) entred the City of London, where they were of the Citizens joyfully received; and upon the third of March, being Sunday, the said Earle caused his people to be mustred in S. Iohns field: where, unto that host was shewed and proclaimed, certaine Articles & points, wherein King Henry, as they said, had offended, and thereupon it was demanded of the said people, whether the said Henry was worthy to raingne as King any longer, or not: wherunto the people cryed, nay. Then it was asked of them, whether they would have the E.Edward the 4 elected in S. Iohns field. of March for their King: and they cryed, yea, yea. Whereupon certaine Captaines were appointed to beare report thereof to the said Earle of March, then being lodged at his Castle of Baynard. Whereof when the Earle was by them advertised, he thanked God, and them for their election: notwithstanding, he shewed some countenance of insufficiency in him, to occupie so great a charge, till by exhortation of the Archbishop of Canturbury, Edward the 4. took on him the Crownein Baynards Castle. the Bishop of Excest. and certain Noblemen, he granted to their petition: and on the next morrow at Pauls, he went on Procession, offered, and had Te Deum sung. Then was he with great Royalty conveyed to Westminster, and there in the great Hall, set in the Kingss Seat, with Saint Edwards Scepter in his hand.

In the seventh yeere of King Edwards reigne,Ex lib. Erswick. Treason surmised against many men many men were arrested of treason, surmised against them, wherethough many of them were put to death, and other escaped for great sums of money. Amongst whom were, Sir Thomas Cooke, Divers Aldermen unjustly charged with treason. Sir Iohan Plummer, Knights, Humfrey Heyward, and other Aldermen of London arrested, and charged with treason: whereof they were acquitted, but they lost their goods to the King, to the value of 40000. Marks, or more, as some have written. And for example, Sir Thomas Cooke, lately before L. Maior of London, was by one, named Hawkins, appeached of Treason, for which he was committed to the Tower, his place in London seized on by the Lord Rivers; and his Lady and servants cleerely put out thereof, the cause being thus:

[Page] The forenamed Hawkins came (upon a time) to the said Sir Thomas Cooke, The reason of Sir Thomas Cooke his troubles. requesting him to lend him a thousand Markes upon good surety; wherunto he answered, that he would first know for whom it should be: At length understanding that it should bee for the use of Queen Margaret, hee answered; he had no currant wares, whereof any shift might bee made, without too much losse, and therefore required Hawkins to move him no further, for he intended not to deale therewithall. Yet the said Hawkins requested but one hundred pounds at length, and went away without it, or the value of one penny, and never after came again to move him; which rested so for two or 3. yeere after, till the said Hawkins was committed to the Tower; and brought at length to the Brake or Racke, commonly called,The Brake or Racke in the Tower, usually called the Duke of Excesters Daughter the Duke of Excesters daughter, because hee was the deviser of that torture. By meanes of which paine, he revealed many things: and among the rest, the motion, which hee had made to Sir Thomas Cooke, was one. In regard whereof, the said Sir Thomas was troubled, as you have heard, and a Iury, by the meanes of Sir Iohn Fogge, endighted him of treason. After which, an Oyer determiner was held in the Guildhall, An Oyer determiner for the tryall of Sir Thomas Cooke. where sate the Lord Maior, the Duke of Clarence, the Earle of Warwicke, the Lord Rivers, Sir Iohn Fogge, with other of the kings Councell.

To this place was the said Sir Thomas brought, and there arraigned upon life and death: where he was acquitted of the said endightment,Sir Thomas Cooke acquitted by the Iury. and sent to the Counter in Breadstreet, and from thence to the Kings Bench. Being thus acquitted, his Wife got possession againe of his house, the which she found in a very evill plight: for the servants of Sir Iohn Fogge, and of the Lord Rivers, had made havocke of what they listed. Also, at his place at Giddy Hall in Essex, When men are in distresse much spoil is made of them. anóther sort had destroyed the Deere in his Parke, his Conies and Fish, and spared not Brasse, Pewter, Bedding, and all that they could carry away; for which, neuer a penny might be gotten backe againe in recompence, nor Sir Thomas Cooke bee delivered, untill he had paid 8000. pounds to the King, and 800. pounds to the Queene. And because that Sir Iohn Markham knight, then chiefe Iustice of the Pleas, determined somewhat against the kings pleasure (that the offence done by Sir Thomas Cooke was no treason, but misprision, the which was no desert of death, but to be fined at the kings pleasure:Sir Iohn Markham Lord chiefe Iustice lust his Office for doing Iustice.) the Lord Rivers, and the Dutches of Bedford his wife, procured, that he lost his Office afterward.

Edward the fourth being dead, leaving his eldest sonne Edward, and his second sonne Richard, both infants; Richard Duke of Glocester, Richard the third took on him the Crown in Baynards Castle. being elected by the Nobles and Commons in the Guildhall of London, tooke on him the title or the Realme and kingdome, as imposed upon him in this Baynards Castle, as yee may read pended by Sir Thomas Moore, and set downe in my Annals.

Henry the seventh,Of Baynards Castle. about the yeere 1501. the 16. of his reigne, repaired or rather new builded this house, not imbattelled, or so strongly fortified Castle-like▪ but farre more beautifull and commodious for the entertainment of any Prince or great Estate: hee also kept a Royall Turney, and Iusts in the Tower of London, for his Lords, knights and other. In the seventeenth of his reigne, he with his Queene were lodged there, and came from thence to Fauls Church, where they made their offering, dined in the Bishops Palace, and so returned.

The 18, of his reigne he was lodged there,Henry the lodged in Baynards Castle. and the Ambassadours from the King of the Romanes, were thither brought to his presence, and from thence the king came to Pauls, and was there sworne to the King of the Romans, as the said King had sworne to him.

The twenty of the said King,Henry the seventh and Knights of the Garter rode in then habits from the Tower to Pault Church. he with his Knights of the Order, all in their habits of the Gatter, rode from the Tower of London through the City, unto the Cathedrall Church of St. Pauls, and there heard Evensong, and from thence they rode to Baynards Castle, where the king lodged, and on the next morrow, in the same habit they rode from thence againe to the said Church of St. Pauls, went on Procession, heard the divine Service, offered and returned. The same yeere the King of Castile [Page] was lodged there.

In the yeere 1553. the 19. of Iuly, the Councell,The counsell assembled at Baynards Castle, & proclaimed Queene Mary. partly moved with the right of the Lady Maries cause, partly considering, that the most of the Realm was wholly bent on her side, changing their minde from Lady Iane, lately proclaimed Queen; assembled themselves at this Baynards Castle, where they communed with the Earle of Pembrooke and the Earle of Shrewsbury, and Sir Iohn Mason, Clerke of the Councell, sent for the Lord Maior, and then riding into Cheape to the Crosse, where Garter King at Armes (Trumpets being sounded) proclaimed the Lady Marie, Daughter to King Henry the eight, and Queene Katharine, Queene of England, &c.

This Castle now belongeth to the Earle of Pembrooke.

Next adjoyning to this Castle, was sometime a Tower, the name thereof I have not read, but that the same was builded by Edward the second, is manifest by this that followeth:

King Edward the third,A Tower by Baynards Castle builded by Edward the second. in the second yeere of his reigne, gave unto William de Ros, of Hamelake in Yorkeshire, a Tower upon the water of Thames, by the Gastle Baynard, in the Citie of London, which Tower his Father had builded, he gave the said Tower and appurtenances to the said William Hamesake, and his heires, for a Roseyeerely to be paid for al service due, &c.

This Tower as it seemeth to me, was since called Legates Inne, the 7. of Edward the fourth.

Tower of Mountfiquit.

THe next Tower or Castle,Tower of Mountfiquit. banking also on the river of Thames, was (as is afore shewed) called Mountfiquits Castle, belonging to a Nobleman, Baron of Mountfiquit, the first builder thereof, who came in with William the Conquerour, and was afterward named, William le Sir Monntfiquit. This Castle hee builded in a place, not far distant from Baynards, towards the West. The same William Mountfiquit lived in the reigne of Hen. the 1. and was witnesse to a Charter then granted to the Citie for the Shiriffes of London, Richard Mountfiquit lived in king Iohns time, and in the yeere 1213. was by the same king banished the Realme into France, when (peradventure) king Iohn caused his Castle of Mountfiquit, amongst other Castles of the Barons, to be overthrowne. The which, after his returne, might bee by him againe re edified; for the totall destruction thereof, was about the yeere 1276. when Robert Kilwarby, Archbishop of Canturbury, began the foundation of the Fryers Preachers Church there, commonly called, the Blacke Fryers, as appeareth by a Charter, in the fourth of Edward the first, in these words.

Gregory Rokesley, Cant. Récord ex Charta. The preaching Friers Church founded by Baynards Castle; before which time their Church was in Oldborne. Lord Maior, and the Barons of London, granted, and gave to the Archbishop of Canturbury Robert Kilwarby, two lanes or wayes, lying next to the street of Baynards Castle, and the Tower of Mountfiquit, or Mountfichet to be destroyed. In the which place, the said Robert builded the late new Church of the Blacke Fryers, with the rest of the stones that were left of the said Tower. For the best and choise stones the Bishop of London had obtained of King William Conquerour, to re-edifie the upper part of Saint Pauls Church, which was then (by chance of fire) decaied.

One other Tower there was also,Tower on the Thames situate on the River of Thames, neere unto the said Black Fryers Church, on the West part thereof, builded at the Citizens charges, by licence and commandement of Edward the first, and of Edward the second as appeareth by their gránts. Which Tower was then finished, and so stood for the space of 300. yeeres; and was at the last taken downe by the commandement of Iohn Sha, Maior of London, in the yeere 1502.

Another Tower or Castle also was there,Tower or Castle on the west of London by Saint Brides Church. in the West part of the Citie, pertaining to the king. For I read, that in the yeere 1087. the 20. of William the first, the City of London, with the Church of Saint Paul, being burned, Mauritius then Bishop of London, afterward began the foundation of a new Church, whereunto king William (saith mine Author) gave the choise stones of his Castle, standing neere to the bank of the River of Thames, at the west end of [Page] the Citie.In vita Arkenwald. After this Mauritius, Richard his successor purchased the streets about Pauls Church, compassing the same with a wall of stone, and gates, King Henry the first gave to this Richard, so much of the Moat or wall of the Castle, on the Thames side to the South, as should be needfull to make the said wall of the Churchyard, and so much more as should suffice to make a way without the wall on the North side.

This Tower or Castle being thus destroyed, stood, as it may seeme, in place where now standeth the House called Bridewell. For notwithstanding the destruction of the said Castle or Tower, the house remained large, so that the Kings of this Realme long after were lodged there,The kings house by S. Brides in Flceistreet. and kept their Courts. For untill the 9. yeere of Henry the third, the Courts of Law and Iustice were kept in the Kings house, wheresoever he was lodged, and not elsewhere. And that the Kings have beene lodged, and kept their Law Court in this place, I could shew you many, authors of record; but for a plaine proofe, this one may suffice: Haec est finalis concordia, facta in Curia Dom. Lib. Barton super Trent. Regis apud Sanct. Bridgid. Lond. a die Sancti Michaelis in 15. dies Anno regni Regis Iohannis 7. Corā G. Fil. Petri, Eustacio de Fauconberg, Iohanne de Gestlinge, Osbart filio Hervey, Walter de Crisping, Iusticiar. & aliis Baronibus Domini Regis. More (as Mathew Paris hath) about the yeere 1210. King Iohn, Mat. Paris Manuscrip. Parliament at S. Brides. the 12. of his reigne, summoned a Parliament at S. Brides in London, where he exacted of the Clergie and religious persons, the summe of one hundred thousand pounds, and besides all this, the white Monks were compelled to cancell their priviledges, and to pay 40000. l. to the King, &c. This house of S. Birdes of later time being left, and not used by the Kings, fell to ruine, insomuch that the very platforme thereof remained (for great part) waste, and as it were, but a lay-stall of filth and rubbish, only a faire Well remained there. A great part of this house, namely on the west, as hath beene said, was given to the Bishop of Salisbury; Bridewell builded by King Henry the eighth. the other part toward the East remained waste, untill King Henry the 8. builded a stately and beautifull house thereupon, giving it to name, Bridewell, of the Parish and Well there. This house he purposely builded for the entertainmēt of the Emp. Charles the 5. who in the yeere 1522. came into this Citie, as I have shewed in my Summarie, Annales, and large Chronicles.

On the North-west side of this Citie, neere unto Redcrosse-street, there was a Tower, commonly called Barbican, Barbican or Burhkenning or Burhkenning, for that the same, being placed on an high ground, and also builded of some good height, was (in old time) used as a Watch-Tower for the Citie, from whence a man might behold and view the whole Citie towards the South, and also into Kent, Suffex and Surrey, and likewise every other way, East, North, or West.

Some other Burhkennings or Watch-Towers there were of old time, in and about the Citie, all which were repayred, yea and others new builded, by Gilbert de Clare, Earle of Gloucester, in the reigne of King Henry the third, when the Barons were in Armes, and held the Citie against the King. But the Barons being reconciled to his favour, in the yeere 1267. he caused all their Burhkennings, Watch-Towers, and Bulwarkes, made and repaired by the said Earle, to be plucked downe, and the ditches to be filled up, so that nought of them might seeme to remaine.The destruction of the Barbicun. And then was might seeme to remaine. And then was this Burhkenning, amongst the rest, overthrowne and destroyed: and although the ditch neere thereunto, then called Hounds-ditch, was stopped up, yet the street (of long time after) was called Hounds-ditch, and of late time (more commonly) called Barbican. The plot or feat of this Burhkëning or watch-tower, King Edward the third, in the yeere 1336. the tenth of his reigne, gave unto Robert Vfford, Earle of Suffolke, by the name of his Mannor of Base-court, in the Parish of S. Giles without Creplegate of London, commonly called the Barbican.

Tower Royall was of old time the kings house,Tower Royall. King Stephen was there lodged; but since called the Queenes Wardrobe. The Princesse, mother to King Richard the 2. in the 4. of his reigne, was lodged there, being forced to fly frō the Tower of London, when the Rebels possessed it. But on the 15. of Iune, (saith Frosard) Wat Tylar being slaine,Iob. Frosard the King [Page] went to this Lady Princesse his mother, then lodged in the Tower Royall, called the Queenes Wardrobe, where shee had tarried two dayes and two nights: which Tower (saith the Record of Edward the third, the thirty sixth yeere) was in the Parishe of the Saint Michael de Pater noster, &c.

In the yeere 1386. King Richard with Queene Anne his wife,Lib. S. in Eborum. kept their Christmas at Eltham, whither came to him Lion King of Ermonie, The King of Ermonie came into England. under pretence to reforme peace betwixt the Kings of England and France; but what his comming profited, he onely understood. For, besides innumerable gifts that he received of the King and of the Nobles, the King lying then in this Tower Royall,Richard 2. lodged in the Tower Royall. or the Queenes Wardrobe in London, granted to him a Charter, of a thousand pounds by yeere during his life. He was, as hee affirmed, chased out of his Kingdome by the Tartarians. More concerning this Tower shall you read, when you come to the Vintry Ward, in which is standeth.

Sernes Tower in Bucklersberie, Sernes Tower in Bucklersbery. was sometimes the Kings house. Edward the third, in the eighteenth yeere of his reigne, appointed his Exchange of monies therein to be kept, and in the two and thirtieth, hee gave the same Tower to his free Chappell of S. Stephen at Westminster.

Of Schooles and other Houses of Learning.

IN the reigne of King Stephen, Famous schooles of Philosophy by priviledge in London. and of Henry the second, (saith Fitzstephen) there were in London 3. principal Churches, which had famous Schooles, either by priviledge and ancient dignitie, or by fauour of some particular persons, as of Doctors, which were [...]ceounted notable and renowned, for knowledge in Philosophie. And there were other inferior Schools also.

Vpon Festivall dayes,Solemne meetings and disputing of scholars Logically and demonstratively. the Masters made solemne meetings in the Churches, where their Schollers disputed Logically and demonstratively: some bringing Enthimems, other, perfect Syllogismes: some disputed for shew; others to trace out the truth; and cunning Sophisters were brave scholars, when they flowed with words. Others used fallacies: Rhetoricians spake aptly to perswade, observing the precepts of Art, and omitting nothing that might serve their purpose. The Boyes of divers Schooles did cap or pot verses, and contended of the principles of Grammar.

There were some,Grammar schooles & scholers their exercises. which (on the other side) with Epigrams and Rimes, nipping and quipping their fellowes, and the faults of others, though suppressing their names, moved thereby much laughter among their Auditors.

Hitherto Fitzstephen, for schooles and scholars, and for their exercise in the Citie in his dayes,: sithence the which time, as to me it seemeth, by increase of Colledges of students in the Vaiversities of Oxford and Cambridge, the frequenting of schooles, and exercises of scholars in the Citie, as had beene accustomed, very much decreased.

The three principall Churches which had these famous shooles by priviledges, must needs be the cathedral Church of S. Paul for one: seeing that by a generall Councell,Mat. Paris. Every Cathedrall Church had his schoole for poore scholars. holden in the yeere 1176. at Rome, in the Patriarchie of Laterane, it was decreed, that every Cathedrall Church should have his schoolemaster, to teach poore schollers, and others, as had bin accustomed, and that no man should take any reward for licence to teach. The second, as most ancient, may seeme to have beene the Monasterie of S. Peters at Westminster, whereof Ingulphus, Abbot of Crowland, in the reigne of William the Conqueror, writeth thus: 1 Jngulphus, an humble servant of God, borne of English parents, in the most beautifull Citie of London, Free schoole at Westminster in the reigne of Edward the Confessor. for to attaine to learning, was first put to Westm. & after to study at Oxford, &c. And writing in praise of Queene Agitha, wife to Edward the Confessor: I have seene (faith he) often, when being but a Boy, I came to see my Father, dwelling in the Kings Court, and often comming from Schoole, when I [Page] met the Queene, she would oppose me touching my learning and lesson. And falling from Grammar to Logicke, wherein she had some knowledge, she would subtilly conclude an Argument with me. And by her handmaiden give me three or foure peeces of money, and send mee unto the Palace, where I should receive some victuals, and then bee dismissed.

The third Schoole seemeth to have beene in the Monastery of S. Saviour, at Bermondsey in Southwarke. For other Priories, as of Saint Iohn by Smithfield, Saint Bartholomew in Smithfield, Saint Mary Overie in Southwarke, and that of the Holy Trinity by Ealdgate, were all of later foundation, and the Friers Colledges, and Hospitals in this Citie, were raised since them, in the reignes of Henry the 3. Edward the 1, 2, and 3. &c. All which houses had their Schools, though not so famous as these first named.

But touching Schooles more lately advanced in this Citie, I read, that King Henry the fifth, having suppressed the Priories Aliens,Priories Aliens. whereof some were about London, namely, Our Lady of Rouncivall by Charing-Crosse: one other Hospitall in Oldborne: one other without Creplegate; and the fourth without Aldersgate: besides other that are now worne out of memory, and whereof there is no monument remaining, more than Rouncivall, converted to a Brotherhood, which continued till the reigne of Henry the eighth, or Edward the 6. This, I say, and other of their Schooles, being broken up and ceased, King Henry the 6. in the 24. of his reigne,Henry the sixth appointed Grammar Schooles. by Patent appointed, that there should be in London Grammar-Schooles, besides S. Pauls, at S. Martins le grand, S. Mary le Bow, in Cheap, S. Dunstans in the west, and S. Anthonies. And in the next yeere, to wit, 1394. the said King ordained by Parliament,Grammar schooles appointed by Parliament. that foure other Grammer-Schooles should be erected, to wit, in the Parishes of Saint Andrew in Oldborne, Alhallowes the great, in Thames street, Saint Peters upon Cornhill, and in the Hospitall of Saint Thomas of Acons in west Cheape. Since the which time, as divers Schooles, by suppressing of religious houses (whereof they were members in the reigne of Henry the eighth, have beene decayed: so againe have some others beene newly erected and founded for them.Pauls Schoole new builded. As namely, Pauls schoole, in place of an old ruined house, was builded in most ample manner, and largely endowed in the yeere 1512. by Iohn Collet, Doctor of Divinity, and Deane of Pauls, for 153. poore mens children: for which there was ordained a Master, Submaster or Vsher, and a Chaplaine.Free schools in Christs Hospitall. Againe, in the yeere 1553. after the erection of Christs Hospitall, in the late dissolved house of the Gray Friers, a great number of poore children being taken in, a schoole was also ordained there, at the Citizens charges.

Also in the yeere 1561. the Merchant Taylors of London, Free schooles founded by the Merchant Taylors. founded one notable free Grammar-schoole, in the Parish of Saint Laurence Poultney, by Candle-weeke street; Richard Hils, late Master of that Company, having given 500. pound toward the purchase of an House, called the Mannor of the Rose, sometime the Duke of Buckinghams, wherein the schoole is kept.

As for the meeting of Schoolemasters on festivall dayes, at festivall Churches, and the disputing of their schollers Logically, &c. whereof I have before spoken, the same was long since discontinued. But the arguing of schoole-boies about the principles of Grammar, hath beene continued even till our time: for I my selfe (in my youth) have yeerely seene, on the Eve of Saint Bartholomew the Apostle, the schollers of divers Grammar-schooles,Scholars disputed in S. Bartholomews Churchyard. repaire unto the Churchyard of Saint Bartholomew the Priory in Smithfield, where, upon a banke boorded about under a Tree, some one scholar hath stepped up, and there hath apposed and answered, till he were by some better scholler overcome and put downe. And then the overcommer taking the place, did like as the first: and in the end, the best opposers and answerers had rewards, which I observed not: but it made both good schoolemasters, and also good scholars (diligently against such times) to prepare themselves for the obtaining of this Garland.

I remember there repaired to these exercises, (amongst others) the Masters and scholars of the free schooles of S. Pauls in London, of Saint Peters at [Page] Westminster, of Saint Thomas Acons Hospital, and of Saint Anthonies Hospitall: whereof the last named, commonly presented the best Scholers, and had the prize in those dayes.

This Priorie of Saint Bartholomew being surrendred to Henry the eighth, those disputations of Scholers in that place surceased,Disputation of scholars in Christs Hospitall. and was againe, onely for a yeere or twaine, in the reigne of Edward the sixth, revived in the Cloister of Christs Hospitall, where the best Scholers, (then still of S. Anthonies Schoole) were rewarded with Bowes and Arrowes of silver, given to them by Sir Martin Bowes, Goldsmith.

Neverthelesse, howsoever the incouragement failed, the Scholers of Pauls, meeting with them of Saint Anthonies, would call them Saint Anthonies Pigs,Anthonies Pigs. and they againe would call the other Pigeons of Pauls; Pigeons of Pauls. because many Pigeons were bred in Pauls Church, and S. Anthonie was alwaies figured with a Pig following him: and mindfull of the former usage, did for a long season, disorderly in the open street, provoke one another, with Salve tu quoque, placet tibi mecum disputare? placet. And so proceeding from this to questions in Grammar, they usually fell from words to blowes, with their fatchels full of books, many times in great heaps, that they troubled the streets and passengers: so that finally they were restrained with the decay of Saint Anthonies Schoole.

Out of this Schoole have sprung divers famous persons, whereof although time hath buried the names of many, yet in mine owne remembrance may be numbred these following: Sir Thomas Moore, Knight, Lord Chancellour of England: Doctor Nicholas Heath, sometime Bishop of Rochester, after of Worcester, and lastly, Archbishop of Yorke, and Lord Chancellour of England: Doctor Iohn Whitgift, Bishop of Worcester, and after Archbishop of Canturbury, &c.

Of later time,Lecture in Chirurgerie. in the yeere of Christ 1582. there was founded a publike Lecture in Chirurgerie, to be read in the Colledge of Physicians in Knight-riders-street, to beginne in the yeere 1584. on the sixth of May, and so to be continued for ever twice a week, on Wednesdsy & Friday, by the honourable Baron, Iohn, Lord Lombley, and the learned Richard Chadwell, Doctor in Physicke: the Reader whereof to be Richard Forster, Doctor of Physicke, during his life.

Furthermore,Mathematicall Lecture read. about the same time, there was also begun a Mathematicall Lecture, to be read in a faire old Chappell, builded by Simon Eayre, within the Leaden-hall; whereof a learned Citizen borne, named Thomas Hood, was the first Reader. But this Chappell, and other parts of that Hall, being imployed for stowage of goods, taken out of a great Spanish Caracke, the said Lecture ceased any more to be read, and was then in the yeere 1588. read in the house of Master Thomas Smith in Grasse-street, &c.

Last of all,Sir Thomas Gresham. Sir Thomas Gresham knight, Agent to Queene Elizabeth, by his last Will and Testament, made in the yeere 1579. gave the Royall Exchange, and all the buildings therunto appertaining; that is to say, the one moity to the Maior and Communalty of London, and their successors, upon trust, that they performe as shall be declared: and the other moity to the Mercers,Lectures to be read in London. in like confidence. The Maior and Communalty are to finde foure, to reade Lectures of Divinity, Astronomy, Musicke and Geometry, within his dwelling house in Bishopsgate-street, and to bestowe the summe of two hundred pound; to wit, fifty pound apeece, &c. The Mercers likewise are to find three Readers; that is, in Civill Law, Physicke and Rhetoricke, within the same dwelling house, the summe of 150. pound, to every Reader 50. pound, &c. Which gift was (since that time) confirmed by Parliament, to take effect, and beganne after the decease of the Lady Anne Gresham, which hapned in the yeere 1596. and so is to continue for ever.

Wherupon,Names of the 7. first Lecturers. the Lectures were accordingly chosen, and appointed to begin their Readings in the Moneth of Iune, 1597. Whose names were, Master Anthony Wotton, for Divinity; Master Doctor Mathew Gwyn, for Physick; Doctor Henry Mountlow, for the Civill Law; Doctor Iohn Bull, for Musicke; Master Breerewood, for Astronomie; Master Henrie Bridges, for Geometrie; [Page] and Master Caleb Willis, for Rhetorick. These Lectures are read daily, Sundaies excepted, in the Termetimes, by every one upon his day, in the morning betwixt nine and ten, in Latine: in the afternoon betwixt two and three, in English; save that Doctor Bull was dispensed with to reade the Musicke Lecture in English onely, and upon two severall dayes, Thursday and Saturday in the afternoons, betwixt 3. and 4. of the clock.

The Readers of the seven Liberall Sciences at Gresham Colledge, Iune 27. 1631. were these following:

First, Master Richard Holdsworth, Reader of Divinity, on Munday.

Doctor Eaton, Reader of Civill Law, on Tuesday.

Doctor Winston, Reader of Physicke, on Saturday.

Master Iohn Taverner, Reader of Musicke, on Saturday.

Master Henry Gilibrand, Reader of Astronomy, on Wednesday.

Master Iohn Greaves, Reader of Geometry, on Thursday.

And Master Edward Wilkinson, Reader of Rhetoricke, on Friday.

Houses of Students in the Common Law.

BVt beside all this,An Vniversity of Students in and about this Citie. there is in and about this Citie, a whole Vniversitie, as it were, of Students, practisers or pleaders, and Iudges of the Lawes of this Realme, not living of common stipends, as in other Vniversities it is for the most part done, but of their owne private maintenance, as being altogether fed, either by their places, or practice, or otherwise by their proper Revenues,Houses of Students of the Cō mon Law, & Iudges. or exhibition of parents and friends: for that the yonger sort are either Gentlemen or the sonnes of Gentlemen, or of other most wealthy persons. Of these Houses there bee at this day foureteene in all, whereof nine doe stand within the Liberties of this Citie, and five in the Suburbs thereof:
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Within the Liberties.

Of every of these Innes, ye may reade more in their severall places where the stand

For Iudges and Sergeants onely.

Sergeants Inne in Fleetstreet,

Sergeants Inne in Chancery Lane,

In Fleetstreet, Houses of Court.

The Inner Temple,

The middle Temple,

Houses of Chancerie.

Cliffords Inne in Fleetstreet,

Thavies Inne in Oldborne,

Furnevals Inne in Oldborne,

Barnards Inne in Oldborne,

Staple Inne in Oldborne,

Without the Liberties.

Houses of Court.

Grayes Inne in Oldborne,

Lincolnes Inne in Chancerielane, by the old Temple.

Houses of Chancerie without Temple barre, in the liberty of Westminster.

Clements Inne,

New Inne,

Lions Iune,

There was sometime an Inne of Sergeants in Oldborne, A Sergeants Inne in Oldborne as ye may reade of Scroopes Inne, over against Saint Andrews Church.

There was also one other Inne of Chancerie, Chesters Inne, or Strand Inne, in place whereas standeth Sommerset House. called Chesters Inne, for the neerenesse to the Bishop of Chesters house, but more commonly termed Strand Inne, for that it stood in Strand street, and neere unto Strand bridge without Temple Barre, in the liberty of the Dutchie of Lancaster. This Inne of Chancery, with other houses adjoyning, were pulled down in the reigne of Edw. the 6. by Edward Duke of Sommerset, who in place thereof raised that large and beautifull house, called Sommerset House.

There was moreover, in the reigne of [Page] King Henry the sixth, a tenth House of Chancery, mentioned by Iustice Fortescue, in his booke of the Lawes of England: but where it stood, or when it was abandoned, I cannot find, and therfore I will leave it, and returne to the rest.

The Houses of Court be replenished,Houses of Court, what they be. partly with yong students, and partly with Graduates and practisers of the Law: but the Innes of Chancerie, being (as it were) provinces, severally subjected to the Innes of Court, bee chiefly furnished with Officers, Atturneys, Solliciters and Clerkes, that follow the Courts of the Kings Bench, or Common Pleas. And yet there want not some other, being young students, that come thither sometimes from one of the Vniversities,Some students cō ming from the Vniversities. and sometimes immediately from Grammer Schooles, and these having spent some time in studying upon the grounds of the Law, and having performed the exercises of their owne houses, (called Boltas Mootes, and putting of cases) they proceed to be admitted, and become students in some of these foure houses or Innes of Court, where continuing by the space of seven yeeres, or thereabouts, they frequent Readings, Meetings, Boltings, and other learned exercises, whereby growing ripe in the knowledge of the Lawes, and approved withall,The preferment of students according to their deserving. to bee of honest conversation, they are either by the generall consent of the Benchers, or Readers, (being of the most ancient, grave, and judiciall men of every Inne of the Court, or by speciall priviledge of the present Reader there, selected and called to the degree of Vtter Barristers, and so enabled to be common Counsellors. and to practise the Law, both in their Chambers, and at the Barres.

Of these, after that they be called to a further step of preferment, called the Bench, there are two (every yeere) chosen among the Benchers of every Inne of Court,Readers in every Inne of Court. to be Readers there, who doe make their Readings at two times of the yeere also: that is, one in Lent, and the other in the beginning of August.

And for the helpe of yong Students in every one of the Innes of Chancerie, they doe likewise choose out of every one Inne of Court a Reader, being no Bencher, but an Vtter Barrister there, in tenne or twelve yeeres continuance, and of good profit in studie. Now from these of the said degree of Counsellours, or Vtter Barristers, having continued therein the space of foureteene or fifteene yeeres at the least, the chiefest and best learned are (by the Benchers) elected to increase the number, as I said, of the Bench amongst them; and so in their time doe become, first single, and then double Readers, to the students of those houses of Court.

After which last Reading, they bee named Apprentices at the Law,Apprentises at Law. and in default of a sufficient number of Serjeants at Law, these are, at the pleasure of the Prince, to bee advanced to the places of Serjeants.

Out of which number of Serjeants also,Serjeants & Iudges. the void places of Iudges are likewise ordinarily filled, albeit (now and then) some be advanced by the speciall favour of the Prince, to the estate, dignity, and place both of Serjeant and Iudge, as it were in one instant. But from thence-forth, they hold not any roome in those Innes of Court, by being translated to one of the said two Innes, called Serjeants Innes, where none but the Serjeants and Iudges doe converse.

Of Orders and Customes.

OF Orders and Customes in this Citie, Fitzstephen (in his time) said as followeth: Men of all Trades in dictinct places. Men of all Trades, sellers of all sorts of Wares, labourers in every worke, every morning are in their distinct and severall places.Wine in Ships, and Wine in Taverns. Furthermore, in London, upon the River side, betweene the wine in Ships, and the wine to be sold in Taverns,Cookes row in Thames street. is a common Cookery, or Cookes Row, where daily for the season of the yeere, men might have meat, roast, sod, [Page] orfryed fish, flesh, fowles, fit for rich and poore. If any come suddenly to any Citizen from afarre, weary, and not willing to tarry till the meat be bought, and dressed, while the servant bringeth water for his masters hands, and fetcheth bread, he shall have immediately (from the Rivers side) all viands whatsoever hee desireth, What multitude soever, either of Souldiers, or strangers doe come to the Citie, whatsoever houre, day or night, according to their pleasures, may refresh themselves, and they which delight in delicatenesse, may bee satisfied with as delicate dishes there, as may be found elsewhere. And this Cookes row is very necessary to the Citie: and according to Plato in Gorgius; next to Physick is the office of Cookes, as part of a City.

Without one of the Gates is a plaine field, both in name and deed,Smithfield for a plain smooth ground, is called smeth and smothie. where every Fryday, unlesse it bee a solemne bidden Holyday, is a notable shew of horses to bee sold, Earles,Market for horses and other cattell. Barons, Knights and Citizens repaire thither to see, or to buy: there may you of pleasure see amblers, pacing it delicately: there may you see trotters, fit for men of armes, setting more hardly: there there may you have not able young horses not yet brokene may you have strong steeds, well limmedgeldings, whō the buiers do especially regard for pace, and swiftnesse. The boyes which ride these horses, sometime two, sometime three, doe runne races for wagers, with a desire of praise, or hope of victory. In another part of that fieldare to be sold all implements of husbandry, as also fat swine, milch kine,Merchants of all Nations traded at this City, and had their severall keyes and wharfes. sheepe and Oxen: there stand also Mares and Horses, fit for Ploughes and Teames, with their young Colts by them. At this City, Merchant strangers of all Nations, had their keyes and wharses: the Arabians sent gold: the Sabeans spice and Frankincense:The Authors opinion of this City, the antiquity therof. the Scythian Armour, Babylon oyle, Indian purple garments, Egypt precious stones, Norway and Russia Ambexgreece and sables, and the Frenchmen wine. According to the truth of Chronicles, this City is ancienter than Rome, built by the ancient Troians and by Brute, This City divided into Wards more than 400. yeers since, and also had then both Aldermen and Sheriffes. before that was built by Romulus and Remus; and therefore useth the ancient customes of Rome. This Citie, even as Rome, is divided into Wards. It hath yeerely Shriffes, in stead of Consuls. It hath the diginity of Senators, in Aldermen. It hath under-Officers, Common Sewers, and Conducts in streets,Customes of London. according to the quality of causes. It hath generall Courts and assemblies upon appointed daies. I doe not thinke that there is any City, wherein are better customes, in frequenting the Churches, in serving God, in keeping Holy-daies, in giving almes, in entertaining strangers, in solemnizing Marriages, in furnishing banquets, celebrating funerals, and burying dead bodies.

The only plagues of London, Casualties of fires when houses were covered with church. is immoderate quaffing among the foolish sort, and often casualties by fire. Most part of the Bishops, Abbots, and great Lords of the land, have houses there, whereunto they resort and bestow much, when they are called to Parliament by the King, or to counsell by their Metropolitane, or otherwise by their private businesse.

Thus firre Fitzstephen, of the estate of things in his time, whereunto may bee added the present, by conference whereof, the alteration will easily appeare. Change of place and tradesmen.

Men of trades and sellers of wares in this City have oftentimes since changed their places, as they have found their best advantage. For whereas Mercers, and Haberdashers used wholly then to keepe their shops in west Cheap; of later time, they held them on London bridge, where some of them doe as yet remaine. The Goldsmiths of Gutherons lane, and the Old Exchange, are now (for the most part) removed into the South side of West Cheape. The Pepperers & Grocers of Sopers lane, are now in Bucklesbury, and other places disperced. The Drapers of Lombard-street, and of Cornehill, are seated in Candleweeke street, and Watheling streete. The Skinners from St. Mary Pellipers, or at the Axe; into Budgerow and Walbrook. Stockfish monger row, old Fish street, and new Fish street. The Stockfishmongers in Thames street: wet Fishmongers in Knightriders street, and Bridge-street. The Ironmongers of Ironmongrs lane, and Old Iury, into Thames street. The Vintners, from the Vinetree, into divers places. But the Brewers (for the most part) remained neere to the friendly water of Thames. The Butchers in Eastcheap, St. Nicholas Shambles, and the Stockes Market. The Hosiers (of old time) in Hosier lane, neere unto Smithfield, are since then removed into Cordwayner [Page]street, the upper part thereof by Bow-Church, and last of all, into Burchoverlane by Cornhill. The Shoomakers and Curriors of Cordwayner street, removed, the one to Saint Martins legrand, the other to London Wall, neere to Mooregate. The Founders remaine by themselves in Lothbury. Cookes or Pastelars, (for the most part) were in Thames street, the others dispersed into divers parts. Poulters of late removed out of the Poultrie, betwixt the Stockes and the great Conduit in Cheape, into Grassestreet and S. Nicholas shambles. Bowyers from Bowyers row by Ludgate, into divers parts, and almost worne out with the Fletchers. Pater noster-makers, of old time, or Bead-makers, and Text-writers, are gone out of Pater noster row, and are called Stationers of Pauls Church-yard. Patten-makers, of Saint Margaret Pattens Lane, cleane worne out. Labourers, every worke-day to be found in Cheap, about Sopers lane end. Horse-coursers, and sellers of Oxen, sheepe, swine, and such like, remaine in their old Market of Smithfield, &c.

That Merchants of all Nations had their Keyes and Wharfes at this Citie,Merchāts of all nations. wherunto they brought their Merchandizes, before, and in the reigne of Henry the second, mine Author wrote (of his owne knowlege) to be true, though for the Antiquity of the Citie, he tooke the common opinion. Also, that this Citie was (in his time, and before) divided into Wards; had yeerely Sheriffes and Aldermen, generall Courts and assemblies, and such like notes by him set downe, in commendation of the Citizens, whereof there is no question. He wrote likewise of his owne experience, as being borne and brought up amongst them.

And to confirme his opinion, concerning Merchandizes then hither transported, whereof haply may be some argument; Tho. Clifford. Thomas Clifford (before Fitzstephens time) writing of King Edward the confessor, saith to this effect: King Edward, intending to make his Sepulchre at Westminster, for that it was neere to the famous Citie of London, and the River of Thames, which brought in all kinde of Merchandizes from all parts of the world, &c. And William of Malmesbury, that W. Malmesb. that lived in the reigne of William the first and second, Henry the first, and King Stephen, calleth this A Noble Citie, full of wealthy Citizens, frequented with the trade of Merchandizes from all parts of the world. Also I read in divers Records, that (in old time) No woad was stowed or harboured in this Citie, but all was presently seld in the Ships, except by licence purchased of the Sheriffes; till of more later time, to wit in the yeere 1236. Andrew Bokerell, being Maior, by assent of the principall Citizens, the Merchants of Amiens, Nele and Corby, purchased Letters ensealed with the common seale of the Citie, that they, when they came, might harborow their Woads, and therefore should give the Maior every yeere 50. Markes starling. And the same yeere they gave an hundred pound toward conveying of water from Tyborn to this Citie, as already hath beene related.

Also the Merchants of Normandy made fine, for licence to harbour their Woads, till it was otherwise provided, in the yeere 1263. Thomas Fitzthomas being Maior, &c. Which proveth, that then (as before) they were here, among other Nations, priviledged.

It followeth in Fitzstephen;Plagues of London, immoderate quaffing, and casualties by fire. That the plagues of London (in that time) were immoderate quaffing among fooles, and often casualties by fire.

For the first, to wit, of quaffing, it continueth still as afore, or rather, is mightily increased, though greatly qualmed among the poorer sort, not of any holy abstinency, but of meere necessity: Ale and Beere being small, and Wines in price above their reach.

As for prevention of casualties by fire, the houses in this Citie (being then builded all of timber, and covered with thatch of straw or reed;)Lib. Constit. it was long since thought good policie in our fore-father, Lib. Horne. wisely to provide;Lib. Clarkē well. namely, in the yeere of Christ, 1189. the first of Richard the first, Henry Fitzalwine, (being then Maior) that all men in this Citie should build their houses of stone up to a certaine height, and to cover them with slate or baked tile. Since which time, thankes bee given to God, there hath not hapned the like often consuming fire in this Citie, as before.

[Page] But now in our time, insteed of these enormities,Purprestur in and about this City. others are come in place, no lesse meet to be reformed, namely, Purprestures, or encrochments on the highwayes, lanes, and common grounds, in and about this City. Whereof a learned Gentleman,W. Paucns. a grave Citizen, hath (not many yeeres since) written and exhibited a Book to the Maior and communalty, which Booke, whether the same hath been by them read, and diligently considered upon, I know not; but sure I am, nothing is reformed since concerning this matter.

Then the number of Cars, Draies, Carts,Carts and Drayes not well governed in this City dangerous. and Coaches, more than hath been accustomed, the streets and lanes being streightned, must needs be dangerous, as daily experience proveth.

The Coach-man rides behinde the horse tailes, lasheth them, and looketh not behind him. The Dray-man sitteth and sleepeth on his Dray, and letteth his horse leade him home.L. S. Mary Aborum. I know, that by the good Lawes and Customes of this City, shod Carts are forbidden to enter the same, except upon reasonable causes, as service of the Prince, or such like, they be tolerated. Also that the fore-horse of every carriage should bee led by hand: but these good orders are not observed. Of old time, Coaches were not known in this Iland,Riding in Whirlicotes. but Chariots or Whirlicotes, then so called, and they onely used for Princes or great Estates, such as had their footmen about them. And for example to note, I reade that Richard the second being threatned by the Rebels of Kent, rode from the Tower of London to the Miles-end, and with him, his Mother, because she was sicke and weake, in a Whirlicote, the Earles of Buckingham, Kent, Warwicke, and Oxford, Sir Thomas Percie, Sir Robert Knowles, the Maior of London, Sir Aubery de Vere that bare the Kings sword, with other Knights and Esquiers attending on horsebacke. It followed in the next yeere, that the said King Richard, who took to wife Anne, daughter to the King of Boheme, that then was, first brought hither the riding upon side Saddles,Riding on side Saddles, that were wont to ride a stride. and so was the riding in those Whirlicotes and Chariots forsken; except at Coronations and such like spectacles. But now of late yeeres, the use of Coaches, brought out of Germany, Riding in Coaches. is taken up, and made so common, as there is neither distinction of time, nor difference of persons observed: for the world runnes on wheeles with many, whose Parents were glad to goe on foot.

Last of all,W. Fitstephen. mine Author, in this Chapter hath these words: Most part of the Bishops, Abbots, and great Lords of the land, as if they were Citizens and Freemen of Lond. had many faire houses to resort unto, and many rich & wealthy Gentlemen spent their money there. And in another place, he hath these words: Every Sunday in Lent, a fresh company of young men comes into the fields on horsbacke, and the best horsemen conduct the rest, then march forth the Citizens Sonnes, and other yong men with disarmed Launces and Shields, and practise feats of Warre. Many Courtiers likewise, and attendants on Noblemen, repaire to this exercise, and whilest the hope of victory doth inflame their minds; they doe shew good proofe, how serviceable they would bee in Martiall affaires, &c. Againe he saith, This Citie, in the troublesome time of King Stephen, shewed at a Muster 20000. armed horsemen, and 40000. footmen, serviceable for the Wars, &c. All which sayings of the said Author well considered, doe plainly prove, that in those dayes, the inhabitants and repaireres to this City (of what este soever, spirituall or temporall) having houses here, lived in amity with the Citizens, every man observing the customes and orders of the City, and chose to be contributary to charges here, rather than in any part of the land whersoever.The causes of greater shewes and musters in this City of old time, more than of late. This City being the heart of the Realme, the Kings Chamber, and Princes seat, whereunto they made repaire, and shewed their forces, both of Horses and of men, which caused in troublesome time, as of King Stephen, the Musters of this City to be so great in number.

Great Families of old time kept.

ANd here to touch somewhat of great Families and households,Great families of old time kept. kept in former times by Noble men, and great estates of this Realme, according to their honors and dignities. I have seene an account made by Henry [Page]Leicester, Cofferer to Thomas Earle of Lancaster, Tho. Earle of Lancaster, his housekeeping and charge thereof for one yeere. for one whole yeeres expences in the Earles house, from the day next after Michaelmasse, in the seventh yeere of Edward the second, untill Michaelmasse in the eight yeere of the same King, amounting to the summe of seven thousand,Record of Pontfract, as I could obtaine of M. Cudnor. nine hundred, fifty seven pound, thirteene shillings, foure pence halfe penny, as followeth.

To wit, in the Pantry, Buttry, and Kitchin, 3405. l. &c.

For 184. Tuns, 1. pipe of Red or Claret wine, and one Tun of White wine, bought for the house 104. l. 17. s. 6. d.

For Grocery ware, 180. l. 17. s.

For sixe Barrels of Sturgeon, nineteene pound.

For 6800. Stockfishes, so called, and for dryed fishes, of all sorts, as Lings, Haberdines, and other, 41. l. 6. s. 7. d.

For 1714. pound Waxe, with Vermilion and Turpentine to make red Wax, 314. l. 7. s. 4. d. ob.

For 2319. pound of Tallow candles for the houshold, and 1870. of lights for Paris candles, called Perchers, 31. l. 14. s. 3. d.

Expences on the Earles great Horses, and the Keepers wages, 486. l. 4. s. 3. d. ob.

Linnen cloth for the Lord and his Chaplaines, and for the Pantry 43. l. 17. d.

Fro 129. dozen of Parchment, with Inke, 4. l. 8. s. 3 ob.

Summe. 1230. l'. 17. d. 7. d. ob.

Item, for two clothes of Scarlet for the Earle against Christmasse,159. Cloths in Liveries against Christmas. one cloth of Russet, for the Bishop of Anjou, 70. cloths of blew for the Knights, (as they were then tearmed) 15. clothes of Medley for the Lords clerks, 28. cloths for the Esquire, 15. cloths for Officers, 19. clothes for Groomes, 3. clothes for Archers, 4. clothes for Minstrels and Carpenters, with the sharing and carriage for the Earles Liveries at Christmas, 460. l. 15. d.

Item, for 7. Furs of variable Miniver (or powdred Ermin) 7. Hoods of purple, 395. Furs of Budge, for the Liveries of Barons, Knights, and Clerkes, 123. Furres of Lambe, for Esquires, bought at Chrismas, 147. l. 17. s. 8. d.

Item, 65. clothes Saffron colour,104. cloths in Liveries in summer. for the Barons and Knights: in summer, 12. red clothes mixt, for Clerks, 26 clothes ray, for Esquires, one cloth ray, for Officers coats in summer, and foure clothes ray, for carpets in the Hall, 345. l. 13. s. 8. d.

Item, 100. peeces of greene silke for the Knights, 14. Budge Furs for surcotes, 13. hoods of Budge for Clerkes, and 75. Furs of Lambs, for the Lords liveries in summer, with Canvas and cords to trusse them, 72. l. 19. s.

Item, Saddles for the Lords liveries in summer, 51. l. 6. s. 8. d.

Item, for one Saddle for the Earle, of the Princes armes 40. s.

Summe. 1079. l. 18. s. 3. d.

Item, for things bought, whereof nothing can bee read in my note, 241. l. 14. s. 1. d. ob.

For horses lost in service of the Earle 8. l. 6. s. 8. d.

Fees paid to Earles, Barons, Knights, and Esquires, 623. l. 15. s. 5. d.

In gifts to Knights of France, the Queene of Englands Nurces, to the Countesse of Warren, Esquires, Minstrels, Messengers and riders, 92. l. 14. s.

Item,Northern Russt halfe yard and halfe quarter broad, I have seen sold for foure pence the yard, and was good cloth of a mingled colour. 168. yards of Russet cloth, and 24. coats for poore men, with money given to the poore on Maundy Thursday, 8. l. 16. s. 7. d.

Item, 24 silver Dishes, so many sawcers, and so many Cups for the Buttry, one paire of Pater nosters, and one silver coffen bought this yeere, 103. l. 5. s. 6. d.

To divers Messengers about the Earles businesse, 34. l. 19. s. 8. d.

In the Earles Chamber 5. l.

To diuers men for the Earles old debts, 88. l. 16. s. ob. q.

Summe. 1270. l. 7. s. 11. d. ob. q.

The expences of the Countesse at Pickering, for the time of this account, as in the Pantry, Buttry, Kitchin, and other places concerning these Offices, two hundred, fourescore and 5. pounds thirteene shillings, halfe penny.

In Wine, Waxe, Spices, Clothes, Furs, and other things for the Countesses Wardrobe, an hundred fifty foure pounds, seven shillings, foure pence, halfe penny.

[Page] Summe. 439. l. 8. s. 6. d. q. Summa totalis of the whole expences, 7957 l' 13. s. 4. d. ob.

This much for this Earle of Lancaster.

More,Record Tower. I read that in the 14. of the same Edward the second,Hugh Spencer the elder, his provision for house-keeping, which sheweth a great family to be kept in houshold. Hugh Spencer the elder (condemned by the comunalty) was banished the Realme, at which time, it was found by inquisition, that the said Spencer had in sundry shires. 59. Mannors, He had 28000. sheep, 1000. Oxen and Streeres, 1200. Kine with their Calves, 40. Mares with their Colts, 160. drawing horse, 2000. Hogges, 300. Bullocks, 40. Tuns of Wine, 600. Bacons, 80. Carkases of Martilmasse Beefe, 600. Muttons in Larder, 10. Tuns of Sidar. His Armor, plate, jewels, ready mony, better than 10000. pound, 36. sacks of Wooll, and a Library of Bookes. Thus much the Record: which provision for houshold, sheweth a great Family there to bee kept.

Neerer to our time,Rob. Fabian manuscript. I read in the 36. of Henry the sixt, that the greater estates of the Realme being called up to London.

The Earle of Salisbury came up to London with 500. men on horsebacke, and was lodged in the Herber.

Richard Duke of Yorke with 400. men lodged at Baynards Castle.

The Duke of Excester and Sommerset with 800. men.

The Earle of Northumberland, the Lord Egremont, and the Lord Clifford, with 1500. men.

Richard Nevell, Nevell Earle of Warwicke his house keeping. Earle of Warwicke, with 600. men all in red Iackets, Imbrodered with ragged staves before and behinde, and was lodged in Warwicke lane: in whose house there was oftentimes sixe Oxen eaten at a breakefast, and every Taverne was full of his meat, for he that had any acquaintance in that house might have there so much of sodden and rost meat, as hee could pricke and carry upon a long Dagger.

Richard Redman, Richard Redman Bishop of Ely. Bishop of Ely, 1500. the 17. of Henry the seventh, besides his great family, housekeeping, Almes dish, and reliefe to the poore, wheresoever he was lodged. In his travaiing, when at his comming, or going to or from any Towne, the Bels being rung, all the poore would come together, to whom he gave every one sixe pence at the least.

And now to note of our owne time somewhat.The worthy house keeping of Thomas Woolsey Lord Archbishop of Yorke. Not omitting in this Thomas Woolsey, Archbishop of Yorke, and Cardinall. You shall understand, that hee had in his hall (continually) three tables or boords, kept with three principall Officers, to wit, a Steward, who was alwaies a Priest, a Treasurer a Knight, and a Controler an Esquire. Also a Cofferer, being a Doctor, three Marshals, three Yeomen Vshers in the Hall: besides two Groomes and Almners. Then in the Hall kitchin, two Clerks of the kitchin, a Clerke controler, a Survevor of the dressor, a clark of the Spicery: all which (together) kept also a continuall Messe in the Hall.Officers for the Hall kitchin. Also, in his Hall-kitchin, he had of Master cookes two, and of other cookes, labourers,Master-Cookes and other. and children of the kitchin, twelve persons: foure Yeomen of the ordinary scullery, foure Yeomen of the silver scullery, two Yeomen of the Pastry, with two other Pastelers under the Yeomen.

In the Privie kitchin,For the Privy kitchin. he had a Master cooke, who went daily in Velvet and Sattin, with a chaine of Gold about his necke, and two other Yeomen, and a Groome.Scalding house, Pantry, Buttry. In the scalding house, a Yeomen and two Groomes. In the Pantry, two Yeoman. In the Buttery, two Yeomen,Chandery. two Groomes, and two Pages.Wafary. In the Chandery two Yeomen. In the Wafary two Yeomen.Wardrobe of beds. In the Wardrobe of Beds, the Master of the VVardrobe, and tenne other persons attending.Laundery. In the Laundery a Yeoman, a Groome, thirty Pages, two Yeomen Purveyors,Bakehouse and one Groome. In the Bake-house a Yeoman and 2 Groomes. In the Wood-yard a Yeoman and a Groome.VVood-yard. In the Barne one.Barne. In the Garden a Yeoman and two Groomes:Garden. A Yeoman of his Barge;Barge. a Master of his Horse, a Clerke of the Stable,Stable. a Yeoman of the same; the Saddler; the Farriar; a Yeoman of his Chariot; a Sumpterman,; a Yeoman of his Stirrop; a Muleter, and sixteen Groomes of his Stable, every one of them keeping 4. Geldings. Porters at his gate,Porters. two Yeomen and [Page] two Groomes. In the Almnorie, a Yeoman and a Groome.

In his Chappell he had a Deane,The order of his Chappell. a great Divine, and a man of excellent learning: a Subdeane, a repeater of the Quire, a Gospeller, a Pisteler, of singing Priests ten, a master of the children, twelve Seculars, being singing-men of the Chappell; ten singing children, with a servant to attend upon the children. In the Revestry, a Yeoman and two Groomes; over and beside divers retainers, that came thither at principall Feasts.

For the furniture of his Chappell,The rich furniture of his Chappell. it exceedeth my cpacity to declare, or to speake of the number of costly ornaments and rich Jewels that were used in the same continually. There hath bin seene in procession about the Hall, foure and forty very rich Coaps worne, all of one sute; besides the rich Crosses and Candlesticks, and other ornaments belonging to the furnishment of the same. He had two Crosse-bearers, and two Pillar-bearers in his great Chamber.Crosse-bearers & pillar-bearers. And in his Privie-chamber these persons: First, the chiefe Chamberlaine and Vice-chamberlaine.His privie chamber. Of Gentlemen Vshers (beside one in his Privie-chamber) he had twelve daily waiters: and of Gentlemen waiters,Gentlemē waiters. in his Privie-Chamber, Lords and their attendants. he had six; of Lords nine or tenne, who had (each of them) two men allowed to attend upon them: except the Earle of Darby, who alwaies was allowed 5. men. Then had he of Gentlemē, Cupbearers, Carvers, Sewers, both of the Privie chamber and of the great chamber,For the privie and great chamber. with Gentlemē (daily waiters there) 40. persons. Of Yeomen Vshers 6. of Groomes in his chamber, 8. of Yeomen in his chamber 45. daily. He had also Almes-men, sometime more in number than at other times.

There was attending on his Table daily,Daily attendāts on his Table. of Doctors and Chaplaines, (beside them of his Chappell) 16. A Clerk of his Closet, two Secretaries, 2 Clerks of his Signet; and foure Counsellours, learned in the Lawes. And forasmuch as it was necessary to have divers Officers of the Chancery to attend upon him;Officers of the Chancerie. that is to say, the Clerke of the Crowne, a riding Clerke, a Clerke of the Hamper, and a Clerke of the Wax; then a Clerke of the Checke, (aswell vpon the Chaplaines, as on the Yeomen of his chamber,) he gave allowance to them all.His Footmen. He had also foure Footmen, who were clothed in rich running coats, whensoever hee rode on any journey. Then had he an Herauld at Armes,A Herald and Serjeant at Armes. a Serjeant at Armes, a Physician, an Apothecarie, foure Minstrels, a keeper of his Tents, an Armorer, an instructor of his Wards, two Yeomen of his Ward-robe of Robes, and a keeper of his chamber continually in the Court. He had also in his house the Survey or of Yorke, Surveyor of Yorke, & Clerke of the Greene-cloth. and a Clerke of the Greene cloth. All these were daily attending, downe lying and uprising; as we use to say, and at meales. He kept in his great chamber, a continuall Table for the Chamberers and Gentlemen Officers: having with them a Messe of the yong Lords,Yong Lords and Gentlemē and another of Gentlemen. And besides all these, there was never an Offices, Gentleman, or other worthy person, but hee was allowed in the house,Attendāts allowed in the house. some three, some two, and all other, one at the least, which grew to a great number of persons.

Thus farre out of the Checke-roll: besides other Officers, servants and retainers, and Suiters, that most commonly dined in the Hall.

Nicholas West, Lib. Ely. in the yeere 1532. kept continually in his house 100. servants,West, Bishop of Ely giving to the one halfe of them 53. s. 4. d. apiece yeerly: to the other halfe, each 40. s. apiece: to every one for his winter Gowne, foure yards of broadcloath, and for his Summer Coat three yards and an halfe. He daily gave at his Gates, besides bread and drinke, warme meate to two hundred poore people.

The house-keeping of Edward late Earle of Darby is not to be forgotten,Edward, Earle of Darby. who had 220. men in check-roll: his feeding aged persons twice every day, 60. and odde, beside all commers, thrice a weeke appointed for his dealing daies, and every Good-friday, 2700. with meat, drinke, and money.

Thomas Audley, Thomas Lord Audley. Lord Chancellour, his family of Gentlemen before him, in coats garded with velvet, and chaines of gold, his Yeomen after him, in the same Livery not garded.

[Page] William Powlet or Pawlet, Every Livery coat had three yards of bread cloth. Lord great Master, Marquesse of Winchester, kept the like number of Gentlemen and yeomen, in a Livery of Reading tawny, and great reliefe at his gate.

Thomas Lord Cromwell, Tho. Lord Cromwell. Earle of Essex, kept the like or greater number in a Livery of gray Marble; the Gentlemen guarded with Velvet, the Yeomen with the same cloth, yet their skirts large enough for their friends to sit upon them.

Edward, Duke of Sommerset. Duke of Sommerset was not inferiour in keeping a number of tall and comely Gentlemen and Yeomen, though his house was then in building, & most of his men were lodged abroad.

The Earle of Oxford hath beene noted within these fifty yeeres,Earle of Oxford. to have ridden into this Citie, and so to his house by London-stone, with fourescore Gentlemen in a Livery of Reading Tawny, and chaines of gold about their necks, before him; and one hundred tall Yeomen in the like Livery to follow him, without Chaines, but all having his Cognizance of the blew Bore, embroydered on their left shoulder.

Of charitable Almes in old time given.

THese, as all other of their times, gave great reliefe to the poore. I my self, in that declining time of charity,Almes given at the Lord Cromwels gate. have oft seene at the Lord Cromwels gate in London, more than 200 persons, served twice every day with bread, meat and drinke sufficient; for he observed that ancient and charitable custome, as all Prelates, Noblemen, or men of honour and worship his predecessours, had done before him: wherof somewhat to note for example: Venerable Bede writeth; that Prelates of his time, having peradventure but woodden Churches, had (notwithstanding) on their boord at their meales, one Almes dish, into the which was carved some good portion of meat, out of every other dish brought to their Table, all which was given to the poore, besides the fragments left. Insomuch as in a hard time, a poore Prelate wanting victuals, hath caused his Almes dish, being silver, to be divided amongst the poore, therewith to shift as they could, till God should send him better store.

Such a Prelate was Ethelwald, Bishop of Winchester, in the reigne of King Edgar, about the yeere of Christ, 963. He in a great famine, sold away all the sacred vessels of his Church,Bishop of Winchester his saying touching the reliefe [...] the poore. for to relieve the almost starved people, saying: That there was no reason that the senselesse Temples of God should abound in riches, and lively Temples of the Holy Ghost to lacke it.

Walter de Suffilde, Bishop of Norwich, was of the like minde,Bishop of Norwich sold his plate. about the yeere 1245. In a time of great dearth, he sold all his Plate, and distributed it to the poore every penniworth.

Robert Winchelsey, Archbishop of Canturbury his charity Archbishop of Canturbury, about the yeere 1293. besides the daily fragments of his house, gave every Friday and Sunday to every beggar that came to his gate, a loate of bread sufficient for that day, and there were usually every such almes day in time of dearth, to the number of 5000. and otherwise 4000 at the least. More, hee used every great Feastivall day, to give 150. pence to so many poore people, and sent daily meat, bread, and drinke, to such as by age, or sicknes, were not able to fetch his Almes, and did send meat, money and apparell to such as he thought needed it.

I reade in 1171. that Henry the second, Pater de Ioh [...]. Tenne thousand poore people daily fed and sustained by Henry the third. after his returne into England, did penance for the slaughter of Thomas Becket, by whom (a sore dearth then increasing) ten thousand persons, from the first of April; till new corne was inned, were daily fed and sustained.

More I finde recorded, that in the yeere 1236. the 20. of Henry the third,Record of the Tower Hen. 3. fed 6000. poore people in one day. William de Haverhull, the Kings Treasurer, was commanded, that upon the day of the Circumcision of our Lord, 6000. poore people should bee fed at Westminster, for the state of the King, Queene, and their children. The like commandement the said King Henry gave to Hugh Gifford, & William Brown, that upon Friday next after the Epiphanie, they should cause to be fed in the great Hall at Windsore, at a good fire, all the poore & needy children that could be found, and the Kings children being weighed and measured, their weight and measure to be distributed for their good estates. These few examples for charity of Kings may suffice.

[Page] I read in the reigne of Edward the 3. that Richard de Berry, Richard de Berry, Bishop of Durham. Bishop of Durham, did weekely bestow for releefe of the poore, eight quarters of wheat made into bread, besides his Almes dish, fragments of his house, and great summes of money given to the poore when hee journied. And that these Almes dishes were as well used at the Tables of Noblemen, as of the Prelates, one note may suffice in this place.

I read in the yeere 1452. that Richard Duke of York then claiming the Crown, the Lord Rivers should have passed the Sea about the Kings busines, but staying at Plinouth till his money was spent, and then sending for more;Duke of Gloucesters Almes dish contained a great quantity of silver. the Duke of Somerset sent him the Image of S. George in silver and gold, to be sold, with the Almes dish of the Duke of Gloucester, which was also of great price: for coyne had they none.

To end the Orders and Customes in this Citie, as also of great families kept by honourable persons thither repairing, and of charitable Almes of old time given: I say, for conclusion, that all Noble persons, and other of honour and worship, in former times lodging in this Citie, or liberties thereof, did without grudging, beare their parts in charges with the Citizens, according to their estimated estates, as I have before said, and could prove it by examples.

But let men call to minde Sir Thomas Cromwell, Tho. Cromwell at the great Muster. then Lord Privie Seale, and Vicar generall, lying in the Citie of London, he bare his charges to the great Muster there, consisting of 15000, besides Whisslers and other waiters, all in bright harnesse, with coats of white silke or [...], and chaines of gold, in three great battels.

In Anno 1539. hee sent his men (in great number) to the Miles end, and after them their Armour in Carres, with their coats of white cloth, and the Armes of this Citie, to wit, a red crosse and a sword, on the brest and backe, which Armour and Coats they ware amongst the Citizens, without any difference, and marched thorow the Citie to Westminster.

Sports and Pastimes of old time used in this Citie.

LEt us now (saith Fitzstephen) come to the Sports and Pastimes,Of sports and pastimes in this Citie. seeing it is fit that a Citie should not [...] be commodious and serious,Every thing hath his time, a time to weepe, a time to laugh, a time to mourne, & a time to dance. Eccles. 3. but also merry and sportfull. Whereupon, in the seales of the Popes, untill the time of Pope Leo, on the one side was Saint Peter fishing, with a key over him, reached as it were by the hand of God out of Heaven, and about it this verse: ‘Tu pro me navē liquisti, suscipe clavem.’

And on the other side was a Citie, and this inscription on it, Aurea Roma. Likewise to the praise of Augustus Caesar and the Citie, in respect of the shewes and sports, was written,

Nocte pluit tota, redeunt spectaculs mane, &c.

All night it raines, and shewes

at morrow-tide returne againe;

And Caesar with almighty Iove

hath matcht an equall reigne.

But London for the shewes upon Theaters, Stageplayes. and Comicall pastimes, hath holy playes, representations of miracles, which holy Confessors have wrought; or representations of torments, wherein the constancle of Martyrs appeared.

Every yeere also on Shrove-Tuesday, (that we may beginne with childrens sports, seeing wee all have beene children:) the Schoole-boyes doe bring Cockes of the game to their Master, and all the fore-noone they delight themselves in Cock-fighting.Cocke-fighting. After dinner, all the youths goe into the fields to play at the Ball.Ball-play.

The scholars of every Schoole have their Ball, or bastion in their hands: the ancient and wealthy men of the Citie come forth [Page] on horsebacke, to see the sport of the Youngmen, and to take part of the pleasure, in beholding their agility.

Every Friday in Lent,Exercises of warlike feats on horseback with disarmed Lances. a fresh companie of young-men comes into the field on horsebacke, and the best horse-men conduct the rest. Then march forth the Citizens sonnes, and other young-men with disarmed Lances and Shields, and there they practise feats of Warre.

Many Courtiers likewise, when the King lyeth neere, and attendants on Noble-men, doe repaire to these exercises, and while the hope of victory doth inflame their mindes, they shew by good proofe how serviceable they would be in Martiall affaires.

In Easter Holydayes,Battell on the water. they fight battels on the water, a Shield is hanged upon a pole, fixed in the midst of the streame; a Boat is prepared without Oares, to be carried by violence of the water, and in the fore-part thereof standeth a young-man, ready to give charge upon the Shield with his Launce. If so be he breake his Launce against the Shield and doth not fall, he is thought to have performed a worthy deede. If so bee without breaking his Launce, he runneth strongly against the Shield, downe he falleth into the water; for the Boat is violently forced with the Tide; but on each side of the Shield ride two Boats, furnished with yong-men, which recover him that falleth, as soone as they may. Vpon the Bridge, Wharfes and houses by the Rivers side, stand great numbers to see, and laugh thereat.

In the Holydaies all the Summer, the youths are exercised in leaping, dancing, shooting, wrastling, casting the stone, and practising their Shields: the Maidens trip with their Timbrels,Fighting of Bores, baiting of Beares & Buls. and dance as long as they can well see. In Winter, every Holiday before dinner, the Bores prepared for brawne are set to fight, or else Buls or Beares are baited.

When the great Fenne or Moore, which watereth the wals of the Citie on the North side is frozen, many yong men play upon the Ice; some striding as wide as they may, doe slide swiftly: others make themselves seats of Ice, as great as Milstones. One sits downe, many (hand in hand) doe draw him, and one slipping on a sudden, all fall together. Some tye bones to their feet, and under their heeles, and shoving themselues by a little piked staffe, doe slide as swiftly as a bird flyeth in the ayre, or an arrow out of a Crosse-bow, Sometime two runne together with poles, and hitting one the other, either one or both doe fall, not without hurt: some breake their armes, some their legs: but youth (desirous of glory in this sort) exerciseth it selfe against the time of warre.Hawking & hunting Many of the Citizens doe delight themselves in Hawkes and Hounds, for they have liberty of hunting in Middlesex, Hertfordshire, all Chiltron, and in Kent to the water of Cray. Thus far Fitzstephen of sports.

These or the like exercises have been continued til our time, namely in Stageplayes, whereof ye may read, in Anno 1391. a Play by the Parish Clerkes of London at the Skinners Well besides Smithfield; A stageplay that continued 3. dayes, A stageplay that lasted 8. dayes. which continued three dayes together, the King, Queene, and Nobles being present. And of another in the yeere 1409. which lasted eight dayes, and was of matter from the Creation of the World, whereat was present most part of the Nobility, and Gentry of England.

Of late time,Theater & Curten for Comedies and othe [...] shewes, in stead of those Stageplayes, have beene vsed Comedies, Tragedies, Enterludes, and Histories, both true and sained: for the acting whereof, certaine publike places have beene erected. Also Cockes of the game are yet cherished by divers men for their pleasures, much money being laid on their heads, when they fight in pits, whereof some be costly, made for that purpose.

The Ball is used by Noblemen and Gentlemen in Tennis-courts,The Ball at Tennis play. and by people of meaner sort in the open fields and streets.

The marching forth of Citizens sons and other yong men on horse-backe, with disarmed Launces and Shields, there to practise feats of warre, man against man, hath long since beene left off, but in their Citie they have used on horse-backe, to runne at a dead marke, called a Quinten.

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For note whereof,Running at the Quinten, for prizes, Mat. Paris. I read, that in the yeere of Christ 1253. the 38 of Hen. 3. the youthfull Citizens, for an exercise of their activity, set foorth a game to runne at the Quinten, and whosoever did best, should have a Peacocke, which they had prepard as a prize.

[Page] Certaine of the Kings servants, because the Court lay then at Westminster, came,The kings servants deriding the Citizens, were fore beatē, but the Citizens were fined by the King. as it were, in despight of the Citizens, to that game, and giving reprochfull names to the Londoners, which for the dignity of the Citie, and the ancient priviledge which they ought to have enjoyed, were called Barons: the said Londoners being wrongfully abused, fell upon the Kings servants, and beat them shrewdly, so that upon complaint made to the King, he fined the Citie to pay a thousand Markes. This exercise of running at the Quinten, was practised by the youthfull Citizens, aswel in summer as in winter; namely, in the feast of Christmas. I have seene a Quinten set upon Cornhill, Quinten upon Cornhill. by the Leaden Hall, where the attendants of the Lords of merry disports have runne, and made great pastime: for he that hit not the broad end of the Quinten, was of all men laughed to scorne; and he that hit it full, if hee rode nor the faster, had a sound blow in his necke with a bag full of sand, hanged on the other end.

I have also in the Summer season, seene some upon the River of Thames, Running with staves on the Thames. rowed in Whirries, with staves in their hands, flat at the fore-end, running one against another, and for the most part, one or both overthrowne, and well dowked.

On the Holy-dayes in Summer,Leaping, dancing, shooting, wrestling. the Youths of this Citie have in the Field exercised themselves, in leaping, dancing, shooting, wrestling, casting of the stone or ball, &c.

And for defence and use of the Weapon, there is a speciall profession of men that teach it.Mat. Paris. I reade that in the yeere 1222. and the 6. of King Henry the 3. on Saint Iames day, the Citizens of London kept games of defence and wrestling, neere to the Hospitall of Matilda, at S. Giles in the field, where they got the mastery of the men of the Suburbs.

The Bailiffe of Westminster devising to be revenged,A game at VVestminster on Lammas day. proclaimed a game to be at Westminster upon Lammas day: whereunto the Citizens willingly repaired.

When they had played a while, the Bailiffe, with the men of the Suburbs, harnessed themselves treacherously, and fell to such fighting, that the Citizens (being sore wounded) were forced to runne into the Citie, where they rung the common Bell, and assembled the Citizens in great number. When the matter was declared, every man wished to revenge the fact:The advice of [...] L. Maior. but the Lord Maior of the Citie, being a wise and quiet man, willed them first to move the Abbot of Westminster in the matter, and if he would promise to see amends made, it was sufficient.The bad counsel of Constantine Fitz Arnulit as bad followed. But a certaine Citizen, named Constantine Fitz Arnulit, willed, that all the houses of the Abbot and Bailiffe should be pulled downe. Which desperate words were no sooner spoken, but the common people (as unadvisedly) issued forth of the Citie without any order, and fought a cruell battell, Constantine pulling downe divers houses; and the people (as praising Constantine) cryed; The joy of the Mountaine, the joy of the Mountaine; God help, and the Lord Lodowike.

A few dayes after this tumult, the Abbot of Westminster came to London, Cl [...]on. Don. The Abbot of VVestminst. put to his shifts. to Philip Dawbeney, one of the kings Councell, to complaine of the injuries done to him: the Londoners perceiving it, beset the house about, and tooke by violence twelve of the Abbots horses away, cruelly beating his men, &c.

But whilest the said Dawbeney laboured to pacific the vprore, the Abbot got out at the backe doore of the house, and so, by a Boat on the Thames, hardly escaped, the Citizens throwing stones after him in great abundance.

These things being thus done,The Lord chiefe Iustice entred the Citie of London with an Army. Hubert de Burge, chiefe Iustice of England, with a great Army of men, came to the Tower of London, and sent for the Maior and Aldermen, of whom hee enquired for the principall Authors of this Faction. Constantine, being constant in the sedition, was more constant in the answer; affirming, that hee had done it, and that he had done much lesse than hee meant to have done.

The Justice tooke him, and two other with him, and that morning sent him to Faulcatius by water, with a great number of armed men, who brought Constantine to the Gallowes.

But when he saw the Rope about his necke,Constantine and other hanged. hee offered for his life fifteene thousand Markes, yet it would [Page] not seeme to save him: so he was hanged, with Constantine his Nephew, and Galfrid that proclaimed his proclamation, on the 16. of August.

Also in the yeere 1453. of a tumult made against the Maior,Gamos of defence. at the wrestling besides Clerks well, &c. Which is sufficient to prove, that (of old time) the exercising of wrestling, and such like, hath beene much more used than of latter yeeres.

The youths of this Citie also have used, on holidayes, after Evening Prayer, Playing at the Bucklers. at their Masters doores, to exercise their Wasters and Bucklers: and the Maidens, one of them playing on a Timbrell,Dancing for Garlands in the streets in sight of their Masters and Dames, to dance for Garlands, hanged thwart the streets, which open pastimes in my youth, being now suppressed, worser practices within doores are to be feared.

As for the baiting of Buls and Beares, they are till this day much frequented, namely in Beare-gardens on the Bankeside, Beare and Bull baiting. wherein be prepared scaffolds for beholders to stand upon.

Sliding on the Ice is now but childrens play: but in Hawking and Hunting many grave Citizens at this present have great delight, and doe rather want leasure than goodwill to follow it.

Of triumphant shews made by the Citizens of Lond. Mal. Paris. ye may read in the yeere 1236. the twentieth of Henry the third,Shewes for triumphs. Andrew Bockrell then being Maior, how Elianor, daughter to Reymond, Earle of Provence, riding thorow the Citie toward Westminster, there to be crowned Queene of England, the Citie was adorned with silkes, and in the night with Lamps, Cressets, and other lights, without number, besides many Pageants, and strange devices there presented; the Citizens also rode to meet the King and Queene,The Citizens rode. clothed in long garments embroydered about with gold,Imbroidered garments. and silkes of divers colours, their horses gallantly, trapped, to the number of 306. every manbearing a Cup of gold or silver in his hand, and the Kings Trumpetters before them: These Citizens did minister Wine, as Buttlers, which is their service at the Coronation.

More, in the yeere 1298. for victory obtained by Edward the first against the Scots, every Company, according to their severall Trade, made their severall shew:Fishmongers Procession for triumph of victory, more than 1000. horsmen. but specially the Fishmongers, which in a solemne Procession passed thorow the Citie, having amongst other Pageants and shewes, foure Sturgeons gi [...]t, carried on foure horses; then, foure Salmons of silver, on foure horses, and after them sixe and forty armed Knights, riding on horses, made like Luces of the Sea, and then one presenting Saint Magnes, because it was upon Saint Magnes day, with a thousand horsemen, &c.

One other shew in the yeere 1377. made by the Citizens for disport of the yong Prince Richard, sonne to the black Prince, in the Feast of Christmas, and in this manner:

On the Sunday before Candlemas, A shew by Torchlight, being a Mummery of more than 100: men on horseback in the night, one hundred and thirty Citizens, disgnised and well horsed, in a Mummery, with sound of Trumpets, Sackbuts, Cornets, Shalmes, and other Minstrels, and innumerable Torchlights of Wax, rode from Newgate thorow Cheap, over the Bridge, through Southwarke, and so to Kennington besides Lambeth, where the yong Prince remained with his Mother, and the Duke of Lancaster, his Vncle, the Earles of Cambridge, Hertford, Warwicke, and Suffolke, with divers other Lords.

In the first ranke did ride 48. in the likenesse and habit of Esquires, two and two together, clothed in red coats, and gownes of Say or Sendall, with comely vizors one their faces.

After them came riding 48. Knights, in the same Livery of colour and stuffe.

Then followed one richly arrayed, like an Emperour; and after him some distance, one stately tyred like a Pope, who was followed by 24. Cardinals: and after them eight or ten with blacke vizors, not amiable, as if they had been Legates from some forraigne Princes.

These Maskers, after they had entred the Mannor of Kennington, alighted from their horses: and entred the Hall on foot; which done, the Prince, his Mother, and the Lords came out of the chamber into the hall, whom the Mummers did salute: shewing by a paire of Dice on the Table, their desire to play with the yong Prince: which they so [Page] handled, that the Prince did alwaies winne when he cast at them.

Then the Mummers set to the Prince three Jewels,The Prince did win three Iewels of the Maskers. one after another; which were, a Boule of gold, a Cup of gold, and a Ring of gold, which the Prince wanne at three casts.

Then they set to the Princes Mother, the Duke, the Earles, and other Lords, to every one [...] Ring of gold, which they did also winne. After which they were feasted, and the Musicke sounded, the Prince and Lords danced on the one part with the Mummers, who did also dance: which jollity being ended, they were againe made to drinke, and then departed in order as they came.

The like was to Henry the fourth, in the second of his reign, he then keeping his Christmas at Eltham, twelve Aldermen of London, and their sonnes, rode in a mumming, and had great thanks.

Thus much for sportfull shewes in Triumphes may suffice.

Now for sports and pastimes yeerely used.

First, in the Feast of Christmas, there was in the Kings house, wheresoever he was lodged,Lord of Misrule at Christmas a Lord of Misrule, or Master of merry disports, and the like had ye in the house of every Nobleman of honour, or good worship, were he spirituall or temporall. Among the which, The Maior of London, and either of the Sheriffes had their severall Lords of misrule, ever contending, without quarell or offence, who should make the rarest pastimes to delight the beholders. These Lords beginning their rule at Alhallon Eve, continued the same till the mocrow after the Feast of the Purification, commonly called Candlemas day: In all which space, there were fine and subtill disguisings, Maskes and Mummeries, with playing at Cards for counters, nayles and points in every house, more for pastime than for gaine.

Against the Feast of Christmas, every mans house, as also their Parish Churches, were decked with Holme, Ivie, Bayes, and whatsoever the season of the yeere affoorded to be greene: The conduits and standards in the streets were likewise garnished. Among the which, I read, that in the yeere 1444. by tempest of thunder and lightning, on the first of February at night,Tempests of lightning and thunder fired Pauls steeple, overthrew the standard at Leaden hall, and threw stones of the payement into mens houses. Pauls steeple was fired, but with great labour quenched: and toward the morning of Candlemas day, at the Leaden Hall in Cornhill, a Standard of tree being set up in the midst of the payement, fast in the ground, nayled full of Holme and Ivie, for disport of Christmas to the people; was torne up, and cast downe by the malignant Spirit (as was thought) and the stones of the payement all about, were cast in the streets, and into divers houses, so that the people were sore agast at the great tempests.

In the weeke before Easter, Twisted trees [...]et from the woods. had yee great shewes made, for the fetching in of a twisted Tree, or With, as they termed it, out of the woods, into the kings house, and the like into every mans house of Honour or Worship.

In the Moneth of May, May games namely on May day in the morning, every man, except impediment, would walke into the sweet Meddowes and green woods, there to rejoyce their spirits with the beauty and savour of sweet Flowers, and with the harmonie of Birdes, praising God in their kinde. And for example hereof,Edward Hall. Edward Hall hath noted, that King Henry the eighth, as in the third of his reigne, and divers other yeeres, so namely in the seventh of his reigne, on May day in the morning, with Queene Katharine his wife, accompanied with many Lords and Ladies, rode a Maying from Greenwich to the high ground of Shooters-hill: where as they passed by the way, they espyed a company of tall Yeomen, clothed all in greene, with greene hoods, and with bowes and arrowes, to the number of 200. One, being their Chieftaine,Robin Hood and his men shot before the King. was called Robin Hood, who required the King and all his company to stay and see his men shoot: whereunto the King granting, Robin Hood whistled, and all the 200. Archers shot off, loosing all at once; and when he whistled againe, they likewise shot againe: their Arrowes whistled by craft of the head, so that the noise was strange and loud, which greatly delighted the King, Queene, and their company.

Moreouer, this Robin Hood desired the King and Queene, with their retinue, to enter the greene Wood, where, in Arbours made with boughes, and deckt [Page] with flowers, they were set and served plentifully with venison and wine, by Robin Hood and his meyny, to their great contentment, and had other Pageants and Pastimes, as yee may read in my said Author.

I find also, that in the month of May, the Citizens of London (of all estates) lightly in every Parish, or sometime two or three Parishes joyning together, had their severall Maynings, and did fetch in May-poles, with divers warlike shewes, with good Archers, Morice-dancers, and other devices for pastime all the day long; and towards the evening, they had stage-plaies, and Bonefires in the streets.

Of these Mayings, we read in the reign of Henry the sixth, that the Aldermen and Sheriffes of London, being on May day at the Bishop of Londons Wood in the Parish of Stebunheath, Bishops Wood. and having there a worshipfull dinner for themselves and other commers,Bishops Hall by Ble [...]henhall green. Lydgate the the Poet, that was a Monk of Bury, sent to them by a Pursivant a joyfull commendation of that seasen, containing sixteene staves in meeter Royall, beginning thus:

Mighty Flora, Goddesse of fresh flowers,

which clothed hath the soyle in lusty green,

The pleasāt month of May commended.

Made buds to spring, with her sweet showers,

by influence of the Sunne shine,

To doe pleasance of intent full cleane,

unto the States which now sit here,

Hath Ver downe sent her own daughter deare,

Making the vertue, that dared in the root,

Called the vertue, the vertue vegetable,

for to transcend, most wholesome & most soote,

Into the top, this season so agreeable:

the baw my liquor is so commendable,

That it rejoyceth with his fresh moisture,

man, beast, and fowle, and every creature, &c.

About the ninth yeere of the reigne of King Henry the eight, a great he artburning and malicious grudge grew amongst the Englishmen of the City of London, against strangers: and namely, the Artificers found themselves much agrieved; The number of strangers in London misliked. because such number of strangers were permitted, to resort hither with their Wares, and to exercise Handicrafts, to the great hinderance and impoverishing of the Kings Liege people. Which malice grew to such a point that one Iohn Lincolne a Broker,Iohn Lincolne a Broker beginner of the insurrection busied himselfe so farre in the matter, that about Palme Sunday, or the fift of April, he came to one Doctor Henry Standish, with these words; Sir, I understand, that you shall preach at the Spittle on Munday in Easter-weeke, and so it is, that English men, both Merchants and other, are undone by stangers, who have more liberty in this Land than they, which is against reason, and also against the Common-weale of this Realme: I beseech you therefore,A bill offered by Lincolne to Doctor Standish. to declare this in your sermon, and in so doing, you shall deserve great thanks of my Lord Maior, and of all his Brethren. And herewith he offered unto the said Doctor a bill, containing the matter more at large. But Doctor Standish wisely considering, that there might more inconvenience arise thereof, than he would wish, if he should deale in such a sort: both refused the bill, and told Lincolne plainely, that he meant not to meddle with any such matter in his Sermon.

Whereupon, the said Lincolne went unto one Doctor Bell, a Canon of the foresaid Spittle, Doctor Be [...]dertooke to read Lincolns bill in the Pulpit. that was appointed likewise to preach upon Tuesday in Easter-weake at the same Spittle, whom hee perswaded to reade his said bill in the Pulpit: which bill contained (in effect) the griefes that many found with strangers, for taking the livings away from Artificers, and the entercourse from Merchants, the redresse whereof must come from the commons knit in one; for as the hurt touched all men, so must al set to their helping hands. Which letter he read,The bill contained much seditious matter. or the chiefest part thereof, comprehending much seditious matter. And then he began with this sentence: Coelum coeli Domino, terram autem dedit filiis hominum. And upon this Text he entreated, how this Land was given to Englishmen, and as Birds defend their nests, so ought Englishmen to cherish and maintaine themselves, and to hurt and grieve Aliens, for respect of their Common-wealth. And on this Text, Pugna pro Patria, he brought in, how (by Gods Law) it was was lawfull to fight for their Country:Pugna pro Patria. and thus he subtilly moved the people to rebell against strangers. By this Sermon, many a light-headed person tooke courage, and [Page] openly spake against strangers: and by mishap, there had beene divers evill parts (of late) plaid by strangers, in and about the Citie of London, which kindled the peoples rancor the more furiously against them.

The twenty eighth day of April, Quarela urged to strangers as they were in the streets divers yong-men of the Citie picked quarels with certaine strangers, as they passed along the streets: some they smote and buffetted, and some they threw in the channell: for which, the Lord Maior sent some of the Englishmen to prison, as Stephen Studley, Skinner, Stevenson, Bets, and other.

Then suddenly rose a secret rumour, and no man could tell how it began, that on May-day next following,Evil May-day. the Citie would slay all the Aliens: insomuch that divers strangers fled out of the Citie.

This rumour came to the knowledge of the Kings Councell: whereupon the Lord Cardinall sent for the Maior, and other of the Councell of the Citie, giving them to understand what hee had heard.

The Lord Maior (as one ignorant of the matter) told the Cardinall, that he doubted not so to governe the Citie, but as peace should be observed.

The Cardinall willed him so to doe, and to take good heed, that if any riotous attempt were intended, he should by good policy prevent it.

The Maior comming from the Cardinals house,A meeting of the L. Maior and his brethren at Guildhall. about foure of the clocke in the afternoone on May Eve, sent for his Brethren to the Guild-hall, yet was it almost seven of the clocke before the Assembly was set. Vpon conference had of the matter, some thought it necessary, that a substantiall watch should be set of honest Citizens, which might withstand the evill doers, if they went about any misrule. Other were of contrary opinion, as rather thinking it best, that every man should be commanded to shut in his doores, and to keepe his servants within. Before 8. of the clock, Master Recorder was sent to the Cardinall, with these opinions: who hearing the same,The Recorder & Sir Thomas More sent to the Cardinall. allowed the latter. And then the Recorder, and Sir Thomas More, late under-sheriffe of London, and now of the Kings Councell, came backe againe to the Guild-hall, halfe an houre before nine of the clock, and there shewed the pleasure of the Kings Councell: whereupon every Alderman sent to his Ward, that no man (after nine of the clocke) should stir out of his house, but keepe his doores shut, and his servants within, untill nine of the clocke in the morning.

After this commandement was given, An Alderman resisted, and put to flight. in the Evening, as Sir Iohn Mundy Alderman, came from his Ward, hee found two young-men in Cheape, playing at the Bucklers, and a great many of young-men looking on them, for the command seemed to bee scarcely published; he commanded them to leave off; and because one of them asked him why, hee would have him sent to the Counter. But the Prentices resisted the Alderman, taking the young-man from him, and cryed Prentices, Prentices, Clubs, Clubs: then out at every doore came Clubs and other weapons, so that the Alderman was forced to flight. Then more people arose out of every quarter, and forth came Servingmen, Watermen, Courtiers, and other, so that by eleven of the clocke, there were in Cheape, 6. or 7. hundred, and out of Pauls Church-yard came about 300. From all places they gathered together, and breake up the Counter, took out the Prisoners, which had beene committed thither by the Lord Maior, for hurting the strangers: also they went to Newgate, and tooke out Studley and Bets, committed thither for the like cause. The Maior and Sheriffes were present, and made Proclamation in the Kings name, but nothing was obeyed.

Being thus gathered into severall heaps,Sir Thomas More labored to pacifie the rude multitude. they ran thorow Saint Nicholas shambles, and at Saint Martins Gate, there met with them Sir Thomas More, and other, desiring them to goe to their lodgings.

As they were thus intreating, and had almost perswaded the people to depart, they within Saint Martins threw out stones and bats, so that they hurt divers honest persons, which were with Sir Thomas More, perswading the rebellious Rout to cease. Insomuch as at length, one Nicholas Dennis, a Serjeant at Armes, being there sore hurt, cryed [Page] in a fury, [...] Den [...], a Serjeant [...] [...]mes sore hurt. Downe with them: and then all the unruly persons ran to the doores and windowes of the houses within St. Martins, and spoiled all that they found. After that they ran into Cornehill, and so on to a house East of Leadenhal, called the Green-gate, where dwelt one Mewtas a Piccard or Frenchman, within whose house dwelled divers French men, Mewtas a Piccard. whom they likewise spoyled: and if they had found Mewtas, they would have stricken off his head.

Some ran to Blanchapleton, and there brake up the strangers houses,The strangers houses broken up at Blanchapleton. and spoiled them. Thus they continued till 3. a clocke in the morning, at which time, they began to withdraw: but by the way they were taken by the Maior and other, and sent to the Tower, Newgate and Counters, to the number of 300. The Cardinall was advertised by Sir Thomas Parre, whom in all haste he sent to Richmond, The King sendeth to know the state of the City. to informe the King: who immediately sent to understand the state of the City, and was truely informed. Sir Roger Cholmeley Lievtenant of the Tower, during the time of this businesse, shot off certaine peeces of Ordnance against the City, but did no great hurt. About five of the clocke in the morning, the Earles of Shrewsbury and Surrey, Thomas Dockery, Lord Prior of Saint Iohns, The Lords came with power to London. George Nevill, Lord Aburgaveny, and other, came to London with such powers as they could make, so did the Innes of Court; but before they came, the businesse was done, as ye have heard.

Then were the prisoners examined,Doctor Bell sent to the Tower for his Sermon. and the Sermon of Doctor Bell called to remembrance, and hee sent to the Tower. A Commission of Oyer and Determiner was directed to the Duke of Norfolke, and other Lords, for punishment of this insurrection. The second of May, the Commissioners, with the Lord Maior, Aldermen and Iustices, went to the Guildhall, where many of the offenders were indicted, whereupon they were arraigned, and pleaded not guilty, having day given them till the 4. of May.

On which day,The Duke of Norfolke entred London with 1300 men. the Lord Maior, the Duke of Norfolke, the Earle of Surrey and other, came to sit in the Guildhall. The Duke of Norfolke entred the City with one thousand three hundred men, and the prisoners were brought through the streets tyed in ropes, some men, some lads but of thirteen or foureteene yeeres old, to the number of 278. persons. That day Iohn Lincolne and divers other were indicted, and the next day thirteen were adjudged to bee drawne, hanged, and quartered: for execution whereof,Ten paire of Gallowes set up in divers streets of London. ten payre of Gallowes were set up in divers places of the City, as at Aldgate, Blanchapleton, Grasse-street, Leaden-hall, before either of the Counters; at Newgate, Saint Martins, at Aldersgate and Bishopsgate. And these Gallowes were set upon wheeles, to bee removed irom street to street, and from doore to doore whereas the prisoners were to be executed.

On the seventh of May, Iohn Lincoln, one Shirwin, and two brethren, named Betts, Iohn Lincolne the Broker executed, but the rest respited by the King. with divers other were adjudged to dye. They were on the Hurdles drawne to the Standard in Cheape, and first was Lincolne executed: and as the other had the ropes about their neckes, there came a commandement from the King, to respit the execution, and then were the prisoners sent againe to prison, and the armed men sent away out of the Citie.

On the thirteenth of May, the King came to Westminster-hall, and with him the Lord Cardinall, the Dukes of Norfolke, and [...]uffolke, the Earles of Shrewsbury, Essex, Wiltshire, and Surrey, with many Lords and other of the Kings Councell; the Lord Maior of London, Aldermen and other chiefe Citizens, were there in their best liveries, by nine of the clocke in the morning.The prisoners were brought before the King at Westminster Hall. Then came in the prisoners, bound in ropes in a ranke one after another, in their shirts, and every one had a Halter about his necke, being in number 400. men, and 11. women.

When they were thus come before the Kings presence, the Cardinall laid sore to the Maior and Aldermen their negligence, and to the prisoners he declared how justly they had deserved to dye. Then all the prisoners together cryed to the King for mercy,The King graciously pardoned all the prisoners. and therewith the Lords besought his grace of pardon: at whose request, the King pardoned them all. The generall pardon [Page] being pronounced, all the Prisoners shouted at once, and cast their Halters towards the roofe of the Hall. The prisoners being dismissed, the Gallowes were taken downe, and the Citizens tooke more heed to their servants: keeping (for ever after) as on that night, a strong watch in Armour, in remembrance of Evill May-day. Evill May-day.

These great Mayings and Maygames made by the Governours and Masters of this City, with the Triumphant setting up of the great shaft (a principall May-pole in Cornehill, before the Parish of Saint Andrew) therefore called Vndershaft, by meane of that insurrection of youths, against Aliens on May-day, 1517. the 6. of Henry the eight, have not been so freely used as before. And therefore I leave them, and will somewhat touch of Watches, as also of shewes in the night.

Of Watches in this Citie, and other matters commanded, and the cause why.

WIlliam Conquerour commanded, Curfe [...] Bel at 8. of the clocke commanded fire & candle to be quenched. that in every Towne and Village, a Bell should be nightly rung at eight of the clocke, and that all people should then put out their fire, and candle, and take their rest. Which order was observed through this Realm during his reigne, and the reigne of William Rufus: but Henry the first, restoring to his Subjects the use of fire and lights, as afore, it followeth (by reason of Warres within the Realme) that many men also gave themselves to robbery and murders in the night: for example whereof in this City, Roger Hoveden writeth thus:

In the yeere 1175. a councell was kept at Nottingham, Roger Hoveden manuscript. in time of which Councell, a brother of the Earle Ferrers, being in the night privily slaine at London, and thrown out of his Inne into the durty street when the King understood thereof he sware that he would be revenged on the Citizens. For it was then (saith mine Author) a common practice in this City; that a hundred or more in a company, young and old, would make nightly invasions upon houses of the wealthy, to the intent to rob them, and if they found any man stirring in the City within the night, that were not of their crue,Nightwalkers murthered all they met. they would presently murder him: insomuch, that when night was come, no man durst adventure to walk in the streets. When this had continued long, it fortuned, that as a crue of yong and wealthy Citizens assembling together in the night, assaulted a stone house of a certaine rich man, and breaking through the wall, the good man of that house, having prepared himselfe with other in a corner, when hee perceived one of the theeves, named Andrew Bucquint, to lead the way, with a burning brand in the one hand, and a pot of coles in the other, which hee assaied to kindle with the brand, he flew upon him, and smote off his right hand, and then with a loud voyce cryed theeves. At the hearing whereof, the theeves tooke their flight, all saving he that had lost his hand, whom the good man (in the next morning) delivered to Richard de Lucie the Kings Iustice.Rich theeves most worthy to bee hanged. This theefe, upon warrant of his life, appeached his confederates, of whom many were taken, and many were fled. Among the rest that were apprehended,The judgment of fire and water called Ordalii, was condemned by Pope Innocent the third 1205. Decretal. lib. 5. a certaine Citizen of great countenance, credit, and wealth, named Iohn Senex, who for as much he could not acquit himselfe by the Water-doome (as that law was then tearmed) hee offered to the King five hundred pounds of silver for his life. But forasmuch as he was condemned by judgement of the Water, the King would not take the offer, but commanded him to be hanged on the Gallowes,Cause why watches in the night were commanded and when. which was done, and then the City became more quiet for a long time after.

But for a full remedy of enormities in the night, I read, that in the yeere of Christ 1253. Henry the third commanded Watches in Cities, and Borough Townes to be kept, for the better observing of peace and quietnesse amongst his people.

And further, by the advice of them [Page] of Savoy, hee ordained, that if any man chanced to be robbed, or by any means damnified, by any theese or robber; he to whom the charge of keeping that Country, City or Borough chiefly appertained, where the robbery was done, should competently restore the losse. And this was after the use of Savoy; but yet thought more hard to bee observed here, than in those parts: and therefore leaving those laborious Watches, I will speake of our Pleasures and Pastimes in watching by night.

In the Months of Iune and Iuly, Bonefires and banqueting in the streets on the Vigils of Festivall dayes, and on the same Festivall dayes in the Evenings, after the Sun-setting, there were usually made Bone-fires in the streets, every man bestowing wood or labour towards them. The wealthier sort also before their doores, neere to the said Bonefires would set out Tables on the Vigils, furnished with sweete bread, and good drinke, and on the Festivall dayes with meats and drinkes plentifully, whereunto they would invite their neighbours and passengers also to sit, and be merry with them in great familiarity, praysing God for his benefits bestowed on them. These were called Bonefires, as well of amity amongst neighbours, that being before at controversie, were there by the labour of others reconciled, and made of bitter enemies, loving friends; as also for the vertue that a great fire hath, to purge the infection of the ayre. On the Vigill of Saint Iohn Baptist, Marching watch at Midsummer. and on Saint Peter and Paul the Apostles, every mans doore being shaddowed with greene Birch, long Fennel, Saint Iohns wort, Orpin, white Lilies, and such like, garnished upon with Garlands of beautifull flowers,Garnishing of mens doores, & furnishing them out. had also Lamps of glasse, with Oyle burning in them all the night; some hung out branches of Iron curiously wrought, containing hundreds of Lamps lighted at once, which made a goodly shew, namely in new Fish street, Thames-street, &c. Then had ye besides the standing watches, all in bright harnesse, in every Ward and street of this City and Suburbs, a marching watch, that passed through the principall streets thereof, to wit, from the little Conduit by Pauls gate, through West Cheape, by the Stocks, through Cornehill, by Leaden hall to Aldgate, then backe down Fen-Church street, by Grasse-Church, about Grasse-Church Conduit, and up Grasse-Church street into Cornhil, and through it into West Cheape again, and so broke up.Almost 1000. cressets light, for the watch at Midsummer. The whole way ordered for this marching watch, extended to 3 [...]00. Taylors yards of assize, for the furniture whereof with lights, there were appointed 700. Cressers, 500. of them being found by the Companies, the other 200. by the Chamber of London. Besides the which lights,More than 240. Constables in London, the one halfe of them each night went in the marching watch, the otherhalfe kept their standing watch in every street and lane. every Constable in London, in number more than 240. had his Cresset: the charge of every Cresset was in light two shillings foure pence, and every Cresset had 2. men, one to beare or hold it, another to beare a bag with light, and to serve it: so that the poore men pertaining to the Cressets, taking wages, besides that every one had a strawen hat, with a badge painted, & his break fast in the morning, amounted in number to almost 2000. The marching watch contained in number 2000. men, part of them being old Souldiers, of skill to bee Captaines, Licutenants, Serjeants, Corporals, &c. Wiffers, Drummers, and Fifes, Standard and Ensigne-bearers, Sword-players, Trumpeters on horsebacke, Demilaunces on great horses, Gunners with hand-guns, or halfe hakes, Archers in cotes of white fustian, signed on the brest and backe with the Armes of the City, their bowes bent in their hands, with sheafes of arrowes by their sides, Pike-men in bright Corslets, Burganets &c. Holbards, the like Billmen in Almaine Rivets, and Aperns of Mayle in great number.

There were also divers Pageants, Morris dancers, Constables, the one halfe which was 120. on St. Iohns Eve, the other halfe on Saint Peters Eve in bright harnesse, some over-gilt, and every one a Jornet of Scarlet thereupon and a chaine of Gold, his Hench-man following him, his Ministrels before him, and his Cresset light passing by him: the Waytes of the City, the Maiors Officers, for his guard before him, all in a Livery of Wosted or Say Iackets, party coloured, the Maior himselfe wel mounted on horseback, the Sword-bearer before him in faire Armour, well [Page] mounted also, the Maiors foot-men, and the like Torch-bearers about him; Hench-men twaine, upon great stirring horses following him. The Sheriffes Watches came one after the other in like order, but not so large in number as the Maiors: for where the Maior had besides his Giant three Pageants, each of the Sheriffes had besides their Giants, but two Pageants; each their morrīs-dance, and one Hench-man, their Officers in Jackets of Wosted, or Say, party-coloured, differing from the Maiors, and each from other, but having harnessed men a great many, &c.

This Midsummer Watch was thus accustomed yeerely, time out of minde, untill the yeere 1539. the 31. of Henry the eighth, in which yeere, on the S. of May, A great Muster at London. a great Muster was made by the Citizens at the Miles end, all in bright harnesse, with coats of white silke or cloth, and chaines of gold, in three great battels, to the number of 15000. which passed thorow London to Westminister, and so through the Sanctuary, and round about the Parke of S. Iames, and returned home thorow Oldborne.

King Henry then considering the great charges of the Citizens, for the furniture of this unusuall Muster, forbad the marching Watch provided for at Midsummer for that yeere; which being once laid downe, was not raised againe till the yeere 1548. the second of Edward the sixth, Sir Iohn Gresham then being Maior, who caused the marching Watch, both on the Eve of Saint Iohn Baptist, and of S. Peter the Apostle, to be revived and set forth, in as comely order as it had been accustomed; which Watch was also beautified by the number of more than 300. Demilances and light-horsemen, prepared by the Citizens to be sent into Scotland, for the rescue of the Towne of Haddington, and others, kept by the Englishmen since this Maiors time.

The like marching Watch in this Citie hath not beene used, though some attempts have been made thereunto, as in the yeere 1585. a Booke was drawne by a grave Citizen,Iohn Moūtgomery. and by him dedicated to Sir Tho. Pullison, then L. Maior, and his brethren the Aldermen, containing the manner and order of a marching Watch in the Citie upon the Evens accustomed, in commendation whereof, namely, in times of peace to be used, he hath words to this effect:

The Artificers of sundry sorts were thereby well set aworke,Commodities of the watch at Midsū mer, in the time of peace. none but rich men charged, poore men helped, old Souldiers, Trumpeters, Drummers, Fifes, and Ensigne-bearers, with such like men, meet for the Princes service, kept in ure, wherein the safety and defence of every Common-weale consisteth. Armour and Weapons being yeerely occupied in this wise, the Citizens had of their owne readily prepared for any neede, whereas by intermission hereof, armorers are out of worke, Souldiers out of ure, weapons overgrowne with foulenesse, few or none good being provided, &c.

In the Moneth of August, Wrestling at [...]kinners we [...], ne [...]re unto Clerks wel before the Maior. about the Feast of Saint Bartholomew the Apostle, before the Lord Maior, Aldermen, and Sheriffes of London, placed in a large Tentneere unto Clarkenwell, of old time were divers dayes spent in the pastime of wrestling; where the Officers of the Citie, namely the Sheriffes, Serjeants, and Yeomen, the Porters of the Kings Beame, or weigh-house, (now no such men) and other of the Citie, were challengers of all men in the Suburbs, to wrestle for games appointed. And on other dayes, before the said Maior,Shooting the standard, broad arrow and flight before the Maior. Aldermen and Sheriffes, in Fensbury field, to shoot the standard, broad-arrow and flight, for games. But now of late yeeres, the wrestling is onely practised on Bartholomew day in the afternoone, and the shooting some three or foure dayes after, in one afternoone and no more. What should I speake of the ancient daily exercises in the long Bow by Citizens of this Citie,Shooting in the long bow suppressed Bowlingalleys erected and frequēted. now almost cleane left off and forsaken? Lover-passe it: for by the meanes of closing in of Common grounds, our Archers, for want of roome to shoot abroad, creepe into Bowling-Alleys, and ordinarie Dicing-houses, neerer home, where they have roome enough to hazzard their money at unlawfull Games, and there I leave them to take their pleasures.

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Honour of Citizens, and worthinesse both of men and women in the same.

THis Citie (saith Fitzstephen) is glorious in Manhood: furnished with munitions, populous with inhabitants; insomuch that in the troublesome time of King Stephen, it hath shewed at a Muster 20000. armed Horsemen, and threescore thousand Foot-men, serviceable for the Warres. Moreover (saith he) the Citizens of London, wheresoever they become, are notable before all other Citizens, in civility of manners, attire, table, and talke.The modest Matrons that have bin, & ought to be. The Matrons of this Citie, are the very modest Sabine Ladies of Italie. The Londoners, sometime called Trinobants, repelled Caesar, who alwaies made his passage by shedding blood: whereupon Lucan sung: ‘Territa quaesitis ostēdit terga Britannis.’

The Citie of London hath bred some,Worthinesse of men, Citizens of London. which have subdued many Kingdomes, and also the Romane Empire. It hath also brought forth manyothers, whom Vertue and Valour hath highly advanced, according to Apollo in his Oracle to Brute, Sub occasu Solis, &c. In the time of Christianity, it brought forth that Noble Emperour Constantine, Constatine the Emperour borne in London. which gave the Citie of Rome, and all the Imperiall signes, to God, Saint Peter, and Pope Silvester, chusing rather to be called a Defender of the Church, than an Emperour. And lest peace might be violated, and their eyes troubled by his presence, he retired from Rome, and built the Citie of Constantinople. London also in late time hath brought forth famous Kings: Maude the Empresse, King Henrie, sonne to Henry the second, and Thomas the Archbishop, &c.

This Thomas, surnamed Becket, borne in London, A Sheriffs Clerke of London became chancelor of England, and Archbishop of Canturbury. brought up in the Priory of Marton, and a Student at Paris, became the Sheriffes Clerke of London for a time, then Parson of S. Mary-hill, he had a Prebend at London, another at Lincolne, studied the Law at Bononie, &c. was made Chancellour of England, and Archbishop of Canturbury, &c. Vnto these might be added innumerable persons of honour,Honorable actions done by the worthy citizens of London. wisedome and vertue, borne in London: but of actions done by worthy Citizens, I will onely note a few, and so to other matters.

The Citizens of London, Hospitall of S. James in the fields. time out of minde, founded an Hospitall at Saint Iames in the fields, for leprous women of their Citie.

In the yeere 1197. Walter Brune, VValter Brune. a Citizen of London, and Rosia his wife, founded the Hospitall of our Lady, called Domus Dei, or S. Mary Spittle, without Bishopsgate in London, an house of such reliefe to the needy, that there was found standing at the surrender thereof, ninescore beds, well furnished for receipt of poore people.

In the yeere 1216. the Londoners sending out a Navie, tooke 95. ships of Pirates and Sea-robbers, besides innumerable others that they drowned, which had robbed on the River of Thames.

In the yeere 1247.Simon Fitzmary. Simon Fitzmary, one of the Sheriffes of London, founded the Hospitall of S. Mary, called Bethlem, without Bishopsgate.

In the yeere 1283. Henry Wallis, Henry VVallis, then Maior, builded the Tunne upon Cornehill, to bee a Prison for night-walkers, and a Market-house called the Stocks, both for fish and flesh, standing in the middest of the Citie. Hee also builded divers Houses on the West and North side of Pauls Church-yard, the profits of all which buildings are to the maintenance of London Bridge.

In the yeere 1332. William Elsing, VVilliam Elsing, Mercer of London, founded Elsing Spittle, within Creplegate, for fustentation of an hundred poore blinde men, and became himselfe the first Prior of that Hospitall.

Sir Iohn Poultney, Draper,Sir Iohn Poultney. 4. times Maior, 1337. builded a faire Chappell in Pauls Church, wherein he was buried. He founded a Colledge in the Parish Church of S. Laurence, called Poultney. Hee builded the Church called little Alhallowes, in Thames streete: [Page] and the Carmelite Friers Church in Coventry: he gave reliefe to prisoners in Newgate and the Fleet, and ten shillings the yeere to Saint Giles Hospitall by Oldborne for ever, and other legacies long to rehearse.

Iohn Stody Vintner, [...]. Maior, 1358. gave to the Vintners all the Quadrant, wherein the Vintners Hall now standeth, with all the tenuments round about, from Stodies Lane, where is founded thirteene Almes-houses, for so many poore people, &c.

Henry Picard, Henry Picard. Vin [...]ner, Maior, 1357. In the yeere 1363. did in one day [...]umptuously feast Edward the third, King of England; Iohn, King of France; David, King of Scots; the King of Cipres, then all in England; Edward, Paince of Wales, with many other Noblemen, and after kept his Hall for all commers, that were willing to play at dice and hazard; the Lady Margaret his wife kept her chamber to the same effect, &c.

Iohn Lofken Fishmonger,Iob. Lofken. foure times Maior, 1367. builded an Hospitall called Magdalens, at Kingstone upon Thames, gave thereunto 9. tenements, 10. shops, one Mill, 125 acres of Land, 10 acres of meddow, 120. acres of pasture, &c. More, in Lond. he builded the faire parish Church of Saint Michael in crooked Lane, and was there buried.

Iohn Barnes, Joh. Barnes. Maior, 1371. gave a Chest with three locks, & 1000. marks therein, to be lent to yong men upon sufficient pawne, and for the use thereof, to say De profundis, or Pater noster, and no more: he also was a great builder of S. Thomas Apostles Parish Church, as appeareth by his Armes there both in stone and glasse.

In the yeere 1378. Iohn Filpot, Ioh. Filpot. sometime Maior, hired with his mony 1000. Souldiers, and defended the Realme from incursions of the enemy; so that in small time his hired men tooke Iohn Mercer, a Sea-rover, with all his ships, which he before had taken from Scarborrow, and fifteene Spanish ships, laden with great riches.

In the yeere 1380. Thomas of Woodstocke, Thomas Percy, Hugh Calverley, Robert Knowles, & others, being sent with a great power to ayde the Duke of Britaine, the said Iohn Filpot hired Ships for them of his owne charges, and released the Armour, which the Souldiers had pawned for their victuals, more than a thousand in number.

This most Noble Citizen, (saith Thomas Walsingham) that had travelled for the commodity of the whole Realme, more than all other of his time, had often relieved the King, by lending him great summes of money, and otherwise. He deceased in the yeere 1384. after that he had assured lands to the Citie, for the reliefe of thirteene poore people for ever.

In the yeere 1381. William Walworth, William Walworth [...] valianey. then Maior, a most provident, valiant, and learned Citizen, did by his arrest of Wat Tylar, (a presumptuous Rebell, upon whom no man durst lay hands) deliver the King and Kingdome from the danger of most wicked Traitors, and was for his service knighted in the field, as before hath beene related.

Nicholas Brembar, Iohn Filpot, Robert Laund, Nicholas Twiford, and Adam Francis, Aldermen, were then for their service likewise Knighted, and Sir Robert Knowles, for assisting of the Maior was made free of the City.

Sir Robert Knowles, Ro. Knowles. thus worthily enfranchised a Citizen, founded a Colledge with an Hospitall at Pountfract: he also builded the great stone bridge at Rochester, over the River of Medway.

Iohn Churchman Grocer,Iohn Churchman. one of the Sheriffes, 1386. for the quiet of Merchants, builded a certaine house upon Wooll wharse, in Tower ward to serve for Ternage, or weighing of wools, and for the Customer, Comptrollers, Clerkes, and other Officers to sit, &c.

Adam Bamme, Adam Bamme. Goldsmith, Maior, 1091, in a great dearth, procured corne from divers parts beyond the Seas, to be brought hither in such abundance, as sufficed to serve the Citie, and the Countries neere adjoyning: to the furtherance of which good worke, he took out of the Orphants Chest in the Guildhall, 2000. Marks to buy the said corne, and each Alderman laid out 20. pound to the like purpose.

Tho. Knowles, Thomas K [...]les. Grocer, Maior, 1400. with his brethren the Aldermen, began to new build the Guild-hall in London, and in stead of an old little Cottage in Alderman-bury street, made a faire [Page] and goodly house, more neere unto S. Laurence Church in the Jurie. Hee reedified S. Anthonies Church, and gave to the Grocers his house neere unto the same, for reliefe of the poore for ever. More, he caused water to be conveied to the gates of Newgate and Ludgate, for reliefe of the prisoners there.

Iohn Hinde, Iohn Hinde. Draper, Maior 1405. newly builded his parish Church of Saint Swithen by London stone, his monument is defaced, save onely his Armes in the glasse windows.

Thomas Falconer Mercer,Thomas Falconer. Maior, 1414 lent to King Henry the 5. towards maintenance of his warres in France, 10000. markes upon Iewels: more, hee made the posterne called Mooregate, caused the ditches of the Citie to be cleansed, and did many other things for good of the same Citie.

William Sevenock Grocer,VVilliam Sevenock. Maior 1419. founded in the Towne of Sevenock in Kent, a free schoole for poore mens children, and 13. Almes-houses: his Testament saith 20. poore men and women.

Richard Whittington Mercer,Richard VVhittington. 3. times Maior, in the yeere 1421. began the Library of Gray Friers in London, to the charge of foure hundred l. his executors (with his goods) founded and builded Whittington Colledge, with Almeshouses for 13. poore men, and Divinity Lectures to be read there for ever. They repaired Saint Bartholomews Hospitall in Smithfield, they bare some charges to the glazing and paving of the Guildhall, they bare halfe the charges of building the Library there, and they builded the west gate of London, of old time called Newgate, &c.

Iohn Carpenter, Iohn Carpenter. Towne-Clerke of London, in the reigne of Henry the fifth, caused (with great expences) to be curiously painted upon boord, about the North Cloister of Pauls, a monument of death, leading all estates, with the speeches of death,Dance of death, called the dance of Pauls. and answer of every state. This Cloyster was pulled downe 1549. He also gave Tenements to the Citie, for the finding and bringing up of foure poore mens children, with meat, drinke, apparell, learning at the Schooles in the Vniversity, &c. untill they might be preferred, and then other in their places for ever.

Robert Chichley, Ro. Chichley. Grocer, Maior, 1422. appointed by his Testament, that on his birth-day, a competent dinner should be ordained for two thousand foure hundred poore men, housholders of this Citie, and every one to have two pence in money. More, he gave one large plot of ground, thereupon to build the new parish Church of S. Stephen neere unto Walbrooke, &c.

Iohn Rainwell Fishmonger,Ioh. Rainwell. Maior, 1427. gave Tenements to discharge certaine Wards of London of Fifteenes, and other payments.

Iohn Welles Grocer,Ioh. VVels. Maior, 1433. a great builder of the Chappell or Colledge of the Guild-hall, and was there buried: he caused fresh water to be conveyed from Teyborne, to the Standard in West Cheap, for the service of the Citie.

William Eastfield Mercer,VVilliam Eastfield. 1438. appointed his executors, of his goods, to convey sweet water from Teyborne, and to build a faire Conduit by Aldermanbery Church, which they performed, as also made a Standard in Fleetstreet, by Shew-lane end: they also conveyed water to Creplegate, &c.

Stephen Browne Grocer,Stephen Browne. Maior 1439. sent into Prusia, causing corne to bee brought from thence, whereby hee brought downe the price of Wheat, from three shillings the bushell, to lesse than halfe that money: for corne was then so scarce in England, that poore people were enforced to make them bread of Fearne roots.

Philip Malpas, Philip Malpas. one of the Sheriffes, 1440. gave by his Testament 125. l. to reliefe of poore prisoners, and every yeere for five yeeres, 400. shirts and smocks, 40. paire of sheets, and 150. gownes of Freeze to the poore. To 500 poore people in London, every one six shillings eight pence: to poore maids marriages, 100. markes: to high-waies, an hundred markes: twenty markes the yeere to a Graduate to preach, twentie pounds unto Preachers at the Spittle on the three Easter holy-daies, &c.

Robert Large Mercer,Robert Large. Maior 1440. gave to his parish Church of S. Olive in Surrey 200. l. to S. Margarets in Lothbery 25. l. to the poore twenty pounds: to London bridge one hundred markes. [Page] Towards the vaulting over the watercourse of Walbroke two hundred marks. To poore Maids marriages, one hundred markes: to poore House-holders, one hundred pounds, &c.

Richard Rich Mercer,Richard Rich. one of the Sheriffes, 1442. founded Almes houses at Hodsdon in Hertfordshire.

Simon Eyre Draper,Simon Eyre. Mayor, 1346. builded the Leaden-hall, for a common Garner of corne, to the use of this City, and left five thousand markes to charitable uses.

Godfrey Bullein, Godfrey Bullein. Maior of London, 1458. by his Testament gave liberally to the prisons, hospitals, and Lazer-houses; besides a thousand pound to poore house-holders in London, and 200. l. to poore householders in Norfolke.

Richard Rawson, Richard Rawson. one of the Sheriffes, 1477. gave by Testament large Legacies to the Prisoners, Hospitals and Lazer-houses. To other poore, to high wayes, to the water-conduits, besides to poore Maids marriages, 340. pounds, and his executors to build a large house in the Churchyard of S. Mary Spittle, wherein the Maior and his brethren do use to sit, and heare the Sermons in the Easter holy-dayes.

Thomas Ilam, Tho. Ilam. one of the Sheriffes, 1480. newly builded the great Conduit in Cheape, of his owne charges.

Edward Shaw Goldsmith,Edw. Shaw. Maior 1483 caused Creplegate of London to bee builded of his owne goods, &c.

Thomas Hill Grocer,Tho. Hill. Maior, 1485. caused of his goods, the Conduit of Grasse-street to be builded.

Hugh Clopton Mercer,Hugh Clopton. during his life a batchelour, Maior 1492. builded the great stone arched Bridge at Stratford upon Avon in Warwickshire, and did many other things of great charity, as in my Summary.

Robert Fabian, Robert Fabian. one of the Sheriffes, 1494. gathered out of divers good Authors, aswell Latine as French, a large Chronicle of England and of France, which he published in English, to his great charges, for the honor of this Citie, and common utility of the whole Realme.

Sir Iohn Percivall Merchant-Taylor,Iohn Percivall. Maior, 1498. founded a Grammarschoole at Macklefield in Cheshire, where he was borne, hee endowed the same schoole with sufficient Lands, for the finding of a Priest, master there, to teach freely all children thither sent, without exception.

The Lady Thomasine his wife,Rich. Carew. founded the like Freeschoole, together with faire lodgings for the Schoolemasters, Scholars, and other, and added twenty pound of yeerely revennue for supporting the charges, at Saint Mary Wike in Devonshire, where she was borne.

Stephen Gennings, Stephen Gennings. Merchant-Taylor, Maior 1509. founded a faire Grammarschoole at Vlfrimhampton in Staffordshire, left good lands, and also builded a great part of his Parish Church, called Saint Andrewes Vndershaft in London.

Henry Keble Grocer,Hen. Keble. Maior 1511. in his life a great benefactor to the new building of old Mary Church, and by his Testament gave a thousand pounds toward the finishing thereof. He gave to highwaies two hundred pound; to poor Maids marriages, one hundred markes. To poore husbandmen in Oxford and Warwickshires, one hundred and forty Ploughshares, and one hundred and forty Cultars of iron, and in London to seven Almes-men, six pence the week for ever.

Iohn Collet, Ioh. Collet. a Citizen of London by birth, and by dignity Deane of Pauls, Doctor of Divinity, etected and builded one Free-schoole in Pauls Churchyard, 1512. for 3. hundred fifty three poore mens children, to be taught free in the same schoole, appointing a Master, a submaster and a Chaplaine, with sufficient stipends to endure for ever, and committed the oversight thereof to the Mercers in London, because himselfe was sonne to Henry Collet, Mercer, Maior of London, and endowed the Mercers with Lands, to the yeerely value of 120. pound, or better.

Sir William Fitzwilliam the elder,William Fitzwilliam being a Merchant-taylor, and servant somtime to Cardinall Wolsey, was chosen Alderman of Breadstreet Ward in London, in Anno 1506. Going afterward to dwell at Milton in Northamptonshire, in the fall of the Cardinall his former master, he gave him kinde entertainement there at his house in the Countrey. For which deed being called before the [Page] King, and demanded how he durst entertaine so great an enemy to the State? His answer was, that hee had not contemptuously or wilfully done it; but only because he had beene his Master, and (partly) the meanes of his greatest fortunes. A just and royall disposition in the King. The King was so well pleased with his answer, that saying, himselfe had too few such servants, immediately he knighted him, and afterward made him a Privie Counsellour.

This worthy Knight dying,The liberall and bountifull minde of this Fitz-William. His death. gave an hundred pounds to poore maids marriages. His debts and debtors (over whose names he had written, Amore Dei remitto) he freely forgave. He gave to the Vniversities forty pounds; to the poore, thirty pounds; to mend the high waies betwixt Chigwell and Copersall in Essex, fifty pounds. To mend other high waies, about Thorney and Sawtry Chappell, and the Bridge, fifty pounds more. And to the Merchant-Taylors his Brethren, he gave his best standing Cup, as a friendly remembrance of him for ever.

Iohn Tate, Brewer,Iohn Tate. then a Mercer, Maior, 1514. caused his Brewhouse, called the Swanne, neere adjoyning to the Hospitall of Saint Anthonie in London, to be taken downe, for the inlarging of the said Church, then new builded, being a great part of his charge: This was a goodly foundation, with Almes houses, a Free Schoole, &c.

George Monnox Draper,George Monnox. Maior 1515. re-edified the decayed Parish Church of Waltamstow or Walthamstow in Essex, he founded there a Free Schoole, and Almes-houses for thirteene Almes-people: He made also a cawsey of Timber over the Marshes, from Walthamstow to Locke-Bridge, &c.

Sir Iohn Milborne, Iohn Milborne. Draper, Maior, 1522. builded Almes-houses, foureteen in number, by the crossed Friers Church in London, there to be placed foureteen poore people, and left to the Drapers, certaine Messuages, Tenements, and Garden-plots, in the Parish of Saint Olaves in Hartstreet, for performance of stipends to the said Almes people, and other uses. Looke more in Aldgate Ward, where you shall be further satisfied.

Robert Thorne, Robert Thorne. Merchant-Taylor, deceasing a Batchelour, in the yeere 1532. gave by his Testament to charitable actions, more than foure thousand, foure hundred and forty pounds, and legacies to his poore kindred more, five thousand, one hundred forty two pounds, besides his debts forgiven, &c.

Sir Iohn Allen, Sir Iohn Allen. Mercer, Maior of London, and of counsell to King Henry the 8. deceased 1544. buried at Saint Thomas of Acres, in a faire Chappell by him builded. He gave to the Citie of London a rich collar of gold, to be worne by the Maior, which was first worne by Sir William Laxton. He gave five hundred Markes to be a stocke for Sea-cole, his Lands purchased of the King, the rent thereof to bee distributed to the poore in the Wards of London for ever.

He gave besides to the Prisons, Hospitals, Lazer houses, and all other poore in the Citie, or two miles without, very liberally, and over-long to be recited.

Sir William Laxton, Sir William Laxton. Grocer, Maior, 1545. founded a faire free Schoole at Owndale in Northamptonshire, with six Almes-houses for the poore.

Sir Iohn Gresham, Sir Iohn Gresham. Mercer, Maior 1548 founded a Free schoole at Holt, a Market Towne in Norfolke: He gave to every Ward in London tenne pounds, to be distributed to the poore; and to 120. poore men and women, every one of them three yards of broad cloth, of 8. or 9. shillings the yard, to be made in Gownes ready to their backes. He gave also to Maids marriages, and to the Hospitals in London, aboue 200. pounds in ready money.

Sir Rowland Hill, Sir Rowland Hill. Mercer, Maior, 1550. caused to be made divers cawseyes, both for horse and man: he made foure Bridges, two of stone, containing 18. Arches in them both. He builded one notable Free-schoole at Drayton in Shropshire: he gave to Christs hospitall in London, 500. pounds, &c.

Sir Andrew Iud Skinner,Sir Andrew Iud. Maior 1551. erected one notable Free-scoole at Tunbridge in Kent, and Almes-houses nigh Saint Helens Church in London, and left to the Skinners, Lands to the value of threescore pounds, 3. shillings eight pence the yeere, for the which they bee bound to pay 20. l. to the Schoolmaster, 8. l. to the Vsher yeerely for ever, [Page] and foure shillings the week to the sixe almes people, and twenty five shillings foure pence the yeere in coales, for ever.

Sir Thomas White, The famous memory of Sir Thomas White. Lord Maior of this honourable City in Anno 1554. and a worthy Brother likewise of the Merchant-Taylors Society, being a lover of learning, & an earnest furtherer therof, first purchased the Hall in Oxenford, called Glocester Hall, Glocester Hall in Oxenford. for Schollers and Students, to receive there the benefit of learning. But his private thoughts very often soliciting him, that he should (in time) meet with a place, where two Elmes grew, and that there his further purpose should take effect. At length, he found out the place, where (at his owne cost and expences) hee founded the famous Colledge, called Saint Iohn Baptist Colledge,The building of S. Iohn Baptist Colledge in Oxenford. and where these two Elmes (as I have heard) are yet standing endowing it with such liberall gifts, lands and revenues, as would require too much time, here to be remembred of set downe.

Beside his provision for learning in this worthy place,Other Schooles by him builded & maintained. hee erected other Schooles: as at Bristow, Reading, and a Colledge at Higham Ferries. More, he gave to the City of Bristow, the summe of two thousand pounds to purchase land,His great bounty to the City of Bristow. amounting to the yeerely value of an hundred and twenty pound: The Maior and Citizens paying therefore yeerely an hundred pounds. Eight hundred pounds must bee lent to sixteene poore Clothiers, fifty pounds each man, for the space of ten yeeres, sufficient security being given by them for the same. Afterward that eight hundred pounds, was to passe to other sixteen poore clothiers, according to the discretion of them put in trust.Provision of Corne for the poore. Two hundred pounds beside was reserved, for provision of corne, and needefull occasions for the poore, in the order and care of the Maior, Aldermen and Citizens, &c.

Then according to his will, which remaineth yet to be seen, out of this bountifull gift to Bristow, His order out of his gift to Bristow. these memorable branches, and benevolences, were (by himselfe) devised, and thus ordered, beginning in the yeere 1577. and so thence forward, they went on according to his owne direction. Then on the Feast of Saint Bartholmew was brought to the Merchant-Taylors Hall,An hundred and 4. pounds brought to Merchant Taylors Hall alwaies on Bartholomew day. an hundred and foure pounds, the hundred pound to be lent (for ten yeeres space) to foure poore young men in the City of Yorke, Free-men and Inhabitants being Clothiers: and the foure pound overplus, to bee imployed about the charges and paines, that no man (used in the businesse) might receive discontentment. Then in 1578. the like sum was to bee delivered thence to Canturbury: and so thence forward, the same summes (yeerely) to the Cities and Townes following orderly.

To

1579 Reading.

The order of the yeerely lending.

1580 The Merchant-Taylors themselves.

1581 Glocester.

1582 Worcester.

1583 Excester.

1584 Salisbury.

1585 West-Chester.

1586 Norwich.

1587 Southampton.

1588 Lincolne.

1589 Winchester.

1590 Oxenford.

1591 Hereford East.

1592 Cambridge.

1593 Shrewsbury.

1594 Linne.

1595 Bathe.

1596 Derbie.

1597 Ipswich.

1598 Colchester.

1599 New-Castle.

This sum of one hundred and foure pounds,The hundred and foure pounds is yeerely delivered at the Merchant Taylors Hall. passing thus yeerly to the forenamed places, is delivered still at the Merchant-Taylors Hall, and to the good intended uses of the giver; and that there might be no breathing while for so just a Stewards talent, but to have it still kept in continuall employment for the poore: the same order was appointed, to take beginning againe (as before) at the City of Yorke, and so successively (while the world endureth) to the Townes before named,Passing still in order from place to place. in the selfesame course as it had the Originall; with great care and observance in them, to whom it belongeth, that the dead may not be abused, nor poore mens right injured.

[Page] But did he thus shut up his purse, and say to himselfe; I have given sufficient? No,His liberal bounty to the City of Coventry, it being then in great distresse. he did cast his pitying eye next on the City of Coventry, distressed (at that time) in great and grievous manner: What his instant benevolence was, hee tooke it to be but as an houres Sun-shine after a whole day of storme and tempest; although it might yeeld some comfort, were the season never so short. But to establish a certainty, that no dismay or doubt should ever after bee able to remove (even as a worthy Pyramides erected to perpetuity) he gave to the City of Coventry, 1400. pounds, therewith to purchase lands, rising to the annuall value of seventy pounds.Twelve poore aged Inhabitants of Coventry yeerely. Twelve aged poore inhabitants of that City, were to have (in free Almes) 24. pounds, each man 40. shillings yeerly, on the eleventh day of March, or within six dayes after Foure poore young men also were to have 40. pounds lent them in free lone,Foure poore yong men of the same City. ten pound each man, and for nine yeers space, upon sufficent security given. And their turnes being thus served, then foure other poore young men were to have the like summes, and for like limitation, and so from 9. yeeres to nine yeeres for ever.

Afterward, it was ordered (in free lone) to two poore men of the same City, and lastly, to one: in which nature (according to the severall limitations) it doth yet, and doubtlesse shall for ever continue. Also the same summe was appointed to one yong man in Northampton for 9. yeeres in free lone,Northampton. next, to one in the City of Leicester; Leicester. thirdly, to one in Nottingham; Nottingham VVarwicke. fourthly, to one in Warwicke; and for the like time. Then returning againe to Coventry for one yeere, it repasseth to the said Townes againe, each after other in like nature, for ever. And lest his worthy intent should faile in the continuance, he enlarged his first gift to Coventry of 1400. l. to 2000. and 60. pound to be employed as hath been remembred: 40. l. being yeerely paid out of it, to Saint Iohn Baptist Colledge in Oxenford, and allowances also by himselfe given in each place, that bonds should bee made, without any charge to the receiver.

Edward Hall Gentleman,Edward Hall. of Grayes Inne a Citizen by birth and office, as common Serjeant of Lond. & one of the Iudges in the Sheriffes Court, he wrote and published a famous and eloquent Chronicle, intituled, The uniting of the two noble Families, Lancaster and Yorke.

Richard Hils Merchant-Taylor,Richard Hils. 1560. gave 500. pound towards the purchase of an house, called, the Mannor of the Rose, wherein the Merchant-Taylors founded their free Schoole in London: he also gave to the said Merchant-Taylors one plot of ground, withcertainsmal Cottages on the Tower hill, where he builded faire Almes-houses for foureteene sole women.

About the same time,W. Lambert. William Lambert Esquire, free of the worshipfull Company of. Drapers, borne in London, a Iustice of the peace in Kent, founded a Colledge for the poore, which he named of Queene Elizabeth in East Greenwitch.

William Harper. Merchant-Taylor,Sir VVilliam Harper. Maior, 1562. sounded a a free Schoole in the Towne of Bedford where he was borne and also buried.

Sir Thomas Gresham Mercer,Sir Thomas Gresham. 1566. builded the Royall Exchange in London, and by his Testament left his dwelling house in Bishopsgate street, to be a place for readings; allowing large stipends to the Readers, and certaine Almes-houses for the poore.

William Patten Gentleman,VV. Patten. a Citizen by birth, and customer of London outward, Iustice of Peace in Middlesex, the Parish Church of Stokenwenton being ruinous, he repaired or rather new builded.

Sir Thomas Rowe Knight,Sir Thomas Rowe his worthy liberality. Lord Maior of the City of London, in 1568. a worthy brother also of the Merchant-Taylors Company, beside his charitable cost and charges, in building the new Church yard in Bethlem, containing neere one Acre of ground, and inclosed with a wall of bricke, and a Sermon to be preached every Whit-Sunday in the morning, in presence of the Lord Maior and Aldermen; as also giving one hundred pounds, to be lent to eight poore men: gave to the merchant-Taylors, lands, or tenements,Ten poore men to be maintained for ever. out of them to be given 40. pounds yeerely, to maintaine ten poore men for ever, such as were not brethren of his owne society, but chosen out of [Page] five severall Companies,Clothworkers. viz. Clothworkers, Armorers, Carpenters, Tylars, and Plaisterers. Armorers. As considering, that by over toyling labour,Carpēters. dangers,Tylars. fall, bruises and such like inconveniences,Plaisterers they were soonest like to become impotent, and unable to help or maintaine themselves. Therefore, to each of these ten men, he freely gave the summe of foure pounds, quarterly to bee paid them at the Merchant-Taylors Hall, during their lives. And then to succeed to other men in the same Companies, according to due consideration of just cause, and most necessitie.

Ambrose Nicholas Salter,Ambrose Nicholas. Maior 1576. founded 12. Almes-houses in Monkswell street, neere unto Creplegate, wherein he placed 12. poore people, having each of them 7. d. the weeke, and once every yeere, 5. sackes of coles, and one quarter of a hundred Faggots, all of his gift for ever.

William Lambe Esquire, sometime a Gentleman of the Chappell to King Henry the eighth,VVilliam Lambe Citizen and Clothworker of London. and in great favour with him: was also a free Brother of the worshipfull Company of Clothworkers, and a kind loving Citizen to the City of London. Out of his love to Learning and Schollers, in the Town of Sutton Valens in Kent, where hee was borne, at his owne proper cost and charges he erected a free Grammar-Schoole,A free Grammar Schoole at Sutton Valens in Kent. for the education & instruction of youth, in the feare of God, good manners, knowledge, and understanding, allowing yeerely to the Master twenty pounds, and ten pouuds yeerely to the Vsher, from time to time, as either place shall be supplied by succession, and for their yeerely stipends or perpetuall pensions.

In the same Towne of Sutton also,Almes-houses at Sutton for the poore. for the reliefe of poore people, he caused to bee builded sixe Almes-houses, having an Orchard and Gardens, and the sum of ten pounds yeerely payed them.

At Maidstone likewise in Kent, Free Schoole at Maidstone. hee hath given ten pounds yeerely to the free Schoole for ever: with this speciall caution, that needy mens children may bee preferred onely, to the enjoying of this benefit.

The Gentleman foresecing,His reliefe to poore Clothiers in divers places. in his life time, the decay of sundry Trades and Occupations, to the utter undoing of very many, especially poore Clothiers, whose impoverishing deserved greatly to be pittied, freely gave to the poore Clothiers in Suffolke, in Bridgenorth and in Ludlow in Shropshire, 300. pounds to be paid by even portions: to each severall Towne of the said Counties, one hundred pounds apeece, for their supportation and maintenance, at their worke or occupation.

And as his charity extended it selfe thus liberally abroad in the Countrey,His building of the Conduit neere to Oldborn, and the Standard at Oldborn bridge. so did the Citie of London likewise taste thereof not sparingly. For neere unto Holborne hee founded a faire Conduit, and a standard with a Cocke at Holborne bridge, to convey thence the waste. These were begun the six and twentieth day of March, 1577. and the water carried along in pipes of Lead, more than two thousand yards, all at his owne cost and charges, amounting to the summe of fifteene hundred pounds, and the worke fully finished the foure and twentieth of August in the same yeere.

Moreover,Poore women benefited by the Conduit. he gave to poore women, such as were willing to take paines, 120 Pailes, therwith to carry & serve water.

Being a member (as I have already said) of the Cloth-workers Company,His gift to the worshipfull Company of Clothworkers. and to shew that he was not unmindfull of them, hee gave them his dwelling house in London, with other Lands and Tenements to the value of thirty pound yeerely, besides, 4. pounds more also yeerely, by them to be thus bestowed; to wit, for the hyring of a Minister to read divine Service, thrice every weeke, as Sunday, Wednesday and Friday, throughout the yeere, in the Chappell or Church belonging to his house, called by the name of Saint Iames in the Wall,Allowance for foure yeerely Sermons. by Creplegate; and for foure Sermons there to be preached, a competent allowance for each. And also out of the thirty pounds yeerely,Every pooreman and poore woman, a shirt, a smock and a gowne, and a payre of shooes, &c. it is provided, that a deduction be made by the said Clothworkers, for apparelling of twelve men, and as many women, in forme as followeth: To every of the twelve men a Freeze gowne, one Lockeram shirt, and a good strong paire of Winter shooes. To the twelve women likewise, a Freeze gowne, a Lockeram smocke, and a good paire of Winter shooes, all ready made for their wearing. Alwaies [Page] remembred, that they be persons both poore and honest, to whom this charitable deed is to be extended; and this is yeerely done on the first of October.

To the Parish Church of Saint Giles without Creplegate, S Giles without Creplegate. hee gave fifteene pound to the Bels and Chime, intending a further liberality thereto, if they had taken due time.

To the worshipfull Company of the Stationers he gave a legacie of sixe l. 13. s. 4. d. for perpetuall reliefe of the poore,His gift to the Company of Stationers. in the Parish Church of Saint Faiths under Pauls: namely, to twelve poore people, twelve pence in money, and twelve pence in bread, every Friday throughout the yeere.

To Christs Hospitall in London, His gift to Christs Hospitall. toward the bringing up of poore mens children he hath given 6. l. yeerely for ever: and an hundred pounds in ready money together, therewith to purchase Lands, that their reliefe (by the revennues of the same) may be perpetuall.

To Saint Thomas Spittle or Hospital in Southwarke, His gift to S. Thomas Hospitall. towards the succour of the sicke and diseased, he gave foure l. yeerely for ever.

An hundred pounds he intended to the Hospitall called the Savoy, His intent to the Savoy. but by reason that such agreements could not be made as he thought convenient, his contribution that way, (much against his minde) went not forward.

For the reliefe of poore prisoners in the two Compters,His reliefe for poore prisoners. Newgate, Ludgate, the Marshalseas, the Kings-Bench, and the White Lion, he dealt very bountifully and discreetly; giving unto the two Compters six pound apeece, and to bee paid unto them by twenty shillings each moneth. To the other Prisons fore-mentioned, six mattresses apeece, the whole number being two dozen and an halfe.

He was not unmindful of poore maids marriages,Marriage money for poore maids. but gave twenty pounds to be equally divided among forty, by equall portions of tenne shillings apiece. Yet with this proviso, that those poore maids to be married, should be of good name and fame.

His love and bounty to his servants,His love and liberality to his servants. as also the hundred and eight Freeze gownes ready made, which he bequeathed at his Funerall to poore men and women, with dispersing the remnant of all his goods after his buriall, where need and reason required, I am contented to passe over, referring what else is further to be said of him, till I come to speake of the place where he lyeth buried.

Sir T. Offley, Sir Thomas Offley bequeathed much to the poore. Merchant-Taylor, Maior, deceased 1580. appointed by his Testament, the one halfe of all his goods, and two hundred pounds deducted out of the other halfe, given to his sonne Henry, to be given and bestowed in deeds of charity, by his executors, according to his confidence and trust in them.

Barnard Randulph, Bernard Randolph, Common Serjeant of London, his liberall bounty. Common Serjeant of London, 1583. This man (in his life time) somewhat before his death, gave and delivered with his owne hand, to the Company of Fishmongers in London, the summe of nine hundred pounds; of good and lawfull money of England, to be imployed towards the conducting of Thames water, cesterning the same in lead,For conveying of Thames water. and cas [...]eling it with stone, in the Parishes of Saint Mary Magdalen, and Saint Nicholas Cold-Abbey, neere unto old Fishstreet, seven hundred pounds. The other two hundred pounds, to pay for ever yeerely, the sum of ten pounds: to wit, towards the maintenance of a poore Scholler,For a poor Scholar. in the Vniuersitie of Oxenford, yeerely, foure pounds. Towards mending the high-waies in the Parish of Tisehurst, For mending high wayes. in the County of Sussex where the said Barnard was borne, every yeere foure pounds.For the poore in divers parishes. And to the poore people of the Parishes of Saint Nicholas Oliffe in Breadstreet, and St. Mary Magdalen neere to old Fishstreet, forty shillings; to wit, twenty shillings to either Parish for ever.

More he willed and bequeathed by his last will and testament, to be bestowed in land or annuities, for reliefe of the poore, inhabiting in the Wards of Queen Hith, and Castle Baynard in the City of London, and in the forenamed Parish of Tisehurst, in the County of Sussex, the summe of 1000 pounds.

Master Thomas Ridge, Master Tho. Ridge. Grocer, gave 1163. l. 6. s. 8. d. to godly and charitable uses in forme following.

To the Company of Grocers,Benefit of yong beginners. for the benefit of Young-men, free of the same Society, and to be lent unto them for a [Page] certaine time one hundred pound.

To the Hospitals in and about London, 100. l.

For the releefe of poore Preachers, Love to Religion. Care of poore tradesmen 400. l.

For the helpe of poore and decayed Trasedmen, in and about London, 300. l.

To a Lecture in Grasse-Church in London, 100. l.

To his men and maid servants, 63. l.

In gownes for poore men, 100. l.

Master Iohn Haydon Mercer,Master Iohn Haydon his bountifull charity. Alderman, and one of the Sheriffes of London, deceasing in the time of his Shrievalty 1583. gave these christian and liberall gifts following.

An hundred gownes, which cost 100. l. given to an hundred poore men,To the poore in gownes. and every man 12. d. in mony beside.

For the benefit of young beginners in the world he gave,Benefit of young beginners. to his owne Company of the Mercers, 600. l. to bee lent to young men, after the allowance of 3. l. 6. s. 8. d. in the hundred pound. And the 20. pound yeerely arising by that money, yeerely to be given to the poore.

To the same Company also he gave 400. l. more, to bee likewise lent out, according to the former rate: and the benefit ensuing thereby; of 3. l. 6. s. 8. d. yeerely,Love to Religion. allowed towards the maintaining of a Lecture at Saint Michaels Church by Pater noster row, called St. Michaels in the Querne.

He gave to Christs Hospitall 500. l.

Hee gave to the eleven chiefe worshipfull Companies,Care for young beginners and the poore. beside his owne, the summe of 1100. l. to bee lent out (for time) to young beginners, at 3. l. 6. s. 8. d. in the hundred pound, and the benefit of 20. pound arising thereby yeerely, to goe to the Hospitals, and sixteene pound besides to the poore yeerely.To severall Cities for the benefit of young beginners and the poore prisoners.

He gave to the City of Excester one hundred pound.

To the City of Bristow one hundred pound.

To the City of Glocester, one hundred pound.

This money is intended to be lent to poore young beginners in trading, at the rate of benefit (by the money) of 3. l. 6. s. 8. d. in the 100. l. And that benefit should go to the reliefe of poore prisoners, and other poore people.

He gave to the Towne of Wardbury, in the County of Glocester, 6. l. 13. s. 4. d.

He gave to his Company of the Mercers, Remembrance of his Company and of his servants. to make them a Cup, 40. l.

He gave to his servants among them all, [...]. l.

What remained out of this moity, as an over-plus, he gave to the before remembred Companies, viz. 50. pound to each of them and to the uses fore-named.

Master Richard Walter Girdler,Richard Walter. 2200. pound to the foure Hospitals of London. And 500. pound towards building and maintaining a Free-Schoole at Thiryden in Northampton shire.

William Norton, Stationer, sometime Treasurer of Christs Hospitall,VVilliam Norton his benevolence. gave the summe of 6. l. 13. s. 4. d. yeerely to his Company to be lent to young men, free of the same Society: And 6. l. 13. s. 4. d. yeerely for ever, he gave also unto Christs Hospitall.

Thomas Iennings, Thomas Iennings his love to the poore. Fishmonger, to 7. Parishes in London, gave 4. l. 13, s. 2. d. yeerely.

To Christs Hospitall he gave 40. s. yeerely.

To the Towne of Braughin in Hartford shire, where he was borne, he gave 6. l. 13. s. 4. d.

Master Peter Blundell, Peter Blundell his most liberall charity. Clothier of London, a man very godly and christianly disposed all his life time, dying in Anno 1599. gave by his last will and testament, these bountifull gifts following.

He gave to Christs Hospitall in London, To Hospitals in and about London. 500. l.

To S. Bartholomews Hospitall 250. l.

To S. Thomas Hospitall 250. l.

To Bridewell Hospitall yeerely 8. l.

To the Church of Tiverton, in which Towne he was borne, 50. l.

Towards mending the High-waies there, 100. l.

To the twelve chiefe Companies in London, For the reliefe of poore prisoners. to each of them 150. l. toward the releeving of poore prisoners, and other charitable uses, the whole summe amounting to 1800. l.

Towards the helpe of poore Maides marriages in the Towne of Tiverton, To poore maides marriages 400. l.

[Page] He gave to the City of Excester, To helpe poore Artificers. to bee lent there to poore Artificers nine hundred pound.

He gave toward the building of a free Grammar-Schoole in Tiverton, To a free Schoole and Officers thereto belonging. 2400. pound.

More afterward laid out by his executors 1000. pound.

To the Schoole-master yeerely, fifty pounds.

To the Vsher yeerly, 13. l. 6. s. 8. d.

To the Clerke yeerely, 40. s.

To place foure boyes Apprentises in husbandry yeerely 20. pound.For Apprentises.

For the maintenance of six Schollers yeerely,His love to Learning and Schollers. three in Oxenford, and the other three in Cambridge, 2000. l.

Robert Comin, Robert Chilcot a worthy servant to so good a Master. alias Chilcot, servant sometime to the said Peter Blundell, imitated the worthy steps of his Master, so farre as power permitted him leave, giving as insueth.

He gave to Christs Hospitall in London, 100. l.

To poore prisoners,Reliefe of poore prisoners. whose debts did not amount above five pound, 100. l.

Towards the building of an ordinary Free-Schoole,His love to learning and the poore. that children might bee made apt and ready for his Masters free Grammar-Schoole in Tiverton, where he himselfe also was borne, 400. l.

Towards the maintaining of the said lesser schoole,To the Schoole and the attending Officers. and for reliefe of certaine poore people yeerely, 90. l.

To the Schoole-master yeerely 20. pound.

To the Clerke yeerely 3. l.

For reparations yeerely 4. s.

For 15. poore mens Gownes,For the poore. and each of them 2. s. in money yeerly 16. l. 10. s.

To 15. poore Artificers 15. pound.

To as many poore people weekely,Repairining the Church. 6. d. to each.

Towards repayring the Church 19. l. 10. s.

To mend the High-waies there ten pound.

To other uses foure pound.

Iohn Holmes Draper,Iohn Holms. gave to the Parish of Saint Sepulchres, in Anno 1588. his dwelling house in the same Parish, yeelding yeerely, 32. pound.

Thomas Atkinson Baker,Thomas Atkinson. gave also to the same Parish, 10. l. yeerely.

Master Thomas Cure, Sadler, and Squire Sadler to Queene Elizabeth, Thomas Cure his hospitall in Southwarke. as his sonne also was after him, did build an Hospitall in Southwarke, having some helpe afforded him by the Parish of St. Saviour: but the main and chiefe charge was his owne proper cost. The house was for 18. poore people each of them having two Chambers, and allowance of 4. pound ten shillings to each person yeerely. The building of the Hospitall cost above three hundred pounds.

Master George Bishop, Stationer, gave 6. pound yeerly to his Company:George Bishop his memorable charity. and hath allowed ten pound yeerely for ever towards maintaining Preachers at Pauls Crosse. Hee gave likewise sixe pound yeerly to Christs Hospitall.

Master Richard Culverwell, Richard Culverwell. Brewer, gave to the Hospitall of Bridewell, two hundred pound.

Master William Whitmore, William VVhitmore Haberdasher, gave also to the same hospitall, 200. pound.

Master Iohn Norton, Iohn Norton mindfull of the poore, and of his Company. Stationer, gave to his owne Company the summe of one thousand pound to purchase lands amounting to the value of fifty pound yeerly, and some part to be lent to poore yong men.

He gave also one hundred and fifty pounds to the Parish of S. Faiths under Pauls, to purchase seven pounds tenne shillings yeerely for ever, to be given to the poore.

Master Henry Fisher, Fishmonger, gave to his Company nine pound yeerly, Henry Fisher his love to learning. to maintaine a Scholar in the Colledge of Brazen-nose in Oxenford, with the allowance of nine pound and two shillings yeerely for two Sermons.

Master Thomas Aldersey, Thomas Aldersey his love to religion and the poore. Haberdasher, out of an Appropriation which he had at Bunbery in Cheshire, gave the allowance of two hundred Markes yeerely, one hundred Markes whereof was for the maintenance of a Preacher.

He gave to the Minister 20. pound.

He gave to a Schoole, thirty pound.

He gave to the poore, ten pound.

Master Robert Offley, Robert Offley his liberall charity. Haberdasher, to the Maior and communalty of Chester gave sixe hundred pound to be lent there to young Traders.

For reliefe of the poore, and men in prisons, besides other charitable uses two hundred pound.

[Page] More, he gave two hundred pounds, to pay tenne pounds yeerely to the poore of the Company.

More,Reliefe for two poore scholars yeerely. he gave two hundred pounds, that tenne pounds might be yeerely given to either of the Vniversities, toward the maintaining of two Scholars there, one in each.

Hee gave to Bethlem, one hundred pounds.

He gave to the other Hospitals, to prisons, and to the poore, one hundred and threescore pounds.

Master Thomas Fisher, Tho. Fisher his love to learning, and respect of the poore. Skinner, gave forty five pounds yeerely, out of which, twenty pounds was to be yeerely allowed, for a Free-schoole at Standon in the County of Hertford.

To buy paper, bookes, pennes and inke, yeerely for the Scholars, 5. poends.

To Christs Hospitall yeerely, tenne pounds.

For the redemption of Prisoners in either of the Compters and Ludgate, lying there for three pounds debt, twenty pounds.

Master Florence Caldwell, Florence Caldwell his charity Haberdasher, to divers poore Parishes in London gave twenty pounds yeerely.

Divers wel-disposed Citizens of London, The love of divers Citizens to learning. desirous (as yet) not to be named, being born in or neere to Ashborn in the Peake, in the Country of Derby, combining their loving benevolence together, have builded there a faire School-house, with convenient lodgings for a Master and Vsher, and liberall maintenance yeerely allowed thereto.

Master Robert Rogers, The Christian and charitable works of Robert Rogers Leatherseller, and a Batchelour, like a most liberall and bountifull benefactor, gave these gifts following:

To the Prisons in and about London, twelve pounds.

To the poore of two severall Townes in the west Countrey, thirteene pounds sixe shillings eight pence.

To the poore of the Towne of Poole, where he was borne, tenne pounds.

For the building of Almes-houses there, three hundred thirty three l.

For the reliefe of poore prisoners, A speciall note of a godly disposition. such as were neither Atheists nor Papists, and might be delivered, each man at the summe of twenty Nobles, an hundred and fifty pounds.

For the benefit of poore Preachers, Care of Religion. allowing to each man tenne pounds, an hundred pounds.

For the comfort of poore decayed Artificers, being charged with wife and children, and of knowne honest reputation, one hundred pounds.

He gave to the Company of Merchant Adventurers,His care for poore decayed brethren. for the reliefe of poore decayed people, and toward the support of yong Free-men, foure hundred pounds.

He gave to Christs Hospitall, to purchase Lands for the reliefe of the house, five hundred pounds.

For the erection of certaine Almes-houses in and about London, His provident care for the poore in divers places and Parishes. and also for the maintenance of twelve poore people, six hundred pounds.

To the Parish wherein he dwelt, 10. l.

That two dozen of bread may every Sunday (through the yeere) for ever be given to the poore, an hundred pounds.

He gave to Christs-Church Parish, fifteene pounds.

For reliefe of the poore in sundry Parishes without the wals, as Newgate, Creplegate, Bishopsgate, and the Parish of S. George in Southwarke; unto every one of them he gave twenty sixe pounds, thirteene shillings, fourepence.

Moreover, he gave to S. Georges Parish in Southwarke, Saint Sepulchres, S. Olaves beyond the Bridge, Saint Giles without Creplegate, and S. Leonard in Shorditch, to buy coales for the poore in each Paris, thirty pounds apeece.

He gave beside to either Parish of S. Buttolph, without Aldgate and Bishopsgate, twenty pounds.

For the maintaining of foure Scholars, His love and liberality to Learning. two in Oxenford, and two in Cambridge, Students in Divinity, 400, l. Of which the Company of Leather-sellers have great respect, and not onely see it diligently performed; but also have added their bounty thereto.

Master Iohn Fuller, Iohn Fuller his Almes-houses and charity. Esquire, and one of the Judges in the Sheriffes Court in London, by his last will and testament, bearing date the 10. of Iune, 1592. appointed his wife, her heires and assignes, to erect certaine Almes-houses in the Parish of Stoken-heath, for twelve poore aged single men, being aged fifty yeeres or upwards.

[Page] He appointed also the like Almes-houses to be builded in the Parish of S. Leonard in Shorditch, For poore aged widdowes. for twelve poore Widdow women of the like age, and shee to endow them with the yeerely maintenance of one hundred pounds; namely, to each fifty pounds by the yeere for ever. And that mony to be deducted out of his Lands in Lincolnshire, assuring over the same to certaine Feoffees in trust, by a Deed of Feoffement.

Moreover,Feoffees put in trust to see his will performed. hee gave his Messuages, Land, and Tenements, lying and being in the severall Parishes of S. Bennet, and S. Peter by Pauls wharfe, to Feoffees in trust, yeerely for ever, to disburse all the issues and profits of the said Lands and Tenements, to the relieving and discharging of poore prisoners, in the Hole or Two-penny wards,Care for the reliefe and discharge of poore prisoners. in either of the Compters in London, by equall portions to each Compter. Provided, that the debt doe not exceed the summe of twenty shillings eight pence, for every prisoner at any time to be set free.

Master Edward Elmer, Edward Elmer. Grocer, gave to both the Compters in London, an hundred pounds, partly to bee laid out in Faggots for the Prisoners in cold weather; and for two load of straw yeerely to Bethlem.

Master William Nelson, William Nelson his love to learning. Grocer, towards the maintaining of twelve poore Scholars in Oxenford and Cambridge, gave foure hundred pounds, to be paid yeerely to each place twenty pounds; and thirty three shillings foure pence to each man. And to the Prisons, 33. l.

Master Rafe Newbery, Rafe Newbery. Stationer, gave a stocke of Bookes, and priviledges of Printing, to bee sold for the benefit of Christs Hospitall and Bridewell.

Master Robert Row, Haberdasher, for the furtherance of poore Scholars in both the Vniversities,Robert Row a savourer of learning. gave 20. l. yeerely, and the remainder of his goods that were not bequeathed.

Master Edmond Stile, Edmond Stile his charity. Grocer, and Sheriffe of London, gave to be distributed among the said Hospitals in London, the summe of threescoure pounds.

Iohn Stockley, Iohn Stockley his charity and love to learning. Merchant-taylor, gave to Christs Hospitall, and the other Hospitals beside, towards the education of poore children in the feare of God, the summe of forty pounds.

He gave besides to the Vniversities, forty pounds more, towards the maintenance of foure poore Scholars, to bee disposed by the Master and Wardens of the Merchant-taylors, with consent of his Executors and Overseers; desiring that S. Iohn Baptists Colledge in Oxenford should have the prerogative of the gift, if such be there to be found, as are capable of the same.

Gaius Newman, Gaius Newman his charity. Goldsmith, gave to Christs Hospitall, five pounds: to Saint Bartholomews Hospitall, six pounds, thirteene shillings, foure pence: and to the hospitall of Bridewell, three pounds.

Iohn Newman, Iohn Newman his charity. Grocer, gave to Christs Hospitall; three pounds: to Saint Bartholomews hospitall, six pounds: and to Saint Thomas in Southwarke, and Bridewell hospitall, forty shillings to each house.

Richard May, Richard May his love-tokē to London, and charity to the poore. Merchant-taylor, gave (by his last will and testament) to the Chamber of London, the summe of three hundred pounds, toward the new building of old, ruined and decayed Blackwell Hall, in London: It being a Market place for the selling of woollen clothes, on such usuall market-dayes as are therunto assigned. Vpon the receipt of this gift, the said Hall was taken downe, a new foundation laid; and within the space of tenne moneths following, the worke was finished, with the full charge of 2500. pounds.

He gave besides to Christs Hospitall, the summe of ninety pounds.

Peter Chapman, Peter Chapman his charity, & love to learning. Ironmonger, gave to the eight Prisons in and about London, the summe of threescore pounds.

He gave also to two poore Scholars of Oxenford, studying Divinity, 5. l. to each yeerely.

To poore Scholars in Cambridge also, following the same study, hee gave the like summe of money.

To the poore of the Towne of Cokeham in Barkeshire, where it appeared he was borne, he gave the summe of five pounds yeerely.

Iohn Carre, Iohn Carre his care for learning, and the poore. Ironmonger, gave a gift of twenty pounds yeerely, for the space of one and twenty yeeres. Five pounds thereof was to goe to a Preacher at Standon in Essex.

Concerning the other 15. pounds, it [Page] was ordered to passe in this manner of course.

The first yeere, it was for the benefit of certaine poore Parishes in London, thereto appointed.

The second yeere it was for the helpe of two poore Scholars, one in Oxenford, and the other in Cambridge.

The third yeere it was appointed for reliefe of the poore in Standon. And so (according to this course) to continue for time and place, during the space of one and twenty yeeres.

Henry Cowche, Henry Cowche his charity. or Croutch, Merchant-Taylor, gave unto Christs Hospitall the benefit of his house, known by the name of the Crowne without Aldgate, having divers yeeres as then to come in the Lease, and yeelding yeerely the summe of fifteene pounds. Five pound is yeerely appointed to be paid to the poore of the Parish, and tenne shillings to a Preacher. The rest remaineth to the Hospitall, and after the Leases expiration, it is judged to yeeld above an hundred markes yeerely.

David Smith, David Smith his care of the poore. Embroiderer, at his owne charge did build certaine Almeshouses, upon the hill called S. Peters hill, neere unto old Fishstreet, allowing sufficient maintenance to them.

He gave also five and twenty pounds yeerely to the Company of Ironmongers, appointing it to be distributed among the poor, in the Wards of Queen Hithe, and Castle Baynard.

Iohn Scot, Iohn Scot his charity to the poore. Salter, gave to his Companie the summe of twenty pounds yeerely, because they should allow to the six poore Almes-men of the Company, each man twelve pence weekely. The rest is to be divided among other poore, and thirty shillings to bee bestowed in Coles yeerely for the poore.

William Stoder, William Stoder his charity. Grocer, gave to Christs hospitall, for reliefe of the poore children there, fifty pounds yeerely.

William Mascall, William Mascall his charity. Brewer, gave to the same hospitall, and to the same intent, nine pounds yeerely.

Stephen Skidmore, Stephen Skidmore his love & charity to the poore. Vintner, gave a gift of forty foure pounds yeerely, and ordered in this manner:

To seventeene poore Parishes in London, appointed by nomination, seventeene pounds.

To the poore of the Parish of S. Stephen in Colemanstreet, twelve pence weekly in bread.

To the poore of Corke in Ireland, (where it seemeth he was borne) being twelve in number, to each poore body forty shillings.

Richard Iacob, Richard Iacob his charity to hospitals & prisons. Vintner, gave a gift of sixteene pounds for ever, that it should be distributed to Christs Hospitall, Saint Bartholomews, Bridewell, and Saint Thomas in Southwark, forty shillings to each house yeerely: and the other eight pounds to be given to certaine appointed poore Parishes in London.

He gave moreover (for so long time as two hundred yeeres should last) the summe of twenty eight pounds yeerely.A time of honest & large continuance. Of which portion of money, sixteene pounds was appointed for poore Prisoners, that lay imprisoned in any of the eight Prisons in and about London yeerly; to each Prison forty shillings: as the Gatehouse, the Fleet, both the Compters of the Poultry and Woodstreet, Ludgate, the Marshallsea, the Kings Bench, and the White Lion.

What remained of the over plus of the money, was to be distributed to the poore of divers appointed Parishes.

Iohn Russell, Iohn Russell his charitable deeds. Draper, gave the summe of fourescore pounds yeerely for ever: out of which these summes following should be deducted, and the rest remain to be employed by the Company of Drapers.

He gave thirteene pounds nine shillings yeerely to thirteene poore people.

For reliefe of the poore,His especiall respect of the poore. to be bestowed in bread yeerely, two and fifty shillings.

To be bestowed in Coales yeerely for the poore, three pounds.

For the maintaining of Preachers yeerely at Pauls Crosse, His love to religiō and learning. tenne pounds.

Toward the maintaining of two Scholars, one in Oxenford and the other in Cambridge, the sum of thirteene pounds six shillings eight pence.

For maintaining a Scholemaster at Burton in Staffordshire, thirteen pounds, sixe shillings, eight pence.

Item, Rob. Gale his love to learning, and respect of the poore. To the Visher, five pounds.

And to the Visitors, thirty shillings.

Robert Gale, Vintner, out of his Lands lying in divers places, gave the summe [Page] of one hundred and forty pounds yeerely, to be imployed in manner following, after the decease of Dorothy his wife.

To six of the poorer sort of Scholars in Corpus Christi Colledge, in the Vniversity of Oxenford, usually commorant and residing in the said Colledge, and yeerely to be chosen on the Feast day of Saint Thomas the Apostle, by George Lacocke, his heires or assignes, under his or their hand and seale: To each Scholar he gave three pounds, six shillings eight pence yeerely for ever, to be paid by the said Lacocke, his heires or assignes for ever, out of his Lands in Claipoole, in the County of Lincolne, and Brassington, in the County of Derby.

To the poore Towne of Chippenham, in Wiltshire, he gave twenty pounds.

To the Preacher there, 20. shillings.

To the Bailiffe and Burgesses, as a friendly remembrance, yeerely twenty shillings.

To Christs Hospitall in London, twenty pounds.

To the Company of Vintners, twenty pounds.

To the poore in Lincolne, 20. pounds.

To a Preacher there yeerely, ten shillings.

To the Maior and Chamberlaine, twenty shillings.

To the Minister of S. Markes Church there, ten shillings.

Iohn Quarles, Iohn Quarles his charity. Draper, gave yeerely to be bestowed in bread, for reliefe of the poore, six pounds.

William Dummer, William Dummer his charity. Draper, gave to the poore the summe of 13. pounds, 18. shillings, 4. pence yeerely for ever.

William Parker, W. Parker his charity a Brother also of the same Society, gave towards the maintaining of a Lecture yeerely at Saint Antlins, six pounds.

Owen Clun, another Brother also of the same Society,Owen Clun his charity gave to the poore of the said Company yeerely for ever, the summe of twenty five pounds.

Iames Stoddard, Iames Stoddard his loue to Learning. Grocer, for the maintaining of two poore Scholars, the one in the Colledge of Brazen-nose in Oxenford, and the other to be of Queenes Colledge in Cambridge, gave 10. l. yeerely to be paid for ever, out of his Tenement called the Swan with two neckes, in the Parish of S. Laurence old Jury.

Iohn Skeete, Iohn Skeete his respect of the poore, and his love to learning. Draper, for reliefe and maintenance of the poore, in the Hospitals in and about London, gave the sum of three hundred pounds.

Moreover, hee gave to foure poore Scholars studying Divinity in the Vniversity of Oxford, and which are not able to proceed in their degrees, five pounds to each Scholar, to be paid at the next Act or Commencement.

The like liberality he gave to the other Vniversity of Cambridge, for so many Scholars, five pound to each, and at the same time.

Roger Owfield, Roger Owfield, his love to learning. Fishmonger, gave the summe of one hundred pounds towards the maintenance of poore Scholars, that studied. Divinity in the Vniversities of Oxenford and Cambridge, or else where. And his desire was, that some of them might be of the Towne of Ashborne, if any such could there be found fit for it. Otherwise he appointed the money to be imployed in Scholarships, in Sidney or Emanuel Colledge in Cambridge. Beside, hee gave to Christs Hospitall one hundred pounds.

Iohn Berriman, Iohn Berryman his respect of the poore. of Bishops Tawton, in the County of Devonshire, Clothier, and said to be a free Draper of London, gave to Christs Hospitall, an hundred pounds: to Saint Bartholomews, five pounds: to Saint Thomas, six pounds: to Bridewell, forty shillings: and to Bethlem fifty pounds.

Iohn Ireland, Iohn Ireland his charity Salter, gave to Christs Hospitall, foure pounds: to Saint Bartholomews, foure pounds: to Saint Thomas and Bridewell, twenty shillings to each house.

Thomas Thorney, Thomas Thorney his charity. Barber Chirurgion, gave to Christs Hospitall, five pounds, and to Bridewell, five pounds.

Francis Evington, Francis Evington his charity & love to learning. Merchant-Taylor, gave to Christs Hospitall, tenne pounds, and to Saint Bartholomews Hospitall, tenne pounds.

Hee gave also to poore Scholars in both the Vniversities, sixe pounds to each Scholar.

Henry Butler, Draper, gave to Saint Thomas Hospitall,Henry Butler his charity. tenne pounds: to Christs Hospitall, five pounds: and to S. Bartholomews and Bridewell, five pounds to each house.

Peter Hall, Peter Hall his charity Draper, gave to Christs [Page]Hospitall, tenne pounds: to Saint Bartholomews, three pounds: and the like to Saint Thomas.

Roger Ienkins, Roger Ienkins his love to Learning. Barber Chirurgion, to the poore Scholars in Christs Hospitall, gave five pounds, to buy them Bookes at the discretion of the Treasurer.

George Chamberlaine, George Chāberlaine his charity Ironmonger, gave to Christs Hospitall, tenne pounds; to Saint Thomas, five pounds: to Saint Bartholomews, five pounds: and to Bridewell, tenne pounds.

Thomas Church, Tho. Church his charity Draper, gave to Christs Hospitall, tenne pounds: to Bridewell, tenne pounds: to Saint Bartholomews five pounds; and to Saint Thomas, five pounds.

Andrew Banning Grocer, gave for ever, Andrew Banning his love to learning. 120. pounds to the Company of Grocers, therewith to purchase lands of five pounds value yeerely, for the reliefe of some poore Scholar in the Vniversity of Cambridge.

Randall Manning, Randall Manning His love to Learning. Skinner, gave toward the reliefe of foure poore Scholars yeerely, forty shillings to each Scholar, being of Christs and Emanuel Colledges in Cambridge, and this gift to continue the space of thirty yeeres. Katharine, wife to the said Randall Manning, gave also the summe of one hundred pounds, that her husbands will might the more effectually be kept and performed.

Hugh Cappe, Hugh Cappe his liberall charity. Plaisterer, gave for reliefe of the poore children in Christs Hospitall, the summe of 100. pounds. He gave also to the two Hospitals of Saint Bartholomews and S. Thomas in Southwarke, tenne pounds to each house.

Lewes Randall, Lewes Randall his charity. Pewterer, gave unto Christs Hospitall, fifty pounds: and to S. Thomas Hospitall, twenty shillings.

Henry van Hilton, A strāgers charity. Merchant Stranger, and a free Denison of London, gave unto Christs Hospitall, thirty pounds.

Humfrey Fox, Hufrey Fox his charity. Draper, gave to the poore childrens succour in Christs Hospitall, the summe of fifty pounds.

William Parker, William Parker his bountifull charity. Merchant-taylor, gave to Christs Hospitall, to purchase lands for maintenance of the poore children, five hundred pounds.

He gave also to the Treasurer of Bridewell, to set forty Boyes on worke, which should bee taken up begging in the streets, and there bound Apprentices for 7. yeeres, to learne severall Trades; for each boy should five pound be paid to the Treasurer, untill the summe of two hundred pound should fully be run out.

Of this man expect more when I come to speake of the new building of Aldersgate.

George Palin, George Palin his boū tifull charity. Merchant, and free of the Girdlers Society, by his last Will and Testament,Those Almeshouses are builded neere to Creplaegate. to good and charitable uses gave these gifts following:

First, he gave nine hundred pounds towards the erection or building of certaine Almes-houses, in or about the Citie of London, wherein six poore people should have the yeerely allowance of six pounds, thirteene shillings and foure pence to each person.

More, he gave towards the having a sweet Chime in Bow Church in London, one hundred pounds.

He gave to Saint Iohn Baptist, His care & love to Learning. and Brazen-nose Colledges in Oxenford, towards the maintaining of foure Scholars there yeerely, three hundred pounds, to each Colledge, and to each Scholar, foure pounds yeerely.

To the six severall Prisons in and about London, His care for prisoners, and the poore. he gave threescore pounds.

He gave unto Christs Hospitall to purchase Lands after the rate of twenty pounds yeerely, for benefit of the poore children there, the summe of three hundred pounds.

Moreover,His zeale to learning. in further expression of his zeale and love to learning, and for the like uses as we have before declared, he gave to Trinity and Saint Iohns Colledge in Cambridge, the summe of six hundred pounds.

To the Hospitall of Saint Thomas in Southwarke, he gave fifty pounds.

Towards the bearing of such Scholars charges,The fruits of a Christian faith as should come (from time to time) to preach at Pauls Crosse, hee gave the summe of 200. pounds.

He gave 132. pounds to be distributed to certaine Parishes in London, to some tenne pounds, to others twenty pounds.

He gave to the Towne of Wrenbury in Cheshire, His care of poore people in the coūtry 200. l. to purchase Lands, after the rate of twenty markes by the yeere, for reliefe of the poore there.

He gave also for behoof of the Church [Page] there, the summe of thirty pounds.

He gave for forty poore Gownes, forty pounds.

Laurence Campe, Laurence Campe his love to learning. Draper, gave forty pounds towards the maintenance of poore Schollers in Cambridge, at the discretion of Robert Meakin, Preacher of S. Iohns Church in Walbrooke.

Robert Dove, Citizen and Merchant-Taylor of London, The worthy charitable gifts of Master Robert Dove gave (in his life time, and long before he dyed) to the Master, Wardens, and Assistants of that worshipfull Company, the summe of two thousand, nine hundred, fifty eight l.. tenne shillings, to be yeerely imployed in these good uses following:

First,This charity extē deth only to poore brethren of the same company. for the mantaining of thirteen poore Almes-men, in gownes of good cloth, well lined, with a silver Dove upon each mans left sleeve. And six other poore men, termed Reversioners, to succeed in the roomes of the deceased Gowne-men, they wearing Cloakes of good cloth in the meane time, with a silver Dove also upon each mans left arme: the yeerely allowance to performe this is one hundred and seven pounds.

He gave to the Schoolemaster eight pounds.

He gave also to the poore of Saint Buttolphs without Aldgate, in which Parish he dwelt and dyed, twenty pounds, nine shillings.

To Saint Iohn Baptists Colledge in Oxenford he gave 100. pounds.His love to learning.

To the prisoners in the two Counters of London, and to the Prisons of Ludgate and Newgate, hee gave twenty pounds.

He gave to Christs Hospitall in London, to purchase Lands, after the rate of tenne pounds yeerely, and for one to instruct the boyes in singing, two hundred and forty pounds.

He gave to the Parish of S. Sepulchers the summe of fifty pounds,A notable and moste Christian care for poor condemned persons, and their going to their death. that after the severall Sessions in London, when the Prisoners remaine in the Gaole, as condemned men to death, expecting execution on the morrow following, the Clerke of the Church should come in the night time, and likewise early in the morning, to the window of the prison where they lye, and there ringing certaine toules with a hand-bell, appointed for the purpose, he doth afterward (in most Christian manner) put them in minde of their present condition, and ensuing execution, desiring them to be prepared therefore as they ought to bee. When they are in the Carts, and brought before the wall of the Church, there hee standeth ready with the same Bell, and after certaine toules, rehearseth an appointed Prayer, desiring all the people there present to pray for them. The Beadle also of Merchant-taylors Hall hath an honest allowed stipend, to see that this be duely done.

What else remaineth concerning this man, expect when I come to speake of the Hall.

Randulph Woolley, Randulph Wolley his love to learning, and care for the poore. Merchant-Taylor, gave to the Governours of Christs Hospitall, therewith to pay yeerely for ever, five pounds, to the Reader of Oare Chappell, in the Parish of Mucklestone, in the County of Stafford, by fifty shillings at each halfe yeere. For which he is to teach freely the children of the inhabitants of Aston, in the fore-named Parish of Mucklestone.

He gave more to the said Hospitall one hundred pounds, for the allowing of fifty shillings yeerely every Easter day, that the poore children may then eat roast meat.

He gave moreover to the said Governours one hundred pounds, therewith to pay yeerely unto the poore of the Parish of Muckle stone five pounds.

He gave also to Saint Bartholomews Hospitall, three pounds.

Henry Walcot, Henry Walcot, his charity. Grocer, gave to Saint Bartholomews Hospitall twenty pounds: to Christs Hospitall, five pounds: to S. Thomas in Southwarke, five pounds: to Bridewell, three pounds sixe shillings, eight pence: and to Bethlem, three pounds, six shilling eight pence.

Henry Woolaston, Henry VVoolaston his charity. Draper, gave to S. Thomas Hospitall, forty pounds: and to the foure Beadles, Coats of good new cloth.

Also he gave to every Governour, going to his buriall, and staying there the Sermon time, halfe a crowne to each man, to dine together afterward.

Iohn Vernon, Iohn Vernō his charity. Merchant-Taylor, gave to Christs Hospitall, forty pounds: to S. [Page] Bartholomews Hospitall, fifty pounds: to Bridewell and S. Thomas, five pounds to each house.

Edward Harvist, Edward Harvist his charity. Brewer, gave unto Christs Hospitall, the summe of one hundred pounds: and fifty pounds, to bee equally divided betweene the two Hospitals of S. Bartholomews and S. Thomas in Southwarke.

Iohn Brown, Iohn Brown his charity. Wool-winder, and Magdalen his wife, gave certaine lands lying in Barking in Essex, amounting then to 5. l. 6. s. 8. d. yeerely. And this gift they gave unto Christs Hospitall for ever.

Iohn Porter, Iohn Porter his charity. of Porters Key, Fishmonger, gave unto Christs Hospitall, twenty pound.

Lewis Randall, Lewis Randall his charity. Pewterer, but a Brewer by his profession, of his owne free cost and charge, paved (with faire free Stone) the East Ile of Christs Hospital Cloyster, and renewed all the Armories of former liberall Benefactors to that house, wherof himselfe was one of the Governours.

Hee gave beside 50. pound to the Treasurer,His love to the children. that the poore children there maintained, might eate roste-meat, at dinner, on every Saint Mathias day, if it fall out of Lent. But if it fall in Lent, then they are to eat good and well made Furmenty, both at dinner and supper.

Iohn Whithall, Iohn VVhithall his charity. Skinner, gave to the Childrens reliefe in Christs Hospitall, 40. pound.

William Iones, VVilliam Iones his bountifull charity. Merchant, and free of the worshipfull Company of Haberdashers, in his life time did many charitable deeds, and by his Will and Testament ordained many more, putting his owne Society in trust to see them performed, as shall briefly be declared.

First,His Christian care for Religion in his country. many yeeres before he dyed, he allowed 50. pound yeerely to a Preacher at Monmouth, there to instruct the people in Gods true Religion. Afterward hee grew to settle a certaine stipend there, amounting to the summe of 100. Markes yeerely, to maintaine a good Preacher there. Providing also, that a convenient house should be built for him, with all necessary matters belonging to it, that hee might (with the more comfort) dwell there among them.His care for the maintenance of Learning.

Also, for the instruction of youth in Learning and Religion, he ordained to have a faire Free-Schoole there built at his owne charge, and a faire house also to be erected for the chiefe Master. Allowing him yeerly (for ever) 60. pound, and 30. pound also yeerly to the Visher.

Beside,His providence for the poore and needy people in Monmouth. being Christianly mindfull of the poore and needy people in those parts, he tooke order for the building of an Hospitall in the same Towne, ordaining it for twenty poore people: giving to every one of them a good Gowne yeerely, and 2. shillings 6. pence apeece weekely. And because himselfe (being farre absent) could bee no Surveyor of these workes, hee committed the care thereof to the loving Brethren of his Company, paying to them (in his life time) the summe of 8000. pound. And left them by his will, 1000. pound more, for the full finishing of so good a worke.

More,Still his Piety and Christian Charity walk hand in hand together. he appointed to the said Company of Haberdashers, the summe of 5000. pound by them to be disbursed, for the maintenance of a good Preacher at Newland in Glocester shire, and of certaine poore people in the same Parish.

More,His care for poore decayed brethren of the Company. Hee gave to the same Society, one thousand foure hundred and forty pounds, to allow unto nine poore men, being free Brethren of the same Company, eight pounds apeece yeerely for ever.

Moreover,His maintaining of a Preacher in the City of London for ever. he left (by his will) 600. pound in money, and a faire house in the City of London, to the disposition of the Company, to bestow the yeerely profits, for the yeerely maintenance of a godly Preacher in this City for ever, which Preacher from time to time is to benominated by the Company. As already they have thereto appointed Master Iohn Downham, Batchelor in Divinity, and a very learned Preacher.

More,His love to poore Preachers. hee gave the summe of 1000. pound to bee faithfully distributed among poore Preachers here in England.

To be distributed among the severall Hospitals in London, His charity to Hospitals and poore people beyond the Seas. he gave the summe of 500. pound.

To the poore in Stoad hee gave 200. pound.

To the poore of Hamborough, he gave 50. pound.

Beside, to such poore English men as lived in Hamborough, he gave 50 pound.

[Page] He gave likewise a good summe of money (by way of gratitude and thankfulnesse) to his owne Company,His love to his own Company as a token of his love, for their care and paines-taking, in the managing of so serious a businesse.

The Hospitall at Monmouth was built (by the Company) in his life time,What care and diligence the worthy Company have taken in the execution of his will, according to the times and severall appointed places. and the poore people placed in it.

Since his death, the house for the Preacher there, the Free-schoole, and the house for the Schoolmaster, all these are (by this time) neere hand finished.

An house also for the Preacher at Newland, and the Hospitall for tenne poore people there, is already (by them) begun, and in very good forwardnesse.

His intended care for a Preacher in London, is already performed, and the same continued in a Lecture, at S. Bartholomews Church, neere to the Exchange, every Thursday in the afternoone.

Whatsoever else remaineth, concerning the trust reposed in them, they wil (with all speed) both truely and faithfully effect.

Here I could enter into a further relation, Divers men yet living, have been and still are most bountifull benefactors to the poore, and many other religious uses concerning some men yet living, whose liberall bounty and most Christian charity, doth deserve no meane commendation, and is very little inferiour to many of them already named.

But because they account it honour enough to them, that divers poore people (in private) should rather sufficiently finde it, than the world (in publike) know it, I am content to spare their nomination, as knowing very well, that they who have beene so liberall in their life time, have (no doubt) set downe extraordinary determinations, which neither death, nor any deceiving Executors, can or shall frustrate and disappoint.

Let me commend that truly-religious man,The testimony of a good and godly conscience indeed. who perceiving the heavy want of divers honest house-holders, laboriously end [...]vouring (night and day) to maintaine their charge; but that the worlds extremity frowned too fiercely upon them. I know the man, and oftentimes in teares hath he said to mee; Here is true poverty indeed, too modestly silent in speaking their mighty need and misery, and therefore justly deserving pittie. To two, three, foure, and many times more of these, hath he beene, and is, a liberall Benefactor (weekely) with his owne hands: yet not in his owne name, or as comming from himselfe, (he being so meanely disguised at such times of his comming to them, and so sudden also in departing from them, that they were not able to distinguish him;) but alledging, that the reliefe was sent them from some, who understood their neede (almost) as well as themselves, and willed them to bee thankfull onely to God for it.

Oh that London had a Park neer adjoining to it, stored with many such choise Deere; as doubtlesse it hath, though not easily knowne. For some build Almes-houses, Free-Schooles, Cawseyes and Bridges in very needfull places: yea, and repaire old ruined Churches, releeving Hospitals also in very bountifull manner, and are weekly Benefactors to Prisons: yet performed by such agents faithfully, that the true bestowers are not noted, though vehemently suspected; and the glory they shunne here, will (for ever) shine on them else-where. But God stirre up the mindes of many more, to imitate them in this tonguelesse liberality.

Master William Masham, William Masham his love to Learning. Grocer, and Alderman of London, gave (beside his liberall charity to the Hospitall) toward the maintenance of poore Scholars, at both the Vniversities, twenty pounds.

Master Henry Prannel, Henry Prannel his charity. Vintner, and Alderman of London, gave among the said Hospitals the summe of 50. pounds yeerely.

Master William Elkin, William Elkin his bountifull charity. Mercer, and Alderman of London, in the yeere 1593. gave to Christs Hospitall in London, and for certaine charitable uses, the summe of 800. pounds.

He gave also to the Prisons in and about London, threescore pounds.

Beside, he gave to Emanuel Colledge in Cambridge, five pounds, and to both the Vniversities together, threescore pounds.

Master Richard Gurney, Richard Gurney his charity. Slater and Alderman of London, gave to be distributed among the severall Hospitals in and about London, threescore pound. And to [Page] the Vniversities yeerely five pound.

Master Hugh Offley, Hugh Offley his love to learning and care for the poor. Leather seller and Alderman of London, gave for the maintaining of Scholars in both the Vniversities, 77. pound.

He gave to Christs Hospitall in London, the like summe of 77. pound.

Beside, hee gave to the prisoners in and about London, 20. pound, and 35. shillings yeerly to continue for certaine yeeres.

Master Robert Brooke, Robert Brook his charity. Grocer and Alderman of London, gave to be distributed among the Hospitals in London, the summe of sixe and thirty pound.

Master Benedict Barnham, Benedict Barnham, his charity. Draper and Alderman of London, gave to be distributed among the severall Prisons in London, fifty pounds.

Master Robert Taylor, Robert Taylor his charity. Haberdasher and Alderman of London, gave in distribution to the Hospitals in London, the summe of one hundred pound.

Master Paul Banning, Paul Banning his charity. Grocer, and sometime an Alderman of London, gave unto Christs Hospitall the sum of one hundred pounds.

Sir Richard Goddard, Sir Richard Goddard. Draper and Alderman of London, gave to the Hospitall of Bridewell, two hundred pound.

Master William Walthall, VVilliam VValthall his charitable benevolence Mercer and Alderman of London, gave to the Hospitals of London, two hundred pounds.

More, he gave to poore Scholars in Cambridge, nine pound yeerely.

To the Prisons beside, in and about London, he gave one hundred thirty five pounds.

Beside his former gifts, hee gave ten pound yeerely to Christs Hospitall.

To his Company of the Mercers he gave five hundred pounds to be lent to young men that begin the world.Care for young beginners.

Sir Robert Hampson, Sir Robert Hampson, his charity. Merchant-Taylor, and Alderman of London, gave to the charitable reliefe of poore prisoners, one hundred and fifty pounds in ready money, and the reversion of two Tenements beside.

Sir Henry Anderson, Henry Anderson, his love to learning. Grocer and Alderman of London, and Richard Anderson his sonne, gave to the Colledge of Brazen-nose in Oxenford, for the reliefe of poore Scholars there, one hundred and thirteen pounds.

Sir William Glover VVilliam Glover his charity. Dyer and Alderman of London, gave also to the Hospitals, in and about London, the summe of two hundred pounds,

Sir William Rumney, VVillia, Rumney his charity. Haberdasher, and Alderman of London, gave also to be distributed among the same Hospitals, the summe of threescore and five pounds.

Sir Roger Iones, Roger Jones his charity. Dyer and Alderman of London, gave likewise to the said Hospitals, two and twenty pounds.

Master Richard Faringdon, Richard Faringdon his charity. Clothworker, and Alderman of London, gave also to be distributed among the same Hospitals, the summe of threescore and six pound thirteene shillings foure pence.

Nicholas Stile, Nicholas Stile, his charity, and care for poore Sea-men. Grocer, and Alderman of London, gave unto Christs Hospitall five pound, to St. Bartholomews, 10. pound, and to St, Thomas Hospitall three pound.

Moreover, he gave to poore maimed Sea-faring souldiers, in S. Bartholomews Hospitall ten pound, if no house were erected in or about London, for the harbour and reliefe of such maimed Souldidiers and Saylors.

Master Ieffrey Elwes, Ieffrey Edwes his charity. Merchant-Taylor, and Alderman of London, gave unto Christs Hospitall the summe of one hundred pounds. And to the Hospitall of St. Bartholomew, and St. Thomas in Southwarke ten pounds to each house.

Master Cuthbert Martin, Cuthbert Martin his charity. Skinner, and Alderman of London, gave unto Christs Hospitall, the summe of twenty pounds.

Sir Iames Deane, Iames Dean his charity. Draper, gave to be distributed among the severall Hospitals in and about London, the summe of one hundred and thirty pounds. And to the Prisoners threescore and ten pounds.

Master George Smithes, George Smithes his charity. Goldsmith, and Alderman of London, gave to Christs Hospitall, ten pounds. And to Bridewell ten pounds.

Sir William Bowyer, VVilliam Bowyer, his charity. Grocer, Alderman and Lord Maior of London, in the yeere 1543. gave to the severall Prisons in and about London, the summe of two hundred pounds.

Sir Iohn Lion, Grocer, Alderman, and Lord Maior of Lond, Sir Iohn Lion his charity. in the yeere 1554. gave to Christs Hospitall. St. Bartholomews, S. Thomas in Southwark, and Bridewell, one hundred pounds.

[Page] Sir Richard Champion, Sir Richard Champion his charity for reliefe of the poore. Drapet, Alderman and Lord Maior of London, in the yeere, 1565. gave the summe of nineteene pound and foureteene shillings yeerely, to a Christian and charitable worke, formerly begun by Sir Iohn Milbourne, Draper, Alderman and Lord Maior of London likewise, and with the like yeerely allowance of nineteene pounds and fourteene shillings towards the maintenance of 13. poore Almes-houses at Tower-hill, and neere to the dwelling of the Lord Lumley.

Sir Christopher Draper, Sir Christopher Draper his charity. Ironmonger, Alderman and Lord Maior of London, in the yeere 1566. gave to the Prisons in and about London, and Bethlem withall, threescore and eight pounds.

Sir Lionel Ducket, Sir Lionel Ducket his charity. Mercer, Alderman and Lord Maior of London, in the yeere 1572. gave to be distributed among the Hospitals in London, the summe of one hundred pounds.

Sir Thomas Ramsey, Sir Thomas Ramsey his charity. Grocer, Alderman and Lord Maior of London, in the yeere 1577. gave also in distribution among the said Hospitals threescore pounds.

Sir Wolstane Dixie, Sir VVolstane Dixie his charitable benevolence Skinner, Maior, 1586. gave as followeth.

He founded a Free-schoole at Bosworth and endowed it with twenty pound yeerely.

To Christs Hospitall in London hee gave yeerely for ever two and forty pounds.

For a Lecture in St. Michaels Bassings Hall, yeerely, ten pounds.

To the poore of Newgate, twenty pounds.His bounty to Prisons in divers places.

To the two Compters, and to Ludgate and Bethlem, to each of them tenne pounds.

To the foure Prisons in Southwarke, twenty pounds, thirteene shillings, and foure pence.

To the poore of Bassings Hall, tenne pounds.

To Emanuel Colledge in Cambridge, Out of his love to learning. to buy lands for the maintenance or two Fellowes, and two Scholars, sixe hundred pounds.

To the building of the Colledge, fifty pounds.

To bee lent unto poore Merchants,To poore Merchants. five hundred pounds.

To the Hospitals of Saint Bartholomew, To Hospitals and poore maids marriages, &c. and Saint Thomas, fifty pounds to each.

To the the poore of Bridewell, twenty pounds.

To poore Maids marriages, one hundred pounds.

To poore Strangers of the Dutch and French Church, fifty pounds.

Towards the building of the Pesthouse, To the Pesthouse. two hundred pounds.

Sir Iohn Hart, Sir Iohn Hart his care of Learning, and respect of the poore. Grocer, Alderman and Lord Maior London, in the yeere 1589. erected and founded a Free-schoole in Yorkeshire, with the allowance of thirty pound yeerely to a Master and an Vsher.

Sir Iohn Allot, Sir Iohn Allot his charity. Fishmonger, Alderman and Lord Maior of London, gave likewise in distribution among the said Hospitals, threescore and sixe pound thirteene shillings.

Sir William Webbe, Sir William VVebbe his charity. Salter, Alderman and Lord Maior of London, in the yeere 1591. gave likewise to be distributed among the said Hospitals, fourescore pound.

Sir Stephen Slanie, Sir Stephen Slanie, his charity. Skinner, Alderman and Lord Maior of London, in the yeere 1595. beside his bountifull charity to the severall Hospitals, gave to bee bestowed among the severall Prisons, the summe of one hundred pounds.

Master Thomas Skinner, Thomas Skinner his charity. Clothworker, Alderman and Lord Maior of London, in the yeere 1596. gave to the severall Hospitals in and about London one hundred and twenty pound to be equally divided among them.

Sir Robert Lee, Sir Robert Lee his charity. Merchant-Taylor, Alderman and Lord Maior of London, 1602. gave also in distribution among the said Hospitals, two and forty pound.

Sir Iohn Wattes, Sir Iohn VVats, his charity. Clothworker, Alderman and Lord Maior of London, in the yeere 1606. gave unto Christs Hospitall the summe of ten pound, and to Saint Thomas hospitall in Southwarke, twenty pounds.

Sir Henry Rowe, Sir Henry Rowe his charity. Mercer, Alderman and Lord Maior of London, 1607. gave likewise to bee distributed among the same hospitals, the summe of one hundred pounds.

Sir Humfrey Weld, Sir Humfrey VVeld his charity. Grocer, and Lord Maior of London, in the yeere 1608. [Page] gave to be distributed among the severall hospitals, the summe of one hundred pounds.

Sir Thomas Cambell, Sir Thomas Cambell his charity. Ironmonger, Alderman and Lord Maior of London, in the yeere 1609. gave to Christs Hospitall the summe of twenty pounds. And to the two Hospitals of S. Bartholomews, and Saint Thomas, five pound to each house.

Sir Iames Pemberton, Sir Iames Pemberton his love to learning and to the poore. Goldsmith, and lately Lord Maior of London, in the yeere 1611. in his life time founded a Free-schoole at Heskin in the Parish of Ekklesden, in Lamcashire, endowing it with fifty pounds yeerely.

Hee gave also to Christs Hospitall, five hundred pounds.

Hee gave to his Company of Goldsmiths, two hundred pounds.

To divers Prisons hee gave one hundred pounds.

And to sundry poore Parishes hee gave charitably, leaving it to his Executors discretion.

Sir Iohn Swinnerton, Sir Iohn Swinnerton his charity. Merchant-Taylor, Alderman and Lord Maior of London, in the yeere 1612. gave unto Christs Hospitall the summe of one hundred pound. And to the other three hospitals, of Saint Bartholomews, Saint Thomas, and Bridewell, tenne pound to each house.

Sir Henry Rowe, Sir Henry Rowe his love to learning. Mercer, Alderman and Lord Maior of London, beside his former bounty to the hospitals, gave to the two Vniversities, Oxenford and Cambridge, forty pound to poore scholars that study Divinity: and when they shall proceed Masters of Arts, to each scholar forty shillings.

Sir Thomas Hunt, Sir Thomas Hunt his charity. Skinner, gave to be divided among the poore of Christ Church, Saint Bartholomews, Saint Thomas in Southwarke, and Bridewell, one hundred pounds.

Sir William Rumney, William Rumney his love to learning. Haberdasher, and Alderman of London, beside his former liberality to the hospitals, gave to 40. poore scholars in Cambridge, the sum of twenty pounds.

Sir William Stone, William Stone his charity. Clothworker, gave to the severall Prisons in London, the summe of fifty pounds.

Master Ieffrey Elwes, Ieffrey Elwes his love to learning. Merchant-Taylor, and Alderman of London, over and beside his bountifull charity to the Hospitals in London, gave to the Chancelor, Master and scholars of the Vniversity of Oxenford, to the use of the body and corporation of the said Vniversity, and to Saint Iohn Baptist Colledge, the summe of three hundred pounds.

Thus much for famous Citizens have I noted, concerning their charitable actions, for the most part done by them in their life time. The residue left in trust to their Executors, I have knowne some of them hardly (or never) performed. Wherefore I wish men to make their owne hands their Executors, and their eyes their Overseers, not forgetting the old Proverbe,

Women be forgetfull,

Children be unkinde,

Executors bee covetous,

and take what they finde.

If any body aske where

the deads goods became,

They answer;

So God mee helpe and holydome,

hee dyed a poore man.

And now of some women, Citizens wives, deserving memory, for example to posterity, shall be noted.

Dame Agnes Foster widdow,Agnes Foster. sometime wife to Sir Stephen Foster, Fishmonger, Maior, 1455. having enlarged the Prison of Ludgate, in 1463. shee procured in a common Councell of this City, certaine Articles to be established for the ease, comfort and reliefe of poor Prisoners there, as in the Chapter of Gates I have set downe.

Avice Gibson, Avice Gibson founded a Chappell, a Free-schoole, and Almes houses at Radcliffe. wife unto Nicholas Gibson, Grocer, one of the Sheriffes, 1539. by licence of her husband, founded a Free-schoole at Radcliffe neere unto London, appointing to the same for the instruction of threescore poore mens children, a Schoole-master and Vsher with fifty pound. Shee also builded Almes-houses for foureteene poore and aged persons, each of them to receive quarterly sixe shillings eight pence the peece for ever. The government of which Free-schoole and Almes-houses, [Page] [...] [Page] [...] [Page] she left in confidence to the Coopers in London.

This vertuous Gentlewoman, was afterward joyned in marriage with Sir Anthony Knevet, Cursed is hee that removeth his neighbours marke, have I read. Knight, and so called the Lady Knevet. A faire painted Table of her picture was placed in the Chappell, which she had built there, but of late removed thence, by the like reason, as the Grocers Armes (fixed on the outer wall of the Schoole-house, are pulled downe, and the Coopers set in place.

Margaret Danne, Margaret Danne. Widdow to William Danne, Ironmonger, one of the Sheriffes of London, 1570. gave by her testament to the Ironmongers two thousand pounds, to be lent to young men of that Company, paying after the rate of 5. pounds the yeere for every hundred, which hundred pounds so arising yeerly was to be imployed on charitable actions, as shee then appointed; but not performed in more than thirty yeeres after.

The Lady Baineham, sometime an Aldermans Widdow of this City,The Lady Baineham her charity. gave to the poore of the Drapers Company, ten pounds yeerely for ever.

The Lady Forman gave to be distributed among the severall hospitals forty pounds.The Lady Forman her charity.

The Lady Barne, The Lady Barne her charity. Wife to Sir George Barne, Haberdasher, and Lord Maior of London, gave also to the said hospitals, fourescore pounds.

The Lady Anne Saunders, The Lady Saunders her charity. sometime also an Aldermans wife of London, gave unto the reliefe of the said Hospitals, the summe of one hundred and twenty pound.

The Lady Anne Hunt, The Lady Hunt her charity. Wife to Sir Thomas Hunt, Skinner, gave in like manner for reliefe of the several Hospitals in London, the summe of one hundred and fourescore pounds.

The Lady Frances Ierningham, The Lady Ierningham her charity. Widdow, out of her Christian and charitable disposition to the said Hospitals, gave liberally the summe of three hundred and forty pounds.

The Lady Frances, The Countesse of Sussex her charity. sometime Countesse of Sussex, but a great friend and well-willer to the City of London, and knowne to be a very godly and religious Lady, gave to the said Hospitals the summe of one hundred pounds.

The Lady Katharine Constable, The Lady Constable her charity. being said to be bred and brought up in this Honourable Citie, declared her love thereto at her death, and gave unto the Hospitals the summe of two hundred pounds.

The Lady Webbe, sometime Wife to Sir William Webbe, The Lady VVeb her charity. Ironmonger, Alderman and Lord Maior of London, gave to be distributed among the severall Hospitals, the summe of three hundred pounds.

The Lady Gresham, wife sometime to Sir Thomas Gresham, The Lady Gresham her charity, Mercer, and Agent beyond the Seas to Queene Elizabeth of famous memory, gave also to the Hospitals, fourescore and tenne pounds.

The Lady Mary Ramsey, The Christian and bountifull charity of the Lady Ramsey. wife to Sir Thomas Ramsey, Grocer, Alderman and Lord Maior of London, about the yeere one thousand, five hundred, seventy seven, being seized of Lands in Fee-simple of her owne inheritance, amounting to the yeerely value of two hundred forty three pounds; by consent of her said husband, gave the same to Christs Hospitall in London, towards the reliefe of the poore children there, and other charitable uses, as shall bee declared.

To the Master and Vsher of the Schoole belonging to Christs-Church, she gave yeerely twenty pounds.

To the Schoolemaster of Hawsted, Her love to learning. by the yeere for ever, shee gave twenty pounds.

To tenne poore Widdowes, beside apparell and houses, yeerely twenty pounds.

To two poore people,Her care of the poore. a man and a woman by her appointed, during their lives she gave unto each of them yeerely, two pounds thirteene shillings and foure pence.

To two Fellowes of Peter-house, in the Vniversity of Cambridge, and towards the reliefe of foure Schollers yeerly forty pounds.

To St. Bartholemews Hospitall, tenne pounds.

To Newgate, Ludgate, and both the Compters,Her charity to the poore prisoners. each of them, ten pounds.

After the expiration of certaine Leases, there is to come unto Christs Hospitall [Page] yeerely the summe of one hundred and twenty pounds.

To three severall Parishes in London, To parishes in London. namely, Saint Andrews Vndershaft, Saint Peters the poore, and Saint Mary Wolnoth in Lumbardstreet, tenne pounds to each.

Towards the maintenance of sixe poore Scholars in Cambridge, twenty pounds.

Towards the reliefe of tenne poore maimed Souldiers,Care for poore maimed Souldiers. beside cassoks, caps, hose and shooes yeerely, the summe of twenty pounds.

For two Sermons yeerely, forty shillings.

She gave to the poore of Christschurch Parish yeerely for ever, the summe of fifty shillings.

To the poore of the Company of Drapers in London, she gave ten pounds yeerely.

All these gifts already rehearsed, are to continue for every yeerely.

Moreover, to each of these five Companies, Her care for poore beginners in the world. of Grocers, Drapers, Goldsmiths, Haberdashers, and Merchant-Tailors, shee gave the summe of one thousand two hundred pounds, to bee lent to young Trades-men for foure yeeres.

Shee gave to the Maior and Communalty of Bristow, a thousand pounds, to be imployed toward the new hospitall there, and other charitable uses, by the consent of her Executors.

To certaine Parishes in the Countrey, Her charity to divers Parishes in the countrey. as Berden, Newport, Clavering, Langley, Rickling, Quenden, Stocking, Pelham, and Walden, she gave the sum of one hundred pounds, to buy forty Gownes of Freeze for women, and sixty Coats for men, the remainder and overplus to goe to the poore.

She gave to poore maids marriages, forty pounds.

Moreover, shee gave the summe of five hundred pounds, towards the releasing of such prisoners, as lye for the debt of forty shillings, in any of the prisons in London and Southwarke.

She gave beside, the summe of three thousand pounds, to other good and godly uses.

The Lady Elizabeth Billingsley, The Lady Billingsley her love to learning. wife to Sir Henry Billingsley, Haberdasher, Alderman and Lord Maior of London, gave to her said husband, the summe of 4000. pounds, therewith to purchase lands in convenient time, and willed, that the residue of the profits of the said lands, should be bestowed upon a Scholarship and a Fellowship, in the Vniversity of Cambridge, in Saint Iohns Colledge, or any other Colledge there at his discretion.

The Lady Anne Iones, sometime wife to Sir Roger Iones, The Lady Iones her love to learning. Dier, and Alderman of London, gave towards the encouragement of poore Scholars in the Vniversities, 29. pounds, at the discretion of her Executors.

The Lady Spencer, The Lady Spencer her charity. sometime wife to Sir Iohn Spencer, Clothworker, Alderman and Lord Maior of London, gave to be distributed among the Hospitals, the summe of threescore and ten pounds.

The Lady Anne Glover, The Lady Glover her charity. sometime wife to Sir William Glover, Dier, Alderman of London, gave to reliefe of the Hospitals, the summe of fourescore pounds.

The Lady Barbara Stone, The Lady Stone her charity. sometime wife to Sir William Stone, Clothworker, gave to the reliefe of Christs Hospitall, one hundred pounds.

Mistris Elizabeth Walter, Mistris Walter her love to learning. sometime wife to Richard Walter, Girdler, gave 2. Fellowships to Emanuel Colledge in Cambridge.

More, for the reliefe of poore Preachers, such as want livings, she gave the summe of three hundred pounds.

Mistris Alice Barnham, Mistris Barnham her love to learning. mother to M. Benedict Barnham, Draper and Alderman of London, gave to both Vniversities, 20. pound.

Mistris Elizabeth Scot, Mistris Scot, her love to learning. sometime wife to Iohn Scot, Salter, gave to the reliefe of poore Scholars in the Vniversities, forty pounds.

Mistris Katharine Garway gave also to the same benefit of poore Scholars,Mistris Garway her love to learning. twenty pounds.

Mistris Cicely Hawes, Mistris Hawes her love to learning. gave to poore Scholars in the Vniversities, twenty pounds.

Mistris Alice Hill, Mistris Hill her charity. Widdow, gave for the reliefe of poore prisoners, in the severall Prisons in and about London, one hundred pounds.

Mistris Elizabeth Packingten, Mistris Packingten her charity. Widdow, [Page] gave to Christs Hospitall,Mistris Packington her charity. threescore pounds.

Mistris Elizabeth Smith, Mistris Smith her charity. Widdow, gave to be distributed among the Hospitals, fourescore pounds.

Mistris Elizabeth Flicton, Mistris Electon her charity. sometime wife to Robert Electon, Grocer, gave unto Christs Hospitall, the summe of 66. pounds.

Mistris margery Simcotes, Mistris Simcotes her charity. sometime wife to George Simcotes, Grocer, gave unto Christs Hospitall, for reliefe of the poore Children, one hundred pounds.

Mistris Margaret Search, Mistris Search her charity. Widdow, gave unto Christs Hospitall, twenty pounds.

Mistris Iane Allington, Mistris Allington her charity. Widdow, gave unto Christs Hospitall, twenty pounds.

Mistris Iane Baker, Mistris Baker her charity. widdow gave to the reliefe of poore maids marriages, an hundred pounds.

Mistris Sambach, Mistris Sambach her charity. widdow, gave to the poore of the parish of Saint Brides in Fleetstreet, the summe of twenty five pounds yeerely.

Mistris Venables, Mistris Venables her charity. widdow, in her love to Christian Religion, gave for the help of poore Preachers, the summe of five thousand pounds.

Mistris Clarke, Mistris Clarke her love to Learning. widdow, late wife of Roger Clarke, Salter, and Alderman of London, in the Parish of Saint Margaret Moses, gave for the maintenance of poore Scholars, and other charitable uses beside, the summe of one thousand foure hundred pounds.

Mistris Ioane Doxie, Mistris Doxie her charity. Widdow, of Saint Bennet Grasse-Church in London, gave unto Christs Hospitall 5. pounds.

She gave to poore Maids marriages, twenty pounds.

She gave to the Company of Armorers, for reliefe of foure poore widdowes, for ever yeerely, five pounds to each widdow, desiring to have it called The poore Widdowes Mite.

She gave also towards the maintenance of the Lecture in Grasse-Church, fifty shillings yeerely.

Mistris Bakhouse, Mistris Bakhouse her love to learning. widdow, gave to the worshipfull Company of Haberdashers, the summe of forty pounds yeerely, towards the maintaining of 8. poore Scholars in the Vniversities; allowing to each Scholar yeerely five pounds.

Mistris Katharine Woodward, Mistris Woodward her charity. widdow, gave two hundred pounds to the Company of Ironmongers, to be lent out to yong men for their helpe.

She gave two hundred pounds more, to be distributed unto poore Scholars, the Hospitals, poore Prisoners, poore Parishes, poore Householders, poore Maids marriages: and three pounds thereof for three Sermons yeerely.

Mistris Iane Baker, Mistris Baker her love to learning. widdow, over and besides her former gift, for the helpe of poore Maids marriages, gave to three poore Scholars in Cambridge, and as many in Oxenford, the summe of twenty foure pounds, that when they shall severally take degree of Batchelours of Arts, they are to receive foure pounds each man.

Mistris Sibilla Iacob, Mistris Iacob her charity. widdow unto Richard Iacob, Vintener, gave unto Christs Hospitall, three pounds, and to Saint Thomas, three pounds.

Mistris Margery Philips, Mistris Philips her charity. widdow, gave unto Christs Hospital five pounds, and to Saint Thomas, five pounds.

Mistris Anna Whitmore, Mistris Whitmore her liberal charity. sometime wife to Master William Whitmore, Haberdasher, out of her most bountifull charity, gave unto Christs Hospital the summe of foure hundred pounds.

More, she gave to Saint Thomas Hospitall, twenty pounds.

To Saint Bartholomews Hospitall, threescore pounds.

She gave also to the Hospitall of Bridewell, to set the poore on worke, an hundred pounds.

Mistris Margaret Awdley of Hackney, Mistris Awdley her charity. Widdow, gave unto Christs Hospitall, one hundred pounds.

She gave to Saint Bartholomews, fifty pounds.

And to Saint Thomas Hospitall, fifty pounds.

Mistris Alice Elkin, The worthy charity of Mistris Alice Owen. widdow to Master William Elkin, Mercer and Alderman of London, was afterward married to the learned Lawyer, Master Thomas Owen, one of the learned Judges of the Land. This Mistris Alice Owen, caused (in her life time) an Hospitall to bee builded at Istington, for tenne poore women, with very convenient roomes, [Page] and Gardens to them adjoyning. Many other good workes were by her performed, and in her life time: and according as shee franckly and freely gave them, so will I set them downe in order, as followeth.

First,The manifest testimony of her affection to learning. she gave to the Library in the Vniversitie of Oxenford, the summe of two hundred pounds.

She gave also to the Library in the Vniversity of Cambridge the summe of twenty pounds.

For the foundation of one Fellowship, as also one Scholarship, in Emanuel Colledge in the Vniversity of Cambridge, shee gave a summe of money, the certaine value thereof is not as yet come to my hands.

She gave unto Christs Hospitall in London, Her care of the poore. to the end that twelve pence a peece weekely might be given to certaine poore people of Islington, threescore pounds.

Towards the beautifying of the Cloisters of Christs Hospitall, shee gave the summe of sixty six pounds, thirteene shillings, foure pence.

Shee gave, towards the maintaining of a Schoole-house at Edmunton, twenty pounds.

For a great Bell,A token of her love to the Countrey. to be rung and used in the Parish of Condover in Shropshire, shee gave the summe of fiftie pounds.

Item, The building of the Almeshouses at Islington, and purchasing of the Land laid to them, did cost her the sum of one thousand, foure hundred and fifteene pounds.

Close to the said Almes-houses,Her providence for the poore in her almes-houses. she builded a Schoolehouse and a Chappel of ease, that the poore might not goe over-far to Church, the charges whereof did cost her the summe of three hundred, sixty one pounds.

Yeerely also shee gave good summes of money,All these things were done in her life time. to poore Preachers unbeneficed, as also to the Prisons in and about London, all these being done in her life time.

By her last Will and Testament,Gifts appointed by her will. she hath provided, that 22. pounds yeerely shall be purchased, for the maintenance of the Schoole at Islington.

She hath bequeathed to poore Preachers the summe of 35. pounds.

She hath given to the Parish of Bashingshaw, (wherein sometime she dwelt) to increase the stocke of the poore there, twenty pounds.

She hath given to the Prisons, eight pounds.

To the Company of Brewers in London, to whose trust and care shee hath committed the government and oversight of the forenamed Almes-houses and Schoole-house at Islington; as a gratefull remembrance of her love, and that their paines should not goe altogether unregarded, she hath given in plate and money, one hundred pounds.

And here let mee tell you, that the charity of this vertuous and religious woman,A worthy example, and well deserving imitation. deserveth the more to bee remembred, and commended also to posterity; because she made her owne eyes the witnesses, to all or the greater part of the severall summes, first mentioned and given in her life time.

And yet at the time of her death, of children and childrens children, she had no lesse than two and twenty: A motive very able to hinder charity, especially in a worldly and covetous minde.

Neverthelesse, looking on all the parts disposed to her children, and the other dividents beside, she selected out so bountifull a portion for those poore members of Christ, that (even to the worlds end) may successively remember her good done to them, and justly terme her their liberall and mercifull mother.

One thing (above the rest) I may not forget; because in deliverances from any dangers, wee owe a more speciall duty and gratitude to God.

This worthy woman being borne at Islington, A great danger she escaped in her childhood. in the time of her childhood, she hapned there to escape a great danger, by meanes of an Arrow shot at randome in the field, where shee was then sporting among other children, the Arrow missing all the other, pierced quite thorow the hat on her head, and (God be praised for it) did not touch her with any other harme:The reasō of erecting her Almes-houses. whereupon, in the Towne of her birth, and where shee escaped such an expected perill, shee made choice to expresse her thankfulnesse to GOD, upon the Altar of her [Page] charitable Almes-houses and Schoole.

Thus much for the worthinesse of Citizens (both men and women) in this Citie,Iohn Lidgate, in praise of Londoners of his time. touching whom, Iohn Lidgate, a Monke of Bury, in the reigne of King Henry the sixth, made (amongst other) these Verses following:

Of seven things I praise this Citie:

Of true meaning and faithfull observance,

Of righteousnesse, truth and equity;

Of stablenesse aye kept in Legiance,

And for of vertue thou hast suffisance:

In this lond here, and other londs all,

The Kings Chamber of Custom men thee call.

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Having thus in a generality handled the Original, the Wals, Gates, Ditches, and fresh Waters; the Bridges, Towers and Castles; the Schooles of Learning, and Houses of Law; the Orders and Customes, Sports and Pastimes, Watchings and Martiall Exercises; and lastly, the honour and worthinesse of the Citizens: I am now to set downe the distribution of this Citie into Parts; and more especially, to declare the Antiquities (note worthy) in every of the same: and how both the whole and parts have bin (from time to time) ruled and governed.

THe ancient division of this Citie,The Citie of London divided from East to west, into a South halfe and a North halfe. was into Wards or Aldermanries: and therefore I will beginne at the East, and so proceed thorow the high and most principall street of the Citie to the West, after this manner:

First, through Aldgate street, to the West corner of Saint Andrews Church, called Vndershaft, on the right hand, and Limestreet corner on the left; all which is of Aldgate Ward. From thence through Cornehill street, to the West corner of Leaden-hall; all which is of Limestreet Ward. From thence, leaving the street that leadeth to Bishopsgate on the right hand, and the way that leadeth into Grasse-street on the left, still through Cornehill street, by the Conduit, to the West corner against the Stockes; all which is in Cornehill Ward.The Stocks market the midst of the Citie. Then by the said Stockes (a Market-place both of Fish and Flesh, standing in the midst of the Citie) through the Poultry, (a street so called, to the great Conduit in West Cheape, and so through Cheape to the Standard, which is of Cheape Ward, except on the South side from Bow-lane to the said Standard, which is of Cordwayner-street Ward. Then by the Standard to the great Crosse, which is in Creplegate Ward on the North side, and in Breadstreet Ward on the South side: and to the little Conduit by Pauls gate, from whence (of old time) the said high street stretched straight on to Ludgate, all in the Ward of Farringdon within, then divided truely from East to West: but since,S. Pauls Church burned in the Conquerour time. by meanes of the burning of Pauls Church, which was in the reigne of William the first, Mauricius, then Bishop of London, laid the foundation of a new Church, so farre in largenesse exceeding the old, that the way towards Ludgate was thereby greatly straightned, as before I have discoursed.

Now, from the North to the South,The Citie divided frō north to south, into an east halfe & a west halfe. this Citie was (of old time) divided, not by a large highway or street, as from East to West, but by a faire Brooke of sweet water, which came from out the North Fields, through the Wall and midst of the Citie, into the River of Thames, and which division is (till this day) constantly and without change maintained. This water was called (as I have said) Walbrooke; The course of Walbrooke, and reason of the name. not Gallus brook, of a Romane Captaine, slaine by Asclepiodatus, and throwne therein, as some have fabuled; but of running through and from the Wall of this Citie. The course whereof, (to prosecute it particularly) was and is from the said Wall, to Saint Margarets Church in Lothbury; from thence, beneath the lower part of the Grocers Hall, about the East part of their Kitchen, under Saint Mildreds Church, somewhat West from the said Stockes Market: from thence, through Buckles berry, by one great house builded of stone and Timber, called the old Barge; because Barges out of the River of Thames were then rowed up so farre into this Brooke, on the backe-side of the houses in Walbrooke street, (which street taketh name of the said Brooke) By the West end of S. Iohns Church upon Walbrooke, under Horshooe Bridge, [Page] by the West side of Tallow-Chandlers Hall, and of the Skinners Hall, and so behind the other houses to Elbow lane, and by a part thereof, downe Greenewitch lane, into the River of Thames.

This is the course of Walbrooke, The course of VValbrooke arched over. which was (of old time) bridged over in divers places, for passage of horses and men, as need required: but since, by meanes of encrochment on the banks thereof, the channel being greatly straightned, and other annoyances done thereunto, at length the same (by common consent) was arched over with bricke, and paved with stone, equall with the ground, where-through it passed, and is now in most places builded upon, that no man may by the eye discerne it; and therefore the trace thereof is hardly knowne to the common people.

This Citie being thus divided from East to West,This City divided intowards and from North to South; I am now further to shew, how the same was (of old time) broken into divers parts, called Wards, whereof Fitzstephen, Fitzstephen. more than foure hundred yeeres since, writeth thus: This Citie (saith he) even as Rome, is divided into Wards: it hath yeerely Sheriffes, in stead of Consuls: It hath the dignity of Senators in Aldermen, &c.

The number of these Wards in London, Wards in London 24. Patent Record. were both before and in the reigne of Henry the third, 24. in all: whereof 13. lay on the East side of the said Walbrooke, and 11. on the West. Notwithstanding, these 11. grew much more large than those on the East: and therfore in the yeere of Christ, 1393. the seventeenth of Richard the second, Faringdon Ward, which was then one entire Ward, but mightily increased of buildings without the gates; was by Parliament appointed to be divided into twaine, and to have two Aldermen, to wit, Faringdon within, and Faringdon without, which made up the number of twelve Wards on the West side of Walbrooke, and so came the whole number of 25. on both sides.Wards in London 25.

Moreover, in the yeere 1550. the Maior, Communalty, and Citizens of London, purchasing the liberties of the Burrough of Southwarke, appointed the same to be a Ward of London; and so became the number of thirteene wards on the East, twelve on the West, and one South the River Thames, in the said Borough of Southwarke, in the County of Surrey; VVards in London and the Borough of Southwarke, 26. which in all arise to the number of 26. Wards, and 26. Aldermen of London to governe them.

Wards on the East part of Walbrook are these:

1. Portsoken ward,

Names of wards in London.

without the wals.

2. Towerstreet ward.

3. Ealdgate ward.

4. Limestreet ward.

5. Bishopsgate ward, within the wals, and without.

6. Broadstreet ward.

7. Cornehill ward.

8. Langbourne ward.

9. Billingsgate ward.

10. Bridge ward within.

11. Candlewike-street ward.

12. Walbrooke ward.

13. Downgate ward.

Wards on the West side of Walbrook are these:

14. Vintry ward.

15. Cordwainer-street ward.

16. Cheape ward.

17. Colman-street ward.

18. Bassings-Hall ward.

19. Creplegate ward, within and without.

20. Aldersgate ward, within and without.

21. Faringdon ward within.

22. Breadstreet ward.

23. Queene Hith ward.

24. Castle Baynard ward.

25. Faringdon ward without the wals.

One ward is south the River of Thames in the Burrough of Southwarke, by the name of,

26. Bridge ward without.

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OF PORTSOKEN VVARD: The first Ward in the East part.

SEeing that of every of these Wards I have to say somewhat,Portsoken ward. I will begin with Portsoken ward without Ealdgate.

This Portsoken, which soundeth the Franchise at the gate, was sometime a Guild, Lib. Trinit. Knighten Guild. and had beginning in the dayes of King Edgar, more than six hundred yeeres since. Therewere then 13. Knights or Souldiers, well beloved to the King and Realme, for services by them done, who requested to have a certaine portion of Land on the East part of the Citie, being left desolate and forsaken by the Inhabitants, by reason of too much servitude. They besought the King to have this Land, with the liberty of a Guild forever. The King granted to their request, with conditions following; to wit, That each of them should victoriously accomplish three Combates; one above the ground, one under ground, and the third in the water.

And after this, at a certaine day in East Smithfield, they should runne with Speares against all commers; all which was gloriously performed; and the same day the King named it Knighten Guild, Bounds of Knighten Guild, or Portsoken ward. and so bounded it, from Ealdgate, to the place where the barres now are toward the East, on both the sides of the street, and extended it towards Bishopsgate in the North, unto the house then of William Presbyter, afterward of Geffrey Tanner, and then of the heires of Clover; after that, of Iohn Easeby: but since of the Lord Bourchier, &c. And againe, towards the South, unto the River of Thames, and so farre into the water, as a Horseman entring the same, might ride at a low water, and throw his Speare. So that all East Smithfield, with the right part of the street that goeth to Dodding Pond, into the Thames, and also the Hospitall of Saint Katharine, with the Mils, that were founded in King Stephens dayes, and the outward stone wall, and the new ditch of the Tower, were of the said Fee and Liberty: for the said wall and ditch of the Tower, were made in the time of King Richard the first, when he was in the holy Land, by William Longshampe, Bishop of Ely, as before I have noted unto you.

These Knights had as then none other Charter, by all the dayes of Edgar, Ethelred, and Cnutus, untill the time of Edward the Confessor, whom the heires of those Knights humbly besought to confirme their liberties: whereunto he graciously granting, gave them a Deed thereof,Lib. Trinit. as appeareth in the Booke of the late house of the holy Trinity. The said Charter was faire written, in the Saxon letter and Tongue.

After this, King William, the sonne of William the Conquerour, made a confirmation of the same Liberties, unto the heires of those Knights, in these words:

William, King of England, to Maurice, Bishop, and Godfrey de Magum, and Richard de Parre, and to his faithfull people of London, greeting: Know yee me to have granted to the men of Knighten Guild, the Guild that belonged to them, and the Land that belonged thereunto, with all Customes, as they had the same in the time of King Edward, and my Father. [Page] Witnesse Hugh de Buche; at Rething.

After him, King Henry the first confirmed the same by his Charter, to the like effect,Priory of the Trinity within Ealdgate. the recitall whereof I pretermit for brevity. After which time, the Church of the holy Trinity within Ealdgate of London, being founded by Queen Matilde, wife to the said Henry, the multitude of brethren praising God therein, in short time so increased, that all the Citie was delighted in beholding of them: insomuch that in the yeere 1115. certaine Burgesses of London, of the progeny of those Noble English Knights; to wit, Radulphus Fitzalgod, Wilmarde le Devereshe, Orgare le Prude, Edward Hupcornehill, Blackstanus, and Alwine his kinsman, and Robert his brother, the sonnes of Leofstanus the Goldsmith, Wiso his sonne, Hugh Fitzvulgar, Algare Secusme, comming together into the Chapter house of the said Church of the holy Trinity,Knighten Guild givē the Canōs of the holy Trinity. gave to the same Church and Canons serving God therin, all the Lands and Soke called in English, Knighten Guild, which lyeth to the wall of the Citie without the same gate, and stretcheth to the River of Thames: they gave it, I say, (taking upon them the brotherhood and participation of the benefits of that house) by the hands of Prior Norman.

And the better to confirme this their Grant, they offered upon the Altar there, the Charter of Edward, together with the other Charters which they had thereof; and afterward they did put the foresaid Prior in seisin thereof, by the Church of Saint Buttolphs, which is builded thereon, and is the head of that Land. These things were thus done, before Bernard Prior of Dunstable, Iohn Prior of Derland, Geffrey Clinton Chamberlaine, and many other Clerkes and Laymen, French and English: Orgare le Prude (one of their company) was sent to King Henry, beseeching him to confirme their gift, which the King gladly granted by his deed.

Henry, King of England, to R. Bishop of London, to the Sheriffes and Provost, and to all his Barons, and faithfull people, French and English, of London and Middlesex, greeting: Know ye me to have granted and confirmed to the Church and Canons of the holy Trinity of London, the Soke of the English Knighten Guild, and the Land which pertaineth thereunto, and the Church of S. Buttolph, as the men of the same Guild have given and granted unto them: And I will and straightly command, that they may hold the same well, and honourably and freely, with Sacke and Soke, Toll and Thea, infangthefe, and all customes belonging to it, as the men of the same Guild in best sort had the same in the time of King Edward, and as King William my Father, and brother, did grant it to them by their Writs. Witnesse, A. the Queene, Geffrey Clinton the Chancellour, and William of Clinton: at Woodstocke.

All these prescribed witings (saith my Booke) which sometime belonged to the Priory of the holy Trinity, are registred in the end of the Booke of Remembrances, in the Guildhall of London, marked with the letter C. folio 134. The King sent also his Sheriffes, to wit, A [...]bery de Vere, and Roger, Nephew to Hubert, which (upon his behalfe) should invest this Church with the possessions hereof, which the said Sheriffes accomplished by comming upon the ground, Andrew Buchevite, and the forenamed witnesses, and other standing by; notwithstanding, Othowerus, Acolivillus, Otto, Cōstables of the Tower. and Ieffrey, Earle of Essex, Constables of the Tower by succession, withheld by force a Portion of the said land, as I have before delivered.Part of Knighten Guild with-held by the Cōstables of the Tower. The Prior and Canons of the holy Trinity, being thus seised of the said land and soke of Knighten Guild, a part of the Suburbe without the wall, (but within the liberties of the City) the same Prior was for him, and his successors, admitted as one of the Aldermen of London, Prior of the Trinity an Alderman of London. to governe the same land and soke. According to the Customes of the City, hee did sit in Court, and rode with the Maior and his Brethren the Aldermen, as one of them in Scarlet, or other livery as they then used; untill the yeere 1531. at the which time, the said Priory (by the last Prior there) was surrendred to King Henry the eight in the 23. of his reigne, who gave this Priory to Sir Thomas Audley, Knight, Lord Chancelor of England, and hee pulled downe the Church. Sithence the which dissolution of that house, the said Ward of Portsoken, hath [Page] been governed by a temporall man, one of the Aldermen of London, and elected by the Citizens, as by the Aldermen of other Wards. Thus much for the outbounds of Knighten Guild, or Portsoken Ward, and for the antiquity and government thereof.

Now for the parts therein, this is specially to be noted. First, the East part of the Tower standeth there, then an Hospitall of Saint Katharine, founded by Matilde the Queene, wife to King Stephen, by licence of the Prior and Covent of the holy Trinity in London, on whose ground shee founded it.Hospitall of Saint Katharines. A second Foundres. Elianor the Queene, wife to King Edward the first, a second Foundresse, appointed to be there, one Master, three Brethren Chaplaines, and three Sisters, ten poore women, and sixe poore Clerkes; shee gave to them the Manor of Clarton in Wiltshire, and Vpchurch in Kent, &c. Queene Philip, wife to King Edward the third, 1351. founded a Chauntry there, and gave to that Hospitall tenne pound land by yeere; it was of late time called a free Chappell, a Colledge, and an Hospitall for poore sisters. The Quire, which (of late yeeres) was not much inferiour to that of Pauls, was dissolved by Doctor Wilson, a late Master there, the brethren and sisters remaining. This house was valued at 315. l. 14. s. 2. d. being now of late yeeres inclosed about or pestered with small Tenements, and homely cottages, having inhabitants English and Strangers, more in number than in some City in England. There lye buried in this Church, the Countesse of Huntington, Countesse of the March, in her time 1429. Iohn Holland Duke of Excester, and Earle of Huntington, 1447. and his two wives, in a faire Tombe on the North side the Quire: Thomas Walsingham Esquire, and Thomas Ballard Esquire by him 1465. Thomas Flemming Knight, 1466. &c.

On the East and by North of the Tower,New Abby on Eastsmithfield. lieth Eastsmithfield and Tower hill, two plots of ground so called, without the wall of the City, and East from them both was sometime a Monastery, called, New Abby, founded by King Edward the third, in the yeere 1359. upon occasion as followeth.

In the yeere 1348. the 23. of Edward the third,Buriall for the dead prepared in time of pestilence. the first great pestilence in his time began, and increased so sore, that for want of roome in Church-yards to bury the dead of the City, & of the Suburbes, one Iohn Corey Clerke, procured of Nicholas, Prior of the holy Trinity within Ealdgate, one toft of ground neere unto Eastsmithfield, for the buriall of them that dyed, with condition that it might be called the Church-yard of the holy Trinity, which ground he caused by the ayd of divers devout Citizens to be inclosed with a wall of stone. Robert Elsing, sonne of William Elsing, gave five pounds thereunto: and the same was dedicated by Ralfe Stratford, Bishop of London, where innumerable bodies of the dead were afterward buried, and a Chappell built in the same place, to the honour of God: to the which King Edward setting his eye (having before in a Tempest on the Sea, and perill of drowning, made a vow to build a Monastery to the honour of God, and our Lady of grace, if God would grant him grace to come safe to land) builded there aCausing it to bee named Eastminster. Monastery, placing an Abbot, and Monkes of the Cistercian, or white order. The bounds of this plot of ground, together with a decree for tithes thereof, are expressed in the Charter, the effect wherof I have set down in another place, and have to shew.

This house at the late generall suppression was valued at 546. l. 10. d. yeerely, it was surrendred in the yeere 1539. the 30. of Henry the 8. Since the which time, the said Monastery being cleane pulled down, by Sir Arthur Darcy, Knight, and other; of late time (in place thereof) is builded a large Storehouse for Victual,The Kings Storehouse. and convenient Ovens are builded there, for baking of Bisket to serve his Majesties Shippes. The grounds adjoyning and belonging to the said Abby, are imployed in building of small Tenements.

For Tower-hill,Towerhill. as the same is greatly diminished, by building of tenements and Garden plots, &c. So it is of late, to wit, in the yeere of Christ, 1593. on the North side thereof, and at the West end of Hogstreet, Merchant-Taylors Almeshouses at the Tower hill. beautified by certaine faire Almes-houses, strongly builded of Bricke and Timber, and covered with Slate for the poore, by the Merchant-Taylors [Page] of London, in place of some small Cottages, given to them by Richard Hils, sometime a Master of that Company, one hundred loads of Timber for that use, being also given by Anthony Radcliffe, of the same Society, Alderman.

In these Almes-houses 14. charitable brethren of the said Merchant-Taylors then living, caused to be placed foureteene poore sole women, which receive each of them of their Founders sixteene pence, or better, weekely, beside 8. l. 15. s. yeerely, paid out of the common Treasury of the same Corporation for fewell.

From the West part of this Towerhill, towards Ealdgate, being a long continuall street, amongst other smaller buildings in that row, there was sometimes an Abby of Nunnes of the order of S. Clare, Abby of S. Clare Nuns called the Minories. called the Minories, founded by Edmund, Earle of Lancaster, Leicester and Darby, brother to King Edward the first, in the yeere 1293. the length of which Abby contained 15. perches and seven foot, neere unto the Kings street, or high-way, &c. as appeareth by a deed dated 1303. A plague of pestilence, being in this City, in the yeere 1515. there dyed in this house of Nuns professed, to the number of 27. besides other lay people, servants in the house. This house was valued to dispend 418. l. 8. s. 5. d. yeerely, and was surrendred by Dame Elizabeth Salvage, the last Abbesse there, unto King Henry the 8. in the thirty of his reigne, the yeere of Christ, 1539.

In place of this house of Nunnes,Store-house for Armour. is now builded with divers faire and large Store-houses for Armour, and habiliments of warre, with divers workhouses serving to the same purpose:Parish Church of S. Trinity. There is also a small Parish Church for inhabitants of the Close, called, Saint Trinity.

Neere adjoyning to this Abby,A farme by the Minories, wherein hath been sold three pints of milke for one halfe-penny, in memory of men living. on the South side thereof, was sometime a Farme belonging to the said Nunrie, at the which Farme, I my selfe (in my youth) have fetched many a halfe-penny worth of milke, and never had lesse than three ale pintes for a halfe penny in the Summer, nor lesse than one ale quart for a halfe-penny in the Winter, alwaies hot from the Kine, as the same was milked and strained. One Trolop, and afterwards Goodman, were the Farmers there, and had thirty or forty Kine to the paile. Goodmans son, being heire to his fathers purchase, let out the ground, first for grazing of horses, and then for Garden plots, and lived like a Gentleman thereby. He lyeth buried in S. Buttolphs Church.

On the other side of that street,Ditch of the City lay open and was cleansed, but now filled up. lyeth the Ditch without the walls of the City which of old time was used to lye open, alwaies (from time to time) cleansed from filth and mud, as need required, of great breadth, and so deepe, that divers watring horses, where they thought it shallowest, were drowned both horse and man. But now of later time, the same Ditch is inclosed, and the bankes thereof let out for Garden plots, Carpenters yards, Bowling Allies, and divers houses thereon builded, whereby the City wall is hidden, the Ditch filled up, a small Channell left, and that very shallow.

From Ealdgate East, lyeth a large street, and high-way, sometime replenished with few, but faire and comely buildings; on the North side whereof, first was and is, the Parish Church of Saint Buttolph, in a large Cemitery, or Church-yard.

This Church hath beene lately new builded,Parish Church of S. Buttolph. at the speciall charges of the Priors of the holy Trinity, Patrones thereof, as it appeareth by the Armes of that house engraven on the stone worke. The Parishioners of the Parish, being of late yeeres mightily increased, the Church is pestered with lofts and seats for them. Monuments of this Church are few, Henry Iorden founded a Chauntery there, Iohn Romany, Olarie and Agnes his wives were buried there, about Anno 1408. Richard Chester Alderman, one of the Sheriffes 1484. Thomas Lord Darcy of the North, Knight of the Garter, beheaded, 1537. Sir Nicholas Carew of Bedington in Surrey, Knight of the Garter, beheaded, 1538. Sir Arthur Darcy, yongest sonne to Thomas Lord Darcy, deceased at the new Abby on the Tower-hill, and was buried there.

There is a faire Vault under ground, [Page] purposely made (as appeareth) for the whole Family. Over which Vault (being in the East end of the Chancell, but leaning somewhat to the North) is a faire ancient Tombe of Alabaster, ingeniously wrought: having these lines following engraven thereon: ‘Here lyeth Thomas Lord Darcy of the North, and sometime of the Order of the Garter. Sir Nicholas Carew, Knight, sometime of the Garter. Lady Elizabeth Carew, Daughter to Sir Francis Brian, Knight: and Sir Arthur Darcy Knight, yonger sonne to the above-named Lord Darcy. And Lady Mary his deare wife, Daughter to Sir Nicholas Carew Knight; who had tenne Sonnes, and five Daughters. Here lye Charles, William and Philip, Mary and Vrsula, Sons and Daughters to the said Sir Arthur, and Mary his Wife: whose soules God take to his infinite mercy. Amen.’

On the North side of this Tombe, there is a small Monument, fixed in the wall, bearing this inscription: ‘Here lyeth Sir Edw. Darcy, Knight, third Son of Sir Arthur Darcy, Knight, of the Privy Chamber to the late Queene Elizabeth. Hee married the Daughter of Thomas Asteley, Esquire, by whom he had fifteene Children. Sir Robert Darcy, Knight, his eldest Sonne, caused him to bee buried in this Vault amongst his Ancestors, according to his desire. Hee dyed at his house called Dartford-Place in Kent, the 28. day of October. Anno Dom. 1612. He being 69. yeeres old.’

Another smaller Monument is also fixed in the same wall, but somewhat more toward the South, having this inscription: ‘Here lyeth buried the corps of Robert Taylor, of Silverdale, in the Parish of Warton in the County of Lancaster, Gentleman, the Father of Iohn Taylor, Citizen and Draper of London, and of this Parish Beere-brewer. He departed this life, about the age of 80. yeeres, the 15. day of February, An. Dom. 1577.’

Vpon the ground, under the head of the Communion Table, lyeth an ancient faire stone, and these lines engraven theron in brasse: ‘Hic jacet Ioannes, Episc. Bathon. & Wellensis, qui cum obiissit plures insig. Legation. tandem obiit summum in Legatione Clevensis, in Ianuarii. M. C. XL. Cujus anima propitietur Deus.’

Neere unto the place where the Minister readeth Divine Service, there is a small brasse plate fixed in the wall, a very unworthy Monument (in my mind) for a man of so great charity and bounty, not having so much as a graven stone bestowed on him upon the ground. The Plate containeth these lines following.

Here before this Pew lyeth buried the body of Robert Dow, Citizen and Merchant-Taylor of London, with Lettice his Wife, and Thomas his Son. Which Robert deceased the second day of May, in the yeere, 1612. His age was 89. yeeres. Who amongst other his charities done in this Citie, and elsewhere sundry wayes, as to severall Hospitals abroad and at home, Prisons, and to nineteene poore housholders, of the Merchant-Taylors Company in perpetuum, gave to this Parish of S. Buttolphs without Aldgate (whereof he was a member) the nomination of two Almes-women freely relieved. And twenty pound yeerely to be distributed to threescore poore aged and impotent men and women, by Nobles a peece upon every S. Thomas Eve for ever. Ad gloriam Dei.

Per Nepotem ac Haeredem Zachari Dow, Posthumum.

In the North Ile of the Chancell, lyeth a faire stone on the ground, with this inscription upon it, engraven in brasse: ‘Here lyeth the body of William Cowch, one of the ordinary Yeomen of her Majesties Chamber, Citizen and In-holder of London. He deceased the 13. day of Iuly, An. Dom. 1583. Who hath given (after the decease of Ioane his Wife) the house, called the Crowne, being at the East end of this Church, called S. Buttolphs without Aldgate, unto Christs Hospitall for ever. Out of the which house after the decease of the said Ioane his Wife, is to be paid by the Governours of the said Hospitall, five pound yeerely [Page] for ever, to the poore of Portsoken Ward, within the said Parish.’

In the middle Ile of the Church, before the entrance into the Chancell, lyeth a faire Grave-stone on the ground, having this inscription engraven upon Brasle upon it:

Dies mei sicut umbra declinaverunt, & ego sicut foenum aresco.

Here under this Stone lyeth buried the body of Robert Cockes, late Citizen and Tallow-Chandler of London: Who by his last will and Testament, gave to this Ward of Portsoken (wherein he dwelt) the summe of one hundred pounds, to be employed for the use and benefit of the poore of the said Ward. He departed this mortall life the 20. day of September, An. Dom. 1609. and was here enterred the 3. day of October next following: Aetatis suae. LXVII.

Vixi dum volui, volui dum Christe volebas, Christe mihi spes es, vita, corona, salus.

In the same Ile, but a little lower, lyeth another faire grave-stone, having (in a whiter kind of stone) a coat of Armes on it, and a description in well formed letters, speaking thus:

Here underneath this stone, lyeth the body of Daniel Balgay, sometime an Inhabitant of this Parish; of good account and credit: being a Citizen of this honourable City of London, and free of the worshipfull Company of the Mercers: Who parted this mortall life the 20. day of DDDecember, in the yeere of our Lord, 1608 being the day of the Nativity of our Lord Iesus Christ.

Christus mihi vita.

In the Church-yard Southward, and toward the street, standeth a handsome Ttombe, well defenced over from weather, and a faire Grave-stone upon it. Beneath, on the outside of the Tombe, are engraven the Armes belonging to the Vintners, and the Barber Chirurgions: upon the Grave-stone is a faire plate of Brasse, with all these following lines engraven on it: ‘Here under this Stone lyeth the body of George Clarke, Citizen and Vintner of London, who by his last Will and Testament, gave for divers good and charitable uses, these Legacies hereafter following.’

First, for a publike Schoole in the Vniversity of Oxenford, the summe of two hundred pounds.

To the use of the poore of the foure Precincts of the Ward of Portsoken, being in the Parish of St. Buttolps without Aldgate, the summe of 293. pounds 6. shillings, 8. pence.

To the Parish of White Chappell, for the reliefe of the poore there, the sum of 230. pound.

To the Parish of S. Leonards in Shorditch, to the use of the poore there, the summe of 106. pound, 15. shillings, 4. pence.

To the Company of the Vintners, he gave the summe of ten pounds.

And to the poore of Christs Hospitall he gave the summe of 5. pounds.

He deceased the 19. day of April, Anno Dom. 1606. And was here buried the 24. day of the same next following: Aetatis suae 63.

East from this Parish Church, there are certaine faire Innes, for receipt of Travellers repairing to the City, up towards Hog-lane end, somewhat within the Barres, and a marke there shewing, how farre the liberties of the City doe extend.

This Hog-lane stretcheth North toward S. Mary Spittle,Hog-lane. without Bishopsgate, and within these 40. yeeres, had (on both sides) faire hedge-rowes of Elme Trees, with Bridges and easie Stiles to passe over into the pleasant fields, very commodious for Citizens therein to walke, shoote, and otherwise to recreate and refresh their dulled spirits, in the sweet and wholsome ayre, which is now (within few yeeres) made a continuall building throughout, of Garden houses, and small Cottages: and the fields on either side bee turned into Garden plots, Tenter-yards, Bowling Allies, and such like; from Houndsditch in the West, so farre as White Chappell, and further towards the East.

On the South side of the High-way from Aldgate, were some few tenements thinly scattered here and there, with many voyd spaces betweene them up to [Page] the Barres. But now that street is not onely replenished with buildings outward, and also pestred with divers Alleys, on either side to the Barres; but to White Chappell and beyond.

Amongst the which late buildings,Water-Conduit at Aldgate. one, memorable for the commodity of that East part of this Citie, is a faire water-Conduit, hard without the gate, the building whereof, in the yeere 1535. Sir Bohn Allen being Maior, two fifteenes were granted by the Citizens, for the making, and laying of pipes to convery water from Hackney to that place, and so that worke was then finished.

Here I may not omit to tell you, that although this Water-Conduit was very beneficiall to the people inhabiting there round about: yet in regard of the situation, being then upon the streets South side, and immediately descending downe many steps or stayres of stone, it was troublesome to the poore people fetching water there, in comming up laden with their Tubs, Pailes, anand Tankards. Beside, vntill the turne of each party came by order and due course, their Tankards, Tubs, and Pailes did greatly pester the passage about and thorow the Gate, endangering divers personall harmes, and other great inconveniences. Which since then, at the taking downe of the old Gate, that a new might bee builded in the same place, is exceeding commendably amended, to the Cities honour, their credit that had care for the disposing of the worke, and great case of the poore. Water-bearers, and all passengers. For now there is a faire spacious Court, wherein all the Tankards and other vessels orderly stand, (without any annoyance to the Street:) and the descent to the Conduit is made very convenient, free from offending one another in their labour, the passage to and fro is so aptly ordered, and the roome so large for their attendance.

The old ruinous Gate being taken downe, and order provided for a new foundation: divers very ancient peeces of Romane coyne,The two pieces of Coyne were of Traionus & Dioclesianus Emperors▪ were found among the stones and rubbish; which as Mr. Martin Bond (a Worshipfull Citizen, and one of the Surveyors of the worke) told me, two of them (according to their true forme and figure) he caused to bee carved in stone, and fixed on eyther side of the Gates Arch without, Eastward.

The rest of these stamped Romane peeces, were sent for by the Lord Maior an his brethren to the Guild-hall, where as yet they remaine to be seene. Moreover, under his owne hand-writing, he delivered me this briefe note, which (for mine owne discharge) I have here set downe.

The 10. day of March, Anno 1607. I Martin Bond, laid the first foundation stone of Ealdgate, Northward. The bottome of which foundation was sixteene foot deepe, and eight foot broad.

Now concerning the building of the Gate,Begun to be taken downe in An. 1606. and finished in An. 1609. what time it was in hand, and the care and paines taken about it: it would require a larger explanation, than here I am limited unto. But the Gate being very worthily and famously finished, it may be thus described to posterity.

Eastward, upon the height of the Gate, standeth a faire golden Spheare, with a goodly Vane on it. On the upper Battlements (as vigilant Sentinels, and kept waking by Fames golden Trumpet) are placed the shapes of two armed ancient Souldiers, each holding a great stone in his hand, as denying the entrance of any bold enemy, or such as are not friends to the City.

Beneath, in a faire large square, standeth the imaginary figure of our Royall Soveraigne King Iames, in bright gilt Armour, at whose feet (on either side) lye the Lion and golden-chained Vnicorne mildly couching, as expressing awe and humility in so great a presence.

So much for the out-side of the Gate, with the two Romane Coynes before remembred.

Westward, or within, highest of all, standeth Fortune, ingenuously carved and guilded, standing upon her Globe or Mound, with her Saile spreading over her head, and looking with a gracefull and auspicious countenance upon the Citie.

Beneath her, in a large square, are [Page] placed the Kings Armes, richly wrought and engraven, bearing the Motto,

DIEV EST MON DROIT.

And a little lower,

VIVATE REX.

Somewhat lower, and to grace each side of the Gate, are set two feminine personages, the one Southward, appearing to be Peace, with a silver Dove upon her one hand, and a guilded wreath or garland in the other. On the North side standeth Charity, with a child at her breast, and another led in her hand: Implying (as I conceive) that where Peace, and love or Charity do prosper, and are truly embraced, that Citie shall be for everblessed.

Over the Arch of the Gate is thus fairely ingraven:

Senatus Populus (que) Londinens. fecit, 1609.

And vnderneath:

HVMFREY WELD, Maior.

From Ealdgate Northwest to Bishopsgate, Hounds-ditch. lyeth the Ditch of the Citie, called Hounds-ditch, because that in old time, when the same lay open, much filth (conveyed forth of the Citie) especially dead dogs, were there laid or cast: wherfore (of later time) a mud wall was made, inclosing the Ditch, to keep out the laying of such filth as had beene accustomed.

Over against this mudde wall, on the other side of the street, was a faire field, sometime belonging to the Priory of the Trinity, and since, by Sir Tho. Awdley, given to Magdalen Colledge in Cambridge. This field (as all other about the Citie) was inclosed, reserving open passage thereinto, for such as were disposed. Towards the street were some small Cottages, of two stories high, and little Garden-plots backward, for poore bedred people, (for in that street dwelt none other) builded by some Prior of the holy Trinity, to whom that ground belonged.

In my youth, I remember, devout people,Bedred people in Hounds-ditch. as well men as women of this Citie, were accustomed oftentimes (especially on Fridayes weekely to walke that way purposely) there to bestow their charitable Almes, every poore man or woman lying in their bed within their window, which was towards the street, and open so low, that every man might see them; a cleane linnen cloth lying in their window, and a paire of Beads, to shew that there lay a bedred body, unable but to pray onely. This Street was first paved in the yeere 1503.

About the latter end of the reigne of King Hen. 8. three brethren that were Gun-founders,Brasse ordnance [...] in Hounds-ditch. surnamed Owens, gate ground there to build upon, and to incloze for casting of Brasse Ordnance. These occupied a good part of the street on the field side, and in short time divers others also builded there, so that the poore bedred people were worne out, and in place of their homely Cottages, such houses builded, as doe rather want roome than rent; which houses bee for the most part possessed by Brokers, sellers of old apparell, and such like. The residue of the field was for the most part made into a Garden, by a Gardiner named Cawsway, one that then served the Markets with herbs & roots: and in the last yeere of King Edw. the 6. the same was parcelled into Gardens, wherein are now many faire houses of pleasure builded.

But as it is fatall to the Suburbs of every great Citie,A matter greatly deserving reformation in Hounds-ditch. to be infected with some foule and unclean Birds, that there build their nests, although not with professed and ignominious staine of lewd life; because (within the limits of Hounds-ditch) dwell many a good and honest Citizen, that will never endure such scandalous neighbourhood: yet there are crept in among them a base kinde of vermine, wel-deserving to bee ranked and numbred with them, whom our old Prophet and Countryman Gyldas, The unconscionable broking Vsurers their living. called Aetatis atramentum, the black discredit of the Age, and of place where they are suffered to live. Or rather (as S. Bernard thinkes it more convenient to terme them) Baptisatos Iudaeos; who take themselves to be Christians, when they are worse (indeed) than the Iewes ever were for usurie.The Iewes were never any such gripple Extortioners.

These men, or rather monsters in the shape of men, professe to live by lending, and yet will lend nothing but upon pawnes; neither to any, but unto [Page] poore people onely, and for no lesse gaine, than after fifty or threescore l. in the hundred. The pawne of the poore borrower, must needs be more than double worth the money lent upon it, and the time of limitation is no longer than a moneth; albeit they well know, that the money needs not be repayed backe, untill a twelvemoneths end. By which time, the interest growes to be so great, that the pawne, which (at the first) was better than twice worth the money borrowed on it, doth not (in the end) prove to be valuable to the debt, which must be prayed, before the poore party can redeeme it. By which extorting meanes of proceeding,Such gaines are the greedy Vsurers glory. the poore borrower is quite cheated of his pawne, for lesse than the third part, which it was truly worth indeed.

It is a great errour (in my poore opinion) that in so ancient and famous a Citie, abounding (otherwise) in most Christian Almes and workes of mercy, that among so many worthy liberalities bestowed on the poore in divers and distinct Parishes,A publike stocke would doe well for the poore in every Parish. no order is taken for such a publicke stocke, for the truely-poore, that when in their urgent necessitie, either by want of meanes, sicknesse and other hinderances, their pawnes may not goe to the cut-throat Vsurer; but remaine to their owne good (living or dying) or to theirs; without any other benefit, than that it may still serve for the like reliefe.

And let mee not here bee mistaken, that I condemne such as live by honest buying and selling, and make a good conscience of their dealing: no truely, I meane onely the Iudas Broker, that lives by the Bagge, and (except God be more mercifull to him) will follow him that did beare the Bagge.

On the ditch side of this street, the mudde wall which was, is also (by little and little) taken all downe, the Banke of the ditch being raised, made levell ground, and turned into Garden-plots, and Carpenters yards, and many large houses are there builded, for the uses before remembred; the filth of which houses, as also the earth cast out of their vaults, is turned into the ditch; by which meanes the ditch is filled up, and both the ditch and wall so hidden, that they cannot be seene of the passers by.

Here, according to my purpose in all other Wards and Parishes, I meane not to forget Gods blessings bestowed, by the hands and mercifull mindes of charitable Benefactors. In this Parish of Saint Buttolphs without Aldgate, these persons following doe justly deserve memory.

Benefactors to the Poore.

Master William Newton, For relief of the poore in the Parish of S. Buttolphs without Aldgate. Citizen and Sadler of London, gave divers Tenements in the high street.

Mistris Mary Bristow, gave a Tenement to the poore, the yeerely rent being, 3. l. 6. s. 8. d.

Mistris Ioyce Ripton, gave the summe of 40. l. that fewell may be given thrice yeerely for ever to the poore.

Master William Cowch (of whom wee have already spoken) gave 5. l. yeerely to the poore, and for a Sermon also ten shillings.

Mr. Anthony Duffield gave the summe of 20. l. to have 400. of good Faggots yeerely given to the poore.

Mistris Ioane Duffield gave 10. l', to have 200. of good Faggots given yeerly to the poore.

Mr. Iohn Franke gave an annuity of 20. s. yeerely for ever to the poore.

Mistris Margaret Holigrave gave the like summe of 20. s. and for the like intent yeerely to the poore.

Mr. Bernard Williamson gave yeerely a summe of mony, (which since is made up twenty pounds) that a load of Charcoales, and a certaine summe of money, may yeerely for ever bee given to the poore.

Mr. Toby Wood, Esquire, gave a tenement of 6. l. rent yeerly; the rent wherof is quarterly given to the poore, and for 4. Sermons.

Mistris Anne Clarke, widdow, of Houndsditch, gave 40. l. to have foure Sermons yeerely, and a certaine allowance of bread given to the poore.

Mr. Henry Iorden, sometime Citizen and Fishmonger of London, gave an annuity of twenty shillings yeerely for ever, to be given in fewell to the poore.

[Page] Mr. George Palin, Girdler, gave 10. l. for ever, to be imployed for the benefit of the poore.

Mr. Robert Rogers, late Citizen and Leatherseller, gave 20. l. to be laid out yeerely in Coales, that the poore may have them at a reasonable price in winter.

Mr. Stephen Seudamour, late Citizen and Vintner, gave 20. s. yeerely for ever, to be given in fewell to the poore.

Mr. Francis Tirrell, late Citizen and Grocer, gave 10. l. in money to the poore, and 5. Chauldrons of Coales yeerely for ever.

Mr. Robert Dow, a great Benefactor, both in his life time, and for ever after death: as also Mr. George Clarke, and Mr. Robert Coxe, wee have spoken of before.

Now,The limits of Fortsoken VVard, and of the whole Parish, which extendeth a great way further than the VVard doth. concerning the bounds and limits, both of the Parish and Ward, and how far they extend themselves every way; there can be no better direction therein, than following the order of their own yeerly perambulation, which for avoiding of prolixity, thus I observe.

Walking downe Hounds ditch Northward, so far as the dwelling house of one Edward Ansell, Carpenter, they there crosse the way Eastward into Still and Hand Alley, passing on along by a Garden bricke wall, belonging to a faire goodly Place, termed sometime, Fishers Folly. Thence they proceed into Hoggelane, in the middle of which lane, is the partition betweene the two Parishes of White Chappell and S. Buttolphs. There they goe on to the Barres in the common street, and crossing the way Southward, goe thorow a now Tavern house, knowen by the name of the Castle, where turning backe againe, the bredth of two small Gardens, they then passe on right forward (west) to the Minories wall, untill they come to the Minories barres.

There (at the further end) they turne downe into an Alley, called Brownes Alley, to a Wall being by Goodmans Fields, and so along by that wall, so far as to Goodmans gate. Where, by reason of a controversie hapning betweene the Parish of White Chappell and Saint Buttolphs, and a Barne and other buildings erected in the way, they are constrained to turne up into the street againe. Then they goe downe Red-Lion Alley, to the house of one Darby Morgan, passing on thence directly into Rosemary lane. Then downe on the South side, till they come to the East side of a new Church-yard, there builded at the Parishes cost, and for their helpe in times of sicknes. There they goe thorow an house, then thorow the Church-yard, and afterward thorow the house of one Iohn Batcheler. Thence they goe down Nightingale lane, on the West side, untill they come to the middle of a Foord, which sometime turned Wapping Mill; and there the foresaid two Parishes are divided againe by that Foord. Then goe they on so far as M. Duppa, or Duppers house, and so round about Saint Katharines, till they come to the signe of the Maiden-head, and there they fix their marke.

And then passe over Tower-hill, to the house of one Iohn Atkinson, neere to the Posterne gate; and then goe directly Northward up the Minories street, till they come to the Portcullis under Aldgate, where the testimony of their marke concludeth all.

In these, or the most part of these latter directions, I have beene greatly favoured by Master Iohn Brigges, the painfull and industrious Minister of S. Buttolphs, who by the helpe of the Clerke and Sexton, most lovingly and gently befriended me.

This Portsoken Ward hath an Alderman and his Deputy; common Counsellours, 6. Constables, 4. Scavengers, 4. for the Wardmore inquest, 18. and a Beadle. To the Fifteene it is seased at 4. l. 10. s.

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TOWER-STREET VVARD.

THe first Ward in the East part of this Citie, Towerstreet Ward. within the wall, is called Tower-street Ward and extendeth along the River of Thames, from the said Tower in the East, almost to Belingsgate in the VVest: one halfe of the Tower, the ditch on the West side, and Bulwarkes adjoyning, doe stand within that part, where the wall of the Citie (of old time) went straight from the Posterne gate South to the River of Thames, before that the Tower was builded. From and without the Tower ditch west and by north, is the said Tower Hill,Tower hill. sometime a large plot of ground, now greatly streightned by incroachments (unlawfully made and suffered) for Gardens and houses, some on the banke of the Tower-ditch, whereby the ditch is marred, and more neere unto the wall of the Citie from the Posterne north, till over against the principall fore-gate of the Lord Lumleyes house, &c. but the Tower ward goeth no further that way.

Vpon this Hill is alwaies readily prepared (at the charges of the Citie) a large Scaffold and Gallowes of timber, for the execution of such Traitors or Transgressors, as are delivered out of the Tower, or otherwise to the Sheriffes of London by writ, there to be executed. I read, that in the fifth of King Edward the fourth, a Scaffold and Gallowes were there set up by other the Kings Officers, and not of the Cities charges; whereupon the Maior and his Brethren complained, but were answered by the King, that the Tower hill was of the liberty of the Citie; and whatsoever was done in that point, was not in derogation of the Cities liberties, and therefore commanded Proclamation to bee made, aswell within the Citie as in the Suburbs, as followeth:

Forasmuch as the seventh day of this present moneth of November, Gallowes were erect and set up besides our Tower of London, within the liberties and franchises of our Citie of London, in derogation and prejudice of the liberties and franchises of this Citie: The King our Soveraigne Lord would have it be certainely understood, that the erection and setting up of the said Gallowes was not done by his commandement: wherefore, the King our Soveraigne Lord willeth, that the erection and setting up of the said Gallowes, be not any president, or example thereby hereafter to be taken, in hurt, prejudice or derogation of the franchises, liberties and priviledges of the Citie, which he at all times hath had, and hath in his benevolence, tender favour, and good grace, &c.

Apud Westminst. nono die Novembris, Anno regni nostri quinto.

Many Controversies have beene in times past, betwixt the Lord Maior and Citizens of London, on th'one party, and the Lieutenant of the Tower of London on th'other party, touching their liberties: The Lieutenant usurping divers priviledges which were against the Lawes of the Realme: as for example:

If A. B. were indebted to C. D. dwelling in the precinct of the Tower, and would suffer himselfe to be arrested and prosecuted by the said C. D. in the Court held within the Tower, and there to have judgement upon the said debt obtained against him: after which judgement obtained, a Precept was [Page] awarded under the seale of office of the Lieutenant, redirected unto the Porter of the Tower or to his deputy, to take A. B. in execution for the same debt. And after that A. B. is so taken in execution, there is returne made of the execution of the said Precept; and thereupon the Lieutenant not onely appointeth about a dozen or more Keepers to the said A. B. and such as the said A. B. will nominate;This pretended Priviledge is directly against the Lawes of the Realm, as hereunder is resolved by the Iudges. but also suffereth the said A. B. to goe at liberty, giving unto him a Protection under the seale of his Office: And thereby commandeth all Officers in any wise to forbeare to arrest or trouble the said A. B. for the space of one whole yeere, beeing his prisoner. Then if it shall happen that the said A. B. shall be arrested, being in the custody of any of his Keepers, and having the said Protection to shew; if immediately upon the shewing of the same, he bee not set at liberty againe, In such case, the Lieutenant pretendeth that he hath power to arrest the body of any person, dwelling in such Citie or Countie, wherein the said A. B. was so arrested and troubled, if any such person can bee found within the liberties of the Tower, and the body of the same person to detaine in safe custody, untill such time as the said A. B. shall be enlarged.

By which meanes the execution of the Lawes of the Realme is hindred, and the Subjects wronged.

The forme of a Precept of the Lieutenant of the Tower, for the taking of one in execution, with the returne of the same Precept.

PRaeceptum est Ianitori Turr.Tur. Lond. praedict. quod capiat Willm. Aston de Lond. Civem & Haberdasher: Ita quod habeatur corpus ejus corā Edwardo VVarner, milite, Locumtenen. Dominae Reginae Turr. praed. & ejus Senescall. ibi ad prox. Cur. infra Turr. praed. tenend. ad satisfaciend. Johanni Thomson viginti lib. legalis monetae Angliae, quas idem Johannis in eadem Curia recuperavit adversus praefat. VVillm. & xxj. s. pro miss. & custag. Curiae, quae eidem Iohanni in eadem Curia adjudicat. fuerunt. Et qualiter hoc Praeceptum per te fuerit executum constare fac, adpraefat. Cur. Et hoc non omitt. periculo incumbent.

Dat. apud Turr. praed. sub sigillo quo utor in hoc officio, decimo tertio die Novembris, Anno Regni Elizabethae, Dei gratia, Angliae, Franciae, & Hyberniae Reginae, primo.

Ianitori Turris Lond. aut suo Deputato.

RESPONS.

CEpi Corpus supranominati Willm. Aston, & eum paratum habeo, prout mihi superiùs prcaeipitur.

Hugh Pope, Iohn Laston, Iohn Sparrow, Edward Sanders, Thomas Browne, Gregory Newman, Henry Hudson, Iohn VVoodward, Thomas Bullen, VVilliam Lawman, Mathew Hinde, &c. His Keepers appointed.

Christoph. Southows.

The forme of a Protection, granted by the Lieutenant of the Tower, to a Prisoner being in execution for debt, to goe at large.

EDwardus VVarner Miles,Tur. Lond. Locumtenens Dominae Reginae Turr'. suae praedict. omnibus Officiariis, ministris, & subditis dictae Dominae Reginae, salutem. Cùm secundum privilegium & consuetudinem in Curia Turris praedictae ab antiquo usitat. & opprobat. quilibet condemnatus in Curia praedictae ad sectam alicujus in placito debiti, ac in custodia dicti Locumtenentis sivè ejus deputat. pro eodem debito existen. super certas considerationes ipsum Locumtenentem moventes, praedict. condemnat. ire & redire quò voluerit infra regnum Angliae permissus fuerit. Et quia VVillm. Aston de London Civis & Haberdasher, coram me praefato Locumtenente & Senescall. in Curia Turris praedictae, venit ad sectam cujusdam Johannis Thomson in placito debiti, super demand. viginti librarum bonae & legalis monetae Angliae, & xxj. s. pro missis & custagiis Curiae [Page] condemnat. existit, & in prisona Turris praedictae sub custodia mei praefati Locumtenentis, prout mos est, pro eodem debito existen. Sciatis me praefatum Locumtenentem considerantem statum & paupertatem praedicti VVillm. Aston, ac eò quòd citiùs debitum suum praedictum de amicis & bonis suis propriis levare possit, presentium. VVillm. cum custode seu latore praeseatium super considerationem praedictam, quo voluerit, dimiss. fore a die dat. praesentium pro uno Anno integro prox-futuro. Igitur ex parte dictae Dominae Reginae, vobis & cuilibet vestrii mando, Quod praedictu Willm. prisonarium meum, cum Custode sen latore praesentium, in aliquo non molestatis nec arrestetis pro aliqua personali actione. Nec quantum in vobis ab aliis infer. permitt. periculo incumbent.

Dat. apud Turr. praed. sub sigillo quo utor in hoc officio, Decimo tertio die Novembris, An. Regni Elizabethae, Dei gratia, Angliae, Franciae, & Hiberniae Reginae, fidei Defensoris, &c. Primo.

Edward VVarner.

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Also in the yeere of our Lord God,Ex Relatione Hum. Dyson Notaris Pub. 1585. Sir Owen Hopton, Knight, Lieutenant of the Tower of London, by colour of his office, pretending title to a Garden-plot neere the Tower, did cause his servants violently to take possession therof, and to bring those persons before him that kept the possession, whom he imprisoned in the Tower. Whereupon, a Writ of Habeas Corpus was sued forth of the Kings Bench for the removing of the body of Robert Shapeley, one of the prisoners, which Writ was brought and delivered unto the Lieutenant by Robert Smith, then Solicitor of the City of London, but the Lieutenant would not receive nor obey the Writ, but would have compelled the said Robert Smith to carry it backe againe with him: which hee refusing, the Lieutenant put the Writ into his pocket, and abused and imprisoned also the said Robert Smith in the Tower: For redresse of which wrongs, and of many others, there was complaint made to the Lords of the Privie Councell, who referred the hearing of those controversies, and the examination of the rights and priviledges which the Lieutenant pretended to belong unto his Office, to the Lords chiefe Iustices and to the Master of the Rolles, who were to certifie their opinions therof in writing, as by the letters of the Lords of the Councell in that behalfe sent and directed unto them, of the tenor following, appeareth.

The Councels letters to the Lords chiefe Iustices, and to the Master of the Rolles.

AFter our very hearty Commendations, &c. There hath been complaint made unto us in the behalfe of the Lord Maior and Citizens of London, against Sir Owen Hopton, Knight, Lieutenant of the Tower, whom they charge with some disordered dealing by him used towards one Robert Smith, a Soliciter for the City, sent lately unto him with a Writ of Habeas Corpus, out of the Court of her Majesties Bench, for the removing of the body of one Robert Shapeley, a servant to one William Wikins a Citizen, imprisoned by the Lieutenant upon some pretended quarrell of priviledge; the manner whereof shall best appeare unto you by the severall complaints and articles herein inclosed, exhibited unto us by the said Smith and VVikins.

And forasmuch as the Maior, Aldermen and Citizens of London, have heretofore oftentimes found themselves grieved, with sundry actions of unkind and violent dealings, offered by the said Lieutenant and his Officers as they have enformed, to the breach of their Charters and liberties, wherby there is growne some division and dissention betweene them (which we desire by all good meanes to have removed;) and whereas▪ the Lieutenant seemeth to warrant his doings by ancient priviledges and customes of the Tower, whereunto the Citizens on their parts, upon opinion of the validities of their Charters, refuse to yeeld: VVee considering what inconvenience may ensue of the private dissention betweene them, have thought good to require you, calling Master Lieutenant before you, and the parties, whose complaints are herewith sent unto you; with such proofes and witnesse as may be produced, effectually to examine the matters thereby informed against him: and that you also take knowledge of such other complaints and controversies, as the L. Maior [Page] and the Recorder of London shall deliver unto you against the Lieutenant of the Tower concerning their former debates and strifes, for matter of liberties, prescriptions and customes, and the like on the behalfe of the Lieutenant against them, praying you to take some paines to [...]are the matters at large on both sides; and to see upon what priviledges, customes, and prescriptions, their severall claims are grounded and pretended: as also to consider of their strength and validity in Law, wherein after you shal have spent some time, and heard and understood the matters at large, wee require you then to make report unto us what you shall have found on both sides, as well touching the complains of Smith and Wikins, as of the Lord Maior and Citizens, with your opinions of their said complaints and controversies, and what course were fittest to be taken betweene them, which we pray you to doe with as convenient speed as you may: And so bid you heartily farewell.

From the Court at Greenwitch.

Subscribed by

Bromley Cancellarius.

Leicester.

Hunsdon, Chamberl.

M. Treasurer.

M. Controller.

M. Secretary.

Sir Walter Mildmay.

Directed to the Lords chiefe Iusices, and to the Master of the Rolles.

Vpon the receit of which letters, the said Lords chiefe Iustices, and Master of the Rolles, did at large heare the allegations and proofes of both parties, and did accordingly certifie their opinions thereof to the Lords of the Privie Councell in manner following:

The Certificat, touching as well the Articles and Complaints made to your Honours, by Robert Smith and VVilliam VVikius, against Sir Owen Hopton, Knight, Lieutenant of the Tower, as the controversies between the Maior and Citizens of London and the said Lieutenaut.

FIrst, upon examination of the matter, touching the said Smith and VVikins, mentioned in your Honours letters, it appeareth unto us, that (some controversie being betweene the Maior and Citizens, and the said Lieutenant, touching a Garden-plot neere the said Tower) one Ralph Gasken, servant to the said Lieutenant, violently did draw forth of the said Garden, one Shapeley, servant to the said VVikins, then labouring there for his said Master, in such violent manner, as thereby blood was drawne of him in severall places, and carried him to the Tower, and there kept him in prison eight dayes; and that one Shawe, another of the Lieutenants servants, was present with the said Gasken ayding him, but that he did not hurt the said Shapeley; which Gasken and Shawe did detaine some of the apparell of the said Shapeley, and yet doe for any thing knowene to us.

And that likewise one Payne was taken forth of the said Garden, and carried to the Tower, and there imprisoned three dayes, and then delivered upon bond, to render his body to the Tower when he should be required, and that Payne hath left a pawne of the value of tenne shillings for his meat and drinke.

And that Her Majesties VVrit of Habeas Corpus for the body of Shapeley was sued forth of her Bench, directed to the Lieutenant, which carried and delivered to him by the said Smith, who prayed the said Lieutenant to make allowance thereof, and paid him the Fee due therefore. But forthwith he would have forced the said Smith to have received the money againe and the VVrit: which Smith refused to doe, praying him not to be offended for bringing of her Majesties Processe.

And thereupon Master Lieutenant said he would put his VVrit in his pocket, as he had done many, and therewith rubbed Smith on the cheekes, and threatned to imprison him, if he would not carry backe the VVrit againe and the money: whereupon the said Lieutenant imprisoned Smith, and detained him about three houres, untill upon a Bill of his hand to returne to prison when the Lieutenant should send for him, he was delivered; which matter the Lieutenant confesseth to be true.

And touching such liberties as Master Lieutenant claimeth to have beene [Page] used for the Officers and Attendants in the Tower, as not to be arrested by any Action in the Citie of London, and Protections to be granted to them by Master Lieutenant, and not obeying of VVrits of Habeas Corpus, we thinke such persons as are daily attendant in the Tower, serving her Majesty there, are to be priviledged, and not to be arrested upon any plaint in London. But for VVrits of execution, or Capias ut ligatum, and such like, we thinke they ought to have no priviledge.

Moreover, touching Protections granted by Master Lieutenant, for such as be condemned in any action in the Court kept in the Tower, to goe at large, and not to be arrested by any Processe out of the Queenes high Courts, or elsewhere, or any other Protection to that effect, for any priviledged person, we thinke the same against Her Majesties Lawes and dignity.

Item, That Matter Lieutenant ought to returne every Habeas Corpus, out of any Court at Westminst. so as the Justices before whom it shall bee returned, (as the cause shall require) may either remand it with the body, or retaine the matter before them, and deliver the body, as Justice shall require.

As touching the jurisdiction of the Court in the Tower, and the controversies for certaine liberties upon the Tower-hill, and the soile there, and divers places about the Tower, we are not yet fully resolved, but desire your Lordships to have some further time to consider thereupon: for, that there be many matters alleaged, and to be shewed in writing for the same, as we are informed, which we have not yet seene.

Item, The said Lieutenant doth claime a liberty, that if any person priviledged in the Tower be arrested in London, that he may take the body of any Citizen that shall come within the liberties of the Tower, and keepe his body there, untill the other be delivered: which we thinke altogether against the Lawes of this Realme.

Christopher Wray.

Edmond Anderson.

Gilbert Gerrard.

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After the Lords of the Privie Councell had received the same Certificat, they did thereupon make this finall Order and Decree following, viz.

At Non such, the third day of October. 1585.

Present,

Lord Treasurer.

Lord Admirall.

Lord Chamberlaine.

Master Treasurer.

Master Secretary.

WHereas sundry variances & contentions have heretofore arisen, and have of late yeeres depended, betwixt the Lord Maior and Communalty of the City of London, on the one part; and the Lieutenant of Her Majesties Tower of London, on the other part, touching matters of liberties, prescriptions, customes, and other claimes and pretences: by reason wherof, and for lack of order for stay of those variances and contentions, divers tumults have heretofore growne, and Her Majesties Peace hath many times beene in hazard to be dangerously broken; whereupon, severall complaints have beene heretofore exhibited to the Lords and others of Her Majesties most Honourable Privie Councell, by the Lord Maior and Communalty aforesaid, against the said Lieutenant, for divers injuries alleaged to bee offered on his part to the Citizens of London, without order of Law or equity: After consideration had of which severall complaints, it pleased their Lordships (having care to procure an end of those controversies, for avoiding of inconveniences that might ensue) by their Honourable letters to give order to Sir Christopher Wray, Knight, Lord chiefe Justice of England; Sir Edmond Anderson, Knight, Lord chiefe Justice of the Common Pleas; and to Sir Gilbert Gerrard, Knight, Master of the Rolles, that they (calling the said Lieutenant and the parties complainants before them) should effectually heare and examine the controversies (on both sides,) and certifie their Lordships what they should finde, together with their opinions [Page] touching the same, who having called the parties accordingly before them, and advisedly and with good deliberation sundry times heard their Allegations and answers, as well by writing as by word, with counsell learned on all parts, have signified their opinions of the said controversies in writing, as hereafter followeth:

First, touching such liberties as M. Lieutenant claimeth to have beene used for the Officers and Attendants in the Tower, as not to be arrested by any action in the City of London, and protections to be granted to them, by Master Lieutenant, and not obeying of writs of we thinke such persons as bee dayly attendant in the Tower serving her Majestie there, are to be priviledged and not to be arrested upon any plaint in London, but for writs of Executions, or [...] and such like, wee thinke they ought to have no priviledge.

Secondly, concerning protections granted by Master Lieutenant for such as bee condemned in any action in the Court, kept in the Tower, to goe at large, and not to be arrested by any Processe out of the Queenes high Courts, or elsewhere, or any other protection to that effect for any priviledged person, we thinke the same against her Majesties lawes and dignitie.

Thirdly, that M. Lieutenant ought to returne every Habeas Corpus out of any Court at Westminster, so as the Iustices before whom it shall be returned (as the cause shall require) may either remand it with the body, or retaine the matter before them, and deliver the body as Iustice shall require.

Lastly, whereas the Lieutenant doth also claime a liberty, that if any person priviledged in the Tower be arrested in London, hee may take the body of any Citizen that shall come within the liberties of the Tower, and keepe his body there untill the other bee delivered, we thinke the same to bee altogether against the lawes of the Realme.

The Lords therefore of her Majesties said Privie Councell, upon grave and deliberate considerations had of the certificate and opinions of the said Lords chiefe Iustices and Master of the Rolles, and to the end occasions of contention, trouble, and disorder, and the danger of breach of her Majesties peace, which have heretofore of late yeeres arisen and growne upon the controversies aforesaid, may from henceforth cease, and bee althougher removed and taken away;

It was this day by their Lordships ordered and decreed, betwixt the Lord Maior, Communalty and Citizens of London, and their successors, and the Lieutenant of her Highnesse said Tower of London, and all other Lieutenants and Officers of the Tower at any time hereafter to succeed: That the matters, points and articles contained in the Certificate of the said Iustices and Master of the Rolles before mentioned, wherein their resolutions, opinions and determinations be set downe, declared and signified, shall at all times from henceforth stand and remaine for rules and resolutions and finall determination and decision: for so much and so many of the points of controversies as are contained in the said Certificate (whereof they have delivered their opinions) to be for ever hereafter duely observed and kept, and that nothing bee hereafter at any time done, or attempted on either part, to the violating or interrupting of the same.

On the North side of this hill, is the said Lord Lumleyes house, and on the West side, divers houses lately builded, and other encrochments along South to Chicke lane, Chicke lane. on the East of Barking Church, at the end whereof you have Tower-street, stretching from the Tower-hill, West to Saint Margaret Pattens Church Parsonage.

Now therefore,Tower-street Alhallowes Barking a Parish Church. to begin at the East end of the Street, on the North side thereof, is the faire Parish Church, called, Alhallowes Barking, which standeth in a large, but sometime far larger Cemitery or Church-yard. On the North side whereof was sometime builded a faire Chappell,Barking Chappell of our Lady. founded by King Richard the first; some have written that his heart was buried there under the high Altar. This Chappell was confirmed and augmented by King Edward the first. Edward the fourth gave licence [Page] to his Cousin Iohn, Earle of Worcester, to found there a Brotherhood for a Master and Brethren, and hee gave to the Custos of that fraternity, which was Sir Iohn Scot, Knight, Thomas Colte, Iohn Tate, and Iohn Croke, the Priory of Totingbecke, and the avousion of the Parish Church of Stretham in the Country of Surrey, with all the members and appurtenances, and a part of the Priory of Okeborne in Wiltshire, The Kings Chapell of Barking. both Priors Aliens, and appointed it to be called the Kings Chappell of Chantry, In Capella beatae Mariae de Barking.

King Richard the third, new builded and founded therein a Colledge of Priests, &c. Hamond de Lega was buried in that Chappell. Robert Tate, Maior of London, 1488. and other were there buried.

This Colledge was suppressed and pulled downe in the yeere 1548. the second of,Iohn Rowse. King Edward the sixth, the ground was imployed as a Garden-plot during the reignes of King Edward, Queene Mary, and part of Queene Elizabeth, till at length a large strong frame of Timber and Bricke was set thereon, and imployed as a Store-house of Merchants goods brought from the Sea, by Sir William Winter, &c.

Monuments in the Parish Church of Alhallowes Barking, not defaced are these:

Sir Thomas Studinham of Norwich Dioces, Knight, 1469.

Thomas Gilbert Draper, and Merchant of the Staple, 1483.

Iohn Bolt, Merchant of the Staple, 1459.

Sir Iohn Stile, Knight, Draper, 1500.

William Thinne, Esquire, one of the Clarks of the Greene cloth, and Master of the Houshold to King Henry the 8. 1546.

Humfery Monmouth, Draper, one of the Sheriffs, 1535. buried in the Church yard.

VVilliam Denham, one of the Sheriffes, 1934.

Henry Eoward, Earle of Surrey beheaded, 1546.

Sir Richard Devereux, sonne and heire to the Lord Ferrers of Chartley.

Richard Browne Esquire, 1546.

Philip Dennis, Esquire, 1556.

Andrew Evenger, Saiter.

VVilliam Robinson, Mercer, Alderman 1552.

VVilliam Armorer, Clothworker, Esquire, Governour of the Pages of Honour, or Master of the Hance men, servant to Henry the eight, Edward the sixt and Queene Mary, buried 1560. Beside, which, there be divers Tombes without inscription.

Iohn Crolys and Thomas Pike, Citizens of London, founded a Chantery there, 1388.

Vpon further view of this Parish Church, and the monuments, I finde these following:

In the Chancell lyeth a faire Marble stone with a plate of Brasse engraven, bearing this inscription: ‘Hic jacet Ioannes Ruche, All these Mounments are in the Chancell on the ground neere to one another as they are here set downe. Generosius, qui obiit octavo die Mensis Maii, An. Dom. 1493. Cujus animae propitietur Deus.’

Vpon a faire large Marble stone, by occasion lately taken up, and being buried somewhat deep in the ground, on a Brasse plate fixed thereon was this inscription: ‘Hic concluduntur ossa Iacobi Zamboni, illustrissimi Dom. Veneti Secretarii, Agentis apud Serenissimum hunc Angliae, &c. Regem.’

On a faire Marble stone, but without any plate, are these lines following engraven.

In this Vault hereunder lyeth Elizabeth, late Wife unto William Denham, Alderman of London, and Merchant of the Staple at Callis: VVho departed unto God, on Wednesday, at 5. of the clock in the after-noone, in Easter-weeke, the last day of March, 1540. On whose soule Iesus have mercy, Amen.

And by the Grace of God, the said William Denham, purposing to lye here by her, departed unto God the day of &c.

Close by it is another stone thus inscribed: ‘Hic jacet Dom. Thomes Vyrby, quondam Vicari [...] istius Eccles. Qui obiit 2. die Mensis Decemb. 1453. Cujus anima, &c.’

[Page] Neere unto it is another stone, thus inscribed: ‘Hic jacet Nicholaus Bremisgrave, quondam Vicarius istius Eccles. Qui obiit II. die Mens. August. An. Dom. 1416. Cujus, &c.’

By it also another stone, thus inscribed: ‘Hic jacet M. Radulphus Darling, Almae Vniuer. Oxoniae olim Magist. in Artibus, & huius Eccles. quondam Vicarius peritissimus. Qui obiit An. Dom. 1500. 9. die Mens. Octob. Cuius, &c.’

By it also another stone, thus inscribed: ‘Hic jacet tumulatus M. Thomas Cayfi. Can. & Baccalaurius in Art. vir perit. & unus Vicar. istius Eccles. Qui obiit 6. die Mens. Feb. 1475. Cuius, &c.’

By it also another stone, thus inscribed: ‘Hic jacet Dom. Willielm. Tylling, quondam Capellanus istius Eccles. Qui obiit 24. die Mens. Iulii, An. Dom. 1430. Cuius, &c.’

On the same stone: ‘Ac Johannes Vale, nuper Capellanus, & bonus reparator Cantar. ejusdem Eccles. Qui obiit 10. die Novemb. An. Dom. 1563. Cuius, &c.’

Vpon a very faire Marble stone, verged about with plates of brasse, and concluding with the like plates in the middle, is thus ingraven: ‘Pray for the soule of M. William Thinne, Esquire, one of the Master of the honourable houshold to King Henry the 8. our Soveraigne Lord. He departed from the prison of this fraile life, the 10. day of August, An. Dom. 1546. in the 38. yeere of our said Soveraigne Lord the King, which body, and every part thereof, in the last day shall bee raised up againe, at the sound of the Lords Trumpet. In whose comming, that we may all ioyfully meet him, our heavenly Father grant us, whose mercy is so great towards us, that hee freely offertth to all them that earnestly repent their sinnes, everlasting life, through the death of his dearely beloved Sonne, Iesus: To whom be everlasting praise. Amen.’

Before the entrance into the Vestrie, lyeth a faire Marble stone, without any plate of Brasse, but thus engraven upon it:

Nicholas Andrewes to his dearest wife Anne, doth this last office of love: for she was,

Religious,

Chaste,

Discreet,

Loving,

Faire,

Obedient.

‘She lived but 25. yeeres, and dyed at Chigwell in Essex, the 12. day of Iune, 1606. and was here-under interred (in great sorrow) the munday following: leaving behind her living, two sonnes, William and Nicholas.’

Hard by it is another stone, thus inscribed: ‘Here resteth the body of Agnes Bond, Widdow, sometime the wife of William Bond, Esquire; the which William and Agnes had issue betwixt them, 8. sonnes and 8. daughters; which Agnes deceased the 4. day of February, in the yeere of our Lord God, 1552.’

Lower in the Chancell toward the doore, is another faire stone plated, and thus engraven: ‘Hereunder lyeth the body of Roger James, late of London, Brewer, who being of the age of 67. departed this life the second day of March, An. Dom. 1591. leaving behind him Sara his wife, eight sonnes, and one daughter.’

Neere unto it, another stone, thus inscribed: ‘Here under this Marble stone lyeth, M. Henry Poulsted, Esquire, and Alice his wife; the which Henry deceased the 10. of December, 1556. and begot of her body one sonne and one daughter, Richard and Mabell, &c.’

Close by it, another smaller stone, thus inscribed: ‘Here lyeth buried Barbara Thornix, Daughter of Thomas Thornix Esquire, [Page] who deceased the eleventh day of April, 1613. being of the age of three yeeres.’

By it another faire stone, thus inscribed: ‘Here lyeth the body of Mary Burnell, late wife of Iohn Burnell, Citizen and Merchant of London, the onely daughter of Mathew Brownrig of Ipswich, in Suffolke, Esquire, a woman sincerely living in the feare of God, and dying constantly in the faith of Christ Iesus. She departed this life the 5. day of April, 1612. being of the age of 20. yeeres: Having finished in wedlocke with her said husband 2. yeeres and 5. moneths, and bearing him issue, one sonne, whereof she dyed in childbed, and expecteth now (with the Elect of God) a joyfull resurrection.’

Then there is a goodly ancient faire Tombe, dividing the North Ile from the Chancell, bearing these ingraven lines: ‘Hic jacet Iohannes Bacon, quondam Civis & Woolman London, Qui obiit 6. die Mens. Maii, Anno Dom. 1437. Et Ioanna Vx. eius.’

There is a very goodly Tombe,In the North Ile of the Qeire. but much defaced, and the Brasse plates stolne off from it: but so many of the words as are remaining, are these: ‘Stapulo fuit seniorum, & unius Londi [...]lls habitans, sermene fidelis, cum Marga yera Domina costa (que) beata. Hunc rapuit Michael ad Coeli gaudi a lati, &c.’

By it is a faire Monument in the wall, bearing this inscription: ‘Hic facet Hieronymus Benalius, Bergami netus, qui dum vixit, pietatem coluit, & futurae vitae resurrectionem expectat. Obiit 4. dic Martii, An. Dom. 1585. Aetatis suae, 58.’

On the ground in the middest of the way, lyeth a faire stone, by the appearance, entring into a Vault. The stone is thus ingraven:

This stone belongeth to Francis Cherry, Merchant, Vintner, and to his heires.

Here lyeth Margaret Cherry, the wife of Francis Cherry, by whom he had issue 11. children, 4. sonnes, and 7. daughters, and dyed of the 12. child, 1695.

A small Brasse plate is fixed in the wall East, thus inscribed: ‘Of your charity prayser the soule of Philip Dennis, of London, Esquire: whose body lyeth buried before this stone. Who dyed the 3, day of September, 1556.’

A faire Marble Tombe much defaced, In the South Ile o [...] the Q [...]re. whereon are figured kneeling, a man and a woman, hee having three sonnes kneeling behinde him, and shee foure Daughters. A labell proceedeth from his mouth, with these words: ‘Ego resurgam, & in carne mea videbe te Iesum, Deum Sabvatorem meum.’

Another from her, thus: ‘Qui Lazarum resuscitasti à monumento fetidum, dona nobis requiem.’

Vpon the ground, somewhat neere to one another, are divers faire Gravestones, bearing these inscriptions:

Vnder this stone lyeth William Roberts, Citizen and Mc [...]cer of London, and Merchant of the Staple at Callis, sonne of William Roberts, Alderman of the said place: which William his sonne deceased the seventh day of Ianuary, Anno Domini, 1555.

Here lyeth buried the body of Christopher Rawson, late Mercer of London, and Merchant of the Staple at Callis, who deceased the second day of October, Anno Domini, 1518.

Here-under lyeth Master VVilliam Robinscn, Alderman of London, Citizen and Mer [...]r, and Merchant of the Staple as Callis, and Elizabeth his wife. He deceased the thirtieth day of December, 1552.

Here under this stone lyeth buried the body of Mistris Iane Russell, one of the Genth women of the Privie Chamber to Qu. Mary, andwife to William Russell, Serjeant of the Celler to our late Sove [...]aigne Lady, Queene Elizabeth: A [...]d [Page] deceased the 16. day of Ianuary, Anno Domini, 1558.

Gods blessings bestowed on the poore of this Parish, by the benevolence and charity of wel-disposed people.

Given by Margaret Martin, of the Parish of Alhallowes Barking in London, in the yeere 1557. to and amongst the poor of the said Parish, yeerly for ever, 26. s. 8. d. And to the Churchwardens for their paines, 20. d. to each, to bee paid them yeerely for ever.

Given by Mr. William Armorer, to hold for tenne yeeres, one load of Charcoales, and two hundred of Faggots, by his wife to be delivered every Christmasse, to and amongst the poore of the same Parish.

Given by Mistris Alice Polsted, to the use of the poore of the same Parish, the summe of 6. l. 13. s. 4. d. to bee paid them yeerely for ever.

Given by Mr. William Haines, 5. l. a yeere for ever, after the death of Alice his wife.

Given by Richard Smith, his dwelling house, knowne and called by the name of the White-Lion, situate neere to the Tower Hill, to the use of the poore of the said Parish: after the decease of his wife, and Richard and Margaret his children, if they happen to dye without issue.

Given by Mr. Wilkinson, after the decease of his wife, the lease of the house situate at Tower Hill, to be let by the Churchwardens of the said Parish: and they to give out of the same rent, during the said lease, forty shillings yeerely to the poore of the Parish, and twenty shillings yeerely to the Preacher or Lecturer there. And the residue of the said rent to be distributed in such sort as in her will is mentioned.

Concerning the bounds and limits of this Parish, according to our precedent order: They goe Northward from the Church, so farre as the corner, where is the backe gate, sometime belonging to Sir Francis Walsingham, but now to Sir Nicholas Salter. Thence they goe on aalong by the Garden wall belonging to the Lady Lumley, to the East corner: where going over, they passe on so farre as the house of one Peter Porter, right over against the great gate of the Lady Lumleyes house, where turning backe downe a passage to the South part of Mr. Covelles garden, in the midst wherof Eastward, upon London wall, their marke is fixed. Returning backe that way againe, they crosse Southward over Tower Hill, where sometime stood a Crosse, distinguishing the Tower liberty and Alhallowes.

So they goe on the Tower-docke, to the house of Mr. Clay, Brewer, where they go up petty Wales, to the Custome-house gate. And there they turne up Water-lane, on the East side onely, till they come forth thereof, and crosse over into Mart-lane, so farre as Sir Henry Bakers house, where they turne over East, and so passe on that end of Mart-lane South, where turning againe East to Sydon-lane, they goe up that Lane North, so farre as part of the house belonging to Sir Nicholas Salter, and there fixe their marke; returning to Chappell-Alley, and there ending where they began.

Here I confesse my selfe beholding to Mr. Edward Abbot, Parson of Alhallowes Barking, and the Officers that there gave me friendly assistance.

By the West end of this Parish Church and Chappell,Sydon-lane. lyeth Sydon-lane, now corruptly called Sything-lane, from Tower-street up North to Hart-street.

In this Sydon-lane divers faire and large houses are builded; namely, one by Sir Iohn Allen, sometime Maior of London, and of Councell unto King Henry the eighth: Sir Francis Walsingham, Knight, principall Secretary to the Queenes Majestie that then lived, was lodged there, and so was the Earle of Essex, &c.

At the North-west corner of this lane standeth a proper Parish Church of Saint Olave, Parish Church of S. Olave in Hart-street. which Church, together with some houses adjoyning, and also others over against it in Hart-street, are of the said Tower-street Ward.

Monuments in this Parish Church of Saint Olave, be these:

Richard Cely, and Robert Cely, Felmongers, [Page] principall builders and benefactors of this Church.

Dame Ioane, wife to Sir Iohn Zouch, 1439.

Iohn Clarentiaulx, King of Armes.

Thomas Sawle.

Sir Richard Haddon, Mercer, Maior, 1512.

Thomas Burnell, Mercer, 1548.

Thomas Morley, Gentleman, 1566.

Sir Iohn Radcliffe, Knight, 1568. And Dame Anne his wife, 1585.

Chapone, a Florentine Gent. 1582.

Sir Hamond Vaughan, Knight.

George Stoddard, Merchant, &c.

In the wall,In the Chancell. on the North side, is an ancient Monument, but very much defaced, appearing to belong to Sir Richard Haddon, Mercer and Lord Maior of London, with some shew of two wives, two sonnes, and three daughters: but the plates of memory are gone.

A faire Marble stone lyeth by the Communion Table,On the ground. and a large plate upon it, on the top whereof these Latine Verses are ingraven:

Ortu praeclarus curans illustrior Arte

Efficier, patriam deserit iste suam,

Discendi studio varias transiverat oras,

Heu tandem febrius Anglia fintiter.

Nobilitas, virtus, pietas, doctrina bearūt,

Schraderum si vis pergere plura scies.

In the midst are two faire Coats of Armes, the one having Schrader as the Motto, and the other, Non Wechtelt.

Lower is this inscription fairely ingraven: ‘Georgius Schraderus, Brunswigae, An. 1580. Mens. Februarii, nobili Familia Patre autore Schradero, à Consiliis secretissimis illustrissimorum Duc. Brunswig & Luneb. Matre Catharina à Vechtelt natas, in vera Dei notitia educatus, postquam maximum Germaniae partem, totam Galliam, Brabant. Fland. vidisset, in Angliam se recepit, inde domum ut rediret, febri verè correptus, placidè in Domino obdornivit, 3. Octob. An. salutis, 1605. Aetatis suae, 24. & in hoc tumulo requiescit.’

Two faire Marble stones lye something neere to this, bearing these inscriptions:

Orate pro anima Roberti Byrche, Woolpacker: Qui obiit vicessimo septimo die Iulii, Anno Dom. 1433. Cuius animae propitietur Deus.

D. O. M.

Matthaeo Babalio, Nobili Ragusino, pietate ac probitate insigni, immaturá (que) morte vita defuncto, Anno aetatis suae, 27. Domini vero, 1567. Mens. Iunio.

Nicholaus Gozzius amicus posuit.

A faire Marble Tombe, with a Knight in Armour lying along on it, and his wife kneeling by him, thus inscribed:

Hic jacet Joannes Radcliffe, Miles, filius Roberti, Comitis Sussexiae: Qui obiit (nullis susceptis liberis) nono die Novembris, Anno Domini, 1585.

Here lyeth Dame Anne, the wife of Sir John Radcliffe, Knight, who dyed the tenth of Decemb. An. Dom. 1568.

A faire Monument, erected behind the Tombe of Sir Iohn Radcliffe, but somewhat higher, with halfe the lively figure of the party it concerneth, inscribed thus:

Memoriae Sacrum

Petro Turnero, Gulielmi Turneri Patris inclyto filio, probitatis ac eruditionis fama, illustri (que) Medicinae Doctori peritissimo; quem Cantabrigia aluit, Heidelbrigia Doctoris insignibus honoravit, Oxonium cohonestavit, Pascha Turnera Conjux moestissima aeternum pietatis, amoris ac doloris sui Monumentū. L. M. P.

Henricus Parreus Episc. Wigorniensis,

Paschae Turnerae frater moeroris consors,

Piis defucti manibus hoc Epicediū parētauit. Obiit Maii 27. Anno Dom. 1614. Aetatis suae, 72.

In the South-east wall, a stone ingraven, with out any plate, bearing this inscription: ‘Gulielmo Turnero, Medico, ac Theologo peritissimo, Decano Wellens. Per Annos triginta in utra (que) scientia exercitatissimus, Ecclesiae & Reipublicae profuit, & contra utrius (que) pernitiosissimos hostes; maximè vero Romanum Antichristum fortissimus Jesu Christi Miles acerrimè dimicavit, ac tandem corpus senio & laboribus [Page] compertum, in spem beatissim. resurrectionis hic deposuit; devictis Christi virtute mundi, carnis (que) civibus cap. triumphat in aeternum.’

Magnus Apollinea,

quondam Turnerus in arte,

Magnus & in vera

religione fuit:

Mors tamen obrepens,

majorem reddidit illum,

Civis enim Coeli

regna superna tenet.

Obiit 7. die Iulii, An. Dom. 1568.

Vnder it, upon a small plate is thus engraven:

In God is my whole trust. I. O. 1591.

Iohn Orgen, and Helen his wife.

As I was, so be ye,

As I am, you shall be.

What I gave, that I have,

What I spent, that I had:

Thus I count all my cost,

What I left, that I lost.

There is a very faire Tombe erected in the South wall of the Quire, whereon these lines are engraven: ‘Hic juxta in Choro situs est Jacobus Deane, Eques auratus, vir bonus & in operibus charitatis, qui primo Susannā filiam Christopheri Bumsted Generos. Vxorem habuit, ex qua unicum suscepit filiolum. Postea Elizab. filiam Hugon. Offley Armigeri, Alderm. Lond. Deinde Elizab. filiam Richardi Thornehill Armig. & viduam Christopheri Web Arm. duxit conjugē, ex qua duas genuit filiolas, nullam tamen relinquens prolem, se moriente, superstitem, An. Aetatis, 63. 15. Maii, 1608. in Domino.’

Two faire stones plated, one by another, thus inscribed:

Here lyeth buryed (in the mercie of God) the bodies of Thomas Beckingham, Esquire, Merchant of the Staple at Callis, and Anne his wife. He deceased the 4. day of Decemb. An. Dom. 1576. And she the 22. of May, 1565.

Here lyeth Thomas Prenthoit, Citizen and Vpholder of London, and Joane his wife. Hee deceased the 7. day of April, Anno Domini, 1521.

A faire Alabaster Tombe,In the Northside of the Quire. and the figure of a man kneeling on it, thus inscribed:

D. O. M.

Hic situs est Petrus Caponius, Florentinus in vita Nobilitate clarus, morum integritate, summis Principibus gratissimus, exilium quod iniquiore fato subierat constanter tulit. Obiit An. aetaris, 32. Sal. 1582. 6. Cal. Novembris.

Mortuum Britannia, quem vivum in sinu tulerat, in sinu nec dum discincto conservat.

Petrus Landus, ex parentibus Florentinis, apud Lugdunum Galliae natus, hoc amoris & moeroris Monumentum P.

Vpon two plates fixed in the wall, these inscriptions:

Here-under lyeth buried the body of Philip Van Wyllender, Esquire, Musician, and one of the privie Chamber to King Henry the eight of most famous memory, and to King Edward the sixth. Who dyed the 24. day of February, Ann. Dom. 1553. And had issue by Frances his wife, foure sonnes, and two daughters, &c.

Here lyeth buried the body of Thomas Burnell, late Citizen and Mercer of London, and Merchant of the Staple at Callis. He deceased the 26. day of February, Ann. Dom. 1448.

Comming now to the charities given to the poore in this Parish, I finde no nomination of any, but of one Mistris Bainham, and Sir Iames Deane, whose gifts are benevolence in bread weekely to the poore. There standeth also in the lower part of the Church, a memory of one yet living, inscribed thus: ‘Iohn High-Lord, senior, of London, Skinner, in his life time, and in the 85. yeere of his age, gave forty shillings yeerely for ever, to be bestowed in New-castle Coales, for the reliefe of the poore in this Parish of S. Olave in Hare-street.’

There are many men of great and good account in this Parish, who at divers times are bountifull unto the poore in money, and as they send it, it [Page] is faithfully divided among them.

Now for the limits and bounds of the Parish, they go on from the Church West, and turning downe on the East side of Mart-lane, crosse the way over to Sir Henry Bakers house, and so go up on the West side, till turning into Hartstreet, they goe on into Sydon-lane, so farre as their marke standeth, on the house of Sir Nicholas Salter, joyning to theirs of Barking Parish. Then they goe over on the West side, and so passe downe Crochet Friers, to Tower-hill, to the further part of the Lady Lumleys garden wall, and the backe gate of the foresaid Sir Nicholas, where turning backe to Porters house, and going on Northward, they goe into an Alley, which guideth them to the North end of Master Covels garden, and there they fix their marke by theirs of Barking, on London Wall.

So returning againe, they goe up towards Aldgate on the East side, so far as directly against the signe of the Cocke, returning backe on the West side to the Pumpe in Crochet Friers, and then to the place where they began.

Here I was favoured by Master Iohn Simpson, Parson of S. Olaves, and the friendly Officers there.

Then have ye out of Tower street also on the North side,Mart-lane, of a Mart kept about Blanch Chappelton, or Appleton. one other lane, called Mart-Lane, which runneth up towards the North, and is for the most part of this Tower-street Ward; which lane is about the third quarter thereof, divided from Aldgate Ward, by a chaine to bee drawne thwart the said lane, above the West end of Hart-street. Cokedon-lane, sometime at the South-west end of Mart-lane, I read of.

A third lane out of Tower-street on the North side,Mincheon lane. is called Mincheon-lane, so called of Tenements there, sometime pertaining to the Minchuns or Nunnes of S. Helens in Bishopsgate-street: This Lane is all of the said Ward, except the corner house towards Fen-Church-street.

In this lane of old time dwelled divers strangers borne, of Genoa and those parts; these were commonly called Galley-men, Galley-men dwelled there. as men that came up in the Galleys, brought up Wines and other Merchandises, which they landed in Thames street, at a place called Galley Key: they had a certaine coyne of siluer amongst themselves, which were halfe pence of Genoa, and were called Galley halfe-pence. These halfe-pence were forbidden in the 13. yeere of King Henry the 4. and againe by Parliament in the 4. of Henry the 5. it was enacted, that if any person bring into this Realm Galley halfepence, Suskins, or Dodkins, he should be punished as a Thiefe, and he that taketh or payeth such money, shall lose an hundred shillings, whereof the King shall have the one halfe, and he that will sue, the other halfe: notwithstanding in my youth I have seene them passe currant, but with some difficulty, for that the English halfe-pence were then (though not so broad) somewhat thicker and stronger.

The Cloth-workers Hall is in this Lane.Cloth. workers Hall. Then at the West end of Tower-street, have ye a little turning towards the North,Gristes house. to a faire house, sometime belonging to one named Griste, for hee dwelled there in the yeere 1449. And Iack Cade, Captaine of the Rebels in Kent, being by him in this his house feasted, when he had dined, like an unkind guest, robbed him of all that was there to be found worth the carriage.

Next to this is another faire house, sometime builded by Angell Dunne, Grocer,Iohn Champneis, Alderman blind. Alderman of London; since possessed by Sir Iohn Champneies, Alderman and Maior of London. He builded in this house an high Tower of Bricke, the first that ever I heard of in any private mans house, to overlooke his neighbours in this Citie. But this delight of his eye was punished with blindnesse some yeeres before his death. Since that time, Sir Percevall Hart, a jolly Courtier, and Knight Harbenger to the Queene, was lodged there, &c.

From this house somewhat West, is the Parish Church and Parsonage house of Saint Margaret Pattens, to the which Church and house on the North side, and as farre over against on the South, stretcheth the farthest West part of this Ward. And therefore, to begin againe at the East end of Tower-street; on the South side have ye Beare-lane, wherein are many faire houses, and runneth downe to Thames-street. The next is [Page] Sporiar-lane, Sporiar lane or VVater-lane, or Hart-lane. of old time so called, but since and of later time, named, Water-lane, because it runneth downe to the Water-gate by the Custome House in Thames-street: Harpe-lane. then is there Hart-lane for Harp-lane, which likewise runneth downe into Thames-street.

In this Hart-lane is the Bakers Hall, sometime the dwelling house of Iohn Chichley, Bakers Hall. Chamberlaine of London, who was son to William Chichley, Alderman of London, brother to William Chichley, Archdeacon of Canturbury, Nephew to Robert Chichley, Maior of London, and to Henry Chichley Archbishop of Canturbury.

This Iohn Chichley (saith our Leyland) had foure and twenty children. Sir Tho. Kitrioll of Kent, after he had been long prisoner in France, married Elizabeth, one of the Daughters of this Chichley, by whom he had this Chichleyes house.

This Elizabeth was secondly married to Sir Ralfe Ashton, Knight Marshall: and thirdly, to Sir Iohn Bourchier, Vncle to the late Bourchier, Earle of Essex, but she never had child. Edward Poynings made part with Bourchier, and Elizabeth to have Ostenhanger in Kent, after their death, and entred into it they living.

In Tower-street, betweene Hart-lane, and Church-lane, Galley Row. was a quadrant, called Galley Row, Church lane. by East. because Galley men dwelled there.Church lane in the West. Then have yee two lanes out of Tower-street, both called Church-lanes, because one runneth downe by the East end of Saint Dunstans Church, and the other by the West end of the same: out of the West lane, turneth another lane, West toward Saint Mary Hill, and is called Fowle-lane, Fowle lane. which is for the most of Tower-street Ward.

This Church of Saint Dunstane is called in the East,Parish Church of S. Dunstane in the East. for difference from one other of the same name in the West: it is a faire and large Church of an ancient building, and within a large Church-yard: it hath a great Parish of many rich Merchants, and other occupiers of divers trads; namely Salters and Ironmongers.

The Monuments in that Church bee [...]hese:

In the Quire Iohn Kennington Parson there buried, 1374.

Willim Islip, Parlon, 1382.

Iohn Kiryoll Esquire, brother to Thomas Kiryoll, 1400.

Nicholas Bond.

Thomas Barry, Merchant, 1445.

Robert Shelley, Esquire, 1420.

Robert Pepper, Grocer, 1445.

Iohn Norwich, Grocer, 1390.

Alice Brome, wife to Iohn Coventry, sometime Maior of London, 1433.

William Isaack, Draper, Alderman, 1508.

Edward Skales, Merchant, 1521.

Iohn Ricroft, Esquire, Serjeant of the Larder to Henry the seventh and Henry the eighth, 1532.

Edward Waters, Esquire, Serjeant at Armes, 1558.

Sir Bartholomew Iames, Draper, Maior 1479. buried under a faire Monument, with his Lady.

Ralfe Greenway, Grocer, Alderman, put under the stone of Robert Pepper, 1559.

Thomas Bledlow, one of the Sheriffes, 1472.

Iames Bacon, Fishmonger, Sheriffe, 1573.

Sir Richard Champion, Draper, Maior 1568.

Henry Herdson, Skinner, Alderman, 1555.

Sir Iames Granado Knight.

William Hariot, Draper, Maior, 1481. buried in a faire Chappell, by him builded, 1517.

Iohn Tate, sonne to Sir Iohn Tate, in the same Chappell, in the North wall.

Sir Christopher Draper, Ironmonger, Maior, 1566. buried 1580. and many other worshipfull personages besides, whose monuments (for the most part) are altogether defaced, but such as remaine, and merit memory, I will declare them in this order following.

On the South side of the Chancell, standeth an ancient Marble Tombe,In the Chancell. cooped about with filliting of brasse plates, bearing these words engraven on them: ‘Hic jacet Bartholomeus Iames, Miles, Civis & Pannarius, ac Aldermannus, necnon quondam Maior hujus inclitae Civitatis London, &c.’

Close by it standeth another very faire Alabaster Tombe, richly and curiously gilded, and two ancient figures [Page] of Aldermen in Scarlet kneeling, the one, at one end of the Tombe in a goodly Arch, the other, at the other end in like manner, and a comely figure of a Lady betweene them, who was wife to them both. By the one standeth a Table, with this inscription:

Here lyeth Henry Heardsons corps,

within this Tombe of stone:

His soule (through faith in Christs death,)

to God in Heaven is gone.

VVhiles that he lived an Alderman,

and Skinner was his state:

To Vertue bare hee all his love,

To vice hee bare his hate.

His Almes that weekely he bestowed,

within this Parish here,

May witnesse to the poores releefe,

what good-will hee did beare.

Hee had to wife one Barbara,

which made this Tombe you see:

By whom he had of issue store,

eight Sonnes and Daughters three.

Obiit 22. Decemb. An. Dom. 1555.

By the other standeth the like Table, thus inscribed:

The corps of Richard Champion, Knight,

Maior and Draper, herein doth rest [...]

Whose soule by most assured hope,

with Christ in heaven is blest.

His life was such, and so imployed,

to right from wrong; that hee

Whom God did so direct in life,

must needs with comfort dye:

Both rich and poore did like him well,

and yet doe praise his name:

Though he behinde him left no child,

which might declare the same.

His weekely almes that is bestowed,

within this Parish here:

Doth witnesse to the poores comfort,

the good will he did beare.

Obiit 30. Octobris, An. Dom. 1568.

There is a faire Alabaster Tombe,In the South Ile of the Quire. principally belonging to Sir Christopher Draper, Knight, yet bearing all these inscriptions following, in regard of the severall marriages of his daughters:

Sir Christopher Draper; Knight, Ironmonger, and Lord Maior of London, 1560. deceased, being 70. yeeres of age. Lady Margaret his wife made this Monument for him.

Sir William Webbe, Knight, Salter and Lord Maior of London, 1591. deceased the fourth day of Iuly, 1599. Lady Bennet his Wife, yet living, Daughter to Sir Christopher Draper, Knight performed this in her love to him.

Sir Wolstane Dixie, Knight, Skinner and Lord Maior of London, An. Dom. 1582. deceased, being 69. yeeres of age. Lady Agnes his Wife, Daughter to Sir Christopher Draper, Knight, deceased in the 37. yeere of her age.

Sir Henry Billingsley, Knight, Haberdasher, and Lord Maior of London, 1596. yet living in An. 1602. Mistris Bridget his Wife, Daughter to Sir Christopher Draper, Knight, deceased in the 44. yeere of her age. Master Christopher Woodroffe, sonne to the said Mistris Bridget, deceased 37. yeers of age.

Hoc Monumentum amoris ergo posuit Domina Benet Webbe superstes in memoriam sui coniugis dignissimi equitis Guil Webbe, defuncti 4. Iulii, 1599. Vt etiam in observantiam officii erga parentes suos Dom. Christ. Draper, & Margaretam Vxorem eius, necnon caeteros tune sorores tum posteros praefixos.

Vnderneath it is an ancient Marble Monument, and upon a plate are these words engrauen: ‘Here lyeth buried Iames Bacon, late of London Alderman, who departed this mortall life, the 5. day of Iune, Anno Dom. 1573. Having issue by Mary [...] first wife, one Son and three Daughters. And by Margaret his second wife, three sonnes, and one Daughter. And by Anne his third wife, no child, &c.’

On the North side of the Chancell is a faire Monument erected in the wall, bearing this inscription: ‘Iohannes Hawkins, Eques Auratus, clariss. Regiae Marinarum causarum Thesaurarius. Qui cum XLIIII. annos muniis bellicis, & longis periculosisque navigationibus detegendis novis regionibus, ad Patriae utilitatem, & suam ipsius gloriam, strenuam & egregiam operam navasset, in expeditione, cui Generalis praefuit ad Indiam occidentalem dum in Auchoris ad portum S. Ioannis in insala Boriquena staret, Placidè in Domino [Page] ad Coelestem Patriam emigravit, 12. die Novembris, Anno salutis, 1595. In cujus memoriam ob virtutem, & resgestas, Domina Margareta Hawkins, Vxor moestissima, hoc monumentum cum lacrymis posuit.’

By the Tombe hangs a faire Table, fastned in the wall, with these Verses in English:

Dame Margaret,

a Widdow well affected,

This Monument

of memory erected,

Deciphering unto

the viewers sight,

The life and death

of Sir Iohn Hawkins, Knight,

One fearing God,

and loyall to his Queene,

True to the State

by tryall ever seene,

Kind to his Wives,

both Gentlewomen borne,

Whose counterfeits

with grace this work adorn.

Dame Katharine

the first, of rare report,

Dame Margaret

the last, of Court consort,

Attendant on

the Chamber and the Bed

Of Englands Queene

ELIZABETH, our head

Next under Christ,

of whom all Princes hold

Their Scepters, States,

and Diadems of Gold:

Free to their friends

on either side his kinne,

Carefull to keepe

the credit he was in:

Vnto the Sea-men

beneficiall,

As testifieth

Chattams Hospitall.

The poore of Plimouth,

and of Debtford Towne,

Have had, now have,

and shal have many a crown;

Proceeding from

his liberality,

By way of great

and gracious Legacie.

This Parish of

Saint Dunstane standing East,

(Wherein he dwelt

full thirty yeeres at least)

Hath of the springs

of his good will a part,

Derived from

the Fountaine of his heart,

All which bequests,

with many moe unsaid,

Dame Margaret

hath bountifully paid.

Deepe of conceit,

in speaking graue and wise,

Endighting swift,

and pregnant to devise;

In conference

revealing haughty skill,

In all affaires

having a Worthies will,

On Sea and Land

spending his course & time,

By steps of yeeres

as he to age did climbe.

God hath his soule,

the Sea his body keepes,

Where (for a while)

as Ionas, now he sleeps;

Till he which said

To Lazarus, Comeforth;

Awake this Knight,

and give to him his worth.

In Christian faith,

and faithfull penitence,

In quickning hope,

and constant patience,

He running ranne

a faithfull Pilgrims race,

God giving him

the guiding of his grace.

Ending his life

with his experience,

By deepe decree

of Gods high providence,

His yeeres to six times

ten and three amounting,

The ninth, the seventh

Climactericke by counting:

Dame Katharine,

his first religious Wife,

Saw yeeres thrice tenne

and two of mortall life:

Leaving the world the sixth,

the seventh ascending,

Thus he and she,

alike their compasse ending,

Asunder both

by death of flesh alone,

[Page] Together both insoule,

two making one,

Among the Saints above,

from troubles free,

Where two in one shall meet,

and make up three.

The Christian Knight

and his good Ladies twaine,

Flesh, Soule and Spirit

united once againe;

Beholding Christ,

who comfortably saith,

Come, mine Elect,

receive the Crowne of faith.

Lenvoy.

Give God, saith Christ,

give Caesar lawfull right,

Owe no man, saith Saint Paul,

ne mine, ne mite

Save love, which made

this chaste memoriall,

Subscribed with

Truths restimoniall.

FINIS.

§

Now, in regard that this Parish of S. Dunstane is the last (in our account) of Tower-street Ward, we are to speake of Gods blessings there to the poore, which I finde to be seven shillings three pence every Sunday through the yeere, given in ready money, beside bread and other gifts, according to the wils and dispositions of Sir Richard Champion, and Master Alderman Heardson, with Coales given beside at certaine times. More, I finde, that one man hath given yeerely for ever, an whole Oxe to be distributed by a quarter thereof quarterly, and a pecke of Oate-meale there withall to the poore. But yet so discreetly ordered, that they that have the quarter of Beese and pecke of Oate-meale at one quarter, must stay till other poore bee so served, and that it comes to their turne againe. Other charities there are which came in gifts of ready money, and are accordingly truly distributed.

In the perambulation of this Parish, they goe first so farre North from the Church, as to the house next William Offington, and thence returning, walke down on the North side of Tower-street, so farre as Mincheon-lane, and to the house of Master Dumbelowe, next to Clothworkers Hall, where they returne againe, and so goe on to the signe of the Dolphine in Tower-street, being a Taverne. There they crosse the way, and goe downe the West side onely of Water-lane, and then walke along Thames-street, leaving the Custome house, passing on to Smarts-key; whence returning backe into the Crosse-lane, so farre as Sir Cuthbert Buckles house, now in the custody of Sir Iohn Lemnian, Knight, and Lord Maior of London, they goe home to the place where they began. Here I was favoured by Master Iohn Childerlay, Doctor of Divinity, my worthy good friend, and his diligent Officers.

Now as concerning the two Church-lanes, they meeting on the South side of this Church and Church-yard, doe joyne in one: and running downe to the Thames-street, the same is called Saint Dunstans Hill: at the lower end whereof the said Thames-street (toward the West, on both sides almost to Belins-gate but towards the East up to the VVater-gate, by the Bulwarke of the Tower) is all of Tower-street VVard. In this street on the Thames side, are divers large landing places, called VVharffes, or Keys, for Cranage up of VVares and Merchandise, as also for shipping of Wares from thence to be transported.

These Wharffes and Keys commonly beare the names of their owners, and are therefore changeable. I read, in the 26. of Henry the sixth, that in the Parish of Saint Dunstane in the East, a tenement called Passekes Wharffe,Passekes VVharffe, and Horners Key. and another called Horners Key in Thames-street, were granted to William Harindon Esquire. I read also, that in the sixth of Richard the second, Iohn Churchman Grocer, for the quiet of Merchants, did newly build a certaine house upon the Key, called Wool-wharffe, Wool-wharffe by Customers Key. in the Tower-street Ward, in the Parish of Alballewes Barking, betwixt the tenement of Paul Salisbury, on the East part, and the Lane called the Water-gate on the West,Water-gate by VVool Key. to serve for Tronage, or weighing of VVools in the Port of London: Custome house. Whereupon, the King granted, that during the life of the said Iohn, Tronage of Wools. the asoresaid Tronage should be held an kept in the said [Page] house, with easements there for the Ballances and Weights, and a counting place for the Customer, Controwlers, Clerkes and other Officers of the said Tronage, together with ingresse and regresse to and from the same, even as was had in other places, where the said Tronage was wont to be kept, and that the King should pay yeerely to the said Iohn (during his life) forty shillings, at the termes of S. Michael and Easter, by even portions by the hands of his Customer, Custome house. without any other payment to the said Iohn, as in the Indenture thereof more at large appeareth.

Neere unto this Customers Key, towards the East, is the said Water-gate, and West from it,Porters Key or Porters lane. Porters Key: then Galley Key, Galley Key. where the Galleys were used to unlade, and land their Merchandizes and wares: and that part of Thames street was therefore of some called Galley row, but more commonly, Petty-Wales. Petty-Wales.

On the North side, as well as on the South of this Thames-street, are many faire houses, large for stowage, builded for Merchants, towards the East end thereof, namely, over against Galley Key, Wooll Key, and the Custome-house. There have beene of old time some large buildings of stone, the ruines whereof doe yet remaine, but the first builders and owners of them are worne out of memory: wherefore the common people affirme Iulius Caesar to be the builder thereof, as also of the Tower it selfe, but thereof I have spoken already. Some are of another opinion, and that a more likely, that this great stone building, was sometime the lodging appointed for the Princes of Wales, when they repayred to this City, and that therefore the streete in that part is called Petty Wales, Princes of Wales their lodging. which name remaineth there most commonly untill this day: even as where the Kings of Scotland were used to be lodged betwxit Charing-crosse, and White-hall, it is likewise called Scotland: and where the Earles of Brittain were lodged without Aldersgate, the street is called Brittain street, &c.

The said building might (of old time) pertaine to the Princes of Wales, as is aforesaid, but is since turned to other use.

It is before noted of Galley Key, that the Gallies of Italy, The Merchants of Italy their lodging by their Gallies. and other parts, did there discharge their VVines and Merchandizes brought to this City. It is like therefore that the Merchants and Owners procured the place to build upon for their lodgings and store-houses, as the Merchants of Haunce of Almaine were licensed to have an house, called Guilda Teutonicorum, the Guild-Hall of the Germanes.

Also the Merchants of Burdeaux were licensed to build at the Vintry, strongly with stone, as may yet be seene, and seemeth old, though often repaired: much more cause have these buildings in Petty Wales (though as lately builded, and part [...]y of the like stone brought from Cane in Normandy) to seeme old,No Gallies landed here in memory of men living. which for many yeeres, to wit, since the Gallies left their course of landing there, hath fallen to ruine, and been letten out for stabling of horses, to Tipplers of Beere, and such like. Amongst others, one Mother Mampudding (as they termed her) for many yeeres kept this house, or a great part thereof, for victualling: and it seemeth, that the builders of the Hall of this house were Shipwrights, and not house-Carpenters: for the frame thereof (being but low) is raised of certaine principall posts of maine timber,A strange kind of building by the Shippe-wrights or Galley-men. fixed deep in the ground, without any groundsell, boorded close round about on the inside, having none other wal from the ground to the roofe: those boords not exceeding the length of a Clap-boord, about an inch thicke, every boord ledging over other, as in a Ship or Gally nayled with Ship nayles called rough, and clench, to wit, rough nayles with broad round heads, and elenched on the other side with square plares of Iron. The roofe of this Hall is also wronght of the like boord, and nayled with rough and clench, and seemeth as it were a Gally, the Keele turned upwards: and I observed, that no worme or rottennesse is seene to have entred into either boord or timber of that Hall, and therefore, in mine opinion, of no great antiquity.

I read in the 44. of Edward the third,An Hospitall for lunaticke or phrensie people. that an Hospitall in the Parish of Barking Church, was founded by Robert Denton Chaplen, for the sustentation of [Page] poore Priests, and other both men and women, that were sicke of the Phrenzie, there to remaine till they were perfectly whole, and restored to good memory.

Also I read, that in the sixth of Hen. 5. there was in the Tower ward, a Messuage or great house, called Cobhams Inne: Cobhams Inne. and in the 37. of Henry the sixth, a Messuage in Thames street, pertaining to Richard Longvile, &c. Some of the ruines before spoken of, may seeme to be of the foresaid Hospitall, belonging peradventure to some Prior Alieu, and so suppressed amongst the rest, in the reigne of Edward the third, or Henry the fifth, who suppressed them all.

Thus much for the bounds and Antiquity of this Ward, wherein noted, first, the Tower of London, three Parish Churches, the Custome-house, and two Hals of Companies; to wit, the Cloth-workers, and the Bakers.

This Ward hath an Alderman, his Deputy, Common Counsellors eight, Constables thirteen, Scavengers twelve, VVard-mote men thirteene, and a Beadle: it is taxed to the Fifteene at six and twenty pounds.

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EALDGATE VVARD.

THE second VVard within the Wals on the East part,Ealdgate ward. is called Ealdgate Ward, as taking name of the same Gate. The principall street of this VVard beginneth at Ealdgate, stretching West to sometime a faire Well, where now a Pumpe is placed. From thence (the way being divided into twaine) the first and principall street, (called Aldgate-street) runneth on the South side to Lime-street corner, and halfe that street downe on the left hand, is also of that Ward.

In the mid way on that South side, betwixt Ealdgate and Lime-street, is Hart-horne Alley,Hart-horne Alley. a way that goeth thorow into Fen-Church street, over against Northumberland House. Then have yee Brick-layers Hall,Bricklayers Hall. Sprinkle Alley. and another Alley, called Sprinkle Alley, now named Sugarloafe Alley, of the like signe.

Then is there a faire house, with divers Tenements neere adjoyning, sometime belonging to a late dissolved Priory, but since possessed by Misti is Cornewallies, widdow, and her heires, by the gift of King Henry the eighth, in reward of fire puddings (as it was commonly said) by her made, wherewith she had presented him: such was the Princely liberality of those times. Of later time, Sir Nicholas Throgmorton, Knight, was lodged there.

Then somewhat more west is Belzetters lane, Belzetters Lane. so called of the first builder and owner thereof; now corruptly called Billitar lane. Betwixt this Belzetters lane and Limestreet, was (of later time) a frame of three faire houses, set up in the yeere 1590. in place where before was a large Garden-plot, inclosed from the high street with a Brick wall, which wall being taken downe, and the ground digged deepe for Cellerage, there was found right under the said Bricke wall, another wall of stone,Wall, gate and windowes of stone [...] under ground. with a gate arched of stone, and gates of timber to be closed in the midst towards the street; The timber of the gates was consumed, but the hinges of iron still remained on their scaples on both the sides.

Moreover, in that Wall were square windowes, with barres of iron on either side the gate [...] this wall was under ground above two fathomes deepe, as I then esteemed it, and seemeth to be the ruines of some house burned in the reigne of King Stephen, when the fire began in the house of one Aleward, neere London stone, and consumed East to Ealdgate; whereby it appeareth, how greatly the ground of this Citie hath beene in that place raised.

On the North side, this principall street stretcheth to the West corner of Saint Andrews Church, and then the Ward turneth towards the North, by S. Mary street,S. Mary street on the East side, to S. Augustines Church in the Wall, and so by Buries marks againe, or about by the Wall to Ealdgate.

The second way from Ealdgate, more towards the South, from the Pumpe aforesaid, is called Fen-Church street, and is of Ealdgate VVard, till yee come to Calver Alley,Culver Alley. on the West side of Ironmongers Hall, where sometime was a lane, which went out of Fen-church street to the middest of Limestreet: but this lane was stopped up, for suspicion of Theeves that lurked there by night.

Againe, to Ealdgate, (out of the principall street, even by the gate, and wall of the Citie) runneth a lane South, to Crossed or Cro [...]ed Friers, and then [Page] Woodroofe lane, to the Tower-hill, and out of this Lane West, a street called Hart-street, Hartstreet. which of that ward stretcheth to Sydon-lane, by S. Olaves Church. One other lane more West from Ealdgate, goeth by Northumberland House toward the Crossed Friers: then have ye on the same side, the North end of Mart lane, and Blanch-axleton or Chappelton, where that Ward endeth.

Thus much for the bounds: Now for Monuments, or places most ancient and notable. I am first to begin with the late dissolved Priory of the holy Trinity, called Christs-church, on the right hand within Ealdgate. This Prior [...]e was founded by Matilda, Queene, wife to Henry the first, in the same place where Siredus sometime beganne to erect a Church, in honour of that Crosse, and and of S. Mary Magdalen, of which the Deane and Chapter of Waltham were wont to receive thirty shillings. The Queene was to acquire her Church thereof, and in exchange gave unto them a Mill. King Henry her Husband confirmed her gift. This Church was given to Norman, Priory of the Trinity of Canons regular. the first Canon regular in all England.

The said Queene also gave unto the same Church, and those that served God therin, the plot of Ealdgate, and the Soke thereunto belonging, with all customes, so free as she had held the same, and 25. l. Blanks, which she had of the Citie of Excesser, as appeareth by her Deed, wherein she nameth the house of Christs-church, and reporteth Ealdgate to be of her Demains, which she granteth, with two parts of the rent of the Citie of Excest. Norman took on him to be Prior of Christs-church, in the yeere of Christ, 1108. in the Parishes of S. Mary Magdalen, S. Michael, S. Katharine, and the blessed Trinity, which now was made but one Parish of the holy Trinity, and was (in old time) of the holy Crosse, or holy Rood parish.

The Priorie was builded on a piece of ground in the parish of Saint Katharine, towards Ealdgate, which lyeth in length betwixt the Kings street, by the which men goe towards Ealdgate, neere to the Chappell of Saint Michael towards the North, and containeth in length eighty thee Elles; halfe quarter, and halfe quartern of the Kings Iron Eln, and lyeth in bredth; &c. The Soke and Ward of Ealdgate was then bounded, as I have before shewn: the Queen was a meane also, that the land and English Knighten Guild was given unto the Prior Norman, and the Honorable man Geffrey de Clinton was a great helper therein, and obtained, that the Canons might inclose the way betwixt their Church and the wall of the Citie, &c. This Priorie in processe of time became a very faire and large Church, rich in Lands and ornaments, and passed all the Priories in the Citie of London, or shire of Middlesex, Prior of Christs-Church an Alderman of London. the Prior whereof was an Alderman of London, to wit, of Portsoken Ward.

I reade, that Eustacius, the eighth Prior, about the yeere 1264. because hee would not deale with temporall matters, instituted Theobald Fitz Iuonis, Alderman of Portsoken Ward under him, and that William Rising, Prior of Christs-Church, was sworne Alderman of the said Portsoken Ward, in the first of Richard the second. These Priors have sitten and ridden amongst the Aldermen of London, in Liverie like unto them, saving that his habit was in shape of a spirituall person, as I my selfe have seene in my child-hood: at which time, the Prior kept a most bountifull house of meat and drinke, both for rich and poore, aswell within the house, as at the gates, to all commers, according to their estates.

These were the Monuments in this Church:

Sir Robert Turke, and Dame Alice his wife.

Iohn Tirell, Esquire.

Simon Kempe, Esquire.

Iames Manthrope, Esquire.

Iohn Ascue, Esquire.

Tho. Fauset of Salset, Esquire.

Iohn Kempe, Gentleman.

Robert Chirwide, Esquire.

Sir Iohn Henningham, and Dame Isabel his wife.

Dame Agnes, wife to Sir William Bardolph, and then to Sir Thomas Mortimer.

Iohn Ashfield, Esquire.

Sir Iohn Deddam, Knight.

[Page] Sir Ambrose Charcam.

Ioane, wife to Thomas Nucke, Gent.

Iohn Husse, Esquire.

Iohn Beringham, Esquire.

Thomas Geodwine, Esquire.

Ralfe Walles, Esquire.

Dame Margaret, daughter to Sir Ralfe Cheny, wife to Sir Iohn Barkley, to Sir Thomas Barnes, and to Sir W. Bursire.

William Roose.

Simon Frances.

Iohn Breton, Esquire.

Helling, Esquire.

Iohn Malwen and his wife.

Anthony Wels, sonne to Iohn Wels.

Nicholas de Avesey, and Margery his wife.

Anthony, sonne to Iohn Milles.

Baldwine, sonne to King Stephen, and Matilda, daughter to King Stephen, wife to the Earle of Mellen.

Henry Fitzalwine, Maior of London, 1213.

Geffrey Mandevile, 1215. And many other.

But to conclude of this Priory: King Henry the eighth, minding to reward Sir Thomas Audley, Speaker of the Parliament against Cardinall Woolsey, as ye may read in Hall, sent for the Prior, commending him for his hospitality, promised him preferment, as a man worthy of a far greater dignity; which promise surely hee performed, and compounded with him, though in what sort I never heard,Priory of the holy Trinity surrendred and suppressed so that the Priory, with the appurtenances, was surrendred to the King, in the moneth of Iuly, in the yeere 1531. the 23. of the said Kings reigne. The Canons were sent to other houses of the same order, and the Priorie, with the appurtenances, King Henry gave to Sir Thomas Audley, newly Knighted, and afterwards made Lord Chancelour.

Sir Thomas Audley offered the great Church of this Priorie, with a ring of nine Bels well tuned (wherof foure the greatest were since sold to the Parish of Stebunhith, and the five lesser to the parish of S. Stephen in Coleman-street) to the parishioners of S. Katharine Christs-Church, in exchange for their small Parish Church, minding to have pulled it downe, and to have builded there towards the street: But the parishioners, having doubts in their heads of afterclaps, refused the offer.

Then was the Priory Church and steeple proffered to whomsoever would take it downe, and carry it from the ground; but no man would undertake the offer. Whereupon, Sir Thomas Audley was faine to be at more charges, than could be made of the stones, timber, lead, iron, &c. For the workmen, with great labour, beginning at the toppe, loosed stone from stone, and threw them downe, whereby the most part of them were broken, and few remained whole, and those were sold very cheap: for all the buildings then made about the Citie, were of Bricke and Timber. At that time, any man in the Citie, might have a Cart-load of stone for paving, brought to his doore for 6. d. or 7. d. with the carriage.

The said Thomas Lord Audley builded and dwelt on this Priorie during his life, and dyed there in the yeere 1544. since the which time, the said Priorie came (by marriage of the Lord Audleys daughter and heire) unto Thomas, The Duke Place. late Duke of Norfolke, and was then called the Dukes Place.

At this time the Inhabitants,The inhabitants the Duke place [...] themselves Parishionem of St. Katharine Cree [...] by lacked a Church of their owne. dwelling and abiding in the said Dukes place, became utterly destitute of any Parish Church, for resorting to Gods Divine Service, and the administration of the blessed Sacraments, which in the time of their former blind zeale, the demolished Priory not onely seemed for their use, but infinite other thereto resorting. In which respect, the Parish Church of S. Katharine being so neere, and standing in the Coemitery or Church-yard of the late dissolved Priory of the Holy Trinity, whereby it was called Saint Katharine Christs Church: they resorted thither at the houres of Divine Service, and benefit of the blessed Sacraments; whereby (to speake rightly) they became a burthen to the said Parish, yet well enough borne withall, in regard of the benefit ensuing by them. So that they carried the respect of equall Parishioners, exercising and accomplishing all duties there, even as if it had beene their owne proper Parish.

The long continuance of them in [Page] this kinde,The time of such continuance, did meerely make a custome of it in opinion. although some much misliked, and giadly would have compassed means for remedy therof: yet their power not stretching so far, nor the way (as yet fiting for their purpose; they remained contented against their wils, till time would fit them with more convenient opportunity. Ground they wanted not, for raising a sufficient Parish Church to themselves, neither did any good will faile in them for the effecting their purpose: but onely were curbed by the lacke of strength, how and which way to bring it about.

At length, perceiving their ground (intended for so good a use to themselves) aimed at for buildings to private mens benefits, that so they might bee frustrate of any such helpe, when occasion should in better manner shine on them: Some of the best advised among them, by petition sollicited the Lord Archbishop of Canturbury, to make their desire and intention known to the Kings most excellent Majesty,The Archbishop moved King Iames in the justice of the suit. which most graciously he did. And the King finding the case so truly honest and religious, for new erecting a Chur [...]h where such necessity required, and where superstition had so long time formerly beene harboured: not onely gave the Lord Archbishop and the sutors both thankes and commendation; but also under his Hand and broad Seale, authorizable warrant for their proceeding. The Lord Maior and Senate of Aldermen having intelligence in the case, and perceiving what an honour would redound thereby, first to God, who inspired them thereto, next to the King for so Royally granting the suit, and then to the City for furthering it to effect: notwithstanding contrary opposition by them, who would have had them stil continue, as formerly they were, without benefit of a parish Church of their owne, it proceeded on with good and prosperous successe, to the no meane honour and commendation of the Lord Maior then being, Sir Edward Barkham by name,The [...], decayed ruines of [...] Christ-Church in the Dukes place. the Court of Aldermen, and state of this famous City, by whose good meanes it is made a very beautifull and [...]mely Parish Church, it being called in the time of re-edifying, Trinity Christs Church, raised out of the long decayed ruines, of Trinity Priory in the Dukes-place.

On a faire Table hanging in the Chancell, are these Verses depicted:

Ac David could

h [...] eyes no rest afford,

Till he had found

a place out to the Lord,

To build an Altar:

So this man of worth,

The mirrour which

these later dayes brings forth

Barkham the Worthie,

whose immortall name,

Marble's too weake to hold,

for this workes fame.

He never ceast

in industrie and care,

From ruines to

redeeme this House of Praier;

Following in this

the holy Patriaks waies,

That ready were

him Altars still to raise,

Where they receiv'd a blessing:

So this Lord,

Scarce warme in Honours seat,

did first accord

To this most pious worke,

in which is showne,

Gods blessing, and his thanks

met both in one.

The charge

the honourable Citie beares,

Whose bounty

in ful Noblenesse appeares

To acts of best condition,

in such wise,

That al things, bettering

by their ruine, rise.

Two noble faithfull

Supervisors then,

Amongst a Senate

of religious men,

Selected weare,

to whom the care they gave,

Generous Hamersley,

and Cambell the grave,

Each being a master-piece

of zeale and care

Towards Gods owne Temple,

fit for truths affaire.

Now at the blessed Foundresse

I arrive,

[Page] Matilda, whom

Henry the first did wive,

The Christendome she gave it

held the same,

Till James our Soveraigne

gave it his owne name.

And since I touch

Antiquity so neere,

Observe what notes

remarkable appeare:

Norman, the first Prior, was made an Alderman of London, and rode with them on solemn dayes, but in an Ecclesiastical habit.

An Alderman of London

was at first

Prime Prior of this Church.

Falling to worst,

It is now rais'd

by encouragement and care

Of a Lord Maior of London,

which is rare,

And worth observing.

Then, as I began,

I end best with

the honour of the man.

This Cities first Lord Maior

lies buried here,

Fitz-Alwine,

This is mistaken by Mr. Stowe.

of the Drapers Company,

And the Lord Maior,

whose fame now shines so cleere,

Barkham,

is of the same Society.

By this time the worke is growne to such fulnesse and perfection, as now nothing wanteth but the windowes glazing, which was performed in this manner:

The maine and great East light in the Chancell,The windowes glazed, and by whom. Sir Edward Barkham himselfe undertooke, and effected it at his owne charge, as expressionitestifieth in the same window. The other sideling by it, but inclining more Southerly, the two Worshipfull Gentlemen, Master George Whitmore, These two Gentlemē were Sheriffes then and Master Nicholas Ranton, worthily performed. And the third, standing Northerly in the same Chancell; Mr. Walter Leigh, who had beene a Serjeant at Armes to the Kings Majestie, and now Sword-bearer of London, did likewise at his owne charge performe. The two Westerne lights in the bottome of the Church, being (indeed) very faire lights; the honourable Company of Drapers effected the one, and the Woodmongers worshipfull Society finished the other. Beside, the two Southerly windowes, the one done at the charge of Master Cornelius Fish, Chamberlaine of London, and the other by Mr. Waldron, then Marshall. So now ye have the Church of Saint Iames compleat.

Onely there is a faire Monument in the East end of the Chancell,An artificiall Sun, and the ingenious forming of it. made in resemblance of a golden Sunne, with beames and rayes very ingeniously formed, charactering these Verses in and among them:

The rising here

of the cleere Gospels Sunne,

Is through the Senates

free donation.

The Globe of that bright Sunne,

the God of might,

Christ Iesus is the rising

and the light.

The heat the blessed Spirit

of Truth and Right:

And as these three,

the Globe, the light, the heat,

Are all one Sunne,

so Three One God compleat:

Thrice Allelujah

speakes about the rayes,

That Three in One

may onely have the praise.

This Temple received Consecration the morrow after New-yeeres day, in the yeere 1622.

The Right Honourable, Sir Peter Proby being then Lord Maior; and the Right Worshipfull, Mr. Iohn Hodges, and Sir Humfrey Hanford, Knight, Sheriffes, and Aldermen.

The names of all the rest of the Honourable Senators, all worthy Patrons of this pious worke, and then present at the consecration:

Sir Iohn Garrard.

Sir Thomas Bennet.

Sir Thomas Lowe.

Sir Thomas Middleton.

Sir Iohn Leman.

Sir William Cokayne.

Mr. Martin Lumley.

Mr. William Goare.

Mr. Iohn Goare.

Mr. Allen Cotton.

Mr. Cuthbert Hacket.

[Page] Mr. William Holliday.

Mr. Robert Iohnson.

Mr. Richard Hearne.

Mr. Richard Deane.

Mr. Robert Ducie.

Aldermen.

This Sacred Structure,

which this Senate fames,

Our King hath stil'd,

The Temple of S. James.

Nor could I have said so much of this new Church, but only by the firendly help and assistance of my honest well-willer, George Cooper, Clerke there, who under his own hand delivered the same to mee.

The Parish Church of S. Katharine standeth in the Coemetorie of the late dissolved Priory of the holy Trinity,Parish Church of S. Katharin Christs-Church, commonly called Cree-church and is therefore called S. Katharine Christs-Church. This Church seemeth to bee very old; since the building whereof, the high street hath beene so often raised by payements, that now men are faine to descend into the said Church by divers steps, seven in number. But the Steeple or Bell-tower thereof hath beene lately builded; to wit, about the yeere 1504. For Sir Iohn Percivall, Merchant-taylor, then deceasing, gave money towards the building thereof.

Now concerning this Parish Church of Saint Katharine Christs Church, The new building of S. Katharin Cree-Church. commonly Cree-Church, as formerly hath been said, it had a descent downe into it by seven steps or stayres. But being now newly built, and made a very faire Church indeed: the ascenting into the Church is by foure or five degrees. Very gladly would I have delivered further satisfaction concerning the new structure thereof: but I was answered, they would admit no meddling therwith, untill they had new built the Sreeple, and other necessary occasions therto belonging.

The Monuments formerly mentioned in my last Edition of this Booke, I finde (by their report) to remaine their still, with the Tombe of Sir Nicholas Throckmorton, and the rest there named; but I finde no newer, to be spoken of.

There be Monuments of Sir Thomas Flemming, Knight, of Rowles in Essex, and Margaret his wife, 1464.

Roger Marshall, Esquire.

Lane Horne, wife to Roger Marshall.

Wil. Multon alias Burdeaux, Herald.

Iohn Goad, Esquire, and Ioane his wife.

Beatrix, daughter to William Browne.

Thomas Malton, Esquire, sonne to Burdeaux, Herald.

Iohn Chitcroft, Esquire.

Iohn Wakefield, Esquire.

William Criswicke.

Anne, and Sewch, daughters to Ralfe Shirley, Esquire.

Sir Iohn Rainsford, Knight, of Essex.

Sir Nicholas Throkmorton, chiefe Butler of England, one of the Chamberlains of the Exchequer, Ambassadour, &c. 1570. who hath a faire Alabaster Tombe, in the South side of the Chancell. His figure lyeth therein in Armor, with this description ingraven by it:

Here lyeth the body of Sir Nicholas Throkmorton, In the South side of the Chancell. Knight, the fourth sonne of Sir George Throlemorton, Knight. The which Sir Nicholas was chiefe Butler of England, one of the Chambelaines of the Exchequer, and Ambassadour Lieger to the Queenes Majestie, Queene Elizabeth, in France. And after his returne into England, he was sent Ambassadour againe into France, and twice into Scotland. He married Anne Carew, daughter to Sir Nicholas Carew, Knight, and begate of her tenne sonnes and three daughters. He dyed the 12. day of February, Anno Dom. 1570. aged 57. yeeres.

Here lyeth the buried the body of Frances Croke, A faire Tombe in the midst of the Chancel. the loved and beloved wife of Paulus Ambrosius Croke, of the inner Temple, Esquire. Shee was one of the daughters and heires of Francis Wellesborne, Esquire, of Hanny in the County of Berk, who deceased the 10. day of Iuly, Anno Domini, 1605. aged 22. yeeres.

VVell borne she was,

but better borne againe.

Her first birth

to the flesh did make her debtor,

The latter, in the Spirit

(by Christ) hath set her.

[Page] Freed from Fleshes debts,

Deaths first and latter gaine.

Wives pay no debts,

whose Husbands live and raigne.

Here lyeth the body of Master Iohn Smith, Esquire, Citizen and Mercer of London, who had two wives, the first named Anne,

A faire stone plated in the North Ile of the Quare.

the daughter of Fulke Mullert, in the County of Surrey, Esquire, which brought him one daughter, named Mary. His other wife was Mary, daughter to Sir Iames Hawes, Knight, and Lord Maior of London, by whom hee had no issue. Hee deceased the 24. day of December, Anno Domini, 1594. Aetatis suae, 63.

Gods blessings to the poore of this Parish, by the gifts of Christian Benefactors.

Mr. William Gilborne, Draper, by his last Will and Testament, gave foure Markes yeerely for ever, to be bestowed in one dozen of bread, and to be distributed on every Sabboth day to the poore of the said Parish: which said summe is yeerely paid out of the rent of his late dwelling house in the said Parish. Also hee gave twenty pounds more, towards the building of a Gallerie in the said Church.

Mr. Iohn Smith, Mercer, in like manner, gave three pounds yeerely for ever, out of his late dwelling house in the said Parish, to be paid by the Church-wardens for the time being, to and amongst the poore of the said Parish, at every Christmas yeerely.

Mr. George Lee, Sadler, gave twenty shillings yeerely for ever to the poore, out of his rent in the said Parish.

Mistris Dane, Widdow, gave eight shillings yeerely for ever to the poore, payed by the Ironmongers to M. Deputie in a greater summe.

Mistris Alice Bateman, appointed and gave in her life time, the summe of 42. pounds, 6. shillings, to the said Parish, the profits thereof to bee distributed yeerely to the poore for ever.

Mr. Iohn Bedow, Gentleman, gave ten pounds, to be distributed in bread yeerely to the poore.

Mr. George Hothersall, Merchant-taylor, gave foure and twenty shillings yeerely for ever out of his Land, to the poore of this Parish.

Mr. Iohn Waddis, Cooke, borne in this Parish, gave to the poore thereof three pounds, to bee distributed among them in bread yeerely for ever.

Stephen Roberts, Cooke, gave also foure and forty shillings yeerely for ever, to bee distributed in bread.

The bounds and limits of this Parish are in this manner: From the Church into the Church-yard, to the corner westward, where turning East, they crosse the Church-yard thorow a great house, where sometime dwelt one Master Wilford, but bought since by Sir Henry Billingsley, and converted into divers tenements. So on into the street to the Pumpe, and westward on to the signe of the Rose, sometime the dwelling house of one Thomas Shepheard. There crossing the street to the Smiths house, his name Iohn Tatum, next to the signe of the Moore-fields Tavern: thence they goe backe East to the Pumpe, turning at the corner West, to Harts-horne Alley to the middest, to Homes his house and over against him, so backe to Billeter-lane, to the house of Iohn Lemote, crossing the street there, to the house of Peter Rutt, Taylor. And so back to the end of Billeter-lane, turning west to a Bricke house, sometime in the custody of Master Leese, but possessed now by Widdow Dewen. There crossing the street to the house next Master Leaning, they goe East to the Church lane, and then North, through a lane betweene Heneadge house and the Dukes Place, to Buries markes. Then West by Heneadge house, to the wall of Sir Iames Lancasters house, sometime belonging to Sir Francis Walsingham: where they goe backe, and crosse the way to London wall to the compast place, where stands the Cities Armes. Thence forward by the wall to the outer part of Ealdgate, and so South towards the Croched Friers, to the house of Master Peers, where a piece of an Iron Gun stands fixed in the ground.

Then backe, crossing the street to the house of Mistris Smith, going forward to the Bell Taverne, and so up to the signe of the Rose, ending where Thomas Shepheard did dwell. My help here was [Page] by Master Stephen Denison, Minister, but more especially, by Iohn Beard, Clarke.

At the North-West corner of this Ward in the said high street, standeth the faire and beautifull Parish Church of S. Andrew the Apostle, with an addition, to be knowne from other Churches of that name,Parish Church of S. Andrew Vndershaft. of the Knape or Vndershaft, and so called S. Andrew Vndershaft, because that of old time, every yeere (on May-day in the morning) it was used,A shaft or May-pole higher than the Church Steeple. that an high or long shaft, or May-pole, was set up there, in the midst of the street, before the South doore of the said Church, which shaft when it was set on end, and fixed in the ground, was higher than the Church Steeple. Geffrey Chawcer, writing of a vaine boaster, hath these words, meaning of the said shaft.

Right well aloft,

and high ye beare your head,

Chawcer chance of dice.

The Weather-cocke with flying,

as ye would kill,

When ye be stuffed,

bet of wine, than bread,

Then looke ye,

when your wombe doth fill,

As yee would beare.

the great shaft of Corne-hill.

Lord so merrily

crowdeth then your croke,

That all the street

may heare your body cloke.

This shaft was not raysed at any time since evill May day (so called of an insurrection made by Prentises,As hath bin at large before declared. and other young persons against Aliens, in the yeere 1517) but the said shaft was laid along over the doores, and under the Pentises of one rowe of houses, and Alley gate, called of the shaft, Shaft alley, (being of the possessions of Rochester bridge) in the ward of Limestreet.

It was there, I say, hanged on iron hookes amny yeeres, till the third of King Edward the sixt, that one Sir Stephen, Shaft or Maypole preached against at Pauls Crosse. Curate of Saint Katherine Christs Church, preaching at Pauls Crosse, said there, that this shaft was made an Idoll, by naming the Church of Saint Andrew, with the addition of under that shaft: he perswaded therefore, that the names of Churches might be altered: Also, that the names of dayes in the weeke might be changed, the fish daies to be kept any daies, except Friday and Saturday, and the Lent any time, save onely betwixt Shrovetide and Easter. I have oft-times seene this man, forsaking the Pulpet of his said Parish Church, preach out of an high Elme tree in the middest of the Church-yard,The said Elm tree his preaching place is lately taken down. and then entring the Church, forsaking the Altar, to have sung his high Masse in English, upon a Tombe of the dead towards the North. I heard his Sermon at Pauls Crosse, and I saw the effect that followed: for in the after-noone of that present Sunday, the neighbours, and Tenants to the said bridge, over whose doores the said Shaft had laine, after they had dined, to make themselves strong,Shaft or Maypole saved in pieces and burnt. gathered more helpe, and with great labour raising the Shaft from the hookes (whereon it had rested two and thirty yeeres) they sawed it in pieces, every man taking for his share, so much as had layne over his doore and stall, the length of his house, and they of the Alley, divided amongst them so much as had laine over their Alley gate. Thus was this Idoll (as he tearmed it) mangled, and after burned.

Soone after was there a commotion of the commons in Norfolke, Suffolke, Essex, and other shires, by meanes whereof, streight orders being taken for the suppression of rumors, divers persons were apprehended, and executed by Marshall Law; amongst the which, the Bayliffe of Rumford in Essex was one,Bayliffe of Rumford executed within Ealdgate for words spoken to the priest of the parish. a man very well beloved: he was early in the Morning of Mary Magdalens day (then kept holy-day) brought by the Sheriffes of London, and the Knight Marshall, to the Well within Ealdgate, there to be executed upon a Gibbet set up that morning, where being on the Ladder, he had words to this effect;

Good people, I am come hither to dye, but know not for what offence, except for words by me spoken yester night to Sir Stephen, Curat and Preacher of this Parish, which were these: He asked me what newes in the Country? I answered, heavy newes. Why, quoth he? It is said, quoth I, that many men be up in Essex, but thanks be to God all is in [Page] good quiet about us: and this was all, as God bee my Iudge, &c. Vpon these words of the Prisoner, Sir Stephen to avoid reproach of the people, left the City, and was never heard of sinceamongst them to my knowledge. I heard the words of the prisoner for he was executed upon the pavement of my dore, where I then kept house.

Thus much by digression:Parish Church of Saint Andrew Vndershaft new builded. now againe to the parish Church of Saint Andrew Vndershaft, for it still retaineth the name, which hath beene new builded by the Parishoners there, since the yeare 1520. every man putting to his helping hand, some with their purses, other, with their bodies. Stephen Iennings Marchant-Taylor, sometime Major of London, caused (at his charges) to be builded the whole North side of the great middle Ile, both of the body and Quire, as appeareth by his Armes over everie piller graven, and also the North Ile, which he roofed with timber and seeled: also the whole South side of the Church was glazed, and the Pewes in the South Chappell made of his costs, as appeareth in every Window, and upon the said Pewes. He deceased in the yeere 1524. and was buried in the Gray Fryers Church. Iohn Kirby Marchant-Taylor, sometime one of the Sheriffes, Iohn Garland, Merchant Taylor, and Nicholas Levison, Mercer, Executor to Garland, were great benefactors to this worke: which was finished (to the glazing) in the yeere 1529. and fully finished 1532.

Buried in this Church, Philip Malpas, one of the Sheriffes, 1439.

Sir Robert Dennie, Knight, and after him Thomas Dennie his son, in the yeere, 1421.

Thomas Stokes, Gentleman, Grocer, 1496.

In the New Church, Iohn Nichell, Merchant-Taylor, 1537.

William Draper, Esquire, 1537. Isabel and Margaret his wives.

Nicholas Levison, Mercer, one of the Sheriffes, 1534.

Iohn Gerrard, Woolman, Merchant of the Staple, 1546.

Stepten Kyrton, Merchant-Taylor, Alderman, 1553.

David VVoodroffe, Haberdasher, one of the Sheriffes, 1554.

Stephen VVoodroffe his sonne, gave 100. l. in money, for the which, the poore of that Parish receive two shillings in bread weekely for ever.

Sir Thomas Offley, Merchant-Taylor, Maior, 1556. hee bequeathed the one halfe of all his goods to charitable actions, but the Parish received little benefit thereby.Stephen Woodroffe the best Benefactor to the poore in that Parish.

Thomas Starkey, Skinner, one of the Sheriffes, 1578.

Hugh Offley, Letherseller, one of the Sheriffes, 1588.

William Hanbury, Baker.

These other Monuments I find there beside:

Nicholai de Nate,On a faire plated Stone in the Chancell. Rag [...]sini caro hoc in tumulo repulverescit, spiritus ad Celum reversus reassumptionem carnis expectat. Obiit die 1. Ianuar. 1566. A nativitate vixit, An. 50. Mens. 7. dies 29. Augustinus amantissimo fratri moerens ponere curavit.

Henry Man, Before the doore within the Chancell. Doctor of Divinity in the Vniversity of Oxenford, and sometime Bishop of Man. Which Henry departed this life the 19. day of October, An. Do. 1556. and lyeth buried under this stone.

Memoriae Sacrum.

Resurrectionem in Christo hic expectat Ioannes Stowe, At the upper end of the North Ile in the Quire. Civis Londinensis: Qui in antiquis Monumentis eruendis accuratissima diligentia usus, Angliae Annales, &, Civitatis Londini synopsim bene de sua, bene de postera aetate meritus luculente s [...]ripsit, vitae (que) studie pie & probe decurso. Obiit Aetatis Anno 80. die 5. Aprilis, 1605.

Elizabetha Coniux, ut perpetuum sui amoris testimonium dolens.

Neere to this place,A faire guilded plate in the wall. lyeth buried the body of Simon Burton, Citizen & Wax-Chandler of London, a good Benefactor to the poore of this Parish. Who was three times Master of his Company, and one of the Governours of Saint Thomas Hospitall and of the Common Councel of this Ward 29. yeeres. He had two Wives, Elizabeth and Anne, and had issue by Elizabeth one sonne and foure daughters. He deceased the 23. day of May, Anno [Page] Dom. 1593. being aged 85. yeers: In whose remembrance, his loving Daughter Alice Coldocke erected this Monument.

Neere unto this Monument, lyeth Alice Byng in a Vault with her Father, Simon Burton: In the wal close by the other. shee had three husbands, all Batchelers and Stationers. Her first was Richard Waterson, by him she had a Sonne. Next him was Francis Coldock, by birth a Gentleman, he bare all the Offices in his Company, and had issue two daughters, Ioane and Anne, with whom she lived 40. yeeres. Lastly, Isaac Byng, Gent. who dyed Master of his Company. She dyed the 21. day of May Anno Dom. 1616. Aged 73. yeeres, 5. Moneths, and 25. dayes.

Neere unto this Monument, lyeth buried the body of Dorothy Greswolde, A handsome small Monument in the wall, South in the Quire. the onely Daughter of Roger Greswolde, Citizen and Merchant-Taylor of London: which Roger was the third Son of Richard Greswolde, of Solyhull, in the County of Warwicke, Esquire. She was first married to Iohn Weld, Citizen and Haberdasher of London, who was the second Sonne of Iohn Weld of Eaton, in the County of Chester, Gent. By whom shee had foure Children, viz. Iohn, Elizabeth, Ioane and Dorothy. After his decease, shee married Hugh Offley, Citizen and Alderman of London, and by him had only one Daughter, named Susanna. After his death shee lived a Widdow sixteene yeeres, and being of the age of 60. yeeres, dyed in the true faith of Christ, and hope of eternall happinesse, the 29. of Iune, 1610.

Here before this place, lyeth buried the body of Margery, In the Ile beneath the Quire and on the same side, a comely Monument in the wall. late the Wife of Humfrey Turner, Gent. who deceased the 10. day of December, 1607. being of the age of 56. yeeres. As also the body of her first husband, Master Isaac Sutton, late Citizen and Goldsmith of London: who deceased the 2. day of May, 1589. By which Husband she had issue, 6. Sons and 6. Daughters. All deceasing at the time of her death, onely Ioane excepted, daughter and heire of the said Isaac, married unto William Howpill, Gent.

Tempus & Patientia.

Death hath added to the ornaments of this place, the blessed memoriall of

Edward Warner Esquire a worthy Citizen and Merchant of London, who departed this mortall life the 28. day of October, 1628. he was the second Sonne of Francis Warner, of Parham in the County of Suffolke Esquire, by Mary his second wife, Daughter and Coheire of Sir Edmund Rowse of the said County, Knight. Which Francis Warner was truely and lineally descended from the ancient and generous Family of the Warners, who possessed a place of their owne name at Warners Hall in great Waltham in the County of Essex.

He dyed without issue, and made Francis Warner of Parham aforesaid Esquire, his Nephew and next heire in blood, the Executor of his Will, and principall heire to his estate, who out of duty and affection to the memory of his deare Vncle, hath dedicated this Monument.

He had to his first wife Mary, In the lower part of the Monument. daughter of Master Aylmer of Risden in Hartfordshire; And to his second, Margaret, daughter of Master Iohn Cheynie.

At entrance into the Quire, and before the Pulpet: ‘Here lyeth buried Ioane Cartwright, A faire Gravestone, with the persons of him and her engraven in brasse. the Wife of Abraham Cartwright, Citizen and Draper of London; who had issue by him foure Sons and five daughters. And dyed the 24. of November, An. Dom. 1609.’

Gods blessings by Christian Benefactors, to the poore of this Parish.

Master Stephen Woodroffe, Citizen and Haberdasher of London, by his last will and testament, bearing date the 20. of April, 1576. gave one hundred pound in money, to the use of the poore of this Parish: with which summe, and 20. l. 12. s. 4. d. more laid out by the said Parish, they purchased a house, called by the name of the White Horse in Holy-well street, in the Parish of S. Leonard in Shorditch, in the County of Middlesex. Out of which, is and hath been given to the poore of the said Parish, every Sabbath since his death, 2. s. in bread, and so shall continue for ever, 5. l. 4. s. per annum.

[Page] Master Simon Burton, Citizen and Merchant-Taylor of London, by his deed indented, dated the 14. of Ianuary, 1579. hath appointed 32. s. to be given yeerely for ever to eight poore Widdowes, or poore housholders of the said parish: to bee issuing out of all that Messuage or Tenement, set and being in the said parish, late in the tenure or occupation of Peter Hewes, and Edward Hide: to bee paid to the Church-wardens of the said parish, for the use of the poore aforesaid, every quarter 8. s. or within 40. dayes after every quarter for ever quarterly, to every of the said 8. persons, 12. d. a piece.

Also, he gave unto S. Thomas Hospitall, two Closes of Land or Meadow ground, lying in the parish of Shorditch, upon condition, that the Governours of the said Hospitall, or their Assignes, shall give unto 30. poore persons of the said parish (wherof the Minister, Clark and Sexton to be three of them) on the 21. 22. or 23. dayes of December, yeerely for ever, the summe of 26. s. whereof 20. s. to bee paid amongst the 30. poore, by 8. d. apeece, and the other 6. s. for a Sermon yeerely to be made for ever in Lent.

Master Hugh Offley Citizen and Alderman of London, by his last will and testament, dated the 2. day of October, 1594. and by an Indenture of the same date, explaining his minde; gave to the Parson and Church-wardens of the said parish, and their successors for ever, an Annuity or rent charge of 4. l. to be issuing out of his Messuages or tenements in Limestreet, London, and within the said parish: then or lately in the severall tenures of Thomas Offley his sonne, Iohn Norman, Iames Boomer, Susanna Garret, Widdow, Thomas Blomefield, and Widdow Allison, or their assignes: To be paid yeerely at the Feast of the Birth of our Lord God, and the Nativity of S. Iohn Baptist, or within 14. daies next ensuing either the said Feasts, by even portions, with a distresse for non payment therof▪ to the end & intent, that on the first Sunday in every month, monthly for ever, there shall be given to 12. of the poorest persons inhabiting in the said parish, to be named and appointed by the Parson and Church-wardens, for the time being, receiving the Communion in the said Church, if any be there celebrated, each of them 3. d. apeece in money and a penny loafe of bread. And to the Clarke monethly 4. d. in money, and to the Sexton 3. d. in money, and one penny loafe, being the advantage of the 12. d.

Also, he gave 5. s. a yeere, for ever yeerely, to bee paid to such Parson or Curate, as shall monethly minister the Communion to the said poore people: and to a learned Preacher for foure severall Sermons, to bee made in the said parish Church at foure severall dayes yeerely for ever, five shillings for every Sermon.

Master William Hanbury, Citizen and VVhite-Baker of London, by a surrender, bearing date the 11. day of August, 1595. did give unto his daughter, Mistris Elizabeth Spearing, wife of Master George Spearing Merchant, certaine coppy-hold land, lying and being in Stebunheath and Radcliffe, in the County of Middlesex. Vpon condition, that she, her heires or assignes, shall pay to the Parson and Church-wardens of the said parish, for the use of the poore people there, 52. s. yeerly for ever, at the Birth of our Lord God and the Purification of our Lady the Virgin: which (by consent of the parish) is bestowed among the poore abroad, on Wednesday weekly 12. d.

Mistris Alice Hanbury, widdow, by her last will and testament, dated the 3. day of December, 1595. did give unto the said Master George Spearing, one tenement in the said parish, wherein William Bridges a Taylor then dwelled: upon condition, that the said George, his heires or assignes, shall pay to the Church-wardens of the said parish, and their successors, to the use of the poore and impotent people there, 13. s. 4. d. yeerely for ever, at the Feasts of the Annunciation of our Lady, and Saint Michael the Archangell, by even portions: Or else to assure to the said parish, the like value in some other place: which summe (by consent of the parish) is given in coales amongst the poore yeerely for ever at Christmas.

Mr. Ralfe Carter, Citizen and Salter of London, by his Deed indented, dated [Page] the 22. day of October, 1576. hath given to divers Feoffees, between the Parishes of Alhallowes in Lumbard-street, and Saint Andrews Vndershaft, after the decease of Alice his wife, one Messuage, with a Garden, called the Halfe-moone in East-Smith-field, in the parish of Saint Buttolphs without Ealdgate, to the end that there should be distributed to the poore in either Parish, in bread every Sunday weekely for ever, twelve pence, and thirty shillings in Coales to eyther parish, betweene Midsummer and Christmasse for ever.

Mistris Margaret Moore, widdow, late wife of William Moore, Citizen and Merchant-taylor of London, by her deed indented, dated the tenth day of May, 1583. hath given to divers Feoffees of the said parish, one messuage, which she had by the gift of her said husband, and situate in the same parish, now in the occupation of Thomas Fitall; to the end that there should be distributed to the poore there yeerely for ever, 20. shillings, at the discretion of the Parson and Churchwardens: And to a Preacher to make foure Sermons quarterly, every yeere for ever 20. shillings.

Dame Mary Ramsey, late wife to Sir Thomas Ramsey, Knight, Alderman and Lord Maior of London, by her Testament and last Will, dated the 19. of Jan. 1596. gave to the L. Maior, Communalty and Citizens of London, one messuage or tenement, situated in the Parish of Saint Peter the poore, in Broadstreet Ward, London, then or late in the occupation of Richard Hull, Citizen and Draper; to the end that they should yeerely (after her decease) pay to the Parson and Churchwardens of this Parish, forty shillings, to be distributed among the poore of the said Parish, at the discretion of the Parson and the Churchwardens then being, and by direction and allowance of two of the chiefest Parishioners: And to the like use for ever, twenty shillings more yeerely for ever, after decease of one Elizabeth Worley, in the County of Northhampton, to be paid and distributed in the like manner.

Mr. Iohn Hide, Citizen and Merchant Taylor of London, by his last Will and Testament, dated the 8. day of September, 1604. did give unto the Parson and Church-wardens of the said Parish and their successors, a yeerely rent of Coles, to be issuing out of all his Lands, Tenements and Hereditaments, in the Precinct of the Minories without Ealdgate, London, to be paid yeerely at the [...]east of the Nativity of S. Iohn Baptist for ever, or within 30 daies next ensuing with distresse for non-payment thereof: To the intent that there should be bestowed yeerely in old clift Char-coles, 30. shillings thereof, and one other 12. d. yeerely given to some trusty body, to see the due measuring thereof: And the same coale to be delivered to the poore of the same Parish, alwaies two dayes before S. Michael the Archangel yeerly, by advice of the Parson and Church-wardens for the time being, and 3. or 4. Ancients of the said parish.

Mr. Edmond Hill, Citizen and Draper of London, by his testament and last will, dated the 5. day of August, 1609. did give and bequeath to the Church-wardens and parishioners of this parish the summe of 52. pounds, to be imployed by the parishioners, as in a stocke for ever, and the benefit thereby arising, to bee given weekely to the poore in bread.

Master Laurence Overton, Citizen and Mercer of London, by his testament and last will, dated the 3. day of Sept. 1612. did give and bequeath to the poore of the said parish (whereof then he was a parishioner) the summe of 20. pounds, to be distributed at the discretion of the Churchwardens for the time being, and his Executors.

Their bounds and limits are thus: First they goe East, so far as the house of one Allen Barker, Grocer, over against Billeter lane end, and so North all the side of the high street, to Mr. Francis Philips house, over against the Kingshead Taverne, West. There, on the South side of the high street, beginning at the Italian Ordinary of Ieronymo di Soldi, they turne East to one Thomas Georges, two houses beyond the Pewter Pot. Then they turne backe into Limestreet, South, on both sides the way, so far as the house of Nicholas Hobland, Merchant stranger, on the one side, and [Page] William Ruddock, Taylor, on the other. Returning backe, they crosse the way into S. Mary Axe, all the West side throughout the whole street, with some certaine houses over against London wall towards Bishopsgate, the last whereof is the dwelling house of Griffin Martin, Trumpeter. So turning backe into S. Mary Axe, they goe upon the East side, from the house of Master Iohn Holding, commonly called Fletchers hall, and so on to Master George Sares, adjoyning to the Church, and there end. Master Henry Mason is Parson there, but my friendly furtherance was by Thomas Iohnson the Clarke.

Now downe St. Mary street, by the West end of the Church towards the North,S. Mary street. stand divers faire houses for Merchants, and other: namely, one faire great house builded by Sir William Pickering the father, possessed by Sir William his Sonne,Pickering house. and since by Sir Edward Wootton of Kent. North from this place is the Fletchers hall, Fletchers Hall. and so downe to the corner of that street over against London wall; and againe Eastwards to a faire house lately new builded, partly by Mr. Robert Beale, one of the Clerkes of the Councell.

Then come you to the Papey, Papey a brother hood or Hospitall for poore Priests. a proper house, wherein sometime was kept a Fraternity or brother-hood of S. Charity, and Saint Iohn Evangelist, called the Papey, or poore impotent Priests, (for in some language, Priests are called Papes) founded in the yeere, 1430. by William Oliver, William Barnabie and Iohn Stafford Chaplens, or Chauntry Priests in London, for a Master, two Wardens, &c. Chaplens, Chauntry Priests, Conducts, and other brethren and sisters, that should be admitted into the Church of Saint Augustine Papey in the wall. The brethren of this house becomming lame, or otherwise into great poverty, were here relieved, as to have Chambers, with certaine allowance of bread, drinke, and cole, and one old man and his wife to see them served and to keepe the house cleane. This brotherhood (amongst others) was suppressed in the reigne of Edward the sixt, since the which time, in this house hath been lodged Master Morris of Essex, Sir Francis Wal [...]ingham, principall Secretary to her Majesty, Master Barret of Essex, &c.

Then next is one great house, large of roomes, faire courts and garden plots, sometime pertaining to the Bassets, since that,The Abbot of Bury his Inne. to the Abbots of Bury in Suffolke, and therefore called Buries markes, corruptly, Bevis markes. Bevis markes, and since the dissolution of the Abby of Bury, to Thomas Heneage the father, and to Sir Thomas his sonne. Then next unto it, is the before spoken Priory of the holy Trinity, to wit, the West and North part thereof, which stretcheth up to Ealdgate, where we first begun.

Now in the second way from Eald-gate, more toward the South, from the VVell or Pumpe aforesaid,Fenne Church street. lyeth Fenne-Church street, on the right hand whereof, somewhat west from the South end of Belzetters lane, Ironmongers hall. is the Ironmongers hall: which company was incorporated in the third of Edward the fourth: Richard Fleming was their first Master, Nicholas Marshall and Richard Coxe were Custos or VVardens. And on the left hand or South side (even by the gate and wall of the City) runneth downe a lane to the Tower-hill the South part whereof is called Woodroffe lane, Woodroffe lane by the wall of the Tower hil [...]. and out of this lane toward the VVest, a street called Hart-street. In this street, at the South-east corner thereof,Crossed F [...] ers Church. sometime stood one house of Crouched or (Crossed) Fryers founded by Ralph Hosier; and VVilliam Sabernes, about the yeere, 1298. Stephen the 10. Prior of the Holy Trinity in London, granted three tenements for 13. s. 8. d. by the yeere, unto the said Ralph Hosiar and VVilliam Sabernes, who afterwards became Fryers of S. Crosse: Adam was the first Prior of that house. These Fryers founded their house in the place of certaine tenements, purchased of Richard Wimblush, the 12. Prior of the Holy Trinity, in the yeere, 1319. which was confirmed by Edward the third, the seventeenth of his reigne, valued at 52. l. 13. s. 4. d. surrendred the 12. of November, the 30. of Henry the eighth.

In this house was buried Master Iohn Tirres.

Nicholas the son of VVilliam Kyriell, Esquire.

Sir Thomas Mellington, Baron of VVemese, and Dame Elizabeth his VVife, [Page] daughter of Wil. Botear, Baron of Wome.

R [...]. Mellington, Esquire, and Elizabeth his wife, daughter to Ferreis of Ousley.

Henry Lovell, son to Wil. Lord Lovell.

Dame Isabel, wife to William Edwards, Maior of London, 1471.

Wil. Norborow, and Elizabeth his wife.

Wil. Norborow, and Beatrix his wife.

William Brosked, Esquire.

William Bowes.

Lionel Mollington, Esquire, sonne of Robert Mollington.

Nicholas Couderow, and Elizabeth his wife.

Sir Iohn Stratford, Knight.

Sir Tho. Asseldey, Knight, Clerke of the Crowne, Submarshall of England, and Justice of the Shire of Middlesex.

Iohn Rest, Grocer, Maior of Lond. 1516.

Sir Iohn Skevington, Knight, Merchanttaylor, Sheriffe, 1520.

Sir Iohn Milborne, Draper, Maior in the yeere 1521. was buried there, but removed since to S. Edmonds in Lumbard street.

Sir Rice Griffith, beheaded on the Tower hill, 1531.

In place of this Church is now a Carpenters yard, a Tennis-court, and such like: the Friers Hall was made a glasse-house, or house wherein was made glasse of divers sorts to drinke in; which house in the yeere 1575. on the 4. of Septemb. burst out into a terrible fire,The glasse house burned. where being practised all meanes possible to quench it, notwithstanding, as the same house in a small time before, had consumed a great quantity of wood by making of glasses, now it selfe, having within it about 40000. billets of wood, was also consumed to the stone wals, which neverthelesse greatly hindred the fire from spreading any further.

Adjoyning unto this Friers Church,Almes houses by Crossed Friers. by the East end therof in Woodroffe lane, towards the Tower hill, are certaine proper Almes-houses,Testamōt of Sir Iohn Milborne. 14. in number, builded of bricke & timber, founded by Sir Ioh. Milborn, Draper, sometime Maior, 1521. wherein be placed 13. aged poore men and their wives, if they have wives: these have their dwelling rent-free, and 2. s. 4. d. apiece, the first day of every moneth for ever.

Whereas there is mention made by Mr. Stow (in this his Survey) of a monthly pension of 4. s. to belong to a foureteenth house, being one of the said alms-houses; also of certaine bread & coales, to be delivered to the Parishes of S. Edmund in Lumbard street and S. Michael in Cornehill: and of divers messuages and garden-plots in the Parish of S. Olave in Hart-street, London, mentioned to be given to the Company of Drapers, for the performance thereof: Vpon a perfect view of the Will it selfe, by which the said Almes-houses were given to the Company of Drapers, and upon other writings touching the same; And withall, upon diligent and painefull search touching that matter; I find that Mr. Stowe was much deceived or mistaken in that matter; and that there was no such bread and coales given to those Parishes, neither at any time had the Company and such houses or gardens, whereby to performe the same. But the Company, by the Will, had lands given them in other Parishes, (which now they doe enjoy) onely to maintaine the Almes-houses, and for payment of the pensions there, and to pay some small summes of money to the Officers and others of that Company, for the looking to the houses, and paines taking in paying the pensions, according as by the Will is limited, and for no other use or purpose.

Next to these Almes-houses is the Lord Lumleyes house,L. Lumleys house. builded in the time of King Henry the 8. by Sir Thomas Wiat the father, upon one plot of ground of late pertaining to the foresaid Crossed Friers, where part of their house stood: And this is the farthest part of Ealdgate Ward toward the South, and ioyneth to the Tower hill. The other side of that Lane, over against the Lord Lumleys house, on the wall side of the Citie, is now for the most part (or altogether) builded, even to Ealdgate.

Then have ye on the South side of Fenne-Church street, over against the wall or Pumpe, amongst other faire and large-builded houses, one that sometime belonged to the Prior of Monte Ioves, Prior of Horne-Church in Essex. or Monasterie Cornute, a Cell to Monte Ioves beyond the Seas. In Essex it was the Priors Inne, when he repaired to this Citie. Then a Lane that leadeth downe by Northumberland house, [Page] towards the Crossed Friers, as is aforeshewed.

This Northumberland house, in the Parish of Saint Katharine Coleman, belonged to Henry Percy, Northumb. house. Earle of Northumberland, in the 33. of Hen. the 6. but of late being left by the Earles, the gardens thereof were made into Bowlingalleys, and other parts into Dicing-houses, common to all commers for their money, there to bowle and hazard. But now of late, so many Bowling-Alleys, and other houses for unlawfull gaming, have beene raised in other parts of the Citie and the Suburbs, that this their ancient and onely patron of misrule, is left and forsaken of her Gamesters, and therefore turned into a number of great rents, small cottages, for strangers and others.

At the East end of this lane, in the way from Ealdgate toward the Crossed Friers, The poore Jurie. of old time, were certaine tenements, called the Poore Iurie, of Iewes dwelling there.

Next unto this Northumberland house,Parish Church of S. Katharine Coleman. is the Parish Church of S. Katharine, called Coleman; which addition of Coleman, was taken of a great Haw yard, or Garden, of old time called Coleman haw, in the parish of the Trinity, now called Christs-Church, and in the Parish of S. Katharine, and All Saines, called Coleman Church.

Monuments in this Church, I finde none recorded by Mr. Stowe; and upon my view, these were the most remarkable that I found there:

Here lyeth the body of Henry Webbe, In the Northeast end of the Chancell, an ancient Tombe. Esquire, Gentleman Vsher to King Henry the eighth. And here lyeth also Barbara his wife. She dyed the 5. day of Februarie, An. Dom. 1552. And he the last day of March, 1553.

Here lyeth the body of Sir Henry Billingsley, A faire stone on the groūd by the Cō munion Table. Knight, Alderman and Lord Maior of London, who dyed the 22. day of November, An. Dom. 1606. And also the body of Elizabeth his first wife, who departed this life the 29. of Iuly, 1577.

Here lyeth the body buried,A small Alabaster Monumēt fixed in the wall. of Elizabeth, late wife to Henry Billingsley, one of the Queenes Majesties Customers in the Port of London, who dyed the 29. day of Iuly, An. Dom. 1577.

In obitum ejus.

Stat sua cuique dies,

atque ultima funeris hora,

Cum Deus hinc & Mors

insidiosa vocant.

Nec tibi, vel pietas tua,

velforma Elizabetha,

Praesidium fate

ne trahereris erat,

Occidis exactis terris

cum conjuge lustris,

At septem vitae

lustra fuêre tua.

Fecerat & proles

jam te numerosa parentem,

Filiolae trinae

caetera turba mores,

Vndecimo in partu,

quum Mors accessit & una

Matrem te & Patrem

sustulit undecimum,

Scilicet ex mundo,

ex terrena faece malisque

Sustulit, at superis

reddidit atque Deo,

Est testis sincera fides,

testis tua virtus.

Grata viro virtus,

grata fidesque Deo,

Hic charitas dormit,

At the doore [...] to the [...] Cha [...] a very [...] faire [...] on the [...] gro [...]

nominata beata Beatrix,

Atque Dei donum,

quoniam fuit optima Conjux.

Filia Georgii Cotton, Arm. Vxor Roberti Barners.

Obiit 5. Novēb. Anno Dom. 1616.

I had rather bee a Doore-keeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the Palaces of Princes.

An Epitaph on the death of the Noble, vertuous, and charitable Gentlewoman, Mistris Barners, whose body lyeth under the stone you tread on.

IN ancient times,

In the north [...] just against the Gravestone.

the friends surviving gave

Some rich memoriall

to the dead friends grave,

Gold, Pearles or Gemmes,

which custome did intend,

Our riches ought

to wait upon our friend,

[Page] In life and death.

O blessed Ages, when

Men parted fortunes,

and not fortunes men [...]

But now perverted

are our present ends,

That (for wealth) sell

the fame of living friends:

The dead we live by,

now can scant afford

The rites and sacrifice

of one good word:

Of which, lest I be one,

though I can bring

(For worthy Obsequie)

no precious thing;

My gratitude

presents unto her Hearse,

My teares for Balme [...]

For Offering, my sad Verse.

Give leave then, griefe,

let my drown'd Muse declare

What she that's dead was,

unto them that are.

The Rule and Index

to finde all the good

That ever Heaven dealt

upon woman-hood:

For if we but

anatomize her life,

We find both a good woman,

and good wife:

First, she lov'd God,

Not like the Pharisee,

In ostentation

and hypocrisie;

But even with all her heart,

and all her soule:

She secretly

did raging sinne controule:

For she (for goodnesse sake)

was innocent,

And not for glory,

or feare of punishment.

Next, to her neighbour

did her love extend,

Ready to helpe at need,

and to befriend

The poore, and those

that never could repay,

But with their prayers

at the latter day:

The remnant of her love

she did bestow

Vpon her Husband,

not in outward show,

Or else in feign'd

adulterate flattery;

But in sound truth,

and deepe sincerity.

Thus did she live,

divided in her love

From this unworthy world:

and Nature then,

Which had but lent her,

tooke her backe agen.

Where let us live in peace,

and let us try

To live like her,

that we like her may dye.

Come hither, Women,

leave your vanities,

Your lust, your scornes,

your pride, your fooleries?

For hither you must all.

The Dust and grave

All your adored

braveries must have:

And all those beauties

that are now afraid

Of Ayre, of Sunne,

must in the ground be laid.

Then decke your soules,

unto whose quintessence,

Nor time, nor death,

nor grave can bring offence.

For so you may

(for ever) beautifie

Your selves as Angels,

in eternity.

FINIS.

§

Concerning Charity to the poore in this Parish, besides the Christian disposition of the parishioners themselves, I finde by information, that Sir Iames Deane hath given two shillings weekly in bread for ever, which is duely performed every Friday. And as much they themselves doe give in bread every Sunday.

Sir Henry Billingsley (by his will) gave the sum of 200. l. for reliefe of the poor in this Parish; but by not making his own eyes Overseers, and his hands his trustiest Executors, his good intent is injured, and the poore disappointed.

The limits and bounds of this Parish need no relation, because they are contained within so small a compasse, and at every place where their marke is fixed, there is likewise a Katharine wheele [Page] of iron, not easie to be broken off or removed. Mr. Wright, the learned Parson here, gave me his gentle furtherance, shewing mee a glasse window in the South Ile of the Church, where is figured the shape of an Alderman in Scarlet, kneeling on his knees, and the words set downe by him, doe expresse his name to be William White, Maior of this honourable Citie. Whereby his is perswaded, and I am likewise of his opinion, (by divers opinions thereto inducing) that all that Ile was either of his building, or (at least) repairing, it appeareth so novell to the rest.

Then have ye Blanch Apleton, Mannor of Blanch Apleton. whereof I read in the thirteenth of Edward the first, that a lane behind the same Blanch Apleton, was granted by the King to be inclosed and shut up. This Blanch Apleton was a Mannor, belonging to Sir Thomas Roos of Hamelake, Knight, the seventh of Richard the second, standing at the North-east corner of Mart lane, Mart lane. so called, of a priviledge sometime enjoyed to keepe a Mart there; long since discontinued, and therefore forgotten, so as nothing remaineth for memory, but the name of Mart lane, and that not uncorruptly termed Marke lane.

I read that in the third of Edward the fourth, all Baskert-makers,Basket-makers at Blanch Apleton, Wyer-drawers, and other Forrainers, were permitted to have shops in this Mannour of Blanch Apleton, and not else-where within this Citie, or suburbs thereof.

And this also being the farthest West part of this Ward on that South-side, I leave it, with three Parish Churches; Saint Katharine Christs-Church, S. Andrew Vndershaft, and S. Katharine Coleman; and three Halls of Companies; the Brick-layers Hall, the Fletchers Hall, and the Ironmongers Hall.

It hath an Alderman, his Deputy, common Counsellours, six; Constables, six; Scavengers, nine; VVard mote men for Inquest, eighteene, and a Beadle. It is taxed to the Fifteene in London, at five pounds.

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LIMESTREET VVARD.

THe next is Limestreet VVard,Limestreet Ward and taketh the name of Limestreet, Limestreet. of making or selling of lime there (as is supposed:) the East side of this Limestreet, from the North corner therof, to the middest of Ealdgate Ward, as is aforesaid: the West side, for the most part, from the said North corner, southward, is of this Limestreet Ward: the South end on both sides is of Langbourn Ward: the body of this Limestreet Ward,High street of Cornehill. is of the high street called Cornhill street, which stretcheth from Limestreet on the South side, to the West corner of Leaden-hall: and on the North side, from the South-west corner, to S. Mary street, to another corner over against Leaden-hall.

Now for Saint Mary street, the west side thereof is this Limestreet Ward, and also the street which runneth by the North end of this S. Mary street, on both sides; frō thence west to an house called the Wrestbers, a signe so called, almost to Bishopsgate. And these are the bounds of this small Ward.

Monuments or places notable in this Ward, bee these: In Limestreet are divers faire houses for Merchants and others: there was sometime a mansion house of the Kings,An house in Limestreet, called the Kings Artirce. called the Kings Artirce, whereof I finde record in the 14. of Edward the first, but now growne out of knowledge. I read also of another great house in the West side of Limestreet, having a Chappell on the South, and a Garden on the West, then belonging to the Lord Nevill, which Garden is now called the Greene yard of the Leaden hall.

This house, in the ninth of Richard the second, pertained to Sir Simon Burley, and Sir Iohn Burley his brother: and of late the said house was taken downe, and the fore-front thereof new builded of timber, by Hugh Offley, Alderman.

At the North-west corner of Limestreet, was (of old time) one great Messuage, Benbridges Inne. called Benbridges Inne: Raph Holland, Draper, about the yeere 1452. gave it to Iohn Gill, Master, and to the Wardens and Fraternity of Taylors, and Linnen Armorers of Saint Iohn Baptist in London, and to their successors for ever. They did set up in place therof a faire large frame of Timber, containing in the high street one great house, and before it, to the corner of Limestreet, three other tenements, the corner house being the largest: and then downe Limestreet divers proper Tenements. All which the Merchant-taylors in the reigne of Edward the sixth, sold to Stephen Kirton, Merchant-taylor and Alderman: he gave with his daughter Grisild, to Nicholas Woodroffe, the said great house, with two tenements before it, in lieu of an hundred pounds, and made it up in money, three hundred sixty six pounds, thirteene shillings, foure pence. This worshipfull man, and the Gentlewoman his widdow after him, kept those houses downe Limestreet in good reparations, never put out but one Tenant, tooke no fines, nor raised rents for them, which was tenne shillings the piece yeerely: But whether that favour did over-live her Funerall, the Tenants now can best declare the contrary.

Next unto this on the high street was the Lord Sowches messuage or tenement,Messuage of the L. Sowch. and other. In place whereof, Richard Wethell, Merchant-Taylor, builded a faire house, with an high Tower, [Page] the second in number, the first of timber that ever I learned to have beene builded, to overlooke neighbours in this Citie.

This Richard, then a yong man, became in short time so tormented with gouts in his joynts, of his hands and legs, that he could neither feed himselfe, nor goe further than he was led, much lesse was he able to climbe, and take the pleasure of the heighth of his Tower.

Then is there another faire house, builded by Stephen Kirton, Alderman: Alderman Lee did then possesse it, and againe new builded it: but now it is in the custodie of Sir William Cravon.

Then is there a faire house,Messuage called the Green-gate. of old time called the Greene-gate, by which name one Michael Pistoy, a Lumbard, held it, with a tenement and nine shops, in the reigne of Richard the second, who in the 15. of his reigne, gave it to Roger Corphull and Tho. Bromester, Esquires, by the name of the Greene-gate, in the Parish of S. Andrew upon Cornehill, in Limestreet Ward: since the which time, Philip Malpas, sometime Alderman, and one of the Sheriffes, dwelled therein, and was there robbed and spoiled of his goods,Philip Malpas robbed to a great value, by Iacke Cade, and other Rebels, in the yeere 1449.

Afterwards, in the reigne of Henrie the seventh, it was seased into the Kings hands, and then granted first unto Iohn Alston, after that, unto William de la Rivers, and since by Henry the eighth, to Iohn Mutas, a Pickard, or Frenchman, who dwelled there, and harboured in his House many Frenchmen, that kalendred wolsteds, and did other things, contrary to the Franchises of the Citizens. Wherefore on evill May day, which was in the yeere 1517. the Prentises and other spoiled his house, and if they could have found Mutas, Mutas house spoiled. they would have stricken off his head. Sir Peter Mutas, sonne to the said Iohn Mutas, sold this house to David Woodroofe, Alderman, whose sonne, Sir Nicholas Woodroofe, Alderman, sold it over to Iohn Moore, Alderman, that then possessed it.

Next is a house called the Leaden Porch, Leaden Porch. lately divided into two tenements, whereof one is a Taverne, and then one other house for a Merchant, likewise called the Leaden Porch, but now turned to a Cookes house.

Next is a faire house and a large, wherein divers Maioralties have beene kept, whereof twaine in my remembrance; to wit, Sir William Bowyer, and Sir Henry Huberthorne.

The next is Leaden-Hall, Mannor of Leaden Hall. of which I read, that in the yeere 1309. it belonged to Sir Hugh Nevill, Knight, and that the Lady Alice his wife, made a Feoffment thereof, by the name of Leaden Hall, with the advousions of S. Peter on Cornehill, & other Churches, to Rich. Earle of Arundell and Surrey, 1362.

More, in the yeere 1380. Alice Nevil, widdow to Sir Iohn Nevill, Knight, of Essex, confirmed to Thomas Cogshall, and others, the said Mannor of Leaden Hall, and the advousions, &c.

In the yeere 1384. Humfrey de Bohun, Earle of Hereford, had the said Mannor. And in the yeere 1408. Robert Rikeden of Essex, and Margaret his wife, confirmed to Richard Whittington, and other Citizens of London, the said Mannor of Leaden Hall, with the Appurtenances, the advousion of S. Peters Church, S. Margaret Pattens, &c.

And in the yeere 1411. the said Whittington and other confirmed the same to the Maior and Communalty of London, whereby it came to the possession of the Citie.

Then in the yeere 1443. the 21. of Henry the sixth, Iohn Hatherley, Maior, purchased licence of the said King to take up 200.Licence to take up Lead to the building of a common granary. fodder of Lead, for the building of water Conduits, a common Granarie, and the Crosse in West Cheape, more richly, for the honour of the Citie.

In the yeere next following, the Parson and Parish of Saint Dunstane in the East of London, seeing the famous and mighty man (for the words bee in the Grant; Cum nobilis & potens vir,) Simon Eyre, Citizen of London, among other his workes of Piety, effectually determined to erect and build a certain Granarie, upon the soile of the same Citie at Leaden-Hall, of his owne charges, for the common utility of the said Citie; to the amplifying and inlarging of the said Granarie, granted to Henry Frowicke, [Page] then Maior, the Aldermen and Communalty and their successors for ever, all their tenements, with the appurtenances, sometime called the Horse-mill in Grasse-street, for the annuall rent of foure pounds, &c.

Also, certaine Evidences of an Alley and Tenements pertaining to the Horse-mill, Horse-mill in Grasse-street. adjoyning to the said Leaden-Hall in Grasse-street, given by William Kingstone, Fishmonger, unto the parish Church of St. Peter upon Cornehill, doe specifie the said Granary, to be builded by the said honourable and famous Merchant, Simon Eyre sometime an Vpholster, then by changing of his Copy a Draper. Leaden-hall new builded to bee a common Garner. Simon Eyre, sometime an Vpholster, and then a Draper, in the yeere, 1419. He builded it of squared stone in forme as now it sheweth, with a faire and large Chappell in the East side of the Quadrant, over the porch of which hee caused to be written, Dextra Domini exaltavit me, The Lords right hand exalted me.

Within the said Church,A Chappell builded in Leaden hall. on the north wall was written, Honorandus famosus Mercator Simon Eyre, hujus operis, &c. In English thus: The honourable and famous Merchant Simon Eyre, founder of this worke, once Maior of this City, Citizen and Draper of the same, departed out of this life the 18. day of September, the yeere from the incarnation of Christ, 1459. and the 38. yeere of the reigne of King Henry the 6. He was buried in the Parish Church of St. Mary Wolnoth in Lumbard street: hee gave by his Testament, which I have read, to be distributed to all Prisons in London, or within a mile of that City, somewhat to relieve them.

More,Legacies given by Simon Eyre. Daily Service by note, &c. and three free schooles in the Leaden Hall. hee gave 2000. Markes upon a condition, which not performed, was then to be distributed to maids marriages, and other deeds of charity: he also gave 3000. Markes to the Drapers, upon condition, that they should within one yeere after his decease, establish perpetually a Master or Warden, five secular Priests, sixe Clarkes, and two Queristers, to sing daily Divine Service by note for ever, in his Chappell of the Leaden-Hall: Also, one Master, with an Vsher for Grammer, one Master for Writing, and the third for Song, with houses there newly builded for them for ever, the Master to have for his Salary, tenne pounds, and every other Priest 8. pounds, every other Clerke, 5-pounds, 6. shillings, 8. pence, and every other Chorister, five Markes. And if the Drapers refused this to doe, within one yeere after his decease; then the three thousand Markes to remaine to the Prior and Covent of Christs-church in London, with condition to establish as is aforesaid, within two yeeres after his decease. And if they refused, then the three thousand Markes to bee disposed by his Executors, as they best could devise in workes of charity.

Thus much for his Testament, not performed by establishing of divine service in his Chappell or Free Schooles for Scholars;Liber albus. neither how the stocke of three thousand Markes (or rather five thousand Markes) was imployed by his Executors, could I ever learne: he left issue Thomas, who had issue Thomas, &c. True it is, that in the yeere 1464. the third of Edward the fourth, it was agreed by the Maior,Beame for Tronage of wools at Leaden-hall. Aldermen and Cōmunalty of London, that notwithstanding the King Letters patents, lately before granted unto them, touching the Tronage or weighing of Wares to be holden at the Leaden-Hall; yet suit should be made to the King for new letters patents, to be granted to the Maior of the Staple, for the Tronage of Wools to bee holden there, and order to be taken by the discretion of Thomas Cooke, then Maior, the Counsell of the City, Geffrey Filding then Maior of the Staple at Westminster, and of the Kings Councell, what should be paid to the Maior and Aldermen of the City, for the laying and housing of the Wools there, that so they might be brought forth and weighed, &c.

Touching the Chappell there,A brotherhood of 60 Priests in the Chappell of Leaden hall. I find, that in the yeere 1466. by licence obtained of King Edward the fourth in the 6. of his reigne, a Fraternity of the Trinity of 60. Priests (beside other brethren and sisters) in the same Chappell, was founded by William Rouse, Iohn Risby, and Thomas Ashby Priests, some of the which 60. Priests, every Market-day in the fore-noone, did celebrate Divine Service there, to such Market people as repaired to prayer, and once every yeere they met all together, and had solemne Service, with Procession of all the Brethren [Page] and Sisters. This foundation was in the yeere 1512. by a common Councell confirmed to the 60. Trinity Priests and to their successors, at the will of the Maior and Communalty.

In the yeere 1484. a great fire hapned upon the Leaden-Hall, Leaden-hall burned. by what casualty I know not, but much housing was there destroyed, with all the stocks for Guns, and other provision belonging to the City, which was a great losse, and no lesse charge to bee repaired by them.

In the yeere 1503. the eighteenth of Henry the seventh,Rich. Arol. a request was made by the Commons of the City, concerning the usage of the said Leaden-hall, in forme as followeth:

Please it the Lord Maior, Aldermen, and Common Councell,A request of the Citizens to the Maior and Aldermen. to enact, that all Frenchmen bringing Canvas, Linnen cloth, and other wares to be sold, and all Forreins bringing Wolsteds, Sayes, Stamins, Kiverings, Nayles, Iron worke, or any other wares, and also all manner Forreins, bringing Lead to the City to be sold; Shall bring all such their wares aforesaid, to the open Market of the Leaden-Hall, Leaden hall Market for Canvas and linnen cloth. and no where else to be shewed, sold, and uttered, like as of old time it hath been used, upon paine of forfeiture of all the said wares, shewed or sold in any other place than aforesaid: And the shew of the said wares to bee made three dayes in a weeke, that is to say, Munday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. It is also thought reasonable, that the common Beame be kept from henceforth in the Leaden-hall, and the Farmer to pay therefore reasonable rent to the Chamber: for better it is that the Chamber have advantage thereby, than a forraine person. And also the said Leaden-hall, which is more chargeable now by halfe than profitable, shall better beare out the charges thereof. Also the common Beame for Wool at Leadenhall, Common Beame to be kept in Leaden hall. Leaden hall pertaining to the Communalty. may pay yeerely a rent to the Chamber of London, toward the supportation and charges of the same place: for reason it is, that a common Office occupied upon a common ground, beare a charge to the use of the Communalty. Also that Forraines bringing Wools, Fels, or any other Merchandizes or wares to Leaden-hall, Wools, Fels, and other Merchandizes to be sold in Leaden-hall. to be kept there for the sale and Market; may pay more largely for keeping of their goods, than freemen. Thus much for the request of the Commons at that time.

Now to set downe some proofe,Leaden hall used as a Garner. that the said Hall hath been imployed and used as a Granary for Corne and graine (as the same was first appointed) leaving all former examples,Roger Achley Maior made good provision for the City. this one may suffice: Roger Acheley Maior of London in the yeere 1512. the third of Henry the 8. when the said Maior entred the Maioralty, there was not found 100. quarters of Wheat in all the Garners of this City,Bread Carts of Stratford the Bow. either within the liberties, or neere adjoyning. Through the which scarcity, when the Carts of Stratford came laden with Bread to the City (as they had been accustomed) there was such presse about them, that one man was ready to destroy another, in striving to be served for their mony. But this scarcity lasted not long: for the Maior (in short time) made such provision for Wheat, that the Bakers both of London, and of Stratford, were weary of taking it up, and were forced to take much more than they would, and for the rest the Maior laid out the money and stored it up in Leaden-hall, and other Garners of the City. This Maior also kept the Market so well, that hee would be at the Leaden-hall, by foure a clocke in the Summers mornings, and from thence he went to other Markets, to the great comfort of the Citizens.

I read also, that in the yeere, 1528. the 20. of Henry the 8. Surveyors were appointed to view the Garners of the City, namely, the Bridgehouse and the Leaden-hall, how they were stored of Graine for the service of the City. And because I have here before spoken of the bread Carts comming from Stratford at the Bow, ye shall understand, that of old time, the Bakers of bread at Stratford were allowed to bring daily (except the Sabbath and principall Feasts) divers long Carts laden with bread, the same being two ounces in the penny wheaten loafe heavier than the penny wheaten loafe baked in the City, the same to be sold in Cheape, three or foure Carts standing there, betweene Gutherans lane and Fausters lane end, one cart on Corne-hill, by the Conduit, and one other in Grasse-street. And I have read, that in the fourth yeere of Edward the second, Richard Reffeham being Maior, a Baker named Iohn of Stratford, for [Page] making Bread lesser than the Assise;Liber. D. A Baker of Stratford punished in London for baking bread under the Assize. was with a fooles hood on his head, and loaves of bread about his necke, drawn on a Hurdle through the streets of this City. Moreover, in the 44. of Edward the third, Iohn Chichester being Maior of London, I read in the visions of Pierce Plowman, a Booke so called, as followeth.

There was a carefull commune,Iohn Malverne. when no Cart came to towne with Basket bread from Stratford: Bread Carts frō Stratford missed in this City in time of scarcity. tho gan beggers weepe, and workemen were agast, a little this will bee thought long in the date of our Dirte, in a dry Averell a thousand and three hundred, twice thirty and ten, &c.

I read also in the 20. of Henry the 8. Sir Iames Spencer being Maior▪ sixe Bakers of Stratford were merced in the Guild-hall of London, for baking under the size appointed. These Bakers of Stratford left serving this City, I know not upon what occasion, above forty yeeres since.

In the yeere 1519. a petition was exhibited by the Commons to the Common Councell,A Petition of the Commons concerning the use of the Leaden hall. and was by them allowed, concerning the Leaden-hall, how they would have it used, viz.

Meekely beseeching, sheweth unto your good Lordship, and Masterships, divers Citizens of this City, which (under correction) thinke, that the great place called the Leaden-hall, should nor ought not to be letten out to farme, to any person or persons, and in especiall, to any fellowship or company incorporate, to have and hold the same Hall for terme of yeeres, for such inconveniences as thereby may ensue, and come to the hurt of the Common weale of the said City in time to come, as somewhat more largely may appeare in the Articles following.

First, if any assembly, or hasty gathering of the Commons of the said City, for suppressing or sub duing of misruled people within the said City, hereafter shall happen to be called or commanded by the Maior, Aldermen and other Governours and Counsellors of the said City for the time being; there is none so convenient, meet and necessary a place to assemble them in, within the said City, as the said Leaden-hall, both for largenesse of roome, and for their sure defence in time of their counselling together about the premises. Also, in that place hath beene used the Artillery, Guns, and other Armors of the said City, to be safely kept in a readinesse, for the safeguard, wealth and defence of the said City, to be had and occupiedat times when need required. As also the store of timber, for the necessary reparations of the tenements belonging to the Chamber of the said City, there commonly hath beene kept.

Item, if any Triumph or Noblenesse were to be done, or shewed by the Communalty of the City, for the honour of our Soveraigne Lord the King, and Realme, and for the worship of the said City: the said Leaden-hall is the most meet and convenient place, to prepare and order the said Triumph therein, and from thence to issue forth to the places thereof appointed.

Item, at any largesse or do [...]e of any money, made unto the poore people of this City; it hath been used, to bee done and given in the said Leaden-hall, for that the said place is most meet therefore.

Item, [...] the people to stand drie. the honourable Father, that was ma [...]r of the said Hall, had a speciall will, intent and mind, that (as it is cōmonly said) the Market men and women, that came to the City with victuals and other things, should have their free standing within the said Leaden-hall in wet weather, to keepe themselves and their wares dry, and thereby to encourage them, and all other, to have the better will and desire, the more plentiously to resort to the said City, to victuall the same. And if the said Hall should bee letten to farme, the will of the said honourable Father should never be fulfilled, nor take effect.

Item, if the said place, which is the chiefe fortresse and most necessary place within all the City, for the tuition and safegard of the same, should bee letten out to farme, out of the hands of the chiefe heads of the same City, and especially to any other body politike, it might at length (by likelihood) be an occasion of discord and debate betweene the said bodies politike, which God defend.

For these and many other great and reasonable causes, which hereafter shall be shewed to this honouoable Court, your said beseechors thinke it much necessary, that the said Hall bee still in the hands of this City, and to be surely kept by sad and discreet Officers in such wise, that it might alway be ready to bee used and occupied, for the common weale of the said City when need shall require, and in no wise to be letten to any body [Page] politike. Thus much for the petition.

About the yeere 1534. great meanes was made about the Leaden Hall, Leaden Hall, meant to have been made a Burse for Merchants. to have the same made a Burse for the Assembly of Merchants, as they had been accustomed in Lumbard-street: many Common Councels were called to that end but in the yeere 1535. Iohn Champneis being Maior, it was fully concluded, that the Burse should remaine in Lumbard-street, as afore, and Leaden Hall no more to be spoken of concerning that matter.

The use of Leaden Hall in my youth was thus: In a part of the North Quadrant, on the East side of the North gate, were the common beames, for weighing of Wooll and other Wares, as had been accustomed: On the West side of the gate was the Scales to weigh meale: the other three sides were reserved (for the most part) to the making and resting of the Pageants shewed at Midsummer in the watch: the remnant of the sides & Quadrāts were imployed for the stowage of Woolsacks, but not closed up: the lofts above were partly used by the Painters, in working for the decking of Pageants and other devices, for beautifying of the Watch and Watch-men, the residue of the lofts were letten out to Merchants, the Wool-winders and Packers therein to winde and packe their Wools. And thus much for Leaden-hall may suffice.

Now on the North of Limestreet Ward, in the high street are divers faire houses for Merchants, and proper tenements for Artificers, with an Alley also called Shaft Alley, of the Shaft or May-pole sometime resting over the gate thereof, as I have declared in Ealdgate Ward.

In the yeere 1576. partly at the charges of the parish of S. Andrew, A Pumpe in the high street of Lime-street Ward. and partly at the charges of the Chamber of Lond. a water-Pumpe was raised in the high street of Limestreet Ward,Cornchill street in some place raised two fadome higher than of old time, as appeared by buildines found so deepe. neere unto Limestreet corner: for the placing of the which Pumpe, having broken up the ground, they were forced to digge more than two fadome deepe, before they came to any maine ground, where they found a Harth made of Britaine, or rather Roman Tile, every Tile halfe yard square, and about two inches thicke: they found Coale lying there also (for that lying whole will never consume) then digging one fadome in the maine, they found water sufficient, made their prall, and set up the Pumpe, which Pumpe, with o [...] repairing and great charges to the parish, continued not 24. yeeres, but being rotted, was taken up, and a new set in the place, in the yeere 1600. Thus much for the high street.

In Saint Mary street had yee (of old time) a parish Church of Saint Mary the Virgin,St. Mary street Parish Church of Mary, St. Vrsula, and 11000. Virgins, called at the Axe, letten out of a warehouse. St. Vrsula, and the 11000. Virgins, which Church was commonly called Saint Mary at the Axe, of the signe of an Axe, over against the East end thereof, or Saint Mary Pellipar, of a plot of ground lying on the North side thereof, pertaining to the Skinners in London. This parish about the yeere, 1565. was united to the parish Church of Saint Andrew Vndershaft, and so was Saint Mary at the Axe suppressed, and letten out to be a warehouse for a Merchant. Against the East end of this Church, was sometime a faire wall, now turned to a pumpe. Also against the North end of this St. Mary street, was sometime one other parish Church of Saint Augustine, Parish Church of S. Augustine in the wall, made a Chappel to the Papey, and since pulled downe and made a stable. called Saint Augustine in the wall, for that it stood adjoyning to the wall of the City, and otherwise called Saint Augustines Papey, or the Poore, as I have read in the reigne of Edward the 3. About the yeere, 1430. in the reigne of Henry the sixt, the same Church was allowed to the brethren of the Papey, the house of poore Priests, wherof I have spoken in Ealdgate Ward. The Parishioners of this Church were appointed to the Parish Church of Alhallowes in the wall, which is in Broadstreet Ward: and this brotherhood called Papey, being suppressed, the Church of Saint Augustine was pulled downe, and in place thereof one Grey, Apothecary, builded a Stable, a Hay-loft, &c. It is now a dwelling house. Those two Parish Churches, both lying in the Ward of Limestreet, being thus suppressed, there is not any one parish Church or place for Divine Service in that Ward, but the inhabitants thereof repaire to Saint Peter in Corne-hill Ward, Saint Andrew in Ealdgate Ward, Alhallowes in the wall, in Broadstreet Ward, [Page] and some to Saint Dennis in Langbourne Ward.

Now because of late there hath been some question, to what Ward this Church of S. Augustine Papey should of right belong; for the same hath been challenged by them of Ealdgate Ward, and (without reason) taken into Bishopsgate Ward, from Limestreet VVard, I am somewhat to touch it.

About thirty yeeres since,Houses by London wall in the ward of Limestreet. the Chamber of London granted a Lease of ground (in these words) Lying neere London Wall, in the Ward of Limestreet, from the West of the said Church or Chappell of Saint Augustine Papey, towards Bishopsgate, &c. On the which plot of ground, the Leasee builded three faire tenements, and placed Tenants there: these were charged to beare scot and lot, and someof them to beare office in Limestreet VVard: all which they did willingly without grudging. And when any suspected or disordered persons were by the Landlord placed there, the Officers of Limestreet VVard fetched them out of their houses, committed them to ward, procured their due punishments, and banished them from thence: wherby in short time that place was reformed, and brought into good order: which thing being noted by them of Ealdgate VVard, they moved their Alderman, Sir Thomas Offley, to call in those houses to be of his VVard. But I my selfe shewing a faire Ledgier booke, sometime pertaining to the late dissolved Priory of the holy Trinity within Ealdgate, wherein were set downe the just bounds of Ealdgate VVard, before Sir Thomas Offley, Sir Rowland Hayward, the Common Counsell, and VVard. mote Inquest of the said Limestreet VVard; Sir Thomas Offley gave over his challenge, and so that matter rested in good quiet, untill the yeere 1579. that Sir Richard Pype (being Maior, and Alderman of Bishopsgate VVard) challenged those houses to be of his ward,A part of Limestreet ward unjustly withheld by Bishopsgate ward. whereunto (without reason shewed) Sir Rowland Hayward yeelded: and thus is that side of the street, from the North corner of S. Mary street, almost to Bishopsgate, (wherein is one plot of ground, letten by the Chamberlaine of London, to the parish of S. Martins Oteswich, to be a Churchyard or burying-place for the dead of that Parish, &c.) unjustly drawne and with-holden from the ward of Limestret.

Dives other proofes I could set downe, but this one following may suffice. The Maior and Aldermen of London made a grant to the Fraternity of the Papey, in these words:

Be it remembred, that where now of late the Master and Wardens of the Fraternity of the Papey, have made a bricke wall, closing in the Chappell of S. Augustine, called Papey Chappell, situate in the Parish of All Saints in the Wall, in the Ward of Limestreet of the City of London: from the South-east corner of the bricke wall, is a Scutcheon of 12. foot of assize from the said corner Eastward: And from the said Scutcheon there, to a Messuage of 55. foot and an halfe Westward: the said Scutcheon breaketh out of line right Southward, betwixt the measures aforesaid, three foot and five inches of assise, upon the common ground of the Citie aforesaid: Ralph Verney, Maior, and the Aldermen of the same Citie, the 22. day of October, the 6. yeere of Edward the 4. granted to John Hod, Priest, M. John Bolt, and Tho. Patchet, Priests, wardens of the Fraterniey of Papey aforesaid, and to their successors for ever, &c. yeelding 4. d. sterling yeerely at Michaelmas. Lib. Papey. And this is (saith my booke) inrolled in the Guild-hall of London: which is a sufficient proofe, the same plot of ground to be of Dimestreet ward, and never otherwise accounted or challenged.

On the South side of this street, stretching west from Saint Mary street, towards Bishopsgate street, there was (of old time) one large Messuage builded of stone and timber, in the parish of S. Augustine in the wall, now in the parish of Alhallowes in the same wall, belonging to the Earle of Oxford; Patent. Oxford Place. (for Rich. de Vere, Earle of Oxford, possessed it in the 4. of Henry the 5.) but in processe of time, the Lands of the Earle fell to Females; amongst the which, one being married to Wingfield of Suffolke, this house with the appurtenances, fell to his lot, and was by his heire, Sir Robert Wingfield, sold to Mr. Edward Cooke, at the time when this was written, the Queenes Attourney Generall. This house being greatly ruinated, of late [Page] time, for the most part hath beene let out to Poulters, for stabling of Horses and stowage of Poultrie, but now lately new builded into a number of small tenements, letten out to strangers, and other meane people.

It was ordered by the Lord Maior and Aldermen,Hum. Dyson at a Court holden on Thursday, the 24. of April, in the 4. yeere of Edward the 6. That the Chamberlaine of London should yeerely pay unto the Scavenger of Limestreet ward, twenty shillings by even portions, out of the profit comming by the Butchers stalles in Leaden-hall, toward the clesing and sweet keeping of the same Ward.

One note more of this Ward, and so an end: I finde of record, that in the yeere 1371. the 45. of Edward the 3. a great Subsidie of 100000. pounds was granted towards the Kings warres in France, whereof the Cleargie payed 50000. pounds, and the Laitie 50000. pounds, to bee levied in 39. shires of England, containing Parishes 8600. of every parish, 5. l. 16. s. the greater to helpe the lesser. This Citie (as one of the Shires) then containing 24. wards, and in them 110.Subsidy of parishes, Limestreet ward, in the yeere 1371. was therfore assessed to 635. l. 12. s. whereof Limestreet Ward did beare 34. s. and no more; so small a Ward it was, and so accounted, as having no one whole parish therein, but small portions onely, of two parishes in that Ward.

This Ward hath an Alderman, his Deputy, common Counsellours, foure; Constables, foure; Seavengers, two; VVard-mote Inquest, sixteene, and a Beadle. It is taxed to the Fifteene at 1. l. 19. s. 2. d. ob. q.

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BISHOPSGATE VVARD.

THe next is Bishopsgate Ward,Bishopsgate Ward. whereof a part is without the Gate, and of the Suburbs, from the Barres by S. Mary Spittle to Bishopsgate, and a part of Hounds-ditch, almost halfe thereof, also without the Wall, of the same Ward.

Then within the Gate is Bishopsgate street, so called of the Gate, to a pumpe, where sometime was a faire Well with two buckets, by the East end of the parish Church of S. Martin Oteswich, and then winding by the west corner of Leaden Hall, downe Grassestreet, to the corner over against Grasse-Church: and these are the bounds of that Ward.Parish Church of S. Buttolph without Bishopsgate.

Monuments most to bee noted, are these: The parish Church of Saint Buttolph without Bishopsgate, in a faire Church-yard, adjoyning to the Towne-Ditch, upon the very banke thereof, but of old time inclosed with a comely wall of bricke, lately repaired by Sir William Allen, Maior in the yeere 1571. because hee was borne in that parish, where also hee was buried.

An Anchoresse (by Bishopsgate) received forty shillings the yeere of the Sheriffes of London.

The Monuments that I observed in the Church of Saint Buttolph without Bishopsgate, were these:

Johannes Threll Armig.Faire plared stones lying one by another on the ground in the Chancell. Nobilli familia Sussexiae ortus, hic jacet. Vixit usque ad annum sexagesimum tertium: Mortuus est sexto die Octobris, Anno Domini, 1609.

Sub hoc Marmore jacet corpus Johannis Redman, quondam hujus Ecclesiae Rectoris bene meriti: qui ab hac luce migravit tertio die Iulii, Anno Domini, 1523.

Hic jacet Johannes Picking, Magister Artium, nuper Rector istius Ecclesiae, qui Obiit 6. die Septemb. An. Dom. 1490.

Hereunder lyeth the body of Joane Wood, At the entrance into the Quite, in the middle Ile. wife to Robert Wood, Citizen and Brewer of London, who had issue, two sonnes, and three daughters; viz. Iohn, Richard, Ioane, Anne and Francis. She deceased the 25. day of November, An. Dom. 1600. She gave large gifts and legacies to this Parish, as hereunder is expressed:

At her buriall she gave tenne pounds to the poore.

She gave tenne shillings yeerely for a Sermon on Midsummer day.

For a friendly meeting among the neighbours, forty shillings.

In bread weekly to the poore for ever, two shillings.

Also foure load of Char-coales yeerly to the poore for ever.

To the Parson of the parish yeerely for ever, tenne shillings.

To the Two Church-wardens, tenne shillings to each in like manner.

To the Clerke 6. s. 8. d. and to the Sexton, 5. s. yeerely for ever.

For a friendly meeting of the Parson and parishioners, accompanying him yeerely in walking the bounds of the parish, thirty shillings.

To the poore of the parish, in money yeerely (for ever) to be distributed, eight pounds.

And the remainder of the yeerly rents for the halfe Moone, and halfe Moone [Page] Alley, to remaine in the Church stocke, towards the repairing of the Church.

Over and beside the memorable charity of this worthy Widdow, Mistris Wood, God hath raised divers other good Benefactors to the poore in the same Parish, as appeareth by this small recordation.

Iohn Heyward, This gift is performed by the Company of Tallow-Chandlers yeerely. Citizen and Alderman of London, had his last Will and Testament enrolled in the Court of Hustings in the Guild-Hall of London, on munday next before the Feast of Saint Cuthbert the Bishop, in the thirteenth yeere of Edward the fourth, after the Conquest.

Wherein hee gave to the poore people of this Parish, five and twenty Quarters of Char-coales, yeerely to be delivered by the Companie of Tallow-Chaundlers, betwixt the Feast of All Saints, and the Nativity of our blessed Saviour; with a penalty of for-feiture of twenty shillings for the first Quarter, if they bee not delivered as aforesaid; and forty shillings for the second Quarter; foure pounds for the third Quarter; and eight pounds for the whole yeere, if they bee not delivered: And so double still from Quarter to Quarter, if defect of payment herein be made.

Iohn Bricket, Citizen and Toothdrawer of London, (by his last Will and Testament, dated the eleventh day of February, 1554.) gave for ever at the Feast of Easter, twelve Sackes of Char-coales, to the poore of this Parish: out of two Tenements, the one now in the occupation of Andrew Partridge, Tallow-Chaundler; the other late in occupation of Andrew Seywell, Bricklayer, both joyning together at the South side of Bell Alley gate in this Parish.

We receive of the gift of Mistris Mary Wilkinson deceased, out of 2. faire houses in S. Mary Spittle, 4. load of coalés out of each house, 30. quarters being. 2. load: the first 30. quarters to be given to the poore of this parish, in the month of November for ever; the next thirty quarters to bee likewise given to the poore of this parish, in December for ever: provided that out of each load, the Overseers of the Precinct of Norton Folgate shall have tenne Sacks, to be by them given to the poore of that Precinct.

Likewise is paid yeerly by the Company of Ironmongers, the summe of thirty shillings per annum, of the gift of Sir William Allen, to bee distributed among the poore in bread.

Also of the Company of Vintners, the summe of twenty shillings, yeerely for ever, of the gift of Sir Stephen Scudamore, Knight, and Alderman of London.

Also of Mistris Wood, the Relict of Master Thomas Wood, late of Saint Buttolphs without Ealdgate, the summe of tenne shillings yeerely for ever, to bee received on Saint Thomas day, issuing out of certaine Tenements in Katharinwheele Alley, in this Parish, of the gift of Mary Webster, Widdow.

Mistris Price, The mirrour of this Age for a matchiefe woman. in the time of her widdow-hood, did at her owne charge new build the Pulpit, in the yeere of our Lord, 1614. and shortly after, did likewise send (to furnish the same) faire and rich Ornaments for the said Pulpit, as also for the Communion Table. For the Pulpit, a costly Cloth of Crimson Velvet, edged in the bottome with a deepe gold fringe, and laced about with a faire gold lace.

Likewise, a Cushion sutable to the same, with a very faire Verge to adorne the upper part of the Pulpit, edged likewise with a deepe gold fringe.

And for the Communion Table, a goodly large Carpet of Crimson Velvet, Nor did she this worthy service to God here onely, but in other Parishes beside, as at Pauls, Christs-Church, &c. edged with a deepe gold fringe; also a faire Table-cloth of fine Cambricke, to be used upon the Communion dayes, with a Cambricke Cloth laced, to cover the Bread upon the Table: Also a faire Surplice of Cambricke, for the Parsons use: all which were, with a new haire Brush, kept in a Sarsanet Case, to bee locked up in a new wainescot Chest, by her bought for the same purpose, and so carefully kept for their severall uses. To the which Chest was set two Locks; the two severall Keyes wherof the one to be kept by the Parson of the parish, the other by the Church-warden of the same parish, for the safe keeping thereof.

[Page] As for the Kings Armes imbroidred upon the said Pulpit Cloth;The thankfull gratitude to God of Humfrey Swanne Imbroide, rer. it was made, set on and freely given by Humfrey Swan of this parish, Imbroiderer, in remembrance of Gods great mercy extended towards him, in the yeere of the great visitation, 1625. for in that yeere he had buried his wife, with divers of his family; himselfe also, lying a long while under the Lords heavy hand, without all hope of recovery; by Gods gracious providence hee was at the last restored to his former health. In regard whereof, and to expresse his further thankefulnesse to Almighty God, hee adorned the said Pulpit Cloth as now it is.

Moreover, in the same Parish Church of Saint Buttolph, among other benevolences given thereto, may not be omitted the bountifull gift of Master William Hobby, Citizen and Ale-brewer of London, to wit, the Tenor Bell in the Steeple, bearing his owne name, and called Hobby, which hee caused to bee founded at his owne cost and charges: And afterwards to bee re-cast two severall times, onely to make it tunable with the other Bells in the Steeple; which was performed accordingly, and they are now as perfect and pleasing a ring of Bels, as can be wished.

When hee gave this Bell to the Parish, he enjoyned this condition, that at what time soever any man deceased, that had borne any place of eminence and office in the Parish, and afterward hapned (by any crosse or misadventure) to fall in decay: That yet hee should have the benefit of this Bels service freely bestowed on him at his buriall, not paying any costs or duties therefore to the Church. No doubt but this man had an honest meaning, and most charitable minde, both in the promise (which was in merriment, and when he expected not place of degree or office to fall on him) and likewise in the performance; wherein he shewed himselfe no way slacke, but so forward as any man could bee. Let his worthy example incite on others; to the like good inclination (one way or other) towards the Church.

Mr. Ralph Pinder, Citizen and Draper of London, Aldermans Deputy of this Ward,M. Pinder gift of three [...]core pounds. who was buried the 28. of May, 1622. gave to the poore of this Parish in mony 60. l. for which is given to 13. poore people every Sunday in the yeere for ever 2. pence a peece in good wheaten bread.

In the yeere, 1626. Nichlas Reive, The benevolence of Nicholas Reive a Scrivener in Cornehill Scrivener in Cornehill (whose Father was Clerke of this Parish) gave by his last will and testament, the summe of 406. l. 5. s. to the said parish, to buy so much land as the said monies will extend unto, and the rents and profits therof to bee given and distributed to the comfort of such people within this parish. With which monies was purchased certaine lands lying at Stratford Bow, now in the tenure of Henry Chester, the rent of which lands is 25. l. per annum.

In the yeere, 1628. the 20. of Iune, The charity of the Eearle of Devonshire. William Earle of Devonshire dyed at Devonshire house without Bishopsgate, and gave 100. l. for ever, to the use of the poore of this parish, for which the Church-wardens doe give every Sunday in the yeere to 15. poore people of this parish 2. d. a peece in good wheaten bread.

WHereas the sixth day of November last past, T. C. Citizen and Armorer of London, humbly petitioned unto the Court, that they would bee pleased to receive into the Chamber of London the summe of 100. l. presently to be paid, in allowing and paying therfore yeerly frō the Birth of our Lord God 1629. for ever to the releefe & comfort of 5. aged poore Widdowes of the Parish of Saint Buttolph without Bishopsgate, London, the summe of five pounds to be given and equally distributed to and amongst them, eighteene dayes before Christmas yeerely, as of the free gift and benevolence of him the the said T. C. at the oversight and direction of the Parson and Church-wardens, for the time being of that parish. whereupon in furtherance of that pious and charitable worke, this Court was pleased to accept of the said 100. l. and to grant performance of that his petition: As by an order in that behalfe made it may and doth appeare: which said 100. l. was the 13. day of the said moneth of November last, accordingly paid and delivered by the said T. C. into the said Chamber of London, to and for the intent [Page] and purpose aforesaid. Now the said T. C. in further declaration of his full minde and intent concerning the distribution of the said five pounds, yeerely and for ever, as aforesaid; he hath expressed and declared, that the same shall bee done and performed in this manner, viz. tha [...] of and with the same five pounds yeerely and for ever, there shall bee bought and provided by the said T. C. during his life, and after his decease by the Parson and Church-wardens of the said parish of Saint Buttolph without Bishopsgate aforesaid for the time being and their successors, five Wastcoats and five Kirtles, ready made up of good Kersey or Cloth, the Kersey or Cloth of every Wastcoat and Kirtle to be worth fifteene shillings at the least, and five paire of Stockings and five paire of shooes, every paire of the same Stockings to be worth eighteene pence at the least, and every paire of the said shooes to be worth two shillings at the least. Which Wastcoats, Kirtles, Stockings and shooes, shall bee yeerely and for ever delivered on the Feast day of S. Thomas the Apostle, as the free gift of the said T. C. After in the parish Church of St. Buttolph without Bishopsgate aforesaid, unto five aged poore Widdowes within the same parish, being knowne or reputed to be of honest life and conversation, and past their labour (that is to say) to every of the same five poore Widdowes a Wastcoat and Kirtle, a paire of Stockings and a paire of Shooes. And that the same five [...]oore Widdowes shall bee yeerely nominated and appointed by the said T. C. during his life, and after his decease the same five poore Widdowes shal be at the nomination and appointment of the Parson and Church-wardens of the said parish of S. Buttolph without Bishopsgate aforesaid, for the time being, and their successors yeerely and for ever. Wherein the meaning and desire of the said T. C. is, that those five poore Widdowes, or so many of them which shall bee living at the time of his decease, that shall bee nominated by him in his life time, for to have receive the gifts and benevolences aforesaid, shall and may every one of them yeerely, during their lives, respectively have and receive one Wastcoat and Kirtle, a paire of Stockings and a paire of Shooes, of the gift aforesaid; provided that they and either of them bee of good life and conversation.

Now without this Churchyard wall, was a Cawsey,Petty-France, neere to the Town ditch. leading to a Quadran [...] called Petty-France, of divers French-men dwelling there, and to other dwelling houses, lately builded on the banke of the said ditch by some Citizens of London, that more regarded their owne private gaine, than the common good of the Citie. For by meanes of this Cawsey raised on the banke, and soylage of houses, with other filthines cast into the ditch, the same became inforced to a narrow channell, and almost filled up with unsavoury things, to the danger of impoisoning the whole City.

For prevention whereof, and in a worthy charitable disposition of so honourable a Citie (in regard that this parish was greatly unprovided of the buriall for their dead) that needlesse Cawsey or passage to Petty-France, was given by the Citie to the said Parish,A new place of buriall, made by the other Church-yard. for the same intent; which they have (since then) made good and firme ground, walling it about with a good strong bricke wall, serving as a lower and supplying Church-yard by it selfe; and towards the charges whereof, divers good Parishioners (that desire to bee namelesse) gave large and honest contribution. And because they would not shew themselves unthankfull to the Citie for so great a benefit, their expression standeth thus fixed over the Gate, at entrance into the said Church-yard.

Coemeterium hoc inferius Civitate Londinensi huic Parochiae concessum, sumptib [...]s ejusdem Parochiae mure lateritio septum est. An. Dom. 1615. Stephano Gossono, Rectore, Thomo Johnsono & Johanne Hedicio, Ecclesiae Gardianis.

This Churchyard being consecrated the 4. day of Iune, 1617. the first man buried therein chanced to be a Frenchman borne; upon whose buriall, these Verses were written by my friend Mr. Th. Collins.

A Frenchman borne,

hight Martin de la Toure,

Was the first man

was buried in this ground,

A Schoolemaster he was:

And this a part of our

Neere-neighbouring point,

of Petty France small bound,

[Page] So Martin of the Tower

may well be said

T'have dyed in England,

yet in France was laid.

August 10. 1626.

In Petty France out of Christian buriall, The memory of a Persian buried out of the Church-yard. was buried Hodges Shaughsware a Persian Merchant, who with his sonne came over with the Persian Ambassadour, and was buried by his owne Son, who read certaine prayers, and used other Ceremonies, according to the custome of their owne Country,This was thus Englished by his interpreter. Morning and Evening, for a whole moneth after the buriall: for whom is set up at the charge of his Sonne, a Tombe of stone with certain Persian Characters thereon; the exposition thus, This Grave is made for Hodges Shaughsware, the chiefest servant to the King of Persia, for the space of 20. yeeres, who came from the King of Persia and dyed in his service. If any Persian commeth out of that Country, let him read this and a prayer [...]er him, the Lord receive his soule, for here lyeth Maghmore Shanghsware, who was borne in the Towne of Novoy in Persia.

The bounds of Saint Buttolphs Parish without Bishopsgate, London, are thus: From Bishopsgate (under a part of which the Citie Ditch runneth) Westward, close by the Ditch, they passe along by Petty France, into Moore-field: under the wall and Cawsey thereof (towards Bethelem;) there did runne a ditch, and from the North part of the said Field, still doth, so farre as Hog lane, which is at the upper end of the Garden Alleys. Close to which ditch, the Parish extendeth all along on the inside, and taketh in one side of Hog-lane.

Thence straight forth, it beginneth on the further side of Norton Folgate: thence into S. Mary Spittle, and thence into a part of Petticoat lane, so farre as Gravell-lane end: and so through divers Gardens on the backe side of Fishers-Folly, into Hounds-ditch, at the signe of the Hand and Still. So to the Ditch and Citie Wall: thence right opposite, on to Bishopsgate againe. My friendly furtherance here, was by the helpe of Mr. Richard Weoley, Parish Clerke there.

Next unto the Parish Church of S. Buttolph, Hospitall of Bethelem. was a faire Inne for receipt of Travellours: then an Hospitall of Saint Mary of Bethlem, founded by Simon Fitz Mary, one of the Sheriffes of London, in the yeere 1246. He founded it to have beene a Priory of Canons, with Brethren and Sisters: and King Edward the third granted a Protection (which I have seene) for the brethren, Militiae beatae Mariae de Bethlem, within the Citie of London, the 14. yeere of his reigne. It was an Hospitall for distracted people. Stephen Gennings, Merchant-taylor, gave 40. l. toward purchase of the Patronage, by his Testament, 1523. The Maior and Communalty purchased the patronage thereof, with all the Lands and Tenements thereunto belonging, in the yeere 1546.

The Copie of an ancient Deed of Gift, given to Bethlem or Bedlem, by Simon the sonne of Mary.

TO all the children of our Mother holy Church, to whom this present writing shall come; Simon the sonne of Mary sendeth greeting inour Lord. Where among other things, and before other Lauds, the high altitude of the heavenly Councells, marvelously wrought by some readier devotion, it ought to be more worshipped; of which things the mortall sicknes (after the fall of our first Father Adam) hath taken the beginning of this new repayring: Therefore forsooth, it beseemeth worthy, that the place, in which the Sonne of God is become man, and hath proceeded from the Virgins wombe, which is increaser and beginner of mans redemption, namely ought to be with reverence worshipped, and with beneficiall portions to bee increased. Therefore it is, that the said Simon, sonne of Mary; having speciall and singulor devotion to the Church of the glorious Virgin at Bethelem, where the same Virgin of her brought forth our Saviour incarnate, and lying in the Cratch, and with her own milke nourished; and where the same Child to us there borne, the Chivalrie of the heavenly Company, sang the new Hymne, Gloria in excelsis Deo. The same time, the increaser of our health, (as a King, and his Mother a Queene) willed to bee worshipped of Kings: a new starre going before them at [Page] the honour and reverence of the same Child, and his most meeke Mother: And to the exaltation of my most Noble Lord, Henry, King of England; whose wife and child the foresaid Mother of God, and her onely Son, have in their keeping and protection: And to the manifold increase of this Citie of London, in which I was borne: And also for the health of my soule, and the soules of my predecessors and successors, my Father, Mother, and my friends: And specially for the soules of Guy of Marlowe, John Durant, Ralph Ashwye, Maud, Margaret, and Dennis, women: Have given, granted, and by this my present Charter, here have confirmed to God, and to the Church of S. Mary of Bethelem, all my Lands which I have in the Parish of S. Burtolph without Bishopsgate of London; that is to say, whatsoever I there now have, or had, or in time to come may have, in houses, gardens, pooles, ponds, ditches and pits, and all their appurtenances, as they be closed in by their bounds; which now extend in length from the Kings high street East, to the great ditch in the West, the which is called Deepe ditch and in breadth, to the Lands of Raph Downing in the North: and to the Land of the Church of Saint Buttolph in the South. To have and to hold the foresaid Church of Bethelem in free and perpetuall Almes: And also to make there a Priorie, and to ordaine a Prior and Canons, Brothers and also Sisters, when Iesus Christ shall enlarge his grace upon it. And in the same place, the Rule and order of the said Church of Bethelem solemnly professing, which shall beare the token of a Starre openly in their Coapes and Mantles of profession, and for to say divine Service there for the soules aforesaid, and all Christian soules: And specially to receive there the Bishop of Bethelem, canons, Brothers and Messengers of the Church of Bethelem for evermore, as often as they shall come thither. And that a Church or Oratory there shall be builded, as soone as our Lord shall enlarge his grace: under such forme, that the order, institution of Priors, Canons, Brothers, Sisters of the visitation, correction and reformation of the said place, to the Bishop of Bethelem and his successors, and to the Charter of his Church, and of his Messengers, as often as they shall come thither, as shall seeme them expedient, no mans contradiction notwithstanding, shall pertaine for evermore: Saving alway the services of the chiefe Lords, as much as pertaineth to the said Land. And to the more surety of this thing, I have put my selfe out of this Land, and all mine: And Lord Godfrey, then chosen of the Nobles of the Citie of Rome, Bishop of Bethelem, and of the Pope confirmed then by his name in England, in his name, and of his successors, and of his Chapter of his Church of Bethelem, into bodily possession: I have indented and given to his possession, all the foresaid lands, which possession hee hath received, and entred in forme abovesaid. And in token of subjection and reverence, the said place in London without Bishopsgate, shall pay yeerely in the said Citie, a Marke sterling at Easter, to the Bishop of Bethelem, his Successors of his Messengers, in the name of a Pension. And if the faculties or goods of the said place (our Lord granting) happen to grow more, the said place shall pay more, in the name of pension, at the said terme, to the Mother Church of Bethelem. This (forsooth) gift and confirmation of my deed, and the putting to of my Scale for mee and mine heires, I have stedfastly made strong, the yeere of our Lord God,Anno 39. A thousand, two hundred,Hen. 3. forty seven, the Wednesday after the Feast of S. Luke the Evangelist: These being witnesses, Peter the sonne of Allen, then Maior of London, Nicholas Bet, then Sheriffe of the said Citie, and Alderman of the said Ward; Raph Sparling, Alderman; Godfrey of Campes, Simon Comicent, Simon Ronner, Rob. of Woodford, Thomas of Woodford, Walter Pointell, Walter of Woodford, &c.

The same yeere, King Henry the 8. gave this Hospitall unto the Cittie: the Church and Chappell whereof were taken downe in the reigne of Queene Elizabeth, and houses builded there, by the Governors of Christs Hospitall in London. In this place, people that be distraught in their wits, are (by the suite of their friends) received and kept as afore, but not without charges to their bringers in.H [...]m. [...]

At a Court of Aldermen, holden on Tuesday, the 20. of Ianuary, An. 4. Ed. 6. a Carre-roome was freely given to the inhabitants of Bishopsgate Ward, to the intent, that they should cause the utter parts of the said Ward without the gate to be kept cleane.

[Page] Also, at a Court of Aldermen, holden on Tuesday the 7. of April, An. 5. Edw. 6. H [...]m. Diso [...] It was ordered that the inhabitants within the precinct of Bethlem should be (from thenceforth) united to the parish Church of Saint Buttolph without Bishopsgate, and so by the Parson and parishioners of the same parish accepted and taken; and to bee allotted and charged with them, to all offices and charges (Tithes and Clarkes wages excepted:) In consideration whereof, the Parson of the said parish was to receive yeerely out of the Chamber of London 20 shillings, and the Parish Clarke 6. shillings 8. pence.

In the yeere 1569. Sir Thomas Roe, Buriall for the dead prepared. Merchant-Taylor, Maior, caused to bee inclosed (with a wall of brick) about one Acre of ground,Deepe ditch by Bethlem. being part of the said Hospitall of Bethlem, to wit, on the bank of a deepe ditch so called, parting the said Hospitall of Bethlem from the Moore field: this he did for buriall, and ease of such parishes in London, as wanted ground convenient within their Parishes. The Lady his wife was there buried (by whose perswasion hee inclosed it) but himselfe borne in London, was buried in the Parish Church of Hackney.

From this hospitall Northward upon the streets side, many houses have been builded with Allies backward, of late time too much pesterd with people (a great cause of infection) up to the Bars.

The other side of this high streete from Bishopsgate and Hounds-ditch, Dolphin without Bishopsgate. the first building is, a large Inne for receit of travellers, and is called the Dolphin, of such a signe.

In the yeere 1513. Margaret Ricroft Widdow, gave this house with the Gardens and appurtenances, unto William Gam, R. Glye, their wives, her daughters, and to their heires, with condition, they yeerely give to the Warden or Governour of the Gray Fryers Church within Newgate fortie shillings, to finde a Student of Divinity in the Vniversity for ever.

Then is there a faire house of late builded by Iohn Powlet. Next to that, a farre more large and beautifull house, with Gardens of pleasure, howling allies, Fishers folly. and such like, builded by Iasper Fisher, free of the Goldsmiths, late one of the sixe Clerkes of the Chancery, and a Iustice of peace. It hath since (for a time) beene the Earle of Oxfords place. The late Queene Elizabeth hath lodged there: It now belongeth to the Earle of Devonshire. This house being so large and sumptuously builded, by a man of no great calling, possessions or wealth, (for hee was indebted to many) was mockingly called Fishers folly, and a Rithme was made of it, and other the like, in this manner;

Kirbies Castle, and Fishers Folly,

Spinilas pleasure, and Megses glory.

And so of other like buildings about the Citie, by Citizens, men have not letted to speake their pleasure.

From Fishers folly, Berwards lane. up to the west end of Berwards lane, of old time so called, but now Hogge lane, because it meeteth with Hogge lane, which commeth from the Barres without Ealdgate, as is aforeshewed; is a continuall building of tenements, with Allies of Cottages, pestered, Tazell Close. &c. Then is there a large Close, called Tazell Close, sometime, for that there were Tazels planted for the use of Cloth-workers: since letten to the Crosse-bow makers, wherein they used to shoote for games at the Popingey. Now the same being inclosed with a Bricke wall,Artillary yard. serveth to bee an Artillery yard, or Garden, whereunto the Gunners of the Tower weekely doe repaire; namely, every Thursday, and there levelling certaine Brasse Pieces of great Artillery against a But of earth, made for that purpose, they discharged them for their exercise. Present use is made thereof, by divers worthy Cittizens, Gentlemen and Captaines, using Martiall Discipline, and where they meete (well-neere) weekely, to their great commendation in so worthy an exercise, wherof hereafter I will speake more at large.

Then have ye the late dissolved Priory and Hospitall,Walter Brune Mercer, one of the Sheriffes of London, 1203. commonly called, Saint Marie Spittle, founded by Walter Brune, and Rosia his wife, for Canons regular; Walter, Archdeacon of London, laid the first stone in the yeere 1197. William of Saint Mary Church, then Bishop of London, dedicated it to the [Page] honour of Iesus Christ, and his Mother the perpetuall Virgin Mary by the name of Domus Dei, and Beatae Mariae, extra Bishopsgate, in the parish of S Buttolph, the bounds whereof, as appeareth by composition betwixt the Parson & Prior of the said Hospitall,Berwards lane. concerning tithes, beginneth at Berwards lane toward the south & extendeth in breadth to the Parish of S. Leonard of Sores ditch towards the North,Soreditch so called more than 400. yeers since. and in length, from the Kings streete on the West to the Bishops of Londons field, called Lollesworth on the East. The Prior of this Saint Mary Spittle, for the emortising and propriation of the Priory of Bikenacar in Essex, to his said house of S. Mary Spittle, gave to Henry the seventh 400. l. in the two and twentieth of his reigne. This Hospitall surrendred to Henry the eighth, was valued to dispend 478. l. wherein was found, besides ornaments of the Church, and other goods pertaining to the Hospitall, 180. beds well furnished, for receipt of the poore: for it was an Hospitall of great reliefe. Sir Henry Plesington, Knight, was buried there, 1452.

In place of this Hospitall,Pulpit Crosse at the Spittle. and neere adjoyning,Charnell and Chappell of S. Edmond and of Mary Magdalen. are now many faire houses builded, for receipt and lodging of worshipfull persons. A part of the large Church-yard pertaining to this Hospitall, and severed from the rest with a Brick wall, yet remaineth as of old time, with a Pulpit Crosse therein,Sermons in the Easter holydayes at the Spittle. somewhat like to that in Pauls Church-yard. And against the said Pulpit on the South side before the Charnell and Chappell of Saint Edmond the Bishop, and Mary Magdalen, which Chappell was founded about the yeere 1391. by W. Euesham, Citizen and Peperer of London, who was there buried; remaineth also one faire builded house of two stories in height for the Maior, and other honorable persons, with the Aldermen and Sheriffes to sit in, there to heare the Sermons preached in the Easter holydayes. In the Loft over them stood the Bishop of London, and other Prelates; but now the Ladies, and Aldermens Wives doe there stand at a faire Window, or sit at their pleasure.

And here is to bee noted, that time out of minde, it hath beene a laudable custome, that on good Fryday in the after-noone, some especiall learned man, by appointment of the Prelates, hath preached a Sermon at Pauls Crosse, treating of Christs passion: and upon the three next Easter Holydayes, Munday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, the like learned men, by the like appointment, have used to preach on the forenoones at the said Spittle, to perswade the Article of Christs resurection: and then on Low Sunday, one other learned man at Pauls Crosse, to make rehearsall of those foure former Sermons, either commending or reproouing them, as to him (by iudgement of the learned Divines) was thought convenient. And that done, he was to make a Sermon of his owne studie, which in all were fiue Sermons in one. At these Sermons so severally preached, the Maior with his Brethren the Aldermen were accustomed to bee present in their Violets at Pauls on good Fryday, and in their Scarlets at the Spittle in the Holydaies, except Wednesday, in Violet, and the Maior with his Brethren on Low Sunday in Scarlet, at Pauls Crosse, continued untill this day.

Touching the Antiquity of this Custome, I find that in the yeere 1398. King Richard having procured from Rome, confirmation of such statutes, and ordinances, as were made in the Parliament, begun at Westminster, and ended at Shrewsbury, he caused the same confirmation to be read and pronounced at Pauls Crosse and at Saint Mary Spittle, in the Sermons before all the people. Philip Malpas one of the Sheriffes in the yeere 1439. gave 20. shillings by the yeere to the three Preachers at the Spitle. House in S. Mary Spittle Church-yard builded for the Maior and Aldermen Pulpit Crosse in Spittle Church-yard new builded. Stephen Forstor Maior in the yeere 1594. gave forty pounds to the Preachers of Pauls Crosse and Spittle. I finde also, that the aforesaid house, wherein the Maior and Aldermen doe sit at the Spittle, was builded (for that purpose) or the goods, and by the executors of Rich. Rawson Alderman, and Isabel his wife, in the yeere 1488. In the yeere 1594. this Pulpit being old, was taken downe, and a new one set up, the Preachers face turned towards the South, which was before toward the West. Also a large house (on the East [Page] side of the said Pulpit) was then builded, A house in Spittle Church-yard builded for the Governers and Children of Christs Hospitall. for the Governours and Children of Christs Hospitall to sit in: and this was done of the goods of William Elkin Alderman, late deceased. But within the first yeere, the same house decaying, and like to have fallen, was againe (with great [...]ost) repaired at the Cities charge.

Here I may not omit an especiall matter, because in my remebrance, nor else (in my reading) I finde not the like. On Munday in Easter weeke,On Munday in Easter week, An. Dom. 1617. A Saint Mary Spittle. being April 21. 1617. our most Gracious Soveraigne King Iames, being gone on his Journey to Scotland: It pleased divers Lords and other of his Majesties most Honourable Privie Councell, to visit this place of Saint Mary Spittle, and there to remaine in company (during the Sermon time) with the Lord Maior, Sir Iohn Lemman, and his worthy Brethren the Aldermen of this City. The Sermon being ended, they rode home with the Lord Maior to his house neere Belingsgate, where they were lovingly and honourably both welcommed and entertained with a most liberall and bountifull Dinner, and all the Gentlemen attending on them. The Lords, were the right reverend Father in God, George Lord Archbishop of Canturbury, Sir Francis Bacon, Lord keeper of the great Seale of England; the Earle of Worcester; the Lord Lis [...]e, Lord Chamberlaine to her Majesty, the Lord Bishop of London; the Lord Carew; the Lord Knivet; Sir Iulius Caesar; Sir Thomas Edmonds; Sir Iohn Digby, with divers other Knights and worthy Gentlemen, &c. And the Preacher that then preached, was Master Doctor Page, of Detford in Kent.

On the East side of this Churchyard lyeth a large field,Lolesworth field. of old time called Lolesworth, Buriall of the Romans in Spittle field. now Spittle field, which about the yeere 1576. was broken up for Clay to make Bricke: in the digging thereof many earther pots called Vrnae, were found full of Ashes,Old Monuments of the Romanes found. and burnt bones of men, to wit of the Romans that inhabited here. For it was the custome of the Romans, to burne their dead, to put their Ashes in an Vrne, and then bury the same with certain Ceremonies, in some field appointed for that purpose neere unto their City.

Every of these pots had in them (with the Ashes of the dead) one piece of Copper money, with the inscription of the Emperour then reigning: some of them were of Claudius, some of V [...]spasian, some of Nere, of Antoninus Pius, of Trajanus, and others. Besides those Vrnes, many other pots were found in the same place, made of a white earth, with long necks, and handles, like to our stone Jugs: these were empty, but seemed to be buried full of some liquid matter, long since consumed and soked through. For there were found divers Vials, and other fashioned Glasses, some most cunningly wrought, such as I have not seen the like, and some of Chrystall, all which had water in them, nothing differing in clearnesse, taste, or savour from common spring water; whatsoever it was at the first. Some of these Glasses had Oyle in them very thick, and earthly in savour. Some were supposed to have Balme in them, but had lost the vertue: many of these pots and Glasses were broken in cutting of the Clay, so that few were taken up whole.

There were also found divers Dishes and Cups, of a fine red coloured earth, which shewed outwardly such a shining smoothnesse, as if they had been of Currall. Those had (in the bottomes) Roman letters printed, there were also Lampes of white earth and red, artificially wrought with divers Antiques about them, some three or foure Images, made of white earth, about a span long each of them: one I remember was of Pallas, the rest I have forgotten. I my selfe have reserved (amongst divers of those antiquities there) one Vrne, with the Ashes and bones, and one pot of white earth very small, not exceeding the quantity of a quarter of a wine pint, made in shape of a Hare, squatted upon her legs, and betweene her eares is the mouth of the por.

There hath also been found (in the same field) divers Coffins of stone,Troughs of Stone found in the Spittle field. containing the bones of men: these I suppose to bee the burials of some speciall persons, in time of the Brittons, or Saxons, after that the Romans had left to governe here. Moreover, there were also found the scuis and bones of men, without Coffins, or rather whose Coffins [Page] (being of great timber) were consumed.Great Nayles of Irō found in the field and fond opinions of men. Divers great Nayles of Iron were there found, such as are used in the Wheeles of shod Carts, being each of them as big as a mans finger, and a quarter of a yard long, the heads two inches over. Those Nayles were more wondred at than the rest of the things there sound, and many opinions of men were there uttered of them, namely, that the men there buried, were murthered by driving those Nayles into their heads; a thing unlikely: for a smaller Nayle would more aptly serve to so bad a purpose, and a more secret place would lightly be employed for such buriall.

But to set downe what I have observed concerning this matter, I there beheld the bones of a man lying (as I noted) the head North, the feet South, and round about him (as thwart his head, along both his sides, and thwart his feet) such Nayles were found. Wherfore I conjectured them to be the nayles of his Coffin, which had been a trough, cut out of some great tree, and the same covered with a planke of a great thicknesse, fastened with such Nayles, and therfore I caused some of the Nayles to be reached up to me; and found under the broad heads of them, the old wood, skant turned into earth, but still retaining both the graine and proper colour. Of these Nayles (with the wood under the head thereof) I reserved one, as also the nether jaw-bone of the man, the teeth being great, sound, and fixed, which (amongst many other Monuments there found) I have yet to shew; but the Nayle lying dry, is by scaling greatly wasted. And thus much for this part of Bishopsgate Ward, without the Gate: for I have in another place spoken of the Gate, and therefore I am to speake of that other part of this Ward, which lyeth within the Gate.

And first to begin on the left hand of Bishopsgate street,Clarkes Hall and their almshouses in Bishopsgate street. from the Gate ye have certaine Tenements of old time pertaining to a brotherhood of St. Nicholas, granted to the Parish Clarkes of London for two Chaplens to bee kept in the Chappell of St. Mary Magdalen, neere unto the Guild hall of London, in the 27. of Henry the sixth. The first of these house towards the North, and against the Wall of the City, was sometime a large Inne or Court, called the Wrastlers of such a signe, and the last in the high street towards the South, was sometime also a faire Inne called the Angel, of such a signe. Amongst these said Tenements was (on the same street side) a faire Entry or Court to the common Hall of the said Parish Clarks, with proper Almes-houses, seven in number, adjoyning, for Parish Clarkes, and their Wives, their Widdowes, such as were in great yeeres not able to labour. One of these, by the said Brotherhood of Parish Clarkes, was allowed sixteene pence the weeke, the other sixe had each of them nine pence the weeke, according to the Patent thereof granted. This Brotherhood (amongst other) being suppressed: In the reigne of Edward the sixth, the said Hall with the other buildings there, was given to Sir Robert Chester, a Knight of Cambridge-shire, against whom the Parish Clarkes commencing sute, in the reigne of Queen Mary, and being like to have prevailed, the said Sir Robert Chester pulled down the Hall, sold the timber, stone and lead, and thereupon the sute was ended. The Almes-houses remained in the Queenes hands, and people were there placed, such as could make best friends. Some of them taking the pension appointed, have let forth their houses for great rent, giving occasion to the Parson of the Parish, to challenge tithes of the poore, &c.

Next unto this is the small Parish Church of Saint Ethelburge, Parish Church of S. Ethelbiage. Virgin, and from thence some small distance is a large Court, called little S. Helens, because it pertained to the Nunnes of St. Helens, Priory of S. Helens and almes-houses. and was their house: there were seven Almes-roomes or houses for the poore, belonging to the Company of Leathersellers. Then somewhat more West is another Court with a winding lane, which commeth out against the West end of Saint Andrew Vndershafts Church. In this Court standeth the faire Church of Saint Helen, Parish Church of S. Helen. sometime a Priory of blacke Nunnes, and in the same a parish Church of S. Helen.

This Priory was founded before the reigne of Henry the third. William Basing, Deane of Pauls was the first Founder, and was their buried, and William [Page]Basing, one of the Sheriffes of London, in the second yeere of Edward the second, was holden also to be a Founder, or rather an helper there. This Priory being value at 314. l. 2. s. 6. d. was surrendred the 25. of November, the 30. of Henry the 8. The whole Church, th [...] [...]rtition betwixt the Nuns Church and Parish Church being taken down, remaineth now to the Parish, and is a faire Parish Church, but wanteth such a steeple, as Sir Thomas Gresham promised to have builded, in recompence of ground in their Church filled up with his Monument.

The Nuns Hall, and other housing thereto pertaining,Leathersellers Hall. was since purchased by the Company of Leather sellers, and is their common Hall: which Company was incorporate in the 21. yeere of Richard the second.

In the Church of S. Hellen, have yee these Monuments of the dead:

Thomas Langton, Chaplaine, buried in the Quire, 1350.

Adam Francis, Maior 1354.

Elizabeth Vennar, wife to William Vennar, Alderman, one of the Sheriffes of London, 1401.

Ioane, daughter to Henry Seamer, wife to Richard, sonne and heire to Robert Lord Poynings, dyed a Virgin, 1420.

Iohn Swinflat, 1420.

Nicholas Marshall, Ironmonger, Alderman, 1474.

Sir Iohn Crosby, Alderman, 1475. and Anne his wife.

Thomas Williams, Gentleman, 1495.

Ioane Cocken, wife to Iohn Cocken, Esquire, 1509.

Mary Orrell, wife to Sir Lewes Orrell, Knight.

Henry Sommer, and Katharine his wife.

Walter Huntington, Esquire.

John Langthrop, Esquire, 1510.

John Gower, Steward of Saint Helens, 1512

Robert Rochester, Esquire, Serjeant of the Pantrie to Henry the eighth.

Sir William Sanctlo, and Sir William Sanctlo, father and fonne.

Elianor, daughter to Sir Thomas Butler, Lord Sudley. John Southworth.

Nicholas Harpsfield, Esquire.

Thomas Sanderford, or Sommerford, Alderman.

Alexander Cheney.

Walter Dawbeney.

George Fastolph, fonne to Hugh Fastolph.

Robert Liade.

Thomas Benolt, alias Clarentiaulx, King at Armes, 1534.

William Hollis, Maior, 1540.

John Fauconbridge, Esquire, 1545.

Hacket, Gentleman of the Kings Chappell.

Sir Andrew Iud, Maior, 1551.

Sir Thomas Gresham, Mercer, 1579.

William Skegges, Serjeant Poulter.

Richard Gresham, fonne to Sir Thomas Gresham, 1564.

Quiescit hic Gulielmus Pickeringus, Pater, Equestris Ordinis vir, Miles Mariscallus. Qui obiit 19. die Maii, Anno Salutis a Christo, 1542.

Iacet hic etiam Gulielmus Pickeringus, Films, Miles, corporis animi (que) bonie in-signiter ornatus; Literis excultus, & Religione Sincerus; linguas exacte percalluit. Quatuor Principibus Summa cum laude inservivit: Henrico Scilicet octavo, Militari virtue: Edvardo sexto, Legatione Gallica: Regine Mariae, negotiatione Germanica : Elizabethae, Principi omnium illustrissimae, summis officiis devotissimus. Obiit Londini, in adibus Pickeringiis, Etate 58. Anno Gratie, 1574. Ianuarii quarto.

Cujus Memorie, Thomas Henneagius, Miles, Camer & Regi & Thesaurarius; Johannes Asteley, Armiger, Iocalium Magister; Drugo Drureius, & Thomas Wotton Armig. Testamenti Sui Executores, Monumentum hoc posuere.

Here lyeth the body of William Bond, Alderman, and sometime Sheriffe of London; A Merchant Adventurer, and most famous (in his age) for this great adventures both by Sea and Land. Obiit 30. die Maii, 1576.

Flos Mercatorum,

quos terra britanna creavit,

Ecce sub hoc tumulo

Gulielmus Bondus humatur.

Ille mari multum

pass us per saxa per undas,

[Page] Vitavit Patrias

Peragrinis mercibus oras.

Magnanimum Greci

mirantur Iasona vates,

Aurea de gelido

retulit guiavellera Phasi.

Grecia decta tace,

Graii concedite vates,

Hicjacet Argolico

Mercator Iafone Major.

Vellera multa tulit,

magis aurea vellere phryxi,

Etsreta multa Scidit

magis ardua Phasidos undis:

Hei mihi quod nullo

morsest Superabilis auro,

Fles Mercatorum,

Gulielmus Bondus humatur.

Hicsitus eft Ioannes Spencer, Eques Aurasus Civis & Senator Loadinenfis, ejufdem Civitatis Pretor, An. Dom. 1594. Lui ex Alicia Bromefeldia Vxore, unican reliquit Filiam Elizabeth, Gulielmo, Earoni Compton enuptam. Obit 30. die Martii, Anno falutis. M.D. C.IX.

Socero bene merico Gulielmus Baro Compton gener pofuis.

Within this monument lyeth the earthly parts of Iohn Robinson, Merchant of the Staple in England, free of the Merchant Taylors, and sometime Alderman of London: And Christian his wife, eldest daughter of Thomas Anderson, Grocer. They spent together in holy wedlocke 36. yeeres, and were happy (besides other worldly blessings) in nine Sonnes and Seven Daughters. Shee changed her mortall habitation for a heavenly, on the 24. day of April, An. Dom. 1592. Her Husband following her, on the 19. day of February, 1599. Both much beloved in their lives, and more lamented at their deaths; especially by the poore, to whom their good deeds (being alive) begot many prayers, now (being dead, many teares. The Glaffe of his life held 70. yeeres and then ranne out. To live long, and happy, is an honour; but to dye happy, a greater glory: Both these aspired to both. Heaven (no doubt) bath their foules, and this house of stone their bodies, where they Sleepe in peace, till the summons of a glorious resurrection wakens them.

Here lieth the body of William Kerwin, A comely Alabaster Tombe, standing in the midst of the Church below. of this Citie, free Mason. Who departed this life the 26. day of Decemb. 1594.

Aedibus Attalicis

Londinum qui decoravi,

Exiguum tribuunt

hanc mihi fata domum.

Me duce surgebant

aliis regalia tecta,

Me duce conficitur

ossibus urna meis.

Here also lyeth the body of Magdalen Kerwin, his wife, by whom he had issue, two sonnes and two daughters. She deceased the 23. day of August, 1592.

Magdalena jacet

virtus post fata superstes,

Conjugiique fides,

Religioque manen [...].

Corpus humo tectum,

Christo veniente resurget,

Vt mentis consors

astra suprema colat.

Christus mihi vita.

Mors mihi lucrum.

Nos quos certus amor

primis conjunxit ab annis,

Iunxit idem Tumulus,

junxit idemque polus.

There is a faire Grave-stone, engraven on the plaine stone, being there laid in memoriall of Mr. Abraham Orelius, a learned Preacher of the French Church; it lyeth neere to Sir Iohn Spencers Tombe, in the South Ile of the Chancell; but none new else beside.

A yong new-borne childe was taken up,A printed memory hanging up in a Table, at the entranced to the Church doore. betweene the great Ware-house and Sir Iohn Spencers backe gate, being (by a most unnaturall mother) there buried in a great dung-hill of Sea-coale ashes, with the face upward; yet found alive by Richard Atkinson, who used to make cleane the passage there of the soyle, carrying it thence with his wheel-barrow. The child had not any ragge or cloth about it, but was all bloudied, by reason that the Navillstring was untyed, and the body meerely crusted over with the Sea-coale dust. Yet being made cleane by the poore mans wife, it [Page] was found to be a most goodly Manchild, strong and well featur'd, without any blemish or harm upon it: but strangled inwardly, by sucking in the noysome filth and ashes.

It was christened, and named Iob clnere extractus; Iob taken out of the ashes. It lived 3. dayes, and dying, lyes buried in the Churchyard, the 5. of September, 1612. Richard Ball, Minister; William Robinson, and Richard Westney, Church-wardens; Thomas Edwards and Abraham Gramer, Side-men; Iohn Harvey, Clerke.

The charity that I finde in this Parish given to the poore, is 2. s. every Sunday (for ever) in Bread, allowed by the gift of the fore-remembred Mr. Robinson. And 1. s. also in Bread every Sunday given by Mistris Scioll.

The bounds and limits of S. Helens Parish, called Bishopsgate-street, the furthest house on the East side, wherein Thomas Childe now dwelleth, towards the South, abutteth upon the tenement now in the occupation of Iames Austen, in the Parish of Saint Martins Oteswich. The furthest house, wherein Edward Higges, Sadler, now dwelleth, towards the North, abutteth upon the Parsonage house of Saint Ethelburges Parish, enclosing (withall) little S. Helens Close, wherein the Leather-sellers Hall, other Tenements, and Almes-houses belonging to the said Company, doe stand. As also great Saint Helens Close; wherein the Parish Church, with a thorow-fare to the backe-gate, leading into S. Mary at the Axe; and the utmost house belonging to the said Parish, is next adjoyning to the said gate towards the South, and openeth into the street there, commonly called Saint Mary at Axe.

On the West side of the street, called Bishopsgate-street, the furthest house, wherein Thomas Goodson now dwelleth, (towards the South) abutteth upon the gate, wherein Mr. Richard Foxe, Aldermans Deputy, [...] dwelled, in the Parish of S. Martin Oteswich. And the furthest house, wherin Nathaniel Wright then also dwelled, towards the North, abutteth upon the messuage or Tenement Inue, called the Blacke Bull, in the said Parish of Saint Ethelburge. By me, Io. Warner, Parish-Clerke there.

Then have ye one great house,Of [...] place, and of Sir Iohn [...] called Crosbie Place, because the same was builded by Sir Iohn Crosbie, Gracer and Woollman, in place of certaine Tenements, with their appurtenances, letten to him by Alice Ashfeld, Prioresse of S. Helens, and the Covent, for ninety nine yeeres, from the yeere 1466. unto the yeere 1565. for the annuall rent of eleven pounds six shillings eight pence. This house hee builded of stone and timber, very large and beautifull, and the highest at that time in London: hee was one of the Sheriffes, and an Alderman in the yeere 1470. knighted by Edward the fourth, in the yeere 1471. and deceased in the yeere 1475. so short a time enjoyed he that his large and sumptuous building.

He was buried in Saint Helens, the Parish Church, a faire Monument of him and his Lady is raised there: hee gave towards the reforming of that Church five hundred markes, which was bestowed with the better, as appeareth by his Armes, both in the stone-worke, roofe of Timber, and glasing.

I hold it a fable said of him, to be named Crosbie, of being found by a crosse; for I have reade of other to have that name of Crosbie before him; namely, in the yeere 1406. the 7. of Henry the 4. the said King gave to his servant Iohn Crosbie, the wardship of Iohn, daughter and sole heire to Iohn Iordaine, Fishmonger, &c. This Crosbie might bee Father or Grandfather to Sir Iohn Crosbie.

Richard Duke of Glocester, and Lord Protector, afterward King, by the name of Richard the third, was lodged in this house: since which time, among other, Anthony B [...]nvice, a rich Merchant of Italy, dwelled there; after him Garmain Cioll. Then William Bond, Alderman, increased this house in heighth, with building a Turret on the top thereof: Hee deceased in the yeere 1576. and was buried in Saint Helens Church. Divers Ambassadours have beene lodged there; namely, in the yeere 1586. Henry Ramelius, Chancellour [Page] of Denmarke, Ambassadour unto the Queens Majesty of England, from Frederick the second, King of Denmarke: An Ambassadour of France, &c. Sir Iohn Spencer, Alderman, lately purchased this house, made great reparations, kept his Maioralty there, and since builded a most large ware-house neere thereunto.

From this Crosby place, up to Leaden Hall corner, and so downe Grasse-street, among other tenements, are divers faire and large-builded houses for Merchants and such like.

Now for the other side of this Ward, namely the right hand,Water-conduit at Bishopsgate. hard by within the Gate, is one faire water-Conduit, which Tho. Knesworth, Maior in the yeer 1505. founded, hee gave 60. pounds, the rest was furnished at the common charges of the Citie. This Conduit hath since beene taken downe, and new builded. David Woodroffe, Alderman, gave 20. pounds towards the conveyance of more water thereto. From this Conduit have ye (amongst many faire tenements) divers faire Innes, large for receit of travellers, and some houses for men of Worship; namely, one most spacious of all other there about, builded of bricke and timber,Sir Thomas Greshams house builded. by Sir Thomas Gresham, Knight, who deceased in the yeere 1579. and was buried in S. Helens Church, under a faire Monument, by him prepared in his life: hee appointed by his Testament, this house to be made a Colledge of Readers, as before is said in the Chapter of schools and houses of learning.

Somewhat West from this house, is one other faire house, wherein Sir William Hollis kept his Maioralty, and was buried in the Parish Church of Saint Helen. Sir Andrew Iud also kept his Maioralty there, and was buried at S. Helens. Sir Andrew Iud his Almes houses. He builded Almes-houses for six poore Almes-people, neere to the said Parish Church and gave Lands to the Skinners, out of which they are to give 4. shillings every weeke to the six poore Almes-people, 8. d. the peece, and 25. s. 4. d. the yeere in Coales amongst them for ever.

Then in the very West corner, over against the East end of S. Martins Oteswich Church, (from whence the street windeth towards the south, you had, of old time, a faire Well with two Buckets, so fastned, that the drawing up of the one let downe the other; but now of late that Well is turned into a Pumpe.

From this to the corner over against the Leaden Hall, and so downe Grasse-street, are many faire houses for Merchants and Artificers, and many faire Innes for travellours, even to the corner where that Ward endeth, over against Grasse-Church.

Thus much for this Bishopsgate Ward shall suffice: which hath an Alderman, two Deputies, one without the Gate, another within; Common Counsellors, 6. Constables, 7. Scavengers, 7. for Wardmore inquest, 13. and a Beadle: it is taxed to the Fifteene at 13. l.

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BROADSTREET VVARD.

THe next is Broadstreet Ward,Broadstreet Ward. which beginneth within Bishopsgate, from the Water Conduit, Westward, on both sides of the street, by Alhallows Church, to an Iron grate on the channell, which runneth into the water-course of Walbrooke, before yee come to the Posterne called Mooregate: and this is the farthest West part of that Ward. Then have ye Broadstreet, whereof the Ward taketh name, which stretcheth out of the formerstreet, from the East corner of Alhallowes Church-yard, somewhat South, to the Parish Church of Saint Peter the poore, on both sides; and then by the South gate of the Augustine Friers, West, downe Throkmorton street, by the Drapers hall, into Lothbury, to another grate of Iron over the channell there, whereby the water runneth into the course of Walbrooke, under the East end of S. Margarets Church; certaine posts of timber are there set up: and this is also the farthest West part of this Ward, in the said street. Out of the which street, runneth up Bartholomew Lane, South, to the North side of the Exchange: then more East out of the former street, from over against the Friers Augustines Church South gate, runneth up another part of Broadstreet, south, to a Pump over against S. Bennets Church.

Then have ye one other street,Three Needle street. called Three Needle street, beginning at the VVell with two buckets, by S. Martins Oteswich Church wall. This street runneth downe on both sides to Finkes lane, and halfe way up that Lane, to a gate of a Merchants house on the West side, but not so farre on the East. Then the aforesaid street, from this Finkes lane, runneth downe by the Royall Exchange, to the Stockes, and to a place formerly called the Scalding house, or Scalding wicke, but now, Scalding Alley, by the west side whereof, under the Parish Church of Saint Mildred, Parish Church of Alhallowes in the wall. runneth the course of Walbrooke: and these bee the bounds of this VVard. Especiall Monuments therein are these:

First, the Parish. Church of Alhallowes in the wall; so called of standing close to the wall of the Citie, in which have beene buried:

Thomas Durrem, Esquire, and Margaret his wife.

Robert Beale, Esquire, 1601.

Deo Opt. Max. Sacrum & Memoriae.A faire Menumēt in the wall close by the Pulpit, on the west side thereof.

Nobilis viri Dominici ab Heila, ex antiqua apud Flandros Equestri familia, ob singularem sidem in Principem & Patriam, in Historiis subinde celebrata oriundi, qui cum Orthodoxae Religionis ergo, relicta Patria, cui cum laude diu inservierat; in Angliam, ut tutum fidelium refugium, se recepisset, ibidem XXIV. Postremos senectutis annos in Diveni verbi jugi studio, pauperum (que) subventione potissimii transegisset, & diu ante, ut quotidie moriturus, de domo sua disposuisset. Dissolvi, & cum Christo esse cupieus: tandem satur dierum placidè in Deo Salvatore obdomivit, 28. Aprilis, An. Christi, M.D.CVIII. Aetatis, 82. Londini Anglorum.

Item Memoriae.

Nobilis Matronae, Gulielmae ab Heila, Conjugis ipsius, natae Patre Joanne Domino Haleme & Finae, prope Insulas Flandorum, ex Salopia Equaestri spud Artesios Familia.. Quae marito Patriam ob Religionem relinquenti, in utraque fortuna fida socia, & in educandis piè liberis, curanda (que) re domestica Materfamilias [Page] incomparabilis. Obiit in Christo, die ult. Maii. An. M.D.CV. Aetatis 70. Conjugii, LI.

Huic utri (que) Parenti optimè de se merito, debiti Honoris & gratitudinis ergo, Petrus ab Heila, F. Serenissimi Electoris Palatini Consiliarius,

H. M. Moest. P.

Charities in this Parish are few or none, but ordinary benevolences from the parishioners themselves: except some slender moity, issuing from certaine Almes-houses, builded by London wall, neere to Bishopsgate, by Mr. Kempe, and in his life time, as I have beene informed.

The bounds of the Parish are needlesse to be spoken of, because their circuit containeth no great extent of ground.Carpenters Hall. Mr. Andrew Geneway, the Parson, used me here very kindly.

On the otherside of the street, among many proper houses, (possessed for the most part by Curriers) is the Carpenters Hall, which Company was incorporated in the 17. yeere of Edward the fourth.Curriers Row.

Then East from the Curriers Row, is a long and high wall of stone, inclosing the North side of a large garden, adjoyning to as large an house, builded in the reignes of King Henry the eighth, and of Edward the sixth, by Sir William Powlet, Lord Treasurer of England. Thorow this Garden, which (of old time) consisted of divers parts, now united, was sometimes a faire foot way,Lane stopped up. leading by the west end of the Augustine Friers Church straight North, and opened somewhat VVest from Alhallowes Church against London wall, towards Mooregate, which foot-way had gates at either end, locked up every night; but now the same way (being taken into those Gardens) the gates are closed up with stone, whereby the people are inforced to goe about by Saint Peters Church,Sir William Powlet, L. Treasurers house in Broad-street. and the East end of the said Friers Church, and all the said great place and Garden of Sir Wiliam Powlet to London wall, and so to Mooregate.

This great house adjoyning to the Garden aforesaid, stretcheth to the North corner of Broadstreet, and then turneth up Broadstreet, all that side, to and beyond the East end of the said Friers Church. It was builded by the said Lord Treasurer, in place of Augustine Friers house, cloyster, and gardens, &c. The Friers Church hee pulled not downe, but the west end thereof, inclosed from the Steeple and Quire, was in the yeere 1550. granted to the Dutch Nation in London, to be their Preaching place. The other part, namely, the Steeple, Quire, and side Iles to the Quire adjoyning, he reserved to household uses, as for stowage of corne, coale, and other things; his sonne and heire, Marquesse of Winchester, sold the Monuments of Noblemen (there buried) in great number, the paving stone, and whatsoever, (which cost many thousands) for one hundred pounds, and in place thereof made faire stabling for horses. He caused the lead to be taken from the roofes, and laid tile in place; which exchange proved not so profitable as he looked for,Sir Tho. Gresams Almes-houses. but rather to his disadvantage.

On the East side of this Broadstreet, amongst other buildings, on the backe part of Gresham house, which is in Bishopsgate street, he placed eight proper Almes-houses, builded of bricke and timber, by Sir Thomas Gresham, Knight, for eight Almes-men, which bee now there placed rent-free, and receive each of them by his gift, 6. l. 13. s. 4. d. yeerely for ever.Parish Church of S. Peter the poore.

Next unto Powlet house, is the Parish Church of S. Peter the poore; so called for a difference from other of that name; sometime (peradventure) a poore parish, but at this present there be many faire houses, possessed by rich Merchants, and others.

Buried in this Church:

Richard Fitzwilliams, Merchant-taylor, 1520.

Sir William Roch, Maior, 1540.

Robert Calthrope, Maior, 1588.

Dominus Joannes Hales, On a faire ancient place, in the wall North the Quire. à pueritia literis deditus, excellenti ingenio, docilitati, memoriae, studio & industria singulari, adjuncta Linguarum, disciplinarum juris antiquitatis-rerum di-vinarum, atque humanarum, magna & multiplici doctrina instructissimus, evasit innocentia, integritate, gravitate, constantia, fide, pietate, Religione, gravissimae etiam aegrotationis, & rerum difficilium diuturna [Page] perpessione, & in patientia ornatissimus fuit, vitae honestissime sanctissimeque actae, diem supremum quinto Cal. Ianuar. 1572. clausit anima excorporis; reliquiae hoc loco sitae sunt.

Expecto resurrectionem morta [...]orum, & vitam aeternam.

Two other Plates there are beneath in the same wall, the one of Iohn Quarles, Draper, and the other of Edward Catcher, Pewterer.

Here under this stone,A faire plated stone on the groūd in the Chancell. are buried the bodies of John Lucas, of S. Johns beside Colchester, Esquire, Master of the Requests to the most vertuous, Noble, and worthy Prince, King Edward the sixth. He departed this life the 26. day of Octeber, An. Dom. 1556. And his daughter Margaret, late wife to Thomas Pennie, Doctor of Physicke, here buried the 13. day of November, 1587.

Here lyeth the body of the Worshipfull Mr. William Cockaine the elder,A comely Monumēt fixed in the wall, at the east end of the Chancell. Citizen and Skinner of London, who departed this life the 18. day of November, 1599. Also here lyeth the body of Elizabeth Medcalfe, his first wife; by whom hee had 7. sonnes and 4. daughters. All which daughters departed this life, before any of them accomplished the age of 10. yeeres. The 7. sonnes lived, and the yongest of them (at his death) was fully 28. yeeres of Age. which said Elizabeth departed this life, the 5. day of April, 1589. Here also lyeth the body of Katharine Wonton, his second wife, who dyed the 19. of September, 1596. by whom he had no issue.

In the East end of the North Ile,A beautifull Monument in the North Ile. there is a faire and comely Monument, There raised and placed, in the remembrance of Sir William Garaway, Knight, and his wife. This Monument standeth highest of all, next to the doores entrance.

Thomas Lowe, Too mean a remembrance (in my mind) for a man so deserving. Eques Auratus, D. Majoris Civitatis London, Ann. Domini, 1604. Vir probus & prudens. Obiit 11. die Aprilis, An. 1623. Aetat. 78. Cui 28. die Ian. 1615. Aetatis suae 67. a [...]essit Anna lectissima foemina ex eodem Thoma mater, 15. liberorum; vixerum suavissima conjunctione, An. 48.

The Charities given yeerely to the poore of this Parish, are these ensuing:

The Lady Payton, deceased, hath given yeerely for ever, in bread and otherwise, the summe of 40. s.

The Lady Ramsey, deceased, hath given the summe of 4. l. yeerely for ever.

Mr. Iohn Quarles, Citizen and Draper of London, deceased, hath given the summe of 5. l. yeerely for ever.

Mr. William May, Merchant-taylor, deceased, hath given yeerely for ever, 2. s.

Other gifts have beene there bestowed, to the poores reliefe, as one of forty shillings, and another of twenty shillings yeerely: but being tyed to no certainty, I am the more willing to omit them.

Then next have ye the Augustin friers Church and Churchyard,Friers Augustines Church, part wherof is the Dutch Church. the entring thereunto, by a South gate, to the West Porch, a large Church, having a most fine spired steeple, small, high, and streight, I have not seene the like: founded by Humphry Bohun, Earle of Hereford and Essex, in the yeere 1253. Reginald Cobham gave his Messuage in London, to the inlarging therof, in the yeere 1344. Humphry Bohun, Earle of Hereford and Essex, re-edified this Church in the yeere 1354. whose body was there buried in the Quire. The small spired steeple of this Church was overthrowne by tempest of wind, in the yeere 1362. but was raised of new, as still it might have stood, had not private benefit (the onely devourer of Antiquity) pull'd it downe. Both that goodly Steeple, and all that East part of the Church, hath lately beene taken downe, and houses (for one mans commodity) raised in the place, whereby London hath lost so goodly an ornament, & times hereafter may more talke of it.

This house was valued at 57. pound, and was surrendred the 12. of Novemb. the 13. of Henry the 8.

There lie buried in this Friers Church, amongst others, Edmond, first sonne to Ioane, Mother to King Richard the second.

[Page] [...]uy Meri [...] [...]arle of S. Paul. What persons of note and name. [...] bu [...]ed in the [...]ugustine [...].

Lucie, Countesse of Kent, and one the Heirs of Barnaby, Lord of Mill [...] with an Epitaph.

Dame Ide, wife to Sir Thomas▪

Dame Margaret West.

[...] Steven Lindericle, Esquir [...]

[...] Humfrey Bohun, [...] and Essessex, Lord of Bre [...] [...].

Ric [...] [...] great [...]rundell, Surrey [...] [...] 1397.

Sir [...] Dame Elizabeth his wife.

Sir Francis Atcourt, Earle of Pembroke, which married Alice, Sister to the Earle of Oxeford.

Dame Lucie Knowles, of Kent.

Sir Peter Garinsers of France.

The Lord Iohn Vere, Earle of Oxford, beheaded on the Tower-hill, 1463.

Aubery de Vere, son and heire to the Earle of Oxford.

Sir Thomas Tudnam, Knight.

William Bourser, Lord Fitz Warren.

Sir Thomas de la Lande, Knight.

Dame Ioane Norris, the Lady of Bedford.

Anne, Daughter to Iohn, Viscount Welles.

Walter Nevell, Esquire.

Sir Iohn Manners, Knight.

The Wife of Sir David Cradocke, Knight.

The Mother to the Lord Spencers Wife.

Sir Bartlemew Rodlegete.

Iohn, sonne to Sir Iohn Wingfielde.

Sir VValter Mewes.

Robert Newenton, Esquire.

Philip Spencer, son to Sir Hugh Spencer.

Dame Isabell, daughter to Sir Hugh Spencer.

The Lords Barons, slaine at Barnet field, buried there, 1471. In the body of the Church.

Dame Iulian, Wife to Sir Richard Lacy.

Sir Thomas Courtney, son to the Earle of Devonshire, and by him his sister, wedded to Cheverstone.

The Daughter of the Lord Beaumont.

Two sonnes of Sir Thomas Morley, to wit, VVilliam and Ralph.

Sir William Talmage, Knight.

Nicholas Blondell, Esquire.

Sir Richard Chamberlaine.

Iohn Halton, Gentleman.

Sir Iohn Gifford, Knight.

Thomas Manningham, Esquire.

Sir William Kenuda, Knight.

Sir William, sonne to Sir Thomas Terrill.

Ioha Surill, Gentleman.

In the East Wing, Margaret Barentine, Gentlewoman.

Iohn Spicer, Esquire, and Lettis his wife.

Iohn le Percers, Esquire.

Roger Chibary, Esquire.

Peter Morens, Esquire.

Thomas, sonne to Sir William Beckland.

Iames Cuthing, Esquire.

Iohn Chornet, Esquire.

William Kenely, Esquire.

Margery, wife to Thomas Band, and daughter to Iohn Huch.

The L. William, Marquesse of Barkeley, and Earle of Nottingham, and Dame Ioane his wife.

In the West Wing, Sir Iohn Tirrell, and Dame Katharine his wife.

Sir Walter of Powle, Knight.

Sir Iohn Blanckwell and his wife.

Dame Iane Sayne, daughter to Sir Iohn Lee.

Sir Iohn Dawbeny, sonne and heire to Sir Giles Dawbeny.

William, sonne to Sir Roger Scroope.

Dame Ioane Dawbeny, wife to Sir William Dawbeny.

Thomas Charles, Esquire.

Sir Iohn Dawbeny, Knight, and his sonne Robert.

Sir Iames Bell, Knight.

Sir Oliver Manny Knight.

Henry Deskie, Esquire.

Sir Diones Mordaske.

Sir Bernard Rollingcort.

Sir Peter Kayor.

Sir William Tirell, and Sir William his brother, Knights.

William Collingborne, Esquire, beheaded, 1484.

Sir Roger Clifford, Knight.

Sir Thomas Coke, Maior in the yeere 1462.

William Edward, Maior, 1471.

Sir Iames Tirell, Sir Iohn VVindany, Knights, beheaded, 1502.

Sir Iohn Dawtrie, Knight, 1519.

Dame Margaret Rede, 1510.

[Page] Edward, Duke of Buckingham, beheaded, 1521.

Gwiscard, Earle of Huntington.

On the South side, and at the West end of this Church,Throkmorton street. many faire houses are builded, namely in Throkmorton street, one very large and spacious, builded in the place of old and small tenements, T. Cromwell his house. by Thomas Cromwell, Master of the Kings Jewell-house; after that, Master of the Rolls, then Lord Cromwell, Knight, Lord Privie Seale, Vicar generall, Earle of Essex, high Chamberlain of England, &c. This house being finished, and having some reasonable plot of ground left for a Garden, hee caused the pales of the Gardens adjoyning to the North part thereof, on a sudden to be taken downe, 22. foot to be measured forth-right into the North of every mans ground, a line there to be drawn, a trench to be cast, a foundation laid, and an high bricke wall to be builded. My Father had a Garden there, & there was a house standing close to his South pale: this house they loosed from the ground, and bare upon Rowlers into my Fathers Garden 22. foot, ere my Father heard thereof: no warning was given him, nor other answer, (when he spake to the surveyers of that worke) but that their Master, Sir Thomas, commanded them so to doe: no man durst goe to argue the matter, but each man lost his Land; and my Father paid his whole rent, which was 6. shillings 8. pence the yeere, for that halfe which was left. Thus much of mine owne knowledge have I thought good to note, that the sudden rising of some men, causeth them to forget themselves.

The Company of Drapers in London bought this house,The Drapers hall. and now the same is their common Hall. This Company obtained of King Henry the 6. in the seventeenth of his reigne, to bee incorporate; Iohn Gedney was chosen to be their first Master; and the 4. Wardens were, 1. VVotton, I. Darby, Robert Breton, The Drapers Armes. and T. Cooke. The Armes granted to the said Company, by Sir VVilliam Bridges, Knight, first Garter King at Armes, in Blason are thus: Three Sun Beames, issuing out of three clouds of flame, crowned with three Crownes Imperials of gold, upon a shield Azure.

From this Hall, on the same side, downe to the grates and course of VValbrooke, have ye divers faire houses for Merchants and other, from the which grates backe againe on the other side in Lotisbury (so called in Record of Edward the third,Lotisbury or Lothbury. the 38. yeere, and now corruptly called Lothbury) are Candlestick-founders placed, till ye come to Bartholomew Lane, so called of Saint Bartholomews Church, at the South East corner thereof. In this Lane also are divers faire builded houses on both sides, and so likewise have ye in the other street, which stretcheth from the Friers Augustines South gate, to the corner over against Saint Bennets Church. In this street, amongst other faire buildings, the most ancient was (of old time) an house pertaining to the Abbot of Saint Albans. Iohn Catcher, Abbot of S. Albans his Inne. Alderman (after dwelled there. Then is the free schoole, pertaining to the late dissolved Hospitall of Saint Anthony, S. Anthonies school▪ whereof more shall be shewed in another place, and so upto Three Needle street.

On the South part of which street,Three Needle street. beginning at the East, by the Well with two buckets, now turned to a Pumpe,S. Martins Oteswitch. is the Parish Church of S. Martin called Oteswitch, of Martin de Otestwich, Nicholas de Oteswich, William Oteswich, and Iohn Oteswich, founders thereof, and all buried there, as appeareth by their ancient Monument.

There be Monuments in this Church, of VVilliam Constantine, Alderman, and Emme his wife.

Katherine, wife to Benedict Augustine.

Sir VVilliam Drifield, Knight.

Iohn Oteswich and his wife, under a faire Monument on the South side.

Iohn Churchman, one of the Sheriffes in the yeere 1385.

Richard Naylor, Taylor, Alderman, 1483.

Iames Falleron.

Iohn Melchborne.

Thomas Hay and Ellen his wife.

VVilliam Clitherow and Margeret his wife.

Oliver and VVilliam, sonnes to Iohn VVoodroofe, Esquire.

Hugh Pemberton, Taylor, Alderman, 1500. and Katharine his wife.

Matthew Pemberton, Merchant-Taylor, [Page] about 1514. he gave 50. l. to the repairing of S. Lawrence Chappell.

Illustri ac Nobilissimo V. Domino Jacobo Falckio, A faire engraven stone on the South side of the Communiō Table. Domino Zelandiae Thesaurario, summo Consiliario ordinum ejusdem Provinciae, post plurimas apud plerosque Europae Reges, ac Principes obitas Honorificè Legationes, & regendarum rerum infinitas, cum omnium laude, ac admiratione curas, in extremis Ecclesiae ac Patriae cum hostibus luctis defuncto, Legati munere communi Patriae totius Provinciarum Belgicarum foederatarii apud Serenissimum & potentissimū Jacobū 1. Angliae, Scotiae, Franciae & Hyberniae Regem: Hoc intestinorum receptaculum. Reliquum à funere totius molem, in Patria Zelandia pietati inter planctus posuit affinis ex Sorore Anthonius Taymon. Obiit 4. Nonas Iunii. 1603.

Parte solo recubo

peregrino, parte paterno,

Hoc bene si didici

vivere, & hocce mori.

I. Murdisonius.

Quae natat Oceano

Zelandia corpus, Olympus

Ipse animam, peregrè

hoc viscera marmor habet.

A. Hunterus.

Viscera terra Britanna

tegit, Zelandia corpus,

Sic mea divisit

funera parce mihi.

I. Meursius.

Here lyeth the body of Clemens Langley, A faire stone, on the other side of the Table. late wife of Richard Langley, and Daughter to Thomas Whitton, Gent. And of Joane his first wife, daughter of Robert Cresset, Esquire: who yeelded her soule to her Redeemer, the last of April, 1603.

Thyzealous care to serve thy God,

thy constant love to Husband deare:

Thy harmelesse heart to every one

remaines alive, though corps lye here.

Spes vermis & ego. R. L.

Vivit post funera Virtus. C. L.

Also the 19. day of March, 1612. Richard Langley her husband was here buried.

Here resteth the body of the Worshipful M. Rich. Staper, A very goodly Tombe erected in the wal on the South side of the Church. elected Alderman of this Citie, 1594. He was the greatest Merchant in his time, the chiefest Actor in discovery of the Trades of Turkey and East India: A man humble in prosperity, painefull and ever ready in the affaires publike, and discreetly carefull of his private. A liberall house-keeper, bountifull to the poore: an upright dealer in the world, and a devout aspirer after the World to come. Much blest in his posterity, and happy in his and their alliances. He dyed the last day of Iune, An. Dom. 1608. Intravit ut exiret.

Sir Henry Rowe allowed 5. l. yeerely for ever to the poore of this Parish, to be bestowed in bread and coales. And Mistris Sotherton yeerely for ever in bread, 50. s.

The aforesaid Iohn Churchman, for William and Iohn Oteswich, (by licence of H. the fourth, the sixth of his reigne) gave the Advouson or Patronage of this Church, foure messuages and 17. shops with the appurtenances, in the Parish of S. Martins Oteswich, &c. to the Master and Wardens of Taylors and Linnen Armorers, keepers of the Guild and Fraternity of S. Iohn Baptist in London, and to their successors, in perpetuall Almes, to be imployed upon the poore Brethren and Sisters. Whereupon, adjoyning upon the West end of this Parish Church, the said Master and Wardens builded (about a proper quadrant or squared Court) seven Almes-houses,Tailors & Linnen Armorers their alms houses in Broadstreets Ward: looke more in Portsoke [...] ward. wherein they placed seven Almes-men of that Company, and their wives, (if they had wives) each of these seven, of old time, had 14. pence the weeke; but now of later time, their stipend by the said Master and Wardens hath beene augmented to the summe of 26. shillings the quarter, which is 5. l. 4. s. the yeere to each of them, beside coales. More, to each of them 20. s. the yeere, by gift of Walter Fish, sometime Master of that Company, and Taylor to Her Majestie.

Some small distance from thence is the Merchant-Taylors Hall,Taylors & Linnen Armerers Hall. pertaining to the Guild and Fraternity of Saint Iohn Baptist, time out of mind called of Taylors and Linnen Armorers of London. [Page] Antiquity of the Tailors feast by authority. For I finde that King Edward the first, in the 28. of his reigne, confirmed this Guild by the name of Taylors and Linnen Armorers, and also gave to the brethren thereof, authority every yeere at Midsummer to hold a Feast, and to choose unto them a Governour or Master, with Wardens: whereupon, the same yeere, 1300. on the Feast day of the Nativity of Saint Iohn Baptist, they chose Henry de Ryall to be their Pilgrim. For the Master of this Mystery (as one that travelled for the whole Company) was then so called, untill the 11. yeere of Richard the second: and the foure Wardens were then called Purveyors of Almes, (now called Quartredge) of the said fraternity.

This Merchant-Taylors Hall, sometime pertaining to a Worshipful Gentleman, named Edmond Crepin, Dominus Creeping, after some Record: he, in the yeere of Christ, 1331. the sixth of Edward the third, for a certaine summe of money to him paid,Taylors purchase their Hall. made his grant thereof, by the name of his principall Messuage, in the Wards of Cornhill and Broadstreet, which Sir Oliver Ingham, Knight, did then hold; to Iohn of Yakley, the Kings Pavilion-maker. This was called the New Hall, Taylors Hall. or Taylors Inne, for a difference from their old Hall, which was about the backe side of the Red Lion in Basing lane, and in the Ward of Cord-wayner street.

The 21. of Edward the fourth, Thomas Holme, alias Clarentiaulx, King of Armes for the South part of England, granted by his Patents, to the said fraternity and Guild of Saint Iohn Baptist, of Tailors and Linnen Armorers, to beare in a Field Silver,The Merchant-tailors Arms. a Pavilion betweene two Mantles Imperiall, purple, garnished with gold, in a chiefe Azure, a holy Lambe, set within a Sunne, the Creast upon the Helme, a Pavilion purple, garnished with gold, &c.

After this, King Henry the 7. was himselfe a Brother of this Fraternity, or Guild of S. Iohn Baptist, of Tailors or Linnen Armorers, (as divers others of his predecessours Kings had beene) to wit, Richard the 3. Edward the 4. Henry the 6. Henry the 5. Henry the 4. and Richard the 2. And for that divers of that Fraternity had (time out of minde) bin great Merchants, and had frequented all sorts of merchandises into most parts of the world, to the honour of the Kings Realme, and to the great profit of his subjects, and of his Progenitors, and the men of the said mystery, (during the time aforesaid) had exercised the buying and selling of all wares and Merchandises; especially, of woollen cloth, as well in grosse, as by retaile, throughout all this Realme of England, and chiefly within the said Citie:Taylors & Linnen Armorers incorporated Merchant Taylors. therefore he of his especiall grace, did change, transferre and translate the Guild aforesaid, and did incorporate them into the name of the Master and Wardens of the Merchant-Taylors, of the fraternity of S. Iohn Baptist, in the Citie of London.

Some distance West from this the Merchant Taylors Hall,Finke lane. is Finkes-Lan; so called of Robert Finke, and Robert Finke his sonne, Iames Finke, and Rosamond Finke. Robert Finke the elder, new builded the Parish Church of S. Bennet commonly called Finke, of the Founder; his Tenements were both of S. Bennets Parish, and Saint Martins Oteswich parish: the one halfe of this Fink lane is of Broadstreet Ward; to wit, on the West side, up to the great and principall house, wherein the said Finke dwelled: But on the other side, namely the East, not so much towards Cornehill. Then without this Lane, in the aforesaid Three Needle street,Parish Church of S. Bennet Finke. is the said Parish Church of S. Bennet, a proper Church, in which are these Monuments:

Robert Simson, and Elizabeth his wife.

Roger Strange, Esquire, Treresse.

William Coolby. Iohn Frey.

Thomas Briar, Plummer, 1410. &c.

By this Pillar was buried the body of Dame Anne Awnsham, who dyed the 23. of December, 1613. being neere 12. yeeres the wife of Sir Gedeon Awnsham, of Istleworth in the County of Middlesex, Knight: And before the wife to William Barradaile, Citizen and Merchant-Taylor of London, dwelling in this parish together some 30. yeeres. He dyed in March, 1600. who by his will gave 5. pounds to the poore of this parish, and 6. pounds, 13. shillings, 8. pence, toward the building a loft in the Church, besides his other Legacies to the [Page] poore in other places. And the said Dame Anne, besides her other good deeds to Istleworth, and other places, she also appointed five pound to the poore of this Parish, which the said Sir Gedeon paid. As they both (thankes be to God) lived godly and well: so they could not but dye well, by the onely mercy of Iesus Christ.

Some distance West is the Royall Exchange, whereof more shall bee spoken in the Ward of Cornehill, and so downe to the little Conduit, called the Pissing Conduit, by the Stocks Market, and this is the South side of Three Needle street.

On the North side of this streete, from overagainst the East corner of St. Martins Oteswich Church,Hospitall of Saint Anthony sometime a Synagogue of the Iewes. have yee divers faire and large houses, til you come to the Hospitall of St. Anthony, sometime a Cell of Saint Anthonies of Vienna. For I read, that King Henry the third, granted to the Brotherhood of Saint Anthony of Vienna, a place amongst the Iewes, which was sometime their Synagogue, and had been builded by them, about the yeere 1231.Patent record. But the Christians obtained of the King, that it should be dedicated to our blessed Lady, and since, an Hospitall being there builded, was called Saint Anthonies in London. It was founded in the Parish of Saint Bennet Finke, for a Master, two Priests, one Schoole-master, and twelve poore men: after which foundation, amongst other things, was given to this Hospitall one Message and Garden, whereon was builded the faire large free-school,Free Schoole of S Anthonies builded. and one other parcell of ground containing 37. foot in length, and 18. foot in bredth, whereon were builded the Almes-houses of hard stone and Timber, Almes-houses of S. Anthonie builded. in the reigne of Henry the sixth, which said Henry the sixth,Gift of Henry the sixth to Saint Anthonies. in the 20. of his reigne, gave unto Iohn Carpenter, Doctor of Divinity, and Master of S. Anthonies Hospitall, and to his brethren and their successors for ever, his Mannor of Poinington, with the appurtenances, with certaine pensions and portions of Milburn, Burneworth, Charlton, and Vp-wimburne, in the County of Southampton, towards the maintenance of five Scholars in the Vniversity of Oxford, to bee brought up in the faculty of Arts, after the rate of tenne pence the week for every Scholar: so that the said Scholars bee first instructed in the rudiments of Grammar, at the College of Eaton, founded by the said King.

In the yeere 1474. Edward the fourth granted to William Say, Batcheler of Divinity, Master of the said Hospitall, to have Priests, Clerkes, Scholars, poore men, and brethren of the same, Clerks, or Lay men, Queristers, Proctors, Messengers, Servants in houshold, and other things whatsoever, like as the Prior, and Covent of Saint Anthonies of Vienna, &c. Hee also annexed, united, and appropriated the said Hospitall, unto the Collegiate of Saint George in VVindsor.

The Protectors of this house were to collect the benevolence of charitable persons, towards the building and supporting thereof. And amongst other things observed in my youth, I remember, that the Officers (charged with oversight of the Markets in this City) did divers time take from the Market people, Pigs starved, or otherwise unwholsome for mans sustenance: these they did slit in the eare.Saint Anthonies Pigs fed on the dunghils. One of the Proctors for St. Anthonies tyed a Bell about the necke, and let it feed on the Dunghils, no man would hurt, or take it up: but if any gave to them bread, or other feeding, such would they know, watch for, and daily follow, whining till they had somewhat given them: whereupon was raised a Proverbe, Such an one wil follow such an one, & whine as it were an Anthonie Pig: but if such a Pig grew to be fat, and came to good liking (as oft times they did) then the Proctor would take him up to the use of the Hospitall.

In the yeere, 1499. Sir Iohn Tate, sometime Alebrewer, then a Mercer, caused his Brewhouse, called the Swan neere adjoyning to the said Free Chappell, College, or Hospitall of Saint Anthony, to bee taken for the enlarging of the Church, which was then newly builded; toward the building whereof, the said Tate gave great summes of money, and finished it in the yeere 1501. Sir Iohn Tate deceased 1514. and was their buried, under a faire Monument by him prepared. Doctor Tayler Master of the Rolles and other.

[Page] Walter Champion, Draper, one of the Sheriffes of London, 1529. was buried there, and gave to the Beadmen twenty pounds. The Lands by yeere of this Hospitall, were valued in the 37. yeere of Henry the 8. to be 55. pounds, 6. shillings, 8. pence.

One Iohnson, Schoolemaster of S. Anthonies made Prebend of Windsor, spoiled the school and hospitall. (a Schoolemaster of the famous Free-schoole there) became a Prebend of Windsore, and then (by little and little) followed the spoile of this Hospitall: he first dissolved the Quire, conveyed away the Plate and Ornaments, then the Bels, and lastly put out the Almes-men from their houses, appointing them portions of 12. pence the weeke to each. But now I heare of no such matter performed; for their houses, with other, bee letten out for rent, and the Church is a Preaching-place for the French Nation.

This Schoole was commended in the reigne of Henry the sixth, and sithence commended above other; but now decayed, and come to nothing, by taking that from it which thereunto belonged.

Next it the Parish Church of Saint Bartholomew, Parish Church of S. Bartholomew. at the end of Bartholomew lane. Thomas Pike, Alderman, with the assistance of Nicholas Yoo, one of the Sheriffes of London, about the yeere 1438. new builded this Church.

Sir Iohn Fray, Knight, was buried there.

Margery his daughter and heire, wife to Sir Iohn Lepington, Knight, founded there a Chauntry, the 21. of Edward the fourth.

Alderban, a Gascoigne, was buried there.

Sir W. Capell, Maior, 1509. aded unto this Church a proper Chappell, on the South side thereof, and was buried there.

Giles Capell was also buried there.

Iames Wilford, Taylor, one of the Sheriffes, 1499. appointed by his Testament, a Doctor of Divinity, every Good Friday for ever, to preach there a Sermon of Christs passion, from sixe of the clocke till eight before noone, in the said Church.

Io. Wilford, Merchant-Taylor, Alderman, 1544.

Sir Iames Wilford, 1550.

Sir George Barne, Maior, 1552.

Iohn Dent.

Miles Coverdale, Bishop of Excester.

Thomas Dancer, and Anne his wife.

In Obitum Reverendissimi Patris,A faire plated stone on the groūd in the Chancell. Milanis Coverdal, OGDOASTICON.

HIc tandem requiemque

ferens finem (que) laborum,

Ossa Coverdali

mortua Tumbus habet.

Oxoniae qui Praesul

erat dignissimus olim,

Insignis vitae

vir probitate suae.

Octoginta annos

grandevus vixit, & nullum

Indigni passus

saepius exilium.

Sic dimitti variis

jactabam casibus, ista

Excepitur gremio

terra benigna sua.

Here lyeth buried the body of Richard Bowdler, Severall faire plated stones in the Chancell. Citizen and Draper of London, being one of the Society of Merchants Adventurers in England, for Moscovia and the East-Indiaes. Here lyeth also Anne his wife, by whom hee had issue, 7. children, 5. sonnes, and 2. daughters; whereof three deceased, but the other foure were living at the time of his death. He dyed the 16. day of November, 1603. And shee, &c.

Here lyeth the body of Iohn Dent, whilest he lived, Citizen and Merchant of London, borne at Halloughton in Leicester-shire, and free of the Salters Company, as also of the Spanish and Moscovia Companies: but his chiefe trading was to France. Hee was once chosen Sheriffe of London, and once Alderman, and fined for the same. His last fine was 1000. Markes, towards the repairing of Christs Hospitall in London. He married twise; his first wife was Margaret, by whom hee had one sonne, who dyed, and the mother. The second wife was Alice, by whom he had 3. Daughters, Elizabeth, Mary, and Elizab. The first dyed in her Fathers life time, the rest with the Mother remained living. Hee beeing aged 63. yeeres, dyed the 10. of Decemb. 1595.

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Here lyeth the body of Master Thomas Church, Citizen and Draper of London. He was helpfull to many, hurtfull to none, and gave every one his due. In memory of whose love to them, and theirs to him, Mary Bagwell, his sister, William Bagwell, her sonne, his Executors, and Bernard Cooper, the second Husband to the said Mary Bagwell, caused this stone to be laid here, the 28. day of May, 1617. Hee departed this life in August the 26. day, 1616. being aged 55. yeeres.

A good life hath the dayes numbred, but a good name endureth for ever.

To Gods Glory.

In pious Memory of the noblyvertuous, A faire Monumēt in the North wal or the Chancell. and religions Matrone, Margarite, wife of Robert Hall, Doctor of Divinity, and Pastor of this Parish.

HEre lyes a Margarite

that the most excell'd,

(Her Father Wyts,

Her Mother Lichterveld,

Rematcht with Metkerke)

of remarke for birth,

But much more gentle

for her genuine worth:

Wyts (rarest) Iewell,

so her name bespeakes)

In pious, prudent,

peacefull, praise-full life,

Fitting a Sara

and a Sacred's Wife,

Such as Saravia,

and (her second) Hill,

Whose joy of life,

Death in her death did kill.

Quàm piè obiit, Puerpera, Die 29. Iunii, Anno Salutis, 1615. Anno Aetatis, 39. Pignus Amoris, Sigum Honoris, ac Moeroris, Posuit Rob. Hill. Composuit Io. Syl.

Vxor Foelix.

Loquitur post Funera Virtus.

FRom my sad Cradle

to my sable Chest,

Poore Pilgrim, I

did finde few moneths of rest.

In Flanders, Holland,

Zeland, England, all,

To Parents, troubles;

and to me did fall.

These made me pious,

patient, modest, wise:

And, though well borne,

to shun the Gallants guise:

But now I rest my soule,

where rest is found,

My body here,

in a small piece of ground,

And from my Hill,

that Hill I have ascended,

From whence (for me)

my Saviour once descended.

Live ye to learne that dye you must,

And after come to Judgement just.

Maritus moestissimus.

Thy rest gives me a restlesse life,

Because thou wert a matchlesse Wife;

But yet I rest in hope to see

That day of Christ, and then see thee.

MARGARITA, a Jewell.

I, like a Iewell

tost by Sea and Land,

Am bought by him,

who weares me on his hand.

MARGARITA, MARGARETA.

Margarita beat, sed Margareta beavit.

O utinam possit dicier, ista beat.

One night, two dreames,

made two Propheticals,

Thine of thy Coffin,

mine of thy Fuuerals.

If women all were like to thee,

We men for wives should happy be.

R. H.

MARGARITA surreptus est, Mons exarvit.

Then lower downe,Parish Church of Saint Christopher. towards the Stockes Market, is the Parish Church of Saint Christopher, but re-edified of new: for Richard Shore, one of the Sheriffes, 1506. gave money towards the building of the steeple.

There lye buried, Richard Sherington, 1392. who gave Lands to that Church.

The Lady Margaret Norford, 1406.

[Page] Iohn Clavering, 1421. who gave lands thereunto.

Iohn Godney, An Alderman of London put to penance by the Cleargie, for wedding a widdow professed to chastitie. Draper, Maior, 1427.

This Godney, in the yeere 1444. wedded the Widdow of Robert Large, late Maior, which Widdow had taken the Mantle and Ring, and the vow to live chaste to God terme of her life; for the breach whereof, the marriage done, they were troubled by the Church, and put to penance both he and she.

William Hampton, Maior, 1472. was a great benefactor, and glased some of the Church windowes.

Sir William Martia, Maior, 1492.

Roger Acheley, Maior, 1511. Hee dwelt in Cornhill Ward, in a house belonging to Cobham Colledge, rented by the yeere, 26. s. 8. d.

Robert Thorne, Merchant-Taylor, a Batchelor, 1532. he gave by his Testament in charity, more than 4445. pounds.

Iohn Norryholme. Raph Batte.

Alice Percivall. Iane Drew.

William Borresbie. Iohn Broke.

Richard Sutton. William Batte.

Iames Well.

Henry Beecher, Alderman, 1570.

Robertus cubat hic

Thornus Mercator honestus,

A very faire Tombe of pure Touch, in the South side of the Quire.

Qui sibi legitimas

Arte paravit opes.

Huic vitam dederat

puero Bristollia quondam,

Londinum hoc Tumulo

clauserat ante diem.

Ornavit studiis,

patriam virtutibus auxit,

Gymnasium exexit,

sumptibus ipse suis.

Lector quisquis ades,

requiem cineri precor optes,

Supplex et precibus

numina flecte tuis.

Obiit 1532. aetatis vero suae, Au. 40.

Heere lye the bodies of Henry Beecher, Alderman, and late Sheriffe of London; and of Alice his first wife, one of the daughters to Thomas Heron of Edgecomb, in the County of Surrey, Esquire, by who he had 10. children. After whose decease he married with Iane, the widdow of one Oliver Loveband, of London, Gent. with whom he lived three yeeres, and dyed the 15. day of Ianuary, Anno Dom. 1570.

Here lyeth the body of Iohn Tryon, who departed this life at Paris in France, the 15. of August, and was here interred the 14. day of September, An. Dom. 1612.

Having seene and observed the said Parish Church of S. Christopher, Robert Thorne, a bountifull Batchelour, buried in the same Parish of S. Christopher. with all the Grave-stones and Monuments therein: and finding a faire Tombe of Touch, wherein lyeth the body of Robert Thorne, Merchant-Taylor, and a Batchelor buried, having given by his Testament in charity, 4445. pounds, and to pious uses. Then looking for some such memory, as might adorne and beautifie the name of another famous Batchelor, Mr. Iohn Kendrick; and finding none, but onely his Hatchments and Banners, yet he being buried so long since; I thought it fit to let his owne last Will and Testament speake his due and deserved praises, according, and as (among other) it came to my hands.

The last Will and Testament of Mr. Iohn Kendrick, Citizen and Draper of London:

Who departed this life the 30. day of December, Anno, 1624.

IN the Name of God,Present at thi [...] godly worke, Io. Skinner, Andrew Kendrick, Tho. Singleton, &c. Amen. The nine and twentieth of December, Anno Domini, 1624. And in the two and twentieth yeere of the reigne of our Soveraigne Lord King Iames, &c.

I Iohn Kendrick, of the Citie of London, Draper, being sicke in body; but of good and perfect memory, (for which I give most humble and hearty thankes to Almighty God) doe make, ordaine and declare this my last Will and Testament, in manner and forme following: That is to say:

First,Disposition of his soule to God. and before all things, I commend and commit my soule to Almighty God, my Creator; trusting most assuredly to be saved by the death, passion and onely merits of Iesus Christ, my Saviour and Redeemer.

[Page] And I will that my body be decently interred in Christian buriall,For burial of his body. in the Parish Church of S. Christopher, where I dwell; as mine Executor, hereafter named, shall order and appoint.

Item, I give and bequeath to threescore poore men,For poore mourners. to every of them a Gowne of broad-cloth, to weare on the day of my buriall: and twelve pence a piece in money, to pay for their dinners. The same poore men to bee such as my Executor shall appoint.

Item, I give and bequeath blacke Gownes and Cloakes,For kindred, friends, & servants mourners. to be worne at my buriall by my kindred, friends, and servants, as my Executor shall thinke meet: not exceeding the summe of sixe hundred pounds in the said Gownes and Cloakes, and the rest of the charges of my Funerall.

Item, I give and bequeath the sum of threescore pounds,A Dinner for his friends, and the Parish inhabitants. to bee bestowed upon a Dinner, to be provided for my friends, and the inhabitants of the Parish of Saint Christopher, where I now dwell, upon the day of my buriall, and in such place as my Executor shall thinke meet and convenient.

Item, His gift to the Maior & Burgesses of Reading. I give and bequeath to the Maior and Burgesses of the Towne of Reading, in the Country of Berkshire, (I meane, to the body corporate, or Corporation of the said Towne of Reading, by whatsoever name or addition the same is made knowne) the summe of seven thousand & five hundred pounds, upon especiall trust and confidence, that they shall therewith performe the uses following: That is to say:

The said Maior and Burgesses shall buy and purchase unto them and their successors for ever,The uses intended for the said sum. (I say, to the body corporate of the said Towne of Reading, by whatsoever name or addition the same is made or knowne) Lands and Here ditaments, of the cleere value of fifty pounds by the yeere, over and above all charges and reprises. Which summe of fifty pounds a yeere, my will and [...] aning is, shall bee paid by the said Maior and Burgesses, and their successours, unto my Sister Anne Newman, Care of his Sister. yeerely during her naturall life. And after her decease, the same yeerely sum of fifty pounds, shall bee paid by the said Maior and Burgesses, and their successors, to the Overseers of the poore of the said Towne of Reading (for the time being) yeerely for ever: And by them the said Overseers (for the time being) shall be bestowed and distributed to and among the poore people of the said Towne for ever: To wit, the moity thereof every halfe yeere, in such sums, and to such persons, as the said Overseers (for the time being) shall thinke meet, according to the necessity and desert of the same severall persons.

Provided alwayes,The usuall benevolence of the rich is not to bee hindred by this gift. and my meaning is, that this my yeerely gift shall not any way abridge the said poore of the ordinary allowances, usually assessed and collected of the wealthier sort of the inhabitants of the said Towne, towards the reliefe of the said poore people: but shal be unto them as an additament, and cleere increase of reliefe yeerly for ever.

And if this my gift and provision shall happen (which I trust it shall not) to be by the said Maior and Burgesses,For negligence in the distribution of this gift. or by the said Overseers for the time being, ordered and disposed contrary to my meaning thus declared; or that my will and desire above expressed, touching the bestowing and distribution of the said summe of fifty pounds yeerely, bee omitted, neglected, or left unperformed by the space of one whole yeere, after it is by this my Will appointed to be distributed and bestowed as aforesaid: Then my will and meaning is, that the said summe and revenue of fifty pounds a yeere, shall be by the said Maior and Burgesses, and their successors for the time being for ever, paid unto the Treasurer of Christs Hospitall: and by the Governours of the same Hospitall,How to be bestowed upon their negligence. imployed and bestowed in the reliefe and education of the poore children, of the said Hospitall. Or else, that the said Maior and Burgesses for the time being; shall by their Deed in Law, conveigh and make over the Lands and Hereditaments of the said yeerely value of fifty pounds, unto the Maior and Commonalty and Citizens of the Citie of London, and their successors for ever, unto the use of the said Hospitall, to be imployed as aforesaid.

Provided alwaies, that the said fifty pounds a yeere, bee yeerely paid unto [Page] my said Sister Anna Newman, Payment to his Sister during her naturall life. during her naturall life: And after her decease, to the charitable uses aforesaid.

Moreover, my will and meaning is, as also my trust and confidence in the said Maior and Burgesses of the Towne of Reading is,A house to be purchased for setting the poore to worke. that with another competent part of the said summe of seven thousand five hundred pounds, so byme devised as aforesaid; they the said Maior and Burgesses shall buy and purchase unto them and their successors for ever, a faire plot of ground, within the said Towne of Reading, or the liberties thereof. And thereupon shall erect and build a strong house of Bricke, fit and commodious for setting the poore on worke therein: Or else shall buy and purchase such an house, being already built, if they can finde one already fitting, or that may with a reasonable sum be made fit for the said use.The house is to have a Garden thereto adjoyning. The same house to have a faire Garden adjoyning, and to bee from time to time kept in good and sufficient reparations, by the said Maior and Burgesses for the time being, for ever. Which house and Garden, my will is, shall be used and occupied by such as the said Maior and Burgesses, and their successors from time to time for ever shall appoint and ordaine, Imploying and using the stocke of money. for the imploying and handling of the stocke of money, by mee hereby left and devised to that purpose.

And my will and meaning is, that the said Lands and Hereditaments of the yeerely value of fifty pounds, and also the said house and Garden, being bought and purchased as aforesaid, with parcell of the said summe of seven thousand five hundred pounds: Then the whole residue and remainder of the same seven thousand and five hundred pounds,How the remainder of the money is is to bee imployed for a common stock shall make and be a common stocke, to be imployed and bestowed in Trades of clothing; either in making of coloured clothes, or whites, as the time shall require. And also in working of Wooll, Hemp, Flax, Iron, grinding of Brazill woods, and other stuffes for dying, or otherwise, as to the said Maior and Burgesses aforesaid, and their successors for ever shall seeme meet and convenient, for the imployment of poore people, and for the preservation and increase of the said common stock.

And the said Maior and Burgesses,For handling and husbanding the common stocke in the house. and their successors for ever, shall have the election, placing and ordering, as also the displacing (if cause bee) of all and every person and persons, to bee imployed in the handling and husbanding, of the common stock in the house aforesaid: according to their the said Maior and Burgesses good discretion, from time to time for ever.

Wherein yet my desire is, that they shall prefer the poore of the said Town to the said worke and imployment; before others of other places.

And for the performance of these premisses,In what manner the 7500. pounds is to be paid. my will is, that the somme of seven thousand and five hundred pounds, before (for this end) by mee bequeathed to the said Maior and Burgesses, or their successors: shall be paid unto them or their successors, in man and forme following; that is to say, Two thousand pounds thereof at the end of one yeere next after my decease: Other two thousand pounds thereof, at the end of two yeeres, next after the day of my decease. And the residue of the said whole sum, being three thousand and five hundred pounds, at the end of three yeeres next ensuing, after and from the day of my decease.

But if it shall happen (as my trust is it will not) that the said Maior and Burgesses, For misimploying the stocke contrary to the Doners will. or their successors, shall neglect, omit or faile to performe the premisses, according to my will and meaning above declared; or shall misimploy the said stocke, contrary to the true intent and meaning of this my device and disposition, for the good of the poore, and their honest imployment and maintenance as aforesaid; and that such their neglect shall continue at any time, by the space of one whole yeere together: Then my will and meaning is, that my said whole Legacy of seven thousand and five hundred pounds, and every part and parcell thereof, shall be thence utterly void, frustrate and of none effect, as to, for and concerning the said Maior and Burgesses and their successors; and as to, for and concerning the uses therof before limited and expressed. And that the said whole common stocke, shall bee by them the said Maior and Burgesses, and their successors for the [Page] time being;His intent for London upon their fayling. forthwith paid unto the Maior and Communalty and Citizens of the City of London, to the use of Christs Hospitall in London, according as I have above devised and disposed, touching the revenue of fifty pounds a yeere for ever, first bequeathed to the use and reliefe of the poore people of the Towne of Reading.

As also my will and meaning is, that in this case of non-performance by the said Maior and Burgesses, the house and Garden to bee purchased in Reading, Concerning the house and Garden at Reading devised. as aforesaid: Shal be by the said Maior and Burgesses, and their successors, conveyed and made over by their deed sufficient in Law, unto the said Maior and Communalty and Citizens of the City of London, and their successors for ever, to the like use of Christs Hospitall in London, as aforesaid.

Item, I give and bequeath to the Maior, Aldermen and Burgesses of the Towne of Newbury in the County of Berks (I meane the body corporate of the same Towne,For purchasing a house and Garden at Newbery to set the poore on worke.) the summe of foure thousand pounds, to buy and purchase therewith a commodious house, and Garden within the same Towne, or the liberties thereof; to set the poore on worke. And with the residue of the same summe, to make a common stock, for the imployment of the poore in the said house; according to the good discretion of the said Maior, Aldermen and Burgesses from time to time for ever. And according to my meaning before declared, in the devising of the summe of seven thousand and five hundred pounds, to the Maior and Burgesses of the Towne of Reading, to the like use.

But my will and meaning is, that if it shall happen (which I trust will not) that the said Maior,For neglect and misimployment of the stock committed unto their trust. Aldermen and Burgesses of the Towne of Newbury, or their successors, shall neglect or faile to performe my trust and meaning, hereby committed unto them, or shall misimploy the said stocke, contrary to my good intent to the poore before declared, by the space of one whole yeere (at any time) after my said Legacy shall be paid unto them: Then my will and meaning is, that my said whole Legacy of foure thousand pounds, and every part and parcell thereof, shall thenceforth be utterly void, and of none effect, as to, for and concerning the said Maior Aldermen and Burgesses of the Towne of Newbury, and their successors for ever. And that the said whole common stock, be by them the said Maior, Aldermen and Burgesses of Newbury, and their successors for the time being,Returned over to Reading and imployed to the use of the poore there. forthwith paid over unto the Maior and Burgesses of the Towne of Reading in the same County. To be by them and their successors for ever imployed, bestowed and used in like manner, as I have by this my Will devised and appointed another stocke common for the poore in the same Town of Reading: as by my said devise and disposition (before herein more at large expressed) doth and may appeare.

In the like manner also my will and meaning is, that in case of such non-performance of my will and intent, by the said Maior, Aldermen and Burgesses of the Towne of Newbury, For non performance of the T [...] tors wil and intent in the Towne of Newbury the house and Garden by them so to bee purchased and built, as aforesaid: Shall be by said Maior, Aldermen and Burgesses of the Towne of Newbury, and their successors; conveyed and made over by their deed sufficient in Law, unto the Maior and Burgesses of the said Towne of Reading, and their successors for ever; to be by them sold and converted into money, and the same money to be used and imployed in their common stocke for the poore in the said Towne of Reading aforesaid, in such sort, as I have formerly hereby expressed.

And for the performance of the said trust and uses, by the said Maior, Aldermen and Burgesses of the Towne of Newbury aforesaid,In what manner the four thousand pounds is to be paid to the Towne of Newbury my will and meaning is: that the said summe of foure thousand pounds so to them bequeathed and devised as aforesaid; shall be paid unto them, or their successors, in manner as followeth; that is to say, One thousand pounds therof at the end of one yeere, next ensuing after the day of my decease: One other thousand pounds thereof, at the end of two yeers from and after my said decease. And the residue (being two thousand l.) shall be paid them, at the end of three yeeres next after my decease.

[Page] Item, I give and bequeath to the Company of Drapers of the City of London (of which Company I am free) the summe of two thousand and foure hundred pounds,Two thousand foure hundred pounds given to the Company of Drapers London. to purchase Lands and He [...]editaments, to the cleare yeerly value of one hundred pounds for ever: over and above all charges and reprises. And with the same to performe these good uses hereafter mentioned; that is to say:

The summe of twenty foure pounds thereof yeerely for ever,For the yeerely releasing of sixe poore Prisoners. to be bestowed in the moneth of December, for the releasing of sixe poore prisoners, out of these Prisons in London, to wit, the two Compters, Ludgate, Newgate and the Fleet, by foure pounds for each in Prisoner.

Or if such cannot bee found in the said Prisons,For releasing Prisoners in other Prisons, &c. or some of them to be released for these sums: Then the same (or the residue thereof) to be bestowed in like releasing of other Prisoners, out of some of the Prisons neere London, and out of the liberties thereof; as to the Wardens of the said Company (for the time being) shal seeme meet.

More, twenty pounds yeerely for ever, To the Curate of the Parish Church of S. Christophers. to the Curate of the Parish of St. Christopher, wherein I now dwell: To read divine Service in the said Parish Church at sixe a clocke in the morning every day of the weeke for ever. In like manner as is now used in the Chappell, at the great North-gate of Saint Pauls Church in London.

More,To the Clerke and Sexton of S. Christopher. to the Clerke and Sexton of the said Parish of Saint Christopher, to each of them fifty shillings yeerely for ever: to doe their severall attendance and assistance at the time of Divine Service every morning.

More,To the poore of the Parish to the Church-wardens of the same Parish of Saint Christopher: five pounds yeerely for ever, for the maintenance of lights in the Winter time.

More, three pounds yeerely for ever, to the poore of the said Parish of Saint Christopher.

More,To the Compters and Newgate. to the poore Prisoners in London ten pounds yeerely for ever: namely, to the Prisoners of the Compters in the Poultry and Woodstreet, and in Newgate; to each of these Prisons forty shillings yeerely for ever.

To the poore Prisoners in Ludgate and in the Fleet; To Ludgate and the Fleet. to each house thirty shillings for ever.

And to the poore Prisoners in Bethlem, To Bedlem. or Bedlem; twenty shillings yeerely.

More,To the Clerke of the Drapers. to the Clerke of the Company of the Drapers, for the time being: for his paines herein, forty shillings for ever.

More,To the Beadles of the Livery and Yeomanry. to the Beadle of the said Company; thirty shillings for ever.

More, to the Beadle of the Yeomanry of the same Company; ten shillings yeerely for ever.

More,For poore Clothworkers and their widdowes. five and twenty pounds yeerely for ever to be distributed by the said Wardens, among poore and religious men and women in the City of London; to some more and to some lesse, as the said Wardens shall find their necessity and desert to be: Wherein my desire is, that poore Clothworkers and their Widdowes shall bee first preferred; and next, the poore of the Drapers Company. The residue of the said sum of one hundred pounds a yeere, being foure pounds yeerely for ever,A remembrance to the foure Wardens. I entreat the foure Wardens of the said Company, to accept for their paines, to bee equally divided between them by twenty shillings to each of them, for the time being for ever.

And if the said Company of Drapers, doe either of purpose or negligence, omit and not performe the premisses; but shall leave the same unperformed one whole yeere, after they shall have received this my Legacy of two thousand & foure hundred pounds (which I will shall be paid them at the end of one yeer next after my decease:) Then my will and minde is,If the Drapers omit performance of this Legacy of two thousand and foure hundred pounds. that the Governours of Christs Hospitall in London, shall recover the whole two thousand and foure hundred pounds, before specified, or the Lands and the Hereditaments, that the said Company shall have bought with the same money: And keepe twenty pounds yeerely for ever of the same rent, for the maintenance of the poore Children in the said Hospitall, as if the same had been first given to them. And the Drapers Company to have nothing to doe with it, or the rest of the said hundred [Page] pounds yeerely for ever.

And that in this case,A restraint of the other Legacies given and bequeathed to the Company. the yeerely payment of eight pounds unto the Clerke, Beadles and Wardens of the said Company, as also twelve pounds, parcell of the said five and twenty l. a yeere before devised, to be paid and distributed by the said Company, among poore and religious men and women in the City of London, utterly and for ever to cease.

But this twenty pounds a yeere, being so converted (as aforesaid) to the use of the Hospitall, the residue of the said yeerly rent of one hundred pounds a yeere, I will that the Governours of the said Hospitall,Concerning the residue of the yeerely rent. shall pay and distribute yeerely for ever, in manner and forme as the said Company of Drapers should have done.

Item, I give and bequeath to the said Company of Drapers, one hundred pounds, to be paid within a yeere after my decease;An hundred pounds to be bestowed in Plate. and by the Wardens of the said Company to be bestowed in Plate: such as they shall thinke good, for the use of their common Hall in London, at their meetings and dinners there.

Item, Five hundred pounds given to Christs Hospitall in London. I give and bequeath to the poore of Christs Hospitall in London, five hundred pounds, to be by the Governours thereof bestowed in Lands and Hereditaments, for and towards the yeerely maintenance of the Children of the said Hospitall for ever. This summe to bee paid to the said Governours, or the Treasurer of the said Hospitall, so soone as they shall have found out a fit purchase to bestow it, and a greed on the price of the same.

Item, I give and bequeath towards the curing of sicke,Fifty pounds to S. Bartholomews Hospitall. fore and diseased persons in Saint Bartholomews Hospital in London, the summe of fifty pounds.

Item, I give and bequeath towards the curing of sicke,To the poore of S. Thomas Hospitall. sore and disea-sed persons in Saint Thomas Hospitall in Southwarke neere London, the summe of fifty pounds.

Item, I give and bequeath towards the repayring of the Parish Church of Saint Christopher, Repairing of S. Christophers Church. where I now dwell, the summe of forty pounds: To be paid to the Church-wardens of the same Parish, within one yeere after my decease.

Item, Repairing S. Pauls Church in London. I give and bequeath towards the repayring of the Cathedral Church of Saint Paul in London, the summe of one thousand pounds: to be paid to the Chamberlaine of London, at such time as that worke of repayring the same Church, shall be ready to proceed with effect; and to be disposed by the direction and appointment of the Lord Maior and Aldermen of the said City.

Item, I give and bequeath to bee given at the marriages of poore Maids within the City of London, To poore Maids marriages in London. two hundred pounds: to be distributed by forty shillings a peece upon the dayes of their marriage; to such as have served one Master or Mistresse, by the space of five yeeres together.

Item, To poore Maids marriages in the Towne of Reading. I give and bequeath to be given and distributed to poore Maids in Towne of Reading, in the County of Berks, and at their severall marriages, by forty shillings a peece, at the discretion of the Maior and Burgesses of that Towne; the summe of one hundred pounds. Provided, none enjoy the benefit thereof, but such as have served Master, Mistris or Dame, by the space of seven yeeres together. This hundred pounds to bee paid to the said Maior and Burgesse (for the use aforesaid) within one yeere next after my decease.

Item, I give and bequeath to the Maior, To twenty five poore Maids marriages in the Towne of Newbury. Aldermen and Burgesses of the Towne of Newbury in Barkeshire, the summe of fifty pounds: to be by them bestowed and distributed to twenty five Maids marriages, on their severall daies of their weddings in the same Towne. None to enjoy this gift; but such as have well and honestly served with one Master, Mistris of Dame, by the space of seven yeeres at the least. And this fifty pounds to be paid to the said Maior Aldermen and Burgesses, within one yeere next after my decease.

Item, For setting poore vagrant Boyes on worke in Bridewell. I give and bequeath towards the setting on worke of forty idle vagrant Boyes, such as goe up and downe the streets in the City of London, begging and pilfering, the summe of two hundred pounds: to be paid to the Treasurer for the time being, being of the house of correction, called Bridewell in London, in manner and forme following, [Page] that is to say, When any such Boy is taken up by my Executor or his Assignes, in any place within the liberties of this Citie of London, and by the Treasurer of the same House of Correction, and Governours there for the time being, placed and bound Apprentice with a Master, for the terme of seven yeeres at the least, with a Master or Art-masters, as Glovers, Pinners, Shoomakers, or any other occupation of Art, which they shall bee thought most fit for, to learne in the said house; whereby (in time) they may prove good members, and live like honest men in the Common-wealth. I say, with every one of these Boyes shall be paid to the Treasurer and Governours for the time being; the summe of five pounds, untill the said summe of two hundred pounds bee fully paid for that use.

Item, 50. pound for S. Maries in Reading. I give and bequeath towards the finishing of the Pinacles of the Steeple of the Parish of Saint Maries in Reading, in Berkshire, fifty pounds; to bee paid to the Churchwardens of the same Parish, within one moneth after the same Pinacles shall be finished.

Item, Five hundred pounds to be lent to severall parties in Reading. I give and bequeath to the Maior and Burgesses of the Towne of Reading aforesaid, the summe of five hundred pounds, to be first lent to these parties, and in the summes hereafter named, for seven yeeres, gratis: That is, to Iames Winche, two hundred pounds: and to Walter Rye, Richard Stampe, and William Blacknall, Clothiers, one hundred pounds apiece: each of them giving Bond with two sufficient sureties, for repayment thereof to the said Maior and Burgesses, at the end of the said seven yeeres. And afterwards, the same five hundred pounds shall be lent to ten severall honest industrious poore Clothiers, free men of the same Towne, by fifty pounds apiece, gratis, for three yeeres, upon like good security: and no man to have the use of this money twise. But if there shal not be Clothiers enow found in the said Towne,For lacke of Clothiers, the same money lent to other Tradesmen of the same Towne. to enjoy this loane in manner aforesaid: That then the said money shall bee lent also unto other Tradesmen, free of the said Town, by the summes and termes of yeeres last before appointed; to such as set most poore people aworke, according to the discretion of the said Maior and Burgesses: And this said summe of five hundred pounds shall be paid to the said Maior and Burgesses, (to the use aforesaid) at the end of one yeere next after my decease.

Item, Other five hundred pounds to Clothiers of Newbury lent freely I give and bequeath to the Maior, Aldermen and Burgesses of the Towne of Newbury, in the County of Berks, the sum of five hundred pounds, to be lent first for the terme of seven yeeres, gratis, unto these severall Clothiers here named; that is to say, To Thomas Newman, one hundred pounds: to Richard Avery, one hundred pounds: to Martin Broaker, fifty pounds: to William Goodwin the elder, fifty pounds: to Timothy Avery, fifty pounds: to Robert Bacon, fifty pounds: and to Griffin Forster, fifty pounds. Every of the said severall parties entring into bond, with 2. sufficient sureties, for repayment of the said summes to the said Maior and Aldermen and Burgesses at the end of seven yeeres. And afterwards, the same five hundred pounds shall be lent to ten severall honest industrious poore Clothiers, To tenne other poore Clothiers the same money lent afterwards. free of the said Towne of Newburie, by fifty pounds apiece, gratis, for three yeeres: And after that in like manner, from three yeers to three yeeres for ever; and no man to have the same money twise. But if there shall not bee Clothiers enow found in the same Towne of Newbury, to enjoy this loane in manner as aforesaid; then the same money shall bee lent also unto other Tradesmen, free of the same Towne, by the summes and termes of yeeres last before appointed, to such as set most poore people on worke, according to the discretion of the said Maior, Aldermen and Burgesses; to whom this said five hundred pounds shall bee paid, to the use aforesaid, at the end of one yeere after my decease.

Item, Nine hundred pounds given to the Merchant Adventurers. I give and bequeath to the Governour, Assistants, and fellowship of Merchant Adventures of England, the summe of nine hundred pounds, to bee lent by three hundred pounds in a parcell, for three yeeres, gratis, unto three honest, industrious and frugall young men, free of that Company, none of them being partners with each other; and every of them giving Bond with [Page] two sufficient sureties, to be tryed and allowed by ballotting, and not otherwise, for repayment of the same money to the said Company. And so the same money to be lent out by the said Company in this manner, from three yeeres to three yeeres, for ever.

And my will and desire is, that these my five present servants,His servants first preferred to the benefit of the loane. shall be (upon security as aforesaid) first preferred to the enjoying of this loane; to wit, William Powle, Thomas Newman, and Simon Gundy, the first three yeeres; and Andrew Kendricke and Christopher Pack, the next two parcels that shall come in, and be received in, after they shall be freemen of that Company. And for performance hereof, the said nine hundred pounds shall be paid unto the Treasurer of the said Company in London, for the time being, at the end of one yeere next after my decease.

Item, To his Brother William Kendrick and his children. I give and bequeath to my brother William Kendrick of Reading in the County of Berks, Clothier, and to his Children now borne and living, the summe of two thousand pounds: wherof one third part for himselfe, and the other two parts for his said Children. The same two third parts of the said summe of two thousand pounds, to be equally divided to and amongst his said children, share and share like.

And my will is, that the said two thousand pounds bee paid to my said brother,Payment of the two thousand pounds to his Brother and children, and how. at the end of three yeeres next after my decease: and that he shall pay his said children their severall shares thereof before limited; that is to say, to his Sonne his share and part, when he commeth to the age of twenty foure yeeres: And to his Daughter, her share and part, when she commeth to the age of one and twenty yeeres, or at the day of her marriage, which shall first happen.

And if it fortune either of my said brothers children to dye or decease, before their respective Legacies aforesaid shall grow due,For mortality in either of the children. as above; that then the part of such child so deceasing, shall accrue and be paid to the surviver of the said children, at the day and time before appointed.

Item, The gift of his gold Ring. I give and bequeath to my said brother William Kendrick, my gold Ring which was my Fathers; with the Letters T. K. therein engraven, and a knot betweene the same Letters.

Item, I give and bequeath to my Sister Anne Newman of Reading in the Country of Berks, A thousand Markes given to his sister. the sum of one thousand Marks, to be paid unto her at the end of one yeere next after my decease.

Item, I give and bequeath unto the Children of my said Sister,Two thousand Markes given to his Sisters children, and in what manner. Anne Newman, the sum of two thousand Markes; to bee equally divided amongst them share and share like. And the shares of such as are already married (if they be Daughters) or are foure and twenty yeeres of age, to bee paid them at the end of one yeere after my decease. And the shares of the rest, to be paid to such as be Sonnes; when they shall be foure and twenty yeeres of age. And to the Daughters, at their day of marriage; or when they shall come to one and twenty yeeres of age respectively, which of these shall happen to bee first.

And if it shall happen any of the said Children of my said Sister to dye, before the age and time so prefixed for payment,In case of mortality or death happening among the children. as aforesaid (I meane, those that be yet under that age, and unmarried) then my will is: That the share and part of such as shall so dye, shall accrue and bee paid unto the rest of the same Children then surviving, share and share like; and at the dayes and times of payment before appointed, for their own severall shares and parts.

But my will and meaning is, that Thomas Newman, son of my said Sister; shall not have any part or share of this said Legacy of two thousand Markes: Thomas Newman excepted from this Legacy. because I give him a large Legacy apart by this my will. Therefore the said two thousand Markes is to bee divided and shared among the rest of the Children of my said Sister, as aforesaid.

Item, I doe hereby absolutely acquit and forgive my brother in law Thomas Newman, A Bond forgiven to his Sisters husband. of Reading aforesaid, husband to my Sister Anne Newman; the summe of one hundred Markes, which he oweth me by his bond, due the second day of November, An. Dom. 1623. being all that he oweth me at the date of this my will.

Item, I give and bequeath to my [Page] Sister Alice Vigures of Excester, Five hundred pounds given to his Sister Alice Vigures. in the County of Devon, the summe of five hundred pounds; to be paid her at the end of two yeeres next after my decease.

Item, I give and bequeath to the children of my said Sister Alice Vigures the summe of one thousand pounds,A thousand pounds given to his said Sisters Children, and in what manner. to be equally divided among them share and share like. And if any of them being Sonnes) bee of the age of foure and twenty yeeres; or any of them (being Daughters) bee of the age of one and twenty yeeres, or married, then the share and parts of such respectively, shall bee paid at the end of two yeeres next after my decease. And the shares and parts of the rest, shall bee paid to such as are Sonnes, at the age of foure and twenty yeeres: and to such as bee Daughters, at their age of one and twenty yeeres, or at the dayes of their marriage, which of them shall first happen to come respectively.

But my will and meaning is, that Simon Gandy, Sonne of my said Sister Alice Vigures, Simon Gandy excluded from this thousand pounds and the intent of this distribution. shall not have any part or share of this Legacy of one thousand pounds: because I give him a large Lecy apart by himselfe in this my Will. But my meaning is, that this said Legacy of one thousand pounds, so given as aforesaid, shall bee equally divided among the rest of the Children of my said Sister; excluding the said Simon Gandy from all part and share of the same: And if it shall happen any of the said Children of my said Sister Alice Gandy, to dye before the age and time of payment appointed as aforesaid (I meane, when they bee under that age, and unmarried:) then my will and meaning is, that the share and part of such as shall so dye; shall bee paid and accrue unto the rest of the same Children so surviving,In case of mortality and death of the Children. to each of them equally, and share and share like: and at the dayes and times of payment before appointed, for their owne severall shares and parts.

Item, I give and bequeath to my Brother Iames Winche of Parley in the County of Berks, To his Brother Iames VVinche, and his Children. and to his Children, the summe of one thousand pounds: whereof one third part for himselfe, the other two third parts for his said Children. The same two third parts to bee divided equally amongst the said Children of my said Brother, share and share like.

And my will is, that this said summe of one thousand pounds,The payment of this thousand pounds to his Brother and Children. shall bee paid to my said Brother Iames Winche, at the end of one yeere next after my decease, and that hee shall pay forthwith unto such of this Children, as (being sonnes, and of the age of foure and twenty yeeres, or married) their severall shares and proportions of the said two third parts of this summe of one thousand pounds. The shares and parts of the rest of his Children, hee shall retaine in his owne hands, untill his said Children (being Sonnes) shall be of the age of foure and twenty yeeres: And being Daughters, shall bee of the age of one and twenty yeeres, or be married; and then he shall pay every of them their severall shares and parts respectively.

And if it shall happen any of the said younger Children to dye,In case of death and mortality of the younger Children. before the time of payment so limited as aforesaid: Then my will and meaning is, that the part and share of such as shal so decease shall accrue unto the rest of the said Children of my said Brother, that shall then survive; to bee equally divided amongst them share and sharelike, and to bee paid at the daies and times before appointed.

Item, I give and bequeath to thirty of my poorest Kindred in the Towne of Reading in Barkshire, Three hundred pounds to his poorest Kindred in Reading. the summe of three hundred pounds, to bee paid unto my Brother William Kendrick, within three moneths after my decease. And by him to be distributed by ten pounds in every parcell, as hee in his discretion shall thinke good: wherein I pray him to be very carefull, to bestow the same where there is most need and best desert.

Item, Fifty pounds to old Elizabeth Kendricke of Reading. I give and bequeath to old Elizabeth Kendrick of Reading, Daughter to my Fathers Brother William Kendrick (as I take it) the summe of fifty pounds; to be paid her within three moneths after my decease.

Item, I give and bequeath to my Kinseman Thomas Newman, now residing at Delft in Holland, the summe of one thousand pounds. To be paid him upon the five and twenty day of October [Page] which shall be in the yeere of our Lord God,To Thomas Newman of Delft in Holland. 1626. when his time of service expireth. Provided, that he remaine with my partner Mr. Laurence Halstead, and serve him his said full time.

Item, One thousand pounds to Simon Gandy. I give and bequeath to my kinsman and late servant, Simon Gandy, the summe of one thousand pounds, to be paid him within one yeere next after my decease.

Item, Five hundred pounds to Arthur Aynscombe. I give and bequeath unto Arthur Aynscombe, Merchant, now residing at Antwerp; who hath a share with me in trade; the summe of five hundred pounds, to be paid him within 2. yeeres after my decease. Provided that he goe forward in trade with Mr. Laurence Halstead, (if he the said Master Halstead shall desire it) unto the end of our Contract, which will be the five and twentieth day of October, Anno Dom. 1626.

Item, Five hundred pounds to Barney Reymer. I give and bequeath to Barney Reymer, Merchant, now residing at Delft, who hath also a share with me in trade; the sum of five hundred pounds, to be paid him within two yeeres next after my decease. Provided that hee goe forward in trade with Mr. Laurence Halstead, (if he the said Mr. Halstead shal desire it) unto the end of our contract, which will bee the five and twentieth day of October, Anno Dom. 1626. as is above-said.

Item, Five hundred pounds to his Master Io. Quarles, living in the house. I give and bequeath to Master Iohn Quarles, who was my Master, the summe of five hundred pounds, to bee paid him within a yeere next after my decease. And my earnest request unto Mr. Laurence Halstead is, that unto the end of our contract of Partnership, (which will be the five and twentieth day of October, Anno Domini 1626.) the same Mr. Quarles may have his dyet, lodging and washing, in his the said Mr. Halsteads house, free, and without paying any thing therefore, as he now hath it with me. And my desire also is, that he may continue to keepe the bookes of our partable account, untill the aforesaid twenty fifth day of October, 1626. and be paid his wonted yeerely allowance of fifty pounds for the same. And I doe hereby freely and absolutely forgive the said Mr. Iohn Quarles, the summe of three hundred pounds, which he oweth me, payable at pleasure, being lent him the last of March, Anno 1615. and being all that he oweth me at the date of this my Will.

Item, Three hundred pounds to Mr. George Lowe. I give and bequeath to Master George Lowe, heretofore my partner, the summe of three hundred pounds, to bee paid him within one yeere next after my decease. And I doe hereby absolutely forgive him, all that is due unto me for his lodging, diet, firing and washing, which he hath had of me now six yeeres together.

Item, Two hundred li. to Thomas Bilingsley. I give and bequeath to Thomas Billingsley, sonne of Sir Henry Bilingsley, Knight, and Alderman of London, deceased, the sum of two hundred pounds, to be paid him within one yeere next after my decease. And I doe absolutely forgive him the summe of two hundred pounds, which hee oweth mee by his Bond, due the twentieth of December, Anno, 1625. and lent him the twentieth of this present Moneth, for a yeere.

Item, 300. li. to Thomas Iacksons Executors▪ I give and bequeath to the Executors of Thomas Iackson, of London, Merchant, deceased (whom I take to be Miles Iackson, the sonne of the said Thomas) the sum of three hundred pounds, to be paid at the end of one yeere next after my decease.

Item, 50. li. to Lucas van Peenen. I give and bequeath to Lucas van Peenen of Middleburgh in Zealand, sonne of Roger van Peenen of that Town, deceased; the summe of fifty pounds sterling, to be paid over by Exchange, within two moneths after my decease: Payable at Vsance to Iohn Mount-Stephen, now residing in that Towne, to be paid over to the said Lucas van Peenen, forthwith after he hath received it, in the full Flemmish summe which the same shall produce.

Item, 20. pound 10 Ieremias Poets of Middle-burgh. I give and bequeath to Iremias Poets, of the same Towne of Middle-burgh in Zealand, (if he be the Executor of his brother Hance Poets, deceased) the summe of twenty pounds sterling: to be made over by Exchange within two moneths after my decease. Payable at Vsance, to Iohn Mount-Stephen aforenamed; and by him forthwith (after his receipt thereof) to be paid over to the said Ieremias Poets, in the full Flemmish summe which the same shall produce.

Item, I give and bequeath to William [Page]Powle my covenant Servant,Two hundred pounds to his servant William Powle. the summe of two hundred pounds: to bee paid him within sixe moneths after my decease.

Item, I give and bequeath to Andrew Kendricke my Apprentice,Three hundred pounds to his Apprentice Andrew Kendricke. the summe of three hundred pounds: to bee paid him, when hee shall have served seven yeeres, from the commencement of the terme of his Indenture.

Item, I give and bequeath to the said Andrew Kendricke, One hundred pounds more to the same person. the summe of one hundred pounds more: in lieu of so much given mee with him by his Father Iohn Kendricke; to bee paid him within three moneths next after my decease, upon acquittance to be given by his said Father therefore.

Item, To Christopher Pack his Apprentice one hundred pounds. I give and bequeath to Christopher Packe mine Apprentice, the sum of one hundred pounds: to bee payed him within three months next after my decease.

Item, Twenty pounds to his Horse-keeper. I give and bequeath to Thomas Mayle my Horse-keeper, the summe of twenty pounds: to be paid him within two moneths next after my decease.

Item, Twenty pounds to his Maid Dorothy, I give and bequeath to my Maid Dorothy, the summe of twenty pounds; to bee paid her within two moneths next after my decease.

Item, Twenty pounds to his Maid Margaret. I give and bequeath to my Maid Margaret the summe of twenty pounds; to bee paid her within two moneths next after my decease.

Item, To his Drawer Hutwith fifty pounds. I give and bequeath unto Iohn Hutwith my Drawer, the summe of fifty pounds; to be paid him within three moneths after my decease.

Item, To his Drawer Bird five and twenty pounds. I give and bequeath to Walter Bird my Drawer, five and twenty pounds; to bee paid him within three moneths after my decease.

Item, Among the servants of Hutwith twenty five pound▪ I give and bequeath to the present men servants of Iohn Hutwith my Drawer, the summe of twenty five pounds; whereoften pounds to Charles, and the other fifteene pounds to bee equally divided amongst the rest, as well Apprentices as Journeymen; to bee paid within two months next after my decease.

Item, To his twelve Clothworkers, 130. pounds. I give and bequeath to my twelve Clothworkers, that usually row and sheere my Clothes; the summe of one hundred and thirty pounds: whereof twenty pounds to Owen Dobbins, and ten pounds a peece to the rest; to bee payed within three moneths next after my decease.

Item, To Bigge and Salisbury 25. pounds. I give and bequeath to William Bigge and William Salisbury, that usually presse and fold my Clothes; the sum of twenty five pounds: whereof fifteen pounds to William Bigge, and ten pounds to William Salisbury, to bee paid them within three moneths next after my decease.

Item, To his Porters twenty pounds. I give and bequeath to my Porters at the waterside, ten pounds, to be equally divided among them. And ten pounds to my Porters, that usually pack in my house; to bee paid within two moneths next after my decease.

Item, Tenne pounds to his Water-bearer and Washer. I give and bequeath to my Water-bearer three pounds: And to my Washer Anthony five pounds, to be paid them forthwith after my decease.

Item, I give and bequeath to William Beadle of Reading Clothier,To VVilliam Beadle of Reading 50. pounds. the summe of fifty pounds, if he be yet living; and if he be dead; then to his Executors: to to be paid within three moneths next after my decease. And I doe hereby also forgive the said William Beadle the ten pounds he now oweth me.

Item, To Slye of Readings Executors 50. li. I give and bequeath to the Executors of Mark Slye of Reading Clothier deceased, the summe of fifty pounds; to be paid within three moneths next after my decease.

Item, 100. li. to Newman of Newbury. I give and bequeath to Thomas Newman of Newbury Clothier, the sum of one hundred pounds, to be paid him within three moneths after my decease.

Item, 100. li. to John Skinner. I give and bequeath to Iohn Skinner, Secretary to the Merchants Adventurers; the summe of one hundred pounds, to bee paid within three moneths next after my decease.

Item, I give and bequeath to the Widdow Harison and her Daughter, dwelling in the Alley next to my dwelling house,To Widdow Harison and her daughter five pounds. five pounds, to be paid within one moneth next after my decease.

Item, I give and bequeath to Master Richard Bennet, To Master Bennet 300. li. who was heretofore my Partner, the summe of three hundred pounds, to bee paid at the end of one yeere next after my decease.

Item, I give and bequeath to Master [Page] William Towerson Skinner,Tenne pounds to make two Rings. Deputy of the Merchant Adventurers, five pounds to make him a Ring. And to Master Thomas Smith Skinner, five pounds to make him a Ring; to bee paid them forthwith after my decease.

Item, To three men five pound a peece. I give and bequeath unto Rafe Barnet, William Ellets and Iohn Southern Officers of the Merchant Adventurers, five pounds a peece; to bee paid them forthwith after my decease.

Item, For Service by six a clocke every morning at Reading. I give and bequeath to the Maior and Burgesses of the Towne of Reading, in the County of Berks; the sum of two hundred and fifty pounds; to be paid them at the end of one yeere next after my decease: Therewith to purchase Lands and Hereditaments, to the cleare yeerely value of ten pounds for ever; to maintaine Divine Service to be said in the Parish Church of St. Mary in that Towne, by the Parson or his Curate every morning of the week, at sixe of the clocke for ever.

Item, For the like Divine Service every morning at Newbury. I give and bequeath to the Maior, Aldermen and Burgesses of the Town of Newbury, in the County of Berks, the sum of two hundred and fifty pounds, to bee paid them at the end of one yeere next after my decease: Therwith to purchase Lands or Hereditaments, of the cleare yeerely value of ten pounds for ever; to maintaine Divine Service to bee said in the Parish Church of that Towne by the Parson or his Curate, every morning of the week at sixe of the clocke, to continue for ever.

Item, To his Kinseman Bye 100. li. I give and bequeath to my Kinseman William Bye, dwelling neere the Allum Mines in Yorkeshire, the summe of one hundred pounds; to bee paid him within three moneths after my decease. And I doe hereby forgive him the tenne pounds, which hee oweth me by his Bond, due long since.

Item, Forty pounds for his funerall dinner at Drapers Hall. I give and bequeath to the Company of Drapers in London, the summe of forty pounds, to be bestowed upon a dinner for the Livery of that Company, to be at their Hall upon the day of my buriall: This to bee paid forthwith after my decease.

And my will and meaning is, that in case any of the persons aforenamed, to whom I have bequathed Legacies as aforesaid,Disposition of the Legacies, if any studye in the meane time. and not especially disposed for case of their decease, shall happen to dye before the same Legacies grow due unto them. Then the Legacie or Legacies so by mee given to them as aforesaid, shall bee paid unto their Executors or Administrators, at such time as I have before severally appointed unto them my Legataries.

And I doe make and ordaine my loving Friend and Partner,Appointment of his Executor. Master Laurence Halstead, my sole Executor, of this my last Will and Testament: Charging him, as hee will answer it before Almighty GOD at the last Day of Judgement, that hee truly and punctually (in every particular) performe this my said last VVill and Testament; as I nothing doubt but hee will bee carefull to doe it.The [...] of his estates to his Executor. Hereby giving and bequeathing unto him my said Executor, all the residue and remainder of my estate; my Legacies before bequeathed being first payed and discharged.

In witnesse of the premisses, I have unto this my last Will and Testament, contained in eighteene severall sheets of Paper, put my hand and Seale. That is, my Seale once at the top, and my name under every severall sheete, the day and yeere first above written.

John Kendricke.

Sealed, pronounced and delivered by the said Iohn Kendricke, as his last Will and Testament, in the presence of us,

Iohn Skinner.

Andrew Kendricke.

Thomas Singleton.

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West from this Church have yee Scolding Alley,Scalding house of Scalding wicke. of old time called Scalding house, or Scalding wicke, because that ground (for the most part) was [Page] then imployed by Poulterers, that dwelled in the high street, from the Stockes Market to the great Conduit. Their Poultrie which they sold at their stalles, were scalded there: the street doth yet beare the name of the Poultrie, and the Powlterers are but lately departed from thence into other streets, as into Grasse-street, and the ends of S. Nicholas flesh shambles.

This Scalding wicke is the farthest part of Broadstreet Ward, and is (by the water called Walbrooke) parted from Cheap Ward.

This Broadstreet Ward hath an Alderman, with his Deputy, Common Counsellors, ten, Constables, ten; Scavengers, eight; Wardmote inquest, thirteen, and a Beadle. It is taxed to the Fifteene in London, at seven and twenty pounds, and accounted in the Exchequer after twenty five pounds.

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CORNE HILL VVARD.

THe next Ward towards the South,Cornehill Ward. is Cornehill VVard: so called of a Cornmarket, time out of mind there holden, and is a part of the principall high street, beginning at the West end of Leaden Hall, stretching downe West on both the sides, by the South end of Finkes lane on the right hand, and by the North end of Birchovers lane, on the left part; of which lanes, to wit, to the middle of them, is of this Ward, and so downe to the Stockes Market; and this is the bounds. The upper or East part of this Ward, and also a part of Limestreet Ward, hath beene (as I said) a Market-place, especially for corne, and since for all kinde of victuals, as is partly shewed in Lime-street Ward.

It appeareth of record, that in the yeere 1522. the Rippiers of Rie and other places, sold their fresh Fish in Leaden Hall Market, upon Cornehill; but forraigne Butchers were not admitted there to sell flesh, till the yeere 1533.

And it was enacted,Flesh Market at Leaden hall, and alteration of prises in short time. that Butchers should sell their Biefe not above a halfe penny the pound; and Mutton, halfe penny, halfe farthing: which act being devised for the great commodity of the Realme, (as it was then thought) hath since proved farre otherwise: For before that time, a fat Oxe was sold at London, for 26. s. 8. d. at the most: a fat Weather for 3. s. 4. d. a fat Calfe the same price; a fat Lambe for 12. d. pieces of Biefe weighed two pounds and a halfe at the least; yea, three pound or better, for a penny, on every Butchers stall in this Citie; and of those pieces of Biefe, thirteene or foureteen for twelve pence: fat Mutton for eight pence the quarter, and one hundred weight of Biefe for 4. s. 8. d. at the dearest.

What the price is now, I neede not to set downe: many men thought the same act to rise in price, by reason that Grasiers knew or supposed what weight every their beasts contained, and so raising their price thereafter, the Butcher could be no gainer, but by likewise raising his price. The number of Butchers then in the Citie and Suburbs, was accounted sixe score, of which every one killed 6. Oxen a peece weekely: which is in 46. weekes, 33120. Oxen, or 720. Oxen weekely.

The forraigne Butchers (for a long time) stood in the high street of Lime-street Ward, on the North side, twice every weeke; viz. Wednesday and Saturday, and were some gaine to the Tenants, before whose doores they stood, and into whose houses they set their blockes and stalles: but that advantage being espied, they were taken into Leaden Hall, there to pay for their standing to the Chamber of London.

Thus much for the Market upon Cornehill.

The chiefe Ornaments in Cornehill Ward,Standard of Thames water by Leaden hall are these: First, at the East end thereof, in the middle of the high street, and at the parting of foure wayes, have ye a water-standard, placed in the yeere 1582. in manner following: A certain German, named Peter Morris, having made an artificiall Forcier for that purpose, conveyed Thames water in pipes of lead, over the steeple of Saint Magnus Church, at the North end of London Bridge, and from thence into divers mens houses in Thames street, new Fish-street, and Grasse-street, up to the north-west corner of Leaden Hall, the highest [Page] ground of all the Citie,The highest ground of the Citie of London. where the waste of the maine pipe rising into this Standard, (provided at the charges of the Citie) with foure spouts, did at every tyde run (according to covenant) foure wayes, plentifully serving to the commodity of the inhabitants neere adjoyning in their houses, and also cleansed the Chanels of the street toward Bishops-gate, Aldgate, the Bridge, and the Stocks Market; but now no such matter, whose default I know not.

Then have ye a faire Conduit, of sweet water, castellated in the midst of that Ward and street. This Conduit was first builded of stone, in the yeere 1282. by Henry Wallis, The Tun upon Cornehill a prisonhouse for night-walkers. Maior of London, to be a prison for night-walkers, and other suspicious persons, and was called the Tunne upon Cornehill, because the same was builded somewhat in fashion of a Tunne, standing on the one end.

To this prison,Temporal men punish spirituall persons for incontinency. the night Watches of this Citie committed not onely night-walkers, The Bishop complaineth. but also other persons, as well spirituall as temporall, whom they suspected of incontinencie, and punished them according to the customes of this Citie: but complaint thereof being made,The King forbids the Laity for punishing the Clergy men. about the yeere of Christ, 1297. King Edward the first writeth to his Citizens thus:

Edward by the grace of God, &c. whereas Richard Gravesend, Bishop of London, hath shewed unto us, that by the great Charter of England, the Church hath a priviledge, that no Clerke should be imprisoned by a Lay-man, without our commandement, and breach of peace; which notwithstanding, some Citizens of London, upon meere spight, doe enter in their Watches into Clerks chambers, and then (like Felons) carry them to the Tunne, which Henry le Wallis, sometime Maior, built for night-walkers. Wherefore wee will that this our commandement be proclaimed in a full Hoystings, and that no Watch hereafter enter into any Clerks chamber, under the forfeit of 30. pound. Dated at Carlile, the 18. of March, the 25. of our Reigne.

More,Citizens of London breake up the Tun upō Cornhil I read that about the yeere of Christ, 1299. the 27. of Edward the first, certaine principall Citizens of London; to wit, T. Romane, Richard Gloucester, Nicholas Faringdon, Adam Helingbury, T. Saly, Iohn Dunstable, Richard Ashwy, Iohn Wade, and William Stortford, brake up this prison called the Tunne, and tooke out certaine prisoners, for the which they were sharply punished, by long imprisonment, and great fines. It cost the Citizens (as some have written) more than 20000.Tho Walsingham. Markes, which they were amerced in, before William de March, Treasurer of the Kings Exchequer, to purchase the Kings favour, and the confirmation of their liberties.

Also,Citizens of London punished fornicatiō and adultery in Priests and other, without partiality. that in the yeere 1383. the seventh of Richard the second, the Citizens of London taking upon them the rights that belonged to their Bishops, first imprisoned such women aswere taken in fornication or adultery, in the said Tunne; and after, bringing them forth to the sight of the World, they caused their heads to be shaven, after the manner of Theeves, whom they named Appellators, and so to be led about the Citie, in sight of all the inhabitants, with Trumpets and Pipes sounding before them, that their persons might be the more largely knowne: Neither did they spare such kind of men a whit the more, but used them as hardly, saying; They abhorred not only the negligence of their Prelates, but also detested their avarice, that studied for money, omitted the punishment limited by Law, and permitted those that were found guilty, to live favourably by their fines. Wherefore they would themselves, they said, purge their Citie from such filthinesse, lest through Gods venge [...] ance, either the Pestilence or Sword should happen to them, or that the Earth should swallow them. Last of all to be noted, I reade in the charge of the Wardmote inquest in every Ward in this Citie,Priests punished in the Tnn upō Cornhil forced to forsweare this City. these words: If there bee any Priest in service within the Ward, which before-time hath beene set in the Tunne in Cornehill for his dishonesty, and hath forsworne the Citie, all such shall bee presented.

Thus much for the Tunne in Cornhill have I read.

Now, for the punishment of Priests, in my youth, one note and no more. Iohn Atwod, Draper, dwelling in the [Page] Parish of Saint Michael upon Cornehill, directly against the Church, having a proper woman to his wife, such an one as seemed the holiest amongst a thousand, had also a lusty Chauntry Priest of the said Parish Church, repairing to his house, with the which Priest, the said Atwod would sometime after supper play a game at Tables for a pint of Ale. It chanced on a time, having haste of worke, and his game proving long, he left his wife to play it out, and went downe to his shop: but returning to fetch a pressing-iron, he found such play (to his misliking) that hee forced the Priest to leap out at a window, over the Penthouse into the street, and so to run to his lodging in the Church-yard. Atwod and his wife were soone reconciled, so that he would not suffer her to be called in question;A Priest punished for lecherie. but the Priest being apprehended and committed, I saw his punishment to be thus: He was on three Market dayes conveyed thorow the high street and Markets of the Citie, with a paper on his head, wherein was written his trespasse. The first day hee rode in a Carry; the second, on a horse, his face to the horse taile; the third, led betwixt twaine, and every day rung with Basons, and proclamations made of his fact at every turning of the streets, and also before Iohn Atwods Stall, and the Church doore of his Service, where hee lost his Chauntry of twenty Nobles the yeere, and was banished the Citie for ever.

By the West side of the foresaid prison, A faire Well in Cornhill. then called the Tun, was a faire Well of Spring water, curbed round with hard stone:The Tun upon Cornhill made a Conduit of sweet water. but in the yeere 1401. the said Prison-house called the Tunne, was made a Cesterne for sweet water, conveyed by pipes of Lead from Tyborne, and was from thenceforth called the Conduit upon Cornehill. Cage, stocks and pillory in Cornhill. Then was the Well plancked over, and a strong prison made of Timber, called a Cage, with a paire of Stocks therein, set upon it;Bakers, Millers, Bauds, Scolds, & common Iurors for rewards, punished on the pillory. and this was for night-walkers. On the top of which Cage was placed a Pillorie, for the punishment of Bakers, offending in the assise of bread; for Millers stealing of Corne at the Mill; for Bawds, Scolds, and other offenders.

As in the yeere 1468. the 7. of Ed. 4. divers persons, being common Iurors, such as at Assises were forsworne for rewards, or favour of parties, were judged to ride from Newgate to the Pillorie in Cornhill, with Miters of paper on their heads, there to stand, and from thence againe to Newgate, and this Iudgement was given by the Maior of London.

In the yeere 1509. the first of Henry the 8. Darby, Smith, and Simson, Ringleaders of false inquests in London, rode about the Citie with their faces to the horses tailes, and papers on their heads, and were set on the Pillorie in Cornehill, and after brought againe to Newgate, where they dyed for very shame,Ring-leaders of inquests will pr [...]ffer their service, and bend every way for gaine. saith Robert Fabian. A Ring-leader of Inquests, as I take it, is he, that making a gainefull occupation thereof, will appeare upon Nisi prius's ere hee be warned, or procure himselfe to be warned to come on by a Tallis. Carefull choice of Iurors in to be had [...] a man derected, & that had sworne foolishly against his brother, is not to bee admitted a cōmon Iuror, ne [...] ther Butcher not Surgeon is to be admitted. Hee will also procure himselfe to be Fore-man, when hee can, and take upon him to over-rule the rest to his opinion: such an one shall be laboured by plaintifes and defendants, not without promise of rewards; and therefore to be suspected of a bad conscience. I would wish a more carefull choice of Iurors to bee had: for I have knowne a man carted, rung with Basons, and banished out of Bishopsgate Ward, and afterward, in Aldgate Ward admitted to be Constable, a grand Iurie-man, and Foreman of their Wardmote inquest. What I know of the like, or worse men, preferred to the like offices, I forbeare to write, but wish to be reformed.

The foresaid Conduit upon Cornehill was in the yeer 1475. inlarged by Robert Drope, Conduit on Cornehill inlarged. Draper, Maior, that thē dwelt in that Ward, he increased the Cestern of this Conduit with an east end of stone, and castellated it in comely manner.

In the yeere 1546. Sir Martin Bowes, Maior, dwelling in Lumbard street, and having his back gate opening into Cornhill, against the said Conduit, minded to have inlarged the Cesterne thereof with a West end, like as Robert Drope before had done towards the East. View and measure of the plot was taken for this worke: but the Pillory and Cage beeing removed, they found [Page] the ground planked, and the Well aforesaid worne out of memory, which Well they renued and restored to use; it is since made a Pumpe: they set the Pillorie somewhat west from the Well, and so this worke ceased.

On the North side of this street, from the East unto the West, have ye divers faire houses for Merchants and others; amongst the which, one large house is called the Wey house, The wey-house or Kings beame upon Cornhill. where Merchandises brought from beyond the Seas, are to be weighed at the Kings beame. This House hath a Master, and under him foure Master Porters, with Porters under them; they have a strong Cart, and foure great Horses, to draw and carry the wares from the Merchants houses to the Beame, and backe againe. Sir Tho. Lovell, Knight, builded this house, with a faire front of Tenements toward the Street, all which hee gave to the Grocers of London, himselfe being free of the Citie, and a Brother of that Company.

Then have ye the said Finkes lane, the South end of which lane on both the sides, is in Cornehill Ward.

Then next is the Royall Exchange, The Burse upon Cornhill, or the Royall Exchange. erected in the yeere 1566. after this order, viz. Certaine houses upon Cornehill, and the like upon the backe thereof, in the Ward of Broadstreet, with three Alleys; the first called Swan Alley, Swan Alley. opening into Cornehill; New Alley. the second, New Alley, passing thorow out of Cornehill into Broadstreet Ward, over against S. Bartholomew lane;S. Christophers Alley. the third, S. Christophers Alley, opening into Broadstreet Ward, and into Saint Christophers Parish, containing in all 80. housholds;Housholders displaced for building of the Burse. were first purchased by the Citizens of London, for more than 3532. pounds, and were sold for 478. pounds, to such persons as should take them downe, and carry them thence; also the ground or plot was made plaine at the charges of the Citie,The Citie charged with buildings of the Burse. and then possession thereof was by certaine Aldermen (in name of the whole Citizens) given to Sir Thomas Gresham, Knight, agent to the Queens Highnesse, there-upon to build a Burse, or place for Merchants to assemble in, at his owne proper charges: and hee, on the seventh of Iune, laying the first stone of the foundation, beeing Bricke, accompanied with some Aldermen, every of them laid a piece of gold, which the workemen tooke up, and forthwith followed upon the same such diligence, that by the moneth of November, in the yeere 1567. the same was covered with slate, and shortly after fully finished.

In the yeere 1570. on the 23. of Ianuary, Queene Elizabeth came to the Burse. the Queenes Majestie, attended with her Nobility, came from her house at the Strand, called Sommerset House, and entred the Citie by Temple-Barre, through Fleet-street, Cheape, and so by the North side of the Burse, through Three-needle street, to Sir Thomas Greshams house in Bishopsgate street, where she dined. After dinner, her Majestie returning through Cornehill, entred the Burse on the South side, and after shee had viewed every part thereof above the ground; especially the Pawne, which was richly furnished with all sorts of the finest wares in the Citie: she caused the same Burse, The Burse called the Royall Exchange. by an Herauld and a Trumpet, to be proclaimed the Royall Exchange, and so to bee called from thence-forth, and not otherwise.

Next adjoyning to this Royall Exchange, remaineth one part of a large stone house, and is now called the Castle, of such a signe at a Taverne doore; there is a passage thorow out of Cornehill into Three-needle street: the other part of the said stone house was taken downe, for enlarging the Royall Exchange. This stone house was said of some to have bin a Church, whereof it had no proportion. Of others, a Iewes house, as though none but Iewes had dwelt in stone houses: but that opinion is without warrant.

For beside the strong building of stone houses, against invasion of theeves in the night, when no watches were kept: In the first yeere of Richard the first, (to prevent the casualties of fire, which often had hapned in the Citie, when the houses were builded of timber, and covered with Reed or straw,The cause of stone houses builded in London. Henry Fitz Alwine being Maior) it was decreed, that from thenceforth, no man should build within the Citie, but of stone, untill a certaine heighth, and to cover the same building with slate, or burnt tile. This was the very cause of such [Page] stone buildings, whereof many have remained till our time, that for gaining of ground they have been taken down, and in place of some one of them, being low (as but 2. stories above the ground) many houses of 4. or 5. stories high are placed.

From this stone house downe to the Stockes, are divers large houses, especially for height, for Merchants and Artificers.

On the South side of this high street, is the Parish Church of Saint Peter upon Cornehill, Parish Church of S. Peter upon Cornhill. which seemeth to be of an ancient building, but not so ancient as fame reporteth; for it hath beene lately repaired, if not all new builded, except the steeple, which is ancient.

The roofe of this Church, and glasing, was finished in the reigne of Edward the fourth, as appeareth by Armes of Noblemen, and Aldermen of London then living. There remaineth in this Church a Table, wherein it is written, I know not by what authority, but of no late hand; that King Lucius founded the same Church, to bee an Archbishops Sea, Metropolitane and chiefe Church of his Kingdome, and that it so endured the space of foure hundred yeeres, unto the comming of Augustine the Monke.

Now, because many have urged it very earnestly to me, to let them be further acquainted therewith: I have here inserted the same verbatim, as it is there recorded in the Table.

A Copie taken out of the Table, fast chained in S. Peters Church on Cornehill.

BE it knowne unto all men, that the yeeres of our Lord God, C. lxxix. Lucius, the first Christian King of this Land, then called Brytaine, founded the first Church in London, that is to say, the Church of Saint Peter upon Cornhill. And he founded there an Arch-bishops See, and made that Church the Metropolitane and chiefe Church of this Kingdome: and so endured the space of CCCC. yeeres, unto the comming of S. Austin, the Apostle of England, the which was sent into this Land by S. Gregory, the Doctor of the Church, in the time of King Ethelbert. And then was the Archbishops See and Pall removed from the foresaid Church of Saint Peter upon Cornehill, unto Dereberniam, that now is called Canturbury, and there remaineth to this day. And Millet, Monke, the which came into the Land with S. Austen, was made the first Bishop of London, & his See was made in Pauls Church. And this Lucius King, was the first founder of Saint Peters Church upon Cornehill. And he reigned in this Land after Brute, a M. C C. Xlv. yeeres. and the yeeres of our Lord God, a C. xxiiij. Lucius was crowned King, and the yeeres of his reigne were Lxxvij. yeeres. And hee was (after some Chronicle) buried at London: And (after some Chronicle) he was buried at Glowcester, in that place where the Order of S. Francis standeth now.

Ioceline of Furneis writeth, that Thean or Theon, the first Archbishop of London in the reigne of Lucius, builded the said Church, by the aide of Ciran, chiefe Butler to King Lucius; Library [...] S. [...] upon [...], now a Gram [...] schoole. and also that Elvanus, the second Archbishop, builded a Library to the same adjoyning, and coverted many of the Druides, learned men in the Pagan law, to Christianity.

William Harrison, discoursing hereon more at large,Out of the descriptiō of [...] taine, written by VVilliam Harrison. discoursing hereon more at large, hath these very words:

There is a Controversie (faith hee) moved among our Historiographers, whether the Church that Lucius builded at London, stood at Westminster, or in Cornehill. For, there is some cause, why the Metropolitane Church should be thought to stand where Saint Peters now doth, by the space of foure hundred and odde yeeres, before it was removed to Canturbury by Austin the Monke, if a man would leane to one side, without any conference of the asseverations of the other. But herein (as I take it) there lurketh some scruple: for, beside that S. Peters Church stood in the East end of the Citie, and that of Apollo in the west, the word Cornehill, a denomination given of late (to speake of) to one street, may easily be mistaken for Thorney.

For, as the word Thorney proceedeth from the Saxons, who called the West end of the Citied by that name, where Westminster now standeth, because of the wildernesse and bushinesse of the soile: so doe I not read of any street in London [Page] called Cornehill, No street in London called Cornhill, before the Normans Conquest. before the Conquest of the Normans. Wherefore, I hold with them, which make Westminster to be the place, where Lucius builded his Church, upon the ruines of thatThere were three Archflamines, 1. at London, the 2. at Yorke, the 3. at Caerlbeon upon the River Vske, builded by Belinus, and called Glamorgantia, now Chester, all destroyed by Lucius, because they were erected to Apollo, Mars and Minerva: hee builded 3. other Churches in their stead. Flamine, 264. yeeres (as Malmesbury saith) before the comming of the Saxons, and 411. before the arrivall of Augustine. Read also his Appendix in lib. 4. Pontif. where he noteth the time of the Saxons in the 444. of Grace, and of Augustine in 596. of Christ, which is a manifest accompt, though some Copies have 499. for the one, but not without manifest corruption and error.

And now to returne where we left: True it is, that a Library there was pertaining to this Parish Church, of old time builded of stone, and of late repaired with Bricke, by the Executors of Sir Iohn Crosby, Alderman, as his Armes on the South end doe witnesse.

This Library hath bin (of late time) to wit, within these 70. yeeres, well furnished of Books, Iohn Leyland viewed and commended them; but now those Bookes are gone,Io. Leyland. and the place is occupied by a Schoolemaster, and his Vsher, for a number of Scholars learning their Grammar rules, &c. Notwithstanding, before that time, a Grammar Schoole had beene kept in this Parish, as appeareth in the yeere, 1425.

I read,Grammar Schooles commanded by Parliament. that Iohn Whitby was Rector, and Iohn Steward Schoolemaster there: and in the 25. of Henry the sixth it was enacted by Parliament, that 4. Grammar Schooles in London, should bee maintained, viz. In the Parishes of Alhallowes in Thames street: Saint Andrew in Oldborne: Saint Peters upon Cornehill; and Saint Thomas of Acres.

Monuments of the dead in this Church defaced.

I read that Hugh Waltham,

Nicholas Pricot, Mercer, Alderman,

Richard Manhall; 1503.

VVilliam Kingstone, Fishmonger, gave his Tenements called the Horsemill in Grasse-street, to this Church, and was there buried, about the yeere, 1298.

Iohn Vnisbrugh, Poulter, 1410.

Iohn Law.

Also, Peter Mason Taylor, gave to this Church seven pound starling yeerly for ever, out of his Tenements in Colechurch Parish, and deceased about the yeere, 1416.

Iohn Foxton founded a Chauntry there.

A Brotherhood of Saint Peter was in this Church established by Henry the fourth, the fourth of his reigne.

VVilliam Brampton, and William Askham, Fishmongers and Aldermen, were chiefe procurers thereof, for the Fishmongers of late buried there Sir William Bowyer, Maior, 1543.

Sir Henry Huberthorne, Maior, 1546.

Sir Christopher Morice, Master Gunner of England to King Henry the eight.

Edward Elrington, Esquire, chiefe Butler to Edward the sixth.

Thomas Gardener, Grocer.

Justice Smith, and other beside.

A falte ancient Tombe for Sir VVilliam Bowyer in the south Ile of the Quire.

In the yeere of Iesus

Christ's Incarnation,

One thousand, five hundred,

forty and foure,

The 22. day of April,

by just computation;

In this place was buried

with great honour,

VVhich proved a man

Meet to bee a Governour,

For the Common-wealth

of this high and famous Citie:

Called Sir William Bowyer,

Lord of the Maioralty,

Which departed not with

finding great calamity:

And pray wee to GOD,

to grant his Soule mercy.

O London, if thou looke

to the Lacedemonies,

There to finde Lycurgus

that noble and kinde King;

Or if thou seeke for Ciceroes

men most of prize,

Or if thou apply thee to have

all the whole desiring

Of Amphyon, Orpheus,

or of Mecaenas demeaning a

Seeke no further to finde,

for here hee is buried,

VVhich had all their properties

for Londons good ordering.

Bee wee then of his honourable

degree well conceiving,

[Page] For his acts for ever

be registred in Londons meaning.

Here lyeth Sir Henry Huberthorne,

A faire Marble stone under the Communion Table, plated about.

sometime Lord Maior and Merchant-taylor of this Citie of London, and Dame Elizabeth his Wife. Hee departed this life, &c. And the said Dame Elizabeth left this transitory life in Anno Domini, 1551.

Hereunder lieth buried

William Messe of this Citie,

A faire plated stone, neere to the other.

Whil'st he lived, free

of the Grocers Company,

And Julian his wife,

to whom 24. yeeres married was he,

By whom God sent him

five sonnes and daughters three,

And to Gods will

his heart was alwaies bent,

So did his death

shew a life well spent.

Here this is written,

that other may remember,

His godly departure

from this world the 26. of September.

In the same Vault with Sir William Bowyers body, is Mr. Alderman VValthals also laid, but no Monument as yet made for him, beside his Funerall Banners.

The Charities of the Parish of Saint Peter upon Cornehill.

Launcelot Tompson of London, Draper, was buried in this Parish Church, and gave 20. l. for the yeerely preaching of five Sermons, untill the money should be fully run out. Which Sermons were all preached by Doctor Ashbold, Parson there. Also he gave 100. l. to the Drapers Company, and they to allow 5. l. yeerely for ever, for Bread and Coales for the poore of the said parish.

Boniface Tatam of London, Vintner, buried in the said Parish the third of February, 1606. gave 40. s. yeerely to the Parson, for preaching foure Sermons every yeere, so long as the Lease of the Marmaid in Cornehill, (a Taverne so called) shall endure. He gave also to the poore of the Parish thirteene penny loaves every Sunday, during the foresaid Leafe.

Mr. William Walthal, late of London, Alderman, buried in the said Parish Church the second of September, 1606. gave twenty pound to the stocke of the Parish. Next, he gave forty Markes, for forty Sermons to be preached in the said Church. Also hee gave two hundred pounds, to bee imployed as followeth: Tenne young men, trading and dwelling in the Parish, with two sufficient sureties, each man, from foure yeeres to foure yeeres, to enjoy the benefit thereof. And every one of them, for the time being, having the usage of the said money, is to pay yeerely to the good of the poore of the said Parish, for bread and coales, the summe of thirteene shillings foure pence, which amounteth in the whole, to the summe of six pounds, thirteene shillings, foure pence. Hee hath also allowed to the Churchwardens and Overseers for the poore, five shillings yeerely among them, to see his good meaning effectually performed.

Robert Warden, of London, Poulter, buried in the same Church the 18. of November, 1609. hath given out of one Messuage or Tenement, lying and being in Bishopsgate street, in the said Parish, the summe of three pounds twelve shillings, yeerely for ever, viz. 52. shillings in wheaten bread every Sunday, for the poore of the Parish, 10. s. a yeere for two Sermons, to bee preached to the Company of Poulters, 4. s. for the Clerks attendance at the said Sermons, and 2. s. a yeere for the Sexton, allowed by the said Company.

Mr. Iohn Malin, Physician, buried in the said Church the 25. of May, 1613. gave to the poore of this Parish the sum of 40. l. to bee weekly bestowed on them, on Friday mornings for ever.

Then have ye the Parish Church of S. Michael the Archangell:The Parish Church of S. Michael on Cornhill. for the Antiquity thereof, I finde that Alnothus the Priest gave it to the Abbot and Covent of Covesham; Reynold Abbot, and the Covent there, did grant the same to Sparling the Priest, in all measures, as he and his Predecessors before had held it: to the which Sparling also, they granted all their Lands which they there had, except certaine Lands which Orgar le Prowde held of them, and paid two shillings yeerely. For the which grant, [Page] the said Sparling should yeerely pay one Marke of rent to the said Abbot of Covesham, and finde him his lodging, salt, water, and fire, when hee came to London; this was granted 1133. about the 34. of Henry the first. Thus much for antiquity.

Of later time I finde, that Elizabeth Peake, Widdow, gave the Patronage or gift of this Benefice to the Drapers in London: shee lyeth buried in the Belfrey, 1518. her Monument yet remaineth. This hath beene a faire and beautifull Church, but of late yeeres, since the surrender of their lands to Edward the sixth, greatly blemished by the building of foure Tenements on the North side thereof, towards the high street, in place of a greene Church-yard, whereby the Church is darkened and other waies annoyed. The faire new Steeple or Bell-Tower of this Church, was begun to bee builded in the yeere, 1421. which being finished,This was accounted the best Ring of 6. Bels to be rung by 6. men that was in England for harmonie, sweetnesse of sound and tune. and a faire ring of five Bels therein placed; a sixth Bell was added, and given by Iohn VVhitwel, Isabel his wife, and VVilliam Rus, or Rous Alderman and Goldsmith, about the yeere, 1430. which Bell named Rus, (nightly at eight of the clocke, and otherwise for Knels, and in Peales, rung by one man, by the space of 160. yeeres) of late over-haled by foure or five at once, hath been thrice broken, and new cast, within the space of ten yeeres, to the charges of that Parish, more than 100. Markes.

And here note of this Steeple, as I have oft heard my Father report.Lightning and thunder, with ugly shaps seen in S. Michaels Steeple. Vpon Saint Iames night, certaine men in the Loft next under the Bells, ringing of a Peale, a Tempest of Lightning and Thunder did arise, and an ugly shapen sight appeared to them, comming in at the South window, and lighted on the North, for feare whereof, they all fell downe, and lay as dead for the time, letting the Bels ring and cease of their own accord. When the Ringers came to themselves,The print of clawes to be seen in hard stone. they found certaine stones of the North window to bee razed and scrat, as if they had been so much Butter printed with a Lyons clawe: the same stones were fastned there againe, and so remaine till this day. I have seen them oft, and have put a feather or small stick into the holes, where the clawes had entred 3. or 4. inches deepe.

At the same time, certain maine timber posts at Queene Hith, Pulpit-Crosse in Pauls Church-yard overturned. were scrat and cleft from the top to the bottome, and the Pulpit Crosse in Pauls Church-yard was likewise scrat, cleft, and overturned. One of the Ringers lived in my youth, whom I have oft heard to verifie the same to be true; but to returne.

William Rus was a speciall Benefactor to this Church, his Armes yet remaine in the Windowes.

VVilliam Comerton, Simon Smith, Walter Belengham were buried there, and founded Chaunteries there.

Iohn Grace, 1439.

Robert Drope, Maior, buried on the North side the Quire, under a faire Tombe of Grey Marble, 1485. he gave to poore Maides marriages of that Parish twenty pound, to the poore of that Ward ten pound; Shirts and smockes three hundred, and gownes of broad-cloth, one hundred, &c.

Iane his wife, matching with Edward Gray, Vicount Lisle, was buried by her first husband 1500. She gave 90. pound in money to the beautifying of that Church, and her great Messuage with the appurtenance, which was by her Executors, W. Caple and other, 1517. the ninth of Henry the eighth assured to Iohn Wardroper, Parson, T. Clerke, W. Dixson, and Iohn Murdon, Wardens of the said Church, and their successors for ever, they to keepe yeerely for her an Obit, or Anniversary; to be spent on the poore, and otherwise, in all three pounds, the rest of the profits to be imployed in reparation of the Church.

In the 34. yeere of Henry the eighth, Edward Stephan, Parson, T. Spencer, P. Guntar, and E. Grouch, Churchwardens, granted to T. Lodge, a Leafe for threescore yeeres of the said great Messuage, with the appurtenances, which were called the Lady Lisles Lands, for the rent of eight pound, thirteene shillings, foure pence the yeere. The Parishioners since gave it up as Chauntry land, and wronged themselves; also the said Robert Drope and Lady Lisle (notwithstanding their liberality to that Church and Parish) their Tombe is pulled down no Monument remaineth of them. [Page] Peter Houghton, late Alderman, is layd in their Vault, 1569.

Robert Fabian Alderman, that wrote and published a Chronicle of England, and of France, was buried there, 1511. with this Epitaph.

Like as the day his course doth consume,

And the new morrow springeth again as fast,

So man and woman by natures custome,

This life to passe, at last in earth are cast,

Injoy, & sorrow, which heretheirtime do wast

Never in one state, but in course Transitory,

So full of change, is of this world the glory.

His Monument is gone: Richard Garnam, 1527. buried there.

Edmond Trindle, and Robert Smith.

William Dickson, and Margret his wife, buried in the Cloister under a faire Tombe now defaced.

Thomas Stow my Grandfather, about the yeere, 1526. and Thomas Stow my Father, 1559.

Iohn Tolus, Alderman, 1548. he gave to Iohn Willoby, Iohn Tolus his gift to the church not performed but concealed. Parson of that Church, to Thomas Lodge, G. Hind, P. Bolde, Church-wardens, and to their successors (towards the reparation of that Church, and reliefe of the poore for ever) his Tenement, with the appurtenances in the Parish of Saint Michael, which hee had lately purchased of Alvery Randalph, of Badlesmeere in Kent: but the Parish never had the gift, nor heard thereof, by the space of 40. yeeres after: such was the conscience of G. Barne, and other the Executors to conceale it to themselves, and such is the negligence of the Parishioners, that (being informed thereof) make no claime thereunto.

Philip Gunter, that was Alderman for a time, and gave 400. pound to bee discharged thereof, was buried in the Cloyster, about the yeere 1582. and Anne his wife, &c.

Thomas Haughton father to the said Peter Haughton.

Francis Beneson, and William Towerson.

Philip Gunter, A hansome Monument in the wall of the Chancell, the south side. Skinner, sometime Alderman of this City, departed this life the 15. day of February, 1582. and lyeth buried in the Cloyster of this Church: who married Anne, Daughter of Henry Barley, of Albery, in the County of Hereford, Esquire; and had issue by her 11. Sonnes, and foure daughters. He left good maintenance for two Sermons yeerely for ever in this Church: the one on the 15. day of March, the other the 25. of December.

Here lyeth buried the body of Peter Houghton, A very faire Monument richly gu [...] ded, in the Chancell wall on the Nor [...] side. of London Alderman: he was free of the Grocers Company, a Merchant of the Staple in England, and a Merchant Adventurer. Hee was one of the Sheriffes of this City, in An. 1593. and dyed the last day of December, 1596. Hee gave to the foure Hospitals (that is to say) Saint Bartholomewes, Christ Church, St. Thomas and Bridewell, 600. pound, equally to bee divided betweene them. Hee gave also to the Grocers Company 400. pound to bee lent to eight young men of the same Company (gratis) from two yeeres, to two yeeres, for ever. Which 1000. pound was paid by Iohn Vernon, Merchant-Taylor, accordingly. He had to wife Mary Houghton, who sithence married with Sir Thomas Vavasor, Knight Marshall. Hee had children by her, two Sonnes, named Hatton, and Peter, who dyed young; and two Daughters, Mary and Elizabeth. Mary was married to Sir Iames Scudamore, Knight, and Elizabeth to Sir Henry Bedingfield, Knight.

Here lyeth buried (by a desired promise made to Alderman Houghton while hee lived) the body of Iohn Vernon, His Picture standeth alo [...] on the other Monument. Merchant-Taylor: who was Master of the said Company, in An. 1609. And hee was also a Merchant of the Staple in England. He dyed the day of An. Dom.

Nemo ante obitum felix.

Here in the Vault lyeth buried the bodies of of Iohn Taylor, In the South Ile of the Quire a hansome Monumēts in the wa [...]. Citizen and Draper of London, and Constance his wife, one of the Daughters and Coheires of Reginald Wooddeson, of Alresford in Hampshire, Gent. They had issue between them three Sonnes, Iohn, who dyed young, Robert and Iohn. Hee departed this life the 4. day of April, 1597. being about the age of 63. yeeres: and she, being the age of 67. the 29. of October, [Page] 1614. Votum S. Pauli. Phil. 1. Adepti.

In March; 1588.

was buried in this place,

In the same wall lower, a hansome small Monument.

Alexander Every, Merchant

but 40. yeeres of age,

Whose godly gifts, by will,

are warrants of Gods grace

In him. By whom,

thinke on thy selfe, and on the stage

Thou stand'st, and measure it,

and other worldly things:

As streames that swiftly slide

downe from their springs.

An. Dom. 1570. primo Feb.

Here lyeth Francis Benneson,

a Citizen was hee,

A plated stone in the same Ile on the ground.

A Merchant Adventurer also,

and of the Mystery

Of Haberdashers Company.

A man of honest name,

Who here on earth to feare of God,

his vit [...]ll dayes did frame.

Two wives hee had, the first of them

in Antwerpe borne she was;

The other hee a Widdow left,

so God brought it to passe.

His Soule (no doubt) doth now remaine

with God among the rest

Of other worthy Christians,

who evermore are blest.

Hereunder lyeth buried the body of the worshipfull, A faire small Monument on a Pillar right against the Pulpit. John Harby, Citizen and Skinner of London, and free of the Merchant Adventurers Company, for Muscovia, Spaine, and the East Iudiaes: who had two wives, Anne Mording, Widdow, by whom he had issue foure Sonnes, and one Daughter, viz. Thomas, Francis, John, William, and Emme. And lastly he married with Anne Saltonstal, Daughter to Sir Richard Saltonstall, Knight, sometime Lord Maior of this City: by whom hee had two Sonnes, Richard and Daniel; which John Harby after 74. yeeres, departed this life the 15. day of April, 1610. Expecting a joyfull resurrection by Iesus Christ.

Hic dormivit in Christo Joannes Cowper, Armiger;A faire Tombe in the Cloyster South. Vxorem habuit Elizabeth Ironside ante se mortuam. Obiit 3. Iunii. An. Dom. 1609.

There is a comely Monument,In the wall on the North side of the Chancell. although of no great cost or charge, there placed for Master Laurence Caldwell, Citizen and Haberdasher of London, and Mary his wife. Great pitty it is, that it is no better kept and looked unto, for shortly the inscriptions engraven thereon, will not any way possibly be read, &c.

This Parish Church hath on the south side thereof a proper Cloyster,Pulpit-Crosse in S. Michael Church-yard. and a faire Church-yard, with a Pulpit-crosse, not much unlike to that in Pauls Church yard. Sir Iohn Rudstone Maior, caused the same Pulpit-Crosse, in his life time to be builded, the Church-yard to bee enlarged, by ground purchased of the next Parish, and also proper houses to be raised, for lodging of Quire men, such as at that time were assistants to Divine Service, then daily sung by Note, in that Church.

The said Io. Rudstone deceased, 1531. and was buried in a Vault under the Pulpit-Crosse: he appointed Sermons to bee preached there, not now performed. His Tombe before the Pulpit-Crosse is taken thence, with the Tombe of Richard Yaxley, Doctor of physicke to King Henry the eighth and other.

The Quire of that Church being dissolved, the lodgings of the Quire men were (by the grave Fathers of that time) charitably appointed for receit of ancient decayed parishioners; namely, widdowes, such as were not able to beare the charge of greater rents abroad, which blessed worke of harbouring the harbourlesse,Mat. 2. 5. is promised to be rewarded in the Kingdome of Heaven.

Then have ye Birchover lane, Birchovers lane. so called of Birchover, the first builder and owner thereof, now corruptly called Birchin lane, the North halfe whereof is of the said Cornehill Ward, the other part is of Langborne Ward.

This lane and the high street neere adjoyning, hath been inhabited (for the most part) with wealthy Drapers, from Birchovers lane on that side the street, downe to the Stockes. In the reigne of Henry the sixth,Vpholders sellers of old stuffe in Cornhill. had yee (for the most part) dwelling there, Frippers or Vpholders, that sold apparell and old houshold stuffe.

I have read of a Country man, that then having lost his hood in Westminster Hall, found the same in Cornhill, hanged [Page] out to be sold, which hee challenged, but was forced to buy, or goe without it: for their stall (they said) was their market.Popes head Taverne on Cornhil. At that time also, the VVinedrawer of the Popes-head Taverne, (standing without the doore in the high street) took the same man by the sleeve, and said, Sir, will you drinke a Pint of VVine?Wine one pint for a penny, & bread given free. VVhereunto he answered, A penny spend I may: and so dranke his Pint: for bread nothing did he pay, for that was then allowed free.

This Popes-head Taverne, with other houses adjoyning, strongly builded of stone, hath of old time beene all in one, pertaining to some great Estate,The Kings house in Cornhill. or rather to the King of this Realme, as may be supposed, both by largenesse thereof, and by the Armes; to wit, 3. Leopards passant gardant, which was the whole Armes of England, before the reigne of Edward the third, that quartered them with the Armes of France, three Flower de Luces.

These Armes of England, Armes of England supported by Angels supported then betweene two Angels, are faire and largely graven in stone on the forefront towards the high street, over the doore or stall of one great house, lately (for many yeeres) possessed by Mr. Philip Gunter. The Popes-head Taverne is on the backe part thereof, towards the South, as also one other house, called the stone house in Lombard street. Some say this was King Iohn's house; which might so be: for I finde in a written copie of Mathew Paris his Historie, that in the yeere 1232. Henry the third sent Hubert de Burgho, Hubert de Burgho, Earle of Kent, sent into Cornhill. Earle of Kent, to Cornhill in London, there to answer all matters objected against him: where hee wisely acquitted himselfe. The Popes-head Taverne hath a foot-way through, from Cornehill into Lombard street. And downe lower on the high street of Cornhill, is there one other way thorow by the Cardinals Hat Taverne,The Cardinals Hat Taverne. into Lombard street. And so let this suffice for Cornehill VVard. In which be Governours, an Alderman, his Deputy, Common-Counsellours, foure, or sixe; Constables, foure; Scavengers, foure; VVardmote inquest, 16. and a Beadle: it is charged to the Fifteene at 16. pounds.

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LANGBOVRNE VVARD, And Fenny about.

LAngbourne Ward, so called,Langbourne Ward, and Fenny about of a long Boorn of sweet water, which (of old time) breaking out into Fenne-Church-street, ranne downe the same street, and Lombard street, to the West end of S. Mary Woolnoths Church, where turning South, and breaking into small shares, rils or streams,Shareborne or South borne lane. it left the name of Shareborne lane, or Southborne lane, (as I have read) because it ranne South to the River of Thames. This Ward beginneth at the West end of Ealdgate Ward, in Fen-Church street, by the Ironmongers Hall, which is on the North side of that street,Culver Alley. at a place called Culver Alley, where sometime was a lane, through the which men went into Limestreet; but that being long since stopped up,Lane stopped up. for suspition of Theeves that lurked there by night, as is shewed in Limestreet Ward; there is now in this said Alley a Tennis Court, &c.

Fenne-Church street tooke that name of a Fenny or Moorish ground,Fen-church street. so made by meanes of this Boorne, which passed thorow it; and therefore (untill this day) in the Guild-hall of this Citie, that Ward is called by the name of Langborne, and Fenny about, and not otherwise: yet others be of opinion, that it tooke that name of Foenum, that is, Hay, sold there, as Grasse-street-tooke the name of Grasse or Herbes there sold.

In the midst of this street standeth a small Parish Church,Parish Church of S. Mary & S. Gabriel. called S. Gabriel Fenne-Church, corruptly, Fan-Church.

Helming Legget, Esquire, by licence of Edward the third, in the 49. of his reigne, gave one Tenement, with a curtelarge thereto belonging, and a garden with an entry thereto leading, unto Sir Iohn Hariot, Parson of Fen-Church, and to his successors for ever; the house to be a Parsonage house; the Garden to be a Church-yard, or burying place for the Parish.

Then have ye Lombard street, Lombard street so called before Ed. 2. so called of the Longobards, and other Merchants, strangers of divers Nations, assembling there twise every day, of what originall, or continuance, I have not read of record, more than that Edward the second, in the twelfth of his reigne, confirmed a Messuage sometime belonging to Robert Turke, abutting on Lombard street toward the South, and toward Cornehill on the North, for the Merchants of Florence: which proveth that street to have had the name of Lombard street before the reigne of Edward the second. The meeting of which Merchants and others there, continued untill the 22. of December, in the yeere 1568. on the which day, the said Merchants began to make their meetings at the Burse, a place then new builded for that purpose, in the ward of Cornehill, and was since by Her Majestie, Queene Elizabeth, named the Royall Exchange.

On the North side of this Ward, is Limestreet, Limestreet. one halfe whereof (on both sides) is of this Langborne VVard, and therein on the west side, is the Pewterers Hall,Pewterers Hall. which Company were admitted to be a Brotherhood, in the 13. of Edward the fourth.

At the South-west corner of Limestreet, standeth a faire Parish Church [Page] [...] [Page] [...] [Page] of S. Dionis called Backe-Church, lately new builded in the reigne of Henry the sixth. Iohn Bugge, Esquire, was a great Benefactor to that worke, as appeareth by his Armes, three water-Budgets, and his Crest, a Morions head, graven in the stone-worke of the Quire, at the upper end, on the North side, where he was buried.

Also Iohn Darby, Alderman, added thereunto a faire Ile or Chappell on the South side, and was there buried, about the yeere 1466. He gave (besides sundry ornaments) his dwelling house and others unto the said Church.

The Lady wich, widdow to Hugh Wich, sometimes Maior of London, was there buried, and gave Lands for Sermons, &c.

Iohn Master, Gent. was by his children buried there, 1444.

Thomas Britaine. Henry Travers of Maidstone in Kent, Merchant, 1501.

Iohn Bond, about 1504.

Robert Paget, Merchant-Taylor, one of the Sheriffes 1536.

Sir Tho. Curteis, Pewterer, then Fishmonger, Maior 1557.

Sir Iames Harvie, Ironmonger, Maior, 1581.

William Peterson, Esquire. William Sherington. Sir Edward Osborne, Cloth-worker, Maior, &c.

Thomas Curticius

sub Marmore conditus iste,

An ancient Marble Tomb in the North Ile of the Quire, upper-most Eastward.

Quem mundo eripuit

Parca severa senem:

Quemque suum Cives

voluere augere Senatum,

Iustitia & gravitas

hunc meruere gradum.

Purpuriens sic

Praeturam gessit in urbe,

Ferret ut hoc multum

laudis ab officio.

Animus huic Consul

Sceptroque insignis & ense,

Londinium vexit

dexteritate bona.

Thomam progenuit

solumque moestis humanis,

Vita adeo fragili

sorte fugax [...]ue datur.

Vnica neptis avo,

est Anna haeres, filia Thomae,

Dignaque neptus avo,

dignaque nata patre.

Stuclea haec nupsit

Generoso stemmata certo,

Fraeclaroque domi

Militiaeque viro.

Fumus & umbra sumus,

quicquid mortale peribat,

Sola manet pietas,

quae sine fine viret.

Neere unto it is a very goodly Monument, belonging to Sir Iames Harvey, but without any inscription or Epitaph.

D. D. M. S.

Emanuel de Meteren, Mercatori Antwerpiensi, A small Monumēt in the wal on the same side. atque inter ordinis ejusdem Belgas Londini, quondam Cos. Des. viro pio, viro docto. Qui rerum in Belgia gest. Historiam opus [...]luculentum & fidei plenum posteris reliquit.

Esther de Corput. conjux conjugi liberique ix. parenti optimo P. P. Obiit die 8. Aprilis, Anni CIC. ICC. XII. Cum vixisset An. lxxvj. Mens. 3.

Animae super Aethera vivunt.

Iacobo Colio G. F. Belgol.On a pillar in the midst of the Chancell. Regis Henrici 8. munere Angl. indignae Mercatori probo. Qui obiit Ann. Chri. CIC. IC. XCI. suo Lxxiix. Et Elizab. Orteliae, Qui obiit Anno Christi, CIC. IC. XC III. Connubio nuper nunc Tumulo junctis Iac. Colins parentibus pientiss.

M. H. F. C.
Christo duce, & ossa resurgent.

This Tombe of Sir Edward Osborne, Knight,A goodly Monument in the South Ile of the Quire. sometime Lord Maior of this Noble Citie, who was buried An. Dom. 1591. And of Dame Margaret his second wife, who married after with M. Baron Clarke, (by whom this Tombe was erected) and was buried, An. Dom. 1602.

Mistresse Katharine VVoodward, In the west end of the Church, but on the south side. widdow, having (in her life time) beene a godly, religious, and vertuous Matrone, charitable to the poore, and not sparing of her purse to pious uses: Two worthy Gentlemen (her Executors) have there raised a comely remembrance of her to all posterity.

[Page] This Monument was erected for the Worshipfull M. John Hewet, Gent. Citizen and Merchant of London, and free of the Clothworkers Company: who in his life time was loving to all, and pittifull to the poore: witnesse the yeerely pension he hath given for ever, of five pounds to the poore of this Parish. He changed this mortall habitation the third day of Iuly, Anno Domini, 1602.

This Charity, and 12. d. beside, given every Sunday in bread to the poore, is all that there I understand of.

Then by the foure corners (so called of Fen-church street in the East,The foure corners, a place so called, of 4. wayes meeting. Bridge-street on the South, Grasse-street on the North, and Lombard street on the west) in Lombard street is one faire Parish Church,Parish Church of Alhallowes in Lambard street. Lib. Trin. called Alhallowes Grasse-church in Lambard street. I doe so reade it in Evidences of Record, for that the Grasse-Market went downe that way, when that street was farre broader than now it is, being straightned by incrochments.

This Church was lately new builded. Iohn Warner, Armorer, and then Grocer, Sheriffe, 1494. builded the South Ile; his sonne Robert Warner, Esquire, finished it, in the yeere 1516. The Pewterers were Benefactors towards the North Ile, &c. The Sleeple or Bel-tower thereof was finished in the yeere 1544. about the thirty and sixth of Henry the eighth. The faire stone Porch of this Church, was brought from the late dissolved Priory of S. Iohn of Ierusalem by Smithfield, so was the frame of their Bels; but the Bels being bought, were never brought thither, by reason that one old Warner Draper of that Parish deceasing, his son Mark Warner would not performe what his Father had begunne and appointed; so that faire Steeple hath but one Bell, as Friers were wont to use.

The Monuments of this Church bee these:A faire Monument in the wall, at the East end of the North Ile of the Quire. the said Warners, and Iohn Walden, Draper.

Memoriae Sacrum.

Spe certa in Christo resurgendi, hic requiescit Christopherus Tolderney, Armiger, vir prudens, & optimis studiis innutritus: Atque Susanna Vxor, Filia Joannis Alnwici, Generos. Qui cum plures annos fide & amore conjugali concordissimè vixissent; Obiit illa nono die Ianuarii, An. Domini, M. D. CXII. Ille Martii sequentis die 20. Quatuor liberis superstitibus, Christophero & Joanne, Iana, (Roberto Darello de Calehill, Militi enupta) & Elizabetha.

Here under this stone resteth (in assured hope of a joyfull resurrection) the body of Rebecca Crispe, A very goodly stone plated, on the ground in the same Ile. Daughter to Iohn Pake of Bromefield in Essex, Gent. and late wife to Nicholas Crispe of Lond. Merchant. She departed this life the 27. day of April, An. Dom. 1616. and in the 37. of her age: Giving to the world (both in her life and death) undoubted testimony of her faith in Christ Iesus: Having had issue 3. sonnes, and 8. daughters.

Here lyeth buried the body of Simō Horsepoole, In the Chancell a faire stone plated, against his Pew dore. free of the Drapers Company: also free of the ancient Wooll-staple; free of the Merchants Adventurers of the old Haunce and Moscovia. He was chosen sheriffe of London, in An. 1591. He married Elizabeth Smith, daughter to Iohn Smith of Cosham, in the County of Wiltshire, Gent. and sister to Thomas Smith, Customer of London. And by her he had issue 3. sons and 3. daughters, William, Simon and Thomas, Elizabeth married with Alexander King, one of the Queenes Majesties Auditors. Hawys married with Francis Dorington, Merchant of Tripolie. And Ioan, maried with Iohn Whitbrooke, Gent.

He dwelt in Grasse-Church street in this Parish, 35. yeeres, and he appointed to this Parish of All Saints, foure pounds and foure shillings every yeere for ever: and also foure pounds and foure shillings to the Parish of Saint Christopher by Cornehill, where hee was borne, and where his Father Iohn Horsepoole (also free of the Drapers Company, and borne in Leicestershire) dwelt, and lyeth buried: That every Sunday after Morning Service, there bee given to twelve poore people of this Parish, to every one of them one penny loafe of wheaten bread; and also every Sunday to twelve poore people of Saint Christophers Parish, to every one [Page] of them one penny loafe of wheaten bread; and every yeere upon Saint Thomas the Apostles day, to every one of the said 24. poore people, twelve pence in money: and every yeere upon the said Saint Thomas his day, to the two Paris-Clerkes of the said Parises, to every of them for their paines, 13. s. 4. d. and to the two Sextons of the said Parishes, to every of them for their paines, 6. s. 8. d.

In performance whereof,Yet living, and of whom I received these instructions. William Horsepoole, sonne of the said Simon Horsepoole, hath granted two severall annuities and Rents, charge of foure pounds and foure sillings apiece, out of an house in Corbets Alley in Grasse-Church street, in the Parish of Saint Peter, to certaine parishioners of the said Parishes respectively, and their heires in trust, to the foresaid uses for ever.

Hee dyed the 14. day of Ianuary, 1601. Aged 75. yeeres.

Vertue is not dead.A faire plated stone lying by the other.

The soule in Heaven,

the body here of Izan lies,

By her John Edwards good,

and by her parents both:

She deare to her all three,

that living, still she cries,

Lay me by them.

for other Grave I loath.

O God! that heard'st

the cry of this thy creature,

Make Izans many,

in vertue, grace, and feature.

As love (in life)

eonjoyn'd us once,

And God (by death)

disjoyn'd us twaine:

So love (by death)

rejoyn'd our bones,

And God (in joy)

joyn'd us againe.

Stand here firme (God permitting) ever, a patterne,A faire Monumēt erected in the South Ile of the Quire for the same person. a spurre to sacred vertue: In memory of a blessed Matrone heere buried: Rich in true piety, vertue, and reverend modesly, from her Cradle to her Cossin: an ornament (of her sexe) for true constancy in both fortunes: the onely mother and beauty of her race, in her time, named Izan Wright by her Father, Edwards by her first husband, both of this Parish, and also here buried. Her shining to the vaine world (to whom Adversity is Vice, and Prosperity is Vertue) was eclipsed by a second marriage, wherein she deceased the fifth day of March, An. Dom. 1613. Aged about 66. yeeres.

Here under this place lyeth buried the body of Thomas Walker, A come [...]y samll Monumeat in the South [...] of the Quire, East. Citizen and Vintner of London, who deceased the 25. day of Ianuary, 1599. Which said Thomas Walker had two wives, Joane and Mary. By Joane he had issue eight children, foure sonnes, and foure daughters. Joane his wife lyeth hereunder buried, who deceased the 29. day of August, 1592. Aetatis suae, 69.

Mans life, betimes tryit who shall,

Shall find no time in it to trust:

Sometime to climbe, sometime to fall,

Till life of man be brought to dust.

Next is a common Osterie for travellours, called the George, of such a Signe, This is said to have pertained to the Earle Ferrers, and was his London lodging in Lombard street: And that to the yeere 1175. a brother of the said Earle, being there privily slaine in the night, was there throwne down into the dirty street, as I have afore shewed in the Chapter of Night-watches.

Next is the Parish Church of S. Edmond the King and Martyr,Parish Church of S. [...] in Lombard street, by the South corner of Birchover lane.

This Church is also called. S. Edmond Grasse-Church, because the said Grassemarket came downe so low.

The Monuments in this Church, are these:

Sir Iohn Milborne, Draper, Maior, deceased, 1535. buried there by Dame Ioan and Dame Margaret his wives, under a Tombe of Touch.

Humfrey Heyford, Goldsmith, Maior, 1477.

Sir William Chester, Draper, Maior, 1560. with his wives, amongst his predecessors.

Sir George Barne, Maior, 1586.

D. Ioanni Milburno, vitrico,

D. Ioanni Chestero, patri.

D. Roberto Tempesto, genero.

Gulielmus Chesterus, [...]osuit.

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[Page] by Birchovers lane, (the one halfe of which Lane is of this VVard) and so downe, be divers faire houses; namely, one with a faire fore-front towards the street, builded by Sir Martin Bowes, Goldsmith, since Maior of London: And then one other, sometime belonging to William de la Pole, Noblemē of this Realme, of old time, as also of late yeers, have dealt in Merchandises. Knight Baronet, and yet the Kings Merchant, in the 14. of Edward the third; and after him, to Michael de la Pole, Earle of Suffolke, in the 24. of Richard the second, and was his Merchants house, and so downe toward the Stockes Market, lacking but some three houses thereof.

The South side of this VVard beginneth in the East, at the chaine to bee drawne thwart Mart lane, up into Fen-Church street, and so west, by the North end of Mincheon lane, to Saint Margaret Pattens street, or Rood lane, and downe that street, to the mid-way towards S. Margarets Church:Philpot lane. Then by Philpot lane, (so called of Sir Iohn Philpot that dwelled there, and was owner thereof) and downe that Lane, some six or eight houses on each side, is all of this VVard.

Then by Grasse-Church corner, into Lombard-street, S Clements lane. to S. Clements lane, and downe the same to S. Clements Church: then downe Saint Nicholas lane, and downe the same to S. Nicholas Church, and the same Church is of this VVard.

Then to Abchurch lane, and downe some small portion thereof: then downe Sherborne lane, a part thereof, and a part of Beare-binder lane, be of this VVard: and then downe Lombard street to the signe of the Angell, almost to the corner over against the Stockes Market.

On the South side of this VVard, somewhat within Mart lane, have yee the Parish Church of Alhallowes, Parish Church of Alhallowes Stane Church. commonly called Stane-Church, (as may be supposed) for a difference from other Churches of that name in this Citie, which (of old time) were builded of timber, and since were builded of stone. In this Church have beene divers faire Monuments of the dead; namely,

Iohn Costin, Of late it is fixed there in better manner than ever it was before. Girdler, a great benefactor: he deceased 1244. his name remaineth painted in the Church roofe: if it had beene set in brasse, it would have beene fetched downe. Hee gave out of certaine Tenements to the poore of that Parish, an hundred quarters of Charcoales yeerely for ever.

Sir Iohn Test, Knight of the holy Sepulcher, and Dame Ioan his wife, about 1486.

Robert Stone.

Sir Iohn Stiward, and Dame Alice his wife.

Iohn Bostocke, Esquire.

Christopher Holt.

Sir Richard Tate, Knight, Ambassadour to King Henry the eighth, buried there, 1554. His Monument remaineth yet; the rest beeing all pulled downe, and swept out of the Church, the Church-wardens were forced to make a large account, twelve shillings that yeere for Broomes, beside the carriage away of stone and brasse, at their owne charge.

And here I am to note, that being informed of the Writhsleys to bee buried there, I have since found them and other, to be buried at Saint Giles without Creplegate, where I mind to leave them.

Our Holt (alas) hath stint his hold,

A faire Marble Tombe is the South wall of the Quire.

by Death cal'd hence in haste,

Whose Christen name being Christopher

with Christ is better plac't.

In Sawton borne of gentle race,

in London spent his dayes,

A Clerke that serv'd in Customehouse,

in credit many wayes.

So that we leese the losse

of this so deare a Friend,

Whose life well while he was here,

hath gain'd a better end.

Iohn Mun, A small Monu [...] in the [...] wall. Citizen and Mercer of London, who deceased the third day of Iune, 1615. gave towards the repairing of this Church, 100. l.

Mary Benam, lying here buried,Beneath in the lower part of the Church, [...] faire plated stone. gave 10. l. 4. s. for ever yeerely to this Parish, and the Parish of Saint Olaves in Hartstreet, which is in money truely performed every Sunday, 2. s. in each place to the poore.

By this Church somtime passed a lane called Craddockes lane, Craddocks lane. from Mart lane, winding by the North side of the said Church into Fenne-church street: the which Lane being straightned by incroachments, is now called Church-Alley.

[Page] Then is the parish Church of Saint Nicholas Acon, Parish Church of S. Nicholas Hacon. or Hacon (for so have I read it in Records) in Lombard street. Sir Iohn Bridges Draper, Maior, 1520. newly repaired this Church, and imbattled it, and was there buried.

Francis Bowyer, Grocer, one of the Sheriffes, was buried there, 1580. with other of the Bowyers.

So was Iulian, wife to Iohn Lambard, Alderman.

Here resteth in hope of a joyfull resurrection the body of Francis Bowyer, late Alderman of London, who was borne in Chichester, the Sonne of Robert Bowyer of Chichester, and Margaret his wife. He had Brethren, Robert eldest, William, Henry, and Peter: which Sonnes together with their Mother Margaret, doe rest in this Church. He married Elizabeth, daughter to William Tillesworth: with whom hee lived most lovingly and faithfully, the space of 27. yeeres: And by her had seven Sonnes and foure Daughters, of whom remained living at his death foure Sonnes, William, Robert, Francis, and John: And three Daughters, Joane, Margaret, and Elizabeth. Obiit 14. Iunii. An. Dom. 1581.

Then is there (in the high street) a proper Parish Church of Saint Mary Wolnoth, Parish Church of S. Mary VVolnoth. of the Nativity, the reason of which name I have not yet learned. This Church is lately new builded. Sir Hugh Brice, Goldsmith, Maior in the first yeere of Henry the seventh, Keeper of the Kings Exchange at London, and one of the Governours of the Kings Mint in the Tower of London, under William Lord Hastings, the fifth of Edward the fourth deceased, 1496. Hee builded in this Church a Chappell, called the Charnel, as also part of the body of the Church and of the Steeple, and gave money toward the finishing thereof, besides the stone that he had prepared; hee was buried in the body of the Church, and Guy Brice or Boys, was also buried there.

Dame Ioane, Wife to Sir VVilliam Peach.

Thomas Nocket, Draper, 1396: hee founded a Chauntry there.

Simon Eyre, 1459. hee gave the Taverne, called the Cardinals Hat in Lombard street, with a Tenement annexed on the East part of the Taverne, and a mansion behind the East Tenement, together with an Alley from Lombard street to Cornehill with the appurtenances, all which were by him new builded toward a Brotherhood of our Lady in Saint Mary Wolnoths Church.

Iohn Mo [...]ger, Pewterer, and Emme his wife in S. Iohns Chappell.

Sir Iohn Percivall, Merchant-Taylor, Maior, about 1504.

Thomas Roch, and Andrew Michael, Vintners, and Ioane the Wife of them both.

William Hilton, Merchant-Taylor, and Taylor to King Henry the eighth, was buried there, 1519. under the Chappel of Saint George, which Chappell was builded by George Lufken, sometime Taylor to the Prince.

Robert Amades, Goldsmith, Master of the Kings Jewels.

Sir Martin Bowes, Langborne Ward discharged of Fifteenes. Maior, buried about 1569. he gave Lands for the discharge of that Langborne Ward, of all Fifteenes to bee granted to the King by Parliament.

George Hasken.

Sir Thomas Ramsey, late Maior, &c.

Sir Iohn Percivall, A faire Tombe in the Chancell. Knight, sometime Lord Maior of this City, and Dame Thomasine his Wife, worthy Benefactors to this parish, lye both here buried, &c.

The severall wils made by them both in ancient writing, are (to the parishes great commendation) very carefully kept and preserved in this Church, in a goodly enclosure made for the purpose and to bee turned open like folding Tables: I have not seene the like in any other Church.

Moreover I read (concerning this man) that hee was one of the Maior of Londons Officers,An observation out of Richard Grafton. and was the Carver at the Maiors Table. And when the Maior (as the custome of London is) doth elect one of the Sheriffes of London for the yeere ensuing, by taking and drinking a cup of Wine to such a man as he pleaseth to name: The Maior at that time (whose name was Sir Henry Collet, Knight, and free of the Mercers) tooke the cup of VVine and dranke to the [Page] aforesaid Iohn Percival, Iohn Percivall, Carver to the Lord Maior or chosen Sheriffe of London. his Carver, standing bare-headed waiting before him, and called him Sheriffe of Lond. for the yeere ensuing: forthwith the said Maior caused the same Percivall to sit downe at his owne Table, and to cover his head. And the same Percivall tooke upon him the office of Sherivalty, and afterward was Lord Maior of London, and made knight. Register of Maiors.

Here lyeth buried the body of Sir Martin Bowes, A goodly Marble close Tombe under the Communion Table. Knight, Alderman and Lord Maior of London, and also free of the Goldsmiths Company: with Cicilie, Dame Anne and Dame Elizabeth, his wives. The which Sir Martin Bowes deceased the 4. day of August, An. Dom. 1566.

His will also is there kept in a faire Table.

Here lyeth interred the body of Sir Thomas Ramsey, A very goodly Monument in the East end of the Chancell. Knight, a most worthy Citizen, and lately Lord Maior of London, being free of the Grovers Company, with whom (by will) he hath left a perpetuall reliefe for poore yong men, Retaylours of the said Company, which he saw performed in his lifetime. He was a most carefull Magistrate, walked in the feare of God, and loved peace. Hee lived 79. yeeres, and dyed (without issue) in the faith of Iesus Christ, the 19. day of May, Anno Dom. 1590. Whose godly end was a true testimony of his vertuous life.

Here lyeth buried also Dame Alice, the first wife of the said Sir Thomas Ramsey, she being eldest daughter to Bevis Lea of Enfield in the County of Stafford, Gent. Vnto whom hee was married 37. yeeres: and having lived 85. yeeres, she departed this life the 18. day of Ianuary, An. Dom. 1577.

Dame Mary, the second wife to the said Sir Thomas Ramsey, was eldest daughter to William Dale of Bristoll, Merchant, unto whom he was married 12. yeeres. In regard therefore of so worthy a Knight, and his two vertuous Ladies: This Monument is heere placed, by the Executors to the said Sir Thomas Ramsey, the 18. day of November, Anno Dom. 1596.

Thus have yee seven Parish Churches in this Ward; one Hall of a Company; divers faire houses for Merchants; and other Monuments none. It hath an Alderman, his Deputy; Common-Counsellors, 8. Constables, 15. Scavengers, 9. Men of the Wardmote inquest, 17. and a Beadle. It is taxed to the Fifteene, in the Exchequer, at 20. l. 9. s. 8. d.

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BELINSGATE VVARD.

BElinsgate Ward beginneth at the West end of Tower-street Ward in Thames street,Belinsgate Ward. about Smarts Key, & runneth downe along that street, on the South side, to Saint Magnus Church at the Bridge foot, and on the North side of the said Thames street, from over against Smarts Key, till over against the North-west corner of Saint Magnus Church aforesaid.

On this North side of Thames street is S. Mary Hill lane, up to Saint Margarets Church, and then part of S. Margaret Pattens street, at the end of Saint Mary Hill Lane. Next out of Thames street is Lucas lane, and then Buttolph lane, and at the North end thereof Philpot lane: Then is there Rother lane, of old time so called, and thwart the same lane is Little Eastcheape: And these bee the bounds of Belinsgate Ward.

Touching the principall Ornaments within this Ward: On the South side of Thames street, beginning at the East end thereof,Smarts Key there is first the said Smarts Key, so called, of one Smart, sometime owner thereof.

The next is Belinsgate, Belinsgate. whereof the whole Ward taketh name, the which (leaving out of the fable thereof, faining it to be builded by King Belinus, a Britaine, long before the incarnation of Christ) is at this present a large Watergate, Port or Harborough for Ships and Boats, commonly arriving there with Fish, both fresh and salt, Shell-fishes, Salt, Oranges, Onions, and other Fruits and Roots; Wheat, Rie, and Graine of divers sorts for service of the Citie, and the parts of this Realme adjoyning.

This Gate is now more frequented than of old time, when the Queenes Hith was used, as being appointed by the Kings of this Realme, to be the speciall or onely Port for taking up of all such kind of Merchandises, brought to this Citie by strangers and Forrainers; because the Draw-bridge of timber at London Bridge, was then to bee raised, and drawne up for passage of Ships with tops thither.

Touching the ancient customes of Belinsgate; Customes of Belinsgate. in the Reigne of Edward the third, every great Ship landing there, paid for standage, two pence; every little Ship with Orelockes, a penny; the lesser Boat, called a Battle, a halfe-penny. Of two quarters of Corne measured, the King was to have one farthing; of a Combe of Corne, a penny; of every weight going out of the Citie, a halfe-penny; of two quarters of Sea-coales measured, a farthing; and of every Tun of Ale going out of England beyond the Seas, by the Merchants stranger, 4. pence; of every thousand Herring, a farthing, except the Franchises, &c.

Next to this is Sommers Key, Sommer Key, which likewise tooke that name of one Sommer dwelling there,Lion Key. as did Lion Key of one Lion, owner thereof, and since of the signe of the Lion.

Then is there a faire Wharfe or Key,Buttolph VVharfe. called Buttolphs-gate, by that name so called in the time of William the Conquerour, and of Edward the Confessor, as I have shewed already in the description of the Gates.

Next is the Parish Church of Saint Buttolph, Parish Church of S. Buttolph. a proper Church, and hath had many faire Monuments therein, now defaced and gone: notwithstanding, I finde by testimonies abroad, that these were buried there, to wit:

[Page] Roger Cogger, 1348.

Andrew Pikeman, and Ioane his wife, 1391.

Nicholas Iames, Ironmonger, one of the Sheriffes, 1423.

William Rainwell, Fishmonger, and Iohn Rainwell his sonne, Fishmonger, Maior, 1426. and deceasing, 1445. buried there, with this Epitaph:

Citizens of London,

Iohn Rainwell His Epitaph.

call you to remembrance

The famous Iohn Rainwell,

sometime your Maior,

Of the Staple of Callis,

so was his chance.

Here lyeth now his corps,

his soule bright and faire,

Is taken to heavens blisse,

thereof is no despaire.

His acts beare witnesse,

by matters of accord,

How charitable he was,

and of what record:

No man hath beene

so beneficiall as he,

Vnto the Citie

in giving liberally, &c.

He gave a stone house to be a Revestry to that Church for ever:Belinsgate Ward, Downegate Word, and Ealdgate VVard discharged of all Fifteens. More, hee gave Lands and Tenements to the use of the Communalty, that the Maior and Chamberlaine should satisfie, unto the discharge of all persons, inhabiting within the Wards of Belinsgate, Downegate, and Ealdgate, as oft as it shall happen any Fifteene, by Parliament of the King to be granted. Also to the Exchequer, in discharge of the Sheriffes, ten pounds yeerely, which the Sheriffes used to pay for the Farme of Southwarke, so that all men of the Realme, comming or passing with carriage, should be free quitted and discharged of all Toll and other payments, aforetime claimed by the Sheriffes.

Further, that the Maior and Chamberlaine shall pay yeerely to the Sheriffes eight pounds, so that the Sheriffes take no manner Toll or money of any person of this Realme, for their Goods, Merchandises, Victuals and Carriages, for their passages at the great Gate of the Bridge of the Citie, nor at the Gate called the Draw-Bridge, &c.

The over-plus of money comming of the said Lands and Tenements, divided into even portions, the one part to bee employed to instore the Grainaries of the Citie with Wheat, for the reliefe of the poore Communalty; and the other moity to cleere and cleanse the shelves, and other stoppages of the River of Thames, &c.

Stephen Forster, Fishmonger, Maior in the yeere 1454. and Dame Agnes his wife, lye buried there.

William Bacon, Haberdasher, one of the Sheriffes, 1480. was there buried; besides many other persons of good worship, whose Monuments are all destroyed by badde and greedy men of spoile.

This Parish of S. Buttolph is no great thing;The nu [...] ber of stranger lately to created in this [...]. notwithstanding divers Strangers are there harboured, as may appeare by a presentment, not many yeers since made, of Strangers inhabitants in the Ward of Belinsgate, in these words:

In Belinsgate Ward were one and fiftie housholds of Strangers; whereof thirty of these House-holders inhabited in the Parish of Saint Buttolph, in the chiefe and principal houses, where they give 20 pounds a yere for an house lately letten for foure Markes. The neerer they dwell to the water side, the more they give for houses, and within thirty yeeres before, there was not in the whole Ward above three Netherlanders, at which time, there was within the said Parish levied for the helpe of the poore, seven and twenty pounds by the yeere; but since they came so plentifully thither, there cannot be gathered aboue eleven pounds: for the Stranger will not contribute to such charges as other Citizens doe.

Thus much for that South side of this Ward.

On the North side is Bosse Alley, Bosse Alley and the Bosse of Belinsgate. so called of a Bosse of Spring water continually running, which standeth by Belinsgate, against this Alley, and was sometimes made by the Executors of Richard Whittington.

Then is S. Mary Hill lane,S. Mary Hill lane. which runneth up North from Belinsgate, to the end of S. Margaret Pattens, commonly called Rood lane, and the greatest halfe of that lane is also of Belinsgate Ward. [Page] In this S. Mary Hill lane, is the faire Parish Church of S. Mary, called, on the Hill, because of the ascent from Belinsgate.

This Church hath beene lately builded, as may appeare by this that followeth.

Richard Hackney, one of the Sheriffes in the yeere 1322. and Alice his wife, were there buried; as Robert Fabian writeth, saying thus:

In the yeere 1497. in the moneth of April,Alice Hackney found uncorrupted, more than 150. yeers after she was buried. as labourers digged for the foundation of a wall, within the Church of Saint Mary Hill, neere unto Belinsgate, they found a Coffin of rotten timber, and therein the Corps of a woman, whole of skinne, and of bones undissevered, and the ioynts of her armes plyable, without breaking of the skin, upon whose Sepulcher this was engraven:

Here lye the bodies of Richard Hackney, Fishmonger; and Alice his wife: The which Richard was Sheriffe in the 15. of Edward the second.

Her body was kept above ground 3. or foure dayes, without noyance; but then it waxed unsavourie, and was againe buried.

Iohn Mordant, Stock-fishmonger, was buried there, 1387.

Nicholas Exton, Fishmonger, Maior, 1387.

William Cambridge, Maior, 1420.

Richard Goslin, Sheriffe, 1422.

William Philip, Sergeant at Armes, 1473.

Robert Revell, one of the Sheriffes, 1490. gave liberally toward the new building of this Church and steeple, and was there buried.

William Remington, Maior, 1500.

Sir Thomas Blanke, Maior, 1582.

William Holstocke, Esquire, Controller of the Kings Ships.

Sir Cuthbert Buckle, Maior, 1594.

Here lyeth a Knight in London borne,

A faire Tombe in the east end of the Chancell.

Sir Thomas Blanke by name,

Of honest birth, of Merchants trade,

A man of worthy fame.

Religious was his life to God,

To men his dealing iust:

The poore and Hospitals can tell

That wealth was not his trust.

With gentle heart, and spirit milde,

And nature full of pitie,

Both Sheriffe, Lord Maior and Alderman;

He ruled in this Citie.

The Good Knight was his common name,

So cal'd of many men:

He lived long, and dyed of yeeres,

Twice seven, and six times ten.

Obiit 28. Octob. An. Dom. 1588.

An Epitaph upon the death of Dame Margaret Blancke, who departed this life the second of February, An. Dom. 1596.

DEath was deceiv'd,

On the other side of the Tombe, southward▪

which thought these two to part:

For though this Knight

first left this mortall life,

Yet till she dyed,

he still liv'd in her heart.

What happier husband,

or more kinder wife?

Whom foure and forty

changes of the Spring,

In sacred wedlocke,

mutuall love had linkt:

The deare remembrance

of so deare a thing,

Was not by death

in her chaste breast extinct.

Building this Tombe

not long before she dy'd,

Her latest duty

to his Funerall Rite,

Crown'd with her vertues,

like an honest Bride,

Here lyes at rest

by her beloved Knight.

Though worthy Blancke

her name it still endures,

Yet, Traves, boast,

her birth was onely yours.

Beati qui moriuntur in Domino.

Here lye intombed the bodies of Sir Robert Hampson, A very faire Monumēt in the South wall of the Quire. Knight, and Alderman of London; who deceased the 2. day of May, 1607. in the 50. yeere of his age: And of Dame Katharine his wife, at whose charge this Monument is erected. They had issue, nine children, whereof foure are living. The said Dame Katharine deceased, &c.

[Page] This Lane on both sides is furnished with many faire houses for Merchants, and hath at the North end thereof one other Lane,S. Margaret Pattens lane. called S. Margaret Pattens, because of old time Pattens were usually there made and sold: but of latter time this is called Roode lane, of a Rood there placed, in the Churchyard of S. Margaret, Parish Church of S. Margaret Pattens. whilest the old Church was taken downe, and againe new builded; during which time, the oblations made to this Rood, were imployed towards building of the Church. But in the yeer 1538. about the 23. of May in the morning, the said Roode was found to have beene in the night preceding (by people unknowne) broken all to pieces, together with the Tabernacle, wherein it had beene placed.

Also on the 27. of the same moneth, in the same Parish, amongst the Basket-makers, Fire in Reod lane. a great and sudden fire happned in the night season, which within the space of three houres, consumed more than a dozen houses, and nine persons were brent to death there. And thus ceased that worke of this Church, being at that time nigh finished to the steeple.

The Monuments that I finde in this Parish Church, are these following:

Here lyeth buried Mr. Reginald West, In the midst of the Chancell, under the Communion Table a faire plated stone. Batchelor in divinity, and late Parson of this Parish, who deceased the second day of October, Anno Domini, 1563. for whose sincere, pure and godly Doctrine, as also his vertuous end, the Lord be praised for evermore.

Here-under lyeth buried Thomas Gelson, The like stone, and neere to the other. Citizen and Grocer of London, who deceased the 16. day of September, Anno Dom. 1563. And in the same Church also lyeth buried Jane his wife: for whose vertuous lives and godly departing, God be praised for ever.

Here lyeth buried the body of Richard Glover, A very faire stone well plated by the other twaine. Citizen and Pewterer of London, who was twice Master of his Companie, and one of the Common Councell of this Citie: Having two wives, Elizabeth, and Mary; and had issue by his first wife, three sonnes; and by his second, hee had eight sonnes and foure daughters. He deceased the 16. day of August, An. Dom. 1615. being aged 59. yeeres.

The Lane, on both sides beyond the same Church, to the mid-way towards Fen-church street, is of Belinsgate Ward.

Then againe, out of Thames street, by the West end of S. Mary Hill Church, runneth up one other Lane, of old time called Rope Lane, Rope lane Lucas. since called Lucas lane, of one Lucas, owner of some part thereof, and now corruptly called Love lane; it runneth up by the East end of Saint Andrew Hubbert, Parish Church [...] S. Andrew Hubbert. or S. Andrew in Eastcheape. This Church, and all the whole Lane called Lucas Lane, is of this Belinsgate Ward.

Then have ye one other Lane out of Thames street, called Buttolph lane, because it riseth over against the Parish Church of S. Buttolph, and runneth up North by the East end of Saint Georges Church, to the West end of S. Andrews Church, and to the South end of Philpot lane.

This Parish Church of S. George in Buttolph lane, Parish Church S. George Buttolph lane. is small, but the Monuments (for two hundred yeeres past) are well preserved from spoile.

Whereof one is of Adam Bamme, Maior, 1397.

Richard Bamme, Esquire his sonne, of Gillingham in Kent, 1452.

Iohn Walton, Gentleman, 1401.

Marpor, a Gentleman, 1400.

Iohn Saint-Iohn, Merchant of Levant, and Agnes his wife, 1400.

Hugh Spencer, Esquire, 1424.

William Combes, Stocke-fishmonger, one of the Sheriffes, 1452. who gave forty pounds towards the Workes of that Church.

Iohn Stocker, Draper, one of the Sheriffes, 1477.

Richard Dryland, Esquire, and Katharine his wife, daughter to Morrice Brune, Knight of Southukenton in Essex, Steward of the houshold to Humphrey Duke of Glocester, 1487.

Nicholas Partrich, one of the Sheriffs 1519. in the Churchyard.

William Forman, Maior, 1538.

Iames Mountford, Esquire, Surgeon to King Henry the eighth, buried, 1544.

Thomas Gayle, Haberdasher, 1340.

Nicholas Wilford, Merchant-Taylor, and Elizabeth his wife, about the yeere 1551.

Edward Heyward, 1573. &c.

[Page] Roger Delakere, founded a Chauntrie there.

Then have ye one other Lane,Rother lane, or Red-Rose lane. called Rother lane, or Red Rose lane, of such a signe there; now commonly called Pudding lane, because the Butchers of East-Cheape have their Scalding-house for Hogs there, and their Puddings, with other filth of Beasts, are voided downe that way to their dung-boats on the Thames.

This Lane stretcheth from Thames street to little East-cheape, chiefely inhabited by Basket-makers, Turners, and Butchers, and is all of Belinsgate Ward.

The Garland in Little East-cheape, sometime a Brewhouse, with a Garden on the backe-side, adjoyning to the Garden of Sir Iohn Philpot, was the chiefe House in this East-cheape: It is now divided into sundry small Tenements, &c.

This Ward hath an Alderman and his Deputie; Common Counsellors, 7. Constables, eleven; Scavengers, sixe; for the Ward-more Inquest, foureteen, and a Beadle, it is taxed to the Fifteene in London, at two and thirty pounds; and in the Exchequer, at one and thirty pounds, tenne shillings.

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BRIDGE VVARD VVithin.

BRidge Ward within,Bridge Ward within. so called of London Bridge; which Bridge is a principall part of that Ward, and beginneth at the stu [...]ps on the south end by Southwarke, runneth along the Bridge, and North up Bridge-street, commonly called (of the Fish-market) New Fish-street: from Fish street hill, up Grasse-street, to the North corner of Grasse-church. All the Bridge is replenished on both the sides, with large, faire and beautifull buildings, inhabitants for the most part rich Merchants, and other wealthy Citizens, Mercers and Haberdashers.

In New Fish-street bee Fishmongers and faire Tavernes: on Fish-street Hill and Grasse-street, men of divers Trades, Grocers and Haberdashers.

In Grasse-street have ye one faire Conduit of sweet water,VVater Conduit in Grasse-street. castellated with crest and vent, made by the appointment of Thomas Hill, Maior, 1484. who gave by his Testament a hundred marks towards the conveyance of water to this place. It was begun by his Executors, in the yeere 1491. and finished of his goods whatsoever it cost.

On the East side of this Bridge ward, have ye the faire Parish Church of S. Magnus, Parish Church of S. Magnus. in the which Church have bin buried many men of good Worship, whose Monuments are now for the most part defaced. I finde,

Iohn Blund, Maior, 1307.

Henry Yeuele, Free Mason to Edward the third, Richard the second, and Henry the fourth, who deceased 1400. his Monument yet remaineth.

William Brampton.

Iohn Michell, Maior, 1436.

Iohn French, Baker, Yeoman of the Crowne to Henry the seventh, 1510.

Robert Clarke, Fishmonger, 1521.

Richard Turke, one of the Sheriffes, 1546.

William Steed, Alderman.

Richard Morgan, Knight, chiefe Justice of the Common P [...]eas, 1556.

Mauricius Griffith, Bishop of Rochechester, 1559.

Robert Blanch, Girdler, 1567.

Robert Belgrave Girdler.

VVilliam Brame.

Iohn Cooper, Fishmonger, Alderman, who was put by his turne of Maioralty, 1584.

Sir VVilliam Garrard, This Monument [...] lately reedified, [...] new fenced by Sir Iohn [...], his sonne, & L. Maior 1602. Haberdasher, Maior 1555. a grave, sober, wise and discreet Citizen, equall with the best, and inferior to none of our time, deceased 1571. in the Parish of Saint Christopher, but was buried in this Church of Saint Magnus, as in the Parish where he was borne. A faire Monument is here raised on him.

Robert Harding, Salter, one of the Sheriffes, 1568.

Simon Low, Merchant-Taylor, Equire, &c.

Then is the Parish Church of Saint Margarets on Fish-street Hill, a proper Church; but Monuments it hath none; onely one of no [...]e, and well worth the observation, being unknowne, and nor [...]ound till very lately; whereof Master VVood (the reverend Parson of the Church, made mee acquainted by his [Page] Clerke, to have me come see it; which I did very thankfully. Finding it to bee the figure of a man of good respect, lying upon his Tombe, according to the manner of persons of Antiquity. And this inscription he delivered me, written with his owne hand:

Joannes de Coggeshall, Civis & Cordarius de Parochiae S. Margaretae de Bridgestreet, London. Anno 1384.

An. Reg. Richardi Secundi, Octavo.

Testamentum irrotulat. in Hustingo London, die Lunae in Festo S. Leonai di Abbatis. An. Reg. Richardi Secundi, 9.

He lyeth buried in the said Church wall, under the Marble stone in the Window, next to S. Peters Altar on the North side of the Church.

A foot-way passeth by the South side of this Church, from Fish-street hill into Rother-lane.

Vp higher on this Hill, is the Parish Church of Saint Leonard Milke-Church, Parish Church of S. Leonards Milke-Church so termed of one VVilliam Melker, an especiall builder thereof, but commonly called Saint Leonards East-cheape, because it standeth at East-cheape corner.

Monuments there be of the Doggets, namely;

VValter Dogget, Vintner, one of the Sheriffes, 1380.

Iohn Dogget, Vintner, and Alice his wife, about 1456.

This Iohn Dogget gave Lands to that Church.

VVilliam Dogget, &c. And none else of note.

This Church, and from thence into Little East-cheape, to the East end of the said Church, is of the Bridge Ward.

Then higher in Grasse-street, Grasse-Church of S. Bennet Grasse-church. is the Parish Church of Saint Bennet, called Grasse-Church, of the Herbe Market there kept: this Church also is of the Bridge Ward, and the farthest North end thereof. Some Monuments remaine there undefaced:

As of Iohn Harding, Salter, 1576.

Iohn Sturgeon, Haberdasher, Chamberlaine of London.

Philip Cushen, or Corsine, a Florentine, and a famous Merchant, 1600.

The Customes of Grasse-church Market, in the reigne of Edward the third, as I have read in a Booke of Customes,Customes of Grasse-street Market. were these: Every forraigne Cart, laden with Corne, or Mault, comming thither to be sold, was to pay one halfepenny. Every forraigne Cart bringing Cheese, two pence. Every Cart of Corn and Cheese together (if the Cheese be more worth than the Corne) two pence; and if the Corne be more worth than the Cheese, it was to pay a halfe-penny. Of two horses laden with Corne or Mault, the Bailiffe had one farthing: the Cart of the Franchise of the Temple, and of S. Mary le Grand, paid a farthing: the Cart of the Hospitall of S. Iohn of Ierusalem, paid nothing of their proper goods: and if the corne were brought by Merchants to sell againe, the loade paid a halfe-penny, &c.

On the West side of this Ward, at the North end of London Bridge,Thames street. is a part of Thames street, which is also of this Ward; to wit, so much as of old time was called Stock-fishmonger Row, Stockfishmongers Row. of the Stock-fish-mongers dwelling there, downe West to a Water gate, of old time called Ebgate, Ebgate lane since Ebgate lane, and now the Old Swan, which is a common staire on the Thames, but the passage is very narrow, by meanes of encrochments.

On the South side of Thames street, about the mid-way betwixt the Bridge foot and Ebgate lane, Fishmongers Hall. standeth the Fishmongers Hall, and divers other faire houses for Merchants.

These Fishmongers were sometimes of two severall Companies, to wit Stockfishmongers, Antiquities of the Fishmongers, 1290 and Salt-fishmongers, of whose antiquity I reade, that by the name of Fishmongers of London, they were for forestalling, &c. contrary to the Lawes and constitutions of the Citie, fined to the King at 500. Markes, the 18. of King Edward the first. More, that the said Fishmongers,A triumphant shew made by the Fishmongers for the victory of the King▪ hearing of the great victory obtained by the same King against the Scots, in the 26. of his reigne, made a triumphant and solemne shew thorow the Citie, with divers Pageants, and more than 1000. horsemen, &c. as in the Chapter of Sports and Pastimes. These two Companies of Stocke-fishmongers and Salt-fishmongers, of old time had their severall Halls, to wit, in Thames street twaine, [Page] in New Fish-street twaine, and in Old Fish-street twaine:Fishmongers had 6. Hals in London. in each place one for either Company; in all six severall Hals, the Company was so great, as I have read, and can prove by Records.

These Fishmongers have beene jolly Citizens,Fishmongers, 6. of them Maiors in 24. yeeres. and sixe Maiors of their Company in 24. yeeres; to wit, Walter Turke, 1350. Iohn Lofkin, 1359. Iohn Wroth, 1361. Iohn Pechie, 1362. Simon Morden, 1369. and William Walworth, 1374. It followed, that in the yeere 1382. through the counsel of Ioh. Northhampton, Draper, then being Maior, William Issex, Iohn More, Mercer, and Richard Northbury, Fishmongers for their greetings envied of the other companies. the said Fishmongers were greatly troubled, hindred of their liberties, and almost destroyed, by congregations made against them: So that in a Parliament at London, the controversie depending betweene the Maior and Aldermen of London, and the Fishmongers there,Nicholas Exton for the Fishmongers craved the Kings protection. Nic. Exton, Speaker for the Fishmongers, prayeth the King to receive him and his Company into his protection, for feare of corporall hurt. Whereupon it was commanded, either part to keepe the peace, upon paine of losing all they had. Hereupon a Fishmonger starting up, replyed, that the complaint brought against them by the moovers, &c. was but matter of malice; for that the Fishmongers, in the reigne of Edward the third, being chiefe Officers of the City,Fishmongers by Parliamēt restored to their liberties. had for their misdemeanors then done, committed the chiefe exhibitors of those petitions to prison. In this Parliament, the Fishmongers (by the Kings Charter patents) were restored to their Liberties. Notwithstanding, in the yeere next following, to wit, 1383. Iohn Cavendish, Fishmonger, craveth the peace against the Chancellour of England, Iohn Cavendish craved the peace againg the Chancellor, challenged him of taking a bribe. which was granted, and hee put in sureties, the Earles of Stafford and Salisbury. Cavendish challengeth the Chancellour for taking a bribe of 10. l. for favour of his Case: which the Chancellour by oath upon the Sacrament avoideth. In further triall, it was found, that the Chancellours man (without his Masters privitie) had taken it. Whereupon Cavendish was adjudged to prison, and to pay the Chancellour 1000. Markes for slandering him.

After this, many of the Nobles assembled at Reding, to suppresse the seditious stirres of the said Iohn Northampton, or Combarton, late Maior, that had attempted great and heinous enterprizes, of the which he was convict; and when he stood mute, nor would utter one word, it was decreed, that he should be committed to perpetuall prison, his goods confiscate to the Kings use, and that he should not come within 100. miles of London during his life. He was therfore sent to the Castle of Tintegall, Principal adversaries to the Fishemongers condemnted to perpetuall prison. in the confines of Cornewall, and in the meane space the Kings servants spoiled his goods. Iohn More, Richard Northbury, and other, were likewise there convict, and condemned to perpetuall prison, and their goods confiscate, for certaine congregations by them made against the Fishmongers in the Citie of London, Paten [...] as is aforesaid; but they obtained and had the Kings pardon, in the 14. of his reigne, as appeareth of Record: and thus were all these troubles quieted.

Those Stock-fishmongers and Saltfishmongers were united in the yeere 1536. the 28. of Henry the 8. their Hall to bee but one,Stock-fishmongers and Salt-fishmongers united. in the house given unto them by Sir Iohn Cornwall, Lord Fanhope, and of Ampthull, Sir Ioh. Cornwall created Baron [...] the 6. of Edw. 6. in the Parish of Saint Michael in Crooked-lane, in the reigne of Henry the sixth.

Thus much have I thought good to note of the Fishmongers, men ignorant of their Antiquities, and not able to shew a reason why, or when they were joyned in amity with the Goldsmithes,Fishmongers joyned in amity with the Goldsmiths. doe give part of their Armes, &c. Neither to say ought of Sir William Walworth (the glory of their Company) more than that he slew Iack Straw, which is a meer fable:VV. VValworth slandred by a fable of Iack Straw, T. VVal [...] H. Knight [...] Lib. Eb [...]. for the said Straw was after the overthrow of the Rebels, taken, and by judgement of the Maior beheaded; whose confession at the Gallowes is extant in my Annales, where also is set downe the most valiant and praise-worthy act of Sir William Walworth, against the principall Rebell, Wat Tylar: as in reproofe of VValworth Monument in S. Michaels Church, I have declared, and wished to be reformed there, as in other places.

On that South side of Thames street, Drink water VVharfe. have yee Drinke-water VVharfe, and [Page] Fish Wharfe,Fish wharfe in the Parish of S. Magnus. On the North side of Thames street is S. Martins lane, a part of which lane is also of this Ward; to wit, on the one side to a Well of water, and on the other side, as farre up as against the said Well. Then is S. Michaels Lane, part whereof is also of this Ward, up to a Well there, &c.

Then at the upper end of New-Fish-street, Crooked lane. is a Lane turning towards Saint Michaels Lane, and is called Crooked-lane, of the crooked windings thereof. Above this Lanes end, upon Fish-street Hill, is one great house, for the most part builded of stone, which pertained sometime to Edward the blacke Prince, sonne to Edward the third,Edward the blacke Prince. who was in his life time lodged there.

It is now altered to a common Hosterie, having the Blacke Bell for a signe. Above this house, at the top of Fish-street Hill, is a turning into Great East-cheape, and so to the corner of Lombard street, over against the North-west corner of Grasse-Church. And these be the whole bounds of this Bridge Ward within: The which hath an Alderman and his Deputy; for the Common-Counsell, 16. Constable, 15. Scavengers, 6. for the Ward-more Inquest, sixteene, and a Beadle. It is is taxed to the Fifteene in London, at forty seven pounds.

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CANDLEWICKE STREET VVARD.

CAndlewicke street, Candlewick street, or Candle-wrightstreet Ward. or Candlewright street VVard, beginneth at the East end of Great East-Cheape, it passeth West thorow East-Cheape to Candlewright street, and thorow the same downe to the North end of Suffolke lane, on the South side, and downe that Lane, by the west end of S. Laurence Church-yard, which is the farthese West part of that Ward. The street of Great East-Cheape, Great East-cheape. is so called of the Market there kept in the East part of the Citie, as West-Cheap is a Market so called, being in the West.

This East-Cheape is now a flesh-Market of Butchers,East-cheape a Cookes row. there dwelling on both sides of the street; it had sometime also Cookes mixed amongst the Butchers, and such other as sold victuals ready dressed of all sorts. For of old time, when friends did meet, and were disposed to be merry, they went not to dine and sup in Taverns, but to the Cookes, where they called for meat what them liked, which they alwayes found ready dressed, and at a reasonable rate, as I have before shewed.

In the yeere 1410. the 11. of Henry the fourth,The kings sons beaten in East Cheape. upon the Even of Saint Iohn Baptist, the Kings sonnes, Thomas and Iohn, There was no Tavern then in East-cheape▪ being in East-Cheape at Supper, (or rather at breakefast; for it was after the Watch was broken up, betwixt two and three of the clocke after midnight) a great debate hapned betweene their men, and other of the Court, which lasted one houre, till the Maior and Sheriffes with other Citizens appeased the same: for the which afterwards, the said Maior, Aldermen and Sheriffes, were called to answer before the King; his sonnes and divers Lords being highly moved against the Citie. At which time, William Gascoigne, Chiefe Iustice, required the Maior and Aldermen, for the Citizens, to put them in the Kings grace: whereunto they answered, that they had not offended, but (according to the Law) had done their best in stinting debate, and maintaining of the peace: upon which answer the King remitted all his ire, and dismissed them.

And to prove this East-Cheape to be a place replenished with Cookes, it may appeare by a Song, called London lickepenny, made by Lidgate a Monk of Bury, in the reigne of Henry the fifth, in the person of a Countrey-man comming to London, and travelling thorow the same.In West-Cheap linnen cloth sold, but no silkes spoken [...] In West-Cheape (saith the Song) hee was called on to buy fine Lawne, Paris thread, Cotton Vmble, and other linnen clothes, and such like: (he speaketh of no silkes) In Cornehill, to buy old apparell, and household-stuffe, where he was forced to buy his owne Hood, Fripparia Vpholders upon Conhill, sellers of old apprrell and houshold-stuffe. which he had lost in Westminster Hall: In Candlewright street, Drapers profered him cheape Cloth: In East-Cheape, the Cookes cryed hot Ribs of Beefe rosted, Pies well baked, and other victuals: There was clattering of Pewter pots,East-cheape. Harpe, Pipe and Sawtrie; yea by cocke, nay by cocke, for greater oathes were spared: some sang of Ienkin and Iulian, &c. all which melodie liked well the passenger, but he wanted money to abide by it, and therefore gat him into Gravesend Barge, and home into Kent.

[Page] Candlewright (so called in old Records of the Guild-hall of Saint Mary Overies, Candle-wright or Candlewick street is a working place. and other) or Candlewicke street; tooke that name (as may be supposed) either of Chandlers, or makers of Candles, both of Wax and Tallow: for Candlewright is a maker of Candles; or of weeke, which is the Cotten or Yarne thereof: or otherwise Wike, which is the place where they used to worke them; as Scalding-wike by the Stockes Market, was called of the Poulters dressing and scalding their Poultrie there. And in divers Countries, Dayrie-houses, or Cottages wherein they make Butter and Cheese, are usually called Wickes. There dwelled also of old time, divers Weavers of woollen Clothes,VVeavers in Candlewick street. brought in by Edward the third. For I read that in the 44. of his reigne, the Weavers brought out of Flanders, Weavers brought out of Flanders & Brabant. were appointed their meetings to be in the Churchyard of S. Laurence Poultney, and the Weavers or Brabant in the Churchyard of S. Mary Sommerset. There were then in this Citie, Weavers of divers sorts, to wit, of Drapery or Tapery, and Napery. These Weavers of Candlewicke street, being in short time worne out, their place is now possessed by rich Drapers, sellers of wollen cloath, &c.

On the North side of this Ward, at the West end of East-cheape, have ye S. Clements lane, S. Clements lane. a part whereof (on both sides, is of Candlewicke street Ward; to wit, somewhat North, beyond the Parish Church of S. Clement in East-cheap. Parish Church of S. Clement in East-cheape. This is a small Church, void of Monuments, other than of,

Francis Barnam, Alderman, who deceased 1575. and of Benedict Barnam his sonne, Alderman also 1598.

William Chartney and William Overie founded a Chauntery there.

Francisci Barneham, A faire Tombe on the North side of the Quire, made into the wall. Civis, Senatoris, Vicecomitis Londinensis: Aliciae (que) Vxoris suae, è Bradbrigeorum Familia aeternae memoriae.

Vixit Annos L X. Obiit X. Maii, 1576.

Filios genuit

Martinum.

Stephanum.

Antonium.

Benedictum.

Deo & Posteris.

Benedictus Barneham, filius junior Francisci Barneham,Another beautifull Tombe on the South side of the Quire. Senatoris, & quondam Vicecomitis London, cum iisdem honoribus, quibus Pater summa cum laude in hac Vrbe functus fuisset. Et ex Dorothea Vxorae charissima, filia Ambrosii Smith, unius è filiis Ioannis Smith, de Wocock, in Com. Leicestriae, Armigeri; Quinque filias, Elizabetham, Aliciam, Dorotheam, Bridgettam & Benedictam superstites & haeredes reliquisset: Quarii minor natu Benedicta, paulo post hunc erectum Tumulum diem obiit. Ipse quod à terra accepit, hîc terra commendavit. Quod verò è Coelo, laetus lubens (que) Christo reddidit, summumque sui desiderium omnibus bonis ob eximiam prudentiam, doctrinam, eloquentiam, & praeclara in hanc Vrbem merita reliquit.

Vixit Annos 39. Obiit Aprilis die tertio, Anno Dom. 1598.

Next is Saint Nicholas Lane, for the most part on both sides of this Ward, almost to S. Nicholas Church.

Then is Abchurch lane, Abchurch lane. which is on both sides, almost wholly of this ward:The Parish Church of S. Mary Abchurch. the Parish Church there (called of S. Mary Abchurch, Apechurch, or Vpchurch, as I have read it) standeth somewhat neere unto the South end thereof, on a rising ground: It is a faire Church: Simon de Winchcombe founded a Chaunterie there, the 19. of Richard the second. Iohn Littleton founded another, and Thomas Hondon another: and hath the Monuments of,

I. Long, Esquire, of Bedfordshire, 1442.

William Wilkenson, Alderman, 1519.

William Iawdrell, Taylor, 1440.

Sir Iames Hawes, Maior, 1574.

Sir Iohn Branch, Maior, 1580.

Iohn Minors.

William Kettle, &c.

Joanni Branche, A comely Monumēt in the South wall of the Quire. Equiti, hujus Vrbis olim Praetori, viro bono, & prudenti, 24. Iulii, Anno Dom. 1588. Aetatis suae 73. vita functo in Sepulchro Wilkinsoni Avi Materni humato: Daniel Dun, Legum Doctor, ipsius ex Sorore Nepos posuit.

In felicem Memoriam,A faire Tombe in the wall at the East end of the Church. piae, pulchrae & pudicae feminae, Dominae Helenae Branch, filiae venerabilis Gulielmi Nicolson, olim Civis & Pennarii London:

[Page] Quondam (per quadraginta annos & eo amplius) uxoris viri dignissimi, Ioannis Minors, Civis, acetiam Pannarii Londō: Cui peperit filium unum Rogerum, & filias tres, Iosnnam, Ripinam, & Margaretam, omnes sine prole defunctos; nuper (ad annum us (que) vigessimum) uxoris venerabilissimi viri Ioannis Branch, militis Aurnati, Qnondam praeclarissimae Civitatis London H [...]rnoratissimi Majoris.

Robertus Nicolson Generosus, exfratre Nepos, utrius (que) heres, & dictae Dominae solus Executor, suis sumptibus spontaneis hoc Monumentum posuit.

Quam ter felicem, pietas, opulentia, forma Fecêre in terris, modo suffragante popello, Suff [...]agante Deo fidei, Constantia vivae, Aeternum in coelis, te nunc jubet esse beatā.

Nonagenaria obiit 10. Aprilis, Anno Salutis, 1594.

This Dame Helen Branch, Widdow to Sir Iohn Branch, Knight, Lord Maior of London, An. 1580. gave fifty pounds to be lent to two yong men of the Company of Drapers, from foure yeeres to foure yeeres for ever, 50. l. Which Lady, gave also to poore Maids marriages 10. l. And to the poore of Abchurch 10. l. To the poore Prisoners in and about London, 20. l. Besides, 26. Gownes to poore men and women, 26. l. And many other worthy Legacies to the Vniversities, &c.

On the South side of this Ward,S. Michaels lane. beginning againe at the East, is S. Michaels lane, which lane is almost wholly of this Ward, on both sides downe towards Thames street, to a Well or Pump there. On the East side of this lane is Crooked lane aforesaid,Crooked lane. by St. Michaels Church, towards New-Fishstreet. One the most ancient house in this lane,Leaden Porch in Crooked lane. is called the Leaden Porch, and belonged sometime to Sir Iohn Merston, Knight, the first of Edward the fourth: It is now called the Swanne in Crooked lane, possessed of strangers, and selling of Rhenish Wine. The Parish Church of this S. Michaels, Parish Church of S. Michael in Crooked lane. was sometime but a small and homely thing, standing upon part of that ground, wherein now standeth the Parsonage house: and the ground thereabout was a filthy plot, by reason of the Butchers in East-cheap, who made the same their Laystall.

W. de Burgo gave two Messuages to that Church in Candlewick street, 1317. Iohn Loveken Stock-fishmonger, foure times Maior, builded (in the same ground) this faire Church of S. Michael, and was there buried in the Quire, under a faire Tombe, with the Images of him and his wife in Alabaster: the said Church hath been since increased with a new Quire, and side Chappels by Sir W. Walworth, Stock-fishmonger, Maior, sometime servant to the said Iohn Loveken. Also the Tombe of Loveken was removed, and a flat stone of gray Marble, garnished with plates of Copper laid on him, as it yet remaineth in the body of the Church.

This William Walworth is reported to have slaine Iacke Strawe: Fable of VV Walworth and Iack Straw [...] reproved. but Iack Straw being afterward taken, was first adjudged by the said Maior, and then executed by the losse of his head in Smithfield. True it is,Praise of VV. VValworth for his manhood in arresting of VVat Tylar. that this William Walworth, being a man wise, learned, and of an incomparable manhood arrested VVat Tylar, a presumptuous Rebell, upon whom no man durst lay hand, whereby he delivered the King and Kingdome from most wicked tyranny of Traytors. The Maior arrested him on the head with a sound blow: whereupon Wat Tylar furiously strooke the Maior with his Dagger, The Maior was well armed, and had on his head a Basenet. but hurt him not, by reason he was well armed. The Maior having received his stroke, drew his Basiliard, and grievously wounded VVat in the necke, and withall, gave him a great blow on the head:T. Wal [...]g, H. Knight [...] Li. S. Ma [...]y Aborum. in the which conflict, an Esquire of the Kings house, called Iohn Cavendish, drew his sword, and wounded VVat twice or thrice, even to the death: and VVat spurring his horse, cryed to the Commons to revenge him: the horse bare him about 80. foot from the place, and there he fell downe halfe dead: and by and by, they which attended on the King, environed him about, so as he was not seen of his Company: many of them thrust him in, in divers places of his body, and drew him into the Hospitall of Saint Bartholemew, from whence againe the Maior caused him to be drawn into Smithfield, and there to bee beheaded. In reward [Page] of this service (the people being dispersed) the King commanded the Maior to put a Basenet on his head:Maior made Knight, and otherwise rewarded. and the Maior requesting why he should so do, the King answered, hee being much bound unto him, would make him Knight. The Maior answered, that hee was neither worthy, nor able to take such an estate upon him; for hee was but a Merchant, and had to live by his Merchandise onely. Notwithstanding, the King made him to put on his Basenet,Order of making a Knight for service in the field. and then with a sword in both his hands, he strongly strooke him on the necke, as the manner was then. And the same day he made 3. other Citizens Knights (for his sake) in the same place, to wit, Iohn Philpot, Aldermen Knighted. Nicholas Brember, and Robert Launde, Aldermen. The King gave to the Maior 100. pound land by yeere, and to each of the other 40. pound land yeerely, to them and their heires for ever.

After this,S. Michaels Crooked lane. in the same yeere, the said Sir William Walworth founded in the said Parish Church of Saint Michael, a Colledge, of a Master and nine Priests or Chaplens, and deceasing 1385. was there buried in the North Chappell by the Quire:Monumēt of Sir VV. VValworth defaced and since falsified, and so remaineth. but his Monument being (amongst other by bad people) defaced in the reigne of Edward the sixth, and againe since renued by the Fishmongers, for lacke of knowledge, whatsoever before had beene written in this Epitaph, they followed a fabulous Booke, and wrote Iacke Strawe, in stead of Wat Tylar: a great error, meet to be reformed there, and elsewhere; and therefore have I the more at large discoursed of this matter.

It hath also been, and is now growne to a common opinion, that in reward of this service done by the said VVilliam VValworth against the Rebell; that King Richard added to the Armes of this City (which was Argent, a plaine Crosse Gules) a Sword,Dunthorne. or Dagger, (for so they terme it) whereof I have read no such Record, but to the contrary. I finde, that in the fourth yeere of Richard the second, in a full assembly made in the upper Chamber of the Guildhall, summoned by this William Walworth, then Maior, as well of Aldermen, as of the Common Councell in every Ward, for certain affaires concerning the King; it was there by common consent agreed and ordained, that the old Seale of the Office of the Maioraltie of the City,Old Seale of the Maioralty broken, and a new Seale made. being very small, old, unapt, and uncomely for the honour of the City, should be broken, and one other new should bee had, Which the said Maior commanded to be made artificially, and honourable for the exercise of the said Office therafter in place of the other. In which new Seale,The Arms of this City were not altered, but remaine afore: to wit, Argent, a plaine Crosse Gules, a Sword of S. Paul in the first quarter, and no Dagger of VV. VValworth, as is fabuled. besides the Images of Peter and Paul, which of old were rudely engraven, there should bee under the feet of the said Images, a Shield of the Armes of the said City perfectly graven with two Lions supporting the same, and two Sergeants of Armes, in the other part, one, and two Tabernacles, in which, above, should stand two Angels between whom (above the said Images of Peter and Paul) should be set the glorious Virgin. This being done, the old Seale of the Office was delivered to Richard Odiham Chamberlain, who brake it, and in place thereof, was delivered the new Seale to the said Maior, to use in his Office of Maioralty, as occasion should require. This new Seale seemeth to be made before VVilliam VValworth was Knighted, for he is not there intituled Sir, as afterwards he was: and certaine it is, that the same new Seale then made, is now in use, and none other in that Office of the Maioralty. Which may suffice to answer the former Fable, without shewing of any evidence sealed with the old Seale which was the Crosse, and Sword of Saint Paul, and not the Dagger of VVilliam VValworth.

Now, of other Monuments in that Church, Simon Mordon, Maior, 1368. was buried there.

Iohn Olney, Maior, 1446.

Robert March, Stocke-fishmonger, gave two peeces of ground to bee a Church-yard.

Iohn Radwell, Stock-fishmonger, buried, 1415.

George Gowre, Esquire, sonne to Edward Gowre Stock-fishmonger, Esquire, 1470.

Alexander Purpoynt, Stock-fishmonger, 1373.

Andrew Burel, Gentleman of Grayes Inne, 1487.

[Page] Iohn Shrow, Stock-fishmonger, 1487. with this Epitaph.

Farewell, my friends,

the tide abideth no man,

I am departed hence,

and so shall yee.

But in this passage,

the best song that I can,

Is Requiem aeternam,

now Iesu grant it mee:

When I have ended

all mine adversity,

Grant me in Paradise

to have a mansion,

That shedst thy blood

for my redemption.

Iohn Finkell, one of the Sheriffs, 1487. was Knighted, and gave 40. pound to this Church, the one halfe for his Monument.

Iohn Pattesley, Maior, 1441.

Thomas Ewen, Grocer, bare halfe the charges in building of the Steeple, and was buried, 1501.

William Combes, Gent. of Stoke by Gilford in Surrey, 1502.

Sir Iohn Brudge, Maior, 1530. gave 50. pound for a house,Colledgehouse in Crookedlane. called the Colledge in Crooked lane: he lyeth buried in S. Nicholas Hacon.

Walter Faireford, Robert Barre, Alexander Heyban, Iohn Motte, Iohn Gramstone, Iohn Brampton.

Iohn Wood, Stock-fishmonger, 1531.

Sir Henry Amcots, Maior, 1548. &c.

Hic jacet Richardus Gurneyus, Civitatis London Aldermanus:A comely small Monument in the East end of the South Ile. Qui tam summis quam infimis viris gratus, charusque semper fuit, tum ob integritatem vitae ac humanitatem, tum propter curam Reipublicae singularem: vixit cum dulcissima uxore sua Anna Annos Suscepitque ex ea duodecim liberos, quorum septem superstites reliquit, cum summo omnium dolore excessit è vita quinto die Martii, Anno Domini 1596. Aetatis suae LXXII.

Hic etiam uxor ejus Anna jacet, quae post viri obitum Annos tres, menses & septimanas totidem vidua vivens, tandem justè Aetatis morito, viro Nobili nupsit, qui etiamsi ab illa magna commoda, emolumenta, immo honores accepit, multa tamen illi contra spem, & merita amore juxta conjungali benevolentia defecit, hoc nomine sibi accelerato senio. Cum jam Annos duodecim, menses duos, & dies quinque illocum conjunxit, prae dolore ac angore, tricesmo primo Augusti, 1612. Annum agens septuagesimum, secundam vitam clausit.

Relictis ex priore marito Richardo Gourneyo liberis quinque, justa e [...] solennia (à marito superstite denegata per filium unicum suum) Thoma Gourney piè peragebantur, sumptibus ejus propriis, & in vita ipsi eo nomine mandatis, vicesimo secundo Septemb. Anno Salutis humanae, Millesimo sexcentesimo duodecimo.

Here-under lyeth the bodies of Sir Henry Amcores, A goodly ancient Tombe within the Southgrated Chappell. Knight, Alderman and Lord Maior of London, and Dame Ioane his wife. Which Sir Henry Amcotes deceased the 5. day of September, Anno 1554, And the said Dame Ioane deceased the 4. day of September, Anno Dom. 1573.

Hard by this Saint Michaels Church,Houses in Crookedlane. blowne up with Gun-powder. on the South side thereof, in the yeere 1560. on the fifth of Iuly, through the shooting of a Gunne, which brake into the house of one Adrian Arten, a Dutch man, and set fire on a Firkin and Barrell of Gunne-powder, foure houses were blowne up, and divers other sore shattered, eleven men and women were slaine, and sixteene so hurt and bruised, that they hardly escaped with life.

West from this Saint Michaels Lane,S. Martins Orgar lane and Parish Church. is Saint Martins Orgar lane, by Candlewicke street, which Lane is on both sides downe to a Well, replenished with faire and large houses for Merchants, & it is of this Ward: one of which houses was sometime called Beauchamps Inne, as pertaining unto them of that family. Thomas Arundel, Archbishop of Canturbury, commonly for his time was lodged there.

The Parish Church of Saint Martin Orgar is a small thing VVilliam Crowmer Maior,Parish Church of S. Martin Orgar. builded a proper Chappell on the South side thereof, and was buried there in an ancient Tombe, 1533.

Iohn Matthew, Maior, 1490.

Sir VVilliam Huit Maior, 1559. with [Page] his Lady and daughter, wife to Sir Edward Osburne.

Relph Tabinham, Alderman.

Alice, wife to Thomas Winslow.

Thorndon, Benedicke Reading, Thomas Harding, Iames Smith.

Richard Gainsford, Esquire.

Iohn Bold, &c.

An ancient Tombe in the East end of the North Ile, of Robert Cosyn, Esquire; Elizabeth his wife, and Robert his sonne, Gent. All there buried.

Tumulus VValburgis Gretsiin, Georgii Stecher, P. M. viduae. Obiit An. 1597. 19. Iulii. Filiaeabque; moerentes P. P.

A Memoriall of John Franke, A faire Monumēt in the wal of the Chancell, East. Esquire, and Cecilie his wife, who had issue 4. sonnes; viz. John. a Souldier; Peter, Gentleman-Vsher, and daily wayter to Queene Anne; Robert, Gentleman Vsher, and Quarter-wayter to the said Queene: and Edward, a Souldier. And foure Daughters, viz. Elizabeth, Dorothie, Hester, and Iane.

For remembrance of whom, the said Peter Franck, who lyeth interred neere unto this place, bestowed the charge of this Monument. And the said Robert (being his Executor) caused the same to be erected. And the which Peter dyed the 24. day of October, 1612.

Then is there one other Lane, called S. Laurence, of the Parish Church there. This Lane, downe to the South side of the Churchyard, is of Candlewicke-street Ward.

The Parish Church of Saint Laurence was increased with a Chappell of Iesus, by Thomas Cole, for a Master and Chaplaine: the which Chappell and Parish Church was made a Colledge of Iesus, and of Corpus Christi, Parish Church of S. Laurence Poultney, made a Colledge. for a Master and seven Chaplaines, by Iohn Poultney, Maior, and was confirmed by Edward the third, the twentieth of his reigne. Of him was this Church called S. Laurence Poultney in Candlewick street, which Colledge was valued at 79. l. 17. s. 11. d. and was surrendred in the reigne of Edward the sixth.

Robert Radcliffe, Earle of Sussex, and Henry Radcliffe, Earle of Sussex, were buried there.

Alderman Beswicke was buried there.

Iohn Oliffe, Alderman.

Robert Browne, and others.

Here-under lyeth the body of William Beswyke, An anci [...] Monumēt in the North Ile, Eastward. of Beswyke, Citizen, while he lived, and Draper, and sometime Alderman of London, who deceased the 5. day of May, An. Dom. 1567.

Iohn Olyffe, Alderman, lying under this stone, dyed the 26. day of Iune, 1577. A faire stone on the groūd in the same Ile. Aged 65. yeeres: He was married forty yeeres to Ioane his wife: Hee had seven children; Anne, Iohn, Ioane, Iohn, Thomas, Matthew, and Edward, who dyed all without issue, save onely Ioane, who married Iohn Leigh, Esquire, and heire of Addington in Surrey, and had issue Olyffe Leigh, now living.

EVery Christian heart

seeketh to extoll

The glory of the Lord,

A very faire stone and fairly plated, in the South Ile and body of the Church.

Our onely Redeemer:

Wherefore Dame Fame

must needs inroll

Paul VVithypoll his childe,

by love and Nature,

Elizabeth, the wife

of Emanuel Lucar,

In whom was declared

the goodnesse of the Lord,

With many high vertues,

which truely I will record.

She wrought all Needle-workes

[...] men exercise,

With Pen; Frame, or Stoole,

all Pictures artificiall,

Curious Knots or [...]railes,

what fancy would devise,

Beasts, Birds, or Flowers,

even as things naturall:

Three manner hands could she

write, them faire all.

To speake of Algorisme,

or accounts, in every fashion,

Of women, [...] like

(I thinke) in all this Nation.

Dame Cunning her gave

a gift right excellent,

The goodly practice

[Page] of her Science Musicall,

In divers tongues to sing,

and play with Instrument,

Both Viall and Lute,

and also Virginall;

Not onely upon one,

but excellent in all.

For all other vertues

belonging to Nature,

God her appointed

a very perfect creature.

Latine and Spanish,

and also Italian,

She spake, writ, and read,

with perfect utterance;

And for the English,

she the Garland wan,

In Dame Prudence Schoole,

by Graces purveyance,

which cloathed her with Vertues,

from naked Ignorance:

Reading the Scriptures,

to judge light from darke,

Directing her faith to Christ,

the onely Marke.

The said Elizabeth deceased the 29. day of October, An. Dom. 1537. Of yeeres not fully 27. This Stone, and all hereon contained, made at the cost of the said Emanuel, Merchant-Taylor.

Thus much for this VVard, and the Antiquities thereof. It hath an Alderman and his Deputy; common. Counsellours, eight; Constables, eight, Scavengers, six; Ward-mote Inquest men, twelve, and a Beadle. It is taxed to the Fifteene at sixteene pounds.

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WALBROOKE VVARD.

WAlbrooke Ward beginneth at the west end of Candlewicke street Ward. VValbrooke Ward. It runneth down Candlewicke street, West toward Budge row. It hath on the North side thereof S. Swithens Lane, so called of S. Swithens, a Parish Church by London-stone. This Lane is replenished (on both the sides) with faire builded houses, and is wholly of Walbrooke Ward.Parish Church of S. Swithen. The said Parish Church of S. Swithen standeth at the South-west corner of this lane. Licence was procured, to new build and increase the said Church and Steeple, in the yeere 1420. Sir Iohn Hend, Draper, Maior, was an especiall Benefactor thereunto, as appeareth by his Armes in the Glasse-windowes, even in the tops of them; which is in a Field Argent, a chiefe Azure, a Lion passant Argent, a Cheveron Azure, three Escalops Argent. He lyeth buried in the body of this Church, with a faire stone laid on him, but the Plates and inscriptions are defaced.

Roger Depham, Alderman.

Thomas Aylesbourgh, William Neve, and Matilde Caxton, founded Chauntries, and were buried there.

Iohn Butler, Draper, one of the Sheriffes, 1420.

Ralph Iocoline, Maior, a Benefactor, buried in a faire Tombe.

William White, Draper, one of the Sheriffes, 1482. and others.

Stephanus Slanie,A faire Tombe in the East end of the North Ile. Miles, Senator, Vicecocomes et Praetor clementissimae istius Vrbis; Cum summa fide, nec minore prudentia iis Honoribus functus fuisset, Et ex Margareta Conjuge, Filia Gaspari Phesant, Armig. quinque filios & sex filias suscepisset: Tandem satur annis, Aetatis 84. Salutis, 1608. Decembris 27. Animam Coelo, corpus humo reddidit.

Stephanus, filior, natu maximus, superstite Anna unica filia ex Catharina, filia Walteri Aston, Militis. Obiit Gasparus & Thomas Coelibes, Richardus Biennis, Timotheus Bimestris obierunt. Maria primogenita superstes, nupta primum Richarde Broadgate, Mercatori, deinde Humphrey Weld, Militi, Maiori istius Civitatis: Alicia moritur, Elizabetha superstes nupta Samueli Lennard, Militi. Alicia obiit: Anna nupta Thomae Culpepper, Armig. cui cum tres liberos superstites peperisset, è vita migravit. Martha Coelebs expiravit.

In Obitum viri verè Venerabilis, Domini Ioannis Hart, Equitis, olim hujus Civitatis Praetoris, & hujus Ecclesiae Patroni, Carmen Funebre.

QVis laudes memorare

tuas?

A goodly Tombe, East, in the upper end of the South Ile,

Quis facta valebit

Nuper ad Aethereos

Harte reverse polos?

Quis genium ingenium

magnaeque capacia Curae

Pectora, Londino

pectora grata tuo?

Aspice qui dubitas,

surgentia culmina Musis,

Illa sub arctois

qua jacet ora plagis,

Nunc obiit. Cohibe

lachrymas, nec credito Lector

Vitam, quae fuerat

non nisi sancta, brevem.

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Neere this place lyeth the body of the worshipfull, A faire Monumēt in the South wal of the Church. Randall Manning, Esquire, Merchant-Adventurer, Citizen and Skinner of London: who had to wife, Katharine, daughter of Nicholas Dewren, Citizen and Goldsmith of London: And had by her sundry children, whereof eight married, and sixe of them were living at his death. He departed this life at the age of 78. yeeres, on the nineteenth day of Ianuary, Anno Domini, 1611.

Master Bartholomew Barnes, A small Memorie on a pillar in the middle Ile Citizen, Mercer, and Merchant-Adventurer, a worshipfull and wise Gentleman, and a worthy friend and favourer of Religion. He had fined both for Sheriffe and Alderman, and at last, being 61. yeeres old, sickned, died, and was buried at Bathe, October the first, 1606. and left behind him Margaret his wife; by whom he had issue, Bartholomew, Margaret and Mary.

Bartholomaeus adest

tumulo Barnesius isti

Nomen adest, non cum

nomine corpus inest.

Sexaginta nimis,

quem sex donasse ministros

Constat, erat tantus

Religionis amor.

Attigerat summes

quos abnuit urbis honores,

Subcomitis fasces,

patriciamque togam.

Iamque sui luctum

desideriumque reliquit

Nato & natabus

cum genetrice tribus.

In the middle Ile lyeth the body of Walter Plummer, In the middle Ile upon a pillar. of this Citie and Parish, Merchant-taylor, who departed this life in March, 1607. Also of Elizabeth his Wife, daughter of Robert Delacre, who dyed in Anno 1595. And had together five sonnes, and one daughter, and left living three sonnes, John, Edward and Thomas. John Plummer of London, Esquire, one of those sonnes, dyed in September, 1603. and lyeth here buried: who had two sonnes, and one daughter, wherof John and Elizabeth were living at his death, and his wife with child of a third sonne.

Discesserunt è vita Anno Aetatum suarum 78. & 58.

No living creature lives so long,

A faire plated stone in the middle Ile.

but once must needs give place,

When dolefull Death, that Champion strong,

arrests them with his Mace.

Example take by me,

which did my life enjoy

The space of sixty yeeres, lacke three,

which Death did then destroy.

Like thee I was sometime,

but now am turn'd to dust,

As thou at length (O earth and slime)

returne to ashes must.

Of the Company of Clothworkers

a brother I became,

A long time in the Livery,

I lived of the same.

Then Death that deadly stroke did give,

which now my joyes doth frame,

In Christ I dyed, by Christ to live,

John Rogers was my name.

My loving wife and children two,

my place behind supply,

God grant them living so to doe,

that they in him may dye.

Hee departed the 5. day of August, An. Dom. 1576. And she then living, did also decease the, &c.

Triste puer Carmen

Patris posui Monumente,

Hic lapis ut possit

Carmina scripta loqui.

This sorrowfull Verse, I silly sonne

my Fathers Grave did give,

That it might speake now he is dead,

as though he still did live.

On the North side of this Church and Church-yard, is one faire and large builded house,Prior of Tortington his Inne. sometime pertaining to the Prior of Tortington in Sussex, since to the Earles of Oxford, lately to Sir Iohn Hart, Oxford Place by Londonsi [...]nt. Alderman, and now to Master Humphrey Smith, Alderman of this Citie: which house hath a faire Garden belonging thereunto, lying on the West side therof. On the backeside of two other houses in Walbrooke, in the reigne of King Henry the seventh, Sir Richard Empson, Empson and Dudley. Knight, Chancellour of the Dutchie of Lancaster, [Page] dwelled in one of them, and Edmond Dudley, Esquire, in the other: either of them had a doore of entercourse into this Garden, wherin they met, and consulted on matters at their pleasures. In this Oxford Place Sir Ambrose Nicholas kept his Maioraltie: since him, the said Sir Iohn Hart; and now the said Master Humphrey Smith dwelleth in it.

On the South side of this high street, London stone. neere unto the channell, is pitched upright a great stone, called London-stone, fixed in the ground very deepe, fastned with barres of Iron, and otherwise so strongly set, that if Carts doe runne against it through negligence, the wheeles be broken, and the stone it selfe unshaken.

The cause why this stone was there set, the time when, or other memory thereof is none; but that the same hath long continued there, is manifest, namely, since (or rather before) the Conquest. For in the end of a faire written Gospell booke,Lib. Trint. given to Christs Church in Canturbury, Antiquity of London stone. by Ethelstane, King of the West Saxons, I finde noted of Lands or Rents in London belonging to the said Church, whereof one parcell is described to lye neere unto London-stone. Of later time we reade, that in the yeere of Christ, 1135. the first of King Stephen, a fire, which began in the house of one Aliward, neere unto London-stone, consumed all East to Ealdgate, in which fire the Priory of the holy Trinity was burnt, and West to S. Erkenwalds shrine in Pauls Church: and these be the eldest notes that I reade thereof.

Some have said,Read Mr. Iohn Speed, what he saith therof, and of the like stones. this stone to be set there, as a marke in the middle of the Citie within the wall: but in truth it standeth farre neerer to the River of Thames, than to the wall of the Citie.

Some others have said, the same to be set, for the tendering and making of payment by debtors to their creditors, at their appointed dayes and times, till of later time, payments were more usually made at the Font in Ponts Church, and now most commonly at the Royall Exchange. Some againe have imagined, the same to be set up by one Iohn or Thomas London-stone, dwelling there against it; but more likely it is, that such men have taken name of the Stone, than the Stone of them; as did Iohn at Noke, Thomas at Stile, William at Wall, or at Well, &c.

Down west from this Parish Church, and from London-stone, VValbrooke street. have yee VValbrooke corner: from whence runneth up a street, North to the Stocks, called Walbrooke, because it standeth on the East side of the same Brooke, by the Banke thereof, and the whole Ward taketh name of that street. On the East side of this street, and at the North corner therof, is the Stockes Market, which had this beginning:

About the yeere of Christ,Stockes Market. 1282. Henry Wallis, Maior, caused divers houses in this Citie to be builded towards the maintenance of London Bridge; namely, in one void place, neere unto the Parish Church, called Wooll-church, on the North side thereof, where sometime (the way being very large & broad) had stood a paire of stocks, for punishment of offenders. This building tooke name of those stocks, and was appointed (by him) to be a Market-place for fish and flesh in the midst of the Citie.The midst of the Citie. Other houses be builded in other places, as by Patent of Edward the first it doth appeare, dated the tenth of his reigne.

After this, in the yeere 1322. the 17. of Edw. 2. a decree was made by Hamond Chickwell, Maior, that none should sell fish or flesh out of the markets appointed, to wit, Bridge-street, East-cheap, Old fish-street, S. Nicholas shambles, and the said Stocks, on paine to forfeit such fish or flesh as were there sold, for the first time, and the second time to lose their freedome: which Act was made by commandement of the King, under his Letters Patents, dated at the Tower the 17. of his reigne: and then was this Stocks let to farme for 46. l. 13. s. 4. d. by yeere.Ro. Fabian. This Stockes Market was againe begun to be builded, in the yeere 1410. in the 11. of Henry the 4. and was finished in the yeere next following. In the yeere 1507. the same was rented 56. l. 19. s. 10. d. And in the yeere 1543. Iohn Cotes being Maior, there was in this Stockes Market for Fishmongers, 25. boords or stalles, rented yeerely to thirty foure pounds, thirteene shillings, foure pence: there was for Butchers 18. boords or stalles, rented at one and [Page] forty pounds, sixteene shillings, foure pence; and there were also Chambers above, sixteene, rented at five pounds thirteene shillings foure pence, in all, 82. l. 3. s.

Next unto this Stockes is the Parish Church of S. Mary Wooll-Church, Parish Church of S. Mary Wooll Church. so called of a Beame placed in the Churchyard, which was thereof called Wooll-Church Haw, of the Tronage or weighing of Wooll there used.Tronage or weighing of wooll, caused the Church to be called VVooll-Church Haw. And to verifie this, I finde amongst the Customes of London, written in French, in the reign of Edward the second, a Chapter intituled, Les Customes de VVooll-Church Haw, wherein is set downe, what was there to bee paid for every parcell of Wooll weighed. This Tronage, or weighing of Wooll, till the sixth of Richard the second, was there continued: Iohn Churchman then builded the Custome-house upon VVooll Key, to serve for the said Tronage, as is before shewed in Tower-street Ward.

This Church is reasonable faire and large, and was lately new builded, by Licence granted in the 20. of Henry the sixth, with condition to be builded 15. foot from the Stockes Market, for sparing of light to the said Stocks. The Parson of this Church is to have 4. markes the yeere, for tythe of the said Stockes, paid him by the Masters of the Bridge-house, by a speciall decree made the second of Henry the seventh.

Iohn VVingar, Grocer, Maior 1504. was a great helper to the building of this Church, and was there buried, 1505. Hee gave unto it by his Testament, two large Basons of Silver, and 20. pounds in money.

Also Richard Shore, Draper, one of the Sheriffes, 1505. was a great Benefactor in his life, and by his Testament, gave twenty pounds, to make a Porch at the West end thereof, and was there buried.

Richard Hatfield of Steplemorden in Cambridge-shire, lyeth entombed there, 1467.

Edward Deoly, Esquire, 1467.

Iohn Hanford, Grocer, made the Font of that Church, very curiously wrought, painted and guilded, and was there buried.

Iohn Archer, Fishmonger, 487.

Anne Cawood founded a Chauntrie there, &c.

In Sevenoke,

A faire stone at the Chancell doore within.

into

the world my Mother brought me,

Hawlden House in Kent,

with Armes ever honour'd me;

Westminster Hall

(thirty six yeeres after) knew me.

Then Seeking Heaven,

Heaven from the world tooke me.

VVhilome alive,

Thomas Scot men called me:

Now laid in Grave,

Oblivion covereth me.

From the Stockes Market, and this Parish Church, East up into Lombard street, some foure or five houses on a side, and also on the South side of Wool-Church, Beare-binder lane. have ye Beare-binder lane, a part whereof is of this VValbrooke Ward.

Then downe lower in the street called VValbrooke, Parish Church of S. Stephen by VValbrooke. is one other faire Church of S. Stephen, lately builded on the East side thereof: for the old Church stood on the West side, in place where now standeth the Parsonage House, and therfore so much neerer to the Brooke, even on the banke.

Robert Chichly, Maior in the yeere 1428. the sixth of Henry the sixth, gave to this Parish of S. Stephen one plot of ground, containing 208. foot and a halfe in length, and 66. foot in breadth, thereupon to build their new Church, and for their Churchyard. And in the seventh of Henry the sixth, the said Robert (one of the Founders) said the first stone for himselfe, the second for VVilliam Stondon, Maior, with whose goods the ground that the Church standeth on, and the housing, with the ground of the Church-yard, was bought by the said Chichley for two hundred markes from the Grocers, which had been letten before for 26. markes the yeere. Robert Whittingham, Draper, laid the third stone. Henry Barton then Maior, &c.

The said Chichler gave more 100. l. to the said Worke, and bare the charges of all the Timber-worke on the Procession way, and laid the Lead upon it of his owne cost. He also gave all the timber for the roofing of the two side Iles, and paid for the carriage thereof.

[Page] This Church was finished in the yeere 1439. The breadth thereof is 67. foot, and length 125. foot; the Churchyard 90. foot in length, and 37. in breadth, and more. Robert Whittingham (made Knight of the Bath) in the yeere 1432. purchased the patronage of this Church from Iohn, Duke of Bedford, Vncle to Henry the sixth, and Edward the fourth, in the second of his reigne, and gave it to Richard Lee, then Maior.

There be Monuments in this Church of Thomas Southwell, first Parson of this new Church, who lyeth buried in the Quire.

Iohn Dunstable, Master of Astronomie and Musicke, in the yeere 1453.

Sir Richard Lee, Maior twice, who gave the said Parsonage to the Grocers.

Rowland Hill, Maior, 1549.

Sir Thomas Pope, first Treasurer of the Augmentations, with his Wife Dame Margaret.

Sir Iohn Cootes, Maior, 1542.

Sir Iohn Yorke, Knight, Merchant-Taylor, 1549.

Edward Iackman, Sheriffe, 1564.

Richard Acheley, Grocer.

Doctor Owen, Physician to King Henry the 8.

Iohn Kirkbie, Grocer, 1578. and others.

A friend to Vertue,

In the South Ile on the ground, a faire stone

a lover of Learning,

A foe to Vice,

and vehement Corrector,

A prudent person,

all Truth supporting,

A Citizen sage,

and worthy Counsellor,

A lover of VVisedome,

of Iustice a furtherer:

Loe, here his corps lyeth,

Sir Rowland Hill by name,

of London late Lord Maior,

and Alderman of fame.

Venerabili viro Rogero Fenton,Vnder the Communion Table. Lancastriensi, Aulae Penbrochianae in Academia Cantabrigiensi olim socio, Sacrae Theologiae Doctori, viro insigniter docto, pio, dilecto, sed immatura nimis morte obrepto: Sancti Stephani sua (dum viveret) Parochia, ex justo sensu & sui & cōmunis damni; hoc pii doloris testimonium cordibus prius impressum viventium, jam (que) lapide tantum expressum Monumentum, ut sacrum amoris sui memoriale,

Cum perpetuae memoriae voto posuit. Qui obiit 16. Jan. An. Dom. 1615. Aetatis suae, 50.

Clauditur hoc tumulo,

Two faire plated stones in the Chancell, each by other.

qui Coelum pectore clausit

Dunstaple 1. juris,

Astrorum conscius illo

Iudice novit hiramis

abscondita pandere coeli.

Hic vir erat tua laus,

tua lux, tua musica princeps,

Quique tuas dulces

per mundum sperseratonus,

Anno Mil. Equater,

semel L. trius jungito Christi.

Pridie natale sidus

transmigrat ad astra,

Suscipiant proprium

civem coeli sibi cives.

Musarum doctus

pietatis fidus alumnus,

Another faire stone close by it.

Edwardus Monecroft

corpus inane jacet:

Spiritus Aetherea superest

tamen arce receptis,

Quo sibi dum vixit

januit ante viam.

Mens pia, larga manus

parsim dispersit egenis,

Divitias Coeli

Divitias (que) Soli.

Within this Grave entombed lyes,

In the Chancell aside.

a man of honest fame,

A Grocer of this Noble Towne,

Iohn Kirkbie was his name.

He lived forty yeeres and nine,

in credit with the best:

He dyed such time as here you see,

his soule in heaven doth rest.

Obiit 17. die Iulii, An. Dom. 1578.

Hic jacet Thomas Pope,An ancient Tomb in the North Ile of the Quire. primus Thesaurarius Augmentationum: Et domina Margareta uxor ejus: Quae quidem Margareta obiit 16. die Ianuarii, An. Dom. 1538.

This life hath on earth

no certaine while,

[Page] Example by John, Mary,

A faire Gravestone in the North Cloyster.

and Oliver Stile,

Who under this stone

lye buried in the dust,

And putteth you in memory

that dye all must.

John Stile borne in An. 1582.

the 22. of May,

Dyed in An. 1583.

of Iune the 25. day.

Also the 5. of October, 1583.

Mary Stile borne was,

The 5. of August, 1585.

out of this life did passe.

Oliver Stile the 25. of February, 1584.

this mortall life begun,

And ended the same the 9. of August, 1585.

his course then being run.

Thus may you see,

that as you are, so were we,

And as we now be,

even so shall ye.

Yet none can tell

the hower, nor whan,

That gift was never

given to man:

Therefore while you

have time and space,

Pray unto God

for mercy and grace.

Lower downe from this Parish Church, be divers faire houses, namely one, wherein of late Sir Richard Baker, a Knight of Kent, was lodged, and wherin also dwelled Mr. Thomas Gore, a Merchant famous for Hospitality.

On the West side of this Walbrooke street, over against the Stockes Market, is a part of the high street, called the Poultry, on the South-side west, till over against S. Mildreds Church, and the Scalding wike, is of this Ward.

Then downe againe Walbrooke street, Buckles Bury. some small distance, is Buckles Bury, a street so called of Buckle, that sometime was owner thereof; part of which street on both sides, three or foure houses, to the course of the Brook, is of this ward, and so downe Walbrooke street, to the South corner: from whence, West, downe Budge Row, some small distance, to an Alley, and thorow that Alley, South,S. Iohn upō VValbrooke by the West end of Saint Iohns Church upon Walbrooke, by the South side and East end of the same, againe to Walbrooke corner. This Parish Church is called S. Iohn upon Walbrooke, because the West end thereof is on the very banke of Walbrooke, Horshooe Bridge in Horshooe Bridge street. by Horshooe Bridge, in Horshooe-Bridge street.

This Church was also lately new builded: for about the yeere 1412. licence was granted by the Maior and Communalty, to the Parson and Parish, for the inlarging thereof, with a piece of ground on the North part of the Quire, one and twenty foot in length, seventeene foot in breadth, and three inches; and on the South side of the Quire, one foot of the common soyle.

There bee no Monuments in this Church of any account, onely these:

William Combarton, Skinner, who gave Lands to that Church, was there buried 1410.

Iohn Stone, Taylor, one of the Sheriffes, 1464. was likewise buried there.

On the South side of Walbrook Ward, from Candlewicke street, in the mid-way betwixt London-stone and Walbrooke corner, is a little Lane, with a turnepike in the middest thereof, and in the same a proper Parish Church,Parish Church of S. Mary Bothaw. called S. Mary Bothaw, or Boat-haw, by the Erbar. This Church being neere unto Downegate, on the River of Thames, hath the addition of Bothaw, or Boat-haw, of neere adjoyning to an Haw, or Yard, wherein (of old time) Boats were made, and landed from Downegate, to be mended, as may be supposed: for other reason I finde none, why it should be so called.

Within this Church and the small Cloystrie adjoyning, divers Noblemen and persons of Worship have been buried, as appeareth by Armes in the windowes, the defaced Tombes, and print of plates, torne up and carried away: There remaine onely of Iohn West, Esquire, buried in the yeere 1408.

Thomas Huytley, Esquire, 1539. but his Monumeut is defaced since.

Lancelot Bathurst, &c.

Here lyeth the body of Lancelot Bathurst, Citizen, Grocer, and chosen Alderman of this Honourable Citie: who deceased the 27. day of September, 1594. &c.

But the most memorable Monument of all other there, was that of Sir Henry [Page]Fitz-Alwine, The first Lord Maior of London, Sir Henry Fitz-Alwine, buried there. Draper, the first Lord Maior of London that ever was, and continued (by several elections) in the Maioraltie above 24. yeeres. His dwelling house remaineth yet in the Parish, divided now into two or three houses. His Monument can be proved to bee in that Church, as his Armes in the glasse windowes and Grave-stones doe sufficiently shew. Besides, those houses were his gift to the Drapers, and they pay a quit-rent in his name yeerely for ever. All which are sufficient to testifie that he was not buried in the Priorie of the holy Trinity within Ealdgate, (now called the Dukes Place) as formerly hath beene avowched by Mr. Stowe; but that there his body resteth, in undoubted hope of a joyfull resurrection. Such as make any doubt hereof, may be further satisfied in the Drapers Hall.

The Erbar is an ancient place so called, but not of Walbrooke Ward, and therefore out of that Lane, to Walbrooke corner, and then downe, till over against the South corner of Saint Iohns Church upon Walbrooke.

And this is all that I can say of VValbrooke Ward. It hath an Alderman, and his Deputy; Common-Counsellours, 11. Constables, 9. Scavengers, 6. for the Wardmote Inquest, 13. and a Beadle. It is taxed to the Fifteene in London, at 33. pounds, 5. shillings.

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DOWNEGATE VVARD.

DOwnegate Ward beginne that the south end of VValbrooke Ward,Downegate Ward. over-against the East corner of Saint Iohns Church upon Walbrooke, and descendeth on both the sides to Downegate, on the Thames, and is so called, of that downe-going or descending therunto: and of this Downgate the Ward taketh name. This Ward turneth into Thames street VVestward, some ten houses on a side, to the course of Walbrooke, but East in Thames street (on both sides) to Ebgate lane, or Old Swanne, the land-side whereof hath many Lanes turning up, as shall be shewed when I come to them.

But first to begin with the highstreet called Dowgate: Conduit upon Downegate. at the upper end thereof is a faire Conduit of Thames water, castellated, and made in the yeere 1568. at charges of the Citizens, and is called the Conduit upon Downegate. The descent of this street is such, that in the yeere 1574. on the fourth of September in the afternoone, there fell a storme of raine, where-through the channels suddenly arose, and ranne with such a swift course towards the common shores, that a Lad of eighteene yeeres old,A Lad of 18. yeeres old drowned in the Channell. minding to have leapt over the channell, neere unto the said Conduit, was taken with the streame, and carried from thence towards the Thames with such a violence, that no man, with staves, or otherwise, could stay him, till hee came against a Cart-wheele, that stood in the said Water-gate, before which time he was drowned, and starke dead.

On the West side of this street, is the Tallow-Chandlers Hal,Tallow-Chandlers Hall. a proper house, which Company was incorporated in the second yeere of Edward the fourth.

Somewhat lower standeth the Skinners Hall,Copped Hall, now Skinners Hall. a faire house, which was somtime called Copped Hall, by Downegate, in the Parish of S. Iohn upon Walbrooke. In the 19, yeere of Edward the second, Ralph Cobham possessed it, with five shoppes, &c.

This Company of Skinners in London, was incorporate by Edward the 3. in the first of his reigne: they had two Brotherhoods of Corpus Christi, viz. one at St. Mary Spittle, the other at St. Mary Bethlem, without Bishopsgate. Richard the second, in the eighteenth of his reigne, granted them to make their two Brotherhoods one, by the name of the Fraternity of Corpus Christi of Skinners. Divers royall persons were named to bee Founders, and Brethren of this Fraternity,Sixe Kings Brethren with the Skinners Company in [...]. to wit; Kings sixe, Dukes nine, Earles two, Lords one. Kings, Edward the third, Richard the second, Henry the fifth, Henry the sixth, and Edward the fourth.

This Fraternity had also once every yeere,Their pompous Procession. on Corpus Christi day, after noone a Procession, which passed through the principall streets of the City, wherein was borne more than one hundred Torches of VVaxe (costly garnised) burning light, and above two hundred Clerkes and Priests in Surpleffes and Coapes, singing. After the which, were the Sheriffes servants, the Clerkes of the Compters, Chaplaines for the Sheriffes, the Maiors Sergeants, the Councell of the City, the Maior and Aldermen in Scarlet, and then the Skinners in their best Liveries. Thus much to stop the tongues of unthankfull men, such as use to aske, VVhy have yee not noted this, or that, and give no thanks for what is done?

[Page] Then lower downe was a Colledge of Priests, called Iesus Commons, a house well furnished with Brasse, Pewter, Napery, Plate, &c. besides a faire Library well stored with Bookes, all which of old time were given to a number of Priests, that should keepe Commons there, and as one left his place (by death or otherwise) another should be admitted into this room; but this order within this thirty yeers being discontinued, the said house was dissolved and turned to Tenements.

Down lower have ye Elbow-lane, and at the corner thereof was one great stone house,Elbow-lane. called Old-hall: it is now taken downe, and divers faire houses of Timber placed there. This was sometime pertaining to William de pont le Arch, William de pont le Arch his house. and by him given to the Priory of S. Mary Overy in Southwarke, in the reigne of Henry the first. In this Elbow-lane is the Inholders hall,Inholders Hall. and other faire houses: this lane runneth West, and suddenly turneth South into Thames street, and therefore (of that bending) is called Elbow-lane. On the East side of this Downegate street, is the great old house before spoken of, called the Erbar, neere to the Church of Saint Mary Bothaw; The Erbar S. Mary Bothaw. Geffrey Scroope held it by the gift of Edward the third in the foureteenth of his reigne. It belonged since to Iohn Nevell, Lord of Raby, then to Richard Nevell, Earle of Warwicke; Nevell, Earle of Salisbury was lodged there, 1457. Then it came to George Duke of Clarence, and his heires males, by the gift of Edward the fourth in the foureteene yeere of his reigne. It was lately builded by Sir Thomas Pullison Maior, and was afterward inhabited by Sir Francis Drake, that famous Navigator. Next to this great house, is a lane turning to Bushlane, (of old time called Carter-lane, of Carts, and Carmen having Stables there) and now called Chequer-lane, or Chequer-Alley, of an Inne called the Chequer.

In Thames street, Greenwitch lane, or Fryer lane. on the Thames side West from Downgate, is Greenwitch-lane, of old time so called, and now Frier lane, of such a signe there set up.Ioyners Hall. In this lane is the Joiners Hall, and other faire houses.

Then is Granthams lane, Granthams lane. so called of Iohn Grantham, sometime Maior and owner therof, whose house was very large and strong, builded of stone, as appeareth by gates arched yet remaining. Ralph Dodmer, first a Brewer, then a Mercer, Maior, 1529. dwelled there, and kept his Maioraltie in that house: it is now a Brewhouse, as it was before.

Then is Downgate, whereof is spoken in another place.Cosin lane. East from this Downgate, is Cosin lane, named of one William Cosin, that dwelled there, in the fourth of Richard the second, as divers his predecessors, Father, Grandfather, &c. had done before him. William Cosin was one of the Sheriffes in the yeere 1306. That house standeth at the South end of the lane, having an old and artificiall conveyance of Thames water into it, and is now a Dye-house, called Lambards Messuage. Adjoyning to that house,A Ginne to convey Thames water to Downegate Conduit. there was lately erected an engine, to convey Thames water unto Downegate Conduit aforesaid.

Next to this lane, on the East, is the Steleyard (as they terme it) a place for Merchants of Almaine, Steleyard for Merchants of Almaine. that used to bring hither, as well Wheat, Rie, and other graine, as Cables, Ropes, Masts, Pitch, Tarre, Flaxe, Hempe, Linnen Cloth, Wainscots, Waxe, Steele, and other profitable Merchandizes. Vnto these Merchants, in the yeere, 1259. Henry the third, at the request of his Brother Richard, Earle of Cornwall, King of Almaine, granted, that all and singular the Merchants, having a house in the City of London, commonly called Guilda Aula Theutonicorum, Guilda Aula Theutonicorum. should bee maintained and upholden through the whole Realme, by all such freedomes, and free usages or liberties, as by the King and his Noble Progenitors time they had and enjoyed, &c. Edward the first renued and confirmed that Charter of Liberties, granted by his Father. And in the tenth yeere of the same Edward, Henry Wallis being Maior, a great controversie did arise between the said Maior, and the Merchants of the Haunce of Almaine, about the reparations of Bishopsgate, then likely to fall, for that the said Merchants enjoyed divers priviledges, in respect of maintaining the said Gate, which they now denyed to repaire: for the appeasing of which controversie, [Page] the King sent his Writ to the Treasurer, and Barons of his Exchequer commanding, that they should make inquisition thereof: Before whom the Merchants being called, when they were not able to discharge themselves, sith they enjoyed the liberties to them granted for the same; a Precept was sent to the Maior and Sheriffes, to distraine the said Merchants to make reparations, namely, Gerard Marbod, Alderman of the Haunce; Ralph de Cussarde, a Citizen of Colen, Ludero de Denevar, a Burgesse of Trivar; Iohn of Aras, a Burgesse of Trivon; Bartram of Hamburgh; Godestalke of Hundondale, a Burgesse of Trivon; Iohn de Dele, a Burgesse of Munstar, then remaining in the said City of London, for themselves, and all other Merchants of the Haunce: and so they granted 210. Markes sterling to the Maior and Citizens, and undertooke, that they and their successors should (from time to time) repaire the said Gate, and beare the third part of the charges in mony, and men to defend it, when need were.

And for this agreement, the said Maior and Citizens granted to the said Merchants their liberties,Merchants of the Haunce, of Almaine, licenced to lay up their corn in Garners, but to sell it within 40. dayes after. which till of late they have enjoyed, as namely, amongst other, that they might lay up their Graine, which they brought into this Realme, in Innes, and sell it in their Garners, by the space of forty dayes after they had laid it up; except by the Maior and Citizens they were expressely forbidden, because of dearth, or other reasonable occasions. Also, they might have their Aldermen, as they had been accustomed, foreseen alwaies, that he were of the City, and presented to the Maior and Aldermen of the City, so oft as any should be chosen, and should take an oath before them, to maintaine Iustice in their Courts, and to behave themselves in their Office according to Law, and as it stood with the Customes of the City.

Thus much for their Priviledges: Whereby it appeareth, that they were great Merchants of Corne, brought out of the East parts hither, insomuch, that the occupiers of husbandry in this Land were enforced to complaine of them, for bringing in such aboundance, when the Corne of this Realme was at an easie price.Act of Parliamēt forbidding Corne to be brought from beyond Se [...]. Whereupon it was ordained by Parliament, That no person should bring into any part of this Realme, by way of Merchandise, VVheat, Rye, or Barley, growing out of the said Realme, when the quarter of Wheat exceeded not the price of 6. s. 8. d. Rie 4. s. the Quarter, and Barley 3. shillings the Quarter, upon forfeiture the one halfe to the King, the other halfe to the seisor thereof. These Merchants of the Haunce had their Guild hall in Thames street, in place aforesaid, by the said Cosin lane. Their Hall is large, builded of Stone, with three arched Gates towards the street, the middlemost whereof is farre bigger than the other, and is seldome opened, the other two be mured up: the same is now called the Old Hall.

Of later time, to wit, in the sixth of Richard the second, they hired one house next adjoyning to their old Hall, which sometime belonged to Richard Lions, a famous Lapidarie, one of the Sheriffes of Lond. in the 49. of Edward the third, and in the fourth of Richard the second, by the Rebels of Kent drawn out of that house, and beheaded in West Cheape. This also was a great house, with a large Wharfe on the Thames: and the way thereunto was called Windgoose, or Wildgoose lane, Windgoose lane. which is now called Windgoose Alley, for that the same Alley is (for the most part) builded on by the Stilyard Merchants.

The Abbot of S. Albans had a Messuage here, with a Key given to him, in the 34. of Henry the sixth.

Then is one other great house, which sometime pertained to Iohn Rainwell, Stock-fishmonger, Maior, and it was by him given to the Maior and Communalty, to the end, that the profits thereof should bee disposed in deeds of piety: which house in the 15. of Edward the fourth, was confirmed unto the said Merchants in manner following, viz.

It is ordained by our Soveraigne Lord and his Parliament,Patent. that the said Merchants of Almaine, being of the Company called the Guildhall Theutonicorum, (or the Flemish Geld) that now be, or hereafter shall be, shall have, hold, and enjoy to them and their successors for ever, the said [Page] place, called the Steele-house, yeelding to the Maior and Communalty an annuall rent of threescore and tenne pounds, three shillings, foure pence, &c.

In the yeere 1551. the fifth of Edward the sixth,Steelyard put down. through complaint of the English Merchants, the liberty of the Steelyard Merchants was seized into the Kings hands, and so it resteth.

Then is Church lane, Church lane. at the West end of Alhallowes Church, called Alhallowes the more in Thames streete, Parish Church of Alhallowes the more. for a difference from Alhallowes the lesse, in the same street. It is also called Alhallowes ad foenum in the Roperie, because Hay was sold neere thereunto, at Hay Wharfe, and Ropes of old time made and sold in the high street. This is a faire Church, with a large Cloister on the South side thereof, about their Church-yard, but foulely defaced and ruinated.

The Church also hath had many faire Monuments, but now defaced: There remaine in the Quire some Plates on Grave-stones, namely of William Lichfield, Doctor of Divinity, who deceased the yeere 1447. Hee was a great Student, and compiled many Bookes, both Morall and Divine, in Prose and Verse; namely one, intituled, The complaint of God unto sinfull man. Hee made in his time 3083. Sermons, as appeared by his owne hand-writing, and were found when he was dead.

One other Plate there is of Iohn Brickles, Draper, who deceased in the yeere 1451. Hee was a great Benefactor to that Church, and gave by his Testament certaine Tenements, to the reliefe of the poore.

Nicholas Loven, and William Peston, founded Chauntries there.

Willielmus dudum

Lichfield quem mors fora pressit,

A faire plated stone under the Communion Table.

Ista post ludum

mundi sub rupe quiescit.

In domum rure

cultor, sator ac operosus,

Dum preciat ture,

pastor vigil, & studiosus.

Hanc aedem rexit,

ornavit & amplificavit,

Pignora provexit,

ac sacro dogmate pavit.

Pauperibus carus,

inopes in mente gerebat,

Consilio gnarus

dubitantibus esse solebat.

Christe pugil forcis

ejus dissolve reatus,

Vt vivat mortis

post morsum glorificatus.

Luce bis X. quat' I.

migrat Octobris sine panno,

Equat' X. quat' V.

semel I. ter. I. M. Karus.

Staprecor interne,

Another faire stone lying by it▪

qui transis aspice, cerne,

Non nitidis pannis,

sed olentibus oss'a Johannis

Brickles, ista mei

specus includit requiei,

Taliter indutus

tumulabere tu resolutus.

Dormit in hac cella

mea conjuge ac Isabella,

Appollinaris quam

vixit lux nece stratratus.

Aequater X. ter V.

semel I. bis & M. sociatis.

At the East end of this Church goeth downe a Lane,Hay-wharfe Lane. called Hay-Wharfe lane, now lately a great Brew-house, builded there by one Pot; Henry Campion, Esquire, a Beere-brewer, used it, and Abraham his sonne since possessed it.

Then was there one other Lane,VVoolseys Lane. sometime called Woolseys gate, now out of use: for the lower part thereof, upon the banke of Thames, is builded by the late Earle of Shrewsbury, and the other end is builded on and stopped up by the Chamberlaine of London. Iohn Butler, Draper, one of the Sheriffes, in the yeere 1420. dwelled there: Hee appointed his house to be sold, and the price thereof to be given to the poore: it was of Alhallowes Parish the lesse.

Then is there the said Parish Church of Alhallowes, Parish Church of Alhallowes the lesse. called the lesse; and by some, Alhallowes on the Cellers, for it standeth on Vaults: it is said to be builded by Sir Iohn Poultney, sometimes Maior. The Steeple and Quire of this Church, stand on an arched Gate, being the entrie to a great house, called Cold Harbrough: Cold Harbrough. the Quire of late being [Page] falne downe, is now againe at length, in the yeere 1594. by the Parishioners new builded.

Touching this Cold Harbrough, I find, that in the 13. of Edward the second, Sir Iohn Abel, Knight, demised or let unto Henry Stow, Draper, all that his capitall Messuage, called the Cold Harbrough, in the Parish of All Saints ad foenum, and all the purtenances within the Gate, with the Key which Robert Hartford, Citizen, sonne to William Hartford, had, and ought, and the foresaid Robert paid for it the rent of 33. shillings the yeere. This Robert Hartford being owner thereof, as also of other lands in Surrey; deceasing without issue male, left two daughters his Coheires, to wit, Idonia, married to Sir Ralph Bigot, and Maude, married to Sir Stephen Cosenton, Knights, betweene whom the said house and lands were parted. After the which Iohn Bigot, Sonne to the said Sir Ralph and Sir Iohn Cosenton, did sell their moities of Cold Harbrough unto Iohn Poultney, sonne of Adam Poultney, the eighth of Edward the third. This Sir Iohn Poultney dwelling in this house, and being 4. times Maior, the said house tooke the name of Poultney's Inne. Notwithstanding, this Sir Iohn Poultney, the 21. of Edward the third, by his Charter gave and confirmed to Humfrey de Bohune, Earle of Hereford and Essex, his whole tenement, called Cold Harbrough, with all the Tenements and Key adjoyning, and appurtenances sometime pertaining to Robert de Herford, on the way called Hay-wharfe lane, &c. for one Rose at Midsummer, to him and his heires, for all services, if the same were demanded. This Sir Iohn Poultney deceased 1349. and left issue, by Margaret his wife, William Poultney, who dyed without issue: and Margaret his Mother was married to Sir Nicholas Lovel, Knight, &c. Philip S. Cleare gave two Messuages, pertaining to this Cold Harbrough, in the Roperie, towards the inlarging of the Parish Church and Church-yard of All-Saints, called the lesse, in the 20. of Richard the second.

In the yeere 1397. the 21 of Richard the second, Iohn Holland, Earle of Huntington, was lodged there, and Richard the second his Brother dined with him: it was then counted a right faire and stately house. But in the next yeere following, I finde, that Edmond, Earle of Cambridge, was there lodged: notwithstanding, the said house still retained the name of Poultney's Inne, in the reigne of Henry the sixth, the 26. of his reigne. It belonged since to H. Holland Duke of Excester, and hee was lodged there in the yeere 1472. In the yeere 1485. Richard the third, by his Letters Patents granted and gave to Iohn Writh, alias Garter, principall King of Armes of English men, and to the rest of the Kings Heralds and Pursevants of Arms, all that Messuage with the appurtenances, called Cold Harber, in the Parish of All Saints the little in London, and their successors for ever. Dated at Westminster the second of March, Anno regni suiprimo, without fine or see. How the said Heralds departed, therewith, I have not read, but in the reigne of Henry the eighth, the Bishop of Durhams house, neere Charing Crosse, being taken into the Kings hand, Cuthbert Tunstal, Bishop of Durham, was lodged in this Cold Harber, since the which time it hath belonged to the Earles of Shrewsbury, by composition (as is supposed) from the said Cuthbert Tunstall. The last deceased Earle tooke it downe, and in place thereof builded a great number of small Tenements now letten out for great rents, to people of all sorts.

Then is the Diers Hall, which Company was made a Brotherhood or Guild,The Diers Hall. in the fourth of Henry the sixth, and appointed to consist of a Gardian or Warden, and a Communalty the 12. of Edward the fourth. Then bee there divers large Brewhouses, and others, till you come to Ebgate lane, where that Ward endeth in the East. On the North side of Thames street bee divers lanes also, the first is at the South end of Elbow-lane before spoken of, west from Downegate, over-against Greenewitch lane: then bee divers faire houses for Merchants, and others all along that side. the next lane East from Downegate, is called Bush lane, Bush-lane. which turneth up to Candlewicke street, Suffolke lane. and is of Down-gate Ward. Next is Suffolke lane, likewise turning up to Candlewicke street: Merchant Taylor Schoole. in this lane is one notable Grammer [Page] Schoole, founded in the yeere 1561. by the Master, Wardens, and Assistants of the Merchant-taylors, in the Parish of S. Laurence Poultney; Richard Hils, sometimes Master of that Company, having before given 500. l. toward the purchase of an house,The Manner of the Rose. called the Mannor of the Rose, sometime belonging to the Duke of Buckingham, wherein the said Schoole is kept.

Then is there one other Lane,S. Laurence Lane. which turneth up to S. Laurence Hill, and to the Southwest corner of Saint Laurence Church-yard:Poultney Lane. then other Lane, called Poultney Lane, that goeth up, of this Ward to the South-east corner of S. Laurence Church-yard, and so downe againe, and to the West corner of Saint Martin Orgar lane, and over against Ebgate lane: 13. Wards on the east side of VValbrook, not having one house on the west of the said Brooke. and this is all of Downegate Ward, the 13. in number lying East from the water-course of VValbrooke, and hath not any one house on the west side of the said Brooke.

It hath an Alderman, his Deputy; Common-Counsellors, nine; Constables, eight; Seavengers, five; for the Wardmote Inquest, foureteene, and a Beadle: it is taxed to the Fifteene at eight and twenty pounds.

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WARDS ON THE VVEST SIDE OF WALBROOKE: AND FIRST, OF VINTRIE VVARD.

NOw I am to speak of the other Wards,Wards on the VVest side of Walbrooke, and first, of Vintrie VVard. 12. in number, all lying on the West side of the course of Walbrook: and first of the Vintry ward, so called of Vintners, and of the Vintrie, a part of the banke of the River of Thames, where the Merchants of Burdeaux, craned their Wines out of Lighters, and other Vessels, and there landed and made sale of them, within forty dayes after, untill the twenty eighth of Edward the first, at which time the said Merchants complained, that they could not sell their wines, paying poundage, neither hire houses or cellars to lay them in: and it was redressed by vertue of the Kings Writ, directed to the Maior and Sheriffes of London, dated at Carlaveroke, or Carlile. Since the which time, many faire and large houses (with Vaults and Cellars for stowage of VVines, and lodging of Burdeaux Merchants) have beene builded, in place where before time were Cooks houses: for Fitzstephen, in the reigne of Henry the second, writeth, that upon the Rivers side, betweene the VVine in Ships, and the VVine to be sold in Tavernes, was a common Cookes Row, &c. as in another place I have set down. wherby it apeares, that in those daies, (and till of late time) every man lived according to his owne professed Trade,Every man lived by his severall professed trade. not any one interrupting another. The Cookes dressed meat, and sold no wine; and the Taverner sold wine, but dressed no meat for sale, &c.

This VVard beginneth in the East, at the West end of Downegate Ward, at the water-course of Walbrooke, which parteth them, to wit, at Granthams lane, on the Thames side, and at Elbow lane, on the Land side: it runneth along in Thames street, West, some three houses beyond the Old Swan, a Brewhouse, and on the Land side, some three houses West, beyond Saint Iames at Garlicke hithe.

In breadth, this VVard stretcheth from the Vintrie North, to the wall of the West gate of the Tower Royall: the other North part is of Cordwainer street Ward.

Out of this Royall street by the South gate of Tower-Royall, runneth a small street, East to Saint Iohns upon Walbrooke, Horshoo-bridge street which street is called Horseshoo-bridge, of such a bridge sometime over the brooke there, which is now vaulted over.

Then from the South gate West, runneth one other street,Knight-riders street. called Knight-riders street, by Saint Thomas Apostles Church, on the North side, and Wringwren lane, by the said Church, at the West end thereof, and to the East end of the Trinity Church in the said Knight-riders street, where this Ward endeth on that South side the street: but on the North side, it runneth no farther than the corner against the new builded Taverne, and other houses, in a plot of ground where sometime stood Ormond place. Yet have yee one other lane lower downe in Royall streete, stretching forth from over against [Page] Saint Michaels Church, to and by the North side of Saint Iames Church by Garlicke hith, Kerion lane. this is called Kerion lane: And thus much for the bounds of the Vintrie Ward. Now on the Thames side west from Granthams lane, have ye Herbert lane, Brickles lane. or Brickles lane, so called of Iohn Brikles, sometimes owner thereof.

Then is Simpsons lane, Simpsons lane. of one Simpson; or Emperours-head lane, of such a signe: then the Three Cranes lane, so called, not onely of a signe of three Cranes at a Taverne doore, but rather of three strong Cranes of Timber, placed on the Vintrie wharfe by the Thames side, to crane up Wines there, as is afore shewed: this Lane was of old time, to wit, the 9. of Richard the second,Painted Taverne, or three Cranes lane. called the Painted Taverne lane, of the Taverne being painted.

Then next over against Saint Martins Church, is a large house builded of stone and timber, with vaults for the stowage of wines,The Vintry Record. and is called the Vintrie. There dwelled Iohn Gisers, Vintner, Maior of London, and Constable of the Tower, and then was Henry Picard, Vintner, Maior. In this house Henry Picard feasted foure Kings in one day; as in my Summary I have shewed.

Then next is Vannars lane, Vanners Lane. so called of one Vannar that was owner thereof, it is now called Church lane, of the comming up from S. Martins Church.

Next is Broad lane, for that the same is broader for the passage of Carts from the Vintrie Wharfe,Broad lane. than be the other lanes. At the North-west corner of this lane is the Parish-Clerks Hall,Parish Clerks Hall. lately by them purchased, since they lost their old Hall in Bishopsgate street. Next is Spittle lane, of old time so called; since, Stodies lane, Stodies lane of the owner thereof, named Stodie. Sir Iohn Stodie, Vintner, Maior in the yeere 1357. gave it, with all the Quadrant wherein Vintners Hall now standeth,Vintners Hall. with the Tenements round about, unto the Vintners: the Vintners builded for themselves a faire Hall,Almes-houses of the Vintners. and also 13. Almes-houses there, for 13. poore people, which are kept of charity, rent-free.

The Vintners in London were (of old time) called Merchants Vintners of Gascoyne, and so I reade them in the records of Edward the 2. the 11. yeere, and Edward the 3. the ninth yeere, they were as well Englishmen, as strangers borne beyond the Seas, but then subjects to the King of England, great Burdeaux Merchants of Gascoyne and French wines; divers of them were Maiors of this Citie; namely, Ioh. Adrian, Vintner, Reignold at Conduit, Iohn Oxenford, Henry Picard, that feasted the Kings of England, France, Scotland, and Cypres: Iohn Stodie, that gave Stodies lane to the Vintners: which foure last named, were Maiors in the reign of Edward the third, and yet Gascoyne Wines were then to be sold at London, not above 4. pence, nor Rhenish Wines above 6. pence the Gallon.

I reade of sweet Wines, that in the 50. of Edward the third, Iohn Peachie, Fishmonger, was accused, for that hee procured a Licence for the onely sale of them in London: which notwithstanding he justified by Law, he was imprisoned and fined.

More I read, that in the 6. of Hen. 6. the Lombards corrupting their sweet Wines, when knowledge thereof came to Iohn Rainwell, Maior of London, hee (in divers places of the Citie) commanded the heads of the Buts and other vessels, in the open streets, to be broken, to the number of one hundred and fifty, so that the liquor running forth, passed thorow the Citie like a streame of raine water, in the sight of all the people; from whence there issued a most loathsome savour.

I read in the reigne of Henry the 7. that no sweet VVines were brought into this Realme, but Malmsies, by the Longobards, paying to the King for his Licence, 6. [...]. 8. d. of every But, besides 12. d. for Bottell-large. I remember, within these 54. yeeres, Malmsey not to be sold above 1. d. ob. the pint. For proofe whereof, it appeareth in the Church-Booke of S. Andrew Vndershaft, that in the yeere 1547. I. G. and S. K. then Church-wardens, for 80. pints of Malmsey, spent in the Church, after 1. d. halfepenny the pint, paid at the yeeres end for the same tenne shillings.

More I remember, that no Sackes were sold, but Rumney, and that for Medicine more than for drinke: but now [Page] many kindes of Sackes are knowne and used. And so much for Wines.

For the Vintrie, The Kings sonnes supped in the Vintrie to end therewith, I read, that in the reigne of Henry the 4. the yong Prince Henry, T. Duke of Clarence, I. Duke of Bedford, and Humfrey Duke of Glocester, the Kings sonnes, being at supper amongst the Merchants of London in the Vintrie, in the house of Lewes Iohn, H [...]n. Scogan Henry Scogan sent to them a Ballad, beginning thus:

My Noble Sonnes,

and oke my Lords deare,

I your Father

called unworthily,

Send unto you

this Ballad following here,

Written with mine

owne hand full rudely:

Although it be,

that I not reverently

Have written to your

Estates, I you pray,

Mine uncunning

take benignely,

For Gods sake,

and hearken what I say.

Then follow in like Meeter, 23. staves, containing a perswasion from losing of time foolishly, in lust and vice, but to spend the same in vertue and godlines; as ye may read in Geffrey Chawcer his Workes,Chawcer fol. 334 & 33 [...]. lately printed. The successors of those Vintuers and Wine-drawers, that retayled by the Gallons, Pottell, Quart,Wine-tunners incorporated the 15. of Hen. 6. and Pint, were all incorporated by the name of Wine-tunners, in the reigne of Edward the third, and confirmed the 15. of Henry the sixth.

Next is Palmers Lane, Palmers lane, or Ancho [...] lane. Plumers Hall. now called Anchor Lane. The Plummers have their Hall there, but are Tenants to the Vintners.

Then is Worcester House,Worcester House. sometimes belonging to the Earles of Worcester, now divided into many tenements.F [...]uiterers Hall. The Fruiterers have their Hall there.

Then is the Old Swan, Old Swan. a great Brew-house. And this is all, on the Thames side, that I can note in this Ward.

On the Land side, is the Royall street, and Pater noster Lane, Pater noster Lane, I thinke of old time called Arches: for I read, that Robert de Suffolke gave to Walter Darford, [...]. S. Ma [...] Ov [...]. his tenement with the appurtenance, in the Lane called Les Arches, in the parish of S. Michael de Pater noster Church, betweene the wall of the Field called Winchester field, on the East, and the same Lane on the West, &c. More I reade of a stone House, called Stoda de Winton, juxta Stodum bridge, which in that Lane was over Walbrooke water.

Then is the faire Parish Church of S. Michael, Parish Church of S. Michael [...], a Colledge, one Almes-house or Hospit [...]. called Pater noster Church in the Royall. This Church was new builded, and made a Colledge of S. Spirit, and S. Mary, founded by Richard Whittington, Mercer, foure times Maior, for a Master, foure Fellowes, Masters of Art, Clerkes, Conducts, Chorists, &c. and an Almes-house, called Gods house or Hospitall, for thirteene poore men, one of them to be Tutor, and to have 16 pence the weeke, the other twelve, each of them to have 14. pence the weeke for ever, with other necessary provision, an Hutch with three lockes, a common scale, &c.

These were bound to pray for the good estate of Richard Whittington, and Alice his wife; their Founders; and for Sir William VVhittington, R. VVhittington, [...]n to Sir VV. VVhittington Knight. Knight, and Dame Ioan his wife; and for Hugh Fitzwarren, and Dame Molde his wife, the Fathers and Mothers of the said Richard VVhittington, and Alice his wife; for King Richard the second, and Thomas of Woodslocke, Duke of Glocester, speciall Lords and Promoters of the said Richard VVhittington, &c.

The Licence for this foundation was granted by King Henry the fourth, the eleventh of his reign: and in the twelfth of the same Kings reigne, the Maior and Communalty of London, granted to Richard VVhittington a vacant peece of ground, thereon to build his Colledge in the Royall: all which was confirmed by Henry the 6. the third of his reigne, to Iohn Coventry, Ienkin Carpenter, and VVilliam Grove, Executors to Richard VVhittington.

This foundation was againe confirmed by Parliament, the tenth of Henry the sixth, and was suppressed by the Statute of Edward the sixth. The Almes houses, with the poore men, doe remaine, and are paid by the Mercers.

This Richard Whittington was (in this [Page] Church) three times buried:Richard Whittington thrice buried. first, by his Executors, under a faire Monument: then, in the reigne of Edward the sixth, the Parson of that Church, thinking some great riches (as he said) to be buried with him, caused his Monument to be broken, his body to be spoiled of his Leaden sheet, and againe the second time to be buried. And in the reigne of Queene Mary, the Parishioners were forced to take him up, to lap him in Lead, as afore, to bury him the third time, and to place his Monument, or the like, over him againe, which remaineth, and so he resteth.

Thomas Winford, Alderman, was buried in this Church, 1448.

Arnold Macknam, Vintner a Merchant of Burdeaux, 1457.

Sir Heere Tanke, or Hartancleux, Knight of the Garter, borne in Almaine, a noble Warrior in Henry the fifth and Henry the sixth's dayes.

Sir Edmond Mulshew, Knight, neere to Thomas Cockham, Recorder of London.

The Lady Kyme.

Sir William Oldhall, Knight, 1460.

William Barnocke.

Sir Iohn Yong, Grocer, Maior 1466.

Agnes, daughter to Sir Iohn Yong, first married to Robert Sherington, after to Robert Mulleneux, then to William Cheyney, Esquire.

Iohn Having, Gentleman.

William Roswell, Esquire.

William Postar, Clerk of the Crowne, 1520.

Sir William Bayly, Draper, Maior, 1533. with Dame Katharine his Wife, leaving sixteene children.

Iohn Haydon, Mercer, Sheriffe, 1582. who gave Legacies to the 13. Almes-men, and otherwise for a Lecture.

Vt fragrans Nardus,

A goodly plaine Marble Tombe in the Chancell, with new Banners to adorne it, very lately hung up.

famâ fuit iste Ricardus,

Albificans villam

qui justè rexer at illam.

Flos Mercatorum,

fundator Presbyterorum,

Sic & regonarum

testis sit certus eorum.

Omnibus exemplum

barathrum vincendo morosum,

Condidit hoc Templum

Michaelis, quam speciosum?

Regia spes & pres:

divinis res rata turbis.

Pauperibus pr.

& Maior qui fuit urbis,

Martius hunc vicit,

en Annos gens tibi dicit.

Finiit ipse dies,

sis sibi Christe quies.

Ejus sponsa pia, Generosa, probata, sophia Iungitur, &c.

Hic jacet Eduardus

Lupton cognomine dictus,

Occidit heu juvenis

cum spes foret omnibus una.

Pauperibus fuerat

studiosis ille patronus,

Mille & quingintos

tersaevos vidit ademptos

Moribus & studiis

qui vivens claruit olim;

Spiritus iste Iesus

mens à te suscipiatur.

Quisquis ades plora fata dolenda viri,

A faire plated stone before the Communion Table.

Hujus Collegii quique Magister erat;

Doctor, & in sacre Dogmate clarus erat;

Qui obiit Octobris & quoque nona fuit.

Credere nuncfas est spiritus astra tenet:

Spes me tua Iesus es, gratia, non opera.

At the upper end of this Street,Tower-Royall builded about Henry the 1. as may bee supposed. is the Tower Royall, whereof that street taketh name. This Tower and great place was so called, of pertaining to the Kings of this Realme:King Stephen was lodged there. but by whom the same was first builded, or of what Antiquity continued, I have not read more, than that in the reigne of King Edward 1. second, fourth, and seventh yeeres, it was the tenement of Simon Beawmes. Also, that in the 36. of Edward the third, the same was called the Royall, in the Parish of S. Michael de Pater noster, Frisard. and that in the three and fortieth of his Reigne, he gave it by the name of his Inne, called the Royall, in his Citie of London, in value twenty pounds by yeere, unto his Colledge of S. Stephen at Westminster. Notwithstanding, in the reigne of Richard the second, it was called The Queene Wardrobe, as appeareth by this that followeth:

King Richard, having in Smithfield overcome and dispersed the Rebels, hee, [Page] his Lords and all his Company,The Lady Princesse lodged in the Tower Royall. entered the City of London, with great joy, and went to the Lady Princesse his Mother, who was then lodged in the Tower-Royall, called the Queenes Wardrope, where shee had remained three dayes and two nights, right sore abashed. But when shee saw the King her Sonne, she was greatly rejoyced and said, Ah Sonne, what great sorrow have I suffered for you this day! The King answered and said; Certainely, Madame, I know it well, but now rejoyce, and thanke God, for I have this day recovered mine heritage, and the Realme of England, which I had neere-hand lost.

This Tower seemeth to have beene (at that time) of good defence, for when the Rebels had beset the Tower of London and got possession thereof, taking from thence whom they listed, as in my Annales I have shewed; the Princesse being force to flye, came to this Tower Royall▪ where shee was lodged, and remained safe as yee have heard, and it may bee also supposed, that the King himselfe was at that time lodged there. I reade, that in the yeere 1386. Ly [...]n King of Armony, being chased out of his Realme by the Tartarians, received innumerable gifts of the King and of his Nobles,King Richard lodged in the Tower-Royall. the King then lying in the Royall, where hee also granted to the said King of Armony, a Charter of a thousand pounds by yeere during his life. This for proofe may suffice, that Kings of England have beene lodged in this Tower, though the same (of later time) hath been neglected, and turned into stabling for the Kings, horses, and now letten out to divers men, and divided into Tenements.

In Horse-bridge street is the Cutlers Hall,Culters Hall. Richard de Wilehale 1295. confirmed to Paul Butelor, this house and edifices, in the Parish of Saint Michael Pater noster Church, and Saint Iohns upon Walbrooke, which sometime Lawrence Gisors, and his son Peter Gisors did possesse, and afterward Hugonis de Hingham, and lyeth betweene the Tenement of the said Richard towards the South, and the lane called Hors-shoo bridge towards the North, and betweene the way called Pater noster Church on the West, and the course of Walbrooke on the East, paying yeerely one Clove of Gilliflowers at Easter, and to the poore and Covent of Saint Mary Overy, 6. s. this house sometime belonged to Simon Dolesly, Grocer, Maior, 1359. They of this Company were (of old time) three Arts, or sorts of Workmen, to wit, the first were Smiths, Forgers of Blades, and therefore called Bladers, and divers of them proved wealthy men,Bladers or Blade-Smiths. as namely, Walter Nele, Blader, one of the Sheriffes, the twelth of Edward the third deceased, 1352. and buried in S. Iames Garlicke hith. He left Lands to the mending of High-waies about London, betwixt Newgate and VVicombe, Ealdgate and Chelmesford, Bishopsgate and VVare, Southwarke and Rochester, &c. The second were makers of Hafts, and otherwise garnishers of Blades:Haftmakers. The third sort were Sheathmakers for Swords,Sheathmakers. Daggers, and Knives. In the 10. of Henry the fourth certaine ordinances were made betwixt the Bladers, and the other Cutlers, and in the fourth of Henry the sixth, they were all three Companies drawne into one Fraternity or Brotherhood, by the name of Cutlers.

Then is Knight riders street, Knight riders street. so called (as is supposed) of Knights well armed and mounted at the Tower Royall, riding from thence through the street, West to Creed lane, and so out at Ludgate towards Smithfield, when they were: there to Turney, Just, or otherwise to shew activities before the King and States of the Realme. In this streete is the Parish Church of Saint Thomas Apostles, Wring-wren lane, by Wring-wren lane, a proper Church,Parish Church of S. Thomas the Apostle. and in the yeere 1629. well repaired and finely garnished; but Monuments of antiquity, I finde none beyond the reigne of Henry the eighth, except some Armes in the windowes, as also in the stone-worke, which some suppose to be of Iohn Barns Mercea, Maior of London, in the yeere 1371. a great builder thereof, H. Causton Merchant, was a Benefactor, and had a Chantry there about, 1396. T. Roman, Maior 1310. had also a Chantry there 1319. Fitz-Williams also a Benefactor, had a Chantry there. More, Sir VVilliam Littlesbury, alias Horne, (for King Edward the fourth so named him) because he was a most excellent blower in a Horne, hee was a [Page] Salter, and Merchant of the Staple, Maior of London in the yeere 1487. and was buried in this Church, having appointed (by his Testament) the Bels to be changed for foure new Bels of good time and found; but that was not performed: he gave 500. Markers towards the repairing of high-wayes betweene London and Cambridge; his dwelling house, with a Garden, and appurtenances in the said Parish, to be sold, and bestowed in charitable actions, as his Executors would answer before God.

His house called the George in Breadstreet he gave to the Salters,George in Breadstreet given to the Salters upon conditions not performed. they to finde a Priest in the said Church, to have six pounds, thirteene shillings, foure pence the yeere, to every Preacher at Pauls Crosse, and at the Spittle, 4. pence for ever; to the Prisoners of Newgate, Ludgate, Marshalsey, and Kings Bench, in victuals tenne shillings at Christmas, and tenne shillings at Easter for ever; which Legacies are not performed.

William Shipton, William Champneis, and Iohn de Burford, had Chauntries there: Iohn Martin, Butcher, one of the Sheriffs, was buried there 1533. Those Monuments that be extant of these latter times, be these following:

There lieth buried neere this Monument,On the North side of the Chancell. Margaret one of the daughters of the Lord Broke, Chiefe Baron of the Exchequer, in the reigne of King Henry the eighth: who lineally descended of the House of Broke of in Cheshire; which said Margaret was first married to William Whorwood, second son to John VVhorwood of Compton in the County of Stafford, Esquire, which said William dyed Atturney Generall to the said King Henry the 8. After whose death, shee tooke to her second Husband, William Sheldon of Beeley in the County of Worcester, Esquire; who also dyed, leaving her a Widdow, and so she continued many yeeres after; and then dyed, being about the age of 80. yeeres, and was buried in March, 1589. in the 32. yeere of Qu. Elizabeth.

On the South side of the Chancell, a very fine, neat and well-contrived Monument, but without any date, whereon these Verses are insculpt:

In mortem suam haec Carmina dum vixerat scripsit D. Katharina Killigreia.

Dormio nunc Domino,

Domini vitute resurgam;

Et [...] meum

carne videbo mea.

Mortua ne dicar,

fruitur pars altera Christo,

Et surgar capiti,

tempore, tota, meo.

Elizabethae in Obitum Katharinae Sororis Epicaedia.

[...],

[...].

[...],

[...].

Chara val [...]to Soror,

in Caelo morte triumphas,

Mors tua vita tibi,

mors tamen illa tuis.

Mens tua labe carens,

pietas, doctrina, modesta

Vita, lepos suavis

digna fuere Deo.

Vt junxit Sanguis,

nos jungat in aethere Christus:

Interea taceo

mortua morte tua.

Felicissimae & in Christo charissimae Memoriae Katharinae Kiligreiae, Robertus Massonus Formanus Pastor Ecclesiae Londino-Gallicae, his Versibus parentavit.

Coelestem [...]

conclusam pectore mentem

Audivi, aspexi,

saepius obstupui;

Caelicolam sancto

seclusam corpore mentem,

Quam colui carus,

maestus ovans (que) cano.

Quis non ereptas

tot dotes lugeat? & quis

Coelo caelestes

lividus invideat?

Cedere sed Patri

gnatos, terrena supernis

Est aequum, sequimur:

tu [...] praei.

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Epitaphium praestant. Feminae, Katharinae Kiligreiae Autore Andrea Melvino.

Palladis & Phoebi

comes una, & Pieris una,

Pieridum (que) Soror,

Pieridum (que) Parens.

Gratia, Suada, Lepos,

Gravitas, Constantia, Candor,

Relligio, Pietas,

& Pudor & Probitas,

At (que) Palestinae,

& Latiae, Graiae (que) Camenae

Clausit olim uno

omnes pectore, nunc tumulo.

Aliud Epitaphium Autore Guilielmo Charco.

Hic Katharina jacet

de stemmate nobilitato

Cociadum, & claro

Kiligreio nupta marito:

Hoc satis est, Hospes:

Rhodanus nam caetera novit,

Et dives Rhenus

celebrat, sic fama Sororem

Musarum, & magnam

magnae Pietatis Alumnam.

Vnder the Communion Table, a stone ingraven.

Here lyes interred the body of Mr. John FFoy,

Vnder the Cōmunion Table.

Citizen and Merchant-Taylor of London, who departed this life 1. Decemb. 1625. and left issue 4. Sonnes, (viz.) John, George, Henry and Richard: Hee lived and dyed in the true faith of Christ Iesus, which he hath amply expressed, in a worthy annuall contribution towards the poore of this Parish.

Then West from the said Church on the same side,Ipres Inne. was one great Messuage, sometime called Ipres Inne, of William of Ipres a Flemming, the first builder thereof. This William was called out of Flanders, King Stephen lodged in the Tower-Royall. with a number of Flemmings to the aide of King Stephen, against Maude the Empresse, in the yeere 1138. and grew in favour with the said King for his service, so farre, that he builded this house neere unto Tower-Royall, in the which Tower it seemeth the King was then lodged, as in the heart of the City, for his more safety.

Robert Earle of Glocester, Brother to the Empresse, being taken, was committed to the custody of this William, to be kept in the Castle of Rochester, till King Stephen was also taken, and then the one was delivered in exchange for the other, and both set free: This William of Ipres gave Edredes Hith, now called Queenes Hith, to the Prior and Canons of the holy Trinity in London: he founded the Abbey of Borley in Kent, &c. In the first of Henry the second, the said William, with all the other Flemmings (fearing the indignation of the new King) departed the Land, but it seemeth that the said William was shortly called back againe, and restored both to the Kings favour, and to his old possessions here, so that the name and family continued long after in this Realme, as may appeare by this which followeth.

In the yeere 1377. the 51. of Edward the third, the Citizens of London minding to have destroyed Iohn of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, and Henry Percy Marshall, (for causes shewed in my Annals) sought up and downe, and could not finde them, for they were that day to dine with Iohn of Ipres at his Inne, which the Londoners wist not of, but thought the Duke and Marshall had beene at the Savoy, and therefore poasted thither. But one of the Dukes Knights seeing these things, came in great haste to the place where the Duke was, and after that hee had knocked, and could not be let in, he said to Haveland the Porter, If thou love my Lord and thy life, open the Gate: with which words hee gat entry, and with great feare he tels the Duke, that without the gate were infinite numbers of armed men, and unlesse he tooke great heed, that day would bee his last. With which words the Duke leapt so hastily from his Oysters, that he hurt both his legs against the forme: VVine was offered, but hee could not drinke for haste, and so fled with his fellow Henry Percy out at a backe gate, and entring upon the Thames, never stayed rowing, untill they came to a house neere the Manor of Kennington, Kennington besides Lambeth. where at that time the Princesse lay, with Richard the young Prince; before whom hee made his complaint, &c.

[Page] On the other side, I read of a Messuage, called Ringed hall: King Henry the eighth the 32. of his reigne, gave the same (with foure Tenements adjoyning) unto Morgan Philip, alias Wolfe, in the Parish of St. Thomas Apostles in London, &c.

Over-against Ipres Inne in Knight-riders street, at the corner towards Saint Iames at Garlicke hith, was sometime a great house builded of stone, and called Ormond place, for that it sometime belonged to the Earles of Ormond. Ormond place. King Edward the fourth in the fifth of his reigne, gave to Elizabeth his wife, the Manor of Greenwitch, with the Tower and Parke, in the County of Kent. Hee also gave this Tenement called Ormond place, with all the appurtenances to the same situate in the Parish of St. Trinity in Knight-riders street in London. This house is now lately taken downe, and divers faire Tenements are builded there, the corner house whereof is a Taverne.

Then lower downe in Royall street, is Kerion lane, Kerion lane. of one Kerion sometime dwelling there. In this lane bee divers faire houses for Merchants; and amongst others,Glasiers Hall. is the Glasiers Hall.

At the South corner of Royall street, Parish Church of S. Martin in the Vintrie. is the faire Parish Church of Saint Martin, called in the Vintrie, sometime called S. Martin de Beremand Church. This Church was new buided about the yeer 1399. by the Executors of Mathew Columbars, Li. Trinitate London. a stranger borne, a Burdeaux Merchant of Gascoine and French Wines: His Armes yet remaine yet in the East Window; and is a Cheveron, betweene three Columbins. There lye buried in this Church, Sir Iohn Gisors, Maior, 1311. Henry Gisors, his sonne, 1343. and Iohn Gisors, his brother, 1350. He gave to his sonne T. his great Mansion house,Gisors Hall, corruptly called Gerards Hall. called Gisors Hall, in the Parish of Saint Mildred in Breadstreet. This Thomas had issue, Iohn and Thomas: Iohn made a Feoffement, and sold Gisors hall, and other his Lands in London, about the yeere 1386. Thomas deceased 1395. Henry Vennar. Bartholomew de la Vauch. Thomas Cornwallis, one of the Sheriffes, 1384. Iohn Cornwallis Esquire, 1436. Iohn Mustrell, Vintner 1424. William Hodson. William Castleton. Iohn Gray. Robert Dalusse, Barber, in the reigne of Edward the fourth, with this Epitaph.

As flowers in field,

Epitaph.

thus passeth life,

Naked, then clothed,

feeble in the end.

It sheweth by Robert Dalusse,

and Alison his Wife:

Christ them save

from the power of the Fiend.

Hic jacet Petrus de la Genebra,A faire Stone beyond the Pulpit. filius & heres Ioannis de la Genebra, quondam Burgensis, & Mercatoris de Civitate Burdegali. Qui obiit 27. die Martii, An. Domini 1439. Civis animae propitietur Deus.

Hic jacet Willielmus Stokesby,A very faire plated Stone under the Communion Table. quondam Civis & Vintener London, & Iuliana uxor ejus. Qui obbiit 25. die Decemb. An. Dom. 1381. Cujus, &c.

Hic jacet Thomas Cornwaleis,Another close by it. quondam Civis London. Qui obiit quarto die Ianuarii, Anno Domini 1384. Cujus, &c.

Honorabilis viri Radulphi Astri Militis,A very goodly plated Stone at the entrance into the Quire. nuper Maioris ac Aldermanni & Piscenarii Civitatis London: & praecarissimarum Dominae Margeria, ac Margareta uxorum ejus. Qui quidem Radulphus obiit 18. die Novembris, An. Dom. 1494. Et dicta Domina Margareta obiit die Ac praedicta Margeria ab hoc saeculo migravit 10. die Martii. An. Dom. 1492. Cujus, &c.

Micolt,An ancient Marble Tombe in the Chancell. quondam Civis & vinitarius London, & Ioanna uxor ejus, ac pueri eorundem. Qui quidem Iohannes obiit 17. die Aprilis, An. Dom. 1424. Quorum animae per Dei immensam misericordiam in pace perpetua permaneant, ac requiem possideant.

Es testis, Christe,

quod non jacet hic lapis iste,

Corpus ut ornatur,

sed spiritus ut memoretur.

Hunc tu qui tum sis

magnus parvus puer ansis

Pro me funde preces,

quod sic mihi fit veniae spes.

Radulphus Astry,Another faire stone close by the other. Generos. unus filiorum Rad. Astry, Militis, quondam Maioris Civitatis London. Qui quidem Rad. [Page] filius in sua florida juventute, ab hoc saeculo migravit, 19. die mens. Septembris, Anno Domini, 1501.

Henry Gisors gist yci, Dieu de sa' Ame tien pittie, è Iohn le filz à mercy. Qui morust le veille de S. Katharine, En l' An de Grace, 1343.

Martis Pascha tenes,

All these stones, fairely plated, are in the body of the Church.

Edward Rex luce tiburci

Hunc del Foorll. Dominum,

strage ruisse dolet.

Is dabat Gascon,

Anglus sum corde Ioannes,

In Campis Barnet

mortis amara tulit.

Bis septingeno,

decies sept. & simul uno,

Mane resurgente

obviat iste Iesu.

Anglicus haec relegens,

miserere tui Peregrini,

Et pro te moriens,

te sciat esse pium.

Haec petra substrati

Kirkman tegit ossa Roberti,

Qui Rector fuerat

istius Ecclesiae.

M. D. deme quater

septem Christi cadit Anno,

Aprilis terna

raptus ab orbe die.

Artibus ille Magister

erat, Ecclesia tandem,

Tristia post fati

gaudia dentur ei.

Sir Ralph Austrie, or Astry, Fishmonger, Maior, new roofed this Church with Timber, covered it with Lead, and beautifully glased it. Hee deceased 1494. and was there buried, with his two wives. Ralph Austrie his son, Gent. William Austrie, and other of that name. Bertrand, wife to Grimond Descure, Esquire, a Gascione, and Merchant of Wines, 1494. Thomas Batson, Alice Fowler, daughter and heire to Iohn Howton, wife to Iohn Hulton. Iames Bartlet and Alice his wife. William Fennor, Roger Cotton, Robert Stocker, Iohn Pemberton, Philip de Plasse, Iohn Stapleton, Iohn Mortimer, William Lee, William Hamsteed, W. Stokesbie, and Gilbert March, had Chantries there.

Then is the Parish Church of Saint Iames, Parish Church of St. Iames Garlicke Hith. called at Garlicke Hith, or Garlicke hive, for that (of old time) on the River of Thames, neere to this Church, Garlicke was usually sold. This is a proper Church, whereof Richard Rothing, one of the Sheriffes, 1326. is said to be the new builder, and lyeth buried in the same: so was Walter Nele, Blader, one of the Sheriffes, 1337. Iohn of Oxenford, Vintner, Maior, 1341. I read in the first of Edward the third, that this Iohn of Oxenford gave to the Priory of the holy Trinity, in London, two Tosts of Land, one Mill, fifty Acres of Land, two Acres of Wood, with the appurtenances, in Kentish Towne, in value twenty shillings and three pence by yeere.

Richard Goodcheape, Iohn de Cressingham, and Iohn Whitthorne, and before them, Galfrid Moncley, 1281. founded a Chantry there.

Monuments remaining there: Robert Gabeter, Esquire, Maior of Newcastle upon Tine, 1310.

Iohn Gisors, William Tiligham, Iohn Stanley, L. Strange, eldest sonne to the Earle of Darby, 1503.

Nicholas Staham. Robert de Luton, 1361.

Richard Lions, a famous Merchant of VVines, and a Lapidary, sometime one of the Sheriffes, beheaded in Cheape by Wat Tylar, and other Rebels, in the yeere 1381. his picture on his Gravestone very faire and large, is with his haire rounded by his eares, and curled, a little beard forked, a gowne girt to him, downe to his feet, of branched Damaske, wrought with the likenesse of flowers, a large Purse on his right side, hanging in a Belt from his left shoulder, a plain Hood about his neck, covering his shoulders, and hanging backe behind him.

Sir Iohn Wrotch, Fishmonger, Maior, 1361. deceased 1407.

Thomas Stonard of Oxfordshire.

Iohn Bromer, Fishmonger, Alderman, 1474.

The Lady Stanley, mother to the Lord Strange.

The Countesse of Huntington, The Lady Herbert.

Sir George Stanley.

Gilbert Bovet, 1398.

[Page] A Countesse of Worcester, and one of her children.

William Venor, Grocer, Maior, 1389.

William More, Vintner, Maior, 1395.

Robert Chichley, Maior, 1421.

Iames Spencer, Vintner, Maior, 1543.

Richard Plat, Brewer, founded a free Schoole there, 1601.

Rogerus Iones,A faire Tombe in the East end of the Chancels South Ile. Middletoni, in Comitatu Lancastrensi natus, vix puberta egressus, se Londinum contulit, ubi Civitate donatus, & Artem Tinctoriam exercens, Agnetem, Thomae Hacketti filiam, Matrimonio sibi junxit. Ex qua filios novem, quatuor verò filias Suscepit. Quarum una Patre adhuc superstite diem obiit. hic cum varia Civitatis munia laudabiliter obiisset, tandem in celebrem supremi ordinis Senatum, Aldermannorum scilicet, cooptatus est; Mox Aeques abillustrissimo Rege Iacobo creatus est, & paulo post Vicecomes Civitatis London est designatus. Quo Magistratu nondum expleto, non sine magno bonorum luctu, vicesimo quinto die mensis Iulii, Anno Domini 1605. piè in Domino requiescit.

Here lyeth buried the body of Richard Plat Brewer,A comely Monumēt in the wall of the South Ile. and sometime chosen Sheriffe of London. The Founder of a free School, and sixe Almes-houses, in Aldenham, in the County of Hertford. Hee dyed the 28. of November, 1600. having taken to wife Alice Birtles, the daughter of John Birtles, Esquire, and having issue foure sons and one daughter.

Here Edmund Chapman,

In the same wall a comely Monumēt.

clos'd in clay,

undoubtedly doth rest,

Who to his Neighbours (while he liv'd)

the fruits of love exprest:

Fine Pewes within this Church he made,

and with his Armes support,

The Table, and the Seats in Quire,

hee set in comely sort.

To Prisoners, and to Hospitals,

hee living, was a friend,

And ever sought, the innocent

from danger to defend.

Esquier-Ioyner to our Queene,

hee in his life time was,

And Yeoman of her Armory

at Greenwitch, in like case:

VVherein hee like a servant just,

for duty duly done,

Vnto himselfe of Prince and Peeres

the love and favour wonne.

Threescore seven yeeres hee lived here,

in worship and good name,

And left this life, to live with Christ,

to his eternall fame.

His Soule, the fourteenth day of May,

did from his body fleet,

Which he with cheerefull voyce did yeeld

to Christ his Saviour sweet:

And on the eighteenth of that moneth,

by computation just,

A thousand five hundred eighty eight,

his body was laid in dust.

But body and soule at last, be sure,

through Gods abundant grace,

Shall rise, and knit againe in one,

and stand before his face:

Where, with his Saints elect (we hope)

hee shall receive a Crowne,

And live for ever with sweet Christ,

in glory and renowne.

Thus, friends (by this deare friend of ours)

let's learne to live and dye,

That after death wee may have [...]

above the starry skie.

And thus an end of Vintrie Ward, which hath an Alderman, with a Deputy, common Counsellors 9. Constables 9. Scavengers 4. Ward-mote inquest 14. and a Beadle. It is taxed to the Fifteene, 6. pound, 13. shillings, 4. pence.

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CORDWAINER STREET VVard.

THe next is Cordwainer street Ward,Cordwainer street ward. taking that name of Cordwainers, or Shoomakers, Curriers, and workers of Leather dwelling there: for it appeareth in the Records of Henry the 6. the ninth of his reign, that an order was taken then for Cordwainers and Curriers in Corney street, and Sopers lane.

This Ward beginneth in the East, on the West side of VValbrooke, and runneth West thorow Budge row, Budge Row. (a street so called of Budge, Furre, and of Skinners dwelling there:) then up by Saint Anthonies Church, thorow Atheling (or Noble-street) as Leyland termeth it,VVathling street. commonly called VVathling-street, to the Red Lion, a place so called, of a great Lion of Timber placed there, at a gate entring a large Court, wherein are divers faire and large shops, well furnished with broad-cloathes, and other Draperies of all sorts to bee sold: and this is the farthest West part of this Ward.

On the South side of this street from Budge row, lyeth a lane turning downe by the West gate of the Tower Royall, and to the South end of the stone Wall beyond the said gate, which is of this Ward, and is accounted a part of the Royall street.

Against this West gate of the Tower Royall, is one other Lane, that runneth West to Cordwainer street, and this is called Turnebase lane: Turnebase Lane. on the South side whereof is a piece of Wring-wren lane, to the North-west corner of Saint Thomas Church the Apostle. Then againe out of the high street called Watheling, is one other street which runneth thwart the same,Cordwainer street. and this is Cordwainer street, wherof the whole VVard taketh name.

This street beginneth by West-Cheape, and Saint Mary Bow Church is the head thereof on the VVest side, and it runneth downe South,Hosier lane in Cordwainer street. thorow that part, which of latter time was called Hosier lane, now Bow lane, and then by the west end of Aldermary Church, to the newbuilded houses, in place of Ormond-House, and so to Garlickehill or hith, to S. Iames Church.

The upper part of this street towards Cheape, was called Hosier lane, of Hosiers dwelling there in place of Shoomakers: but now those Hosiers beeing worne out by men of other trades, (as the Hosiers had worne out the Shoomakers) the same is called Bow lane, of Bow Church.

On the west side of Cordwainer street, is Basing lane, Basing lane. right over against Turnebase lane. This Basing lane, west, to the backe gate of the Red Lion in Wathling street, is of this Cordwainer street VVard.

Now againe on the North side of this high street, is Budge row: by the East end of Saint Anthonies Church, have ye Saint Sithes lane, S. Sithes lane. so called of S. Sithes Church, (which standeth against the North end of that Lane) and this is wholly of Cordwainer street VVard: also the South side of Needlers lane, which reacheth from the North end of Saint Sithes lane, Needlers lane. west to Sopers lane: then west from S. Anthonies Church, is the South end of Sopers lane, Sopers lane. which lane tooke that name, not of Sope-making, as some [Page] have supposed, but of Alen le Sopar, in the ninth of Edward the second. I have not read of Sope-making in this Citie, till within this hundred yeeres, that Iohn Lambe, dwelling in Grasse-street, set up a boyling-house: for this Citie (in former time) was served of white Sope in hard cakes (called Castle Sope, and other) from beyond the Seas,Gray Sope made in London, dearer than bought from Bristow. and of gray Sope, speckled with white, very sweet and good, from Bristow, sold here for a penny the pound, and never above penny farthing, and blacke Sope for an halfe-penny the pound.

Then in Bow lane (as they now call it) is Goose lane, Goose lane. by Bow Church. VVilliam Essex, Mercer, had tenements there, in the 26. of Edward the third.

Then from the South end of Bow lane, up VVathling street, till over against the Red Lion: And these be the bounds of Cordwainer street Ward.

Touching Monuments therein: first, you have the faire Parish Church of S. Anthonies in Budge row, Parish Church of S. Anthonies. more vulgarly knowne by the name of Saint Antlins, on the North side thereof. This Church was lately reedified by Thomas Knowles, Grocer, Maior, and by Thomas Knowles, his sonne, both buried there, with Epitaphs of the Father, thus:

Here lyeth graven

under this stone,

Epitaph of Tho. Knowles.

Thomas Knowles,

both flesh and bone,

Grocer and Alderman

yeeres forty,

Sheriffe, and twice

Maior truely.

And for he should

not lye alone,

Here lyeth with him

his good wife Joane:

They were together

sixty yeere,

And nineteene children

they had in feere, &c.

Thomas Holland, Mercer, was there buried, 1456.

Thomas VVindent, Mercer, Alderman, and Katharine his wife.

Thomas Hind, Mercer, 1528. He was a Benefactor to this Church, to Aldermarie Church, and to Bow.

Hugh Acton, Merchant-Taylor, buried 1520. He gave 36. pounds to the repairing of the Steeple of this Church.

Simon Street, Grocer, lyeth in the Church wall toward the South: his Armes be three Colts, and his Epitaph thus:

Such as I am,

Simon Street his Epitaph.

such shall you be:

Grocer of London

sometime was I,

The Kings Weigher

more than yeeres twenty:

Simon Street

called in my place,

And good fellowship

faine would trace:

Therefore in Heaven,

everlasting life

Iesu send me,

and Agnes my wife.

Kerlie Merlie,

my words were the,

And Deo gratias

I coupled thereto.

I passed to God

in the yeere of grace,

A thousand

foure hundred it was, &c.

Henry Collet, Mercer, Maior, a great Benefactor to this Church. The pictures of him, his wife, ten sonnes, and ten daughters, remain in the glasse-window, on the North side of the Church: but the said Henry Collet was buried at Stebunhith. Henry Halton, Grocer, one of the Sheriffes, deceased 1415. Thomas Spight, Merchant-Taylor, 1533.

Iohn Grantham and Nicholas Bull had Chauntries there.

Here lyeth William Dauntesey,

An ancient Tomb in the South side

Mercer and Alderman of this Citie, and Merchant of the Staple of Callis; and Agnes his wife: the which William deceased the 23. day of April, in the yeere of our Lord God, 1543.

Vnto Sir Roger

Martin, Knight,

A very goodly Tombe in the Chancell.

A Mercer and

a Merchant late;

By wisedome, and

by waies upright,

[Page] That so both wealth

and worship gate.

Well fam'd, belov'd

of each estate,

Pleasant and sage

in gravity,

Rose by degrees

in dignity.

First Alderman

elected here,

Then Shrieve, and then

Lord Maior he was:

Pass'd all with praise.

His faithfull Feere,

Dame Elizabeth,

erected has

This Monument,

in mind, that as

With him a while

in Tombe to stay,

So afterward in blisse

to joy alway.

Ex D. Elizabeth octo prolum Parens. Obiit in Christo, die 20. Decemb. An. Dō. 1573. & regni Reg. Eliz. 16.

Here lyes the Lady

Martin eke,

Of Grecia soyle,

and Castlynes race,

Both constant, vertuous,

wise and meeke,

That shewed her selfe

in any place.

And God endued her

so with grace,

That she both liv'd

and dy'd with praise.

Two husbands had she

in her dayes,

Whose corps are both

inclosed here,

Together with

the foresaid Dame:

Her love to them

was aye so deare,

Her cost and charge

sustain'd the same:

These three, their deeds

will shew their fame:

Who as she liv'd in amity,

So here she sleepes in unity.

Domina Elizab. cum Maritis.

Credimus quod Redemptor noster vivit, & in novissimo die videbimus Deum Salvatorem nostrum, Iob 19.

And Thomas Knowles

is placed here,

At the west end of the same Tombe.

Whose bones from Bow

were hither borne:

His godly life

did well appeare,

In helping those

that were forlorne,

And vertue did

him so adorne,

That he beloved

was of all:

Mercer he was,

when death did call,

In prime of yeeres

his life alway:

Who dying like

a worthy wight,

Did hope in Christ,

to live for aye.

His wife him wailes

in wofull plight,

And for meere love,

him here she pight,

With her second Spouse

to sleepe in peace;

And she with them,

when life shall cease.

Ex eadem Domina Elizab. trium prolum parens. Qui quidem Thomas obiit 11. die Iulii, An. à Messia nato, 1550.

Over a little doore in the South side of the Quire,This is said to be the true portraiture of Iohn Wells, whose Executors builded the Standard in West-d cap. at the time of late new repairing the Church, was found an ancient figure of a man, clothed in Scarlet furred, holding open his hands, as in admiration; having rings on the thumbe and fingers of his left hand, and two bookes before him, one closed, and the other lying open, with these words to be read:

Recogitabo tibi omnes annos meos in amaritudine animae meae.On one leafe.

Mercy and Grace,On the other. and for ever mercy, sweet Iesus, Ego rogo.

Next on the South side of Budge row, by the West corner thereof, and on the East side of Cordwainer street, is one other faire Church, called Aldermarie Church, because the same was very old, and elder than any Church of Saint Mary in the Citie, till of late yeeres the [Page] foundation of a very faire new Church was laid there by Henry Keble, Grocer, Maior, who deceased 1518. and was there buried in a vault by him prepared, with a faire Monument raised over him on the North side of the Quire, now destroyed and gone. He gave by his Testament 1000. l. toward the building up of that Church; and yet was not permitted a resting place for his bones there. Thomas Romane, Maior, 1310. had a Chauntrie there. Richard Chawcer, Richard Chawcer, Father to Geffrey Chawcer the Poet, as may be supposed. Vintner, gave to that Church his tenement and Taverne, with the appurtenances, in the Royall street, the corner of Kirion lane, and was there buried, 1348. Iohn Briton, Ralph Holland, Draper, one of the Sheriffs, deceased, 1452. William Taylor, Grocer, Maior, deceased, 1483. He discharged that Ward of Fifteenes to be paid by the poore. Thomas Hinde, Mercer, buried in S. Anthonies, gave 10. Fodder of Lead to the covering of the middle Ile of this Aldermary Church. Charles Blount, Lord Montjoy, was buried there, about the yeere 1545. he made or glazed the East window, as appeareth by his Armes: his Epitaph made by him in his life time, thus:

Willingly have I sought;

and willingly have I found

The fatall end that wrought

thither as duty bound:

Discharged I am of that I ought,

to my Country by honest wound,

My soule departed Christ hath bought:

the end of man, is ground.

Sir William Laxton, Grocer, Maior, deceased 1556. and Thomas Lodge, Grocer, Maior, 1583. were buried in the Vault of Henry Keble, whose bones were unkindly cast out, and his Monument pulled downe, in place whereof Monuments are set up of the later buried. William Blount, Lord Montjoy, buried there, 1594.

Here is fixt the Epitaph of

Sir Henry Kebyl, Knight,

Who was sometime of London Maior,

a famous worthy wight,

Which did this Aldermary Church

erect and set upright.

Though death prevaile with mortal wights;

On the out-side of the folding Tables which hang in the uppe [...] end of the Chancell.

and hasten every day,

Yet vertue over-lives the Grave,

her fame doth not decay:

As memories doe shew reviv'd,

of one that was alive,

Who being dead, of vertuous fame,

none should seeke to deprive;

Which so in life deserv'd renowne,

for facts of his to seee,

That may encourage other now,

of like good mind to be.

Sir Henry Keble, Knight, Lord Maior

of London, here he sate,

Of Grocers worthy Company,

the chiefest in his state,

Which in this Citie grew to wealth,

and unto worship came,

When Henry reign'd, who was the seventh

of that redoubted name:

But he to honour did atchieve

the second golden yeere

Of Henries reigne, so call'd the eighth,

and made his fact appeare.

When he this Aldermanry Church

'gan build with great expence,

Twice thirty yeeres agon, no doubt,

counting the time from hence:

Which worke began the yeere of Christ,

well knowne of Christen men,

One thousand and five hundred just,

if ye will adde but ten.

But lo, when man purposeth most,

God doth dispose the best,

And so before this worke was done,

God call'd this Knight to rest.

This Church as then not fully built;

he dyed about the yeere,

When Ill May day first tooke his name,

which is downe fixed here:

1516.

Whose workes became a Sepulcher,

to shrowd him in that case:

God tooke his soule, but corps of his

was laid about this place.

Who when he dyed, of this his worke

so mindfull still he was,

That he bequeath'd a thousand pounds

to have it brought to passe.

The execution of whose gift,

or where the fault should be,

The worke as yet unfinished

shall shew you all for me▪

VVhich Church stands there; if any please

to finish up the same,

As he hath well begun, no doubt,

and to his endlesse fame;

[Page] They shall not onely well bestow

their Talent in this life,

But after death, when bones be rot,

their fame shall be most rife;

With thankfull praise and good report

of our Parochians here,

Which have of right Sir Henries fame,

afresh renewed this yeere.

God move the minds of wealthy men,

their workes so to bestow

As he hath done, that though they dye,

their vertuous fame may flow.

Inclita perpetuo durabit tempore Virtus,

Et floret fato non violenda truci.

Sir William Laxton lyes interr'd

Within this hollow vault,

A faire Tombe in the Chancell.

That by good life had happy death,

the end for which he sought.

Of poore and rich he was belov'd,

his dealings they were just,

God hath his soule, his body here

consumed is to dust.

Here lives by fame, that lately died,

Sir William Laxtons wife,

That ever was a doer of good,

and liv'd a vertuous life:

A mindfull Matron of the poore,

and to the learned sort,

A true and faithfull Citizen,

and dyed with good report.

He dyed the 29. day of July, 1556.

Here lyeth buried Sir Thomas Lodge, A small Monumēt laid on the groūd by the Tombe, within the iron grate Knight, and Dame Anne his wife. Hee was L. Maior in the yeere of our Lord God, 1563. when God did visit this Citie with a great plague for our sinnes.

For we are sure that our Redeemer liveth, and that we shall rise out of the earth in the latter day, &c. Job 19.

At the upper end of Hosier lane, toward West-Cheape, is the faire Parish Church of S. Mary Bow. This Church in the reigne of William the Conquerour, being the first in this Citie builded on Arches of stone,New Mary Church, or S. Mary Bow in West Cheaping. L. Colchester was therefore called new Mary Church, of Saint Mary de Arcubus, or le Bow, in West Cheaping: As Stratford Bridge, being the first builded (by Matilda, the Queene, wife to Henry the first) with Arches of stone, was called Stratford le Bow, which names to the said Church and Bridge, remaine till this day. The Court of the Arches is kept in this Church, and taketh name of the place, not the place of the Court; but of what antiquity or continuation that Court hath there continued, I cannot learne.

This Church is of Cordwainer street Ward, and for divers accidents hapning there, hath bin made more famous than any other Parish Church of the whole Citie, or Suburbs. First we read, that in the yeere 1090. and the third of William Rufus, by tempest of wind, the roofe of the Church of Saint Mary Bow in Cheape was overturned,Roofe of Bow Church overturned by tempest. wherewith some persons were slaine, and foure of the rafters of sixe and twenty foot in length, with such violence were pitched in the ground of the high street, that scantly foure foot of them remained above ground, which were faine to bee cut even with the ground, because they could not be plucked out; for the Citie of London was not then paved, but a moorish ground.

In the yeere 1196. William Fitz Osbert, Bow steeple fortified. a seditious Traitor, tooke the steeple of Bow, and fortified it with munitions and victuals; but it was assaulted, and William with his complices, were taken (though without blood-shed) for he was forced by fire and smoke to forsake the Church, and then being by the Iudges condemned, he was by the heels drawne to the Elmes in Smithfield, A false accuser of his elder brother, in the end was hanged. and there hanged with nine of his fellowes, where because his favoures came not to deliver him, he forsooke Maries Son, (as he termed Christ our Saviour) & called upon the Divell to help and deliver him. Such was the end of this deceiver, a man of an evill life, a secret murtherer, a filthy fornicator, a polluter of concubines, and (amongst other his detestable facts) a false accuser of his elder brother, who had (in his youth) brought him up in learning, and done many things for his preferment.

In the yeere 1271. a great part of the Steeple of Bow fell downe,Bow steeple fell downe. and slew many people, men and women. In the yeere 1284. the thirteenth of Edward the first, Laurence Ducket, Goldsmith, having grievously wounded one Ralph Crepin in West Cheape, fled into Bow Church, into the which (in the night time) [Page] entred certaine evill persons, friends unto the sayd Ralph, and slew the sayd Laurence lying in the Steeple, and then hanged him up, placing him so by the window, as if hee had hanged himselfe, and so was it found by inquisition. For the which fact, Lawrence Ducket being drawne by the feete, was buried in a ditch without the City. But shortly after (by relation of a Boy, who lay with the sayd Lawrence at the time of his death, and had hid him there for feare) the truth of the matter was disclosed. For the which cause, Iordan Good-cheape, Ralph Crepin, Gilbert Clarke, and Geffrey Clarke were attainted, and a certaine woman named Alice, that was chiefe causer of the sayd mischiefe, was burned, and to the number of sixteene men were drawne and hanged; besides others, that being richer, after long imprisonment, were hanged by the purse.

The Church was interdicted,Bow Church interdicted. the doores and windowes were stopped up with Thornes: but Lawrence was taken up, and honestly buried in the Church-yard.

The Parish Church of Saint Mary Bow, by meanes of incroachment, and building of houses, wanting roome in their Church-yard for buriall of the dead, Iohn Rotham, or Rodham, Citizen and Taylor, by his Testament dated the yeare 1465. gave to the Parson and Church-wardens a certaine Garden in Hosier lane, to be a Church-yard: which so continued neere a hundred yeares, but now is builded on, and is a private mans house. The old Steeple of this Church was by little and little re-edified, and new builded up, at the least so much as was fallen downe; many men giving summes of money to the furtherance thereof: So that at length, to wit, in the yeare 1469. it was ordained by a Common Councell,Bow Bell to bee rung nightly at nine of the clock. that the Bow Bell should bee nightly rung at nine of the clocke.

Shortly after, Iohn Donne, Mercer, by his Testament dated 1472. according to the trust of Reginald Longdon, gave to the Parson & Church-wardens of Saint Mary Bow, two Tenements, with the appurtenances, since made into one, in Hosier lane, then so called, to the maintenance of Bow Bell, the same to bee rung as aforesayd, and other things to bee observed, as by the VVill appeareth.

This Bel being usually rung somewhat late, as seemed to the young men Prentises, and other in Cheape, they made and set up a time against the Clerke, as followeth:

Clarke of the Bow-Bell

with the yellow lockes,

For thy late ringing,

thy head shall have knockes.

Wherunto the Clerke replying, wrote:

Children of Cheape,

hold you all still,

For you shall have the

Bow-bell rung at your will.

Robert Harding, Goldsmith, one of the Sheriffes 1478. gave to the new worke of that Steeple forty pound. Iohn Haw, Mercer, ten pound, Doctor Allen, foure pound, Thomas Baldry foure pound, and other gave other summes, so that the sayd worke of the Steeple was finished in the yeere 1512. The Arches or Bowes thereupon,Bow or Arches on Bow steeple. with the Lanthornes five in number, to wit, one at each corner, and one on the top in the middle vpon the Arches, were also afterward finished of stone, brought from Cane in Normandy, delivered at the Customers Key for foure shillings eight pence the Tunne. William Copland Taylor, the Kings Merchant, and Andrew Fuller, Mercer, being Church-wardens 1515. and 1516. It is sayd that this Copland gave the great Bell, which made the fifth in the ring, to be rung nightly at nine of the clocke. This Bell was first rung (as a knell) at the buriall of the same Copland. It appeareth, that the Lanthornes on the top of this Steeple, were meant to have been glased, and lights in them placed nightly in the winter, whereby travellers to the City might have the better sight thereof, and not to misse of their wayes.

In this Parish also was a Grammar Schoole,Grammar schoole in Bow Churchyard. by commandement of King Henry the sixth, which Schoole was (of old time) kept in an house for that purpose prepared in the Church-yard; but that Schoole being decayed, as others about this City, the Schoole-house was let out for rent, in the reign of Henry the [Page] eighth, for foure shillings the yeare, a Cellar for two shillings the yeere, and two Vaults under the Church for fifteene shillings both.Vaults under Bow Church.

The Monuments in this Church bee these, viz. of sir Iohn Coventry, Mercer, Maior, 1425. Nicholas Alwine, Mercer, Maior, 1499. Robert Harding, Goldsmith, one of the Sheriffes, 1478. Iohn Locke, one of the Sheriffes, 1461. Edward Bankes, Alderman, Haberdasher, 1566. Iohn Ward, William Pierson, Scriveuer, and Attourney in the common place. In a proper Chappell on the South side the Church, standeth a Tombe, eleuate and arched: Ade de Buke, Hatter, glased the Chappell, and most part of the Church, and was there buried.

All other Monuments be defaced.

Hauley and Sowtham had chauntries there.

Here lyeth Richard Lambert, An ancient Marble tombe in the Chancell, plated about on the North side. Grocer, late Alderman and Sheriffe of London, Merchant-Adventurer, & free of Muscovia and Russia, who deceased in the time of his Shrievalty, the fourth day of April, An. Dom. 1567. &c.

Magnificus sed justificus,

The like ancient Marble Tombe on the North side of the Quire.

miseris sed amicus,

Vir speciosus, vir

generosus, virque pudicus.

Et peramabilis, &

venerabilis, atque piarum,

Vis, dux, lex, lampas,

flos Maior Londoniarum.

In terrae ventre jacet

hic Iohn rite Coventre

Dictus, quem necuit

veluti decuit lue plenus,

Bis septingenus

tricenus si trahis unum

Martius in sole,

triceno si trahis unum,

Virginis à partu carnis

modo mortuus artu,

Vivus erit Coelis tuba

clanxerit ut Gabrielis. Amen.

Here lyeth the body of Humphrey Walcot, A faire gravestone in the Chancell. of Walcot, in the County of Salop, Esquire, Merchant-Adventurer, and of the company of Grocers in this City of London. He died the 28. day of August, 1616. being about the age of seventy one: Leaving behinde him his wife Alice, the daughter of Richard Halsy, Esquire: and by her he had ten children, five sonnes, and five daughters; having had by her eight more, who dyed young.

Without the North side of this Church of Saint Mary Bow, A shed or standing for the King called Crowne Silde. towards West Cheape, standeth one faire building of stone, called in Record Sidam, a shed which gratly darkeneth the sayd Church: for by meanes thereof, all the windowes and doores on that side are stopped up. King Edward the third, upon occasion, as shall be shewed in the VVard of Cheape, caused this sild or shed to bee made, and strongly to bee builded of stone for himselfe, the Queene, and other Estates to stand in, there to behold the Iustings, and other shewes at their pleasures. And this house (for a long time after) served to that use: namely, in the reigne of Edward the third, and Richard the second: but in the yeare 1410. Henry the fourth, in the twelfth of his reigne, confirmed the sayd shed or building to Stephen Spilman, William Marchford, and Iohn Wattle, Mercers, by the name of one new Sildam, shed or building, with shops, cellars, and edifices whatsoever apperataining, called Crounsilde or Tamersilde, Crounsilde. situate in the Mercery in West Cheape, and in the Parish of Saint Mary de Arcubus in London, &c.

Notwithstanding which grant, the Kings of England, and other great Estates, as well of forraine Countries repairing to this Realme, as inhabitants of the same, have usually repaired to this place, therein to behold the shewes of this City, passing through West Cheape; namely, the great VVatches accustomed in the night, on the Even of Saint Iohn Baptist, and Saint Peter at Midsummer, the examples whereof were over-long to recite: wherefore let it suffice briefly to touch one.K. Henry the eight came in the likenesse of a Yeoman of his Guard, to the Kings head in Cheape.

In the yeere 1510. on Saint Iohns Even at night, king Henry the eight came to this place, then called the Kings head in Cheape, in the livery of a Yeoman of the Guard, with an Halberd on his shoulder, and there beholding the VVatch, departed privily, when the [Page] VVatch was done, and was not knowne to any but whom it pleased him. But on Saint Peters night next following, he and the Queene came royally riding to the sayd place, and there with their Nobles beheld the VVatch of the City, and returned in the morning.

This Church of Saint Mary, with the sayd shed of stone, all the housing in or about Bow Church-yard, and without, on that side the high streete of Cheape to the Standard, be of Corndwayner street Ward. These houses were (of old time) but sheds: for I reade of no housing otherwise on that side the streete, but of divers sheds, from Sopers lane to the Standard, &c. Amongst other, I reade of three shops or sheds by Sopers lane, pertaining to the Prior of the holy Trinity within Aldgate: the one was let out for twenty eight shillings, one other for twenty shillings, and the third for twelve shillings by the yeere. Moreover, that Richard Goodcheape, Mercer, and Margery his wife, sonne to Iordan Goodcheape, did let to Iohn Dalinges the younger, Mercer, their shed and chamber in West Cheape, in the Parish of Saint Mary de Arches, for three shillings foure pence by the yeare. Also the men of Breadstreete Ward contended with the men of Cordwainer streete Ward, for a sild or shed, opposite to the Standard on the South side, and it was found to bee of Cordwainer streete Ward, William Waldrone being then Maior, the 1. of Henry the sixth.

Thus much for Cordwayner streete Ward: VVhich hath an Alderman, his Deputy, Common Counsellers eight, Constables eight, Scauengers eight, VVardmote in quest men fourteene, and a Beadle. It standeth taxed to the Fifteene in London, at fifty two pounds sixteene shillings, in the Exchequer at fifty two pounds sixe shillings.

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CHEAPE VVARD.

NExt adjoyning is Cheape Ward,Cheape Ward. taking name of the Market there kept, called West Cheaping: which VVard, as a river that hath 3. heads, and running along to the uttermost of his bounds, issueth out on the sides into little streames: So this Ward, beginning on the course of Walbrooke, and is not the meanest of the Wards (if for no other cause, yet because it is neerest to the heart of the City) hath his beginning on the East from three places; The high streete of the Poultry, The lower end of Buckles bury, and The neather part of the Venell or Entry into Scalding Alley; and so running along, as farre as unto the North-east corner of Bow lane on the South side, & from thence into Bow lane on the East side, untill ye come to the channel over-against the cellar door under the Church; and then, on the North side of Cheape, up to the Standard, stretching it selfe into divers Lanes and Peeces on the right hand, and on the left hand, as it commeth along.

First, for the high streete of the Poultry (which is the maine body of this Ward:) On the South side thereof, toward the East, this Ward beginneth at the corner house, now in the tenure of one Robert Knight, in the way going downe to Saint Mary Wool-Church, anciently knowne by the signe of the Lion: the out-most part of which house, and of this Ward there (the house being divided) is at the crosse-channell over-against (or very neere) the great West doore of Wool-Church, and so it goeth along on the South side of the Poultry to the great Conduit, and so into Bow lane, as is aforesaid.

Secondly, for Buckles bury, this Ward beginneth there toward the lower end: On the North side, at a Channell neere to the end of the house, bearing the signe of the Christopher, toward the East, now in the tenure of one Iohn Hodges: On the South side, it beginneth at the East end of the great new Frame of Building, over-against the said Christopher; which is the Tenement on the East side, next to the blacke Bull; and so it goeth into all the Barge. And then VVestward, it goeth on both sides the way, viz. on the North side, to the great Conduit, and so to Bow lane, as is aforesayd; and on the South side, to the end of Saint Sythes lane. Then crossing over the Channell, to S. Bennet Shorhogs Church, it stretcheth all along through Needlers lane, by St. Pancrates Church, on the same side, untill yee come to a great Gate, which is in the nooke of a little passage or entry to the VVest, and is the backe gate of a house, standing in Bow lane, sometime the dwelling house of Master Paruis. Then againe it stretcheth from the Chaine in the middest of Sopers lane (on both sides the Lane) upward toward the North, into Cheape on the South side, and so into Bow lane, as is aforesayd.

Thirdly, for the last place of this VVards beginning: On the North side of the high streete, neere unto the Stockes-Market, is an Alley or Lane, called Scalding Alley, not erroneously (as some have published) but truely, as neerest to the most ancient denomination thereof; which was, Scalding-house, alias, Scalding-wike, and Scalding lane, as appeareth by good records extant of two hundred yeeres continuance. VVithin the Venell or entry of this Lane or Alley, neere unto the VVell, that standeth in a corner to the VVest, this VVard beginneth at the end of the stone wall, wherein is the doore leading [Page] unto the Parsonage house and Church of Saint Mildred (of which, more anon) and it runneth on that side the Channell along to the East corner of the said Church, and from thence on the North side of the streete, into the Compter, and Cony-hoope lane, and within Cony-hoope lane, into all Skinners Alley, and the Grocers Hall and Garden; and then backe againe into the Old Iewry Lane, on the West side as farre as Alderman Welds house, and on the East side as farre as the dead stone Wall of the great house over-against it, sometime Alderman Andersons house. Then to returne to the west end of Old Iewry againe, this VVard stretcheth along on the North side by the Mercers Hall unto Iron-mongers lane, (which all wholly on both sides is in this VVard) and so into Catton streete. In Catton streete this Ward entreth, toward the East, at a house anciently knowne by the signe of the Talbot, on the South side, now in the tenure of Master Packhurst; and over-against it, on the North side, at a deepe Channell, issuing out of a house, and so goeth up to the west on both sides, videlicet, on the South side of the way, beyond the end of Saint Lawrence lane, untill ye come to that middle part of the Church wall, which is beyond the Church Porch; and on the North side, from that corner of the Church wall, it goeth on the East side of the Channell to the Church yard; and from thence, on both sides the way, unto the outward gate leading unto Guild-hall yard, and adioyning to the Taverne of the three Tunnes. Then againe to come into Cheape, there, on the North side, is Saint Lawrence lane, all which is wholly of this VVard, and so is Hony lane above that; and so it reacheth westward as farre as a shallow Channell, close beyond the Standard. And thus stand the bounds of Cheape Ward.

Now, for Antiquities, and things worthy of memory in Cheape Ward.

First, in the maine body of this VVard, that is, the Poultry, standeth the proper little Church, that beareth the name of Saint Mildred in the Poultry, S. Mildreds Church. the Virgin; which name was given surely for distinction, not for superstition: For so was the custome of the Kingdome (and yet is) in building these thing for the service of God, that the Founders called them by the name of some Apostle, Saint, Martyr, or Confessor, as best liked their owne conceit at the present time, to distinguish them from others.

VVho this Mildred was; whether she was that eldest daughter of Merwaldus, King of VVest-Mercians, as some thinke, or that shee was daughter of Ethelbert, King of Kent, one of the Founders of Pauls Church; I finde no Record to specifie, neither is it much materiall: but it is probable, that shee was some holy and devout Maide, which the people of that age held to bee a Saint afterward in heaven.

In what yeeres this Church was first erected, or who was the first Founder of it, we finde not: But it appeareth by some ancient Evidences of the sayd Church, that from the beginning it had not so much spare ground about it, as to make a Church yard of; untill in the yeere of our Lord God 1420. and the eighth of King Henry the fifth, Thomas Morsted, Esquire, and Chirurgeon to the Kings, Henry the fourth, Henry the fifth, and Henry the sixth, (and afterward, in Anno Dom. 1436. was Sheriffe and Alderman of London) gave unto the Church a parcell of ground,The Church yard given. lying betweene his dwelling house and the sayd Church (and adjoyning unto the sayd Church toward the North) to make a Church yard of, for the buriall of their dead; containing in length, from the course of Walbrooke, toward the west, forty five foote, and in breadth, from the Church toward the North, thirty five foote.

Within short time after,The Parsonage house and chambers. some body, of religious and charitable disposition, erected upon the sides of the sayd Church yard, but upon Posts and Pillars, with Cloysters underneath, toward the west, a Parsonage house, or Mansion and free dwelling of the Ministers and Rectors of the sayd Church: and toward the East foure chambers, then called the Priests Chambers; now converted into a Tenement or dwelling house, and demised for yeerly rent. But the Church yard is much abridged, and [Page] of late foulely defaced, and the lights of the said Parsonage hindered by additions of Peeces to the said ancient chambers, which ought not to be.

After some yeeres expired,Church taken downe and new built. the Parson and Parishioners, as it seemeth, seeing the Church to bee very old, purposed to take it downe, and to build it new againe: Which they began to doe about the yeere of our Lord God, 1456. At what time Robet Snell and Iohn King were Church-wardens, and continued in the office till the end of the yeere 1467. Toward the which Building, as it may appeare by their Accompts, Iohn Saxton being Rector or Parson of the said Church, gave thirty two pounds; and afterward Richard Bowyer being Parson, gave sixe pound and fifteene shillings.

Of later dayes, to wit, Anno Domini 1594. and 35. of Queene Elizabeth, of blessed memory, this Church yard, and all the Buildings thereon,Church yard and Buildings supposed to be concealed. which had been thus long in the free possession of the Ministers and Parishioners of the said Church, were, through the information of an evill minded man, then Tenent in the chambers, sold for concealed land; whereby the said Tenement, Church yard, and Cloysters, were like to bee lost from the possession of the Church, and the Ministers of the Church to bee charged with an yeerely rent of their Parsonage house for ever. But the Parson and Parishioners, by a Iudiciall proceeding then in her Majesties Court of Exchequer, cleared all the whole Soyle from that incombrance: the tryall whereof was held by Nisi prius in the Guild-hall of London, and the Record is kept in Master Fanshawes Office for the Exchequer.

Richard Shore, Draper, one of the Sheriffes in the yeere 1505. gave fifteene pounds to the making of a Porch to this Church.

In the great East window of this Church are the Armes of divers Gentlemen, as Benefactors: and namely, the Armes of Lovell and Pury, quartered, and the Armes of Richard Keston, single.

All the rooffing of the Church is garnished with the Armes of one Thomas Ashehill, who had lent a great summe of money toward the new building of the said Church, and was one of the Church-wardens there, in the yeere 1474. and lyeth buried there in the South Chappell: His Armes also are to be seene in the same Chappell, in the window to the East.

Besides this Thomas Ashehill are buried in this Church, as by their Monuments appeare, Iohn Saxton, of whom we heard before, with this Epitaph;

Hanc subter speciem

corpus jacet eccè Iohannis,

Saxton qui fuerat

vocitatus ejus in Annis:

Hunc qui plasmavit

de terra, suppeditavit,

Nunc Pater & Flamen

sibi dent cum Prole locamen,

Qui obiit die Mens.

Anno 14 Cujus, &c.

Others buried here, as appeareth by Monuments.

Iohn Hildie, Poulter, 1416. Iohn Kendall, 1468. Iohn Garland, 1476. Robert Bois, 1485. and Simon Lee, Poulters, 1487. Thomas Lee, of Essex, Gentleman, William Harlingridge, Christopher Seliocke, 1494. Robert Draiton, Skinner, 1484. Iohn Christopherson Doctor of Physicke, 1524 William Turner, Skinner, 1536. Blase White, Grocer, 1558. Thomas Hobson, Haberdasher, 1559. William Hobson, Haberdasher, 1581. Thomas Tusser, 1580. with this Epitaph:

Here Thomas Tusser,

clad in earth, doth lie,

That sometime made

the points of Husbandrie:

By him then learne thou maist;

here learne we must,

When all is done, we sleepe,

and turne to dust:

And yet, through Christ,

to Heaven we hope to goe;

Who reades his bookes,

shall finde his faith was so.

And last of all, Thomas Iken, Skinner, with this Epitaph:

In Hodnet and London

[Page] God blessed my life

Till forty and sixe yeeres,

with children and wife:

And God will raise me

up to life againe,

Therefore have I thought

my death no paine.

Thomas Iken, qui obiit 10. die Martii, 1590.

And there also lyeth buried Elizabeth his wife, and divers of their children: where, on a Pillar in the Chancell, toward the South, is this Monument:

In this Chancell lyeth the body of Thomas Iken, Citizen and Skinner of London, who was borne in Hodnet in the County of Salope, and had to wife Elizabeth the daughter of Roger Smith of Newport-Pagnell in the County of Buckingham, by whom he had sixe sonnes and eight daughters: which Thomas departed this life the tenth day of March, Anno Dom. 1590.

In the yeere 1594. Thomas Lane, Citizen and Serivener of London, by his last Will and Testament gave his small Tenement, over against London Wall, neere Bishopsgate, unto the Church towards the reparations thereof, and reliefe of the poore of the Parish.

On the North side of the said Church yard, remaine two Tombes of Marble, but not knowne of whom, or otherwise than by tradition, it is said they were of Thomas Muschampe, and William Brothurs, about 1547, &c.

Some foure houses West from this Parish Church of Saint Mildred, Counter in the Poultry. is a Prison-house, pertaining to one of the Sheriffes of London, and is called the Counter in the Poultry. This hath been there kept and continued time out of minde; for I have not read of the originall thereof. West from this Counter, was a proper Chappell, called of Corpus Christi, Chappell of Corpus Christi. and Saint Mary at Cony hope lane end, in the Parish of Saint Mildred, founded by one named Ionnirunnes, a Citizen of London, in the raigne of Edward the third, in which Chappel was a Guild or Fraternity, that might dispend in Lands better than twenty pound by yeere: it was suppressed by Henry the eighth, and purchased by one Thomas Hobson, Haberdasher: hee turned this Chappell into a faire Warehouse and shops towards the streete, with lodgings over them.

Then is Cony hope lane, Cony hope lane. of old time so called, of a signe of three Conies hanging over a Poulters stall at the Lanes end. Within this Lane standeth the Grocers Hall, which Company, being of old time called Pepperers, were first incorporated by the name of Grocers, in the yeere 1345. at which time they elected for Custos or Gardian of their Fraternity,Grocers Hall purchased & builded. Richard Oswin, and Laurence Hallwell, & twenty Brethren were then taken in, to be of their Society. In the yeere 1411. the Custos or Gardian, and the Brethren of this Company, purchased of the Lord Robert Fitzwaters, one plot of ground with the building thereupon in the said Cony hope lane, for 320. Markes, and then laid the foundation of their new common Hall.

About the yeere 1429. the Grocers had licence to purchase 500. Markes land: since the which time, neere adjoyning unto the Grocers Hall, the said Company had builded seven proper houses for seven aged poore Almes people.Almes-houses by the Grocers hall. Thomas Knowles, Grocer, Maior, gave his Tenement in Saint Anthonies Church yard to the Grocers, towards the reliefe of the poore Brethren in that Company. Also Henry Keble, Grocer, Maior, gave to the seven Almes people, sixe pence weekly for ever, which pension is now increased by the Masters, to some of them two shillings a peece weekly, and to some of them lesse, &c. Henry Ady, Grocer, 1563. gave a thousand Marks to the Grocers to purchase lands. And sir Henry Pechy, Knight Banneret, free of that Company, gave them five hundred pound to certaine uses: hee builded Almes-houses at Ludingstone in Kent, and was there buried.

West from this Cony hope lane is the old Iury, whereof some portion is of Cheape Ward, as afore is shewed: at the South end of this Lane, is the Parish Church of S. Mary Cole-Church, Parish Church of S. Mary Cole-Church. named of one Cole that builded it: this Church is builded upon a vault above ground, so that men are forced to goe to ascend up therunto by certain steps. I find no Monuments [Page] of this Church more, than that Henry the fourth granted licence to William Marshall and others, to found a Brotherhood of Saint Katharine therein, because Thomas Becket and Saint Edmond the Archbishop were baptized there. More I reade of Bordhangly lane, to be of that Parish: and thus much for the North side of the Poultry. The South side of the said Poultry, beginning on the banke of the said brooke, over-against the Parish Church of Saint Mildred, passing up to the great Conduit, hath divers faire houses, which were sometimes inhabited by the Poulters, but now by Grocers, Haberdashers, and Vpholsters.

Concerning other Antiquities there: first,Buckles bury of one Buckle. is Buckles bury, so called of a Mannour and Tenements pertaining to one Buckle, who there dwelled, and kept his Courts. This Mannor is supposed to be the great stone-building, yet in part remaining on the South side of the streete, which of late time hath beene called the Old Barge, of such a signe hanged out, neere the gate thereof. This Mannour, or great House, hath of long time beene divided and letten out into many tenements: and it hath beene a common speech,Barges towed up Walbrook unto Buckles bury. that when Walbrooke did lye open, Barges were rowed out of the Thames, or towed up so farre: and therefore the place hath ever since been called the Old Barge.

Also, on the North side of this street, directly over-gainst the said Buckles burie, was one ancient and strong Tower of stone the which Tower King Edward the third, in the eighteenth of his reign, by the name of the Kings house, called Cornet stoure in London, Cornet stoure in Buckles bury the Kings Exchange. Exchequer. did appoint to be his Exchange of money, there to bee kept. In the 29. he granted it to Frydus Guynysane, and Landus Bardoile, Merchants of Luke, for twenty pound the yeere. And in the 32. he gave the same Tower to his Colledge, or free Chappel of Saint Stephen at Westminster, by the name of Cornet stoure at Buckles bury in London.

This Tower, of late yeeres, was taken downe by one Buckle, a Grocer, meaning, in place thereof, to have set up and builded a goodly frame of Timber: but the said Buckle greedily labouring to pull downe the old Tower, a part thereof fell upon him, which so sore bruised him, that his life was thereby shortened: and another that married his widow, set up the new prepared frame of Timber, and finished the worke.

This whole streete, called Buckles burie, on both the sides throughout, is possessed of Grocers and Apothecaries. Toward the west end thereof, on the South side, breaketh out one other short Lane,Peneritch streete. called in Records Peneritch street, it reacheth but to Saint Sythes lane, Parish Church of S. Sythe Benet Shrog. Needlers lane. and Saint Sythes Church is the farthest part thereof; for by the west end of the said Church, beginneth Needlers lane, which reacheth to Sopers lane, as is aforesaid. This small Parish Church of St. Syth, hath also an addition of Bennet shorne, (or Shrog, or Shorehog) for by all these names have I read it, but the ancientest is Shorne: wherefore it seemeth to take that name of one Benedict Shorne, sometime a Citizen and Stockefishmonger of London, a new builder, repairer, or benefactor thereof, in the yeere of Edward the second: so that Shorne is but corruptly called Shrog, and more corruptly Shorehog.

There lye buried in this Church, Iohn Froysh, Mercer, Maior, 1394. Iohn Rochford, Rob. Rochford, Iohn Hold, Alderman, Hen. Frowike, Mercer, Maior, 1435. Edw. Warrington, Iohn Morrice, Iohn Huntley, Richard Lincolne, Felmonger, 1548. Sir Ralph Warren, Mercer, Maior, 1553. Sir Iohn Lion, Grocer, Maior, 1554. these two last have Monuments, the rest are all defaced. Edward Hall, Gentleman of Greyes Inne, common Sergeant of this City, and then Vnder-Sheriffe of the same, hee wrote the large Chronicles from Richard the second, till the end of Henry the eighth, was buried in this Church.

Grace and Religion,

A faire Monumēt in the East wall of the Chancell.

with the best of Nature,

All striving to excell,

yet all agreeing

To make one absolute

and perfect creature:

Would any see a sight,

so worth the seeing?

He comes too late:

[Page] here she lyes buried,

With whom they lately liv'd,

and now are dead.

In the Vault there by,

Lieth buried the body of Anne [...] of Iohn Farrar, Gentleman, and Merchant Adventurer of this City, daughter of William Shepheard, of Great Rowlright, in the County of Oxenford, Esquire. She departed this life the 12. day of Iuly, An. Dom. 1613. being then about the age of 21. yeeres. To whose well-deserving memory, this Monument is by her said husband erected.

Here was a Bud,

A small gilt engraven Plate fastened under the Monument.

beginning for her May:

Before her Flower,

Death tooke her hence away.

But for what cause?

That friends might joy the more,

Where their hope is,

she flourisheth now before.

She is not lost,

but in those joyes remaine,

Where friends may see,

and joy in her againe.

Here lyeth buried the right Worshipfull,A faire ancient Marble Tombe in the Chancell. Sir Ralph Warren, Knight, Alderman, and twice Lord Maior of this City of London, Mercer, Merchant of the Staple at Callis; with his two wives, Dame Christian, and Dame Ioane: Which said Sir Ralph departed this life the 11. day of Iuly, An. Dom. 1553.

Here lyeth Katharine Prettyman,

A faire plated stone in the midst of the Chancell.

a Mayde of seventeene yeeres,

In Suffolke borne, in London bred,

as by her death appeares.

With Natures gifts she was adorn'd,

of honest birth and kin,

Her vertuous minde, with modest grace,

did love of many win.

But when she should with honest match

have liv'd a wedded life,

Stay there (quoth Iove) the world is naught,

for she shall be my wife,

And Death, since thou hast done thy due,

lay nuptiall rites aside,

And follow her unto the grave,

that should have been your Bride:

Whose honest life, and faithfull end,

her patience therewithall,

Doth plainly shew, that she with Christ

now lives, and ever shall.

She departed this life the 11. day of August, 1594.

Quod mihi dilectissimus

& memorabile pii,

A plated stone in the North Ile.

Donavit, breviter

abstulit ecce Deus.

Dulcis Ioannes

artorum parvule-cultor

Occidis heu pietas

& lachrymosa dies.

Affer opem quicunque

pores medicabile vultu,

Et aliud dederis

si mihi sancte Deus.

Obijt 3. die Aprilis, 1592.

Then,Parish Chruch of S. Pancrate. in Needlers lane have yee the Parish Church of Saint Pancrate, a proper small Church, but divers rich Parishioners therein, and hath had, of old time, many liberall Benefactors: But of late, such as (not regarding the order taken by Queene Elizabeth) the least Bell in their Church being broken,Iustices charged to punish such as sell Bels from their Churches, Eliz. 14. have rather sold the same for halfe the value, than put the Parish to charge with new casting: late experience hath proved this to bee true, besides the spoyle of Monuments there.

In this Church are buried Sir Aker, Iohn Aker, Iohn Barnes, Mercer, Maior, 1370. Iohn Beston, and his wife, Robert Rayland, Iohn Hamber, Iohn Gage, Iohn Rowley, Iohn Lambe, Iohn Hadley, Grocer, Maior, 1379. Richard Gardener, Mercer, Maior, 1478. Iohn Stockton, Mercer, Maior, 1470. Iohn Dane, Mercer, Iohn Parker, Robert Marshall, Alderman, 1439. Robert Corcheford, Robert Hatfield, and Robert Hatfield, Nicholas Wilfilde, and Thomas his sonne, the Monuments of all which bee defaced and gone.

There doe remaine, of Robert Burley, 1360. Richard Wilson, 1525. Robert Packenton, Mercer, slaine with a Gunne, shot at him in a morning, as he was going to morrow Masse from his house in Cheape, to Saint Thomas of Acars, in the yeere 1536. The murderer was never discovered, but by his owne confession, made when hee came to the Gallowes at Banbury, to be hanged for [Page] Felony. T. Wardbury, Haberdasher, 1545. Iames Huysh, Grocer, 1590. Ambrose Smith, &c.

Hereunder lyeth buried Iames Huysh, A faire Monumēt in the North wall of the Quire. Citizen and Grocer of London, third son of Iohn Huysh, of Beuford, in the County of Somerset, Esquire: which Iames had to his first wife, Margaret Bourchier; by whom hee had issue eleven children: And to his second wife, Mary Moffet, by whom he had issue, 18. children. He dyed the 20. day of August, Anno Dom. 1590.

Hac defunctus Huysh

tenui sub mole quiescit,

Nec tamen hac totus

mole quiescit Huysh.

Corpus inest Tumulo,

colit aurea spiritus astra,

Scilicet hunc Coelum

vendicat, illud humus.

Londinensis erat Civis

dum fata sinebant:

Iam cum sydereo

Millre Miles agit.

Bis Thalami sociam

duxit, prior edidit illi

Vndenas proles,

altera bisque novem.

Munificam persaepe

manum porrexit egenis,

Virtutum fautor,

Pieridumque fuit.

Nil opus est plures

illi contexere laudes,

Sufficit in Coelo▪

jam reperisse locum.

Hoc qualecunque Monumentum, Rowlandus, dicti Iacobi haeres, posuit pietatis ergo.

Here lies a Mary,

mirror of her sexe

For all that best their

soules or body decks.

Faith, forme, or fame,

the miracle of youth,

For zeale and knowledge

of the sacred truth,

For frequent reading

the whole holy Writ.

For fervent prayer,

and for practice fit,

For meditations,

full of use and art,

For humblenesse,

in habit and in heart,

For pious, prudent,

peacefull, praisefull life,

For all the duties

of a Christian wife;

For patient bearing

seven dead-bearing throwes,

For one alive, which

yet dead with her goes.

From Travers her deare

Spouse, her father Hayes,

Lord Maior, more honoured

in her vertuous praise.

Quam piè obiit puerpera die octavo Martii, Anno Aetatis 29. Anno Salutis 1614.

Then is a part of Sopers lane, turning up to Cheape.

By the assent of Stephen Abunden, Pepperers in Sopers lane. were admitted to sell all such Spices, and other Wares, as Grocers now use to sell, retaining the old name of Pepperers in Sopers lane; till at length, in the reigne of Henry the sixth, the same Sopers lane was inhabited by Cordwainers and Curriers, after that the Pepperers or Grocers had seated themselves in a more open streete, to wit, in Buckles bury, where they yet remaine. Thus much for the South Wing of Cheape Ward.

At the West end of this Poultry, and also of Buckles bury, West Cheap a large Market place. beginneth the large street of West Cheaping, a Market place so called, which street stretcheth West, till yee come to the little Conduit by Pauls gate, but not all of Cheape Ward. In the East part of this streete standeth the Great Conduit,Great Conduit in West Cheape. of sweete water, conveyed by pipes of Lead under ground from Paddington, for service of this City, castellated with stone, and cisterned in Lead, about the yeere 1285. and again new builded and enlarged by Thomas Ilam, one of the Sheriffes, 1479.

About the middest of this street is the Standard in Cheape; of what antiquity, the first foundation I have not read. But Henry the sixth, by his Patent dated at Windsore the 21. of his reigne, which [Page] Patent was confirmed by Parliament, 1442. granted licence to Thomas Knolles, Iohn Chichle, & other, executors to Iohn Wells, Grocer, sometime Maior of London, with his goods to make new the high-way, which leadeth from the Citie of London towards the Palace of Westminster, before and nigh the Mannour of Savoy, parcell of the Duchy of Lancaster; a way then very ruinous, and the pavement broken, to the hurt and mischiefe of the subjects: Which old pavement, then remaining in that way, within the length of five hundred foote, and all the breadth of the same, before and nigh the site of the Mannour aforesaid, they to breake up, and with stone, gravell, and other stuffe, one other good & sufficient way there to make, for the commodity of the subjects. And further, The old Standard in Cheape, with a Conduit therein, taken downe, and newbuilded. that the Standard in Cheape, where divers executions of the Law beforetime had beene performed, which Standard at that present was very ruinous with age, in which there was a Conduit should bee taken downe, and another competent Standard of stone, together with a Conduit in the same, of new, strongly to bee builded, for the commodity & honour of the City, with the goods of their said Testator, without interruption, &c.

Of executions at the Standard in Cheape, Executions at the Standard in Cheape. we reade, that in the yeer 1293. three men had their right hands smitten off there, for rescuing of a prisoner, arrested by an Officer of the City. In the yeere 1326. the Burgesses of London caused Walter Stapleton, Bishop of Exceter, Treasurer to Edward the second, and other, to be beheaded at the Standard in Cheap (but this was by Pauls Gate.) In the yeere 1351. the 26. of Edward the third, two Fishmongers were beheaded at the Standard in Cheape, but I reade not of their offence. 1381. Wat Tyler beheaded Richard Lions and other there. In the yeere 1399. Henry the fourth caused the Blank Charters, made by Richard the second, to be burnt there. In the yeere 1450. Iacke Cade, Captain of the Kentish Rebels, beheaded the Lord Say there. In the yeere 1461. Iohn Davy had his hand stricken off there, because hee had stricken a man before the Iudges at Westminster, &c.

Then next is the great Crosse in West Cheape: Great Crosse in West Cheape first builded. Which Crosse was there erected in the yeere 1290. by Edward the first, upon occasion thus: Queene Elianor his wife died at Hardeby (a Towne neere unto the City of Lincolne) her body was brought from thence to Westminster, and the King in memory of her, caused in every place where her body rested by the way, a stately Crosse of stone to be erected, with the Queenes Image and Armes upon it; as at Grantham, Woborne, Northhampton, Stony-Stratford, Dunstable, S. Albones, Waltham, West Cheape, and at Charing, from whence shee was conveyed to Westminster, and there buried.

This Crosse in West Cheap, Crosse in Cheap new builded. being like to those other which remaine till this day, & being by length of time decaied; Iohn Hatherley, Maior of London, procured in the yeer 1441. licence of K. Henry the sixth, to re-edifie the same in more beautifull manner, for the honour of the City: & had licence also to take up 200. fodder of Lead for the building thereof, of certain Conduits, & a cōmon Granary. This Crosse was then curiously wrought, at the charges of divers Citizens: Ioh. Fisher, Mercer, gave 600. Marks towards it, the same was begun to be set up, 1484. and finished 1486. the second of Henry the 7. It was after gilt over, in the yeere 1522. against the comming in of Charles the fifth Emperour, in the yeere 1553. against the Coronation of Queene Anne, new burnished against the Coronation of Edward the sixth, and againe new gilt 1554. against the comming in of King Philip: since the which time,Crosse in Cheape indighted, the Images broken. the said Crosse having beene presented by divers Juries (or Quests of Wardmote) to stand in the high-way, to the let of carriages (as they alledged) but could not have it removed; it followed, that in the yeer 1581. the twenty one of June, in the night, the lowest Images round about the said Crosse (being of Christ his resurrection, of the Virgin Mary, King Edward the Confessor, and such like) were broken, and defaced. Proclamation was made, that whoso would bewray the doers, should have forty Crownes; but nothing came to light: the Image of the blessed Virgin, at that time was [Page] robbed of her Son, & her armes broken, by which shee staid him on her knees, her whole body was also haled with ropes, and left likely to fall: but in the yeere 1595. was again fastened & repaired, & in the yeer next following, a new mis-shapen Son, as born out of time, all naked, was laid in her armes, the other Images remaining broke as afore. But on the East side of the same Crosse, the steppes being taken thence under the Image of Christs resurrection defaced, was then set up a curious wrought Tabernacle of gray Marble,Image of Diana let upon the Crosse in Cheape. & in the same an Alabaster Image of Diana, & water conveyed from the Thames, prilling from her naked breast for a time, but now decayed.Socrat. li. 1. cap. 13.

In the yeere 1599. the timber of the Crosse at the top being rotted within the lead,Top of the crosse being feared to fall, was taken downe. the arms therof bending, were feared to have fallen, to the harming of som people;Crosse in Cheape commanded to be repaired. & therfore the whole body of the Crosse was scaffolded about, and the top thereof taken down, meaning in place therof to have set up a Pyramis; but some of her Majesties honourable Counsellors directed their letters to sir Nicholas Mosley, then Maior, by her Highnes expresse commandement concerning the Crosse, forthwith to be repaired, and placed again as it formerly stood, &c. Notwithstanding, the said Cross stood headlesse more than a yeer after: whereupon the said Counsellors in greater number, meaning not any longer to permit the continuance of such a contempt,Cōmand again sent for repairing the Crosse in Cheape, it being an ancient Ensigne of Christianity. wrote to Wil. Rider, then Maior, requiring him by vertue of her Highnesse said former direction & commandement, without any further delay, to accomplish the same her Majesties most princely care therein, respecting especially the antiqity & continuance of that Monument, ancient Ensigne of Christianity, &c. dated the 24. of December, 1600. After this a crosse of timber was framed, set up, covered with lead, & gilded, the body of the Crosse downward cleansed of dust, the Scaffold carried thence. About 12. nights following, the Image of our Lady was again defaced, by plucking off her crown, & almost her head, taking from her her naked childe, and stabbing her in the breast, &c. Thus much for the Crosse in West Cheape.

Then at the West end of West Cheape streete, was sometime a Crosse of stone, called the Old Crosse. Ralph Higden in his Polycronicon sait, that Walter Stapleton, Bishop of Exceter, Treasurer to Edward the 2. was by the Burgesses of London beheaded at this Crosse, then called the Standard, without the North doore of S. Pauls Church, and so is it noted in other writers, that then lived. This old Crosse stood and remained at the East end of the Parish Church, called S. Michael in the Corne by Pauls gate, neer to the North end of the Old-Exchange, till the yeere 1390. the 13. of Richard the 2. in place of which old Crosse then taken down, the said Church of S. Michael was enlarged, & also a faire water-Conduit builded about the 9. of Henry the sixth.

In the reigne of Edward the 3. divers Iustings were made in this streete,Iustings and Tournament in West Cheape. betwixt Sopers lane & the great Crosse, namely, one in the yeer 1331. about the 21. of September, as I finde noted by divers writers of that time. In the middle of the City of London (say they) in a streete called Cheap, the stone pavement being couered with sand, that the horse might not slide, when they strongly set their feet to the ground, the King held a Tournament 3. daies together with the Nobility,Edward the 3. held Tournament or Iusts in West Cheap 3. daies together. valiant men of the Realme, & other, some strange Knights. And to the end the beholders might with the better ease see the same, there was a woodden Scaffold erected crosse the streete, like unto a Tower,Queene Philip and her ladies fell from a Scaffold in Cheape. wherein Queen Philip, & many other Ladies, richly attired and assembled from all parts of the Realme, did stand to behold the Justs: but the higher frame in which the Ladies were placed, brake in sunder, wherby they were (with some shame) forced to fall downe, by reason whereof the Knights and such as were underneath were grievously hurt: wherefore the Queen took great care to save the Carpenters from punishment, and through her praiers (which she made upon her knees) pacified the King & Councell, & therby purchased great love of the people. A shed or standing made for the King to behold the shews in Cheape. After which time the King caused a Shed to bee strongly made of stone for himselfe, the Queen, & other States to stand on, & there to behold the Justings, and other shewes at their pleasure, by [Page] the Church of S. Mary Bow, as is shewed in Cordwainer streete Ward. Thus much for the high streete of Cheape.

Now let us returne to the South side of Cheape Ward: Southside of Cheape street so fat as Cheape Ward reacheth. from the great Conduit west be many faire and large houses, for the most part possessed of Mercers, up to the corner of Cordwainer street, corruptly called Bow lane, which houses in former times were but sheds, or shops, with sollors over them, as of late one of them remained at Sopers lane end, wherein a woman sold seeds, roots, and herbes: but those sheds or shops, by incroachments on the high streete, are now largely builded on both sides outward, and also upward, some three, foure, or five stories high.

Now of the North side of Cheape street and Ward,North side of Cheape Ward. beginning at the great Conduit, and by S. Mary Cole Church, where we left. Next thereunto Westward is the Mercers Chappell, sometime an Hospitali, intituled of S. Thomas of Acon, or Acars, Hospitall of S. Tho. of Acars. for a Master and Brethren, Militia hospitalis, &c. saith the Record of Edward the third, the 14. yeere, it was founded by Thomas Fitztheobald de Heili, & Agnes his wife. Sister to Thomas Becket, in the reigne of Henry the second. They gave to the Master and Brethren the lands with the appurtenances, that sometimes were Gilbert Beckets, father to the said Thomas, in the which he was borne, there to make a Church. There was a Charnell and a Chappell over it of S. Nicholas & S. Stephen. This Hospitall was valued to dispend 277. pounds, three shillings foure pence surrendred the 30. of Henry the eighth, the 21. of October, and was since purchased by the Mercers, by meanes of sir Richard Gresham, and was againe set open on the Eve of S. Michael, 1541. the 33. of Henry the 8. It is now called the Mercers Chappell, Mercers Chappell. therein is kept a free Grammar Schoole,A free Schoole in the Hospitall of S. Thom. of Acars. as of old time had bin accustomed, commanded by Parliament. Here bee many Monuments remaining, but more have been defaced: Iames Butler, Earle of Ormond, and Dame Ioane his Countesse, 1428. Iohn Norton Esquire, Stephen Cavendish, Draper, Maior, 1362. Thomas Cavendish, William Cavendish, Thomas Ganon called Pike, one of the Sheriffes, 1410. Hungate of Yorkshire, Ambrose Cresacre, Iohn Chester, Draper, Iohn Trusbut, Mercer, 1437. Thomas Norland, Sheriffe, 1483. Sir Edmond Sha, Goldsmith, Maior, 1482. Sir Thomas Hill, Maior, 1485. Thomas Ilam, Sheriffe, 1479. Lancelot Laken, Esquire, Ralph Tilne, Sheriffe, 1488. Garth, Esquire, Iohn Rich, Thomas Butler, Earle of Ormond, 1515. Sir W. Butler, Grocer, Maior, 1515. William Browne, Mercer, Maior, 1523. Iohn Locke, 1519. Sir Thomas Baldry, Locke his Armes in the windowes. Mercer, Maior, 1523. Sir W. Locke, Mercer, Sheriffe, 1548. Sir I. Allen, Mercer, Maior, 1525. deceased 1544. Sir Thomas Leigh, Mercer, Maior, 1558. Sir Richard Malory, Mercer, Maior, 1564. Humfrey Baskervile, Mercer, Sheriffe, 1561. Sir George Bond, Maior, 1587, &c.

Before this Hospitall towards the street, was builded a faire and beautifull Chappell arched over with stone, and thereupon the Mercers Hall, a most curious peece of worke: Sir Iohn Allen, Mercer, being founder of that Chappell, was there buried, but since his Tombe is removed thence into the body of the Hospitall Church, & his body-roome divided into shops, are letten out for rēt. These Mercers were enabled to be a Company, & to purchase lands to the value of 20. li. the yeer, the 17. of Richard the 2. they had 3. messuages & shops in the Parish of St. Martin Oteswich, in the Ward of Bishops-gate, for the sustentation of the poore, & a Chantry, the 22. of Richard the second. Henry the fourth in the 12. of his reign, confirmed to Stephen Spilman, W. Marchford, & Iohn Whatile, Mercers, by the name of one new Seldam, shed, or building, with shops, ce [...]lers, and edifices whatsoever appertaining, called Crownsilde, situate in the Mercery in West Cheape, Crownsilde, under Bow Church. in the Parish of St. Mary de Arcubus in London, &c. to be holden in Burgage, as all the City of London is, & which were worth by yeere, in all issues according to the true value of them, 7. li. 13. s. 4. d. as was found by inquisition before Thomas Knolles, Maior, and Eschetor in the said City. Henry the sixth, in the 3. of his reigne, at the request of Iohn Coventry, Iohn Carpenter, and William Grove, granted to the Mercers to have a Chaplaine, & a Brotherhood, for reliefe of such of [Page] their Company, as came to decay by misfortune on the Sea. In the yeere, 1536. on Saint Peters night, King Henrie the eighth, and Queene Iane his wife, stood in this Mercers Hall, then new builded, and beheld the marching Watch of the City, most bravely set out, sir Iohn Allen, Mercer, one of the Kings Councell, being Maior.

Next beyond the Mercers Chappell, Ironmonger lane. and their Hall, is Ironmonger lane, so called of Ironmongers dwelling there, whereof I reade in the reigne of Edward the first, &c. In this Lane is the small Parish Church of St. Martin, Parish Church of S. Martins Pomary. called Pomary, upon what occasion I certainly know not. It is supposed to be of Apples growing, where now houses are lately builded: for my selfe have seene large voide places. Monuments in that Church none to be accounted of.

Farther west,S. Laurence lane. is St. Laurence lane, so called of St. Laurence Church, which standeth directly over-against the north end thereof. Antiquities in this Lane I find none other, than that among many faire houses, there is one large Inne for receit of Travellers, called Blossoms Inne, Blossoms Inne. but corruptly Bosoms Inne, and hath to signe S. Laurence the Deacon, in a border of Blossomes or Flowers.

Then neere to the Standard in Cheape, Hony lane. is Hony lane, so called, not of sweetnesse thereof, being very narrow, and somewhat dark, but rather, of often washing and sweeping, to keep it cleane. In this Lane is the small Parish Church, called Alhallowes in Hony lane: Parish Church of Alhallowes Hony lane. There bee no Monuments in this Church worth the nothing. I finde, that Iohn Norman, Draper, Maior, 1453. was buried there: He gave to the Drapers his Tenements on the North side the said Church, they to allow for the Beame light and Lampe, 13. shillings 4. pence yeerly, from this Lane to the Standard. And thus much for Cheape Ward, in the high streete of Cheape; for it stretcheth no farther.

Now, for the North Wing of Cheape Ward, Catte-street. have yee Catte-streete, corruptly called Catteten streete, which beginneth at the North end of Ironmonger lane, and runneth to the west end of St. Laurence Church, as is afore shewed.

On the North side of this streete is the Guild-hall, wherein the Courts for the City be kept: namely, 1. The Court of Common Councell,The Guild-Hall, and Courts kept. 2. The court of the Lord Maior & his Brethren the Aldermen, Lib. Fle [...]. 3. The court of Hustings, 4. The court of Orphanes, 5. The 2. courts of the Sheriffes, 6. The court of the Wardmote, 7. The court of Hallmote, 8. The court of Requests, commonly called the Court of Conscience, 9. The Chamberlaines court for Prentises, and making them free. This Guild-hall, saith Robert Fabian, was begun to be builded new in the yeere 1411. the twelfth of Henry the fourth, by Thomas Knoles, then Maior, & his Brethren the Aldermen: The same was made of a little cottage, a large and great house, as now it standeth; towards the charges whereof, the Companies gave large benevolences. Also offences of men were pardoned for summes of money towards this Worke, extraordinary Fees were raised, Fines, Amercements, and other things imployed, during 7. yeeres, with a continuation there of 3. yeers more, all to be imployed to this building.

The first yeere of Henry the sixth, Iohn Coventry and Iohn Carpentar, Executors to Richard Whitington, gave towards the paving of this great Hall twenty pound, and the next yeere fifteene pound more to the said Pavement with hard stone of Purbecke: They also glased some Windowes thereof, and of the Maiors Court, on every which Window, the Armes of Richard Whitington are placed. The foundation of the Maiors court was laid in the third yeere of the reigne of Henry the sixth; and of the Porch, on the South side of the Maiors court, in the fourth of the said King. Then was builded the Maiors Chamber, and the Councell Chamber, with other roomes above the staires.

Having here so just occasion, speaking of that former ancient Councell Chamber, The new Councell Chamber at the Guild-Hall, and the building therof. which hath continued so ever since; I cannot but account it expedient (as in no place better fitting) to remember the faire and goodly new Councell Chamber; a worthy Act and Honour, whereby to renowne deservedly the City for ever. The said new Councell Chamber, with a faire Roome over the same, appointed for a Treasury, wherein to preserve the Bookes and Records [Page] belonging to the Citie; and another roome also underneath the said Chamber, reserved for necessary use and imployment, began to be builded the first weeke after Easter, in the time of the Maioralty of Sir Thomas Middleton, Knight and Alderman; in the yeere of our Lord, 1614. It was fully finished shortly after Michaeh [...]as, 1615. at the latter end of the Maioralty of Sir Thomas Hayes, Knight and Alderman. But the Lord Maior, and the Aldermen his brethren, kept their first Court in the said new Councell Chamber,The first Court kepe in the new Councell Chamber. on the seventh day of November, in the yeere of our Lord, 1615. Sir Iohn Iolles, Knight and Alderman, being then Lord Maior: By whose order and direction, the said building was performed, from the first beginning thereof, to the finall finishing of the same; amounting to the charge of 1740. pounds: than which, no money (in my mind) could be better bestowed, nor more to the Cities credit and renowne.

Last of all, a stately Porch, entring the great Hall, was erected, the front thereof towards the South, being beautified with Images of stone, such as is shewed by these verses following, made about some thirty yeeres since, by William Elderton, at that time an Atturney in the Sheriffes Courts there:

Though most the Images

be pulled downe,

Verses made on the Images over the Guild-hall gate.

And none be thought

remaine in Towne,

I am sure there be

in London yet

Seven Images, such,

and in such a place,

As few or none,

I thinke, will hit:

Yet every day

they shew their face,

And thousands see them

every yeere,

But few, I thinke,

can tell me where:

Where Iesu Christ

aloft doth stand,

Names of Images.

Law and Learning

on either hand;

Discipline in

the Divels necke,

And hard by her

are three direct;

There Iustice, Fortitude

and Temperance stand,

Where finde ye the like

in all this Land?

Divers Aldermen glazed the great Hall, and other Courts, as appeareth by their Armes in each window. William Hariot, Draper, Maior, 1481. gave forty pound to the making of two Loovers in the said Guild-hall, and toward the glazing thereof.Kitchens by the Guild-hall. The Kitchens, and other houses of Office adjoyning to this Guild-hall, were builded of later time, to wit, about the yeere 1501. by procurement of Sir Iohn Sha, Goldsmith, Maior, (who was the first that kept his Feast there) towards the charges of which worke, the Maior had of the Fellowships of the Citie (by their owne agreement) certaine summes of money; as, of the Mercers forty pounds; the Grocers, twenty pounds; the Drapers, thirty pounds; and so of the other Fellowships thorow the Citie, as they were of power.

Also Widdowes, and other wel-disposed persons, gave certaine summes of money: as, the Lady Hill, ten pounds; the Ladie Austrie, ten pounds; and so of many other, till the worke was finished. Since the which time, the Maiors Feasts have beene yeerely kept there, which before-time had beene kept in the Taylors Hall, and in the Grocers Hall. Nicholas Alwin, Grocer, Maior, 1499. deceased 1505. gave by his Testament, for a hanging of Tapestrie, to serve for principall dayes in the Guild-hall, 73. l. 6. s. 8. d. How this gift was performed, I have not heard: for Executors of our time, having no conscience, (I speake of my own knowledge) prove more Testaments than they performe.

Now for the Chappell or Colledge of our Lady Mary Magdalen, Chappell or Colledge at Guild-hall. Patent. and of All Saints by the Guild-Hall, called London Colledge: I read, that the same was builded about the yeere 1299. and that Peter Fanelore, Adam Frauncis, and Henry Frowicke Citizens, gave one Messuage with the appurtenances, in the Parish of S. Foster, to William Brampton, Custos [Page] of the Chauntry, by them founded in the said Chappell, with foure Chaplains, and on the other house in the Parish of S. Giles without Creplegate, in the 27. of Edward the third, was given to them.

Moreover I finde, that Richard the 2. in the 20. of his reigne, granted to Stephen Spilman, Mercer, licence to give one messuage, three shops, and one garden, with the appurtenances, being in the Parish of S. Andrew Hubberd, to the Custos and Chaplaines of the said Chappell, and to their successors, for their better reliefe and maintenance for ever.

King Henry the 6. in the eighth of his reigne, gave licence to Iohn Barnard, Custos, and the Chaplains, to build of new the said Chappell or Colledge of Guild Hall: Chappell or Colledge at Guildhall new builded. and the same Henry the 6. in the 27. of his reigne, granted to the Paris-Clerks in London, a Guild of S. Nicholas, for two Chaplaines, by them to bee kept in the said Chappell of S. Mary Magdalen, neere unto the Guild-hall, and to keepe 7. Almes-people. Henry Barton, Skinner, Maior, founded a Chaplaine there: Roger Depham, Mercer, and Sir VVilliam Langford, Knight, had also Chaplaines there. This Chappell or Colledge had a Custos, 7. Chaplaines, 3. Clarkes, and 4. Quiresters.

Monuments there have beene sundry, as appeareth by the Tombes of Marble yet remaining, seven in number, but all defaced. The uppermost in the Quire, on the South side thereof, above the Revestrie doore, was the Tombe of Iohn Welles, Grocer, Maior 1451. The likenesse of Wels are graven on the Tombe, on the Revestrie doore, and other places on that side the Quire. Also in the glasse window, is the likenesse of Welles, with hands elevated out of the same Wels, holding scrowles, wherein is written, Mercy: the writing in the East window (being broken) yet remaineth Welles. Iohn Welles a principall benefactor to Guild hall Colledge. I found his Armes also in the South glasse window: all which doe shew, that the East end and South side of the Quire of this Chappell, and the Revestire, were by him both builded and glazed. On the North side of the Quire, the Tombe of Thomas Knesworth, Fishmonger, Maior 1505. who deceased 1505. who deceased 1515. was defaced, and within these 44. yeeres againe renewed by the Fishmongers. Two other Tombes lower there are, the one of a Draper, the other of a Haberdasher, their names not knowne: Richard Stomin is written in the window by the Haberdasher. Vnder flat stones doe lye divers Custos of the Chappell, Chaplaines and Officers to the Chamber.

Amongst others, Iohn Clipstone, Priest, sometime Custos of the Library of the Guild-hall, 1457. Another of E. Alison, Priest, one of the Custos of the Library, 1510. &c. Sir Iohn Langley, Goldsmith, Maior, 1576. lyeth buried in the vault, under the Tombe of Iohn Welles beforenamed. This Chappell or Colledge, valued to dispend 12. l. 8. s. 9. d. by the yeere, was surrendred amongst other: the Chappell remaineth to the Maior and Communalty, wherein they have service weekely, as also at the election of the Maior, and at the Maiors Feast, &c.

Adjoyning to this Chappell on the South side,Library at Guild-hall. was sometime a faire and large Library, furnished with Bookes, pertaining to the Guild-hall and Colledge.

These Bookes (as it is said) were, in the reigne of Edward the 6. sent for by Edward Duke of Somerset, Lord Protector, with promise to be restored shortly: men laded from thence three Carries with them, but they were never returned. This Library was builded by the Executors of R. VVhitington, and by VV. Bury. The Armes of VVhitington are placed on the one side in the stone-worke: and two letters, to wit, W. and B. for William Bury, on the other side: it is now losted through, and made a store-house for Clothes.

South-west from this Guild-hall, Parish Church of S. Laurence, in the Iurie. is the faire Parish Church of S. Laurence, called in the Iurie, because (of old time) many Iewes inhabited thereabout. This Church is faire and large, and hath some Monuments, as shall be shewed. I my selfe, more than 70. yeeres since, have seene in this Church the shanke bone of a man (as it is taken) and also a tooth of a very great bignesse,The tooth of some monstrous Fish as I take it. hanged up, for shew, in chaines of iron, upon a [Page] pillar of stone; the tooth (being about the bignesse of a mans fist) is long since conveyed from thence: the thigh or shanke bone,A shanke bone of 25. inches long, of a man, as is said, but might be of an Elephant. of 25. inches in length by the Rule, remaineth yet fastned to a post of timber, and is not so much to be noted for the length, as for the thicknes, hardnesse and strength thereof; for when it was hanged on the stone pillar, it fretted (with moving) the said pillar, and was not it selfe fretted, nor (as seemeth) is not yet lightned, by remaining dry: but where or when this bone was first found or discovered, I have not heard; and therefore, rejecting the fables of some late Writers, I overpasse them. VValter Blundell had a Chauntry there, the 14. of Edward the second, There lye buried in this Church, Elizabeth, wife to Iohn Fortescue; Katharine Stoketon, Iohn Stratton, Philip Albert, Iohn Fleming, Philip Agmondesham, William Skywith, Iohn Norlong, Iohn Baker, Thomas Alleyne, William Barton, Mercer, 1410. William Melrith, Mercer, one of the Sheriffes, 1425. Simon Barlet, Mercer, 1428. Walter Chartsey, Draper, one of the Sheriffes, 1430. Richard Rich, Esquire of London, the Father, and Richard Rich his sonne, Mercer, one of the Sheriffes, 1442. deceased, 1469. with this Epitaph:

Respice quod opus est

Praesentis temporis aevum,

Omne quod est, mihil est,

Praeter amare Deum.

This Richard was Father to Iohn, buried in S. Thomas Acars, which Iohn was Father to Thomas, Father to Richard Lord Rich, &c. Iohn Pickering, honourable for service of his Prince, and for the English Merchants beyond the Seas, who deceased, 1448. Iohn Atkenson, Gentleman, Dame Mary S. Maure, Iohn Waltham, Roger Bonifant, Iohn Chayhee, Iohn Abbot, Iohn Marshall, Mercer, Maior, 1493. William Purchat, Maior 1498. Thomas Burgoyne, Gentleman, Mercer, 1517. A wife to a Master of Defence, servant to the Princes of Wales, Dutches of Cornewall, and Countesse of Chester.

Sir Michel Dormer, Maior, 1541.

Robert Charsey, one of the Sheriffes, 1548.

Sir William Rowe, Ironmonger, Maior, 1593.

Samuel Thornhill, 1597.

Lo here the Lady Margaret North,

An ancient Tomb in the Chancell.

in Tombe and earth doth lye;

Of husbands foure the faithfull Spouse,

whose fame shall never dye.

One Andrew Fraunces was the first,

the second Robert hight,

Sirnamed Chartsey, Alderman:

Sir David Brooke, a Knight,

Was third. But he that passed all,

and was in number fourth,

And for his vertue made a Lord,

was call'd, Sir Edward North.

These all together doe I wish

a joyfull rising day:

That of the Lord, and of his Christ,

All honour they may say.

Obiit 2. die Iunii, An. Dom. 1575.

Hic jacet Simon Bennington, Civis & Pannarius London,An ancient Tomb in the South wall▪ Sustentatorum istius Capellae, ac unius Capellani, in eadem divina quotidie celebratis. Cujus animae Propitietur Deus.

Hic incineratur corpus quondam Galfridi Bullayne,A gravestone on the groūd, well plated. Civis, Merceri, & Maioris London, Qui ab hac—Ann. Dom. 1463. Cujus animae pax sit perpetua. Amen.

The word (Now thus) 32. times dispersed in Brasse all over the Gravestone.

Hic jacet Thomas Boleyne, de Comitatu Norfolciae, Armiger: Qui obiit ultimo die Mensis Aprilis, An. Dom. 1571. Cujus, &c.

Here lyeth Sir Richard Gresham, An ancient Tomb East in the wall. Knight, sometimes Lord Maior of London and Audrey his first wife, by whom hee had issue, Sir Iohn Gresham, and Sir Thomas Gresham, Knights, William and Margaret: which Sir Richard deceased the 20. day of February, An. Domini, 1548. And the third yeere of King Edward the sixth his reigne. And Adurey deceased the 28. day of December, An. Dom. 1522.

Here lyeth the body of Geffrey Felding, A gravestone plated before the Tomb. sometime Maior of this Citie, and Angell his wife, and Thomas, Richard, and [Page] Iohn, sonnes of the said Geffrey, Ann. Dom. 1517.

Hic jacet Iohannes Marshall, Civis & Mercerus Civitatis London. An ancient Marble Tomb in the North side of the Quire. Qui quidem Iohannes obiit 4. die Januarii, An. Dom. 1498. Et Ioanna Vxor ejus: quae quidem Ioanna obiit 18. die Decembris, 1484. Quorum, &c.

Hereunder lyeth buried the body of the Lady Alice Avenon, A faire Monumēt in the North wall of the Quire. being one of the daughters and heires of Thomas Huchen, Citizen and Mercer of London, whose last husband was Sir Alexander Avenon, Alderman, and late L. Maior of this Citie of London. Her second husband, was Iohn Blundell, of London, Mercer, by whom she had issue one sonne, named Philip, deceased, and eight daughters, whereof five lived untill they were married, and they were coheires to their Father; namely, Elizabeth, married unto Edmond Hogan, of London, Mercer; Mary, unto Sir Gerard Crockar, of Oxfordshire, Knight; Theodora, married first unto John Denton, of Oxfordshire, Gent. and after unto Justinian Champneis, of Kent, Esquire; Anne, married to Thomas Cordel, of London, Mercer; and Susanna, unto Richard Freston, of London, Gent. The which Alice Blundel, in the time of her widdowhood, left a foundation within the Mercers Hall in London, for thirteen penny Ioaves of good sweet bread, to be given (in her name) among thirteen poore folkes of this Parish of Saint Laurence in the Old Iewrie, every Sunday at Morning Prayer for ever, in the presence of the worshipfull of the same Parish. And her first husband was Hugh Methwold of London, Mercer, by whom shee had issue, William, her sonne and heyre, and a daughter named Anne, deceased. The which Dame Alice departed this world, the 21. day of November, Ann. Dom. 1574. unto whom God send (through Iesus Christ) a joyfull resurrection. Amen. Aetatis suae, 61.

Qualis vita, finis ita.

Hereunder resteth,A small Monumēt on a pillar in the North Ile. in assured hope of the resurrection, the bodies of Iohn Fox, Citizen and Goldsmith of London, and Johanna his wife: whose lives as they were blamelesse and holy, so their end was full of peace. The said John was the Founder of the free Schoole of Deane, in the County of Cumberl. besides 18. d. weekly to an Almes-man, belonging to the Goldsmiths Hall. And other charitable deeds, to the poore prisoners, and Hospitals in the Citie of London: The memory of whose good deeds, God grant others to doe the like. The said John, being of the age of 78. fell on sleepe the 8. day of Iune, 1597. And Iohanna his wife, of the age of 87. departed this life the 9. of Februarie, 1600.

Fiducia Christianorum, Resurrectio Mortuorum.

Thus much for Cheape Ward, which hath an Alderman, his Deputy; Common Counsellours, 11. Constables, 11. Scavengers, 9. for the Wardmote Inquest, 12. and a Beadle. It is taxed to the Fifteene, at 72. l. 16. s. and in the Exchequer, at 72. l. 11. s.

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COLEMAN STREET VVard.

NExt to Cheape Ward, on the North side thereof, is Coleman street Ward, and beginneth also in the East, on the course of Walbrooke, in Lothbury, and runneth West, (on the South side) to the end of Ironmongers lane, and on the North side, to the West corner of Basings Hall street. On the South side of Lothbury, is the street called the Old Iewrie, the one halfe, and better, on both sides towards Cheape, is of this Ward.

On the North side lyeth Coleman street, whereof the Ward taketh name, wholly on both sides North to London wall, and from that North end along by the Wall, and Mooregate, East, to the course of Walbrooke. And againe, from Coleman street, West, to the Iron grates: and these be the bounds of this Ward.

Antiquities therein to be noted, are these:Lothbery. First, the street of Lothbery, Lathbery, or Loadbery, (for by all these names have I read it) tooke the name (as it seemeth) of a Bery, or Court of old time there kept, but by whom, it is growne out of memorie. This street is possessed (for the most part) by Founders, that cast Candlestickes, Chafingdishes, Spice Morters, and such like Copper or Laten works, and doe afterward turne them with the foot, and not with the wheele, to make them smooth and bright, with turning and scratting, (as some doe terme it) making a lothsome noise to the by-passers, that have not beene used to the like; and therefore by them disdainedly called Lothburie. On the South side of this street, amongst the Founders, be some faire houses and large, for Merchants; namely, one that of old time was the Iewes Synagogue, The Iewes Synagogue. which was defaced by the Citizens of London, after that they had slaine 700. Iewes, and spoiled the residue of their goods, in the yeere 1262. the 47. of H. the 3. And not long after, in the yeere 1291. King Edward the first banished the remnant of the Iewes out of England, as is afore shewed.

The said Synagogue being so suppressed, certaine Friers got possession thereof: For in the yeere 1257. (saith Mathew Paris) there were seene in London a new order of Friers,Fratres de Saccae, or de poenitentia. called De Poenitentia Iesu, or Fratres de Sacca, because they were apparelled in Sackcloth, who had their house in London, neere unto Aldersgate, without the gate, and had licence of Henry the third, in the 54. of his reigne, to remove from thence to any other place: and in the 56. hee gave unto them this Iewes Synagogue. After which time, Eleanor the Queene, wife to Edward the first, tooke into her protection, and warranted unto the Prior and brethren De poenitentia Iesu Christi of London, the said land and building in Cole-church street, Cole-church street, or Old Iew [...]e. in the parish of Saint Olave in the Iury, & S. Margaret in Lothburie, by her granted, with consent of Stephen de Fulborn, Vnder-warden of the Bridge-house, and other brethren of that house: for threescore Markes of Silver, which they had received of the said Prior and brethren of repentance, toward the building of the said Bridge. This order of Friers gathered many good scholars, and multiplyed in number exceedingly, untill the Councell at Lyons, by the which it was decreed, that (from that time forth) there should no more Orders of begging Friers be permitted, but onely the foure Orders; to wit, the [Page] Dominicke or Preachers, the Minorites or gray Friers, the Carmelites or white Friers, and the Augustines: and so from that time the begging Friers decreased and fell to nothing.

Now it followed, that in the yeere 1305. Robert Fitzwalter requested and obtained of the said King Edward the first,Ro. Fitzwalter his house. that the same Friers of the Sacke, might assigne to the said Robert their Chappell or Church, of old time called the Synagogne of the Iewes, neere adjoyning to the then mansion place of the same Robert, which was in place where now standeth the Grocers Hall: and the said Synagogue was at the North corner of the Old Iewry. Robert Large, Mercer, Maior, in the yeere 1439. kept his Maioraltie in this house, and dwelled there untill his dying day.

This house standeth and is of two Parishes, as opening into Lothbury, of Saint Margarets Parish, and opening into the Old Iewry, of Saint Olaves Parish. The said Robert Large gave liberally to both these Parishes, but was buried at S. Olaves.

Hugh Clopton, The Wind mill Taverne in the old Iurie. Mercer, Maior, 1492. dwelled in this house, and kept his Maioralty there. It is now a Taverne, and hath to signe a Wind-mill.

And thus much for this house, sometime the Iewes Synagogue, since, an house of Friers, then a Noble-mans house, after that, a Merchants house, wherein Maioralties have beene kept, and now a Wine-Taverne.

Then is the Old Iury, The Old Iurie. a street so called of Iewes sometime dwelling there, and neere adjoyning, in the Parishes of S. Olave, The Iewes brought from Rone by William Duke of Normandy. S. Michael Bassings Hall. S. Martin Ironmonger lane, S. Laurence, called the Iewrie, and so West to Woodstreete. William, D. of Normandy, first brought them from Rone to inhabit here.

William Rufus favoured them so farre,W. Rufus favoured them. that he sware by Lukes face, his common Oath, if they could overcome the Christians, hee would bee one of their Sect.

Henry the second grievously punished them for corrupting his coyne.Hen. the 1. punished them.

Richard the first forbade Iewes and women to be present at his Coronation,Rich. the 3. forbade them to come to his coronation. for feare of inchantments: for breaking of which commandement, many Iewes were slaine, who being assembled, to present the King with some gift, one of them was stricken by a Christian, which some unruly people perceiving, fell upon them, beat them to their houses, and brent them therein, or slew them at their comming out.

Also the Iewes at Norwich, S. Edmondsbury, Lincolne, Stanford, and Lyn, were robbed and spoiled; and at Yorke, to the number of 500. besides Women and children, entred a Tower of the Castle, proffered money to be in surety of their lives, but the Christians would not take it: whereupon they cut the throats of their owne wives and children, and cast them over the walles on the Christians heads, and then entring the Kings lodging, they burned both the house and themselves.

King Iohn, in the eleventh of his reign, commanded all the Iewes,King Iohn tormented the Iewes. both men and women, to be imprisoned and grievously punished, because hee would have all their money: some of them gave all they had, and promised more, to escape so many kinds of torments; for every one of them had one of their eyes at the least plucked out. Amongst whom there was one, which being tormented many wayes, would not ransome himselfe, till the King had caused (every day) one of his great teeth to be plucked out, by the space of seven daies, and then he gave the King tenne thousand Markes of silver, to the end they should pull out no more: the said King at that time spoiled the Iewes of sixty six thousand markes.

The 17. of this King,The Barons rifled the Iewes. the Barons brake into the Iewes houses, rifled their coffers, and with the stone of their houses, repaired the gates and wals of London.

King Henry the third, in the eleventh of his reigne, [...]. of Hen. 3. Hen 3. excheted the lands and goods of the Iewes. granted to Semaine or Ballaster, the house of Benomye Mittun the Jew, in the Parish of S. Michael Bassinghanghe, in which the said Benomye dwelt, with the fourth part of all his Land in that Parish, which William Elie held of the fee of Hugh Nevell, and all the land in Coleman street, belonging to the said Benomye, and the fourth part of the land in the Parish of S. Laurence, which was the fee of Thomas Buckerell, and were [Page] excheted to the King for the murther which the said Benomye committed in the Citie of London, to hold to the said Semaine, and his heires, of the King, praying at Easter a paire of gilt Spurres, and to doe the service thereof due unto the Lords Court.

In like manner, and for like services, the King granted to Guso for his homage, the other part of the Lands of the said Benomye in S. Michaels Parish, which Law the Painter held, and was the Kings Exchete; and the Lands of the said Benomye, in the said Parish, which Walter Turner held, and 15. foot of Land which Hugh Harman held, with 15. iron Ells of Land, and an halfe, in the front of Ironmonger lane, in the Parish of S. Martin, which were the said Benomyes, of the see of the Hospitall of S. Giles, and which Adam the Smith held, with 2. stone houses, which were Moses the Jew of Canturbury, in the Parish of S. Olave, and which are of the fee of Arnold le Reus, and are the Kings Exchetes, as aforesaid.

The 16. of the said Henry, The Iews builded them a Synagogue in London. the Iewes in London builded a Synagogue, but the King commanded it should be dedicated to our blessed Lady, and after gave it to the Brethren of S. Anthonie of Vienna, and so was it called S. Anthonies Hospitall.

This King Henry founded a Church and house for converted Iewes,Hen. the 3. founded an house for converted Iewes. in a new street by the Temple, whereby it came to passe, that (in short time) there was gathered a great number of Converts.

The 20. of this King Henry, seven Iewes were brought from Norwich, Iews stale a child and circū cised him, and minded to have crucified him. which had stolne a Christned child, had circumcised, and minded to have crucified him at Easter, wherefore their bodies and goods were at the Kings pleasure. The 26. the Iewes were constrained to pay to the King 20000. Markes, at two termes in the yeere, or else to be kept in perpetuall prison.

The 35. he taketh inestimable sums of money of all rich men;Hen. 3. exacteth money of the Iewes. namely, of Aaron, a Iew borne at Yorke, 14000. marks for himselfe, and tenne thousand marks for the Queene, and before, he had taken of the same Iew as much, as in all amounted to 30000. markes of silver, and two hundred markes of gold to the Queene.

In the 40. yeere were brought up to Westminster 202. Iewes from Lincolne, Iewes hanged for crucifying of a child. for crucifying a child, named Hugh, 18. of them were hanged.

The 43. a Iew at Tewkesburie fell into a Privie on the Saturday, and would not that day be taken out, for reverence of his Sabbath; wherfore Richard Clare, Earle of Glocester, kept him there till Munday, that he was dead.

The 47. the Barons slew of the Iewes at London, 700. Iewes slaine at London. 700. the rest were spoiled, and their Synagogue defaced, because one Iew would have forced a Christian to have paid more than 2. s. for the lone of 20. s. a weeke.

The third of Edward the first,Vsury forbidden. in a Parliament at London, vsurie was forbidden to the Iewes: and that all Vsurers might be knowne, the King commanded that every Vsurer should weare a Table on his brest, the breath of a paveline, or else to avoid the Realm.

The sixth of the said King Edward, a reformation was made for clipping of the Kings Coyne; for which offence, 267. Iewes were drawne and hanged;English Iewes hanged. three were English Christians, and other were English Iewes.

The same yeere the Iewes crucified a childe at Northampton, Iews hanged at London, for crucifying a child at Northampton. for the which fact, many Iewes at London were drawn at horse tayles and hanged.

The eleventh of Edward the first, Iohn Perkham, Archbishop of Canturburie, commanded the Bishop of London to destroy all the Iewes Synagogues in his Dioces.

The 16. of the said Edward, All the Iewes in England apprehēded & redeemed for money. all the Iewes in England, were (in one day) apprehended by precept from the King, but they redeemed themselves for 12. thousand pounds of silver; notwithstanding in the 19. of his reigne he banished them all out of England, giving them onely to beare their charge till they were out of his Realme: the number of Iewes then expulsed, were 15060. persons. All the Iewes banished this Realme. The King made a mighty masse of money of their houses, which he sold, and yet the Commons of England had granted, and gave him a fifteenth of all their goods, to banish them. And thus much for the Iewes.

[Page] In this street called the Old Iewrie, Parish Church of S. Olave Vpwell in the Iewrie. is a proper Parish Church of S. Olave Vpwell, so called in Record, 1320. Iohn Brian, Parson of Saint Olave Vpwell, in the Iewry, founded there a Chauntry, and gave two messuages to that Parish,A Well was under the East end of this Church, late turned to a Pump, but decayed. the 16. of Edward the second, and was by the said King confirmed. In this Church, to the commendation of the Parsons and Parishioners, the Monuments of the dead remaine lesse defaced than in many other. First, of William Dikman, Fereno, or Ironmonger, one of the Sheriffes of London, 1367. Robert Havelocke, Ironmonger, 1390. Iohn Organ, Mercer, one of the Sheriffes, 1385. Iohn Forrest, Vicar of Saint Olaves, and of Saint Stephen, which at that time was as a Chappell annexed to S. Olave, 1399. Henry Friole, Taylor, 1400. Thomas Morsted, Esquire, Chirurgian to Henry the fourth, fifth, and sixth, one of the Sheriffes, 1436.

He builded a faire new Ile, to the inlargement of this Church, on the north side therof, wherein hee lyeth buried, 1450. Adam Breakspeare, Chaplaine, 1411. William Kirkbie, Mercer, 1465. Robert Large, Mercer, Maior, 1440. He gave to that Church 200. l'. Iohn Belwin, Founder, 1467. Gabriel Rave, Fuller, 1511. Wentworth, Esquire, 1510. Thomas Michell, Ironmonger, 1527. Giles Dewes, servant to Henry the seventh, and to Henry the eighth, Clerke of their Libraries, and Schoolemaster for the French tongue to Prince Arthur, and to the Lady Mary, 1535. Edmond Burlacy, 1583. Iohn Brian.

Here lyeth under this Tombe,An anciēt Marble Tombe in the East end of the Quite. the body of Richard Chamberlaine, Ironmonger, Alderman and late Sheriffe of London, Merchant Adventurer, and free of Russia, who had two wives, Anne, the first of whom he had issue, 8. sonnes and 5. daughters. Of Margaret his last wife no issue, which Richard dyed the 19. day of November, An. Dom. 1566.

To the poore he was liberall,

and gave for Gods sake,

But now his fame is plentifull,

and he an heavenly Make,

He was like one of us,

according to our mould,

But now he is unlike us,

in heaven where he would.

His time was short, in sicknes rare,

as to all is knowne:

But now his time shall long endure,

and never be cast downe.

Hic requiescit in Gratia & misericordia Dei,A placed stone on the groūd in the South Ile. Robertus Large, quondam Mercerui & Maior istius Civitatis. Qui obiit 24. die Aprilis, 1441. Et Elizabeth uxor ejus, ac pueri eorundem. Cujus, &c.

Humfrido Weld militi, & nuper Maiori Civitatis London, vire integerrimo, sanctissimo, summa in Deū pietate, in homines fide ac comitate praedito: Joanne Weld unicus filius & haeres, hoc Monumentum pietatis ergo moerens posuit.

Habuit ex Anna uxore, primâ filiâ Nicholai wheler Armigeri, filios duos, Humfridum, olim defunctum, & Ioannem Maritum Franciscae filiae Gulielmi Whitmore Armig. & quinque filias, Ioannam, nuptam Roberte Brooke, de Cockfield, in Com. Suff. militi. Annam, nuptam Ricardo Corbet, de Stoke super Terne, in Com. Salop. Armigero, Mariam, Saram & Elizabetham, olim defunctas. Post cujus obitum, duxit uxorem secundam Mariam, filiam Stephani Slani Militis, adhuc superstitem.

Obiit 29. die Novembris, An. Dom. 1610. Aetatis suae, 64.

Quem tegit hoc marmor,

A goodly Tombe is the South Ile.

Quem cassum lumine flemus,

Abstulit una dies,

Quantum si forte requiris,

Weldus erat nomen,

Maior celeberrimus urbis;

Justitiae splendor,

verae pietatis Imago,

Religionis amans,

aevi prudentia nostri,

Mens humilis, purus (que)

animus, patiensque laborum,

Frons hilaris, faciles

aures, pectus (que) fidele,

Os verax, mites

oculi, gravitate refulgens

Vultus; Cor placidum

studiosis, dextra benigna,

Quos non instimulent

nobis reticentibus ipsi,

[Page] Incipient scopuli

vivis sermonibus uti;

Iustè Welde minor

si spes, si fama fuisset,

De te Welde minor

nostra querela foret.

Thomas Cambell Eques,A very faire and costly Tombe in the East end of the Chancell. secundo Regis Iacobi, Civis London ejusdem Vrbis patricius & Praetor aequissimus & prudentissimus: domicilium sibi hoc in perpetuam memoriam dicatum habet: feliciter bis nuptus erat, & ex 1. conjugio filii nati sunt 6. filiae, 7. ex inde vero nepotes 39. quem cives privatim & publicè, honorificè omnes colebant. Annos autem 78. cum adimplesset, suorum & omnium honestorum cum luctu, fato concessit, 13. die Februarii, An. Dom. 1613.

Transiit ad vivos

è vivis Pacis alumnus,

Iustitiae columen;

Qui decus inde suum

Extulit egregiè:

Pietatem caetera praeter

Dilexit: cultus,

Religione, side.

Non patrem tantum

proles, sine murmure luctus

Percipit; at vetuit

mors superare modum:

Vulnus opem (que) ferens,

aequè. Quid plangitis ultra?

Angelus en factus!

nec minor ante fuit.

Quae potuit cuiquam,

optari Mors, vita (que) honore

Fulta: & amicitiis

inclita; prole, fide.

Obtigit haec, Cambelle,

tibi, utra (que) scilicet annis

Maturis, meriti

& plenus amoris obis.

Digna viro tibi vita

fuit, qui viveret ultra,

Digna (que) mors vitâ

sed meliora frui.

Terminus incertae

mors vitae, & certa salutis

Spes promissa rapit,

non colit ima fides.

A very faire Monument in the nether part of the Church.

Memoriae.

Henrici Anderson, Equitis Aurati, Alderdermanni Civitatis London, & Elizabethae uxoris ejus, filiae Fran. Bowyer, Alderm. Lond. Qui 8. liberos habuêre, viz. 2. filios, Georg. defunct. & Rich. qui uxorem duxit Mariam, fil. primogenit. Rob. Spencer, Dom. Wormeleiton. Kath. nuptam Tho. Derham, de West Derham, in Com. Norff. Armig. Elizab. nupt. Tho. Cowley, Mercat. Lond. Francise. nupt. Rob. Nedeham, de Shaurigton, in Com. Salop. Armig. Saram & Mariam innupt. Qui obiêre: Haec Iul. 9. 1599. Ille 13. April. 1605.

Pietatis ergo moerens posuit Rich. Anderson filius haeres.

Edwinus Smith,An engraven plate, in the South wall of the Quire. filius Roberti Smith, Civis & Aromatarii Londinensis, apud Cantabrigiensis in Artibus Magister, ibidemque Collegii Iesus Socius praedilectus, propter summam ingenii ubertatem, memoriam, noticiam, pietatem, modestamque festivitatem, omnibus gratus: singulare sui generis ornamentum, & par decus Collegii (non dicam Academiae) futurus, diem obiit, horum omnium cum incredibili luctu, nono Calend, Septembris, qui festus D. Bartholomaeo fuit. Anno salutis, 1598. Aetatis suae, 23.

Ecclesiast. 44. ver. 8. Reliquit nomen, narrantur laudes.

From this Parish Church of S. Olave, to the North end of the Old Iewrie, and from thence West to the North end of Ironmonger lane, & from the said corner into Ironmonger lane, almost to the Parish Church of S. Martin, was (of old time) one large building of stone, very ancient, made in place of Jewes houses, but of what antiquity, or by whom the same was builded, or for what use, I have not learned, more than that King H. the 6. in the 16. of his reigne, gave the office of being Porter or keeper thereof,Kings Palace in the Old Iewrie. unto Iohn Stent, for terme of his life, by the name of his Principall Palace in the Old Iewry. This was (in my youth) called the Old Wardrobe: but of later time, the outward stone wall hath been by little and little taken downe, and divers faire houses builded thereupon, even round about.

Now for the North side of this Lothburie, beginning againe at the East end thereof: Vpon the Water-course of [Page] Walbrooke, have yee a proper Parish Church, called S. Margaret, which seemeth to be newly re-edified and builded, about the yeere 1440. For Robert Large gave to the Quire of that Church one hundred shillings, and 20. pounds for Ornaments, more, to the vaulting over the water-course of Walbrooke by the said Church, for the enlarging therof, two hundred Markes.

There be Monuments in this Church, of Reginald Coleman, Sonne to Robert Coleman, buried there, 1483. This said Robert Coleman may bee supposed the first builder or owner of Coleman street, and that Saint Stephens Church, then builded in Coleman street, was but a Chappell belonging to the Parish Church of S. Olave in the Iewry: for we read (as afore) that Iohn Forrest, Vicar of Saint Olaves, and of the Chappell annexed of S. Stephen, deceased in the yeere 1399. Hugh Clopton, Mercer, Maior, deceased, 1496. Anselme Becket, Iohn Iulian, William Ilford, Chanteries there, Sir Brian Tuke, Knight, Treasurer of the Chamber to King Henry the eighth, and Dame Grisilde his wife, that deceased after him, were there buried 1536. Iohn Fetiplace, Draper, Esquire, 1464. and Ioan his wife, Sir Hugh Witch, Mercer, Maior, sonne to Richard Witch, intombed there, 1466. He gave to his third wife three thousand pound, and to Maids marriages five hundred markes.

Here lyeth buried Dame Grisilde Tuke, late wife of Sir Brian Tuke, A faire ancient Tombe in the North Ile of the Quire. Knight, Treasurer of the Chamber to King Henry the eighth. She dyed the 28. day of December, 1538.

Vnder this stone lyeth George Beamon, A plated stone by the Communion Table. Clerke, and Doctor in Divinity, who departed this life the 29. day of April, An. Dom. 1571. A man mercifull and good to the poore, and borne in Kinnegall in Cumberland: whose body and Soule God grant a joyfull resurrection.

Se piu Si puote.

No wealth, no praise,

A goodly ancient Tombe in the Chancell.

no bright renowne, no skill,

No force, no fame,

no Princes love, no toyle,

Though forraine Lands

by travels search you will,

No faithfull service

of thy Country foyle,

Can life prolong

one minute of an houre:

But death at length

will execute his power.

For Sir Iohn Leigh,

to sundry Countries knowne,

A worthy Knight,

well of his Prince esteem'd:

By seeing much,

to great experience growne:

Though safe on seas,

though sure on land he seem'd,

Yet here he lyes,

too soone by death opprest,

His fame yet lives,

his soule in heaven hath rest.

Here lyeth Ioh. Dimock, A faire plated stone before the ascending to the Cō munion Table. sonne to Iohn Dimock, Esquire, sometimes Citizen & Draper of London: he married Anne his first wife, by whom he had one son: which Anne dyed the yeere of Christ, 1558. After whom he married his second wife Mary, by whom he had a daughter. He served the Princes of famous memory, King Henry the eighth, and King Edward the sixth. For his faithfull and good service he was well esteemed; for his upright dealing he was well beloved of his equals; for his benevolence to the poore, hee was both praised and prayed for. Hee lived 100. yeeres lacking 7. very commendably, and the 14. of Iuly, 1585. he dyed Christianly.

Here lyeth the body of Christian Towerson, A faire Pyramide erected against the South wall of the Quire. wife of William Towerson of London, Merchant, who lived together 21. yeeres and 6. moneths, and had issue 10. children. Leaving behind her Iohn, William, Robert, Elizab. and Mary. She left this life the 19. day of February, 1611.

Here resteth in hope of a ioyfull resurrection,A small Monumēt newly erected in the East end of the Quire. the body of Nicholas Style, late Alderman of London, who was borne at Langley, in the Parish of Beckingham, in the County of Kent: the son of Humfrey Stile, Knight, and of Dame Bridget his wife. He married Gertrude, the daughter of Thomas Bright of London, [Page] Ironmonger, with whom hee lived most lovingly and faithfully the space of forty yeeres, and by her had three sonnes and foure daughters; of whom remained living at his decease, one sonne, Humfrey, and one daughter, Mary. He dyed the sixteenth day of November, An. Dom. 1615.

By the West end of this Parish Church,Conduit in Lothbery. have ye a faire Water-conduit, builded at the charges of the Citie, in the yeere 1546. Sir Martin Bowes being Maior, two Fifteenes were levied of the Citizens, toward the charges thereof: This water is conveyed (in great abundance) from divers springs, lying betwixt Hoxton and Iseldon.

Next is the Founders Hall,The Foū ders Hall. a proper house: and so to the South-west corner of Bassings Hall street, have ye faire and large houses for Merchants; namely, the corner house, at the end of Bassings Hall street, an old piece of worke, builded of stone, sometime belonging to a certaine Iew, named Mansere, the sonne of Aron, the sonne of Coke the Iew, the seventh of Edward the first: since, to Rahere de Sopars lane; then, to Simon Francis. Thomas Bradbery, Mercer, kept his Maioralty there,Bay Hall, deceased, 1509. Part of this house hath beene lately imployed as a Market-house, for the sale of woollen Bayes, Watmoles, Flanels, and such like. Alderman Bennet now possesseth it.

On this North side, against the Old Iurie, Coleman street. is Coleman street, so called of Coleman, the first builder and owner thereof, as also of Cole-church, or Coleman-church, against the great Conduit in Cheape. This is a faire and large street, on both sides builded with divers faire houses, besides Alleys, with small tenements, in great number. On the East side of this street, almost at the North end thereof,Armourers Hall. is the Armourers Hall, which Company of Armourers were made a Fraternity or Guild of S. George, with a Chantry in the Chappell of S. Thomas, in Pauls Church, in the first of Henry the 6. Also on the same side is Kings Alley, Kings Alley-Love lane. and Love Lane, both containing many tenements. And on the west side, towards the South end, is the Parish Church of S. Stephen, wherein the Monuments are defaced: Notwithstanding, I finde, that William Crayhag founded a Chauntry there, in the reign of Edward the second, and was buried there. Also Iohn Essex, the 35. of Edward the third. Adam Goodman, the 37. of Edward the third. William King, Draper, sometime owne of Kings Alley, the 18. of Richard the second. Iohn Sokeling, the tenth of Henry the sixth. Iohn Arnold, Leather-seller, the seventeenth of Henry the sixth. Thomas Brudbery, Mercer, Maior, the first of Henry the eighth. His Tombe remaineth on the North side of the Quire. Richard Hamney, 1418. Kirnigham, 1468.

Sir Iohn Garme, Richard Colsel, Edmond Harbeke, Currier: all these were Benefactors, and buried there.

Here lyeth in peace the body of the Right Worshipfull,A faire Monument in the Chancell. Sir William Glover, Knight, late Citizen and Alderman of London, who for the many good gifts, both in sincere Religion, wisedome, and gravity, wherewith he was very plentifully graced, was elected Sheriffe of London, and served the same, Anno Domini, 1601. He had lived in good name and fame fifty eight yeeres, and very blessedly departed this transitory life, the seventeenth day of Decemb. 1603. Leaving two sonnes, (viz.) Thomas and William; and five daughters, viz. Anne, married to Barne Roberts, of Willesden, in the County of Middlesex, Esquire; Susan, Elizabeth, Mary, and Alice, behinde him, to condole the want of so kinde and loving a Father.

To whose dearest Memorie, the Lady Anne Glover, the most sorrowfull Widdow of the said Sir William, lamenting his death, and her owne unrecoverable losse; at her owne charge erected this Monument, in testification both of her love and duty.

Here lyeth the body of Barne Roberts, eldest son of Francis Roberts of Willesden, in the County of Middlesex, Esquire; who tooke to wife Anne, eldest daughter of Sir William Glover, Knight, and Alderman of Lond. by whom he had issue, [Page] three sonnes, and five daughters. The said Barne Roberts dyed the 30. day of Ianuary, 1610. being of the age of 34. yeeres, and five moneths. In remembrance of whom, his said wife, (of her very kind and loving affection) at her owne proper cost and charges, hath caused this Monument to be made and erected, An. Dom. 1611.

If humane worth

could have preserv'd him still,

Another close by the greater.

He had beene much

too strong for death to kill.

Yet being conquer'd,

he got by the strife,

A better being,

in a better life:

So that great Victor

over Nature, left him

More happinesse ten fold

than he bereft him.

Gulielmo Danieli, Equiti Aurato, alteri è Iudicibus cōmunium Placitorum,A faire Tombe in the East end of the South Ile. qui Maii 19. Annos natus septuaginta tria, An. Do. 1610. diem ult. explevit, devotū Carmen.

Qui Patriae Leges

aequo moderamine flexit,

Et Iudex populo

gratus amans (que) fuit,

Hoc decorat genio

marmor placido (que) pioque,

Stabit in aeternum

quod bona fama tegit.

Gentem si quaeras?

erat ille Checestriensis,

Overtabelio

nobilis ortus agro.

Vxores binas duxit,

nec pignora desunt,

Connubii duplicis

pulchra, pudica, pia.

Filius egregii nominis

speciemque parentis,

Qui celebrat primi

munus amoris erat.

Elizabetha illi soror est,

ab utroque parente

Onsyloi vivit

quae sociata toro.

Conjugii sed Martha

decus non sola secundi,

Coco Equiti nupta est,

nec satiatur Hymen,

Nam binas expectat

adhuc sub matre sorores,

Foelices thalamos

utraque digna manet.

Margareta & illis

paulo est maturior annis,

Nomine Iudithae

sit tibi nota minor.

Sic numero florens

natorum, munere Iudex,

Ordine Eques obiit,

plenus honore senex.

Anna defuncti Iudicis piissima vidua, in perpetuum amoris memoriaeque testimonium, lugubre hoc Monumentum extrui fecit.

In this Ile lye the bodies of George Golding, A hans [...] small Monument is the wall by the other. Esquire, buried the 27. day of November, 1584. and of Anne Bartelet, widdow, buried 12. day of Iune, 1596. and of Mary Golding, widdow, late wife of the said George, and daughter of the said Anne, buried the 29. of April, 1612. by her said husband and mother, according to her owne desire. She lived a widdow 28. yeeres, religiously to God, hospitably to her friends, and charitably to all, especially to poore widdowes: and deceased the 25. day of April, 1612. being then 79. yeeres of age.

An honest heart,

A faire Monumēt in the South wall of the Quite.

religiously affected,

A zealous soule,

a charitable mind,

True dealing conscience,

all untruth rejected;

All these in one

are hard and far to find:

Yet in the course,

both time and truth have tryed,

In youth and age,

Iohn Taylor liv'd and dyed.

His honest heart,

his honest friends have found;

His zeale to God,

God and the godly know;

His charity,

His true reliefe may sound,

That on the poore

his bounty did bestow:

His heavenly rest,

upon this point resolved,

To be with Christ,

I wish to be dissolved.

[Page] Here lyeth buried the body of Iohn Taylor, Esquire, Citizen and Haberdasher of London, who married Berseba, daughter of Edward Hall, late Citizen and Haberdasher of London, deceased, and had by her only one daughter, named Elizabeth; first married to Francis Smith, Citizen and Mercer of London, deceased, by whom she had one son, named Francis Smith; and since married to Thomas Freake, of Serne, in the County of Dorset, Esquire, by whom she hath five sons and daughters, now living. Hee hath given by his Will 200. pound in money, to be delivered and lent to young men of the Company of Haberdashers; to distribute every Sunday (weekly, for ever) two shillings in bread and the advantage, to poore householders of this Parish. And also twenty pound more for a stocke, to be yeerly imployed for ever, in buying and providing of Fuell for the same poore.

The blessed token of

the Daughters love,

Vnto the Fathers kinde

and loving care,

May to the world

this Monument approve,

How blessed Parents

in their Children are:

And blessed God, that

so his love expresseth,

Who thus both Parents

and the Children blesseth.

Sepelitur hic cor. Philippi Paskin,A grave stone in the same Ile. Qui obiit 12. Calend. Iunii, Anno Dom. 1580. Anno Aetat. 52. duos post se reliquit fil. Tho. & Ric. & unig. filiam Ioannam ex chariss. sibi Con. Anna.

Here lyeth Dame Iane, A comely Monumēt on a Pillar in the Quire. daughter and sole heire of Iohn White, of this Parish, Esquire: First married to Samuel Thornehill, of Bromley, in the County of Kent, Esquire, by whom she had issue two sonnes, Timothy and Iohn, and one daughter, named Elizabeth. Shee secondly married Sir Richard Smith, Knight, son of Thomas Smith, of Oestenhanger, in the County of Kent, Esquire, and had issue by him but one daughter, named Mary. The said Dame Iane died the 13. of October, 1607. being about the age of 33. yeeres. In whose remembrance, her said husband caused this Monument to be made, 1608.

Lady Bradvery gave 30. s. per annum in Charcoales to the poore of this Parish for ever from the worshipfull Company of Mercers.

On the Southside of the Chancell is a faire grave-stone, with this Epitaph in brasse:

Georgius heu quondam jacet

hic Skeffingtonus humatus,

Mercator Stapulae

clarus in urbe fuit.

Quae spes divitiis

bona quam fallacia mundi,

Quam subito pereunt

quae valuere vide?

Ast qui terram olim

vano fragilem pede pressit,

Aeterna hic petiit

firmior astra fide.

Obiit An. Dom. 1581. die 1. Iulii. A. vero aetatis suae 43.

On the lower end of the Chancell is a faire grave-stone with this Epitaph in brasse:

Our life is all but death,

time that insueth

Is but the death of time

that went before.

Youth is the death of

childhood, age of youth,

Die once to God, and

then thou diest no more.

Agnes the wife of

Leonard Darr, whose sight

By sicknesse much impair'd,

in heavenly light

Looke, liv'd, and died,

as dimnesse her were given,

That her soules eies might

better looke to heaven.

Leonardus Darr nuper Maior ville de Totnes, posuit in mortem Agnetae charissimae conjugis suae. Obiit 29. Ianuarii 1596.

Iohn White, Citizen and Haberdasher, 1585. gave 12. d. weekly in bread to the poore of this Parish for ever.

William Man, Citizen and Merchant-taylor, 1585, gave the remainder of a [Page] lease of yeeres to come in a lease of Tenements in Swanne alley, to the poore of this Parish, and the Towne of Buckingham, 2. l. 10. s.

Stephen Scudamore, Citizen and Vintner, 1585. gave weekly 12. d. in bread to the poore of this Parish for ever.

Iohn Taylor, Citizen and Haberdasher, gave in stocke 20. l. for Billets, Fagots, or Coales, for provision for the poore of this Parish for ever; and 2. s. weekly in bread for ever to the poore householders, 1600.

Dame Anne Glover gave a stocke of ten pounds for provision for the poor of this Parish, for wood or coale for ever, 1612.

Mistresse Dane, widow, gave to the poore 10. s. per annum for ever, from the Company of Ironmongers, 1614.

Henry Gibs, sometimes servant to Sir Maurice Abbot, Knight and Alderman of London, gave to the poore of this Parish 50. l.

Dame Daniel, sometimes wife to Sir William Daniel, gave a stocke for the poore of this Parish 30. l. 1616.

Hugh Cap, Citizen and Plasterer of London, gave 100. l. to purchase lands for the poore of this Parish for ever, 1616.

Iohn Terry, stranger, gave in stocke to the poore of this Parish 10. l. for ever, 1617.

Christopher Ayer, Merchant, Citizen, and Lether-seller of London, gave 240. pounds for the building of sixe Almeshouses, and 400. pounds to purchase lands towards the maintenance of sixe poore couple of this parish for ever, 1624.

Sir Richard Smith, Knight, gave in stock for provision of Sea-coales for the poore of this Parish, one hundred pounds every yeere to bee returned for the use of the poore for ever, 1627. And another hundred pounds afterward for reliefe of the poore also.

I obtained these instructions, by the helpe and assistance of my loving friend and brother, Thomas Price, Parish Clarke there.

This Church was sometime a Synagogue of the Iewes,Parish Church of S. Stephen, sometime a Synagogue of the Iewes. then a Parish Church, then a Chappell to St. Olaves in the Iewry, untill the seventh of Edward the fourth, and was then incorporated a Parish Church.

By the East end of this Church is placed a Cocke of sweet water,Cocked water▪ St Streets Church taken out of the maine Pipe that goeth into Lothbery. Also, in London Wall, Co [...] at [...] Wall. directly against the North end of Coleman streete, is a Conduit of water, made at the charges of Thomas Exmew, Goldsmith, Maior, 1517.

And let here be the end of this Ward, which hath an Alderman, his Deputy, common Counsellors foure, Constables foure, Scavengers foure, of the Wardmote Inquest thirteene, and a Beadle. It is taxed to the Fifteene, fifteene pound, sixteene shillings, nine pence.

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BASSINGS HALL VVARD.

THe next adjoyning to Coleman streete Ward, Bassings Hall Ward. on the West side thereof, is Bassings Hall Ward, a small thing, and consisteth of one streete, called Bassings Hall streete, of Bassings Hall, the most principall house, whereof the Ward taketh name. It beginneth in the South, by the late spoken Market house, called the Bay Hall, which is the last of Coleman streete Ward. This streete runneth from thence North downe to London Wall, and some little distance both East and West, against the said Hall: And this is the bounds of Bassings Hall Ward.

Monuments on the East side thereof, amongst divers faire houses for Merchants, have ye three Hals of Companies; Masons Hall. namely, the Masons Hall for the first; but of what antiquity that Company is, I have not read. The next is the Weavers Hall:Weavers Hall. which Company hath been of great antiquity in this City, as appeareth by a Charter of Henry the second, in these words; Rex omnibus ad quos, &c. to be englished thus:

Henry, King of England, Duke of Normandy, Patent of Henry 2. and of Guian, Earle of Anjou, to the Bishop, Iustices, Sheriffes, Barons, Ministers, and all his true Lieges of London, sendeth greeting: Know ye, that we have granted to the Weavers in London their Guild, with all the Freedomes and Customes that they had in the time of King Henry my Grandfather:Henry 1. so that none but they intermit within the City of their Craft, but he be of their Guild; neither in Southwarke, or other places pertaining to London, otherwise than it was done in the time of King Henry my Grandfather. wherefore I will and straightly command, that over all lawfully they may treat, and have all aforesaid, as well in peace, free, worshipfull, and wholly, as they had it, freer, better, worshipfullier, and whollier, than in the time of King Henry my Grandfather. So that they yeeld yeerly to mee two Markes of Gold, at the Eeast of Saint Michael. And I forbid, that any man to them doe any unright, or disease, upon paine of ten pound. Witnesse Thomas of Canterbury, Warwicke fili Gar, Chamberlaine, at Winchester.

Also I reade,Patent. that the same Henry the second, in the 31. of his reigne, made a Confirmation to the Weavers, that had a Guild of Fraternity in London; wherein it appeareth, that the said Weavers made woollen cloth, and that they had the correction thereof. But amongst other Articles in that Patent, it was decreed, That if any man made cloth of Spanish wooll, mixed with English wooll, the Portgrave or principall Magistrate of London ought to burne it, &c.

Moreover,Mathew Paris. in the yeere 1197. King Richard the first, at the instance of Hubert, Archbishop of Canterbury, and Iusticiar of England, ordained, That the woollen clothes in every part of this Realme, should be in breadth two yards within the Lists, and as good in the middest as in the sides, &c. King Henry the third granted to the Citizens of London, that they should not bee vexed for the Burels, or Cloth-listed, according to the constitution made for breadth of cloth the 9. of his reigne, &c. Richard the 2. in the third of his reigne, granted an order of agreement between the Weavers of London, Englishmen, and Aliens or Strangers borne, brought in by Edward the third.

Lower downe,Girdlers Hall. is the Girdlers Hall: and this is all touching the East side of this Ward.

On the VVest side,Bakewall Hall. almost at the [Page] South end thereof, is Bakewell Hall, corruptly called Blackwell Hall. Concerning the originall whereof, I have heard divers opinions, which I over-passe as fables, without colour of truth: for though the same seemed a Building of great antiquity, yet (in mine opinion) the foundation thereof was first laid since the Conquest of William, Duke of Normandy: for the same was builded upon Vaults of stone, which stone was brought from Cane in Normandy. The like of that of Pauls Church, builded by Mauritius and his successors, Bishops of London. But that this house hath beene a Temple, or Iewish Synagogue (as some have fantasied) I allow not, seeing that it had no such forme of roundnesse, or other likenesse. Neither had it the forme of a Church, for the assembly of Christians, which are builded East and West: but contrariwise, the same was builded North and South, and in forme of a Noble mans house: and therefore the best opinion (in my judgement) is, that it was (of old time) belonging to the Family of the Bassings, which was in this Realme a name of great antiquity and renowne, and that it bare also the name of that Family, and was called therfore Bassings Haugh, Bassings Hall. or Hall. Whereunto I am the rather induced, for that the Armes of that Family were (of old time) so abundantly placed in sundry parts of that house,Armes of the Bassings. even in the stoneworke, but more especially on the wals of the Hall, which carried a continuall painting of them on every side so close together, as one Escocheon could bee placed by another, which I my selfe have often seene and noted, before the old Building was taken downe. These Arms were a Gerond of twelve points, Gold and Azure.How Bassings Hall Ward took that name Of the Bassings therefore, builders of this House, and owners of the ground neere adjoyning, that VVard taketh the name; as Coleman streete Ward of Coleman, and Faringdon Ward of William and Nicholas Faringdon, men that were principall owners of those places.

And of old time the most Noble persons that inhabited this City, were appointed to bee principall Magistrates thereas was Godfrey de Magun (or Magnavilla) Portgrave or Sheriffe, in the reigne of William the Conquerour, and of William Rufus; Hugh de Buch, in the reigne of Henry the first; Aubery de Vere, Earle of Oxford. After him, Gilbert Becket, in the reigne of King Stephen. After that, Godfrey de Magnavilla, the sonne of William, the sonne of Godfrey de Magnavilla, Earles of Essex, were Portgraves or Sheriffes of London and Middlesex. In the reign of Henry the second, Peter Fitzwalter: after him, Iohn Fitznigel, &c. So likewise in the reigne of King Iohn, the 16. of his reigne, a time of great troubles, in the yeere 1214. Salomon Bassing, Salomon Bassing and other of that name and Hugh Bassing, Barons of this Realme, as may bee supposed, were Sheriffes; and that the said Salomon Bassing was Maior in the yeer 1216. which was the first of Henry the third. Also Adam Bassing, son to Salomon (as it seemeth) was one of the Sheriffes, in the yeere 1243. the 28. of Henry the third.

Vnto this Adam de Bassing, King Henry the third, in the 31. of his reign, gave and confirmed certaine Messuages in Aldermanbury, and in Milke streete (places not farre from Bassings Hall) and the advowson of the Church at Bassings Hall, with sundry liberties and priviledges.

This than was afterwards Maior, in the yeere 1251. the 36. of Henry the third. Moreover, Thomas Bassing was one of the Sheriffes, 1269. Robert Bassing, Sheriffe, 1279. and William Bassing was Sheriffe, 1308, &c. For more of the Bassings in this City I neede not note, only I reade of this Family of Bassings in Cambridge shire, called Bassing at the Bourne, Bassing Bourne. and more shortly, Bassing-Bourne, and gave Armes, as is afore shewed, & was painted about this old Hall. But this Family is worne out, and hath left the name to the place where they dwelt. Thus much for this Bassings Hall.

Now how Bakewell Hall tooke that name,Bakewell Hall given to the Citie. is another question: For which I reade, that Thomas Bakewell dwelled in this house, in the 36. of Edward the third, and that in the 20. of Richard the second, the said King, for the summe of fifty pounds, which the Maior and the Cōmonalty had payed into the Hanapar, granted licence, so much as was in him, to Iohn Frosh, William Parker, and Stephen Spilman (Citizens and Mercers) that they, the said Messuage, called [Page] Bakewell Hall, and one Garden, with the appurtenances, in the Parish of St. Michael of Bassings Haugh, and of St. Laurence in the Iewry of London, and one Messuage, two Shops, and one Garden, in the said Parish of S. Michael, which they held of the King in Burgage, might give and assigne to the Maior and Commonalty for ever.

This Bakewell Hall thus established,Bakewell Hall a Market place for woollen clothes. hath beene long since imployed, as a weekly Market place for all sorts of woollen clothes, broad and narrow, brought from all parts of this Realme there to bee sold. In the 21. of Richard the second, Richard Whitington, Maior; and in the 22. Drew Barringtine being Maior, it was decreed, that no Forraine or Stranger should sell any woollen cloth, but in the Bakewell Hall, upon paine of forfeiture thereof.

This house (of late yeeres) growing ruinous, & in danger of falling, Richard May, Merchant-Taylor, at his decease gave towards the new building of the outward part thereof, 300. pounds, upon condition that the same should bee performed within 3. yeeres after his decease. Bakewell Hall new builded. Whereupon the old Bakewell Hall was taken downe, and in the moneth of February next following, the foundation of a new, strong, and beautifull Store-house being laid, the work thereof was so diligently applyed, that within the space often moneths after, to the charges of 2500. pounds, the same was finished, in the yeere 1588.

Next beyond this house, are placed divers faire houses for Merchants, and others, till ye come to the backe gate of Guild-Hall, which gate, and part of the building within the same, is of this Ward. Some small distance beyond this gate,Coopers Hall. the Coopers have their common Hall.

Then is the Parish Church of Saint Michael, Parish Church of S. Michael. called St. Michael at Bassings Hall, a proper Church, lately re-edified or new builded: whereto Iohn Burton, Mercer, and Agnes his wife, were great Benefactors; as appeareth by his mark, placed throughout the whole Roofe of the Quire, and middle Ile of the Church. He deceased in the yeer 1460. and was buried in the Quire, with this Epitaph:

Iohn Burton lieth under here,

Sometimes of London Citizen & Mercer;

And Jenet his wife with their progenie,

Beene turned to earth, as ye may see.

Friends free, what so ye be,

Pray for us, we you pray;

As you see us in this degree,

So shall you be another day.

Francis Cooke, Iohn Martin, Edward Bromflit, Esquire of Warwickshire, 1460.

Richard Barnes, sir Roger Roe, Roger Velden, 1479.

Sir Iames Yerforde, Mercer, Maior, deceased 1527. buried under a faire Tombe, with his Lady, in a speciall Chappell by him builded, on the north side of the Quire.

Sir Iohn Gresham, Mercer, Maior, deceased, 1554. Sir Iohn Ailife, Chirurgeon, then a Grocer, one of the Sheriffes, 1548. Nicholas Bakhurst, one of the Sheriffes, 1577. Sir Wolston Dixi, Skinner, Maior, 1585. And sir Leonard Hallyday, Maior, 1605. but no Monuments were made for them, nor so much as any Grave-stone laid.

Hereunder lieth buried the bodies of Sir Iames Yerforde, An ancient Monument in the North Ile of the Quire. Knight, Mercer, and sometimes Lord Maior of this City of London; and of Dame Elizabeth, his wife. The which Sir Iames deceased the 22. day of Iune, An. Dom. 1527. And the said Elizabeth deceased the 18. day of August, An. Dom. 1548.

In Chirurgery brought up in youth,

a Knight here lieth dead;

An ancient Marble [...] in the Chancell

A Knight, and eke a Surgeon such,

as England seld hath bred.

For which so soveraigne gift of God,

wherein he did excell,

King Henry 8. call'd him to Court,

who lov'd him dearly well.

God gave the gift, the king gave goods,

the gift of God t' enhance;

Where God & such a Prince do joyne,

such man hath happy chance.

King Edward for his service sake,

bade him rise up a Knight;

A name of praise, and ever since,

he Sir Iohn Ailife hight.

Right Worshipful, in name and charge,

in London liv'd he than;

In Blackwell Hall, the Merchant chiefe,

[Page] first Sheriffe, then Alderman.

Blakewell Hall was his dwelling house

The Hospitals bewaile his death,

the Orphan children mone,

Their chiefe Erector being dead,

and Benefactor gone.

Dame Isable, who liv'd with him,

his faithfull Wife and Make,

With him (as dearest after death)

doth not her Knight forsake.

The Knight,

1548.

the 24. of October

yeelded up his breath,

And she soone after followed,

to live with him in death.

Here lyeth buried under this Tombe,An ancient Marble tombe in the South lle of the Quire. the body of Sir Iohn Gresham, Knight; sometime Alderman and Lord Maior of this City of London; who had two wives, Dame Mary his first wife, by whom bee had issue five sonnes and sixe daughters: by Dame Katharine, his last wife, no issue. Which Sir Iohn deceased the 23. day of October, Anno Domini, 1556. And Dame Mary died the 21. day of September, 1538. Dame Katharine died,—

His jacet Dom. Richard. Sarich,Vnder the Communion Table. quondam Rector istius Eccles. Qui obiit 13. Novemb. An. Dom. 1359. Cujus animae propitieture Deus.

Thus have you noted one Parish Church of St. Michael Blackwell Hall, a Market place for woollen clothes; the Masons Hall, Weavers Hall, Girdlers Hall, and Coopers Hall. And thus I end this VVard, which hath an Alderman, his Deputy, for Common Counsell foure, Constables two, Scavengers two, for the VVardmote inquest seventeene, and a Beadle. Jt is taxed to the Fifteene in London 7. pounds, and likewise in the Exchequer at 7. pounds.

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CREPLEGATE VVARD.

THe next Ward is called of Creplegate, Creplegate Ward. and consisteth of divers streets & lanes, lying as well without the Gate and VVall of the City, as within. First, within the VVall on the East part thereof, towards the North, it runneth to the west side of Bassings Hall Ward: & towards the South, it joyneth to the Ward of Cheap, it beginneth at the west end of St. Laurence Church in the Iury, on the North side, and runneth west to a Pumpe, where sometime was a Well with 2. Buckets, at the South corner of Alderman bury street, which streete runneth down North to Gay-spur lane, & so to London Wall, which street and lane are wholly (on both sides) of this Ward, and so be some few houses (on both the sides) from Gay-spur lane, by and against the Wall of the City, East to the Grates, made for the water-course of the channels, and west to Creplegate.

Now on the South side,From the Standard to the Crosse in Cheape, on the North side, is of Creplegate Ward. from over-against the west end of Saint Laurence Church to the Pumpe, & then up Milkstreet, South unto Cheape, which Milkstreet is wholly (on both the sides) of Creplegate Ward, as also without the South end of Milkstreet, a part of West Cheape, to wit, from the Standard to the Crosse, is all of Creplegate Ward. Then downe great Woodstreete, which is wholly of this VVard on both the sides thereof; so it little Woodstreete, which runneth downe to Creplegate.

Out of this Woodstreete be divers lanes; namely, on the East side is Lad lane, which runneth East to Milkstreete corner; downe lower in Woodstreete is Love lane, which lyeth by the South side of S. Albans Church in Woodstreet, and runneth down to the Conduit in Aldermanbury streete. Lower downe in Woodstreete, is Addlestreete, out of the which runneth Philip lane downe to London VVall.Philip lane. These be the Lanes on the East side.

On the west side of Woodstreete, is Huggen lane, by the South side of S. Michaels Church, and goeth thorow to Gutherous lane. Then lower is Maiden lane, which runneth VVest to the North end of Gutherons lane, and up the said Lane on the East side thereof, till against Kery lane, and backe againe: then the said Maiden Lane, on the North side, goeth up to Staining lane, and up a part thereof on the East side, to the farthest North part of Haberdashers Hall; and backe againe to Woodstreete, and there lower downe is Silverstreete, which is of this VVard, till yee come to the East end of St. Olaves Church on the South side, and to Monkes-well streete on the North side; then down the said Monkeswell streete on the East side thereof, and so to Creplegate, doe make the bounds of this VVard within the wals.

Without Creplegate Forestreete runneth thwart before the Gate, from against the North side of Saint Giles Church, along to More lane end, and to a Posterne lane end, that runneth betwixt the Towne ditch on the South, and certaine Gardens on the North, almost to Moregate; at the East end of which lane is a Pot-makers house, which house, with all other the Gardens, Houses, and Allies on that side to More-fields, till yee come to a Bridge and Cow-house, neere unto Fensbury Court, is all of Creplegate VVard.

Of these More-fields you have formerly read,An. 1477. Rose Ioccline then being L. Maior. what a moorish rotten ground they were, unpassable, but for Cawswaies purposely made to that intent; what they were also in our owne neerer times of memory, even till Sir Leonard [Page]Hallyday was Lord Maior of London, I am very well assured many doe perfectly remember: And what they are now at this instant, by the honourable cost and care of this City, and the industrious paines and diligence of that worthy Citizen, Master Leate, wee all (to our continuall comfort) doe evidently behold. M. Iohn Speed, my especiall kinde friend; acquainted me with the draught of a Mappe, done after that true shape and modell, as at the first (by the forenamed Gentleman) they were intended, and laboured with the then Lord Maior, and Court of Aldermen, that the same might have bin accordingly effected. But how it was prevented, I know not, only I purposed to have beene at so much charge, as to have had that Map (in some apt & convenient forme) printed in this booke: but that I could not attaine thereto; being promised, that at the next impression I shall have it.

For the Walkes themselves, and continuall care of the City, to have them in that comely & worthy maner maintained: I am certainly perswaded, that our thankfulnesse to God being first truely performed, they are no meane cause of preserving health and wholesome ayre to the City, and such an eternall honour thereto, as no iniquity of time shall ever be able to deface.

Then to turne backe againe through the said Posterne lane to More lane, which More lane, with all the Allies and buildings there, is of this Ward. After that is Grubstreete, more than halfe thereof to the streightning of the street, next is White-crosse street, up to the end of Beech lane; and then Red-crosse street wholly, with a part of Golding lane, even to the Posts there placed, as a bounder.

Then is Beech lane before spoken of, the East side of the Red-crosse, and the Barbican streete, more than halfe thereof, toward Aldersgate street, and so have you all the bounds of Creplegate VVard without the wals.

Now for Antiquities and Ornaments in this Ward, to be noted: I finde, first at the meeting of the corners of the Old Iury, A Pumpe at the corner of Alderman-bury street. Milkstreet, Lad lane, and Alderman bury, there was (of old time) a faire Well with two Buckets, of late yeeres converted to a Pumpe. How Alderman bury streete took that name, many fables have been bruted, all which I overpasse, as not worthy the counting: but to bee short, I say, this streete tooke the name of Aldermans bury (which is to say, a Court) there kept in their Bery, or Court Hall, now called the Guild Hall, which Hall (of old time) stood on the East side of the same street, not far from the West end of Guild Hall now used.

Touching the Antiquity of this old Aldermans bury or Court, I have not read other, [...] Alderman bury Hall by Alderman bury Church. than that Richard Renery, one of the Sheriffes of London, in the first of Richard the first, which was in the yeere of Christ, 1189. gave to the Church or Saint Mary at Osney by Oxford, certaine ground and rents in Alderman bury of London, as appeareth by the Register of that Church, as is also entred into the Hoistings of the Guild Hall in London.

This old Bery, Court, or Hall continued, and the Courts of the Maior & Aldermen were continually holden there, untill the new Bery, Court, or Guild hall that now is, was builded & finished, which Hall was first begun to be founded in the yeere 1411. and was not fully finished in 20. yeers after. I my self have seene the ruines of the old Court Hall, in Alderman-bury streete, which of late hath beene imployed as a Carpenters yard, &c.

In this Alderman-bury street be divers faire houses on both the sides, meete for Merchants or men of worship, & in the midst therof is a faire Conduit, made at the charges of W. Eastfield, sometime Maior, who took order as well for water to be conveyed from Teyborne, & for the building of this Conduit, not far distant from his dwelling house; as also for a Standard of sweet water to be erected in Fleetstreet, all which was done by his Executors, as elsewhere is shewed.

Then is the Parish Church of S. Mary Aldermanbury, Parish Church of S. Mary Aldermanbury. a faire Church, with a Church-yard & Cloister adjoyning, in the which Cloister is hanged & fastned a shanke-bone of a man (as is said) very great,Shankebone of a man 28. inches & a halfe long. and larger by 3. inches & a halfe, than that which hangeth in S. Laurence Church in the Iurie; for it is in length 28. inches and a halfe of assise, but not so hard and steely, like as the other, for the same is light, and somewhat pory [Page] and spongy. This bone is said to bee found amongst the bones of men removed from the Charnell house of Pauls, or rather from the Cloyster of Pauls Church: of both which reports I doubt, for that the late Reyne Wolfe, Reyne Wolfe a grave Antiquary, collected the great Chronicles, increased, & published by his Executors, under the name of Ralph Holenshead. Stationer (who payd for the carriage of those bones from the Charnell to the Morefields) told mee of some thousands of Carre loads and more to bee conveyed, whereof he wondred; but never told of any such bone in either place to bee found, neither would the same have bin easily gotten from him, if he had heard thereof, except he had reserved the like for himself, being the greatest preserver of antiquities in those parts for his time.

True it is, that this bone (from whence soever it came) being of a man, as the forme sheweth) must needes bee monstrous, and more than after the proportion of five shanke bones of any man now living amongst us. There lye buried in this Church Simon Winehcombe, Esquire, 1391. Robert Combarton, 1422. Iohn Wheatly, Mercer, 1428. Sir William Estfild, Knight of the Bath, Maior, 1438. a great Benefactor to that Church, under a faire Monument: he also builded their steeple, changed their old Bels into 5. tuneable Bels, and gave 100. l. to other workes of that Church.

Moreover,Conduit in Aldermanbury. he caused the Conduit in Aldermanbury, which he had begun, to be performed at his charges, and water to be conveyed by pipes of Lead, from Teyborne to Fleetstreete, as I have said. And also from High Bery, to the parish of S. Giles without Creplegate, where the Inhabitants of those parts incastellated the same in sufficient Cisternes. Iohn Middleton, Mercer, Maior, 1472. Iohn Tomes, Draper, 1486. William Bucke, Taylor, 1501. Sir William Browne, Maior, 1507. Dame Margaret Ienings, wife to Stephen Ienings, Maior, 1515. A Widow, named Starkey, sometime wife to Mody. Ralph Woodcocke, Grocer, one of the Sheriffes, 1586. Dame Mary Gresham, wife to Sir Iohn Gresham, 1528. Thomas Godfrey, Remembrancer of the Office of the First fruits.

Thomas Digges, Esquire, sonne and heyre of Leonard Digges, of Wotton, in the County of Kent, Esquire, & of Bridget his wife, daughter to Thomas Wilford, Esquire, which Thomas deceased the 24. day of August, An. Dom. 1595.

Agnes, A faire Tombe in the North side of the Chancell. wife to Thomas Digges, Esquire, daughter of Sir William Sentleger, Knight, and of Vrsula his wife, daughter of George Nevil, Lord of Aburgaveny, by whom the said Thomas had issue, Dudley, his sonne and heyre; Leonard, his second son; Margaret and Vrsula, now living, beside VVilliam and Mary, who died young.

Deo Opt. Max. & memoriae.

Hic resurrectionem mortuorum expectat Thomas Digsaeus, Armiger, ex Antiqua Digsaeorum in Cantia Familia oriundus, vir fide & pietate in Deum singulari, rei militaris admodum peritus, optimarum literarum studiosus, & scientiis Mathematicis ad miraculum (ut ex libris editis constat) eruditissimus: Quem Deus in Coelestem Patriam, Anno salutis, 1595. evocavit: charissimo Marito Vxor moestissima posuit.

Here lieth in an assured hope to rise in Christ, Thomas Digges, Esquire, sometime Muster-Master of the English Army in the Low-Countries: A man zealously affected to true Religion, wise, discreete, courteous, faithfull to his friends, and of rare knowledge in Geometry, Astrologie, and other Mathematicall sciences: who finished this transitory life with a happy end, in Anno 1595.

That the dead might live, Christ dyed.

Here lieth buried,A plated stone by the Communion Table. Elizabeth Norreis, daughter of the right Honourable Sir Henry Norreis, Knight, Lord Norreis of Ricot, who deceased the 18. day of April, 1574.

Armig. hic Jon. Constantinus positus; A marvellous ancient plated stone. genetrici subjacet; aeternè laetenur in arce polorum. Qui Februo cessit. Mil. 1. Cent. quatuor bis & octo.

Here lieth entombed,A very faire Tombe in the South side of the Quire. Ralph Woodcock, Grocer and Alderman of London, who departed this life the first day of September, 1586. aged, 67. yeeres. Hee had foure wives, Helen Collier, by whom he had five sonne and three daughters.

[Page] Good Bower, by whom he had ten sons and five daughters. Elenor Carew, by whom he had one daughter. And Mary Lovyson, by whom he had no issue.

Elizabeth,

A faire plated stone by the Communion Table.

whose

husband Davy hight,

Lyeth buried here till

time the Trumpet blow:

But sure the heavens

possesse her sacred spright,

Her vertuous life and

godly end did show.

And they that knew her

pathes of perfect love,

The sundry gifts that

garnished her life,

Can witnesse well, and

by her end approve,

There seldome hath been

seene a better wife.

Give God the praise for

such her happy race:

And pray, that we

like vertues may embrace.

She died the 12. day of August, 1569.

Beneath this Church have ye Gay-spur lane, Gay-spur lane. which runneth down to London Wall,Priory or Hospitall called, Elsing Spittle. as is afore shewed. In this lane, at the North end thereof, was (of old time) a house of Nuns, which house being in great decay, Wil. Elsing, Mercer, in the yeere of Christ, 1329. the 3. of Edward the 3. began in place thereof the foundation of an Hospitall, for sustentation of 100. blind men. Towards the erection whereof, he gave his 2. houses in the Parishes of S. Alphage, & our blessed Lady in Aldermanbury, neere Creplegate.

This house was after called a Priory or Hospital of S. Mary the Virgin, founded in the yeere 1332. by W. Elsing, for Canons regular: the which W. became the first Prior there. Robert Elsing, son to the said W. gave to the said Hospitall, 12. l. by the yeere, for the finding of 3. Priests, he also gave 100. s. towards the inclosing of the new Church-yard without Ealdgate: Charter-house Church-yard without Aldosgate, and one other the like without Ealdgate. and 100. s. to the inclosing of the new Church-yard without Aldersgate: to Tho. Elsing his son, 80. l. the rest of his goods to be sold, and given to the poore. This house valued, 193. l. 15. s. 5. d. was surrendred the eleventh of May, the 22. of Henry the 8.

A briefe remembrance of SYON Colledge, in the Parish of Saint Alphage.

IN the same place where the foresaid Elsing Spittle and Priory were formerly situated;A Colledge for the Clergy of London. there is now newly erected a Colledge for the Clergy of London, and liberties thereof, called by the name of Syon Colledge: And Almes-houses for twenty poore people, ten men, and ten women.

This was done by the especiall care and paines of M. Iohn Simson, Rector of S. Olaves Hartstreet London, one of the Executors of the last Will and Testament of M. Thomas White, Doctor White of S. Dunstanes in the West. Doctor in Divinity, Vicar of S. Dunstanes in the west, and one of the Canons Residentiary of S. Pauls Church London: which forenamed Thomas White (besides sundry sums of mony, and great yeerly [...] by him to pious and charitable uses in divers places) gave 3000. l. to purchase and build the foresaid Colledge for the use of the Clergy, and Almes-houses for the 20. poor people aforesaid.

He also gave unto the said Colledge and Almes-houses 160. l. per annum for ever,An hundred and threescore pounds yeerly allowed. whereof there is 120. l. yeerly allowed for the maintenance of the poore Almes-men & women. And 40. l. yeerly for 4. dinners for the Clergy, who are to have 4. Latine Sermons in the yeere; one every quarter, and upon these daies are to dine together in the Colledge.

In the same Colledge the aforenamed Iohn Simson did in his life time at his owne proper costs and charges build a very faire and spacious Library, A faire & goodly Library in Syon Colledge. containing 121. foote in length, within the wals, & above 25. foot in breadth. And hath furnished it with wainscot, stalls, deskes, seates, and other necessary and usefull ornaments befieting the place.

He likewise at his cost and charges erected the new building adjoyning to the Library, A new building joyned to the Library. all along the Southside of the Colledge Court, for lodging for the Governours, or others at their appointment.

to this Library there have beene already divers bountfull and well disposed Benefactors,Liberall Benefactors to the Library, & their gift. who have given large summes of money towards the furnishing of it with bookes.

[Page] The right Honourable Paul, Lord Viscount Bayning, gave fifty pounds.

The right Honourable Anne, Vicountesse Bayning, his wife, gave 50. l.

Sir George Croke, Knight, one of his Majesties Iustices of his Pleas before him assigned to be holden, gave 100. l.

Rebecca, Lady Rumney, widow to Sir William Rumney, late Alderman of London, gave 100. l.

M. Thomas Gonnell, late Citizen and Merchant-Adventurer of London, gave by his Will 100. l.

M. Iohn Greenough, late Citizen and Woolman of London, gave by his Will fifty pounds.

M. Robert Parkhurst, Citizen and Alderman of London, gave fifty pounds.

Besides divers others; whose names, legacies, gifts, and bookes bought therewith: are (by way of a gratefull memoriall) registred in a faire Booke kept in the Library.

The Monuments that were in this Church defaced, Thomas Cheney, son to William Cheney, Thomas, Iohn, and William Cheney, Iohn Northampton, Draper, Maior, 1381. Edmond Hungerford, Henrie Frowike, Ioane, daughter to Sir William Cheney, wife to William Stokes, Robert Edarbroke, Esquire, 1460. Dame Ioane Ratcliffe, William Fowler, William Kingston, Thomas Swineley, and Helen his wife, &c.

The principall Ile of this Church, towards the North, was pulled downe, & a frame of foure houses set up in place: the other part from the steeple upward, was converted into a Parish Church of S. Alphage, Parish Church of S. Alphage. & the Parish Church which stood neere unto the VVall of the City by Creplegate, was pulled downe, the plot thereof made a Carpenters yard, with saw-pits.

The Hospitall it selfe, the Prior, and Canons house, with other Lodgings, were made a dwelling house, the Church-yard is a Garden plot, and a faire Gallery on the Cloyster: the lodgings for the poore are translated into stabling for horses.

In the yeere 1541. Sir Iohn Williams, Master of the Kings Jewels, dwelling in this house, on Christmas Even at night, about seven of the clocke,Elsing Spittle burned. a great fire began in the Gallery thereof, which burned so sore, that the flame firing the whole house, and consuming it, was seene all the City over, and was hardly quenched; whereby many of the Kings Iewels were burned, and more imbeselled (as was said.)

Sir Rowland Hayward, Maior, dwelled in this Spittle, & was buried there, 1593. Richard Lee, alias, Clarenciaulx, King of Armes, 1597.

Here lieth the body of Sir Rowland Hayward, A very goodly Monumēt in the wall of the Quire on the South side. Knight, twice Lord Maior of this City of London, and living an Alderman the space of 30. yeeres, and (at his death) the ancientest Alderman of the said City. He lived beloved of all good men, and died (in great credit and reputation) the fifth day of December, Ann. Dom. 1593. And the 36. yeere of the reigne of our Soveraigne Lady Queene Elizabeth. He had two vertuous wives, and by them many happy children.

Ioane, daughter of William Tillesworth, Esquire, was the first wife to Sir Rowland Hayward, by whom he had issue, 3. sons and 5. daughters, which 3. sons, and 2. of the daughters died in their infancy. The eldest of the surviving daughters, named Elizabeth, was first married to Richard VVaren, Esquire, and (after his decease) to Thomas Knevet, Esquire, one of her Majesties Privie Chamber. Susanna, the second daughter, was married to Henry Townsend, Esquire. Ioane the third daughter, was married to Iohn Thinne, Esquire.

Katharine, the second wife of Sir Rowland Hayward, was daughter to Thomas Smith, Esquire, by whom hee had likewise issue three sons and five daughters, whereof one sonne and one daughter died infants. The two sons and foure daughters yet living, are George, Iohn, Alice, Katharine, Mary, and Anne, all young, and unmarried at their fathers death.

Decus vitae, est honorata Mors.

This Tombe was erected by the appointment of Edward Pilsworth, and VVilliam Cotton, Citizens of London, and Executors of the said Sir Rowland.

[Page] Here lieth buried under this stone the body of Robert Hodgson,

A Gravestone at the entrance into the Quire doore.

Esquire, one of the Auditors of the Queenes Majesties Court of Exchequer, who died the 26. day of May, in the yeere of our Lord 1577.

Now to returne to Milkestreet, so called of milke sold there, there bee many faire houses for wealthy Merchants and other: among the which I reade, that Gregory Rokesley, Gregory Rokesley, Maior of London, his house rent 20. shillings the yeere. Maior of London, in the yeere 1275. dwelled in this Milkstreete, in an house belonging to the Priory of Lewes in Sussex, whereof he was Tenant at will, paying 20. s. by the yeere without other charge: such were the rents of those times.

In this Milkestreete, Parish Church of St. Mary Magdalen. is a small Parish Church of Saint Mary Magdalen, which hath of late yeeres been repaired: William Browne, Maior, 1513. gave to this Church forty pounds, and was buried there. Thomas Exmew, Maior, 1528. gave forty pounds, and was buried there: so was Iohn Milford, one of the Sheriffes, 1375. Iohn Olney, Maior, 1475. Richard Rawson, one of the Sheriffes, 1476. Henry Kelsey. Sir Iohn Browne, Maior, 1497. Thomas Muschampe, one of the Sheriffes, 1463. Sir William Cantilow, Knight, Mercer, 1462. Henry Cantilow, Mercer, Merchant of the Staple, who builded a Chappell, and was buried there, 1495. Iohn West, Alderman, 1517. Iohn Machel, Alderman, 1558.

Thomas Skinner, Clothworker, Maior, 1596.

Here lieth the corps of Thomas Skinner, late Citizen and Alderman of London, A comely Monumēt in the South Ile of the Quire. borne at Saffron Walden in Essex, who in the 63. yeere of his age, and on the 5. day of December, Anno Dom. 1596. being then Lord Maior of this City, departed this life, leaving behind him three sonnes, Iohn, Thomas, and Richard: and three daughters, Aunc, Iulian, and Elizabeth.

Here lieth interred the body of Mistresse Mary Collet, wife of M. John Collet, Citizen and Salter of London, who deceased the 22. of December, An. Dom. 1613. being aged 35. yeeres.

This Marble witnesse,

A faire Stone in the same Ile before the Monument forenamed.

dew-dropt with the eies

Of grived Niobe, [...]els

thee, that here lies

Her second husband joy,

her first content,

Her parents comfort,

her friends ornament,

Her neighbours welcome,

her deare kinreds losse,

Her owne health's foe,

deeming all pleasure drosse,

The world a layle, whence,

through much paine we see

Her soule at length

hath purchast liberty;

And soar'd on high where

here Redeemer lives:

Who (for her torment)

rest and glory gives.

Here lie the bodies of Gerard Gore, A comely [...] the Chancell, by another much more ancient Tombe of Henry Cantilowe. Citizen, Merchant-Taylor, and Alderman of London, and of Helen his wife: who lived together married 57. yeeres. The said Gerard died the 11. day of December, 1607. in the 91. yeere of his age. And shee departed this life the 13. day of February, in the foresaid yeere, being 75. yeeres old.

Here lyeth the body of Thom. Henshawe, A faire Stone at the entrance into the Quire. Citizen and Merchant-Taylor of London, who had to wife Flower Henshawe, and had issue by her 9. sons, and 4. daughters. He deceased the 11. day of Ianuary, 1611. aged, 76. yeeres: and she died the 6. of March, 1615. aged, about 60. yeeres.

Here lieth the body of sir William Stone, A very faire Monument in the Chancell on the North side. Knight, free of the Clothworkers and Turkie Companies, sometime Alderman of this City. He was the sonne of Reynold Stone, Citizen and Fishmonger of London. The said Sir VVilliam departed this life the 14. of September, 1609. aged, 63. yeeres, &c.

As the Earth, the

Earth doth cover,

So under this stone

lyes another.

Sir William Stone,

who long deceased,

Ere the worlds love

him released,

[Page] So much it lov'd him.

For they say,

He answered death

before his day,

But 'tis not so:

for he was sought

Of one that both him

made and bought.

He remain'd

the great Lords treasure,

Who called for him

at his pleasure,

And receiv'd him.

Yet be'it said,

Earth griev'd that heaven

so soone was paid.

Here likewise lyes

inhumed in one bed,

Dame Barbara,

the welbeloved wife

Of this remembred Knight:

whose soules are fled

From this dimme Vale,

to everlasting life.

Where no more change,

nor no more separation

Shall make them flye

from their blest habitation.

Grasse of levitie,

Span in brevity,

Flowers felicity,

Fire of misery,

Winds stability

Is mortality.

Their Riches were

like corne lent to the field,

What it receiv'd

it manifold did yeeld.

Their bodies have a grave

their vertues none,

But shall with time grow greene,

when they are gone.

Stone walls, brasse Towers,

decay as flowers:

One gone, their good

is, Lo, here they stood.

So transitory

is our glory.

This Stone,

A comely Monumēt in the east end of the South Ile.

this Verse,

two Mountfords doe present,

The corps of one,

the others Monument:

Two lovely brethren,

by their vertues knowne,

Whom Cambridge, and

Kings Colledge cal'd their owne.

Osbert and Richard,

of which worthy paire,

The first imployed

by Sea in great affaire,

Made Heaven his Haven,

and at that Port, the other

(By land) did overtake

his elder Brother.

So now the bones

of both are laid asleepe,

These in this Church,

those in the Easterne Deepe:

Till all the dead

shall wake from Sea and Land,

Before the Iudge

of quicke and dead to stand.

Amen.

We sonne-lesse parents,

yet not childlesse left,

Bewaile (as men)

our seed untimely reft.

As Christians, we hope,

and joy, and say;

Heaven is our home,

and thither, Death the way.

By Sea or Land,

it skils not, so we minde

The Faithfull Pilgrims

narrow path to finde.

Mort. Osbert, Mense Decemb. 1614.

Mort. Richard, Mense Ian. 1615.

Then next is Woodstreet, Woodstreet. by what reason so called, I know not; true it is, that (of old time) according to a Decree made in the reigne of Richard the first, the houses in London were builded of stone, for defence of fire, which kind of building was used for two hundred yeeres or more; but of later time, for the winning of ground, taken downe, and houses of timber were set up in place. It seemeth therefore, that this street hath beene of the later building, all of timber, (for not one house of stone hath beene knowne there) and therefore called Woodstreet; otherwise it might take the name of some builder or owner thereof.

Tho. Wood, one of the Sheriffes, in [Page] the yeere 1491. dwelled there: he was an especiall Benefactor towards the building of S. Peters Church at Woodstreet end, which is called Gold-smiths [...], garnished with the likenesse of Wood-men: his predecessors might be the first builders, owners and namers of this street, after their owne name.

On the East side of this street is one of the Prison houses, [...]. pertaining to the Sheriffes of London, and is called the Compter in Woodstreet, which was prepared to be a prison-house, in the yeere 1555. and on the Eve of S. Michael the Archangell, the prisoners that lay in the Compter in Breadstreet, were removed to this Compter in Woodstreet. Beneath this Compter is Lad Lane, Ladle lane, corruptly called Lad lane. or Ladle Hall; for so I find it of Record, in the Parish of Saint Michael Woodstreet, and beneath that is Love Lane, Love lane. so called of wantons.

By this Lane is the ancient Parish Church of S. Albans. Parish Church of S. Alban. One note of the great antiquity of it, is the name: by which it was at first dedicated to Saint Albane, the first Martyr of England. Another character of the antiquity of it, is to be seene in the manner of the turning of the Arches in the windowes, and heads of the Pillars. A third note appeares in the Romane bricks, here and there inlayed amongst the stones of the building. Very probable it is, that this Church is at least of as ancient a standing, as King Adelstane the Saxon, who, as the Tradition sayes, had his house at the East end of this Church. This Kings house having a doore also into Adelstreet, in this Parish, gave name, as 'tis thought, unto the said Adel-street: which in all Evidences to this day, is written King-Adelstreet. One great square Tower of this Kings house seemes yet remaining: to be seene at the North corner of Love Lane, as you come from Alderman-bury: which Tower is of the very same stone and manner of building with S. Albanes Church. This Church, decayed with meere age, is this yeere beginning to be taken downe, and to be new builded.

It hath the Monuments of Sir Rich. Illingworth, Baron of the Exchequer, Thomas Catworth, Grocer, Maior, 1443. Iohn Woodcocke, Maior, 1405. Iohn Collet and Alice his wife: Ralph Thomas, Ralph and Richard, sonnes of Ralph Illingworth, which was sonne to Richard Illingworth, Baron of the Exchequer. Thomas, sonne of Thomas Fitzwilliams; Thomas Halton, Mercer, Maior, 1550. Thomas Ostrich, Haberdasher, 1483. Richard Swetenham Esquire; and William Dunthorne, Town-Clerke of London, with this Epitaph:

[...]aelix prima dies

postquam mortalibus aevi,

Cesserit, hic morbus

subit, atq, repentè senectus,

Tum mors qua nostrum

Dunthorn cecidisse Wile [...]mum,

Haud cuiquam latuisse

reor, dignissimus (inquam,)

Artibus hic Doctor,

necnon celeberrimus hujus

Clericus Vrbis erat

primus, nulli (que) secundus,

Moribus, ingenio,

studio, nil dixeris illi,

Quin dederit natura

boni, pius ipse modestus,

Longanimus, solis

patiens, super omnia gratus,

Quique sub immensas

curas variosque labores,

Anxius atteritur vitae,

dum carpserit auras,

Hoc tetro in tumulo,

compostus pace quiescit.

Simon Morsted, Thomas Pikehurst, Esquire, Richard Take, Robert Ashcombe, Thomas Lovet, Esquire, Sheriffe of Northamptonshire, 1491. Iohn Spoore, 1429. Katharine, daughter to Sir The Mirley, Knight, William Linchlade, Mercer, 1392. Iohn Penny, Mercer, 1450. Iohn Thomas, Mercer, 1485. Christopher Hawse, Mercer, one of the Sheriffes, 1503. William Sharborough, Vintner, Simon de Berching. Sir Iohn Cheke, Knight, Schoole-master to King Edward the 6. deceased, 1557. doth lye here.

Hunc posuit Tumulum

frater,

A Monument in the East end of the Chancell.

superaddidit illi

Triste Nepos Carmen;

dignus utroque fuit.

Cur Tumulum? justo

ne funus honore careret.

Cur Carmen? laudes

ne tegerentur humo.

[Page] Vita pia, & foelix mors,

vitam morte prehendunt,

Et pensant-Coeli

munere, damna soli.

Here lyeth buried M. Albayne Hill, Doctor of Physicke, who dyed the 26. day of December, An. Dom. 1559.

Here also lyeth buried Mistris Alice Hill, A monument in the South wall of the Chappell. sometime wife to the said M. Dr. Hill: who dyed the last day of May, An. Dom. 1508.

Ethelreda White,An anciēt plate fixed in the wall of the North Chappell. quondam uxor Henrici White, Armigeri, & unius filiarum & haeredum Roberti Frother, Aldermanni London. Quae quidem Ethelreda obiit in vigilia S. Iohan. Baptist. An. Regis Henrici 8. 26. An. Dom. 1534.

The 13. day of September,

A faire plated Gravestone in the North Chappell of the Quire.

1557.

Doctrinae tamen

Chekus uter (que) Magister,

Aurea naturae

sabrica morre jacer.

Non erat è multis

unus, sed praestitir unus

Omnibus & Patriae

flos erat ille suae:

Gemma Britanna fuit,

tam magnum nulla tulerunt

Tempora Thesaurum,

tempora nulla ferent.

Hic jacet Benedictus Trotter,A gravestone in same Chappell. nuper Civis, & Grocerus London, Mercator Stapulae villae Caliciae. Qui obiit ultimo die Mensis Octobris, 1496. Cujus, &c.

Hic jacet Willielmus Hinchlade,A faire plated stone by the Communion Table. quondam Civis & Mercerus London. Qui obiit 9. die Ianuarii, An. Dom. 1392. Et Alicia uxor ejus. Quorum, &c.

Of William Wilson,

A faire plated stone in the body of the Church.

Ioane his wife,

and Alice their daughter deare,

These lines be left to give report,

these three lye buried here;

And Alice was Henry Decons wife,

which Henry lives on earth,

And is the Serjeant Plummer unto

Queene ELIZABETH.

With whom this Alice left issue here,

her vertuous daughter Iane,

To be his comfort every where,

now joyfull Alice is gone.

And for these three departed soules,

gone up to joyfull blisse;

Th' Almighty praise be given to God,

to whom the glory is.

Alice dyed, the eleventh day of March, 1572.

Ad sacros cineres,A small Monumēt on a pillar in the middle Ile. & piam memoriam Alleni Downer, Civis London, è libertate Potifica, & aetate & officio aliquando senioris, & Mariae Vxoris Parentum integritate quadrata, Thomas Filius unus, & uncus superstes, ultimum hoc pli & filialis amoris testamentum assert.

Si vere dicunt

monumenta monentia men [...],

Mille mihi monumenta

pii posuēre parentes.

Ingratus ne sim

monumento hoc miile rependo.

Vpon the Wall by the North doore, a faire Monument in stone, with these inscriptions:

Misericordiam Dei per Jesum Christum obtinuimus.

Here lye the bodies of Anne, the wife of Laurence Gibson, Gent. and of their three sonnes. She was a most faithfull and loving wife, and a right-religious, wise, vertuous and modest woman, and adorned with many other such excellent and commendable gifts and qualities, that she is worthy of perpetuall memory. She was of the ancient Family of the Bamfords in Lincolnshire: and the 29. day of December, 1611. she patiently and Christianly ended this mortall life.

Spe resurgendi ad vitam aeternam requiescimus.

Hoc moestissimus ejus maritus, in piam memoriam Vxoris suae, talis, tam (que) charissimae construi fecit: eundem (que) hic cum illa esse sepulturum sperat & exoptat.

In Christo filii sumus Dei, & haeredes aeternae vicae.

Mentis vis magna.

What, is she dead?

doth he survive?

No: both are dead,

and both alive.

[Page] She lives, hee's dead,

by love, though grieving,

In him, for her,

yet dead, yet living.

Both dead, and living?

then what is gone?

One halfe of both,

not any one.

One mind, one Faith,

one hope, one Grave,

In life, in death,

they had, and still they have.

Amor conjugalis aeternus.

Hic jacet in requiem

Woodcocke Iohn,

An Ancient Tomb in the Chancell, lately intruded on with new Pewes.

vir Generosus,

Maior Londiniae,

Mercerus, valdè morosus.

Hic jacet Tom Shot-hose,

sine Tombe, sine Sheets, sine Riches,

Qui vixit sine Gowne,

sine Cloake, sine Shirt, sine Breeches.

In the Vestrie South Window, there is the figure of Thomas Heritagh, in a red Mantle: Right before him in another pane is the Mercers Armes, of which Company (it seemes) he was free. This man was the builder of this Vestry-house.

At the East end of the Chancell, on the right hand, is a faire Monument, with this inscription:

To the sacred Memory of Thomas Shelly, eldest sonne and heire of Henry Shelly of Patcham in the Country of Sussex, Esquire, departed this life the second day of Decemb. 1620. being 23. yeeres of age: by his most sorrowfull wife, Mary Shelly, eldest daughter of Thomas Stephens of the middle Temple, Esquire, Atturney Generall to Prince Henry.

If Youth, Religion,

Vertue, and the rest

Of Graces that

in fraile Man are the best,

Could have conser'd long life,

this Funerall Verse

Had not so soone

beene offered at thy Herse

By thy sad Widdow:

whose Fate did allow

Her onely three weeks

happinesse, to know

How good thou wert:

and what remaines of life,

To her yeelds sorrow:

she was once a wife

To such an husband,

whose like 'twere in vaine,

And flattery to her griefe,

to hope againe.

But thou wert flesh,

and that to earth must turne,

Thy pure soule blest;

she onely left to mourne.

Adjoyning to this on the right hand, is a faire Marble Monument in Ovall:

Deo Trino & Vno opt. max. sacrum, ac

Aeternae Memoriae ornatissimae & laudatissimae feminae, Annae Walleriae in Icenis oriundae, unius at (que) unicae parentum prolis; Ingenio, Genio & Genere conspicuae: Guilielmi Waadi, Regii Consistorii sanctioris (que) Concilii Serenissimae Heroinae, Dominae Elizabethae, Angliae, &c. Reginae, à secretis.

Conjugis,

Quae annos enata Xix. in puerperio, 10. Calendas Septembris, Anno Salutis Iesu merito restitutae, M.D.XIC. ex hac peritura ad perennam vitam emigravit.

Cui

Placidè in Christo gentis humanae sospitatore obdormienti, hoc mortale immortalis amoris Monumentum Conjux moestissimus posuit.

On the South side of the Church, on the wall adjoyning to the Vestry, is an ancient Monument, in the memory of Christopher Hawes, Mercer and Alderman of London, who dyed the 25. of October, 1508. and is interred in a Vault under the foundation of the Church.

Then is Adle street, Adle street. in old Evidences written King-Adel-street; and so called from King Adel stane the Saxon. At this present it is replenished with faire buildings on both fides:Pinners Hall, now the Plaisterers Hall. Amongst which, there was sometime the Pinners Hall: but that Company being decayed, it is now the Plaisterers Hall.

[Page] Not farre from thence is the Brewers Hall,Brewers Hall. a faire house: which Company of Brewers was incorporated by King Henry the sixth, in the 16. of his reigne; confirmed by the name of Saint Mary and Saint Thomas the Martyr, the 19. of Edward the fourth.

From the West end of this Adle street, Little Woodstreet runneth downe to Creplegate: and somewhat East (from the Sunne Taverne, against the wall of the Citie) is the Curriers Hall.Curriers Hall.

Now on the West side of Woodstreet have ye Huggen lane, Huggen lane so called of one Hugan, that of old time dwelled there. He was called Hugan in the Lane, as I have read in the 34. of Edward the first. This Lane runneth downe by the South side of S. Michaels Church in Woodstreet; and so growing very narrow by meanes of late encrochments, to Guthurons lane.

The Parish Church of Saint Michael in Woodstreet is a proper thing,Parish Church of S. Michael in Woodstreet. and lately well repaired. Iohn Iue, Parson of this Church, Iohn Forster, Goldsmith, and Peter Fikeldon, Taylor, gave two Messuages and Shops, with Sollars, Cellars, and other Edifices, in the same Parish and street, and in Ladle Lane to the reparations of the Church, Chancell, and other workes of charity, the 16 of Richard the second.

The Monuments here, be of William Bambrough, the son of Henry Bambrough of Shardborough, 1392.

William Turner, Waxe-Chaundler, 1400.

Iohn Peke, Goldsmith, 1441.

VVilliam Taverner, Girdler, 1454.

VVilliam Mancer, Ironmonger, 1465.

Iohn Nash, 1466. with an Epitaph.

Iohn Allen, Timber-monger, 1441.

Robert Draper, 1500.

Iohn Lambard, Draper, Alderman, one of the Sheriffes of London, who deceased 1554. and was father to William Lambard, Esquire, well knowne by sundry learned Bookes that he hath published.

Iohn Medley, Chamberlaine of London.

Iohn Marsh, Esquire, Mercer, and Common Sergeant of London, &c.

Here lyeth Ioh. Blount, Citizen and Clothworker of Lond. eldest son of W. Blount of Mauggareffield, A comely small Monument in the East end of the North Quire, in the wall. in the County of Glocest. Esquire, who had to wife Anne Layton, of whom he had issue, six sonnes and eight daughters, and lived together man and wife nine and twenty yeeres, in worshipfull and good reputation, and dyed at the age of threescore and three yeers, the first day of May, 1599.

Here lyeth the body of Nicholas Waren, A smaller Monumēt in the same Ile and wall. Citizen and Grocer of London, borne at Whitby in Yorkshire, who had to wife Margaret Crome, who lived together married two and twenty yeeres and eleven moneths. He dyed in joy and peace of a faithfull confession, the tenth day of April, 1614. being about the age of two and fifty yeeres.

IOB 17. Vers. 5.
My breath is corrupt, my dayes are cut off, the Grave for me.

The body of William Harvie, A comely Monumēt in the same wall & Ile. Citizen and Grocer of London, and Deputy to the Alderman of this Ward of Creplegate within, was buried the twentieth day of March, Anno Domini, 1597. of the age of 68. yeeres. Maudlin, his first wife, by whom he had issue, foure sonnes and one daughter, was buried the 16. day of November, 1581. Margaret, his second wife, by whom he had issue, one son, was buried the 14. of Ianuary, 1593. Joane, his third wife, survived.

Robert Harvie, A Memory on the same Monument. his eldest sonne, Citizen and Grocer of London, was buried in his Fathers Grave the ninth of November, 1608. out of his house in the Old Iewry, being of the age of 47. yeeres, 5. moneths, and 10. dayes; when he had served his Prince, Comptroller of the Customehouse, and Warden of the Grocers. Hee had to wife Sara Audley, of whom hee had issue, three sonnes and three daughters, &c.

There is also (but without any outward Monument) the head of Iames, Iames, the 4. King of Scots, his head buried in S. Michaels Church in Woodstreet. the fourth King of Scots of that name; slaine at Flodden field, and buried here by this occasion: After the Battell, the body of the said King being found, was closed in Lead, and conveyed from thence to [Page] London, and so to the Monastery of Sheyne in Surrey, where it remained for a time, in what order I am not certaine. But since the dissolution of that house, in the reigne of Edward the sixth, Henry Gray, Duke of Suffolke, being lodged and keeping house there; I have beene shewed the same body, so lapped in Lead, close to the head and body, throwne into a waste roome amougst the old Timber, Lead, and other rubble. Since the which time, workemen there (for their foolish pleasure) hewed off his head: And Launcelot Young, Master Glasier to Queene Elizabeth, feeling a sweet savour to come from thence, and seeing the same dryed from all moysture, and yet the forme remaining, with the haire of the head and beard red; brought it to London, to his house in Woodstreet, where (for a time) he kept it for the sweetnesse: but in the end, caused the Sexton of that Church to burie it amongst other bones, taken out of their Charnell, &c.

I reade in divers Records,Blacke Hall in Woodstreet, in S. Michaels Parish. of a house in Woodstreet, then called Blacke Hall; but no man at this day can tell thereof.

On the North side of this Saint Michaels Church, is Maiden lane, now so called,Ingene lane, or Maiden lane. but (of old time) Ingenelane, or Inglane. In this Lane the Wax-Chandlers have their Common Hall,Wax-Chandlers Hall. on the South side thereof: and the Haberdashers have their like Hall on the North side, at Stayning lane end. This Company of the Haberdashers,Haberdashers Hall. or Hurrers, of old time so called, were incorporated a Brotherhood of S. Katharine, Record in the Rolles the 26. of Henry the 6. and so confirmed by Henry the seventh, the 17. of his reigne; the Cappers and Hat-merchants, or Hurrers, being one Company of Haberdashers.

Downe lower in Woodstreet is Silver street, Silver street (I thinke, of Silver-smiths dwelling there) in which bee divers faire houses.

And on the North side thereof is Monkes-well street, Monks-well street. so called, of a Well at the North end thereof, where the Abbot of Garendon had an house or Cell, called Saint Iames in the Wall by Creplegate, and certaine Monkes of their house were the Chaplains there; wherefore the Well (belonging to that Cell or Hermitage) was called Monkes-well, and the street of the Well, Monkes-well street. The East side of this street, down against London wall, and the south side thereof to Creplegate, bee of Creplegate Ward, as is afore shewed.

In this street,Bowyers Hall. by the corner of Monks-well street, is the Bowyers Hall.

On the said East side of Monks-well street, Almes. houses in Monks-well street. be proper Almes-houses, twelve in number, founded by Sir Ambrose Nicholas, Salter, Maior, 1575. wherein be placed twelve poore and aged people rent-free, having each of them 7. pence the weeke, and once the yeere each of them five sackes of Charcoales, and one quarter of an hundred of Faggots, of his gift for ever.

On the North side of the way, turning towards Creplegate, and even upon, or close to London Wall, (as it were) are certaine new-erected Almes-houses, six in number, of the cost and gift of Mr. Robert Rogers, Leather-seller, and very good maintenance allowed (for ever) to such people as are appointed to dwell in them.

Then, in little VVoodstreet, Almes. Chambers in little Woodstreet. bee seven proper Chambers in an Alley on the West side, founded for seven poore people, therein to dwell rent-free, by Henry Barton, Skinner, Maior, 1516.

Thus much for the Monuments of this Ward within the Walles.

Now without the Posteme of Creplegate, Parish Church of S. Giles without Creplegate▪ first is the Parish Church of Saint Giles, a very faire and large Church, lately repaired, after that the same was burned, in the yeere 1545. the 37. of Henry the eighth; by which mischance, the Monuments of the dead in this Church are very few. Notwithstanding, I have read of these following:

Alice, William and Iohn, wife and sons to T. Clarell.

Agnes, daughter to Thomas Niter, Gentleman.

William Atwell.

Felix, daughter to Sir Thomas Gisors, and wife to Thomas Travars.

Thomas Mason, Esquire.

Edmond Wartar, Esquire.

Ioan, wife to Iohn Chamberlaine, Esquire, daughter to Roger Lewkner, Esquire.

William Frier.

[Page] Iohn Hamberger, Esquire.

Hugh Moresbye.

Gilbert Prince, Alderman.

Oliver Cherley, Gentleman.

Sir Iohn Wright, or Writhesley, alias Garter, King at Armes.

Ioan, wife to Thomas Writhesley, sonne to Sir Iohn Writhesley.

Garter, daughter and heire to William Hall, Esquire.

Iohn Writhesley the yonger, sonne to Sir Iohn Writhesley and Eleanor.

Eleanor, second wife to Iohn Writhesley, daughter and heire to Thomas Arnold, sister and heire to Richard Arnold, Esquire.

Iohn, her sonne and heire.

Margaret, with her daughter.

Iohn Brigget. Thomas Ruston, Gent.

Iohn Talbot, Esquire, and Katharine his wife.

Thomas Warfle, and Isabel his wife.

Thomas Lucie, Gentleman, 1447.

Ralph Rochford, Knight, 1409.

Edmond Watar, Esquire.

Elizabeth, wife to Richard Barnes, sister and heire to Richard Malgrave Esquire, of Essex.

Richard Govere, and Iohn Govere, Esquires.

Sir Henry Grey, Knight, son and heire to George Grey, Earle of Kent, 1562.

Reginald Grey, Earle of Kent.

Richard Choppin, Tallow-Chandler, one of the Sheriffes, 1530.

Iohn Hamber, Esquire, 1573.

Thomas Busbie, Cooper, who gave the Queenes head Taverne to the reliefe of the poore in the Parish, 1575.

Iohn Wheler, Goldsmith, 1575.

Richard Bolene, 1563.

William Bolene, 1575.

W. Bolene, Physician, 1587.

Robert Crowley, Vicar there, all these foure under one old stone in the Quire.

The learned Iohn Foxe, Writer of the Acts and Monuments of the English Church, 1587.

The skilfull Robert Glover, alias Somerset, Herauld, 1588.

Iohannis Hambei,An anciēt Marble Tombe on the North side of the Chancell. Armigeri, caro hoc in Tumulo repulverescet, sicut & Ianae charissimae Conjugis. Qui dum vixit, Edovardo sexto, Mariae & Elizabethae Angliae Regibus, in variis calculorum & rationum generibus, tam praestitorum & exterorum, quam decimarum & primitiarum ratiocinator dignissimus extiterat. Obiit autem Iohannes 8. Calend. Aprilis, Anno Salutis à Christo, 1573. Quem Iana secundo post Mense insequuta est, 16. scilicet Calend. Iunii. Quorum spiritus ad Coelum reversi reassumptionem carnis expectant.

Francisco Borono, Nobilissimi Mediolanensi, Another faire Marble Tomb close adjoyning. & Annae Baptistae Boroni uxori, necnon & filio; Quorum ossa hoc clauduntur Tumulo. Idem Baptista Baronus, Francisci frater, ac Annae maritus, in eorum memoriam hanc posuit scriptionem. Obiit Franciscus Londinensis, 16. die Aprilis, Anno Domini, M.D.XXXIII. Aetatis suae, XXXI. Anna vero & filius, ultimo die Octobris, M.D.XLVI.

Hic jacet Henricus Giffard, filius tertiogenitus Iohannis Giffard,A small Monumēt at the South wal of the Chancell. nuper de Northhall, in Comitatu Middless. Armigeri. Qui cum corporis castitatem quadraginta trium annorum coelibatu comprobasset, Animam Sponso suo Iesu Christo piam sanctam (que) tradidit, 15. die Iulii, Anno Domini, 1602.

Christo S. S.

Iohanni Foxo,

A very faire Marble stone set up on end in the same wall.

Ecclesiae Anglicanae Martyrologo fidelissimo, Antiquitatis Historicae Indagatori sagacissimo, Evangelicae veritatis propugnatori acerrimo, Thaumaturgo admirabili; Qui Martyres Marianos, tanquam Phoenices, ex cineribus redivivos praestitit. Patri suo omni pietatis officio imprimis colendo, Samuel Foxus illius primogenitus, hoc Monumentum posuit, non sine lachrymis.

Obiit die 18. Mens. April. An. Dom. 1587. jam septuagenarius. Vita vitae mortalis est, Spes vitae immortalis.

Here lyeth the body of Robert Crowley, A faire plated stone on the groūd in the Chancell. Clerke, late Vicar of this Parish; who departed this life the 18. day of Iune, An. Dom. 1588.

Sacra sub hoc saxo

tria corpora mista quiescunt,

A Plate engraven on a faire stone neer to the other.

Gulielmi Bullen

Medici, Fratrisque Richardi,

[Page] Ac Johannis Foxi:

qui tres mihi crede fuerunt

Doctrina clari,

rari & pietatis alumni.

Gulielmus Bullen

Medicamina semper habebat,

Aequè pauperibus danda,

ac locupletibus aequè.

Sicque Richardus erat

benefacere & ipse paratus,

Omnibus ex aequo

quibus ipse prodesse valebat.

At Foxus noster

per multas hos parasangas,

Vita praecurrit,

studiisque accedimus omnes.

Extant quae scripsit

tormenta cruenta piorum,

Extant perdoctè

permulta volumina scripta,

Quae scripsit Foxus:

nulli fuit ipse secundus.

Obiit An. Dom. 1587. April. 16.

Here lyeth buried William Bullen, On the same stone. who dyed the seventh day of Ianuary, 1576.

Vnder this stone sleepeth the body of Richard Bullen, a faithfull Servant and Preacher of Iesus Christ: And was buried the sixteenth day of October, Anno Domini, 1563.

Here lieth the body of Richard Westerne, one of the sonnes of Richard Westerne, Another plated stone in the Chancell. of London, Grocer, who being aged 25. yeeres, deceased the 15. day of December, Anno Domini, 1602.

Christus mihi vita, Mors mihi lucrum.

Heere lyeth buried Sir Henry Grey, A faire Tombe in the South Ile of the Quire. Knight, sonne and heire to George, Lord Grey, of Ruthen, and Earle of Kent. The which Sir Henry Grey departed this life the 24. day of September, in the yeere of Christ, 1562.

Anna Thomae Tumulo

jacet hoc uxorcula Strangae,

A faire plated stone in the same Ile.

Quae quia bella fuit,

placuit (que) marita marito,

Marmore sic texit,

dulci devictus amore.

Obiit Anno Salutis, 1573. Aetatis suae, 19. Februarii vicessimo quarto. Tolerandum, Sperandum.A comely Monumēt in the South wal of the Quire.

Roberto Glovero, alias Somerset, Feciali celeberrimo: Heraldicae Scientiae, & veritatis antiquae, vindici acerrimo: summam laudem & benevolentiam ob praeclarum ingenium, per acre judicium; ex multa veterum scriptorum (labore indefesso) perscrutatione; ob morum facilitatem, vitaeque innocuae sanctimoniam, apud omnes consecuto; Avunculo chariss. Thomas Milles Nepos, amoris hoc Monumentum moerens posuit.

Robertus iste, natus Ashsordiae Cantii emporio, parentibus ingenuis, liberaliter educatus, in multis apprimè versatus, Heraldicae unicè peritissimus evasit. Fratrem unicum Gulielmum ex Tho. & Mildreda P. P. Sorores autem 5. habuit. ex Elizabetha Flower Conjuge, 5. tantum, superstites reliquit liberos, filios scilicet 3. filias (que) 2. Tandem cum jam Patriae orbi (que) post varia exantlata studia acuminis peritiae, & diligentiae stupendae gustum insignem praebere, at (que) Principi Sereniss. suis meritis gratissimus esse ceperit. 10. April. 1518. aetat. suae 45. vitam erumnosam cum morte piè & placidè, in uno Christo commutavit. Idque omnium cum doctissimorum tum optimorum undique pro tanto literar. pietatis & virtutis alumno dolore ac gemitu utpote; Quem fata tantum terris ostendisse videantur, nec amplius esse sinant.

R. G. moriens ut viverat, vixit ut moriturus.

In the North Ile of the Quire, hangeth vp the Ensignes of Armes belonging to Thomas Hawley, alias Clarentiaulx, King at Armes, buried 1573. but no other Monument there made for him.

Roger Mason, of this Parish, Citizen and Vintner of London, gave to the poore of the freedome of this Parish, 200. pounds, wherewith an yeerely rent of 16. pounds or thereabout, is purchased for ever; to be bestowed on ten Gownes of blacke Cloth lined, to bee distributed yeerely upon tenne poore men of the freedome of this Parish, upon All Saints day, at the discretion of the Vicar, and [Page] Church-wardens for the time being. He died the 3. day of Septemb. 1603. Aetat-suae, 37. Leaving his wife Iane, by whom he had three sons and three daughters; whereof one onely now liveth, named Katharine. Which Iane truely paid the above mentioned two hundred pounds, and joyned the erection of this Monument, set up, An. Dom. 1606. May the 8. day: Iohn Buckeridge, Doctor of Divinity, being Vicar; Edward Sikling, Richard May, David Iones, and Roger Webbe, then Churchwardens.

William Day, Another small Monument in the wall of the same Ile in the Quire. Citizen and Vintner of London, the sonne of Thomas Day of Boseham, in Sussex, Gentleman, and Elizabeth his wife, gave to the poore of this Parish 80. pounds, which was payed by his brother George Day, wherewith an yeerely rent of sixe pounds, or thereabout, is purchased for ever: to be bestowed on twelve Coats of greene Cloth, to be distributed yeerely upon twelve poore Orphans, upon All Saints day; at the discretion of the Vicar and Church-wardens for the time being. Hee lyeth buried in his Parish Church of S. Michael in Cornhill, and dyed the 22. day of September, 1603. Aetatis suae, 32. Set up Anno Domini, 1606. May the 8. day: Iohn Buckeridge, Doctor of Divinity, being Vicar, and the fore-remembred Church-wardens.

Here lyeth the body of Edward Harvist, A very faire Monument in the North wal of this Ile. Citizen and Brewer of London, Aldermans Deputy of this Parish, and one of His Majesties Gunners; and Anne his beloved wife. They were both very charitable persons: as in giving Land to this Parish perpetually, for the reliefe of poore Widdowes; as also Land to the Company whereof he was free, for mending of the high way betweene Edgeworth and Paddington. He gave great Legacies to his poore kindred, and departed this life the foureteenth day of March, 1610. Shee departed this life the foure and twentieth day of May, Anno Domini, 1610. Expecting both a glorious resurrection in Iesus Christ.

A Remembrance of Tho. Busbie, Citizen and Cooper of London, who departed this life in the yeere 1575. and was buried the 11. day of Iuly.

This Busbie,

A comely Monumēt by the other.

willing to relieve the poore,

with fire and with bread,

Did give the house wherein he dwelt,

then called the Queenes Head.

Foure full Loads of the best Charcoales

he would have bought each yeere,

And forty dozen of Wheaten Bread,

for poore Householders here.

To see these things distributed,

this Busbie put in trust

The Vicar and Church-wardens,

thinking them to be just.

God grant that poore Householders here,

may thankfull be for such;

So God will move the minds of more,

to doe for them as much:

And let this good example move

such men as God hath blest,

To doe the like, before they goe

with Busbie to their rest.

Within this Chappell, Busbies bones,

in dust a while must stay,

Till he that made them, raise them up,

to live with Christ for aye.

A Remembrance of Master Richard Roper, &c.

If you on earth that live,

An engraven Plate fixed in the wall.

did know

what rest the dead possesse,

You would not wish to wander here,

in Vale of wretchednesse.

Good Helen, wife to me that was,

prepare thy selfe with speed,

That thou and I, with this yong Maid,

a Plant of both our Seed,

May rest in one, and rise in three,

by power of Godheads might,

When we with Angels shall assemble,

to everlasting light.

Richard Roper lived 70. yeeres, and dyed the 28. day of Septemb. An. Dom. 1578.

Helen Roper lived 65. yeeres.

Ioane Roper lived the age of two yeeres.

Within this Ile lyeth buried the body of Charles Langley, sometime of this Parish, Ale-Brewer, who was buried [Page] the eighth day of Iune, An. Dom. 1602. And did give bountifully to the poore of this Parish.

If Langleys life you list to know,

A comely Monumēt in the wall beneath the Quire

read on, and take a view,

Of faith and hope I will not speake,

his workes shall shew them true:

Who whilst he liv'd, with counsell grave,

the better sort did guide;

A stay to weake, a staffe to poore,

without back-bite or pride:

And when he dyed, he gave his Mite,

all that did him befall,

For ever (once a yeere) to cloath

S. Giles his poore withall.

All Saints he pointed for the day,

Gownes twenty ready made,

with twenty Shirts, and twenty Smocks,

as they may best be had.

A Sermon eke he hath ordain'd,

that God may have his praise,

And other might be won thereby,

to follow Langleys wayes.

On Vicar and Church-wardens then,

his trust he hath repos'd,

As they will answer him one day,

when all shall be disclos'd.

Thus being dead, yet still he lives,

lives, never for to dye,

In Heavens blisse, in Worlds fame;

and so I trust shall I.

Launcelot Andrewes, Vicar.

Iohn Taylor, Wil. Hewet,

Edw. Sickling, Rich. May, Churchwardens.

§

Charities to the poore in the Parish of Saint Giles without Creplegate.

Master Thomas Busby, Thomas Busby his gift to the poore. Cooper, gave forty dozen of Wheaten Bread, and foure Loads of Charcoales, to be distributed yeerely for ever unto the poore of this Parish, in manner following: The weeke before Alhallontide, one load of Char-coales, and tenne dozen of bread; the weeke before Christmas; the weeke before the five and twentieth day of January; and the weeke before Easter, the foresaid proportion of bread and Coales.

Mr. Blighton, Mr. Blighton his gift. Butcher, gave 40. dozen of wheaten bread, and 2. load of Charcoales, to bee distributed at the same time, and in the same proportion.

Master Charles Langley, Brewer, gave twenty Gownes for men and women,Charles Langley his gift. to be distributed, and twenty shirts for twenty other men, and twenty smocks for twenty other women yeerely for ever, at the Feast of All Saints: and a remainder of money to be given amongst the poore people the same day, and forty shillings also that day allowed for a Sermon.

Master Roger Mason, Vintner, gave two hundred pounds in Money,Roger Mason his gift. with the which summe, tenne Gownes are likewise to be provided for tenne poore men or women, on the same Feast day of All Saints, for ever.

Master William Day, William Day his gift. Vintner, gave fourescore pounds: with the which sum are to be provided twelve Coates, for twelve poore mens Children, for ever yeerely, and to bee distributed at the said Feast of All Saints.

Mistris Anne Harvist gave foure tenements in Monks-well street, Anne Harvist her gift. neere Creplegate, amounting to the yeerely rent of twenty pounds, to bee distributed quarterly to twenty poore widdows, to each of them 5. shillings the quarter.

Master Robert Smith hath given foure Bibles in Octavo, Rob. Smith his gift. well buffed and bossed, to foure poore mens children, such as can best deserve them by reading, to be distributed yeerely for ever at Easter. And also two and fifty dozen of Wheaten bread, every weeke one dozen for ever.

Master Richard Hanbury, Rich. Hanbury and Richard Budd their gift. and Master Richard Budd, have given six new Books of Common Prayer in Quarto, well buffed and bossed, to be given yeerely for ever at Easter, to sixe poore mens children, such as can best deserve them by reading. And also 52. dozen of wheaten bread, to be given every week for ever.

Master Roger Bellow, Roger Bellow his gift. Brewer, hath given the Lease of an house in Moore-lane, called the signe of the Cocke, the yeerely rent whereof is twenty pounds. Out of the which summe, tenne pounds is yeerely to be given to the poore, at the Feast of Christmas: And the remainder (except twenty shillings, otherwise by his will disposed) is yeerly to be reserved, for the purchasing of some parcell of Land, towards the reliefe of the poore.

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The circuit of the Parish of S. Giles without Creplegate.

THe Parishioners, in their Perambulation, first strike downe the Alley (which hath sometime beene part of their Church-yard) close by S. Giles his Well, and crossing the Towne-ditch, keepe along by the Citie Wall, almost to Aldersgate, where they should crosse the Ditch againe, and take in certaine Garden-houses, which stand neere the Ditch, and so comming downe a little Garden Alley, (through which sometime hath beene a way into Aldersgate street) returne again by S. Giles his Well, the same way they went in.

Then walking up the West side of Red-crosse street, and the South side of Barbican, till they come toward the farther end thereof, over against the signe of the Bores head, they set up their marks upon a great Post (as it seemeth set there for the same purpose) where they should crosse over to the North side, right over against the said bound, thorow certaine Garden Alleys, lying on the West side of Willoughby House: but by reason of some contention, that course is of late denyed them, so that they passe through Barbican, and turne up Goswell street, (being part of S. Buttolphs Parish) untill they come a little beyond the Barres, where they enter their owne bounds againe, and setting up their markes, passe along the right side of the Kings high way, leading to Islington, and leaving the Mount Mill upon their right hand, they proceed on, till they come within three roddes of a little Bridge, (at the lower end of the Close next unto Islington, over which lyeth a foot-path toward Newington Greene,) where they digge a way over the Ditch, and so keepe upon the top of the Ditch banke, all the breadth of the lower end of the said Close; where they turne againe South-east, and taking in all the Lay-stalles, and low grounds, where bricke hath been made, strike over betweene those low grounds and the Brick-hils, that now are adjoyning to the foot-path, leading from the Pest-house to Islington, which they leave on the left side; in the South end of which Brick-hill, there is a stone set, now almost digged downe: From the which stone, they come straight South, till they come over a Bridge, which is laid purposely for them, and after removed; which as soone as they have past, they strike downe, by the said Ditch side Eastward, to the farthest Conduit head, where they give the Children Poynts.

From whence they keepe a straight course into the Kings high way, to Dame Anne de Clare, upon the right side of which way they keepe, till they come to the Butts, where a planck is purposely laid for them, over which they passe into Holywell Close, and so keepe directly to the farthest of the sixe Milles, next unto Holywell, which they leave on their left hand, and so passing over the high way, keepe a straight course over the Walks, to the farthest Wall, South of the middle Walke, (leaving the Butchers Close, and the lower Gardens, some three Roddes on the left hand) in the which VVall there is a marke or Bound: From thence (not entring the lowest Walke at all) they turne full West, over the high way leading from Moregate, and comming into little Morefields, (as we call it) they keepe close to the Pales and Tentors (for they have not passing eight or ten foot of ground from the Pales) till they come to the Posterne, where they set up their mark; and so through the Posterne they make their returne, &c.

There was in this Church (of old time) a Fraternity or Brother-hood of our blessed Lady,Brother-hood in S. Giles Church. or Corpus Christi and S. Giles, founded by Iohn Belancer, in the reigne of Edward the third, the 35. yeere of his reigne.

Some small distance from the East end of this Church,Water-Conduit without Creplegate. is a water-conduit, brought in pipes of lead from Highbery, by Iohn Middleton, one of the Executors to Sir William East field, and of his goods. The inhabitants adjoyning, castellated it of their own coses and charges, about the yeere 148 [...]

There [...] also a Bosse of cleere water in the Wall of the Church-yard,Bosse in the Wall of S. Giles Church-yard. [Page] made at the charges of Richard Whitington, sometimes Maior, and was like to that of Belinsgate. Of late the same was turned into an evill Pumpe, and so is cleane decayed.

There was also a faire Poole of cleere water,Poole of Spring water. neere unto the Parsonage, on the west side thereof, which was filled up in the reigne of Henry the sixth. The Spring was cooped in, and arched over with hard stone, and staires of stone to goe downe to the Spring, on the banke of the Towne ditch. And this was also done of the goods, and by the Executors of Richard Whitington.

In Whitecrosse-street, White-crosse-street. King Henry the fifth builded one faire House, and founded there a Brotherhood of S. Giles, to be kept: which House had sometime beene an Hospitall of the French Order,Hospitall of the French Order. by the name of Saint Giles without Creplegate, in the reigne of Edward the first; the King having the Jurisdiction, and pointing a Custos thereof, for the precinct of the Parish of Saint Giles, &c. Patent Rich. 2. the 15. yeere: Which Hospitall being suppressed, the Lands were given to the Brotherhood, for reliefe of the poore.

One Alley, of divers Tenements, over against the North wall of S. Giles Church-yard, was appointed to bee Almes-houses for the poore, wherein they dwelled rent-free, and otherwise were relieved: but the said Brotherhood was suppressed by Henry the 8. since which time, Sir Iohn Gresham, Maior, purchased the Lands, and gave part thereof to the maintenance of a Free Schoole, which he had founded at Holt, a Market Towne in Norfolke.

In Red crosse street, Red-crosse streete. on the West side from S. Giles Church-yard, up to the said Crosse, be many faire houses builded outward,Liber. S. Butto [...]ph. with divers Alleys, turning into a large plot of ground, of old time called the Iewes Garden, The Iewes Garden, or place to bury their dead. as being the onely place appointed them in England, wherein to bury their dead; till the yeere 1177. the 24. of Henry the second, that it was permitted them (after long suit to the King and Parliament at Oxford) to have a speciall place assigned them in every quarter where they dwelled.

This plot of ground remained to the said Iewes, till the time of their finall banishment out of England and is now turned into faire Garden-plots and Summer-houses for pleasure.

On the East side of this Red-crosse street, be also divers faire houses, up to the Crosse. And there is Beech lane, Beech lane. peradventure so called of Nicholas de la Beech, Lieutenant of the Tower of London, put out of that Office in the 13. of Edward the third. This Lane stretcheth from Red-crosse street, to White-crosse street, replenished, not with Beech trees, but with beautifull houses of stone, bricke and timber. Amongst the which, was (of old time) a great house, pertaining to the Abbot of Ramsey for his lodging,The Abbot of Ramsey his Inne. when he repaired to the Citie: It is now called Drewrie House, of Sir Drew Drewrie, a worshipfull owner thereof.

On the North side of this Beech lane, towards White-crosse street, the Drapers of London have lately builded 8. Almes-houses of bricke and timber,Almes-houses in Beech lane. for eight poore Widdowes of their owne Company, whom they have placed there rent-free, according to the gift of the Lady Askew, Widdow to Sir Christopher Askew, sometime Draper, and Maior, 1533.

Then in Golding lane, Golding lane. Richard Gallard, of Islington, Esquire, Citizen and Painter-stainer of London, Almes people there. founded 13. Almes-houses, for so many poore people placed in them rent-free.

Hee gave to the poore of the same Almes-houses, 2. d. the piece weekly, & a load of Charcoales among thē yeerly for ever; he left faire Lands about Islington, to maintain his foundation. T. Hayes, sometime Chamberlaine of London, in the latter time of H. the 8. married Elizabeth his daughter and heire; which Hayes and Elizabeth had a daughter named Elizabeth, married to Iohn Iron-monger, of London, Mercer, who now hath the order of the Almes-people.

On the West side of Red-crosse street is a street called the Barbican, Burgh-kenning, or Barbican. because sometime there stood on the North side there of a Burghkenning, or VVatch-tower of the Citie, called in some language a Barbican, as a Bikening is called a Beacon. This Burgh-kenning, by the name of the Mannor of Base Court, was [Page] given by Edward the third, to Robert Vfford, Earle of Suffolke, and was lately pertaining to Peregrine Barty, Lord Willoughby of Ersby.

Next adjoyning to this, is one other great house,Garter Place. called Garter Place, sometime builded by Sir Thomas Writhe, or Writhesley, Knight, alias, Garter, principall King of Armes, second son of Sir Iohn Writhe, Knight, alias Garter, and was Vncle to the first Thomas, Earle of Southampton, Knight of the Garter, and Chancelor of England: Hee built this house, and in the top therof a Chappel, which hee dedicated by the name of S. Trinitatis in Alto. Thus much for that part of Creplegate Ward without the VVall, whereof more shall be spoken in the Suburbe of that part. This VVard hath an Alderman & his Deputy within the gate. Common Councell, 8. Constables, 9. Scavengers, 12. for VVardmote Inquest, 15. and a Beadle.

Without the gate, it hath also a Deputy, Common Councell, 2. Constables, 4. Scavengers, 4. VVardmote Inquest, 17. and a Beadle. It is taxed in London to the Fifteene, at 40. pounds.

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ALDERSGATE VVARD.

THe next is Aldersgate Ward,Aldersgate Ward. taking name of that North Gate of the City; this Ward also consisteth of divers Streetes and Lanes, lying as well within the Gate and Wall, as without; and first, to speake of that part within the Gate, thus it is. The East part thereof joyneth unto the West part of Creplegate Ward in Engain lane or Maiden lane. It beginneth on the North side of that Lane, at Staining lane end, and runneth up from the Haberdashers Hall, to St. Mary Staining Church: and by the Church East winding almost to VVoodstreete. Oate lane. And west through Oate lane, and then by the South side of Bacon house in Noble streete, Noble street backe againe by Lilipot lane, which is also of that VVard to Maiden lane, and so on that North side west to Saint Iohn Zacharies Church, and to Foster lane.

Now on the South side of Engaine or Maiden lane, is the west side of Gutherons lane, to Kery lane, and Kery lane it selfe (which is of this Ward) and backe againe into Engaine lane, by the North side of the Goldsmiths Hall, to Foster lane, almost wholly of this Ward, which beginneth in the South toward Cheape, on the East side, by the North side of Saint Fosters Church, & runneth downe North-west by the west end of Engaine lane by Lilipot lane, Noble street and Oate lane, to Noble streete, and through that by Shelly house, (of old time so called,Shelleyes house, now Bacon house. as belonging to the Shellies) Sir Thomas Shelley, Knight, was owner thereof in the first of Henry the fourth. It is now called Bacon house, because the same was new builded by Sir Nicholas Bacon, Lord Keeper of the great Seale. Downe on that side by Serjeant Fleetwoods house, Recorder of London, who also new builded it to Saint Olaves Church in Silverstreete, which is by the North-west end of this Noble streete.

Then againe in Foster lane, this Ward beginneth on the west side therof, overagainst the South-west corner of Saint Fosters Church, and runneth downe by Saint Leonards Church, by Pope lane end, and by Saint Annes lane end, which Lane is also of this Ward, North to the stone wall, by the wall of the City, over-against Bacon house, which stone wall, and so downe North to Creplegate on that side, is of Faringdon Ward.

Then have yee the maine streete of this VVard,S. Martins lane. which is called Saint Martins lane, including Saint Martin on the East side thereof, and so downe on both the sides to Aldersgate. And these be the bounds of this VVard within the wall and gate.

Now, before wee speake of that part of the wall without, let us say somewhat of the Gate it selfe. Aldersgate being very old, ruinous, and in danger of some further decay; the Lord Maior & his Brethren, with the advice of the worthy Commoners, determined to have it taken downe, and builded again in beautifull manner. For the more hastening of which intention, a worthy Citizen,M. William Parker, Citizen and Merchāt-Taylor of london, gave three thousand pounds towards the new building of Aldersgate. Master VVilliam Parker, (of whose Christian and liberall charities, wee have in briefe manner spoken before) out of his owne bountifull disposition, gave the sum of three thousand pounds, towards the furtherance of so good a worke, in new re-edifying and building the Gate, requiring & appointing (by his VVill) that it should bee new builded, within the space of three yeeres after his decease. And the mony to bee payd (by his Executor) to the Lord Maior of London, and the Alder men his Brethren (for the time being) [Page] for the said use of new building the said Gate, in manner and forme following.

That is to say,The manner and forme of paying the said mony. 200. pounds thereof at the taking downe of the first Tile: Other 200. l. thereof, at the laying of the first stone, which was laid by the right Worshipfull,The first Tile was taken downe the last day of March, 1617. Sir William Cravon, Knight, and Alderman of the City of London, on Munday, the 26. day of May, 1617. Other 200. l. thereof, when the new building should bee a yard in height above the ground. Other 200. l. thereof, when the new building should be arched over the Gate. And the other 200. l. in full payment, when the said building shall be full finished. Master Richard Foxe, Citizen and Clothworker of London (a most painfull and industrious Gentleman) having the oversight, direction, and ordering of the said building.

VVithout the Gate,Aldersgate street. the maine street called Aldersgate streete, runneth up North on the East side, to the west end of Hounds-ditch, or Barbican streete: A part of which streete is also of this Ward. And on the west side to Long lane, a part whereof is likewise of this VVard. Beyond the which Aldersgate, is Goswell streete up to the Barres. Goswell street.

And on the west side of Aldersgate streete, by Saint Buttolphs Church, is Briton streete, Briton street. which runneth west to a Pumpe, and then North to the Gate, which entreth the Church-yard, sometime pertaining to the Priory of Saint Bartholomew on the East side: and on the west side towards Saint Bartholomewes Spittle, to a paire of posts there fixed. And these bee the bounds of this Aldersgate VVard without.

The Antiquities bee these:Staining lane. First, in Staining lane, of old time so called, as may bee supposed, of Painterstainers dwelling there.

On the East side thereof, adjoyning to the Haberdashers Hall,Almes-houses there. be ten Almes-houses, pertaining to the Haberdashers, wherein bee placed ten Almes people of that Company, every of them having eight pence the peece every Friday for ever, by the gift of Thomas Huntlow, Haberdasher, one of the Sheriffes, in the yeere, 1539.

More, Sir George Barne gave them ten pounds by the yeere for ever.

Then is the small Parish Church of Saint Mary, Parish Church of St. Mary Staining. called Staining, because it standeth at the North end of Staining lane. In the which Church, being but newly builded, there remaine no Monuments worth the noting, but one lately erected.

Here lieth the body of George Smithes, A goodly Monument in South wall of the Chancell. Goldsmith and Alderman of London, who tooke to wife, Sarah, the daughter of Anthony Wolhouse, Citizen, and Haberdasher of London: by whom hee had issue foure sonnes and five daughters. He departed this life the eleventh day of Iuly, Anno Domini, 1615. being 52. yeeres of age.

To whose memory, Sarah his wife, being sole Executrix of his last Will and Testament, at her own proper cost and charges, caused this Monument to be erected.

Then is Engaine lane, or Maiden lane, and at the North-west corner thereof, the Parish Church of Saint Iohn Zacharie, Parish Church of Saint Iohn Zachary. a faire Church, with the Monuments well preserved, of Thomas Lichfield, who founded a Chauntry there, in the foureteenth of Edward the second, of Sir Nicholas Twiford, Goldsmith, Maior, 1388. and Dame Margery his wife: of whose goods the Church was made and new builded, with a Tombe for them, and others of their race, 1390. Drugo Barentine, Maior, 1398. He gave faire lands to the Goldsmiths: he dwelled right against the Goldsmiths Hall. Betweene the which Hall and his dwelling house, he builded a Gallory thwarting the streete, whereby he might goe from the one to the other, hee was buried in this Church, and Christian his wife, 1427. Iohn Adis, Goldsmith, 1400. and Margaret his wife. Iohn Francis, Goldsmith, Maior, 1400. and Elizabeth his wife, 1450. I. Sutton, Goldsmith, one of the Sheriffes, 1413. Bartholomew Seman, Gold-beater, Master of the Kings Mints, within the Tower of London, and the Towne of Calice, 1430. Iohn Hewet, Esquire, 1500. William Breakespeare, Goldsmith, 1461. Christopher Eliot, Goldsmith, 1505. Bartholomew Reade, Goldsmith, Maior, [Page] 1502. was buried in the Charter-house, and gave to this Parish 100. l. His wife was buried here with a faire Monument, her picture in habit of a widow. Thomas Keyton, Lorimar, 1522. William Potken, Esquire, 1537. Iohn Cornish with an Epitaph, 1470. Robert Fenrbuther, Goldsmith, one of the Sheriffes in the yeere, 1512.

Hereunder lieth buried sir Nicholas Twiford, These words are engraven on an anciēt place in the Chancell. Knight, sometime Lord Maior of this City, and Dame Margery his wife; of whose goods this Church was made a Tombe for themselves, and for many other more. He died in Anno Domini, 1390.

Hic jacet Iohannes Adys,A faire plated in the South Ile of the Quire. Civis, & Aurifaber London, & Margareta uxor ejus, Obiit ultimo die Februarii, 1461. Et Margareta, &c.

Here lieth Iohn Hewet, The like stone close by it. of London, Esquire, the which Iohn deceased the first day of May, in the yeere of our Lord God 1510. and in the fifth yeere of the reigne of King Henry the seventh, &c.

Here lieth the body of Iohn Sutton, The like stone and in the same Ile. Citizen, Goldsmith, and Alderman of London, who died the 6. day of Iuly, 1450.

Here lieth buried before this place,A small Plate with his Armes in the South wall. the body of Iohn Strelley, Esquire, who deceased the ninth day of December, 1595. being about 86. yeeres of age.

Here lieth buried within this Ile,A comely Monumēt in the East end of the South Ile. the bodies of Iohn Greenwood, Citizen, and Painter-Stainer of Lond. who descended of a younger house of Greenwood, of Greenwoodley in Yorekshire: And Elizabeth his wife, by whom hee had many children; but at the time of their death, left onely one sonne and a daughter, Robert, and Ioane, which Robert, after many yeeres spent in this Parish, was laid by his father and mother the 23. of Iune, 1585. In memory of whom this Monument was erected by his sisters sonne, Samuel Thompson, the sixth of September, Anno 1602.

Hic jacet Dominus Thomas Randolf,A faire stone within the Chancell doore. Capellanus. Qui obiit 29. die Novembris, Anno Domini, 1459. Cujus animae propitietur Deus.

Hic jacet Ioannes Frances,A very faire plated stone by the Communion Table. Civis, & Aurifaber, & quondam Maior London. Qui obiit 13. die Decemb. An. Dom. 1405. Cujus, &c.

Hic jacet Elizabeth ux. dict. Ioan. Qui obiit 11. Mensis Octobris, An. Dom. 1432. Cujus, &c.

Hic jacet Drugo Barantine,The like faire plated stone close by the other. Civis & Aurifaber, & quondam Maior London. Qui obiit 15. die Mensis Decemb. An. Dom. 1415. Cujus, &c.

Hic jacet Christiana, ux. dict. Drugonis. Quae obiit 11. die Mensis Martii, An. Dom. 1427. Cujus, &c.

This Monument is erected to the memory of Sir Iames Pemberton, A very goodly Monument in the East end in the Chancell. Knight, who being Sheriffe of this City at the comming in of King IAMES, entertained neere 40. Earles and Barons in his house on the day of the Kings being proclaimed. Afterwards, Anno 1612. was elected Maior of this most honourable Citie of London. Hee erected a Free-schoole in the Parish of Ecleston in Lancashire, sixteene yeeres before his death, and gave fifty pounds by the yeere to the maintaining thereof for ever. Hee gave also five hundred pounds to Christs Hospitall, and two hundred pounds to the Company of Goldsmiths, besides many liberall gifts to the poore of his Kinred, and many other most charitable uses: He died the eighth day of September, 1613. aged, 68. yeeres.

Marble nor Touch,

nor Alabaster can

Reveale the worth of

the long buried man:

For oft (we see) mens goods,

when they are gone,

Doe pious deeds, when

they themselves did none.

Mine (while I liv'd) no

goodnesse did expresse,

'Tis not Inscriptions make

them more or lesse:

In Christ I hope to rise

amongst the Iust,

Man is but grasse, all must

to Wormes and Dust.

[Page] Vertue and Death being

both enamoured

On worthy PEMBERTON,

in heate of Love,

To be possest of

that each coveted,

Thus did they dialogue,

and thus they strove.

Vertue.

WHat Vertue challengeth,

is but her right.

Death.

What Death layes claime to,

who can contradict?

Vert.

Vertue, whose power

exceeds all other might.

Dea.

Where's Vertues power,

when Death makes all submit?

Vert.

I gave him life;

and therefore he is mine.

Dea.

That life he held

no longer than I list.

Ver.

J made him more than

mortall, meere Divine.

Dea.

How hapt he could not

then Deaths stroke resist?

Ver.

Because (by Nature)

all are borne to dye.

Dea.

Then thine owne tongue

yeelds Death the victory.

Ver.

No, Death, thou art deceiv'd,

thy envious stroke

Hath given him life

immortall, 'gainst thy will:

Dea.

VVhat life can be, but

vanisheth as smoake?

Vert.

A life that all thy darts

can never kill.

Dea.

Have I not lockt his

body in my grave?

Vert.

That was but dust, and

that I pray thee keepe.

Dea.

That is as much

as I desire to have,

His comely shape in

my eternall sleepe.

Vert.

But wher's his honourable

life, renowne, and fame?

Dea.

They are but breath,

them I resigne to thee.

Ver.

Them I most covet.

Dea.

I preferre my claime,

His body mine.

Ver.

Mine his Eternity.

And so they ceast,

Death triumphs o're his grave,

Vertue o're that which

Death can never have.

And as faire Trophees,

fit to beautifie

His Hearse, Vertue hangs

up these Ornaments:

His Justice, VVisedome,

and Integritie,

His courage, dreadlesse

of what are events,

His upright soule

in that high dignitie,

VVhich London gives

her chiefest Presidents.

Free from compare

with such as went before,

Or should succeed.

It was his sole desire

Truth might report those

actions lesse or more,

Which honest thoughts

did in his heart inspire.

His care of learning

and his liberall minde

Vnto the poore,

love to his Company,

Kinred and Friends, to

whom he was most kinde,

And with whom he dealt

truly bounteously:

These graces better doe

become his Grave,

Than wastfull words

of fruitlesse flattery,

And their due merit

(doubtlesse) he shall have,

Among the blessed

in Eternity.

VVhereto faire Vertue now

hath brought her son,

Worthily honour'd,

Sir Iames Pemberton.

A. M.

§

On the East side of this Foster lane, The Goldsmiths Hall. at Engaine lane end, is the Goldsmiths Hall, a proper house, but not large. And therefore to say that Bartholomew Read, Goldsmith, Maior in the yeere, 1502. kept such a feast in this Hall,R. Grafton. as some have fabuled, is farre incredible, and altogether unpossible, considering the smalnesse of the Hall, and number of the [Page] guests, which as they say, were more than 100. persons of great estate. For the messes and dishes of meats to them served, the paled Parke in the same Hall, furnished with fruitfull trees, beasts of Venery, and other circumstances of that pretended feast well weighed, Westminster Hall would hardly have sufficed; and therefore I will over-passe it, and note somewhat of principall Goldsmiths.

First, J reade, that Leofstane, Goldsmith, was Provost of this City, in the reigne of Henry the first. Also, that Henry Fitz Alewin, The first Maior of London was a Goldsmith. Fitz Leafstane, Goldsmith, was Maior of London, in the first of Richard the first. Also, that Gregory Rocksly, chiefe Say-master of all the Kings Mints within England (and therefore by my conjecture,Principall men of the City, Goldsmiths. a Goldsmith) was Maior in the third of Edward the first, and continued Maior seven yeeres together. Then William Faringdon, Goldsmith, Alderman of Faringdon Ward, one of the Sheriffes, 1281. the ninth of Edward the first, who was a Goldsmith, as appeareth in record, and shall bee shewed in Faringdon Ward. Then Nicholas Faringdon his son, Goldsmith, Alderman of Faringdon Ward, foure times Maior in the reigne of Edward the second, &c. For the rest of later time are more manifestly knowne; and therefore I leave them: the men of this mystery were incorporated or confirmed in the sixteenth of Richard the second.

Then at the North end of Noble street is the Parish Church of Saint Olave in Silver streete, Parish Church of S. Olave in Silver street a small thing, and without any note-worthy Monuments, but these following.

Here under this stone lieth buried the body of Iohn Darcy, A faire plated stone in the Chancell. second son to Iohn, Lord Darcy of Ehie, who died in An. 1593. aged, 33-yeeres.

Here lieth Grisseild Windsore, Another stone neer to it. daughter of Henry, Lord Windsore, and Lady Anne his wife, daughter and heyre of Sir Thomas Rivet, Knight, who departed this life the seven and twentieth day of Iune, and in the yeere of our Lord God, 1600.

A Remembrance of Master IOHN BANESTER, Chirurgeon, and Licentiate in Physicke.

GReat men that ne're did

good in all their dayes,

But at the very instant

of their death,

Finde yet no meane

commenders of their praise,

Although it lasts no

longer than a-breath:

Shall then good men,

though lesser in degree,

Finde none to give

them right and equity?

If one shall say, The great

mans life was such,

So good, so full

of hospitality:

When God doth know,

he ne're did halfe so much,

Though thus he must

be grac'd with flattery.

Shall meane men, who

such workes truly did,

Be nothing spoken of?

Oh God forbid.

Not then, as equalling

with any Great,

My fatherly good

friend, Iohn Banester:

No more but truth of

thee let me repeate,

A Sonnes Love-teares,

thy body to interre.

That such as knew thee

better same than I:

May say, Thy vertues

did not with thee dye,

Thy Skill and Practice,

that it selfe commends,

Some of the best have

truely found the same,

Not partially employed

to wealthy friends,

But even the poorest wretch,

the sicke and lame

Felt of the best. Some

difference there might be:

The rich payd somewhat,

[Page] poore men had it free.

Thy care and cost layd out

for common good,

In greater measure

than came in againe:

But that heavens blessing

with thy bounty stood,

Hardly had stretcht

so many to sustaine.

But it is true: The

liberall heart God loves,

And from him still all

cause of lacke removes,

Thy weekly charity

given to the poore

In Bread, beside, in

money from thy Purse:

Even in the hardest yeeres

dealt at thy doore,

When some repin'd that

every day did worse;

Makes poore men say:

Our good reliefe is gone,

Let them goe to thy

find-faults and have none.

Poore maymed Souldiers,

sore-sicke hearted men,

That under miseries

hard Crouch did bow,

Were freely cur'd, me thinkes

they cry: Lord, when,

Where shall we finde

our good Physician now?

I doubt not, but some

others will as much:

Yet (in these dayes) we

finde not many such.

Sleepe then, thou happy

Soule, in endlesse rest,

All good mens groanes

be powred on thy grave:

Live thou in Abrahams

bosome with blest;

Where Faith and VVorkes

due recompence shall have,

My sight growes dimme,

sighing my heart makes sore:

Teares blot my paper,

I can write no more.

On the west side of Foster lane is the small Parish Church of S. Leonards, Parish Church of St. Leonard in Foster lane. for them of St. Martins le graund. A number of Tenements being lately builded in place of the great Collegiate Church of Saint Martin, that Parish is mightily increased.

In this Church remaine these Monuments: First, without the Church is graven in stone on the East end, Iohn Broke it well, an especiall re-edifier or new builder thereof.

In the Quire graven in brasse, Ro. Purfet, Grocer, 1507.

Robert Traps, Goldsmith, 1526. with this Epitaph:

When the Bels be merrily rung,

And the Masse devoutly sung:

And the meate merrily eaten,

Then shall Robert Traps his wife

and children be forgotten.

Sub hoc Marmore requiescit corpus Humfred. Barret,A stone at the entring into the Quire filli Iohannis Barret, Generosus. Qui obiit, An. Domini 1501.

Live to Dye.

All flesh is grasse,

A faire stone in the Chancel, namelesse.

and needs must fade,

To earth againe, whereof it was made.

Felici, piae, & munificentissimae feminae, A faire Monument in the North wall of the Chancell. Iodocae Franckland viduatae, siliae Roberti & Ioannae Trappes Londinensium: Gratitudinis hoc officii & pietatis Monumentum adoptione filii Principalis & Scholares Collegii de Brasennose apud Oxoniensee exhibùûre.

Dilecti cineres, non sic

requiescitis urna

In tenui, ut vobis sola haec

monumenta parantur,

Quae tandem vel sera

dies pessundare possit:

Aenea vos monumenta tegunt,

vivumque Trophaeum

(Aeternum meruistis enim

vivumque Trophaeum)

Vobis vestra dedit Iodoca,

perenniùs aere,

Nes etenim aeternumqne omnes,

quos postera nobis

Secla dabunt vobis sumus

immortale Sepulchrum.

Then in Pope lane, so called of one Pope that was owner thereof,Pope lane. on the North [Page] side is the Parish Church of Saint Anne in the willowes,Parish Church of S. Anne in the willowes. so called, I know not upon what occasion: but some say, of willowes growing thereabouts: but now there is no such voide place for willowes to grow, more than the Church-yard, wherein doe grow some high Ash trees.

This Church by causualty of fire, in the yeere 1548. was burnt, so farre as it was combustible; but since being newly repaired, there remaine a few Monuments of antiquity, of Thomas Lekhimpton, Clarke of the Pipe, who was buried there, 1499. Ralph Caldwell, Gentleman of Greyes Inne, 1527. Iohn, Lord Sheffeld, Iohn Herenden, Mercer, Esquire, 1572. And these Verses are on an ancient Table, hanging in the Quire.

Vt tibi praeceptis mens

conformetur honestis,

Sex animo semper,

sunt repetenda tuo.

Principio Deus est,

Deus.

noster

servator & Author,

Hostis in opposita

stat regione Sathan.

Diabolus.

Tertia res praesens est,

Vita.

vita simillima ventis,

Mors sequitur nobis,

Mors.

quae prope semper adest.

Ordine sunt quinto,

Coelum.

Coeli palatia summis,

Tartara sunt sexto,

Inferuum.

constituenda loco.

Haec animo tacitè secum,

qui saepe revolvit,

Miror in hoc vitij,

siquid inesse potest.

Gualterus Haddonus.

§

A table in the North Ile of the Chancell.

Quos anguis Tristi de iro cum vulnere strauit

hos sanguis Christi miro Tum munere lauit

Corda, manus, oculos,

aures, animosque levemus,

Et Domino, voces, sua sunt,

& ei sua demus.

Quos amor aeterno vivos

in foedere junxit,

Concordes tumulo mors

sic conjunxit in uno.

Non sors unanimes, nec

mors disjungit amantes,

Sed post fata vides

inviolata amant.

Here lieth buried the body of Edward Herenden, A handsome smal Monumēt in the North wal of the Quire. Esquire, Citizen and Mercer of London, and Millescent his wife, daughter of Richard Samond, of Ansley Woodhouse, in the County of Nottingham, Esquire: who had issue then living, Edmund, Henry, and Seymore their sonnes; Frances, Martha, Magdalene, and Judith, their daughters: which Edward Herenden was sonne and heyre of Richard Herenden of West Farleige, in the County of Kent, Esquire, An. 1572.

Memorare novissima, & in aeternum non peccabis. Eccles. 7.

Here lieth the bodies of Edmund Herenden, A smaller Monumēt by the other. Gentleman, sonne and heyre of Edward Herenden, Esquire, whose Monument next adjoyneth. Which Edmund had to his first wife, Helen, daughter of William Dunkeyn, Citizen, and Merchant-Taylor of London: And he had issue by her nine sonnes, and foure daughters. Hee had to his second wife, Helen, daughter of Iohn Bird, Citizen and Draper of London. Obiit 10. die Aprilis, 1590.

Here-under this stone lieth the body of Stephen Brakynbury, A faire plated stone under the Communion table. Gent. Vsher to King Henry the 8. Edward the 6. Queene Mary, and Queen Elizabeth, and Ioan his wife: which Stephen died the 2. day of Febru. An. 1563. & Ioane died, &c.

Orate devotè pro anima Magistri Ioannis Pemberton, Another stone by the Communion Table. utriusque Juris Baccalaurii, quond. Residentiar. Eccles. Cath. de Rippon, Ebor. Diocesis, hujus (que) alius Eccles. Rectoris. Qui obiit 12. die Septemb. An. Dom. 1499. Cujus, &c.

William Gregory, Skinner, Maior of London in the yeere 1451. was there buried, and founded a Chauntry, but no Monument of him remaineth.

Then in St. Martins lane was (of old time) a faire and large Colledge, of a [Page] Deane and secular Canons or Priests,Colledge of Saint Martins le graund. and was called Saint Martins le graund, founded by Ingelricus, and Edwardus his brother, in the yeere of Christ, 1056. and confirmed by William the Conquerour, as appeareth by his Charter dated 1068. This Colledge claimed great priviledges of Sanctuary,Lib. S. Martin. and otherwise, as appeareth in a booke written by a Notary of that house, about the yeere 1442. the nineteenth of Henry the sixth, wherein amongst other things, is set downe and declared, that on the first of September, in the yeere aforesaid, a Souldier, prisoner in Newgate, as hee was led by an Officer towards the Guild hall of London, there came out of Panyer Alley five of his fellowship, and tooke him from the Officer, brought him into Sanctuary, at the West doore of Saint Martins Church, and tooke grithe of that place. But the same day Philip Malpas, and Robert Marshall, then Sheriffes of London, with many other entred the said Church, and forcibly tooke out with them the said five men thither fled; led them fettred to the Compter, and from thence chained by the neckes to Newgate: of which violent taking, the Deane and Chapter in large manner complained to the King, and required him as their Patron, to defend their priviledges, like as his Predecessors had done, &c. All which complaint and sute, the Citizens by their councell, Markam, Serjeant at the Law, Iohn Carpenter, Argument against priviledge challenged by the Deane of S. Martins. late Common Clarke of the City, and other, learnedly answered, offering to prove, that the said place of Saint Martin had no such immunity or liberty as was pretended; namely, Carpenter offered to lose his live-lode, if that Church had more immunity than the least Church in London: notwithstanding, after long debating of this controversie, by the Kings commandement, and assent of his Councell in the Starre-Chamber, the Chancellour and Treasurer sent a Writ unto the Sheriffs of London, charging them to bring the said five persons, with the cause of their taking, and withholding afore the King in his Chancery, on the Vigill of Allhallowes. On which day, the said Sheriffes, with the Recorder and Councell of the City, brought and delivered them accordingly, afore the said Lords, whereas the Chancelor, after hee had declared the Kings commandement, sent them to Saint Martins, there to abide freely, as in a place having franchises, whiles them liked, &c.

Thus much out of that Booke have I noted concerning the Priviledge of that place, challenged in those dayes; since the which time, to wit, in the yeere 1457. the 36. of the said Henry the sixth, an Ordinance was made by the King and his Councell, concerning the said Sanctuary men in S. Martins le graund, whereof the Articles are set downe in the Booke of K. within the Chamber of the Guild hall, in the leafe 299.

Henricus Dei gratia, Rex Angliae & Franciae, & Dominus Hyberniae: Omnibus ad quos presentes literae perventium, salutem. Inspeximus tenorem quondam ordinationis, concessionis, & stabilimenti certorum Articulorum infra Sanctuarin liberae Capellae nostrae, S. Martini infra Civitatem nostram London observandam & custodiendam, coram Nobis & Concilio nostro, 5. die Februarii ultimo praeterito, apud Westmon. in Camera Stellata, ordinatorum & stabilitorum, Nobis in Cancellar. nostram de mandato nostro missum factū in haec verba:

THe fifth of Feverer,Set downe according to the English then used, and as it standeth in the Record. the yeere of the Reigne of our Soveraigne Lord, King Henry the 6. thirty fifth: at Westminster, in the Sterred Chamber, our said Soveraigne Lord, calling to his high remembrance, the good and blessed entent that his full Noble Pregenitours have at all times had, to the honour, worship, conservation and wele of the Free Chappell of Saint Martins, within the Citie of London, of the which the King our said Soveraigne Lord is founder and Patron: desiring to doe all that may serve to th' ease and restful roule of the same; and conservation of the Sanctuary, Immunity, Privileges and Liberties, as appertaine to the said Chappell and place, willing [Page] that hereafter none occasion be yeven, to the breach or hurting of them.Offence taken by the City, against the indirect courses used in the Sanctuary. Remembring also the great complaints, grudging, and displeasure that his subjects have taken, and specially the Citizens and Commonalty of the said City of London, of the demeaning of misruled persons comming and abiding in the said place, under umbre and colour of the Sanctuary there, the which have at divers times issued out of the said Sanctuary, and committed many ryots, robberies, man-slaughters, and other mischiefes; where-through the said Sanctuary hath be greatly dislaundered, and (over that) great inconvenience like to ensue.

After great deliberation and communication had as well with Doctors of Divinity, as of Law Civill and Canonicall, called also thereto the Iudges of this our Land, and their advices had in that behalfe, other men also of great wisedome and experience for the weale and conservation of the said Sanctuary, and to eschew the said misgovernance and mischiefe, called also before our said Soveraigne Lord and his Councell the Maior and the Aldermen of the said City, and Master Richard Cawdre, Deane of the said place of Saint Martins. Order from the King and his Councell to the Deane of the Sanctuary. Our said Soveraigne Lord (by the advice of his Councell above said) Ordained, granted, and established certaine Articles under written, to bee kept and observed within the said Sanctuary, from this time forth, without any interruption of them. VVilling and ordaining, that the said Deane that now is promit by his oath the observance of the same for the time that hee shall bee Deane there. And that every Deane after him in his admission to the said Deanary, be sworne to keepe the said Articles in semblable wise, and make them to bee kept within the said Sanctuary: the which Articles beene such as follow:

§

1. First,For fugitives claiming benefit of the Sanctuary, & the causes moving th [...] thereto. That every person fugitive comming unto the said Sanctuary for tuition, and challenge to enjoy the immunities and priviledges thereof, at his entree, as soone as hee commodiously and reasonably shall now present himselfe unto the said Deane, his Commissarie, or Depute in that behalfe, and before him declare the cause of the feare moving him to come to the said Sanctuary, be it for treason, felony, surmised upon him, or for other causes, and that the said declaration and cause bee registred in the common Register, ordained therefore in the said Sanctuary, and the name of the said fugitive.

2. Item, That hee at his first entree present and deliver unto the said Deane, Commissary, or Depute, all manner of weapon and armour that hee bringeth with him as well invasive as defensive,Against armour & weapons in the Sanctuary and that he be not suffered to weare or use any such weapon or armour, or it to have in his keeping within the said Sanctuary in any wise, Except a reasonable knife, to kerve withall his meate, and that the said knife be pointlesse.

3. Item, That every ervaunt and open Theefe,For theeves, felons, murderers, and infamous persons. Robber, Murderer, and Felon, notoriously noised by the common fame of the people, or if the said Deane, Commissary, or Depute bee credibly informed, or due proofe bee yoven or made, that hee is such one repairing to the said Sanctuary, to the intent that hee shall not (under colour of the said Sanctuary) intend to doe further mischiefe, finde sufficient seurte to bee made unto the King, as well by his owne obligation, as by the obligations of other, of his good bearing for the time of his abode (within the said Sanctuary, and for a quarter of a yeere after his departing out of the same. And that hee bee kept in ward into the time hee have found and made the said seurte: And if it so bee, that it bee complained or shewed unto the Kings Highnesse,Concerning security for good behaviour to be given. that the said seurte bee not sufficient, that then at the commandement of the said Councell (if it bee thought necessary) the said Deane, Commissary, or Depute shall take other and better securte, or else commit them to ward unto the time better securte bee sound. Foreseene alway that if the said fugitive will depart out of the said Sanctuary, that hee may so doe when hee will.

4. Item, That all the out gates, as well posternes, doores, as all other issues [Page] outward whatsoever they be of the said Sanctuary,For close keeping the gates and posternes of the Sanctuary nightly. bee surely closed and shut nightly at nine of the clocke. And so remaine shut from the same houre, unto sixe of the clocke in the morning, from the Feast of Alhallowes, unto the Feast of Candlemasse. And the remanent of the yeere nightly from the said houre of nine unto foure of the clocke in the morning, or unto the time that the first Masse beginneth within the said place: And that all those that been fled to the said Sanctuary for treason or felony, bee within the closure on nights time.

5. Item, For bringing stolne goods into the Sanctuary▪ If any such theefe, murderer, or felon resort to the said Sanctuary for tuition of the same, with any manner robbery, or stollen goods, if the party robbed make fresh sute therefore, and prove by open evidence, that the same felon hath brought into the said Sanctuary the said goods so stolne thence, the said Deane, Commissary, or Depute, shall put in true devoire, withouten any dissimulation, fraud, or malengyne, to make full restitution unto the party so grieved of the same stolne goods, if they can bee had. And semblably, if any Fugitive come to the said Sanctuary with other mens goods, merchandize, or things, intending there to live with the same: And the owner of the said goods, merchandize, or things, make proofe that they bee his, and verifie that they bee brought into the said Sanctuary, the said Deane, Commissary, or Depute shall put him in full devoire, to make restitution, to the party so proving, that the same goods, merchandizes, or things were his. And no Fugitive, nor none dwelling within the said Sanctuary shall receive, conceale, nor buy any such goods; but that they bee brought to the said Deane, Commissary, For restitution or amends making to the owners. or Depute, to the intent the owners may have the sooner knowledge of them. And if the said goods so stolne and brought to the said Sanctuary, be concealed from the said Deane, Commissary, or Depute, and bought by any dwelling in the said Sanctuary: that then the ouyer (abiding there) make restitution or satisfaction to the party grieved, proving the said goods so stolne to bee his, and so sold in the same Sanctuary.

6. Item, For offences committed by Sanctuary persons. If any person having tuition of the said Sanctuary, from thence issue out by day or by night, and commit or doe any robbery, murder, treason, felony, or battery, without the said Sanctuary. And thereupon resort againe to the said Sanctuary for tuition; the said Deane, Commissary, or Depure, shall upon credible information given unto him of the said robbery, murder, treason, felony, or battery so done (withoutensorth) commit the same misdoer to ward, there to remaine as long as he will abide in the said Sanctuary. And if so bee hee will depart from thence, he shall depart at an houre to be assigned unto him by day betwixt sunne and sunne.

7. Item, For Picklockes, counterfeiters of divers notorious crimes. That subtle pickers of Lockes, counterfeitours of Keyes, contrivers of Sealx, forgers of false evidences, workers of counterfeit Chaines, Beades, Brouches, Ouches, Rings, Cups, Spoones silvered, and plates of Copper gilt, uttered for Gold, unto the common hurt of the people, be not suffered in the said Sanctuary. And if any being within the said Sanctuary be holden suspect of the things abovesaid, let him be committed to ward, till he find sufficient surety, as in the third Article abovesaid.

8. Item, For strumpets, bawdes, & other foule livers. That common Putuers, Strumpers, and Bawdes be not supported in the said Sanctuary: And if they claime the tuition of the said Sanctuary, that they bee set in open ward on day times, till shame cause them to depart, or to amend their vicious living.

9. Item, Against unlawfull games. That deceitfull games, as playes at hazzard, the Dice, the Guek, the Kayelles, the Cloysh, and other such unleefull and reprovable games bee not used, supported, nor cherished within the said Sanctuary.

10. Item, For Artificers dwelling in the Sanctuary. That all Artificers dwelling within the said Sanctuary (as well Barbours as other) keepe holy the Sundayes and other great Festivall dayes without breach, or exercising of their craft, in such wise as done the Inhabitants of the said City of London. And if they doe the contrary, to bee committed to ward, till they [Page] finde sufficient surety, as in the third Article abovesaid, to use their crafts in manner and forme as doe the Inhabitants of the said City, and according to the ordinances of the same City.

11. Item, For such as come to live in the Sanctuary, to take an oath. That every person comming to the said Sanctuary for immunity and tuition of the same, that hee at his admission to the said Sanctuary, bee sworne on a booke, to obey, keepe, and observe the Articles abovesaid, and every each of them with their pains and rules appertaining to the same. And the King by the advice abovesaid would, granted and ordained, that this Act be exemplified under his great Seale, and be enrolled in his Chancellary, to the intent that the ordinance abovesaid remaine of Record, and that his subjects may have knowledge thereof.

Nos autem tenore praecedentium ad requisitinem dilecti & fidelis nostri Galfridi Baleyne, Maioris Civitatis nostrae London, & Aldemannorum ejusdem Civitatis, duximus exemplificandum per praesentes: In cujus rei testimonium has literas nostras fieri fecimus Patentes, Teste meipso apud Westmon. 24. die Novembris, Anno Regni nostri, 36.

Examinatur per

Clericos.

Iohannem Fankes, &

Thomam Ive.

By the meanes and friendly helpe of Master William Williams, clarke of the Chamber of London, I prevailed to have the true copy of the said Articles: and therefore in this manner have here inserted them.

This Colledge was surrendred to King Edward the sixth, the second of his reigne, the yeere of Christ, 1548. And the same yeere, the Colledge Church being pulled down, in the East part thereof a large VVine-Taverne was builded; and withall, downe to the west, and throughout the whole precinct of that Colledge, many other houses were builded, and highly priced, letten to strangers, borne, and other such as there claimed benefit of priviledges, granted to the Canons, serving God day and night (for so bee the words in the Charter of William the Conqueror) which may hardly be wrested to artificers, buyers, and sellers, otherwise than is mentioned in the 21. of S. Matthewes Gospel.Matth. 21.

Lower downe, on the west side of Saint Martins lane, in the Parish of St. Anne, almost by Aldersgate, is one great house, commonly called Northumberland house: it belonged to Henry Percy. King Henry the fourth, in the seventh of his reigne gave this house, with the tenements thereunto appertaining, to Queene Iane his wife, and then it was called her VVardrope: it was afterward a Printing-house; but now a Taverne.

VVithout Aldersgate, on the East side of Aldersgate streete, Cookes Hall. is the Cooks Hall: Which Cookes (or Pastelars) were admitted to be a Company, and to have a Master and VVardens, in the two and twentienth of Edward the fourth. From thence, along unto Hounsditch, or Barbican streete, bee many faire houses. On the west side also be the like faire buildings, till yee come to Long lane, and so to Goswell streete.

In Britaine streete, Britaine street. which tooke that name of the Dukes of Britaine lodging there,Parish Church of S. Buttolph. is one proper Parish Church of Saint Buttolph: In which Church was sometime a Brotherhood of Saint Fabian and Sebastian, founded in the yeere 1377. the 51. of Edward the third, and confirmed by Henry the fourth, in the sixth of his reigne. Then Henry the sixth, in the 24. of his reigne, to the honour of the Trinity, gave licence to Dame Ioane Astley, sometime his Nurse, to R. Cawood and T. Smith, to found the same a Fraternity, perpetually to have a Master and two Custos, with Brethren and Sisters, &c. This Brotherhood was indowed with Lands, more than thirty pounds by the yeere, & was suppressed by Edward the sixth.

There lye buried, Iohn de Bath, Weaver, 1390.

Philip at Vine, Capper, 1396.

Benet Gerard, Brewer, 1403.

Thomas Bilsington founded a Chauntry there, and gave to that Church an house, called the Helmet upon Cornhill.

Iohn Bradmote, Chirurgeon, Margaret and Katharine his wives, 1411.

Iohn Michael Serjeant at Armes, 1415.

Allen Bret, Carpenter, 1425.

[Page] Robert Malton, 1426.

Iohn Trigilion, Brewer, 1417.

Iohn Mason, Brewer, 1431.

Rob. Cawood, Clerke of the Pope in the Kings Exchequer, 1466.

Rich. Emmesey, Iohn Walpole.

I. Hartshorne, Esquire, servant to the King, 1400. And other of that Family, great Benefactors to that Church.

W. Marrow, Grocer, Maior, and Katharine his wife, were buried there, about 1468.

The Lady Anne Packington, widdow, late wife to Iohn Packington, Knight, Chirographer of the Court of Common Pleas: she founded Almes houses neere unto the white Friers Church in Fleetstreet, the Clothworkers in London have oversight thereof.

Here lye buried the bodies of Richard Downis, An anciēt Tombe in the South Ile of the Quire. and Joane his wife. which Richard deceased the day of 1500. And the said Joane dyed the 13. day of Ianuary, 1519.

Hic jacet Johannes Rukeby,In the South Ile a plated Gravestone. nuper Civis & Atturnatus London, & Elizabetha uxor ejus. Qui quidem Ioh. obiit 1 die Mensis Septembris, 1427.

The Corps of Iohn Milsam lyeth here,

A gravestone in the South Ile of the Quire.

Who lived fourescore and one yeere.

Free of the Notaries he was,

a friendly Citizen;

And eke a long time in Guild-Hall,

an Atturney hath been:

Who willingly this mortall life

did yeeld with constant mind,

Inperfect hope through Christ his blood,

th' immortall life to find:

And now is gone the way before,

that we also must wend;

For Death is due to every man,

by it all things must end.

Ianuary the 18. day, 1567.

Out of this life he tooke the way.

Domina Margareta & Lichtervelde filia Iohannis supremi Flandriae Praetoris, In the same Ile upon a painted Table. nuptum primum Nobili viro Johanni Wits, Topatchae Bouchardiriae, & Franconatus apud Flandros, Burghi Magistro: Peperit ei Ferdinandum, Jacobum, & Margaretam, D. Domino Adolpho à Meetkerck Equiti Aurato, & summo Flandriae, ex quo Mater facta est Edovardi, Elizabethae & Salomes. Matrona excellentissimo ingenio, ornatissimis moribus, insigni pietate, aliis (que) summis praedita virtutibus. Marito in utra (que) fortuna assidua comes, Exiliiq, postremi fida socia. Vixit Ann. 45. Mens. 7. dies 14. Piè in Deo obdormivit, Idus Novembris, M.D.XC.IIII. Londini Anglorum. His additus est tumulus Nobilis viri Pauli Knibbii, i. Ser. Daniae Regis, Consiliarii generei supradicti Adolphi à Meetkerck, qui dum apud Ser. Aug. Reginam dicti Regis Legatum agit Lond. Piè defunct. est, 8. Id. Octob. M.D.XII.

Cinibus hosce suis

posuit Van Heilus honores

Digna horum meritis

alii Monumenta reponent.

Patience Vaincra.

DEO.

Here resteth the body of William Purde, A gravestone in the same South Ile. Esquire, late Clerke of the Pipe and Privie Seale, which payed the generall tribute of Nature, divided from the mundane vexations by natural death, the 15 day of August, the 31. yeere, in the reigne of King Henry the eighth.

Hic jacet Petrus Swift, de London,A gravestone in the same Ile: Generos. dum vixit Auditor Eccles. Cathedrali D. Pauli London. Qui obiit 2. die Septemb. An. Dom. 1562. Cujus, &c.

Pars Terrestris.

Joannis Coston,A small Monument on a pillar in the same Ile. Registrarii sedis Archiepiscopalis Cantuar. Principalis, Almae (que) Curiae Cant. de Arcubus Lond. Procuratorum generalium unius. Sexaginta annos cum multa pietate & probitate sub Polo praetergressus, 3. Iulii, 1614. animam efflavit. Relictis Simone & Anna, flio & filia unicis in sacros cineres redact. sub pedibus diem novum expectat.

Heere lyeth Robert Greene, Gentleman, who departed this world on Thursday, the twelfth of November, and was buried [Page] in this Church, upon Saturday, the foureteenth day of the same Moneth, 1590.

Here under this Tombe lyeth the body of Dame Anne Packington, An ancient Tomb in the East end of the Chancell. widdow, late wife of Sir Iohn Packington, Knight, late Chirographer in the Court of Common Pleas: which Dame Anne deceased the 22. day of August, in the yeere of our Lord God, 1563.

Iohannes Sotherton,A small Monumēt in the East end of the Chancell. Baro Scaccarii, sincera fretus in Deum pietate, studiosa in Principem fidelitate, spectata in omnes humanitate & benevolentia, annum aetatis ingress. octogesimum, placidè in Christo obdormivit, 26. Octob. Anno Domini, 1605. & una cum duabus conjugibus, Francisca & Maria castiss. feminis hic sepultus.

Francisca, filia & haeres de Iohannes Smith de Cromer, Norff. Per quam habuit unum filium Christopherum, obiit Octob. 1563.

Maria, filia Edovardi Woton, Medicinae Doctoris, per quam habuit alterum filium Iohannem, & unicam filiam Mariam. Obiit 10. Iunii.

Iohan. primogenitus Franciscae, unigenitus Mariae privignus, non ingratus Christopherus Sotherton posuit.

An. Dom. 1604. Martii 31. Obiit.

Michael Crud,A small Monumēt in the East end of the Chancell. Divini Verbi Concionator, atque hujus Ecclesiae Past or fidelis, post vitam piè gestam, tam in partibus transmarinis, quam in natali solo, in Anno aetatis suae quinquagesimo, pacificè dormivit in Christo, atque juxta tumulatur impensis Margaretae ejus relictae, quae hoc fieri in foelicem Marici memoriam curavit.

D. O. M.

Gulielmo Mill,A comly Monument in the End of the Chancell. Armigero, fide, charitate, & in arduis constantia celeberrimo, Marito charissimo conjunx amantissima, in honoris perpetui tesseram Monumentum hoc lugubre moerens posuit.

Gulielmus iste Croydoniae (Surriae Comitatus emporio) natus, Gulielmi Mill, & Hawisiae Harwell secundo genitus, ex antiqua Millorum de Horscombe (Agri Governiensis) familia oriundus, liberaliter educatus, Graiensis Hospitii Alumnus, in literis foeliciter versatus, Consilii Sanctioris in Camera quam Stellatam dictitant amanuensis prius per annos quinquaginta, deinde Clericus, & Actuarius summus, viginti plus minus ibidem suis meritis evasit. Fratres duos Nicholaum & Iohannem innuptos, Elizabetham, Franciscam, Milicentam, Margaretam atque Annam, uterinas, & Margaretam sororem habuit. Margaretam, Thomae Greeke, Fisci Regii Baronis, filiam, (Gulielmi Butleri viduam) in uxorē grandaevus duxit. Tandem Londini in Carthusianis 16. die Iulii, Anno Verbi incarnati, 1608. Aetatis suae 71. (nulla suscepta prole) vitam erumnosam ut Christo viveret, piè sed placidè commutavit.

Non temerè sepimur,

nec nos Fortuna gubernat,

Sed Deus es vitae,

Dux es & ipse via.

Fraternae Pietatis Symbolum.

Iohannis Mill,A small Monument on a pillar in the Chancell. Gulielmi Patris Armigeri, de Croydon, filius secundò genitus, vita integerrima defunctus hic coelebs requiescit, corpore autem sub Marmore istic pulverescente; Animus in Coelis secundam per Christum Iesum, repurgatae carnis assumptionem expectat. Obiit 27. die Mensis Augusti, An. Domini, 1595. Aetatis suae 57. Gulielmo Fratre primaevo at (que) unico (sanctioris in Camera Stellata Consilii Clerico) superstite.

What Epitaph

shall we afford this Shrine?

Words cannot-grace

this Pyramid of thine:

A faire Pyramides erected against a pillar.

Thy sweet perfections,

all summ'd up, were such,

As Heavens (I thinke)

for faith did thinke too much.

Religious zeale

did thy pure heart command,

Pitty thine eye,

and Charity thy hand:

These Graces, joyn'd

with more of like degree,

[Page] Make each mans word

an Epitaph for thee.

Calme was thy death,

well-ordered was thy life,

A carefull Mother,

and a loving wife.

Aske any, how

these Vertues in thee grew?

Thou wast a Spencer,

and a Mountague.

Katharina Mountague obiit 7. die Decembris, Anno Domini, 1612.

Mortua Tamworthi

spectas Monumenta viator?

A faire Tombe of white stone in the Chancell.

Quin potius vivus,

disce quis ille fuit.

Si proavos quaeras,

Generoso sanguine ductus,

Vsque per innumeros

invenietur Avos.

Si mores, dicam mores?

nec amantior aequi,

Nec Patriae quisquam,

nec probitatis erat.

Si quae conditio,

(si quid sit laudis in illa)

Vita sub illustri

Principe clara fuit.

Et si Principibus

laus est placuisse probatis,

Laudibus haec pars est

annumeranda suis.

Iam volucris sua Iustra

novem transegerat aetas,

Quum Mors hunc saeva

falce cruenta metat.

Haec satis hospes, abi,

nec vivere differ in horas,

Quae sua pars hodie,

cras tua forsan erit.

Obiit 19. die Aprilis, 1569.

Iohanni Morlcio Armigero,Another beautifull Pitamides directly opposite to the other. & Elizabethae Wotton Conjugi, parentibus charissimis, Iohannes Morleius de Halnaker, in Comitatu Sussexiae, Miles, & Edwardus filii, pietatis & memoriae ergô hoc posuerunt.

Vixerunt Conjuges annos 16. Ille obiit die 20. Novembris, 1587. Illa die 7. Novembris, 1603. Tres filios totidem (que) filias superstites reliquerunt: Iohannem, Edwardum, Willielmum Mariam, Elizabetham, & Magdalenam.

Hereunder lyeth buried in the mercy of God,A faire plated stone under the Communion Table. the body of Thomas Goodwin, Esquire, who married Anne the daughter of Thomas Peacocke, by whom hee had issue, one daughter, named Anne. which Thomas deceased the 27. day of ianuary, An. Dom. 1565.

Hoc latet in Tumulo

praestanti corpore Nympha

Margareta quidem

repsque parente sata.

A faire Gravestone by the said Table.

Censor erat genitor,

Sponsus venerabilis extat,

Woodhouse; bis decies

quinaque arista tulit.

Siste pedes igitur

sternis qui busta prophanus,

Nam Christi cupiens,

sic bonitatis erat.

Vixit & illa piè,

moriens & sancta vocatur,

Exemplo simili

vivere disce piè.

Here lyeth buried the body of Frances, Another stone, by the said Table. late wife of Iohn Sotherton, forraine Apposer of the Queenes Majesties Exchequer; who departed this present life, in the true faith of Christ, the 20. of Octob. 1563.

Barbara Bradburii

simul & Marianna Someri,

Another.

Progenies pariter

Tumulo conduntur in isto,

Vtraque Conjugio

Thomae conjuncta Pagetto,

Vna virum moriens

septena in prole reliquit,

Altera fuit sterilis

parili quoque tempore conjux;

Ambarum pia vita fuit,

pia mors (que) secuta est.

Primae 24. Februarii, An. Dom. 1583.

Alterae Decembris ultimo, Anno, 1598.

Heere lyeth buried the body of Thomas Greeke, A gravestone in the North Ile of the Quire. one of the Barons of the Queens Majesties Court of Exchequer; who dyed the 18. day of November, in the 20. yeere of the reigne of our Soveraigne Lady, Queene Elizabeth. Hee lived 63. yeeres.

Here under lyeth buried the body of Thomas Neale, Another in the same Ile. the sonne of Francis Neale Esquire, one of her Majesties Auditors [Page] of the Exchequer; who deceased the 8. day of December, 1597. Aetatis suae, 99.

Here lyeth the body of Anne, A faire Garvestone in the same North Ile. daughter of John Branche, Citizen and Draper of London, by Ioane his wife, daughter and heire of Iohn Wilkinson, sometime Alderman of this Citie. She was married first to Robert Dunne, and (after his death) to Richard Stoneley, Esquire. By Dunne she had three sonnes; Sir Daniel Dunne, Knight, and Doctor of Law, her eldest; Samuel Dunne, and William Dunne, the yongest, Doctor of Physicke. And by Stoneley she had divers children, whereof two lived to be married, Dorothie, to William Dantrey, of Sussex; Anne, to William Higham of Essex, Esquire. Her life was vertuous and godly, and so dyed the eleventh day of Ianuary, An. Dom. 1611. being of the age of fourescore and six yeers, having seene her childrens children, to the fourth generation: and lyes here buried betweene her husbands, and among some other of her children, according to her desire.

Hic jacet Susanna,A small Monument in the South wall in the body of the Church. Andreae Lionis Patria Garnseyensis, unica filia, uxor Roberti Creswell, alias Blew-mantle, Prosecutoris ad Arma Serenissimae Elizabethae, Angliae Reginae.

Quae modo fida Deo,

quae vixit chara marito,

Non invita animam

Christo moribunda reliquit.

—23. Decemb. Anno

Domini, 1590.

And thus and end of this Ward, which hath an Alderman, his Deputy; Common Counsellors, five; Constables, eight; Scavengers, nine; for the Wardmote inquest, fourereene, and a Beadle. It is taxed to the Fifteene in London, seven pounds, and in the Exchequer, six pounds, nineteene shillings.

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FARINGDON VVARD Infra, or within.

ON the South side of Aldersgate Ward,Faringdon Ward within. lyeth Faringdon Ward, called infra, or within, for a difference from another ward of that name, which lyeth without the wals of the Citie,Faringdon extra. and Faringdon infra, all one Ward, and then divided into 2 by Parliamēt. and is therefore called Faringdon extra. These two Wards (of old time) were but one, and had also but one Alderman, till the 17. of Richard the second, at which time, the said Ward (for the greatnesse thereof) was divided into twaine, and by Parliament ordered to have two Aldermen, and so it continueth till this day. The whole great Ward of Faringdon, both infra and extra, Faringdon Ward tooke that name of W. Farendon. took name of W. Farendon, Goldsmith, Alderman of that Ward, and one of the Sheriffes of London, in the yeere 1281. the 9. of Edward the first: He purchased the Aldermanrie of this Ward, as by the abstract of Deeds which I have read thereof, may appeare.

Thomas de Arderne, Sir Ralph Arderne, Knight, Alderman of that ward, now called Faringdon, in the reigne of Hen. 3. sonne and heire to Sir Ralph Arderne, Knight, granted to Ralph le Feure, Citizen of London, one of the Sheriffes in the yeere 1277. all the Aldermanrie, with the appurtenances, within the Citie of London, and the Suburbs of the same, betweene Ludgate and New-gate, and also without the same Gates: which Aldermanrie, Ankerinus de Averne held during his life, by the Grant of the said Thomas de Arderne, to have and to hold to the said Ralph, and to his heires, freely without all challenge, yeelding therefore yeerely to the said Thomas and his heires, one Clove or Slip of Gilli flowers, at the Feast of Easter, for all secular service and customes, with warrantie unto the said Ralphle Feure, and his heires, against all people, Christians and Iewes, in consideration of twenty Markes, which the said Ralph de Feure did give before-hand, in name of a Gersum, or Fine, to the said Thomas, &c. Dated the fifth of Edward the first. Witnesse, G. de Rokesley, Maior, R. Arrar, one of the Shriffes. H. Wales, P. le Taylor, T. de Basing, I. Horne, N. Blackthorn, Aldermen of London.

After this,Iohn le Feure, Alderman. Iohn le Feure, sonne and heyre to the said Ralph le Feure, granted to William Farendon, W. Farendon Alderman and one of the Sheriffes of London. Citizen and Goldsmith of London, and to his heyres, the said Aldermanry, with the appurtenances, for the service thereunto belonging, in the seventh of Edward the first, in the yeere of Christ, 1279.Nicholas Farendon Alderman and Maior. This Aldermanry descended to Nicholas Farendon, sonne to the said William, and to his heyres: which Nicholas Farendon, also a Goldsmith, was foure times Maior, and lived many yeeres after; for I have read divers Deeds, whereunto he was a witnesse, dated the yeere 1360. He made his Testament, 1361.Nicholas Farendon lived 53. yeers after he had bin once Maior. which was fifty three yeeres after his first being Maior, and was buried in Saint Peters Church in Cheape. So this Ward continued under the governement of William Farendon the father, and Nicholas his sonne, by the space of fourescore and two yeeres, and retaineth their name untill this present day.

VVhereas Master Stowe saith,Either Mr. Stowe was much wronged in information, or else it was no true Deed which he saw at that time. That Thomas de Arderne, sonne and heire to Sir Ralph Arderne, Knight, granted to Ralph le Feure, Citizen of London, and one of the Sheriffes of the same Citie, in the yeere 1277. all the Aldermanrie, with the appurtenances within the Citie of London, and Suburbs of the same, betweene Ludgate and Newgate, and [Page] also without the same gates. Which Aldermanrie, Ankerinus de Averne held, during his life, by the Grant of Thomas de Arderne, to have and to hold to the said Ralph, and to his heires, freely without all challenge, yeelding therfore yeerely to the said Thomas and his heires, one Clove or Slip of Gilliflowers, at the Feast of Easter, for all secular service and customes, with warrantie to the said Ralph le Feure, and his heires against all people, Christians and Iewes, in consideration of 20. marks, which the said Ralph de Feure did give beforehand in name of a Gersum or Fine, to the said Thomas, &c. Dated the fifth of Edward the first. VVitnesse, G. de Rokesley, Maior, R. Arrar, one of the Sheriffes, H. Wales, P. le Taylor, T. de Basing, I. Horne, and N. Blackthorn, Aldermen.

I finde (to the contrary) by an especiall Deed (yet to be seene) delivered me by that worthy favourer of Antiquities, M. Iohn Speed can testifie this to be true [...] for I brought the sealed Deed to him, and to divers other beside, who can beare me witnesse, that herein I doe no way deprave Mr. Stowe, but set downe the truth, as I received it. Master Iohn Williams, Goldsmith, all the former Deed, verbatim, to bee granted by William de Farndon, Citizen and Alderman of London, (of whom the VVard, both within and without the Gates fore-named, being then but one, and governed by one Alderman onely, tooke name) to Nicholas, the sonne of Ralph de Feure, Citizen of London, in the very same manner and forme as hath beene recited, for a Clove or Slip of Gilliflowers, twenty pounds, and not Markes, given for a Gersum, or Fine, and the very same warrantie or defence against all people for ever.

To which Deed, sealed with his own Seale, as he calleth it, being the very same of the Goldsmiths Armes, yet engraved about in this manner: Sigilli Willi. de Farndon; he nameth as witnesses, Domino Ioh. le Bretonn, Milite, tune Custode London, Elia Russel, and Henry le Bole, tunc Vicecom. London; Steph. Assewy, Ioh. de Bachkewelle, Roberts de Basing, Will. de Bettune, Rad. le Blund, Walt. de Finchingfeld, Ioh. de Blund, Thoma de Estanes, Richardo Assewy, & multis aliis.

Anno Reg. Ed. fil. R. Hen. xxj.

This VVard of Faringdon within the wals, is bounded thus: Beginning in the East, at the great Crosse in VVest Cheape, from whence it runneth VVest, On the North side, from the Parish Church of Saint Peter, which is at the South-west corner of Woodstreet, unto Guthurons lane, and downe that Lane, to Hugon lane on the East side, and to Kery lane on the West.

Then againe into Cheape and to Foster lane, and downe that Lane on the East side, to the North side of Saint Fosters Church, and on the west, till over against the South-west corner of the said Church, from whence, downe Foster lane, and Noble street, is all of Aldersgate street Ward, till ye come to the stone wall in the west side of Noble street, as is afore shewed. Which said wall, down to Nevils Inne, or Windsore House, and downe Monkes-well street, on that west side, then by London wall, to Creplegate, and the west side of that same Gate, is all of Faringdon VVard.

Then backe againe into Cheape, and from Foster lane end to Saint Martins lane end, and from thence through S. Nicholas Shambles, by Pentecost lane, and Butchers Alley, and by Stinking lane, through Newgate Market to Newgate: All which is in the North side of Faringdon VVard.

On the South, from against the said great Crosse in Cheape, west to Fridaies street, and downe that streete on the East side, till over against the Northeast corner of Saint Matthews Church, and on the west side, till the South corner of the said Church.

Then againe along Cheape to the Old Exchange, and downe that Lane, (on the East side) to the Parish Church of S. Augustine, which Church and one house next adjoyning in Watheling street, be of this Ward; and on the west side of this Lane, to the East Arch or Gate by S. Augustines Church, which entreth the South Church-yard of Saint Pauls, which Arch or Gate was builded by Nicholas Farendon, about the yeer 1361. and within that Gate on the said north side, to the Gate that entreth the north Church-yard, and all the north Church-yard is of this Faringdon ward.

Then againe into Cheape, and from the North end of the Old Exchange, west by the north gate of Pauls Church-yard [Page] up Pater noster Row, by the two lanes out of Pauls Church, and to the signe of the Golden Lyon, which is some twelve houses short of Ave Mary lane, the West side of which lane is of this Ward.

Then at the South end of Ave Mary Lane, is Creed lane, the West side wherof is also of this Ward.

Now betwixt the South end of Ave Mary lane, and the North end of Creed lane, is the cōming out of Pauls Church-yard, on the East, and the high street, called Bowyer Row, to Ludgate, on the West, which way to Ludgate is of this Ward. On the north side whereof is S. Martins Church: and on the South side a turning into the Blacke Friers.

Now to turne up againe to the north end of Ave Marie lane, there is a short lane, which runneth West some small distance, and is there closed up with a gate into a great house: and this is called Amen lane. Amen lane.

Then on the North side of Pater noster Row, beginning at the Conduit over against the Old Exchange lane end, and going west by Saint Michaels Church: at the West end of which Church, is a small passage thorow toward the north. And beyond this Church some small distance, is another passage, which is called Panier Alley, Panier lane. and commeth out against S. Martins lane end.

Then further West in Pater noster Row, Ivie Lane. is Ivie lane, which runneth North to the West end of S. Nicholas Shambles: and then West Pater noster Row, till over against the Golden Lion, where the Ward endeth for that street.

Then about some dozen houses, which is of Baynards Castle VVard, to Warwicke lane end: which Warwicke lane stretcheth North to the high street of Newgate Market. And the West side of Warwick lane is of this Foringdon VVard: For the East side of Warwicke lane, of Ave Mary lane, and of Creed lane, with the west end of Pater noster Row, are all of Baynards Castle VVard.

Yet to begin againe at the said Conduit by the old Exchange, on the North side thereof is a large street, that runneth up to Newgate, as is aforesaid. The first part, or South-west side thereof, from the Conduit to the Shambles, is called Bladder street. Bladder street. Then on the backe side of the Shambles bee divers slaughter-houses, and such like, pertaining to the Shambles: and this is called Mount Godard street. Mount Godard street. Then is the Shambles it selfe, and then Newgate Market. And so the whole street on both sides up to Newgate, is of this VVard: and thus it is wholy bounded.

Monuments in this VVard be these: First, the great Crosse in West Cheape street, but in the VVard of Faringdon, the which Crosse was first erected in that place by Edward the first, as before is shewed in West Cheape street.

At the South-west corner of Woodstreet, Parish Church of S. Peter in Cheape. is the Parish Church of S. Peter the Apostle, by the said Crosse, a proper Church, lately new builded. Iohn Sha, Goldsmith, Maior, deceased 1503. appointed by his Testament, the said Church and Steeple to be new builded of his goods, with a flat roofe. Notwithstanding, Tho. Wood, Goldsmith, one of the Sheriffes, 1491. is accounted a principall benefactor, because the roofe of the middle Ile is supported by Images of VVoodmen.

I finde to have beene buried in this Church, Nicholas Farendon, Maior, Richard Hadley, Grocer, 1592.

Iohn Palmer, Fishmonger, 1500.

Wil. Rous, Goldsmith, Sheriffe, 1429.

Thomas Atkins, Esquire, 1400.

Iohn Butler, Sheriffe, 1420.

Henry Warley, Alderman, 1524.

Sir Iohn Mund, Goldsmith, Maior, deceased, 1537.

Augustine Hinde, Clothworker, one of the Sheriffes, in the yeere 1550. whose Monument doth yet remaine, with this inscription here-under, &c. the other being gone.

Sir Alexander Avenon, Maior, 1579.

Here-under this Stone lieth buried the body of Augustine Hinde, Clothworker, Alderman, and late Sheriffe of London: who deceased the tenth day of August, Anno Domini, 1554. Here also lieth Dame Elizabeth his wife, by whom hee had issue foure sons and two daughters: which Dame Elizabeth deceased the 12. day of Iuly, An. Dom. 1569.

God grant us all such race to run:

To end in Christ as they have done.

[Page] The long Shop or Shed, incroching on the high street before this Church wall,Long shop in Cheape. was licensed to bee made in the yeere 1401. yeelding to the Chamber of London, 30. s. 4. d. yeerely for the time. Also the same Shop was letten by the Parish, for three pounds at the most, many yeeres since.

Then is Guthuruns lane, Guthuruns Lane. so called of Guthurun, sometime owner thereoof: the inhabitāts of this lane (of old time) were Goldbeaters. as doth appeare by Records in the Exchequer. For the Easterling money was appointed to be made of fine silver, such as men made into foyle, and was commonly called silver of Guthuruns lane, Imbroiderers Hall. &c. The Imbroiderers Hall is in this Lane. Iohn Trowstone Imbroiderer, then Goldsmith, Sheriffe, deceased 1519. gave 40. l. towards the purchase of this Hall.Hugon lane. Hugon lane, on the East side,Kery lane. and Kery lane (called of one Kery) on the West.

Then in the high street on the same North side,Sadlers Hall. is the Sadlers Hall: and then Foster lane, Foster lane. so called, of Saint Fosters, a faire Church,Parish Church of S. Fosters. lately new builded. Henry Coote, Goldsmith, one of the Sheriffes, deceased, 1509. builded S. Dunstanes Chappell there. Iohn Throwstone, one of the Sheriffes, gave to the building thereof 100. pounds by his Testament. Iohn Browne, Sergeant-Painter, Alderman, deceased 1532. was a great Benefactor, and was there buried. William Trist, Selerar to the King, 1425. Iohn Standelfe, Goldsmiths, lye buried there. Richard Galder, 1544. Agnes, wife to William Milborne, Chamberlaine of London, 1500.

Hic jacet Dominus Thomas Baby,A faire Stone in the Chancell. quondam Capellanus Aurifabrorum London. Qui obiit 3. die Mens. Novemb. An. Dom. 1452. Cujus, &c.

Here lieth buried the body of John Lonyson, A faire stone by the Communion Table. Esquire, Master of the Mint of England, Citizen and Goldsmith of London: who most joyfully changed this miserable and wearisome life, with the felicity and happinesse of Gods Kingdome, in good Religion and godly charitie, in true feare and stedfast faith, with a full perswasion of remission in the blood of Iesus Christ, the one and twentieth day of May, An. Dom. 1583. being about the 59. yeere of his age.

Here lyeth interred the body of Christopher Wase, A Monument in the wall, South of the Quire. late Citizen and Godsmith of London, aged 66. yeeres, and dyed the 22. of September, 1605. who had to wife Anne the daughter of William Prettyman, and had by her three sonnes and three daughters.

Reader, stay,

and thou shalt know

What he was

that here doth sleepe:

Lodg'd amidst

the stones below,

Stones that oft

are seene to weepe.

Gentile was his

birth and breed,

His carriage gentle,

much contenting:

His word accorded

with his deed,

Sweet his nature,

soone relenting.

From above

he seem'd protected,

Father dead

before his birth,

An Orphane, onely

but neglected,

Yet his branches

spread on earth,

Earth, that must

his bones containe,

Sleeping till Christs

Trumpe shall wake them,

Ioyning them

to soule againe,

And to blisse

eternall take them.

It is not this rude

and little heape of stones,

Can hold the fame,

although't containes the bones.

Light be the earth,

and hallowed for thy sake,

Resting in peace,

peace that so oft didst make.

Vnder the Stone right against this Monument, A small Monumēt in the wall with a gilt plate. lye buried the bodies of Robert Marsh, Citizen and Grocer of London, and Florence his first wife, by whom he [Page] had issue seven Sonnes. By Elizabeth, his second wife, (left living) he had issue three sonnes and a daughter. He departed this life the 7. day of October, Anno Dom. 1602. after he had lived 65. yeeres and three dayes.

Here-under lyeth buried the body of Mistris Martha Prescot, A faire plated stone under the Communion Table. the wife of Alexander Prescot, Citizen and Alderman of London: whose soule the Lord tooke to his mercy the 26. day of Novemb. 1616. when she had lived a married wife just 23. yeeres that day, and 40. yeeres, 2. moneths, 3. weekes, and odde dayes, from the time of her birth. She had issue by her said Husband, 6. Sonnes, and 5. daughters, and her yongest of all, being a daughter, named Elizabeth, lyeth hereunder interred, in the same Grave, on the same day of buriall with her said mother.

Lord,

A faire plated Gravestone in the middle Ile.

of thine infinite

grave and pitie,

Have mercy on me

Agnes, sometime the wife

Of William Milborne,

Chamberlaine of this Citie,

Which tooke my passage

fro this wretched life,

The yeere of Grace,

one thousand, one hundred and five,

The twelfth day of Iuly,

no longer was my space,

It pleased then my Lord

to call me to his grace.

Now ye that are living,

and see this picture,

Pray for me here

while ye have time and space,

That God of his goodnesse

would me assure,

In his everlasting mansion

to have a place.

Then downe Foster Lane, and Noble street, both of Aldersgate street Ward, till ye come to the stone wall, which incloseth a Garden-plot before the wall of the Citie, on the West side of Noble street, and is of this Faringdon Ward. This Garden-plot, containing 95. Elles in length, 9. Elles and an half in bredth, was by Adam de Burie, Maior, the Aldermen, and Citizens of London, letten to Iohn de Nevell, Lord of Raby, Radulph and Thomas, his sonnes, for threescore yeeres, paying 6. s. 8. d. the yeere. Dated the 48. of Edw. 3. having in a seale pendant on the one side,Barons of London their seale. the figure of a walled Citie, and of S. Paul, a Sword in his right hand, and in the left a Banner; 3. Leopards, about that Seale, on the same side written, Sigillum Baronium Londoniarum. On the other side, the like figure of a Citie, a Bishop sitting on an Arch, the inscription, Me: quae: [...]e: peperi: ne: Cesses: Thoma: tueri.

Thus much for the Barons of London, their common seale at that time.

At the North end of this Gardenplot, is one great house builded of stone and timber, now called the Lord Winsors house, of old time belonging to the Nevels, as in the 19. of Rich. 2. it was found by inquisition of a Iurie, that Elizabeth Nevell dyed, seized of a great Messuage in the Parish of S. Olave in Monkes-well street in London, holden of the King in free Burgage, which shee held of the gift of Iohn Nevell of Raby, her husband, and that Iohn Latimer was next sonne and heire to the said Elizabeth.

In this West side is the Barber Chirurgeons Hall.Barber Chirurgeons their Hall. This Company was incorporated by meanes of Thomas Morestede, Esquire, one of the Sheriffes of London, 1436. Chirurgeon to the Kings of England, Henry the fourth, fifth, and sixth. He deceased 1450. Then Iaques Fries, Physician to Edw. the fourth, and William Hobbs, Physician and Chirurgeon for the same Kings body, continuing the suit the ful time of twenty yeers, Edward the fourth, in the second of his reigne, and Richard Duke of Glocester, became Founders of the same Corporation, in the Parish of Saint Cosme and Damiane. The first assembling of that Mysterie was by Roger Strippe, William Hobbs, Thomas Goddard, and Richard Kent, since the which time they builded their Hall in that street, &c.

At the North corner of this street,Hermitage of S. Iames in the wall. on the same side, was sometime an Hermitage or Chappell of Saint Iames, called in the wall, neere Creplegate: it belonged to the Abbey and Covent of Garadon, as appeareth by a Record, the seven and twentieth of Edward the first: And also the 16. of Edward the third, [Page] William de Lions was Hermit there, and the Abbot & Covent of Garadon found two Chaplaines, Cestercian Monkes of their house: in this Hermitage one of them, for Aymor de Valence, Earle of Pembrooke, and Mary de Saint Paul, his Countesse.

Of these Monkes, and of a Well pertaining to them, the street tooke that name, and is called Monkes-well street. This Hermitage with the appurtenances, was in the reigne of Edw. the 6. purchased from the said King, by W. Lambe, one of the Gentlemen of the Kings Chappell, Citizen and Cloth-worker of London: Hee deceased in the yeere 1577. and then gave it to the Cloth-workers of London, with other Tenements, to the value of fifty pounds the yeere, to the intent they shall hire a Minister to say divine Service there.

Againe, to the high street of Cheape, from Foster Lane end to S. Martins, and by that Lane to the Shambles or Flesh-market, on the North side whereof is Pentecost lane, Pentecost Lane. containing divers slaughter-houses for the Butchers.

Then was there of old time a proper Parish Church of S. Nicholas, Parish Church of S. Nicholas. whereof the said Flesh-market tooke the name, and was called S. Nicholas Shambles.

This Church, with the Tenements and Ornaments, was by Henry the eight given to the Maior and Communalty of the Citie, towards the maintenance of the new Parish Church, then to be erected in the late dissolved Church of the Gray Friers: so was this Church dissolved and pulled downe: in place whereof, and of the Church-yard, many faire houses are now builded, in a Court with a Well, in the middest whereof the Church stood.

Then is Stinking lane, Stinking Lane, or Chicke lane. formerly so called, or Chick lane, at the East end of the Gray Friers Church: it is now kept clean and free from annoyance, and called by the name of Butchers-Hall Lane; and there is the Butchers Hall.

In the third of Richard the second, motion was made, that no Butcher should kill any flesh within London, but at Knightsbridge, or such like distant place from the wals of the Citie.

Then the late dissolved Church of Gray Friers, Gray Friers Church. the originall whereof was thus:

In the yeere 1224. being the 8. yeere of the reigne of King Henry the third,How the Gray Friers house became first to a Friery, collected out of an anciēt Manuscript delivered to me by a friend. there came out of Italy nine Friers of the Order of the Franciscans, or Frier Minors, five whereof were Priests, and the other foure Lay-men. The Priests placed themselves at Canturbury in Kent: but the other foure came to London, and were lodged (for some short while) among the preaching Friers, who lived then in Oldborne. Afterward, they obtained to be placed in Cornehill, London, in an house belonging to one Iohn Travars, who was then one of the Sheriffes of London, in the same yeere 1224. In which house they made themselves Celles, and inhabited there for a certaine time; till their number so increased, and the Citizens devotion grew to be so great, that (within few yeeres after) they were thence removed, by the meanes of one Iohn Ewin, Mercer, who purchased a void plot of ground, neere to Saint Nicholas Shambles, where to erect an House for the said Friers.

Divers Citizens seemed herein to joyne with the said Iohn Ewin, and erected there very beautifull buildings, upon the same ground so formerly purchased by Iohn Ewin, and a great part builded at his owne charge, which hee appropriated to the Communalty of London, and then entred into the same Order of Friers, as a Lay Brother.

William Ioyner, The building of a Chappell for them. Lord Maior of London, in the yeere 1239. builded them a Chappell, which cost him two hundred pounds Sterling, which Chappell made part of the Chancell, as it now standeth.

Henry Walleis, The body of a Church. who was likewise Lord Maior of London, builded them a body of a Church, which afterward was pulled downe, and made as now it is.

Mr. Walter Porter, Their Chapter-house builded. Alderman of London, builded a Chapter-house for them, and gave divers vessels of Brasse for the Kitchin service; building places also for sicke persons, and other Offices beside.

Thomas Felcham builded the Vestry house.The Vestry house.

Gregory Rokesley, The Dorters and Chambers. Lord Maior of London, builded their Dorters and Chambers, and gave Beds to them.

M. Bartholomew of the Castel,The Hall or Refectory. builded a faire house or Refectory for them.

[Page] Mr. Peter de Helyland builded the Infirmitory, and divers places for diseased persons.

Mr. Bevis Bond, Herald, and King at Armes, builded the studies.

Margaret, Queene, second wife to Edward the first, began the Quire of their new Church, in the yeere 1306. to the building whereof, in her life time she gave 2000. marks, and 100. markes by her Testament.

Iohn Britaine, Earle of Richmond, builded the body of the Church, to the charges of 300. pounds, and gave many rich Iewels and ornaments to be used in the same.

Mary, Countesse of Pembrooke 70. l.

Gilbart de Clare, Earle of Glocester, and bestowed 20. great beames out of his Forrest of Tunbridge, 20. l. starlings.

Lady Helianor le Spencer, Lady Elizabeth de Burgh, Sister to Gilbert de Clare, gave summes of money, and so did divers Citizens, as Arnold de Tolinea, one hundred pounds.

Robert Picae Lisle, who became a Frier there, 300. pounds.

Bartholomew de Almaine, 50. pounds.

Also Philippe, Queene, wife to Edward the third, gave 62. pounds.

Isabel, Queene, Mother to Edward the third, gave threescore and tenne pounds. And so the worke was done within the space of 21. yeeres, 1537.

This Church, thus furnished with windowes, made at the charges of divers persons; the Lady Margaret Segrave, Countesse of Norfolke, bare the charges of making the Stalles in the Quire, to the value of 350. markes, about the yeere 1380. Richard Whitington, Library of the Gray Friers. in the yeere 1429. founded the Library, which was in length, one hundred twenty and nine foot, and in breadth, thirty one; all seeled with Wainscot, having 28. Desks, and eight double Settles of Wainscot. Which (in the next yeere following) was altogether finished in building, and within three yeeres after, furnished with Bookes, to the charges of five hundred fifty six pounds, tenne shillings, whereof Richard Whitington bare 400. pounds, the rest was borne by Doctor Thomas Winchelsey, a Frier there: and for the writing out of D. Nicholas de Lira his Workes, in two Volumes to be chained there, 100. Markes, &c.

The [...]eeling of the Quire at divers mens charges, 200. markes, and the painting at 50. markes: their Conduit head and water-course was given them by William Tayler, Taylor to Hen. 3.

This whole Church contained in length 300. foot,Length & breadth of Gray Friers Church. of the feet of S. Paul, in breadth eighty nine foot, and in heighth from the ground to the roofe, 64. foot, and 2. inches, &c. It was consecrated, 1325. and at the generall suppression, was valued at 32. pound, 19. shillings, surrendred the 12. of November, 1533. the 30. of Hen. 8. the ornaments and goods being taken to the Kings use: the Church was shut up for a time, and used as a Store-house of goods taken prizes from the French: But in the yeere 1546. on the third of Ianuary, it was againe set open. On the which day preached at Pauls Crosse the Bishop of Rochester, where he declared the Kings gift thereof to the Citie, for the relieving of the poore, which gift was by Patents.

S. Bartholomews Spittle in Smithfield, lately valued at 305. pounds,Gray Friers Church made a Parish Church. 6. shillings, 7. Pence, and surrendred to the King; of the said Church of the Gray Friers, and of two Parish Churches, the one of Saint Nicholas in the Shambles, and the other of Saint Ewins in Newgate Market, they were to be made one Parish Church in the said Friers Church. In Lands he gave for maintenance of the said Church, with divine service, reparations, &c. 500. markes by yeere for ever.

The 13. of Ianuary, The Maior and Communalty of London Parsons of Christs Church, the Vicar to be at their appointmēt. the 38. of Henry the 8. an agreement was made betwixt the King and the Maior, and Communalty of London, dated the 27. of December: by which the said gift of the Gray Friers Church, with all the Edifices and ground, the Fratrie, the Library, the Dortar, and Chapter-house, the great Cloistrie and the lesser; Tenements, Gardens and vacant grounds, Lead, Stone, Iron, &c. The Hospitall of Saint Bartholomew in West Smithfield, the Church of the same, the Lead, Bels, and Ornaments of the same Hospitall, with all the Messuages, Tenements and appurtenances.

[Page] The Parishes of S. Nicholas and of S. Ewin, and so much of S. Pulchers Parish as is within Newgate, were made one Parish Church in the Gray Friers Church, [...] and called Christs Church, founded by King H. the 8.

The Vicar of Christs Church was to have 26. l. 13. s. 4. pence the yeere. The Vicar of S. Bartholomew 13. l. 6. s. 8. pence. The Visiter of Newgate (being a Priest) ten pounds. And other 5. Priests in Christs Church, all to be helping in divine Service, ministring the Sacraments and Sacramentals, the five Priests to have 8. pounds the piece. Two Clerks, 6. pounds to each. A Sexton, 4. pounds. Moreover, he gave them the Hospitall of Bethlem, with the Laver of Brasse in the Cloister, by estimation eighteene foot in length, and two foot and an halfe in depth, and the watercourse of Lead to the said Frier-house belonging, containing by estimation in length, 18. Acres.

In the yeere 1552. began the repairing of the Gray Friers House,Christs Hospitall. for the poore fatherlesse children. And in the moneth of November the children were taken into the same, to the number of almost 400. On Christmas day in the afternoone, while the Lord Maior and Aldermen rode to Pauls, the children of Christs Hospitall stood, from Saint Laurence lane end in Cheape, towards Pauls, all in one Livery of Russet Cotton, three hundred and forty in number; and at Easter next they were in Blue at the Spittle, and so have continued ever since.

What further I have read and understood, concerning the first begining and erection of this famous Hospitall, followeth, Ex R. Grafton. according to the originall Copie, set downe by M. Richard Grafton.

Mr. Doctor Ridley, Doct Ridley preached before King Edw. 6. Mercy & Charity. then Bishop of London, came and preached before the Kings Majestie at Westminster. In which Sermon, he made a fruitfull and godly Exhortation to the rich, to be mercifull unto the poore: and also to move such as were in authority, to travaile by some charitable way and meanes, to comfort and relieve them. Wherupon, the Kings Majestie (being a Prince of such towardnesse and vertue for his yeeres, as England before never brought forth, and being also so well retained and brought vp in all godly knowledge, as well by his deare Vncle the lateEdw. S [...]imer Duke of Somerset Protector, as also by his vertuous and learned Schoolmasters) was so carefull of the good governement of the Realme, and chiefely to doe and prefer such things as most especially touched the honour of Almighty God. And understanding, that a great number of poore people did swarme in this Realme, and chiefly in the Citie of London, and that no good order was taken for them, did suddenly (and of himselfe) send to the said Bishop, as soone as his Sermon was ended, willing him not to depart, untill that he had spoken with him. And this that I now write, was the very report of the said Bishop Ridley, who (according to the Kings command) gave his attendance. And so soone as the Kings Majestie was at leasure he called for him, and caused him to come unto him in a great Gallery at Westminster, where (to his knowledge, and the King likewise told him so) there was present no more persons than they two; and therefore made him sit downe in one Chayre, and hee himselfe in another, which (as it seemed) were before the comming of the Bishop there purposely set, and caused the Bishop, maugre his teeth) to be covered, and then entred communication with him in this manner:

First, giving him hearty thankes for his Sermon and good Exhortation: hee therein rehearsed such speciall things as he had noted, and that so many, that the Bishop said:

Truely, truely (for that commonly was his Oath) I could never have thought that excellency to have beene in his Grace, but that I beheld, and heard it in him.

At the last the Kings Majesty much commended him for his Exhortation, for the reliefe of the poore.

But my Lord (quoth he) you willed such as are in authority to bee carefull thereof,A most vertuous and noble saying of King Edw. to Bishop Ridley. and to devise some good order for their reliefe: Wherein, I thinke you meane mee, for I am in highest place; and therefore am the first that must make answer unto God for my negligence, if I should not bee carefull therein, knowing it to bee the expresse Commandement of Almighty God, to have compassion of his poore and needy [Page] members, for whom wee must make an account unto him. And truly, my Lord, I am (before all things else) most willing to travaile that way, and I doubting nothing of your long and approved wisedome and learning, who having such good zeale, as wisheth helpe unto them; but also that you have had some conference with others, what waies are best to be taken therein, the which I am desirous to understand: and therefore I pray you to say your minde.

The Bishop thinking least of that matter, and being amazed, to heare the wisedome & earnest zeale of the King, was (as hee said himselfe) so astonied, that hee could not well tell what to say. But, after some pause, said, That hee thought (at this present) for some entrance to bee had, it were good to practise with the City of London, The Citizens of London moved to be assistants in this charitable action. because the number of the poore there are very great, and the Citizens also are many and wise; and hee doubted not but that they were also both pitifull and mercifull; as the Maior and his Brethren, and other the Worshipfull of the said City. And that if it would please the Kings Majesty to direct his gracious Letters unto the Maior of London, willing him to call unto him such assistants as hee should thinke meete, to consult of this matter, for some order to bee taken therein; hee doubted not but good would follow thereon. And hee himselfe promised the King to be one himselfe that should earnestly travaile therein.

The King (forth-with) not onely granted his Letter,The kings letter sent by the Bishop to the Lord, Maior of London. but made the Bishop tarry untill the same was written, and his hand and Signet set thereto: And commanded the Bishop not onely to deliver the said Letter himselfe; but also to signifie unto the Maior, that it was the Kings especiall request and expresse commandement, that the Maior should therein travell; and so soone as he might conveniently, give him knowledge how far he had proceeded therein. The Bishop was so joyous of the having of this Letter, and that now hee had an occasion to travell in so good a matter, wherein hee was marvellous zealous, that nothing could have more pleased and delighted him: wherefore the same night hee came to the Lord Maior of London, who was the Sir Richard Dobbs, Knight, and delivered the Kings Letter, and shewed his message with effect.

The Lord Maior not only joyously received this Letter:The readinesse of the Lord Maior to preferre this good deede. but with all speede agreed to set forward the matter; for he also favoured it very much. And the next day, being Munday, hee desired the Bishop of London to dine with him, and against that time the Maior promised to send for such men, as he thought meetest to talke of this matter, and so he did. He sent first for 2. Aldermen and 6. Commoners, and afterward more were appointed, to the number of 24. In the end, after sundry meetings (for by the meanes and good diligence of the Bishop, it was well followed) they agreed upon a Booke that they had devised, wherein first they considered on nine speciall kindes and sorts of poore people,9. Sorts of poore people distinguished into 3. degrees. and those they brought into these three Degrees:

Three degrees of Poore.

1. The poore by impotency.

2. Poore by casualty.

3. Thriftlesse poore.

1. The Poore by Impotency are also divided into three kindes; that is to say:

1. The fatherlesse poore mans childe.

2. The aged, blinde, and lame.

3. The diseased person by Leprosie, Dropsie, &c.

2. The Poore by Casualty are likewise of three kindes; that is to say:

1. The wounded Souldier.

2. The decayed Hous-holder.

3. The visited with any grievous disease.

3. The Thristlesse Poore are 3. kindes in like manner; that is to say:

1. The Riotour, that consumeth all.

2. The Vagabond, that will abide in no place.

3. The Idle person, as Strumpets and others.

For these sorts of Poore,The first beginning of Hospitals. three severall houses were provided: First, for the Innocent and Fatherlesse, which is the [Page] Beggars childe, and is (indeed) the seed and breeder of beggary, they provided the house that was the late Gray Friers in London, and called it by the name of Christs Hospitall, where poore children are trained up in the knowledge of God, and some vertuous exercises, to the overthrow of beggary.

For the second degree was provided the Hospitals of Saint Thomas in Southwarke, The first beginning of S. Thom. and S. Bartholm. Hospitals. and Saint Bartholomew in VVest Smithfield, where are continually (at least) 200. diseased persons, which are not only there lodged and cured, but also sed and nourished.

For the third degree they provided Bridewell, The first beginning of Bridewell, where the vagabond and idle Strumpet is chastifed, and compelled to labour, to the overthrow of the vicious life of idlenesse.

They provided also for the honest decayed House-holder,Reliefe for decayed house-holders & Lazers. that he should be relieved at home at his house, and in the Parish where hee dwelled, by a weekly reliefe and pension. And in like manner they provided for the Lazer, to keepe him out of the City, from clapping of dishes and ringing of Bels, to the great trouble of the Citizens, and also to the dangerous infection of maney; that they should be relieved at home at their houses, by severall pensions.

Now after this good order taken,The king acquainted with the Cities furtherance. and the Citizens (by such meanes as were devised) willing to further the same: the report thereof was made to the Kings Majesty, and his Grace (for the advancement thereof) was not only willing to grant such as should be Overseers and Governours of the said houses, a Corporation and authority for the government of them: but also required, that hee might bee accounted as the chiefe Founder and Patron thereof.

And for the furtherance of the said worke,K. Edward. the sixth Founder of the Hospitals in London. and continuall maintenance of the same; hee of his me [...] mercy and goodnesse granted, that whereas (before) certaine land [...] were given, to the maintaining of the ho [...] of the Savoy, founded by King [...] [...]eventh, for the loding of [...] and Strangers, and that the same [...] now made but a loding for Loy [...]re [...], Vagabonds, and Strumpets, that lay all day in the fields, and at night were harboured there,The [...] land for rendred to the King, and given to the City of London. the which was rather the maintenance of beggary, than any reliefe to the poore: gave the same lands, being first surrendred by the Master and Fellowes there (which lands were of the yeerly value of 600. pounds) unto the City of London, for the maintenance of the foundation aforesaid.

And for a further reliefe, a Petition being made to the Kings Majesty, for a licence to take in Mortmaine, or otherwise without licence, lands to a certaine yeerly value, and a space left in the Patent, for his Grace to put in what summe it would please him: Hee looking on the voide place, called for pen and inke, and with his own hand wrote this summe, in these words, 4000. Markes by the yeere, and then said in the hearing of his Councell,The words of a blessed King. Lord, I yeeld thee most hearty thankes, that thouhast given me life thus long, to finish this worke to the glory of thy Name. After which foundation established, he lived not above two dayes: whose life would have been wished equall to the Patriarkes, if it had pleased GOD so to have prolonged it.

By example of the charitable act of this vertuous young King,Sir William Chester, and Io. Calthrop, Draper. Sir W. Chester, Knight, and Alderman of London, and Io. Calthrop, Citizen and Draper of the same City, at their owne proper costs and charges, made the bricke wals and way on the backe side, which leadeth from the said new Hospitall, unto the Hospitall of Saint Bartholomew, and also covered and vaulted the Town-ditch, from Aldersgate to Newgate, which (before) was very noysome, and contagious to the said Hospitall.

This Hospitall being thus erected,Rich. Castel, Shoomaker, The Cocke of Westminster and put into good order, there was one Richard Castell, alias Casteller, Shoomaker, dwelling in Westminster, a man of great travaile and labour in his faculty with his owne hands, and such a one as was named, The Cocke of Westminster, because both Winter and Summer hee was at his worke before foure of the clocke in the morning. This man thus truely and painfully labouring for his living, God blessed and increased his labours so abundantly, that he purchased [Page] lands and tenements in Westminster, to the yeerly value of forty and foure pounds. And having no childe, with the consent of his wife (who survived him, and was a vertuous good woman) gave the same lands wholly to Christs Hospitall aforesaid, to the reliefe of the Innocent and Fatherlesse Children, and for the succour of the miserable, sore and sicke, harboured in the other Hospitals about London.

Saint Bartholomews Hospitall is incorporated by the name of the Maior,The incorporation of St. Bartholomews Hospitall in West Smithfield. Communalty, and Citizens of the Citie of London, Governours of the Hospitall for the poore, called Little Saint Bartholomews, neere to West Smithfield, of the Foundation of King Henry the 8.

Christs Hospitall, The incorporation of the Hospitals of King Edward the sixth. Bridewell, and Saint Thomas the Apostle in Southwarke, are incorporated by the names of the Maior, Commonalty, and Citizens of the City of London, Governours of the Possessions, Revenues, and Goods of the Hospitals of Edward King of England, the sixth, of Christ, Bridewell, and Saint Thomas the Apostle, &c.

The defaced Monuments in this Church were these:Monuments in Christs Church. First, in the Quire, of the Lady Margaret, daughter to Philip, King of France, and wife to Edward the first, Foundress of this new Church, 1317.

Of Isabel, 4. Queens buried In this Church. Queene, wife to Edward the second, daughter to Philip, King of France, 1358.

Ioane of the Tower, Queene of Scots, wife to David Bruise, daughter to Edward the second, dyed in Hartford Castle, and was buried by Isabel her mother, 1362.

William Fitzwaren, Baron, and Isabel his wife, sometime Queene of the Isle of Man.

Isabel, daughter to Edward the third, wedded to Lord Couse, of France, after created Earle of Bedford.

Eleanor, wife to Iohn, Duke of Britaine.

Beatrix, Duchesse of Britaine, daughter to Henry the third.

Sir Robert Lisle, Baron, the Lady Lisle, & Margaret de Rivers, Countesse of Devon, all under one Stone.

Roger Mortimer, Earle of March, beheaded, 1329.

Patar, Bishop of Carbon in Hungary, 1331.

Gregory Rocksley, Maior, 1282.

Sir Iohn Devereux, Knight, 1385.

Iohn Hastings, Earle of Pembroke, 1389.

Margaret, daughter to Thomas Brotharton, Earle Marshall, shee was Duchesse of Northfolke, and Countesse Marshall, and Lady Segrave, 1389.

Richard Havering, Knight, 1388.

Robert Trisilian, Knight, Chiefe Justice, 1308.

Geffrey Lucy, son to Geffrey Lucy.

Iohn Aubry, son to Iohn Maior of Norwich, 1361.

Iohn Philpot, Knight, Maior of London, and the Lady Lane Stamford his wife, 1384.

Iohn, Duke of Burbon, and Angue, Earle of Claremond, Mountpencier, and Baron Beangen, who was taken prisoner at Agencourt, kept prisoner eighteene yeeres, and deceased 1433.

Robert Chalons, Knight, 1439.

Iohn Chalons.

Margaret, daughter to Sir Iohn Philpot, first married to T. Santlor, Esquire, and after, to Iohn Neyband, Esquire.

Sir Nicholas Brembar, Maior of London, buried 1386.

Elizabeth Nevil, wife to Iohn, son and heyre to Ralph, Earle of Westmerland, & mother to Ralph Earle of Westmerland, and daughter to Thomas Holland, Earle of Kent, 1423.

Edward Burnel, son to the Lord Burnel.

In Alhallowes Chappell; Iames Fines, Lord Say, 1450. and Helenor his wife, 1452.

Iohn Smith, Bishop of Landaffe, 1478.

Iohn, Baron Hilton.

Iohn, Baron Clinton.

Richard Hastings, Knight, Lord of Willoughby and Wells.

Thomas Burder, Esquire, beheaded, 1477.

Robert Lisle, sonne and heyre to the Lord Lisle.

In our Lady Chappell: Iohn Gisors of London, Knight, and Lord Maior.

Humfrey Stafford, Esquire, of Worcestershire, 1486.

Robert Bartram, Baron of Bothell.

Ralph Barons, Knight.

[Page] William Apleton, Knight.

Reynold de Cambrey, Knight.

Thomas Beaumond, sonne and heyre to Henry Lord Beaumond.

Iohn Butler, Knight.

Adam de Howton, Knight, 1417.

Bartholomew Caster, Knight of London.

Reinfredo Arundel, Knight, 1460.

Thomas Covil, Esquire, 1422.

In the Apostles Chappell; Walter Blunt, Knight of the Garter, and Lord Mountjoy, Treasure of England, sonne and heyre to T. Blunt, knight, Treasurer of Normandy, 1474.

E. Blunt, Lord Mountjoy, 1475.

Alice Blunt, Mountjoy, sometime wife to Wil. Browne, Maior of London, and daughter to H. Kebel, Maior, 1521.

Anne Blunt, daughter to I. Blunt, knight, Lord Mountjoy, 1480.

Sir Allen Cheiny, knight, and Sir T. Greene, knight.

William Blunt, Esquire, son and heire to Walter Blunt, Captaine of Gwynes, 1492.

Elizabeth Blunt, wife to Robert Curson, Knight, 1494.

Bartholomew Burwash, and Iohn Burwash, his son,

Iohn Blunt, Lord Mountjoy, Captaine of Gwynes and Hames, 1485.

Iohn Dinham, Baron, sometime Treasurer of England, knight of the Garter, 1501.

Eleanor, Duchesse of Buckingham, 1530.

Iohn Blunt, knight, 1531.

Rowl. Blunt, Esquire, 1509.

Robert Bradbury, 1489.

Nicholas Clifton, knight.

Francis Chape.

Two sonnes of Allayne, Lord Cheiny, and Iohn, sonne and heyre to the same Lord Allayne Cheiny; knight.

Iohn Robsart, knight of the Garter, 1450.

Allayne Cheiny, knight.

Thomas Malory, knight, 1470.

Thomas Yong, a Justice of the Bench, 1476.

Iohn Baldwin, Fellow of Grayes Inne, and Common Serjeant of London, 1469.

Walter Wrotsley, knight, of Warwickshire, 1473.

Sir Stephen Iennings, Maior, 1523.

Thomas a Par, and Iohn Wiltwater, slaine at Barnet field, 1471.

Nicholas Poynes, Esquire, 1512.

Robert Elkenton, knight, 1460.

Iohn Water, alias Yorke, Herald, 1520.

Iohn More, alias Nory, King of Arms, 1491.

George Hopton, knight, 1489.

Betweene the Quire and the Altar, Ralph Spiganel, knight.

Iohn Moyle, Gentleman of Grayes Inne, 1495.

William Huddy, knight, 1501.

Iohn Cobham, a Baron of Kent.

Iohn Mortaine, knight.

Iohn Deyncort, knight.

Iohn Norbery, Esquire, high Treasurer of England.

Henry Norbery his son, Esquire.

Iohn Southlee, knight.

Tho. Sakvile.

Tho. Lucy, knight, 1525.

Robert de la Rivar, son to Mauricius de la Rivar, Lord of Tormerton, 1457.

Io. Malmaynas, Esquire, and Tho. Malmaynas, knight.

Hugh Acton, Taylor, 1530.

Nicholas Malmaynas.

Hugh Parsal knight, 1490.

Alexander Kirketon, knight, &c.

In the body of the Church; William Paulet, Esquire, of Somersetshire, 1482.

Iohn Moyle, Gentleman, 1530.

Peter Champion, Esquire, 1511.

Io. Hart, Gentleman, 1449.

Alice Lat. Hungerford, hanged at Tyborne for murdering her husband, 1523.

Edward Hall, Gentleman of Grayes Iune, 1470.

Ri. Churchyard, Gentleman, Fellow of Grayes Inne, 1498.

Iohn Bramre, Gentleman of Grayes Inne, 1498.

Iohn Mortimer, knight, beheaded, 1423.

Henry Frowike, Alderman.

Reynold Frowike.

Philip Pats, 1518.

William Porter, Serjeant at Armes, 1515.

Tho. Grantham, Gentleman, 1511.

Edmond Rotheley, Gentleman, 1470.

Henry Roston, Gentleman of Grayes Inne, 1485.

Nicholas Mountgomery, Gentleman, [Page]sonne to Io. Mountgomery of Northamptonshire, 1485.

Sir Bartholomew Emfield, knight.

Sir Barnard S. Peter, knight.

Sir Ralph Sandwich, knight, Custos of London.

Sir Andrew Sakevile, knight.

Iohn Treszawall, Gentleman, and Taylor of London, 1520.

All these, and five times so many more have beene buried there, whose Monuments are wholly defaced: for there were nine Tombes of Alabaster and Marble, invironed with strikes of Iron, in the Quire, and one Tombe in the body of the Church, also coped with Iron, all pulled downe, besides sevenscore Grave-stones of Marble, all sold for fifty pounds, or thereabouts by Sir Martin Bowes, Goldsmith and Alderman of London, of late time buried there.

These two,A faire Monumēt in the South wal of the Quire. Sir Christopher Edmonds, and, Dame Dorothy his wife, lived together 44. yeeres, in perfect love and society: both servants to one Prince; and in great credit both in the Court and Country where they lived, both for their Religion, fidelity to their Soveraigne, and liberality to the Poore.

This is the Monument of Sir Christopher Edmonds, Knight, who was a domesticall servant to the most sacred Queene ELIZABETH, both before her Coronation, and after, so long as he lived. He was of great credit and estimation in his Country, for his integrity of life, uprightnesse in justice, and hospitality, and gave to this Hospitall of Christs Church three hundred pounds, towards the maintenance of the poore children. Hee lived seventy and two yeeres, and died Anno Domini, 1596.

This is the interrement of Dame Dorothy Edmonds, wife to the said Sir Christopher, and daughter to Christopher Litcot, Esquire; who also served the most gracious Mayden-Queene, ELIZABETH, being (ever since her Coronation, and before) of her most Honourable Privy Chamber: who joyned with the said Sir Christopher, her husband, in the said gift of three hundred pounds to this Hospitall, being a Legacie (onely spoken of by him) and performed by her.

Times Triumph on the death of Master Robert Rogers, who deceased Anno. 1601. in the manner of a Dialogue, between Time, Death, and Rogers.

Death.

STand fairely encountred both,

A faire Monumēt close by, in the same wall.

Grave, Soveraigne Time;

Borne of Eternity,

Ages Father:

Prince of all Power; all

Powers on earth are thine,

That doest my Ruines

truest Records gather;

Lend thy consent, thy

helping hand to mine;

And Death will make Times

Soveraignty as great

As the three Sisters,

Ladies of sterne Fate.

Time.

Impartiall Death, Honours

respectlesse foe,

Grim, meager Caytife,

wherefore doest thou come?

Must Vertues children

to the slaughter goe,

In thy bloud-yawning

Cell to fill a roome?

Can none but they, quench

thy bloudy thirst? Death. No;

Rogers I come for: Time,

thou canst not save him,

This Dart must strike him,

and grim Death will have him.

Rogers.

Death, welcome; all by thee

(I know) must end;

Nor doe I care for

for longer life than this;

I thanke thee, thou hast stai'd

so long; (kinde friend.)

Sweere Time, be patient,

pardon mine amisse,

If I have time mis-spent;

alas, we all offend.

If, said I? yes, 'tis

certaine, sure I have;

For which offence (deare

[Page] Time) I pardon crave.

Time.

Death, grant me this (sweet)

doe not kill him

Till I returne but

from the Destinies.

Dea. I cannot stay a moment.

Reg. Oh will him

(Grave Time) to strike me then:

I Death despise.

Dea. There lye thou dead.

Time. Thou canst not spill him:

Time shall erect a Trophee

of such fame,

That while Time lives,

dye shall not Rogers name.

TIMES Epitaph.

Give me an Adamantine Pen,

and Leafe of Brasse,

To character his name,

whose like nere was.

A single life he led,

loving to all,

The poore mans succour,

the reliefe of thrall:

Vertues example, guide

to eternall life;

In carriage courteous,

all devoid of strife.

Here lyeth he interred,

Rogers his name,

Times onely Sonne,

eternized by Fame.

Ougly Detraction, flye,

and blacke Oblivion, hence;

Whil'st Rogers dust lyes here,

Time will his fame commence.

Behold the Workes of God,Vpon a Monumēt on a Pillar by the Tombe. First, on the one Table. done by his Servant, Dame MARY RAMSEY.

SHe hath given a yeerly maintenance for two Fellowes, and foure Schoolers in Cambridge.

More, two Livings of good value, when they shall become fit to supply them.

More, towards certaine Sermons to be preached in this Church yeerly.

More, in Christs Hospitall a free Writing-Schoole for poore mens children.

More, in the Country a free Grammar-Schoole for the poorer sort.

All which severall gifts before remembred, are to continue yeerly for ever.

Forma, Decus, Mores,

Sapientia, Res & Honores,

Morte ruunt subita;

vivit post funera Fama.

The rest of the godly Workes done by this good Lady.

SHe hath given a worthy maintenance to the poore of Christs Hospitall.Secondly, on the other Table.

More, a bountifull gift for the healing of poore wounded Souldiers.

More, a liberall maintenance for ten poore maimed Souldiers.

More, a liberall maintenance for ten poore aged Widowes.

More, a bountifull gift to release poore men out of prison.

More, a bountifull gift to relieve poore men in prison.

More, a yeerly Stipend to poore Maides Marriages.

More, to the reliefe of the Poore of foure severall Parishes.

All which severall gifts are for ever.

Her faith hath wrought, her Tree was not barren. And yet an unprofitable Servant. 1596.

Gamaliel Pye,

A faire plated stone in the Quire▪

under this Stone

doth lye in peace and rest,

Whose service to his Prince and Realm,

well knowne not to be least:

At Bullen, Muttrel, & each place else,

where then the King had warres,

Not any one that serv'd in Campe,

lesse feared wounds and scarres.

In age he liv'd in peace and love,

abhorring worlds inconstancy,

And chosen was eleven times

the Warden of his Company.

The poore, sicke, lame, abroad, at

home, his bounty ever felt,

But chiefly his owne Parishioners,

where threescore yeers he dwelt.

He held disdaine to brawle, or seeke

[Page] what others had to doe;

And with his wife he liv'd

full forty yeeres and two,

He liv'd devout, and dy'd devout,

the chiefest way to Heaven;

The complete date of this his life,

was fourescore yeers and seven.

Mole sub hac, si fortè roges

quis (Candide Lector)

Vel qualis recubat?

Gamaliel Pius est.

Vita pium, nomenque pium,

mors sancta piumque

Exhibet, & vita est,

nomine, morte Pius.

S. Memoriae.

Gualtero Haddono,A faire Monumēt in the wal, at the upper end of the Chancell. Equestri loco nato Iurisconsulto, Oratori, Poetae celeberrimo, Graecae, Latinaeque eloquentiae sui temporis facilè principi, sapientia & sanctitate vitae, in id evecto, ut Reginae Elizabethae à supplicum libellis Magister esset: Destinareturque majoribus nisi fato immaturius cessisset: Interim in omni gradu viro longè eminentissimo, Coniugi suo optimo meritissimoque Anna Suttona, uxor eius 2. flens, moerens desiderii sui signum posuit. Obiit Anno Salut. hum. 1572. Aetatis 56.

Within this Grave enclosed here,

Anne Beaumont now doth rest,

A faire plated stone by the Communion Table.

A loving and a faithfull wife,

with many children blest.

She served God with zeale of truth,

and learn'd to flye from sinne;

And as she learn'd his holy will,

so liv'd and dy'd therein.

A friend to such as vertue sought,

a foe unto no wight;

A helpe to those that feared God,

with all her power and might.

The poore shall oft bewaile her want,

by whom they found reliefe;

VVhose minde with earnest care was bent,

to ease them of their griefe.

Thus happy she, that now is gone

from hence, reward to finde;

Vnhappy yet for such her friends,

as she hath left behinde:

But thrice unhappy for his losse,

that doth her praise rehearse;

A wofull praise unto her Sonne,

who wrote this dolefull Verse.

Anne, wife unto Nicholas Beaumont, of Coleoverton, in Leicesteshire, Esquire, and daughter unto VVilliam Saunders, of Welforde, in Northhamptonshire, Esquire, and halfe sister unto Walter Haddon, Master of the Requests, departed this life the 7. day of September, An. Dom. 1581. leaving behinde her sixe children.

Hic jacent corpora Wil. Drewe, Armig. fil. Joh. Drewe, de Ken, in Com. Devon.Another plated stone on the other side of the Table. Armig. & Eliz. ux. ejus. fil. & haered. Wil. Cecil. ac consang. & haered. Tho. Cecil. Armig. Quae quidem Elizab. obiit 10. die Novemb. Anno Dom. 1586. Et praedict.Wil. Drewe obiit, &c.

We dye to live, that liv'd to dye,

Through Jesus Christ, and so did I:

Which Christ, as I have loved best,

Among his Saints I trust to rest.

Vnder this Stone lyeth buried the body of Robert Smith, A faire plated stone in the South fide of the Quire. Gentleman: who had to his first wife, Elizabeth Reycroft, by whom hee had issue three daughters, viz. Margaret, Iulian, and Ioane. And he had to his second wife, Margaret Larkin, by whom hee had no issue. The which Robert dyed the eighth day of December, Anno Domini 1581. whose soule resteth with God.

Here lyeth buried Margaret, A faire plated stone in the South Ile. the wife of Lawrence Hussie, Doctor of Law, and daughter of sir Iohn White, Knight, for her vertuous life, worthy of memory: who dyed the third day of August, 1569.

D. Opt. Max. Laus.

Gulielmo Herberto, naturali F. Georgii Herberti de Swansey,A plated stone at entring into the Quire. Militis, Ioannes eiusdem Georgii ex filio Nepos, ac Sereniss. Elizabethae Angliae Reginae à supp. libellis. H. S. moesto animo P. K. Ianuar. 1590.

Here lyeth the body of Iohn Tredwey, of Easton, A Gravestone in the North Chappell of the Quire. in the County of Northampton, Gentleman; who dyed the 10. day of May, An. Dom. 1610.

Rodolpho Waddingtono, huius scholae per annos 48. Moderatori digniss. [Page] Qui postquam una cum uxore sine prole,A small Monumēt erected in the Schoole wal, in the Cloyster, where (according to his desire) he lyeth buried. anno 47. suavissimè degisset, An. aetatis 84. An. Dom. 1614. Aug. 24. in Domino placidè obdormivit.

Ioanna uxor ejus moestiss. posuit.

Hic Waddingtonus tenui

requiescit in urna,

Nestor verè annis,

& gravitate Cato.

Tullius eloquio, Damon

sincerus amico,

Et par praeceptis

(Quintiliane) tibi.

Dulcis, amoenus, amans,

cultis, praestante, probata,

Vir, Vates, Coniux,

Moribus, Arte, Fide.

Tales secla puto paucos

antiqua dedissnet:

Postera non multos

secla datura pares.

Vita.

Angligenae hunc peperit

Londinum gloria gentis,

Aetona huic Artis

semina prima dedit.

Granta tulit segetem

fructum (que) tumescere fecit,

Londini Messes

Orphana turba tulit.

From this Church, West to Newgate, is of this Ward.

Now for the South side of this Ward, beginning again at the Crosse in Cheap, from thence to Friday street, and downe that street, on the VVest side, till overagainst the North-west corner of Saint Matthewes Church.Parish Church of S. Matthew in Friday street. And on the VVest side, to the South corner of the said Church, which is wholly in the VVard of Faringdon. This Church hath these few Monuments:

Thomas Pole, Goldsmith, 1395.

Rob Iohnson, Goldsmith, Alderman,

Iohn Twiselton, Goldsmith, Alderman, 1525.

Ralph Allen, Grocer, one of the Sheriffes, deceased 1546.

Anthony Gamage, Ironmonger, one of the Sheriffes, deceased 1579.

Iohn Mabbe, Chamberlaine of London, &c.

Allen at Condit, and Thomas Warlingworth founded a Chauntry there.

Sir Nicholas Twiford, Goldsmith, Maior, gave to that Church an House, with the appurtenances, called the Griffon on the Hope, in the same street.

Anthony Cage entombed

here,

A comely Monumēt in the wall, on the Chancels South side.

doth rest,

Whose wisedome still

prevail'd the Common-weale:

A man with Gods good

gifts so amply blest,

That few, or none,

his doings may impleale.

A man unto the widow

and the poore,

A comfort and

a succour evermore.

Three wives he had,

of credit and of fame:

The first of them,

Elizabeth, that hight;

VVho buried here, brought

to this Cage by name,

Seventeene young Plants,

to give his Table light.

The second wife (for her

part) brought him none;

The third and last,

no more but only one.

He deceased the 24. day of Iune, Anno Domini, 1583.

In the midst of this Quire lyeth the body of Gaius Newman, A faire Monumēt in the North wal of the Chancell. Citizen and Goldsmith of London, of the age of 66. yeers. Hee had issue by his wife Anne, the daughter of Nicholas Cullum, of London, Merchant-Taylor, 7. sonnes and 5. daughters, Gabriel, Gaius, Robert, Nicholas, Francis, Thomas, and Hugh; Elizabeth, Mary, Anne, Sarah, and Iudith. He deceased the third day of March, 1613.

Here lyeth buried the body of Iohn Perte, Another Monumēt in the same wall. Citizen and Fishmonger of London; who tooke to wife Elizabeth Eyre, the daughter of Henry Eyre, Citizen and Skinner of Lond. by whom he had issue one only daughter, named Mary. The said Iohn deceased the tenth day of October, Anno Domini 1604. being aged 51. yeeres.

As Man liveth,

A Plate in the South wal of the Chancell.

so he dyeth;

As Tree falleth, so it lyeth:

[Page] Anne Middleton, thy life well past,

Doth argue restfull blisse at last.

Obiit Anno à partu Virginis Mariae, 1596. Mens. Ianuar. die 11.

Anno Reg. Reginae Elizabethae, 39. Aetatis suae, 54.

From this Friday streete; Old Change. West to the Old Exchange, a streete so called, of the Kings Exchange there kept, which was for the receit of Bullion, to bee coyned. For Henry the third, in the sixth yeere of his reigne, wrote to the Scabines and men of Ipre, that hee and his Councell had given prohibition, that none, Englishmen, or other, should make change of Plate, or other Masse of Silver, but only in his Exchange at London, or at Canturbury. Andrew Bukerell then had to farme the Exchange of England, and was Maior of London in the reigne of Henry the third. Iohn Somercote had the keeping of the Kings Exchange over all England. In the eighth of Edward the first, Gregory Rocksly was keeper of the said Exchange for the King. In the fifth of Edward the second, William Hausted was keeper thereof. And in the 18. Roger de Frowicke, &c.

These received the old Stamps, or Coyning-Irons, from time to time, as the same were worne, & delivered new to all the Mints in England, as more at large in another place I have noted.

This streete beginneth by West Cheape in the North, and runneth downe South to Knight-Rider streete; that part thereof which is called Old Fish-streete: But the very Housing and Office of the Exchange & coynage, was about the midst thereof, South from the East gate that entreth Pauls Church-yard, and on the VVest side, in Baynards Castle Ward.

On the East side of this Lane, betwixt West Cheape and the Church of St. Augustine, Henry Walleis, Maior, (by licence of Edward the first) builded one row of houses, the profits rising of them, to be imploied on London Bridge.

The Parish Church of St. Augustine, Parish Church of S. Augustine▪ and one house next adjoyning, in Watheling streete, is of this Ward called Faringdon. This is a faire Church, and lately well repaired, wherein be Monuments remaining, of H. Reade, Armourer, one of the Sheriffes, 1450.

Robert Bellesdon, Haberdasher, Maior, 1491.

Sir Townley.

Wil. Dere, one of the Sheriffes, 1450.

Robert Raven, Haberdasher, 1500.

Thomas Apleyard, Gentleman, 1515.

William Moncaster, Merchant-Tailor, 1524.

Wil. Holt, Merchant-Taylor, 1544.

Hic jacet Magister Robertus Bursted, Baccalaurius Iuris civilis,A plated stone under the Communion Table. & hujus Ecclesiae quondam Rector. Qui obiit 16. die mens. Augusti, An. Dom. 1417. Cujus, &c.

Hic jacet Magister Iohannes Battaill, quondam Rector huius Ecclesiae.The like stone by the other. Qui obiit Anno Domini, 1426. sexto die Mensis Augusti, Cuius, &c.

Ecce ut defuncti

cineres mirere beates,

Ecce in tantillo

temporis quantus honor.

Dudum vita mihi fuerat,

quae patria mundus,

Sed mihi jam Coelum

Patria, vita Deus.

Dudum mortis eram

peccato victima, sed jam

Iustiae Christo victima;

quantus honor?

Hic requiescit in pace corpus Roberti Brett,A small Monumēt in the East end of the Quires South Ile. Civis & Mercatoris-Scissoris London, filii & haeredis Roberti Brett, de Whitstanton, in Com. Somerset, Armig. Qui uxorem duxit Elizabeth, filiam Reginaldi Highgati, Armig. Ex ea genuit 11. filios, & 3. filias, è quibus 4. filii & 1. silia superstites sunt. Idem Robertus & Elizabetha in sancto conjugii statu 31. An. vixerunt. Et obiit 9. Aprilis, An. Domini, 1586. Aetatis 63.

Hunc Tumulum propriis sumptibus fieri fecit Elizabeth uxor ejus, 10. die Septemb. Anno Domini, 1596. Cum jam post obitum marti praedicti, decem annos viduam vixisset, atque hic etiam sepeliri decrevit, quando. cunque Deo placuerit ex hac naturali vita tollere.

Here resteth the body of Edward VViat, A faire plated stone at the entrance into the Quire. late of Tillingham, in the County of Essex, Esquire, who deceased the 24. of August 1571. He had one onely wife, Mary, the daughter of Sir VVilliam Waldegrave, of Smalbridge, in the [Page] County of Suffolke, Knight, by whom hee had issue three sonnes and foure daughters; but all his said children dyed young, except one sonne, named Edward, whom hee left behinde him alive, about the age of eleven yeeres. His said wife, his Executrix, caused this Monument to be made.

Hic jacet Richardus Warner, dum vixit, Cives Civitatis London, ac quondam Magister Fraternitatis Sancti Joannis Baptistae, Scissor, in Civit. praedict. & Margareta uxor ejus. Qui quidem Richardus obiit 18. die Mens. Januarii,One faire stone for both these, in the body of the Church. Anno Domini, 1476.

Here lieth Richard Coxe, sometime Citizen and Skinner of London, which deceased the eight day of March, Anno Domini, 1467. And Agnes his wife; the which deceased the 13. day of April, Anno Dom. 1472.

Then in the North Church-yard of Pauls, Cathedral Church of S. Paul. in the which standeth the Cathedrall Church, first founded by Ethelbert King of Kent, about the yeere of Christ, 610. He gave thereto lands, as appeareth: Aethelbertus, Rex, Deo inspirante, pro animae suae remedio, dedit Episcopo Melito terram quae appell [...]tur Tillingeham, ad Monasterii sui solatium, scilicet, Doctoris Gentium. S. Pauli: & ego Rex Aethelbertus ita firmiter concedo tibi praesuli Melito potestatem ejus habendi & possidendi, ut in perpetuum in Monasterii utilitate permaneat; &c. Athelstan, Edgar, Edward the Confessor, and others also, gave lands thereunto. William the Conquerour gave to the Church of Saint Paul, and to Mauricius, then Bishop, and his successors, the Castle of Stortford, with the appurtenances, &c. He also confirmed the gifts of his Predecessors, in these words: Omne 1. Rex Angl. Clamo quietas in perpetuum, 24. Hidas quas Rex Aethelbert dedit S. Paulo juxta murum London, &c. The Charter of King William the Conquerour, exemplified in the Tower, Englished thus:

William, by the grace of God, King of Englishmen, to all his wel beloved French and English people, greeting. Know yee, that I doe give unto God and the Church of Saint Paul of London, and to the Rectors and Servitors of the same, in all their Lands which the Church hath, or shall have, within Borough, and without, Sack and Sock, Thole and The, Infangtheefe, and Grithbriche, and all free, Ships by Sea, and by Land, on Tide, and off Tide, and all the Rights that into them Christendome by rad and more speake, and on Buright hamed, and on Buright worke, afore all the Bishoprickes in mine Land, and on each other mans Land. For I will, that the Church in all things be as free, as I would my Soule to bee in the day of Iudgement. Witnesses, Osmond our Chancellour, Lanfrank the Archbishop of Canturbury, and T. Archbishop of Yorke, Roger, Earle of Shrewsbury, Alane the County, Geffrey de Magna villa, and Ralph Peverel.

In the yeere 1087. this Church of S. Paul was burnt with fire,S. Pauls Church burnt. and therewith the most part of the Citie: which fire began at the entrie of the West gate, and consumed the East gate. Mauricius, Foundation of the new Church of S. Paul builded. then Bishop, began therefore the foundation of a new Church of S. Paul; a worke, that men (of that time) judged would never have beene finished, it was to them so wonderfull, for length and breadth; and also the same was builded upon Arches (or Vaults) of stone, for defence of fire; which was a manner of worke (before that time) unknowne to the people of this Nation, and then brought in by the French: Stone brought from Cane in Normandy. and the stone was fetcht from Cane in Normandy. This Mauricius deceased in the yeere, 1107.

Richard Beaumor succeeded him in the Bishopricke, who did wonderfully increase the said Church, purchasing (of his own cost) the large Streets & Lanes about it, wherein were wont to dwell many Law-people; which ground hee began to compasse about with a strong wall of stone,Wall about Pauls Church-yard. and gates. King Henry the first gave to the said Richard so much of the Mote (or Wall) of the Castle, on the Thames side, to the South, as should bee needfull to make the said Wall of the Church, and so much as should suffice to make a Wall without the way on the North side, &c.

It should seeme, that this Richard inclosed but two sides of the said Church or Cemitory of Saint Paul, to wit, the South and North side: for King Edw. the second, in the 10. of his reigne, granted, [Page] that the said Church-yard should bee inclosed with a wall, where it wanted, for the Murthers and Robberies that were there committed.The common Bell in Pauls Church-yard, rung for the calling together of the Citizens to their Folke-motes. But the Citizens then claimed the East part of the Church-yard, to be the place of assembly to their Folke-motes; and that the great Steeple, there situate, was to that use, their common Bell, which being there rung, all the Inhabitants of the City might heare and come together. They also claimed the West side, that they might there assemble themselves together, with the Lord of Baynards Castle, for view of their Armour, in defence of the City. This matter was in the Tower of London referred to Harvius de Stanton, and his fellow Iustices Itenerantes: but I finde not the decision or judgement of that controversie.

True it is, that Edward the third, in the 17. of his reigne, gave commandement for the finishing of that VVall: which was then performed, and to this day it continueth; although now on both the sides (to wit, within and without) it be hidden with dwelling houses.

Richard Beaumor deceased in the yeere 1127. and his successors (in processe of time) performed the worke begun.

The Steeple of this Church was builded and finished in the yeere 1222.Pauls steeple. The Crosse on the said Steeple fell downe, and a new was set up in the yeere 1314.

The new worke of Pauls (so called) at the East end above the Quire,The new worke of Paul in the East. was begun in the yeer 1251. Henry Lacy, Earle of Lincolne, Constable of Chester, and Custos of England, in his time was a great Benefactor to this worke, and was there buried, in the yeere 1310. Also Ralph Baldocke, Bishop of London, in his life time gave 200. Markes to the building of the said new worke, and left much by his Testament towards the finishing thereof: hee deceased in the yeere 1313. and was buried in the Lady Chappell. Also the new worke of Pauls, to wit, the crosse Iles, were begun to be new builded in the yeere 1256.

The first of February,Pauls steeple fired by Lightning. in the yeere 1444. about two of the clocke in the afternoone, the Steeple of Pauls was fired by Lightning, in the midst of the Shaft or Spire, both on the West side, and on the South: but by labour of many well disposed people, the same (to appearance) quenched with Vineger; so that all men withdrew themselves to their houses, praysing God. But between 8. and 9. of the clocke in the same night, the fire burst out againe more fervently than before, and did much hurt to the Lead and Timber, till by the great labour of the Maior and people that came thither, it was throughly quenched.

This Steeple was repaired in the yeer 1462. and the Weather-cocke againe erected:Pauls steeple repaired. Robert Godwin winding it up, the rope brake, and hee was destroyed on the Pinacles, and the Cocke was sore brused. But Burchwood (the Kings Plummer) set it up againe.Weather-cocke of Pauls steeple. Since the which time, needing reparation, it was both taken down, and set up in the yeer 1553. At which time it was found to bee of Copper, gilt over, and the length, from the bill to the taile, being 4. foote, and the breadth over the wings 3. foot and a halfe, it weighed 40. l. the Crosse, from the Bole, to the Eagle (or Cock) was 15. foote and 6. inches of assise; the length thereof, overthwart, was 5. foot and 10. inches, and the compasse of the Bole was 9. foot and 1. inch. The inner body of this Crosse was Oake, the next cover was Lead, and the outermost was of Copper, red varnished. The Bole and Eagle, or Cocke, were of Copper, and gilt also.Height of the steeple. The height of the Steeple was 520. foot, whereof the stone-worke was 260. foot, and the Spire was likewise 260. foote.Length of Pauls Church. The length of the whole Church, is 240. Taylors yards, which make 720. foot. The breadth thereof is 130. foot: And the height of the body of that Churc, is 150. foot.

This Church hath a Bishop,Governors of this Church. a Deane, a Presentor, Chancellour, Treasurer, and five Archdeacons, to wit, of London, Middlesex, Essex, Colchester, and Saint Albans: It hath Prebendaries thirty, Canons twelve, Vicars Corall sixe, &c.

The Colledge of Petty Canons there,Petty Canons of Pauls. was founded by King Richard the second, in honour of Queene Anne his wife, and of her Progenitors, in the seventeenth of his reigne. Their Hall and Lands was then given unto them, as appeareth by the Patent, Master Robert Dokesworth then being Master thereof. [Page] In the yeere 1408. the Petty Canons then building their Colledge, the Maior and Communalty granted them their Water-courses, and other easements.

There was also one great Cloyster,Great Cloystry of Pauls. on the North side of this Church, invironing a plot of ground, of old time called Pardon Church-yard; whereof Thomas More, Deane of Pauls, was eyther the first Builder, or a most especiall Benefactor, and was buried there.

About this Cloyster, was artificially and richly painted the Dance of Machabray, Dance of Pauls. or Dance of Death, commonly called the Dance of Pauls; the like whereof was painted about S. Innocents Cloyster at Paris in France: the Meeters or Poesie of this Dance were translated out of French into English by Iohn Lidgate, Monke of Bury, the Picture of Death leading all estates; at the dispence of Ienken Carpenter, in the reigne of Henry the sixth. In this Cloyster were buried many persons, some of Worship, and others of Honour: The Monuments of whom, in number and curious workmanship, passed all other that were in that Church.

Over the East Quadrant of this Cloyster, Library of Pauls. was a faire Library, builded at the costs and charges of Walter Sherington, Chancellour of the Duchy of Lancaster, in the reigne of Henry the sixth: which hath beene well furnished with faire written bookes in Vellam; but few of them now doe remaine there.

In the midst of this Pardon Church-yard, Chappell in Pardon Church-yard was also a faire Chappell, first founded by Gilbert Becket, Portgrave, and principall Magistrate of this City, in the reigne of King Stephen, who was there buried. Thomas More, Deane of Pauls, before named, re-edified or new builded this Chappell, and founded three Chaplaines there, in the reigne of Henry the fifth.

In the yeere 1549. on the tenth of April, the said Chappell, by commandement of the Duke of Somerset, was begun to bee pulled downe, with the whole Cloystrie, the Dance of Death, the Tombes and Monuments: so that nothing thereof was left, but the bare Plot of ground, which is since converted into a Garden for the Petty Canons.

There was also a Chappell at the North doore of Pauls, Chappell at the North doore of Pauls. founded by the same Walter Sherington, by licence of Henry the sixth, for two, three, or foure Chaplaines, indowed with 40. l. by the yeere. This Chappell also was pulled down in the reigne of Edw. the sixth, & in place thereof a faire house builded.

There was furthermore a faire Chappell of the holy Ghost in Pauls Church, on the North side, founded in the yeere 1400. by Roger Holmes, Chancelor and Prebendary of Pauls, for Adam Bery, Alderman and Maior of London, 1364. Iohn Wingham and others, for seven Chaplaines,Holmes Colledge. and called Holmes his Colledge. Their common Hall was in Pauls Church-yard on the South side, neere unto a Carpenters yard. This Colledge was with others suppressed in the reigne of Edward the sixth. Then under the Quire of Pauls is a large Chappell, first dedicated to the name of IESV,Iesus chappell. founded, or rather confirmed the 37. of Hen. the 6. as appeareth by his Patent therof, dated at Crowdowne to this effect:

Many Liege-men and Christian people, having begun a Fraternity and Guila to the honour of the most glorious name of Iesu Christ our Saviour, in a place called the Crowds of the Cathedrall Church of Pauls in London, which hath continued long time peaceably, till now of late: whereupon they have made request, and we have taken upon us the name and charge of the foundation, to the laud of Almighty God, the Father, the Son, and the holy Ghost, and especially to the honour of Iesu, in whose honour the Fraternity was begun, &c.

The King ordained William Say, then Deane of Pauls, to bee the Rector, and Richard Ford (a Remembrancer in the Exchequer) and Henry Bennis (Clarke of his Privie Seale) the Gardians of these Brothers & Sisters; they and their successors to have a common seale, licence to purchase lands or tenements, to the value of 40. l. by the yeere, &c.

This foundation was confirmed by Henry the seventh, the 22. of his reigne, to Doctor Collet, then Deane of Pauls, Rector there, &c. And by Henry the 8. the 27. of his reigne, to Richard Pace, then Deane of Pauls, &c.

At the West end of this Iesus Chappell, under the Quire of Pauls, also was [Page] and is a Parish Church of S. Faith, Parish Church of S. Faith. commonly called Saint Faith under Pauls, which served (as still it doth) for the Stationers, and others dwelling in Pauls Church-yard, Pater noster Row, and the places neere adjoyning.

The said Chappell of Iesus, being suppressed in the reigne of Edward the 6. the Parishioners of S. Faiths Church were removed into the same, as to a place more sufficient for largenesse and lightsomnesse, in the yeere 1551. and so it remaineth.

The Monuments there are these:

Here buried is Elizabeth,

A fair plated stone over a Vault in the East end of the Church.

of honour worthy Dame,

Her Husband erst Lord Shandoys was,

her Sonne hath now like name:

Her Father was of Wilton Lord,

a Gray of puissant fame,

Her Brother left with us behinde,

now Lord is of the same.

Her vertuous life yet still doth live,

her honour shall remaine,

Her corps, though it be growne to dust,

her Soule the heavens containe,

Quae obiit 29. die Decembris, Ann. Dom. 1559.

Lo,

A faire plated stone neere to the former

Thomas Mond, Esquire by birth,

doth under buried lye,

To shew, that men (by Natures Law)

are borne to live and dye:

In Shropshire at the Mindtowne borne,

the time we here prefixe,

And dyed the seventh of February,

in Anno, seventy sixe.

Threescore and seven yeeres he saw,

though body lye in Tombe:

His soule (immortall) lives in heaven,

by Gods eternall doome.

Natus octavo Mensis Julii, 1510. Obiit septimo Februarii, 1576.

Here under this stone resteth, in the mercy of God,Another stone close adjoyning the body of M. Thomas Dockwray, Notary, late one of the Proctors of the Arches, Citizen and Stationer of London, and Anne his wife. The which Thomas deceased the 23. day of Iune, An. Dom. 1559. &c.

Cur Sacerdos eram,

jam factus vile cadaver?

Et cito pulvis erit:

This stone is covered with a Pew, that nothing can bee seene but these verses.

Quaeso memento mei.

Siste gradum qui me

teris hic, & funde precatus

Me Deus ut levet hinc,

ducat ad usque Polum.

William Babham, and Alice Butcon his wife,In the middle Ile a faire plated stone. An. Dom. 1577.

Lo here the certaine end

of every mortall one,

Behold, alive to day,

to morrow dead and gone.

Live well, so endlesse life

(by death) you shall obtaine,

Nought lose the good by death,

since life thereby they gaine.

Dum mihi persuasi

me quaesivi (que)

A faire plated stone in the Chancell.

salutem,

En morior dixit,

nam Deus esse diem:

Non equidem invideo,

peccati debita merces,

Cum sit mors nostri,

cum reus omnis homo,

Cum (que) operum requires,

& sit mihi vita perennis,

In Christo morior,

mors mihi gratus adest,

Quem mors sic raputi;

Cujus sunt ista sepulchra

Si quaeras, subsunt

quae tibi cuncta notant.

Lodovicus Nicols, Civis London, fililius tertius Thomae Nicols, Northhamptoniensis hic sepelitur. Obiit 22. Aprilis, 1592. Anno Aetatis suae, 28.

Ad vocem Tubae resurgent mortui.

Here lyeth the body of George Whitgift, Another stone in the Chancell. Esquire, one of the naturall brothers of Iohn Whitgift, late Lord Archbishop of Canturbury: which George deceased the 19. day of April, An. Dom. 1611.

William Lambe,

so sometime was my name,

Vpon a brasse plate fixed on a Pill [...] by the Tombe in the open Church beneath

Whiles I alive

did run my mortall race,

Serving a Prince

of most immortall fame,

Henry the eighth,

who of his Princely grace,

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allowed me a place.

By whose favour,

from Gentleman t'Esquire,

I was prefer'd,

with worship for my hire.

With wives three

I joyned wedlocke band,

Which (all alive)

true lovers were to me:

Ioane, Alice and Ioane,

for so they came to hand,

VVhat needeth praise,

regarding their degrees?

In wively truth

none stedfast more could be.

VVho though in earth

death's force did once dissever,

Heaven yet (I trust)

shall joyne us all together.

O Lambe of God,

which sinne didst take away,

And (as a Lambe)

wast offered up for sinne;

VVhere I (poore Lambe)

went from thy flocke astray,

Yet thou (good Lord)

vouchfafe thy Lambe to winne

Home to thy Fold,

and hold thy Lambe therein?

That at the Day, when

Lambes and Goats shall sever,

Of thy choice Lambes,

Lambe may be one for ever.

Vnder which remembrance there are two Verses more added,The benevolence is given every Friday ordinarily through-out the yeere. containing both a petition, and an injunction of duety to the poore, who weekely receive their allowance, at the hands or appointment of the Worshipfull Company of Sationers: To whom he bearing great affection, and having also no small affiance in them, made them his disposers and Stewards in that behalfe. The Verses are these:

I pray you all

that receive bread and pence,

To say the Lords Prayer

before you goe hence.

As for the Verses engraven upon the upper stone of the Tombe, they are these:

As I was, so are ye,

As I am, you shall be.

That I had, that I gave,

That I gave, that I have.

Thus I end all my cost,

That I left, that I lost.

Then was there on the North side of this Church-yard,Charnell-house with a Chappel▪ a large Charnell-house for the bones of the dead, and over it a Chappell of an old foundation, such as followeth:

In the yeere 1282. the 10. of Edward the first, it was agreed, that Henry Walleis, Maior, and the Citizens, for the cause of shops by them builded, without the wall of the Church-yard, should assigne to God, and to the Church of S. Paul, tenne Markes of rent by the yeere for ever, towards the new building of a Chappell of the blessed Virgin Mary, and also to assigne five Markes of yeerely rent to a Chaplaine to celebrate there.

Moreover, in the yeere 1430. the 8. of Henry the sixth, licence was granted to Ienken Carpenter (Executor to Richard Whitington) to establish upon the said Charnell, a Chaplaine, to have eight Markes by the yeere. Then was also in this Chappell two Brotherhoods. Robert Barton, Henry Barton, Maior, and Thomas Mirfin, Maior, all Skinners, were intombed, with their Images of Alabaster over them, grated or cooped about with iron, before the said Chappell; all which was pulled down in the yeere 1549. The bones of the dead, couched up in a Charnell, under the Chappell, were conveyed from thence into Finsbury field, (by report of him who paid for the carriage) amounting to more than one thousand Cart loads,Reyne Wolfe. and there laid on a moorish ground, in short space after raised by soylage of the Citie upon them, to beare three Milles. The Chappell and Charnell were converted into dwelling houses, ware-houses, and Sheds before them, for Stationers in place of the Tombes.

In the East part of this Church-yard standeth Pauls Schoole,Pauls Schoole. lately new builded, and endowed in the yeere 1512. by Iohn Collet, Doctor of Divinity, and Deane of Pauls, for 153. poore [Page] mens children to be taught free in the same Schoole, for which he appointed a Master, a Surmaster or Vsher, and a Chaplaine, with large stipends for ever, committing the oversight thereof to the Masters, Wardens and Assistants of the Mercers in London, because hee was sonne to Henry Collet, Mercer, sometime Maior. He left to these Mercers Lands, to the yeerely value of 120. l. or better.

Neere unto this Schoole, on the North side thereof,Clochier in Pauls Church-yard. was (of old time) a great and high Clochier, or Bell-house, foure square, builded of stone, and in the same a most strong frame of timber, with foure Bels, the greatest that I have heard; these were called Iesus Bels, and belonged to Iesus Chappell, but I know not by whose gift. The same had a great spire of timber, covered with Lead, with the Image of Saint Paul on the top, but was pulled downe by Sir Miles Partridge, Knight, in the reigne of Henry the eighth. The common speech then was, that hee did set one hundred pounds, upon a cast at Dice against it, and so wonne the said Clochier & Bels of the King: and then causing the Bels to be broken as they hung, the rest was pulled downe. This man was afterward executed on the Tower hill, for matters concerning the Duke of Summerset, the fifth of Edward the sixth.

In place of this Clochier, of old time, the common Bell of the Citie was used to be rung,Common Bell of the City. for the assembly of the Citizens to their Folke-motes, as I have before shewed.

About the middest of this Church-yard, Pulpit-crosse in Pauls Church-yard. is a Pulpit-crosse of timber, mounted upon steps of stone, and covered with Lead, in which are Sermons preached by learned Divines, every Sunday in the fore-noone. The very antiquity of which Crosse is to me unknowne.

I read, that in the yeere 1259. King Henry the third commanded a generall Assembly to be made at this Crosse, where he in proper person commanded the Maior, that on the next day following, he should cause to be sworne before the Aldermen, every Stripling, of 12. yeeres of age, or upward, to be true to the King and his heires, Kings of England.

Also, in the yeere 1262. the same King caused to be read at Pauls Crosse, a Bull, obtained from Pope Vrban the fourth, as an absolution for him, and for all that were sworne to maintaine the Articles made in Parliament at Oxford.

Also, in the yeere 1299. the Deane of Pauls accursed, at Pauls Crosse, all those which had searched in the Church of S. Martin in the field, for an hoord of gold, &c.

This Pulpit-crosse was by tempest of lightning and thunder, defaced. Thomas Kempe, Bishop of London, new builded it, in forme as it now standeth.

In the yeere 1561. the fourth of Iune, betwixt the houres of three and foure of the clocke in the afternoon,Pauls steeple and Church newly burne. the great spire of the steeple of S. Pauls Church, was fired by lightning, which brake forth (as it seemed) two or three yards beneath the foot of the Crosse, and from thence it burnt downeward the spire to the battlements, stone-worke, and Bels, so furiously, that within the space of 4▪ houres, the same steeple, with all the roofes of the Church, were consumed, to the great sorrow and perpetuall remembrance of the beholders. After this mischance, the Queenes Majestie directed her Letters to the Maior,Speedy repairing of Pauls Church. willing him to take order for speedy repairing of the same: And she, of her gracious disposition, for the furtherance thereof, did presently give and deliver in gold,The Queenes gift. one thousand Markes; with a warrant for a thousand Loads of Timber, to be taken out of her Woods, or else-where.

The Citizens also gave first a great benevolence, and after that three Fifteenes to be speedily paid.

The Clergie of England, within the Province of Canturbury, Benevolence. granted the fortieth part of the value of their Benefices, charged with first fruits; the thirtieth part of such as were not so charged; but the Clergie of London Dioces, granted the thirtieth part of all that payed first fruits, and the twentieth part of such as had paid their fruits.

Six Citizens of London, and two Petie Canons of Pauls Church, had charge to further and oversee the worke, wherin such expedition was used, that within one Moneth next following the burning thereof, the Church was covered [Page] with boords and lead, in manner of a false roofe against the weather, and before the end of the said yeere, all the said Iles of the Church were framed out of new timber, covered with lead, and fully finised.

The same yeere also, the great roofes of the West and East ends were framed out of great timber in Yorkshire, brought thence to London by Sea, and set up, and covered with lead, the North and South ends were framed of timber, and covered with lead, before April, 1566.

Concerning the Steeple, divers models were devised and made, but little else was done, through whose default God knoweth: it was said, that the money appointed for the new building of the Steeple, was collected.

Monuments in this Church, be these:

First,Monuments in Pauls as I read of Erkenwalde, Bishop of London, buried in the old Church, about the yeere of Christ, 700. whose body was translated into the new work, in the yeere 1140. being richly shrined, above the Quire, behinde the high Altar.

Sebba, or Seba, King of the East Saxons, was first buried in the old Church, afterward removed into the new, and laid in a coffin of stone, or gray Marble, having this Inscription hanging by it:

Hic jacet Sebba,

Church. At the entrance of the north side or Ile of the Quire.

Rex orientalium Saxonū, qui conversus fuit ad fidem per Erkenwaldum, Londonens. Episcopum, Anno Christi, 677. Vir multum Deo devotus, actibus religiosis, crebris precibus, & piis Eleemosynarum fructibus plurimum intentus, vitam privatam & Monasticam cunctis Regni divitiis & honoribus praeferens. Qui cum regnasset Ann. 30. habitum Religiosum accepit, per benedictionem Waltheri Londinensis Antistitis, qui praefato Erkenwaldo successit. De quo Venerabilis Beda, in Historia Gentis Anglorum, &c.

Ethelred, King of the West Saxons, was like wise buried in the old Church, and after removed, lying next unto King Sebba, and this Inscription fastned by him:

Hic jacet Ethelredus, Anglorum Rex, filius Edgari Regis,

In another coffin of gray Marble by the other.

cui in die consecrationis hic post impositam Coronam,

Etbelred, sirnamed the unready.

fertur S. Dunstanus Cantuar. Archiepiscopus dira praedixisse his verbis: Quoniam aspirasti ad Regnum per mortem fratris tui, in cujus sanguine conspiraverunt Angli, cum ignominiosa Matre tui: Non deficiet Gladius de domo tua, saeviens in te omnibus vitae tuae, interficiens de semine tuo, quousque Regnum tuum transferatur in Regnum alienum, cujus ritum & linguam, gens cui praesides non novit; nec expiabitur, nisi longa vindicta peccatum tuum, & peccatum Matris tuae, & peccata virorum, qui interfuêre consilio illius nequam. Quae sicut à viro sancto praedicta erant, evenerunt: Nam Ethelredus variis praeliis per Suanū Danorum Regem, filium (que) suum Canutū fatigatus & fugatus, ac tandem Londini arcta obsidione conclusus, miserè diem obiit, Anno Dominicae Incarnationis, 1017. postquam Annis 36. in magna tribulatione regnasset.

William Norman, Bishop of London, in the reignes of the Kings, Edward the Confessor, and William the Conqueror, deceased Anno 1070. and was after newly buried in the body of the Church, with this Epitaph or Memory:

Gulielmo, viro sapientia & vitae sanctitate claro,Being first buried in the Quire, & afterward removed into the body of the Church, at the Citizens earnest suit, and upon good oc [...] casion. qui primùm Edwardo Regi & Confessori familiaris, nuper in Episcopum Londinensem erectus; nec multò pòst apud invictissimum Principem Guilielmū Angliae Regem ejus nominis primum: Ob prudentiam, fidem (que) singularem, in Concilium adhibitus; Amplissima tunc urbi celeberrimae privilegia ab eodem impetravit: Senatus populus (que) Londinensis bene merenti posuit. Sedit Episcopus Annos 20. Decessit Anno à Christo nato, 1070.

Haec tibi (clare Pater)

posuerunt Marmora Cives,

Praemia non meritis

aequiparanda tuis.

Nam (que) sibi populus

te Londoniensis amicum

Sensit, & huic urbi

non leve praesidium.

Reddita libertas duce

te, donata (que) multis:

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publica muneribus.

Divitias, genus, & formam

brevis opprimat hora,

Haec tua sed pietas

& benefacta manent.

To Wiliam, a man famous in wisedome and holinesse of life, who first with S. Edward the King and Confessor being familiar, of late preferred to be Bishop of London, and not long after (for his prudencie and sincere fidelity) admitted to be of Councell with the most victorious Prince, William, King of England, of that name the first, who obtained of the same, great and large priviledges to this famous Citie. The Senate and Citizens of London, to him, having well deserved, have made this. Hee continued Bishop twenty yeeres, and dyed in the yeere after Christs Nativity, 1070.

These Marble Monuments to thee

thy Citizens assigne,

Rewards (O Father) far unfit

to those deserts of thine.

Thee unto them a faithfull friend

thy London people found,

And to this Towne, of no small weight,

a stay both sure and sound.

Their Liberties restor'd to them,

by meanes of thee have beene,

Their Publike weale by meanes of thee,

large gifts have felt and found.

The Riches, Stocke, and beauty brave,

one houre hath them supprest:

Yet these thy vertues and good deeds,

with us (for ever) rest.

The Lord Maior of London, This man is termed by some Richard de Gravesend. and the Aldermen his brethren, upon those solemne dayes of their resort to Pauls, have long time used to walke to the Grave-stone, where this Bishop lyeth buried, in remembrance of their former priviledges by him obtained.

And now of late yeeres, there is an Inscription fastned to that Pillar which is next his Grave;Right against the little South doorein the lower Church. termed, The revivali of a most worthy Prela [...]es remembrance: There erected at the sole cost and charges of the Right Honourable and worthily affected, Sir Edward Barkham, Knight, Lord Maior of the Citie of London, Anno 1622. speaking thus to the walkers in Pauls:

Walkers,

whosoere ye be,

Set up at the Lord Maiors cost and charges.

If it prove

you chance to see

Vpon a solemne

Scarlet day,

The Citie-Senate

passe this way,

Their gratefull Memory

for to show

Which they the

reverend ashes owe

Of Bishop Norman,

here inhum'd,

By whom this Citie

hath assum'd

Large proviledges:

Those obtain'd

By him, when

Conquerour William raign'd:

This being by thankfull

Barkham's minde renu'd,

Call it The Monument

of Gratitude.

Hic jacet Magister Fulco Lovell,An inscription in the wall. quondam Archidiaconus Colcestriae. Floruit sub Henrico 3. Rege.

Hic requiescit in Domino Rogerus cognonomento Niger,In the midst of Quire, neere to the place where they stand to heare Sermons. quondam Canonicus hujus Ecclesiae S. Pauli: Ac deinde in Londinens. Episcopum consecratus Anno Salutis, 1228. vir in literatura profundus, moribus honestus ac per omnia laudabilis, Christianae Religionis amator, ac defensor strenuus. Qui cum pastorale Officium vigilanter & studiosè rexisset Annis 14. diem suum clausit extremum, apud Manerium suum de Stebunheath, 3. Calend. Octob. An. Christi, 1241. Regnante Rege Henrico 3.

Contigit his diebus, dum Episcopus iste Rogerus in hac Ecclesia ante majus Altare staret infulatus ad celebrandum divina, quod tanta in aëre facta est nubium densitas, ut vix alterum discernere possit, quam confestim secuta est tonitrui horribilis concussio, cum tanta fulminis coruscatione, ac faetore intolerabili, ut omnes qui aderunt rapidè fugientes, nihil verius quàm mortem expectarent. Solus Episcopus cum uno Diacono remansit intrepidus. Aëre tandem purgato, Episcopus residuum rei divinae explevit.

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Epitaphium ejus super Tumulo.

Ecclesiae quondam

Praesul praesentis, in Anno

M. bis C. quater X.

jacet hic Rogerus humatus.

Hujus erat manibus

Domino locus iste dicatus:

Christe suis precibus

veniam des, tolle reatus.

Hic infra jacet corpus Magistri Thomae de Evre,At the entring the middle doore of the Quire, a faire plated stone. Legum Doctoris, istius Ecclesiae S. Pauli quondam Decani, qui die nono Mensis Octobris, Anno Domino Millesimo, quadringentesimo, & sui Decanatus Anno 12. diem suum clausit extremum. Cuius animae propitietur Deus, Amen.

Hic in Domino obdormivit Iohannes Gandavensis, A very goodly Tombe, curiously framed of white stone, having his Lance & Target hanging by it. vulgò de Gaunt, à Gandavo Plandriae urbe loco natali, ita denominatus, Edwardi 3. Regis Angliae filius, à patre Comitis Richmondiae titulo ornatus. Tres sibi uxores in Matrimonio daxit: Primam, Blancham, filiam & haeredem Henrici, Ducis Lancastriae, per quem amplissimam adiit haereditatem: Nec solum Dux Lancastriae, sed etiam Leicestriae, Lincolniae, & Derbiae Comes effectus: E [...]cuius sobole Imperatores, Reges, Principes, & Proceres propagati sunt plurini. Alteram habuit uxorem Constantiam (quae hic contumelatur) filiam & haeredem Petri, Regis Castiliae & Legionis, cuius iure optimo titulo Regis Castiliae & Legionis usus est. Haec unicam illi peperit filiam Katharinam, ex qua ab Henrico Reges Hispaniae sunt propagati. Tertiam vero uxorem duxit Katharinā, ex Equestri Familia, & eximia pulchritudine foeminam, ex qua numerosam suscepit prolem: unde genus ex Matre duxit Henricus 7. Rex Angliae prudentissimus, cuius foe licissimo coniugio cum Edwardi 4. filia, è stirpe Eboracensi, Regiae illae Lancastriensium & Eboracensium Familiae, ad exoptatissimam Angliae pacem coaluerunt.

Illustrissimus hic Princeps, cognomento Plantagenet, Rex Castiliae & Legionis, Dux Lancastriae, Comes Richmondiae, Leicestriae, Lincolniae & Derbiae, Locumtenens Aquitaniae, Magnus Senescallus Angliae, Obiit Anno 22. Regni Regis Richardi 2. Anno (que) Domini, 1399.

Hic requiescit Simon Burley,Vnder a faire Monument in the North Walke against the Quire. Banerettus, Quinque Portuum Praefectus, Ordinis Garterii Miles, & Richardo 2. Consiliarius longè charissimus. Connubio sibi coniunctas habuit ex amplissimis Familiis duas uxores: alteram Staffordiae, alteram Baronis de Roos filiam. Ver [...] difficilimo illo tempore, cum inter Angliae proceres omnia sub iuvene Principe simultatibus agitarentur, in tantū nōnullorū odium incurrit, ut Parliamentaria authoritate capite plect [...]etur, Anno Domini, 1388. Posteri autem eadem postea authoritate sub Rege Henrico quarto sunt restituti. Obiit Anno Salutis, 1398.

Per versus patet hos,

Anglorum qui jacet hic flos,

Within the North wall buried.

Legum qui tuta

dictavit vera statuta:

Ex Hengham dictus,

Radulphus vir benedictus.

Anno 1308.

In the North Walke, against the Quire, lye all these buried:

Sir Iohn Poultney, Citizen, Draper, and Lord Maior of London, in the yeere 1348. lyeth buried in a faire Chappell, builded by himselfe, on the North side of Pauls Quire, wherein he founded 3. Chaplaines.

Hamond Chickwell, six times L. Maior of London, 1328.

Henry Guildford, Clarke, at the Altar of the Apostles, 1313.

Richard Newport, Bishop of London, 1318.

William Chatesleshunt, Canon in the New Worke, who had a Chauntrie there.

Sir Nicholas Wokendon, Knight, at the Altar of S. Thomas, in the new Worke, 1323.

Iohn Cheshul, Bishop of London, 1279.

Robert Monden, and Iohn Monden, his brother, both Canons, in the New Worke, 1332.

Richard de Plesseys lyeth in the North Walke, just before S. Georges Chappel, Anno 1361.

[Page] William Melford, and Richard de Placito, both Archdeacons of Colchester, 1345. lye buried before Saint Thomas Chappell.

Adam de Burie, Holmes Colledge. Lord Maior of London in the yeere 1364. lyes buried in a Chappell of S. Mary Magdalen, or the Holy Ghost, called Holmes Colledge, because Roger Holmes, Chancellour and Prebend of Pauls, was there buried, in the yeere 1400.

The Dutchesse of Bedford, Sister to Philip, Duke of Burgundy, Anno Dom. 1433.

Robert Fitz-Hugh,In the Quire. Bishop of London, Anno, 1435.

Perpetuae pietati Sacrum.

Guil. Herberto, Pembrochiae Comiti, Equiti Aurato,A very beautifull Tombe, wherein he lyeth buried with his wife. praenobilis ordinis Anglici. Hen. 8. à Cubiculis: Edwardi 6. R. Equitum Magistro: Walliae Praesidi: Tumultu Occidentali cum Russello & Grayo Baronibus paribus auspiciis summae rerum praeposito: Maria Reginae contra perduelles ac expeditione ad Augustam Veromanduorum bis totius exercitus duci: bis summo in agro Caletum limitum Praefecto: Elizabethae Reginae Officiorum seu magno Regiae Magistro. Pariter & Dominae Annae ex vetustae Parorum gente oriundae, Sorori Katharinae Reginae, Hen. 8. R. sexto matrimonio conjunctae, ac Marchionis Northhamptionii, prudentissimae Feminae, pietatis, religionis, probitatis, omnisque Avitae virtutis retinentissimae fidis Comitis conjugi. Secunda conjuge superstite, Georgio Salopiae Comite genita, insigni praeter antiquum Nobilitatis Decus, uirtute femina.

Liberis relictis ex prima

Henrico Pembr

Comiti.

Edwardo Equiti Aurato.

Domina Anna, Bar.

Talbot nupta.

Henr. F. ac Comes P. P. Chatis. sibi ac suis P.

Obiit

Aetatis,

Salutis,

Anno

63.

1569.

Si quis erat prude [...]s

unquam fidus (que) Senator,

Right over against the F [...]le of Pembrokes Tombe, in the same Ile.

Si quis erat Patriae

charus amans (que) suae,

Si quis ad externas

Legatus idoneus oras,

Si cui justitiae

cura bonique suit,

Is Masonus erat,

sit tota Britannia testis,

Testis amor Procerum,

sit populique favor,

Tempore quinque suo,

reguantes ordine vidit,

Ho [...] à Consiliis

quacuor ille fuit.

Tres & sex decies

vixit non amplius annos;

Hic tegitur corpus,

spiritus astra tenet.

Hunc Tumulum Conjux

posuit dilecta marito,

Quem (que) viro posuit,

destinat ipsa sibi.

Triste Nepos Carmen,

quem fecit adoptio natum,

Tum Patris inscripsit,

tum Patrui Tumulo.

Obiit Anno, 1566.

Alexandro Nowello,A faire Monumēt in the wall above Iohn of Caunts Tombe. Lancastriensi, prisca Nowellorum gente oriundo, Theologiae Doctori, Aedis S. Pauli Decano, ad exemplum hospitali, Rob. Nowelli, cujus hic cum suis miscentur cineres, Fratri, & opum quae sibi jure testamentario cesserunt, diribitori pientissimo. Marianis temporibus propter Christum exulanti: Reducum [...]. verae Religionis, contra Angliae Papistas duobus Libris assertori primae & ultimae quadragesimalis Concionis per an. 30. p. m. continuos ad S. Elizabetham, summa libertate Praeconi; Scholae Middletonianae Patrono; Coll. Aenei Nasi Oxonii, ubi ab anno aetatis 13. Annos 13. studuit, 13. studiosis & 200. Libris annuis opera, & impensis suis ampliati: Praesidi Scholae Paulinae plurimorum bonorum auctori: Pietatis frequentissimis Concionibus & triplici Catechismo propagatori: qui publicum se in utrius (que) Academiae, & Ecclesiarum exterarum testimonium, at (que) aeternorum Principum Edwardi 6. & Elizabethae judicum procerumque provocavit: Pauperum (Literatorum [Page] praecipuè) nutritori: afflictorum morbis corporis vel animi consolatori.

Hoc Sepulchrum ob munificentiam & merita erga Remp. & optimum statum Ecclesiae suae ab eo pervigili administrat. redditum, Exec. O. D. S. M. Posuit.

Quam speciosa Vestigia

Evangelizantium pacem!

Exul quae amisit

primaevo flore Nowellus,

Foenore centena

repperit aucta redux

Dat Christus, reddit

danti longaevus honores,

Reddenti aeternos

gratia dantis habet,

Praeco, Auctor, Condus,

Christo, Colit, Ampliat, ornat,

Voce, Libris, Opibus,

Sabbatha, Templa, Schola;

Dans, meditans, orans,

Christi expiravit in ulnis,

Sic oritur, floret,

demoritur (que) Deo.

Sedit B. R. P. & Ecclesiae P. M. 42. Nonagenarius, cum nec animi nec corporis occuli caligarent. Obiit, Anno Domini, 1601. Feb. 13.

Virtuti & Honori Sacrum.

Franciscus Walsinghamus,There is neither Tomb, or any other Monument, but only this Inscription. ortus Familia multis seculis illustri, claritatem generis Nobilitate, ingenii praestantibus (que) animi dotibus superavit. Puer, ingenuè domi educatus, generosis moribus artibus (que) optimis animum excoluit. Adolescens, peregrinatus in exteras Regiones, earum Instituta, Linguas, Policiam, ad civilem scientiam rei (que) publicae usum didicit. Iuvenis, exilium Maria regnante subiit voluntarium Religionis ergo. Serenissimae Reginae Elizabethae, matura jam aetate, Orator fuit apud Gallum, turbulentissimo tempore, annis cō pluribus: rursum bis in Galliā, semel in Scotiam, semel in Belgiam, super gravissimis Principis negotiis Legatione functus est: ei (que) annis sedecim ab intimis Conciliis & secretis fuit, ac triennium Cantellarius Ducatus Lancastriae. Quibus in muneribus tanta cum prudentia, abstinentia, munificentia, moderatione, pietate, industria & sollicitudine versatus est; ut à multis periculis Patriam liberarit, servarit Rempublicam, conformarit pacem, juvare cunctos studuerit, imprimis quos doctrina aut bellica virtus commendarit, seipsum denique neglexerit, quo prodisset aliis, eosque valetudinis & facultatum suarum dispendio sublevaret.

In Matrimonio habuit lectissimā feminam Vrsulam, è stirpe S. Barborum, antiquae Nobilivatis: E quq unicam filiam suscepit, Franciscam, Philippo Sydneio primùm nuptam: deinde honoratissimo Comiti Essexiae

Obiit Apr. 6. 1590.

Shall Honour,

These Verses, called Acrosticks are also there hanged up.

Fame,

and Titles of renowne

In clods of clay

be thus inclosed still?

Rather will I,

though wiser wits may frowne,

For to inlarge his fame,

extend my skill.

Right gentle Reader,

be it knowne to thee,

A famous Knight

doth here interred lye,

Noble by birth,

renown'd for policie,

Confounding foes,

which wrought our jeopardy.

In forraine Countries

their intents he knew,

Such was his zeale

to doe his Countrie good,

When dangers would

by enemies ensue,

As well as they themselves

he understood.

Lanch forth ye Muses

into streames of praise,

Sing and sound forth

praise-worthy harmony;

In England Death

cut off his dismall dayes,

Not wrong'd by death,

but by false trechery.

Grudge not at this

unperfect Epitaph,

Herein I have

exprest my simple skill,

As the first fruits

proceeding from a graffe,

[Page] Make then a better

whosoever will.

Disce quid es, quid eris,

Memor esto quod morieris

E. W.

England,

A Table hung upon the same Pillar by the other of Sir Francis Walsongham, without any other Monumēt for each of them.

Netherland, the

Heavens and the Arts,

The Souldiers and the

World have made sixe parts

Of the Noble Sidney,

for none will suppose,

That a small heape of

stones can Sidney inclose.

His body hath England,

for she it bred.

Netherland his bloud,

in her defence shed.

The Heavens have his Soule,

the Arts have his Fame;

All Souldiers the griefe:

the VVorld his good Name.

Hic jacet Robertus Benn, de Newport Cranley, in Comitatu Surrey, Generosus. Qui obiit decimo die mensis Februarii, Anno Verbi Incarnati, 1606. Cum ante annos triginta, in vigore scilicet aetatis suae, mortis non immemor, Sepulturae sibi locum in hac Ecclesia à Decano & Capitulo impetraverat. hanc novissimam & ultimam suam voluntatem, Elizabetha Benn, dilecta Conjux ejus executa est.

Veniet iterum qui me in lucem reponet dies.

Ioannes Wolleius, Eques Auratus, Reginae Elizabethae à Secretioribus Conciliis, Secretarius Linguae Latinae, Cancellarius Ordinis Periscelidis: Doctrina, Pietate, Fide, Gravitate clarissimus.

Obiit Anno 1595.

Wolleii,

A very goodly Tombe, erected betweene the Chappels of St. George, and our Lady, enclosing the bodies of Sir Iohn Wolley, his wife, and Sir Francis Wolley, his son, buried in Anno 1611.

clarum nomen,

Natusqüe Paterque,

Ambo Equites, Natus

Franciscus Patre Ioanne:

Clarus, ut haeredem

virtutis, amoris, honoris

Praestaret, Monumenta sibi

haec, & utrique Parenti

Constituit, generis, qui

nominis, unicus haeres:

Tam citò claros est

defecisse dolendum.

Ille Pater, lumen

literarum Nobile, sydus

Oxoniae, ex meritis

Reginae accitus Elizae,

Vt qui à Secretis cum

scriberat illa Latinè,

Atque à Conciliis cum

consultaret in Aula,

At Periscelidis qui

Cancellarius esset,

Tantum illo ingenio voluir,

tantum instat in illo.

Non minùs omnimoda

virtute illa inclyta Mater,

Nobilibus Patre & Fratre

illustrissima Moris;

Clara domo per se:

sed Elizam ascivit Eliza

Clarior ut fieret

Wolleio ornata marito,

Quo viduata, viro, quo

non praeclarior alter,

Nubat Egertono, repetat

sed mortuae primum.

Franciscus tandem, at nimium

citò, utrumque sequutus,

Hic jacet ante pedes

Eques Illustrissimus, illis,

Haec poni jussit, seque

& tria nomina poni,

Sic voluit, placuit Superis

pia grata voluntas.

Discite mortales, memores

sic esse Parentum,

Discite qui legitis, sic,

sic petit aethera virtus.

Inclyta Ioannes

Londini gloria gentis,

A comely Tombe, at entring into the South Ile of the Quire.

Is tibi qui Quondam

Paule Decanus erat,

Qui toties magno

resonabat pectore Christum,

Doctor & interpres

fidus Evangelii:

Qui mores hominum

multum sermone diserta

Formârat, vitae

sed probitate magis.

Quique Scholam struxit

celebrem cognomine Iesu,

Hac dormit tectus

membra Coletus humo.

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Floruit sub Henrico 7. & Henrico 8. Reg. Obiit Anno Domini, 1519.

Disce mori mundo,

Vivere disce Deo.

This Epitaph was made by William Lily, the first Schoolemaster of Pauls Schoole: which was founded by Iohn Colet, Doctor in Divinity, and Deane of Pauls: sonne to Sir Henry Colet, Mercer, twice Lord Maior of London.

Memoriae S.

Gulielmo Hewit,

Next above this Tombe in the same South Ile.

Armigero

Roberti Hewit

A. Killamarch, in Agro. Derbiensi

Filio, secundo genito.

Qui mortuo Fratre, Natu majore,

Paternam crevit haereditatem,

Posterisque transmittit:

Nobilem Mercaturam exercuit.

Vita integerrima fuit, & moribus suavissimis. Bonarum literarum studia promovit. Egenorum proventus largiter auxit.

Liberalitate,

Charitate,

Insignis,

Nec minor Pietate.

Religionem, cum Ministris sacris, &

coluit & fovit.

Ita per omnia se ubique gessit, ut

Probitatis,

Comitatis,

Candoris

Vivum exemplar.

Christum Redemptorem cogitans,

Vitam ante mortem consummaverit.

Filios genuit quatuor,

Ioannem,

Salomonem,

Thomam,

Gulielmum:

Et Filias duas.

Mariam,

Elizabetham.

Annum LXXVII. agens,

XII. Iun. CIO. D. XCIX. ad patriam

coelestem evocatus,

Magnum sui desiderium reliquit

Posteris,

Qui hoc piè ac moeven.

M. S.

Gulielmus Cokainus Eques Auratus,Adjoyning to the other in that Ile▪ Civis & Senator Bondinensis, septemque ab hinc annis Vrbis Praefectus: Antiquâ Cokainorum Derbiensium Familiâ oriundus. Qui bono publico vixit, & damno publico decessit, & gaudio publico, Regem Iacobum, ad decorem hujus domus Dei senescentis jam & corrugatae restituendum, solenniter huc venientem consulatu suo, magnificè excepit: Idcirco in Templo publico, ad aeternam rei memoriam

Hîc situs est.

At verò & Famae celebritas, quae viget in ore Hominum, & gloria Beatitudinis, quam migrando adeptus est, & splendor Sobolis, quam numerosam genuit, atque nobilèm reliquit, junctim efficiunt omnia, ne dicatur

Hîc situs est.

Vnà cum illo, tot homines mortui, quot in illo defunctae sunt virtutes; simulque & acies ingenii, & popularis eloquii suada, & morum gravitas, & probitas vitae, & candor mentis, & animi constantia, & prudentia singularis, & veri Senatoris insignia

Hîc sepulta sunt.

Jam tuum est Lector, felicitatis ad culmen anhelare per ista vestigia laudis, & venerandi imitatione exempli curare, ne unquam virtutis sic semina, intereant, ut dicatur

Hîc sepulta sunt.

Obiit 20. Octob. An. Dom. 1626. Et Aetatis suae 66.

Hic Nicolaum me

Baconem conditum

Existima illum,

A faire Tombe in the midst of the Chancell, in the same Ile.

tam

diu Britannici

Regni secundum

Columen, exitium Malis,

Bonis Asylum, coeca

quem non extulit

Ad hunc honorem sors,

sed equitas, fides,

Doctrina, Pietas,

unica & Prudentia,

[Page] Neu morte reptum crede:

qui unica brevi

Vita perennes

emeruit duas, agit

Vitam secundam

coelites inter animos,

Fama implet orbem,

vita quae illi tertia est.

Hac positum in Ara est

corpus, olim animi domus,

Ara dicata

sempiternae memoriae.

Sacrum Memoriae.

D. Chr. Hattoni,A very faire and goodly Tombe out of the Chancell, above it. Guil. Fil. Io. Nepo. Antiquiss. Hattonorum Gente oriundi. Regiae Majestatis D. Elizabethae ex Nobilibus Stipatoribus: L. Vici: Sacratioris Camerae Generosorū unius, Praetorianorum Militum Ducis: Regii Pro-Camerarii: Sanctioris Concilii Senatoris, Summi Angliae ac Oxon. Acad. Cancellarii: Ordinis Nobiliss. San-Georgiani de Periscellide Equitis.

Maximo Principis omnium que bonorum moerore (cum 51. Annos coelebs vixisset) 20. Novemb. Anno 1591. in Aedibus suis Holburnae piè fato functi.

Guil. Hattonus, Eques Auratus, ejus ex Sorore, Nepos, adoptione Filius, ac haeres moestissimus, Pietatis ergô posuit.

Quae vero,

These ses are inscribed on the other side of the Tombe.

quae digna

tuis virtutibus (Heros)

Constituent Monumenta

tui? Si qualia debet,

Posteritas, si quanta

tibi prudentia justi

Quantus amor, si quanta

fuit facundia Linguae,

Et docus & pulchro

veniens in corpore virtus,

Illaque munificae

semper tibi copia dextrae;

Denique quanta fuit

magna tibi gratia quondam

Principis, Eque tuis

quae creverat inclyta factis.

Gloria tanta tibi

statuant Monumenta Nepotes.

Ipsa tuos caperet

vix tota Britanuia Manes.

Stay,

Vpon a Monumēt fixed on a Pillar by the Tomb▪

and behold the mirror

of a dead mans house,

Whose lively person would

have made thee stay and wonder;

Looke, and withall learne to know

how to live and dye renowned;

For never can cleane life

and famous Herses sunder.

Hatton lyes here,

whose name Hugh Lupus gave,

Lupus the Silices,

sonne of William Conqueror,

For Nigel, his cleere servants sake,

Worship and Laud:

Lo, there the Spring; looke here

the Honor of his Ancestrie.

When Nature moulded him,

her thoughts were most on Mars;

And all the Heavens to make

him goodly, were agreeing:

Thence was he valiant, active,

strong, and passing comely,

And God did grace his minde

and spirit with gifts excelling.

Nature commends her

workmanship to Fortunes charge;

Fortune presents him to

the Court, and to the Queene:

Queene Eliz. (O Gods

deare Handmaid) his most Miracle,

Now hearken, Reader,

rarity not heard nor seene.

This blessed Queene, Mirror

of all that Albion rul'd,

Gave favour to his faith,

and precepts to his hopefull time;

First,

First, she made him one of her Moble Pentioners.

train'd him in the stately

band of Pentioners:

Behold, how humble hearts

make easie steps to climbe.

High carriage, honest life,

heart ever loyall,

Diligence, delight in duty,

God doth reward:

So did this worthy Queene,

in her just thoughts of him,

Next, Captaine of her guard.

And (for her safety) made

him Captaine of her Guard.

[Page] Now doth she prune this Vine,

Next, Vice Chamberlaine, and of the Councell.

and from her sacred brest

Lessons his life, makes wise

his heart for her great Councels,

And so Vice-Chamberlaine;

where forreine Princes eyes

Might well admire her choice,

wherein she most excels.

So sweetly tempred was

his soule with vertuous Balme;

Religious,

Lastly, L. Chancellor of England.

just to God

and Caesar in each thing;

That he aspired to

the highest Subjects Seat,

Lord Chancelor (measure

and conscience of an holy King.)

Robe, Coller, Garter,

dead Figures of great Honor,

Almes-deeds, with faith,

honest in word, franke in dispence,

The poore's friend, not popular,

the Churches Pillar;

This Tombe shewes the one,

the Heavens shrine all the other.

Franciscus Florus ad memoriam Heri sui defuncti luctus (que) sui solatium posuit. Anno Domini, 1593.

Thomas Heneage, Eques Auratus, ex antiqua Heneagiorum Familia,A very goodly Tombe Eastward behind the high Altar. in Comitatu Lincolniensi oriundus; Ingenii splendore, morum, elegantia, orationis facultate, & optimis studiis ornatissimus, Camerae Regiae Thesaurarius, Pro-Camerarius, Ducatus Lancastriae Cancellarius, & ab intimis Conciliis Elizabethae Reginae, cui privatae & principi, fide & fama integra maximis negotiis spectatus, summa cum gratia, Annis 38. inservivit: Hic secundum Christi

Adventum in pace expectat.

Vna cum Anna, uxore charissima, filia Nicolai Points, Equitis Aurati, ex Joanna, filia Thomae Baronis Berkley, femina lectissima, sanctissimis moribus, & à teneris ad mortem usque Elizabethae Reginae praedilecta Famula. Que illi unicum filiolum infantia praereptum, & unica enixa filiam, Haeredem Elizabetham, Moylo Finch, Equiti Aurato, enuptam.

Obiit ille 17. Octob. An. Dom. 1594.

Praeivit illa Novemb. An. Dom. 1592.

Optimis & charissimis parentibus, Elizabethae Finch moestissima hoc posuit.

Iohn Elmar,Both these lye before S. Georges Chappell without Monuments. Bishop of London, buried in Anno, 1594.

Richard Fletcher, Bishop of London, buried in Anno, 1596.

These are the glories

of a worthy praise,

Which (Noble Baskervile)

here now are read,

In honour of thy life,

and latter dayes,

To number thee

among the blessed dead.

A pure regard

to thy Immortall part,

A spotlesse Minde,

a Body prone to paine,

A giving Hand,

and an un-vanquisht Heart,

And all these Vertues

void of all disdaine.

And all these Vertues

yet not so unknowne,

But Netherlands, Seas,

Indiaes, Spaine, and France,

Can witnesse that these

Honors were thine owne;

Which they reserve,

thy merit to advance:

That Valour should not

perish void of Fame,

Nor Noble Deeds,

but leave a Noble Name.

Eustacius de Fauconbridge, Regis Iusticiarius, Buried in the South Ile above the Quire within the wall. una atque altera Legatione perfunctus in Gallia, sub Ioanne & Henrico 3. Regibus: Quibus ab intimis Conciliis, & supremus Angliae Thesaurarius fuit: Post Concessionem Guil. de Sancta Maria huius Ecclesiae Antistitis, Electus est in Episcopum Londinensem, Anno Verbi Incarnati, 1221. Consecratus à Benedicto, Roffensi Episcopo, cum jam obesset Archiepiscopus Cantuariensis. Quum (que) sedisset Annos 7. Menses 6. obiit diem pridiè Cal. Novemb. Anno Salutis, 1228.

[Page] Henricus de Wengham,He lies also buried in the same South Ile above the Quire. Regi Henrico 3. à sacris, & Cancellarius, Decanus de Totenhale, & S. Martini London, Camerarius Gasconiae; Vir (ut inquit Florilogus) curialis, discretus, & circumspectus. Hee also lyeth buried there Electus Anno Christi 1259. Wintoniensis Episcopus, consentire noluit. Tandem, post mortem Fulconis Basset, hujus Ecclesiae Pontificis, eodem anno in Episc. Londin. consecratus fuit, sed vix tribus annis sedit.

Obiit Anno Salutis 126 [...].At the East end behinde the high Altar.

Hoc in loco requiescit in Domino Erkenwaldus 3. post Anglo-Saxonum in Britannia ingressum Episcopus Londinensis.Episcopi. Cujus in Episcopatu & ante Episcopatum vita & conversatio fuit sanctissima;1. Mellitus. 2. Wina. 3. Erkenwaldus. 4. Walcherus. 5. Ingualdus 6. Egulplnes. 7. Wigherus. 8. Edbrithus. 9. Edgarus. 10. K [...]ewalchus. 11. Edbaldus. 12. Edbertus. 13. Osmondus. 14. Ethehtothus. 15. Celbertus. 16. Rebulpbus. 17. Swithulphus. 18. Eadsinus. 19. Wilsiue. 20. Ethelwardus. 21. Eadstanus. ex Nobili Prosopia oriundus. Offae, Orientalium Saxonum Regis erat filius, ad fidem Christianam à Mellito primo London. Episcopo, Anno Domini 642. conversus.

Is priusquam Episcopus factus esset, dua praeclara construxit Monasteria sumptibus suis, de bonis quae jure haereditario sibi obvenerunt: unum sibi in finibus Australium Saxonum loco, qui Certesey vocatur: Alterum Edelburgae Sorori suae feminae laudatiffimae, ad Berching in ditione Orientalium Saxonum.

In Episcopatum vero Anno Salutis, 675. à Theodoro, Dorobernensium sive Cantuariae Archiepiscualia sacratus est. Sebbam, Orientalium Saxonum Regem ad Christi fidem convertit, & salutari Baptismatis unda suis manibus perfudit, qui statim mundo renuncians,Isli Episcopi in Margine notati, post Erkenwaldum, seriatim in Cathedra Londinens. us (que) in tempora Edwardi senioris Anglorum Regis successerunt. Quorum omnium adeo obsolevit memoria, ut nec eorum acta, nec mausolea s [...]an [...]ur. se totum Deo addixit, & in hac ipsa Ecclesia Archa Marmorea (quae ad nostra usque tempora permanet) sepultus est. Idem Erkenwaldus celeberrimum hoc S. Pauli Templum novis aedificiis auxit, proventubus locupletavit, & eidem immunitates nonnullas à Regibus impetravit. Tandem, circiter Annum Domini 683. spiritum Deo reddidit, postquam Annis 11. in Pontificatu sedisset, & magnifico Sepulchro hic conditus est. quod nostra memoria circiter Annum Domini 1533. hoc loco visebatur.

Michael Norborow,In the new workes of S. Dunstanes Chappell. Bishop of London, 1361.

Robert Brewer, Deane of Pauls, 1366.

Adam de Bury, Lord Maior of London, 1390.

Ralph Baldocke,In our Lady Chappell, at the East end of the Quire. Bishop of London, 1313.

Robert Breybrooke, Canon of Lichfield, Bishop of London, & made Lord Chancellour in the sixth yeere of King Richard the second.R. Baldocke was Founder of that Chappell. Hee sate Bishop 20. yeeres, and deceased in Anno 1404.

Iohn Stokesley, Bishop of London, Anno 1539.

Henry Lacy, In the new work of Pauls betweene our Lady Chappell and Saint Dunslanes. Earle of Lincolne, had a faire Monument erected for him with his picture in Armour, lying on it crosse-legged (like a Knight Templer) as one that professed his uttermost indeavour, for defence of the holy Land against the Infidels. He was buried in Anno 1310. and his Monument is greatly defaced.

Some have noted that in digging the foundation of this new worke,Wil. Paston. Chappell on the South Ile of Pauls builded▪ Scalps of Oxen found in digging the foundation. namely, of a Chappel on the South side of Pauls Church, there were found more than an hundred scalpes of Oxen or Kine, in the yeere one thousand three hundred and sixteene, which thing (say they) confirmed greatly the opinion of those, which have reported, that (of old time) there had been a Temple of Iupiter, and that there was daily sacrifice of beasts.

Othersome both wise and learned, have thought the Buckes head borne before the Procession of Pauls, on Saint Pauls day, to signifie the like. But true it is, I have read an ancient Deed to this effect:

Sir William Baud, Knight, the third of Edward the first, in the yeere 1274. on Candlemas day, granted to Harvy de Borham, Deane of Pauls, and to the Chapter there, that in consideration of twenty two Acres of ground or land, by them granted within their Mannor of Westley in Essex, to bee inclosed into his Parke of Curingham; hee would (for ever) upon the Feast day of the Conversion of Paul in VVinter give unto them a good Doe, seasonable and sweete, and upon the Feast of the Commemoration [Page] of Saint Paul in Summer,A Bucks head [...]orn before the Processiō at Pauls. a good Buck, and offer the same at the high Altar, the same to bee spent amongst the Canons residents: the Doe to bee brought by one man at the houre of Procession, and thorow the Procession to the high Altar; and the bringer to have nothing: the Bucke to be brought by all his meyney in like manner, and they to have payd unto them by the Chamberlaine of the Church twelve pence onely, and no more to be required.

This Grant hee made, and for performance, bound the Lands of him and his heyres to bee distrained on: and if the Lands should bee evicted, that yet he and his heires should accomplish the gift. Witnesses, Richard Tilbery, William de Wockendon, Richard de Harlowe, Knights, Peter of Stanford, Thomas of Waldon, and some others.

Sir Walter Baude, sonne to William, confirmed this gift, in the thirtieth of the said King; and the witnesses thereunto, were Nicholas de Wockendon, Rich. de Rokeley, Thomas de Mandevile, Iohn de Rochford, Knights, Richard de Broniford, William de Markes, William de Fulham, and other. Thus much for the Grant.

Now, what I have heard by report, and have partly seene, it followeth:

On the Feast day of the Commemoration of Saint Paul, the Bucke being brought up to the steps of the high Altar in Pauls Church, at the houre of Procession, the Deane and Chapter being apparelled in Coapes and Vestments, with Garlands of Roses on their heads, they sent the body of the Bucke to baking, and had the head fixed on a Pole, borne before the Crosse in their Procession, untill they issued out of the VVest doore; where the Keeper that brought it, blowed the death of the Bucke, and then the Horners that were about the City, presently answered him in like manner: For the which paines, they had each man of the Dean and Chapter, foure pence in mony, and their Dinner, and the Keeper that brought it, was allowed, during his abode there (fore that service) Meate, Drinke, and Lodging, at the Deane and Chapters, charges, and five shillings in money at his going away, together with a Loafe of bread, having the picture of Saint Paul upon it, &c.

There was belonging to the Church of Saint Paul, for both the dayes, two speciall sutes of Vestments, the one embroidered with Buckes, the other with Does, both given by the said Bauds (as I have heard.) Thus much for that matter.

Now to the residue of the Monuments which are beneath the staires, in the sides and body of the Church.

Sir Iohn Beauchamp, In a comely Chappell in the body of the Church, on the South side. Constable of Dover, Warden of the Cinque Ports, Knight of the Garter, the sonne of Sir Guy Beauchamp, Earle of Warwicke, and brother to Thomas Earle of Warwicke, lyeth buried in the body of the Church, on the South side, 1358. within a proper Chappell purposely made for him.

This deceased Nobleman (by ignorant people) hath been erroneously mistermed,Divers fond peoples opinion concerning Duke Humfrey, buried in Pauls Church. and said to bee Duke Humfrey, the good Duke of Glocester: who lyeth honourably buried at Saint Albans, in Hartfordshire, twenty miles from London. In idle and frivolous opinion of whom, some men (of late times) have made a solemne meeting at his Tombe, upon Saint Andrewes day in the morning (before Christmasse) and concluded on a breakfast or dinner, as assuring themselves to be servants, and to hold diversity of offices under the good Duke Humfrey.

Likewise on May-day, Tankard-bearers, Watermen, and some other of like quality beside, would use to come to the same Tombe early in the morning, and (according as the other) have delivered serviceable presentation at the same Monument, by strewing herbes, and sprinkling faire water on it, as in the duty of servants, and according to their degrees and charges in Office. But as Master Stowe hath discreetly advised such as are so merrily disposed, or simply professe themselves to serve Duke Humfrey in Pauls: A due and fit Penāce for fond Duke Humfreyes idle servants. if punishment of losing their dinners daily there, bee not sufficient for them; they should be sent to St. Albans, to answer there for their disobedience, and long absence from their so highly well-deserving Lord [Page] and Master, because in their merry disposition they please so to call him.

Margaret, Countesse of Shrewsbury, in the Crowdes, or Iesus Chappell, as appeareth by an Inscription on a Pillar there.

Here before the Image of IESVS, lyeth the Worshipfull and right Noble Lady Margaret,

Margaret Countesse of Shrewsbury, her Monumēt painted over the entry of Iesus chappell.

Countesse of Shrewsbury, late wife of the true and victorious Knight, and redoubtable Warriour, 1. Talbot, Earle of Shrewsbury; which Worshipfull man dyed in Guien, for the right of this Land. Shee was the first daughter, and one of the heyres of the right famous and renowned Knight, Richard Beauchamp, late Earle of Warwicke (which dyed in Roane) and of Dame Elizabeth his wife; the which Elizabeth was daughter and heyre to Thomas, late Lord Berkly, on his side, and on her mothers side, Lady Lisle, and Tyes. Which Countesse passed from this world the fourteenth day of Iune, in the yeere of our Lord 1468. On whose soule IESVS have mercy, Amen.

Wenlocke, by his last Will, dated 1477. appointed, that there should be dispended upon a Monument, over the Lady of Shrewsbury, where shee is buried, afore Iesus, one hundred pounds. He left Sir Humfrey Talbot his Supervisor. This Sir Humfrey Talbot, Knight, Lord Marshall of the Towne of Callis, made his Will the yeere 1492. Hee was the younger sonne of Iohn Earle of Shrewsbury, and Margaret his wife. He appointed a Stone to be put in a Pillar, before the grave of his Lady Mother in Pauls, of his Portraiture and Armes, according to the Will of Iohn VVenlock: But for want of roome and lightsomenesse in that place, it was concluded, that the Image of Jesus should be curiously painted on the wall in Pauls Church, over the doore that entreth into the said Chappell of Iesus, and the Portraiture also of the said Lady Margaret, Countesse of Shrewsbury, kneeling in her mantle of Armes, with other of her Progeny; all which was so performed, and remaineth till this day.

In the Chappell of Jesus, Thomas Dowroy, William Lambe, 1578. and many other have beene interred.

Iohn of London under the North Roode, 1266.

Iohn Lovell, Clarke.

Iohn Romane.

Iohn of Saint Olave.

Walter Bloxley.

Sir Allen Boxhul, Knight of the Garter, Constable of the Tower, Custos of the Forrest and Parke of Clarendon, the Forrest of Brokholt, Grovell, and Melchet, buried beside S. Erkenwalds Shrine.

Hic jacet Dominus Richardus de Piriton,

An Inscription in brasse, by sir Iohn Beauchamps Tombe.

quondam Archidiaconus Colcestriae, Canonicus & Stagiar, hujus Ecclesiae. Qui obiit 26. die Augusti, Anno Domini, 1387. Cujus animae propitietur Deus.

Iohn Nevil, In Saint Thomas Chappell, neere the North doore. Lord Latymer, in Anno 1542. whose widow was the last wife unto King Henry the eighth, lyeth there interred; but his Tombe is very much wronged and defaced.

Thomas Lynacrus,A brasse Plate above in the wall, neere the North doore. Regis Henrici 8. Medicus, Vir & Graecè & Latinè atque in re Medica longè eruditissimus. Multos aetate sua languentes, & qui jam animam desponderant, vitae restituit: Multa Galeni opera Latina lingua mira & singulari facundia vertit. Egregium opus de emendata structura Latini sermonis, amicorum rogatu, paulò ante mortem edidit. Medicinae studiosis Oxoniae publicas lectiones duas, Cantabrigiae unam in perpetuum stabilivit. In hac Vrbe Collegium Medicorum fieri sua industria curavit, cujus & Praesidens proximus electus est: Fraudes dolosque mirè perosus, fidus amicis, omnibus ordinibus juxta charus: Aliquot annis antequam obierit Presbyter factus. Plenus annis, ex hac vita migravit multùm desideratus, Ann. Domini 1524. die 7. Octob.

Vivat post Funera Virtus.

Thomae Lynacro clarissimo Medico, Ioannes Caius posuit, Anno 1557.

Memoriae Sacrum.

Edwardo Stanhopo, Michaelis Stanhopiex [Page] ordine Equestri filio,A Monument erected in the wall, neere to the staires going up into the North Quire. Equiti Aurato, Legum Doctori, Episcopi L [...]ndinensis Cancellario, Archiepiscopi Cantuariensis Vicario Generali, in publicis Ecclesiae & Reipublicae negotiis versatissimo. Qui certa spe in Christo resurgendi, piè placideque animam Deo reddidit, die 16. Martii, 1608.

Ioannes, Baro Stanhopus de Harington, & Michael Stanhopus, Eques Auratus, fratres moestissimi, Officiosae Pietatis ergo P. P.

Thomas Kempe, A comely Chappell founded by himself on the north side the body of the Church. Bishop of London, in a proper Chappell, termed of the Trinity, lyeth there buried in Anno 1489. As appeareth not onely by his name and Armes thereon in divers places; but likewise by this ensuing inscription, engraven on a Plate, and fixed in the same Chappell.

Infra Capellam istam requiescit corpus D. Thomae Kemp, quondam Episcopi London, fundatoris eiusdem, & unius Cantariae perpetuae in eadem. Qui multa bona tempore vitae suae Ecclesiae Sancti Pauli dedit, & stetit 39. Annis, 84. diebus Episcopus London. Ac obiit 28. die mensis Martii, An. Domini 1489. Cujus animae propitietur Deus. Amen.

Richard Vaughan, In the same Chappell. likewise Bishop of London, lyeth buried in the said Chappell, 1607.

Richard Fitz-Iames, Beneath the north-west Pillar, that supports Pauls steeple, in a Chappell builded by himselfe. Bishop of London, lyeth buried under a faire Tombe, and in Saint Pauls Chappell, builded of Timber, with stayres mounting up thereto, over his Tombe of gray Marble, in Anno 1521. But this Chappell was burned by fire falling from the steeple, and his Tombe taken thence.

Gulielmo Lilio,A Brasse plate fixed in the wall, by the great North doore. Pauliae Scholae olim Praeceptori Primario, & Agnetae Conjugi, in sacratissimo hujus Templi Coemiterio hinc à tergo nunc destructo consepultis: Georgius Lilius, hujus Ecclesiae Canonicus, parentum memoriae piè consulens, Tabellam hanc ab amicis conservatam, hic reponendam curavit.

Obiit ille G. L. An. Dom. 1522. Calend. Mart. Vixit An. 54.

Memoriae Sacrum.

Thomas Ravis,A faire Tombe in the wall, at the upper end of the North Ile, below. claris natalibus Mauldenae in Suthreia natus, Regius Alumnus in Schola VVestmonasteriensi educatus, in Academiam Oxoniensem adscitus, omnes Academicos honores consequutus, & Margistratibus perfunctus, Decanus Ecclesiae Christi ibidem constitutus, & bis Academiae Pro-Cancellarius. Vnde ob doctrinam, gravitatem, & spectatam prudentiam, à Rege Iacobo, primùm ad Episcopatum Glocestrensem provectus, deinde ad Londinensem translatus, & demum à Christo, dum Ecclesiae, Patriae, & Principi vigilaret, in Coelestem Patriam evocatus, placidè pieque emigravit, & quod mortale fuit, certa spe resurgendi hic deposuit, die 14. Decembris, An. Salutis 1609.

Gulielmus Harington,In S. [...] Chappell, neere to the great South doore. Iurisconsultus, Protonotarius Apostolicus, D. Pauli Canonicus, ex illis quos Residentiarios dicunt: Patria Eboracensis natus, in pago qui Estryngton vocitatur, Patre Gulielmo Haringtono, viro claro, genere orto in pago Commerlandiae non ignobili, qui Neubyging nuncupatur; & Matre Ioanna, Filia Gulielmi Haskae, aliter Balivi dicti, viri Generosi in eodem pago Estryngton nata: memor exitus vitae, qui omnibus horis impendet, hoc sibi Sepulchrum posuit. Anno Salutis humanae, 1523.

Sixe Lines this Image

shall delineate,

A Table hanging on a Pillar, in the South Ile.

Hight Croft, high-borne,

in spirit and vertue high;

Approv'd, belov'd, a Knight,

stout Mars his mate,

Loves fire, Warres flame,

in Heart, Head, Hand, and Eie:

Which flame, Warres Comet,

Grace now so resignes,

That fixt in Heaven, in

Heaven and Earth it shines.

Prosopopeia.

The Wombe and Tombe

in Name be not so neere,

As Life to Death,

[Page] and Birth is to the Beere.

Oh! then how soone to Beere

are Captaines brought,

That now doe live, and dye

now with a thought?

Then, Captaines, stay and

reade, still thinke on me,

For, with a thought,

what I am, you may be.

As Mars neere Mors doth sound,

So Mors neere Mars is found.

1. Da. of H.

Hoc Saxo tegitur corpus Thomae Creke,Somwhat neere to the Convocation staires, a faire plated stone upon the ground. L. Doctoris, & Almae Curiae Cantuar. de Arcubus Londini Advocatorum unius, viri utriusque Iuris tam Canonici quàm Civilis scientia non modo peritissimi, sed & eorundem usu & praxi longo tempore exercitatissimi. Cujus in Clientem causas defendendo, industria quanta fuit, quanta integritas, quanta fides, quanta denique si quid contra votum, & (ut sibi videbatur) aequitatem, accidebat solicitudo, & ii qui ejus usi sunt patrocinio optimè praedicare possunt, & celebris illius famae memoria nunquam moritura verissimè praedicavit.

Honestè vixit,

Neminem laesit,

Suum cuique tribuit.

Hic requiescit in Domino Gulielmus Dethick,In the body of the Church, on the South side, a faire stone, thus inscribed. Eques Auratus, filius & haeres Gilberti Dethick, Equitis Aurati. Qui ambo fuerunt Garterii Principales Reges Armorum Angliae. Cor. hic An. 1584. Aetatis suae 48. Ille Anno 1612. Aetatis suae 70. in Domino obdormierunt, expectantes resurrectionem per Jesum Christum Salvatorem nostrum.

Domina Thomasina sup. 40. Annos uxor praedict. Williel. & filii Georgius, Gilbertus & Henricus pietatis ergo posuerunt.

Hic jacet Robertus Hare,A faire plated stone in the West end of the middle Ile. quondam Cler. Thesaur. & Scriptor Rotulorum de Recept. & exitu Thesaur. Scaccarii. Qui obiit senex die 2. Novemb. An. 1611.

Now, to close up all these Memories, concerning this Cathedrall Church of Saint Pauls, London, we may not be unmindfull of a very bountifull Benevolence given thereto, by Master William Parker, whose worthy gifts deserve Volumes of Remembrance.Five hundred pounds given by M. William Parker, towards the glasing of Pauls windowes. By his last Will and Testament he hath given the summe of five hundred pounds, to bee imployed in the repairing of the VVindowes of Pauls Church, from the upper end of the Staires, from the first entring of the Quire, unto the upper end of the Church: By the order and direction of the Right Honourable the Lord Maior of the City of London, and the Right VVorshipfull the Aldermen, his Brethren, for the time being. So are the expresse words, set downe in the Codecill annexed to his Will.

Without the North gate of Pauls Church,Pater noster Rowe. from the end of the Old Exchange, VVest up Pater noster Rowe, by the two Lanes out of Pauls Church, the first out of the Crosse Isle of Pauls, the other out of the body of the Church, about the midst thereof, and so VVest to the golden Lyon, bee all of this Ward, as is aforesaid. The houses in this Streete, from the first North Gate of Pauls Church-yard, unto the next Gate, were first builded without the Wall of the Church-yard, by Henry Walleis, Maior, in the yeere 1282. The Rents of those houses goe to the maintenance of London Bridge.

This Streete is now called Pater noster Rowe, because of Stationers or Text-writers, that dwelled there, who wrote and sold all sorts of Bookes then in use, namely, A. B. C. with the Pater noster, Ave, Creed, Graces, &c.

There dwelled also Turners of Beads,Pater noster makers. and they were called Pater noster makers, as I read in a Record of one Robert Nikke, Pater noster maker, and Citizen, in the reigne of Henry the fourth, and so of other.

At the end of this Pater noster Rowe, Ave Mary lane. is Ave Mary lane, so called upon the like occasion, of Text-writers and Bead-makers then dwelling there.

And at the end of that Lane is likewise Creed lane, Creed lane. late so called, but sometime Spurrier Rowe, of Spurriers dwelling there.Amen lane. And Amen lane is added thereunto, betwixt the South end of [Page] Warwicke lane, and the North end of Ave Mary lane.

At the North end of Ave Mary lane, Duke of Britaines house, since Pembrookes Inne, then Aburgaveny house, and now Stationers Hall. is one great House, builded of stone and timber, of old time pertaining to Iohn Duke of Britaine, Earle of Richmond, as appeareth by the Records of Edward the second. Since that, it was called Pembrookes Inne, neere unto Ludgate, as belonging to the Earles of Pembrooke in the times of Richard the second, the 18. yeere, and of Henry the sixth, in the 14. yeere. It was after called Aburgaveny house, and belonged to Henry late Lord of Aburgaveny. But the VVorshipfull Company of Stationers have (since then) purchased it, and made it the Hall for the meeting of their Society, converting the stone-work into a new faire Frame of timber, and applying it to such serviceable use, as themselves have thought convenient.

Betwixt the South end of Ave Mary lane, and the North end of Creede lane, is the comming out of Pauls Church-yard, on the East, and the high streete on the West, towards Ludgate, and this was called Bowyer Rowe, Bowyer Rowe. of Bowyers dwelling there in old time, now worne out by Mercers, and others.

In this Streete, on the North side, is the Parish Church of Saint Martin, a proper Church,Parish Church of S. Martin by Ludgate. and lately new builded: for in the yeere 1437. Iohn Michael, Maior, and the Communalty, granted to William Downe, Parson of S. Martins at Ludgate, a parcell of ground, containing in length 28. foote, and in breadth 24. foote, to set and build their steeple upon, &c.

The Monuments here have been of William Seven-oake, Maior, 1418.

Henry Belwase, and Iohn Gest, 1458.

William Taverner, Gentleman, 1466.

Iohn Barton, Esquire, 1439.

Stephen Peacocke, Maior, 1533.

Sir Roger Cholmley.

Gulielmo Huseo Coelebi, [...] comely Monuments, each by other, in the East end of the Quire. Almae Curiae Cantuariensis Registro, literarum scientia, vitae probitate, morumque urbanitate claro, notis E. amicis omnibus dilecto. Antonius & Katharina conjuges, Chari parentes orbati filio Monumentum hoc dolentes posuerunt. Obiit quinto Kalendas Novembris, Anno Dom. 1559. vixit annos 28. menses 3. dies 7.

Obdormiat in Domino.

Hic situs est Antonius Huse, Armiger, Londini natus, Archiepiscopi Cantuariensis, atque Capitulis de Pauli Londinen. Registrarius primarius. Qui aliquot annos Judicis causarum Maritimarum officio integrè functus, ac etiam in Magistratorum Curiae Cancellariae concessum cooptatus, vergente demum aetate ad Praefectum Collegiorum Mercatorum Angliae, tam apud Belgas, quàm apud Moscovitas, & Rhutenos commercia exercentium accitus, lingua facundus, memoria tenax, ingenio, prudentia, doctrinaque pollens, morum comitate & probitate gratiosus, Laurentio, Gulielmo, Gilberto, & Vrsula liberis, ex Katharina conjuge procreatis non infelix, sexagesimo tertio aetatis Anno è vita excessit, Kalendis Junii, An. Dom. 1560.

Here lye the bodies of Florens Caldwell, Another sightly Monumēt in the same wall. Esquire, Citizen and Haberdasher of London, and Aldermans Deputy of the Ward of Faringdon without: And Mary Wilde, his first wife; by whom hee had issue one daughter, named Mary, married to Thomas Gourney, Esquire. And Sibill Greene, his second wife. which Florens deceased the [...] and Mary his wife the 19. day of Iune, An. Dom. 1590. &c.

Earth goes to

Earth treads on

Earth as to

Earth shall to

Earth

As Mold to Mold,

Glittering in Gold,

Return nère should,

Goe ere he would.

Earth upon

Earth goes to

Earth though on

Earth shall from

Earth

Consider may,

Naked away,

Be stout and gay,

Passe poore away.

Be mercifull and charitable,

Relieve the poore as thou art able,

A Shrowd to thy grave,

Is all thou shalt have.

Thomas Cooke, A very faire new Monumēt in the same wall. Citizen and Haberdasher of London, of little Wolton, in the County of Lancaster, had to wife Ioyce Hanbury, with whom hee lived [Page] thirty yeeres, and had issue one sonne, and three daughters; whereof two (viz. Elizabeth, wife to Iohn Bourman, Mercer, and Mary, wife to Thomas Bayly, Skinner) be yet living. Hee departed this life the 17. day of April, 1608. in the 55. yeere of his age. Shee (his said wife, sole Executrix of his last Will and Testament) yet surviving (to the memorie of her deare husband) erected this Monument, 1612.

To God, his Country,

and the Poore, he had

A zealous soule, true heart,

and liberall minde:

His wife, his children,

and his kindred sad,

Lacke of his love, his care

and kindnesse finde:

Yet is their sorrow swaged,

with the thought,

He hath attain'd the

Happinesse he sought.

Dies mortis, aeternae vitae natalis est.

To the Memory of William Yeardley, Gentleman, and Elizabeth his wife, sometime of this Parish. He died the 28. day of October, 1523. She died the 20. day of Iuly, 1593.

William Yeardley,

A Table hanging on a pillar in the Chancell.

and

Elizabeth his wife,

Who lived on earth

free from strife,

Not farre from this,

in earth doth lye,

To shew, that all

that live, must dye:

Where they doe

quietly expect,

To rise againe,

as Gods elect,

They left foure

daughters, and a sonne,

Who left them this,

when they were gone.

Iaspero Cholmley,A comely Monumēt in the same wall, but on the quires South side. Armig. Wigorniensi, Clerico Recognitionum capiendi, sive recognosc. Virtute cujusdam statuti fact. & ordinati 23. Hen. 8. pro debit. recuperan. Iusticiario Pa. & Quor. Dom. Reginae in Com. Middl. Patri suo chariss. & amantiss. Ioannes Cholmley, hoc Monu. dolens posuit, decem liberos ex Margareta sua unica conjuge procreatos, viz. Ioannem, Thomam, Gulielmum, Hugonem, Franciscum, Mariam, Iulianam, Margaretam, Annam & Ianam tempore mortis superstites reliquit. Obiit ultimo die Octob. Anno a [...]tatis suae 48. & Salutis nostrae 1586.

Here lieth the body of Thomas Antrobus, A new faire Monument in the same wall. Esquire, who deceased the first day of May, 1611. Having issue by Elizabeth his late wife (the daughter of Ralph Woodcocke, Citizen and Alderman of London) three sonnes and two daughters, viz. Thomas, John, Richard, Elizabeth, and Margaret.

Here-under lyeth buried Amy Edlyn, A small Monumēt in the same wall. and her sonne with her, the daughter of Richard Edlyn, of Woodhau [...]e, in Middlesex, and the wife of Robert Gomersall, Citizen & Ironmonger of London, who departed this life the 2. day of September, 1586. and left behinde her one sonne and one daughter.

On the South side of this Streete,The Black Friers. is the turning into the Black Friers: which Order (sometime) had their houses in Old-borne, where they remained for the space of five and fifty yeeres; and then, in the yeere 1276. Gregory Rocksley, Maior & Barons of this City. Maior, and the Barons of this City, granted and gave to Robert Kilwarby, Archbishop of Canturbury, two Lanes or Wayes next the Streete of Baynards Castle, and also the Tower of Mountfitchit to bee destroyed; in place of which, the said Robert builded the late new Church of the Blacke Friers, and placed them therein. King Edward the first and Eleanor his wife were great benefactors thereunto. This was a large Church, and richly furnished with Ornaments: wherein divers Parliaments, and other great meetings have beene holden: Namely, in the yeere 1450. the 28. of Henry the sixth, a Parliament was begun at Westminster, and adjourned to the Blacke Friers in London, and from thence to Leycester. In the yeere 1522. the Emperour Charles the fifth was lodged there.

In the yeere 1524. the fifteenth of April, a Parliament was begun at the [Page] Blacke Friers, wherein was demanded a Subsidy of 800000. pounds, to bee raised of goods and lands, 4. s. in every pound, and in the end was granted 2. s. of the pound, of their goods and lands, that were worth 20. pounds, or might dispend 20. l. by the yeere, and so upward, to be payed in two yeeres.

This Parliament was adjourned to Westminster, Parliamēt at the Blacke Friers, called the Blacke Parliament. amongst the blacke Monks, and ended in the Kings Palace there the 14. of August, at nine of the clocke in the night, and was therefore called the Blacke Parliament.

In the yeer 1529. Cardinall Campeius the Legate, with Cardinall Woolsey, sate at the said Blacke Friers, where before them, as Legates and Iudges, was brought in question the Kings marriage with Queene Katharine, as to be unlawfull, before whom the King and Queen were cited and summoned to appeare, &c. whereof reade more at large in my Annals, as I have touched it.

The same yeere, in the moneth of October, began a Parliament in the Blacke Friers, in the which Cardinall Woolsey was condemned in the Premunire: this house valued at 104. l. 15. s. 5. d. was surrendred the 12. of November, the 30. of Henry the eighth.

There were buried in the ancient Church, Margaret, Queene of Scots.

Hubert de Brugh, Earle of Kent, translated from their old Church, by Old Bourne.

Robert de Attabeto, Earle of Bellimon.

Dame Isabel, wife to Sir Roger Bygot, Earle Marshall.

William and Iame Huse, children to Dame Illis, Countesse of Arundell, and by them lieth Dame Illis, daughter to the Earle Warren, and after Countesse of Arundell.

Dame Ide, wife to Sir Walter daughter to the Lord Ferrers of Chartley.

Richard de Brewes.

Richard Strange, son to Robert Strange.

Elizabeth, daughter to Sir Bartholomew Badlesmere, wife to Sir William Behan, Earle of Northampton.

Marsh, The Earles of March and Hereford, and Elizabeth, Countesse of Arundell.

Dame Ioan, daughter to S. Io. Carne, first wife to Sir Gwide Brian.

Hugh Clare, Knight, 1295.

The heart of Queene Heleanor the Foundresse.

The heart of Alfence her son.

The hearts of Iohn and Margaret, children to William Valence.

Sir William Thorpe, Iustice.

The Lord Lioth, of Ireland.

Maude, wife to Geffrey Say, daughter to the Earle of Warwicke.

Dame Sible, daughter to Wil. Pattehulle, wife to Roger Beauchampe, and by her Sir Richard or Roger Beauchampe.

The Lord S. Amand, and Dame Elizabeth his wife, daughter to the Duke of Lancaster.

Sir Stephen Collington, Knight.

Sir William Peter, Knight.

The Countesse of Huntington.

Duchesse of Exceter, 1425.

Sir Iohn Cornwall.

Lord Fanhope died at Ampthill in Bedfordshire, and was buried here, 1443.

Sir Iohn Triptofte.

Earle of Worcester, beheaded, 1470. and by him in his Chappell, Iames Turchet.

Lord Audley, beheaded, 1497.

William Paston, and Anne, daughter to Edmond Lancaster.

The Lord Beaumond.

Sir Edmond Cornewall, Baron of Burford.

The Lady Nevil, wedded to the Lord Dowglas, daughter to the duke of Exceter

Richard Scrope, Esquire.

Dame Katharine Vaux, alias Cobham.

Sir Thomas Browne, and Dame Elizabeth his wife.

Iane Powell.

Thomas Swinforth.

Iohn Mawsley, Esquire, 1432.

Iohn de la Bere, Nicholas Eare, Geffrey Spring, William Clifford, Esquires.

Sir Thomas Brandon, Knight of the Garter, 1509.

William Stalworth, Merchant-Taylor, 1518.

William Courtney, Earle of Devonshire, nominate, but not created, the third of Henry the eighth, &c.Parish Church of S. Anne new builded in the Blacke Friers.

There is a Parish of St. Anne, within the Precinct of the Blacke Friers, which was pulled downe with the Friers Church, by sir Thomas Corden: but in the [Page] reigne of Queene Mary, hee being forced to finde a Church to the Inhabitants, allowed them a lodging Chamber above a staire, which since that time, to wit, in the yeere 1597. fell downe, and was againe (by collection therefore made) new builded and enlarged in the same yeere, and was dedicated on the eleventh of December.

Here I thought good to insert the Copy of an ancient Record, concerning the Priviledges and Liberties (in elder times) granted to the said Blacke Friers, which happened to my hands by friendly information, and the originall thereof brought mee, as here Verbatim it followeth:

Notes and Articles for maintenance of the ancient Liberties and Priviledges of the late dissolved Black Friers, neere Ludgate in London.

1. FIrst, it appeareth, that on the 25. day of November,Iob. Alforde executed at Tyborne. 1484. Iohn Alforde, Shoomaker, dwelling within the Blacke Friers in London, was apprehended and put to death at Tyborne for Felony, Thomas Newland, alias Norland, and William Martin then being Sheriffes of London, who sought to have had the goods of the said Felon; but the Prior of the said Blacke Friers withstood them, and possessed the same goods to the use of the Lord of S. Iohns, of whom the same Friers was then holden.

2. Item, The Bridge at the Blacke Friers. The Lord of St. Iohns hath usually made the Bridge at the Thames, adjoyning to the said Friers, and not the City of London, &c.

3. Item, Incorporating of the Prior & Covent▪ The Prior and Covent were incorporated by Act of Parliament, in the time of K. Hen. the 6. whereby they might prescribe, and did alwaies use & keep the Liberty inviolately, and cleerly exempted from the Citizens.

4. Item, No arrest within the Friers Precinct. The Precinct hath alwaies bin of such liberties, as that no man hath bin arrested within the same, by any of the Sheriffes Officers. And if at any time any Officers of the City hath taken upon him to execute within the foure Gates, hee was rescued by the Friers and Inhabitants of Antiquitie.

5. Item, Forrainers traded in the Precinct freely. At all times there hath dwelt within the Precinct divers and many persons not free, and yet they have used their occupations there, without controulement of the City and Citizens.

6. Item, Craftsmen come out of the countries. Alwaies at sundry times (of long continuance) divers and many Carpenters, Masons, and such like, have bin sent out of the Countrey, and have wrought within the Precinct aforesaid; which is not sufferable within the Liberties of the City, by their owne customes and ordinances.

7. Item, The inquiry after the death of any one slaine, by the Coroner of the Verge. Vpon the view of any person slaine, the Coroner of the Verge did alwaies make enquiry thereof. And the Deodand is due to the Lord of Saint Iohns, and not to the City; but now to the Queenes Highnesse due by law, equity, and good conscience, whose right and lawfull title the owners and inhabitants of the said exempted place and Precinct, doe seeke with their bodies & goods to defend and maintaine against all pretended title and claime of the Citizens. Notwithstanding divers of the said Precinct & Liberty have bin greatly vexed and troubled with often imprisonments within the Compters of the City.

8. Item, Freedome from watching, warding, &c. The inhabitants within the said Precinct were never charged to watch or ward, or to be within the compasse of any imposition; such as the Citizens are used and accustomed unto by their lawes.

9. Item, In the time of K. Edw. the 6. sir Andrew Iude then being Maior,A Riot committed in the Blacke Friers. there was a Riot committed in the Blacke Friers, in the house of one Master Lucas, by one Crouchman of the City, and other persons with him. The force whereof was soone overswayed by Sir Thomas Saunders, and Sir Henry Ierningham, Knights, Master William Moore, Esquire, with other Gentlemen inhabiting in the said Friers. And the parties by pursuit were twice endighted in the Marshalsea court holden in Southwark: Sir Nicholas Hare then being Steward, and sitting at the doing thereof. After which time, the said Crouchman (with other Confederates with him) sought to endight the said Gentleman by an especiall Sessions in the said City. For [Page] stay whereof the Lords of the Kings Privie Councell, understanding the lewd practices of the said Crouchman and other, and that the Lord Maior had nothing to doe within the said Precinct; Letters from the Councell to the Lo. Maior. wrote their letters unto the said Sir Andrew Iude, then Maior, willing him not to disturbe the said Gentlemen for the said fact, to the infringing of the Liberties of the said Friers: The said Sir Thomas Saunders, and Master William Moore being bearers of the said Letters to the said Lord Maior; who upon deliberation, made answer to the said bearers by word of mouth, That forasmuch as there was a complaint made to him of a Riot committed within the City; hee must needes (within one moneth after) enquire by Sessions of the same, which he said could not be prejudiciall unto them, being out of the Jurisdiction of the City: for that the same should be Non coram Iudice, and yet they discharged of the perill of the Statute. And so they proceeded with the said Letters notwithstanding: Whereupon, the said Sir Thomas, and Master William Moore, making report of their successe with the Maior to the Lords of the Councell; they wrote e [...]tsoones other Letters to the said Maior, but of such force touching the premisses, which were also carried and delivered by the said Sir Thomas and Master Moore: Whereupon, the said Maior stayed from any further proceeding therein, or any other, &c.

10. Item, In Queen Mary her time, the Councell of the City put a Bill into the Parliament house,A Bill put into the Parliamēt house. seeking by the same to have the Liberties of the said Friers, which Bill, with all their surmises, were so utterly rejected, that their Bill never came to the question, but was so suppressed, by argument openly in the same house.

11. Item, The Liberties granted to Master Cawarden, Cawardens Letters Patents. by Letters Patents of King Edward the sixth, the goods of Felons therein not granted, and so due to the Queenes Majesty, whose right and title the City hath not had, nor can bee suffered to enjoy, according to their seeking; by the onely resistance of the said owners and inhabitants within the said Liberty and Precinct, clearly exempted from the City, by metes and bounds on every side.

12. Item, The said Precinct hath alwayes been shut up and kept by Wals and Gates,Wals and gates belonging to the Precinct. so as there was no egresse that way, but by licence of the Porters, who were maintained and placed by the owners of the said Friers, and Liberties of the same, by especiall and generall words, granted by Letters Patents under the great Seale of England, to divers owners and Free-holders there of the Queenes Majesty. And in especiall above all other, to Sir Thomas Cawarden, Knight, deceased, in his Letters Patents dated the 12. day of May, in the fourth yeere of King Edward the sixth; in as large, ample and full manner, and with as many pithy and effectuall words, as ever was read or seene in any Patent, made for grant of Liberties of any place exempted, as by the same Patent more largely appeareth: The true copy whereof is annexed to these Articles, by the delivery of Master Moore, true owner of the most part of the said liberties.

13. Item, That Iames Norrice, Curate of S. Peters in Cornehill, being sometime one of the Friers,The Curate of S. Peters in Cornehill his affirmation. and Brethren of the Black Friers aforesaid, neere Ludgate in London, saith and affirmeth, That one Robert Struddell, late Prior of the said Friers, was by order of Law constrained to pave the high street adjoyning round about the channell wals, from the Flower-de-Lize towards the hill at Creed lane end. And a Cage at that time standing on that side the street, adjoyning to the foresaid wall, within the Parish of Saint Andrew, which Cage was plucked down by the said Prior, and not since set up again; the Prior aforesaid saying; Seeing they of the City cause mee to pave all this side of the street next my wall, they shall have no Cage of others standing on my ground, against mine owne wall: And so the City never builded Cage on that side after.

14. Item, Moreover, the said Master Norrioe saith, That the Liberties of the Blacke Friers in the said Priors dayes were such,The Liberties of the Precinct in the Priors dayes. that the Lord Maior of the City of London, nor the Sheriffes did arrest any man within the said Liberty for any thing, as free, as hee well remembreth in all his time.

[Page] 15. Item, Foure Gates belonging to the Friers and Porters. Hee remembreth, that foure Gates were shut in during the Friers time, by the commandement of the Prior. And one Father Seagar, being then Porter, appointed by the said late Prior, Robert Struddell, with others after him, at the appointment of other Priors then succeeding: And not by the Maior of London, nor any other.

The saying of Thomas Vlverston, alias Wolverston, of Garlicke Hithe, Officer to the Vintners of London, and sometime a Frier of the Blacke Friers: Taken before mee Sir Thomas Saunders, Knight, the 30. day of May, Anno Domini, 1562.

16. ITem, He saith, he hath heard say many times among the Friers and others,Of other mens doores into the Blacke Friers. that Master Peacocke of London, and his Predecessours, had never doore into the Blacke Friers out of his house; but by fine and agreement, made for the same with the Prior of Blacke Friers, long before his time of remembrance.

17. Item, He saith, that the Porters of the Friers alwayes kept their foure Gates (time out of minde) by the appointment of the Prior and Covent,How the Porters of the Friers kept their foure Gates. cleere exempted from the City. And when the Porters perceived any suspected persons or malefactors within the limits of the Friers; they declared it to the Prior, who forthwith commanded them, to take the ayde of the honest Inhabitants within the Friers, to make search and watch for the apprehension of such lewd persons: which so found, were alwayes examined by Sir William Kingston, Knight, and other good men there inhabiting within the Friers, at the Porters desire, and not otherwise.

18. Item, No search or watch within the Precinct, &c. Hee never heard, nor did know in all his time, any search or watch to bee made within the Precinct of the Friers, by any Watchman or Constable of the City, who could never come within any of the Friers Gates, but by the Porters licence of the same Friers.

19. Item, Paving the street by the Prior and Covent. He saith, that the Prior and Covent did once pave the Streetes (by his time) from the Friers Turnegate, unto the Flower-de-Lize, along by the VVall, to the Channell of the same Streete. But as for pulling downe of any Cage, he doth not well remember.

20. Item, For punishing disordered persons. He saith, if any Vagabond, or any Drunkard, or misordered person, were taken culpable within the Precinct of the Friers, they were alwayes punished in the Friers Stockes against the Church doore, by the Priors commandement; and not by the Lord Maiors, or Sheriffes of London.

21. Item, Against claiming the Liberties of Blacke Friers. Sir Iohn Portenary, Knight, inhabiting within the late Blacke Friers, neere Ludgate in London, about 30. yeeres past, doth well remember, That after the suppression of the said Blacke Friers, the Lord Maior of London would have entred into the said Blacke Friers, and claimed the Liberties of the said Blacke Friers. For the which, the Lord Cobham, the Lord Zanche, Sir Thomas Cheyney, Sir William Kingston, Sir Francis Brian, Knights, with many other VVorshipfull Gentlemen, then being Inhabitants within the Liberties and Precinct of the said late Blacke Friers, denied the Lord Maior and Citizens entrance, and would not permit nor suffer them, or any of them, to enter within the same. And shortly after, Sir Francis Brian, and Sir Thomas Cheyney, moved the Kings Majesty, then being King Henry the eighth; how the said Maior and Citizens would have entred into the said Friers. And then the Kings Majesty said unto them these words following: Are not Wee as able to keepe our Priviledges and Liberties, as the Friers did keepe their Priviledges alwayes before time, free from the City. Whereupon, they all (by one consent and agreement) sent the said Lord Maior word of the Kings Majesty his answer and pleasure therein. Whereupon the Lord Maior and Aldermen were satisfied, and would no further proceed upon the Kings right and title of Liberties; as then they promised and affirmed by the mouth of the Recorder, being sent by the Maior to the Worshipfull of the said Friers. [Page] And the said Sir Iohn Portenary further saith, That after the said Friers were supprest, the Lord Cromwell, Vicar Generall, caused to bee delivered unto the said Sir Iohn Portenary, the keyes of all the said Friers, safely to keepe from the said City, and to provide, that all within the said Liberty should bee in safety and safegard. The which keyes were afterward delivered by the said Sir Iohn Portenary, to the hands of Doctor Layton, and Doctor Wendie, they being Visitors there. For the which, the said Sir Iohn Portenary had a certaine reward payed unto him by the Lord North, then being Chancellour of the Augmentation Court. All which matter the said Sir Iohn Portenary will depose to bee most certaine and true, as hee will answer at the dreadfull day of Iudgement upon his soule.

22. Bee it in remembrance perpetuall for infallible truth,Two Aldermens [...] entring into the Liberties of the Blacke Friers. that one Alexander Avenon, being Sheriffe of London, and one other, being Alderman of the VVard of Faringdon infra, came and entred very stoutly into the Liberty of the Blacke Friers neere Ludgate, the fifteenth day of May, 1562. to carry away all the Hosiers and Taylors, to come to the Guild-Hall in London, according to the Queenes new Proclamation. Which Hosiers and Taylors denied to goe with the said Sheriffe, affirming and saying, That they had put in Bonds (before their comming) to the Lord Cobham, and to Sir Thomas Saunders, Knight, two of the Queenes Iustices of the Peace within the said Liberty (being within the Verge, and exempted from the City of London) according to the Queenes Proclamation. And thereupon, one Iohn Bradford, being Constable of the same exempted place, and within the Liberty of the said Queenes Verge; caused the foure Porters of the said Friers, to shut all the Gates; which being perceived by the said Sheriffe and Alderman; the said Sheriffe commanded the Gates to bee opened; whereunto the said Constable of the Friers said, That they should not be opened, before the Iustices pleasures of the Friers were knowne. And then the Sheriffe of London said, That hee was of greater authority than the Iustices were. The Constable affirming him so to bee within the City of London, but not within the Precinct of the Liberty of the Black Friers. For the Constable said, that he had greater power & authority there than the Sheriffe had. Which being heard, and scant well digested by them; fearing further inconvenience to arise thereupon (as by sudden changing of the grieved countenance was plainly declared) the said Sheriffe and Alderman (with gentle language) desired the Constable to open the Gates quietly, and suffer them to passe thence. VVhich hee did at their gentle request and entreaty: And so they departed out of the Liberty of the Blacke Friers, by the Porters commandement, and gave to the Porters for opening the Gates money.

People of Saint Martins, What ensued upon this businesse in the Blacke Friers. as well Strangers as other (in the open high Streete) marvelling and wondering at the said Sheriffes and Aldermans inclosure within the said Friers Gates: On the morrow after, being the sixteenth day of May, 1562. one Hardford being Constable of Saint Martins Parish within Ludgate, in the high Streete there, tooke one Tretheru, a Hosier and Taylor, dwelling in the said Friers, and carried him to the Lord Maior of London. Who by and by (without delay, or any further speech) commanded the said Gilbert to the Counter in London. Whereupon, the said Sir Thomas Saunders, as one of the Iustices of the said Liberty, went to the Earle of Arundell, Lord Steward to the Queenes most honourable Houshold, declaring the whole circumstance of the said Sheriffe and Aldermans enterprise. And obtained a token to the Lord Maior, no further to enter the said Liberty within the Verge; untill by Law, or the Privie Councels judgement, the question moved were determined, concerning the infringing of the said ancient Liberty. All this was spoken in the presence of Peter Baugh, Lewes Rawbone, and divers other Strangers. In witnesse and probatior whereof, the said Sir Thomas hath subscribed his name, with divers other here-under written, which were present.

[Page] 23. Be it had in perpetuall memory,A further testimony concerning one Robert Flower, Tailor and Hosier in the same precinct of Blacke Friers. for a continuall perfect declaration of the truth, whereunto all matters of variance and controversie should be referred and advanced; and not the sparkes of troth to be hidden (as a Candle, bearing perfect light, under a Bushell) and so washed away in the flowing waters of unmindfull oblivion, which (amongst all good Christian men) is at all times, and in all ages to be rejected, and not to be imbraced; but rather to be buried in the bottome of the earth, never to rise againe.

In consideration whereof, by these presents, it is for an infallible truth, to be holden with all men, which shall heare or see this present writing: That Robert Flower, Taylor and Hosier, dwelling within the Precinct and liberties of the late Blacke Friers, neere Ludgate in London; was by order and commandement of the whole Bench or Aldermen, committed into one of the Compters of London, the 20. day of May, 1502. For that the same Robert Flower refused to be bound (acording to order taken) from the making of monstrous great Hosen, according to the Queens gracious Proclamation in that behalfe: Because the said Robert Flower had (amongst other persons) put in Bonds before the Honorable Warden of the Five Ports, and Sir Thomas Saunders, Knight, Justices within the Liberty of the Queenes Verge. After which reveiled and knowne to the Honourable Earle of Arundell, Lord Steward of the Queenes most Honourable Houshold, who caused the Knight Marshall to goe to the said Lord Maior, requiring the deliverance of the said prisoner. The Lord Maior (being sickly) made answer, that he knew nothing thereof; but desired him to speake with Master Recorder: who made answer, that the said imprisonment was done by the whole Bench of Aldermen, and he (as one particular person) could not deliver the prisoner, untill the next Court day, which could not be till two dayes after, to the great charges and hinderance of the said prisoner.

Whereupon the Lord Steward sent for Master Cholmeley, he being then Recorder of London, and commanded him to deliver the prisoner; or else he would imprison the Maior of London, and the said Recorder, and the fattest Alderman in the Citie, which hee could get within the Verge: And declared, that the Queenes Liberties and Franchises should not bee overcome by the Lord Maior and Bench of Aldermen, so long as he was Officer: with many other words against the Citizens, which were too long to write. Adding further, that the Maior did not meddle with Saint Martins, being within the Citie, and a parcel of Westminster Deanry; much lesse should he meddle with the said liberty of the Friers, bounded out by walls and gates from the City, being in the County of Middlesex, and not within the Citie. And so commanded the Recorder to send home the prisoner into the liberty presently: which was so done accordingly: Promising, that if the L. Maior could declare or shew any good Title, whereby to breake the Liberty, the Queenes learned Councell should answer him and them therein. And then the Recorder said, he never heard before that time, that the Lord Steward did claime the precinct of the said Black Friers, to be within the liberty of the Queenes Verge: Out of which Jurisdiction the Citie of London is exempted by the Statute of 32. Hen. 8. Cap. 2. Vnder colour of which Statute, the Maior would bring the said Friers to be in London; which in all the Friers time was freely exempted.

All the which matter was debated in the presence of Sir Thomas Saunders, Knight; Master Robert Hopton, one of the Knight Marshals, and Mr. Bromeley, under Steward of the Marshalsea, the day and yeere above-written.

24. Item, A man slaine in the liberty of the Blacke Friers. That in Queene Maries time, or King Edwards time, her Brother, there was a man slaine within the said precinct of the Blacke Friers: and the goods of him that was supposed to doe the deed, were stayed within the said Friers, and an Inventory taken by the next Justice of Peace within the Verge, Roger Cholmeley, Knight, by the commandement of Sir Thomas Cheney, Knight; and afterward one Master Garrard and the Recorder of London, came unto the said Sir Thomas Cheney's [Page] house within the same precinct, and would have made an Inventory of the goods of the partie offender aforesaid, now deceased. But the said Sir Thomas Cheyney would not permit nor suffer them so to doe; for that hee had made stay of the same goods for the Queene before, if it were lawfully found that the said partie had slaine the man dead. Which afterward was otherwise found by a Quest of twelve men, sitting super visum corporis of the dead, by the Coroner of the Verge within the said Liberty: where the Maior of London and Bench of Aldermen have not to doe, nor intermit with the Inhabitants therein: Because the whole Friers liberties, and franchises of the same, were freely given unto King Henry the eighth, by Act of Parliament: whereby the Lord Maior of London, and Bench of Aldermen are cleerely barred and secluded from the Friers Liberties, and the inhabitants thereof franchised, and cleane exempted from all the Citizens, and their impositions or other taxations.

The true Copie of the Vicar of Bromleys Letter in Kent, sent to Master Thomas Walsingham of Scadborough in the said County, Esquire: who sent the same Letter to Sir Tho. Saunders, Knight, he being also one of the Queenes Iustices of the Peace in the said Countie; to examine the severall particulars therein, concerning the libertie of the said Friers, &c.

RIght Worshipfull; you shal understand that I have received your kinde Letter; according whereunto,The Vicar of Bromley dwelt formerly in the Blacke Friers. these are to satisfie your minde; That I was dwelling in the Blacke Friers foure or five yeeres, and came thither from Oxford, where I had beene a Student of Divinity. I was also Curate of the Parish within the Blacke Friers, called Saint Agnes. Wee had within us a Porter, who did shut all the Gates every night; at nine of the clocke in the Winter, and at ten of the clocke in the Summer. No Sheriffe, Bailiffe or Constable, nor yet the Maior of London, tooke interest there at any time, nor forreine porters had to doe within our Priviledge: And the Friers did pave both within the Turn-gate and without, unto Saint Andrews Church, downe by the great Garden wall: And without the Turne-gate there was a Cage, pulled downe by my time, which was set up by the Lord Maior of London. The inhabitants within the Friers never watched, neither the Constable of Saint Martins Parish warned any watch there, neither came within the Gates, after the houre appointed at any time. The Sheriffes of London had no Felons goods there, neither did arrest any person within the Precinct of the house. As for Bakers and Brewers that belonged to the house, they be dead.

There is one Iames Norrice, The same man spoken of before. Curate, alive, who was brought up in the house, and dwelling at Saint Michaels in Cornehill, he can give you further instructions: whether there be any more living, I know not.

The fatall VESPER, or dismall EVENSONG, happening at the Blacke Friers on Sunday in the afternoone, it being the 26. day of October. 1623.

THere were upon that day, being dedicated to the service of God, assembled together in the Black Friers neere the French Embassadours house in ordinary, above three hundred persons of sundry Nations, as English, Scottish, Welch, and Irish, to heare a Sermon, & after that to celebrate Evensong, according to the Rites and Ceremonies of the Romish Church. Of which number it is certainly knowne and confidently reported, that about the number of threescore of them, had that morning both confessed themselves, and received the Sacrament, according to the order of the Romish Church. Hee that was to supply that exercise for the present, was Father Drury, a Iesuite by profession, and by birth a Gentleman, being extracted [Page] out of the house of the Norfolcian Druries, and sonne unto Doctor Drury, late professor of the Civill Law, and practiser thereof in the Court of the Arches here in London. Hee was by those of the Romish religion reputed to bee a man of great learning, as having studied many yeeres beyond the Sea, with much approbation and allowance of his Superiours. And although he were opposite in point of faith and beliefe unto the Religion now professed in England, yet was he held by the generality of our Nation, both Protestants and Papists, who knew him, and could make a true estimate of his vertues and vices by the outward circumstance and appearance of his actions, to bee a man of a good moralllife, and of a plausible and laudable conversation. So that in respect of these indowments, there could nothing have been desired more by us of the Reformed Church, than that hee had not beene a Papist, but a member of our Church, Religion, and Profession. All the day before, which was the last that ever his eyes beheld, he was observed to be wondrous sad and pensive, contrary unto his wonted humour and disposition, hee being a man of a free, merry and affable conversation, as though that some spirit of prediction had foretold him of that fatall disaster, which was at hand. Thus wee reade of Caesar, that hee was possessed with a strange and unwonted sadnesse that morning when hee entred into the Senate house, where he was stabbed to death by the Senators. And so was that Assassine Cass [...] much perplexed and troubled in minde before that mortall and bloudy battell of Pharsalia. By meanes of which affection, Father Drurie finding an indisposition in himselfe, hee would (if with his reputation hee could) have made a retraction of his promise, and a demurre of the intended exercise. But being prest on by divers of his friends, who told him that the Audience was great, and their expectation farre greater, hee did then againe resolve to goe forward with the enterprise.

The place wherein this Congregation was assembled, was not the French Ambassadours Chappell, according as the first report went currant; for that was reserved for the use of himselfe and his family, to celebrate their Even-song after their owne manner and custome, but it was a Chamber neere unto the gate, some three stories high, being some threescore foot long, and twenty foot broad, or thereabouts. The wals were not made of Lome, composed of Laths and Rafters, and covered over with Clay and Lime, as some at first reported: but were of Brick and Stone, which are held by all Architects to bee the strongest and the surest building. But howsoever, a Gentlewoman of a noble house, and of a quicke and judicious spirit, who was then present, and had taken a curious view of the pressing multitude of the people, which was at length their owne oppression, and of the unfitnesse and uncapacity of the place besides, told him, That shee thought it would prove an action full of danger, if he should offer to preach in that place respectively in respect of the premises. But he being led on by a divine and fatall necessity, which blinds the judgement of the wise men of this world, he told her that he did meane as then to preach, and to goe forward with the greatest expedition he could, with his intended Sermon. For the accomplishment of which designe, the Father predicant being clad in those robes and ornaments which are used by those of his Order, being a Iesuit, having a Surplice girt about his middle with a linnen girdle, a red Cap with a white one underneath, turned up about the brimmes of his Cap, and his other accoutrements belonging, which the Ignatian Orders have imposed upon them: and being placed in a Chaire about the middest of the roome, which Chaire was raised up something higher than the ordinary levell of the floore: hee crossing himselfe with the signe of the Crosse, and having ended some private prayers, accommodated himselfe to his Text, between three and foure of the clocke in the afternoone of the foresaid Sunday. The words of the Text were part of the Gospel appointed for the present day, according to the order and instruction of the Church of Rome, being their fifth of November, which [Page] account is thought to bee the truest by the Romane Catholikes, and begins ten dayes before that of England. The Gospel was written in the eighteenth Chapter of St. Matthewes Gospel, and delivered unto us by the holy Spirit, in these words: Therefore is the Kingdome of Heaven likened unto a certaine man that was a King, which would take account of his servants. And when hee had begun to reckon, one was brought unto him which ought him ten thousand Talents. But forasmuch as hee was not able to pay, his Lord commanded him to be sold, and his wife and children, and all that he had, and payment to be made. The servant fell downe and besought him, saying: Sir, have patience with mee and I will pay thee all. Then had the Lord pity of that servant, and loosed him, and forgave him the debt. So the same servant went out, and found one of his fellowes which ought him an hundred pence: And he laid hands on him, and tooke him by the throat, saying: Pay that thou owest. And his fellow fell downe and besought him, saying: Have patience with mee and I will pay thee all. And he would not, but he went out and cast him into prison, till hee should pay the debt. So when his fellowes went and saw what was done, they were very sorry, and came and told their Master all that happened. Then his Lord called him and sayd unto him: O thou ungracious servant, I forgave thee all that debt thou desiredst mee, shouldest not thou also have had compassion on thy fellow, even as I had pity on thee, &c?

The words which he insisted especially upon, were these:Note that this Text was divided into three partes; whereof the first part treated of Gods mercie, the second of mans ingratitude, the third of the Remedies which man might use for the procuring of Gods mercie, and cure himselfe from this contagicus disease of his ingratitude. Which first part onely in part he handled. O thou ungracious servant, I forgave thee all the debt thou oughtest mee, shouldest not thou also have had compassion on thy fellow, even as I had pity on thee? Vpon which subject discoursing with much vehemency, and implying out of it the infinite mercy and goodnesse of God, whereby he doth not onely give us all that wee have, but forgives us all our trespasses and offences, bee they never so deeply stayned with the scarlet dye and tincture of our guiltinesse: which mercifull act of God is paraboliz'd unto us by a certain man that was a King, who tooke account of his servants, and after much intreaty and submission, forgave one ten thousand Talents, which he ought him. And also dilating by way of blame and reprehension of the ungratefull and unrelenting heart of man, who doth not forgive trespasses as God doth forgive him; but out of his swelling and malignant humour, writes benefits in the sand, and injuries in marble, which uncharitablenesse of theirs is intimated in the Parable by the ungracious servant, who would not forgive his fellow a small debt, although his Master had forgiven him one of a farre greater value. Moreover, upon the application of these words, hee did inveigh with much bitternesse, as some give out (but I know not how truly) against the manners and doctrine of the Protestants.

But having proceeded thus farre, loe what a sudden and unexpected accident fell out. The Sermon inclining towards the middest, and the day declining towards an end, it being almost foure of the clocke in the afternoone, the multitude and crowde of the assembly breaking downe with their overbearing weight the beames and sidetimbers wherewith this roome was supported, they fell downe into the next Chamber, the floore whereof being broken downe also with the descending weight of them and the ruines, they fell at last upon the lowest Chamber of the edifice, where some of them perished, some were hurted and maymed, othersome were free from all hurt and danger except of that which the present fright and terror did impose upon them, and those were they especially who fell not at all, but remained in one angle or corner of the Chamber, which was free from falling. Which persons beeing thought to be betweene twenty and thirty in number, as I heard by one, who was one of them, perplexed and frighted thus as they were, by consideration of that most fearefull danger, whereinto they had seene their fellowes and brethren to fall, who did lift up their hands for helpe, and beat their breasts for life, whereof they then were spectators; and being doubtfull that they should be Actors with them presently in that Scene of their calamity; the place being weake, tottering and unassured, for this cause feare and necessity [Page] giving motion and strength unto their armes, they opened with their Knives a Lome wall, which parted that roome and a Chamber belonging to the Ambassadours Lodging. By which meanes, after much difficulty and labour, they got their passage, and live as yet to glorifie God for their deliverance.

Presently upon the report of the fall and cry, divers persons of all sorts resorted unto the place, some out of charity, to helpe those that were thus distressed; for which cause they brought Spades, Pickaxes, and other instruments fit for that purpose; others out of meere curiosity came thither, to see this wonderfull event, and this object so full of admiration. Where, after the guards were set upon all the Advenues and passages leading into the Blacke Friers, and from thence into the Ambassadours house, by the direction and command of Sergeant Finch, Recorder of the Citie, who was exceeding carefull that my Lord Ambassadour and his servants should not suffer any detriment in their goods or persons, being jealous in this point of the Kings, his owne, and the Cities honour: and matters being thus disposed for the safety and assurance of the strangers, after they had broken downe a wall, and opened some doores, they fell to worke upon the ruines it selfe, with all possible diligence and dexterity: where at the opening of every boord, planke, and peece of Timber, there were objects which presented themselves full of horrour and confusion.

Here you might have seene a man shaking of his legges, and striving for life: There you might have seene another, putting forth his bloudy hands, and crying for helpe: Here you might have seene one like some spectre, thrusting out his head out of the grave: There you might have seene his fellow halfe dead and halfe living, intomb'd in that grave which he was not long to keepe. Here you might have seene the living thus pressed, as they were mourning for the dead; and there the dead senselesse, as they were imbracing of the living. So that since the Sicilian Vespers, there was never an Evensong more dolorous vnto the French, nor more lamentable unto the Scots and English. The Count of Tillier, who was Ambassadour here in ordinary for the most Christian King, which place hee hath executed with great dignity and authority for many yeeres together, to the generall liking and applause of both Nations, although he was fortunate in this, that not one of his retinue perished, was much agreeved with this unluckie accident, with whom the Spanish Delegates did condole, as by mutuall reference feeling that griefe, which fellow-feeling had made their owne.

Moreover, it was reported by one who had good intelligence in Elie house, that Don Carlos Colom's Steward should say, that his Master would not for a million of gold, this accident should have falne out in his or Exeter house. A report like enough to be beleeved of those, who know how strangely zealous this Nation is in their Religion, and how jealous they are besides of their owne, their Kings, and of their Countries honour.

Neither were the sorrows meaner amongst the naturals of this Kingdome, and the inhabitants of the Citie of London. So that here some men lost their wives, women their husbands, parents their children, children their parents, masters their servants, and one friend lamented the losse of another. So that Rachel was weeping for her children because they were not. Iob was lamenting for his sonnes and daughters, because they were slaine together by the downefall of an house, whilest they were eating of their last banquet. Insomuch that the streets did eccho with their dolorous moanes, the wals and houses did resound with their cries and lamentations. The subsequent night was so full of horrour unto many, that it may bee truely said of it, as was said of another dismall night in the like kind:

Quis cladem illius noct is,

quis funera fando

Explicit? aut potis est

lachrymis aequare dolorem?

When the bodies were drawn forth of those heapes of earth and timber, which taske of charity they were accomplishing [Page] all that night, and part of the next day following, they were found to be 95. persons, or therabout, of divers cō ditions, besides those who were bruised, maim'd or wounded. Amongst whom were divers persons of worth and qualitie: as Father Drurie, who was the Preacher; Father Redyate, in whose lodging this calamity befell; the Lady Web, descended of the Family of the Treshams, and sister unto my La. Morley, & my La. Sturton, and many moe besides of that weaker sexe, who then and there were assembled at their accustomed devotions. Yet were there many who were in that unfortunate downefall, which escaped the danger strangely and wonderfully. Amongst whom was Mistris Lucie Penruddocke, extracted from a worthy and Noble Family, who fell betweene the Lady Webbe and her owne maid-servant, both of which perished, yet she was preserved alive, by meanes of a Chaire which fell hollow upon her, and sheltered her from further danger. So was yong Mistris Webbe, daughter to my Lady Webbe, who fell neere unto her mother, and Elenor Sanders, who was covered, with many others, whose lives were saved within the heapes of these blood-guilty ruines.

There was also a Minister, whose name I cannot learne, and therefore although he survives this misfortune, it must be buried as yet in silence, who being present at the Sermon, as being invited by some Romish Catholike to that exercise; who also gave him the conduct unto the place; hee fell with the rest of the multitude assembled there together; and being covered with the rubbish, boords, and other timbers, which fell upon him from the higher roomes, and prest with the weight of divers persons besides, whereof some were dead, and some were living: being in this agonie, which his present paine, and the feare of death, in his own judgement even hanging over his head, did impose (and that not without just cause) upon him; being (I say) thus distressed, and striving under those heaps & ruines for life, the hope whereof, in respect of the premised impediments, had almost forsaken him; one of the French Ambassadours Gentlemen, hearing the noise and report of this great and dismal fall, suddenly (as hee could) opened a doore, which gave entrance into that chamber, upon the floore whereof, the heapes and ruines, together with the oppressed multitude, as then lay. Who perceiving light by the doore then opened, the place before being covered over with darknesse, he strove with all the strength and agilicy he could, which in him was not meane, he being a man of a very strong and able body, and at last, after the losse of his cloke and renting of his clothes, hee recovered himselfe, without any further hurt. Which the Gentleman perceiving, came and demanded of him, whether or no hee were hurt, or that he stood in need of any thing that might doe him service, or procure him comfort. But he being almost exanimated and astonisht, could not at first apprehend those courteous proffers which were tendred unto him by this stranger, who presently went and brought him into a Chamber; where after he had sate a while, and refreshed himselfe with wine, which was brought unto him; and having thus recovered his strength and spirits, hee returned to the foresaid place againe, and used his best endevours for the releeving of others from that calamity, whereof but even now he was a fellow-sufferer. His man who attended on him, was recovered amongst the rest, hee being something bruised and hurt in the arme.

Moreover, there was a yong girle, about the age of ten yeeres, as is supposed, (when this Minister, out of his charitable and commiserating disposition, was labouring for the safety and preservation of them, whose necessities did then require it) came crying unto him, and said, O my Mother, O my Sister, which are downe under the timber and rubbish. But he wisht her to be patient for a time, and by Gods grace they should get forth quickly. Vpon which speech the child replyed presently, that howsoever this accident would prove a great scandall to their Religion. A speech which is worth admiration in all men, as this Relator did truely admire it, that a childe of so tender yeeres, wherein amongst the most towardliest, [Page] there is scarce ability to discerne betweene good and evill, should next unto that griefe, which the danger of her mother and sister did inflict upon her, lament for nothing more than for the scandall which their cause was like to suffer by the disaster.

It was reported also that many more were drawne out alive the next morning: but I will not stand too much upon the justification of this report, lest I should seeme to bee too credulous of those things, which are contrary to the rules of reason and nature.

The day following, which was Munday, and the Eve of Simon and Iude, there was great care had for viewing the place, and for buriall of the dead. For this cause the Recorder and Sheriffes, about one of the clocke in the afternoone, met at the French Ambassadors house, having first shut up Ludgate, to prevent the throng and resort of the people, which was exceeding great and turbulent in those places: and then having doubled their guards upon every Port and passage, and given expresse charge unto the warders, upon paine of their displeasure and punishment, that no man should enter in without theirs, or the Coroners Warrant, they fell at length to consult about the businesse, and after mature consideration, concluded, that this dolefull accident fell out, not by any indirect practise or conspiracie (as was by some maliciously reported) but that those fourescore and odde persons fell by meanes of their owne weight, and the weaknesse of those timbers which did support the Chamber.

The Iurie having thus brought in their verdict, they disposed presently for the buriall of the dead, some of whom were carried by their friends unto Churches, farre remote, there to receive their due obsequies; others were buried in the same place, & those were of the meanest ranke, whereof some twenty, or thereabout, were laid in one Sepulcher, having a common grave, as they had a common death and downefall. The conjectures concerning this event were divers: For some gave out, that it was the just punishment and vengeance of God inflicted upon thē for their Idolatry. Moreover, there were divers doubting spirits amongst the Romane Catholikes, who thought that this was some conspiracie of the Protestants. But if the building had beene demolished and overthrown by their indirect & treacherous means, it must have been done either by blowing it up with Gunpowder, by sapping away the earth from the foundation, by undermining it, or by cutting off, or taking away those supporters and pillars, upon whom the frame and machine of the building was grounded. All which were found to bee false, upon most diligent search and inquirie made in that behalfe. But that which carried apparent appearance of truth, and that which the Protestants and Papists did allow, who were of the more milder, temperate, and sounder judgement, was thus: That this disaster hapned not by means of any divine miracle, or humane malice; but by the defect and weaknes of the place, into which such a multitude were crowded and assembled together, the judgement of God concurring therewithall.

The Society of the Jesuites did suffer much, in losing the persons of Father Drurie and Father Redyate. And divers persons of both Religions, but especially the Priests, who are men of as great care and vigilancie, but of a farre greater moderation, did taxe and blame them, for that they brought their flocke into a place of no greater safety or assurance; and besides, because their conventicle and meeting was so publike, there being divers Protestants assembled at it, some of whom were reported to have a share in this calamity, and the times as yet not serving for such assemblies, the Kings pardon being not yet published, which was granted, as they say to all the Romane Catholikes of these Kingdomes. But whatsoever thou be, Protestant or Papist, that doth see this mournfull object, judge not, lest thou bee judged. Neither thinke thou, that those 18. men, upon whom the Tower of Silom fell, or those persons whose blood Pilate mingled with their sacrifice, were more grievous sinners than all the rest of the children of Israel; or that these who perished thus together, were more notorious offenders than all the rest of their brethren and Religion: for assure thy [Page] selfe, that except thou repent, thou also shalt perish. And this repentance of thine must not be propter scandalum mundi, for the scandall and offence of the world, for so did Saul repent, when out of a foolish and State-spoiling pitie, he had spared Agag the cursed Tirant of Amalecke; and but of a faire yet foule pretence, had spared the fairest of the Cattell for sacrifice: for being rebuked by the Prophet Samuel, he doth repent, and desires him to honour him in the sight of the Elders, and to turne unto him, and he would turne unto the Lord his God. Neither must it be propter poenam peccati, for their punishment, that is due unto sinne; for so did Ahab repent, when hee was reprooved by Elias for killing of Naboth, and detaining of his Vineyard, he rent his clothes, and girded himselfe in sack-cloath, as the Text hath it: But after that the fright and terrour of Gods must terrible sentence was worne out of his minde, and the custome of sinne began to prevaile againe, he sold himselfe to commit such abominations, the like whereof were never committed in Israel. But our repentance must be propter reatum peccati, for the guilt of sinne, as sinne is a breach of the Law, and a transgression of Gods Commandement. Quae sic dolet commissa, ut non doleat committenda: Which repentance doth grieve for sinnes committed, as though it meant to commit no more; and mourne for offences past, as though it did meane to passe over no more.

We must take Repentance as Iob did, in dust and ashes. Being dust, we must take it in dust; and being ashes, we must take it in ashes. Our transgressions in this Kingdome and in this Citie have beene most grievous, therefore our contrition should bee eminent and exemplar. Our pride hath made us, with Lucifer, to superbire & superire, to looke over our selves, not into our selves, and to esteeme our selves like unto God, when we are scarce men.

Neither is this pride simplex peccatum, a single and simple sinne, but it drawes after it excesse and riot, as it were, with a cart-rope: unto which luxurie of ours, neither Persian nor Romane were equall. After which follow fornications and adulteries, which are so frequent in this place, that in vaine may we speake of the Bordellas of Rome, or the Stewes of Venice, since the Suburbs of this sinfull Citie, are as bad as the Suburraes of Rome or Venice.

Moreover, our drunkennesse is such, that although our eyes looke red, and our hearts are as fat as brawn with drinking of Wine, yet, we rise up early to drinke strong drinke: which when it hath inflamed our blood and spirits, we are ready, with Lot, to fall into all pollution and uncleannesse.

And last of all, wee are so uncharitable, so stony-hearted and close-fisted, that wee may bee fitly compared unto lumps of clay, tempered with blood, although we are statues of flint, without the blood or life of charity.

For this cause, repent, ô England, repent, ô London; repent Protestants, repent Papists, for your transgressions and offences: repent, repent; for by these wonderfull signes and tokens, it doth appeare most cleerely, that the Kingdome of Heaven is at hand.

A Note of such persons as were slaine, by the fall of the Roome wherein they were, in the Blacke Friers, at Father Druries Sermon, Octob. the 26. 1623.

MAster Drurie the Priest.

Mr. Redyate the Priest.

Lady Webbe.

Lady Blackstones Daughter.

Thomas Webbe, her man.

William Robinson, Taylor.

Robert Smith, Master Hicks man the Apothecarie.

Mr. Davisons Daughter.

Anthony Hall his man.

Anne Hobdin,

Mary Hobdin,

lodging in Mr. Davisons house.

Iohn Galloway, Vintner.

Mr. Peirson,

his wife,

two sonnes

In Robin-hood Court in Shoo-lane.

[Page] Mistris Vudall.

Abigal her maid.

Two more in her house.

Iohn Netlan, a Taylor.

Nathaniel Coales.

Iohn Halifaxe.

Mistris Rugbie in Holborne.

Iohn Worrals sonne in Holborne.

Master Becket, a Cornish man.

Thomas Mersit, his wife and his sonne and maid, in Mountague Close.

Mistris Summel, and Mary her Maid, in Blacke Friers.

Andrew whites daughter in Holborn.

Mr. Staker, Taylor in Salisbury court.

Elizab. Sommers, in Grayes Inne lane.

Mr. Westwood.

Iudeth Bellowes.

A man of Sir Lues Pembertons.

Elizabeth Moore, widdow.

Iohn Iames.

Morris Beucresse, Apothecarie.

Davie Vaughan.

Anne Field.

Mr. Ployden.

Robert Heifime.

One Medalfe.

Mr. Maufield.

Mr. Simons.

Dorothy Simons.

Thomas Simons, a Boy.

Robert Pauerkes.

Anne Davison.

Anthony Hall.

Mistris Morton and her Maid.

Francis Downes.

Edmond Shey.

I [...]sua Perry.

Iohn Tullye.

Robert Drury.

Thomas Draper.

Iohn Staiggs.

Thomas Elis.

Michael Butler in Woodstreet.

Edmund Rivals.

Edmund Welsh.

Bartholomew Bauin.

Davie, an Irishman.

Richard Price.

Thomas Wood.

Christopher Hobbs.

Elizabeth Astime.

Iohn Butler.

Clarentia, a Maid.

Iane Turner.

Mistris Milbourne.

Frithwith Anne.

Mistris Elton.

Mistris Walsteed.

Margaret Barrom.

Henry Becket.

Sarah Watsonne.

Iohn Bethoms.

Master Harris.

Mistris Tompson.

Richard Fitguift.

George Ceaustour.

Master Grimes.

One Barbaret,

One Hucble,

VValter Ward,

Rigaret.

enquired for.

Iohn Brabant, a Painter in Little Brittaine.

A man-servant of Master Buckets, a Painter in Aldersgate street.

Now to turne againe to the Blacke Friers, through Bowyer Row, Ave Mary lane, and Pater noster Row, to the Church of Saint Michael ad Bladum, or at the Corne, (corruptly, at the Querne) so called, because in place thereof, was sometime a Corne-Market,Corne-market by Pater noster Row. stretching up West to the Shambles. It seemeth that this Church was new builded, about the reigne of Edward the third.Parish Church of S. Michael ad bladum. Thomas Newton, first Parson there, was buried in the Quire, in the yeere 1461. At the East end of this Church stood a Crosse,Old crosse in West-Cheape. called the Old Crosse in VVest Cheape, which was taken downe in the yeere 1390. since the which time, the said Parish Church was also taken downe; but new builded and enlarged, in the yeere 1430. the eighth of Henry the 6. VVilliam Eastfield, Maior, and the Communalty, granted of the common ground of the Citie, three foot and an halfe in breadth on the North part, and foure foot in breadth toward the East, for the inlarging thereof. This is now a proper Church, and hath the Monuments of Thomas Newton, first Parson.

Roger VVoodcocke, Harter, 1475.

Thomas Russell, Brewer, 1473.

Iohn Hulton, Stationer, 1475.

Iohn Oxney. Roger North,Roger North▪ Merchant, Haberdasher, 1509.

Iohn Leyland, the famous Antiquary.

Henry Prannell, Vintner, one of the Sheriffes, 1558.

[Page] Wil. Elkin, one of the Sheriffs, 1586.

Thomas Bankes, Barber-Chir [...]rgeon, 1598.

Here lyeth buried the body of Henry Prannell, A comely Monumēt in the South side of the Chancell. late Citizen and Alderman of London, and free of the Vintners, who deceased the 22. day of October, Ann. Dom. 1589. Anno aetatis suae, 58. He had to wife Anne, the daughter of Edmond Baxtar, and had issue by her, three sonnes and one daughter.

Here lyeth the body of William Elkin, Another like Monument in the same wall. Mercer, late Citizen and Alderman of London, who deceased the last day of October, 1593. Anno aetatis suae, 70. who tooke to wife Alice Robinson, the Daughter of Thomas Wilkes, by whom he had issue one daughter, named Vrsula.

Thomas Bankes, A smaller Monumēt in the same wall. Barber Chirurgeon, Deputie of this Ward, who had to wife Joan Laurence, by whom he had issue seven sonnes and ten daughters.

Iohn Mundham had a Chauntry there in the fourth of Edward the second.

At the East end of this Church, in place of the old Crosse,Water-Conduit by Pauls gate. is now a water-Conduit placed; William Eastfield, Maior, the ninth of Henry the sixth, at the request of divers Common-Councels, granted it to be: whereupon, in the 19. of the same Henry, 1000. Markes was granted by a Common Councell, towards the workes of this Conduit, and the reparations of other: this is called the Little Conduit in West Cheap, by Pauls gate.

At the West end of this Parish Church,Passage thorow S. Michaels Church. is a small passage for people on foot thorow the same Church, and West from the said Church, some distance, is another passage out of Pater noster row, and is called (of such a signe) Panyer Alley, Panyer Alley. which commeth out into the North, over against Saint Martins Lane.

Next is Ivie Lane, Ivie lane. so called of Ivie growing on the walls of the Prebends houses, but now the Lane is replenished on both the sides with faire houses, and divers Offices have beene there kept, by Registers, namely, for the Prerogative Court of the Archbishop of Canturbury, the Probate of Wils, which is now removed into Warwicke lane, and also for the Lord Treasurers Remembrance of the Exchequer, &c.

This Lane runneth North, to the West end of Saint Nicholas Shambles. Of old time there was one great house, sometimes belonging to the Earles of Britaine, since that, to the Lovels, and was called Lovels Inne: Lovels Inne. for Matild, wife to Iohn Lovell, held it in the first of Henry the sixth.

Then is Eldenese Lane, Eldenese or Warwicke Lane. which stretcheth North to the high street of Newgate Market, the same is now called Warwick lane, of an ancient house there builded by an Earle of Warwicke, and was since called Warwicke Inne. Warwicke Inne. It is in Record called a Messuage in Eldenese Lane, in the Parish of S. Sepulchre, the 28. of Henry the sixth. Cicilie, Duchesse of Warwicke, possessed it.

Now againe, from the Conduit by Pauls gate, on the North side is a large street, running West to Newgate, the first part whereof, from the Conduit to the Shambles, (of selling Bladders there) called Bladder street. Bladder street. Then behind the Butchers shops bee now divers slaughter-houses inward, and Tipling-houses outward.Mountgoddard street. This is called Mountgoddard street, of the Tippling-houses there, and the Goddards mounting from the Tappe to the Table, from the Table to the mouth, and sometimes over the head.

This street goeth up to the North end of Ivie lane. Before this Mount-goddard street, Stall-Boords were of old time set up by the Butchers, to shew and to sell their Flesh meat upon; over the which Stall-Boords, they first builded sheds, to keepe off the weather: but since that (incroching by little and little) they have made their Stall-boords and Sheds, faire houses, meet for the principall Shambles.

Next is Newgate market, Newgate Market. first of Corne and Meale, and then of other Victuals, which stretcheth almost to Eldenese lane. A faire new and strong Frame of Timber, covered with Lead, was therefore set up at the charges of the Citie, neere to the West corner of S. Nicholas Shambles, for the Meale to bee weighed, [Page] in the first of Edward the sixth; Sir Iohn Gresham being then Maior.

On this side the north corner of Eldenese lane, stood sometime a proper Parish Church of S. Ewine, Parish Church of S. Ewine. as is before said, given by Henry the eighth towards the erecting of Christs Church: It was taken downe, and in place thereof, a faire strong frame of Timber erected, wherein dwell men of divers Trades. And from this frame, to Newgate, is all of this Ward: and so an end thereof.

It hath an Alderman, his Deputy, Common Counsell, twelve; Constables, seventeene; Scavengers, eighteen; Wardmote Inquest, eighteene, and a Beadle: and is taxed to the Fifteene, fifty pounds.

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BREADSTREET VVARD.

BReadstreet ward beginneth in the high street of West Cheape, Breadstreet Ward. to wit, on the South side, from the Standard to the great Crosse. Then is also a part of Watheling street of this Ward, to wit, from over against the Red Lion, on the North side, up almost to Pauls gate; for it lacketh but one house of Saint Augustines Church. And on the South side, from the Red Lion Gate to the Old Exchange; and downe the same Exchange, on the East side, by the West end of Maiden Lane, or Distar lane, to Knight-Riders street, or, as they call that part thereof, Old Fish-street. And all the North side of the said Old Fish-street, to the South end of Breadstreet, and by that, still in Knight-Riders street, till over against the Trinitie Church, and Trinitie Lane.

Then is Breadstreet it selfe,Breadstreet. so called, of Bread in old time there sold: for it appeareth by Records, that in the yeere 1302. which was the 30. of Edward the first, the Bakers of London were bounden to sell no bread in their shops or houses, but in the Market; and that they should have foure Hall-motes in the yeere, at foure severall termes, to determine of enormities belonging to the said Company.

This street, giving the name to the whole Ward, beginneth in West Cheape, almost by the Standard, and runneth downe South, through or thwart Watheling street, to Knight-Riders street aforesaid, where it endeth. This Breadstreet is wholly on both sides of this Ward. Out of the which street, on the East side, is Basing lane, a piece whereof, to wit, to and over against the backe gate of the Red Lion in Watheling street, is of this Breadstreet Ward.

Then is Friday street, Friday street. beginning also in West Cheape, and runneth downe South through Watheling street, to Knight Riders street, or Old Fish-street. This Friday street is of Breadstreet Ward, on the East side, from over against the North-east corner of Saint Matthewes Church, and on the West side, from the South corner of the said Church, downe as aforesaid.

In this Friday street, on the West side thereof, is a Lane, commonly called Mayden Lane, or Distaffe Lane, corruptly for Distar Lane, which runneth West into the Old Exchange: and in this Lane is also one other lane, on the South side thereof, likewise called Distar Lane, which runneth downe to Knight-Riders street, or Old Fishe-street: And so bee the bounds of this whole Ward.

Monuments to be noted here: first at Breadstreet corner, the North-east end 1595. of Thomas Tomlinson, causing in the high street of Cheape a Vault to bee digged and made, there was founde at fifteene foot deepe,A faire paved way found, 15. foot deep, in Cheape street. a faire pavement, like unto that above ground; and at the further end, at the Chanell, was found a Tree, sawed into five steppes, which was to steppe over some Brooke, running out of the West, towards Walbrooke: and upon the edge of the said Brooke, as it seemeth, there were found lying along, the bodies of two great Trees, the ends whereof were then sawed off, and firme Timber, as at the first when they fell; part of the said Trees remaine yet in the ground undigged. It was all forced ground, untill they went past the Trees aforesaid, which was about seventeene foot deepe, or better; thus much hath the ground of this Citie (in that place) beene raised from the maine.

[Page] Next to be noted, the most beautifull Frame of faire houses and shops,Goldsmiths Rowe in Cheape. that be within the Wals of London, or elsewhere in England, commonly called Goldsmiths Rowe, betwixt Breadstreete end and the Crosse in Cheape, but is within this Breadstreete Ward; the same was builded by Thomas Wood, Goldsmith, one of the Sheriffes of London, in the yeere 1491. It containeth in number ten faire dwelling houses, and foureteene shops, all in one Frame, uniformely builded foure stories high, beautified towards the streete with the Goldsmiths Armes, and the likenesse of Wood-men, in memory of his name, riding on monstrous Beasts; all which is cast in Lead, richly painted over, and gilt: these hee gave to the Goldsmiths, with stockes of money to bee lent to young men, having those shops, &c. This said Front was againe new painted and gilt over in the yeere 1594. Sir Richard Martin being then Maior, and keeping his Maioralty in one of them; serving out the time of Cutbert Buckle, from the second of Iuly, till the 28. of October.

Then for Watheling streete, Watheling street. which Leyland calleth Atheling or Noble street: but since hee sheweth no reason why, I rather take it to be so named, of the great high-way of the same calling. True it is, that at this present the inhabitants thereof are wealthy Drapers, retaylers of Woollen Clothes, both Broad and Narrow, of all sorts, more than in any one street of this City.

Of the Old Exchange, Knight-Riders street. I have noted in Faringdon Ward: VVherefore I passe downe to Knight-Riders street, whereof I have also spoken in Cordwainer streete Ward. But in this part of the said Knight-Riders street, is a Fish-Market kept, and therefore called Old Fishstreet, for a difference from New Fishstreet.

In this Old Fishstreet is one Rowe of small houses,Fish-Market, called Old Fishstreet. placed along in the middest of Knight-Riders street, which Rowe is also of Breadstreet Ward. These houses, now possessed by Fishmongers, were at the first but moveable Boords (or Stals) set out on Market daies, to shew their Fish, there to bee sold: but procuring licence to set up Sheds, they grew to Shops, and by little and little, to tall Houses, of three or foure stories in height, and now is called Fishstreete. Walcer Turke, Fishmonger, Maior, 1349. had two Shops in Old Fishstreet, over-against Saint Nicholas Church, the one rented five shillings the yeere, the other foure shillings.

Breadstreet, Breadstreet. so called of Bread sold there (as I said) is now wholly inhabited by rich Merchants, and divers faire Innes be there, for good receit of Carriers, and other Travellers to the City.

On the East side of this street,Parish Church of Alhallowes in Breadstreet. at the corner of Watheling street, is the proper Church of Alhallowes in Breadstreete, wherein are the Monuments of Iames Thame, Goldsmith.

Iohn Walpole, Goldsmith, 1349.

Thomas Beaumont, Alderman, one of the Sheriffes, 1442.

Robert Basset, Salter, Maior, 1476.

Sir Richard Chaury, Salter, Maior, 1509.

Sir Thomas Pargitar, Salter, Maior, 1530.

Henry Sucley, Merchant-Taylor, one of the Sheriffes, 1541.

Richard Reade, Alderman, that served and was taken prisoner in Scotland, 1542.

Robert House, one of the Sheriffes, 1589.

William Albany, Richard May, and Roger Abdy, Merchant-Taylors.

Hic jacent Thomas Beaumond,An anciēt gray Marble tomb, as in a Chappell by it selfe. Civis, Salter, & quondam Vicecomes Civitatis London, Alicia, & Alicia uxores ejus. Qui quidem Thomus obiit 14. die mensis Augusti, Anno Domini, 1457. Quorum animabus propetietur Deus. Es testis Christe, &c.

Corporis ut Christi

festum possit venerari,

Hic magis instituit

Salter iter Beaumond.

Cui Deus uxoribus

binis Coeleste solamen,

Detque suis pueris:

All these have faire plate [...] [...] other.

Sit benedictus. Amen.

Here lieth buried the body of William Albany, Esquire, Citizen, and Merchant-Taylor of London, with his two wives, Thomasine, by whom hee had issue five [Page] sonnes, and foure daughters, who deceased the 15. of December, 1565. And Ioane, who dyed without issue, the 7. of Iuly, 1579. And the said William yeelded his soule to the Almighty the 18. day of February, 1589. being of the age of 82. yeeres: so rest they all here in the assured hope of a blessed resurrection.

Respice & prospice finem.

Here lieth Henry Suckley, late Sheriffe, Citizen, and Merchant-Taylor of London, which Henry deceased the one and twentieth day of Iuly, Anno Domini, 1564. And his foure wives, Anne Boughton, Elizabeth English, Alice Fletcher, and Agnes Cachemaide, &c.

Here lieth Robert Mellishe, Citizen and Merchant-Taylor of London, which deceased the thirtieth day of March, Anno Domini 1562. &c.

Robert Hulson lyeth here,

A white stone by it self, neere to the Tombe.

In his time well knowne to all;

He lived well, and died so,

When God from hence did him call.

In the three and twentieth of Henry the eighth, the seventeenth of August, two Priests of this Church fell at variance, that the one drew bloud of the other: Wherefore the same Church was suspended,Church suspended. and no Service sung or said therein for the space of one moneth after; the Priests were committed to prison, and the fifteenth of October, being injoyned penance, went before a generall Procession, bare-headed, bare-footed, and bare-legged, before the Children, with Beades and Bookes in their hands, from Pauls, through Cheap, Cornhill, &c.

More to bee noted of this Church,Spire of A [...]hallowes, steeple smitten by Tempest. which had sometime a faire spired Steeple of stone. In the yeere 1559. the fifth of September, about mid-day, fell a great Tempest of Lightning, with a terrible clap of Thunder, which struck the said spire about 9. or 10. foot beneath the top; out of the which place fell a stone, that slew a Dogge, and overthrew a man that was playing with the Dogge. The same Spire, being but little damnified thereby, was shortly after taken downe, for sparing the charges of reparation.

On the same side is Salters Hall,Salters Hall. with sixe Almes-houses in number, builded for poore decayed Brethren of that Company. This Hall was burned in the yeere 1539. and againe re-edified.

Lower downe,Parish Church of S. Mildred in Breadstreet. on the same side, is the Parish Church of St. Mildred the Virgin.

The Monuments in this Church be, of the Lord Trenchaunt, of Saint Albans, Knight, who was supposed to be either the new builder of this Church, or best Benefactor to the Workes thereof, about the yeere 1300. and certaine Cornish Gentlemen, 1312.

William Palmer, Blader, a great Benefactor also, 1356.

Iohn Chadworth, Maior, 1401. who gave the Parsonage house, a Revestry, and Church-yard to that Parish, in the yeere 1428. notwithstanding, his Monument is pulled downe.

Stephen Budge, Gentleman; his Armes be three Water-Budges, 1419.

Henry Budge founded a Chauntry there, 1419.

Roger Forde, Vintner, 1440.

Thomas Barnwell, Fishmonger, one of the Sheriffes, 1424.

Sir Iohn Hawlen, Clarke, Parson of that Church,Parson of S. Mildred & his man burned. who built the Parsonage house newly, after the same had beene burned to the ground, together with the Parson and his man also, burned in that fire, 1485.

Iohn Parnell, 1510.

William Hurstwaight, Pewterer to the King, 1526.

Christopher Turner, Chirurgeon to King Henry the eighth, 1530.

Ralph Simonds, Fishmonger, one of the Sheriffes, in the yeere 1527.

Thomas Langham gave to the Poore of that Parish 4. Tenements, 1575.

Thomas Hall, Salter, 1582.

Thomas Collins, Salter, Alderman.

Sir Ambrose Nicholas, Salter, Maior, 1575. was buried in sir Iohn Chadworths Vault.

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An Obite consecrated to the happy Memoriall of Sir JOHN CHADWORTH, A very ancient Tombe in the North side of the Chancell. or SHADWORTH, Knight, sometime Mercer, and Lord Maior of this City of London; who gave a Vestry to this Church, an house for the Pastor to dwell in, and a Church-yard to the Parishioners, wherein to bury their dead. He deceased the 7. day of May, An. Dom. 1401.

Here lieth a man,

A faire inscription on the wall.

that

Faith and Works did even

(Like fiery Chariots)

mount him up to Heaven:

He did adorne this Church.

When words were weake,

And men forget, the

living Stones will speake,

He left us Land: This

little Earth him keepes,

These balcke words Mourners,

and the Marble weepes.

Here lieth the body of Thomas Copynger, A plated stone before the Communion table▪ the which deceased the 14. day of November, in the yeere of our Lord God, 1513. On whose soule, &c.

Here lieth buried Thomas Clivelod, The like stone by the other. of Warmoster, in the County of VViltshire, Clothier; who deceased the 24. day of Iune, An. Dom. 1558.

Here lieth Sir Cuthbert Barne, One faire stone plated, for both these, by the Communion table. Knight, who deceased the 16. day of October, in the yeere of our Lord God, 1521. On whose, &c.

Here lieth Roger Forde, Vintner of London, with Ioane and Margaret his wives. The which Joane deceased the eighth day of August, Anno Domini, 1467. And Margaret deceased the eleventh day of Iune, Anno Domini. 1492. And the foresaid Roger deceased, &c.

Here lye buried the bodies of Iohn Ireland, A faire plated stone in the South Quire. Citizen and Salter of London, and Elizabeth his wife, who were married together about nine and forty or fiftie yeeres: And hee had issue by her sixe sonnes and sixe daughters, and hee lived in this Parish sixty yeeres. He was Deputie of this VVard fifteene yeeres, and was the first Master of the Company of Salters. She deceased the second day of April, 1613. being of the age of seventy and five yeeres. And hee deceased the five and twentieth day of Iune, being aged 83. yeeres.

So rest they both here in the bed of death, in hope of a joyfull resurrection.

Respice & prospice finem.

Out of this Breadstreet, Basing lane called the Bakehouse. on the same side, is Basing lane, a part whereof (as is afore shewed) is of this VVard, but how it tooke the name of Basing I have not read. In the twentieth yeere of Richard the second, the same was called the Bakehouse, whether meant for the Kings Bakehouse, or of Bakers dwelling there, and baking Bread to serve the Market in Breadstreet, where the Bread was sold, I know not: but sure I am, I have not read of Basing, or of Gerrard the Gyant, to have any thing there to doe.

On the South side of this Lane is one great house, of old time builded upon arched Vaults, and with arched Gates of stone brought from Cane in Normandie. The same is now a common Ostrey for receit of Travellers, commonly and corruptly called Gerards Hall, of a Gyant said to have dwelled there. In the high rooffed Hall of this house sometime stood a large Firre-Pole,A Pole of 40. foot long and 15. inches about, [...]abuled to be the justing staffe of Gerard a Gyant. which reached to the roofe thereof, and was said to be one of the staves that Gerard the Gyant used in the warres to runne withall. There stood also a Ladder of the same length, which (as they said) served to ascend to the top of the staffe. Of later yeers this Hall is altred in building, and divers roomes are made in it. Notwithstanding, the Pole is removed to one corner of the Hall, and the Ladder hanged broken, upon a wall in the yard. The Hosteler of that house said to mee, the Pole lacked halfe a foote of forty in length. I measured the compasse thereof, and found it fifteene inches. Reason of the Pole could the Master of the Hostery give me none, but [...]ade mee reade the great Chronicles; for there he heard of it. Which answer [Page] seemed to me insufficient: for he meant the description of Britaine, for the most part drawne out of Iohn Leyland his Commentaries, (borrowed of my selfe) and placed before Reyne Wolfes Chronicle, as the labours of another (who was forced to confesse, that he never travelled further than from London to the Vniversity of Oxford) hee writing a Chapter of Gyants or monstrous men, hath set down more matter than troth, as partly (against my will) I am enforced here to touch. R. G. in his briefe Collection of Histories (as he termeth it) hath these words:

I the writer hereof, did see the tenth day of March, in the yeere of our Lord, 1504. and had the same in my hand, the tooth of a man, which weighed ten ounces of Troy weight: and the scull of the same man is extant and to bee seene, which will hold five peckes of wheate; and the shin-bone of the same man, is sixe foote in length, and of a marvellous greatnesse: this saw R. G.

The errour thereof is thus:R. G. saw a stone, and said the same to be a tooth, but being by my self proved a stone, there failed both scull and shankbone, and followed a cluster of lies together, yet since increased by other. he affirmeth a stone to be the tooth of a man, which stone (so proved) having no shape of a tooth, had neither scull nor shin-bone. Notwithstanding, it is added in the said description, that by conjecturall symetry of those parts, the body to be twenty and eight foote long or more. From this he goeth to another like matter, of a man with a mouth sixteene foote wide, and so to Gerard the Gyant, and his staffe. But to leave these fables, and returne where I left, I will note what my selfe hath observed concerning that house.

I reade, that Iohn Gisors, Maior of London, Gerards Hall restored to his old name. in the yeere 1245. was owner thereof, and that Sir Iohn Gisors, Knight, Maior of London, and Constable of the Tower 1311. and divers others of that name and family, since that time owed it. William Gisors was one of the Sheriffes, 1329. More, Iohn Gisors had issue, Henry and Iohn: which Iohn had issue, Thomas: Which Thomas deceasing in the yeere 1350. left unto his sonne Thomas his messuage,Gerards Hall overthrowne with Gerard the [...] great Speare. called Gisors Hall, in the Parish of Saint Mildred in Breadstreet: Iohn Gisors made a Feoffment thereof 1386. &c. So it appeareth, that this Gisors Hall of late time (by corruption, hath been called Gerards Hall, for Gisors Hall, as Bosomes Inne, for Blossoms Iune, Bevis Markes, for Buries Markes, Marke lane, for Mart lane, Billiter lane, for Belzetters lane, Gutter lane, for Guthuruns lane, Cry Church, for Christs Church, Saint Michael in the Querne, for Saint Mihel at Corne, and such others. Out of this Gisors Hall, at the first building thereof, were made divers arched doores yet to be seen, which seem not sufficient for any great Monster, or other than men of common stature to passe thorow. The Pole in the Hall might bee used of old time (as then the custome was in every Parish) to bee set up in the Summer a May-Pole, before the principall house in the Parish or Streete,Every mans house of old time was decked with Holly and Ivie in the Winter, especially at Christmas. and to stand in the Hall before the Scrine, decked with Holme and Ivie, at the Feast of Christmas. The Ladder served for the decking of the May-Pole, and Roofe of the Hall. Thus much for Gisors Hall, and for that side of Breadstreet may suffice.

Now on the West side of Breadstreet, amongst divers faire and large houses for Merchants, and faire Innes for passengers, had yee one Prison-house, pertaining to the Sheriffes of London, called the Compter in Breadstreet: but in the yeere 1555. the Prisoners were removed from thence,Compter in Breadstreet. to one other new Compter in Woodstreet, provided by the Cities purchase, and builded for that purpose: the cause of which remove was this: Richard Husband, Pastelar, keeper of this Compter in Breadstreete, Prisoners removed from the Compter in Breadstreet to a new Copter in Woodstreet▪ Keeper of the Compter sent to Newgate. being a wilfull and head-strong man, dealt (for his owne advantage) hard with the prisoners under his change, having also servants, such as himselfe liked best for their bad usage, and would not for any complaint bee reformed: whereupon, in the yeere 1550. Sir Rowland Hill being Maior, by the assent of a Court of Aldermen, he was sent to the Goale of Newgate, for the cruell handling of his prisoners: and it was commanded to the Keeper, to set those Irons on his legges, which are called the Widowes almes. These he ware from Thursday, till Sunday in the afternoon, and being by a Court of Aldermen released on the Tuesday, was bound in an hundred Markes, to observe from thenceforth an Act made by the Common [Page] Councell, for the ordering of prisoners in the Compters: all which notwithstanding, hee continued as afore, whereof my selfe am partly a witnesse: For being on a Iurie,Quest of inquiry indight the Keepers of the Goals for dealing hardly with their prisoners. to enquire against a Sessions of Goale delivery, in the yeere 1552. wee found the prisoners hardly dealt withall for their achates and otherwise, as also that Theeves and Strumpets were there lodged for foure pence the night, whereby they might be safe from searches that were made abroad:They indighted the Bowling-Al [...]ies, &c. for the which enormities, and other not needfull to be recited, hee was indighted at that Session, but did rubbe it out, and could not bee reformed, till this remove of the prisoners: for the house in Breadstreete was his owne by lease, or otherwise, so that he could not be put from it. Note that Iaylors, buying their offices, will deale hardly with pitifull prisoners.

Now in Friday street, Friday street. so called of Fishmongers dwelling there, and serving Fridayes Market, on the East side is a small Parish Church,Parish Church of S. Iohn Evangelist, sometime of S. We [...] bridge. commonly called Saint Iohn Evangelist. The Monuments therein, be of Iohn Dogget, Merchant-Taylor, one of the Sheriffes in the yeere 1509.

Sir Christopher Askew, Draper, Maior, 1533.

William de Avinger, Farrier, was buried there in the 34. of Edward the second.

Then lower downe is one other Parish Church of S. Margaret Moyses, Parish Church of S. Margaret Moyses. so called (as seemeth) of one Moyses, that was founder or new builder thereof.

The Monuments there, be of Sir Richard Dobbes, Skinner, Maior, 1551.

William Dane, Ironmonger, one of the Sheriffes, 1569.

Sir Iohn Allot, Fishmonger, Maior, 1591.

There was of elder time buried, Nicholas Stanes, and Nicholas Bray, they founded Chauntries there.

Beati mortui qui in Domino moriuntur. APOC. 14.

To William Dane that sometime was

An Ironmonger;

A Monument in the South wall of the Chancell.

where, each Degree

He worthily (with praise) did passe.

By wisedome, truth, and heed, was he

Advanc'd an Alderman to be:

Then, Sheriffe; that, he with justice prest,

And cost, performed with the best.

In Almes franke, of Conscience cleare;

In grace with Prince, to People glad:

His vertuous wife, his faithfull Phèere,

Margaret, this Monument hath made:

Meaning (through God) that as shee had

With him (in house) long lived well;

Even so in Tombes blisse to dwell.

Obierunt in Christo.

Ille, Sabat. 5. Septemb. 1573. Aetatis 56.

Haec vero 18. Novemb. An. 1579.

April. 5. An. Domini, 1593.

The Monument of the Right Honourable Sir Iohn Allot, A faire Monumēt in the North wal of the Chancell. Knight, late Lord Maior of this City of London, and Maior of the Staple of England; who deceased the seventeenth day of September, Anno 1591. in the time of his Maioralty. Aetatis suae 66.

Here lieth the body of Alice Daniel, A faire plated stone under the Communion table the wife of Iohn Daniel, Esquire, and mother of Gerard Daniel, Fishmonger. Which Alice deceased the thirteenth day of October, Anno Domini 1481. On whose, &c.

Ever doe well.

On the West side of this Friday street is Mayden lane, Mayden lane, or Disiar lane. so named of such a Signe, or Distaffe lane, for Distar lane, as I reade in Record of a Brew-house, called the Lambe in Distar lane, the sixteenth of Henry the sixth.

In this Distar lane, Cordwayners Hall. on the North side thereof, is the Cordwayners or Shoomakers Hall; which Company were made a Brotherhood or Fraternity, in the eleventh of Henry the fourth.

Of these Cordwayners I reade, that since the fifth of Richard the second, (when he tooke to wife Anne, daughter to Wenceslaus, King of Bohemia) by her example the English people had used piked Shooes,Long piked shoos, tied to the knees. tyed to their knees with Silken Laces, or Chaines of Silver and Gilt: Wherfore in the fourth of Edward the fourth it was ordained and proclaimed, Piked shooes forbidden. that Beakes of Shin and Bootes should not passe the length of two inches, [Page] upon paine of cursing by the Clergie, and by Parliament to pay 20. s. for every paire. And every Cordwayner that shod any man or woman on the Sunday, to pay 30. s.

On the South side of this Distar lane, is also one other Lane, called Distar lane; which runneth downe to Knight-Riders street, or Old Fishstreet.

And this is the end of Breadstreete Ward: Which hath and Alderman, his Deputy, Common Councell ten, Constables ten, Scavengers eight, Wardmote Inquest thirteene, and a Beadle. It standeth taxed to the Fifteene in London, at seven and thirty pounds, and in the Exchequer, at sixe & thirty pounds, eighteene shillings, two pence.

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QVEENE HITH VVARD.

NExt unto Breadstreete VVard on the South side thereof,Queene Hith Ward is Queene Hith Ward, so called of a Water-gate, or Harborow for Boates, Lighters, and Barges, and was (of old time) for Ships, at what time, the Timber Bridge of London was drawne up, for the passage of them to the said Hith, as to a principall stand for landing and unlading against the middest and heart of the City. This VVard beginneth in the East,Knight Riders street. in Knight-Riders street, on the South side thereof, at the East end of the Parish Church called the Holy Trinity, and runneth VVest on the South side, to a Lane called Lambart hill, which is the length of the VVard in Knight-Riders street. Out of the which street are divers Lanes, running South to Thames street, and are of this VVard. The first is Trinity lane, Trinity lane. which runneth downe by the VVest end of Trinitie Church. Then is Spuren lane, or Spooners lane, Spuren lane, or Huggen lane. now called Huggen lane. Then Breadstreet hill. Then St. Mary Mounthaunt: out of the which Lane, on the East side thereof, is one other Lane, turning East through S. Nicholas Olaves Church-yard, to Breadstreet hill. This Lane is called Finimore lane, Finimore, or Five foot lane. or Five foot lane, because it is but five foot in breadth at the VVest end. In the middest of this Lane, runneth downe one other Lane broader, South to Thames street, I think the same to be called Desborne lane, Desborne lane. for I reade of such a Lane to have beene in the Parish of S. Mary Summerset, in the 22. of Edward the third, where there is said to lye betweene the Tenement of Edward de Mountacute Knight, on the East part, and the Tenement sometime pertaining to William Gladwine, on the VVest, one plot of ground, containing in length towards Thames street twenty five foot, &c.

Last of all,Lambart hill. have you Lambart hill, so called of one Lambart owner thereof: and this is the farthest VVest part of this VVard.

On the North side, comming downe from Knight-Riders street, the East side of Lambart hill is wholly of this Ward: and the VVest side from the North end of the Black-smiths Hall (which is about the middest of this Lane) unto Thames street. Then part of Thames street is of this VVard, to wit, from a Cooks house called the signe of King David, three houses west from the Old Swanne Brewhouse in the East, unto Huntington house, over-against Saint Peters Church in the West, neere unto Pauls Wharse: And on the Lane side, from a Cookes house called the Blue Boore, to the West end of Saint Peters Church, and up Saint Peters hill, two houses North above the said Church. And these bee the bounds of this VVard: in which are Parish Churches seven, Hals of Companies two, and other Ornaments, as shall be shewed.

First,Parish Church of the Trinity. in Knight-Riders streete is the small Parish Church of the Holy Trinity, lately very old, & in danger of down falling: collections were made for the repairing thereof, but they would not stretch so farre, untill a generall meanes was made, as appeareth by a publike notice therof declared in the said Church.

Iohn Brian, Alderman in the reigne of Henry the fifth, was a great benefactor: Iohn Chamber had a Chauntry there. Thomas Rishby, Esquire, and Alice his wife buried within the Chancell. Iohn Mirfin, Auditor of the Exchequer, 1471. Sir Richard Fowlar of Riches in Oxfordshire, 1528. George Cope, second sonne to Sir Iohn Cope of Copes-Ashby, [Page] in Northamptonshire, 1572.

Towards the West end of Knight-Riders street, Parish Church of S. Nicholas Cold Abbey. is the Parish Church of Saint Nicholas Cold Abbey, a proper Church, somewhat ancient, as appeareth by the waies raised thereabout, so that men are forced to descend into the body of the Church. It hath been called of many Colden Abbey, of some Cold Abbey, or Cold Bey, and so have the most ancient writings, as standing in a cold place, as Cold Harbor, and such like. The Steeple or tall Tower of this Church, with the South Isle, hath bin of later building, to wit, the first of Richard the second, when it was meant that the whole old Church should have been new builded, as appeareth by the Arching begunne on the East side the Steeple, under the which, in the stone worke, the Armes of one Buckland, Esquire, and his wife, daughter to Beaupere, are cut in stone, and also are in the Glasse windowes; whereby it appeareth, he was the builder of the Steeple, and repairer of the residue. The sixe and twentieth of Edward the third, Andrew Aubery being Maior, Thomas Frere, Fishmonger, gave one peece of ground to the said Parish Church of Saint Nicholas, containing fourescore and sixe foot in length, and three and forty foot at one end, and foure and thirty at another, in breadth for a Cemitory or Church-yard. The twentieth of Richard the second; Thomas Barnard, Castle Clerke. Iohn Sonderash, Clerke, and Iohn Nouncy, gave to the Parson and Church-wardens of the said Church and their successors, one Messuage and one Shop, with the appurtenances in Distaffe lane, and Old Fishstreet, for the reparation of the body of the late Church, the Belfrey or Steeple, and Ornaments.

Buried in this Church, Iohn Calfe, and William Cogeshall, 1426.

Walter Turke, Fishmonger, Maior, 1349.

Richard Esgastone, Fishmonger, 1330.

Nicholas Wolberge, Fishmonger, 1407.

Thomas Padington, Fishmong. 1485.

Robert Hary Fishmonger.

Iohn Suring, 1490.

Roger Darlington, Fishmonger, 1557.

Rich. Lacy, Parion, under a faire tombe on the North side of the Quire, 1491.

Richard Bradburge, 1497.

William Clarke, 1501.

Iames Pitman, 1507.

Richard Farneford, 1525.

Thomas Nicholas, Fishmonger, 1527.

William Brade, Fishmonger, 1528.

The 14. day of May, An. Dom. 1601.

Leonard Smith, Fishmonger,

A faire plated stone in the East end of the chancell.

ended his dayes,

He feared the Lord,

and walkt in his wayes:

His body here

in earth doth rest,

His Soule with Christ

in heaven is blest.

Here lye buried the bodies of Dorothy Halye, A faire plated stone by the Communion table. late wife of Robert Halye, of Ipswitch, in the County of Suffolke, Merchant: And of William Wymer, son of William Wymer, and Mary his wife, daughter of the said Robert and Dorothy, which William the son deceased the 19. day of August; and the said Dorothy the 20. day of September next following, An. Dom. 1601.

Hic jacet Magister Wil. Sandhill,A faire plated stone under the Communion table. Canonicus Eccle.—magni London. Et huius Ecclesiae quondam Rector; Qui obiit 26. die Mens. Augusti. An. Dom. 1445. Cuius animae, &c.

Hic jacet in cossa,

A faire plated stone in the middle Isle.

Putredo mortis & ossa,

Cum mulieris quie

in coelis vivit amoenè,

Vt puto per vitam

morum signis redimitam,

Anno Millino

qt. i. C. X. quae seno

Bissque die deno

cum perit en Elena,

Cum quarto pleno,

requiem tenet hic in ceno,

Quo cuius Iane

consternis corpus inane.

On the North side of this Church,Water Conduit. in the wall thereof, was of late builded a covenient Cesterne of Stone & Lead for receit of Thames water, conveighed in pipes of Lead to that place, for the ease & commodity of the Fishmongers; [Page] and other inhabitants in and about Old Fishstreate. Barnard Randolph, Common Sergeant of the City of London, did (in his life time) deliver to the Company of Fishmongers, the summe of nine hundred pounds, to be imployed towards the conducting of the said Thames water, and cesterning the same, &c. In the Parishes of St. Mary Magdalen, and Saint Nicholas Cold Abbey, neere unto Fishstreet, seven hundred pounds, and other two hundred pounds to charitable deedes. Hee deceased 1583. and shortly after, this Conduit with the other was made and finished.

In Trinity lane, Painter stainers Hall. on the VVest side thereof is the Painter-stainers Hall; for so of old time were they called: but now that workmanship of staining is departed out of use in England.

Lower downe in Trinity lane, Earle of Cornwall his house. on the East side thereof, was sometime a great Messuage, pertaining unto Iohn, Earle of Cornwall, in the 14. of Edward the third.

On Breadstreet hill, downe to the Thames, on both sides, bee divers faire houses, inhabited by Fishmongers, Cheefemongers, and Merchants of divers Trades. On the VVest side whereof is the Parish Church of Saint Nicholas Olave, Parish Church of S. Nicholas Olave. a convenient Church, having the Monuments of W. Newport, Fishmonger, one of the Sheriffes, 1375.

Richard Welles, Parson, 1391.

Richard Sturges, Fishmonger, 1470.

Thomas Dewen, Ironmonger, one of the Sheriffes, 1537. who gave his Messuage (with the appurtenances) wherein he dwelt, with 14. Tenements in the said Parish of S. Nicholas, to be had, after the decease of Agnes his wife, to the Ironmongers, and they to give stipends, appointed to Almes-men, in five houses by them builded in the Churchyard of that Parish; but now they are converted into foure. More to poore Scholars in Oxford and Cambridge, &c.

Blitheman, an excellent Organist of the Queenes Chappell lyeth buried there, with an Epitaph, 1591.

Hic jacet Richardus Sturges,An anciēt Tombe in the South wal of the Quire. Civis & Piscenarius London, & Katharina uxor ejus. Qui quidem Rich. obiit 3. die mensis Iulii, Anno. Dom. 1479. Et praedicta Katharina obiit, &c.

Hic jacet Dominus Henricus Welleus,A faire plated stone under the Communion table. quondam Rector istius Ecclesiae. Qui obiit 4. die Maii, An. Domini 1391. Cujus animae. &c.

Here Blitheman lias, a worthy wight,

An engraven plate in the North wall of the Chancell.

who feared God above,

A friend to all, a foe to none,

whom rich and poore did love.

Of Princes Chappell, Gentleman,

unto his dying day;

Whom all tooke great delighe to heare

him on the Organs play.

Whose passing skill in Mustokes Art,

a Scholar left behinde;

Iohn Bull (by name) his Master veine

expressing in each kinde.

But nothing here continues long;

nor resting place can have;

His soule departed hence to Heaven,

his body here in Grave.

He died on Whitsunday, Anno Domini 1591.

Here, before this place,A small Monumēt in the North wall of the Chancell. lieth buried the bodie of Iohn Widnell; Citizen and Merchant-Taylor of London, sometime Master of that Company, and Deputy of this ward; who deceased the 15. day of February, 1601. being of the age of 70.

Here lie the bodies of Thomas Lewen, An anciēt Tombe in the North Isle of the body of the Church: Ironmonger, and sometime Alderman of this City of London, and Agnes his wife. Which Thomas deceased the 29. day of Iune, Anno Domini 1555. And the said Agnes deceased the 26. day of October, An. Dom. 1562.

The next is Old Fishstreet hill, a passage so called,Old Fishstreet hill. which also runneth down to Thames street. In this Lane, on the East side thereof, is the one end of Finimbre, or Five foot lane.

On the west side of this Old Fishstreet hill, Bishop of Herefords house. is the Bishop of Herefords Inne, or Lodging; an ancient House, and large Roomes, builded of Stone and Tiber, which sometime belonged to the Mounthaunts in Norfolke. Radulphius de Maydenstone, Bishop of Hereford, about 1234. bought it of the Mounthaunts, and gave it to the Bishops of Hereford, his successors; Charles, both Bishop of [Page] Hereford, and Chancellour of the Marches, about the yeere 1517. repaired it: Since the which time, the same is greatly ruinated, and is now divided into many small Tenements: the Hall and principall roomes, are an house to make Suger-loaves, &c.

Next adjoyning is the Parish Church of Saint Mary de Monte alto, Parish Church of S. Mary Monte alto. or Mounthaunt, this is a very small Church, and at the first builded, to bee a Chappell for the said house of the Mounthaunts, and for Tenements thereunto belonging. The Bishop of Hereford is Patron thereof.

Monuments in this Church of Iohn Glocester, Alderman, 1345. who gave Salt-wharfe, for two Chauntries there.

Iohn Skip, Bishop of Hereford, 1539. sate 12. yeeres, dyed at London in time of Parliament, and was buried in this Church.

There was sometime a faire house in the said Parish of Saint Mary Mounthaunt, belonging to Robert Belkenape, one of the Kings Iustices,Robert Belkenape his house given to VV. Wickham. but the said Belkenape being banished this Realme, King Richard the second, in the twelfth of his reigne, gave it to William Wickham, Bishop of Winchester.

On the East side of this Old Fishstreet hill, One old Hall of the Fishmongers. is one great house, now letten out for rent, which house sometime was one of the Hals pertaining to the Company of Fishmongers,Fishmonger Hall-motes, six in number. at such time as they had sixe Hall-motes or meeting places: namely, twaine in Bridgestreet, or New Fishstreet, Patents. twaine in Old Fishstreet, whereof this was one, and twaine in Stockfishmonger Rowe, or Thames street, as appeareth by a Record the 22. of Richard the second.

Next West-ward, is one other Lane, called Lambard hill, Lambard Hill. the East side whereof is wholly of this Ward, and but halfe the West side, to wit, from the North end of the Black-smiths Hall.Black-smiths Hall.

Then in Thames street, of this Ward, and on the North side over-against the Queenes Hith, Parish Church of S. Michael at Queene Hith. is the parish Church of S. Michael, a convenient Church, but all the Monuments therein are defaced.

I finde that Stephen Spilman, Gentleman, of that Family in Norfolke, sometime Mercer, Chamberlaine of London, then one of the Sheriffes, and Alder-man, in the yeere 1404. deceasing without issue, gave his Lands to his Family the Spilmans, and his goods to the making or repairing of Bridges, and other like godly uses: and amongst others, in this Church hee founded a Chauntry, and was buried in the Quire.

Also Richard Marlow, Ironmonger, Maior, 1409. gave twenty pounds to the poore of that Ward, and ten Marks to the Church.

Richard Gray, His Monument yet remaineth. Ironmonger, one of the Sheriffes, 1515. gave 40. l'. to that Church, and was there buried.

At the West end of that Church, goeth up a Lane, called Pyellane. Pyellane. Parish Church of S. Mary Summerset. On the same North side, at the South end of S. Mary Mounthaunt lane, is the Parish Church of Saint Mary Summerset, over-against the Broken Wharfe: it is a proper Church, but the Monuments are all defaced, except a Grave-stone lately there layed, with this inscription:

Here lieth buried the body of Master Richard Randall of this Parish,A faire plated stone in the chancell by the Commmunion Table. who had issue by Margaret his first wife foure sons and seven daughters, one only daughter surviving, named Ioyce. He was by freedome a Pewterer, by trade a Brewer, and one of the Governours of Christs Hospitall. Hee departed this life the 7. day of Iune, An. Domini 1616. being aged 75. yeeres.

No cause to mourne,

though here he lye,

That gave to many

cause to cry.

For though his body

turne to dust,

His Soule doth live

among the just.

I thinke the same to bee of old time called Summers Hith, Summer Hith. of some mans name, that was owner of the ground neere adjoyning, as Edreds Hith was so called of Edred, owner thereof, and since called Queene Hith, as pertaining to the Queene, &c.

Then is a small Parish Churcch of St. Peter; Parish Church of S. Peter Parva by Pauls VVharfe. called Parva, or little, neere unto Pauls Wharfe: In this Church no Monuments doe remaine.

[Page] At the West end thereof is a Lane, called St. Peters Hill: but two houses up that Lane, on the East side, is of this Ward, and the rest is of Castle Baynard VVard.

On the South side of Thames streete, beginning againe in the East, among the Cookes; the first in this VVard is the signe of David the King.

Then is Townes-end lane, turning down to the Thames. Townes-end Lane.

Then is Queene Hith, a large Receptacle for Ships,Eldreds Hith or Queene Hith. Lighters, Barges, and such other Vessels. Touching the Antiquity and use of this Gate and Hith, first I finde, that the same belonged to one named Edred, & was then called Edreds Hith: which since falling to the hands of King Stephen, Lib. Trinit [...]t [...]e. it was by his Charter confirmed to William de Ypre: the Farme thereof in Fee and in Heritage. William de Ypre gave it unto the Prior and Covent of the Holy Trinity within Ealdgate, as appeareth by this Charter.

To Theobald, by the grace of God, Archbishop of Canturbury, Primate of England, and Legate Apostolike to the Bishop of London, and to all faithfull people, Clerkes and Lay-men, William de Ypre sendeth greeting: Know ye me to have given and granted to God, and to the Church of the Holy Trinity of London, to the Prior and Canons there, serving God, in perpetuall Almes, Edreds Hith, with the appurtenances, with such devotion, that they shall send every yeere twenty pounds, unto the maintenance of the Hospitall of Saint Katharines, which Hospitall they have in their hands, and an hundred shillings to the Monkes of Bermondsey, and threescore shillings to the Brethren of the Hospitall of Saint Giles, and that which remaineth, the said Prior and Canons shall enjoy to themselves. Witnesses, Richard de Luce, Ralph Bigot, &c.

This Edreds Hith, [...]. after the aforesaid Grants, came again to the Kings hands, by what meanes I have not read: but it pertained unto the Queene; and therefore was called Ripa Reginae, the Queens Banke, or Queenes Hith, and great profit thereof was made to her use, as may appeare by this which followeth.

King Henry the third, in the ninth of his reigne, commanded the Constables of the Tower of London, Ships of the Ports arrested, and forced to bring their Corne to Queene Hith. to arrest the ships of the Cinque-Ports on the River of Thames, & to compell them to bring their Corne to no other place, but to the Queenes Hith only. In the eleventh of his reigne, he charged the said Constable, to distraine all Fish offered to be sold in any place of this City, but at the Queenes Hith. Moreover, in the 28. of his reigne, an Inquisition was made before William of Yorke, the Provost of Beverley, Henry of Bath, and Hierome of Caxton, Justices Itinerantes, sitting in the Tower of London, touching the Customes of Queene Hith, observed in the yeere last before the warres betweene the King and his father, and the Barons of England, and of old customes of other times, and what customes had beene changed, at what time the taxe and payment of all things comming thither, and betweene Woorepath, and Anede Hith, were found and seized, according to the old order, aswell Corne and Fish, as of other things.Liberty of the Queens Hith from the Steeleyard to the Blacke Friers. All which customes were as well to be observed in the part of Downegate, as in Queene Hith, for the Kings use. When also it was found, that the Corne arriving betweene the gate of the Guild Hall of the Merchants of Colleyne, and the Soke of the Archbishop of Canturbury (for he had a house neere unto the Blacke Friers) was not to be measured by any other quarter,Soke is Court. than by that of the Queenes Soke.

After this, the Bailiffes of the said Hith complained, that since the said Recognition, foureteene forraine Ships, laden with Fish, arrived at Belinsgate, which Ships should have arrived at the said Hith: And therefore it was ordered, that if any forraigne Ship laden with Fish, should in forme aforesaid arive else-where than at this Hith, it should be at the Kings pleasure to amerce them at 40. s. Notwithstanding, the Ships of the Citizens of London were at liberty, to arrive where the owners would appoint them.

After this,Queene Hith let to farme to the Maior and Communalty of London. the said Henry the third confirmed the Grant of Richard Earle of Cornewall, for the Farme of Queene Hith, unto Iohn Gisors, then Maior, and to the Communalty of London, and their successors for ever, as by this his Charter appeareth.

[Page] Henry by the grace of God, King of England, Lord of Ireland, Duke of Guien, and Earle of Anjou, to all Archbishops, &c. Be it knowne, that Wee have seene the Covenant betweene our Brother Richard, Earle of Cornwall, of the one party, and the Maior and Communalty of London on the other party, which was in this sort. In the thirtieth yeere of Henry, Lib. Trinit. Lon. the sonne of King Iohn, upon the Feast of the Translation of S. Edward at Westminster, this Covenant was made betweene the Honourable Lord Richard, Earle of Cornwall, and Iohn Gisors, then Maior of London; and the Commons thereof, concerning certaine exactions and demands pertaining to the Queene Hith of London. The said Earle granted for himselfe and his heyres, that the said Maior, and all Maiors ensuing, and all the Commons of the City, should have and hold the Queene Hith, with all the Liberties, Customes, and other appurtenances, repaying yeerly to the said Earle, his heires and assignes, fifty pounds, at Clarken-well, at two severall termes; to wit, the Sunday after Easter 25. pounds, and at Michaelmas 25. pounds. And for more surety hereof, the said Earle hath set thereunto his Seale, and left it with the Maior, and the Maior and Communalty have set to their Seale, and left it with the Earle. Wherefore We confirme and establish the said Covenant, for Vs and for our heires. Witnesses, Ralph Fitz-Nichol, Richard Gray, Iohn and Will. Brithem, Paulin Painter, Ralph Wancia, Iohn Cumband, and other: At Windsor, the 26. of February, the 31. of our reigne.

The charge of this Queene Hith was then committed to the Sheriffes, and so hath continued ever since; the profits whereof are sore diminished; so that (as writeth Robert Fabian) it was worth (in his time) little above 20. Markes,Rob. Fabian Lib. Constit. or 15. pounds one yeere with another.

Now, for Customes of this Queene Hith: Custome of Queene Hith. In the yeere 1302. the thirtieth of Edward the first, [...] was found by the oath of divers men, that Bakers, Brewers, and others, buying their Corne at Queen Hith, should pay for Measuring, Portage, and Carriage, for every Quarter of Corne whatsoever, from thence to West Cheape, to S. Anthonies Church, to Horse-shoo Bridge, and to Woolsey street, in the Parish of Alhallowes the lesse, and such like distances, one ob. q. to Fleetstreet, to Newgate, Creplegate, to Birchovers lane, to East-Cheape, and Billinsgate, A Corne-Meater, 8 Master Porters, and 24. Porters under them, at Queene Hith. one penny. Also, that the Measurer (or the Meater) ought to have eight chiefe Master Porters, every Master to have three Porters under him, and every one of them to finde one Horse, and seven Sackes, and hee that so did not, to loose his Office. This Hith was then so frequented with Vessels, bringing thither Corne (besides Fish, Salt, Fuell, and other Merchandizes) that all these men, to wit, the Meater, and Porters, thirty seven in number, for all their charge of Horses and Sackes, and small stipend, lived well of their labours: but now the Bakers of London, and other Citizens, travell into the Countries, and buy their Corne of the Farmers, after the Farmers price.

King Edward the second,Lib. [...]. in the first of his reigne, gave to Margaret, wife to Peter de Gavestone, forty three pounds, twelve shillings, nine pence halfe penny farthing, out of the Rent of London, to be received of the Queenes Hith. Certaine impositions were set upon Ships and other Vessels comming thither, as upon Corne, Salt, and other things, toward the charge of cleansing Roomeland there,Roomeland at Queene Hith. the 41. of Edward the third.

The third of Edward the fourth, the Market at Queene Hith being hindered by the slacknesse of drawing up London Bridge, it was ordained, that all manner of Vessels, Ships, or Boates, great or small, resorting to the City with victuall, should be sold by retaile, and that if there came but one Vessell at a time, were it Salt, Wheate, Rie, or other Corne from beyond the Seas, or other Graines, Garlicke, Onions, Herrings, Sprats, Eeles, Whiting, Plaice, Cods, Mackarell, &c. then that one Vessell should come to Queene Hith, and there to make sale. But if two Vessels came, the one should come to Queene Hith, the other to Billinsgate: Queene Hith to be more frequented of Ships & Boates than Billinsgate. if three, two of them should come to Queene Hith, the third to Billinsgate, &c. alwaies the more to Queene Hith. If the Vessell being great, comming with Salt from the Bay, and could not come to these Keyes, then the [Page] same to be conveied by Lighters, as before is meant.

One large house,Garner for Corne at Queene Hith. for stowage of Corne, craned out of Lighters and Barges, is there lately builded. Sir Iohn Lion, Grocer, Maior 1554. by his Testament gave 100. l'. towards it: But since it hath beene increased and made larger, at the charges of the Citie, in the yeere 1565.

Against this Queenes Hith, on the River of Thames, of late yeeres was placed a Corne-Mill,A Corne Mill upon Barges or Lighters on the Thames. upon, or betwixt two Barges or Lighters, and there ground Corne, as Water-Mills in other places, to the wonder of many, that had not seene the like. But this lasted not long without decay: such as caused the same Barges and Mill to be removed and taken asunder, are soone forgotten. I read of the like to have been in former time, as thus:

In the yeere 1525. the 16. of Henry the 8. Sir William Bayly being Maior, Iohn Cooke of Glocester, Mercer, gave to the Maior and Communalty of London, and theirs for ever, one great Barge, in the which two great Corne-mills were made and placed;Two corne Mils in one Barge given to this City, 1525. which Barge and Mills were set in and upon the streame of the River of Thames, within the jurisdiction and libertie of the said Citie of London. And also he gave to the Citie all such Timber, Boords, Stones, Iron, &c. provided for making, mending, and repairing of the said Barge and Mils: in reward whereof, the Maior gave him 50. l'. presently, and 50. l'. yeerely, during his life: and if the said Cooke deceased before Ioane his wife, then shee to have forty Markes the yeere during her life.

Next adjoyning to this Queene Hith, on the West side thereof,Salt Wharfe is Salt Wharfe, named of Salt taken up, measured, and sold there.

The next is Strew lane, Stew lane. of a Stew, or Hot-house there kept.

After that is Timber Hith, Timber Hith. or Timber street, so called, of Timber, or Boords, there taken up and wharfed: It is in the Parish of S. Mary Sonners-Hith, as I read in the 56. of Henry the third, and in the ninth of Edward the second.

Then is Brookes Wharfe, Brookes Wharfe. and Broken Wharfe, Broken Wharfe. a Water-gate or Key so called, of being broken, and falne downe into the Thames.

By this Broken Wharfe remaineth one large old building of stone,Bygots house by Broken Wharfe. with arched Gates; which Message, as I find, in the reigne of Henry the third, the 43. yeere, pertained unto Hugh de Bygot; and in the 11. of Edward the third, to Thomas Brothertun, the Kings Brother, Earle of Norfolke, Marshall of England. In the 11. of Henry the 6. to Iohn Mowbray, Duke of Norfolke, &c.

Within the Gate of this House (now belonging to the Citie of London) is lately, An Engine for enforcing of Thames water. to wit, in the yeere 1594. and 1595. builded one large house, of great height, called an Engine, made by Bevis Bulmar, Gentleman, for the conveying and forcing of Thames water, to serve in the middle and West parts of the Citie. The ancient great Hall of this Messuage is yet standing, and pertaining to a great Brew-house for Beere.

West from this is Trigge lane, Trigge lane. going downe to the Thames. Next is called Bosse lane, Bosse lane. of a Bosse of water, like unto that of Belinsgate, there placed by the Executors of Richard Whitington.

Then is one great Messuage, sometime belonging to the Abbots of Chartsey in Surrey, and was their Inne, wherin they were lodged when they repaired to the Citie: it is now called Sandie house, by what reason I have not heard: I thinke the Lord Sands hath been lodged there.

And this is an end of this Queen Hith Ward; which hath an Alderman, and his Deputy; Common-Counsell, sixe; Constables, nine; Scavengers, eight; Ward-mote Inquest, thirteene, and a Beadle. It is taxed to the Fifteene in London, twenty pounds, and in the Exchequer, at nineteene pounds, sixteene shillings, two pence.

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CASTLE BAYNARD VVard.

THen next is Castle Baynard Ward,Castle Baynard Ward so named of an old Castle there. This Ward beginneth in the East, on the Thames side, at an House called Huntington House, and runneth West by Pauls Wharfe, by Baynards Castle, Puddle Wharfe, and by the South side of Blacke Friers. Then turning by the East wall of the said Friers, to the South-west end of Creed lane. Then on the North side of Thames street, over against Huntington House, by Saint Peters Church and lane, called Peter Hill, along till over against Puddle Wharfe; and then North up by the great Wardrobe, to the West end of Carter lane. Then up Creed lane, Ave Mary lane, and a piece of Pater noster Row, to the signe of the Golden Lion, and backe againe up Warwicke lane, all the East side thereof, to the signe of the Crowne by Newgate Market: and this is the farthest North part of this Ward.

Then out of Thames street bee Lanes ascending North to Knight-riders street: The first is Peter Hill Lane, all of that Ward, (two houses excepted, adjoyning to S. Peters Church.) The next is Pauls Wharfe Hill, which thwarting Knight-riders street and Carter lane, goeth up to the South Chain of Pauls Church-yard.

Then is Adle street, Adle street. over against the West part of Baynards Castle, going up by the West end of Knight-riders street, and to Carter lane.

Thus much for Lanes out of Thames street. The one halfe of the West side of Lambard Hill lane being of this ward, at the North-west end thereof, on the South side, and at the West end of S. Mary Magdalens Church: on the North side, beginneth Knight-riders street to be of this Ward, and runneth West, on both sides, to the Parish Church of S. Andrew by the Wardrobe.

Then at the said East end of Saint Mary Magdalens Church, goeth up the Old Exchange, all the West side whereof, up to the South-east gate of Pauls Churchyard, and by S. Austens Church, is of this Ward.

About the midst of this Old Exchange, on the West side thereof, is Carter lane, which runneth West, to the East entry of the Black Friers, and the South end of Creed lane; out of the which Carter lane descendeth a Lane,Do little lane. called Do little lane, and commeth into Knight-riders street, by the Bores-bead Taverne: and more West is Sermon lane, by an Inne called the Powle-head. Then out of Carter lane, on the North side thereof, the South Chaine of Pauls Church-yard, and the Church-yard it selfe, on that South side of Pauls Church, and the Church of Saint Gregorie, the Bishops Palace, and the Deanes lodging, bee all of this VVard: and such be the bounds thereof.

The Ornaments in this VVard, be, Parish Churches, foure; of old time, a Castle; divers Noble-mens houses; Halls of Companies, twaine; and such others, as shall be shewed.

In Thames streete, at the South-east end, is an ancient Messuage, of old time called Beaumonts Inne, Beaumonts Inne. as belonging to that Family of Noble-men of this Realme, in the fourth of Edward the 3. Edward the fourth, in the fifth of his [Page] reigne, gave it to W. Hastings, Lord Chamberlaine, Master of his Mints. It is now called Huntington house, as belonging to the Earles of Huntington.

Next is Pauls Wharfe, Pauls Wharfe. a large landing-place, with a common Stayre upon the River of Thames, at the end of a Street called Pauls Wharfe Hill, which runneth downe from Pauls Chaine.

Next is a great Messuage, called Scroopes Inne, Scroopes Inne. sometimes belonging to the Scroopes, in the 31. of Henry the sixth.

Then is one other great Messuage, sometime belonging to the Abbey of Fiscampe, beyond the Sea: and by reason of the Warres, it comming to the hands of King Edward the third, the same was given to Sir Simon Burley, Knight of the Garter, and therefore called Burley house in Thames street, Burley house. betweene Baynards Castle & Pauls Wharfe.

Then have you Baynards Castle, Baynards Castle. wherof this whole Ward taketh name. This Castle banketh on the River Thames, and was called Baynards Castle, of Baynard, a Nobleman, that came in with William the Conquerour: Of the which Castle, and of Baynard himselfe, I have spoken in another place.

There was also another Tower by Baynards Castle, builded by King Edward the second, Edward the third, in the second of his reigne, gave it to William Duke of Hamelake, in the County of Yorke, and his heires, for one Rose yeerely to be paid for all service. The same Place (as seemeth to me) was since called Legates Inne, Legates Inne. in the seventh of Edward the fourth, where bee now divers VVood-wharfes in place.

Then is there a great Brew-house, and Puddle Wharfe, Puddle Wharfe. a VVater-gate into the Thames, where Horses use to be watered, and therefore being filled with their trampling, and made puddle-like, as also of one Puddle dwelling there, it is called Puddle Wharfe.

Then is there a Lane betweene the Blacke Friers and the Thames, called in the 26. of Edward the 3. Castle lane.

In this Lane also, is one great Messuage, of old time belonging to the Priorie of Okeborne in Wiltshire, Prior of Okebornes house. and was the Priors lodging when hee repaired to London. This Prior being of the French Order, was suppressed by Henry the 5. and with other Lands and Tenements pertaining to the said Priorie, was by Henry the 6. given to his Colledge in Cambridge, called now the Kings Colledge.

About this Castle Lane was sometime a Mill or Mils,A Mill or Mils by Baynards Castle. belonging to the Templers of the New Temple, as appeareth of Record: for King Iohn, in the first yeere of his reigne, granted a place in the Fleet, neere unto Baynards Castle, to make a Mill, and the whole course of water of the Fleet, to serve the said Mill.

I read also, that in the yeere 1274. the second of Edward the first, Rich. Raison and Atheline his wife, did give to Nicho. de Musely, Clerke, ten shillings of yeerely free and quiet rent, out of all his tenements, with the houses thereupon built, and their appurtenances, which they had of the demise of the Master and Brethren of Knights Templars in England, next unto their Mill of Fleet, over against the houses of Laurence de Brooke, in the Parish of Saint Andrew, next to Baynards Castle: which tenements lye betweene the way leading to the said Mill on the VVest part. Also in the Rights belonging to Robert Fitzwater, Soke, Court or Ward belonging to Robert Fitzwater. and to his heires, in the Citie of London, in the time of peace, it was declared in the yeere 1303. that the said Robert, Castillon of London, and Banner-bearer, had a Soke (or VVard) in the Citie, that was by the wall of S. Paul, as men goe downe the street before the Brewhouse of S. Paul, unto the Thames, and so to the side of the Mill, which is in the water that commeth downe from Fleet bridge, and goeth by London walls, betwixt the Friers Preachers Church and Ludgate; and so that Ward turned backe by the House of the said Friers, unto the said common wall of the said Chanonrie of S. Paul: that is all of the Parish of S. Andrew; which is the gift of his Ancestors by Seniority, as more I have shewed in the Castles.

Now here is to bee noted, that the VVall of London, at that time, went straight South from Ludgate, downe to the River of Thames: But for building of the Blacke Friers Church, the said VVall in that place was by commandement taken downe, and a new VVall made, straight VVest from Ludgate to Fleet bridge, and then by the [Page] water of Fleet, to the River of Thames, &c.

In the yeere 1307. the 35. of Edward the first, in a Parliament at Carlile, Henry Lacie, Earle of Lincolne, complained of annoyances done to the water of the Fleet; Mill by Baynards Castle destroyed. whereupon it was granted, that the said Mill should bee removed and destroyed.

This Ward ascendeth up by the East wall of the Blacke Friers, to the Southwest end of Creed lane, where it endeth on that side.

Then to begin againe on the North side of Thames street, over against Huntington house, by Saint Peters Church and lane, called Peter Hill, and so to S. Bennet Hude (or Hith) over against Pauls Wharfe, Parish Church of S. Bennet by Pauls Wharfe. is a proper Parish Church, which hath the Monuments of Sir William Cheyny, Knight, and Margaret his wife, 1442. buried there.

Doctor Chadwell, Physician.

Sir Gilbert Dethicke, alias Garter, King at Armes.

Mariae Martin,A comely Monument in the South Ile of the Quire. Iohannis Roissei filiae, lectissimae feminae, uxori optimè meritae 4. liberorum incolumium Matri, ex longa infirmitate, quam ex puerperio contraxit, defunctae ad perpetuam federis nostri conjugalis memoriam, simul ut fidei, pietatis, & in omni vita probitatis ejus aliquod Monumentū extaret: Thomas Martinus Jurisconsultus moestissimus Conjunx posui.

Obiit Calendas Maii, 1565.

Vixit Annos 32.

David Smith, Another faire Monument in the same wall. Embroyderer to Queene Elizabeth, &c. deceased the tenth day of August, 1587. aged 63. yeeres, and lyeth here-under buried: whose honest, vertuous, and compassionate care for the needy, both in soule and body, is expressed by his benevolence that way extended, like a good Steward, making others partakers of his well-imployed Talent. Who had to wife Katharine, (by whom he had eight sonnes and eight daughters) at whose proper charges (in memory of her said loving husband) is erected this Monument, the 25. of March, in An. 1596. Who living his faithfull Widdow till the fourth day of February, 1607. aged 78. yeeres, lyeth also hereunder buried.

The Tombe of Master James Austen, A faire grave-stone in the Chancell. a good Benefactor of this Parish, who dyed Anno 1602. and of Joyce his wife, and of William their onely sonne: which Ioyce married after with Sir Robert Clarke, Knight, one of the Barons of the Kings Majesties Court of Exchequer, who caused this Tomb to be erected.

Here lyeth the body of Ellis Hilton, Esquire, who deceased the 12. day of December, in the yeere of our Lord God, 1528. &c.

Hic sepultus Griffinus LLoyd, Legum Doctor,A very faire plated stone by the Communion Table. Qui obiit in Christo, Novemb. 26. An. Dom. 1586.

Hic discas morti

dominari, spernere fatum.

Diram morborum

vim superare mori.

Nam jacet hic legum

Doctor virtutibus olim

Insignis, verae

Relligionis amans.

Qui moriens docuit

vivos benè vivere, vivus,

Afflictos docuit

pro pietate mori.

Divitias justus

cumulavit, dives amavit

Iustitiam, voluit

sic memor esse boni.

Divitias moriens

Musis donavit, ut illos

Qui Musas colerent

emoriendo juvat.

Sic vivus moriens (que)

fuit propensus ad omne

Legis opus, voluit

tam memor esse Dei.

Relligio vigilem,

Lex lumen, Cambria patrem,

Oxonia eximium

perdidit alma decus.

Cum fera mors illum

violento perdidit ictu,

Quem nollet virtus

inclita posse mori.

Postquam per denos

professor Regius annos

Vixerat, hoc gelido

condidit ossa thoro.

[Page] Here lyeth buried the bodies of Iohn Par, A faire Monumēt in the South wall of the Quire. and Mary his wife, who were married together 34. yeeres, and had issue one onely daughter betweene them, named Anne, who after married Thomas Gough, of the Inner Temple in London, Esquire, who had fruitfully borne him sixe sons and one daughter: which said Mr. Par was Embroyderer to our late Queene Elizabeth, and to the Kings Majestie that now is, 25. yeeres. He was a man of good respect in the Citie, liberall to the Company whereof hee was free, a good benefactor to the poore of this Parish, and bountifull to all men. He departed this life the 17. day of Iuly, 1607. being aged 72. yeeres and Mary his wife dyed a yeere and an halfe before him.

This Tombe was erected and made by Thomas Gough, and Anne his wife, appointed by the last Will of Iohn Par, who made the said Anne his full Executrix: And it was finished the 29. day of Iune, 1611.

West from this Church, by the South end of Adle street, almost against Puddle Wharfe, there is one ancient building of stone and timber, builded by the Lords of Barkley, Barklies Inne. and therefore called Barkleys Inne. This house is now all in ruine, and letten out in severall tenements, yet the Armes of the Lord Barkley remaine in the stone-worke of an arched gate, and is betweene a Cheveron, Crosses ten, three, three, and foure.

Richard Beauchampe, Parish Church of S. Andrew in the Wardrobe. Earle of Warwicke, was lodged in this house, then called Barkleys Inne, in the Parish of S. Andrew, in the reigne of Henry the 6. Then turning up towards the North, is the Parish Church of S. Andrew in the Wardrobe, a proper Church, but few Monuments hath it. Iohn Parnt founded a Chauntry there.

Hic jacet Ioannes Ley,A plated stone under the Communion Table. Armig. de Comitatu Wiltz. Qui obiit 7. die Iunii, An. Dom. 1604. Aetat. suae 54.

Hic jacet Ioannes Barnard, nuper Civis & Sciffor Lond. ac Aelinora & Alicia, The like stone [...] ing by the other. uxores ejus. Qui quidem Ioannes obiit 21. die Novemb. An. Dom. 1503.

The 29. day of October,A faire plated ingraven plate with Armes on a pillar in the Chancell. An. Dom. 1573. deceased Thomasine, the wife of Thomas Butler, of Bewsen, in the County of Lancaster, Esquire, and lyeth buried before this Pillar.

Via omnis carnis: hodie mihi, cras tibi.

Marmoreum decus

hoc consortis munere grato,

Non vita verum

nomine, Longus habet.

Here lyeth Henry Long of Shingay, A [...] Monument in the East end of the Chancell. Esquire, sonne and heire of Sir Richard Long, Knight, Gentleman of the Privie Chamber to King Henry the eighth, the third son of Sir Thomas Long, Knight, of Wiltshire: who married Dorothie, the daughter of Nicholas Clarke of Weston, Esquire, and Elizabeth Ramsey his wife, sole heire of Thomas Ramsey of Hicham, Esquire, her Father: By whom he had issue one sonne and three daughters: Hee dyed the 15. day of April, An. Dom. 1573. leaving alive at that time of his death, Elizabeth, his sole daughter and heire.

Dorothea uxor, conjugis amore posuit.

Nomine Longus, vita

brevis, inclitus ortu,

Ingenio praestans,

& pietatis amans.

Nere to this place lyeth interred the corps of William Nicholson, sometime of Walton, in the County of Buck, Gent. and Citizen and Draper of London. He had to wife Ioane, the eldest daughter, and one of the heires of William Company, Gent. By whom he had issue (among divers other) these which survived, namely, Helen, first the wife of Iohn Minor, of London, Draper, and afterward of Sir Iohn Branch, Knight, Lord Maior of London, An. Dom. 1580. And Beniamin, who deceased at Bramley, in the County of Surrey, where hee hath also left issue 2. sonnes, Robert and George. The said William Nicholson departed this life in September, An. Do. 1531. Being a benefactor to this Church, and to other charitable uses: whose soule (we doubt not) resteth with the Lord.

[Page] Qui genere at (que) opibus

quondam florebat honestis,

Nicholson, jacet hac

parvus in aede civis.

Quod mortale fuit

fluxit: sed fama perennis

Mens (que) manet; nihil

hic funera juris habent.

Spiritus in Coelis

divino splendet honore,

In terris memori

nomen amore viget.

Then is the Kings great Wardrobe. Sir Iohn Beauchamp, Knight of the Garter, Constable of Dover, Warden of the Cinque Ports, (sonne to Guido de Beauchampe, Earle of Warwicke) builded this house, was lodged there, deceased in the yeere 1359. and was buried on the South side of the middle Ile of Pauls Church. His Executors sold the house to King Edward the third, unto whom the Parson of S. Andrews complaining, that the said Beauchampe had pulled downe divers houses, in their places to build the same house, whereby he was hindred of his accustomed Tithes paid by the Tenants of old time; granted him 40. s. by the yeere out of that house for ever. King Richard the third was lodged there in the second of his reign.

In this house of late yeeres was lodged Sir Iohn Fortescue, Knight, Master of the Wardrobe, Chancellour and under-Treasurer of the Exchequer, and one of her Majesties most Honourable Privie Councell. The secret Letters and writings, touching the estate of the Realme, were wont to be inrolled in the Kings Wardrobe, and not in the Chancerie, as appeareth by the Records. Claus. 18. E. 4. 1. Memb. 13. Claus. 33. E. 1. Memb. 3. Et liberat. 1. E. 2. Memb. 4. &c.

From this Wardrobe, by the West end of Carter lane, then up Creed lane, Ave Mary lane, and a piece of Pater noster row, up Warwicke lane, all the East side, to the Brewhome called the Crowne, as I said, is of this Ward.

Touching Lanes ascending out of Thames street, Peters Hill. to Knight-riders street, the first is Peters Hill, Almes-houses for [...]poore viddowes. wherein I finde no matter of note, more than certaine Almes-houses, lately founded on the West side thereof, by Dauid Smith Embroyderer, for sixe poore widdowes, whereof each to have 20. s. by the yeere.

On the East side of this lane standeth a large house, of ancient building, sometime belonging to the Abbot of S. Mary in York, and was his abiding house when he came to London, Thomas Randolph Esquire hath lately augmented and repaired it.

At the upper end of this Lane, towards the North, the corner houses there, be called Peter Key, Peter Key. but the reason thereof I have not heard.

Then is Pauls Wharfe Hill, Pauls Wharfe Hill. on the East side whereof is Wood-mongers Hall.

And next adjoyning is Darby House, Wood-mongers Hall. sometime belonging to the Stanleys, for Thomas Stanley, first Earle of Darby, of that name, who married the Lady Margaret, Countesse of Richmond, mother to Henry the seventh, in his time builded it.

Queene Mary gave it to Gilbert Dethicke, then Garter, Principall King of Armes of Englishmen, Thomas Hauley Clarentieux, King of Armes of the South parts, William Harvy, alias Norroy, King of Armes of the North parts, and the other Heralds and Pursevants of Armes and to their successors, all the Capitall messuage or house,Darby House. called Darby house, with the appurtenances, situate in the Parish of Saint Bennet, and Saint Peter, and then being in the tenure of Sir Richard Sackvile, I have the Copie of the said Patent delivered me by Hum. Dyson. Knight, and lately parcell of the Lands of Edward Earle of Darby, &c. to the end that the said Kings of Armes, Heraults, and Pursevaunts of Armes, and their successors might (at their liking) dwell together, and at meet times to congregate, speak, conferre, and agree among themselves, for the good government of their faculty, and their Records might bee more safely kept, &c. Dated the eighteenth day of Iuly 1555. Philip and Marie the first and third yeere.

Then higher up,Pauls Brew-house, or Powle head Taverne. neere the South Chaine of Pauls Church-yard, is the Powle head Taverne, which house with the appurtenances, was (of old time) called Pauls Brewhouse, for that the same was so imployed, but being since left off, and letten out.

On the VVest side of this streete is [Page] one other great house builded of stone, which belongeth to Pauls Church, and was sometime letten to the Blunts, Lord Mountjoy; but of later time to a Colledge in Cambridge, and from them to the Doctors of the Civill Law and Arches, who keep a Commons there, and many of them being there lodged, it is called the Doctors Commons. Doctors Commons. Above this, on the same side, was one other great building over-against Pauls Brewhouse, and this was called Pauls Bakehouse, Pauls Bakehouse. and was imployed in baking of Bread for the Church of Pauls.

In Addle street or Lane I find no Monuments. Addle street

In Lambart hill lane, Lambart hill. on the West side thereof,Blackesmiths Hall. is the Blacksmiths Hall, and adjoyning to the North side thereof have ye one plot of ground, inclosed with a Bricke wall for a Church-yard,Church-yard of S. Mary Magdalen. or b [...] rying plot, for the dead of Saint Mary Magdalens by Old Fishstreet, which was given to that use by Iohn Iwarby, an Officer in the receit of the Exchequer, in the sixe and twentieth of King Henry the sixth, as appeareth by Patent.

Iohn Iwarby, &c. gave a peece of Land lying voide in the Parish of Saint Mary Magdalen, nigh to Old Fishstreet, betweene the Tenement of John Phipot on the South, and the Tenement of Bartholomew Burwash on the West, and the Tenement per [...]aining to the Covent of the Holy VVell on the North, and the way upon Lambarts Hill, on the East, for a Church-yard to the Parson and Church-wardens, &c.

Over-against the North-west end of this Lambart hill lane in Knight-riders street, Parish Church of S. Mary Magdalen. is the Parish Church of St. Mary Magdalen, a small Church, having but few Monuments.

Richard Woodroffe, Merchant-Taylor, 1519.

Barnard Randalph, Esquire, 1583.

Ioannes Sugar,A very ancient Tombe in the North Ile of the Quire. Civis & Piscenarius London: Qui obiit 29. die D [...]cemb. An. Dom. 1455. & Margareta uxor ejus, quae obiit 13. die Novemb. An. Dom. 1485. Quorum animarum, &c.

Here lieth buried the body of Barnard Randolph, A faire Monumēt in the east end of the Chanc [...]. Esquire, while hee lived, Commons Sergeant of this City of London. He died the seventh day of August, An. Dom. 1583. And of his liberality hath been beneficiall to the City, as formerly hath been declared.

Here lieth buried the body of Herbert Randolph, A comely Monumēt in the South Ile of the Quire. of Wardis, in the County of Sussex, Esquire, Cousin and next heire to Barnard Randolph, Esquire, &c. He tooke to wife Judith, the eldest daughter of Anthony Shirley, of Freston, in the said County of Sussex, Esquire, and departed this life (without issue) on the 9. day of April, 1604.

In Obitum lectissimae feminae Margaretae Serle,A Monument neere to the other. nuper uxoris Alexandri Serle, Reg. Majest. Procuratoris, &c. Quae obiit 8. die Mens. Martii, Anno Salutis humanae (qua nunc beatissima fruitur) iuxta stilum Angliae, 1605.

Virgo decem & septem vixi

intaminata per annos,

Deme duos totidem

tum pia nuptafui.

Funera gnatorum vidi

lugubria quinque,

Deque nevem, reliqui

his duo, nostra vident.

Casta domi vixi, invigilans

prolique larique,

Sara viro, mundo

Martha, Maria Deo.

Memoriae Sacrum.

Selectissimae feminae Ioannae,Another Monumēt beneath the former. uxoris Gilberti Dethick, sil. 2. Domini Gulielmi Dethick, Mtis filiae Alexandri Serle, Regiae Maiestatis Procuratoris Genti, & Margaretae uxoris suae. Quae quidem Ioanna 10. Martii, An. 1607 stilo Angliae, sub certa spe venturae in Christo Resurrectionis, Spiritum Deo, corpus terrae commendavit.

Vt semel partu geminas eodem,

Tristis, enixa est tacitas, sorores,

Lang [...]ido tandem pi [...]cidè quievit.

Quindecem virge pia vixit annos,

Quindecem menses pia nupta facis

Tum piè cedens, pia mens fit alti,

Tabida Incola Coeli

Virgo dum, spes haec & amorparentum,

[Page] Nupta dum, lux haec & honor mariti,

Vxor & virgo, decor haec, propinquis,

Et decus omnes.

George Coleman, A comely Monumēt with arms in the same South Ile. Gent. a free-man of this City of London, was born in Richmonsh [...]re, and afterward inhabited at Callis, in the time of the first surprize thereof by the French, An. Dom. 1558. where he lost all his lands and substance; and at the age of 95. yeers he died, the 16. of September, 1600. and lyeth interred on the North side of the Communion Table. By him is buried Alice his wife, the onely daughter of George Gainsford, Esquire, a younger sonne of Sir Iohn Gainsford of Crohurst, in the County of Surrey, Knight, and brother to the last Sir Iohn Gainsford, of the same place, Knight. Which Alice was sole heire to her Mother Elizabeth, daughter and coheire to Iohn Alphew, of Boare Place, in the County of Kent, Esquire.

Shee dyed the fourth of March, Anno Domini, 1581.

On the West side of this Church,Conduit of Thames water. by the Porch thereof, is placed a Conduit or Cesterne of Lead, castellated with Stone, for receit of Thames water, conveyed at the charges of the forenamed Barnard Randolph, Esquire.

By the East end of Saint Mary Magdalens Church, runneth up the Old Exchange lane, by the West end of Carter lane, to the South-east gate or Chaine of Pauls Church yard, as is before shewed. And in this part was the Exchange kept, and Bullion was received for coynage, as is noted in Faringdon Ward within.

In this Parish Church of Saint Mary Magdalen, out of Knight-riders street, up to Carter lane, be two small Lanes: the one of them called Do little Lane, Doe little lane. as a place not inhabited by Artificers, or open Shop-keepers, but serving for a neere passage from Knight-riders street, to Carter lane.

The other, corruptly called Sermon Lane, Sheremoniers lane. for Sheremoniers Lane. For I find it by that name recorded in the foureteenth of Edward the first: And in that Lane, a place to be called the Blacke Loft, Blacke Loft of Silver melting. (or melting Silver,) with foure Shops adjoyning.

It may therefore bee well supposed, that lane to take name of Sheremoniers, such as cut and rounded the Pla [...]es, to bee coyned or stamped into Estarsing pence, for the place of Coyning was the Old Exchange, neere unto the said Sheremoniers lane. Also I finde, that in the thirteenth of Richard the second, VVilliam de la Pole had an House there.

In Knight-riders street is the Colledge of Physicians,Colledge of Physicians. wherein was founded, in the yeere 1582. a publike Lecture in Surgerie,Lecture in Ch [...]urgery to be read. to be read twice every weeke, &c. as is shewed else-where.

In the South Church-yard of Pauls, is the South side and West end of the said Church: In the which West end, be three stately Gates,West gates of Pauls Church. or entries, curiously wrought of stone, namely the middle Gate, in the midst whereof is placed a massie pillar of Brasse, whereunto the Leaves of the said great Gate are closed, and fastened with Lockes, Bolts, and Barres of Iron: All which notwithstanding, on the 24. of December, in the yeere 1565. by a Tempest of Wind then rising from the West,Gates of Pauls Church blowne open. these Gates were blowne open, the Barres, Bolts, and Lockes broken in sunder, or greatly bended.

Also, on the fifth of Ianuary, in the yeere 1589. by a like tempest of Wind, then in the South-west, the lesser West Gate of the said Church, next to the Bishops Palace, was broken, both Bolts, Barres, and Lockes, so that the same was blowne over.

At either corner of this West end, is also of ancient building, a strong Tower of stone, made for Bell-Towers: the one of them, to wit, next to the Palace is at this present to the use of the same Palace; the other, towards the South, is called the Lollards Tower, For Lollards Tower reade M. Foxe. and hath beene used as the Bishops Prison, for such as were detected for Opinions in Religion, contrary to the faith of the Church.

The last prisoner which I have knowne committed thereto, was in the yeere 1573. one Peter Burcher, Pet. Burcher. Gent. of the middle Temple, for having desperately wounded, and minding to have [Page] murdered a serviceable Gentleman, named Iohn Hawkins, Esquire, in the high street, neere unto the Strand, who being taken and examined, was found to hold certain Opinions erroneous, and therefore committed thither, and convicted: but in the end, by perswasion, he promised to abjure his Heresies; and was, by commandement of the Councell, removed from thence to the Tower of London, &c. where he committed, as in my Annales I have expressed.

Adjoyning to this Lowlards Tower, Parish Church of S. Gregory. is the Parish Church of Saint Gregory, appointed to the Pettie Chanons of Pauls.

Monuments of note, these I find there:

Alcia Barwis,A plated stone by the Communion Table. Relicta Iohannis Barwis, Civis ac Minutarii Londinensis, posuit defuncto.

Debita peccati

solvens terrestria linquo,

Visurus patriam

quam mihi Christe dabis.

Da patriam, Rex Christe

Iesu, spes unica vitae,

Da feuti veniam

Rex bone Christe Iesu.

Virtus post Fata.

Thomas Redman,The like Stone lying by the other. Almae Curiae Cantuar. de Arcubus London Procuratorum generalium unus, qui officium Registrariatus principalis Sedis Archiepiscopalis Cantuar. per nonnullos Annos laudabiliter exercuit, hic inhumatur. In uxorem duxit Annam Miliner, quacum piè & amantissimè vixit. Ex ea unam sibi filiam nomine Elizabetham procreavit: mortem obiit 12. die Novemb. An. Dom. 1601.

Aluredus Copeley,Another Stone in the Chancell. de Botley, in Com. Ebor. Armig. quondam Socius Lincolniensis Hospitii, Obiit 5. die Feb. An. Dom. 1598. & aetatis suae, 37.

Memoriae Sacrum.

Sanctissimae & chariffimae Conjugi,A very goodly Monument in the South Ile of the Quire, vppermost. Alisonae Heriot, Iacobi Primrosii, Regiae Majestatis in sanctiori Concilio Regni Scotiae amanuensis filiae, feminae omnibus tum animi tum corporis dotibus, ac pio cultu instructissimae; Moestissimus ipsius Maritus, Georgius Heriot, Armiger, Regis, Reginae, Principum Henrici & Caroli Gemmarius, bene merenti, non sine lachrymis hoc Monumentum piè posuit.

Obiit Mensis Aprilis, die 16. Anno Salut. M. D. C. XII. aetatis 20. in ipso flore juventae, & mihi parentibus amicis tristissimum sui desiderium reliquit.

Hic Alisis Primrosa

jacet crudo obruta fato▪

Intempestivas

ut Rosa passa manus.

Nondum bis denos

annorum impleverat orbes,

Pulchra, pudica,

Patris delicium at (que) viri:

Quum gravida, heu nunquam

Mater, discessit in inde

Cura dolor (que) Patri,

cura dolorq viro:

Non sublata tamen,

tantum translata recessit,

Nunc Rosa prima Poli

quae fuit ante Soli.

Here lyeth Martha Forthe, A faire Monument close by the other in the same end of the Church. sometime wife to Robert Forthe, Doctor of Law, with whom she lived very comfortably in true marriage, a most faithfull and loving wife, the space of 24. yeeres and 5. moneths. She lived vertuously and modestly, and beloved of all that did know her, and dyed in sound faith, and in the feare of God, the 26. day of November, Ann. Dom. 1589. in the 45. yeere of her age, in constant hope of a joyfull resurrection, with the elect children of Almightie God.

Memoriae Sacrum.

Edwardo Baker,Another Monument close adjoyning Armig. Regiae Majestatis ad causas Ecclesiasticas Registrario principali, viro eximia eruditione, prudentia singulari, moribus probatissimis, & in publicis negotiis plurimum versato. Qui longo morbo intabescens, certa spe in Christo resurgendi, piè placideque animam Deo reddidit, die 26. Maii, Anno Domini, M. D. C. II.

[Page] Here lyeth intombed the body of Mary, A faire Monumēt in the South wal of the Chancell. late wife of Thomas Sandys, Esquire, and onely daughter to Sir Stephen Thornehurst, Knight, and Dame Sybill his wife: Whose soule departed this life unto Christ, the last day of Iuly, in the yeere of our Redemption, 1598. and in the one and twentieth yeere of her age. In remembrance of whose piety and singular vertues, the eternall love of her Husband hath caused this Monument to be erected.

In Heaven her soule,

In me her love,

her body resteth here,

Which is to God,

Was to the World,

to me her Husband, deare.

Here-under resteth Arthur Medlycote, A faire Monument in the East end of the Chancell. Citizen and Merchant-Taylor of London, sonne of Richard Medlycote of Shrewsbury, Gentleman, with Elizabeth his wife, daughter of John Philips. The said Arthur, in assured hope to be with Christ, ended this transitory life the seven and twentieth day of Iuly, Anno Domini, 1605. And the said Elizabeth, the eighteenth day of October, 1605.

Here lyeth Dorothie, A comely Monument in the East end of the Chancell. Daughter of John Theobald, the elder, of Shepie, in the County of Kent, Esquire. She first married John Crooke, Doctor of Law; by whom, shee had onely Dorothie, first wife to Robert Honywood, Esquire. Secondly, to Ralph Allen, Alderman of London. Thirdly, to that most Reverend, excellent, and lea [...]ed Iudge, Sir Roger Manwood, Knight, Lord chiefe Baron of the Exchequer; by whom she had issue, Iohn and Thomas, who dyed young. Marg [...]rie, the first wife of Sir John Lewson, Knight; and Anne, first wife to Sir Percivall Hart, Knight, and Sir Peter Manwood, Knight of the Bath.

Shee dyed the fourteenth day of September, Anno Domini, 1575. To whose reverend Memory, the said Sir Peter Manwood hath dutifully erected this Monument, Anno Dom. 1606.

Gulielmi Coci hoc Tumulo

parvo ossa quiescunt,

A comely small Monument by the other.

Illius ast virtus

non ita parva cubit:

Plura nam ut omittam,

Civili Iure secundus

Nulli, nec vera

dexteritate fuit.

Cui pia, ne merito

careat post funera virtus,

Hoc uxor Maria

nobile struxit opus.

Moritur 25. Augusti, Anno Domini 1558. & Mariae Reginae, 6.

12. Septemb. An. Dom. 1587. obiit.

Ioanna,A faire plated stone in the South Ile. filia Nich. Wallron, relicta Thomae Yale, Legū Doctoris, Cancellarius Archiepiscopalis Sedis Catuarien. & sepelitur sub spe suturae Resurrectionis.

The rest of that South side of Saint Pauls Church, with the Chapter-house, (a beautifull piece of VVorke, builded about the reigne of Edward the third) is now defaced, by meanes of Licences granted to Cutlers, Budget-makers, and other, first to build low Sheds, but now high houses, which doe hide that beautifull side of the Church, save onely the toppe and South gate.

On the North-west side of this Church-yard, is the Bishops Palace,The Bishops Palace. a large thing for Receit, wherein divers Kings have beene lodged, and great House-hold hath beene kept, as appeareth by the great Hall, which of late yeeres, since the rebatement of Bishops Livings, hath not beene furnished with House-hold Meynie and Guests, as was meant by the builders thereof, and was of old time used.

The Deanes Lodging, on the other side, directly against the Palace, is a faire old House, and also divers large Houses are on the same side builded, which yet remaine, and (of old time) were the Lodgings of Prebendaries and Residenciaries, which kept great House-holds, and liberall Hospitalitie; but now either decayed, or otherwise converted.

[Page] Then was there the Stationers Hall,The Stationers Hall in former dayes, but now it is in Amen lane, at the end of Pater noster Row. on the same side, lately builded for them, in the place of Peter Colledge: Where, in the yeere, one thousand, five hundred, forty, and nine, the fourth day of Ianuary, six men were slaine by the fall of Earth upon them, digging for a Well.

And let this bee an end of Baynards Castle Ward: which hath an Alderman, his Deputy; Common Counsell, nine; Constable, tenne; Scavengers, seven; Wardmote Inquest, foureteene, and a Beadle: And to the Fifteene, it is taxed at twelve pounds, in the Exchequer, eleven pounds, thirteene shillings.

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THE WARD OF FARINGDON Extra, or without.

THE farthest West Ward of this Citie,The Ward of Faringdon without being the 25. Ward of London, but without the walls, is called Faringdon without, and was of old time part of the other Faringdon within, untill the 17. of Richard the second, that it was divided, and made twaine, by the names of Faringdon infra, and Faringdon extra, as is afore shewed.

The bounds of which Ward, without Newgate and Ludgate, are these:

First, on the East part thereof, is the whole Precinct of the late Priory of S. Bartholomew, and a part of Long lane, on the North, towards Aldersgate street, and Ducke lane, with the Hospitall of S. Bartholomew on the West, and all Smithfield, to the Barres in Saint Iohn street.

Then out of Smithfield, Chicken lane, toward Turne-Mill Brooke, and over that Brooke, by a Bridge of Timber, into the Field: then backe againe by the Pennes (or Folds) in Smithfield, by Smithfield Pond, to Cow lane, which turneth toward Oldbourne; and then Hosiar lane, out of Smithfield also toward Oldborne, till it meet with a part of Cow lane.

Then Cocke lane, out of Smithfield, over against Pye corner: then also is Gilt-spurre street, out of Smithfield to Newgate: then from Newgate West by Saint Sepulchres Church, to Turne-againe lane, to Oldbourne Conduit, on Snor Hill, to Oldbourne Bridge, up Oldbourne Hill, to the Barres, on both sides.

On the right hand, or North side, at the bottome of Oldbourne Hill, Gold lane. is Gold lane, sometime a filthy passage into the Fields, now both sides builded with small Tenements.

Then higher is Lither lane, Lither lane. turning also to the Field, lately replenished with houses builded, and so to the Barres.

Now, on the left hand or South side from Newgate, lyeth a street called the Old Bayly, or Court of the Chamberlaine of this Citie: this stretcheth down by the Wall of the Citie, unto Ludgate. On the West side of which street, breaketh out one other Lane, called Saint Georges Lane, till yee come unto the South end of Sea-coale Lane; and then, turning towards Flect-street, it is called Fleet lane.

Then next out of the high street, from Newgate, turning downe South,Old Bayly. is called the Little Bayly, and runneth downe to the East of S. Georges lane. Lin [...]e barners lane, or Sea-coale lane.

Then is Sea-coale lane, which turneth downe into Flect lane.

Neere unto this Sea-coale lane, in the turning towards Oldbourne Conduit, is another lane,Winde-againe lane. called in record Winde-againe lane, it turneth downe to Turnmill Brooke, and from thence backe againe, for there is no way over.

Then beyond Oldbourne Bridge,Shoo lane. to Shoo lane, which runneth out of Oldborne unto the Conduit in Fleetstreet.

Then also is Fewtars lane, which likewise stretcheth South into Fleet street, Fewtars lane. by the East end of S. Dunstanes Church: And from this Lane to the Barres, bee the bounds without Newgate.

Now, without Ludgate, this VVard runneth up from the said gate to Temple [Page]barre, and hath on the right hand, or North side, the South end of the Old Bayly: then downe Ludgate hill, to the Fleet lane over Feeet bridge, and by Shoo lane, and Fewtars lane, and so to New street (or Chancery lane) and up that Lane, to the House of the Rolles, which House is also of this Ward; and on the other side, to a Lane over-against the Rolles, which entreth Ficquets field.

Then,Shire lane. hard by the Barre, is one other Lane, called Shire lane, because it divideth the City from the Shire, and this turneth into Ficquets field.

From Ludgate againe, on the left hand, or South side, to Fleet bridge, to Bridge lane, which runneth South by Bridewell; then to Water lane, which runneth downe to the Thames.

Then by the White Friers, and by the Temple, evern to the Barre aforesaid, bee the bounds of this Faringdon Ward without.

Touching Ornaments and Antiquities in this VVard, first, betwixt the said Newgate, and the Parish of Saint Sepulchers, is a way towards Smithfield, called Gilt Spurre, Gilt Spurre, or Knight-Riders street or Knight-Riders streete, of the Knights and other riding that way into Smithfield, replenished with building on both sides up to Pie corner, a place so called of such a signe, sometimes a faire Inne for receit of Travellers; but now divided into Tenements, and over-against the said Pie corner, lyeth Cocke lane, Cocke lane. which runneth downe to Oldbourne Conduit.

Beyond this Pie corner, West smithfield. lyeth VVest Smithfield, compassed about with buildings, as first on the South side, following the right hand, standeth the large Hospitall of Saint Bartholomew, Hospitall of S. Bartholomewes. founded by Rahere, the first Prior of St. Bartholomewes, thereto neere adjoyning, in the yeere 1102.

Alfune, The first M. or Procter of the Hospitall of S. Bartholomew. that had not long before builded the Parish Church of Saint Giles without Creplegate, became the first Hospitelar, or Protector for the poore of this house, and went himselfe daily to the Shambles and other Markets, where he begged the charity of devout people for their reliefe, promising to the liberall givers (and that by alledging testimonies of the holy Scripture) reward at the hands of God. Henry the third granted to Katharine, late wife to William Hardell, twenty foote of Land in length and breadth in Smithfield, next to the Chappell of Saint Bartholomew, to build her a Recluse or Ankorage,A recluse or Ankorage by S. Bartholomewes Hospitall. commanding the Maior and Sheriffes of London, to assigne the said twenty foot to the said Katharine, Charta 11. of Henry the third. The foundation of this Hospitall for the poore and diseased, and their speciall sstentation, was confirmed by Edward the third, the 26. of his reigne. It was governed by a Master, and eight Brethren being Priests, for the Church; and foure Sisters, to see the poore served.

The Executors of Richard Whitington, sometime Maior of London, of his goods repaired this Hospitall, about the yeere 1423.

Sir Iohn Wakering, Priest. Master of this House, in the yeere 1463. amongst other Bookes, gave to their common Library the fairest Bible that I have seene, written in large Vellam, by a Brother of that House, named Iohn Coke, at the age of 68. yeeres, when hee had beene Priest 43. yeeres. Since the spoile of that Library, I have seene this Booke in the custody of my Worshipfull friend, Master Walter Cope.

Monuments in this Church of the dead, Benefactors thereunto, be these:

Elizabeth, wife to Adam Hone, Gentleman.

Bartholomew Bildington.

Iane, wife to Iohn Cooke.

Dame Alice, wife to Sir Rich. Isham.

Alice, wife to Nicholas Bayly.

Iohn woodhouse, Esquire.

Robert Palmar, Gentleman.

Idona, wife to Iohn Walden, lying by her husband on the North side, late new builded, 1424.

Sir Thomas Malifant, or Nanfant, Baron of Winnow, Lord Saint-George, in Glamorgan, and Lord Ockeneton and Pile, in the County of Pembroke, 1438.

Dame Margaret his wife, daughter to Thomas Astley, Esquire, with Edmond and Henry his children.

William Markeby, Gentleman, 1438.

Richard Shepley, and Alice his wife.

Thomas Savill, Sergeant at Armes.

Edward Beastby, Gentleman, and Margaret his wife.

[Page] Walter Ingham, and Eleanor his wife.

Robert Warnar, and Alice, Lady Carne.

Robert Caldset, Iohan and Agnes his wives.

Sir Robert Danvars, and Dame Agnes his wife, daughter to Sir Richard Delabar.

William Brookes, Esquire.

Iohn Shirley, Esquire, and Margaret his wife, having their Pictures of Brasse, in the habit of Pilgrims, on a faire flat Stone, with an Epitaph thus:

Behold, how ended is

our poore Pilgrimage,

Of Iohn Shirley, Esquire,

with Margaret his wife,

That twelve children had

together in marriage,

Eight sonnes, and foure

daughters, withouten strife,

That in honour, nurture,

and labour, flowed in fame:

His pen reporteth

his lives Occupation,

Since Pier his life time,

Iohn Shirley by name,

Of his degree, that

was in Brutes Albion;

That in the yeere of Grace

deceased from hen,

Foureteene hundred Winters,

and sixe and fifty;

In the yeere of his age,

fourescore and ten,

Of October moneth,

the day one and twenty.

This Gentleman, a great Traveller in divers Countries, amongst other his Labours, painfully collected the Works of Geffrey Chawcer, Iohn Lidgate, and other learned VVriters; which Workes he wrote in sundry Volumes, to remain for posterity: I have seene them, and partly doe professe them.

Iane, Lady Clinton, gave ten pounds to the poore of this House, and was there buried, 1458.

Agnes, daughter to Sir VVilliam Saint-George.

Iohn Rogerbrooke, Esquire.

Richard Sturgeon.

Thomas Burgan, Gentleman.

Elizabeth, wife to Henry Skinard, daughter to Chincroft, Esquire.

William Mackley, Gentleman, and Alice his wife.

William Fitzwater, Gentleman, 1466.

Here Robert Balthorp lies intomb'd,

A comely Monumēt in the South wal of the Chancell.

to Elizabeth our Queene,

Who Sergeant of the Chirurgeons sworne,

neere thirty yeeres hath beene.

He died at sixty nine of yeeres,

December ninth the day,

The yeere of Grace eight hundred twice,

deducting nine away.

Let here his rotten bones repose,

till Angels Trumpet sound,

To warne the world of present change,

and raise the dead from ground.

Vivit post funera Virtus.

Thomas Bodleius,A Monument in the North wall of the Chancell. Eques Auratus, fecit Annae Conjugi piissimae, atque omnibus exemplis bene de se meritae, cum qua dulciter vixit Annos 24.

Iohn vir honoratus

jacet his Nedham tumulatus,

A faire plated stone by the Communion table.

Qui prudens, gratus,

justus fuit & moderatus.

Fratribus ille suis

fuerat prae quatuor Annis

Quem mors crudelis

29.q; Decembris

M. C. quater Domini

septem simul X. numerandi,

Cujus spiritui

sint Coeli gardia regni.

The foureteenth yeere

of our Lord seventy,

Vnder the Communion table

Passed Sir William Knight

to God Almighty,

The 15. day of Iuly,

Master of this place:

Iesus for his mercy

receive him into grace.

Hic jacet Dominus Ioannes Byry,By the same table quondam Magister istius Hospitall. Qui obiit 28. die Septemb. An. Domini, 1417. Cujus, &c.

Ecce sub hoc Tumulo

Gulielmus conditur Honus,

An anciēt Tombe in the North wall, beneath the Quire.

Vir justus, verbis

integer, atque Deum

Corde timens. Qui cum

[Page] Guilda sit functus in Aula,

Cumque palam in Templo

bis legerat Anglica jura,

Cunctorum sanè

non sine laude virum,

Mors hominem accersens

supremum (dixit) adi [...]o.

Sic moritur, corpus terrae,

vermique relinquens,

Scandit at excelsis

sidera mente poli.

Hoc posuit Conjunx

dilecta Iocosa Sepulchrum,

Dicta locosa licet

plena dolore tamen.

Sub praesenti marmore requiescunt corpora Walter Ingham Generosi, At the entring into the Quire in the middle Ile ac Aelianorae consortis suae. Qui quidem Walterus ingressus est viam universae carnis 7. die Mensis Martii, Anno Domini 1464. Et praedicta Aelianora, uxor sua terrenae mortis deg [...]stavic pecula 15. die Septemb. An. Dom. 1466. Quorum, &c.

Hic vir pacificus

Shipley Richardus humatur,

A faire Stone lying close by the other.

Verus Catholicus domus

haec hoc testificatur.

Esurientes ac sitientes

namque fovebat,

Pace fruentes, justa

petentes corde gerebat.

C. quater & Mille,

X. & M. V. cadit ille

Luce Maii deca ter

que monas fit humus sibi mater,

Co [...]lux postque sua

finivit Alicia flamen,

Q [...]os manus tua salvet

precor O Deus. Amen.

Hic vir Catholicus bonus

ecce Richardus humatur

Sturgeon pacificus,

A faire plated stone close by the Pilgrim and his Wife.

quem

mors rapuisse probatur.

Armi ger hic Regis fuit,

& vir Nobilitatis,

Mandatum legis servans,

celsis probitatis.

Annis trigenis fit

Clericus ipse Coronae

Et quivis plenè hunc

cape Christe bone.

Mille, quater contum

semel L. sex tempore Christi.

Dat fundamentum

quindena Martius isti,

Vxor eius quem bona

iungitur ecce Ioanna,

Vt capiant dona

Coelorum Iesus Hosanna.

Here lyeth now dead,

At the foot of the same Stone.

which late was quick,

The comely Corps

of Anne Westwick;

Who died in

Child-bed, of her first,

Vpon the fifth

day of August:

Whose soule (doubtlesse)

is long ere this,

In Heaven with Christ,

in joy and blisse;

But yet, for order

of Charity,

Vpon her soule say,

Jesu have mercy.

Anno Domini, 1556.

Hic jacet Dominus Richardus Lye,A faire plated Stone in the South Ile. quondam Abbas Salopiae, qui sua industria, sumptibus magnis & suis laboribus (Deo suadente) recuperavit libertates suae Ecclesiae Salopiae praedict. & postea obiit die Martii, tempore Parliamenti, Anno Domini 1512. Cuius, &c.

This Hospitall was valued at the suppression, Hospitall of S. Bartholomew suppressed. in the yeere 1539. the 31. of Henry the eighth, to five and thirty pounds, sixe shillings, seven pence, yeerly. The Church remaineth a Parish Church to the Tenents dwelling in the Precinct of the Hospitall: But in the yeere 1546. on the thirteenth of Ianuary, the Bishop of Rochester, preaching at Pauls Crosse, declared the gift of the said King to the Citizens, for relieving of the Poore, which contained the Church of the Gray Friers, the Church of Saint Bartholomew, with the Hospitall, the Messuages, and appurtenances in Gilt Spurre, alias Knight Riders street, Briton street, Peter Kay, in the Parish of Saint Mary Magdalen, in Old Fish street, and in the Parish of St. Benet Huda, Lymehurst, or Limehost, in the Parish of Stebunbeth, &c.

Then also were Orders devised for [Page] reliefe of the Poore: the inhabitants were all called to their Parish Churches; where, by Sir Richard Dobbes, then Maior, their severall Aldermen, or other grave Citizens, they were by eloquent Orations perswaded, how great and how many commodities would ensue unto them and their City, if the poore of divers sorts, which they named, were taken from out their Streets, Lanes, and Allies, and were bestowed and provided for in Hospitals abroad, &c. Therefore was every man moved, liberally to grant (what they would impart) towards the preparing and furnishing of such Hospitals, and also, what they would contribute weekly towards their maintenance for a time, which (they said) should not bee past one yeere, or twaine, untill they were better furnished of Endowment. To make short, every man granted liberally, according to his ability: Books were drawne of the Reliefe in every VVard of the City, towards the new Hospitals, and were delivered by the Maior to the Kings Commissioners, on the seventeenth of February; and order was taken therein, so as the sixe and twentieth of Iuly, in the yeere 1552. the repairing of the Gray Friers house, for poore fatherlesse children, was taken in hand; and also, in the later end of the same moneth, began the repairing of this Hospitall of Saint Bartholomew, and was of new endowed, and furnished at the charges of the Citizens.

On the East side of this Hospitall lyeth Ducke lane, which runneth out of Smithfield South, to the North end of Little Britaine street.

On the East side of this Ducke lane, Priory of Saint Bartholomew. and also of Smithfield, lieth the late dissolved Priory of St. Bartholomew, founded also by Rahere, a pleasant witted Gentleman; and therefore in his time called the Kings Minstrell, about the yeere of Christ, 1102. He founded it in a part of the oft before named Moorish ground, which was therefore a common Lay-stall o [...]ll filth, that was to be voided out of the City. He placed Canons there; himselfe became their first Prior, & so continued till his dying day, and was there buried in a faire Monument, of late renewed by Prior Bolton.

Amongst other memorable matters touching this Priory, one is of an Archbishops Visitation, which Matthew Paris hath thus:

Boniface (saith hee) Archbishop of Canturbury, Archbishop of Canturbury visiteth S. Bartholomews Priory with stripes. in his Visitation came to this Priory; where, being received with Procession in the most solemne wise, he said, That hee passed not upon the honour, but came to visit them; to whom the Canons answered, That they having a learned Bishop, ought not, in contempt of him, to be visited by any other: which answer so much offended the Archbishop, that hee forthwith fell on the Sub-Prior, and smote him on the face, saying; Words of the Archbishop to the Prior and Canons. Indeed, indeed, doth it became you English Traytors so to answer mee? Thus raging, with oathes not to bee recited, hee rent in peeces the rich Cope of the Sub-Prior, Sub-Priors Cope rent and trodden under foot, and himselfe almost slaine. and trode it under his feete, and thrust him against a Pillar of the Chancell with such violence, that hee had almost killed him. But the Canons seeing their Sub-Prior thus almost slaine, came and plucked off the Archbishop with such force, that they overthrew him backwards; whereby they might see,The Archbishop armed, and ouerthrowne. that he was armed, and prepared to fight. The Archbishops men seeing their Master downe, being all strangers, and their Masters Countrimen borne at Province, The Canons beaten and trod under foot. fell upon the Canons, beat them, tare them, and trode them under foot. At length, the Canons getting away as well as they could, ran bloudy, miry, rent and torne to the Bishop of London to complaine, who bade them goe to the King at Westminster, and tell him thereof: whereupon foure of them went thither,The Canons complained but could not bee heard. the rest were not able, they were so sore hurt. But when they came to Westminster, the King would neither heare nor see them; so they returned without redresse.The whole City is an uproare against the Archbishop. In the meane season the City was in an uproare, and ready to have rung the common Bell, and to have hewed the Archbishop into small peeces, who was secretly crept to Lambhith, where they sought him, and not knowing him by sight, said to themselves; where is this Ruffian, that cruell smiter? Hee is no winner of soules, but an exactor of money, whom neither God, nor any lawfull or free election did bring to this promotion: but the King did unlawfully intrude him, being unlearned, a stranger borne, and having a wife, &c. But the Archbishop conveighed himselfe over, and went to the King with a great [Page] complaint against the Canons, whereas himselfe was guilty. This Priory of Saint Bartholomew was againe new builded in the yeere 1410.

Bolton was the last Prior of this house,Bolton last Prior of Saint Bartholomew a great builder there. a great builder there: for hee repaired the Priory Church, with the Parish Church adjoyning, the offices and lodgings to the said Priory belonging and neere adjoyning:Canonbury. he builded of new the Mannor of Canonbury at Islington, which belonged to the Canons of this house, and is situate in a low ground, somewhat North from the Parish Church there. But he builded no house at Harrow on the hill,Edward Hall. as Edward Hall hath written, following a fable then on foote.

The people (saith hee) being feared by Prognostications, which declared that in the yeere of Christ, 1524. there should bee such Ecli [...]ses in watry signes, and such conjunctions, that by waters and flouds many people should perish: people victualled themselues, and went to high grounds for feare of drowning, and especially one Bolton, which was Prior of Saint Bartholomewes in Smithfield, builded him an house upon Harrow on the hill, onely for feare of this floud: thither he went and made provision of all things necessary within him, for the space of two moneths, &c.

But this was not so indeed, as I have been credibly informed: true it is, that this Bolton was also Parson of Harrow, and therefore bestowed some small reparations on the Parsonage house, and builded nothing there more than a Dovehouse, to serve him when hee had forgone his Priory.

To this Priory King Henry the second granted the priviledge of a Faire to bee kept yeerly at Bartholomewtide, Bartholomew Faire. for three daies, to wit, the Eve, the Day,The Fortainers were licensed for 3. daies, the free men so long as they would, which was sixe or seven daies. and the next morrow, to the which the Clothiers of England, and Drapers of London repaired, and had their Boothes and standings within the Church-yard of this Priory, closed in with VVals and Gates locked every night, and watched for safety of mens goods and wares; a Court of Piepowders was daily during the Faire holden, for debts and contracts.Court of Piepowders. But notwithstanding all Proclamations of the Prince, and also the Act of Parliament, in place of Booths within this Church-yard (only letten out in the Faire time, and closed up all the yeere after) bee many large houses builded, and the North VVall towards Long lane, taken downe, a number of Tenements are there erected, for such as will give great rents.

Monuments of the dead in this Priory, these are, of Rahere, the first founder.

Roger VValden, Bishop of London, 1406.

Iohn Warton, Gentleman, and Elizabeth his wife, daughter to William Scot, Esquire.

Iohn Louth, Gentleman.

Robert Shikeld, Gentleman.

Sir Bacon, Knight.

Iohn Ludlow, and Alice his wife.

W. Thirlewall, Esquire.

Richard Lancaster, Herald at Armes.

Thomas Torald.

Iohn Royston.

Iohn Watford.

Iohn Carleton.

Robert, son to Sir Robert Willowby.

Gilbert Halstocke.

Eleanor, wife to Sir Hugh Fen, mother to Margaret, Lady Aburgaveny.

William Essex, Esquire.

Richard Vancke, Baron of the Exchequer, and Margaret his wife, daughter to William de la River.

Iohn Winderhall.

Iohn Duram, Esquire, and Elizabeth his wife.

Iohn Malwine.

Alice, wife to Balstred, daughter to Kniffe.

William Scarlet, Esquire.

Iohn Golding.

Hugh Walter, Gentleman, and the late Sir Walter Mildmay, Knight, Chancellor of the Exchequer.

Vana salus hominis.

Memor esto,A comely Monumēt in the East end of the Chancell. quoniam mors non tardat, & restamentum inferorum, quia demonstratum est tibi: testamentum enim hujus mundi morte morieris.

Omnia suo proveniunt tempore at (que) transeunt. Ante mortem, ne laudes hominem quenquam, quoniam in filiis suis agnoscitur vir.

Percinalus Samlpace, Armiger, obiit [Page] secundo die Februarii, Anno Dom. 1568. R. Elizabetha regnante: Cujus quidem corpus juxta hunc Tumulum humatum existit. Agnes uxor ejus, & filia Ioannis Tebowld, Armigeri, obiit 3. die Septemb. An. Dom. 1588. R. Elizabetha regnante.

Liberi inter eos Michael & Thomas, adhuc viventes, qui in religiosa memoria optimorum parentum, hoc monumentum posuerunt.

Behold your selves by us,

such once were we as you,

And you in time shall be

even dust as we are now.

Mors nobis lucrum.

Hic jacet Gualterus Mildmay,A very faire Tombe in the Chancell. miles, & Maria uxor ejus. Ipse obiit ultimo die Maii, 1589. Ipsa 16. die Martii 1576. Reliquerunt duos filios, & tres filias. Fundavit Collegium Emanuelis Cantabridgiae, moritur Cancellarius & Sub-thesaurarius Scaccarii, & Regiae Majestati à Consiliis.

This Pric [...]y, at the late surrender, the 30. of Henry the eighth, was valued at 653. l. 15. s. by the yeere.

This Church having in the Bell-Tower sixe bels in a tune, those bels were sold to the Parish of Saint Sepulchres, and then the Church being pulled downe to the Quire, the Quire was by the Kings order annexed, for the enlarging of the old Parish Church there to adjoyning, and so was used till the reigne of Queene Mary, who gave the remnant of the Priory Church to the Friers preachers, or Blacke Friers, and was used as their Coventuall Church, untill the first of our Soveraigne Lady Queene Elizabeth: then those Friers were put out, and all the said Church, with the old parish Church, was wholly as it stood, in the last yeere of Edward the sixth, given by Parliament, to remaine for ever a parish Church to the Inhabitants within the Close, called great Saint Bartholomewes. Since the which time, the old parish Church is pulled downe, except the Steeple of rotten Timber, ready to fall of it selfe. I have oft heard it reported, that a new Steeple should bee builded with the Stone, Lead and Timber of the old parish Church, but no such thing was performed. The parish have lately repaired the old woodden Steeple, to serve their turne. On the North side of this Priory, is the Lane truly called Long, which reacheth from Smithfield to Aldersgate street. This Lane is now lately builded on both the sides with Tenements for Brokers, Tiplers, and such like: the rest of Smithfield from Long lane end to the Barres,Long lane. is inclosed with Innes, Brew-houses, and large Tenements; on the VVest side is Chicken lane, downe to Cowbridge. Chicken lane. Cowbridge. Pens in Smithfield. Then be the pens or folds, so called of sheepe there parted, and penned up to be sold on the Market dayes.

Then is Smithfield Pond,Smithfield Pond sometime a poole. which of (old time) in Records was called Horse-Poole, for that men watered Horses there, and was a great water. In the sixth of Henry the fifth, a new building was made in the VVest part of Smithfield, betwixt the said Poole and the River of the Wels, or Turnemill-brooke, in a place then called the Elmes, The Elms in Smithfield a place wherein trespassers were executed. for that there grew many Elme trees, and this had been the place of execution for Offenders: since the which time, the building there hath been so increased, that now remaineth not one tree growing.

Amongst these new buildings is Cowbridge street, or Cow lane; which turneth toward Oldbourne, in which Lane the Prior of Semperingham had his Inne, or London lodging.

The rest of that West side of Smithfield hath divers faire Innes, and other comely buildings,Hosier lane. up to Hosier lane, which also turneth downe to Oldbourne, till it meet with Cowbridge street. From this Lane to Cocke lane, Cocke lane. over-against Pie-corner.

And thus much for incroachments and inclosure of this Smithfield, whereby remaineth but a small portion for the old uses, to wit, for markets of horses, and cattell, neither for Military exercises, Iustings in Smithfield. as Iustings, Turnings, and great Triumphs, which have beene there performed before the Princes and Nobility, both of this Realme and sorraine Countries.

For example to note: In the yeere [Page] 1357. the 31. of Edward the third,Fabian. great and royall Iusts were then holden in Smithfield, there being present the Kings of England, France, and Scotland, with many other Nobles, and great Estates of divers lands.

In the yeere 1362. the 36. of Edward the 3. on the first five daies of May, in Smithfield were Iusts holden, the King and Queene being present, with the most part of the Chivalry of England, and of France, and of other Nations, to the which came Spaniards, Cyprians, and Armenians, Knightly requesting ayde of the King of England, against the Pagans that invaded their confines.

The 48. of Edw. the third, Dame Alice Perrers, Alice Perrers rode from the Tower to Smithfield, as Lady of the Sun. or Pierce (the kings Concubine) as Lady of the Sunne, rode from the Tower of London, through Cheape, accompanied of many Lords and Ladies, every Lady leading a Lord by his horse bridle, till they came into West Smithfield, and then began a great Just, which endured seven daies after.

Also the 9. of Richard the 2. was the like great riding from the Tower to Westminster, and every Lord led a Ladies horse bridle, and on the morrow began the Iusts in Smithfield, which lasted two dayes: there bare them well, Henry of Darby, the Duke of Lancasters sonne, the Lord Beaumont, Sir Simon Burley, and Sir Paris Countney.

In the 14. of Richard the second, after Froisard, royall Iusts and Turnements were proclaimed to be done in Smithfield, to begin on Sunday next after the feast of Saint Michael; many strangers came forth of other countries: namely, Valariam, Earle of S. Paul, that had married king Richards sister, the Lady Maud Courtney, and William the young Earle of Ostarvant, son to Albret of Baviere, Earle of Holland and Henault.

At the day appointed,Tower Royall. there issued forth of the Tower, about the third houre of the day 60. Coursers, apparrelled for the Iusts, and upon every one an Esquire of honour riding a soft pace: then came forth 60. Ladies of honour mounted upon Palfraies, riding on the one side richly apparrelled, and every Lady led a Knight with a chain of gold, those Knights being on the Kings party, had their armour & apparell garnished with white Harts, and crownes of gold about the Harts neckes, and so they came riding through the streets of London to Smithfield, with a great number of Trumpets, and other instruments of Musicke before them. The King and Queene, who were lodged in the Bishops Palace of London, were come from thence, with many great Estates, and placed in chambers to see the Iusts: the Ladies that led the knights, were taken downe from their Palfraies, and went up to chambers prepared for them. Then alighted the Esquires of Honour from their Coursers, and the knights in good order mounted upon them; and after their Helmets were set on their heads, and being ready in all points, Proclamation made by the Heralds, the Iusts began, and many commendable courses were runne, to the great pleasure of the beholders: this Iusts continued many dayes with great feasting, as ye may reade in Froisard.

In the yeere 1393. the 17. of Richard the 2. certaine Lords of Scotland came into England to get worship, by force of Armes, the Earle of Marre challenged the Earle of Notingham, to Iust with him, and so they rode together certaine courses, but not the full challenge, for the Earle of Marre was cast both horse and man, and two of his ribbes broken with the fall, so that he was conveighed out of Smithfield, and so towards Scotland, but dyed by the way at Yorke.

Sir Wil. Darell, knight, the Kings Banner-bearer of Scotland, challenged Sir Percy Courtney, knight, the Kings Banner-bearer of England, and when they had runne certaine courses, gave over without conclusion of victory. Then Cookborne, Esquire of Scotland, challenged Sir Nicholas Hawberke, knight, and rode five courses, but Cookborne was borne over horse and man, &c.

In the yeere 1409. the tenth of Henry the fourth, a great Play was played at Skinners Well, which lasted eight dayes, where were to see the same, the most part of the Nobles and Gentles in England: and forthwith began a royall Justing in Smithfield, between the Earle of Somerset, and the Seneshall of Henalt, Sir Io. Cornwall, Sir Richard Arundell, and the sonne of Sir Iohn Cheyney, against [Page] certaine French men. And the same yeere a battell was fought in Smithfield, between two Esquires, the one called Glaucester Appellant, and the other Arthure Defendant, they fought valiantly, but the King tooke up the quarrell into his hands, and pardoned them both.

In the yeere 1430. the eighth of Henry the sixth, the fourteenth of Ianuary, a battell was done in Smithfield, within the Lists, before the King, between two men of Feversham in Kent, Iohn Vpton, Notary, Appellant, and Iohn Downe, Gentleman, Defendant: Iohn Vpton put upon Iohn Downe, that he and his Compiers should imagine the Kings death upon the day of his Coronation. When these had fought long, the King took up the matter, & forgave both the parties.

In the yeere 1442. the 20. of Henry the sixth, the 30. of Ianuary, a Challenge was done in Smithfield, within the Lists, before the King, there being Sir Philip la Beaufe, of Aragon, Knight, the other an Esquire of the Kings house, called Iohn Ansley, or Anstley; they came to the field all armed, the Knight with his sword drawne, and the Esquire with his Speare, which Speare hee cast against the Knight, but the Knight avoided it with his sword, and cast it to the ground. then the Esquire tooke his Axe, and smote many blowes on the Knight, and made him let fall his Axe, and brake up his Vmber three times, & would have smit him on the face with his dagger, for to have slaine him; but then the King cried hold, and so they were parted: the King made Iohn Ansley Knight, and the Knight of Aragon offered his Harnesse at Windsor.

In the yeer 1446. the 24. of Hen. the 6. Iohn David appeached his Master William Cater of treason:Iohn David a false accuser of his master: of him was raised the by-word, If ye serve me so, I will call you Davy. and a day being assigned them to fight in Smithfield, the Master being well beloved, was so cherished by his friends, and plied with wine, that being therewith overcome, was also unluckily slaine by his servant. But that false servant (for he falsly accused his Master) lived not long unpunished; for he was after hanged at Teyborn for felony.

Let all such false accusers note this for example, and looke for no better end, without speedy repentance.

The same yeere, Thomas Fiiz-Thomas, Prior of Kilmaine, appeached Sir Iames Butler, Earle of Ormond, of treasons: which had a day assigned them to fight in Smithfield, the Lists were made, and the field prepared: but when it came to the point, the King commanded they should not fight, and tooke the quarrell into his hands.

In the yeere 1467. the seventh of Edward the fourth, the Bastard of Burgoigne challenged the Lord Scales, brother to the Queene, to fight with him, both on horse-back and on foot: the King therefore caused Lists to bee prepared in Smithfield, the length of 120. Taylors yards, and ten foote, and in breadth 80. yards, and 20. foot, double barred, five foot betweene the barres, the timber worke whereof cost 200. Marks, besides the faire and costly Galleries prepared for the Ladies and other: at the which Martiall enterprise, the King and Nobility were present. The first day they ranne together with Speares, and departed with equall honour.

The next day they turneyed on horsebacke, the Lord Scales horse having on his Chafron a long speare pike of steele, and as the two Champions coaped together, the same horse thrust his pike into the nostrils of the Bastards horse, so that for very paine, he mounted so high that he fell on the one side with his Master, and the Lord Scales rode about him with his sword drawne, till the King commanded the Marshall to helpe up the Bastard, who said; I cannot hold by the clouds; for though my horse faile me, I will not faile an incounter companion: but the King would not suffer them to doe any more that day.

The next morrow they came into the Lists on foot, with two Pole-Axes, and fought valiantly, but at the last the point of the Pole-Axe of the Lord Scales entred into the side of the Bastards Helm; and by force might have placed him on his knees: But the King cast downe his warder, and the Marshall severed them. The Bastard required that hee might performe his enterprise: but the King gave Judgement, as the Bastard relinguished his challenge, &c. And this may suffice for Iusts in Smithfield.

But yet we may not part with Smithfield [Page] so:Smithfield being continually subject to extremity of weather by an honourable motion made, it was paved all over in An. 1614. for, as it hath beene a place for such honourable Iusts and Triumphs, by reason it was a soft ground, and unpaved: so was it a Market place for Cattell, Hay, Straw, and other necessary provisions, and likewise (once in the yeere) at Bartholomewtide a generall Faire, commonly called Bartholomew Faire, hath usually beene kept in that place. But in regard that it was continually subject to the iniquity of weather, and being a place of such goodly extendure, deserved to be much better respected; it pleased the Kings Majesty, with the advice of his honourable Lords of the Councell, to w [...]ite graciously to the Lord Maior and the Aldermen his Brethren, that Smithfield might be sufficiently paved, which would bee the onely meanes, whereby to have it kept in far cleaner condition. And as no motion (to any good end and intent) can be made to the City, but they as gladly embrace and willingly pursue it: even so this honourable motion found as acceptable entertainment, and it was very speedily proceeded withall. Some voluntary contribution in the severall Parishes (what each man willingly would give) was bestowed on the worke; but (indeed) hardly deserving any report. Notwithstanding, on the fourth day of February, in An. 1614. the City began the intended labour, and before Bartholomewtide then next ensuing, to the credit and honour of the City for ever,Bartholo-Faire kept in much better manner, than ever formerly it hath beene. it was fully finished, and Bartholomew Faire there kept, without breaking any of the paved ground, but the Boothes discreetly ordered, to stand fast upon the pavement. The Citizens charge thereof (as I have been credibly told by Master Arthur Strangwaies) amounting well neere to sixteene hundred pounds.

Now to returne through Gilt-spurre street by Newgate, where I first began, there standeth the faire parish Church, called S. Sepulchers in the Bayly, or by Chamberlaine gate, in a faire Church-yard, though not so large as of old time; for the same is letten out for buildings, and a Garden plot.

This Church was newly re-edified or builded, about the reigne, of Henry the sixth, or of Edward the fourth, one of the Pophames was a great builder there:Io. Leyland. namely, of one faire Chappell on the South side of the Quire, as appeareth by his Armes, and other Monuments in the Glasse windowes thereof, and also the faire Porch of the same Church towards the South:Pophames builders of St. Sepulchers Church. his Image faire graven in stone, was fixed over the said Porch, but defaced and beaten downe, his titles were these, by offices: Chancellour of Normandy, Captaine of Vernoyle, Pearch, Susan, and Bayon, and Treasurer of the Kings Houshold; hee dyed rich, leaving great treasure of strange coynes, and was buried in the Charter-house Church, by West Smithfield.

The first Nobilitating of these Pophames, was by Matilda the Empresse, daughter to Henry the first, and by Henry her son: one Popham, a Gentleman of very faire lands in Southampton shire, dyed without issue Male, about Henry the sixth, and leaving foure daughters, they were married to Fostar, Barentine, Wodham, and Hamden. Popham Deane (distant three miles from Clarendon, and three miles from Mortisham) was sometime the chiefe Lordship or Mannour house of those Pophames.

There lie buried in this Church, William Andrew, Stephen Clamparde, Laurence Warcam, Iohn Dagworth, William Porter, Robert Scarlet, Esquires.

Here-under lieth buried the body of the vertuous Lady,A faire plated stone in the Chancell. the Lady Elenor Sentleger, wife to Sir Anthony Sentleger, Knight, Master of the Rolles of the Chancery of the Realme of Ireland, and one of her Majesties Privie Councell of the same Realme; the daughter of Richard Markham of Seggebrooke, in the County of Lincolne, Esquire, deceased; who died the second day of February, 1598. being of the age of 52. yeeres, and Moneths odde.

Here lieth Dame Elizabeth Langton, A faire stone close by the other. late wife of Sir Thomas Langton, Knight, Baron of Newton, in the Countie of Lancaster: one of the daughters of Sir Edward Stanley, Knight, Lord Mounteagle, which deceased the 17. day of Iune, An. Dom. 1533.

Here lieth buried the body of Richard [Page]Snelling of West Greensted in the County of Sussex, A faire plated stone in the same Chancell. Esquire, who died the 25. day of August, An. Dom. 1611. He married Margery May, the eldest daughter of George May, in the County aforesaid, Esquire: By whom hee had issue 2. sons and 3. daughters; which said Margery was living in An. 1612. and caused this Monument to bee laid, desiring to be interred here-under.

Elionora praehonorabilis viri, Iohannis Fortescue,A very faire plated stone in the Chancell. Equitis Aurati, Ducatus Lancastriae Cancellarii, à sanctioribus Regiae Majestatis Conciliis, filia Edvardi Hubbard Armig. defuncti, aliquando Conjux perquam dilecta, sub hoc Marmore jacet sepulta. Vixit annos 36. piè, justè, sobriè, quoad Deum, mundum, seipsam, gestos in fide, pace, spe Christi, conscientiae, gloriae. Obiit 10. die Mensis Iulii, An. Regni Regis Jacobi, Angliae, &c. 3. Anno Domini 1605.

Qualis vita, finis ita.

Here-under lyes the

wonder of her kinde,

A faire stone by the Communion Table, richly done with Armes.

The Quintessence

of Nature and of Grace,

Wit, Beauty, Bounty,

and (in Noble race

The rarest Iewell)

a right humble minde;

Here lyes her body,

but her soule refin'd

Above th' Empyreall,

hath imperiall place,

In blisse so boundlesse,

as no words embrace,

Nor Art can seigne,

nor mortall heart can find.

Her fame remaines a

Monument of honour,

Built by her vertue

gilt with purest gold,

With Lilly-flowers and

Roses strewed upon her,

Her Epitaph

Vrania thus enrol'd:

Milde childe, chaste mayden,

and religious wife:

The Even crownes the day,

Ioane Essex death her life.

Piè obiit die Martis Martii 15. Ann. aetat. suae 26. Salutis nostrae, 1607.

A Dorcas milde,

Vnder the Communion Table, a faire plated stone.

a Mary full of grace,

A Virgin chaste,

and of rare education,

Entombed lyeth here

underneath this place.

Whose life and name

deserved commendation.

But in the blooming

Month of pleasant May,

Vntimely Death hath

stolne her life away.

Yet spight of Death,

her vertue still remaineth;

And in the heaven

a better life she gaineth:

Vpon whose Tombe

I consecrate this Verse,

In stead of flowers.

to decke her Funerall Hearse.

Nemo ante obitum foelix.

In Ioannem Brewster Armigerum, in obitum D. Elizabethae Deane, uxoris ejus. Obiit 24. die Octob. 1609.

MAde generous by birth

and kept that fount,

A very faire Monument in the Chancell.

From times pollution,

striving still to rise,

Above the earth, high

in the worlds account

For outward and

in-bred courtesies.

Her actions, almes, her life,

faith, hope, and love,

A suffering spirit,

rendring right for wrong:

Her heart a Spheare, where

all good thoughts did move,

Whose influence was

dispersed by the tongne.

Religion was her Compasse,

Truth her Starre,

In sundry Seas

of worlds prosperity.

Wealth her bad angell,

flesh and bloud her warre,

Yet wisedome made

this discord Harmony.

Then Marble keepe

to all posterity

Her lives deare memory,

upon whose urne

[Page] And to her obsequies

(O, obsequiously)

In loves sweet Odours

hearts shall ever burne.

And let each Christian

heart joyne with my pen,

T' imbalme her vertues

in the hearts of men.

Thou bed of rest,

reserve for him a roome,

Who lives a man divorc't

from his deare wife:

And as they were one heart,

so this one Tombe

May hold them neere

in death, as linckt in life.

Shee's gone before,

and after comes her head;

To sleepe with her

among the blessed dead.

Here is buried the body of Henry Cotton, A Monument on a Pillar in the body of the Church. Gentleman, eldest son of Thomas Cotton, of Connington, in the County of Huntingdon, Esquire, by Dorothy Tamworth, his second wife. Hee living honestly, died the 11. day of Iune, 1614. And made his Elcecutors, Sir Edward Montagu, Knight of the Bath, married to Frances his second sister, and William Mulsho, Esquire, married to Rebecca his third sister; who in requitall of his kindnesse to them, erected this remembrance for him.

Barckly sublatus, jacet hic

sub marmore stratus,

A Gravestone at the North Ile entring into the Quire▪

Qui pueros docuit multos

veluti bene sciunt.

Quem rapuit Dominus,

sed vivit spiritus ejus,

Inter seculas quo' obierunt

qui bene formas

Annis millenis

quingentenis simul oct [...],

Quod Domini migrat

qui non cursum sibi pigrat.

Mense Decembre fero

de quo non plus majus edo

Binas uxores habuit

senas quoque proies.

Quarum tres nati,

natae tres atque fuere,

Quos nece truncavit

Christus quicunque creavit.

Next to this Church is a faire and large Inne for receit of Travellers, and hath to signe the Sarasens head.

There lyeth a streete from Newgate West, to the end of Turne-againe lane, and winding North to Oldbourne Conduit. Oldbourne Conduit by Oldbourne Crosse. This Conduit by Oldbourne Crosse was first builded 1498. Thomasin, widow to Iohn Percival, Maior, gave to the second making thereof 20. Markes, Richard Shore ten pounds, Thomas Knesworth, and others also did give towards it.

But of late, a new Conduit was there builded in place of the old, namely, in the yeere 1577. by William Lambe, sometime a Gentleman of the Chappell to King Henry the eighth, and afterward a Citizen and Clothworker of London, the water thereof he caused to bee conveighed in Lead, from divers Springs to one head, and from thence to the said Conduit, and waste of one Cocke at Oldbourne bridge, more than 2000. yards in length, all which was by him performed at his owne charges, amounting to the summe of 1500. l.

From the West side of this Conduit is the high way, there called Snor hill, stretching out by Oldbourne bridge over the oft named water of Turnmill Brook, and so up to Oldbourne hill, all replenished with faire building.

Without Oldbourne bridge, on the right hand, is Gold lane, as is before shewed: up higher on the hill be certain Innes, & other faire buildings, amongst the which (of old time) was a Messuage called Scroopes Inne; Scroopes Inne, sometime Sergeants Inne, in Oldbourne. for so I finde the same recorded in the 37. of Henry the 6.

This house was sometime letten out to Sergeants at the Law, as appeareth, and was found by Inquisition taken in the Guild-hall of London, before William Purchase, Maior, and Escheator for King Henry the seventh, in the 14. of his reigne, after the death of Iohn Lord Scroope, that he dyed deceased in his demesne of fee, by the feoffement of Guy Fairfaix, Knight, one of the Kings Iustices, made in the 9. of the same King, unto an Esquire, the said Io. Scroop, Knight, Lord Scroope of Bolton, and Robert Wingfield, of one house or tenement late called Sergeants Inne, situate against the Church of St. Andrew in Oldbourne in

[Page] the City of London, with two Gardens, and two Messuages to the same Tenement belonging in the said City, to hold in burgage, valued by the yeere in all reprises 10. s.

Then is the Bishop of Elies Inne, Ely place in Oldbourne. so called of belonging and pertaining to the Bishops of Ely. William de Luda, Bishop of Ely, deceased 1297. and gave this house, by the name of his Mannour with the appurtenances in Oldbourne, to his successors, with condition, that his next successour should pay a thousand Markes towards the finding of three Chaplains in the Chappell there.

More, Iohn Hotham, Bishop of Ely, did give by the name of sixe Messuages, two Cellars, and forty Acres of land in the Suburbs of London, in the Parish of Saint Andrew in Oldbourne, to the Prior and Covent of Ely, as appeareth by Patent the ninth of Edward the third: this man was Bisop of Ely 20. yeeres, and deceased 1336.

Thomas Arundell, Bishop of Ely, beautifully builded of new his Palace at Ely, and likewise his Mannours in divers places, especially this in Oldbourne, which he did not only repaire, but rather new builded, and augmented it with a large Port, Gate-house, or Front towards the street, or high-way: his Armes are yet to bee discerned in the stone worke thereof: he fate Bishop of Ely fourteene yeeres, and was translated to Yorke.

In this house, for the large and commodious roomes thereof, divers great and solemne feasts have bin kept, especially by the Sergeants at the Law, whereof twaine are to bee noted for posterity.

The first in the yeer 1464. the fourth of Edward the fourth,Sergeants feast in Ely house. in Michaelmas Terme, the Sergeants at Law held their feast in this house, to the which amongst other Estates, Matthew Philip, Maior of London, with the Aldermen, Sheriffes, & Commons of divers crafts being invited, did repaire: but when the Maior looked to keep the State in the Hall, as it had been used in all places within the City and Liberties (out of the Kings presence) the Lord Gray of Ruthen, then Lord Treasurer of England, unwitting the Sergeants, and against their wils (as they said) was first placed: whereupon the Maior, Aldermen, and Commons departed home, and the Maior made the Aldermen to dine with him: howbeit, hee and all the Citizens were wonderfully displeased, that hee was so dealt with, and the new Sergeants and others were right sorry therefore, and had rather than much good (as they said) it had not so happened.

One other feast was likewise there kept, in the yeere 1531. the 23. of King Henry the eighth. The Sergeants then made were in number eleven: namely, Thomas Audeley, Walter Luke, 1. Bawldwine, 1. Hinde, Christopher Ienny, Iohn Dowsell, Edward Mervine, Edmond Knightley, Roger Chomley, Edward Montague, and Robert Yorke.

These also held their feast in this Ely house for five dayes, to wit, Friday the tenth of November, Saterday, Sunday, Munday, and Tuesday. On Munday (which was their principall day) King Henry and Queene Katharine dined there (but in two chambers) and the forraine Ambassadors in a third chamber.K. Henry the 8. and Queene Katharine dined at the Sergeants feasts.

In the Hall at the high table, sate Sir Nicholas Lambard, Maior of London, the Iudges, the Barons of the Exchequer, with certaine Aldermen of the City: At the board on the South side sate the Master of the Rowles, the Master of the Chancery, and worshipfull Citizens: On the North side of the Hall certaine Aldermen began the board, and then followed Merchants of the City: In the Cloystry, Chappell and Gallery, Knights, Esquires, and Gentlemen were placed: In the Hals the Crafts of London: the Sergeants of Law and their Wives kept in their owne chambers.

It were tedious to set downe the preparation of fish, fles, and other victuals spent in this feast, and would seeme almost incredible, and (as to mee it seemeth) wanted little of a feast at a Coronation: Neverthelesse a little I will touch, for declaration of the change of prices.

There were brought to the slaughter house foure and twenty great Beefes, at 26. s. 8. d. the peece from the Shambles, one carkasse of an Oxe, at 24. s. an hundred [Page] fat Muttons, 2. s. 10. d. the peece, fifty one great Veales, at 4. s. 8. d. the peece, thirty foure Porkes, 3. s. 8. d. the peece, ninety one Pigs, 6 d. the peece, Capons of Grece of one Poulter (for they had three) ten dozens, at twenty pence the peece: Capons of Kent, nine dozen and sixe, at twelve pence the peece: Capons course nineteene dozen, at sixe pence the peece. Cocks of grose, seven dozen and nine, at eight pence the peece: Cockes course, fourteen dozen and eight, at three pence the peece: Pullets the best, 2. d. ob. other Pulle [...]s, two pence: Pigeons, thirty seven dozen, at ten pence the dozen: Swans, foureteene dozen: Larkes, 340. dozen, at five pence the dozen, &c. Edward Nevill was Seneshall or Steward, Thomas Ratcliffe Controwier, Thomas Wildon Clerke of the Kitchin.

Next,Lither lane. Furnivals Inne, an Inne of Chancery▪ beyond this Mannour of Ely house, is Lither lane, turning into the field. Then is Furnivals Inne, now an Inne of Chancery, but sometime belongging to Sir William Furnival, Knight, and Thomasin his wife, who had in Oldbourne two Messuages, and 13. Shops, as appeareth by Record of Richard the second in the sixth of his reigne.

Then is the Earle of Bathes Inne, now called,The Earle of Bathes Inne. Bathe Place, of late (for the most part) new builded, and so to the Barres.

Now againe from Newgate, on the left hand or South side, lyeth the Old Bayly, which runneth down by the wall upon the ditch of the City, called Hounds Ditch to Ludgate: Hounds Ditch. I have not read how this street tooke that name, but it is like to have risen of some Court of old time there kept: and I finde, that in the yeere 1356. the 34. of Edward the third, the tenement and ground upon Hounds Ditch, betweene Ludgate on the South, and Newgate on the North, was appointed to Iohn Cambridge, Fishmonger, The Chamberlaines house and Court in the Old Beyly. Chamberlaine of London, whereby it seemeth, that the Chamberlaines of London have there kept their Courts, as now they doe in the Guild hall, and till this day, the Maior and Justices of this City kept their Sessions in a part thereof, now called the Sessions hall, The Sessions hall. both for the City of London, and Shire of Middlesex. Over-against the which house, on the right hand, turneth downe Saint Georges lane, S. Georges lane, and Inne of Chancery there. towards Ficet lane.

In this St. Georges lane, on the North side thereof, remaineth yet an old wall of stone, inclosing a peece of ground up Seacole lane, wherein (by report) sometime stood an Inne of Chancery: which house being greatly decayed, and standing remote from other houses of that profession, the Company removed to a common Hostery, called of the signe, our Lady Inne, not farre from Clements Inne, which they procured from Sir Iohn Fineox, Lord chiefe Iustice of the Kings Bench, and since have held it of the Owners,Originall of New Inne. by the name of the New Inne, paying therefore sixe pounds rent by the yeere,An Inne of Chancery. as renants at their owne will: for more (as is said) cannot be gotten of them; and much lesse will they be put from it.

Beneath this Saint Georges lane, the Lane called Fleet lane, winding South by the prison of the Fleet, into Fleetstreet, by Fleet Bridge.

Lower down into the Old Bayly, P. standard of Spring water in the Old Beyly. is at this present a Standard of Timber, with a Cocke, or Cockes, delivering faire Spring water to the inhabitants, and is the waste of the water, serving the Prisoners in Ludgate.

Next, out of the high street turneth downe a Lane, called the Little Bayly, which runneth down to the East end of Saint Georges lane.

The next is Sea-coale lane, Sea-coale lane, or Lime-burners lane, sometime so called. I thinke, called Lime burners lane, of burning Lime there with Sea-coale. For I reade in Record of such a Lane, to have bin in the Parish of Saint Sepuld [...]re, and there yet remaineth in this Lane an Alley, called Lime-burners Alley.

Neere unto this Sea-coale lane, in the turning towards Oldbourne Conduit, is Turnë-againe lane, Wind-againe lane. or rather, as in a Record of the fifth of Edward the third, Wind-againe lane, for that it goeth downe VVest to Fleet Dike, from whence, men must turne againe the same way they came; for there it is stopped.

Then the high street turneth downe Snor hill, Snore lane. to Oldbourne Conduit, and from thence to Oldbourne Bridge; beyond the which Bridge,Shoo lane. on the left hand, is Shooe lane, by the which men passe from Oldbourne [Page] to Fleetstreet, by the Conduit there.

In this Shooe lane, on the left hand, is one old House,Oldbourne hall. called Oldbourne Hall; it is now letten out into divers Tenements.

On the other side, at the very corner, standeth the Parish Church of St. Andrew; Parish Church of S. Andrew in Oldbourne. in the which Church, or neere thereunto, was sometime kept a Grammar Schoole,Grammar schoole in Oldbourne. as appeareth in another place by a Patent, made (as I have shewed) for the erection of Schooles.

There be Monuments in this Church of Thomas, Lord Wriothesley, Earle of Southampton, buried 1550.

Ralph Rokeby, of Lincolnes Inne, Esquire, Master of Saint Katharines, and one of the Masters of Requests to Queene Elizabeth, who deceased the 14. of Iune, 1596.

He gave by his Testament to Christs Hospitall in London, an hundred pounds.

To the Colledge of the Poore of Queene Elizabeth, in East Greenwitch, an hundred pounds.

To the poore Scholars in Cambridge, an hundred pounds.

To the poore Scholars in Oxford, an hundred pounds.

To the Prisoners in the two Compters in London, two hundred pounds.

To the prisoners in the Fleet, an hundred pounds.

To the prisoners in Ludgate, an hundred pounds.

To the prisoners in Newgate, an hundred pounds.

To the prisoners in the Kings Bench, an hundred pounds.

To the prisoners in the Marshalsey, an hundred pounds.

To the prisoners in the White Lion, twenty pounds.

To the poore of S. Katharines, twenty pounds; and to every Brother and Sister there, forty shillings.

Wil. Sydnam founded a chauntry there.

There was also of old time (as I have read in the third of Henry the fifth) an Hospitall for the poore,Hospitall in Oldbourne. which was a Cell to the house of Cluny in France, and was therefore suppressed among the Priories Aliens.

Here resteth the body of Margery Parkinson, late wife of Iohn Parkinson, A Monument in the North wall of the Chancell. of the City of Chester, Gentleman, the daughter of William Dimmocke, of the same City, Gentleman, who died in the faith of Christ on the fourth day of February, Anno Domini 1610. She left behinde unto her said husband these children at her death, Gerrard, VVilliam, Iohn, Edward, and Katharine Parkinson; which Gerraid died at Brazen-nose Colledge in Oxford, the 4. day of Ianuary, Anno Domini 1611.

Iohn Parkinson, her sorrowfull husband, caused this Monument to be here erected, for a memoriall of her vertue, and of their mutuall love.

Here lieth buried William Tipper, A faire stone before the doore of the Vestre▪ Esquire of the body to our Soveraign Lord King Iames, who departed this world the first day of September, An. Domini 1613. being aged 71. yeeres. Hec was the sonne of Henry Tipper, of London, Citizen and Grocer, and of Helen his wife, daughter of Randall Dodd of Cheshire. This VVilliam Tipper married Mary, daughter of Io. Clarke, of London, Goldsmith, and had issue Robert Tipper.

Memoriae Sacrum.

Michael Lewes, A small Monumēt in the wal at the east end of the Chancell. of Collyweston, in the County of Northampton, Esquire, zealous in Gods truth, and vertuous in conversation, did learnedly reade in the Common Law of Grayes Inne, Anno 1584. Aetatis suae 45. whose body lieth here buried, but his soule is with Christ, at the right hand of God, expecting the glorious resurrection of the faithfull.

Vincemus mundi Praelia pace Dei.

Reginaldus Biens, ortu clarus,A comely small Monument in the wal in the Chancell. virtue Militari clarior, terris multùm jactatus & undis: huic tandem libens, ac laetus appulit portui. An. Dom. 1611. Aetatis 49.

En fuit, en non est hic

qui sepelitur in umbris;

En fuit, en non est

umbra, cadaver, homo.

Vixit sua tempora nosque sequemur.

[Page] Monumentum Roberti Coke de Milleham in Comitatu Norfolciae Armig.A faire Monumēt in the same wall. Illustrissimi Hospitii Lincolniensis quondam Socii Primarii.

Qui ex Winefrida uxore sua, Gulimi Knightly filia, hos suscepit liberos:

Edwardum Coke, filium, Majestatis

Regiae Attornatum Generalem.

Winefridam, Miloni Mingay, Generos.

Dorotheam, Gulielmo Francklyn, Generos.

Elizabetham, Richardo Osborne, Generos.

Vrsulam, Georgio Ledys, Generos.

Annam, Francisco Stubbe, Generos.

Margaretam, Roberto Barker, Armig.

Ethelredam, Nicholae Bohun, Armig.

Obiit in Hospitio

praedicto 15. die

Novemb. An.

Domini, 1561.

Elizab. 4.

Aetat. suae 48.

Ioannes Corbettus, à Chri. bene mot.

Hic jacet spe novissimae tubae Jo. Corb.A comely Monumēt in the South wal of the Chancell. Armig. fil. Milonis Corbetti, Militis, natus quintus mortuus 2. unus Clericorum Serenissimi Iacobi à secretioribus Conciliis. Occubuit 9. Decembris, 1611.

Si totus parvam

promeretur frater in urnam

Flerem, sed pars est

vilior ista sui

Quam Tumulo clausam,

pars altera vidit Olympo

Redditam, ut invidiam

semodo flere velim.

Elizabethae Ferreriae unicae filiol. Ioan.A small Monumēt under the other. Ferrerius Galvidamus Carnutensis, & Francisca Iuberta, moesti. par. P. P. Anno CIC. IC. LXX. Octavo Kalend. Sextil.

Here lie the bodies of Richard Aldworth, A gilt Plate in the South wall of the Quire. Gentleman, and Elizabeth his wife, who had issue sixe sonnes and three daughters: which Elizabeth deceased the 24. day of August, 1603. And the said Richard, &c.

My Turtle gone,

all joy is gone from me,

Ile mourne awhile,

and after flee:

For Time brings

youthfull Youths to Age,

And Age brings

Death, our Heritage.

They lived married together foure

and forty yeeres.

Their race is runne,

and Heaven is wonne.

Non illo melior quisquam,

nec amantior aequi.

Radulpho Rokeby,A comely Monumēt in the same wall of the Quire. à Marthamla (Oppido Richmondiensis agri) oriundo, Lincolniensis Hospitii Socio Primario. Xenodochii diuae Catharinae prope Arcem Londinensem Magitro; Augustissimaeque Anglorum Reginae Elizabethae à libellis supplicibus, non minus domi ac foris, quam pace bellóque de Principe, ac patria benè merito. Caelibi septuagenario, fatisquea demum 14. Iunii. Anno post natum Messiam, 1596. feliciter functo: Heredes in Testamento scripti piae grataeque memoriae gratia posuerunt.

Here lyeth the body of Henry Topham, Two faire Grav [...]-stones in South Ile of the Quire. Esquire, one of the Readers of Grayes Inne: who dyed the first day of May, An. Dom. 1612.

Hic jacet corpus Saintmontis Welles, Generos. de Grayes Inne, qui coelebs obiit 18. Februarii, 1612.

Here lyeth the body of Thomas Thorney, A comely Monumēt in the South Ile of the Church in the wall. late Citizen and Barber-Chirurgion of London, who dyed the 4. of Iune, 1614. and lived 71. yeeres, being twice Master of his Company, and one of the Common Councell of this City: who gave to the poore of this Parish of St. Andrew, 10. pounds to be distributed on the day of his funerall, and ten pounds a yeere afterward to ten poore Pentioners of this Parish for ever. And twenty shillings to the poore people of Acton for ever; who dyed without issue of his body, and made Peter Thorney, Citizen and Barber-Chirurgion of London (his brothers sonne) his heire and sole Executor: who kneeleth with him in this module, being finished and set up in the month of [Page] December, An. Dom. 1614. and at the onely cost and charges of the said Peter Thorney, in memory of so worthy a member, who lived in good credit, name and fame all the dayes of his life, and did many good offices, and memorable acts in this Parish.

George Harison Gentleman,

A comely Monumēt in the North wall of the Quire.

lyeth here,

and Elizabeth his wife,

Which in this Parish many a yeere

did live a gracious life:

And he at her departure gave

to the poore of Parishes twaine,

Saint Giles in the Field, and this,

Annuity to remaine,

For six and forty yeeres to come,

to give the poorest soules,

One yeere six and twenty Gownes,

and two good loads of Coales.

Next yeere as many shirts and smocks,

and as many Coales agen,

Till six and forty yeeres run out,

to women and to men.

To Prisoners and to many more

great gifts she gave beside,

And in the faith of Iesus Christ,

they both assured dy'd.

Quid superbis terra & cinis?

Huc oculos, Lector,

versa, de corpore caeso

I am cineres praeter

quod superest, nihil est.

Crede mihi de quo

laetaris corpore, digent,

Iam cineres praeter

quod superest, nihil est.

Georgio Egeock, de Salford prioris in agro varvicensi,A comely Monument on a pillar in the Quire Armigero, viro omni virtutum genere instructo: integerrimae fidei cum erga Deum tum erga homines, illaesae probitatis, illibati nominis, de Patria, Conjuge, amiciss. omnibus optimè merito. Dorothea (origine S. Iohn) relicta moestissimi officii & desiderii, conjugalis triste argumentum, adjumentum memoriae, Monumentum posteris & nonnullum moeroris ac viduitatis lenamentum posuit.

Obdormivit in Domino fideliter ac feliciter An. Salutis hum. 1601. Eliz. Reg. 43. Aetatis suae circa 40. nexus Conjug. 11. Mens. Martii 19. die Veneris, 1606.

Here rest the bodies of Francis Ienner, sometime of little Walsingham in the County of Norfolke, A Grave at the Chancell doore. Esquire, and sometime Fellow of Grayes Inne, and Margaret his wife (daughter to William Hamon of Acris in the County of Kent, Esquire) who had issue one onely daughter and Heire, named Frances Ienner, yet living. The said Margaret deceased in October, Anno 1603.

From this Church to Saint Andrew up Oldbourne Hill, be divers faire builded houses, amongst the which, on the left hand, there standeth three Innes of Chauncery, Crookehorn Alley, Thavies Inne. whereof the first, adioyning unto Crookehorne Alley, is called Thavies Inne, and standeth opposite to Ely House.

Then is Fewter lane, Fewters lane. which stretcheth South into Fleetstreet, by the East end of Saint Dunstanes Church, and is so called of Fewters (or idle people) lying there, as in a way leading to Gardens; but the same is now oflater yeeres on both sides builded thorow with many faire houses.

Beyond this Fewters lane is Barnards Inne, Barnards Inne. alias Mackworths Inne, which is of the Chancery, belonging to the Deane and Chapter of Lincolne, Pat. Hen. 3. 32. 1. as saith the Record of Hen. the 6. the 32. of his reigne, and was founded by Inquisition in the Guild-hall of London, before I. Norman, Maior, the Kings Exchetre. The Iury said, that it was not hurtfull for the King to licence Thomas Atkins, Citizen of London, and one of the Executors of Iohn Mackworth, Deane of Lincolne, to give one Messuage in Oldbourne in London, with the appurtenances, called Mackworths Inne (but now commonly knowne by the name of Barnards Inne) to the Deane and Chapter of Lincolne, to finde one sufficient Chaplaine, to celebrate divine Service in the Chappell of S. George, in the Cathedrall Church of Lincolne, where the body of the said Iohn is buried, to have and to hold the said messuage to the said Deane and Chapter, and to their successors for ever, in part of satisfaction of twenty pound Lands and Rents, which Edward [Page] the third licenced the said Deane and Chapter to purchase to their owne use, either of their owne fee, or tenure, or of any other, so the Lands were not holden of the King in Capite.

Then is Staple Inne also,Staple Inne. of Chancery but whereof so named, I am ignorant; the same of late is (for a great part therof) faire builded, and not a little augmented: And then at the Barres endeth this Ward without Newgate.

Without Ludgate, on the right hand or North side, from the said Gate, lyeth the Old Bayly, as I said: Then the high street, called Ludgate Hill, downe to Fleet lane; Ludgate hill. in which lane standeth the Fleet, a Prison-house, so called of the Fleet or Water running by it, and sometime flowing about it, but now vaulted over.

I read,The Fleet, or Gaole, in the reigne of Richard the first. that Richard the first, in the first yeere of his reigne, confirmed to Osbere (brother to William Longshampe, Chancelor of England, and elect of Ely) and to his heires for ever, the custody of his House, or Palace at Westminster, with the keeping of his Gaole of the Fleet at London. Also King Iohn by his Patent dated the third of his reigne, gave to the Arch-deacon of Welles, the custody of the said Kings House at Westminster, and of his Gaole of the Fleet, together with the VVardship of the daughter and heire of Ro. Leveland, &c.

Then is Fleet bridge, pitched over the said Water, whereof I have spoken in another place.

Then also,Conduit in Fleetstreet. against the South end of Shoo lane, standeth a faire Water-Conduit; whereof William Eastfield, sometime Maior, was Founder: For the Maior and Communalty of London being possessed of a Conduit Head, with divers Springs of water gathered thereinto, in the Parish of Padington, and the water conveyed from thence by Pipes of Lead towards London unto Teyborne, where it had layne by the space of sixe yeeres, and more; the Executors of Sir William Eastfield obtained licence of the Maior and Communalty, for them, in the yeere 1453. with the goods of Sir William, to convey the said waters, first, in Pipes of Lead, into a Pipe begun to be laid besides the great Conduit Head at Maribone, which stretcheth from thence unto a Separall, late before made against the Chappell of Rounsevall, by Charing Crosse, and no further; and then from thence to convey the said water into the City, and there to make Receit or Receits for the same, unto the Common-weale of the Communalty, to wit, the poore to drinke, the rich to dresse their meats: which water was by them brought thus into Fleetstreet, to a Standard, which they had made and finished 1471.

The inhabitants of Fleetstreet, in the yeere 1478. obtained licence of the Maior, Aldermen, and Communalty, to make (at their owne charges) two Cesternes, Conduit at Fleet bridge. the one to bee set at the said Standard, the other at Fleet bridge, for the receit of the waste water. This Cesterne at the Standard they builded, and on the same, a faire Tower of Stone, garnished with Images of Saint Christopher on the top, and Angels round about, lower downe, with sweet sounding Bells before them, whereupon, by an Engine placed in the Tower, they divers houres of the day and night, chymed such an Hymne as was appointed.

This Conduit, or Standard, was againe new builded, with a larger Cesterne, at the charges of the Citie, in the yeere 1582.

From this Conduit,Parish Church of S. Dunstane. up to Fewters lane, and further, is the Parish Church of Saint Dunstane, called in the West, (for difference from St. Dunstan in the East) where lyeth buried T. Duke, Skinner, in Saint Katharines Chappell, by him builded, 1421. Nicholas Coningston, Iohn Knape, and other, founded Chantries there. Ralph Bane, Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield, 1559. and other, lye there buried.

O bone Protector animae,

A faire plated stone under the Communion Table.

miserere Iohannis

Hor sepoole, qui Rector

Auerham fuit ejus in annis.

Cancellariae fuerat

vivendo Magister,

Sis sibi fons veniae

cujus fuit ipse Magister.

Morte die decimo nono

Iu [...]ii ruit anne,

M. C. quater nono

seciato bis sibi de [...]e,

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Hic jacet Richardus Nordon,Another faire stone close by the other. Civis & Scissor, ac quondam Vicecomes Londini, & Ioanna uxor ejus: Qui quidem Richardus obiit 23. die Martii, Anno Domini 1460. Ac etiam dicta Ioanna obiit 21. die Novembris, Anno 1459.

Hic jacet Gulielmus Chapman, nuper Civis & Scissor,Another faire stone lying by it▪ ac Vicecomes Civitatis London, & Alicia uxor ejus. Qui Guliel. pro uno Capellano hic perpetuò celebraturo, ac pro uno Cereo coram venerabili Sacramento ad summum Altare hujus Ecclesiae continuè ardente, neonon prosuo Anniversario in perpetuum fiendo feliciter ordinavit. Et idem Guliel. obiit primo die Mensis Iulii, An. Dom. 1446.

Hic jacet Rogerus Horton,A faire stone, hard by. quondam unus Justiciariorum de Banco Domini Regis. Qui obiit ultimo die Aprilis, An. 1423. Cujus, &c.

Iesu animae famuli tui Laurentii Bartlot nuper Registrarii Episcop.A faire stone by the Communion Table. Lincoln. Qui obiit die Octobris, Anno 1470. Dona requiem, &c.

Quisquis ades vultumque vides,

sta, perlege, plora,

Iudicii memor esto mei,

tua nam venit hora.

Sum quod eris, fueramque

quod es, tua posteriora

Commemorans, miseris miserans,

pro me precor ora.

Here Edward Cordell,

A comely Monumēt at entring into the Vestry.

Squire, lyes;

who when hee life possest,

Had place among the learn'd and wife,

and credit with the best.

Abigail Heningham, his wife,

this Monument prepared,

For love to him, who in his life,

to love her well declared.

God hath his soule, this Earth his Earth,

her heart his love shall keepes;

The ods 'twixt you and him, is breath;

which gone, all flesh thus sleepes.

In obitum Thomae Valentis, Lincolniensis Hospitii Socii. Qui obiit 23. die Decemb. Anno 1601. Aetatis 78.

Hoc Tumulo Thomae

requiescunt ossa Valentis,

A small Monumēt in the east end of the Chancell, North.

Et parvum corpus

parvula terra tegit:

Sed mens, quae melior pars est,

expresque Sepulchri,

Infima despiciens

sidera celsa colit.

Here-under lyeth the body of Thomas Powle, A faire Monumēt in the South wall of the Chancell, at the east end. Esquire, Clerke of the Crowne, and one of the sixe Clerkes of the High court of Chancery, Controller of the Hamper, Clerke of the Forrest of Waltham, and High Steward to the late Queene Elizabeth, of all her Mannors within the County of Essex. Hee had by his wife Iane Tate (descended from the Line of honourable Ances [...]ors) five sonnes and one daughter; who likewise is here with him buried. Both lived in the feare of God, and dyed in his favour: Shee, in the 57. yeere of her age, the 24. day of November, 1577. And hee, in the 88. yeere of his age, the 26. day of Iune, Anno 1601.

Stephen Powle, Esquire, their onely surviving sonne, and successor to his father in the Office of one of the sixe Clerks of the Chancery; in dutifull pietie, consecrated to lasting memory this holy Monument.

Corpus foetidum

carcer, Mors libertas,

Vita mare procellosum,

Sepulchrum perortus,

Mundus vaga peregrinatio,

Coelum Patria.

Disce ergo mori,

dedisce vivere.

In God is onely

my Trust:

God is my Defender.

A Brazen Plate on a Pillar in the Chancell.

My friend, whoso this place of mine

thou be that shalt behold,

With petience pawse, and heare a friend

his minde to thee unfold,

Seeke not with heapes of worldly toyes

to furnish thy delight;

Nor let him fancy high degree,

that hopes to live aright.

If thou have wealth supply their want

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And linger not thy good intent,

untill the later day.

If poverty oppresse thy minde,

let patience be thy guide;

Let rigour faile to false thy faith,

what hap so thee betide:

For, as from death no way there is,

whereby thee to defend;

So, happy may no creature be,

before his finall end.

Wherefore, of God his mercy crave,

who hath of mercy sto [...]e,

And unto him commend my soule:

(my friend) I crave no more.

Here before,An anciēt Marble Tombe in the South Ile of the Quire. lieth buried in the Vault, Robert Witchcotte, of Lyons Inne, Gentleman, the sonne of Thomas Witchcotte, Esquire, who deceased the 9. day of August, in An. Dom. 1557.

Here lieth the body of Sir Roger Cholmeley, Another like Tombe close adjoyning. Knight for the body to King Henry the eighth: which Sir Roger deceased the 28. day of April, An. Dom. 1538.

Ranulphus Cholmeley clara

hîc cum conjuge dormit.

Another Tombe by it, in the wall.

Binaque Connubii

corpora juncta fide,

Haec brevis urna tenet

veros disjungere amantes

Nec potuit mortis

vis truculenta nimis.

Justitia in signis

nulli pietate secundus,

Ranulphus clara

stirpe creatus erat.

Non deerant Artes

Generoso pectore dignae,

Doctus & Anglorum

Iure peritus erat.

Ille Recordator Londini

huic extitit urbis,

Et miseris semper

mite levamen erat.

Hujus acerba viri

Londinum funera deflet,

Dicens, justitiae

vive perennis honor.

Obiit 25. die Aprilis,

An. 1563.

Mors mihi lucrum.

Neere to this place lieth buried the body of Elizab. North, A faire Monumēt in the east end of the North Quire. wife to Roger North, Esquire, and one of the daughters and coheires of Sir Iohn Gilbert, Knight, of great Finborow, in Suffolke. Shee had issue, two sonnes and one daughter, Henry North, Dudley North, and Mary North. On the 29. of November in Anno 1612. (she being about the age of 22. yeers) ended this life: Leaving behind her many of the gravest, that may justly imitate her vertues and godly course of life.

Anno Domini 1556.

Hic jacet humatus Williel.An anciēt Monumēt in the South end of the Quire. Portman, Miles, Serviens inclitissimae Principis H. 8. ad Legem, & illo tempore unus Iustic. suorum ad placitum coram ipso Rege tenend. ac postea temp. illustriss. Principum, Phil. & Mariae Regis & Reginae Angliae Capitalis iusticiarius hujus Regni Angliae, eoque officio summa aequitate ita perfunctus erat, ut in Deum in primis sanctus & pius, in Patriam ac Principem fidus & morigerus, in omnes denique semper aequabil. fuit & perseveravit. Ab hac autem luce in coelestem Praetorum coetum 5. die Februarii, Anno Regni praefat. Regis & Reginae 3. & 4. emigravit.

Here lieth Thomas Browke, A small ancient Monumēt in the east end of the South Quire. Citizen and Merchant-Taylor of Lond. and somtime Master of his Company, and Alice his wife: which Thomas deceased the first day of November, An. Dom. 1546. And the said Alice deceased, &c.

Gerardi Legh, Generosi, & clari viri interioris Templi Socii Tumulus. Civis & Hospes Interloquutores.

C. Hospes fiste pedem,

A comely Monumēt in the East end of the North Quire.

Tumulum nec temne, Gerardus

Legh jacet hac humili

contumulatus humo.

H. Vnde genus duxit?

C. Generoso è sanguine natum,

Antiquae stirpis

en Monumenta docent.

Nec Generosus erat vir

sola ex parre caduca,

Sed virtute magis,

mens Generosa fuit.

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Religio summa splendebat

mentis in arce,

Et sedes Verae

pectus amicitiae.

Ingenio ac raro morum

candore refulcit,

Mens violare fidem

credidit esse nefas.

H. Quod studium vivo placuit?

C. Scrutare solebat

Vivens clarorum

magna Trophaea virûm.

Abdita naturae &

rerum cognoscere vires

Occultas, vivo

maxima cura fuit.

H. Talibus imbutum studiis

reor esse beatum,

Sed lethi causam

tu mihi quaeso refer?

C. Vrbe ista passim dum

faevit lucida pestis,

Occldit heu relo

pestis acuta tuo.

H. O durum fatum! sed

sculptum cur stat in urna

Numen Amicitiae

Civis amice refer?

C. Numen Amicitiae quo magni

haec machina Mundi

Constat, divina

quae fabricata manu,

Hujus acerba viri

deplorat funera, dicens,

Vives, O verae

cultor Amicitiae,

Donec summa dies

nostros dissolverit artus,

Corruat & summa

mundus ab arce poli.

H. Mercurius nitidis

cur star caducifer alis

Hic [...] lug [...]t magnus

sunera & ista Deus?

C. Nuncius ille Deúm plangens

sua pectora palma,

Inc [...]ans Parcas

talia verba re [...]ert:

Crudeles Parcae

nostrum rapuistis Alumnum,

Artibus ornatum,

muneribusque meis

In terris, cujus docti

Monumenta laboris

Extant, & nullo

sunt peritura die.

Obiit An. 1563.

Octob. 13.

Ardum vitis non deserit ulmum.

The memoriall of William Crowche, A small Table. Citizen and Mercer of London, and one of the Common Councell of this City;Monumēt on a pallar in the North Ile of the Quire. who gave by his VVill ten shillings a yeere for a Sermon on his Funerall day, and forty shillings yeerly for a Dinner to be made on that day, for the Common Councell, the Church-wardens, and twelve free-men of this Parish, at the election of his Executors. And he also gave ten pounds a yeere for ever to be distributed yeerly among sixe and thirty poore people of honest life, dwelling in this Parish. Hee was buried neere to this place the sixteenth day of April, Anno Domini 1606.

Loe, thus he dyed, for

vaine and fraile is flesh;

Yet lives his sould (by faith)

in endlesse blisse,

By faith in Christ; whose

grace was so enlarged,

That by his blond, mans

sinne he hath discharged.

Here lieth George Harington, of Salby, Esquire,On the same Pillar. who died the ninth day of October, 1556.

Here lieth Laurence Dalton, On the same Pillar. Esquire, late Norroy, King of Armes; who deceased on Saturday the thirteenth of December, 1561. And Dorothy his wife, daughter to Richard Breame, late of London, Esquire.

Henry Leigh, On the same Pillar. sometime Citizen and Draper of London, a man borne of a good Family, whose life and conversation was pleasing to God and man, departed out of this life the ninth day of April, Anno Dom. 1568. And lieth buried in the Church-yard by his two wives, Isabel and Elizabeth, both very vertuous, good to their neighbours, and therefore right heartily beloved.

[Page] Here lieth buried Colborne, On the same Pillar. Esquire, late Yorke, Herald of Armes: who deceased on Saturday, the thirteenth of September, 1567. and was buried on Munday, the 15. of the same moneth.

Memoriae Sacrum.

Hic jacet Cutbertus Fethestone,A comely Monumēt in the wall of the South Ile. Generos. nuper Optiarius & Proclamator Dom. Regis, in Curia ipsius Regis coram ipso Rege ubicunque fuerat in Anglia.

Functus est hoc munere, Ann. 35.

Obiit 10. Decembris, 1615.

Aetatis 78.

Quem saepe transcit casus, aliquando invent.

Next beyond this Church is Cliffords Inne, Cliffords Inne. sometimes belonging to Robert Clifford, by gift of Edward the second, in these words:

The King granteth to Robert Clifford that messuage, with the appurtenances next the Church of S. Dunstane in the West, in the Suburbs of London, which messuage was sometime Malculines de Herley, and came to the hands of Edw. the 1. by reason of certaine debts, which the said Malculine was bound at the time of his death to our said Father, from the time that he was Escheator on this side Trent: which house, Iohn, Earle of Richmond, did hold at our pleasure, and is now in our possession, Patent the third of Edward the second.

After the death of this Robert Clifford, Isabel his wife let the same Messuage to Students of the Law, as by the Record following may appeare:

Isabel, quae fuit uxor Roberti Clifford, Messuagium unipartium, quod Robertus Clifford habuit in Parochia S. Dunstani, West. in Suburbio Londini, &c. tenuit, & illud dimisit post mortem dict. Roberti Apprenticiis de Banco, pro 10. l. Annuatim, &c. Anno 18. Edvardi tertii, inquisitis post mortem Roberti Clifford.

This house hath since fallen into the Kings hands, as I have heard, but returned againe to the Cliffords, and is now letten to the said Students for foure pounds by the yeere.

Somewhat beyond this Cliffords Inne is the South end of New street (or Chancelar lane) on the right hand,New street. or Chancelar lane. whereof is Sergeants Inne called, in Chancery lane.

And then next was sometime the house of the Converted Iewes,House of Converts. founded by K. Henry the third, in place of a Iewes house to him forfeited, in the yeere 1233. and the 17. of his reigne, who builded there for them a faire Church, now used, and called the Chappell, for the custody of Rolles and Records of Chancery. It standeth not far from the old Temple, but in the mid-way between the Old Temple and the New: in the which house, all such Iewes and Infidels as were converted to the Christian Faith, were ordained and appointed (under an honest rule of life) sufficient maintenance; whereby it came to passe, that in short time there were gathered a great number of Converts, which were baptized, instructed in the Doctrine of Christ, and there lived under a learned Christian, appointed to governe them. Since the which time, to wit, in the yeere 1290. all the Iewes in England were banished out of the Realme, wherby the number of Converts in this place was decayed: and therefore in the yeere 1377. this House was annexed by Patent to William Burstall, Clerke, Custos Rotulorum, or Keeper of the Rolles of the Chancery, by Edward the third, in the fifty one yeere of his reigne; and this first Master of the Rolles was sworn in Westminster Hall, at the Table of Marble stone: since the which time, that House hath been commonly called the Rolles in Chancery lane. Notwithstanding, such of the Iewes,Rolles in Chancery lane. or other Insidels, as have in this Realme beene converted to Christianity, and baptized, have beene relieved there: for I finde in Record, that one William Piers, a Jew, that became a Christian, was baptized in the fifth of Richard the second, and had two pence the day allowed him, during his life, by the said King.

On the West side,Prior of Necton Parke, his Inne or house of the sixe Clerkes. sometime was an house pertaining to the Prior of Necton Parke, a house of Canons in Lincolnshire: this was commonly called Hereflete Inne, and was a Brewhouse, but now faire builded for the sixe Clerkes of the Chancery, and standeth overagainst the said house, called the Rolles, and neere unto the Lane which now entreth Fickets Croft, Fickets croft Shere lane. or Fickets field. Then is Shere lane, opening also into [Page] Fickets field, hard by the Barres. On this North side of Fleetstreet, in the yeer of Christ, 1595. I observed, that when the Labourers had broken up the pavement from against Chancery lanes end, up towards Saint Dunstans Church, and had digged foure foot deep, they found one other pavement of hard stone, more sufficient than the first; and therefore harder to bee broken, under the which they found in the made ground piles of Timber, driven very thicke, and almost close together, the same being as blacke as pitch or coale, and many of them rotten as earth, which proveth that the ground there (as sundry other places of the City) have been a Marish or full of Springs.

On the South side from Ludgate, before the wall of the City, bee faire builded houses to Fleet bridge, Conduit at Fleet bridge. on the which bridge, a Cesterne for receit of Spring water was made by the men of Fleet-street, but the water-course is decayed, and not restored.

Next,Bridewell the Kings house. is Bride lane, and therein Bridewell, of old time the Kings house: for the Kings of this Realem have beene there lodged, and till the ninth of Henry the third, the Courts were kept in the Kings house wheresoever hee was lodged, as may appeare by ancient Records, where of I have seene many, and for example have set forth one in the Chapter or Towers and Castles.

King Henry the eighth builded there a stately and beautiful house of new, for receit of the Emperour Charles the fifth, who in the yeere of Christ 1522. was lodged himselfe at the Blacke Friers; but his Nobles in this new builded Bridewell, a Gallery being made out of the house over the water, and thorow the wall of the City, into the Emperours lodging at the Blacke Friers, King Henry himselfe oftentimes lodged there also, as namely, in the yeere 1525. a Parliament being then holden in the Blacke Friers, hee created States of Nobility there; to wit:

Henry Fitz Roy, States created at Bridewell. a child (which he had by Elizabeth Blunt) to bee Earle of Nottingham, Duke of Richmond, & of Somerset, Lievtenant Generall from Trent northward, Warden of the east middle, and west Marches for anenst Scotland.

Henry Courtney, Earle of Devonshire, Cousin-German to the king, to be Marquesse of Excester.

Henry Brandon, a childe of two yeers old, son to the Earle of Suffolke, to bee Earle of Lincolne.

Sir Thomas Manners, Lord Rosse, to be Earle of Rutland.

Sir Henry Clifford to be Earle of Cumberland.

Sir Robert Ratcliffe to bee Vicount Fitzwater.

Sir Thomas Boloine, Treasurer of the Kings Houshold, to be Vicount Rochford

In the yeere 1528. Cardinall Campeius was brought to the Kings presence, being then at Bridewell, whither hee had called all his Nobility, Judges and Councellers, &c. And there the eighth of November, in his great Chamber, he made unto them an Oration touching his marriage with Queene Katharine, as ye may reade in Edward Hall.

In the yeere 1529. the same K. Henry and Queene Katharine were lodged there, whilest the question of their marriage was argued in the Blacke Friers, &c.

But now you shall heare how this house became a house of correction.

In the yeere 1553. the seventh of Edward the sixth,Bridewell given to the City of London to be a Worke-house for the poore. the tenth of April, Sir George Barne, being Maior of this City, was sent for to the Court at White Hall, and there at that time the King gave unto him, for the Communalty and Citizens to be a Work-house for the poore and idle persons of the City, his house of Bridewell, and seven hundred Markes land, late of the possessions of the house of the Savoy, and all the Bedding and other furniture of the said Hospitall of the Savoy, towards the maintenance of the said Worke-house of Bridewell, and the Hospitall of Saint Thomas in South-warke.

This gift King Edward confirmed by his Charter, dated the 26. of Iune, next following. And in the yeere 1555. in the moneth of February, Sir William Gerard, Maior, and the Aldermen, entred Bridewell, and tooke possession thereof, according to the gift of the said King Edward, the same being confirmed by Queene Mary.

The Bishop of S. Davids had his Inne [Page] over-against the North side of this Bridewell, The Bishop of S. Davids house. as I have said.

Then is the Parish Church of Saint Bridges, Parish Church of S. Bridges, or Bride. or Bride, of old time a small thing, which now remaineth to bee the Quire, but since increased with a large Body, and side Iles, towards the West, at the charges of William Venor, Esquire, Warden of the Fleet, about the yeere 1480. all which he caused to be brought about in the stone, in the figure of a Vine, with Grapes and Leaves, &c. The partition betwixt the old VVorke and the new, somtime prepared as a Screne, to be set up in the Hall of the Duke of Somersets house at Strand, was bought for eightscore pounds, and set up in the yeere 1557. One wilfull body began to spoyle and breake the same, in the yeere 1596. but was (by the high Commissioners) forced to make it up againe, and so it resteth.

Iohn Vlsthorpe, William Evesham, Iohn Wigan, and other founded Chauntries there.

Here lieth Edward Trussell, A comely small Monument in the South wal of the Quire. Citizen and Clothworker of London, son of Avery Trussell, of Bilseley, in the County of Warwicke, Esquire, with Anne his wife, daughter of Iames Philpot. which Anne departed this life An. Dō. 1586. And hee having lived 38. yeeres in this Parish, departed in the Lord the nineteenth day of Iune, Anno Dom. 1613. Aetatis 67.

He left behind three sons by the said Anne, and one daughter by Elizabeth, his second wife. Iacobus, filius natu maximus pietatis ergo posuit.

Here lieth Iames Kinnon, A faire Monumēt in the same Quire, in the East corner of the wall. a Gent. of Lentilo in Monmouthshire, a Citizen, and Cannoniere, and a Souldier. He dyed aged 67. yeeres, over-heating his bloud in preparing of 40. Chambers, at the entertainment of the Prince in the Artillery Garden; to the which Society he gave 40. Chambers, and five Markes in mony. To the poore of this Parish hee gave 10. l. per annum for one and twenty yeers, and to the poore of Lentilo the like summe, and five pounds present. He had one wife and one sonne. Obiit 19. die Decemb. An. Dom. 1615.

It ever was his wish

to dye in Field,

Or else at Sea. Fates

halfe his wish did yeeld.

A Prince and Army

stood about him round:

Yet age (o're-wearied)

tooke the mortall wound.

Arts Mathematicke

he both lov'd and knew,

In which his skill increast,

as his yeeres grew.

Wales gave him breath,

faire was his birth and name,

And though death stole

his life, he left him fame.

The next is Salisbury Court, The Bishop of Salisbury his house. a place so called, for that it belonged to the Bishop of Salisbury, and was their Inne or London house, at such time as they were summoned to come to the Parliament, or came for other businesse. It hath of late time been the dwelling, first of Sir Richard Sackvile, and after of Sir Thomas Sackvile his sonne, [...]aron of Buckhurst, Lord Treasurer, who very greatly enlarged it with stately buildings.

Then is Water lane, running downe by the West side of a house,Water lane. called the Hanging Sword, to the Thames.

Then was the White Friers Church,White Friers▪ called Fratres beatae Mariae de monte Carmeli, Iohn Baconthorpe. first founded (saith Iohn Bale, by sir Kich. Gray, knight, Ancester to the Lord Gray of Codnor, in the yeere 1241. King Edward the first gave to the Prior and Brethren of that house, a plot of ground in Fleetstreet, whereupon to build their house, which was since re-edified or new builded by Hugh Courtney, Earle of Devonshire, about the yeere 1350. the 24 of Edward the third.

Iohn Lufken, Maior of London, and the Communalty of the City, granted a Lane, called Crockers lane, reaching from Fleetstreet to the Thames, Crockers lane. to build in the VVest end of that Church. Sir Robert Knoles, Knight, was a great builder there also, in the reigne of Richard the second, and of Henry the fourth: hee deceased at his Mannour of Scone Thorpe, in Norfolke, in the yeere 1407. and was brought to London, and honourably buried by the Lady

[Page] Constance his wife, in the body of the said White Friers Church, which he had newly builded.

Robert Marshall, Bishop of Hereford, builded the Quire, Presbytery steeple, and many other parts, and was there buried about the yeere 1420.

There were buried also in the new Quire, sir Iohn Mowbray, Earle of Nottingham, 1398.

Sir Edward Courteny.

Sir Hugh Mongomery, and sir Iohn his brother.

Iohn Wolle, son to sir Iohn VVolle.

Thomas Bayholt, Esquire.

Elizabeth, Countesse of Athole.

Dame Iohan, wife to sir Thomas Say of Alden.

Sir Pence Castle, Baron.

I. Lord Gray, sonne to Reginald, Lord Gray of VVilton, 1418.

Sir Iohn Ludlow, knight.

Sir Richard Derois, knight.

Richard Gray, knight.

Iohn Ashley, knight.

Robert Bristow, Esquire.

Thomas Perry, Esquire.

Robert Tempest, Esquire.

William Call.

William Neddow.

In the old Quire were buried Dame Margaret, &c.

Elianor Gristles.

Sir Iohn Browne, knight, and Iohn his sonne and heire.

Sir Simon de Berford, knight.

Peter VVigus, Esquire.

Robert Matthew. Esquire.

Sir Iohn Skargell, knight.

Sir Iohn Norice, knight.

Sir Geffrey Roose, knight.

Matthew Hadocke, Esquire.

William Clarell, Esquire.

Iohn Aprichard, Esquire.

William Wentworth, Esquire.

Thomas VVicham, Esquire.

Sir Terwit, knight.

Sir Stephen Popham, knight.

Bastard de Scales.

Henry Blunt, Esquire.

Elizabeth Blunt.

Io. Swan, Esquire.

Alice Foster, one of the heires of sir Stephen Popham.

Sir Robert Brocket, knight.

Iohn Drayton, Esquire.

Iohn, son to Robert Chanlowes, and his daughter Katharine.

Iohn Salvin, VVilliam Hompton, Iohn Bampton, Iohn Winter, Edmond Oldhall, Wil. Appleyard, Thomas Dabby, Esquires.

Sir Hugh Courtney, knight.

Iohn Drury, son to Robert Drury.

Elizabeth Gemersey, Gentle woman.

Sir Thomas Townsend, knight.

Sir Richard Greene, knight.

VVilliam Scot, Esquire.

Thomas Federinghey.

Iohn Fulforde, Esquire.

Edward Eldsmere, Gentleman.

William Hart, Gentleman.

Dame Mary Senclare, daughter to sir Thomas Talbot, knight.

Ancher, Esquire.

Sir William Moris, knight, and Dame Christian his wife.

Sir Peter de Mota, knight.

Richard Hewton, Esquire.

Sir Iohn Heron, knight.

Richard Eton, Esquire.

Hugh Stapleton, Gentleman.

William Copley, Gentleman.

Sir Ralph Saintowen, knight.

Sir Hugh Bromeflete, knight.

Lord Vessey, principall Founder of that order, the 6. of Edw. the fourth, &c.

This house was valued at 26. pounds, seven shillings, and three pence, and was surrendred the tenth of November, the 30. of Henry the eighth.

In place of this Friers Church, bee now many faire houses builded, lodgings for Noblemen and other.

Then is the Sergeants Inne, Sergeants Inne in Fleetstreet. so called, for that divers Iudges and Sergeants at the Law keepe a Commons, and are lodged there in Terme time.

Next,New Temple. is the New Temple, so called, because the Templers before the building of this house, had their Temple in Oldbourne. This house was founded by the knights Templers in England, in the reigne of Henry the second, and the same was dedicated to God and our blessed Lady, by Heraclius, Patriarke of the Church, called the holy Resurrection in Ierusalem, in the yeere of Christ, 1185.

These knights Templers tooke their beginning about the yeere 1118. in maner following:Originall of the Templers. Certaine Noblemen, horse-men, religiously bent, bound by [Page] vow themselves in the hands of the Patriarke of Ierusalem, to serve Christ after the manner of Regular Canons, in chastity and obedience, and to renounce their owne proper wils for ever: the first of which order were Hugh Paganus, and Geffrey de S. Andromare. And wheras at the first they had no certaine habitation, Baldwin, King of Ierusalem, granted unto them a dwelling place in his Palace by the Temple, and the Cannons of the same Temple, gave them the street, thereby to build therein their houses of office, and the Patriarke, the King, the Nobles, and the Prelates, gave unto them certaine revenues out of their Lordships.

Their first profession was for safegard of the Pilgrimes,Profession of the Templers. comming to visit the Sepulchre, and to keepe the high waies against the lying in wait of theeves, &c. About ten yeeres after, they had a rule appointed unto them, and a white Habite, by Honorius the second, then Pope; and whereas they had but nine in number, they began to increase greatly. Afterward in Pope Eugenius time, they bare crosse of red cloth on their uppermost garments, to be knowne from others: and in short time, because they had their first mansion hard by the Temple of our Lord in Ierusalem, they were called Knights of the Temple.

Many Noblemen in all parts of Christendome, became Brethren of this order, and builded for themselves Temples in every City or great Towne in England, but this at London was their chefe house, which they builded after the forme of the Temple neere to the Sepulchre of our Lord at Ierusalem. They had also other Temples in Cambridge, Bristow, Canturbury, Dover, Warwicke. This Temple in London was often made a Store-house of mens Treasure, I meane such as feared the spoyle there of in other places.

Mathew Paris noteth,Mat. Paris. Hubert Earle of Kent his Treasure in the new Temple. that in the yeere 1232. Hubert de Burgh, Earle of Kent, being Prisoner in the Tower of London, the King was enformed that he had much treasure laid up in this New Temple, under the custody of the Templers: whereupon hee sent for the Master of the Temple, and examined him straightly, who confessed, that money being delivered unto him and his Brethren, to bee kept, hee knew not how much there was of it: The King demanded to have the same delivered: but it was answered, that the money being cōmitted unto their trust, could not be delivered, without the licence of him that committed it to Ecclesiasticall protection; whereupon the King sent his Treasurer and Iusticier of the Exchequer unto Hubert, to require him to resigne the mony wholly into his hands: who answered that hee would gladly submit himselfe and all his unto the Kings pleasure, and thereupon desired the Knights of the Temple (in his behalfe) to present all the Keyes unto the King to doe his pleasure with the goods which hee had committed unto them. Then the King commanded the money to bee faithfully told, and laid up in his Treasure by Inventory, wherein was found (besides ready money) vessels of Gold, and Silver unpraiseable, and many precious Stones, which would make all men wonder, if they knew the worth of them.

This Temple was againe dedicated 1240. belike also newly re-edified then.

These Templers at this time were in so great glory, that they entertained the Nobility, forraine Ambassadours, and the Prince himselfe very often,Mat. Paris. insomuch that Mathew Paris cryeth out on them for their pride, who being at the first so poore, as they had but one horse to serve two of them, in token whereof they gave in their Seale, two men riding on one horse;Seale of the Templers. yet suddenly they waxed so insolent, that they disdained other orders, and sorted themselves with Noblemen.

King Edward the first,30. Dunmow. in the yeere 1283. taking with him Robert Waleran and other, came to the Temple, where calling for the keeper of the Treasurehouse, as if he meant to see his Mothers Iewels, that were laid up there to bee safely kept, hee entred into the house, breaking the Coffers of certaine persons, that had likewise brought their mony thither, and he tooke away from thence to the value of 1000. l.

Many Parliaments and great Councels have been there kept,Parliament at the new Temple. as may appeare by our Histories.

[Page] In the yeere 1308. all the Templers in England, as also in other parts of Christendome, were apprehended and committed to divers prisons.

In 1310. a Provinciall Councell was holden at London against the Templers in England, upon heresie, and other Articles whereof they were accused, but denyed all except one or two of them: Notwithstanding, they all did confesse, that they could not purge themselves fully, as faultlesse, and so they were condemned to perpetuall penance, in severall Monasteries, where they behaved themselves modestly.

Philip, The order of Templers condemned. King of France, procured their over-throw through-out the whole world, and caused them to be condemned by a generall Councell to his advantage, Templers burned. as he thought, for hee beleeved to have had all their Lands in France, and therefore seizing the same in his hands, (as I have read) caused the Templers, Rob. Fabian. to the number of 54. or after Fabian, threescore, to be burnt at Paris.

Edward the second, in the yeere 1313. gave unto Aimer de la Valence Earle of Pembrooke, Patent. The Temple given to Aimer de Valence. the whole place and houses called the New Temple at London, with the ground called Fiquetes Croft, and all the Tenements and Rents, with the appurtenances that belonged to the Templers in the City of London, and Suburbs thereof.

After Aimer de Valence (saith some) Hugh Spencer (usurping the same) held it during his life. By whose death it fell againe to the hands of Edward the third, but in the meane time, to wit, 1234. by a Councell holden at Vienna, all the Lands of the Templers (lest the same should bee put to prophane uses) were given to the Knights Hospitalers of the order of Saint Iohn Baptist, Temple given to the Hospitalers of Saint Iohn of Ierusalem. called S. Iohn of Ierusalem, which Knights had put the Turkes out of the Ile of Rhodes, and after wan upon the said Turke dayly for a long time.

The said Edward the third therefore granted the same to the said Knights,Patent 2▪ E. 3. Clase, 18. E. 3. who possessed it, and in the eighteenth yeere of the said Kings reigne, were forced to repaire the Bridge of the said Temple. These Knights had their head house for England by West Smithfield, and they, in the reigne of the same Edward the third, granted (for a certaine rent of tenne pounds by the yeere) the said Temple,The Temple granto the Students of the Law and made an Inne of Court. with the appurtenances thereunto adjoyning, to the Students of the Common Lawes of England: in whose possession the same hath ever sithence remained, and is now divided into two houses of severall Students, by the name of Innes of Court, to wit, the Inner Temple, and the Middle Temple; who kept two severall Halls. But they resort all to the said Temple Church: in the round Walke whereof (which is the West part, without the Quire) there remaine Monuments of Noblemen buried, Monuments in the Temple. to the number of eleven: eight of them are Images of Armed Knights; five lying crosse-legged,Images of Knights buried crosse-legged, the cause why. as men vowed to the Holy Land, against the Infidels and unbeleeving Iewes; the other three straight-legged: The rest are coaped stones, all of gray Marble. The first of the crosse-legged, was W. Marshall the elder, Earle of Pembrooke, who dyed 1219. Wil. Marshall, his sonne, Earle of Pembrooke, was the second; he dyed 1231. And Gilbert Marshall, his brother Earle of Pembrooke, slaine in a Turnament at Hartford, besides Ware, in the yeere 1241.

After this, Robert Rose, otherwise called Fursan, being made a Templer in the yeere 1245. dyed, and was buried there. And these are all that I can remember to have read of.

Sir Nicholas Hare, Master of the Rolles, was buried there, in the yeere 1557.

In the yeere 1381. the Rebels of Essex and of Kent destroyed and plucked downe the Houses and Lodgings of this Temple,Records of the Temple destroyed. tooke out of the Church the Bookes and Records that were in Hutches of the Apprentices of the Law, carried them into the streets, and burnt them:Gatehouse of the Temple new builded. the house they spoyled and burnt for wrath that they bare Sir Robert Hales Lord Prior of Saint Iohns in Smithfield. But it was since againe at divers times repayred; namely the Gate-house of the Middle Temple, in the reigne of Henry the 8. by Sir Amias Paulet, Knight, upon occasion,Great Hall of the Temple new builded. as in my Annals I have shewed. The great Hall of the Middle Temple was newly builded in the yeere 1572. in the reigne of Queen Elizabeth.

[Page] This Temple Church had a Master,Order for Divine Service in the Temple. and foure stipendary Priests, with a Clerke: These, for the ministration of divine Service there, have stipends allowed unto them, out of the possessions and Revenues of the late Hospitall and House of S. Iohns of Ierusalem in England, as it had beene in the reigne of Edward the sixth.

And thus much for the said New Temple, the farthest West part of this Ward, and also of this Citie, for the Liberties thereof: which Ward hath an Alderman, and his Deputies three. In S. Sepulchres Parish, common Councell, six; Constables, foure; Scavengers, 4. Wardmote Inquest, twelve. In S. Bridgets Parish, common Councellors, 8. Constables, eight; Scavengers, eight; Wardmote Inquest, twenty. In S. Andrews, common Councell, two; Constables, two; Scavengers, three, Wardmote Inquest, twelve. It is taxed to the Fifteene at 35. pounds, one shilling.

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BRIDGE WARD WITHOVT, The 26. in number, consisting of the Borough of Southwarke, in the County of Surrey.

HAving treated of Wards in London, Bridge Ward without. on the North side the Thames (in number five and twenty) I am now to crosse over the said River, into the Borough of Southwarke, which is also a Ward of London without the walls, on the South side thereof, as is Portsoken on the East, and Faringdon extra on the West.

But before I come to the particular description of this Ward, it will not be impertinent to declare,Ex Hum [...]r. Dys [...]n. when, and by what meanes the Borough of South [...]rk now called Bridge Ward without, was made one of the six and twenty Wards, belonging to the City of London; which was in this manner:

After the dissolution of the Monasteries, How the Borough of Southwarke became at the first to be one of the 26. Wards of London. Abbeys, Priories, and other religious Houses, in this Realme of England: The Maior, Communalty, and Citizens of this City of London taking into their considerations, how commodious and convenient it would be unto the City, to have the Borough of Southwarke annexed thereunto, and that the same Borough was in the Kings hands wholly; they became humble suiters unto King Henry eighth, and to the Lords of his Highnesse Privie Councell, for the obtaining of the same. Which suit not being granted unto them; after the decease of King Henry the eighth, they renewed their suit unto his Sonne and next successor, King Edward the sixth, and to the Lords of his Privie Councell for the obtaining of the same Borough.

At the length, after long suit, and much labour, it pleased King Edward the sixth, by his Letters Patents, sealed with the great Seale of England, bearing date at Westminster the three and twentieth day April, in the fourth yeere of his reigne, as well in consideration of the summe of sixe hundred forty seven pounds, two shillings, and a penny, of lawfull money of England, paid to his Highnesse use, by the Maior, Communalty, and Citizens of London, as for divers other considerations him thereunto moving; To give and grant unto the said Maior and Communalty, and Citizens of London, divers Messuages, lands & Tenements, lying in or neere the said Borough of Southwark, in the said Letters Patents particularly expressed, which were sometimes the Lands of Charles, then late Duke of Suffolke, and of whom King Henry the eighth did buy and purchase the same.

But there was excepted out of the said Grant,The Mint of Coynage in Southwarke. and reserved unto the said King Edward the sixth, his Heires and successors, all that his Capitall Messuage, or Mansion House, called Southwarke Place, late of the said Duke of Suffolke, and all Gardens and Land to the same adjoyning: And all that his Parke in Southwarke: And all that his Messuage, and all Edifices and ground, called the Antilope there.

And the said King Edward the sixth did by his said Letters Patents give and grant to the said Maior, Communalty, and Citizens, and their successors, all that his Lordship and Mannor of Southwarke, with all and singular the Rights, Members, and appurtenances thereof, in the said County of Surrey, then late belonging to the late Monastery of Bermondsey, [Page] in the same County: And also all that his Mannor and Borough of Southwarke, with all and singular the Rights, Members, and appurtenances thereof, in the said County of Surrey, then late parcell of the Possessions of the Archbishop and Archbishoprickes of Canturbury, Together with divers yeerly rents, issuing out of divers Messuages or Tenements, in the said Letters Patents particularly expressed.

And also the said King Edward the sixth, by his said Letters Patents, as well for the above-mentioned considerations, as also for the summe of five hundred Markes, paid to his use, by the said Maior, Communalty, and Citizens of the said City of London, did give and grant to the said Maior, Communalty, and Citizens of the said City, and to their successors, in and through the whole Borough and Towne of Southwarke, and in and through the whole Parish of▪ Saint Saviors, Saint Olaves, and Saint George in Southwarke, and in and through the whole Parish, then late called Saint Thomas Hospitall, and then called the Kings Hospitall in Southwark, The kings Hospitall in Southwarke. and elsewhere whersoever, in the Town and Borough of Southwarke, and in Kentish street and Blackman street, in the Parish of Newington, All Wayffes, Estrays, Treasure-trove, Goods and Chattels of Traytors, Felo [...]s, Fugitives, Out-lawes, Condemned persons, Convict persons, and Felons defamed, and of such as bee put in Exigent of Outlawry, Felons of themselves, and Deodands, and of such as refuse the Lawes of the Land: And all Goods disclaimed, found, or being within the said Borough, Towne, Parishes and Precincts: And all mannor of Escheats and Forfeitures.

And that the said Maior, Communalty, The power of the Maior, Communalty, and Citizens of London in Southwarke. and Citizens, by themselves, or their Deputy, or Officer or Officers, should have in the Towne, Borough, Parishes, and Precincts aforesaid, the Taste and Assize of Bread, Wine, Ale, and Beere, and of all other Victuals, and things whatsoever, sold in the same Towne. And whatsoever should or might appertaine to the Office of the Clarke of the Market of his Majesties House-hold. And the correction and punishment of all persons there selling Bread, Wine, Beere, and Ale, and other Victuals; and of others there inhabiting, or using any Arts whatsoever. And all Forfeitures, Fines, and Amerciaments, to be forfeited to the King, or his Heires or Successors. And that they should have the execution of the Kings Writs, and of all other Writs, Commandements, Precepts, Extracts, and Warrants, with the returnes thereof, by such their Minister or Deputy as they should chuse.

And that they should have,The Faire to be kept in Southwarke. keepe, and hold there, every yeere, yeerely, one Faire, to endure for three dayes, viz. the seventh, eighth, and ninth daies of September. And that during the said three dayes, they should hold there by their Minister or Deputy, from day to day, from houre to houre, and from time to time, all Actions, Plaints, and Pleas of the Court of Pipowder, with al Summons, Attachments, Arrests, Issues, Fines, Redemptions, Commodities, and other Rights whatsoever, to the Court of Pipowder by any meanes belonging. And also, that they should have throughout the whole Precinct aforesaid, View of Franke-pledge, with all Sommons, Attachments, Arrests, Issues, Amerciaments, Fines, Redemptions, Profits, Commodities, and other things, which thereof to the King, his Heires, or Successors, should appertaine.

And also, that the said Maior, Communalty, and Citizens, and their successors, by themselves, or by their Officers or Deputies, may take and arrest in the Borough, Towne, Parish, and Precincts aforesaid,Felons in Southwarke committed to Newgate in London. all Theeves, Felons, and other Malefactors, and may carry them to the Gaole of Newgate. And that the said Maior, Communalty, and Citizens, and their successors, should for ever have in the said Borough, Town parishes, and Precincts, all such Liberties, priviledges, Franchises, Discharges, and Customes, which the King or his Heires should have had, if the said Borough had remained in the Kings hands.

And also he granted to the said Maior, Communalty, and Citizens of London, and to their successors, that they should for ever hold and keepe, all [Page] manner of Pleas,Pleas, Actions, Plaints, and personall Suits. Actions, Plaints, and personall Suites, and all manner of causes, Matters, Contracts, and Demands whatsoever, happening in the Precincts aforesaid, before the Maior and Aldermen of London, and before the Sheriffes of London, for the time being, or any of them, in the Guild hall and Hustings of the said City: and the like Actions, Bills, Plaints, Proces, Arrests, Iudgements, Executions, and other things whatsoever, and the same dayes and times, and in such like maner, as the like Pleas happening in the said City, before the Maior, Aldermen and Sheriffes, or any of them, in the said Courts, or any of them, time out of minde, have been taken, holden, prosecuted, or executed. And that the Serjeants at Mace, and other Officers of London, using to serve Proces, might from thenceforth, for ever, serve and execute all manner of Proces in the said Borough, Towne, Parishes and Precincts, concerning such Pleas and executions of the same, as time out of mind hath been used in the City of London.

And that the Inhabitants of the same Borough,Inhabitants of the Borough to implead, and be impleaded in London. Parishes, and Precincts, for Causes and Matters there growing, may implead or bee impleaded in the said City, in forme aforesaid, and in the said Courts. And that if the Iuries impanelled, and so moved to try such Issues, shall not appeare before the said Maior and Aldermen, or Sheriffes, in the said Courts in London, they shall bee amerced in like manner, and forfeit such Issues, as Iuries in London, making default of appearance, have used to forfeit. And that the Issues so forfeited, shall bee to the use of the Maior, Communalty, and Citizens of London, and their successors for ever. And also, that the said Maior and Communalty, and Citizens, and their successors for ever, should have the Cognizance of all manner of Pleas, Plaints, and personall Actions, out of all the Kings Courts, before the King, or before any of his Iustices, for any thing happening in the said Borough, or Precincts,Issues taken upon Suits tryed before the Maior and Aldermen. before the said Maior and Aldermen, and Sheriffs, or any of them, in the Courts of the said City. And that the Issues taken upon the said suits, shall be tryed in the said Courts, before the Maior and Aldermen and Sheriffes, by men of the said Borough, as Issues in London are tryed.

And that the said Maior,Two Coroners for the Borough. Communalty, and Citizens, and their successors, should for ever chuse, according to the Law, every yeere, or as often as they should thinke meet, two Coroners in the said Borough: And that the said Coroners, and either of them so chosen, should in the Precincts aforesaid, have and use like authority, as any Coroners in England ought to have and execute: and that no other of the Kings Coroners should in any wise presume to execute any thing belonging to the Office of a Coroner,The Maior of London Escheat [...]r in Southwarke and Clark of the Market there also. in the Precincts aforesaid.

And that the Maior of London, for the time being, should be Escheator in the Precincts aforesaid, and have power to direct Precepts to the Sheriffe of the County of Surrey for the time being, and to do all other things, which to the Office of Escheator in any of the Counties of England appertaineth: and that no other Escheator shall enter there, or intermeddle with any thing belonging to the Office of Escheator: and that the Maior of London, for the time being, shall be the Kings Clarke of the Market within the Precincts aforesaid, and may doe all things there appertaining to the Office of Clarke of the Market, and that the Clarke of the Market of the Kings Household shall not there intermeddle with any thing.

And that the said Maior, Communalty, and Citizens, and their successors for ever, should have, hold, use, and enjoy, in the Precincts aforesaid, as well all the Liberties and Franchises aforesaid, as the Toll, Tallage, Picage, and all other the said Kings Iurisdictions,Toll, Tallage, Picage, &c. Franchises, and Priviledges, which any Archbishop of Canturbury, Charles D. of Suffolke, or any the M. Brother and Sisters of the then late Hospitall of St. Thomas in Southwarke, or any Abbot of the then late Monastery of S. Saviors of Bermondsey, neere Southwarke; or any Prior or Covent of the then late Priory of Saint Mary Overy, or any of them ever had, then had, or ought to have had in the premises, in any of the places aforesaid; or which the said King Edward the sixth then lately held and enjoyed, [Page] or ought to have had & enjoy, & in as ample manner as King Henry the 8. had and enjoyed, or ought to have had, and enjoy the same: So that none of the Kings Sheriffes, or any other of his Officers should intermeddle in any thing in the said Borough and Precincts aforesaid.

And the said King Edward the sixt did by his said Letters Patents further grant,The inhabitants to be within the governance and correction of the Maior, &c. that all the Inhabitants of the said Precincts should be within the ordinance, governance and correction of the Maior and Officers of London and their Deputies, as the Citizens and Inhabitants of London ought to be; by reason of any Charter formerly granted by any of the said Kings Progenitors, to the Maior, Communalty and Citizens of London. And that the said Maior, Communalty and Citizens, and their Successors for ever should haue, enjoy, and use such Lawes, Iurisdictions, Liberties, Franchises and Priviledges whatsoever in the Borough, and Precincts aforesaid, as fully and freely as they then used, or ought to have used and enjoyed the same in London, by vertue of any grant to them made by any of the said Kings Progenitors.

And that the Maior of London for the time being, and the Recorder of London for the time being, after they have borne the Office of Maioraltie of London, should be Iustices of the Kings Peace in Southwarke, and the Precincts aforesaid, so long as they should stand Aldermen of the said Citty,Iustices of London in the like Office in Southwark. and should in the said Borough and Precincts aforesaid doe and execute all things which other Iustices of the Peace might doe in the County of Surrey, according to the Lawes and Statutes of England.

And also, that the said Maior, Communaltie & Citizens, & their Successors should have every weeke, on Munday, Wednesday, Friday and Satterday in the said Borough and Towne of Southwarke, 3. Market & Markets in Southwarke. one Market or Markets there to bee kept, and all things to Markets appertaining: All which Mannor, Lands, Tenements, Rents, Liberties, Priviledges, Franchises, and other the premises granted by the said Letters Patents, did extend to the cleere yeerely value of 35. li. 14. s. 4. d. And were granted to bee holden to the said Maior, Communalty and Citizens of London, and their Successors for ever, of the said King, his Heires and Successors, as of his Mannor of East Greenwitch, in the County of Kent, by Fealty onely in Free Socage (and not in Capite) for all manner of services and demands whatsoever.

But there was excepted and reserved out of the said Grant,Exceptions and reservations to the King. to the said King Edward the sixt, his Heires and Successors, all his Rights, Iurisdictions, Liberties & Franchises whatsoever, within the Walke, Circuit, and Precinct of his Capitall Messuage, Gardens, and Parke in Southwarke, and in all Gardens, Curtilages, and Lands, to the said Mansion House, Gardens, and Parke belonging.

Also, there was excepted and reserved out of the said Graunt, the House, Messuage, or Lodging there, called the Kings Bench, and the Gardens to the same belonging, so long as it should be used as a Prison for Prisoners, as it was then used.

Also, there was excepted and reserved out of the said Graunt, the House, Messuage, or Lodging there, called the Marshalsey, and the Gardens to the same belonging, so long as it should be used as a Prison for Prisoners, as it was then used.

Also it was provided, that the said Letters Patents should not be prejudiciall to the Offices of the Great Master or Steward of the Kings Household, within the Borough and Precincts aforesaid, to be executed while the same Borough and Precincts should be within the Verge: Nor to Ioh. Gates, Knight, one of the Gentlemen of the Kings Privie Chamber, concerning any Lands, Tenements, Offices, Profits, Franchises, or Liberties to him granted during his life, by the said King Edward the sixth, or by his Father King Henry the eight.

About the space of a moneth after the said Borough of Southwarke was so granted by King Edward the sixt to the Maior, Communaltie, and Citizens of London, and that they by force of the said Letters Patents stood charged with the Ordering, Survev, and Government [Page] of the same Borough, and of al the Kings subjects inhabiting therein,The ordering suruey, and gouernment of the Borough, &c. and repayring thither: At a Court holden before Sir Rowland Hill, Knight, then Lord Maior of London, and the Aldermen of the same Citie, in the Guild-Hall of London, on Tuesday the eight and twentieth of May, in the said fourth yeere of the raigne of King Edward the sixth, the said Towne or Borough was named and called the Ward of Bridge Ward without. The Ward of Bridge Ward without; and Sir Iohn Ayliffe first Alderman thereof. And Sir Iohn Ayliffe, Knight, Citizen and Barber-Surgeon of London, was then also named, elected, and chosen by the same Court, to be Alderman of the same Ward, albeit that before that time there neyther was any such Ward nor Alderman.

And it was then also ordered, That the said Sir Iohn Ayliffe, by that name of Alderman of Bridge Ward without, and all other that from thenceforth should be Alderman of the same Ward, should have the Rule, Survey, and Government, not onely of the Inhabitants of the said Towne & Borough of Southwarke, and other the Kings people repayring to the same, but also of all the Liberties, Franchises, and Priviledges within the said Towne and Borough, then formerly granted by the King and his Progenitors to the said Maior, Communaltie, and Citizens of London. Sir Iohn Ayliffe sworne & admitted in the Maioralitie of Sir Rowland Hill. And for the due execution of which Office, the said Sir Iohn Ayliffe was then presently sworne and admitted.

Not long after, videlicet, at a Court of Common Councell, holden in the Guild-Hall of London, on the last day of Iuly, in the said fourth yeere of the raigne of King Edward the sixth, and in the time of the Maioraltie of the said Sir Rowland Hill, it was enacted, That besides the then ancient accustomed number of five and twentie Aldermen, there should be one Alderman more elected, to have the Rule, Charge, and Governance of the said Borough and Towne. And that foure discreet persons, or more, being Freemen of London, and dwelling within the said Cittie, or the Borough of Southwarke, or in other the Liberties of the said Citie, sould from thenceforth, as often as the case should require, be from time to time nominated, appointed, and chosen by the Inhabitants of the said Borough for the time being, before the Lord Maior of London for the time being, sitting in the said Borough for that purpose, in such sort and order, as the Aldermen of London were in those dayes commonly elected.

And that the said Lord Maior for the time being should (at the next Court of Aldermen to be holden at the Guild-Hall of the said Citie, next after such election) present the names and surnames of all such persons as so should be named before him, and put in the said election.Election of an Alderman by Scrutiaie. And that the said Lord Maior & Aldermen for the time being, should of those foure persons, or mo, so presented, elect and chuse one, by way of Scrutinie, to be an Alderman of the said Citie, and to have the peculiar Ordering, Rule and Governance of the said Borough and Towne of Southwarke, and of the Inhabitants thereof, and of all other the Kings liege people, repayring to the same.

And that the said Alderman so especially elect and chosen, and from time to time, as the cause sould require thenceforth, to be elect and chosen for the Survey and Government of the said Borough, and the Inhabitants and other remayning in and to the same, should alwayes be named and called the Alderman of Bridge Ward without, The Alderman of Bridge Ward without. and by none other Name, for or concerning that Office, or Roome, and should have the Cure and Charge of the good Ordering and Government of the said Borough and Towne of Southwarke, and of the Inhabitants and People of and in the same, and of none other Place within the said Citie, by reason or colour of the said Roome, as long as he should remaine and stand Alderman of the said Ward, but as the residue of the said Aldermen of the said Citie be commonly charged: And therein to doe and use himselfe, as other Aldermen within the Liberties of the said Citie were accustomed and used to doe, in as much as the Lawes and Statutes of this Realme would permit and suffer.

Yet neverthelesse it was prouided, & by the said Cōmon Councell further ordained and enacted, That the said Sir [Page] Iohn Ayliffe, Knight, should then be Alderman of the said Ward: And that as well the same Sir Iohn Ayliffe, as also all and every person and persons, that thenceforth should fortune to be Alderman of the same Ward, should have and enjoy like prerogative, liberty, and benefit, to change and remove from the same Ward,The Alderman to change from that Ward, as occasion served. and to accept and take at his and their free will and pleasure any such other Ward or Wards within the said City, as it should fortune him, or them, or any of them, to be thenceforth duely elect and chosen unto by the Inhabitants of the same other VVard, or VVards, or any of them in like manner and forme, as the other Aldermen of the said City lawfully might, and commonly use to doe: Any thing in the said recited Act to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding.

Neverthelesse, at a Court of Aldermen holden on Tuesday, the second of September, in the said fourth yeere of the reigne of king Edward the sixth, and in the time of the Maioralty of the said Sir Rowland Hill, it was ordered, That the Aldermen of Bridge Ward without, for the time being,The Alderman of Bridge Ward without to continue so for the space of 3▪ yeeres, without removing. should stand and remaine Alderman of the same VVard three whole yeeres next after his election, before hee should bee permitted to bee removed to the governance of any other VVard: Notwithstanding any former Law, Vsage, or Custome.

But afterwards it seemeth, upon better advice, that another order should be taken in the election of the Alderman of the same Ward: For at a Common Councell holden in the Guild-Hall in London, on the 16. day of Iune, in the fourth and fifth yeeres of King Philip and Queene Mary, and in the time of the Maioralty of Sir Thomas Curtis, Knight, the said former Act, made on the last day of Iuly, in the fourth yeere of King Edward the sixth, for so much thereof as did concerne the forme and order of the election of the Alderman of the said VVard of Bridge Ward without, 4. Another order for electing the Alderman of Bridge Ward without, in the time of K. Philip & Queen Mary. was utterly repealed. And then it was enacted, That from thenceforth the Alderman of the same Ward should alwaies, at the time of vacation, or lack of an Alderman thereof, be elected and chosen by the Lord Maior and Aldermen of London, for the time being, at a full Court of Aldermen, by them to be holden in the Inner Chamber of the Guild-Hall of the same City in this manner, viz. That the Lord Maior and Aldermen should at their said full Court, amongst themselves, nominate foure discreet and meet Citizens, being Freemen of London, either resiant within the said Borough, or in London, or the Liberties thereof, to be put in election of Alderman of that Ward. And of the said foure persons so nominated, the said Lord Maior and Aldermen should by Scrutiny, according to their accustomed manner, elect one to bee Alderman of the same VVard: VVhich Alderman, so by them elected and sworne, should use and behave himselfe in all things, as by the residue of the former Act of Common Councell, made the last day of Iuly, in the fourth yeere of King Edward the sixth was ordained and appointed.

Thus having declared, by what means and at what time the said Borough of Southwarke was made and named one of the sixe and twenty VVards, now belonging to the City of London; I intend to proceed to the description of the severall particular places of the same VVard, and likewise of such Monuments of Antiquity, as are to bee found therein.

This Borough being in the County of Surrey, consisteth of divers streetes, waies, and winding lanes, all full of buildings inhabited: and first, to begin at the West part thereof, over-against the West Suburbe of the City.

On the banke of the River Thames, there is now a continuall building of Thenements, about halfe a mile in length to the Bridge.

Then South a continuall street called Long Southwarke, builded on both sides with divers Lanes and Allies up to St. Georges Church, and beyond it thorow Blackman street, towards Newtowne (or Newington) the liberties of which Borough extend almost to the Parish Church of Newtowne aforesaid, distant one mile from London bridge, and also Southwest a continuall building, almost to Lambith, more than one mile from the said Bridge.

[Page] Then from the Bridge along by the Thames Eastward,S. Olaves street. is S. Olaves street, having continuall building on both the sides, with lanes and Alleyes up to Battle bridge, to Horse-downe, and towards Rother-hith: also some good halfe mile in length from London bridge.

So that I account the whole continuall buildings on the Banke of the said River, from the West towards the East, to be more than a large mile in length.

Then have yee from the entring towards the said Horsedowne, one other continuall street, called Barmondes eye strees, which stretcheth South, likewise furnished with buildings on both sides, almost halfe a mile in length, up to the late dissolved Monastery of S. Saviour, called Bermondsey.

And from thence is one long lane (so called of the length) turning West to Saint Georges Church afore-named. Out of the which lane mentioned Long lane, breaketh one other street towards the South and by East, and this is called Kentish street, for that it is the way leading into that Country: and so have you the bounds of this Borough.

The Antiquities most notable in this Borough are these: first, for Ecclesiasticall, there was Bermondsey, an Abbey of blacke Monkes, Saint Mary Overies, a Priory of Canons Regular, Saint Thomas a Colledge or Hospitall for the poore, and the Loke, a Lazar-house in Kent street. Parish Churches there have been sixe, whereof five doe remaine, (viz.) Saint Mary Magdalen, in the Priory of Saint Mary Overy: now the same Saint Mary Overy is the Parish Church for the said Mary Magdalen, and for Saint Margaret on the Hill, and is called St. Saviour.

Saint Margaret on the Hill being put downe, is now a Court for Iustice. S. Thomas in the Hospitall serveth for a Parish Church, as afore, Saint George a Parish Church, as before it did: So doth Saint Olave, and Saint Mary Magdalen, by the Abby of Bermondsey.

There be also these five Prisons, or Gaoles.

The Clinke, on the Banke.

The Compter, in the late Parish▪

Church of S. Margaret.

The Marshalsey.

The Kings Bench.

And the White Lion; all in Long Southwarke.

Houses most notable, be these.

The Bishop of Winchesters House.

The Bishop of Rochesters House.

The Duke of Suffolkes. House, or Southwarke Place.

The Tabard, an Hostery, or Inne.

The Abbot of Hyde his House.

The Prior of Lewis his House,

The Abbot of S. Augustine his house.

The Bridge-house.

The Abbot of Battaile his House.

Battaile-Bridge.

The Stewes on the Banke of Thames.

And the Beare-Gardens there.

Now to returne to the West Banke:The Beare Gardens▪ there were two Beare-Gardens, the Old and New, Places wherein were kept Beares, Buls, and other Beasts, to be bayted: As also Mastives, in severall kenels, nourished to baite them. These Beares, and other Beasts are there baited in plots of ground, scaffolded about, for the beholders to stand safe.

Next, on this Banke,Liber Manuscript. was sometime the Bordello or Stewes, a place so called, of certaine Stew-houses priviledged there,The Stewes on the Bank-side. for the repaire of incontinent men to the like women; of the which Priviledge I have read thus:

In a Parliament holden at Westminster, the eighth of Henry the second, it was ordained by the Commons, and confirmed by the King and Lords, That divers Constitutions for ever should be kept within that Lordship, or Franchise, according to the old Customes, that had beene there used time time of minde: Amongst the which, these following were some: videlicet.

That no Stew-holder, or his wife, should let or stay any single woman to goe and come freely at all times, when they listed.

No Stew-holder to keepe any woman to boord, but she to boord abroad at her pleasure.

To take no more for the womans chamber in the Weeke, than foureteene pence.

[Page] Not to keepe open his doores upon the Holy-dayes.

Not to keepe any single woman in his house on the Holy-dayes, but the Bayliffe to see them voyded out of the Lordship.

No single woman to bee kept against her will, that would leave her sinne.

No Stew-holder receive any woman of Religion, or any mans wife.

No single woman to take mony to lye with any man, except she lye with him all night, till the morrow.

No man to be drawne or enticed into any Stew-house.

The Constables, Bayliffe, and others, every weeke to search every Stew-house.

No Stew-holder to keepe any woman, that hath the perillous infirmity of Burning; nor to sell Bread, Ale, Flesh, Fish, Wood, Coale, or any Victuals, &c.

These and many more Orders were to bee observed, upon great paine and punishment.

I have also seene divers Patents of confirmation,Li. S. Mary Eborum. namely, one dated 1345. the ninetenth of Edward the third.English people disdayned to bee Bawds. Also I finde, that in the fourth of Richard the second, these Stew-houses belonging to William Walworth, then Maior of London, were farmed by Froes of Flaunders, Froes of Flaunders were women for that purpose. and spoyled by Walter Tylar, and other Rebels of Kent: notwithstanding, I finde that ordinances for the same place, and houses, were againe confirmed in the reigne of Henry the sixth, and to be continued as before.Rob. Fabian. Also Robert Fabian writeth, that in the yeere 1506. the one and twentieth of Henry the seventh,Stew houses put downe by Henry the 7. for a time. the said Stew-houses in Southwarke were (for a season) inhabited, and the doores closed up: but it was not long (saith he) ere the houses there were set open againe, so many as were permitted, for (as it was said) whereas before were eighteen houses, from thenceforth were appointed to be used but twelve onely. These allowed Stew-houses had signes on their fronts, towards the Thames, not hanged out, but painted on the wals as a Boares head,Signes on the Stew-houses. the Crosse keyes, the Gunne, the Castle, the Crane, the Cardinals Hat, the Bell, the Swanne, &c. I have heard ancient men of good credit report, that these single women were forbidden the rights of the Church,Single women forbidden rights of the Church. so long as they continued that sinnefull life, and were excluded from Christian buriall, if they were not reconciled before their death. And therfore there was a plot of ground, called the Single womens Churchyard, appointed for them, far from the Parish Church.

In the yeere of Christ, a thousand five hundred forty sixe,Stew-houses put downe. the seven and thirtieth of Henry the eighth, this row of Stewes in Southwarke was put downe by the Kings commandement, which was proclaimed by sound of Trumpet no more to be priviledged, and used as a common Brothel; but the inhabitants of the same to keepe good and honest rule, as in other places of this Realm, &c.

Then next is the Clinke, a Gaole or Prison for the Trespassers in those parts; namely, in old time for such as should brabble, fray, or breake the peace on the said Banke, or in the Brothell houses, they were by the inhabitants thereabout apprehended and committed to this Gaole, where they were straightly imprisoned.

Next is the Bishop of Winchesters house,Winchester house. or lodging when he commeth to this City: which house was first builded by William Gifford, Bishop of Winchester, about the yeere one thousand, one hundred and seven, the seventh of Henry the first, upon a plot of ground pertaining to the Prior of Bermondsey, as appeareth by a Writ directed unto the Barons of the Exchequer, in the yeere 1366. the one and fortieth of Edward the third (the Bishops Sea being void) for 8. pounds due to the Monkes of Bermondsey, for the Bishop of Winchesters lodging in Southwarke. This is a very faire house wel repayred, and hath a large Wharfe, and a landing place called the Bishop of Winchesters staires.

Adjoyning to this on the South side thereof,Rochester house. is the Bishop of Rochesters Inne or lodging, by whom first erected I doe not now remember me to have read, but well I wot, the same of long time hath not beene frequented by any Bishop, and lyeth ruinous for lacke of reparations. The Abbot of Naverley had a house there.

East from the Bishop of Winchesters house, directly over-against it standeth [Page] a faire Church, called S. Mary over the Rie, Saint Mary Overies a Priory, and now a Parish Church. or Overy, that is, over the water. This Church, or some other in place thereof, was (of old time long before the Conquest) an house of Sisters, founded by a Maiden, named Mary, unto the which house and Sisters she left (as was left to her by her Parents) the over-sight and profits of a Crosse Ferrie, or traverse Ferry over the Thames, there kept before that any Bridge was builded. This house of Sisters was after by Swithen a noble Lady, converted unto a Colledge of Priests, who in place of the Ferrie, builded a Bridge of Timber, and from time to time kept the same in good reparations; but lastly the same Bridge was builded of Stone, and then in the yeere 1106. was this Church againe founded for Canons Regular, by William Pont de le Arch, and William Dauncy, Knights Normans.

William Gifford, Bishop of Winchester, was a good Benefactor also,Lib. Rufen. for hee (as some have noted) builded the body of that Church,Liber Bermondsey. in the yeere one thousand, one hundred and sixe, the seventh of Henry the first.

The Canons first entred the said Church, then Algodus was the first Prior.

King Henry the first, by his Charter gave them the Church of Saint Margaret in Southwarke.

King Stephen confirmeth the gift of King Henry, and also gave the Stone House, which was William de Ponte le Arche, by Downgate.

This Priory was burned about the yeere 1207. wherefore the Canons did found an Hospitall neere unto their Priory, where they celebrated untill the Priory was repayred: which Hospitall was after (by consent of Peter de la Roch, Bishop of Winchester) removed into the land of Anicins, Archdeacon of Surrey, in the yeere 1228. a place where the water was more plentifull, and the ayre more wholsome,S. Thomas Hospitall. and was dedicated to S. Thomas.

This Peter de Rupibus, or de la Roch, founded a large Chappell of Saint Mary Magdalen, Parish Church of S. Mary Magdalen. in the said Church of St. Mary Overy, which chappell was afterward appointed to be the Parish Church for the inhabitants neere adjoyning.

This Church was again newly builded in the reigne of Richard the second and King Henry the fourth.

Iohn Gower, Esquire, a famous Poet, was then an especialll Benefactor to that worke,Iohn Gower was no Knight, neither had he any Garland of lvie and Roses, but a Chaplet of foure Roses only. and was there buried on the North side of the said Church, in the Chappell of Saint Iohn, where he founded a Chantry, hee lyeth under a Tombe of Stone, with his Image also of Stone over him. The haire of his head aburne, long to his shoulders, but curling up, and a small forked beard; on his head a Chaplet, like a coronet of foure Roses, an habite of Purple, damasked downe to his seet, a Collar of Esses of gold about his necke, under his feet the likenesse of three Bookes, which hee compiled. The first, named Speculum Meditantis, written in French: The second, Vox Clamantis, penned in Latine: The third, Confessi [...] Amantis, written in English, and this last is printed. Vox Clamantis, with his Cronica Tripartita, and other both in Latine and French, never printed, I have and doe poffesse, but Speculum Meditantis, I never saw, though heard thereof to bee in Kent; Beside on the wall where he lyeth, there was painted 3. Virgins crowned, one of the which was named Charity, holding this divice:

En toy qui es Fitz de Dieu le Pere,

Savue soit, qui gist sours cest Pierre.

The second writing Mercy, with this device.

O bone lesu fait ta mercy,

Al'ame, dont le corps gift icy.

The third writing Pitty, with this device.

Pour ta pite Iesu regar'de,

Et met cest a me en savue garde.

His Armes, in a Field Argent, on a Cheveron Azure, three Leopards heads Gold, their tongues Gules, two Angels Supporters; on the Crest a Talbot. His Epitaph,

Armigeri Scutum nihil

a modo fert sibi tutum,

Reddidit immolutum morti

generale tributum,

Spiritus exutum

se gaudeat esse solutum,

[Page] Est ubi virtutum

Regnum siue labe statutum.

The roofe of the middle waste Ile sell downe in the yeere 1469. This Priory was surrendered to Henry the eighth, the one and thirtieth of his reigne, the seven and twentieth of October, the yeere of Christ 1539. valued at sixe hundred, twenty foure pounds, six shillings, sixe pence, by the yeere.

About Christmas next following, the Church of the said Priory was purchased of the King by the inhabitants of the Borough.Priory of S. Mary Overy made a Parish Church. Doctor Stephen Gardener, Bishop of Winchester, putting to his helping hand, they made thereof a Parish Church for the Parish Church of S. Mary Magdalen, on the South side of the said Quire, out of Saint Margaret on the hill, which were made one Parish of S. Saviour.

There be Monuments in this Church of Robert Liliard, or Hilliard, Esquire.

Margaret, Daughter to the Lady Audley, wife to Sir Thomas Audley.

William Grevill, Esquire, and Margaret his wife, one of the heires of William Spershut, Esquire.

Dame Katharine, wife to Iohn Stoke, Alderman.

Robert Merfin, Esquire.

William Vndall, Esquire.

Lord Ospay Ferar.

Sir George Brewes, Knight.

Iohn Browne.

Lady Brandon, Wife to Sir Thomas Brandon.

William Lord Scales.

William Earle Warren.

Dame Maude, wife to Sir Iohn Peach. Lewknor.

Dame Margaret Elrington, one of the heires of Sir Thomas Elrington.

Iohn Bowden Esquire.

Robert Saint Magil.

Iohn Standhurst.

Iohn Gower.

Iohn Duncell, Merchant-Taylor, 1516.

Iohn Sturton, Esquire.

Robert Rouse.

Thomas Tong, first Norroy, and after Clarenciaulx, King of Armes.

William Wickham, translated from the Sea of Lincolne, to the Bishopricke of Winchester, in the moneth of March, 1595. deceased the 11. day of Iune next following and was buried here.

Thomas Cure, Esquire, Sadler to King Edward the sixth, Queene Mary and Queene Elizabeth, deceased the 24. day of May, 1598.

Hic jacet Ioannes Gower,A very faire Tombe in the North Il [...] of the Church. Armiger, Anglorum Poeta celeberrimus, ac huic sacro Aedificio benefactor insignis, vixit temporibus Ed. 3. & Rich. 3.

Noviter constructum impensis Parochiae, An. Dom. 1615.

Epics [...]ion Thomae Cure, Southwarchiensis Armigeri.

Elizabetha tibi Princeps

servivit Equorum

A sellis Curus,

A faire Tombe in the North wall of the Quire.

quem lapis iste regit.

Servivit Edvardo Regi,

Mariaeque Sorori,

Principibus magna

est laus placuisse tribus.

Convixit cunctis charus

Respublica Curae

Semper erat Curo,

commoda plebis erant:

Dum vixit tribui

senibus curavit alendis,

Nummorum in sumptus

annua dona domos.

Obiit 24. die Maii, An. Dom. 1588.

An Epitaph upon John Trehearne, Gentleman Porter to King James the first.

Had Kings a power

to lend their Subjects breath,

A very Monumēt close by the other.

[...]rehearne, thou shouldst

not be cast downe by death:

Thy Royall Master still

would keepe thee then;

But length of dayes

are beyond reach of men.

Nor wealth, nor strength,

nor great mens love can ease

The wound Deaths Arrowes make,

for thou hast these.

In thy Kings Court

good place to thee is given:

Whence thou shalt goe

to the Kings Court of Heaven.

[Page] Peter Humble, A very faire Tombe in the chancell. Gentleman, dedicates this Monument to the pious memory of Richard Humble, Alderman of London, and Margaret his first wife, daughter to Iohn Pierson of Nathing, in the County of Essex, Gentleman. By whom he had issue two sonnes, Iohn, who died young, and the above-named Peter, now living. Also foure daughter, Katharine, Weltham, Margaret, and Elizabeth, who survived the other three, and was interred the same day with her Father, being the 30. of April 1616. Richard left Isabel his second wife, widow, who was the daughter of Robert Kitchinman, of Hemsley, in the County of Yorke, Gentleman, bequeathing to the poore of this Parish five pounds, foure shillings yeerly for ever, out of a Tenement adjoyning to the Southside of the three Crownes gate in Southwarke.

Gulielmus Wickham,A very faire stone by the Communion table. translat. à sede Lincoln. & Mense Martii, 1595. existen Episcopus Winton. Obiit 11. Iunii, prox. sequent. Reliquit uxorem laudatiff. quae sepelit in Awkenbery, Com. Hunt.

Doctrina Antistes praestans

& moribus aequis,

Eloquio & pietate gravis,

mensaque manuque.

Non parcus, justi neglectus

honore sepulchri,

Hic jacet. O seculum

insipiens, verum aequior illi,

Dum moritur, Deus Aligeros

dat cernere, missos,

Qui migrantem animam

Coeli ad sublimina ferrent.

F. M. posuit 10. Iunii, Anno Domini 1600.

The Monument of Bishop Andrewes is in a Chappell at the East end of the Church, and his body lyeth within the Monument.

Lector,

Si Christianus es, siste:

Morae pretium erit,

Non nescire te, qui vir hîc situs sit:

Ejusdem tecum Catholicae Ecclesiae membru, Sub eadem felicis Resurrectionis spe, Eandem D. Iesu praestolans Epiphaniam,

Sacratiss. Antistes Lancelotus Andrews, Londini oriundus, educatus Cantabrigiae, Aulae Pembroch. Alumnor. Socior. Praefector. Vnus, & nemini secundus:

Linguarum, Artium, Scientiarum, Humanorum, Divinorum, Omnium

Infinitus Thesaurus, Stupendum Oraculū:

Orthodoxae Christi Ecclesiae,

Dictis, scriptis, precibus, Exemplo

Incomparabile propugnaculum:

Reginae Elizabethae à sacris,

D. Pauli London. Residentiarius,

D. Petri Westmonast. Decanus:

Episcopus Cicestrensis, Eliensis, Wintoniensis, Regique Iacobo tum ab Eleemosynis, Tum ab utriusque Regni Consiliis, Decanus denique Secelli Regii:

Idem ex

Indefessa opera in studiis,

Summa sapientia in rebus,

Assidua pietate in Deum,

Profusa largitate in Egenos,

Rara amoenitate in suos,

Spectata probitate in omnes,

Aeternum admirandus.

Annorum pariter & publicae famae satur, Sed bonorū passim omnium cum luctu denatus, Coelebs hinc migravit ad aureolam coelestem,

Anno Regis Caroli 11o. Aetatis S. LXXIo. Christi MDCXXVIo.

Tantum est (Lector) quod te moerentes posteri Nunc volebant, atque vt voto tuo valeas, dicto Sit Deo gloria.

There is a Monument of Iohn Bingham, Esquire, Sadler to Queene Elizabeth and King Iames. Who was a worthy benefactor to the Parish, and to the Free-Schoole there: who departed this life in the yeere of our Lord, 1625.

There is a Monument for VVilliam Emerson, This Monument standeth in the South Ile. who departed this life the 27. of Iune, An. Dom. 1575. in the yeere of his age 92.

Arvum hoc Sepulchrale.

Exuviarum opt. matris Iocosae dominae Clerke. Sui ipsius lectissimaeque uxoris consitioni destinatum, Gulielmus Augustinus Armiger vivus sacravit.

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Anna

Conjux charissima primo. inseritur.

Quae post decimū partum (An MDCXXIII. Ian. XXI. Marito, ac liberis quinque superstitibus) Tricenaria valedicens:

In restorescendi dic & spem; Hac terra tegitur.

Sequimur caeteri: Sati corruptibiles,

Suscitandi incorruptibiles.

The Monument with this inscription standeth on the South side of the Quire.

Monumentum viri justi.

In memory of Iohn Symons, Citizen and White-Baker of London; who departed this life the 10. of August, in the yeere of our Lord 1625. and was a good Benefactor unto this Parish: who gave unto the poore the summe of eight pounds Per Annum for ever, to be distributed on the Feast day of St. Thomas before Christmas. And unto Saint Georges Parish in Southwarke the summe of ten pounds per Annum, for ever. And unto the Parish of Saint Mary Newington in Surrey, the summe of five pounds per Annum, for ever. These summes to come unto the said Parish, after the decease of his father Samuel Symons, who yet liveth, in the yeere 1631.

The Monument standeth in the South side of the Church, with this Epitaph:

His flesh interr'd here

once contain'd a spirit,

Who (by Gods mercy

and his Saviours merit)

Departed in that constant

hope of trust,

To reigne eternally

amongst the just:

To live and dye well

was his whole endeavor,

And in (assurance) dyed

to live for ever.

In the South side of the Church by the Quire there standeth the Monument of William Austin, Esquire, very faire and beautifull; the invention thus:

Over the head of the Angell is a Sunne, and in it written Sol Iustitiae.

There standeth an Angell upon a Rocke, with a Sickle in the left hand, and the right hand erected towards heaven, with these words written on the Rocke: Petra erat Christus; and under the Rocke is a field of ripe wheate, and in it written: Si non moriatur, non reviviscit. And under that these words: Nos sevit, fovit, lavit, cogit, renovabit.

Vpon the right hand of this Angell are written these words: Vos estis Dei. And on the left this: Agricultura.

On each side of this Angell sitteth two other Angels, leaning on their armes; the one with a Forke, and under written Messores. The other with a Rack, and under written: Congregabunt.

Vnder all this is the forme of a winnowing Fanne, and words written in it.

The Lady Clarke, mother to Master William Austin, gave a very faire Communion Table railed about, where 60. may kneele to receive the Sacrament, with a faire Carpet for it, and the railes hung about with the same embroidered.

Master William Austin gave a faire Silver Chalice, and a Dish for the Bread, to the value of almost forty pounds. And his wife that now is, who was the Relict of Iohn Bingham, Esquire, gave two very faire Silver Flagons of the like value.

Ex Registro Curiae Praerogativae Cant. extracto.16. Septem. 1619. Master Sampsons Will.

Item, I give and bequeath these Annuities ensuing to be issuing out of certaine Tenements of mine, viz. twenty shillings yeerly for ever to the Master and Society of Peter house in Cambridge, towards the maintenance of the Library there: and twenty shillings yeerly for ever to the Church-wardens of Saint Olaves in Southwarke, for the use of the poore of the Parish. And ten shilligs yeerly for ever to the Church-wardens of the Parish of St. Saviours, for the poore in the precinct of old Parish Garden,

Master Smith hath given unto the said Parish of S. Saviours the summe [Page] of twenty eight pounds per Annum, for ever unto the poore of this Parish.

Master Randall Carter, Citizen and Tallow Chandler of London, hath given seven pounds per Annum, for ever unto a poore Scholar that shall bee elected out of the Free Schoole to either of the Vniversities; and this seven pounds he is to enjoy for sixe yeeres, and his time expired to another: and so forward.

Master Edward Hulit, Gentleman, hath given forty pounds per Annum, to the poore of the same Parish for ever, to bee received out of certaine Tenements, situate in the Borough of Southwarke.

Hugh Brooker, Esquire, hath given unto the Free Schoole the summe of five pounds per Annum, for ever. And likewise unto the poore of the same Parish five pounds per Annum, for ever: and lyeth buried in Saint Saviours Church in the North Ile by the Quire.

Thomas Marshall gave an hundred pounds for ever to the Parish, for to clothe sixe poore boyes every Christmasse, who dyed in the yeere 1625.

Now passing through Saint Mary Overies Close (in possession of the Lord Mountacute) and Pepper Alley, S. Mary Overies Close. into Long Southwarke, Pepper Alley. on the right hand thereof, the Market hill, where the Leather is fold, there stood the late named Parish Church of Saint Margaret, S. Margaret on the hill made a Court of Iustice. given to Saint Mary Overies by Henry the first, put downe and joyned with the Parish Church of Saint Mary Magdalen, and united to the late dissolved Priory Church of S. Mary Overy.

A part of this Parish Church of St. Margaret is now a Court, wherein the Assises and Sessions bee kept,Court of Admiraltie. and the Court of Admiralty is also there kept. One other part of the same Church is now a Prison,Compter in Southwarke. called the Compter in Southwarke, &c.

Farther up on that side, almost directly over-against St. Georges Church, was sometime a large and most sumptuous house, builded by Charles Brandon, late Duke of Suffolke, in the reigne of Henry the eighth, which was called Suffolke house; Suffolke house, a Mint in Southwark. but comming afterwards into the Kings hands, the same was called Southwarke Place, and a Mint of Coynage was there kept for the King.

To this place came King Edward the sixth, in the second of his reigne, from Hampton Court, and dined in it. He at that time made Iohn Yorke, one of the Sheriffes of London, Knight, and then rode through the City to Westminster.

Queene Mary gave this house to Nicholas Heth, Archbishop of Yorke, and to his successors for ever, to bee their Inne or lodging for their repaire to London, in recompence of York house, neere to Westminster, which King Henry her father had taken from Cardinall Woolsey, and from the Sea of Yorke.

Archbishop Heth sold the same house to a Merchant, or to Merchants, that pulled it downe, sold the Lead, Stone, Iron, &c. and in place thereof builded many small Cottages of great rents, to the increasing of beggars in that Borough. The Archbishop bought Norwich House, or Suffolke Place, neere unto Charing-Crosse, because it was neere unto the Court, and left it to his succssors. Now on the South side, to returne backe again towards the Bridge. Over-against this Suffolke Place, is the Parish Church of Saint George, Parish Church of S. George. sometime pertaining to the Priory of Bermondsey, by the gift of Thomas Arderne, and Thomas his son, in the yeere 1122.

There lye buried in this Church William Kirton, Esquire, and his wives, 1464.

Loe,

A faire Monumēt in the South wal of the Chancell.

Master William Evans he

whose body lieth here,

Bequeathed hath by his last will,

for ever by the yeere

Ten pounds, eight shillings to the poore,

which is a blessed stay,

And must be given them in bread,

on every Sabbath day.

One halfe to Crekederus poore,

his native soile so deare:

The other moity to the poore

of this our Parish here.

See now all ye that love the poore,

how God did guide his wayes,

Ten score and eight are serv'd with bread

in two and fifty daies,

[Page] More than many would have done,

to yeelded any share.

Praise God, ye poore, who gave to him

so provident a care.

He was free of the right Worshipfull Company of the Merchant-Taylors, and deceased the nine and twentieth of Iuly 1590. in the two and thirtieth yeer of the most prosperous reigne of our Soveraigne Lady Queene Elizabeth. Aetatis 67.

Behold,

A faire gravestone under the Communion table.

Iames Savage graciously

hath done a godly deed

To the poore of this Parish,

for to relieve their need,

Five pounds a yeere for evermore,

by will he hath bequeath'd,

Which must out of the Angell rents,

quarterly be receiv'd,

By the Church-wardens of this Church,

whom he hath put in trust,

As Fathers in the poores behalfe,

to be upright and just.

Which men I doubt not but our God,

who seeth all things, shall finde

True in dispersing of the same,

according to his minde.

Ye poore, thanke Christ for Savage still,

extoil Gods name with praise,

That he to follow his good art,

in time may many raise.

Anno Domini 1588.

Then is the White Lion, White Lion a Goale for Surrey. a Gaole so called, for that the same was a common Hostery for the receit of Travellers by that signe. This house was first used as a Gaole within this threescore yeeres last, since the which time the Prisoners were once removed thence to an house in Newtowne, where they remained for a short time, and were returned backe againe to the aforesaid White Lion, there to remaine, as the appointed Gaole for the County of Surrey.

Next, is the Gaole or Prison of the Kings Bench, Kings Bench. but of what antiquity the same is, I know not. For I have read, that the Courts of the Kings Bench and Chancery, have oft times been removed from London to other places, and so hath likewise the other Gaoles that serve those Courts, as in the yeere 1304. Edward the first commanded the Courts of the Kings Bench and the Exchequer, which had remained seven yeeres at Yorke, to be removed to their old places at London. And in the yeere 1387. the eleventh of Richard the second, Robert Trisilian chiefe Iustice, came to the Citie of Coventry, H. Knighton▪ and there sate by the space of a moneth, as Iustice of the Kings Benche, and caused to be indited in that Court, about the number of 2000. persons of that Country, &c.

It seemeth therefore, that for that time, the Prison or Gaole of that Court was not far off. Also, in the yeere 1392. the sixteenth of the same Richard, the Archbishop of Yorke being Lord Chancellor, for good will that he bare to his City, caused the Kings Bench and Chancery to bee removed from London to Yorke, but ere long they were returned to London.

Then is the Marshalsey another Gaole or Prison,Marshalsey in Southwarke. so called, as pertaining to the Marshals of England. Of what continuance kept in Southwarke, I have not learned: but like it is, that the same hath been removeable, at the pleasure of the Marshals. For I finde, that in the yeere 1376. the 50. of Edward the third, Henry Percy (being Marshall) kept his prisoners in the City of London, where having committed one Iohn Prendargest, of Norwich, contrary to the liberties of the City of London, the Citizens, by perswasion of the Lord Fitzwalter, their Standard-bearer, tooke armour, and ranne with great rage to the Marshals Inne, brake up the gates, brought out the prisoner, and conveighed him away, minding to have burnt the stockes in the middest of their City; but they first sought for Sir Henry Percy, to have punished him, as I have noted in my Annals.

More, about the Feast of Easter next following, Iohn Duke of Lancaster, having caused all the whole Navie of England to be gathered together at London, it chanced a certaine Esquire to kill one of the Mariners, which act the other Mariners taking in ill part, they brought their suit into the Kings Court of the Marshalsey, which then as chanced (saith mine Author) was kept in Southwarke: but when they perceived that Court to [Page] be so favourable to the murderer; and further, that the Kings Warrant was also gotten for his pardon; they in great [...]ury ranne to the house, wherein the murderer was imprisoned,Saylers brake up the Marshalsey. brake into it, and brought forth the prisoner with his Gives on his legges, they thrust a kni [...]e to his heart, and sticked him, as if hee had beene a Hogge: after this they tyed a rope to his Gives, and drew him to the Gallowes, where when they had hanged him, as though they had done a great act, they caused the Trumpets to bee sounded before them to their ships, and there in great triumph they spent the rest of the day.

Also the Rebels of Kent, Rebels of Kent brake up the Marshalsey. in the yeere 1381. brake downe the houses of the Marshalsey and Kings Bench in Southwarke, tooke from thence the prisoners, brake downe the house of Sir Iohn Immorth, then Marshall of the Marshalsey, and Kings Bench, &c. After this, in the yeere 1387. the eleventh of Richard the second, the morrow after Bartholomew day, the King kept a great Councell in the Castle of Nottingham, and the Marshalsey of the King was then kept at Lughborow, by the space of sixe daies or more. In the yeere 1443. Sir Walter Many, was Marshall of the Marshalsey, the two and twentieth of Henry the sixth. William Brandon, Esquire, was Marshall in the eighth of Edward the fourth. In the yeere 1504. the prisoners of the Marshalsey then in Southwark brake out, and many of them being taken were executed, especially such as had beene committed for Felony or Treason.

From thence towards London bridge, on the same side, bee many faire Innes, for receit of travellers, by these signes, the Spurre, Christopher, Bull, Queens head,The Tabard in Southwark. Tabard, George, Hart, Kings head, &c. Amongst the which, the most ancient is the Tabard, so called of the signe, which as wee now terme it, is of a lacket or sleevelesse coate, whole before, open on both sides, with a square collar, winged at the shoulders: a stately garment, of old time commonly worne of Noblemen and others, both at home and abroad in the wars; but then (to wit, in the warres) their Armes embroidered, or otherwise depict upon them, that every man by his Coate of Armes might bee knowne from others: But now these Tabards are onely worne by the Heralds, and bee called their Coates of Armes in Service. For the Inne of the Tabard,Geffery Chaucer. Geffrey Chaucer, Esquire, the most famous Poet of England, in commendation thereof, writeth thus:

It befell in that season, on a day,

In Southwarke, at the Tabert, as I [...]ay,

Ready to wend on my Pilgrimage

To Canturbury, with full devout courage;

That night was comen into the Hostery

Well nine and twenty in a company,

Of sundry folke, by adventure yfall,

In fellowship and Pilgrims were they all,

That toward Canturbury woulden ride:

The Stables and Chambers werenwide,

And well we were eased at the best, &c.

Within this Inne was also the Lodging of the Abbot of Hide (by the City of Winchester) a faire house for him and his Traine,The Abbot of Hide his Lodging. when hee came to the City to Parliament, &c.

And then Theeves lane, Hospitall of Saint Thomas. by St. Thomas Hospitall. The Hospitall of St. Thomas first founded by Richard, Prior of Bermendsey, in the Sellerers ground, against the wall of the Monastery, in the yeere 1213. Hee named it the Almery, or House of Almes, for Converts and poore Children; for the which ground the Prior ordained, that the A [...]moner should pay ten shillings foure pence yeerly to the Sellerer at Michaelmas.

But Peter de Rupibus, Li. S. Mary Overy. S. Thomas Hospitall the second time founded. Bishop of Winchester, in the yeere 1215. founded the same againe more fully for Canons Regular, in place of the first Hospitall: He increased the rent thereof to three hundred forty foure pounds by the yeere. Thus was this Hospitall holden of the Prior and Abbot of Bermondsey, till the yeere 1428. at which time a composition was made between Thomas Thetford, Abbot of Bermondsey, & Nicholas Buckland, Master of the said Hospitall of Saint Thomas, for all the Lands and Tenements, which were holden of the said Abbot and Covent in Southwarke, or elsewhere, for the old rent to bee paid unto the said Abbot.

There bee the Monuments in this [Page] Hospitall Church, of Sir Robert Chamber, Knight,

William Fines,

Lord Say,

Richard Chaucer, Iohn Gloucester, Adam Atwood, Iohn Ward, Michael Cambridge, William West, Iohn Golding, Esquires.

Iohn Benham, George Kirkes, Thomas Knighton, Thomas Baker, Gentlemen.

Robert, Sonne to Sir Thomas Fleming.

Agnes, wife to Sir Walter Dennis, Knight, Daughter and one of the heires of Sir Robert Danver, Iohn Evarey, Gentlemen, &c.

This Hospitall was by the Visitors, in the yeere 1538. valued at 266. l. 17. s. 6. d. and was surrendred to Henry the 8. in the 30. of his raigne.

In the yeere 1552. the Citizens of London,The third foundation of S. Thomas Hospitall by the Citizens of London. having purchased the voyd suppressed Hospitall of Saint Thomas in Southwarke, in the Month of Iuly, bebegan the reparations therof, for poore, impotent, lame, and diseased people, so that in the Moneth of November next following, the sicke and poore people were taken in.Gift of E. the sixt to the Mospitall of S. Thomas in Southwarke. And in the yeere 1553. on the 10. of April, King Edward the sixt in the seventh of his raigne, gave to the Maior, Communaltie, and Citizens of London, to bee a workehouse for the poore and idle persons of the Citie, his house of Bridewell, and seven hundred Marks Lands of the Savoy Rents, which Hospitall he had suppressed, with all the beds, bedding, and other furniture belonging to the same, towards the maintenance of the said workehouse of Bridewell, and of this Hospitall of Saint Thomas in Southwarke. This gift, the King confirmed by his Charter, dated the 26. of June next following, and willed it to be called the Kings Hospitall in Southwarke.

The Church of this Hospitall, which of old time served for the Tenements neere adjoyning and pertaining to the said Hospitall, remaineth as a Parish Church.

But now to come to S. Olaves street: S. Thomas Parish Church. on the banke of the river of Thames is the Parish Church of Saint Olave, S. Olaves street and Parish Church. a faire and meetely large Church, but a far larger Parish, especially of Aliens or strangers, and poore people; in which Church, there lyeth intombed Sir Iohn Bur [...]ettur, Knight, 1466.

Here th'earthly pare

of William Benson lyes,

A small Monumēt in the North wall of the Chancell.

Whom Robert Benson

had by Mary Lyle,

The Heavenly mounted is

above the Skies

With wings of Faith,

dissolv'd but for a while:

The Linnen which he sold

was nere so white,

As is the Robe

wherein the Soule is dight:

Yes Thomas mourns in blacke,

his onely Sonne,

And Richard (of whole blood)

his eldest Brother:

But Londons reverend Bishop

this hath done,

Which was by Ravis

borne of the same Mother:

And William Lyle,

first cousin to them all,

Long live his Verse,

penn'd this Memoriall.

He departed in the 56.

yeere of his age.

An. Dom. 1603.

Februar. 1579.

To you that live possest,

A graven Plate in the end of the Quire.

great troubles do befall,

Where we that sleep by death,

do feele no harme at all:

An honest life doth bring,

a joyfull death at last,

And life againe begins,

when death is over-past.

Death is the path to life,

and way to endlesse wealth,

The doore whereby we passe

to everlasting health.

These threescore yeere and six

have passed here my life,

And thirty seven yeeres thereof,

thou Helen wert my wife,

A Citizen also,

and of the Cutlers free,

And Warden of the same,

so worthy thought to be.

My loving wife farewell,

God guide thee with his grace.

Prepare thy selfe to come,

and I will give thee place:

[Page] Acquaintance all farewell,

and be assur'd of this,

You shall be brought to dust,

as Thomas Malledge is.

Hic jacet corpus Ioannis Thomas,A plated Stone by the Communion Table. nuper Civis & Groceri Civitatis London. Qui obiit die Mercurii, vid. 23. Augusti, Anno Domini 1564. Hic tres uxores habuit, vid. Christianam, Matildam, & Ioannam. Ex Christiana suscepit hos liberos, Rogerum, Ioannem, seu willielmum, Ioannem inter Richardum, Lambertum, Henricum, Beatricem, & Petrum. Ex Matilda, Aliciam, Agnetem, & Susannam. Ex Ioanna, Thomam, Martham, Margaretam, Annam, Richardum & Saram.

Hic jacet corpus Richardi Philip,Another like Stone by it. Civis & Groceri London. Qui obiit 10. die Mensis Aprilis, Anno Domini 1412. & Isabella uxor ejus: Quae obiit, &c. Quorum, &c.

Here resteth,The like Stone on the other side of the Table. in the mercie of God, the body of Iohn Eston, Esquire, late Iustice of the Peace, and of Southwarke Steward, leaving behind him Margaret his wife. Which Iohn died the eight day of May, Anno Domini 1565.

How rich be they certaine,

That Heavenly Kingdome gaine?

No tongue can well expresse

Their joyes, that be endlesse.

Hic jacent Robertus Faireford,An ancient Marble Tombe in the Chancell. quondam Serviens excellentiss. Principis Henrici Reg. Angliae Quarti, ac nuper Coronator Curiae Marescalciae Hospitii Metuendissimorum Princip. Henrici Regis Angliae Quinti, & Henrici Sexti. Qui obiit 21. die Augusti, Anno Domini, 1456. &c. Et Agnet. ux.—Quae obiit—

Over-against this Parish Church,Prior of Lewis his Inne. on the South side the street, was sometime one great House, builded of Stone, with arched Gates, which pertained to the Prior of Lewis in Sussex, and was his Lodging when hee came to London: It is now a common Hostery for Travellers, and hath to Signe, the Walnuttree.

Then East from the said Parish Church of Saint Olave, is a Key. In the yeere 1330. by the licence of Simon Swanlond, Maior of London, it was builded by Isabell, widow to Hamond Goodcheape. And next thereunto was then a great house of stone and timber, belonging to the Abbot of S. Augustin, Abbot of Augustines Inne. without the wals of Canturbury, which was an ancient piece of work, & seemeth to be one of the first builded houses on that side the River,W. Thomas. over-against the City: It was called the Abbots Inne of Saint Augustine in Southwarke, and was sometime holden of the Earles of Warren and Surrey, as appeareth by a deede, made 1281. which I have read, and may bee Englished thus:

To all to whom this present writing shall come, Iohn, Earle Warren, sendeth greeting. Know ye, that we have altogether remised and quite claimed for us and our heires for ever, to Nicholas, Abbot of Saint Augustines of Canturbury, and the Covent of the same, and their successors, suit to our Court of Southwarke, which they owe unto us, for all that Messuage and houses thereon builded, and all their appurtenances, which they have of our fee in Southwarke, situate upon the Thames, betweene the Bridgehouse, and Church of Saint Olave. And the said Messuage with the buildings thereon builded, and all their appurtenances to them and their successors, we have granted in perpetuall Almes to hold of us, and our heires for the same: saving the service due to any other persons, if any such be, then to us. And for this remit and grant, the said Abbot and Covent have given unto us five shillings of rent yeerely in Southwarke, and have received us and our heires in all Benefices, which shall be in their Church for ever.

This sute of Court one William Craspeis was bound to doe to the said Earle, for the said Messuage: and heretofore to acquit in all things, the Church of Saint Augustine, against the said Earle.

This house of late time belonged to Sir Anthony Sentleger, Sentleger house. then to Warham Sentleger, &c. And now is called Sentleger house, but divided into sundry Tenements.

Next is the Bridgehouse, so called, as being a store-house, for Stone, Timber, [Page] or whatsouer pertaining to the building or repairing of London bridge.

This house seemeth to have taken beginning, with the first founding of the Bridge; either of stone or timber: it is a large plot of ground on the banke of the river Thames, containing divers large buildings, for stowage of things necessary, towards reparation of the said Bridge.

There are also divers Garners,Garners for Come in the Bridge-house. for laying up of Wheate, and other Grayners for service of the City, as need requireth. Moreover, there bee certaine Ovens builded,Ovens in the Bridge-house. in number ten: of which sixe bee very large, the other foure being but halfe so bigge. These were purposely made to bake out the breadcorne of the said Grayners, to the best advantage, for reliefe of the poore Citizens, when neede should require. Sir I. Throstone, Knight, sometime an Imbroderer, then Goldsmith, one of the Sheriffes, 1516. gave (by his Testament) towards the making of these Ovens two hundred pounds, which thing was performed by his Executors: Sir Iohn Munday, Goldsmith, then being Maior.A Brew-house builded in the Bridge-house. There was of late, for the enlarging of the said Bridge-house, taken in an old Brew-house, called Goldings, which was given to the Citie by George Monox, sometime Maior, and in place thereof, is now a faire brew-house builded, for service of the Citie with Beere.

Next,Abbot of Battaile his Inne. was the Abbot of Battailes Inne, betwixt the Bridge-house and Battaile bridge, likewise on the banke of the river of Thames; the walkes and gardens thereunto appertaining, on the other side of the way, before the gate of the said house, was called the Maze: there is now an Inne, called the Flower de luce, for that the signe is three Flower de luces. Much other buildings of smal tenements are thereon builded replenished with strangers and other, for the most part poore people.

Then is Battaile bridge, Battaile bridge. so called of Battaile Abbey, for that it standeth on the ground, and over a water-course (flowing out of Thames) pertaining to that Abbey, & was therfore both builded and repaired by the Abbots of that house as being hard adjoyning to the Abbots lodging.

Beyond this Bridge is Bermondsey streete, Bermondsey streete. turning South, in the South end whereof was sometime a Priory or Abbey, of S. Sauioyr, called Bermonds eye in Southwarke, founded by Ailewin Childe, a Citizen of London, in the yeere 1081.

Peter, Richard, Obstert, and Vmbalde, Monkes de Charitate, came to Bermondsey, the yeere 1089. and Peter was made first Prior there, by appointment of the Prior of the house, called Charitie in France: by which meanes this Priory of Bermondsey (being a Cell to that in France) was accounted a Priory of Aliens.

In the yeere 1094. deceased Ailewin Childe, founder of this house. Then William Rufus gave to the Monks, his Mannor of Bermondsey, with the appurtenances, and builded for them there a new great Church.

Robert Blewit, Bishop of Lincolne (King Williams Chancelor) gave them the Mannor of Charleton, with the appurtenances. Also Geffrey Martell, by the grant of Geffrey Magnaville, gave them the Land of Halingbury, and the tithe of Alferton, &c.

More in the yeere Thomas of Arderne 1122. and Thomas his Son, gave to the Monkes of Bermonds Eye, the Church of Saint George in Southwarke.

In the yeere 1165. King Henry the second confirmed to them the Hide or territorie of Southwarke, Hide of Southwark to the Monkes of Bermondsey. and Laygham, Waddam, with the land of Coleman, &c.

In the yeere one thousand, three hundred, seventy one, the Priories of Aliens (throughout England) being seized into the Kings hands, Richard Denten an Englishman, was made Prior of Bermondsey: to whom was committed the custody of the said Priory, by the letters patents of King Edward the third, saving to the King the advowsons of Churches.

In the yeare 1380. the fourth of Richard the second, this Priory was made a Denizen (or free English) for the fine of 200. Markes, payd to the Kings Hanaper in the Chancery. In the yeare 1399. Attelborough, Prior of Bermondsey, was made the first Abbot of that house, by Pope Boniface the ninth, at the suit of King Richard the second.

[Page] In the yeere 1417. Thomas Thetford, Abbot of Bermondsey held a Plea against the King, and prevailed. Abbot of Bermondsey, held a Plea in Chauncery against the King, for the Mannors of Preston, Bermondsey, and Stone, in the County of Summerset, in the which sute the Abbot prevailed, and recovered against the King.

In the yeere 1539. this Abbey was valued to dispend by the yeere 474. l. 14. s. 4. d. ob. and was surrendred to Henry the eighth, the 31. of his reigne: the Abbey Church was then pulled downe by Sir Thomas Pope, Knight, and in place thereof, a goodly house builded of stone and timber, since pertaining to the Earles of Sussex.

There are buried in that Church Loufstone Provost, Iohns Baev [...]w. Shrive or Domesman of London, 1115.

Sir William Bowes, Knight, and Dame Elizabeth his wife.

Sir Thomas Pikeworth, Knight.

Dame Anne Audley.

George, sonne to Iohn, Lord Audley.

Iohn Winkefield; Esquire.

Sir Nicholas Blonket, Knight.

Dame Bridget, wife to Wil. Trussell.

Holgrave, Baron of the Exchequer, &c.

Next unto this Abbey Church standeth a proper Church of Saint Mary Magdalen, Parish Church of S. Mary Magdalen. builded by the Priors of Bermondsey, serving for resort of the inhabitants (tenants to the Prior or Abbots neere adjoyning) there to have their divine Service: this Church remaineth and serveth as afore, and is called a Parish Church.

Then in Kentstreet is a Lazar house for Leprous people,The Loke a Lazar-house in Kent street. called the Loke in Southwarke: the foundation whereof I finde not. Now having touched divers principall parts of this Borough, I am to speak somewhat of government, and so to end.

This Borough at a Subsidy to the King, yeeldeth about 1000. Markes, or 800. l. which is more than any one City in England payeth, except the City of London. Muster of men in Southwark. And also the Muster of men in this Borough doth like wise in number surpasse all other Cities, except London. And thus much for the Borough of Southwarke, one of the 26. Wards of London, which hath an Alderman, Deputies three, and a Bayliffe. Common Councell none. Constables 16. Scavengers 6. Wardmote Inquest 20. And is taxed to the Fifteene, at 17. pounds, 17. shillings, 8. pence.

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THE SVBVRBS WITHOVT THE Wals of the said City, briefly touched. As also, without the Liberties, more at large described.

HAving spoken of this Citie, the originall, and increase by degrees: The wals, gates, ditch, castles, towers, bridges, schooles and houses of learning: Of the orders and customes, sports and pastimes: Of the honour of Citizens and worthinesse of men: And last of all, how the same City is divided into parts and Wards: And how the same are bounded. And what Monuments of Antiquity, or Ornaments of building be in every of them, as also in the Borough of Southwarke: I am next to speake briefly of the Suburbs, as well without the Gates and Wals, as without the Liberties, and of the Monuments in them.

Concerning the estate of the Suburbs of this City, in the reigne of Henry the second, Fitz-Stephen hath these words: Fitz-Stephen. Vpwards on the West (saith hee) is the Kings Palace, which is an incomparable building, rising with a Vawmure and Bulwarke, aloft upon the River, two miles from the Wall of the City, but yet conjoyned with a continuall Suburbe. On all sides, without the houses of the Suburbs, are the Citizens Gardens and Orchards, planted with Trees, both large, sightly, and adjoyning together. On the North side are Pastures and plaine Medowes, with Brookes running thorow them, turning Water-mils, with a pleasant noise. Not farre off is a great Fortest, a well woodded Chase, having good Covert for Harts, Buches, Does, Bores, and wilde Buls. The Corn [...] fields are not of a hungry sandy mould; but as the fruitfull fields of Asia, yeelding plentifull increase, and filling the Barnes with Corne. There are neere London, on the North side, especiall Wels in the Suburbs, sweete, wholesome, and cleare.Liber Albo. Amongst which, Holywell, Clarkenwell, and Saint Clements well are most famous, and most frequented by Scholars and Youths of the City in Summer evenings, when they walke forth to take the ayre.

Thus far out of Fitz-Stephen, for the Suburbs of that time.

The second of Henry the third,Suburbe without the Posterne by the Tower of London. the Forrest of Middlesex, and the Warren of Stanes were disaforested: since the which time, the Suburbs about London have bin also mightily increased with buildings: for first, to begin the East, by the Tower of London, is the Hospitall of S. Katharine, founded by Matilde, the Queen, wife to King Stephen, as is afore shewed in Portsoken Ward.

From this Precinct of S. Katharine, Wapping in the East. to Wapping in the East, the usuall place of execution for hanging of Pirats and Sea-Rovers, at the low water marke, there to remaine till three tides had overflowed them, was never a house standing within these 50. yeeres: but since (the Gallowes being after removed farther off) a continuall streete, or filthy straight passage, with Alleyes of small Tenements or Cottages is builded, inhabited by Saylors and Victuallers, along by the River of Thames, almost to Radcliffe, a good mile from the Tower.

The new Chappell in Wapping Hambler, in the Parish of Whitechappell, was [Page] builded in the yeere 1617. the charge being about 1600. l. was gathered some part of it of the severall Inhabitants in the same Hamblet; the rest (being the greater part) was gathered by Letters Patents for collections in severall Counties: the Citizens of London, being worthy Benefactors toward it, procured by the principall care of Master Rowland Catmore, Robert Bourne, and Robert Mott, and others of the same Parish: Master Richard Sedgwicke being the first Minister in that Chappell, and so continueth to this yeere 1631.

Written upon a high beame in the middest of the Chappell.

This Chappell was dedicated to Almightie God, and consecrated to the honour and glory of his great and wonderfull Name, the seventh day of Iuly, 1617. by the right reverend father in God, Iohn King, then Lord Bishop of London.

A faire Gallery built on the South side of the Chappell, with part of the benevolence that was given for the use of the Chappell by the Mariners that went to the East Indies, Anno 1616. in the Royall Iames, under the command of Captaine Martin Pringe, procured by the care of Master Rowland Catmore, then Master of the said ship, and now at the building, hereof Warden of the Chappell, 1622.

Master Richard Gardner being at that time of building of the Chappe, Rector of Whitechappell, who had to continued 47. yeeres, being 77. yeeres of age, as it was found in a glasse window made at his owne charge at the upper end of the Chancell.

Richardus Gardenerus Whitechappell [...] 1617. An. Resident. suae 47. Aetatissaae 77. 1617.

A weekly Lecture maintained in the same Chappell by Master who hath given ten pounds yeerly for ever toward it.

Friday the 24. of Iuly 1629. King Charles having hunted a Stragge or Hart from wansted in Essex, kild him in Nightingale lane, in the Hamblee of Wapping, in a garden belonging to one who had some damage among his herbes, by reason the multitude of people there assembled suddenly.

In the Hamlet of VVapping, in the Parish of VVhitechappell, was builded in Anno 1626. a large house of timber by Master William Turner, Gentleman, Master George Lowe, Gentleman, and Thomas Iones, Gentleman, and others, for the making of Allome, which grew to such an inconvenience through the annoyance that was with [...]oyling of Vrine and other materials, by reason of the ill savour of it, and the excrement of it being found to be annoyance to the river of Thames, that upon the complaint of the Inhabitants to the King and Councell, it was proceeded withall, as appeareth:

The sixteenth of Iuly 1627. being Munday, and the tide being neere a low water, about eight of the cloke in the evening of the same day, there was a Lighter of Allome grease lying in the Hermitage Docke, which was taken out of a ship, lying there overthwart the mouth of the Docke. And upon the emptying of the water (out of the Lighter) which issued from the grease, there did arise a most noysome stinking scum of a frothy substance, and did spread all about the mouth of the Docke, and run downe into the Thames: and there was a Vessell caused to be filled with it, and it did so stinke, that wee were not able to endure the sent of it, insomuch that endangered all the Wels and Ponds thereabouts: This was seene and done in the presence of these under written.

Master Cornelius Godfrey, Merchant.

M. George Freeman.

M. Ioseph Iaques.

M. Leonard Leonard.

M. Michael Leech.

M. Fulke Wormleighton,

M. Iohn Byrkes.

Thomas Pope.

Henry Chandler.

These will be ready to testifie the truth hereof upon oath▪

Thomas Davies.

Thomas Knight.

Thomas Iones.

Augustine Cope.

Thomas Powell.

[Page] Nicholas Bugden.

Tobias Greene.

George Raymond.

VVilliam Cooke.

VVilliam Curteis.

Iohn Cope.

To the right worshipfull his Majesties Iustices of the Peace for the County of Meddlesex, and Commissioners for annoyances, and to all other his Majesties Officiars, whom in this case it shall concerne.

WEe his Majesties loving Subjects inhabiting within the Parish of Whitechappell, in the County of Middlesex, and St. Buttolphs without Ealdgate London, and in the Hamblets of Stepney, VVapping, East Smithfield, and Saint Katharines neere the Tower of London, finding and being continually choaked and poysoned up with the daily and continuall stinke and most noysome infectious smell that is lately begun amongst us, by a worke-house for making of Allome (as is reported) by Master VVilliam Turner, Master George Lowe, and Master Thomas Iones, and others, erected at the VVest end of Wapping; adjoyning upon the River of Thames, & neere unto the Tower of London, and to his Majesties Store-house on Tower hill, where the provision for his Highnesse shipping is daily provided, doe humbly shew, that wee findo, that the noysome smell that commeth of the making of the said Allome (which we suppose to be Vrine and such other infectious materials) being long kept, and then boyled for the use aforesaid, doe breed and make such an infectious and most noysome smell amongst us, that wee are not able to live in our houses, nor to keepe our families at worke about us, the detestable stinke thereof is so infectious and intolerable now this Winter time (much more will it be in the heate of Summer:) So that if speedy redresse thereof bee not had, we shall not be able to continue our habirations there, wherein wee have long time lived. And it is generally thought, it will be a decay & dangerous infection to all inhabitants both on this side and the other side the water, within two miles compasse of the place it standeth; for the stinke thereof (as the wind standeth) is further smelled, both by land and water: and daily complaint made thereof. And now there is begun but two or three Furnaces, but shortly there wil be many more Furnaces made there, to the further great damage and annoyance of his Majesties Subjects, which wee humbly referre to your Worships grave consideration, humbly desiring your speedy aide and reformation herein, otherwise we shall be compelled to leave our houses & dwellings to our utter undoings: for the noysome smell is so dangerous, that no man will dwell thereabouts, if he might have his house rent-free: And wee as bound, shall daily pray for your Worships:

Richard Maine.

Fulke Wormleighton.

Thomas Clarke.

Thomas Champion.

VVilliam Mott.

Iames Ruddam.

Iames Coulyn.

Andrew Fursland.

Iohn Parsons.

Henry Munter.

Henry Bludder.

George Preston.

Peter Leover.

William Winson Hoof [...].

Iohn Harrington.

Romboult Iacobson.

Iohn Wessels.

Richard Rolfe.

Iohn VVeekes.

Richard Pountis.

Ienkin Ellis.

Robert Haddocke.

Richard Studder.

Iohn Vandeford.

Robert Thomas.

Austin Reinolds.

Ieffrey Farmer.

VVilliam Parsons.

Reinold Thompson.

Iohn Greene.

William Plasse.

VVilliam Popular.

Thomas VVarton.

[Page] VVilliam Peacocke.

Iohn Broocker.

Matthew Fallen.

George Flood.

Thomas Gray.

William VVelch.

Cornelius Godfrey.

Thomas Cobb.

Iohn Dearsley.

Ioseph Iaques.

VVilliam Rayniborowe.

Peter March.

Richard Cooper.

Arion Williams.

VVilliam Foxe.

Iohn Note.

Thomas VVhite.

William Speering.

Michael Vngle.

Richard Cray.

Thomas Bercher.

Osmond Colchester.

VVilliam Webbe.

William Bundrocke.

William Evans.

Michael Leech.

Iohn Cope.

Tobias Greene.

Iohn Birke.

Iohn Harris.

Iohn Teabye.

Robert Merret.

William Clarke.

To the Kings most excellent Maiesty.
The humble Petition of your Majesties Liege-people and Subjects, being in number many thousands, inhabiting within one mile compasse of your Majesties Tower of London, within Middlesex and Surrey, and the Borough of Southwarke.

Most humbly sheweth,

THat whereas of late divers Roomes have beene newly erected in the Parish of St. Mary Matfellon, commonly called White chappell, in the County of Middlesex, by VVilliam Turner, Gentleman, George Lowe, Gentleman, and Thomas Iones, Gentleman, and others, neere unto many great Brewhouses, which breweth Beere for the use and service of your Majesties Navie, and for divers within London and Middlesex, which said Roomes have been ever since their first erection imployed for boyling of Vrine for making of Allome, which hath and doth daily cast so noysome a savour and evill ayre to all the parts thereabouts, and to all passengers that way, or by the River of Thames, that they are in no sort able to endure the same, nor their dwelling houses by reason thereof, and the same hath already cast many of them into extremity of great sicknesses and diseases, by which evill and unwholesome savour, of late many Fishes in the Thames there neere unto, have beene found ready to die, and dead, supposed to be poysoned by some ill substance issuing into the River of Thames: and all the Inhabitants thereabouts are much annoyed, and all the pasture ground lying neere thereabouts is tainted and spoiled in such manner, that the Cattell doe refuse to feed on the same. And they further humbly shew, that they having preferred their grievances unto your Majesties Commissioners of annoyances, and having caused the same to bee presented unto them by Indictment, by severall Iurors, sworne upon oath before your Majesties Iustices of the Peace, in their generall Sessions for Middlesex, upon due proofe and the testimony of witnesses there also sworne and examined, upon which Evidences the said Iurors have given up severall verdicts, and presented upon their oathes the same annoyance to be exceeding great and intolerable to all inhabitants dwelling thereabouts, and to all other passengers by the same, or upon the River of Thames: Yet your Petitioners having no redresse thereby, are compelled by extreme necessity to complaine unto your Majesty, and with much griefe, and with all humility beseech your Majesty to take to consideration the speedy redresse in that behalfe, the same annoyance being so great and unsavoury, that otherwise your poore Subjects, being many thousands

[Page] in number, shall be compelled to forsake their houses, and abandon their dwellings, to the losse of their trades and lives, and the utter undoing of them and their families: Wherefore they

Most humbly beseech your Majesty to cōmit the examination thereof unto the right Honourable Thomas Earle of Cleveland, Sir Allen Apsley, Knight, Lievtenant of the Tower, Sir Henry Spiller, Knight, Thomas Sanderson, and George Long, Esquires, or any three or two of them, or any others, being Justices and Commissioners of annoyances within the said County of Middlesex, who by your Majesties gracious reference being thereunto required, may examine and heare the Allegations on all parts, and that upon the Certificate of their opinions therein, your Majesty will bee pleased to vouchsafe your poore Subjects such reliefe as the case requireth.

And the Petitioners, according to their bounden duties and legiance, shall daily pray for your Majesties long and prosperous reigne over us.

At White-Hall the 25. of Iuly, 1627. Present,

Lord Keeper.

Lord Treasurer.

Earle of Dorset.

Earle of Bridgewater.

Master Secretary Cooke.

M. of the Rolles.

M. Chancelor of the Duchy.

WHereas upon a complaint formerly made by divers Aldermen of the City of London, on the behalfe of the Inhabitants of the Parishes of St. Buttolphs Ealdgate, and divers other Parishes thereabouts, concerning a great annoyance unto the said Inhabitants, caused by certaine Allome workes, erected thereabouts by his Majesties Farmers of the said works: It was by an order of the twentieth of this present moneth ordered, that the President of the Colledge of Physicians, accompanied with sixe other Doctors of Physicke of that Society, as likewise, that some of the Aldermen should upon view of the said workes, and such observations by them made as fals within their experience, returne Certificate to the Boord, of their opinions touching the same: Forasmuch as those whose names are here underwritten, did this day accordingly make their Certificate in writing to the Boord, as followeth; In haec verba: May it please your Lordships, according to an order of this Honourable Boord of the twentieth of Iuly last; Wee have viewed and observed the Allome works at Saint Katharines, and considered the materials therein used and imployed. And thereupon doe humbly certifie unto your Lordships, and are of opinion, that the workes standing in that place, must necessarily breed great annoyances both to the neere Inhabitants, and by the spreading vapours from thence issuing to many places more remote, and to all such passengers as either by land or by water have occasion to frequent those parts, not onely by their continuall noysome savours to make all their habitations grievous and unpleasant, but also by their putrid quality to endanger their healths: And so we humbly rest at your Lordships commands, Iuly the 24. An. 1627. Signed, Iohn Argent, Pref. Iohn Gifford, William Harvey, William Clement, Robert Fludd, Samuel Baskernite, Ottnell Moverell, and by Hugh Hamersley. Their Lordships upon consideration had thereof, did resolve, that the said Allome works in and about the City, were fit to bee supprest. Neverthelesse, for that a Petition was now presented to the Boord by the Farmers of the said Allome workes, shewing that it was not possible for them to erect and finish any new workes in the Country before our Lady day next, and that if they should be restrained from working here in the meane time, the Kingdome would be unserved of Allome, of which [Page] there is great use, and they likewise disabled to pay his Maiesties rent. And therefore besought the Boord that they might have leave to proceed in their making of Allome here untill our Lady day next as aforesaid. It was thereupon thought fit & ordered that they should be at liberty to make Allome in those places where their works are already erected untill our Lady day next only and no longer; and that in the meane time they presume not to erect any other works in any places in or about this cittie; Provided neverthelesse that they suffer not the dreggs and excrement proceeding from the boyling and making of the said Allom to be cast or fall into any places leading into the River of Thames, but that they cause the same from time to time to be either buried in the night time in the grounds where their works now are, or otherwise to be carried and buried in the night time in some other convenient place, where the same may breed no infection or annoyance to any his Majesties subjects.

At White Hall the 12. of September, Anno 1627. Present,

Lord President.

Earle of Holland.

Earle of Kellie.

Master Secretarie Cooke.

Master Chanch. of the Exchequer.

Chanc. of the Duchie.

WHereas an humble Petitiō was this day exhibited to the boord in the name of the inhabitants of the Parishes of S. Buttolphs neere Ealdgate, S. Katharine, White-Chappell, Stepney, Reddriffe, S. Olaves, and others adjacent and neere his Majesties Tower of London. Shewing that whereas it had pleased the boord (on the 27. of Iuly last, after divers hearings and reports made by six Doctors of the Colledge of Physitions of London) to order that the Farmer of his Majesties Allome works (who had transported themselves out of the Northerne parts of the Kingdome neere unto his Majesties Royall chamber and Citty of London) should not presume to erect any other worke in or about, nor suffer the dreggs or excrement of the boiling of Allom to be cast or fall into the river of Thames, but bury the same in the night time in some convenient place where it might not breed any infection or annoyance, yet neverthelesse that sithence the making of the said order, and especially on the 16. of August last the said Farmers, their deputies or assignes, have in contempt of the order, powred or caused the said filth, dreggs or excremēts to fall into the Ponds or ditches leading to the Thames, wherby some of the Petitioners have found their wells of water appointed for brewing so tainted with the tast & savour of Allom excremēt, as that within a very short space the Fish have been poisoned, and the water altogether unwholesome, for brewing or any other use, as by certificate under divers of the said Petitioners hands the chiefe officers and inhabitants of the Tower appeared, and therfore humbly prayed redresse of the growing mischiefe and dangerous contagion proceeding from the said Allom works, seconded with a presumptuous cōtempt of the said order of the Boord, to the end that by a sudden reformation the Petitioners may enjoy the benefit of the aire, and not be suffocated with the horrid and putrid savours occasioned by the said Allom works. The Boord taking this complaint into their due and serious consideration and finding that the former order of the boord was not observed, as is before mentioned and that the annoyance caused hereby, extendeth it selfe to the extreme parts of the Citty, and even so farre as his Majesties Court when the wind sitteth that way (which cannot but be of dangerous consequence by corrupting of both the aire and the water, whereof beere is made for his Majesties service & otherwise:) thought fit and ordered that the said Allom workes: should be presently suppressed from working, and utterly removed by the Farmers or others whom it may concerne within a convenient time, notwithstanding the former order (which on their parts have not been observed) and that some one of the Messengers of [Page] his Majesties Chamber shalbe sent with a transcript of this their Lordships order, to the Farmers or deputies of the said worke, and see the same duely executed, and of the performance thereof to give accompt to their Lordships within ten or twelve dayes after the date hereof. And of this their Lordships order as well the said Farmers & the Messenger, as others whom it may concerne, are to take notice, and to regulate themselves accordingly, as they will answere the contrary.

To the right Honorable Lords, and others of his Majesties most Honorable Privie Councell:
The humble petition of the Inhabitants of S. Buttolphs Ealdgate, S. Katharines, White-Chappell, Stepney, Redriffe, S. Olaves, and others adjacent and neere his Majesties Tower of London.

WHereas it pleased this honorable Boord the 27. of Iuly last, after divers hearings and a report made by six Doctors being of the Colledge of Physitians London, to order that the Farmers of his Majesties Allom workes (who had transplanted themselves out of the North parts neere unto his Majesties Royall Chamber and Citty of London) should not presume to erect any other works in or about the same, nor suffer the dreggs or excrement proceeding of the boiling of Allom to be cast or fall into the River of Thames, but to bury the same in the night time where it might not breed any infection or annoyance.

But so it is right Honourable, that divers times sithence the order of this honorable Boord, but especially upon the 16. of this instant August, the said Farmers, their deputy or assignes, have in Contempt of the said order, powred or caused the said filth, dreggs or excrement to fall into the Ponds or ditches leading to the Thames, whereby some of your Petitioners have found their wells of water appointed for brewing so tainted and grownered with the tast and savour of Allom excrement, as that within three houres after about 40. Fishes were apparently found poisoned, as by the annexed Certificate appeareth.

For redresse of which growing mischiefe and dangerous Contagion, seconded with a presumptuous Contempt of your honourable order, as formerly the Petitioners flye to this honourable Boord, beseeching a sodaine reformation: To the end that your petitioners may enjoy the benefit of the aire, and not be suffocated with the horrid and putrid savours proceeding from the said Allome works.

And the petitioners shalbe (as ever) bound to pray for your honours, 1627.

Wee his Majesties Subject [...] whose Names are subscribed doe for a truth certifie and wilbe ready to depose, that sithence the 25. day of Iuly last, the Allome farmers or their assignes, have erected new erections at or neere Wapping, where there Allome works are: And that upon the 16. day of this instant moneth of August, by meanes of the excrement or filth falling or being cast and washed out of the said Allome works, by the flowing of the River of Thames was carried into wells belonging to Brewers thereabouts; and where divers poore people for their meanes, doe resort, and from thence doe carry water to divers houses, and to dresse their meate and diet for their families: As by example, at that time into one well or pond of one Ioseph Iaques, a Brewer neere thereunto, where Ecles, and other fishes to the number of 40. and upwards, which within three houres after, therein were suffocated and poisoned, in the presence of these certificats.

Witnesse our hands hereunto put the day of August, 1627.

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At White Hall the 12. of December, Anno 1627.

President,

Lord Keeper.

Lord Treasurer.

Lord President.

Lord Admirall.

Earle of Suff.

Earle of Dorset.

Earle of Salisbury.

Earle of Exeter.

Earle of Bridgwater.

Earle of Carlile.

Earle of Holland.

Earle of Banbury.

Lord Vis. Grandison.

Lord Bishop of Duresme.

Lord Bishop of Bath and Wells.

Master Treasurer.

Master Comptroller.

Master of the Wards.

Master Secretary Coke.

Master Chanc. of the Exchequer.

Master Chanc. of the Dutchy.

VVHereas by an Order of this Boord, made in Iuly last, for reasons in the said order mentioned, the Allome works were suffered to be in those places neere London, where they were then erected, untill our Lady day next only and no longer. And afterwards the 12. of September last for contempts, in not pursuing the said order of the 25. of Iuly, and for prevention of growing mischiefe that might come by sufferance of the said Allome works; it was ordered that the said Allome works should be presently suppressed, & removed; which being not as yet done, although the Farmers of the said works have sought out other places, whither to remove the said works. Now the Boord upon the petition of the Company of Diers, being informed that in these times of warrs, and danger, the Dyers and other Artificers using Allome cannot be furnished with that commodity, from any other persons, or places, but onely from the Farmers aforesaid, and their Magazines. And that the said artificers, for want thereof shall be forced to give over their Trades to the great dammage of the Commonweale. And the said Farmers informing that by reason of some Shipwracks, and the danger of passages from out of the North hither, they have failed, nor cannot bring their Alloms hither to London, as they were wont. In consideration of all which; and for that their Lordships doe conceive that the said works will be lesse offensive to the Inhabitants dwelling in those parts in this winter season, the Boord hath thought fit and ordered, that the said Farmers, their Deputies, and Assignes, shall be permitted, untill our Lady day next according to the permission given by the former order of the 25. of Iuly, to convert the Materialls now upon their hands into Allome, at their house in S. Katharines, erected for that purpose, and to sell the same, for the use of his Majesties subjects: And presently upon our Lady day next to remove the said works to some other place more remote from the Citty of London, and the Suburbs thereof. And it is ordered, that in the meane while the said Farmers, their Deputies and Assignes, or some of them shall seeke, and find out some convenient place for their said works, & signifie unto the Boord of what place they have made choice, to the end they may have their Lordships allowance and approbation, for their Settlement in the same, whereof all persons whom it may concerne, are to take knowledge, and accordingly to governe themselves, as they and every of them will answere the contrary at their perills. Provided always, and it is hereby willed and commanded, that all things else required and set downe to be done by the said Farmers, in either of the said Orders, before mentioned, concerning the excrement of the Allome, & otherwise whatsoever, be duly observed and performed by the said Farmers of the said Allome works.

On the East side, and by North of the Tower, lieth East-Smithfield, Nightingall lane. Hogs streete, East Smithfield. and Tower hill, and East from them both, was the new Abbey called Grace, founded by Edward the third. From thence Radeliffe, up East Smithfield, by Nightingall lane, (which runneth South to the Hermitage, a Brewhouse [Page] so called of an Hermite sometime being there,)Bramley. beyond this lane to the Mannor of Bramley (called in Record of Richard the second, Villa East Smithfield, and Villa de Bramley) and to the Mannor of Shadwell, belonging to the Deane of Pauls, there hath been of late, in place of Elme trees, many small Tenements raised, towards Radcliffe: And Radcliffe it self hath been also encreased in building Eastward (in place where I have knowne a large high-way, with faire Elme trees on both the sides) that the same hath now taken hold of Lime-Hurst, Lime Hurst. Lime-Host, corruptly called Limehouse, sometime distant a mile from Radcliffe.

Having said thus much for building, at Wapping, East Smithfield, Bramley, and Shadwell, all on the South side of the high-way to Radcliffe; now one note on the North side also, concerning Pyrates: I reade, that in the yeere 1440. in the Lent season, certaine persons, with sixe shippes brought from beyond the Seas fish, to victuall the Citie of London; which fish when they had delivered, and were returning homeward, a number of Sea-theeves in a Barge, in the night came upon them, when they were asleepe in their Vessels, riding at anchor on the River Thames, and slew them, cut their throats, east them over-boord, tooke their money, and drowned their ships, for that no man should espy or accuse them. Two of these theeves were after taken and hanged in chaines upon a gallowes set upon a raised Hill, for the purpose made, in the field beyond East Smithfield, so that they might be seene farre into the River Thames.

The first building at Radcliffe in my youth (not to be forgotten) was a faire Free Schoole,Free Schoole & Almeshouses at Radisse. and Almes-houses, founded by Avice Gibson, wife to Nich. Gibson, Grocer, as before I have noted. But of late yeeres, Ship-wrights, and (for the most part) other Marine men, have builded many large and strong houses for themselves, and smaller for Smylers, from thence almost to Poplar, and so to Blacke well.

Now for Tower hill, Tower hill without the walls. the plaine there is likewise greatly diminished by Merchants, for building of small tenements: from thence towards Ealdgate, was the Minories, whereof I have spoken.

From Ealdgate East againe lieth a large street, replenished with buildings, to wit, on the North side the Parish Church of Saint Buttolph, and so other building to Hoglane, and to the barres on both sides.

Also,Suburbe without Ealdgate, without the Barres, both the sides of the Street be pestered with Cottages and Allies, even up to White Chappell Church; and almost halfe a mile beyond it, into the common field: all which ought to lye open and free for all men. But this common field (I say) being sometime the beauty of this Citie on that part, is so incroched upon, by building of filthie Cottages, and with other Purprestures, Inclosures, and Laystalls, that (notwithstanding all Proclamations and Acts of Parliament made to the contrarie) in some places it scarce remaineth a sufficient high-way for the meeting of Cariages and Droves of Cattell, much lesse is there any faire, pleasant, or wholesome way, for people to walke on foot: which is no small blemish to so famous a Citie, to have so unsavourie and unseemely an entrie or passage thereunto.

Now of White Chappell Church somewhat Of white Chappell. and then back againe to Ealdgate.

This Church is as it were a Chappell of ease to the Parish of Stebunhith, and the Parson of Stebunhith hath the Gift thereof: which being first dedicated to the name of God, and the Blessed Virgin, is now called Saint Mary Matfellon, St. Mary Matfellon. About the yeere 1428. in the sixt of King henry the sixt, a devout widow of that Parish had long time cherished and brought up, of Almes, a certaine Frenchman, or Briton borne,A devout widow murdered. which most unkindly and cruelly in a night murthered the said widow sleeping in her bed, and after fled with such Iewels and other stuffe of hers, as he might carsie. But he was so freshly pursved; that (for feare) he tooke the Church of Saint George in Southwarke, and challenged Priviledge of Sanctuarie there, and so abjured the Kings Land. Then the Constables (having charge of him) brought him into London, intending to have conveyed him Eastward: but so soone as he was come into the Parish, where before he had committed the Murther; the [Page] wives cast upon him so must filth and ordure of the streete, that (notwithstanding the best resistance made by the Constables) they slew him out of hand: And for this feat it hath beene said, that Parish to have purchased that name of Saint Mary Matfellon; but I finde in Record, the same to be called Villa beatae Mariae de Matfellon, in the 21. of Richard the second.

More, we reade, that in the yeere 1336. the 10. of Edward the third, the Bishop of Alba, Cardinall and Parson of Stebunhith, Procurator generall in England, presented a Clerke to be Parson in the Church of blessed Mary, called Matfellon, without Ealdgate of London, &c.

Now againe from Ealdgate Northwest to Bishopsgate, Suburb without Bishopsgate. lyeth Hounds-ditch, and so to Bishopsgate.

North and by East from Bishopsgate, lyeth a large street, or high-way, having on the West side thereof, the Parish Church of S. Buttolph.

Then is the Hospitall of S. Mary of Bethelem, founded by a Citizen of London, and as before is shewed, up to the Barres,Norton fall gate. without the which, is Norton fall gate, Priorie of S. Iohn Baptist, at Holywell. a libertie so called, belonging to the Deane of Pauls. Thence up to the late dissolved Priorie of S. Iohn Baptist, called Holywell, a House of Nunnes, of old time founded by a Bishop of London. Stephen Gravesend, Bishop of London, about the yeere 1318. was a Benefactor thereunto, reedified by Sir Thomas Lovel, Knight of the Garter, who builded much there, in the reignes of Henry the seventh, and of Henry the eight. Hee endowed this House with faire Lands, and was there buried in a large Chappell by him builded for that purpose. This Priorie was ualued, at the suppression, to have of Lands two hundred ninetie three pound by yeere, and was surrendred 1539. the one & thirtieth of Henry the eight. The Church thereof being pulled downe, many houses have beene build [...]d for the Lodgings of Noblemen, of Strangers borne, and other.

From Holywell, in the high Street, is a continuall building of Tenements to Sewers ditch, having one small side of a field already made a Garden Plot. Ouer-against the North corner of this Field, betweene it & the Church of S. Leonara in Shore-ditch, A Crosse at Shores-ditch, now a Smiths Forge. sometime stood a Crosse, now a Smiths Forge, dividing three Waies: Forthright the high-way is builded upon either side, more than a good flight shoot towards Kings land, Newington, Totenham, &c.

On the left hand is Ealdestreet, which reacheth West to a stone Crosse, over-against the North end of Golding lane, and so to the end of Goswell street. On the right hand of this Ealdestreet not farre from Shores-ditch, Hoxton. but on the North side thereof is Hoxton, a large street with houses on both sides, and is a Prebend belonging to Pauls Church in London, but of Shores-ditch Parish.

On the right hand beyond Shores-ditch Church, toward Hackney, are some late builded houses upon the common soile, for it was Lay-stall, but those houses belong to the Parish of Stebunhith.

On the other side of the high-way, from Bishopsgate and Hounds-ditch, is the the Dolphin, a common Inne for receipt of Travellers, then a house builded by the L. Iohn Powlet, afterward called Fishers-Folly, and so up to the West end of Berwardes Lane, is a continuall building of small cottages, then the Hospitall called Saint Mary Spittle, hard within the Barres, whereof I have spoken in Bishopsgate Ward.

From the which Bars towards Shores-ditch on that side,Shores-ditch so called more than 400. yeeres since, as I can prove by record. was all along, a continuall building of small and base Tenements, for the most part lately erected.

Amongst the which (I meane of the ancient'st building) was one row of proper small houses, with Gardens for poore decayed people, there placed by the Prior of the said Hospitall:Almes-houses in Shores-ditch. every one Tenant whereof payd one pennie rent by the yeere at Christmas, and dined with the Prior on Christmas day. But after the suppression of the Hospitall, these houses for want of reparations in few yeers were so decayed, that it was called Rotten Rowe, Rotten Rowe or Russell Rowe. & the poor worne out (for there came no new in their place) the houses (for a smal portion of money) were sold from Goddard to Russell a Draper, who new builded them, & let them out for rent enough, taking also large Fines of the Tenants, neere as much as the houses cost him purchase and building: [Page] for he made his bargaines so hardly with all men, that both Carpenter, Bricke-layer, & Plaisterer, were by that Worke undone. And yet in honour of his name, it is now called Russels Row.

Now for the Parish Church of Saint Leonards in Shoresditch, Parish Church of S. Leonards at Shoresditch. the Arch-deacon of London is alwayes Parson thereof, and the Cure is served by a Vicar.

In this Church have been divers honourable persons buried, as appeareth by Monuments yet remaining. Sir Iohn Elrington, with Margaret his wife, daughter & heire to Thomas Lord Itchingham, widow to William Blount, sonne & heire to Walter Blount, the first Lord Mountjoy: which Margaret died, 1481.

Orate pro animabus Humfredi Starky, Militis,An anciēt Marble Tombe in the Quire. nuper Capitalis Baronius de Scaccario Domini Regis Hen. 7. & Isabella uxoris ejus, & omnium, &c.

This Monument is erected in memorie, that within this Church doe lye buried the bodies of the right Honourable & Noble Ladies, A very faire Tombe in the upper end of the Quire. Lady Katharine Stafford, daughter to Edward Duke of Buckinghā, & wife to Ralph, Earle of Westmerland, who dyed 1553. Lady Elianor, daughter to Sir William Paston, Knight, and wife to the right honourable Lord Thomas, Earle of Rutland, buried 1551. Lady Margaret Nevell, daughter to Ralph, Earle of Westmerland, & wife to Henry, Earle of Rutland, who died 1560. And the Lady Katharine Nevell, wife to Sir John Constable of Holdernes, Knight, and daughter to Henry, Earle of Westmerland. And Lady Anne Manners, daughter to Thomas, Earle of Rutland: which Katharine died the seven and twentieth day of March, Anno Domini 1591.

And that here doe lye also the bodies of two right worthie Gentlemen, honourably descended; namely, of Sir Thomas Manners, Knight, and Oliver Manners, Esquire, Brethren, being the fourth & fifth sonnes of the aforesaid Thomas, Earle of Rutland. The first died about his age of 50. in Iune, 1591. after many valiant Services performed by him for his Prince and Countrey, both in Ireland and in Scotland, where he was Knighted; and witnessed by sundrie great wounds he therein received. The second died in his younger yeeres, 1563. about his age of twentie, yet not before good proofe made of his valour and forwardnesse, in the Service of New-haven, against the French; where hee tooke the sicknesse, whereof hee died shortly after, in Shores-ditch.

Founded by the Lady Adeline Neuell, at the direction of the said Lady Katharine Constable, deceased, her Sister, in February, 1591.

Theodosia

Vavasour.

Oleum effusum nomen tuum,

Ideo Adolescentulae dilexerunt te. Cant. 1.

Fallax est gratia, & vana pul.

chritudo: mulier timens Deum, ipsa laudabitur. Pro. 11.

Hac tuleris quicunque gradum sta, perlege, plora,

Hic decor,A comely Monumēt in the wal, neere to the Tōbe. hic pietas, Nobilitas (que) jacet.

Virgo annis animisque Dei (Theodosia) donum

Qua meritis certat fama, decore pudor.

Sed famam meritis superavit, moribus annos,

Ingenio sexum, Religione genus.

Quam neque Nobilitas tumidam, nec forma procacem▪

Fecerat, una humilis, clara, pudica, decens.

Flos aevi, florem dixi? dixi ergo dolorem

Vt matura brevi est, heu ita rapta brevi est.

Rapta sed Aethereis Rosa transplantanda viretis,

Laeta ubi perpetui tempora veris aget.

Inter & aeternas Agni comes Agna choreas

Ignotum casto succinet ore melos.

Candida virginei tumulo date Lilia coetus,

Virginis O partus, virginis esto memor. Ereptam Domino sociat lux ultima faelix. O faelix virgo quod cupit usque tenet.

Anno Domini 1616. Martii 17.

Here lyeth buried Elizabeth, A faire Tombe in the Chancell. the wife of the late Reverend Father in God, Iohn Skory, late Bishop of Hereford. The said Reverend Father, in the reigne of King Edward the sixt, was Bishop of Rochester, & translated from thēce to Chichester. Hee departed this life at Whitborne, in the Countie of Hereford, the 26. day of Iune, Anno Domini 1585. And the said Elizabeth deceased in Holywell, in this Parish, the 8. day of March, 1592. [Page] Beati mortui qui Domino moriuntur.

Her Corps heere lyes in Chest,

Her Soule in Heaven now lives;

And she enjoyes that Rest,

Which God to his Saints gives:

For in Christ did she trust,

That he will her restore

Againe out of the dust,

To live for evermore.

Heere lyeth the body of Sir Thomas Seymer, An anciēt Marble Tombe in the Chancell. Knight, late Alderman and Lord Maior of London, and Dame Mary his wife. The which Sir Thomas deceased the eleventh day of December, Anno Domini 1532.

Heere-under lye the ashes and the bones

Of Sir Thomas Leigh,

An engrauen Place in the Northwall of the Quire.

that good and learned Knight;

Whose hastie death (alas) the godly still bemones,

Though his soule alwayes rejoyce in Gods sight.

Great was his wisedome, and greater was his wit,

His visage comely, with no sad change dismayed:

A man in all affaires, a King to serve most fit,

Had not death so soone his mortall life betrayed.

He died the 25. day of November, Anno Domini, 1545.

A table made at the costs and charge of Henry Hodge, Citizen and Brewer of London, containing the names of the Benefactours to the Church, and the poore of the Parish of S. Leonards in Shore-ditch. Which table hangeth up in the Chancell neere the Communion table; set up there, Anno Domini 1623.

William Thornton of this Parish Tailour, gave the Vestry house with a roome under for the Minister to dwell in, and a renement by [...] to this parish for ever: He likewise [...] the Gallery at the comming in [...] the great doore in the Church, and [...] the [...]ricke wall on the West side of [...] Church-yard at his owne charge, Anno Domini 1581.

Iohn Fuller of Bishops- [...]ll Esquire, gave a summe of money for the building of 12. Almes-houses, for 12. poore widdowes of this parish; which poore women doe receive during the life of the Lady his late wife, and after wife to Sir Thomas Mansfield the summe of 8. l. per annum. And after the Ladies decease there is to come 50. l. per annum to the said poore almes women for ever. The Lady being dead they doe now receive it.

William Peake of this Parish Esquire, gave to be dealt in bread unto the poore of this Parish weekely the summe of 2. s'. on every Sunday for ever.

Robert Brainforth, of this parish Gentleman gave yeerely 8. l. for ever unto the poore of this Parish, viz. upon every S. Thomas day before Christmas to 60. poore persons 3. l. and upon every Good Friday unto 30. poore persons the summe of 50. s'. and upon every Sunday for ever the summe of 12. d'. in bread to the poore of this Parish. This money is to be paid accordingly out of the Hospitall of S. Thomas in Southwarke for ever. He hath also given a greene Carpet of broad cloth for the Communion table.

Thomas Russell of London Draper, hath given to the poore of this Parish the summe of 12. d'. weekely to be distributed to the poore of the Parish for ever, to be paid by the companie of the Drapers in London.

George Clarke Citizen and Vintner of London, gave unto the use of the poore of this Parish the summe of 100. marks in money.

Simon Burton of London Wax-chandler, gave to 30. poore widdowes of this parish the summe of 30. groats yeerely for ever, to be distributed every S. Thomas day.

George Palin of London Girdler, hath given 10. l. in money to the use of the poore of this parish for ever.

Robert Spence of London Fishmonger, gave 50. s'. a yeere to the poore of this Parish for ever, to be paid by the company of Fishmongers.

Thomas Scriven Esquire, hath given 10. l. in money to the use of the poore of this Parish for ever.

Robert Rogers of London Leather seller, gave the summe of 30. pound in money [Page] for a stocke for the poore of this parish to buy sea-coles, which is to be laid out at best time for the benefit of the said poore for ever, reserving the stocke whole.

Steven [...] of London Vintner, gave the summe of 26. every yeere for ever, to be given in sagots to the poor of this Parish about Michaelmasse. This is to be paid by the company of Vintners in London.

Iohn Eomans, alias Tice of this parish tuftafata-weaver, gave to the use of the poor of this parish the summe of 10. l. in money, to be distributed to the 12. poor Almes women in one chaldron of sea-coles yeerely for ever among thē. Cicely, late wife of the said Iohn Eomans, & after wife to Master Iohn Heath, gave to the use of the poore, the summe of 20. pound in money, for a stock to buy sea-coles for the poor of this parish for ever. Likewise she gave 20. pound to buy a flagon of silver for wine for the Communion. Likewise she gave 20. pound in money, for the maintenance of two sermons yeerely for ever, viz. one vpon the Lady day, in harvest, and the other upon the Lady day, in Lent.

Anne Smith widdow late wife of William Nisam deceased, gave weekly to be dealt in bread to the poore of this parish upon every Sunday 2. s'. for ever, to be paid out of the company of Drapers in London. Likewise she gave a pulpit cloth and cushion to this Church.

Nicolas Wilkinson, alias Tooly, Gentlemen deceased, late of this parish, gave the summe of 80. pound in money, to remaine a stocke that upon every Sunday after morning praier, there should be distributed to 32. poore people 32. wheaten loaves for ever. And the Vicar, Church-wardens and Vestry-men out of their provident care, have made a purchase of a rent-charge yeerely, issuing out of the George in Holywell streete, for the true performance thereof for ever.

Besides these benefactours in the table, since we have had these M. Zachary Elmer, Officiall to the Archdeacon of London, together with his brother M. Edmond Elmer, gave a flagon of silver for the wine in the communion; And William Badger gardiner in Shore-ditch gave another; And a parishioner unknowne gave also another, every one cost 20. l. a peece. Also Iohn Leavis Weaver, gave a chalice, in which the communion wine is delivered; and Isabell Iackson widdow, late wise to William Iackson Grocer, living in this parish, gave a plate of silver to cary the bread in the communion. William Wood Gardiner in this parish, gave a chalice to the communion table and foure pewter flaggons for the wine.

Ioane Smales widdow of this Parish & formerly wife to Iohn Cooke of this Parish, gave allowance for 4. sermons every yeere on foure Holy dayes: Namely, the feast day of S. Iohn Baptist, S. Michael, S. Stephen, and the Purification of the Virgin Mary; and she bequeathed also 40. l. yeerly to be given to the poore of our Parish.

On the North side of the Church a gallery was made at the cost of well disposed parishioners, in the yeere 1617. William Badger, and Iohn Clarke, being Church-wardens. And another on the South part by Iames Slade, Captaine & servant to the East Indian company, was set up in the yeere 1630. And a long seate betweene, reaching from one galto the other, for the catechising of youth out of the pulpit, according to the order then given, Iohn Squire being Vicar, Thomas Crowther, and Henry Empson, Church-wardens. Vnder this gallery is set, Not every one that saith unto me Lord, Lord, shall enter into the Kingdome of Heaven, but he that doth the will of my Father which is in Heaven, Matth. 7. 24.

He loveth our nation and hath built us a Synagogue, Luc. 7. 5.

Virgo annis animis (que) Dei ( [...]) donum, Aethereis rosa transplantanda viretis.

A Tombe on the South side of the chancell.

Iane the wife of Ralfe Hansby Esquire, daughter to William Vavasour Esquire, Grandchild to Thomas Manners Knight, died the 22. day of Iuly, in the yeere of our Lord 1617. and of her age the 23. To whose blessed memory her her deare husband hath dedicated this sad monument to signifie that with her his joy lies here interred.

[Page] Si genus & virtus, & moribus aucta figura

Pulchra bonis, pietas si quid honoris habent;

Hunc Ianae tumulum spectans venerare Viator,

Cum qua tot bona tam bella sepulta jacent.

Nec minor his aderat victrix patientia victae,

Nec spolium mortis sed pudor illa fuit.

If birth, if vertue,

if faire feature deckt

With gifts of minde,

if piety breeds respect;

Her tombe then view,

and grace kinde Passenger,

With whom so many graces

buried were:

Conquered, By patience

yet she overcame,

Nor was her youth deaths

triumph but his shame.

In the middle chancell this inscription in brasse is placed upon a grave stone.

Georgius Gips, Generosus, fide subjectus, spe erectus, charitate Deo unitus, vitam mortalem mutavit pro immortali, 12. Iulii 1611. Quatuor genuit filios, filiasque undecim. Quorum Richardus, Georgius, Thomas, Anna, Maria, & Martha, Patris clauserunt, reliquorum ipse clausit lumina.

A little below in the same chancell is set upon a grave stone.

May 22. 1618. Richard Leigh, Merchant and Citizen of London, placed this stone in memoriall of his deare wife Anne Leigh; Who lyeth heere interred by the body of Richard Brattuph her first husband, and of her 3. children, Richard, Sara, and Iohn, which she bare to the said Richard Brattuph.

In some, sad sicknesse paine,

and paine impatience,

In thee a patient

penitence it wrought,

Thy sicknesse joy,

thy tribulation hope,

The bodies death gave life

unto thy soule.

Thus for his lambes

the Lord can hony draw,

From th'all devouring

cruell lions jaw.

Vbi tua, O mors, victoria?

Vbi tuus, O sepulchra, tumulus?

And over against this tombe in the wall on the South side of the chancell in a monument of brasse.

Here lieth Katharine Liveley, wife of Edward Liveley Gentlemen, and daughter of Henry Hodge Citizen and Brewer of London, and Ioice his wife, who after she had runne a vertuous and religious course of life 21. yeeres, finished the same the 15. day of Iuly, Anno Domini, 1623. Proverbs 10. 7.

The memory of the just is blessed.

Furthermore, (of late time) one Vicar there, for covetousnesse of the Brasse, which hee converted into coyned Silver, plucked up many Plates fixed on the Graves, and left no memorie of such as had beene buried under them. A great injurie both to the living and the dead, forbidden by publike Proclamation, in the reigne of our Soveraigne Lady Queene Elizabeth, but not forborne by many, that either of a preposterous zeale, or of a greedie minde, spare not to satisfie themselves by so wicked a meanes.

One note of Shores-ditch, and so an end of that Suburbe.

I reade,A Fuller of Shores-ditch, for falsely accusing, hā ged and quartered. that in the yeere 1440. the eighteenth of Henry the sixt, a Fuller of Shores-ditch appeached of Treason many worthie Esquires and Gentlemen of Kent: but he being proved false, was attainted, condemned, and had judgement to be drawne, hanged, and quartered; which was done, his head set on London Bridge, and his Quarters on the Gates. This Iustice was done, according to the sixteenth of Deuteronomie, Deut. 16. The Iudges shall make diligent inquisition, The reward of a false brother. and if the witnesse be found false, and to have given false witnesse against his brother, then shall they doe unto him, as he had thought to doe unto his brother, &c.

I reade of the Kings Mannor, called Shores-ditch Place, in the Parish of Hackney: [Page] But how it tooke that name, I know not; and therefore I will turne backe from Shores-ditch Crosse to Bethelem Crosse, Bethelem Crosse. and so passe through that Hospitall into the Moore-field, which lyeth without the Posterne called Moore-gate.

This Field (of old time) was called the Moore; as appeareth by the Charter of William the Conquerour to the Colledge of Saint Martin, declaring a running Water to passe into the Citie from the same Moore. Also Fitz-Stephen writeth of this Moore, saying thus: When the great Fenne, or Moore, which watereth the Walls on the North side, is frozen, &c.

This Fenne, or Moore-field, stretching from the Wall of the City, betwixt Bishops-gate and the Posterne called Cripplegate, to Finsbery, and to Holywell, Finsbery fields and More-fields an unprofitable ground. continued a waste and unprofitable ground a long time, so that the same was all letten for foure markes the yeare, in the raigne of Edward the second. But in the yeare 1415. the third of Henry the fifth, Thomas Fawconer, Maior, as I have shewed, caused the wall of the City to bee broken toward the said Moore, and builded the Posterne called Mooregate, for ease of the Citizens to walke that way upon Causies towards Iseldon and Hoxton. Moreover, hee caused the Ditches of the Citie, and other the Ditches from Shores ditch to Deepe ditch, by Bethelem into the Moore ditch, to be newly cast and cleansed, by meanes whereof the said Fenne or Moore was greatly dreined or dryed. But shortly after, to wit, in 1477. Ralph Ioceline, Maior, for repairing of the Wall of the City, caused the said Moore to be searched for Clay & Bricke to be burnt there, &c. by which meanes this field was made the worse for a long time.

In the yeere 1498. all the Gardens which had continued time out of mind,Gardens without M [...]regate, destroyed and made plaine ground Ditches cast to drein the the More-field. without Mooregate, to wit, about and beyong the Lordship of Finsbury, were destroyed; And of them was made a plaine field for Archers to shoote in. And in the yeere 1512. Roger Atchley, Maior, caused divers dikes to be cast, and made to drein the waters of the said Moorefields, with Bridges arched over them, and the grounds about to be leveled, whereby the said field was made somewhat more commodious,Sluce to convey the standing water out of the Moore. but yet it stood full of noisome waters. Whereupon, in the yeere 1527. Sir Thomas Seyuor, Maior, caused divers Sluces to be made to convey the said waters over the Towne Ditch, into the course of Walbrooke, and so into the Thames: and by these degrees was this Fenne or Moore at length made maine and hard ground, which before being overgrowne with Flagges, Sedges and Rushes, served to no use, Since the which time also, the farther grounds beyond Finsbury Court, Moorefields raised and wind-Mils set thereon. have beene so everheightned with Laystalls of dung, that now divers Wind-mills are thereon set, the Ditches be filled up, and the Bridges ouer-whelmed.

And now concerning the inclosures of common grounds about this City, whereof I mind not much to argue; Edward Hall setteth downe a note of his time,Edward Hall. to wit, in the fift or rather 6. of H. the 8.

Before this time (saith he) the Inhabitants of the Townes about London, as Iseldone, Hoxton, Shores-ditch and others, had so inclosed the cōmon fields with hedges, and ditches, that neither the young men of the City might shoot, nor the ancient persons walke for their pleasures in those fields; but that either their bowes and arrowes were taken away or broken, or the honest persons arrested or indighted, saying: That no Londoner ought to goe out of the City, but in the High-wayes.

This saying so grieved the Londoners, that suddainly this yeere, a great number of the City assembled themselves in a morning, and a Turner in a fooles coate came crying thorow the City, shovels and spades, shovels and spades. So many of the people followed, that it was wonder to behold; and (within a short space) all the hedges about the City were cast downe,Hedges pulled downe & ditches filled up. and the ditches filled up, and every thing made plaine; such was the diligence of those worke-men.

The Kings Councell hearing of this assembly, came to the Gray Fryers, and sent for the Maior and Councell of the Citie, to know the cause, who declared to them the injurie & annoying done to the Citizens, & to their Liberties, which though they would not seeke disorderly to redresse, yet the Communalty and young persons could not be stayed thus to remedy the same. When the Kings Councell [Page] had heard their answere, they dissimuled the matter, and commanded the Maior to see that no other thing were attempted, but that they should forth-with call home the younger sort: who having speedily atchieved their desire, returned home before the Kings Councell, and the Maior departed without more harme: after which time (sayth Hall) those fields were never hedged.

But afterward wee saw the thing in worse case than ever,Banqueting houses like Banquerouts, bearing great shew and little worth. by meanes of inclosure for Gardens, wherein are builded many faire Summer houses, and as in other places of the suburbes, some of them like Midsummer Pageants, with Towers, Turrets, and Chimney tops, not so much for use or profit, as for shew and pleasure, and bewraying the vanity of mens mindes, much unlike to the disposition of the ancient Citizens, who delighted in the building of Hospitals, and Almes-houses for the poore, and therein both imployed their wits, and spent their wealths in preferment of the common commoditie of this our City.

But now to come backe againe to Moregate, Suburbe without Cripplegate. and from thence West through a narrow passage, called the Posterne, because it hath at either end a doore to shut in the night season, betwixt the More-ditch inclosed with Brick for Tenteryardes, and the Gardens of the said Morefield, to Morelane: a part of the Suburbe without Cripplegate, without this posterne called Cripplegate, also lay a part of the said More, even to the River of Wels, as in an other place I have shewed, and no houses were there builded, till the latter end of the raigne of William the Conqueror, and his Sonne William Rufus, about which times, some few houses were there builded along East and West, thwart before the said Gate. One Alfune builded for the inhabitants a Parish Church which is of S. Giles, somewhat West from the said Gate,Parish Church of S. Giles. and is now on the banke of the Towne ditch, and so was there a street since called Forestreet, as standing before the Gate.

This Alfune in the raigne of Henry the first, became the first Hospiteler of Saint Bartholomewes Hospitall in Smithfield, as in another place I have noted. And this Parish Church of S. Giles, being at the first a small thing, stood in place where now standeth the Vicarage house, but hath beene since (at divers times) much enlarged, according as the Parish hath increased, & was at the length newly builded in place where now it standeth. But the same new Church being large, strongly builded, & richly furnished with Ornamēts, was in the yeere 1545. by casualty of fire sore burnt and consumed: not withstanding, it was againe (within short space of time) repaired as now it sheweth.

Some little distance from the East end of this Church, standeth a faire Conduit castellated in Forestreet. Then had yee a Bosse of sweet water in the wall of the Church-yard, lately made a Pumpe, but already decayed.

Then had yee a faire Poole of sweet water neare to the Church of S. Giles, wherein Anne of Lodbery was drowned as I have before declared.

In the East end of Forestreet is More lane: Grub street. then next is Grub street, of late yeares inhabited (for the most part) by Bowyers, Fletchers, Bow-string makers and such like, now little occupied; Archery giving place to a number of bowling Allies, and Dicing houses, which in all places are increased, and too much frequented.

This street stretcheth North Everades Well street, Everades Well street. which thwarteth it to White Crosse street: the next from Forestreet North is White Crosse street, likewise extending it selfe up to the West end of Everades Well street, and from the end there of to Ealdestreet.

From the West end of Forestreet lyeth Red Crosse street, from the which Crosse, on the right hand East lyeth Beech lane, Golding lane. and reacheth to the White Crosse street. From Red Crosse North lyeth Golding lane, which stretcheth up to a Crosse in Ealde street, which Golding lane (on both the sides) is replenished with many Tenements of poore people.

On the left hand, and West of the Red Crosse lyeth a street, of old time called Hounds-ditch, & of later time named Barbican, of such cause as I have before noted. And thus have you all the Suburbe without Cripplegate, being almost [Page] altogether in the Parish of Saint Giles, which hath more than 1800. Housholders, and above 4000. Communicants.

Without Aldersgate, Suburb without Aldersgate. on the left hand, is the Parish Church of S. Buttolph, on the North side of the which Church lyeth a way, called Little Britaine street, towards the Priory of Saint Bartholomew in Smithfield; but the high-way without Aldersgate, runneth straight North from the said gate unto Hounsditch, or Barbican streete on the right hand, and Long lane on the left hand, which runneth into Smithfield.

Then from the farther end of Aldersgate street, straight North to the Barre, is called Goswell street, replenished with small Tenements, Cottages, and Allies, Gardens, Banqueting houses and bowling places.

Beyond these Barres, leaving the Charter-house on the left hand, or the West side of the way, stretcheth up towards Iseldon, & on the right hand or East side (at a red Crosse) turneth into Ealde-street, Eald street. so called, for that it was the old high-way from Aldersgate streete, for the North-east parts of England, before Bishopsgate was builded, which streete runneth East to a Smiths Forge, sometime a Crosse before Shores-ditch Church, from whence the Passengers & Carriages were to turne North to Kings-land, Totenham, Waltham, Ware, &c.

There was sometime in this Suburbe without Aldersgate, Hospitall without Aldersgate. an Hospitall for the poore; but an Alien of Cluny, a French order, and therefore suppressed by King Henry the fift, who gave the house with lands and goods, to the Parish of Saint Buttolph, and a Brother-hood of the Trinity was there founded, which was afterward suppressed by Henry the 8. or Edward the 6.

There is (at the farthest North corner of this Suburbe) a Wind-mill, which was sometime by a tempest of wind overthrowne, and in place thereof a Chappell was builded by Queene Katharine The Mount. (first wife to Henry the eight) who named it the Mount of Calvary because it was of Christs Passion, and was in the end of Henry 8. pulled downe, and a Windmill newly see up as afore.

Without Newgate li [...]h the West and by North Suburb,Suburbe without Newgate. on the right hand or North side whereof (betwixt the said gate, and the Parish of S. Sepulchre) turneth away towards West Smithfield, called, Giltspurre street, or Knight riders street; then is Smithfield it selfe, compassed about with buildings, as I have before declared in Faringdon Ward without.

And without the Bars of West Smith field, S. Iohns streete. Charter house. lieth a large street or way, called of the house of S. Iohn there S. Iohns street, & stretcheth toward Is [...]ldō: On the right hand whereof stood the late dissolved Monastery, called the Charter-house, founded by Sir Walter Manny, Knight, a stranger borne, Lord of the Towne of Manny in the Diocesse of Cambrey, beyond the Seas, who for service done to King Edward the third, was made Knight of the Garter.

This house he founded upon this occasion: Charter-house. A great Pestilence entring this Iland, began first in Dorsetshire, then proceeded into Devonshire, Somersetshire, Glocestershire, and Oxfordshire, and at length came to London, and overspread all England, so wasting the people, that scarce the tenth person of all sorts was left alive, and Church-yards were not sufficient to receive the dead, but men were forced to chuse out certaine fields for burials: whereupon Ralph Stratford, Bishop of London, in the yeere 1348. bought a piece of ground, called No mans land, No mans land. which he inclosed with a wall of Bricke, and dedicated for buriall of the dead, builded thereupon a proper Chappell, which is now enlarged,Pardon Church-yard by the Charter-house. and made a dwelling house: and this burying plot is become a faire Garden, retaining the old name of Pardon Church-yard.

About this time, in the yeere 1349. the said Sir Walter Manny, in respect of danger that might befall in this time of so great a plague and infection, purchased 13. Acres and a Rod of ground, adjoyning to the said Nomans land, and lying in a place called Spittle Croft, because it belonged to Saint Bartholomews Hospitall, since that called the New Church Haw, and caused it to bee consecrated by the said Bishop of London to the use of burials.

[Page] In this plot of ground, there was (in that yeere) more than 50000. persons buried, as I have read in the Charters of Edward the third.

Also I have seene and read an Inscription fixed on a stone Crosse, sometime standing in the same Church-yard and having these words:

Anno Domini, 1349. Regnante magna pestilentia, consecratum fuit hoc Coemiterium, in quo & infra septa praesentis Monasterii, sepulta fuerunt mortuorum corpora, plusquam quinquaginta millia, praeter alia multa abhinc usque ad praesens, quorum animabus propitietur Deus, Amen.

In consideration of the number of Christian people here buried, the said Sir Walter Manny caused first a Chappell to be builded, where (for the space of twenty three yeares) offerings were made: and it is to be noted, that above 100000. bodies of Christian people had in that Church-yard beene buried, for the said Knight had purchased that place for the buriall of poore people,Bull of Pope Clement. Travailers, and other that were diseased, Charter-house. to remaine for ever; whereupon, an order was taken, for the avoyding of contention betweene the Parsons of Churches and that house,Churchyard prepared of the poore of poore, so to remaine for ever. to wit, that the bodies should bee had unto the Church where they were Parishioners, or dyed, and after the funerall service done, had to the place where they should be buried.

And the yeere 1371. he caused there to bee founded an house of Carthusian Monkes, which he willed to be called the Salutation, and that one of the Monkes should be called Prior, and he gave them the sayd place of 13. Acres and a Rod of land, with the Chappel, and houses there builded for their habitation. He also gave them the three Acres of land, lying without the wals on the North part, betwixt the lands of the Abbot of Westminster, and the lands of the Prior of Saint Iohn; which three Acres being purchased, inclosed, and dedicated by Ralph Stratford, Bishop of London, Vse for the Fryery Cart. as is aforeshewed, remained till our time, by the name of Pardon Church-yard, & served for burying of such as desperately ended their lives, or were executed for Felonies, who were fetched thither usually in a close cart, bayled over and covered with blacke, having a plaine white crosse thwarting, and at the fore-end a S. Iohns Crosse without, and within a Bell ringing by shaking of the Cart, wherby the same might be heard when it passed, & this was called the Fryery Cart, which belonged to S. Iohns, and had the priviledge of Sanctuary.

In this Charter-house were the Monuments of the said Sir Walter Manny, and Margaret his wife, Marmaduke Lumley, Laurence Bromley, Knight, Sir Edward Hederset, Knight, Sir William Manny, Knight, Dame Iohan Borough, Iohn Dore, want Water, Knight, Robert Olney, Esquire, Katharine, daughter Sir William Babington, Knight, Blanch, daughter to Hugh Waterton, Katharine, wife to Iohn at Poot, daughter and heire to Richard Lacie, William Rawlin, Sir Iohn Lenthaine, and Dame Margaret his wife, daughter to Iohn Fray, Iohn Peake Esquire, William Baron, and William Baron, Esquires, Sir Thomas Thawites Knight, Philip Morgan, Bishop of Ely, 1434.

In the Cloystrie, Bartholomew Rede, Knight, Maior of London, buried 1505. Sir Iohn Popham, &c.

This Monastery, at the suppression in the 29. of Henry the 8. was valued at 642. l. 4. d. halfe penny yeerely.

Here now I find fit time, to commend to all succeeding posterity,The worthie remēbrance of M. Thomas Sutton. the duely deserved praises of that truely worthy (& never to be forgotten) Gentleman, Master Thomas Sutton, the right Phoenix of Charity in our times. This late dissolved Charter-house, by West Smithfield, belonging then to the Right Honorable Thomas Earle of Suffolke, after Lord Treasurer of England, is sufficiently knowne to bee a very large and goodly Mansion, beautified with spacious Gardens, Walkes, Orchards and other pleasures,I have truely set downe all this, as it was delivered mee in writing by a Gentleman of good worth and credit. enriched with divers dependencies of Lands and Tenements therto belonging, and very aptly seated for wholesome ayre, and many other commodities. All which commodiousnesse of situation, and largenesse of circuit, gave occasion to this well-minded Gentleman Master Sutton, to affect that house, as the onely place, whereon to [Page] build the foundation of his Religious purpose. For, among other his Christian determinations, hee had formerly intended to build an house at Hallingbury Bouchers in Essex, to be an Hospitall for such poore men and Children as he himselfe (in his life time, or future Governors for the same to bee deputed) should thinke fit to bee lodged and relieved there: Also, for a Schoole-master and Vsher,His first purpose at Hallingburie in Essex to teach Children to reade and write, and instruct them in the Latine and Greeke Grammar: with a Learned Divine likewise to preach the Word of God to them all, and a Master beside, to governe all those people belonging to that house.

To this blessed end and purpose,How hee intended to t [...]rme the Hospitall. hee had procured (by earnest suit) power by an Act of Parliament, to build such an Hospitall in the Towne of Hallingbury Bouchers, and that the same should be named, The Hospitall of King Iames, founded in Hallingbury in the Countie of Essex, at the humble Petition, and at the onely costs and charges of Thomas Sutton, Esquire: Appointing also such Honourable, Reverend and Worthy persons, as by the said Act of Parliament were nominated and appointed, to bee the first and instant Governors of the Lands, Possessions, Goods and Reveneues of the said Hospitall.

But afterward, upon more grounded deliberation,The Charter house more necessary for an Hospital than Hallingbury and finding this goodly house of the Charter-house, to bee much more convenient for the purpose, than that to be builded at Hallingbury could be: hee became an earnest suiter to the Earle of Suffolke, to purchase that house of him, acquianting his Honor with the alteration of his minde concerning Hallingbury, and his earnest desire to make the Charter-house his Hospitall. The Earle being honourably enclined to so godly a motion, the matter sustained the lesse debating between them: but the price being concluded on, the bargaine and sale was assured. The summe disbursed for this purpose, amounted to 13000, l. which was paid downe in hand, before the ensealing of the Conveyance.

Then he became suiter againe to his Majestie, to performe all that at the Charter-house, which he had formerly intended at Hallingbury: whereto the King readily yeelded, being graciously affected to so charitable a Worke, and granted his Letters Patents to the same effect.The first Governors appointed by Letters Patents, of King James his Hospitall, founded in the Charter-house. And the right Reverend Father in God, George, Archbishop of Canturburie, Thomas Lord Ellesmere, Lord Chancelor of England; Robert Lord high Treasurer of England; Iohn the elect Bishop of London; Lancelot Bishop of Ely; Sir Edward Coke, Knight, chiefe Iustice of the Common Pleas; Sir Thomas Foster, Knight, one of his Majesties Iustices of the Common Pleas; Sir Henry Hobard, Knight and Baronet, Attourney generall; Iohn Overall, Deane of Pauls in London; George Mountaine, Deane of Westminster; Henry Thursby, Esquire, one of the Masters of the Chancerie; Geffrey Nightingale, Esquire; Richard Sutton, Esquire; Iohn Law Gentleman; Thomas Browne, Gentleman; and the Master of the Hospitall of King Iames, founded in the Charter-house, within the Country of Middlesex, at the humble petition, and the onely costs and charges of Thomas Sutton, Esquire, were elected, nominated and ordained by the Kings most excellent Majestie in his Letters Patents granted, to bee the first Governors of the Lands, Possessions, Revenues and goods of the fore-said Hospitall, and continuall maintenance thereof in forme following.

All his Mannors and Lordships of Southminster, The lands made over by Master Sutton for the maintenance of the said Hospitall for ever, in the County of Essex. Norton, Little Hallingbury, alias Hallingbury Bouchers, and Much-Stanbridge, in the County of Essex.

All those his Mannors and Lordships of Bastingthorpe, alias, Bustingthorpe and Dunnesby in the County of Lincolne.

All those his Mannors and Lordships of Salthorp, In the County of Lincolne. alias, Saltrop, alias, Haltrop, Ch [...]lton and Blackgrove, in the County of Wilts. In the County of Wilts. And also all those his Lands & pasture-grounds, called Blackgrove, Lands & Pasture grounds in Wilts. contayning by estimation 200. Acres of pasture, with the appurtenances in Balckgrove and Wroughton, in the said County of Wilts. In the Counties of Cambridge, Essex and Middlesex▪ And also in that his Mannor of Missenden, otherwise called the Mannor of Missunden, in the Parishes of Wroughton, Lydierde [Page] and Tregose, in the said County.

All that his Mannor of Elcombe, and a Parke, called Elcombe Parke, in the said County.

All that his Mannor of Watelescote, alias Wiglescete, alias Wigleskete, in the said County of Wilts.

All that his Mannor of Westcote, alias, Westcete, with the appurtenances in the said County of Wilts. And also all those his Lands and Pastures, containing by estimation 100. Acres of Land, and 60. Acres of pasture, with the appurtenances in Wiglescote and Wroughton, in the said County of Wilts. And all that his Mannor of Vffcote with the appurtenances. And also those his two Messuages, and 1000. Acres of Land, 2000. Acres of Pasture, 300. Acres of Meddowe, and 300. Acres of Wood, with the appurtenances, in Brodehinton, in the said County of Wilts.

All those the Mannors & Lordships of Camps, alias, Campes Castell, otherwise called Castle Campes, with the appurtenances situate, lying, being, and extending in the Counties of Cambridge and Essex, or in either of them, or elsewhere within the Realme of England. His Mannor of Balsham, in the County of Cambridge. And all his Messuages and Lands which are in the Parishes of Hackney & Totenham in the County of Middlesex, or in either of them.A briefe Rehearsall of the former grants. And all and singuler the Mannors, Lordships, Messuages, Lands, Tenements, Reversions, Services, Meddowes, Pastures, Woods, Advowsons, Patronages of Churches, and Hereditaments of the said Thomas Sutton whatsoever, situate, lying or being within the said County of Essex, Lincolne, Wilts, Cambridge and Middlesex, or in any of them, with all and every of their rights, members and appurtenances whatsoever.

Except all his Mannors or Lordships of Littlebury and Haddestocke, Exceptions. with their appurtenances in the Countie of Essex.

Beside all this bountie of his Hospitall, Legacies given to charitable uses. behold what Legacies he hath given to charitable uses.

To the poore people in Barwicke, 100. Markes.

To the poore of Stoke-Newington. 10. li.

To the poor Fishermen of the Towne of Oastend in the Low-Countries. 100. li.

To the mending of the High-wayes betweene Islington and Newington, All these works to be done, and the monies payd within a yeere after his decease. in the County of Middlesex, 40. Markes.

To the mending of the High-wayes betweene Ashden and Walden, called Walden lane, in the Countie of Essex, 100. li.

To the mending of the High-wayes, betweene great Lynton, in the Countie of Cambridge, and the said Towne of Wolden, 60. li. 13. s. 4. d.

Towards the mending of Horseth lane. 60. li.

To the mending of the Bridges and ordinary High-wayes, betweene Southminster and Malden in Essex, 100. li.

To the Chamber of London, To ten poore Merchants. 1000. li. to be yeerely lent to ten young Merchants, not having any great stockes of their owne. And those tenne men to be appointed by the Lord Maior and Aldermen of the City for the time being, and the Deane of Pauls: They are not to pay any use for the money, nor any to enjoy it above the space of one yeere.

To the poore people of Hadstocke, Legades to the poore in sundry Tonnes. 20. li.

To the poore of Littlebury and Balsham, 40. li.

To the Parson and Church-wardens of Balsham, for the time being, towards the buying a Bell, to be hanged up in the Steeple, to amend the Ring there, 20. li.

To the poore of Southminster, 20. li.

To the poore of Little Hallenbury, 20. li.

To the poore of Dunsby Com. Lincoln. 20. li.

To the poore prisoners in the prisons of Ludgate, The poore Prisoners. Newgate, the two Compters in London, the Kings-Bench, and the Marshalsey, 200. li. to be paid and divided among the same Prisoners by even and equall portions.

To the Master,His love to Learning. Fellowes and Schollers of the Corporation of Iesus Colledge in Cambridge, 500. Markes.

To the Master, Fellowes and Schollers of the Corporation of Magdalen Colledge in Cambridge, 500. li.

Towards the building of his intended Hospitall,To his Hospitall. Chappell and Schoole-house five thousand pounds, if he lived not to [Page] see it performed in his life time. Beside, hee hath given into the Treasury or Store-house of the same intended Hospitall, to begin their stocke with, & to defend the rights of the house 1000. l.

To every one of his Feoffees, put in trust about his intended Hospital, 26. l. 13. s. 4. d.

To the Poore of Beverley, a Close in Cottingham.

To the Poore of Lincolne, a remainder of yeeres in the Rectory of Glentham, Com. Lincolne.

To Master Hutton, Vicar of Littlebury, 20. l.

To the Poore of Camps Castell, 10. l.

To the Poore of Elcombe, 10. l.

To M. Floud, Parson of Newington, 13. l. 6. s. 8. d.

To the Poore of the Parish of Hackney. 10. pounds.

His Hospitall consisting of a Master, Governor, a Preacher, a Free-Schoole, with a Master and Vsher, 80. poore people, and 40. Schollers, maintained with sufficient cloathing, meat, drinke, lodging and wages:The whole number in the house, with the attendāte, in 180. beside Officers and ministers to attend on them, and the number to increase, according as the Revenues upon the expiration of the Leases is increased.

This famous Hospitall of King Iames, with the value of the Lands layd unto it, the purchase of the House, stocke layd in, & allowance towards the building: Also, the remainder of his goods unbequeathed, his large gifts and Legacies to divers Honourable and worthy friends, beside, great store of farre more inferiour account,The greatest and most commendable that ever was given in England by one man, and to pious uses. surpassing my capacity to number, and the residue of 20000. pound left to the discretion of his Executors, may well and worthily be said to be the very greatest and most bountifull gift, that ever at any time was given in England, no Abbey (at the first foundation thereof) excepted, or therewith to be compared, being the gift of one man onely.

But alas,M. Sutton died before hee could see his hopes take their effect. what perpetuity is there to be expected in this life, where there is no other certainty than of change? While all eyes stand gazing on this hopefull intention, and every eare listening to heare when it would come to effect: that enemy to infinite good and godly purposes, Death, takes away the worthy Master-workeman, yet, not unprovided, as too many are; for hee had his needfull occasions, befitting provision for so long a journey, readily sealed up in the peace of a good Conscience, & that which the tyrant Death had bereft him of, he left to the performance of his faithful Executors, Master Richard Sutton, The Executors to M. Sutton. and Master Iohn Lawe, men of religious and upright soules, and (God be thanked) the worke is accomplished. And on the Munday after Michaelmas day, being the third day of October, An. Dom. 1614. the Captaines & Gentlemen entred into their famous prepared Hospital; to the glory of God, honour of the Kings most Royall Majestie, credit of the Governors, comfort of them appointed to it, and joy of all good minds to behold it.

Thus, though no tongue or penne can either so amply expresse, or sufficiently set downe the great deserts of this so good and worthy a man: yet death having given a period to his life, and layd him in a goodly Tombe, in the Chappell of his owne Hospitall; there we must now leave him, with this Inscription thereon engraven.

Sacred to the Glory of God, in gratefull memory of Thomas Sutton, Esquire.

HEere lyeth buried the body of Thomas Sutton, A very costly and beautifull Tombe in the West side of the Quire. late of Castell Camps, in the County of Cambridge, Esquire: at whose onely costs and charges this Hospital was founded, and endued with large possessions, for the reliefe of poore men and children. Hee was a Gentleman, borne at Knayth, in the County of Lincolne, of worthy and honest parentage. He lived to the age of 79. yeers, and deceased the 12. day of December, An. Dom. 1611.

Master Hutton was the first Master of this Hospitall,Masters that have beene of the Hospitall. according to the minde of M. Sutton.

M. Pearne was the second.

M. Hooker the third, who dyed there in his Mastership, and lyeth buried in the Chappell.

M. Iohn Lawe, one of M. Suttons Executors, lyeth also there buried in the [Page] Chappell, and hath a Monument or remembrance of him, fixed in the East wall of the said Chappell.

An Epitaph written by a Friend to Goodnesse.

WHen bad men dye, the memory

remaines

Of their corruptions and ungodly

wayes:

Intended to bee hung in a faire Table by the Tombe.

As merit to their mis-applyed

paines,

Out of ill actions forming as ill

prayse.

For Vertue wounded by their deepe

disgrace,

Leav's Shame to their Posterity and

Race.

When good men dye, the memory remaines

Of their true Vertue, and most

Christian wayes;

As a due guerdon to their godly

paines,

Out of good actions forming as good

praise:

For Vertue cherished by their deeds

of grace,

Leaves Fame to their posterity and

Race.

Among those good (if goodnesse may

be said

To be among the seede of mortall

men)

In upright ballance of true merit

weigh'd,

Needs must we reckon famous Sutton

then.

In whom, as in a mirror doth appeare.

That faith with works did shine in

him most cleere.

And let us not, as is a common

use,

Measure him by a many other

more;

In death, to cover their bad lifes

abuse,

To lanch out then some bounty of

their store.

No, Sutton was none such, his Hospitall,

And much more else beside, speakes

him to all.

For as God blest him with abundant

wealth,

Like to a carefull Steward he imploy'd,

it,

And ordered all things in his best

of health,

As glad to leave it, as when he enjoyed

it.

And being prepared every houre

to dye,

Disposed all his gifts most Christianly.

In Abrahams bosome sleeps he with

the blest,

His workes, they follow him, his

worth survives,

Good Angels guide him to eternall

rest,

Where is no date of time, for yeeres

or lives.

You that are rich, doe you as he hath

done,

And so assure the Crowne that hee

hath won.

FINIS.

§

§

A little without the Barres of West Smithfield, Charter-house lane. is Charterhouse lane, so called, for that it leadeth to the said plot of the late dissolved Monastery, in place wherof, first the Lord North, but since, Thomas Howard, late Duke of Norfolke, have made large and sumptuous buildings, both for lodging and pleasure.Conduit by the Charter-house. At the gate of this Charter-house is a faire water-conduit, with two Cockes, serving the use of the neighbours to their great commodity.

Saint Iohns street, from the entring this lane, is also (on both sides) replenished with buildings, up to Clarken well. On the left hand of which street, lyeth a lane called Cow Crosse, Cow-Crosse. of a Crosse sometime standing there, which lane turneth downe to another lane called Turne-Mill streete, which stretcheth up to the West side of Clarken well, and was called Turne-Mill streete, for such cause as is afore declared.

One other lane there is, called Saint Peters lane, which turneth from Saint Iohns street to Cow-Crosse.

[Page] On the left hand also stood the late dissolved Priory of Saint Iohn of Ierusalem in England, Prioty of S. Iohn of Ierusalem. founded about the yeere of Christ 1100. by Iorden Briset, Baron, & Muriel his wife neere unto Clarkes well, besides West Smithfield, which Briset, having first founded the the Priory of Nunnes at Clarkes Well, bought of them ten Acres of Land, giving them in exchange ten Acres of Land in his Lordship of Welling Hall, in the County of Kent. Saint Iohns Church was dedicated by Heraclius, Patriarke of the holy Resurrection of Christ at Ierusalem, in the yeare 1185. & was the chiefe seat in England of the Religious Knights of S. Iohn of Ierusalem. Whose profession was (besides their dayly service of God) to defend Christians against Pagans, and to fight for the Church; using for their habite a blacke upper garment, with a white Crosse on the forepart thereof, and for their good service was so highly esteemed, that when the order of Templers was dissolved, their Lands and possessions were (by Parliament) granted unto these, who after the losse of Ierusalem, recovered the Ile of Rhodes, from the Turke, and there placed themselves, being called thereof (for many yeeres) Knights of the Rhodes, but after the losse thereof 1523. removed to the Ile of Malta, manfully opposing themselves against the Turkish invasions.

The Rebels of Essex and of Kent 1381. set fire on this house, causing it to burne by the space of 7. dayes together, not suffering any to quenchit: since the which time, the Princes of that house have new builded both church & houses thereunto appertaining, which Church was finished by Thomas Docwray, late Lord Prior there, about the yeere 1504. as appeareth by the inscription over the Gate-house, yet remaining. This house at the suppression in the 32. of Hen. the 8. was valued to dispend in lands 3385. l. 19. s. 8. d. yeerely. Sir W. Weston being then Lord Prior, died on the same 7. of May, on which the house was suppressed, so that great yeerely pensions being granted to the Knights by the King, and namely to the Lord Prior, during his life 1000. l. but he never received penny: The King tooke into his hands all the lands that belonged to that house, & to that order wheresoever in England and Ireland, for the augmentation of his Crowne.

This Priory, Church and house of S. Iohn was preserved from spoyle or downe pulling, so long as King Henry the eight reaigned, and was imployed as a Store-house for the Kings Toyles and Tents for Hunting, & for the wars, &c. But in the third of King Edward the sixth, the Church for the most part, to wit, the body and side Iles, with the great Bell-tower, (a most curious piece of workemanship, graven, gilt, and inameled, to the great beautifying of the City, and passing all other that I have seene) was undermined and blowne up with Gun-powder, the stone thereof was imployed in building of the Lord Protectors house at the Strand. That part of the Quire which remaineth, with some side Chappels, was by Cardinall Poole (in the raigne of Queene Mary) closed up at the West end, and otherwise repaired, and Sir Thomas Tresham, Knight, was then made Lord Prior there, with restitution of some Lands; but the same was againe suppressed in the first yeere of Queene Elizabeth.

There was buried in this Church, Brethren of that house, and Knights of that order, Iohn Botell, William Bagecore, Richard Barrow, Iohn Vauclay; Thomas Launcelin, Iohn Mallory, William Turney, William Hulles, Hils or Hayles, Iohn Wesion, Redington, William Longstrother, Iohn, Longstrother, William Tong, Iohn Wakeline. Then of other; Thomas Thornburgh, Gentleman, William West, Gent. Iohn Fulling, & Adam Gill, Esquires, Sir Iohn Mortimor, and Dame Eleaner his wife, Nicholas Silverston, William Plompton, Esquire, Margaret Tong, and Isabell Tong, Walter Bellingham, alias, Ireland, K. of Armes of Ireland, Thomas Bedle, Gent. Katharine daughter of William Plompton, Esquire, Richard Turpin, Gent. Ione wife to Alexander Dikes, Iohn Bottell and Richard Bottle, Esquires, Rowland Darcy, Richard Sutton, Gent. Richard Bottill, Gent. Sir W. Harpden, Knight, Robert Kingston, Esquire, and Margery his wife, Iohn Roch, Richard Cednor, Gent. Simon Mallory, [Page] 1442. William Mallory, Robert Longstrother, Ralph Astely, William Marshall, Robert Savage, Robert Gondall, Esquire, & Margery his wife, William Babthorpe, Baron of the Exchequer 1442.

North from the house of S. Iohns was the Priory of ClarkenWell, Priory of Clarken-Well, called S. Iames at ClarkenWel. so called of Clarkes well adjoyning, which Priory was also founded about the yeere 1100. by Iorden Briset, Baron, the sonne of Ralph, the sonne of Brian Briset: who gave to Robert a Priest, foureteen Acres of land, lying in the field next adjoining to the said Clarkes VVell, thereupon to build an house of Religious persons, which he founded to the honor of God, and the Assumption of our Lady, and placed therein blacke Nuns. This Iorden Briset, gave also to that house one piece of ground, thereby to build a Windmill upon, &c. Hee and Muriell his wife were buried in the Chapter-house there. More buried in this Church, Iohn VVikes, Esquire, and Isabel his wife, Dame Agnes Clifford, Ralph Thimbleby, Esquire, Dame Iahan, Baronnesse of Greystocke, Dame Iahan Lady Ferrar.

And of later time in the Parish Church, Constantius Bennet, a Greeke borne, he gave two houses, the one in Saint Iohns street, the other in Turnemill street, the rents of them to be distributed in Coales every yeere against Christmas, to the poore of that Parish.

Heereunder lyeth buried Francis White, An engraven Plate in the South wall of the Chancell. the 14. Sonne of Sir Thomas White of Southwerborne, Knight, deceased, and of Lady Anne his wife: who dyed at his age of sixteene, the last day of February, Anno Domini, 1566. he being their nineteenth Childe.

Hic jacet Isabella Sackuill,A faire plated Stone in the Chancell. quae fuit Priorissa nuper Prioratus de Clarkenwell, tempore dissolutionis ejusdem Prioratus, quae fuit 21. Octobris, Anno Domini, Millesimo Quingentesimo Septuagesimo, & An. Reg. Elizab. Dei gratia, &c. duodecimo.

Vnder this Stone lyeth the body of the good,The like stone close by it. charitable, and vertuous Gentlewoman, Mistris Anne Blunt, daughter unto Walter Blunt, of Blunt Hall in the Country of Stafford Esquire, and Sister unto the right VVorshipfull, the Lady Paulet, deceased and to the Lady Sidenham, now living. VVhich Anne died the 24. day of April, An. Domini, 1504.

Contegit hoc marmor Doctorem nomine Bellum,A faire Stone by the Communion Table.

Qui bene tum rexit Praesulis officiū.

Moribus, ingenio, vitae pietate vigebat,

Laudatus cunctis, cultus & eloquio.

Anno Domini, 1556. die August. 11.

There is an ancient Marble Tombe in the North wall of the Chancell,A tombe seeming of great Antiquity. with the figure of a dead man by in his shrowd: and all the plates are stolen away, only one piece remaining, containing these words:

Hospitalitate inclytus, genere praeclarus:

There an Armes,

Hanc urna officii causu.

Here lyeth the body of the Lady Elizabeth Ascough, A faire plated Stone by the Communiō Table. sometime the wife of William Dallyson, and one of the Iustices of the Kings Bench: And afterward wife to Sir Francis Ascough, Knight. The which Lady departed this life the 6. day of December, Anno Domini, 1570.

And here also lyeth William Dallison, Esquire, eldest son to the said William and Elizabeth, which William the Sonne deceased the 9. day of November, Anno Domini, 1585.

Heere lyeth the body of Francis Butler, A plated stone in the Chancell. fourth Sonne of Sir Iohn Butler, of Hatfield Woodhall in the County of Kent, Knight. Obiit 4. Martii, 1615.

The Lady Elizabeth Barckley of the Queenes Majesties Bed-Chamber,A faire Tombe in the North wall of the Chancell. and second wife to Sir Maurice Barckley, Knight, deceased (Standard-bearer to her Majestie, to her Father, and to her Brother) departed this life in this Parish, the 16. day of Iune, An. Dom. 1585. (being 52. yeeres old) in the faith of Iesus Christ, and was buried in the floore under this Tombe. This Lady was the daughter of Anthony Sonds, Esquire. She had children, two sonnes and one daughter, Robert, Margaret and Iohn.

[Page] Rogero Wood Armigero,A comely Monumēt in the same North wall. Servienti ad Arma, tam Serenissimo Regi, quam honoratissimo conventui Parliamenti. Rosa Conjunx hoc posuit amoris pii, momoriae perpetuae, observantiae debitae, Sacrum Monumentum.

Qui legis, qui luges,

Rogerum Wood

Ne perisse putes,

superesse scias,

Extinctus extat,

peremptus perennis est,

Vivit in suorum

desideriis, in bonorum

Praeconiis,

in Coelrum gaudiis.

Obiit 18. Martii, 1609.

Aetatis suae 46.

Iohn Palmer of Clarkenwell, A faire Monumēt in the South wall of the Cahncel. Esquire, was buried here the 18. day of February, An. Dom. 1585. He married Panclin, the daughter of Anthony Sondes of Kent, Esquire: she was also buried in this Chancell: By whom he had issue Anthony Palmer, Elizabeth Cheiney, Iane Thursby, and Mary Palmer. Iane Thursby had also one of her daughters here buried, named Elizabeth.

In obitum Generosissimae, charissimae (que) Elizabethae Croftes, nuper uxoris Caroli Croftes, Armigeri: Christoph. Brooke devotissimus, hoc memoriae pignus posuit. Obiit 20. Decemb. 1597.

GEntle beholder of these dolefull

lines,

A Table hanging on the wall over her grave.

With carefull mutes and mournfull

accents sounding,

Resolve to teares, viewing these sad

designes

Of driery sorrow, and hearts deepest

wounding.

Consuming Time, abridging worlds

desire,

Insulting death, feareful, prodigious,

strange,

Eclipsing, waxing heat of Natures

fire,

With wayning forc'd, and necessarie

change:

Since you have done your worst to

date her dayes,

Whilome the worlds, now heavens

gratious ghest:

I, this sad memory of her liues

praise

Presume to write, in skilfull Arts

the least.

She was descended of right gentle

blood,

Kinde, courteous, affable and milde

by nature,

Modest her thoughts, her disposition

good,

Her mind Exchequers store to everie

creature,

Her Conscience spotles, her Religion

pure,

Her life sincere, her studie contemplation:

Her hope was heaven, with life

aye to endure,

Her faith was constant in her soules

salvation.

Her vertuous care her children to

direct,

Conform'd to reason in her husbands

will:

Her bounty to her servants, friends

respect,

Desire to helpe, and wish no neighbour

ill.

Thrice happy then (breath-lesse) in

Tombe that lyest:

Earth hath but earth, thy better

part survives:

From worldly warfare, summon'd

to the highest,

Whose death from life, a second life

derives.

Death life confirmes, Heaven earth

unites in one:

Her life in death, and blisse when

world is done.

Here lieth the body of Thomas Bedingfield, A faire plated Stone in a comely Chappell by the Pulpi [...]. Esquire, second sonne unto Sir Henry Beding field, Knight, late of the County of Norf. and one of the privy Councell to Queene Mary. Also this Thomas Bedingfield, was one of the honorable band of Gentlemen Pensioners unto the late famous Queene Eli. & Master of the Tents & Pavilions [Page] unto the most mighty King IAMES, Monarch of Great Britaine. He departed this life the 11. day of August, An. Dom. 1613.

This Monument was made and placed here, at the cost and charges of Iohn Skillicorne, Esquire, being his Executor.

William Herne, a Master of defence, and yeoman of the Guard, 1580. gave Lands and Tenements to the Clothworkers in London, they to pay yeerely for ever, 14. pound to the Church wardens of Clarken Well, and 14. l. on the Churchwardens of S. Sepulchres, towards reparation of these Churches, and reliefe of the poore men. More hee gave after the death of one man, then living, 8. l. the yeare for ever, to the mending of High-wayes.

Thomas Sackeford, Esquire, one of the Masters of Requests, gave to the poore of that Parish 40. s. the yeere for ever, out of his Almes-house at Woodbridge in Suffolke, where he is buried.

Henry Stoke, Gardener, buried there, gave 20. s. the yeere for ever towards reparation of that Church.

This Priory was valued to dispend 262. l. 9. s. by yeere, and was surrendred the 30. of H. the 8. Many faire houses are now builded about the Priorie, namely, by the high-way towards Iseldon.

So much of the Church which remaineth: for one great Ile thereof, which fell downe, serveth now as a Parish Church of S. Iames, not onely for the Tenements and neere Inhabitants, but also (as is aforesaid) for all up to Highgate, Moswell, &c.

Neere unto this Church, besides Clarkes Well lane, were divers other Wels, namely, Skinners Well, Fags Well, Tode Well, Loders Well, Rede Well, &c. now damned up.

Now to returne to Giltspurre streete, where I first began with this Suburb, there standeth the Parish Church of S. Sepulchre in the Bayly, as is before shewed, from this streete to Turneagaine lane by Hosier lane, Cow lane, and Oldboorne Conduit, downe Snore hill, to Oldboorne bridge, and up Oldboorne hill, by Gold lane on the right hand, and Lither lane beyond it, to the Barres; beyond the which Barres on the same side is Port Poole, Port poole, or Grayes Inne lane an Inne of Court. or Grayes Inne lane, so called of the Inne of Court, named Grayes Inne, a goodly house there situate: by whom builded or first begun I have not yet learned, but it seemeth to be since Edward the 3. time, and is a Prebend to Pauls Church in London.

This lane is furnished with faire buildings, and many tenements on both the sides, leading to the fields towards Highgate and Hamsted.

On the high street have ye many faire houses builded, and lodgings for Gentlemen, Innes for Travellers, and such like, up almost (for it lacketh but little) to S. Giles in the fields: amongst the which buildings, for the most part being very new, one passeth the rest in largenesse of roomes, lately builded by a Widow,Widow Alington her building. sometime wife to Richard Alington, Esquire, which Rich. Alington deceased in the yeare 1561. And thus much for that North side of Oldboorne.

Now from Newgate on the left hand or South side,South side of Oldboorne. lyeth the Old Bayly, & so downe by Seacoale lane end to Oldboorne bridge, up Oldboorne hill, by Shoo lane, and Fewters lane, to the Barres.

Beyond the Barres had ye (in old time) a Temple,Old Temple. builded by the Templers, whose order first began in the yeere of Christ 1118. the 19. of Henry the first. This Temple was left, and fell to rune since the yeere 1184. when the Templers had builded them a new Temple in Fleetstreet, neere to the River of Thames. A great part of this old Temple was pulled downe but of late, in the yeere 1595.

Adjoyning to this old Temple,The Bishop of Lincolnes Inne. was sometime the Bishop of Lincolnes Inne, wherein he lodged when he repaired to this City. Robert de Curars, Bishop of L. builded it about the yeere 1147. I. Russel, Bishop of Lincolne, Chancelor of England, in the raigne of Richard the third, was lodged there. It hath of late yeeres belonged to the Earles of Southhampton, Southampton house. and therefore called Southhampton house. Agaster Roper hath of late builded much there, by means whereof, part of the ruines of the old Temple was seene to remaine, builded of Cane stone, round in forme as the New Temple by [Page] Temple Barre, and other Temples in England.

Beyond this old Temple and the Bishop of Lincolnes house, is New-streete, so called in the raigne of Henry the third,New streete. when he (of a Iewes house) founded the house of Converts betwixt the old Temple and the new.

The same streete hath since been called Chancery lane, New streete or Chancery lane. by reason that King Edward the third annexed the house of Converts by Patent, to the office of Custos Rotulorum, or Master of the Rolles, in the 15. of his raigne.

In this streete, the first faire building to be noted on the East side,Cursitors Office in Chauncery lane. is called the Cursitors Office, builded with divers faire lodgings for Gentlemen, all of Bricke and Timber, by Sir Nicolas Bacon, late Lord Keeper of the great Seale.

Neere unto this Cursitors Office, be divers faire houses and large Gardens, builded and made in a ground, sometime belonging to one great house on the other side the street, there made by Ralph Nevill, Bishop of Chichester. This ground he had by the gift of Henry the third, as appeareth.

The King granted to Ralph, Bishop of Chichester, Chauncelor, that place, with the Garden which Iohn [...]erlirum forfeited in that street, called Newstreet, overagainst the land of the said Bishop, in the same streete, which place, with the Garden and appurtenance, was the Kings Exchete, by the libertie of the Citie of London, as it was acknowledged before the King, in his Court of the Tower of London, in the last Pleas of the Crowne of that City, Cart. 11. H. 3.

Then was the house of Converts, wherein now the Rolles of Chancery be kept. Then the Serieants Inne, &c.

On the West side of Newstreete, Blacke Fryers Church by Oldboorne. towards the North end thereof, was (of old time) the Church, and house of the preaching Friers: the which house I find that in the yeere of Christ 1221. the Fryers Preachers, 13. in number, came into England, and having to their Prior one named Gilbert de Fraxineto, in company of Peter de la Roch, Bishop of Winchester, came to Canturburie, where presenting themselves before the Archbishop Steven, he commanded the said Prior to preach, whose Sermon he liked so well, that ever after hee loved that Order. These Fryers came to London, and had their first house without the Wall of the City by Oldboorne, neere unto the old Temple.

Hubert de Burgo, Earle of Kent burled in the Blacke Fryers. Earle of Kent, was a great benefactor unto these Fryers, and deceasing at his Mannor of Bansted in Surrey, or after some writers, at his Castell of Barkamsted in Hartfordshire, in the yeere 1242. was buried in their Church, unto the which Church he had given his place at Westminster, which the said Fryers afterward sold to Walter Gray, Archbishop of Yorke, and hee left it to his successors in that Sea, for ever to be their house, when they should repaire to the City of London. And therfore the same was called Yorke-place, which name so continued, untill the yeere, 1529. that King Henry the eight tooke it from Thomas Woolsey, Cardinall and Archbishop of Yorke, and then gave it to name, White-Hall.

Margaret, Sister to the King of Scots, Widdow to Geffrey, Earle Marshall, deceased 1244. and was buried in this Church.

In the yeere 1250. the Fryers of this Order of Preachers, thorough Christendome, and from Ierusalem, were by a Convocation assembled together, at this their house by Old-boorne, Convocation of Blacke Fryers by Oldboorne. to entreat of their estate, to the number of 400. having meate and drinke found them of Almes, because they had no possessions of their owne. The first day the King came to their Chapter, found them meate and drinke, and dined with them. Another day the Queene found them meat and drinke: afterward the Bishop of London, then the Abbot of Westminster, of S. Albons, Waltham, and others. In the yeere 1276. Gregory Rokesley, Maior, and the Barons of London, granted and gave to Robert Kilwarby, Archbishop of Canturburie, two lanes or wayes next the street of Baynards Castell, and the Tower of Mountfichet, to be destroyed. On the which place the said Robert builded the late new Church, with the rest of the Stones that were left of the said Tower. And thus the Black-Fryers left their Church and house by Oldboorne, and departed to their new. [Page] This old Frier-house, (juxta Holboorn saith the Patent) was by King Edward the first in the sixteenth of his raigne, given to Henry Lacy, Earle of Lincolne. Next to this house of Fryers, was one other great House, sometime belonging to the Bishop of Chichester, whereof Mathew Paris writeth thus:

Ralph de nova villa, Bishop of Chichesters Inne. or Nevill, Bishop of Chichester, and Chancelor of England, sometime builded a noble house, even from the ground, not farre from the New Temple and house of Converts, in the which place he deceased, in the yeere 1244.

In this place after the decease of the said Bishop, and in place of the house of Blacke-Fryers before spoken of, Henry Lacy Earle of Lincolne, Constable of Chester, and Custos of England, builded his Inne,Lincolns Inne. and for the most part was lodged there: hee deceased in this house in the yeere, 1310. and was buried in the new worke (whereunto he had been a great benefactor) of Saint Pauls Church, betwixt our Lady Chappell, and Saint Dunstanes Chappell. This Lincolnes Inne, sometime pertaining to the Bishops of Chichester, as a part of the said great house,Lincolns Inne an Inne of Court. is now an Inne of Court, retaining the name of Lincolnes Inne, as afore, but now lately encreased with faire buildings, and replenished with Gentlemen, studious in the Common Lawes. In the raigne of Henry the eight Sir Thomas Lovell was a great builder there, especially he builded the Gatehouse and forefront towards the East, placing theron aswell the Lacies Armes, as his owne. He caused the Lacies Armes to be cast and wrought in Lead, on the Lover of the Hall of that house, which was in the 3. Escutcheons a Lyon Rampant for Lacie, 7. Mascules voyded for Quincie, and 3. Wheat sheaves for Chester. This Lover being of late repayred, the said Escutcheons were left out. The rest of that side, even to Fleetstreet, is replenishd with faire buildings.

Now the high Oldborne streete, from the North end of New-streete stretcheth on the left hand (in building lately framed) up to S. Giles in the field,Hospitall of S. Giles founded. which was an Hospitall, founded by Matilda the Queene, wife to Henry the first, about the yeere 1117. This Hospitall, saith the Record of Edward the third, the nineteenth yeere, was founded without the Barre, Veteris Templi London & Conversorum.

This Hospitall was founded, as a Cell to Burton Lagar of Ierusalem, as may appeare by a deede dated the foure and twentieth of Henry the seventh in these words:

Thomas Norton, Burton Lagar an Hospitall in Leicester shire. Knight, Master of Burton Lagar of Ierusalem in England, and the Brethren of the same place, keepers of the Hospitall of Saint Giles, without the Barres of the Old Temple of London, have sold to Geffrey Kent, Citizen and Draper of London, a messuage or house, with two sollars above edified in the Parish of Alhallowes Hony lane, in West Cheape, adjoyning to the West part of a Tenement, called the Goate on the Hope, pertaining to the Drapers of London, for 31. l.

At this Hospitall,S. Giles bowle. the Prisoners, conveyed from the City of London towards Teyborne, there to be executed for Treasons, Felonies, or other trespasses, were presented with a great Bowle of Ale, thereof to drinke at their pleasure, as to be their last refreshing in this life.

Now without Ludgate, Suburbe without Ludgate. lyeth the South end of the Old Baily, then downe Ludgate hill by Fleet lane, over Fleet bridge, up Fleet street, by Shoo lane, Fewters lane, Newstreet, or Chancerie lane, and to Shire lane by the Barre on the right hand. And from Ludgate, on the left hand or South side, by Bridge-lane, Water-lane, Crokers-lane Serjeants Inne, and the New Temple by the Barre, all which is of Faringdon Ward, as is aforesaid shewed.

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LIBERTIES OF THE DVTCHIE OF LANCASTER.

NExt without the Barre the New Temple, Liberties of the Dutchie without Temple barre, the bounds thereof. and Liberties of the Citie of London, in the Suburbs, is a Liberty pertaining to the Dutchie of Lancaster, which beginneth in the East, on the South side or left hand by the River Thames, and stretcheth West to Ivie-bridge, where it endeth. And againe, on the North side or right hand, some small distance without Temple-barre in the high street, from a payre of Stocks there standing, stretcheth one large middle row or troope of small Tenements, partly opening to the South, partly towards the North, up West to a Stone Crosse, now headlesse, over-against the Strand, and this is the bounds of that Libertie; which sometime belonged to Brian Lisle, since to Peter of Savoy, and then to the house of Lancaster, Strand street. as shall be shewed.

Henry the third,Rotum cartar. Petri Sabaud. in the 30. yeere of his raigne, did grant to his Vncle, Peter of Savoy, all those houses upon the Thames, which sometimes pertained to Brain de Insula, or Lisle, without the Walls of his Citie of London, in the way or street called the Strand, to hold to him and to his heires, yeelding yeerely in the Exchequer, at the feast of Saint Michael th' Archangell, three barbed Arrowes for all services. Dated at Reding, &c. This Peter of Savoy, builded the Savoy.

But first amongst other buildings,Monuments of Strand street. memorable for greatnesse on the River of Thames, Excester house, so called, for that the same belonged to the Bishops of Excester, and was their Inne or London lodging. Who was first builder thereof, I have not read; but that Walter Stapleton, was a great builder there, in the raigne of Edward the second is manifest: for the Citizens of London, when they had beheaded him in Cheape, neere unto the Cathedrall Church of Saint Paul, they buried him in a heape of Sand or rubbiso,Excesser house, since Paget house, Lester house and Essex house. in his owne house without Temple barre, where hee had made great building. Edmond Lacy, Bishop of Excester, builded the great Hall in the raigne of Henry the sixth, &c. The same hath since been called Paget house, because William Lord Paget enlarged and possessed it. Then Leicester house, because Robert Dudley, Earle of Leicester, of late new builded there and then Essex house, of the Earle of Essex lodging there.

Then West,Chappell of the Holy Ghost. was a Chappell dedicated to the Holy Ghost, called S. Spirit, upon what occasion founded I have not read.

Next is Milford lane downe to the Thames: Mildford lane. but why so called, I have not read as yet.

Then was the Bishop of Bathes Inne, Bishop of Bathes Inne, or Arundel house. lately new builded (for a great part thereof) by the Lord Thomas Seamer, Admirall, which house came sithence to be possessed by the Earle of Arundell, and thereof called Arundell house.

Next beyond the which, on the street side, was sometime a faire Cemitorie, or Church-yard,Parish Church of S. Mary at the Strand. and in the same a Parish Church, called of the Nativitie of our Lady, and the Innocents of the Strand; and of some, by meane of a Brotherhood kept there, called of S. Vrsula at the Strand.

And neere adjoyning to the said Church,Chesters Inne, or Strand Inne, an Inne of Chancery. betwixt it and the River of Thames, was an Inne of Chancery, commonly called Chesters Inne, (because it belonged to the Bishop of Chester,) by [Page] others named of the situation, Strand Inne.

Then was there an house belonging to the Bishop of Landaffe: The Bishop of Landaffe his Inne. for I find in Record, the 4. of Edward the second, that a vacant place, lying neere the Church of our Lady at Strand, the said Bishop procured it of Thomas Earle of Lancaster, for the enlarging of this house.

Then had yee in the high street a faire bridge,Strand bridge. called Strand Bridge, and under it a lane or way, downe to the landing place on the banke of Thames.

Then was the Bishop of Chester (commonly called of Lichfield and Coventrie) his Inne,Bishop of [...] Chester his Inne. or London lodging, this house was first builded by Walter Langton, Bishop of Chester, Treasurer of England, in the raigne of Edward the first.

And next unto it adjoyning, was the Bishop of VVorcesters Inne: all which, to wit, the Parish of Saint Mary at Strand, Strand Inne, Strand Bridge, with the lane under it, the Bishop of Chesters Inne, the Bishop of VVorcesters Inne, with all the Tenements adjoining, were by commandement of Edward, Duke of Sommerset, Vncle to Edward the sixth, and Lord Protector, pulled downe, & made levell ground, in the yeere 1549. In place wherof,Sommerset house he builded that large and goodly house, now called Sommerset house.

In the high street neere unto the Strand, Stone Crosse at Strand. sometime stood a Crosse of Stone, against the Bishop of Coventrie or Chester his house, whereof I read, that in the yeere 1294. and divers other times, the Iustices Itinerants sate without London, at the Stone Crosse overagainst the Bishop of Coventries house, and sometime they sate in the Bishops house, which was hard by the Strand, as is aforesaid.

Then next is the Savoy, Savoy house, first builded by Peter, Earle of Savoy and Richmond. so called of Peter, Earle of Savoy and Richmond, Son to Thomas Earle of Savoy, Brother to Boniface, Archbishop of Canturbury, and Vncle unto Heleanor, wife to King Henry the third.

Hee first builded this house, in the yeere 1245. And heere is occasion offered me, for satisfying of some deniers thereof, to prove that this Peter of Savoy was also Earle of Savoy. Wherefore, out of a Booke of the Genealogies of all the whole house of Savoy, compiled by Phillebert Pingonio, Baron of Guzani, remaining in the hands of William Smith, alias, Rouge dragon, Officer of Armes, I have gathered this.

Thomas, Thomas Earle of Savoy, his Pedegree by occasiō. Earle of Savoy, had issue by Beatrix, daughter to Aimon, Earle of Geneva, 9. Sonnes, and 3. Daughters: Amadis his first Sonne, succeeded Earle of Savoy in the yeere 1253. Peter his second Sonne, Earle of Savoy and of Richmond, in 1298. Philip his third Sonne, Earle of Savoy and Burgundy, 1284. Thomas the fourth, Earle of Flaunders, and Prince of Piemont. Boniface the eighth Archbishop of Canturbury. Beatrix, sister to Peter, Earle of Savoy, Mother to five Queenes. Beatrix his Daughter, married to Reymond Beringarius of Aragon, Earle of Province and Narbone, had issue, and was Mother to five Queenes. The first, Margaret, wife to Lewis King of France; the second, Eleanor, wife to Henry the third, King of England; the third, Sanctia, wife to Richard, King of Romans; the fourth, Beatrix, wife to Charles, King of Naples; the fift, Iohanna, wife to Philip King of Navarre.

To returne againe to the house of Savoy: Fratrèes de Monte Iovis, or Priory de Cornuto by Have ring at the Bowre. Queene Eleanor, wife to King Henry the third, purchased this place afterwards of the Fraternity or Brethren of Mountjoy, unto whom Peter of Savoy (as it seemeth) had given it,Henry Knighton. for her sonne Edmond, Earle of Lancaster, as Master Camden hath noted out of a Register booke of the Dukes of Lancaster. Henry Duke of Lancaster repaired, or rather new builded it, with the charges of 52000. Markes, which money he had gathered together at the Towne of Bridgerike.

Iohn the French King was lodged there, in the yeere, 1357. and also, in the yeere 1363. for it was (at that time) the fairest Mannor in England.

In the yeere,Henry Knighton. 1381. the Rebels of Kent and Essex burnt this house, unto the which there was none in the Realme to be compared in beauty and starelinesse, (saith mine Author.) They set fire on it round about, and made proclamation, that none, on paine to lose his head, should convert to his own use any thing that there was; but that they should breake such plate and vessell of Gold & [Page] Silver, as was found in that house, (which was in great plenty) into small peeces, and threw the same into the River of Thames. Precious Stones they should bruise in mortars,Rebels more malicious than covetons, spoyle all before them. that the same might be to no use, and so it was done by them: One of their companions they burned in the fire, because hee minded to have reserved one goodly peece of Plate.

They found there certaine barrels of Gun-powder,Liber Manuscript. French. which they thought had been Gold or Silver, & throwing them into the fire, more suddenly than they thought, the Hall was blowne up, the houses destroyed, and themselves very hardly escaped away.

This house being thus defaced, and almost overthrowne by these Rebels, for malice they bare to Iohn of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, Savoy builded for an Hospitall. of later time came to the Kings hands, and was againe raised and beautifully builded, for an Hospital of S. Iohn Baptist, by King Henry the seventh, about the yeere 1509. For the which Hospitall, retaining still the old name of Savoy, he purchased Lands, to be imployed upon the releeving of an hundred poore people. This Hospitall being valued to dispend 529. pound, fifteene shillings, &c. by yeere, was suppressed the tenth of Iune, the seventh of Edward the sixt: the beds, bedding, and other furniture belonging thereunto, with seven hundred Markes of the said lands by yeere, he gave to the Citizens of London, with his house of Bridewell, to the furnishing thereof, to bee a Workehouse for the poore and idle persons,Hospitall of Savoy, suppressed. & towards the furnishing of the Hospitall of Saint Thomas in Southwarke, lately suppressed.

This Hospitall of Savoy was againe new founded,Hospitall of Savoy, a new foundation thereof. erected, corporated and endowed with Lands by Queene Mary, the third of November: In the fourth of her raigne, one Iackson tooke possession, and was made Master thereof in the same Moneth of November. The Ladies of the Court, and Maidens of Honor (a thing not to be forgotten) stored the same of new with beddes, bedding, and other furniture, in very ample manner, &c. and it was by Patent so confirmed at Westminster, the 9. of May, the 4. and 5. of Philip and Mary.

The Chappell of this Hospitall serveth now as a Parish Church to the Tenements thereof neere adjoyning,Parish Church of S. Iohn in the Savoy. and others.

The next was sometime the Bishop of Carliles Inne, which now belongeth to the Earle of Bedford, & is called Russell or Bedford house. It stretcheth from the Hospitall of Savoy, Bishop of Carlile his Inne, or Bedford house. West to Ivie Bridge; where Sir Robert Cecill, principall Secretarie to Queen Elizabeth, did then raise a large and stately house of Bricke and Timber, as also levelled and paved the high-way neere adjoyning, to the great beautifying of that street, and commodity of passengers. Richard the 2. in the 8. of his reigne, granted licence to pave with stone the high-way, called Strand street, from Temple Barre to the Savoy, and Tole to bee taken towards the charges: and againe the like was granted in the 42. of Henry the 6.

Ivie Bridge in the high street, which had a way under it, leading downe to the Thames, the like as sometime had the Strand bridge, is now taken downe, but the lane remaineth as afore, or better, and parteth the Liberty of the Dutchie, and the Citie of Westminster on that South side.

Now to begin againe at Temple Barre over-against it. In the high street, as is afore shewed, is one large Middle Rowe of houses and small Tenements builded, partly opening to the South, partlie towards the North. Amongst the which standeth the Parish Church of S. Clement Danes, Parish Church of S. Clement Danes. so called, because Harolde a Danish King, and other Danes were buried there.

This Harolde, whom King Canutus had by a concubine, reigned 3. yeeres, and was buried at Westminster, but afterward, Hardicanutus, the lawfull sonne of Canutus, in revenge of a displeasure done to his mother, by expelling her out of the Realme, and the murder of his brother Alured, Liber Chartsey. commanded the body of Harolde to be digged out of the earth, and to bee throwne into the Thames, where it was by a Fisherman taken up and buried in this Church-yard. But out of a faire Leager Booke, sometime belonging to the Abbey of Chartsey, in the County of Surrey is noted, as in Francis thin, after this sort:

[Page] In the reigne of King Ethelred, the Monasterie of Chartsey was destroyed, 90. Monks of that house were slaine by the Danes, whose bodies were buried in a place neere to the old Monasterie.W. Malmes-Danes slaine at S. Clement Danes. William Malmesburie saith: They burnt the Church, together with the Monks and Abbot; but the Danes continuing in their furie (throughout the whole lana) desirous, at the length, to returne home into Denmarke, were (by the just judgement of God) all slaine at London, in a place which is called the Church of the Danes.

This said middle rowe of houses, stretching West to a Stone Crosse now headlesse,Headlesse Crosse by the Strand. by or against the Strand, including the said Parish Church of Saint Clement, is also wholly of the liberty and Dutchy of Lancaster.

Thus much for the bounds and antiquities of this libertie, wherein I have noted Parish Churches twaine, sometime 3. houses of name 6. to wit, the Savoy, or Lancaster house, now an Hospitall, Sommerset house, Essex house, Arundell house, Bedford or Russell house, and Sir Robert Cecils house; besides of Chesters Inne, or Strand Inne, sometime an Inne of Chancery, &c.

This liberty is governed by the Chancelor of that Dutchy at this present,Chancelor of the Dutchie of Lancaster. Sir Iohn Deckam, Knight, and one of his Majesties most honorable Privy Councellors. There is under him a Steward, that keepeth Court and Leete for the King, he giveth the charge, and taketh the oathes of every under Officer.

Then is there 4. Burgesses, and 4. Assistants to take up controversies, a Bayliffe, which hath two or three under-Bailiffes, that make arrests within that libertie, foure Constables, foure Wardens, that keepe the lands and Stocke for the poore, foure Wardens for highwayes, a Iury or Inquest of 14. or 16. to present defaults, foure Alecunners, which looke to the Affise of weights and measures, &c. foure Scavengers and a Beadle, and their common Prison is Newgate.

There is in this liberty 50. men, which are alwaies to bee at an houres warning, with all necessarie furniture, to serve the King, as occasion shall require. Their charge at a Fifteene is 13. s. 4. d. Thus much for the Suburbe in the libertie of the Dutchie of Lancaster.

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THE CITIE OF VVESTMINSTER, VVith the Antiquities, Bounds, and Liberties thereof.

NOw touching the Citie of Westminster, I will begin at Temple Barre, on the right hand or North side, and so passe up West, through a backe lane or street, wherein doe stand three Innes of Chancery:Clements lane of Chancery. the first called Clements Inne, Clements VVell. because it standeth neere to S. Clements Church, but neerer to the faire fountaine, called Clements Well. The second,New Inne of Chancery. New Inne, so called as latelier made of a common Hostery, and the signe of our Lady, an Inne of Chancery for Students then the other; namely, about the beginning of the reigne of Henry the seventh, and not so ancient as some have supposed, to wit, at the pulling downe of Strand Inne, in the reigne of King Edward the sixt, for I read, that Sir Thomas More, somtime Lord Chancellor, was Student in this New Inne, and went from thence to Lincolnes Inne, &c.

The third is Lyons Inne, Lyons Inne of Chancery. Drury lane. and Inne of Chancery also. This street stretcheth up unto Drury lane, so called, for that there is a house belonging to the Family of the Druries. This lane turneth North toward S. Giles in the field. From the South end of this lane in the high-street, are divers faire buildings, Hosteries, & houses for Gentlemen, and men of honor, amongst the which Cecil house is one,Cecil house. which sometime belonged to the Parson of Saint Martins in the field, and by composition came to Sir Thomas Palmer, Knight, in the reigne of Edward the sixt, who began to build the same of bricke, and Timber, very large and spacious. But of later time, it hath bin farre more beautifully increased by the late Sir William Cecill, Baron of Burghley, Lord Treasurer, and great Counsellor of the Estate.

From thence is now a continuall new building of divers faire houses, even up to the Earle of Bedfords house, Bedford house. lately builded nigh to Ivie bridge, and so on the North side, to a lane that turneth to the Parish Church of Saint Martins in the field,Parish Church of S. Martin in the field. in the liberty of Westminster. Then had yee one house, wherein sometime were distraught and lunatike people, of what antiquity founded, or by whom I have not read, neither of the suppression: but it was said, that sometime a King of England, An house belonging to Bethlem. not liking such a kind of people to remaine so neere his Palace, caused them to be removed farther off, to Bethlem without Bishops gate of London, and to that Hospitall the said house by Charing Crosse doth yet remaine.

Then is the Mewse,The Mewse by Charing Crosse. so called of the Kings Faulcons there kept by the Kings Faulconer, which of old time was an office of great account, as appeareth by a Record of Richard the 2. in the first yeere of his raigne. Sir Simon Burley, Knight, was made Constable for the Castles of Windsore, Wigmore, and Gilford, and of the Mannor of Kenington, The Mewse now builded for stabling of the Kings horses. and also Master of the Kings Faulcons at the Mewse, neere unto Charing crosse by Westminster: but in the yeere of Christ 1534. the 28. of Henry the 8. the King having faire stabling at Lomsbury (a Mannor in the farthest west part of Oldboorne) the same was fired and burnt, with many great horses, and great store of Hay. After which time the forenamed house, called the Mewse by Charing crosse, was new builded▪ and prepared for stabling of [Page] the Kings horses, in the raigne of Edward the sixt and Queene Mary, and so remaineth to that use: and this is the farthest building West on the North side of that high streete.

On the South side of the which streete, The Bishop of Durham house. in the liberties of Westminster (beginning at Ivie bridge) first is Durham house, builded by Thomas Hatfield, Bishop of Durham, who was made Bishop of that Sea, in the yeere 1545. and late Bishop there 36. yeeres.

Amongst matters memorable concerning this house,Iusting feast at Durham house. this is one: In the yeere of Christ 1340. the 32. of Henry the 8. on May day, a great and triumphant Iusting was holden at Westminster, which had been formerly proclaimed in France, Flanders, Scotland and Spaine, for all commers that would undertake the Challengers of England, which were Sir Iohn dudley, Sir Thomas Seymer, Sir Thomas Poynings, and Sir George Carew, Knights, and Anthony Kingston, and Richard Cromwel, Esquires. All which came into the Lists that day richly apparelled, and their horses trapped all in white velvet; there came against them the said day 46. Defendants, or Vndertakers, viz. the Earle of Surrey formost, Lord William Howard, Lord Clinton, and Lord Cromwell, sonne and heire to Thomas Cromwell, Earle of Essex, and Chamberlaine of England, with other; and that day, after the Iusts were performed, the Challengers rode unto this Durham house, where they kept open household, and feasted the King, and Queene, with her Ladies and all the Court.

The 2. day Anthony Kingston, and Richard Cromwel were made Knights there.

The third day of May, the said Challengers did Tourney on horseback with swords, & against them 49. Defendants: Sir Iohn Dudley and the Earle of Surrey running first, which at the first course lost their Gauntlets, and that day Sir Richard Cromwell overthrew Master Palmer and his horse in the field, to the great honour of the Challengers.

The fifth of May, the Challengers fought on foote at the Barriers, and against thē came 50. Defendants, which fought valiantly: but Sir Richard Cromwell overthrew that day at the Barriers, Master Culpepper in the field; and the 6. day the Challengers brake up their household.

In this time of their house-keeping, Pensioners. they had not only feasted the King, Queen, Ladies and all the Court, as is afore shewed: but also they cheered all the Knights & Burgesses of the common house in the Parliament, & entertained the Maior of London, with the Aldermen and their wives at a dinner, &c. The King gave to every of the said Challengers, and their heires for ever, in reward of their valiant activity 100. marks, and a house to dwell in of yeerely [...], out of the lands pertaining to the Hospitall of S. Iohn of Ierusalem.

Now to speake somwhat of later time: A row of old Stables belonging to Durham house. concerning this Durham house, it was wel knowne and observed, for how many yeers, I know not, that the outward [...]art belonging thereto, and standing North from the houses, was but a low row of Stables, old, ruinous, ready to fall, and very unsightly, in so publike a passage to the Court & to Westminster. Vpon which consideration, or some more especiall respect in the mind of the right honorable, Robert, Earle of Salisbury, Lord high Treasurer of England: it pleased him to take such order in the matter, that (at his owne costs and charges) that deformed row of Stabling was quite altered, by the erection of a very goodly & beautifull building in stead therof, and in the very same place.The shape of the new ordered worke, like the Royall Exchange. Some shape of the modelling, though not in all respects alike, was after the fashion of the Royall Exchange in London, with Sellers underneath, a walke fairely paved above it, & Rowes of Shops above, as also one beneath answerable in manner to the other and intended for the like trades and mysteries.

This worke was not long in taking down,This goodly building erected in a small space of time. nor in the erection againe; for the first Stone was laid on the 10. day of Iune, 1608. and also was fully finished in the next ensuing November after. Also on Tuesday, being the 10. day of April following, divers of the upper shops were adorned in rich and beautifull manner, with wares most curious to please the eye; so ordered against his Majesties comming thither, to give a name to so good a building. On the day [Page] following,The King, Queene, &c. come to name it Britaines Bursse. it pleased his highnesse, with the Queene, Prince, the Duke of Yorke, & the Lady Elizabeth, to come thither, attended on by many great Lords, and choise Ladies. Concerning their entertainment there, though I was no eyewitnesse thereof; yet I knew the ingenuity and mind of the Nobleman to be such, as nothing should want to welcome so great an expectation. And therfore, what variety of devices, pleasing speeches, rich gifts and presents as then flew bountifully abroad, I will rather referre to your imagination, than any way come short of, by an imperfect narration. Only this I adde, that it then pleased his most excellent Majestie, because the worke wanted a name before, to entitle it Britaines Bursse or Busse.

Next beyond this Durham house,The Bishop of Norwich his house. is another great house, sometime belonging to the Bishop of Norwich, and was his London lodging, which now pertaineth to the Arch-bishop of Yorke, by this occasion: In the yeere 1529. when Cardinall Wolsey, Archbishop of Yorke, was indited in the Premunire, wherby King Henry the 8. was entitled to his goods and possessions: hee also seazed into his hands the said Arch-bishops house, commonly called Yorke Place, and changed the name thereof into White Hall: wherby, the Arch-bishops of Yorke being dispossed, and having no house of repaire about London, Queene Mary gave unto Nicolas Heth, then Arch-Bishop of Yorke, and to his successors, Suffolke house in Southwarke, lately builded by Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolke, as I have shewed elsewhere.

This house the said Arch-bishop sold, and bought the aforesaid house, of old time belonging to the Bishops of Norwich, which (of the last purchase) is now called Yorke house; the L. Chancelors or L. Keepers of the great Seale of England, have been lately there lodged.

Then was there an Hospitall of S. Mary Rouncivall, Hospitall of S. Mary Rouncivall. by Charing Crosse (a Cell to the Priory and Covent of Rouncivall in Navar, in Pampelone Dioces) where a Fraternity was foūded in the fifteenth of Edward the fourth,Hermitage with a Chappell of S. Katharine. but now the same is suppressed, and turned into Tenements.

Neere unto this Hospitall was an Hermitage, Charing Crosse. with a chappell of S. Katharine, overagainst Charing Crosse, which Crosse builded of stone, was of old time a faire piece of work, there made by commandment of Edward the first, in the 21. yeere of his reigne, in memory of Eleanor his deceased Queene, as is before declared.

West from this Crosse,Hospitall of S. Iames. stood sometime an Hospitall of S. Iames, consisting of two hides of land, with the appurtenances, in the Parish of S. Margaret in Westminster, and founded by the Citizens of London, before the time of any mans memorie, for 14. Sisters, Maydens, that were leprous, living chastly and honestly in divine Service.

Afterwards, divers Citizens of London gave 56. l. rent thereunto, and then were adjoined 8. Brethren to minister divine Service there.

After this also, sundry devout men of London gave to this Hospitall, foure Hides of land in the field of Westminster; and in Hendon, Calcote, & Hamsted, eight Acres of land and Wood, &c. King Edward the first confirmed those gifts, and granted a Faire to be kept on the Eve of S. Iames, S. Iames faire for 7. dayes. the day, the morrow, & foure dayes following, in the eighteenth of his reigne.

This Hospitall was surrendred to Henry the 8. the 23. of his reigne: the Sisters being compounded with, were allowed Pensions for terme of their lives, and the King builded there a goodly Mannor, annexing thereunto a Park, closed about with a wall of brick,S. Iames Parke. now called S. Iames Parke, serving indifferently to the said Mannor, and to the Mannor or Palace of VVhite Hall.

South from Charing Crosse, on the right hand, are divers faire houses, lately builded before the Parke:Tilt-yard at Westminster. then a large Tilt-yard for Noble-men and other, to exercise themselves in Iusting, Turneying, and fighting at Barriers.

On the left hand from Charing Crosse, be also divers faire tenements lately builded, till ye come to a large plot of ground inclosed with bricke, and is called Scotland, Scotland, a plot of ground so called. where great buildings have bin for receipt of the Kings of Scotland, and other estates of that Countrey. For, Margaret Q. of Scots, and Sister to King Henry the 8. had her abiding there, when she came into England, after the death of her husband, as the K. of Scotland hand in [Page] former times, when they came to the Parliament of England.

Then is the said White Hall, White Hall. sometime belonging to Hubert de Burgh, Earle of Kent, and Iusticier of England, who gave it to the blacke Fryers in Oldboorne, as I have before noted, King Henry the 8. ordained it to be called an Honor, and builded there a sumptuous Gallerie, and a beautifull Gatehouse, thwart the high street, to S. Iames Parke. &c.

In this Gallerie, the Princes, with their Nobilitie, use to stand, or sit, and at Windowes to behold all triumphant Iustings, and other Militarie Exercises.

Beyond this Gallerie, on the left hand is the Garden or Orchard belonging to the said White Hall.

On the right hand be divers faire Tennis Courts,Tennis courts, Bowling Alleyes, and Cockpit. Bowling Alleyes, and a Cocke-pit, all built by King Henry the eight: and then one other arched Gate, with a way over it, thwarting the street, frō the Kings Gardens to the said Parke.

From this Gate, up Kings street, Long-ditch. to a Bridge over Longditch (so called,S. Stephens Alley. for that the same almost insulateth the City of Westminster) neere which Bridge, is a way leading to Canon Row, so called, for that the same belonged to the Deane & Canons of S. Stephens Chappell, who were there lodged, as now divers Noblemen and Gentlemen be: whereof, one is belonging to Sir Edw. Hobbey, one other to Ioh. Thin, Esquire, once stately builded by Anne Stanhop, Dutchesse of Somerset, Mother to the Earle of Hart-ford, who now enjoyeth that House. Next, a stately House, then in building by William Earle of Darby; over-against the which, is a faire House, builded by Henry Clinton, Earle of Lincolne.

From this way, up to the Wooll-Staple, and to the high Tower, or Gate, which entreth the Palace Court, all is replenished with Buildings and Inhabitants.

Touching this Wooll-Staple, T. Clifford. I reade, that in the raigne of Edward the first, the Staple being at Westminster, the Parishioners of S. Margaret, and Merchants of the Staple, builded of new the said Church, the great Chancell excepted, which was lately before new builded by the Abbot of Westminster. Record.

Moreover,No Silver to be trāsported. that Edward the third, in the 17. of his raigne, decreed, that no Silver be carried out of the Realme, on paine of death: And that whosoever transported Wooll, should bring over, for every Sacke, foure Nobles of Silver Bullion.

In the 25. of his raigne,Wooll-Staple at VV. slminster. he appointed the Staple of Wooll to be kept onely at Canturbury, for the honour of S. Thomas. But in the 27. of the same King Edward, the Staple of Wooll, before kept at Bruges in Flanders, was ordained (by Parliament) to be kept in divers places of England, Wales, and Ireland; as at New-Castle, Yorke, Lincolne, Canturburie, Norwich, Westminster, Chichester, Winchester, Excester, Bristow, Caermarden, &c. to the great benefit of the King, and losse unto strangers & Merchants. For there grew unto the King by this meanes (as it was said) the summe of a thousand, an hundred & two pounds by the yeere, more than any his predecessors before had received: The Staple at Westminster, at that time, began on the next morrow after the feast of S. Peter ad Vincula.

The next yeere was granted to the King by Parliament,Robert de Amesbury. towards the recoverie of his Title in France, 50. shillings of every Sacke of Wooll, transported over Seas, for the space of six yeere next ensuing: by meanes whereof, the King might dispend dayly, during those yeeres, more than a thousand Markes starling: For by the common opinion, there were more than an hundred thousand Sacks of Wooll yeerely transported into forraine Lands; so that during six yeeres, the said grant extended to fifteen hundred thousand pound starling.

In the 37. of Edward the third,Staple at Callis let to farme. it was granted unto him for two yeers, to take sixe and twentie shillings eight pence upon every Sack of Wooll transported: and the same yeere, the Staple of Wooll (notwithstanding the Kings Oath, and other great Estates) was ordained to be kept at Callis, and sixe and twenty Merchāts, the best & wealthiest of all England, to be Farmers there, both of the Town & Staple, for three yeeres, every Merchant to have sixe men of Armes, and foure Archers, at the Kings cost. He ordained there also two Maiors, one for the Towne, and one for the Staple, and he took for Mala capta, commonly called Maltorth, 20. shillings. [Page] and of the said Merchants; Guardians of the Towne, fortie pence upon every Sacke of Wooll.

In the 44. of Edward the third, Quinborough, Kingston upon Hull, and Boston, were made Staples of Wooll: which matter so much offended some, that in the fifty of his raigne, in a Parliament at London, it was complained, that the Staple of Wooll was so removed from Callis, to divers Townes in England, Record. contrarie to the Statute, appointing, that Citizens and Merchants should keepe it there, and that the King might have the Profits and Customes, with the exchāge of Gold & Silver that was there made, by all the Merchants in Christendome (esteemed to amount to eight thousand pound by yeere) the exchange onely: And the Citizens and Merchants so ordered the matter, that the King spent nothing upon Souldiers; neither upon defence of the Towne against the Enemies, whereas now he spent eight thousand pound by yeere.

In the fifty one of Edward the third,Manuscript. when the Staple was setled at Callis, the Major of the Staple did furnish the Captaine of the Towne, upon any Rode, with an hundred Bill-men, two hundred Arcers, of Merchants and their servants, without any wages.Frenth.

In the yeere 1388. the twelfth of Richard the second,Wooll-Staples at Middleborough. in a Parliament at Cambridge, it was ordained, that the Staple of Woolls should be brought from Middleborough in Holland to Callis.

In the foureteenth of his raigne, there was granted fortie shillings upon euery Sacke of Wooll: and in the one and twentieth, was granted fiftie shillings upon every Sacke transported by English-men, and three pounds by Strangers, &c.

It seemeth,Staple-Merchants the most ancientst of this Realme. that the Merchants of this Staple be the most ancient Merchants of this Realme, and that all commodities of the Realme are Staple Merchandizes by Law and Charter, as Woolls, Leather, Wooll-fells, Lead, Tynne, Cloth, &c.

King Henry the sixt had six Woollhouses within the Staple at Westminster: those he granted to the Deane and Canons of S. Stephen at Westminster, & cōfirmed it the 21. of his raigne. Thus much for the Staple have I shortly noted.The eving lane.

And now to passe to the famous Monasterie of Westminster at the very entrance of the Close thereof, is a lane that leadeth toward the West, called Theeving lane, for that theeves were led that way to the Gatehouse, while the Sanctuary continued in force.Foundation of VVestminster by Sebert a Christian King not only in word, but in deede.

This Monasterie was founded and builded by Sebert, King of the East Saxons, upon the perswasion of Ethelbert King of Kent, who having imbraced Christianity, and being baptized by Melitus, Bishop of London, immediately (to shew himselfe a Christian indeede) built a Church to the honor of God and Saint Peter, on the West side of the City of London, in a place (which because it was over-grown with thornes, and environed with water) the Saxons called Thorney, and now of the Monasterie and West situation thereof, is called Westminster. What further I reade, concerning the first foundation of this Church, followeth in this manner:

When the Church of God first began to grow in Great Brittaine, Ex Sulcard. at such time (saith Sulcardus) as Antoninus Pius, The Temple of Apollo overthrown by an Earth-quake. was Emperour of Rome, the Temple of Apollo, which was then seated on the West side of the City of London, where now Westminster standeth, fell downe by the violence of an Earthquake. Of the ruines wherof, Lucius (who was King of the Britaines, and reigned heere by permission of the Romans) built a small Church to the honor of Christ, in the yeere of our Lord 170. which afterward was utterly defaced, when the heat of persecution (under Dioclesian) wasted Britaine.

This place afterward (for a long time) lay altogether neglected,King Sebert built a Monastery in the place where the Church stood. and not regarded, but became all overgrowne with thornes and bushes: in so much as the English Saxons named it Thornez or Thorney; untill Sebert King of the East Saxons (or of Essex and Middlesex) who was the first that subscribed to the worship of Christ, built in that place a Monasterie to Christ and Saint Peter, in the yeere of Christ 605. whereupon, partly from the situation to the West, and partly, from the Monasterie or Minster, it began to take the name of Westminster: But afterward when this Monasterie [Page] was destroyed in the furious warres of the Danes, The Monastery destroyed by the Danes, and repaired by S. Dunstan. Dunstane, Archbishop of Canturbury (by the favor of King Edgar) repaired it, and granted, and gave it to a small company of Monks.

Afterward King Edward, surnamed the Confessor,The Monastery rebuilded by K. Edward the Confessor. with the Tenthes of all his revenewes, built it a-new, to be a place for his own Sepulcher, and a Monasterie for the Monks of S. Bennets order, and endowed it with revenewes lying (here and there) in all places of England, and it is an ancient Fabricke & very stately. Since which time this Monastarie hath bin (and yet is) very famous, for the consecration and Coronation of the King of England, and the buriall of many of them and other great Personages, and for the custodie of the Regalia for the Coronation.

But 160. yeeres after,A new Church builded in most goodly and beautifull manner. King Henry the third pulled downe that ancient Fabrick of King Edward, and (with 50. yeeres worke) built a Church of a most goodly frame, with a multitude of Marble pillars, set in comely order: wherof he himselfe layed the first stone, and covered the roofe with Lead, in An. 1220. which Church (afterward) the Abbots did much inlarge to the Westward:King Henry the 7. his Chappell the Miracle of the world. And K. Henry the 7. in the yeere 1502. bestowed 14000. pounds on the East side, where he built a Chappell of admirable beauty (which Leland calls the Miracle of the World: for any man that sees it, may well say, that all elegancy of worship & matter, is couched in it) to be a place of Sepulture for himselfe, and all his posterity: wherein (at this day) is to be seene his owne Tombe, most gorgeous and great, made all of solid Brasse.

Afterward,The alteration in the time of Henry eight. when the Monkes were expelled by K. Henry the eight, it was eftsoones converted to divers governements. First,A Bishop of Westminster. it had a Deane and Prebendaries: Anon after, a Bishop, and that onely one, named Thomas Thurlbey, in Anno 1541. when the revenues of the Church were abridged, he departed, and left it to be governed by a Deane.

Within short time after,A Nurserie for the collegiate Church of Westminster, instituted by Queen Elizabeth. Queen Mary brought in the Monks againe, with their Abbat, who not long after, being expulsed by Act of Parliament, Queene Elizabeth (of blessed memory) converted it unto a Collegiate Church, or rather a Nurserie for the Church, in the yeere 1560. For there she ordained (to the glorie of God, and the propagation of true Religion and good Literature) a Deane, twelve Prebendaries, an upper Master, and an Vsher for the Schoole, forty Schollers, tearmed the Queenes or Kings Schollers; who (at their due times) are preferred to both the Vniversities: besides Ministers, Singers, and Organists, tenne Quiristers, and twelve poore Souldiers, &c.

The first Deane then of that Foundation, The first Deane, according to the foundation. was Master William Bill; who being taken away within two yeeres, had for his successor, Master Gabriel Goodman, Doctor of Divinitie: who, when he had governed this Collegiate Church (with great commendation) the space of forty yeeres, died in the yeere of our Lord God, 160 [...]. And then Master Lancelot Andrewes, Doctor also in Divinitie, succeeded him: next, Doctor Neale; and after him, Doctor Mountaine.

Sebert was buried in this Church, with his wife Athelgoda; whose bodies, many yeeres after, to wit, in the raigne of Richard the second (saith Walsingham) were translated from the old Church to the new,Walsingham. and there interred.

Edgar, King of the West-Saxons, repaired this Monasterie about the yeere of Christ, 958. Edward, the Confessor builded it of new; whereupon T. Clifford writeth thus:T. Clifford.

Without the Walls of London (saith he) upon the River of Thames, there was in times passed a little Monasterie, builded to the honour of God and S. Peter, with a few Benedictine Monks in it, under an Abbot, serving Christ: very poor they were, & little was given them for their reliefe. Heere the King intended (for that it was neere to the famous Citie of London, and the River of Thames, that brought in all kind of Merchandizes from all parts of the world) to make his Sepulcher: He commanded therefore, that of the tenthes of all his Rents, the Worke should be begun, in such sort, as should become the Prince of the Apostles.

At this his commandement, the Worke was nobly begun, even from the foundation, and happily proceeded, till the same was finished: The charges bestowed, or to be bestowed are not regarded. He grāted to this Church great priviledges, [Page] above all the Churches in this Land, as partly appeareth by this his Charter.

[...] &c.

Edward, King, greetes William Bishop, and Leosstane and Aeliffe Portreeves, and all my Burgesses of London, friendly: and I tell you, that I have this given and granted to Christ and S. Peter, the holy Apostle at Westminster, full freedome over all the land that belongeth to that holy place, &c.

He also caused the Parish Church of Saint Margaret to bee newly builded,Parish Church of Saint Margaret. without the Abbey Church of Westminster, for the ease and commoditie of the Monkes, because (before that time) the Parish Church stood within the old Abbey Church in the South Ile, somewhat to their annoyance.

King Henry the third, in the yeere of Christ, 1220. and in the fift of his reigne, began the new worke of our Ladies Chappell, whereof he laid the first stone in the foundation, and in the yeere 1245. the wals and steeple of the old Church (builded by King Edward) were taken down, & inlarging the same Church, caused them to bee made more comely. For the furtherance whereof, in the yeere 1246. the same King (devising how to extort money from the Citizens of London towards the charges) appointed a Mart to bee kept at Westminster, Mathew Paris. the same to last fifteene dayes,A Mart at Westminster. and in the meane space all trade of Merchandize to cease in the Citie, which thing the Citizens were faine to redeeme with two thousand pound of silver.

The worke of this Church, with the houses of office, was finished to the end of the Quire, in the yeere 1285. the 14. of Edward the first.

All which labour of 66. yeeres,Westminster with the Palace burned. was in the yeer 1299. defaced by a fire, kindled in the lesser Hall of the Kings Palace, at Westminster, the same with many other houses adjoyning, and with the Queenes Chamber were all consumed, the flame thereof also (being driven with the wind) fired the Monastery, which was also consumed with the Palace consumed.

Then was the Monastery againe repaired by the Abbots of that Church, King Edward the first and his successours, putting to their helping hands.

Edward the second appropriated unto this Church, the Patronages of the Churches of Kelueden and Sabritswarth in Essex, in the Diocesse of London.

Simon Langham Abbot (having beene a great builder there in the yeere 1362. gave foure hundred pound to the building of the body of the Church: but (amongst others) Abbot Islip was (in his time) a great builder there, as may appeare in the stone worke, and glassewindowes of the Church. Since whose decease, that worke hath stayed as hee left it, unperfected, the Church and Steeple being all of one height.

King Henry the seventh,New Chappell at Westminster. about the yeere of Christ 1502. caused the Chappell of our Lady builded by Henry the third, with a Taverne also called the White Rose neere adjoyning, to bee taken downe: in which plot of ground on the 24. of Ianuary, the first stone of the new Chappell, was layd by the hands of Abbot Islip, Sir Reginald Bray, knight of the Garter, Doctor Barnes, Master of the Rolles, Doctor Wall, Chaplen to the King, Master Hugh Aldham, Chaplen to the Countesse of Darby and Richmond (the Kings Mother) Sir Edward Stanhop, knight, and divers other: upon the which stone was engraven the same day and yeere, &c.

The charges in building this Chappell amounted to the summe of 14000. pound. The stone for this worke (as I have beene informed) was brought from Huddlestone Quarry in Yorkeshire.

The Altar and Sepulchre of the same King Henry the seventh, wherein his body resteth in this his new Chappel, was made and finished in the yeere 1519. by one Peter a Painter of Florence: for which hee received 1000. pound sterling, for the whole stuffe and workemanship, at the hands of the Kings executors [Page] [...] [Page] [...] [Page] Richard, Bishop of Winchester, Richard, Bishop of London, Thomas, Bishop of Durham, Iohn, Bishop of Rochester, Thomas, Duke of Norfolke, Treasurer of England, Charles, Earle of Worcester, the Kings Chamberlaine, Iohn Fineaux, Knight, chiefe Iustice of the Kings Bench, Robert Reade, Knight, chiefe Iustice of the Common pleas.

This Monasterie being valued to dispended by the yeere 3470. pounds,VVestminster a Bishops Sea. &c. was surrendred to Henry the eight in the yeere 1539. Benson then Abbot, was made the first Deane: and not long after, it was advanced to a Bishops Sea, in the yeere 1541. Thomas Thurleby, being both the first & last Bishop there, who, when he had impoverished the Church, was translated to Norwich, in the yeere 1550. the fourth of Edward the sixt, and from thence to Ely, in the yeere 1554. the second of Queene Mary. Richard Cox, Doctor in Divinity (late Schoole-master to King Edward the 6.) was made Deane of Westminster, whom Queene Mary put out, and made Doctor Weston Deane, untill the yeere 1556. and then he being removed from thence on the 21. of November, Iohn Feckenham (late Deane of Pauls) was made Abbot of Westminster, and tooke possession of the same, being installed, and 14. Monks more received the habite with him that day, of the order of S. Benedict: but the said Iohn Feckenham, with his Monkes, enjoyed not that place fully three yeers: for in the yeere 1559. in the Moneth of Iuly, they were all put out, and Queene Elizabeth made the said Monasterie a Colledge, instituting there a Deane, twelve Prebends, a Schoolemaster, and Vsher, 40. Schollers called commonly the Q Schollers, 12. Almes men, and so it was called the Collegiat Church of Westminster, VVestminster made a Collegiat Church. founded by Queene Elizabeth, who placed Doctor Bill, first Deane of that new erection, after whom succeeded Doctor Gabriel Goodman, who governed that Church fortie yeeres, and after him Doctor L. Andrewes.

Kings and Queenes crowned in this Church.Kings and Queenes crowned at VVestminster. William, surnamed Conqueror, and Matilda his wife, were the first, and since them all other Kings and Queenes of this Realme, have been there crowned.

Kings and Queenes buried in this Church in order following, are these:

Sebert of the East Saxons, and Middle Saxons, Buried in the Chappell appointed for Kings. that is, Essex and Middlesex, King, the Sonne of Sledde, by Ricula, Sister to Ethelbert, King of Kent, first King of the East Saxons: by the perswasions of Ethelbert, received and embraced the Christian faith, and the Church of Westminster, which then was tearmed Thorney; erected to blessed Saint Peter, wherein, with his wife Athelgoda he lyeth buried. Hee dyed the last day of Iuly, in the yeere of our Redemption, 616. And 691. yeeres after, to wit, 1307. The Monks of Westminster translated his body out of the old Church into the new Kings Chappell, and placed it therein a Sepulcher of Stone, at the South part of the Lords Table, with this Epitaph:

Labilitas, brevitas

mundanae prosperitatis,

Coelica, praemia, gloria,

gaudia danda beatis

Sebertum ceytum

jure dedêre satis.

Hic Rex Christicola

verax fuit hac regione,

Qui nunc coecolica

gaudet mercede coronae:

Rex humilis, docilis,

scius, & pius, inclytus iste

Sollicitè, nitidè, tacitè,

placidè (bone Christe)

Vult servire tibi

perficiendo sibi.

Ornat mores, spernit

flores, lucis avarae

Gliscens multum, Christi

cultum laetificare,

Ecclesiam nimiam nimio

studio sabricavit,

Haec illaesa manus

quae fundamenta locavit.

Hic sepringentis annis

terra cumulatus,

Christi clementis

instinctibus inde levatus,

Isto sub lapide

nunc jacet ipse, vide.

Atque domum Christo,

quia mundo fecit in isto,

Nunc pro mercede coeli

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requiescit in aede.

Respice mortalis,

promisso sit tibi talis:

Accipies si des,

nil capies nisi des;

Es Christo qualis,

Christus erit tibi talis.

Dapsilis esto sibi,

largus eritque tibi.

Effectus non affectus,

si reddere possis,

Debet censeri;

si nihil reddere possis,

Tunc bonus affectus

pro facto debet haberi.

Sicut de lignis per aquam

depellitur ignis;

Sic mala commissa

fiunt donando remissa.

Reddet ad usuram quod quis

dat nomine Christi,

Nam vitam puram

pro parvo dat Deus isti.

The fore-named King Sebert died the last day of Iuly, Anno Domini, 619. Whose wife, named Aetheloda, closed up her latest day of life before the said Sebert. viz. the 13. day of September, Anno Domini, 615. And with her husband Sebert (as already wee have said) lyeth in this Church, which himself founded, in a Tombe of Lead honourably buried.

Vpon the wall by this Tombe, are these Verses painted:

Hic Rex Seberte plausus,

mihi condita per te

Haec loca lustravi,

demùm lustrando dicavi.

Edward, He lyeth also buried in the said Chappell, appointed for Kings. King of England, for his singular piety numbred among the Confessors, was the Sonne of King Aetheldred. The annuall pension of foure thousand pound, called Dangelt, hee remitted to the English Legates (as Matth. West. writeth) He sent to Rome to Pope Damasus, to be absolved of a Vow which hee had promised by a journey to Rome, if he obtained his Paternall Kingdome. which Pope absolving his said Vow, wrote backe unto him, That the Expences prepared for his travaile, hee should bestow upon the poore; and a Monasterie (in the honour of Saint Peter) hee should either newly build, or repaire some old one. The Legates being returned, Vlfinus, sometime a Monke, perswading, and all the Councell of the Kingdome approving, hee repaired Westminster againe. He died Anno 1066. and there lyeth honourably interred in a Marble Tombe, checquered with varietie of beautifull colours, in the middest of the Chappell, with these Verses:

Omnibus insignis virtutum

laudibus haeres,

Sanctus Edwardus Confessor,

Rex venerandus,

Quinto die Iani moriens

Iuper aethera scandit.

Sursum Corda.

Obiit, Anno Dom. 1065.

Editha, She lyeth buried at the North side of S. Edwards Tombe, in the same Chappell▪ Queene of England, Daughter to Goodwine Earle of Kent, and wife to S. Edward, King and Confesser, a woman of singular pietie and modestie, Edward her husband (as Matthew Westm. avoucheth) did not move this Edith by marriage rites, to know the manners of men, but whether in hatred to her father, or love to Chastitie hee did it, it remaineth uncertaine. Some doe affirme, that this holy King was not willing to beget any heires, that should succeed him out of a treacherous race.

Matilda, Shee is buried at the South side S. Edwards Tombe in the same Chappell. Queene of England, Daughter to Malcolme, King of Scots, and wife to King Henry the first, brought unto him children, William, Richard, and Mary, which perished by shipwracke, and Maude Empresse, who was wife to Henry the fift, Caesar Augustus, and Mother to King Henry the second. This Queene (as Wil. Malmesbury avoweth) every day in the Lent time went to Westminster, bare-foot and bare-legd,He is buried in the South side of the Chappell in a goodly Tombe, brought out of France by his Sonne Edward. and wearing a garment of haire. She died 1118. and lieth without any Tombe.

Henry the third, King of England, &c. Sonne of King Iohn, by Isabell, Daughter to the Earle of Angolesme, a very pious Prince, and most hightly commended for his vertues. In An. 1220. hee [Page] began the new worke of the Chappell of our blessed Lady at Westminster, and himselfe layd the first Stone. And in An. 1245. after, the Conventuall Church of B. Peter the greater, he pulled down, and new builded it, and on the day of the Apostles Peter and Paul, he caused it to be fully and decently built and enlarged. He gave also to the said Church very Royall gifts, of Copes, Iewels and rich vessels, that it might equall in riches all the Cisalpine Churches. Hee died, An. 1273. 11. Kalend. Decem. when he had reigned fifty sixe yeares, and eighteene dayes: upon his Tombe are these verses,

Tertius Henricus jacet

hic, pietatis amicus,

Ecclesiam stravit istam,

quam post renovavit,

Reddet ei munus qui regnat

trinus & unus,

Tertius Henricus

est Templi conditor hujus.

Dulce Bellum

inexpertis.

The Friend of pitie

and Almes-deed,

Henry the third,

whilome of England King,

Who this Church brake,

and after his meed,

Againe renewed

into this faire building;

Now resteth here

which did so great a thing.

He yeelded his meed

that Lord of Deity,

That as one Godreignes

in Persons three.

Edward the first,He lyeth in a Marble Tomb at his Fathers head in the same Chappell. King of England, Duke of Normandy, and Aquitaine, Lord of Ireland, Sonne to King Henry the third, by Eleanor daughter to the Earle of Provence. Hee tooke to wife Eleanor, daughter to Ferdinand the third, King of Castile, and Lyons. He warred with the Scots, won Barwicke, &c. Hee dyed in Anno 1308. and hath this Epitaph on his Tomb.

Mors est moesta nimis,

magnos quae jungit in imis,

Maxima mors minimis,

conjungens ultima primis:

Nullus in Orbe fuit homo vivens,

nec valet esse,

Qui non morte ruit;

est hinc exire necesse.

Nobilis & fortis,

tibi tu confidere noli,

Omnia sunt mortis,

sibi subdit singula soli.

De mundi medio

magnum mors impia movit,

Anglia prae tedio satis

anxia plangere novit:

Corruit Edwardus vario

veneratus honore,

Rex nuper ut Nardus

fragrans virtutis odore,

Corde Leopardus,

invictus & abs (que) pavore,

Ad rixam tardus,

discretus & eucharis ore,

Viribus Armorum

quasi Gigas ardua gessit,

Colla superborum Prudens

per praelia pressit,

Inter Flandrenses fortuna

sibi bene favit,

Vt quoque Wallenses

& Scotos suppeditavit,

Rex bonus absque pari strenuè

sua regna regebat:

Quod na tura dare potuit

bonitatis habebat,

Actio justitiae, pax regni,

sanctio legis,

Et fuga nequitiae premunt

praecordia Regis,

Gloria tota ruit,

Rege capit haec modo fossa,

Rex quandoque fuit,

nunc nil nisi pulvis & ossa:

Filius ipse Dei quem corde

colebat, & ore,

Gaudia fecit ei nullo

permista dolore.

Dum vixit Rex & valuit sua

magna potestas,

Fraus latuit, Pax magna fuit,

regnavit Honestas.

Edwardus primus Scotorum malleus hic est. Pactum serva.

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Death is too dolefull,

which doth joyne

The highest estate

full low;

Which coupleth

greatest things with least,

And last

with first also.

No man hath bin

in world alive,

Nor any

may there be;

Which can escape

the dint of Death,

Needs hence

depart must we.

O Noble

and victorious man,

Trust not

unto thy strengh;

For all are subject

unto Death,

And all

must hence at length.

Most cruell Fate

from worldly Stage

Hath wrest

a worthy wight;

For whom all England

mourned lowd.

To see

his dolefull plight.

Edward is dead,

which was adorn'd

With divers

graces here:

A King, or fragrant

Nardus hight

A gracious

Princely Peere.

In heart the which

was Leopard like,

Right puissant,

voyd of feare.

Most slow to strife,

discreet and wise,

And gracious

every where.

In Armes, a Gyant

fierce and fell,

Attempting

famous facts:

Most prudent,

did subdue the proud

By feate

of Martiall acts:

In Flanders,

Fortune gave to him,

By lot, right

good successe:

In Wales he wanne;

the Scottish rout

With Armes

he did suppresse.

This King

without his like alive

Did firmely guide

his Land:

And what good

nature could conceive,

He had it plight

at hand.

He was in Justice,

and in Peace

Excelling:

Laws tooke place,

Desire to chase

all wicked workes,

Did hold this Kings

good Grace.

He now doth lye

entombed here,

Which furthered

each good thing:

Now, nought he is

but dust and bones,

Which was

a worthy King.

The very SONNE of GOD,

whom erst

This King did love

right deere:

Hath given to him

immortall blisse,

For his good

living here.

Otherwise:

Whil'st liv'd this King,

by him all things

Were in most

goodly plight:

Fraud lay hid,

great Peace was kept,

And Honestie

had might.

Her image lyeth on the Tombe in Brasse richly gilded in the same Chappell.

Eleanor, Queene of England, first wife of Edward the first, the onely daughter to Ferdinand the third, K. of Castile and Lyons, by Ioane his second wife, [Page] Heire to Guydo, Earle of Ponthieu. This Earledome of Ponthieu, by right, became devolved to the Kings of England, by the mother to Edward the second, Shee departed this life Anno Domini, 1298. and lyeth at the feete of Henry the third, in a Marble Tombe, having these Verse:

Nobilis Hispani jacet

hic soror inclyta Regis,

Eximii consors

Eleanora thori,

Edwardi primi Wallorum

Principis uxor,

Cui Pater Henricus tertius

Anglus erat.

Hanc ille uxorem gnato petit:

omnie Princeps

Legati munus

suscepit ipse bono.

Alfonso fratri placuit

felix Hymenaeus,

Germanam Edwardo

nec sine dote dedit,

Dos praeclara fuit,

nec tali indigna marito,

Pontino Princeps

munere dives erat.

Femina consilio prudens,

pia, prole beata,

Auxit amicitiis,

auxit honore virum.

Disce mori.

Queene Eleanor

is here interr'd,

A worthy

Noble Dame:

Sister unto

the Spanish King,

Of Royall bloud

and fame.

King Edwards wife,

first of that name,

And Prince of Wales

by right;

Whose father Henry,

just the third,

Was sure

an English Wight;

Who crav'd her wife

unto his Sonne:

The Prince himselfe

did goe

On that embassage

luckily,

As chiefe

with many moe.

This knot

of linked marriage,

Her brother

Alphonse lik'd,

And so'tweene Sister

and this Prince,

The marriage

up was strik'd:

The Dowry rich

and Royall was,

For such a Prince

most meet;

For Pontine was

the marriage gift,

A Dowrie rich

and great.

A Woman both

in Counsell wise,

Religious, fruitfull,

meeke:

Who did increase

her husbands friends,

And larg'd

his honour eke.

Learne to Dye.

Edward the third,He lyeth buried in the South part of the Kingly Chappell, with his figure in Brasse richly gilded. King of England, &c. Sonne to Edward the second, by Isabell, daughter to Philip the faire, King of France, a most Martiall man. When the brother by her Mother dyed, no Heires Males being left, and the French pretended their Salique Law, which admitted much lesse the Female Issue to succeed: He denounced warre against them, which very sharpely hee pursued. Callis hee conquered, recovering Aquitaine and Normandy by his forces. Iohn King of France, and David King of Scots hee tooke in warre, and kept them prisoners. The Armes the Title of France hee added to his owne: and when (like a Triumphant Monarch) hee had reigned fifty yeares, hee yeelded to the stroke of Death in Ann. 1377. And these verses are annexed by the Tombe.

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Hic decus Anglorum,

flos praeteritorum,

Forma futurorum,

Rex clemens, pax populorum,

Tertius Edwardus:

regni complens Iubilaeum,

Invictus Pardus,

pollens bellis Machabeus;

Prosperè dum vixit

regnum pietate revixit,

Armipotens rexit:

jam Coelo Coelice Rex sit.

Tertius Edwardus

fama super aethera notus.

Pugna pro Patria.

In every part of this Tombe,The Sons and daughters of K. Edward the third. are all the Sonnes and Daughters of this Kings expressed in solid Brasse. On the right side, Edward Prince of Wales; Ioane of the Tower, given in marriage to the King of Spaine; Lionel, Duke of Clarence; Edmund, Duke of Yorke; Mary, Duchesse of Britaine; and William of Hatfield. On the left side, Isabell, Lady of Coucy; William of Windsor; Iohn Duke of Lancaster; Blanch, of the Tower of London; Margaret Countesse of Pembrooke; and Thomas Duke of Glecester.

Of English Kings

here lyes the beautifull flower,

Of all before passed,

and a mirror to them shall shew;

A mercifull King,

of peace conservatour;

The third Edward,

the death of whom may rue

All English men;

for he by Knighthood due

Was Libard invict,

and by feat Martiall:

To worthy Macabe

in vertue perregall.

The Sword, which this most Potent and warrelike King Edward the third used in warre, is to bee seene by his Tombe, weighing eighteene pound, and seven foote in length.

Philip, She hath a beautifull Tomb and her Figure in Alablaster upon it. Queene of England, wife to Edward the third, daughter to William of Bavaria, Earle of Henault, a woman of singular Piety, and a Mother of most Noble Children, dyed Anno Domini, 1369. And lyeth at the feet of Edward her husband, and these Verses annexed:

Gulielmi Hannonis

soboles posterma Philippa,

Hic Roseo quondam

pulchra decore jacet.

Tertius Edwardus

Rex ista conjuge laetus

Materno suasu

Nobiliumque fuit:

Frater Iohannes

Comes Mavortius Heros,

Huic illam voluit

consociare viro.

Haec junxit Flandors

conjunctio sanguinis Anglis:

In Francos venit hinc

Gallica dira leus.

Dotibus haec raris viguit

Regina Philippa,

Forma praestanti,

Religione, Fide.

Foecunda nata

est proles numerosa parenti,

Insignes peperit

magnanimosque Duces,

Oxonii posuit

studiosis optima Nutrix

Regineas aedes,

Palladiamque Scholam.

Conjux Edwardi

jacet Regina Philippa.

Disce Vivere.

Faire Philip,

William Henaults child,

And youngest

daughter deere;

Of Roseate hue,

and beautie bright,

In Tombe lyes

hilled heere.

Edward the third,

through Mothers will,

And Nobles

good consent,

Tooke her to wife,

and joyfully

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With her his time

he spent.

His Brother Iohn,

a Martiall man,

And eke a

valiant Knight,

Did linke this woman

to this King

In bonds of

Marriage rite.

This Match and Mariage

thus in bloud,

Did binde

the Flemings sure

To Englishmen,

by which they did

The Frenchmens

wracke procure.

This Philip flowr'd

in gifts full rare,

And treasures

of the mind;

In Beautie bright,

Religion, Faith,

To all and each

most kind.

A fruitfull Mother,

Philip was

Full many a Sonne

shee bred:

And brought forth many

a worthy knight,

Hardy, and full

of dread:

A carefull Nurse

to Students all;

At Oxford

shee did found

Queenes Colledge; she,

Dame Pallas Schoole,

That did her

fame resound.

Learne to live.

About this Tombe are round placed the Images of these Princes,Royall ornaments there placed, to illustrate the beautie of the Tombe. and their Armes to expresse them, as in an old Manuscript Booke they were found.

At the feet, the King of Navarre, the King of Bohemia, the King of Scotland, the King of Sicily, and the King of Spaine.

At the head, Willia Earle of Henault, father to the said Queene; Iohn, King of France; Edward the third, King of England, and her Husband, Lodowicke, the Emperor; and Edward, Prince of Wales, her first begotten Sonne.

On the left side of the Tombe, Ione, Queene of Scotland, Iohn of Eltham, Earle of Cornewall; Ione, Princesse of Wales; Lionel, Duke of Clarence; Isabel, Countesse of Bedford; Iohn, Duke of Lancaster; Ione, Duchasse of Clarence; Edmurd, Earle of Cambridge; Ione, Duchesse of Lancaster, Thomas, Earle of Buckingham.

On the right side, the Empresse, mother to the said Queene; her Brother also, Marcus Duke of Gelderland, Eleanora, Duchesse of Gelderland; Iohn, Earle of Henault; Mary Duchesse of Britaine, Lodowicke, Duke of Bavaria; the Countesse of Prembrooke; Chorles, Sonne to the King of France, Duke of Brabant.

Henry the fifth,He lyeth in the uppermost part of that Kingly Chappell, with a Statue of gilt Plates. King of England, Sonne of Henry the fourth, vanquished the French in many battels, and at length was created Regent of France. He tooke to wife Katharine, daughter to Charles the sixth. He dyed, Anno Dom. 1422. And these verses are fixed there in memory of him.

Gallorum mastix jacet

hic Henricus in urna.

Domat omnia Virtus

Pulchrum virumque suum

sociat tandem Katharina.

O mercifull God,

what a Prince was this,

Which his short time

in martiall Acts spent

In honour of conquest,

that wonder to me it is,

How he might compasse

such deeds excellent.

And yet for that

his minde nothing deten [...]t,

All ghostly counsell

for his Soule to provide,

Out of this world,

ere he fatally should slide.

So though I had Tully

his eloquence,

Or of Seneca

the grave moralitie,

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Or of Salmon

the perfect Sapience,

Or the sweet Ditties

of Dame Calliope;

Yet might I not

in Prose or other dittie,

Accordingly advance

this Prince his fame,

Or with due honour

to enhaunce the same.

Considering his acts,

whereof parcell appeare

In this rude worke,

with many more left out:

The time also was

lesse than ten yeare,

That he so shortly

brought all things about,

By Divine grace

furthered no doubt:

That mighty Lord he holpe

his ghostly Knight;

With grace and honour

to passe this worlds fight.

And to have reward

double and condigne,

And first for Martiall acts

by him done.

To be advanc'd amongst

the worthies nine,

And for his vertue us'd

by him eftsoone,

With many good deeds

which he on earth had done.

Above the Hierarchies,

he is (I trust) now stall'd,

That was in earth

the King of Kings call'd.

katharine Valois, Her body now lyeth in a smal place by her husband unburied. Daughter to Charles the sixth, King of France, and wife to Henry the fifth, who (hee being dead) tooke in marriage Owen Teudor, borne in Wales, his race descending from King Cadwallader. Of her he begot Edmund Earle of Richmund, Iasper, Duke of Bedford, and another that tooke on him a Monasticall habite at Westminster. She dyed in An. 1437. and was buried by K. Henry 5.

Hic Katharina

jacet, Francorum filia Regis

Haeres & Regni

(Carole Sexte) tui,

Henrici Quinti thalamo

bis laeta jugali,

Nam sic vir duplici

clarus honore fuit:

Iure suo Anglorum,

Katharinae jure triumphans

Francorum obtinuit jus,

decus imperii.

Grata venit laetis

felix Regina Britannis,

Perque dies celebrant

quatuor ore Deum.

Edidit Henricum gemibunda

puerpera Regem,

Cujus in imperio

Francus & Anglus erat,

Non sibi nec Regno

felici sidere natum,

Sed patri & matri

Religione parem.

Post ex Owneo Tiddero

tertia proles,

Nobilis Edmundus te

Katharina beat:

Septimus Henricus

quo non praestantior alter,

Filius Edmundi,

Gemma Britanna fuit:

Felix uxor ergo, mater,

ter filia felix,

Ast Avia haec felix

terque quaeterque fuit.

Otium fuge.

Here lyes Queene Katharine

clos'd in grave,

The French Kings

Daughter faire,

And of thy Kingdome

(Charles the sixth,

The true

undoubted Heire.

Twice joyfull wife

in marriage matcht

To Henry fifth

by name:

Because, through her,

hee nobled was,

And shin'd

in double Fame.

The King of England

by descent,

And by Queene

Katharins right:

The Realme of France

he did enjoy,

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Triumphant King

of might.

A happy Queene

to English-men,

Shee came right

gratefull here:

And foure dayes space

they honoured God,

With mouth

and reverend feare.

Henry the sixth

this Queene brought forth

In painefull

labour plight:

In whose Empire

a French-man was,

And eke an

English wight.

Vnder no lucky

Planet borne

Vnto himselfe

nor Throne:

But equall

with his Parents both,

In pure

Religion.

Of Owen Tedder

after this,

The next Sonne

Edmund was,

O Katharine,

a renowned Prince,

That did

in glory passe.

Henry the seventh,

a Britaine Pearle,

A Gemme of

Englands joy:

A peerelesse Prince

was Edmunds Sonne

A good and

gratious Roy:

Therefore a happy wife

this was,

A happy

mother pure:

Thrice happy Child,

but Grandame she,

More than thrice

happy sure.

His owne and his wives figures are in gilt Brasse curiously done upon the Tombe.

RICHARD the second, of England and France King, Lord of Ireland, Sonne to Edward Prince of Wales, by Ioane Daughter to the Earle of Kent. Hee made new the hall at Westminster, and when hee had reigned 22. years, Anno dom. 1399. he was bereaved of his kingdome, by Henry of Lancaster (and not long after) murdered, and buried at Langley among the Dominicans. Afterward, An. 1414. (as Thomas Walsingham saith) his body was brought to Westminster, and layd in a Royal Tombe, builded of gilded brasse, at the great charges of King Henry the fift, with theseverses added:

Prudens & mundus

Richardus, jure Secundus,

Per Fatum victus,

jacet his sub marmore pictus,

Verax sermone

fuit & plenus ratione:

Corpore procerus,

animo prudens ut Homerus:

Ecclesiae favit,

elatos suppeditavit,

Quemvis prostravit

regalia qui violavit.

Obruit haereticos,

& eorum stravit amicos:

o clemens Christe,

tibi devotus fuit iste,

Votis Baptistae

salves quem protulit iste.

His jacet immiti consumptus

morte Richardus.

Fuisse Felicem

miserrimum.

Perfect and prrudent Richard,

by right the second,

Vanquished by Fortune,

Iyes here now graven in stone:

True of his word,

and thereto well resound,

Seemely in person,

and like to Homer, as one,

In worldly prudence,

and ever the Church in one

Vpheld and favoured,

and casting the proud to ground,

And all that would

his royall estate confound.

Anne,

She lyeth in the same Tombe with the King het Husband.

Queene of England, first wife to Richard the Second, Daughter to Wenceslaus, King of Bohemia, and Emperor of the Germanes, dyed in Anno 1394. and at Westminster is buricd, having this Epitaph.

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Sub petralata nunc Anna

jacet tumulata,

Dum vixit mundo

Richardo nupta secundo,

Christo devota

fuit haec, facilis bene nota,

Pauperibus prona

semper sua reddere dona.

Iurgia sedavit,

& praegnantes relevavit.

Corpore formosa,

vultu miti speciosa,

Praebens solamen,

viduis, aegris medicamen.

Anno milleno,

ter centum quarto nonageno,

Iulii septeno

mensis migravit amoeno.

Hoc jacet Anna

loco Britonum redimita corona,

Cui vir Richardus

jure secundus erat:

Cui pater illustris,

gnata, generó que superbus,

Romaeter felix,

induperator erat.

Winceslaus illam magna

comitante caterva,

Londinum misit laetus

euānsque pater:

Cujus in adventu ludi,

spectacula fiunt,

Regali pompa

regia virgo venit.

Sed bona sunt hominum

tenni pendentia filo

Reges, Reginas mors capit,

omne rapit.

Haec Regina fuit

magna de stripe Quiritum,

Omnibus illa fuit femina

chara viris.

Larga, coloratis virtutum

splendida gemmis:

Nunquam laeta parens,

nam sine prole jacet.

Forma fragilis.

Queene Anne,

Richard the Seconds wife,

Lyeth buried

in this place:

Adorned with

the Britaines Crowne,

With whom shee

found much grace.

Whose Noble Sire,

of Daughter proud,

Of Sonne in Law,

full glad:

Of Rome, thrice happy

Emperour was

And that large

Empire had.

Winceslaus so call'd

by name,

Who thus

in joyfull plight,

Sent her to London,

guarded well,

With valiant men

of might.

Against whose comming

Playes were made,

And sights and shewes

were seene:

With Princely pompe

to gratifie

This Noble

Virgin Queene.

But all mens treasures

last not long,

They hang

but on a twine

Or slender threed:

Death, Kings and Queenes

Doth all catch

up in fine.

This Queene

was of the Royall race

Of Romans

by descent:

Of all belov'd,

most deare to most,

In honour

relucent.

Full liberall

and bountifull,

Adorn'd with

vertues rare:

No child shee had,

but issuelesse,

She lyes

without such care.

Margaret, She lyeth also in the Royall Chappell of Kings. daughter and fifth child to Edward the fourth, King of England, and France, and Lord of Ireland, and Lady Elizabeth his royall Queene and wife, was borne the 19. day of April, Anno Dom. 1472. and dyed the 11. day of December.

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Nobibitas & forma,

decorque, tenella juventus

In simul hîc ista

mortis sunt condita cistâ,

Vt genus & nomen, sexum,

tempus quoque mortis

Noscas, cuncta tibi

manefestat margo sepulchri.

Thomas of Woodstocke, He lyeth under Marble, adorned with Brasse in the pavement by his Father Duke of Glocester, sixth Sonne to King Edward the third, a man of great Nobility and authority; whom King Richard the second, his Nephew, suddenly and forcibly tooke and sent to Callis, where endighted upon a capitall cause, hee was beheaded, Anno Dom. 1397.

Ecce, nunc in pulvere dormio.

Henry, His heart is buried in the Coffin with S. Edward. sonne to Richard, King of the Romans, and Earle of Cornewall, returning from the Holy Land, while he was hearing Masse at Viterbium in Italy, by Simon and Guydo, sonnes to Simon Mountfort, Earle of Leicester: He was slaine in Anno 1269. His body lyes buried in the Monasterie of Hailes: Math. Westmonast.

Elizabeth, She lyeth at the feet of King Henry the third. daughter to King Henry the seventh, is buried in a Tombe of blacke Marble, having also this Inscription.

Elizabetha, illustrissimi Regis Angliae, Franciae, & Hiberniae, Henrici Septimi, & Dominae Elizabethae Reginae serenissimae confortis suae filia & secunda proles, quae nata fuit secundo die mensis Iulii, Anno Dom. 1492. & obiit decimo quarto die mensis Novembris, An. Dom. 1495. Cujus animae propitietur Deus.

Hîc post fata jacet

proles Regalis in isto

Sarcophago, juvenis,

Nobilis Elizabeth,

Princeps illustris,

Henr. Sept. filia Regis,

Qui bini Regni florida

Sceptra tenet.

Atropos hanc rapuit

saevissima nunci a mortis,

Sit super in Coelo

vita perennis ei.

The Chaire of the Kings of Scotland.

King Edward the first, having subdued the Scots in An. 1297. triumphantly returned, with the Scepter and Crowne of the Kings of Scots, as also the Chaire, wherein those Kings used to be crowned,In a Table hanging by are these verses set downe. bringing it into the Church of Westminster: which Chaire as yet remaineth in the Royall Chappell, with Iacobs Stone, as they callit, placed in it.

Siquid habent veri

vel Chronica cana fidusve,

Clauditur hac cathedra

nobilis ecce lapis.

Ad caput eximius Iacob

cuondam Patriarcha,

Quem posuit cernens

numina mira poli;

Quem tulit ex Scotis spolium

quasi victor honoris,

Edwardus primus,

Mars velut armipotens,

Scotorum domitor,

noster validissimus Hector,

Anglorum decus,

& gloria Militiae.

In the great and Kingly Chappell of King HENRY the seventh.

Henry the seventh,He lyeth in a small Chappell made all of richly gilded Brasse. King of England, France, and Lord of Ireland, the first begotten Sonne of Edmund, Earle of Richmund, by Margaret, daughter and heire to Iohn, Duke of Somerset: When hee had justly deprived (both of Crowne and life) Richard the third at Bosworth: Hee was enstalled in the Kingdome in An. 1485. and before hee was 23. yeeres aged, hee qualified the loud and grievous garboyles, betweene the Families of Lancaster and Yorke, resting in the Lord, Anno 1509. And in this magnificent Chappell, which hee himselfe builded, with Elizabeth his Queene and wife: Hee lyeth in a most glorious Tombe of solid Brasse, compossed about with these verses:

Septimus Henricus

Tumulo requiescit in isto,

Qui Regum splendor,

lumen & orbis erat.

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Rex vigil, & sapiens, comis,

virtutis amator,

Egregius formae,

strenous atque potens.

Qui peperit pacem regno,

qui bella peregit

Plurima, qui victor

semper ab hoste redit.

Qui naras binis conjunxit

Regibus ambas,

Regibus & cunctis

foedere junctus erat.

Qui sacrum hoc struxit Templum,

statuitque sepulchrum,

Pro se, próque sua

conjuge, prole, domo.

Lustra decem, atque annos tres

plus compleverat annis,

Nam tribus octenis

Regia Sceptra tulit.

Quindecies Domini

centenus fluxerat annus,

Currebat nonus,

cùm venit atra dies.

Septim [...]termensis

lux t [...] cot [...]. fulgebat Aprilis,

Cum claūlit summum

tanta corona diem.

Nulla dedêre prius

tantum tibi saecula Regem

Anglia, vix similem

posteriora dabunt.

On the other side, under the Queenes Image.

Hic jacet Regina Elizabetha,This Queene died in the Tower of London. Edwardi Quarti quondam Regis filia; Edwardi Quinti Regis quondam nominati Soror; Henrici Septimi olim Regis Conjux; atque Henrici octavi Regis mater inclyta. Obiit autem suum diem in Turre Londoniarum die 11. Feb. Anno Domini, 1502. 37. Annorum aetate functa.

Edward the sixt,He lieth at the head of his Grandfather, K. Henry the seventh. King of England, France, and Ireland, &c. Sonne to King Henry the eight by Iane Seymour, was crowned King the 28. day of Ianuary, 1546. Hee dyed (over-soone) in his younger yeeres the 6. day of Iuly, 1553. and lyeth under the Brasse richly gilded Altar, most curiously wrought with good workemanship.

Mary, Queen of England, France and Ireland, She Hath buried in the North part of the great Royall Chappell. Daughter to King Henry the eighth, by Katharine, Daughter to Ferdinand, King of Spaine, suceeded her Brother Edward, An. 1553. The Romish Religion, which her Father and Brother had expelled, she againe restored, marrying with Philip, King of Spaine: And died when she had reigned 5. yeeres, 1558.

Elizabeth, Vpon her gloriou. & goodly Tombe made by King Iames is this ensuing inscription. Queen of England, France and Ireland, Daughter to King Henry the eight, by his second wife Anne Bullen, and Sister to Mary; succeeded her in Anno 1558. She was a most potent Princesse, and (for all vertues) to bee compared with the greatest Kings or Queenes whatsoever. Having reigned 44. yeeres, foure Moneths, and eight dayes in highest glory (to forraigne admiration, and love of her owne people, England, acknowledging her rather a Mother than a commander) she yeelded her Soule to Christ both piously and contentedly, the 24. day of March, Anno Domini. 1602.

Memoriae Sacrum.

Religione ad primaeuam sinceritatem restaurata, In the great and Royall Chappell of King Henry the seventh. Pace fundata, Moneta ad justum volorem reducta, Rebellione domestica vindicata, Gallia malis intestinis praecipiti sublevata, Belgio sustentato, Hispanica classe profligata, Hibernia pulsis Hispanis, & Rebellibus ad deditionem coactis pacata, Redditibus utriusque Academiae lege annonaria plurimum adauctib. Tota denique Anglia Ditata, Prudentissimèque annos XLV. administrata; Elizabetha Regina victrix, triumphatrix, pietatis studiosissima, felicissima, placida morte septuagenaria soluta, mortales reliquias dum Christo jubente resurgant immortales, in hac Ecclesia celeberrima ab ipsa conservata, & denuò fundata, deposuio.

Obiit 24. Martii, Anno salutis, MDCII. Regni XLV. Aetatis LXX.

Vpon the remove of her body from Richmond (where she dyed) to White Hall, by water, these lines were written.

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The Queene was brought

by water to White Hall,

At every stroke

the Oares teares let fall.

More clung about the Barge,

Bish under water

Wept out their eyes of Pearle,

and swom blind after:

I thinke the Barge-men

might with easier thighes,

Have row'd her thither

in her peoples eyes,

For howsoever, thus much

my thoughts have scann'd,

Sh'ad come by water,

had she come by land.

Sophia, This young Infant lived not above 3. or 4. dayes. daughter to IAMES, King of great Britaine, borne at Greenwich, the 22. day of Iune, 1606. the 3. day after ended her life, and is buried in the same Chappell, where the Queenes, Mary and Elizabeth do rest in the Lord.

Margaret, Shee is buried in the South part of the Chappell in a goodly Monument. Countesse of Richmond and Darby, daughter, and only Heyre to Iohn, Duke of Somerset, by Margaret, daughter to the Lord Bellocampe, or Beauchampe of Powicke: first married to Edmund the Son of Owen Tedder, who begate Henry the 7. King of England; and afterward, to Thomas Stanley, Earle of Darby: Two Colledges (namely, of Christ, and Saint Iohn Baptist) she erected for Students in Cambridge. She instituted also two divinity Lectures, one at Cambridge, and the other at Oxford, &c. This Epitaph was made for her.

Aspirate meis Elegis

pia turma sororum,

Et Margaretam

collacrimate piam.

Haec sub mole latet Regis

celeberrima mater

Henrici magni,

quem locus iste fovet,

Quem locus iste sacer celebri

celebrat Polyandro,

Illius ingenitrix

hac tumulatur humo.

Cui cedat Tanaquil

(Titus hanc super astra reportet)

Cedat Penelope

charus Vlyssis amor;

Haec Abigail, velut Hester

erat pietate secunda,

En tres jam proceres

nobilitate pares:

Pro Domina precor implora,

pro Principe tanta

Flecte Deum precibus

qui legis hos aspices.

Plura referre piget,

calamus corpore rigescit,

Dormit Moecenas,

negligitur probitas:

Nec juvat aut modicum

prodest nunc ultima versu

Fata recensere

(mortua mors reor est)

Quaeris quid decus est?

decus est modo dicier hircus:

Cedit honos hirco,

cedit honorque capro.

Falleris ipse Charon,

iterum surrexit Abyron,

Et Stygios remos

despicit ille tuos. [...]

Vivitur ex voto,

mentis praecordia tangunt

Nulla sepulchra Ducum,

nec monumenta patrum,

Non Regum, non ulla

hominum labentia fato

Tempora, nec toties

mortua turba ruens.

Hinc statuo certè

periturae parcere chartae,

Seu Iuvenalis ovat

eximius Satyrus.

Margaret, She lyes buried in a goodly tombe of Alabaster in the same Chappell. Countesse, of Levenox, daughter to Archibald Dowglasse, Earle of Angus, by Margaret, Queen Dowager of Scotland, daughter to Henry the seventh, King of England; wife also to Mathew Stuart, Earle of Levenox, to whom she brought Henry, Lord of Darnly, father to Iames the sixth, King of Scotland, Charles, Earle of Levenox, and other children that died in their younger yeers. Shee departed this life the 10. day of March, Anno Domini, 1577. and hath this Epitaph:

Heere lyeth the Noble Lady Margaret, Countesse of Levenox, daughter and sole heire of Archibald, Earle of Angus, [Page] by Margaret Queene of Scots his wife, that was eldest daughter to K. Henry the 7. who bare unto Mathew, Earle of Levenox her husband, foure sons, and foure daughters. This Lady had to her great Grandfather, King Edward the fourth; to her Grandfather, King Henry the seventh; to her Vncle, King Henry the eight; to her Cousin Germane, King Edward the sixt, to her Brother King Iames, of Scotland the fifth, to her Sonne, King Henry the first; and to her Grandchild, King Iames the sixth.

Having to her great Grandmother, and Grandmother, two Queens, both named Elizabeth; to her Mother, Margaret Queene of Scots; to her Aunt, Mary, the French Queene; to her Cousins Germanes, Mary and Elizabeth, Queenes of England; to her Niece and Daughter in law, Mary, Queene of Scots.

Henry, second sonne to this Lady, was King of Scots, and father to Iames the sixth, now King. This Henry was murdered at the age of 21. yeeres: Charles her youngest Sonne, was Earle of Levenox, father to the Lady Arbella, hee dyed at the age of 21. yeeres, and is here entombed.

Charles his Sonne,He lyeth buried in the vault with his mother. and Earle of Levenox, who tooke in marriage the daughter of William Cavendish, Knight, and had Arbella to his onely daughter, dyed in Anno 1576.

Henry, A childe of two moneths old. first Sonne to King Henry the 8. by Queene Katharine of Spaine, lyeth buried at the doore of the Royall Chappell.

Queene Anne, She lyeth in the South part of the vestry. wife to King Richard the third, daughter to Richard Nevil, Earle of Warwicke, dyed in Anno Domini, 1484. not without suspicion of poysoning.

Anne of Cleve, She lyeth in a Tombe as yet not finished. Sister to William, Duke of Cleve, and Gulich, whom King Henry the eighth repudiated, when he tooke to wife Katharine Howard, died in Anno 1557. and lyeth buried at the head of King Sebert.

Anne of Somerset, wife to the most Noble Prince Edward, Duke of Somerset, and the daughter to Sir Edward Stanhop, Knight, by his wife Elizabeth, daughter to Fulke Bourchier, Lord Fitzwaren, died the 16. of the Calends of May, Anno 1580. &c. with this inscription on her Tombe:

Heere lyeth intombed the Noble Duchesse of Somerset, She lyeth in a goodly Tombe in S. Nicholas Chappell, the Tombe being 24. foote in height. Anne, Spouse unto that renowned Prince Edward, Duke of Somerset, Earle of Hertford, Vicount Beauchamp, and Baron Seymour, Companion of the most famous Knightly Order of the Garter, vncle to King Edward the sixth, Governour of his Royall Person, and most worthy Protector of all his Realmes, Dominions, and Subjects; Lieutenant Generall of all his Armies, Treasurer and Earle Marshall of England, Governour and Captaine of the Isles of Garnesey & Iersey. Vnder whose prosperous Conduct, glorious Victorie hath beene so often and so fortunately obtained at Edenborough, Leith, and Muscleborough field.

A Princesse descended of Noble Linage, being daughter to the worthie Knight, Sir Edward Stanhop, by Elizabeth his wife, that was daughter to Sir Foulke Bourchier, Lord Fitzwaren, from whom our Moderne Earles of Bathe are sprung. Sonne hee was to William, Lord Fitzwaren, that was Brother to Henry Earle of Essex, and Iohn Lord Berners, whom William their Sire (sometime Earle of Ewe in Normandie) begate on Anne, the sole heire of Thomas of Woodstocke, Duke of Glocester, younger Sonne to the mightie Prince, King Edward the third, and of his Wife Eleanora, coheire unto the tenth Humphrey de Bohun, that was Earle of Hereford, Essex, and Northampton, High Constable of England.

Many children bare this Lady unto her Lord of either sort, to wit, Edward Earle of Hertford, Henry, and younger Edward; Anne, Countesse of Warwicke, Margaret, Iane, Mary, Katharine, and Elizabeth: And with firme faith in Christ, and in a most mild manner, rendred she this life at 90. yeeres of age, on Easter day, the 16. of April, Anno, 1587.

[Page] The Earle of Hertford, Edward, her eldest sonne, in this dolefull dutie carefull and diligent, doth consecrate this Monument to his deare Parent: not for her Honour, wherewith (living) she did abound, and now departed, flourisheth; but, for the dutifull love he beareth her, and for his last testification thereof.

Lady Wenefrid, She lyeth in a faire Tombe of of Alabaster in S. Nicholas Chappell. Marchionesse of Winchester, sprung of the worthy Family of Bruges, who first married with Richard Sacvile, Knight, and Chancellor of the Exchequer: by her he had Thomas, Lord Buckhurst, and the Lady Dacres of the South, beside other children. Afterward, she married with Iohn Powlet, Marquesse of Winchester, and at length, well in yeeres, and a Widdow, died, Anno Domini, 1586.

Hic jacet in tumulo

clarissima femina, primùm

Fortunata bonis

clarisque Parentibus: illi

Sollicitè aetatem

tenerae flexêre puellae

Ad studium verae virtutis,

& optima facta,

Externo addentes

internum lumen honori,

Pòst adolescentis

feliciter extitit aetas:

Cum matura, viro

veteri de stemmate nupsit,

Qui genus à proavis

longè ante Trophaea Guilielmi

Normanasque acies,

patria de gente trahebat:

Quocum jucundè

transegit tempora vitae,

Donec mors illum rapuit:

post fata mariti

Moesta diu vitam

tenebris luctuque trahebat.

Sed melior tandem

viduam fortuna revisit,

Nobilitate potens ubi

Marchio amabilis illam

Connubio accepit firmo

propriaroque dicavit:

At nunc ter felix

transcendit spiritus astra,

Cumque suo regnat, coluit

quem ante omnia, Christo.

Anne, They lye buried in S. Nicholas Chappell, in a goodly Tombe. Countesse of Oxenford, Daughter to William Cecill, Baron of Bourghley, with Mildred her Mother, in one Sepulcher, with Magnificent Collumnes of Porphyrie and let Stone, 24. foot in height, lie buried together, which the said Baron of Bourghley caused to be there erected.

Elizabeth Cecill, Shee lyeth at the doore of the same Chappell. Daughter of William Brooke, Baron Cobham, the wife dearely affected of Robert Cecill, Knight, one of the Privie Councell to the illustrious Queene Elizabeth, upon her Tombe hath these Dialogue Verses: 1591.

Vxor.

Regina a Cameris,

Baronis filia, chari

Fida Equitis conjux

Elizabetha fui:

Vnus amor nobis,

una indivulsa voluntas,

Cor unum, una fides

inviolata fuit:

Ille mei si quando potest

deponere curam,

Ille potest animae

non memor esse suae.

Maritus.

Si lachrimis constaret amor

(charissima conjux)

Prosequere lachrimis

funera saepe tua.

Nam mihi quàm fueris redamata,

tuum pia sponsa

Testatur meritum,

conscius ipse mihi:

Sed nec amor patitur

socia regnante dolere,

Et Christi major

te sibi strinxit amor.

Ergo tuo dilecta

bono cum pace fruare:

Spero mihi tecum

portio pacis erit.

A Brooke by name,

the Baron Cobhams child,

A Newton was she

by her Mothers side:

Cecill her husband

this for her did build,

To prove his love

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did after death abide:

Which tels unto the world

that after come,

The worlds conceit

whilst heere she held a roome:

How nature made her wise

and well beseeming,

Wit and condition,

silent, true and chaste:

Her vertues rare

wan her much esteeming,

In Court with Soveraigne

still with favour grac'd.

Earth could not yeeld

more pleasing earthly blisse,

Blest with two Babes,

the third brought her to this.

William of Windsore, They lye buried in Saint Edmund Chappell. Sonne of King Edward the third, so called, because he was borne at Windsore with his Sister, named Blanch of the Tower, because in the Tower of London her Mother was delivered of her, lye both together under a Marble Tombe.

Iohn of Eltham, Buried also in the same Chappell. Earle of Cornewall, second Sonne to King Edward the second, by Isabel, daughter to Philip le Bel, King of France: his Tombe of Alabaster is on the left hand the dore, without any inscription.

Frances, She lieth buried also in the same Chappell. Dutchesse of Suffolke, daughter to Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolke, and Mary, Queene of France, daughter to King Henry the seventh. She was first married to Henry Gray, Marquesse Dorset, who was created Duke of Suffolke by King Edward the sixth: And after to Adrian Stokes, Esquire, who raised this Alabaster Monument to her living remembrance.

Anno. 1563.

Nil decus aut splendor,

nil regia nomina prosunt,

Splendida divitiis

nil juvat ampla domus.

Omnia fluxerunt,

virtutis sola remansit

Gloria, Tartareis

non abolenda rogis:

Nupta Duci priùs est,

uxor pòst Armigeri Stokes,

Funere nunc valeas

consociata Deo.

The noble Lady Iane Seimour, She was honorably buried in the floore of the Chappell. daughter to the renowned Prince Edward, Duke of Sommerset, Earle of Hertford, Vicount Beauchamp, Baron Seymour; And to the right noble Lady Anne, Duchesse of Sommerset his wife, departed this life in her Virginitie, at the age of 19. yeeres, the 19. of March, Anno. 1560. in the second yeere of the most happy reigne of Queene Elizabeth-Edward, Earle of Hertford, and Baron Beauchampe, her deare brother, caused this Monument to be made in her memorie:

Ingenio praestans,

& vultu Iana decore,

Nobilis arte fuit

vocis, & arte manus.

Hinc Venus & Pallas

certant utra debet babere:

Vult Venus esse suam,

Pallas & esse suam:

Mors vero in virgineo

figens in pectore telum:

Neutrius (inquit) erït,

sed mihi praeda jacet.

Corpore Iana jacet,

tellurem terra subibit,

Sed pius in Coeli

spiritus arce sedet.

The Right Honourable Lady Katharine Knowles, She lyeth also buried in the floore of the same Chappell. chiefe Lady of the Queenes Majesties Bed-chamber, and wife to Sir Francis Knowles, Knight, Treasurer of her Highnesse houshold, departed this life the 15. day of Ianuary, 1568. at Hampton Court, and was honorably buried in the floore of this Chappell. This Lady Knowles, and the Lord Hunsdon her brother, were the children of William Carey, Esquire, & of the Lady Mary his wife, one of the Daughters and heires of Thomas Bullen, Earle of Wiltshire and Ormond: which Lady Mary was Sister to Anne, Queen of England, wife to King, Henry the eight, Father and Mother to Elizabeth, Queene of England.

Quae Francisce fuit tibi

conjux en Katharina,

Mortua sub gelido

marmore Knolle jacet.

Excidet ex animo tibi mortua,

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sat scio nunquam,

Viva tibi vivo

semper amata fuit.

Illa tibi proles sex

& bis quinque Marito

Protulit, aequalis

foemina masque fuit,

Haec tecum multos

utinam vixisset in annos,

Et tua nunc conjux

facta fuisset anus:

Noluit at Deus, hoc voluit

sed sponsa maritum

In Coelis maneas,

ô Katharina, tuum.

Heere lyeth entombed the noble Frances, A goodly Monumēt is made where she is buried in the Chappell of S. Benedict. Countesse of Hertford, deare spouse unto the noble Edward, Earle of Hertford, and Baron Beauchampe, Sonne of the renowned Prince Edward, Duke of Sommerset, Earle of Hertford, Vicount Beauchampe, and Baron Seymour. A Lady descended of right noble linage, being daughter of the noble Lord William, Baron Howard of Effingham, companion of the most famous order of the Garter, High Admirall to Queene Mary, and Lord Chamberlaine of the houshold, and Lord Privie Seale to Queene Elizabeth. Sonne was hee to the right noble Prince Thomas, Duke of Norfolke, and Earle of Surrey, Earle Marshall of England, &c.

This Lady, highly Renowned for her many vertuous gifts and graces both of mind and body, greatly favoured by her gracious Soveraigne, and dearely beloved of her Lord, after long sickenes, in firme faith in Christ, and constant patience, departed this life at 44. yeeres of age, the 24. day of May, An. 1598. in the 40. yeere of the most happy reigne of our most gracious Soveraigne Lady Queene Elizabeth.

To whose memory, the said Earle her loving Lord and husband, much lamenting her death, in testification of his great love towards her, and of his carefull diligence in this dolefull dutie, doth consecrate this Monument.

Foy Pour

Devoir.

Desir N'a

Repos.

Heere lyeth the most honorable Lady Frances, She lieth in a goodly Tombe of Alabaster, and various Marbles polished, in the Chappell of S. Paul. sometimes Countesse of Sussex, daughter to Sir William Sidney of Pensehurst, Knight, wife and Widdow to that most noble, most wise, and most Martiall Gent. Thomas Ratcliffe, Earle of Sussex. A woman while she lived, adorned with many and most rare gifts, both of mind and body; towards God truely and zealously religious, to her friends and kinsfolkes most liberall; to the poore prisoners, to the Ministers of the Word of God alwayes most charitable. By her last will and Testament, shee instituted a Divinitie Lecture, to bee read in this Collegiate Church. And by the same her testament, gave also 5000. pound, towards the building of a new Colledge in the Vniversitie of Cambridge, with sufficient yeerely revenue, for the continuall maintenance of one Master, tenne Fellowes, and 20. Schollers, either in the same Colledge, or else in another house in the said Vniversitie already builded, commonly called Clare Hall. She lived 58. yeeres, and died the ninth of March, and was buried the 15. day of April, 1589.

Misericordia & Charitate.

Beati mortui qui Domino moriuntur.

Omnia plena malis,

fert Deus unus opem,

Veni Domine Iesu, veni cite.

Pietate & Prudentia.

Fide conjugali.

Henry Carey, He lyeth buried in the midst of S. Iohn Baptists Chappell, with a goodly Monumēt. Baron of Hunsdon, Lord Chamberlaine of the houshold to Q. Elizabeth, and allied to her in blood, Lord Governor, or Commander of the Towne of Barwicke, Knight of the noble Order of the Garter, and one of her Majesties most Honorable Privie Councell, died in Anno, 1596.

Sepulturae familiae de Hunsdon Consecratum.

In Domine hîc obdormit Henricus Carey, Baro de Hunsdon, villae Berwici limitisque tam orientalis quàm medii versus [Page] Scotiam olim Praefectus: Pentionarorum Generosorum Capitaneus; Forestarum cis Trentam Iusticiarius summus; Garteriani ordinis Eques Auratus; Dominae Reginae Camerarius; a sacris Consiliis, eidemque consobrinus. Vnà cum illo conditur uxor charissima, filia Thomae Morgan Equitis aurati, quae plures illi liberos peperit, è quibus sunt superstites, Georgius, Iohannes, Edmundus, Robertus, equites aurati: Catharina, Comitissa Nottinghamiae, Philadelphe, Baronissa Scroope, & Margareta, Domina Hoby. Obiit 23. Iulii, 1596. Aetatis LXXI. Patri optimo Georgius Carey filius, Baro de Hunsdon, ordinis Garterii Socius, Vectae Insulae Praefectus, Reginae Elizabethae Camerarius, & à sacris consiliis: Maritoque charissimo Anna uxor, honoris & memoriae ergô sibique & suis mortalitatis memores posuerunt.

In Australi plaga Ecclesiae.

Galfridus Chaucer,He lyeth buried in the South part of the Church. Poëta celeberrimus, qui primus Anglicam Poësin ita illustravit, ut Anglicus Homerus habeatur. Obiit 1400. Anno vero 1555. Nicholaus Brigham, Musarum nomine hujus ossa transtulit, & illi novum tumulum ex marmore, his versibus inscriptis posuit:

Qui fuit Anglorum Vates

ter maximus olim,

Galfridus Chaucer,

conditur hoc tumulo.

Annum si quaeras Domini,

si tempora mortis;

Ecce notae subsunt,

quae tibi cuncta notant.

25. Octobris, 1400.

Aerumnarum requies, Mors.

N. Brigham hos fecit

Musarum nomine sumptus.

Si rogitas quis fueram,

forsan te fama docebit:

Quod si fama neget,

mundi quia gloria transit,

Haec Monumenta lege.

The works of this famous Poet Geffrey Chaucer, were partly published in Print by VVilliam Caxton, Mercer, that first brought the incomparable Art of Printing into England; which was in the reigne of King, Henry the sixt: Afterward, increased by Master VVilliam Thinne, Esquire, in the reigne of King Henry the eight. Since then, corrected and twice encreased through mine own painefull labours, in the reigne of Queene Elizabeth, to wit, in the yeere, 1561. And againe, beautified with divers ample notes, by mee collected out of sundry Records and Monuments, which I delivered to my loving and learned friend, Master Thomas Speight. And he (having drawne them into a good forme and methode, as also, explained most of the old and obscure words) published the same worke againe, in Anno, 1597.

Edmundus Spencer,He lieth also buried in the same South part of the Church. Londinensis, Anglicorum Poetarum nostri saeculi facilè Princeps, quod ejus Poemata, faventibus Musis, & victuro genio conscripta comprobant. Obiit immatura morte, Anno salutis, 1598. & prope Galfridum Chaucerum conditur, qui felicissimè poesin Anglicis literis primus illustravit. In quem haec scripta sunt Epitaphia.

Hic prope Chaucerum

situs est Spenserius, illi

Proximus ingenio,

proximus ut tumulo.

Hic prope Chaucerum

Spensere Poeta poetam

Conderis, & versu,

quàm tumulo proprior,

Anglica te vivo vixit,

plausitque Poesis;

Nunc moritura timet,

te moriente, mori.

Mary, A Magnificent Monument made by our most Royall Soveraigne K. Iames, for his Mother. Queene of Scots, and Dowager of France, her body was translated from Peterborough to Westminster, and on her Tombe are these inscriptions:

D. O. M.

Mariae Stuartae, Scotorum Reginae, Franciae Dotariae, Iacobi V. Scotorum Regis Filiae, & haeredis unicae Henrici VII. Ang. Regis ex Margareta majori natu filia (Iacobo IIII. Regi Scotorum matrimonio copulata) proneptis, Edwardi IIII. Angliae Regis ex Elizabetha filiarum natu maxima abneptis, Francisci II.

[Page] Gallorum Regis conjugis, Cornae Angliae, dum vixit, certae & indubitatae haeredis, & Iacobi Magnae Britanniae Monarchae potentissimi Matris.

Stripe verè regia & antiquissima prognata erat, maximis totius Europe Principibus agnatione & cognatione conjuncta, & exquisitissimis animi & corporis dotibus & ornamentis cumulatissima. Verùm ut sunt variae rerum humanarum vices, postquam annos plus minus viginti in custodia detenta, fortiter & strenuè (sed frustrà cum malevolorum obtrectationibus, timidorum suspicionibus▪ & inimicorum capitalium insidiis conflictata esset, tandem inaudito & infesto Regibus exemplo securi percutitur.

Et contempto mundo, devicta morte, lassato carnifice, Christo Servatori animae salutem, Iacobo filio spem regni & posteritatis, & universis caedis infaustae spectatoribus exemplum patientiae cōmendans, piè, & intrepidè cervicem Regiam securi maledictae subjecit, & vitae caducae sortem cum coelestis regni perennitate commutavit.

Vlt. Idus Februaril. Anno Christi, MDLXXXVII. Aetatis, XXXXVI.

Obruta frugifero sensim

sic cespice surgunt

Semnia, per multos

quae latuere dies.

Sanguine sancivit foedus

cum plebe Iehova,

Sanguine placabant

numina sancta patres:

Sanguine conspersi

quos praeterit ira Penates;

Sanguine signata est

quae modò credit humus.

Parce Deus, satis est,

infandos siste dolores,

Inter funestos

pervolet illa dies.

Sit Reges mactare nefas,

ut sanguine posthac

Purpureo nunquam

terra Britanna fluat.

Exemplum pereat

caesae cum vulnere Christae;

Inque malum praeceps

author & actor eat.

Si meliore sui

post mortem parte triumphet,

Carnifices sileant,

tormina, claustra, cruces.

Quem dederant cursum

superi Regina peregit:

Tempora laeta Deus,

tempora dura dedit.

Edidit eximium

fato properante Iacobum;

Quem Pallas, Musae,

Delia fata colunt.

Magna viro, major natu,

sed maxima partu,

Conditur hic regum

filia, sponsa, parens.

Det Deus ut nati

& qui nascentur ab illa

Aeternos videant

hinc sine nube dies.

Although that famous and worthie HENRY,A Monument all of pure gold were too little for a Prince of such high hope and merit. eldest Sonne to our deare Soveraigne Lord King IAMES, hath (as yet) no Tombe or Monument made for him there in Westminster, but liveth still in the love and memory of all true English hearts: yet this excellent Epitaph was purposely made for him.

Reader, wonder

thinke it none,

To heare me sp [...]ake,

that am a Stone.

Heere is shrin'd

Celestiall dust,

And I keepe it

but in trust;

Should I not

my Treasure tell,

VVonder then thou

might'st as well,

How this stone

could chuse but breake,

If it had not

learn'd to speake.

Hence amaz'd,

and aske not me,

VVhose these

Sacred Ashes be.

Purposely

it is conceal'd,

For, if that

should be reveal'd,

All that reade,

would by and by

Melt themselves

to teares and dye.

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Another.

Within this Marble Casket lyes,

A matchlesse Iewell of rich price,

Which Nature (in the worlds disdaine)

But shew'd, and then shut up againe.

This Church hath had great priviledge of Sanctuarie within the precinct thereof;Sanctuary at VVestminster. to wit, the Church, Churchyard and Close, &c. from whence it hath not beene lawfull for any Prince or other, to take any person that fled thither for any cause. Which priviledge was first granted by Sebert, King of the East Saxons; since increased by Edgar, King of the West Saxons; renewed and confirmed by King Edward the Confessor, as appeareth by this his Charter following:

Edward, by the grace of God, King of Englishmen: I make it to bee knowne to all generations of the world after me, that by especiall commandement of our holy Father Pope Leo, I have renewed, and honoured the holy Church of the blessed Apostle, Saint Peter of Westminster, and I order and establish for ever, that what person, of what condition or estate soever he be, from whencesoever he come, or for what offence or cause it bee, either for his refuge into the said holy place, he be assured of his life, liberty and limbs. And over this, I forbid (under the paine of everlasting damnation) that no Minister of mine, or of my Successors, intermeddle them with any the goods, lands or possessions of the said persons, taking the said Sanctuary: for I have taken their goods and livelode into my speciall protection; and therfore I grant to every each of thē (in as much as my terrestriall power may suffice) all manner freedome of joyous liberty, & whosoever presumes or doth contrary to this my grant; I will he lose his name, worship, dignity and power, & that with the great traytor Iudas, that betrayed our Saviour, he be in the everlasting fire of hell. And I will and ordaine, that this my grant endure as long, as there remayneth in England either love or dread of Christian name.

More of this Sanctuary ye may read in our Histories, and also in the Statute of Henry the eighth the 32. yeere.

The Parish Church of Saint Margaret, Parish Church of S. Margaret. sometime within the Abbey, was by Edward the Confessor removed, and builded without, for ease of the Monks.

This Church continued till the dayes of Edward the first, at what time the Merchants of the Staple, and Parishioners of Westminster builded it all of new, the great Chancell excepted, which was builded by the Abbots of Westminster, and this remaineth now a faire Parish Church,In the reigne of Edward the sixth. though sometime in danger of downe pulling.

In the South Ile of this Church, is a faire Marble Monument of Dame Mary Billing, the heyre of Robert Nesenham of Conington, in Huntington shire, first married to William Coton, to whose Issue her inheritance alone descended, remaining with Robert Cot [...]o at this day, heyre of her & her first husbands family. Her second husband was Sir Thomas Billing, Chiefe Iustice of England; and her last, whom likewise she buried, was Thomas Lacy, erecting this Monument to the memorie of her three husbands, with whose Armes shee hath garnished it, and for her owne buriall, wherein she was interred in the yeere 1499.

Next to this famous Monastery, is the Kings principall Palace, of what Antiquity it is uncertaine: but Edward the Confessor held his Court there, as may appeare by the testimonie of sundry; and namely, of Ingulphus, as I have before told you. The said King had his Palace, and for the most remained there: where hee also ended his life, and was buried in the Monastery which he had builded. It is not to be doubted, but that K. William the first, as he was crowned there, so he builded much at this Palace, for he found it farre inferiour to the building of Princely Palaces in France.

And it is manifest by the testimonie of many Authors,Great Hall at VVestminster. that William Rufus, builded the great Hall there, about the yeere of Christ,Mathew Paris. 1097. Amongst others, Roger of Windover and Mathew Paris, doe write, that K. VVilliam (being returned out of Normandy into England) kept his feast of Whitsontide very royally at Westminster in the new hall which he had lately builded, the length whereof (say some) was 270. foote, and seventy foure foot in bredth. And when he heard men say, that this Hall was too great, hee [Page] answered and said:Liber Woodbridge. This Hall is not bigge enough by the one halfe, and is but a Bedde-chamber, in comparison of that I meane to make.

A diligent searcher (saith Mathew Paris) might find out the foundation of the Hall, which he had supposed to have builded, stretching from the river of Thames, to the common high way.

This Palace was repaired about the yeere,Palace repaired. 1163. by Thomas Becket, IV. Fitzslepho [...]. Chancellor of England, with exceeding great celerity and speed, which before was ready to have fallen downe. This hath been the pricipall seate and Palace of all the Kings of England, since the Conquest: for here have they in the great Hall kept their Feasts, of Coronation especially, and other solemne Feasts as at Christmas and such like most commonly. For proofe whereof, I find recorded, Record Tow. that in the yeere, 1236. and the twentieth of Henry the third, on the 29. of December, William de Haverhull, the Kings Treasurer, was commanded, that upon the day of the Circumcision of our Lord, he should cause 6000. poore people to be fed at Westminster, for the state of the King,The use of the great Hall was to feed the poore. the Queene, and their children. The weake and aged to bee placed in the great Hall, and in the lesser those were more strong and in reasonable plight: In the Kings Chamber the children, and in the Queeues: and when the King knew the charge, hee gladly allowed it in the accounts.

In the yeere 1238. the same King Henry kept his Feast of Christmas at Westminster in the great Hall,Mathew Paris great feasts in VVestmister Hall. so did hee in the yeere 1241. where he placed the Legate in the most honorable place of the table; to wit, in the middest, which the Noblemen tooke in evill part.

The King sate on the right hand, and the Archbishop on the left, and then all the Prelates and Nobles, according to their estates: for the King himselfe did set the guests.

The yeere 1242. hee likewise kept his Christmas in the Hall, &c.

Also, in the yeere 1243. Richard, Earle of Cornewall, the Kings brother, married Cincia, daughter to Beatrice, Countesse of Provence, & kept his marriage Feast in the great Hall at Westminster, with great royalty and company of Noble men: in so much, that there were told (triginta millia) 30000. dishes of meats at that dinner.

In the yeere 1256. King Henry sate in the Exchequer of this Hall,Henry the 3. sate in the Exchequer, and amerced the Sheriffes. and there set downe order for the appearance of Sheriffes, and bringing in of their accounts: there was 5. Marks set on every Sheriffes head for a fine, because they had not distrained every person, that might dispend 15. l. land by the yeere, to receive the order of Knighthood, according as the same Sheriffes were commanded.

Also, the Maior, Aldermen and Sheriffes of London, being accused of oppression & wrongs done by them, and submitting themselves in this place before the King, sitting then in judgment upon that matter; they were condemned to pay their fines for their offences committed, and further, every one of them discharged of assise and ward.

In the yeeres 1268. and 1269. the same King kept his Christmas Feasts at Westminster, as before: and also in the same yeere 1269. he translated (with great solemnitie) the body of King Edward the Confessor,Translatiō of Edward the Confessor, into a new Chappell, at the back of the high Altar: which Chappell he had prepared of a marvailous workemanship, bestowing a new Tombe or Shrine of gold.

And on the day of his translation, he kept a Royall Feast in the great Hall of the Palace: Thus much for the Feasts of old time in this Hall.

We read also,Marshes about VVoolwitch drowned. that in the yeere, 1236. the River of Thames overflowing the bankes, caused the Marshes about Woolwitch to bee all on a Sea, wherein Boats and other Vessels were carried with the streame, so that besides cattell, the greatest number of men, women & children, Inhabitants there, were drowned.

In the great Palace of Westminster, Wherries rowed in VVestminster Hall. men did row with Wherries in the middest of the Hall, being forced to ride to their chambers.

Moreover, in the yeere 1242. the Thames overflowing the bankes about Lambith, drowned houses and fields, by the space of 6. miles, so that in the great Hall at Westminster, men tooke their horses, because the water ran over all.

This Palace was (in the yeere 1299. [Page] the 27. of Edward the first) burnt by a vehement fire,T. Walsingh. Palace at Westminster burne. kindled in the lesser Hall of the Kings house, the same with many other houses adjoining, and with the Queenes Chamber, were consumed, but after that repaired.

In the yeere, 1313. the 31. of Edward the first,The Kings treasury at Westminster robbed. the Kings treasurie at Westminster was robbed, for the which Walter, Abbot of Westminster, with 49. of his Brethren,The Abbot and Monkes sent to the Tower. and 32. other were throwne into the Tower of London, and indighted of the robbery of an hundred thousand pound: but they affirming themselves to be cleare of the fact, and desiring the King of speedy justice, a Commission was directed for inquiry of the truth, and they were freed.

In the yeere 1316. Edward the second did solemnize his Feast of Pentecost at Westminster, Edward the 2. keeping his feasts at Westminster hall, was presented with a complaint of not rewarding Souldiers. in the great Hall, where sitting Royally at the table, with his Peeres about him, there entred a woman adorned like a Minstrell, sitting on a great horse, trapped as Minstrels then used, who rode round about the tables, shewing pastime, and at length came up to the Kings table, and layd before him a Letter, and forthwith turning her horse, saluted every one, and departed. The Letter being opened, had these contents.

Our Soveraigne Lord the King, hath nothing courteously respected his Knights, that in his Fathers time, and also in his owne have put forth their persons to divers perils, and have utterly lost, or greatly diminished their substance, for honor of the said King, and he hath inriched abundantly such as have not borne the weight (as yet) of the businesse, &c.

This great Hall was begunne to be repaired in the yeere 1397. by Richard the second,Great Hall at Westminster repaired. who caused the wals, windowes and roofe, to be taken downe, and new made, with a stately porch, and divers lodgings of a marvailous worke, and with great costs. All which hee levied of Strangers banished, or flying out of their Countries, who obtained licence to remaine in this Land by the Kings Charters, which they had purchased with great summes of money, Iohn Boterell being then Clarke of the works.

This Hall being finished in the yeere 1399. the same King kept a most royall Christmas there, with daily Iustings, Great feasts at Westminster Hall. and runnings at Tilt, whereunto resorted such a number of people, that there was every day spent twenty eight, or twenty sixe Oxen, and three hundred sheepe, beside fowle without number.

He caused a Gowne for himselfe to bee made of Gold,Ro. Iuelefe. garnished with Pearle and precious Stones, to the value of three thousand Markes. He was garded by Cheshire-men, and had about him commonly thirteene Bishops, besides Barons, Knights, Esquires, and other more than needed: in so much, that to the household came every day to meate, ten thousand people; as appeareth by the messes told out from the Kitchin to three hundred Servitors.

Thus was this great Hall, for the honour of the Prince, oftentimes furnished with ghests, not onely in this Kings time (a prodigall Prince) but in the time of other also, both before and since, though not so usaully noted. For when it is said, the King held his Feast of Christmas, or such a Feast at Westminster; it may well bee supposed to bee kept in this great Hall, as most sufficient to such a purpose.

I find noted by Robert Fabian (sometime an Alderman of London) that King Henry the seventh,Ro. Fabian. in the ninth of his reigne,King Henry the 7. feasted the Maior of London, &c. (holding his Royall Feast of Christmas at Westminster) on the twelfth day, feasted Ralph Austry, then Maior of London, and his brethren the Aldermen, with other Commoners in great number, and after dinner, dubbed the Maior, Knight, caused him with his brethren, to stay and behold the disguisings and other disports in the night following shewed in the great Hall, which was richly hanged with Atras, and staged about on both sides. Which disports being ended, in the morning, the King, the Queene, the Ambassadors, and other Estates, being set at a table of stone, 60. Knights and Esquires served 60. dishes to the Kings Messe, and as many to the Queenes (neigher flesh nor fish) & served the Maior with 24. dishes to his Messe, of the same manner, with sundry wines in most plenteous wife.

And finally, the King and Queene being conveyed with great lights into [Page] the Palace; the Maior with his Company in Barges, returned and came to London, by breake of the next day. Thus much for building of this great Hall, and feasting therein.

It moreover appeareth,Parliaments kept in VVestminster Hall. that many Parliaments have been kept there: for I find noted, that in the yeere 1397. the great Hall at Westminster, being out of reparations; and therefore, as it were, new builded by Richard the second (as is afore shewed) the same Richard in the meane time having occasion to hold a Parliament, caused (for that purpose) a large house to be builded in the middest of the Palace Court, betwixt the clocke-Tower, and the gate of the old great Hall.

This house was very large and long, made of Timber, covered with Tyle, open on both the sides, and at both the ends, that all men might see and heare what was both said and done.

The Kings Archers (in number 4000. Cheshire men) compassed the house about with their bowes bent,I find of Record the 50. of Ed. the 3. that the Chapter-house of the Abbot of VVestm. was then the usuall house for the Commons in Parliamēt. Bouch of Court. and Arrowes nocked in their hands, alwayes ready to shoote: they had Bouch of Court (to wit, meate and drinke) and great wages, of six pence by the day.

The old great Hall being new builded, Parliaments were againe there kept as before: namely, one in the yeere 1399. for the deposing of Richard the second. A great part of this Palace at Westminster was once againe burnt in the yeere, 1512. the fourth of Henry the eight; since the which time, it hath not beene reedified: onely the great Hall, with the offices neere adjoining, are kept in good reparations, and serveth as afore, for Feasts at Coronations, Arraignements of great persons charged with treasons, keeping of the Courts of Iustice, &c. But the Princes have beene lodged in other places about the City, as at Baynards-Castell, at Bridewell, and White-hall, sometime called Yorke place, and sometime at S. Iames.

This great Hall hath beene the usuall place of pleadings, and ministration of Iustice, whereof some what shortly I will note.

In times past,Magna Charta. the Courts & Benches followed the King, wheresoever hee went, as well since the Conquest, as before, which thing at length being thought cumbersome, painefull, and chargeable to the people; it was in the yeere 1224. the 9. of Henry the third agreed, that there should be a standing place appointed, where matters should be heard and judged, which was in the great Hall at Westminster. Common pleas in VVestminster Hall. T. Smith.

In this Hall he ordained three judgement seates, to wit, at the entry on the right hand, the Common Pleas, where civill matters are to bee pleaded, specially such as touch Lands or contracts. At the upper end of the Hall, on the right hand, or South East corner, the Kings Bench, where Pleas of the Crowne have their hearing:Court of the Chancerie. And on the left hand or Southwest corner, sitteth the Lord Chancellor, accompanied with the Master of the Rolls, and other men, learned for the most part in the Civill law, and called Masters of the Chancery, which have the Kings fee.

The times of pleading in these Courts are foure in the yeere, which are called Tearmes.

The first is Hilarie Tearme, which beginneth the three and twentieth of Ianuary, if it be not Sunday, and endeth the twelfth of February.

The second is Easter Tearme, and beginneth seventeene dayes after Easterday, and endeth foure dayes after Ascension day.

The third Tearme beginneth six or seven dayes after Trinitie Sunday, and endeth the Wednesday fortnight after.

The fourth is Michaelmas Tearme, which beginneth the ninth of October, if it be not Sunday, and endeth the 28. of November.

And heere is to bee noted,Kings of this Realme have sate on the Kings Bench in VVestminster Hall. that the Kings of this Realme have used sometimes to sit in person in the Kings Bench: namely, King Edward the fourth, in the yeere, 1462. in Michaelmas Tearme, sate in the Kings Bench three dayes together, in the open Court, to understand how his lawes were ministred and executed.

Within the Port, or entry into the Hall, on either side are ascendings up into large Chambers, without the Hall adjoining thereunto, wherein certaine Courts be kept,Court of the Exchequer. namely, on the right hand, is the Court of the Exchequer, a [Page] place of account, for the revenewes of the Crowne: the hearers of the account have Auditors under them; but they which are the chiefe for accounts of the Prince, are called Barons of the Exchequer, whereof one is called the Chiefe Baron. The greatest officer of all, is called the High Treasurer. In this Court be heard those that are delators,Informers. or informers, in popular and penall actions, having thereby part of the profit by the law assigned unto them.

In this Court, if any question bee, it is determined after the order of the Common Law of England by twelve men, and all Subsidies, Taxes and Customes, by account: for in this office, the Sheriffes of the Shire doe attend upon the execution of the commandements of the Iudges, which the Earle should do, if he were not attending upon the Prince in the warres, or otherwise about him. For, the Chiefe Office of the Earle was, to see the Kings Iustice to have course, and to bee well executed in the Shire, and the Princes Revenewes to bee well answered, and brought into the Treasurie.

If any Fines or Amerciaments bee extracted out of any of the said Courts upon any man, or any Arrerages of accounts of such things as is of Customes, Taxes, and Subsidies, or other such like occasions; the same the Sheriffe of the Shire doth gather, and is answerable therefore in the Exchequer.

As for other ordinary Rents of Patrimoniall Lands, and most commonly of Taxes, Customes and Subsidies, there be particular Receivers and Collectors, which doe answere it into the Exchequer.

This Court of the Exchequer hath of old time, and as I thinke, since the Conquest, beene kept at Westminster, notwithstanding, sometimes remooved thence by commandement of the King, and after restored againe; as namely, in the yeere, one thousand two hundred and nine, King Iohn commanded the Exchequer to bee remooved from West-minster to Northhampton, &c.

On the left hand above the staire, is the Dutchie Chamber,Dutchy court. wherein is kept the Court for the Dutchie of Lancaster, by a Chancellor of that Dutchie, and other ther Officers under him.

Then is there in another Chamber,Office of Receit. the Office of the receits of the Queenes Revenewes for the Crowne.Starre Chamber.

Then is there also the Starre-Chamber, where, in the Tearme time, every weeke once at the least, which is commonly on Fridaies and Wednesdaies, and on the next day after the Tearme endeth, the Lord Chancellor and the Lords, and other of the Privie-Councell, and the chiefe Iustices of England, from Nine of the Clocke, till it bee Eleven, doe sit.

This place is called the Starre-Chamber, because the Roofe thereof is decked with the likenesse of Starres gilt: there be plaints heard, of Ryots, Rowts, and other misdemeanours, which if they be found by the Kings Councell, the party offender shall be censured by these persons, which speake one after another, and he shall bee both fined and commanded to prison.

Then at the upper end of the great Hall by the Kings Bench, The court of Wards and Liveries. is a going up to a great Chamber, called the White-Hall, Court of Requests. S. Stephens Chappell. wherein is now kept the Court of Wards and Liveries, and adjoining thereunto is the Court of Requests.

Then is S. Stephens Chappell, of old time founded by King Stephen, King Iohn in the seventh of his reigne, granted to Baldwinus de London, Clarke of his Exchequer, the Chappleship of Saint Stephens at Westminster, &c.

This Chappell was againe since (of a farre more curious workemanship) new builded by King Edward the third, in the yeere 1347. for thirty eight persons in that Church to serve God, to wit, a Deane, twelve secular Canons, thirteene Vicars, foure Clarks, sixe Chorists, two Servitors, to wit, a Verger, and a keeper of the Chappell. He builded it for them from the house of receit, along nigh to the Thames, within the same Palace, there to inhabite: and since that, there were also buildings for them, betwixt the Clock-house, and the Wool-staple, called the Wey-house.

Hee also builded to the use of this Chappell (though out of the Palace Court) some distance West,Little Sanctuary. in the little Sanctuarie, a strong Clochard of Stone and Timber, covered with Lead, [Page] and placed therein three great Bels, since usually rung at Coronations, Triumphs, Funerals of Princes, and their Obits. Of those Bels men fabuled, that their ringing sowred all the drinke in the Towne. More, that about the biggest Bell was written:

King Edward made mee

thirtie thousand and three,

Take me downe and weigh mee,

and more shall ye find mee.

But these Bels being taken down indeed, were found all three not to weigh twenty thousand.

True it is, that in the Citie of Roane, in Normandy, there is one great Bell, that hath such an Inscription as followeth:

Ie suis George d'Ambois,

Qui trente cinq mille pois:

Mes lui me pesera,

Trente six mill me trovera.

I am George of Ambois,

Thirtie five thousand in pois:

But he that shall weigh me,

Thirtie six thousand shall find me.

The said King Edward endowed this Chappell with lands to the yearly value of five hundred pound. Doctor Iohn Chambers, Cloyster of Saint Stephens Chappell builded. the Kings Physitian, the last Deane of this Colledge, builded thereunto a Cloyster, of curious workemanship, to the charges of eleven thousand Markes. This Chappell, or Colledge, at the suppression, was valued to dispend in lands by the yeere one thousand eighty five pound, ten shillings five pence,Parliamēt House. and was surrendred to Edward the sixth: since the which time, the same Chappell hath served as a Parliament House.

By this Chappell of S. Stephen, Chappell of our Ladie in the Piew. was sometime one other smaler Chappell, called our Lady of the Piew; to the which Lady, great Offerings were used to be made: Amongst other things I have read, that Richard the second, after the overthrow of Wat Tilar, and other the Rebels, in the fourth of his raigne, went to Westminster, and there giving thankes to God for his victory, made his Offering in this Chappell. But as divers have noted, namely, Iohn Pigot, in the yeare 1252. on the seventeenth of February, by negligence of a Scholler, appointed by his Schoolemaster to put forth the Lights of this Chappell, the Image of our Lady richly decked with Iewels, precious Stones, Pearles, and Rings, more than any Ieweller could judge the price, for so saith mine author; was with all this Apparell, Ornaments, and Chappell it selfe, burnt: but since againe reedified by Anthony, Earle Rivers, Lord Scales, and of the Isle of Wight, Vncle and Governor to the Prince of Wales, that should have beene King Edward the fifth, &c.

The said Palace,Clocke-house at VVestminster. before the entry thereunto, hath a large Court, and in the same a Tower of Stone, containing a Clocke, which striketh every houre on a great Bell, to bee heard into the Hall in sitting time of the Courts, or otherwise: for the same Clocke, in a calme, will bee heard into the City of London. King Henry the sixth gave the keeping of this Clock with the Tower, called the Clock-house, and the appurtenances, unto William Walsby, Deane of Saint Stephens, with the wages of sixe pence the day out of his Exchequer. By this Tower standeth a fountaine,Fountaine in the Palace Court. which at Coronations, and great Triumphs is made to runne with Wine out of divers spouts.

On the East side of this Court,VVestminster Bridge or common landing place▪ is an Arched Gate to the River of Thames, with a faire Bridge and landing place for all men that have occasion.

On the North side, is the South end of Saint Stephens Alley, or Canon-Row, and also a way into the old Wooll staple: and on the West side is a very faire Gate, begun by Richard the 3. in the yeere 1484. and was by him builded a great height,High Tower at VVestminster. and many faire lodgings in it, but left unfinished, and is called the high Tower at Westminster.

Thus much for the Monasterie and Palace may suffice. And now will I speake of the Gate-house, and of Totehill-streete, stretching from the West part of the Close.

The Gate-house is so called of two [Page] Gates,Gate-house at VVestminster. the one out of the Colledge Court toward the North, on the East side whereof was the Bishop of Londons Prison, for Clerkes convict, and the other Gate adjoyning to the first; but towards the West, is a Gaole or Prison for offenders thither committed. Walter Warfield, Celerer to the Monasterie, caused both these Gates (with the appurtenances) to be builded in the reigne of Edward the third.

On the South side of this Gate,Almes-houses of Henry the seventh. King Henry the seventh, founded an Almes-house for thirteene poore men: one of them to bee a Priest, aged five and forty yeeres, a good Grammarian, the other twelve to bee aged fiftie yeeres, without wives, every Saturday the Priest to receive of the Abbot, or Prior, foure pence by the day, and each other two pence halfe penny by the day for ever, for their sustenance, and every yeere to each one a Gowne and a Hood ready made. And to three women that dressed their meat, and kept them in their sicknesse, each to have every Saturday sixteene pence, and every yeere a Gowne ready made. More to the thirteene poore men yeerely fourescore quarters of Coales, and one thousand of good Fagots to their use: In the Hall and Kitchin of their Mansion, a discreet Monke to bee over-seer of them, and hee to have forty shillings by the yeere, &c. and herunto was every Abbot and Prior sworne.

Neere unto this house Westward,Chappell of Saint Anne. was an old Chappell of Saint Anne, over against the which, the Lady Margaret, Mother to King Henry the seventh erected an Almes-house for poore women,Almes-house founded by Lady Margaret. which is now turned into lodgings, for the singing men of the Colledge: the place wherein this Chappell and Almes-house standeth, was called the Eleemosinary or Almory, Almory at VVestminster. now corruptly the Ambry, for that the Almes of the Abbey were there distributed to the poore. And therein I slip, Abbot of Westminster, Printing of Bookes at VVestm. the first in England. erected the first Presse of Book Printing that ever was in England, about the yeere of Christ, 1471. W. Caxton, Citizen of London, Mercer, brought it into England, and was the first that practised it in the said Abbey; after which time, the like was practised in the Abbeys of S. Augustin at Cant. S. Albans, Totehill-street. and other Monasteries. From the West gate runneth along Totehill street, wherein is a house of the Lord Gray of Wilton, and on the other side, at the entry into Totehill field, Stourton house, which Giles, the last Lord Dacre of the South,Hospitall founded by Lady Anne Dacre. purchased and built new, whose Lady and wife Anne sister to T. the Lord Backhurst, left money to her Executors, to build an Hospitall for twenty poore women, and so many children to be brought up under them, for whose maintenance shee assigned lands, to the value of one hundred pounds by the yeere, which Hospitall, her Executours have since begunne in the field adjoyning.

From the entry into Totehill field, Pettie France. the streete is called Pettie France, in which, and upon S. Hermits hill, on the South side thereof, Cornelius van Dun (a Brabander borne, Yeoman of the Guard to King Henry the eighth, King Edward the sixth,Almes-houses for poore women. Queene Mary, and Queene Elizabeth) built twenty Houses, for poore women to dwell rent-free: Chappell of Mary Magdalen. And neere hereunto was a Chappell of Mary Magdalen, now wholly ruinated.

In the yeare of Christ 1256. the 40. of Henry the third,Matthew Paris. Iohn Mansell, the Kings Counsellor, and a Priest, did invite to a stately Dinner, the Kings and Queenes of England and Scotland, Edward the Kings sonne, Earles, Barons and Knights, the Bishop of London, and Divers Citizens: whereby his guests did grow to such a number, that his house at Totehill could not receive them,Seven hundred Messe of Meat at one Dinner in Totehill. but that hee was forced to set up Tents and Pavillions, to receive his guests; whereof there was such a multitude, that seven hundred Messe of Meat did not serve for the first Dinner.

The Citie of Westminster, Governement of VVestminster City. for Civill Government, is divided into twelve severall Wards, for the which, the Deane of the Collegiate Church of Westminster, or the high Steward, doe elect twelve Burgesses, and as [Page] many Assistants, that is, one Burgesse and one Assistant for every Ward: out of the which twelve Burgesses, two are nominated yeerely, upon Thursday in Easter weeke; for chiefe Burgesses, to continue for one yeere next following, who have authority given them by the Act of Parliament, 27. Elizabeth, to heare, examine, determine, and punish, according to the Lawes of the Realme, and lawfull Customes of the Citie of London, matters of Incontinencie, common Scolds, Inmates, and common Annoyances, and likewise to commit such persons as shall offend against the Peace, and thereof to give knowledge within foure and twenty houres, to some Iustice of Peace, in the County of Middlesex.

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Not farre from Westminster, by the River, there is erected a goodly Building, not yet finished, for Students in Divinity commonly knowne by the name of Chelsey Colledge, whereof I thought fit to make mention, because I finde an Act of Parliament made in the seventh yeere of King, Iames, in the behalfe of the same Colledge, as also a Declaration published by Authority in the yeere 1616. containing the Reasons that moved his Majesty and the State to erect the same which here followeth.

WHereas his Majesty, of his most Royall and zealous care for the defence of true Religion now established within this Realme of England, The cause of the erection of the Colledge there. and for the refuting or Errors and Heresies repugnant unto the same, hath been graciously pleased, by his Letters Patents under the great Seale of England, to found a Colledge at Chelsey, neere London, and therein to place certaine learned Divines, and to incorporate the same by the name of the Provost and Fellowes of the Colledge of King Iames in Chelsey, The name of that corporation. neere London, of the foundation of the same Iames King of England, and hath of his most gracious bounty and goodnesse, not onely endowed the same with certaine Lands, Priviledges, and Immunities, but hath also for their further maintenance and sustentation, given unto them a capacity and ability to receive and take from his Majesty, or any of his loving Subjects,The ability thereof to receive [...] any Lands, Tenements, Hereditaments, Gifts, Benefits, and Profits whatsoever, not exceeding in the whole the yeerely value [...] three thousand pounds, as in and by [...] Letters Patents doth more at large appeare. And whereas also it is manifest and evident, that the bringing in of fresh streames of running water into the City of London, is very convenient, necessary, and profitable, as well for the private use of such as shall rent the same, as a helpe for cleansing the said City in the time of sicknesse, and preserving the same against all sodaine adventures of fire: It is therefore enacted, &c. that it shall and may be lawfull to the said Provost and Fellowes, their Successors, Deputies, and Assignes, at all and every such place and places in the open Fields or Marshes lying betweene the Bridge called Lock-Bridge, in or neere the Parish or Hackney, in the County of Middlesix, and the Bridge called Bow-Bridge, at Stratfort-Bow in the Parish of Stepney, in the said County,The Provest, &c. may dig a trench out of the River Lee. (As by the said Provost and Fellowes, their Successors, Deputies or Assignes, by and with the consent and allowance of the occupiers and owners of the soile in the said place or places, and in default of such assent and allowance, by such composition first to be made with the said occupiers and owners of the said soile, as by the Commissioners, by vertue of this Act [Page] to be in this behalfe appointed, shall be thought fit and convenient) to dig or cut from and out of the maine River of Lee, on that side or banke of the same River which is next unto the City of London, Of what quantity. a ditch or trench not exceeding in breadth ten foot, or to scoure, cleanse, or enlarge unto the breadth aforesaid, any old ditch or trench there already made: and the same ditch or trench either old or new, so to be made or to be cleansed, to convey by and thorow the said Fields and Marshes, in all places convenient, in such sort as the same may againe bee returned, and made to open it selfe into the maine River, within some such convenient distance from the mouth thereof, as to the said Commissioners shall (for the intents and purposes hereafter expressed) be thought fit: Vpon which ditch or trench, or places neere adjoyning thereunto, it shall and may be lawfull to the said Provost and Fellowes, their Successors, Deputies, or Assignes, to erect or cause to bee erected, certaine Engines,They may erect engines, &c. Waterworkes, or Waterwheeles, as also houses or couerings requisite for the same, where by the assent of the said Commissioners, the same shall be agreed upon, to be no let or hinderance to the ordinary passage of Barges, Boats, or other such Vessels upon the said River of Lee, and by and through the sayd ditch or trench, to carry and convey so much of the water of the said maine River, as by the said Provost and Fellowes, their Successors, Deputies, or Assignes, shall bee thought requisite and necessary to bee used for the working or motion of the said Engines or Waterwheeles, and shall also by the said Commissioners be thought to be no prejudice or hinderance to the ordinary passage of Barges, Boats, or such other Vessels upon the same River. And that it shall and may bee lawfull to and for the said Provost and Fellowes, their Successors, Deputies, and Assignes (in all places apt and conuenient, within a convenient distance of the said Engines or Waterworkes) to dig for the taking and further opening of Springs of fresh water there found,They may open Springs, &c. or to bee found on the West side of the said River next unto the City of London, and the water of the said Springs to carry and convey by and through certaine little Gutters or Trenches, or Pots or Pipes under the ground, into one Pit, Pond, or head of convenient largenesse, to bee made by the said Provost and Fellowes, their Successors, Deputies, or Assignes, in some places apt for the same. And that it shall and may bee lawfull to and for the said Provost and Fellowes, their Successors, Deputies, and Assignes, having by Art and sleight of Engines and Waterworkes, or by any other meanes or devise raised the water of the said Springs, and so much of the water there running in the said Ditch or Trench as shall be thought necessary, to such height, and into such place, Pond, Head, or recept, (as to them shall seeme in that behalfe requisite) to convey and carry the same in close Pipes under the ground from the said Waterworkes,They may convey Pipes under ground. and the said other places of receipt, unto the City of London and the Suburbes thereof, for the perpetuall maintenance and sustentation of the said Provost and Fellowes, and their successors by the rent to be made of the said waters conveyed as aforesaid. And that for the convenience of the said water, it shall and may be lawfull to and for the said Provost and Fellowes, their Successors, Deputies and Assignes, (in all places convenient betweene the said Waterworkes and the said City of London) to digge,They may dig and open ground to make conduit heads. cut, and open the ground, to such depth and breadth as shall be convenient for the laying in of the said Pipes or Pots, thorow which the said water shall passe, and for making little Conduit heads for vents unto the same, for the better passage of the said waters, and the same ground so opened for the purpose aforesaid, (after the said Pipes or Pots are layed in and placed) the said Provost and Fellowes, their Successors, Deputies and Assignes, shall with Turfe, Earth, Gravell, and other materials, againe fill up and cover. And be it, &c. that it shall and may be lawfull to and for the said Provost and Fellowes, their Successors, Deputies, and Assignes, from time to time, and at all times convenient, with their men, [Page] horses, carts, or other carriages, to have free entry and passage, by, over, and through any ground or land, in places, and at times meet and convenient, for the doing and performing of any thing requisite,They may hare free passage to make, and after to preserve the things rade. for the making of the said severall passages of waters, or for the doing of any other act or thing concerning the same, authorized by this Act, as also for the continuall preservation and reparation of the said workes, as often as need shall require. And be it, &c. that the Lord Chancellour, or Lord Keeper of the great Seale of England for the time being, by Commission under the great Seale of England, at the request and charges of the said Provost and Fellowes, their Successors, Substitutes and Deputies, or upon the complaint or petition of any person or persons whom it may concerne, shall nominate, appoint, and authorize by Commission or Commissions, under the great Seale of England, seven discreet and sufficient persons, whereof two shall bee lustices of Peace of the County of Middlesex, and two of the City of London, and three others at the choyce and appointment of the said Lord Chancellour or Lord Keeper, every of the said persons having Lands and Tenements, of the cleere yeerely value of xl. li. at the least, which said seven persons, or any foure, or more of them,What recompence the owners of the ground shall have. shall have power to order and set downe what rate or rates, summe or summes of money shall be payed by the said Provost and Fellowes, as well for satisfaction and recompence of damages, in making the fore-recited workes, or any thing belonging to the same, as also for any manner of damages to be sustained, in the mending or reparation thereof, from time to time, or any other costs or charges sustained by reason of the same, to the Lords, owners, and occupiers of the ground and soile, or to others interessed in the said River or Waters, for which, composition is to be made by the intent of this Act, if the parties cannot of themselves agree, and in what manner the same shall bee paid.How they may recever it. And that for the recovery of such money, as shall bee so ordered and set downe by the said Commissioners, or any foure, or more of them, the party or parties to whom the same money shall be due and payable, by the true intent of the said Order, shall or may recover the same, together with the reasonable costs and dammages for the forbearance thereof, against the said Provost and Fellowes, by action of Debt, Bill, or Plaint, in any his Majesties Courts at Westminster, wherein no Essoine or Protection shall be allowed.What grounds may not be digged▪ Provided alwayes, and it is further enacted, &c. that the said water shall not bee conveyed thorow the House, Garden, or Orchard of any person or persons, or thorow any part thereof, or thorow any Cornefields, while the Corne is growing or standing in the same, without the consent first had of the owners and occupiers of the said Houses, Gardens, Orchards, and Corne-fields. Anno 7. Iac. cap. 9.

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A briefe Declaration of the reasons that moved his MAIESTIE and the STATE to erect a Colledge of Divines, and other Learned men, at CHELSEY, together with the Copy of his Majesties Letters in favouring the same; and an addition of some Motives forcible to excite good Christians zeale to a voluntary and liberall contribution.

VNderstanding by experience, that want of information hath much hindred mens devotion in contributing toward the erection and dotation of Chelsey Colledge, we have thought it very fit, together with his Majesties Letters, seconded by my Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, to declare the reasons that caused this worke to bee undertaken, and to adde such Motives, as wee have supposed may be most effectuall to give satisfaction to his Majesties desire, and perfection to this honourable designe.

First it was considered, that the Popes Agents travelled Sea and Land, wrote bookes in favour of their faction, devised lies and slanders, to bring Religion and the Professors thereof into hatred, and not sparing any standing in their way, by falshood and trechery oppugned Kings and Princes, that could not endure the Popes tyrannicall government. And for this end, men of ready wits, good speech, long experience, and competent learning, have beene maintained in Colledges, furnished with Bookes, holpen with Counsell and directions, bound with Lawes and Oathes, to uphold the Papall Hierarchie and Heresie, and which moveth much, encouraged with great promises and large rewards.

Whereunto albeit private men piously affected have from time to time opposed themselves, yet because they wanted encouragement to undertake so great a labour, counsell of their Ancients to direct them, Bookes and Libraries to instruct them, formes of proceeding to keepe them in compasse, and rewards to maintaine them, those excepted that are due for Ecclesiasticall cures, it was further advised, that to make a sufficient defence for the truth of Religion, and honour of the State, and a strong and continuall opposition against the continued lies, slanders, errors, heresies, sects, idolatries, and blasphemies of our Adversaries, it was necessary to unite our forces, and to appoint speciall men, that without other distraction might attend the cause of Religion and the State, being furnished with Directions, Instructions, Counsell, Bookes, Presses, competent maintenance, and other necessaries.

This then was the reason why this Colledge by his Majesty and the State was first designed, and a corporation granted with large privileges, viz. That a select number of Divines and others should bee gathered together into one body, and united with one forme of Lawes, and there maintained, who being furnished with Bookes, and directed by men of experience and action, might alwaies bee ready to maintaine [Page] our Christian faith, to answer the Adversaries Calumniations as well against Religion as the State, to defend the Majesty of Kings and Princes, against the vsurpation of Popes, the liberty of Christians, against the yoke of Superstition, to supply the defect of teaching where Appropriations have devoured the Ministery, by teaching and conference to convince the obstinate Papists and Atheist, and by all lawfull meanes to maintaine truth, and discover falshood.

This is the Colledge commended by his Majesty, and intended by the State, and easily to bee perfected if it please all true Christians to further it with their helpe and favour, according to some proportion of their means. His Majesties Letters directed to my Lord of Canterbury, follow in these words:

Right trusty and well-beloved Councellour, we greet you well.

WHereas the enemies of the Gospell have ever beene forward to write, and publish bookes for confirming of erronious doctrine, and impugning the truth, and now of late seeme more carefull then before to send daily into our Realmes such their writings, whereby our loving Subjects, though otherwise well disposed might be seduced, unlesse some remedy thereof should bee provided. We by the advise of our Councell, have lately granted a corporation, and given our allowance for erecting a Colledge at Chelsey, for learned Divines to be imployed to write as occasion shall require for maintaining the Religion professed in our Kingdomes, and confuting the impugners thereof. Whereupon Doctor Suteliffe designed Provost of the said Colledge, hath now humbly signified unto us, that vpon divers promises of helpe and assistance towards the erecting and endowing the said Colledge, he hath at his owne charge begunne, and well proceeded in the building, as doth sufficiently appeare by a good part thereof already set up in the place appointed for the same. We therefore being willing to favour and further so religious a worke, will and require you to write your Letters to the Bishops of your Province, signifying unto them in our Name, that our pleasure is, they deale with the Clergie, and other of their Diocesse, to give their charitable benevolence for the perfecting of this good work so well begunne. And for the better performance of our desire, wee have given order to the said Provost and his Associates to attend you and others unto whom it may appertaine, and to certifie us from time to time of their proceding. Therford the 5. of May 1616.

These Letters my Lord Archbishop of Canterbury sendeth abroad to the Bishops of his Province, and secondeth them in these termes:

NOw because it is so pious and religious a worke, conducing both to Gods glory, and the saving of many a soule within this Kingdome, I cannot but wish that all devout and well affected persons should by your selfe and the Preachers in your Diocesse, as well publikely as otherwise, be excited to contribute in some measure to so holy an intendment now will beganne. And although these and the like motions have beene frequent in these latter times, yet let not those whom God hath blessed with any wealth bee weary of welldoing, that it may not be said that the idolatrous and superstitious Papists bee more forward to advance their falshoods, then we are to maintaine Gods Truth. Whatsoever is collected, I pray you Lordship may be carefully brought unto me; partly that it passe not thorow any difrauding hand, and partly that his Majesty may bee acquainted what is done in this behalfe.

Your Lordships very loving Brother G. Canterb.

The like Letters are written to my Lord Chancellour, and my Lord Maior of London.

By these Letters it may appeare, that this Colledge is not an idle project of any private man, but a pious worke projected by the King & State, and that all that professe Religion, and desire the continuance and advancement thereof, yea, all that honour his Majesty, and wish the prosperity of the State, and desire the increase of learning, have interest therein, and I hope shall receive contentment, and good satisfaction by the same.

[Page] Being then a worke of piety for the maintenance of true Religion, who can be accounted truly pious and religious, and yet yeeld no helpe to advance it? being a project to maintaine the honour of the State, what good Subject will not contribute to set forward this project? but to touch onely the point of Gods honour, let us remember the words of the Wise man, Prov. 3. Honour the Lord with thy substance. Let us also consider what the Lord himselfe saith, 1 Sam. 2. Them that honour me, I will honour; and they that despise mee, shall be despised. Now who can say, hee honoureth God that suffereth him by idolatry, superstition, and blasphemy to be dishonoured, and will give nothing to suppresse Baals Priests, and is content that the Pope be worshipped like the Idoll Bell? can Gods honour stand with the superstition, heresie, idolatry, and blasphemy of Papists, prophannesse of Atheists, fanaticall doctrine of Schismatickes, and idle Novelists?

It is not sufficient for true Christians to professe true Religion, but they must with zeale maintaine it, and with heart abhorre, and with hand suppresse idolatry and superstition, Who will rise up with me against the wicked, saith the Prophet, Psal. 94. And Psal. 139. he saith, Hee hated those that hated the Lord with an unfained hatred. The Law Deut. 13. is direct against such as intice us to serve other gods, our eye may not pity them, nor may we shew mercy unto them, no although they bee our brothers, or our wives that lie in our bosome.

An odious thing also it is, either to suffer truth to bee suppressed, or lies to be received. Saint Augustine in Epist. ad Casulanum, saith, It is a fault to hide truth, as well as to tell lies; Vterque reus est, & qui veritatem occultat, & qui mendacium dicit. Chrysostome Homil. 25. in Math. doth charge him to be a Traytor unto Truth, that dare not boldly utter it or defend it; Non ille solum est proditor veritatis qui veritatem transgrediens pro veritate mendacium loquitur, sed etiam qui non liberè veritatem pronuntiat quam pronuntiare tenetur, aut non liberè veritatem defendit quam liberè defendere convenit.

Some suppose that Christianity and Popery may stand together, and themselves as Newters stand betweene both, or as Mediators would reconcile both. But can Christ bee reconciled to Anti-christ? there is no concord betwixt Christ and Belial, saith the Apostle, 2 Cor. 6. Elias told us there is no halting betweene two Religions: no man that honoureth any Creature can say he truly honoureth God, for God giveth not his honour to Creatures, As [...] 1 King. 15. was a good King, yet it is imputed to him that hee tooke not downe the high places. The Bishop of the Church of Pergamus, Apocal. 2. is reproved for suffering them that taught the doctrine of Balaam; and the Bishop of Thyatira, for permitting Iesabel to teach and deceive the people; and shall the Church of England any longer suffer the Romish Balamites, and the false Priests of Baal maintained by the Romish Iesabel and her Consorts to seduce Gods people? The false Priests of Bel used all art and cunning practices to deceive, and now will not suffer any Religion but that of their god Bel, the Pope; and shall not true Christians use equall diligence to maintaine truth, and suppresse Popery, and all other idolatrous and false Religion? Ingemui fateor (saith Hierome) minus nobis inesse voluntatis ad propugnandam veritasem, quam inest illis cupiditatis ad inculcandum mendacium: I sighed (saith he) seeing lesse desire in us to defend truth, then in our adversaries to maintaine lies.

This Colledge then being erected for maintenance of truth and Gods true service, and a resoiute opposition against errors and false worship of God, it cannot but please God and content godly men. The same will also bee a meanes to increase learning, and to supply the defects of places haunted with the spirits of Antichrist, the Jesuits, and Masse-priests, and therefore cannot chuse but be well approved of all, that either desire a learned Ministery, or love learning. Finally, seeing the Church hath received no greater dishonour by any, then by unsufficient and unlearned Churchmen, I hope this may bee a meanes to recover some part of their lost honour.

[Page] Wherefore, whether we regard the service of God, or the honour we owe to our King, or the love wee beare to our Country and the State, let us not shew our selves sparing or backward in yeelding our ayd to set forward a worke so religious and profitable for the Church, so honourable for the State, so necessary in regard of the malice of our adversaries, and the defects and discouragement of our owne forces. Other collections have beene either for private persons or strangers, or places remote, or matters concerning some particular occasions. This concerneth a generall good, and toucheth every man both in conscience and honour. Heretofore wee have endevoured to maintaine Religion, and favour others abroad, let us not therefore neglect our selves, and our owne honour, profit, and necessary service at home. Neither let any man thinke it strange, that a worke of such greatnesse should be advanced by this weake meanes, or that a project so necessary should proceed so slowly. Almighty God, albeit all-sufficient, yet would have his owne Tabernable built by the voluntary offerings of his people. Speake, saith God to Moyses, Exod. 25. to the children of Israel, that they receive an offering for me of every man whose heart giveth it freely. And Exod. 36. it followeth, and they brought still unto Moyses free gifts every morning, and they ceased not untill they were stayed from offering. King Solomon likewise was greatly holpen in the building of the Temple by the contribution of his Subjects, as appeareth by the words of Scriptures, 1 King. 9. 19. further, by voluntary offerings and contributions, the Temple was repaired by Ioash, 2 King. 12. and by Iosiah, 2 Chron. 34. and this hath beene the use and practice of ancient times in building, and endowing most famous Churches, Colledges, Schooles, and other Monuments of Religion and Learning, both in our owne and other Countries. Our Adversaries by this course have had meanes to build many Monasteries and Colledges, and Schooles for Jesuites and Friers, as it were propugnacles of Superstition, Heresie, Idolatry, and Antichrists tyranny, to uphold and make good their owne corruptions in Religion, and usurpations upon the Magistrates government, and every Christian mans liberty. And this have they done not onely in Europe, but also in the Indies, and not one in every Kingdome, but in the same State divers, and almost in every great City one. And shall not this flourishing Kingdome build and endow one Colledge for the maintenance of Gods true service, and the honour of the whole State? It were a dishonour to our Nation, and the whole Church and State to thinke contrary.

The worke we confesse hath hitherto proceeded slowly: And no marvell, seeing great workes are not easily atchieved. Noes Arke, Gods Tabernacle and Temple, and famous Schooles and Colledges, albeit founded by Kings and great men, were long in building, and doe we wonder that this College is not yet finished? further it pleased God to deprive us of Prince Henry our principall hope, and the chiefe Author of this designe. Lastly, who knoweth whether God hath appointed these weake meanes to set forward a great worke, that his power in our weaknes might have the whole glory?

Let us therefore, good Countrymen and Christians, hearken willingly to his Majesties motion, and readily follow his example. Let it appeare by our bounty how zealous wee are to maintaine his everlasting Truth, and root out error and idolatry. Let us by effects declare how studious we are to doe good workes, and to advance our Countries honour. They that have much may give of their abundance: the rest according to the measure of their meanes. God as well accepteth the Widowes mite, and poore mans good will, as the rich mans treasure.

If wee honour God with our substance, he will honour us and encrease our substance. If we build a house for the maintenance of his truth, that it may continue to our posterity, God will uphold our houses, restore to us, and double it to our posterity. Abraham by offering his [...], was made a father of many sonnes, yea of Nations. And Salomon that shewed his Royall [Page] magnificence in building God a Temple, in honour and riches passed all other Kings. How then can wee excuse our selves, if wee deny God a small offring, that daily offereth to us many graces, and giveth us all the good things we possesse. Our soules and bodies are a sacrifice due to him: and therefore no Christian may deny to him an offring out of his wordly goods, if Gods service require it.

As for those that draw backe in this service, and refuse to concurre in promoting Gods honour, let them marke the words of our Saviour, Matth. 12. He that is not with me is against me. And the curse of the Angell upon the people of Meros, Iudg. 5. Curse ye Meros, saith the Angell, for they came not up to helpe the Lord.

But we hope we shall not need many words to move them, that already are so well perswaded, nor to perswade men, that in Religion and devotion are so forward. It is the duty of good Christians to advance Gods honour, and represse Superstition, Heresie, Idolatry, Blasphemy. It is the office of good subjects to defend the honour of the State, against the sycophancies of English Fugitives, and the secret practices of fortaine enemies their adherents. The adversaries using all their skill, and joyning their forces against Religion and the State, it behoveth us likewise to unite our forces, and to joyne in consultation how to resist them. This common businesse requireth common helpe, the practices of the Adversaries provoke us to use speed, the quality of the worke being for defence of Religion and the State, will move any whose heart is not hardened, cheerefully to give. Whosoever shall willingly give, shall receive of God a full reward in this life, and when they dye, their workes shall follow them, and then whatsoever they have given to God on earth, they shall assuredly finde in Heaven.

Wherefore recommending the Colledge of Chelsey to every religious Christians devout thoughts, we cease further to presse them. Only for satisfaction of those that desire to know why this Colledge is erected at Chelsey, and not in one of the Vniversities, this we thought fit to adde, that this place was thought most fit to receive directions from our Superious, to consult with men of best experience, to obtaine intelligence from forraigne parts, to print Bookes, and to disperse them; And lastly, to obtaine the favour of the State and City. Further hereby, as all emulation may bee avoyded, so the helpe of both Vniversities may as well be had by entercourse of our Agents, as if the Colledge stood in either of the Vniversities. Thus all things now stand. God blesse the proceeding of this worke, and give honour to his owne name, and a happy issue to this holy designe. Amen.

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GOVERNORS OF THE CITIE OF LONDON. And first of Ecclesiasticall Bishops; and other Ministers there.

HAving thus runne through the description of these Cities of London and West-minster, aswell in their originall foundations, as in their increases of buildings and ornaments, together with such incidents of sundry sorts, as are before, both generally and particularly discoursed. It remaineth that somewhat bee noted by mee, touching the Policie and Government, both Ecclesiasticall and Civill, of London, VV. Malmesberie. as I have already done for West-minster, the order whereof is appointed by the late Statute, even as that of London is maintained by the Customes thereof, most laudably used before all the time of memory.

And first to begin with the Ecclesiasticall Iurisdiction.Antiquities of Glaste. I read, that the Christian Faith was first preached in this Iland (then called Britaine) by Ioseph of Arimathea, and his brethren, Disciples of Christ, in the time of Arviragus, then Governor heere,Lib. confii. under the Romane Emperour. Eleutherius died in the yeere 186. when he had sitten Bishop 15. yeeres. After which time, Lucius, King of the Britaines, sent his Ambassadors, Elvanus and Meduvanus, two men learned in the Scriptures, with Letters to Eleutherius, Bishop of Rome, desiring him to send some devout and Learned men, by whose instruction, hee and his people might hee taught the Faith and Religion of Christ. Eleutherius baptized those Messengers, making Elvanus a Bishop, and Meduvanus a Teacher, and sent over with them into Britaine, two other famous Clerks, Faganus and Deruvianus, by whose diligence, Lucius and his people of Britaine, were instructed in the Faith of Christ, and baptized, the Temples of Idols were converted into Cathedrall Churches, & Bishops were placed, where Flamines before had bin: at London, Yorke and Carleon upon Vske, were placed Archbishops, saith some. The said Epistle (to us sent by Eleutherius) to King Lucius, Liber Custom. for the establishing of the faith, yee may read in my Annales, Summaries and Chronicles, truely translated and set downe, as mine Author hath i [...], for some have curtalled and corrupted it, and then fathered it, upon Reverend Bede, Bede. who never wrote word thereof, or otherwise to that effect, more than this as followeth:

In the yeere 156. Marcus Aurelius Verus, the 14. Emperor after Augustus, governed the Empire, with his brother Aurelius Cōmodus. In whose time, Eleutherius, a Holy man, being Pope of the Church of Rome, Lucius King of Britaines wrote unto him, desiring that by his commandement, he might bee made a Christian: which his request was granted him; whereby the Britaines receiving then the Faith, kept it sound and undefiled in rest and peace, untill Dioclesian the Emperours time.

Thus far Bede, which may suffice to prove the Christian Faith then to bee received here. And now of the London Bishops, according as I find them registred.

There remaineth in the Parish Church of Saint Peter upon Cornehill in London, This is before set downe in Cornehil VVard. a table wherein is written that Lucius [Page] founded the same Church to bee an Archbishops See, and Metropolitane & chiefe Church of his Kingdome, and that it so endured the space of foure hundred yeeres, untill the comming of Augustine the Monke, and others from Rome, in the reigne of the Saxons.

The Archbishops names I find only to bee set downe by Ioceline of Furnes, Ioceline of Furnes. in his booke of Brittish Bishops, and not else where. Theanus (saith hee) was the first Archbishop of London in the time of Lucius, who builded the said Church of Saint Peter, in a place called Cornehill in London, by the ayd of Ciran, chiefe Butler to King Lucius.

2 Elvanus was the second, & hee builded a Library to the same Church adjoyning, and converted many of the Druides (learned men in the Pagan law) to the Christian Faith.

3 Cadar was the third: then followed,

4 Obinus.

5 Conan.

6 Paludius.

7 Stephen.

8 Iltute.

9 Dedwin, or Theodwin.

10 Theodred.

11 Hillary.

12 Restitutus.

13 Guidelium, or Guiteline.

14 Fastidius.

15 Vodimus, slaine by the Saxons.

16 Theonw, the sixteenth, fled with the Brittaines into Wales, 1. Tome. com. about the yeere of Christ, 587. Thus much out of Ioceline of the Archbishops: the credit whereof I leave to the judgement of the learned. For, I reade of a Bishop of London (heere also named) in the yeere of Christ 326. to be present at the second Councell, holden at Arles, in the time of Constantine the great, who subscribed thereunto in these words:

Ex Provincia Britanniae Civitate Londinensi Restitutus Episcopus, as plainely appeareth in the first Tome of the Councels. Hee writeth not himselfe Archbishop, and therfore maketh the matter of Archbishops doubtfull, or rather overthroweth that opinion.

The Saxons being Pagans, having chased the Britaines with the Christian Preachers into the Mountaines of Wales and Cornewall, and having divided this Kingdome of the Britaines amongst thē selves; at the length, to wit, in the yeere 596. Pope Gregory, moved of a godly instinction (saith Bede) in the 147. yeere, after the Angles or Saxons in Britaine, sent Augustine, Melitus, Iustus and Iohn, with other Monkes, to preach the Gospell to the said Nation of the Angles.

These landed in the Ile of Thanet, and were first received by Ethelbert, King of Kent, whom they converted to the faith of Christ, with divers other of his people, in the 34. yeere of his reigne, which Ethelbert gave unto Augustine the City of Canturbury.

The Metropolitane See being established at Canturbury, these that follow, were successively Bishops of London, to this present time.

This Augustine in the yeere of Christ 604. consecrated Melitus and Iustus Bishops, appointing Melitus to preach unto the East Saxons, whose chiefe Citie was London: and their King Sebert, Nephew to Ethelbert, by preaching of Melitus, received the Word of Life.

And then Ethelbert, King of Kent, builded in the Citie of London Saint Pauls Church,S. Pauls Church in London first founded. wherein Melitus began to be Bishop, in the yeere 619. and sate five yeeres. Ethelbert by his Charter gave Lands to this Church of Saint Paul: 1. Melitus first Bishop of London, 619. so did other Kings after him.

King Sebert, through the good life, and like preaching of Melitus, having received Baptisme, to shew himselfe a Christian, builded a Church to the honor of God and S. Peter, on the West side of London, which Church is called Westminster: but the successors of Sebert, being Pagans, expelled Melitus out of their Kingdomes.

Iustus the second,2. Iustus, 624. Bishop for a time, and then Melitus againe: after whose decease, the seate was void for a time. At length Sigebert, Sonne to Sigebert, brother to Sebert, ruled in Essex: hee became a Christian, and tooke to him a holy man, named C [...]dda, or Chadda, who wan many by preaching and good life, to the Christian Religion.

Ceadda, 3. Cedda, B. of London, 658. or Chadda, was (by Finan) consecrated Bishop of the East Saxons, and he ordred Priests and Deacons in all the parts of Essex, Ithancaster, and Tilberie. but especially at Ithancaster, Ralph Cogshall. and Tilberie.

[Page] This City of Ithancaster (saith Ralph Cogshall) stood on the banke of the River Pante, that runneth by Maldun in the hundred of Danesey; but now is drowned in Pante, so that nothing remaineth, but the ruine of the Citie in the River. Tilberie (both the West and East) standeth on the Thames side, nigh over against Gravesend.

Wina, 4 Wina, 666. expelled from the Church of Winchester by Cenewalche the King, was adopted to be the fourth Bishop of London, in the reigne of Wolferus, King of Mercia, and sate nine yeeres.

Erkenwald, 5. Erkenwald, 680. borne in the Castell or Towne of Stallingborough in Lindsey, first Abbot of Crotesey, Crotese, or Charlesey. was by Theodore, Archbishop of Canturbury, appointed to be Bishop of the East Saxons, in the Citie of London. This Erkenwald in the yeer of Christ, 677. before he was made Bishop, had builded two Monasteries, one for himselfe, being a Monke in the Isle of Crote in Surrey, by the River of Thames and another for his Sister Edilburga, being a Nun, in a certaine place called Berching in Essex: he deceased at Berching, in the yeere, 697. and was then buried in Pauls Church, and translated into the new Church of S. Paul, in the yeere, one thousand, one hundred forty eight.

Waldhere, 6 Waldhere, 697. or Walthere, was Bishop of London: King Sebba became a Monke in Pauls Church. Sebba, King of the east Saxons, at his hands received the habite of Monke: for at that time there were Monks in Pauls Church, as writeth Radulphus Dedicato, and others. To this Bishop he brought a great summe of money, to be bestowed and given to the poore, reserving nothing to himselfe; but rather desired to remaine poore in goods, as in Spirit, for the Kingdome of Heaven. When he had reigned thirty yeeres, hee deceased at Pauls, and was there buried, and lieth now in a Coffin of Stone, on the North side of the Isle next the Quire.

Ingwaldus, 7. Ingwaldus, 716. Bishop of London, was at the consecration of Tatwine, Archbishop of Canturbury; hee confirmed the foundation of Crowland, in the yeere, seven hundred and sixteene, (saith Ingulfus) and deceased in the yeere 744. as saith Hoveden.

746 Engulfe, called also Egwolfe, or Egnaldus, Bishop of London.

754 Wighead, or Wigherus, Bishop of London.

761 Eadbrightus, or Edbrithe, Bishop of London.

768 Eadgar, or Eadgarus, Bishop of London.

773 Kenewalth, Bishop of London.

784 Eadbaldus, Bishop of London.

795 Hedbert, or Hethobert, Bishop of London, deceased 802. saith Hoveden.

813 Osmund, or Oswin, Bishop of London, hee was witnesse to a Charter made to Crowland, in the yeere 833. saith Engulfus.

835 Ethelmothe, Bishop of London.

838 Ceolbert, or Celbertus, B. of London.

841 Renulfe, or Ceorulfe, Bishop of London.

850 Swithulfus, Bishop of London, he likewise was witnesse to a Charter of Crowland, 851.

860 Edstanus, Bishop of London, witnesse to a Charter of Crowland, 860.

870 Wulfius, or Wolfius, Bishop of London.

878 Ethelwardus, Bishop of London.

886 Elstanus, Bishop of London, died in the yeere 900. saith Asser, & all these, saith the Author of Flores Historiarum, were buried in the old Church of S. Paul, but there remaineth now no memorie of them.

900 Theodricus, Bishop of London: this man confirmed King Edreds Charter, made to Winchester, in the yeere, 947. whereby it seemeth, that he was Bishop of London of a later time than he is heere placed.

922 Wulstanus, Bishop of London.

941 Brithelme, Bishop of London.

958 Dunstanus, Abbot of Glastenburie: then Bishop of Worchester, and in time Bishop of London, he was afterward translated to Canturbury, 960.

960 Ealfstanus, Bishop of London: the 28. in number.

981 Edgare, Bishop of London, he confirmed the grants made to Winchester, and to Crowland, 966. and againe to Crowland, 970. the Charter of Etheldred, concerning Vlfrunhampton, 996.

1004 Elphinus, Bishop of London.

1010 Alwinus, Bishop of London.

1012 Alfhune, Bishop of London: he was sent into Normandy in the yeere 1013. saith Asser.

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1044. Robert, a Monke of Gemerisius in Normandy, Bishop of London. 7. yeers. afterward translated from London to Canturbury.

1050 Spe [...]gasius elected, but rejected by the King.

1051 William, a Norman, Chaplain to Edward the Confessor, was made Bishop of London, 1051. fare 17. yeeres, and deceased 1070. He obtained of William the Conqueror, the Charter of Liberties for the City of London, as I have set downe in my Summary, and appeareth by his Epitaph in Pauls Church.

1070 Hugh de Orwell, or Orivall, Bishop of London: he died of a Leprosie, when he had sitten fifteene yeeres.

1085 Mauricius, Bishop of London, in whose time, to wit, in the yeere 1089. the Church of S. Paul was burnt, with the most part of this Citie, and therefore he laid the foundation of a new large Church, and having sitten 22. yeeres, hee deceased, 1107. saith Mathew Paris.

1108 Richard Beame, or Beamor, called by some Richard Bearvis, Bishop of London, did wonderfully increase the worke of this Church begun, purchasing the streets and lanes (adjoining) of his owne money: and he founded the Monastery of S. Osyth in Essex, he sate Bishop 19. yeeres, and deceased 1127.

1127 Gilbertus Vniversalis, a Canon of Lyons, elected by Henry the first, he deceased 1141. when he had sitten fourteene yeeres.

1142 Robertus de Sigillo, a Monke of Reading, whom Maud the Empresse made Bishop of London, where he sate eleven yeeres. Geffrey de Magnavile tooke him prisoner at Fulham, and he deceased 1152.

1153 Richard Beames, Archdeacon of Essex, Bishop of London ten yeeres, who deceased 1162.

1163 Gilbert Foliot, Bishop of Hereford, from whence translated to London, sate three and twenty yeeres, and deceased, 1186.

1189 Richard Fitz Neale, the Kings Treasurer, Archdeacon of Essex, elected of London, at Pipwell, 1189. Hee sate nine yeeres and deceased, 1198. This man also tooke great paines about the building of Pauls Church, and raised many other goodly buildings in his Diocesse.

1199 William S. Mary Church, commonly called, William de Sancta Maria, a Norman, Bishop of London, who was one of the three Bishops, that by the Popes commandement executed his interdiction or curse upon the whole Realme of England; but hee was forced (with the other Bishops) to flie the Realme in 1208. & his Castell at Stratford in Essex was by commandement of K. Iohn overthrowne, 1210. This William, in cōpany of the Archbishop of Canturbury, and of the Bishop of Ely, went to Rome, and there complained against the King, 1212. and returned, so as in the yeere 1215. King Iohn in the Church of S. Paul, at the hands of this William, tooke upon him the Crosse for the Holy Land. He resigned his Bishopricke of his owne voluntary, in the yeere 1221. saith Cogshall.

1221 Eustachius de Faulconbridge, Treasurer of the Exchequer (saith Mathew Paris) Chancelor of the Exchequer (saith Textor, and Cogshall) Bishop of London, 1223. Whilst at Chelmesford he was giving holy Orders, a great tempest of wind and raine annoyed so many as came thither, whereof it was gathered, how highly God was displeased with such as came to receive Orders, to the end, they might live a more easie life, of the Stipend appointed to the Church-men, giving themselves to banketting, and so with uncleane and filthy bodies, (but more uncleane soules) persume to minister unto God, the Author of purity and cleanesse. Falcatius de Brent was delivered to his custody in the yeere, 1224. This Eustachius deceased in the yeere 1228. and was buried in Pauls Church, in the South side, without or above the Quire.

1229 Rogerus Niger, Archdeacon of Colchester, made Bishop of London. In the yeere 1230. (saith Mathew Paris) upon the feast day of the Conversion of S. Paul, whē he was at Masse in the Cathedrall Church of S. Paul, a great multitude of people being there present [Page] suddenly the weather waxed dark, so as one could scantly see another, and an horrible thunderclap lighted on the church, which so shook it, that it was like to hay [...]fallen. And there withall out of a [...] croud proceeded a flash of lightning, that all the Church seemed to bee on fire; whereupon such a strench ensued, that all men though they should have dyed: thousands of men and women ran out of the Church, and being astonied, fell upon the ground, voyd of all sense and understanding.

None of all the multitude traied in the Church, save the Bishop and one Deacon, which stood still before the high Altar, awaiting the will of God: when the Aire was cleansed, the multitude returned into the Church, and the Bishop ended the Service. [...]-Parish.

This Reger Niger is commended to have been a man of worthy life, excellently well learned, a notable Preacher, pleasant in talke, midle of countenance, & liberall at his Table. He admonished the Vsurers of his time, to leave such enormities, as they rendred the salvation of their soules, and to doe penance for that they had committed: but when he saw they laughed him to scorne, and also threatned him, the Bishop generally excommunicated and accursed all such, & commanded strictly that such Vsurers should depart further from the Citie of London, which hitherto had beene ignorant of such mischiefe and wickednesse, lest his Dioces should be infected therewithall. He fell sicke, and dyed at his Mannor of Bishops Hall, in the Lordship and Parish of Stebunheth, in the yeere 1241. and was buried in Pauls Church, on the North side of the Presbytery, in a faire Tombe coped, of gray Marble.

1241 Fulco Bosset, Deane of Yorke, by the death of Gilbert Basset, possessed his lands, & was then made B. of London, deceased on the 21. day of May, in the yeere 1259. as saith Iohn Tex [...]or, and was buried in Pauls Church.

1259 [...] de Wingham, Chancelor of England, made Bishop of London, deceased in the yeere 1262. saith Textor, and was buried in Pauls Church, on the South side without, or above the Quire, [...] Marble Monument, close at the head of Faulconbridge.

1262 Richard Taloot, Bishop of London, straightwayes after his consecration deceased, saith Eversden.

1262 Henry Sandwich, Bishop of London, deceased in the yeere 1273. as the same Author affirmeth.

12 [...]3 Iohn de Chishull, Deane of Pauls, Treasurer of the Exchequer, & Keeper of the great Seale, was Bishop of London, and deceased in the yeere 1279. saith Eversden.

1280 Ful [...]o Loved, Archdeacon of Colchoster, elected Bishop of London, but refused the place.

1280 Richard de Grave [...]send, Archdeacon of Northampton, Bishop of London. It appeareth by the Charter warren granted to this Bishop, that (in his time) there were two Woods in the Parish of Stebunheth, pertaining to the said Bishop: I have (since I kept house for my selfe) knowne the one of them by Bishops Hall, but now they are both made plaine of wood, and not to be discerned from other grounds. Some have fabuled, that this Richard Gravesend, Fable of Richard Gravesend reproved. Bishop of London, in the yeere 1392. the 16. of Richard the second, purchased the Charter of liberties to this City; which thing hath no possibility of truth, as I have proved, for he deceased in the yeere 2303. almost ninety yeeres before that time.

1307 Ralph de Baldocke, Deane of Pauls, Bishop of London, consecrated at Lyons by Peter, Bishop of Alba, in the yeere 1307. He was a great furtherer of the new worke of Pauls, to wit, the East end, called our Lady Chappell, and other adjoyning: this Ralph deceased in the yeere 1313. and was buried in the said Lady Chappell, under a flat stone.

1313 Gilbert Segrave was consecrated Bishop of London, & sate three yeers.

1317 Richard Newport, Bishop of London, sate two yeeres, and was buried in Pauls Church.

1318 Stephen Gravesend, Bishop of London, sate twentie yeeres.

1338 Richard Bintworth, or Wentworth, Bishop of London, and Chancelor of England, deceased the yeere 1339.

1339 Ralph Stratford, Bishop of London: he purchased the piece of ground [Page] called No mans land, beside, Smithfield, and dedicated it to the use of buriall, as before hath appeared: hee was borne at Stratford upon Avon, and therefore builded a Chappell to S. Thomas there: he sate 14. yeeres, and deceased at Stebunhith.

1354 Michael Northbroke, Bishop of London, deceased in the yeere 1361. saith Merimouth, sate 7. yeeres.

1362 Simon Sudbery, Bishop of London, sate 13. yeeres, translated to be Archbishop of Canturbury, in the yeere 1375.

1375 William Conrtney, translated from Hereford to the Bishopricke of London, and after translated from thence to the Archbishopricke of Canturbury, in the yeere, 1381.

1381 Robert Breybrooke, Canon of Lichfield, bishop of London, made Chancellour in the 6. of Richard the second sate Bishop 20. yeeres, and deceased in the yeere 1404. he was buried in the said Lady Chappell at Pauls.

1405 Roger Walden, Treasurer of the Exchequer, Archbishop of Canturbury, was deposed, and after made bishop of London: he deceased in the yeere 1406. and was buried in Pauls Church, by Alhallowes Altar.

1406 Nicholas Bubwith, bishop of London, Treasurer of the Exchequer, translated to Salisbury, & from thence to Bathe, and lyeth buried at Wells.

1407 Richard Clifford, removed from Worcester to London, deceased 1422. as saith Thomas Walsingham, and was buried in Pauls.

1422 Iohn Kempe, Fellow of Martin Colledge in Oxford, was made bishop of Rochester, from whence removed to Chichester, and thence to London: hee was made the Kings Chancellor in the yeere 1425. the fourth of Henry the sixth, & was removed from London to Yorke, in the yeere [...]26. He sate Archbishop there 25. yeeres, and was translated to Canturbury; he was afterwards made Cardinall in the yeere 1452. In the bishop of Londons house at Fulham he received the Crosse, and the next day the Pall, at the hands of Thomas Kempe bishop of London: he deceased in the yere 1454.

1426 William Gray, Deane of Yorke, consecrated Bishop of London, who founded a Colledge at Thele in Hartfordshire, for a Master and foure Canons, and made it a Cell to Elsing Spittle in London. It had of old time been a Colledge decayed, and therefore newly founded: hee was translated to Lincolne 1431.

1432 Robery Fitz-Hugh, Archdeacon of Northampton, consecrated Bishop of London, sate 5. yeeres; he deceased in the yeere 1435. and was buried on the South side of the Quire of Pauls.

1435 Robert Gilbert, Doctor of Divinity, Deane of Yorke, consecrated Bishop of London, sate twelve yeeres, deceased 1448.

1449 Thomas Kempe, Archdeacon of Richmond, consecrated Bishop of London, at Yorke house, (now White Hall) by the hands of his Vncle, Iohn Kempe, Archbishop of Yorke, the eighth of February, 1449. Hee founded a Chappell of the Trinity in the body of Saint Pauls Church on the North side; he sate Bishop of London 39. yeeres, and 48. dayes, and then deceasing in the yere 1489. was there buried.

1489 Iohn Marshall Bishop of London, deceased in the yeere 1493.

1493 Richard Hill, Bishop of London, deceased 1495. and was buried in the body of S. Pauls Church.

1496 Thomas Savage, first Bishop of Rochester, then Bishop of London 5. yeeres, was translated to Yorke 1510. where he sate Archbishop 7. yeeres, and was there buried in the yeere, 1507.

1502 William Warkham, Bishop of London, made Keeper of the great Seale, sate two yeeres, was translated to Canturbury.

1504 William Barnes, Bishop of London, sate 10. Moneths and 11. dayes, deceased in the yeere 1505.

2505 Richard Fitz-Iames, Fellow of Martin Colledge in Oxford, in the reigne of Henry the 6. was made Bishop of Rochester, after Bishop of Chichester, and then Bishop of London: he deceased 1521. and lyeth buryed hard beneath the North west pillar of the Steeple in Pauls, under a faire Tombe of Marble, over the which was builded a faire Chappell of Timber, [Page] with stayres mounting thereunto: this Chappell was burned with fire from the Steeple 1561. and the Tombe was taken downe.

1521 Cuthbert Tunstall, Doctor of Law, Master of the Rowies, Lord Privy Seale, and Bishop of London, was thence translated to the Bishopricke of Durham, in the yeere 1529.

1529 Iohn Stokesley, Bishop of London, sate 13. yeeres, deceased in the yeere 1539. and was buried in the Lady Chappell in Pauls.

1539 Edmund Bonner, Doctor of the Civill Law, Archdeacon of Leicester, then Bishop of Hereford, was elected to London, in the yeere 1539. whilest he was beyond the Seas, Ambassador for King Henry the eighth.

On the first of September 1549. hee preached at Pauls Crosse, for the which Sermon, hee was charged before the Councell of King Edward the sixth by William Latimer, Parson of S. Lawrence Poultney, and Iohn Hooper, sometime a white Monke: and being convented before certaine Commissioners at Lambith, was for his disobedience to the Kings order, on the 20. day of the same Moneth, sent to the Marshalsey, and deprived from his Bishopricke.

1550 Nicholas Ridley, Bishop of Rochester, elected Bishop of London, was installed in Pauls Church on the twelfth of April.

This man by his deed dated the 12. day after Christmas, in the 4. yeere of Edward the sixth, gave to the King the Mannors of Branketry and Southminster, and the Patronage of the Church of Cogshall in Essex, the Mannors of Stebunheth, and Hackney, in the County of Middlesex, and the Marsh of Stebunheth, with all the singular Messuages, Lands and Tenements to the said Mannors belonging, and also the Advowson of the Vicarage of the Parish Church of Cogshall in Essex aforesaid: which grant was confirmed by the Deane and Chapter of Pauls, Stebunheth and Hackney, as only pertained to them.

The said King Edward by his Letters Patents, dated the sixteenth of April, in the said fourth yeere of his reigne granted to Sir Tho. Wentworth, Lord Wentworth, Lord Chamberlaine of the Kings houshold, for and in consideration of his good and faithfull service before done, a part of the late received gift, to wit, the Lordships of Stebunheth and Hackney, with all the members and appurtenances thereto belonging in Stebunheth, Hackney way, Shorditch, Holiwell street, White Chappell, Stratford at Bowe, Poplar, North-street, Li [...]ehouse, Ratcliffe, Cleve street, Brocke street, Mile end, Bleten Hall greene, Old Foord, Westheth, Kingsland, Shakelwel, Newington street, alias Hackney street, Clopton, Church street, Well street, Humbarton, Grove street, Gunston street, alias, More streete, in the County of Middlesex, together with the Marsh of Stebunheth, &c.

The Mannor of Hackney was valued at 41. l. 9. s. 4. d. by yeere: and the Mannor of Stebunheth at 140. l. 8. s. 11. d. ob. by yeere, to bee holden in chiefe, by the service of the twentith part of a Kinghts fee.

This Bishop, Nicholas Ridley, for preaching a Sermon at Pauls Crosse, on the 16. of Iuly in the yeere 1553. was committed to the Tower of London, where hee remained prisoner till the 10. of April, in the yeere 1554. and was thence sent to Oxford, there to dispute with the Divines and learned men of the contrary opinion, and on the 16. of October 1555. he was burned at Oxford, for opinion against the Romish order of Sacraments, &c.

1553 Edmund Bonner aforesaid, being released out of the Marshalsey, was restored to the Bishopricke of London, by Queene Mary, on the fifth of August, in the yeere 1553. and againe deposed by Queene Elizabeth, in the Moneth of Iuly, Anno 1559. and was eftsoones, committed to the Marshalsey, where hee dyed on the 5. of Septembr 1569. and was at midnight buried amongst other prisoners in St. Georges Church-yard.

1559 Edmund Grindull, Bishop of London, being consecrated the 21. of December 1559. was translated to York, in the yeere 1570. and from thence removed to Canterbury, in the yeere 1575. he dyed blind 1583. on the 6. [Page] of Iuly, and was buried at Crodowne in Surrey.

1570 Edwine Sandys, being translated from Worcester to the Bishopricke of London, in the yeere, 1570. was thence translated to Yorke, in the yeere 1576. and dyed in the yeere 1588.

1576 Iohn Elmere, Bishop of London, deceased in the yeere 1594. on the 3. of Iune at Fulham, and was buried in Pauls Church, before Saint Thomas Chappell.

1594 Richard Fletcher, Bishop of Worcester, was on the 30. of December in Pauls Church elected Bishop of London, and deceased on the 15. of Iune 1596. he was buried in Pauls Church without any solemne funerall.

1597 Richard Bancroft, Doctor of Divinity, brought up first in Christs Colledge, and afterward in Iesus Colledge in Cambridge, was consecrated Bishop of London, at Lambith, on Sunday, being the 8. day of May, 1597. and translated to Canterbury in December 1604.

1604 Richard Vaughan, Doctor of Divinity, & Bishop first of Bangor, next of Chester, was translated to London in Ianuary 1604. and dyed in March 1607.

1607 Thomas Ravis, Doctor of Divinity, and Deane of Christs Church in Oxford, was first Bishop of Glocester, and then removed to London, the 19. of May, 1607. and dyed the 14. of December 1609.

1609 George Abbot, Doctor of Divinity, having beene little above one moneth Bishop of Coventry and Lichfield, was called to London, towards the latter end of Ianuary 1609. and removed to Canterbury in Anno 1611.

1611 Iohn King, Doctor of Divinity, and Deane of Christs Church in Oxford, where he was brought up, and Archdeaeon of Nottingham, was consecrated Bishop of London, the eighth day of September, 1611. and worthily remained long in the same dignity. His Grandfather was Brother unto Robert King, sometime Bishop of Oxford.

George Mountaine, Doctor of Divinity, Lecturer in Greshams Colledge, afterward Master of the Savoy, & Deane of Westminster, then Bishop of Lincolne, and thence removed to bee Lord Bishop of London, and Almoner to his Majesty, last of all removed againe, to be Lord Archbishop of Yorke.

William Laud, Doctor in Divinity, President of St. Iohn Baptists Colledge in Oxford, Deane of Glocester, next Bishop of St. Davids, next Bishop of Bath and Welles, next Bishop of London, and Deane of his Majesties Chappell Royall, and now Archbishop of Canterbury, and one of his Highnesse most Honourable Privy Councell.

William Iuxon, Doctor in Divinity, President of St. Iohn Baptists Colledge in Oxford, Deane of Worcester, next Clarke of the Closset to his Majesty, next Bishop elect of Hereford, next Deane of his Majesties Chappell Royall, and Bishop of London.

Thus much for the succession of the Bishops of London, whose Dioces containeth the City of London, the whole Shires of Middlesex and Essex, and a part of Hartfordshire.

These Bishops have for Assistants in the Cathedrall Church of Saint Paul, a Deane, a Chaunter, a Chancelor, a Treasurer, five Archdeacons, to wit, London, Middlesex, Essex, Colchester, and S. Albans, and 30. Prebendaries.

There appertaineth also to the said Church for furniture of the Quire in Divine Service, and administration of the Sacraments, a Colledge of 12. Pety Canons, sixe Vicars, Chorall, and Queristers, &c.

This Dioces is divided into Parishes, every Parish having his Parson, or Vicar at the least, learned men for the most part, and sufficient Preachers to instruct the people.

There were in this City, and within the Suburbs thereof in the reigne of Henry the second (as writeth Fitz-Stephens) thirteene great Conventuall Churches, besides the lesser sort, called Parish Churches, to the number of 126. all which Conventuall Churches, and some others since that time founded, are now suppressed and gone, except the Cathedrall Church of Saint Paul in London, and the Colledge of Saint Peter at Westminster.

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THE TEMPORALL GOVERNMENT OF THIS CITY, SOMEWHAT Discoursed in briefe manner.

THIS City of London being under the government of the Britaines, P [...]ent. Aserius Menevem. Romans, and Saxons, the most ancient and famous City of the whole Realme,Florencius Wigor. Marianus Scot [...]. was at length destroyed by the Danes, and left desolate, as may appeare by our Histories. But Aelfred King of the West Saxons, having brought this whole Realme (from many parts) into one Monarchie, honorably repaired this City, and made it againe habitable, and then committed the custody thereof to his Sonne in law Adhered, Earle of Mercia. After whose decease, the Citie, with all other possessions pertaining to the said Earle, returned to King Edward, sirnamed the Elder, &c. And so remained in the Kings hands, being governed under him by Portgraves (or Portreves) which name is compounded of the two Saxon words,Portgraves. Porte and Gerefe or Reve-Porte betokeneth a Towne, and Gerefe signifieth a Gardian, Ruler or Keeper of the Towne.

These Governors of old time (saith Robert Fabian) with the lawes and customes then used within this Citie,Lib. [...]. Alb [...]ni. were registred in a Booke, called the Doomes-day Booke, written in the Saxon Tongue: but of later dayes, when the lawes and customes were changed, and for that also the said Booke was of a small hand, sore defaced, and hard to be read or understood; it was lesse set by, so that it was imbezeled and lost.Rob. Fabian. Thus farre Fabian.

Notwithstanding, I have found by search of divers old Registers and other Records abroad; namely, in a Booke sometime appertaining to the Monastery of Saint Albans, of the Portgraves, and other Governours of this City, as followeth.

First, that in the reigne of King Edward the last,Citizens of London called Burgesses. before the conquest, Wolfegare was Portgrave, as may appeare by the Charter of the same King, in these words:

Edward, King, greeteth Alfward Bishop, and Wolfgar my Portgrave, and all the Burgesses of London. And afterward, that in another Charter, King Edward greeteth William, Bishop, and Swetman my Portgrave. And after that, in another Charter to the Abbey of Chertsey: To William, Bishop, and Leofstane and Alffy Portgraves.

In the reigne of William Conqueror, William, Bishop of London, procured of the said Conqueror his Charter of Liberties, to the same William, Bishop, & Godfrey, Portgrave, in the Saxon tongue, and turned into English, thus:

William, Charter of William Conqueror. King, greeteth William, Bishop, and Godfrey, Portgrave, and all the Burgesses within London, French, and English: And I grant that they be all their law worth, that they were in Edward dayes the King. And I will that each child bee his Fathers heire. And I will not suffer that any man doe you wrong: and God you keepe.

And then in the reigne of the said Conquerour, and of William Rufus, Godfrey de Magnavile was Portgrave, (or Sheriffe) as may appeare by their Charters, Provost. and Richard de Par was Provost.

In the reigne of King Henry the first, Hugh Buche was Portgrave, and Leofstanus, Goldsmith, Provost, buried at Bermondsey.

After them, Aubery de Vere was Portgrave [Page] and Robert Bar Querel, Provost. This Aubery de Vere was slaine in the reigne of King Stephen. I. Leyland. It is to bee noted also, that King Henry the first granted to the Citizens of London, the Shirifwicke thereof, and of Middlesex, as in another place is shewed.

In the reigne of King Stephen, Sheriffes. Gilbert Becket was Portgrave, and Andrew Buchevet, Provost.

After him, Godfrey Magnavile, the Sonne of VVilliam, the Sonne of Godfrey Magnavile, by the gift of Maud the Empresse, was Portgrave or Sheriffe of London and Middlesex, for the yeerely farme of three hundred pound, as appeareth by the Charter.

In the time of King Henry the second, Peter Fitz Walter was Portgrave; after him Iohn Fitz Nigel was Portgrave, after him, Ernulfus Buchel became Portgrave; and after him VVilliam Fitz Isable.

These Portgraves are also in divers Records called,Portgraves, since called Sheriffes, and Iudges of the Kings Court, & have therfore Vnder-Sheriffes, men learned in the law, to sit in their Courts. Doomesmen, or Iudges of the Kings Court. Vicecomites, Vicounties, or Sheriffes, as being under an Earle; for that they then, as since, used that office as the Sheriffes of London doe till this day. Some Authors do call them Doomes-men, Eldermen, or Iudges of the Kings Court.

VVilliam Fitz Stephen, noting the estate of this City, & Government thereof in his time, under the reigne of King Stephen, and of Henry the second, hath these words:

This Citie (faith he) even as Rome, is divided into VVards, it hath yeerely Sheriffes in stead of Consuls, it hath the dignity of Senators and Aldermen, it hath Vnder-officers, and according to the qualitie of Lawes, it hath severall Courts, and generall Assemblies upon appointed dayes.

Thus much for the antiquity of Sheriffes, and also of Aldermen in severall Wards of this Citie may suffice: and now for the name of Bayliffes, and after that, of Maiors as followeth.

In the first yeere of King Richard the first,Bailiffes of London. the Citizens of London obtained to bee governed by two Bailiffes, which Bailiffes are in divers ancient dceds called Sheriffes, according to the speech of the Law, which called the Shire Balliva, for that they (like as the Portgraves) used the same office of Shrivewicke, for the which the City paid to fee-farme, 300. l. yeerely as before, since the reigne of Henry the first, which also is yet paid by the City into the Exchequer untill this day.

They also obtained to have a Maior, to bee their principall Governour and Lieutenant of the City, as of the Kings Chamber.

1189 The names of the first Bailiffes or Officers, entring into their office at the Feast of S. Michael the Archangell, in the yeere of Christ 1189. were named Henry Cornehill, and Richard Reynere, Bailiffes or Sheriffes. Their first Maior was Henry Fitz-Alwin, Draper, appointed by the said King, and continued Maior from the first of Richard the first, untill the 15. of King Iohn, which was 24. yeeres and somewhat more.

1190 The second of Richard the first, Sheriffes

Iohn Herlion,

Roger Duke:

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Maior, Henry Fitz-Alwin.

First Maior of London.

1191 The third Sheriffes,

VVilliam Haverell,

Iohn Buckmote:

Maior, Henry Fitz-Alwin.

1192 The fourth,

Nicholas Duke,

Peter Newelye:

Maior, Henry Fitz-Alwin.

1193 The fifth,

Roger Duke,

Richard Fitz-Alwin.

Maior, Henry Fitz-Alwin.

1194 The sixth,

[Page]VVilliam Fitz-Isabel,—

VVilliam Fitz-Arnold:—

Sheiffes.

Maior, Henry Fitz Alwin.

An. Dom. 1195 The seventh

Robert Besaunt,—

Ioke de Iosue:—

Sheriffes.

Maior, Henry Fitz-Alwin.

An. Dom. 1196 The eighth

Gerard de Antiloche,—

Robert Durant:—

Sheriffes.

Maior, Henry Fitz-Alwin.

An. Dom. 1197 The ninth

Roger Blunt,—

Nicholas Ducket:—

Sheriffes.

Maior, Henry Fitz-Alwin.

An. Dom. 1198 The tenth

Constantine Fitz-Arnold,—

Robert le Beau:—

Sheriffes.

Maior, Henry Fitz-Alwin.

King Iohn began his reigne the sixth of April 1199.

An. Dom. 1199 The first of King Iohn,

Arnold Fitz-Arnold,—

Richard Fitz Bartholomew:—

Sheriffes.

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Maior, Henry Fitz-Alwin.

King Iohn granted the Sheriffewicke of London, and Middlesex, to the Citizens thereof, as King Henry the first before had done, for the summe of 300. l. yeerely. Also he gave them authority to chuse and deprive their Sheriffs at their pleasure.

An. Dom. 1200 The second

Roger Dorset,—

Iames Bartholemew:—

Sheriffes.

Maior, Henry Fitz-Alwin.

An. Dom. 1201 The third

VValter Fitz-Alice,—

Simon de Aldermanbury:—

Sheriffes.

Maior, Henry Alwin.

An. Dom. 1202 The fourth

Norman Blondel,—

Iohn de Ely:—

Sheriffes.

Maior, Henry Fitz-Alwin.

An. Dom. 1203 The fifth

VValter Browne,—

VV. Chamberlaine:—

Sheriffes.

Maior, Henry Fitz-Alwin.

VValter Brune, and Rosia his wife, founded the Hospitall of Saint Mary without Bishopsgate, commonly called, Saint Mary Spittle.

An. Dom. 1204 The sixth

Thomas Haverel,—

Hamond Brond:—

Sheriffes.

Maior Henry Fitz-Alwin.

An. Dom. 1205 The seventh

Iohn VValgrave,—

Richard de VVinchester:—

Sheriffes.

Maior, Henry Fitz-Alwin.

An. Dom. 1206 The eighth

Iohn Holyland,—

Edmund Fitz-Gerard:—

Sheriffes.

Maior, Henry Fitz-Alwin.

[Page]An. Dom. 1207 The ninth

Roger VVinchester,—

Edmund Hard Le:—

Sheriffes.

Maior, Henry Firz-Alwin.

An. Dom. 1208 The tenth

Peter Duke,—

Thomas Neale:—

Sheriffes.

Maior, Henry Fitz-Alwin.

The King by his Letters Patents granted to the Citizens of London liberty and authority, yeerely to chuse themselves a Maior.

An. Dom. 1209 The eleventh

Peter le Iosue,—

William Blound:—

Sheriffes.

Maior, Henry Fitz-Alwin.

An. Dom. 1210 The twelfth

Adam VVhitley,—

Stephen le Grasse:—

Sheriffes,

Maior, Henry Fitz-Alwin.

An. Dom. 1211. The thirteenth

Iohn Fitz-Peter,—

Iohn Garland:—

Sheriffes.

Maior, Henry Fitz-Alwin.

An. Dom. 1212 The foureteenth

Randolph Eyland,—

Constantine Iosue:—

Sheriffes.

Maior, Henry Fitz-Alwin.

This Henry Fitz-Alwin deceased, and was buried in the Parish Church of S. Mary Bothaw, neere to London Stone, where he dwelt.

An. Dom. 1213. the fifteenth

Martin Fitz-Alice,—

Peter Bate:—

Sheriffes.

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Maior, Roger Fitz-Alwin.

This yeere the Ditch about London was begun to bee made, of 204. foote broad, by the Londoners.

1214 The sixteenth

Salomon Basing,—

Hugh Basing:—

Sheriffes.

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Maior, Serle, Mercer.

Roger Fitz-Alwin, saith Grafton.

1215 The seventeenth

Iohn Travers,—

Andrew Newland:—

Sheriffes.

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Maior, VVilliam Hardel.

King Henry the third began his reigne the 19. of October, 1216.

1216 The first

Benet Seinturer,—

William Bluntivers:—

Sheriffes.

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Maior, Iames Alderman for part,

and Salomon Basing for part.

1217 The second

Thomas Boker [...],—

Ralph Holyland:—

Sheriffes.

Maior, Serle, Mercer,

Robert Serle, saith Grafton.

1218 The third

Iohn Wayle, or Veil,—

Iohn le Spicer:—

Sheriffes.

Maior, Robert Serle, Mercer.

The Forest of Middlesex, and the Warren of Stanes, were this yeere disaforested.

1219 The fourth

Richard Wimbledon,—

Iohn Wayle, or Veil:—

Sheriffes.

Maior, Robert Serle, Mercer.

1220 The fifth

Richard Renger,—

Iohn Veil:—

Sheriffes.

Maior, Robert Serle, Mercer.

1221 The sixth

Richard Renger,—

Thomas Lambart:—

Sheriffes.

Maior, Robert Serle, Mercer.

1222 The seventh

Richard Renger,—

Thomas Lambart:—

Sheriffes.

Maior, Robert Serle, Mercer.

Constantine Fitz-Arnulph raysed great troubles in this Citie, and was hanged with his Nephew and other.

1223 The eighth

Iohn Travars,—

Andrew Bokerel:—

Sheriffes.

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Maior, Richard Renger.

1224 The ninth

Iohn Travars,—

Andrew Bokerel:—

Sheriffes.

Maior, Richard Renger.

The King granted to the Comminaltie of London, to have a common Scale.

1225 The tenth

Roger Duke,—

Martin Fitz-William:—

Sheriffes.

Maior, Richard Renger.

1226 The eleventh

Roger Duke,—

Martin Fitz William:—

Sheriffes.

Maior, Richard Renger.

This yeere the King confirmed to the Citizens of London free Warren, or libertie to hunt a certaine circuite about the Citie, in the Warren of Stanes, &c. And also, that the Citizens of London should passe tol-free throughout all England, and that the Keddles, or Weres in the River of Thames, and Midway, should be plucked up and destroyed for ever, &c. Patent 11. Henry 3.

1227 The twelfth

Stephen Bokerel,—

Henry Cecham:—

Sheriffes.

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Maior, Roger Duke.

The liberties and Franchises of London were ratified, and the King granted, that either Sheriffe should have two Clerkes, and two Serjeants: also, that the Citizens should have a common Seale.

1228 The thirteenth

Stephen Bokerel,—

Henry Cocham:—

Sheriffes.

Maior, Roger Duke.

1229 The foureteenth

William Winchester,—

Robert Fitz Iohn:—

Sheriffes

Maior, Roger Duke.

1230 The fifteenth

Richard VValter,—

Iohn de VVoborne:—

Sheriffes.

Maior, Roger Duke.

1231 The sixteenth

Michael of S. Helen,—

VValter de Enfield:—

Sheriffes.

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Maior, Andrew Bokerel, Pepperer.

1232 The seventeenth

Henry de Edmonton,—

Gerard Bat:—

Sheriffes.

Maior, Andrew Bokerel, Pepperer.

1233 The eighteenth

Simon Fitz Mary,—

Roger Blunt:—

Sheriffes.

Maior, Andrew Bokerel, Pepperer.

1234 The nineteenth

Ralph Ashwy,—

Iohn Norman:—

Sheriffes.

Maior, Andrew Bokerel, Pepperer.

1235 The twentith

Gerard Bat,—

Richard or Robert Hardle:

Sheriffes.

Maior, Andrew Bokerel, Pepperer.

1236 The one and twentith

Henry Cobham,—

Iordan of Coventry:—

Sheriffes.

Maior, Andrew Bokerel, Pepperer.

1237 The two and twentith

Iohn Toloson,—

Gervais the Cordwainer:

Sheriffes.

Maior, Andrew Bokerel, Pepperer.

1238 The three and twentith

Iohn Codra [...],—

Iohn VVilhall:—

Sheriffes.

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Maior, Richard Renger.

1239 The foure and twentith

Reymond Bongy,—

Ralph Ashwy:—

Sheriffes.

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Maior, VVilliam Ioyner.

This VVilliam Ioyner, builded the Quire of the Gray Friers Church in London, and became a Lay brother of that house.

1240 The five and twentieth

Iohn Gisors,—

Michael Tony:—

Sheriffes.

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Maior, Gerard Bat.

This yeere Aldermen of London were chosen, and changed yeerely, but that order lasted not long. Gerard Bat was againe elected Maior for that yeere to come, but the King would not admit him, being charged with taking money of the Victuallers in the precedent yeere.

1241 The six and twentieth

Thomas Duresme,—

Iohn Voyle:—

Sheriffes.

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Maior, Reymond Bongey.

1242 The seven and twentieth

Iohn Fitz-Iohn,—

Ralph Ashwy:—

Sheriffes.

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Maior, Reymond Bongey.

1243 The eight and twentieth

Hugh Blunt,—

Adam Basing:—

Sheriffes.

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Maior, Ralph Ashwy.

1244 The nine and twentieth

Ralph Foster,—

Nicholas Bat:—

Sheriffes.

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Maior, Michael Tony.

1245 The thirtieth

Robert of Cornehil,—

Adam of Bewley:—

Sheriffes.

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Maior, Iohn Gisors Pepperer.

[Page]1246 The one and thirtieth

Simon Fitz-Mary,—

Lawrence Frowicke:—

Sheriffes.

Maior, Iohn Gisors.

Simon Fitz-Mary, founded the Hospitall of Mary, called Bethelem without Bishopsgate. Queene Hith was now let to farme to the Citizens of London.

1247 The two and thirtieth

Iohn Voyle,—

Nicholas Bat:—

Sheriffes.

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Maior, Peter Fitz-Alwin.

1248 The three and thirtieth

Nicholas Fitz Iosue,—

Geffrey VVinchester:—

Sheriffes.

Maior, Michael Tony.

1249 The foure and thirtie

Richard Hardell,—

Iohn Tolason:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior, Roger Fitz-Roger.

1250 The five and thirtieth

Humfrey Bat,—

VVilliam Fitz-Richard:—

Sheriffes.

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Maior, Iohn Gisors, Pepperer.

The King now granted, that the Maior should be presented to the Barons of the Exchequer, and they should admit him.

1251 The six and thirtieth

Lawrence Frowicke,—

Nicholas Bat:—

Sheriffes.

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Maior, Adam Basing.

1252 The seven and thirtieth

VVilliam Durham,—

Thomas VVimborne:—

Sheriffes.

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Maior, Iohn Tolason, Draper.

The Liberties of this City were seized, and the Maior charged, that he looked not to the Assise of bread.

1253 The eighth and thirtieth

Iohn Northampton,—

Richard Picard:—

Sheriffes.

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Maior, Richard Hardell, Draper.

1254 The nine and thirtieth

Ralph Ashwy,—

Robert of Limon:—

Sheriffes.

Maior, Richard Hardell, Draper.

1255 The fortieth

Stephen Doe,—

Henry Walmond:—

Sheriffes.

Maior, Richard Hardell, Draper.

The Maior, divers Aldermen, and the Sheriffes of London were deprived, and other placed in their roomes.

1256 The one and fortieth

Michael Bockerell,—

Iohn the Minor:—

Sheriffes.

Maior, Richard Hardell, Draper.

1257 The two and fortieth

Richard Otwel,—

William Ashwy:—

Sheriffes.

Maior, Richard Hardell; Draper.

The King caused the walles of this Citie to bee repaired, and made with Bulwarkes.

1258 The three and fortieth

Robert Cornhill,—

Iohn Adrian:—

Sheriffes.

Maior, Richard Hardell, Draper.

1259 The foure and fortieth

Iohn Adrian,—

Robert Cornhill:—

Sheriffes.

Maior, Iohn Gisors, Pepperer.

1260 The five and fortieth

Adam Browning,—

Henry Coventrie:—

Sheriffes.

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Maior, William Fitz-Richard.

1261 The six and fortieth

Iohn Northhampton,—

Richard Picard:—

Sheriffes.

Maior, William Fitz-Richard.

1262 The seven and fortieth

Iohn Tailor—

Richard Walbrooke:

Sheriffes.

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Maior, Thomas Fitz-Richard.

1263 The eight and fortieth

Robert de Mountpiter,—

Osbert de Suffolke:—

Sheriffes.

Maior, Thomas Fitz-Richard.

The Citizens of London fortified the Citie with iron Chaines, drawn rhwart over their streets.

1264 The nine and fortieth

Gregory Rockesley,—

Thomas de De [...]ford:—

Sheriffes.

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Maior, Thomas Fitz-Thomas Fitz-Richard.

[Page]1265 The fiftieth

Edward Blund,—

Peter Anger:—

Sheriffes.

Maior, Thomas Fitz-Thomas Fitz-Richard.

The Chaines and Posts in London were plucked up, the Maior and principall Citizens committed to Ward, and Otho Constable of the Tower, was made Custos of the Citie, &c.

1266 The one and fiftieth

Iohn Hind,—

Iohn Walraven:—

Sheriffes.

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Maior, William Richards.

The Earle of Gloucester entred the Citie with an Army, and therein builded Bulwarkes, cast Trenches, &c.

1267 The two and fiftieth

Iohn Adrian,—

Lucas de Batencourt:—

Sheriffes.

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Custos, Alen de la Souch.

This Alen de la Souch, being a Baron of this Realme, and also chiefe Iustice, was in the yeere 1270. slaine in Westminster Hall, by Iohn warren Earle of Surrey.

Thomas Fitz-Th [...]obald, and Agnes his wife, this yeere founded the Hospitall of Saint Thomas of Acon in Westcheape.

1268 The three and fiftieth▪

Walter Harvy,—

William Dur [...]sme:—

Sheriffes.

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T. Wimborn; Custos, Sir Stephen Edward.

A variance fell in London betweene the Goldsmiths and the Taylors, wherthrough many men were slaine.

1269 The foure and fiftieth

Thomas Basing,—

Robert Cornehill:—

Sheriffes.

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Hugh Fitz-Ottonis, Custos of London, and Constable of the Tower.

1270 The five and fiftieth

Walter Potter,—

Philip Tailor:—

Sheriffes.

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Maior, Iohn Adrian Vintner.

1271 The six and fiftieth

Gregory Rokesly,—

Henry Walleys:—

Sheriffes.

Maior, Iohn Adrian Vintner.

The steeple of Bow Church in Cheape fell downe, and slew many people.

[Page]1272 The seven and fiftieth

Richard Paris,—

Iohn de Wodeley:—

Sheriffes.

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Maior, Sir Walter Harvy, Custos, H. Frowike, Pepperer, for part that yeere.

King Edward the first beganne his reigne the sixteenth of November, 1272.

1273 The first

Iohn Horne,—

Walter Potter:—

Sheriffes.

Maior, Sir Walter Harvy, Knight.

1274 The second

Nicholas Winchester,—

Henry Coventry:—

Sheriffes.

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Maior, Henry Walleis.

1275 The third

Lucas Ba [...]encourte,—

Henry Frowicke:—

Sheriffes.

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Maior, Gregory Rokesley; chiefe Saymaster of all the Kings Mints throughout all England, and keeper of the Kings Exchange at London.

1276 The fourth

Iohn Horne,—

Ralph Blunt:—

Sheriffes.

Maior, Gregory Rokesley.

1277 The fifth

Robert de Arar,—

Ralph L. Fewre:—

Sheriffes.

Maior, Gregory Rokesley.

1278 The sixth

Iohn Adrian,—

Walter Langley:—

Sheriffes.

Maior, Gregory Rokesley.

1279 The seventh

Robert Basing,—

William le Meyre:—

Sheriffes.

Maior, Gregory Rokesley.

1280 The eighth

Thomas Fox, or Box,—

Ralph Delamere, or Moore:

Sheriffes.

Maior, Gregory Rokesley.

1281 The ninth

William Farendon,—

Nicholas Winchester:—

Sheriffes.

Maior, Gregory Rakesley.

This William Farendon, Goldsmith, one of the Sheriffes was Father to Nicholas Farendon: Of these two Faringden Ward tooke that name.

1282 The tenth

W. le Meyre,—

Richard Chigwel:—

Sheriffes.

Maior, Henry Walleis.

This Henry Walleis builded the Tun upon Cornehill, to bee a Prison, and the Stockes to be a Market-house.

1283 The eleventh

Ralph Blunt,—

Ankerin de Betavil, or Hawkin Betuell:—

Sheriffes.

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Maior, Henry Walleis.

1284. The twelfth

Iordan Goodcheape,—

Martin Box:—

Sheriffes.

Maior, Henry Walleis.

Lawrence Ducket, Goldsmith, murdered in Bow-Church, and the murtherers hanged.

1285 The thirteenth

Stephen Cornehill,—

Roberts Rokesley:—

Sheriffes.

Maior, Gregory Rokesley;

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Custos, Ralph Sandwitch, and Iohn Briton.

It was ordained, that Millers should have but one halfe-penny for a quarter of Wheat grinding: and the great water Conduit in Cheape was now begun to be made.

1286 The foureteenth

Walter Blunt,—

Iohn Wade:—

Sheriffes.

Custos, Ralph Sandwitch.

Wheate was now sold at London for sixteene pence, and for twelve pence the quarter.

1287 The fifteenth

Thomas Crosse,—

Walter Hawteyne:—

Sheriffes.

Custos, Ralph Sandwitch.

1288 The sixteenth

W. Hereford,—

Thomas Stanes:—

Sheriffes.

Custos, Ralph Sandwitch.

1289 The seventeenth

W. Betaine,—

Iohn of Canturbury:—

Sheriffes.

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Custos, Ralph Sandwitch, Ralph Barnavars, and Sir Iohn Briton.

This yeere a Subsidie was granted, for the reparations of London-bridge.

1290 The eighteenth

Fulke of S. Edmond,—

Salomon Langford, or Le Setel:—

Sheriffes.

Custos, Sir Iohn Briton, Knight.

1291 The nineteenth

Thomas Romain,—

W. de Leyre:—

Sheriffes.

Custos, Sir Iohn Briton, Knight, Ralph Sandwitch.

1292 The twentieth

Ralph blunt,—

Hamond Box:—

Sheriffes.

Custos, Ralph Sandwitch.

1293 The one and twentieth

Henry Bell, or Bole,—

Elias Russell:—

Sheriffes.

Custos, Ralph Sandwitch.

Three men had their right hands cut off at the Standard in Cheape, for re [...]cuing of a prisoner, arrested by a Sergeant of London.

1294 The two and twentieth

Robert Rokesley the yonger,

Martin Aubery, or Amersbery:—

Sheriffes.

Custos, Ralph Sandwitch.

1295 The three and twentieth

Henry Box,—

Richard Gloucester:—

Sheriffes.

Custos, Sir Ralph Sandwitch.

[Page]1296 The foure and twentieth

Iohn [...],—

[...]:—

Sheriffes.

Custos, Sir Iohn Briton.

This yeere all the Liberties of the City were restored, the Mairalty excepted.

1297 The five and twentieth

Thomas of Suffolke,—

[...]dam of Falham:—

Sheriffes.

Custos, Sir Iohn Briton.

1298 The six and twentith

Richard Re [...]a [...],—

Thomas [...]ely:—

Sheriffes.

Maior, Henry Walleis.

Certaine Citizens of London brake up the Tunne upon Cornehill, and tooke out prisoners, for the which they were grievously punished.

1299 The seven and twentieth

Iohn Armenter,—

Henry [...]ingene, or Fingrith:

Sheriffes.

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Maior, Elias Russell.

1300 The eighth and twentieth

Lucas de Havering,—

Richard Champnes:—

Sheriffes.

Maior, Elias Russell.

1301 The nine and twentieth

Robert Callor, or Callet,—

Peter de Besenho:—

Sheriffes.

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Custos, Sir Iohn Blunt, Knight.

1302 The thirtieth

Hugh Pourte,—

Simon Paris:—

Sheriffes.

Custos, Sir Iohn Blunt.

1303 The one and thirtieth

W. Combmartin,—

Iohn de Burford:—

Sheriffes.

Custos, Sir Iohn Blunt.

1304 The two and thirtieth

Roger Paris,—

Iohn de Lincolne:—

Sheriffes.

Custos, Sir Iohn Blunt.

Geffrey Hertel [...]pole, Alderman, was elected to bee Recorder of London, and tooke his oath, and was appointed to weare his apparell as an Alderman.

1305 The three and thirtieth

William Cawson,—

Reginald Thunderley:—

Sheriffes.

Custos, Sir Iohn Blunt.

1306 The foure and thirtieth

Geffrey at the Conduit,—

Simon Billet:—

Sheriffes.

Custos, Sir Iohn Blunt.

Seacoale was forbidden to bee burned in London, Southwarke, &c.

Edward the second began his reigne the seventh of Iuly, the yeere of Christ, Anno, 1307.

1307 The first

Nicholas Pigot,—

Nigellus Drury:—

Sheriffes.

Custos, Sir Iohn Blunt.

1308 The second▪

W. Basing,—

Iames Butt [...]ler:—

Sheriffes.

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Maior, Nicholas Faringdon, Goldsmith.

[Page]1309 The third

Roger le Palmer,—

Iames of S. Edmond:—

Sheriffes.

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Maior, Thomas Romaine.

1310 The fourth

Simon Cooper,—

Peter Blackney:—

Sheriffes.

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Maior, Richard Reffam, Mercer.

The King commanded the Maior and communaltie to make the Wall of London, from Ludgate to Fleetbridge, and from thence to the Thames.

1311 The fifth

Simon Metwod,—

Richard Wilford:—

Sheriffes.

Maior, Sir Iohn Gisors, Pepperer.

Order was taken that Merchant-strangers should sell their wares within forty dayes after their arrivall, or else the same to be forfeited.

1312 The sixth

Iohn Lambin,—

Adam Lutkin:—

Sheriffes.

Maior, Sir Iohn Gisors, Pepperer.

1313 The seventh

Robert Gurden, or Burdeint,

Hugh Garton:—

Sheriffes.

Maior, Nicholas Faringdon, Goldsmith.

Prices set on victuals: a fat stalled Oxe, 24. shillings, a fat Mutton, 20. pence, a fat Goose, two pence halfe penny, a fat Capon, two pence; a fat Hen, one penny; two Chickens, one penny; three Pigeons, one penny; 24. egges one penny, &c.

1314 The eighth

Stephen Abingdon,—

Hamond Chickwell, or Chigwell:—

Sheriffes.

Maior, Sir Iohn Gisors, Pepperer.

Famine and mortality of people, so that the quicke might unneath bury the dead, horse flesh, and dogs flesh was good meate.

1315 The ninth

Hamond Goodchape,—

William Bodeleigh:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior, Stephen de Abingdon.

1316 The tenth

William Caston,—

Ralph Balancer:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior, Iohn Wingrave.

An earely Harvest: a Bushell of Wheate that had beene sold for tenne shillings, was now sold for tenne pence, &c.

1317 The eleventh

Iohn Prior,—

W. Furneux, or Furneis:—

Sheriffes.

Maior, Iohn Wingrave.

[Page]Such a murren of Kin [...], that Dogs and Ravens that sed on them were poisoned.

1318 The twelfth

Iohn Pointell,—

Iohn Dalling:—

Sheriffes.

Maior, Iohn Wingrave.

1319 The thirteenth

Simon de Abingdon,—

I. Preston:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior, Hamond Chickwell, Pepperer.

Iohn Gisors, late Maior of London, and many other Citizens fled the City, for things layd to their charge.

1320 The foureteenth

Renauld at the Conduit,—

W. Prodham, or Produn:—

Sheriffes.

Maior, Nicholas Farengdon, Goldsmith.

1321 The fifteenth

Richard Constantine,—

Richard de Hackney:—

Sheriffes.

Maior, Hamond Chickwell, Pepperer.

1222 The sixteenth

Iohn Grantham,—

Richard de Ely:—

Sheriffes.

Maior, Hamond Chickwell, Pepperer.

Fish and Flesh market established at the Stockes, in the midst of the Citie.

1323 The seventeenth

Adam of Salisbury,—

Iohn of Oxford:—

Sheriffes.

Maior, Nicholas Farengdon, Goldsmith.

Of this Nicholas Farengdon, and of William Farengdon his father, read more in Farengdon Ward.

1324 The eighteenth

Benet of Fulham,—

Iohn Cawson:—

Sheriffes.

Maior, Hamond Chickwell, Pepperer.

1325 The nineteenth

Gilbert Mordon,—

Iohn Causton, or Cotton:—

Sheriffes.

Maior, Hamond Chickwell, Pepperer.

The Citizens of London tooke the Bishop of Excester, and cut off his head at the Standard in Cheape.

1326 The twentieth

Richard Rothing,—

Roger Chaunteclere:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior, Richard Britaine, Goldsmith.

This Richard Rothing is said to new build the Parish Church of S. Iames at Garlicke-Hith.

Edward the third began his reigne the 25. of Ianuary, the yeere of Christ, Anno, 1326.

This King Edward granted, that the Maior should be Iustice for the Gaole delivery at Newgate, that the Citizens of London should not be constrained to go out of the City of London to any Warre. More hee granted, that the Liberties & Franchises of the City should not, after this time (for any cause) bee taken into the Kings hands, &c. More he granted by his Letters Patents, dated the sixth of March, that no Escheter should bee in the Citie, but the Maior for his time only.

1327 The first

Henry Darcy,—

Iohn Hawton, or Haughton:

Sheriffes.

Maior, Hamond Chickwell, Pepperer.

[Page]This yeere the Walls of London were [...]payred.

1328 The second

Simon Frances,—

Henry Combmartin:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior, Iohn Grantham, Grocer.

1329 The third

Richard Lazar,

William Gisors:

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior, Richard Swandland.

This yeere the King kept a great Iousting in Cheape, betwixt Sopars-lane and the great Crosse.

1330 The fourth

Robert of Elie,—

Thomas Whorwode:

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior, Sir Iohn Pountney, or Pultney, Draper.

1331 The fifth

Iohn Mocking,—

Andrew Aubery:—

Sheriffes.

Maior, Iohn Pultney, Draper.

1332 The sixth

Nicholas Pike,—

Iohn Husband:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Iohn Preston, Draper,

This yeere was founded Elsing Spittle, by W. Elsing, Mercer, that became first Prior of that Hospitall.

1333 The seventh

Iohn Hamond,—

William Hansard:—

Sheriffes.

Maior, Sir Iohn Puleney, Drapes.

1334 The eighth

Iohn Kingstone, or Kington,

Walter Turke:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior, Reginald at the Conduit, Vintner.

1335 The ninth

Walter Mordon,—

Richard Vpton:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior, Nicholas Wotton, Reignold at the Conduit, saith Grafton.

[Page]1330 The tenth

Iohn Clarke,—

W. Curtes:

Sheriffes.

Maior, Sir Iohn Pultney, Draper.

This Sir Iohn Pultney founded a Colledge in the Parish Church of S. Lawrence Pountney, by Candlewicke streete.

1337 The eleventh

Walter Neale,—

Nicholas Crane:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior, Henry Darcy.

Walter Neale, Bladesmith, gave lands to the repairing of the high-wayes about London.

1338 The twelfth

William de Pomfret,—

Hugh Marbeler, or Marberoll:—

Sheriffes.

Maior, Henry Darcy.

The King granted, that the Sergeants of the Maior and Sheriffes of London, should beare Maces of Silver and gilt, with the Kings Armes engraven on them.

1339 The thirteenth

William Thorney,—

Roger Frosham:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Andrew Aubery, Grocer,

1340 The foureteenth

Adam Lucas,—

Bartlemew Moris:—

Sheriffes.

Maior, Andrew Aubery, Grocer.

1341 The fifteenth

Richard de Barking,—

Iohn de Rokesley:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior, Iohn of Oxenford, Vintner.

1342 The sixteenth

Iohn Loufkin,—

Richard Killingbery:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior, Simon Francis, Mercer.

The price of Gascoyn Wines at London, fourepence, and Renish Wine six pence the Galon.

1343 The seventeenth

Iohn Steward,—

Iohn Aylesham:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior, Iohn H [...]mond.

1344 The eighteenth

Geffrey Witchingham,—

Thomas Leg:—

Sheriffes.

Maior, Iohn Hamond.

[Page]1345 The ninteenth

Edmund Hemenhall,—

Iohn of Gloucester:

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior, Richard Leget, Richard Lazar faith Grofton.

1346 The twentieth

Iohn Croyden,—

William Clopton:

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior, Geffrey Witchingham.

1347 The one and twentieth

Adam Brapson,—

Richard Fas, or Bas:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior, Thomas Leggy, Skinner.

King Edward now won Callis from the French.

1348 The two and twentieth

Henry Picard,—

Simon Dolseby:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior, Iohn Loufkin Fishmonger.

A great Pest. Sir Walter Manny, knight, now founded the Charter-house by Smithfield, to bee a buriall for the dead.

1349 The three and twentieth

Adam of Bury,—

Ralph of Lynne:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior, Walter Turke, Fishmonger.

1350 The foure and twentieth

Iohn Notte,—

William of Worcester:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior, Richard Killingbury.

1351 The five and twentieth

Iohn Wroth,—

Gilbert of Stenineshorp:—

Sheriffes.

Maior, Andrew Aubery.

1352 The six and twentieth

Iohn Peache,—

Iohn Stotley:—

Sheriffes.

[Page]

[figure]

Maior, Adam Francis, Mercer.

This Maior procured an Act of Parliament, that no knowne whore should weare any hood, or attire on her head, except reyed, or striped cloth of divers colours, &c.

1353 The seven and twentieth

William Wolde, or Wilde,—

Iohn Little:—

Sheriffes.

Maior, Adam Francis, Mercer.

This Adam Francis was one of the Founders of the Colledge in Guild-Hal Chappell, &c. H. Prowicke was the other.

1354 The eight and twentieth

William Notingham,—

Richard Smelt:—

Sheriffes.

Maior, Thomas Leggy, or Legget Skinner.

Aldermen of London were used to be changed yeerely, but now it was ordained, that they should not be removed, without some speciall cause.

1355 The nine and twentieth

Walter, or Thomas [...],

Thomas Brandon:—

Sheriffes.

Maior, Simon Francis, Mercer.

1356 The thirtieth

Richard Notingham,—

Thomas Dolssel:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior, Henry Picard, Vintner.

This Henry Picard feasted the Kings of England, of France, Cypres, and Scots, with other great Estates, all in one day.

1357 The one and thirtieth

Stephen Candish,—

Bartholmew Prostling:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior, Sir Iohn Stody, Vintner.

This Iohn Stody gave tenements to the Vintners in London, for reliefe of the poore of that Company.

1358 The two and thirtieth

Iohn Barnes,—

Iohn B [...]is:—

Sheriffes.

Maior, Iohn Loufkin, Stockfishmonger.

1359 The three and thirtieth

Simon of Benington,—

Iohn of Chichester:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior, Simou Dolseby, Grocer.

[Page]1360 The foure and thirtieth

Iohn Dennis,—

Walter Berny:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior, Iohn Wroth, Fishmonger.

1361 The five and thirtieth

William Holbech,—

Iames Tame:

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior, Iohn Peche, Fishmonger.

1362 The six and thirtieth

Iohn of S. Albones,—

Iames Andrew:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior, Stephen Candish, Draper.

1363 The seven and thirtieth

Richard of Croyen,—

Iohn Hiltoft:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior, Iohn Not, Grocer.

1364 The three and fortieth

Iohn de Metford,—

Simon de Mordon:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior, Adam of Bury, Skinner.

1365 The nine and thirtieth

Iohn Bukylsworth,—

Iohn or Thomas Ireland:—

Sheriffes.

Maior, Iohn Loufkin, Fishmonger, and Adam of Bury, Skinner.

1366 The fortieth

Iohn Ward,—

Thomas of Lee, or at the Lee.—

Sheriffes.

Maior, Iohn Loufkin, Fishmonger.

This Iohn Loufkin builded the Parish Church of S. Michael in Crooked-lane.

1367 The one and fortieth

Iohn Turngold, or Torgold,—

William Dickeman:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior, Iames Andrew, Draper.

1368 The two and fortieth

Robert Girdeler,—

Adam Wimondham:—

Sheriffes.

[Page]

[figure]

Maior Simon Mordon, Stockfishmonger.

This yeere Wheat was sold for two shillings six pence the bushell.

1369 The three and fortieth

Iohn Piel,—

Hugh Holdich:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior, Iohn Chichester, Goldsmith.

1370 The foure and fortieth

William Walworth,—

Robert Gayton:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior, Iohn Barnes, Mercer.

1371 The five and fortieth

Adam Staple,—

Robert Hatfield:—

Sheriffes.

Maior, Iohn Barnes, Mercer.

This Iohn Barnes gave a chest with three locks, and one thousand Markes, to be lent to poore men.

1372 The six and fortieth

Iohn Philpot,—

Nicholas Brembar:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior, Iohn Piel, Mercer.

1373 The seven and fortieth

Iohn Aubery,—

Iohn Fished:

Sheriffes.

Maior, Adam of Bury, Skinner.

1374 The eight and fortieth

Richard Lions,—

William Woodhouse:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior, William Walworth, Fishmonger.

1375 The nine and fortieth

Iohn Hadley,—

William Newport:

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior, Iohn Ward, Grocer.

1376 The fiftieth

Iohn Northampton,—

Robert Laund:—

Sheriffes.

[Page]

[figure]

Maior, Adam Staple, Mercer.

The Londoners meant to have slaine Iohn, Duke of Lancaster: Adam Staple, Maior, put downe, and Nicholas Brembar elected. Also the Aldermen were deposed and other set in their places.

Richard the second began his reigne the one and twentieth of Iune, in the yeere 1377.

1377 The first

Nicholas Twiford,—

Andrew Pikeman:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior, Sir Nicholas Brembar, Grocer.

Iohn Philpot, a Citizen of London, sent Ships to the Sea and scoured it of Pirats, taking many of them prisoners.

1378 The second

Iohn Boseham,—

Thomas Cornwalis:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior, Iohn Philpot, Grocer.

This Iohn Philpot gave to the City lands, for the finding of thirteen poore people for ever.

1379 The third

Iohn Helisdon,—

William Barrat:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior, Iohn Hadley, Grocer.

1380 The fourth

Walter Doget, or Docket,—

William Knighthode:—

Sheriffes.

Maior, William Walworth, Fishmonger.

This William walworth arrested Wat Tiler, the Rebell, and this yeere was Knighted. Hee increased the Parish Church of Saint Michael in Crooked-lane, and founded there a Colledge. Other Aldermen were also then Knighted with him, for their service in the field.

1381 The fifth

Iohn Rota,—

Iohn Hynde:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior, Iohn Northampton, Draper.

1382 The sixth

Adam Bamme,—

Iohn Sely:—

Sheriffes.

Maior, Iohn Northampton, Draper, or rather Skinner, as I find in some Record.

1383 The seventh

Simon Winchcombe,—

Iohn More:—

Sheriffes.

[Page]

Maior, Sir Nicholas Brembar, Grocer.

Iohn Northampton, late Maior of London, was committed to perpetuall prison and his goods confiscated.

1384 The eighth

Nicholas Exton,—

Iohn French:—

Sheriffes.

Maior, Sir Nicholas Brembar, Grocer, Knighted with William Walworth.

1385 The ninth

Iohn Organ,—

Iohn Churchman:—

Sheriffes.

Maior, Sir Nicholas Brembar, Grocer.

The foresaid Iohn Churchman now builded the Custome-house, neere to the Tower of London, and did many other workes for the commodity of this Citie.

1386 The tenth

W. Stondon,—

W. More:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior, Nicholas Exton, Fishmonger.

This yeere the Citizens of London, fearing the French, pulled downe houses neere about their Citie, repaired their Wals, and cleansed their ditches, &c.

1387 The eleventh

William Venor, or Vinor,—

Hugh Falstalfe:—

Sheriffes.

Maior, Nicholas Exton, Fishmonger.

Sir Nicholas Brembar, late Maior of London was this yeere beheaded.

1388 The twelfth

Thomas Austen,—

Adam Carlehul:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior, Nicholas Twiford, Goldsmith, Knighted with William Walworth.

1389 The thirteenth

Iohn Walcot,—

Iohn Love:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior, Sir William Vinor, or Venour, Grocer.

1390 The fourteenth

Iohn Francis,—

Thomas Vivent:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior, Adam Bamme, Goldsmith.

This Adam Bamme provided from beyond the Seas, Corne in great abundance, so that the City was well able to serve the Countrey.

1391 The fifteenth

Iohn Shadworth, or Chadworth, —

Henry Vamere:—

Sheriffes.

[Page]

[figure]

Maior, Iohn Hind, Draper.

This Maior was, for displeasure taken, sent to Windsor Castle, and the King made a Custos or Warden of the City.

1392 The sixteenth

Gilbert Mafield,—

Thomas Newington:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior, William Stondon, Grocer.

1393 The seventeenth

Drew Barentin,—

Richard Whitington:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior, Sir Iohn Hardley, Grocer.

Faringdon Ward was now by Parliament appointed to bee divided into two Wards, to wit, infra, & extra.

1394 The eighteenth

William Bramston,—

Thomas Knoles:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior, Sir Iohn Froyshe, Mercer.

1395 The nineteenth

Roger Ellis,—

William Sevenoke:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior, Sir William More, Vintner.

1396 The twentieth

Thomas Wilford,—

William Parker:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior, Adam Browne, Goldsmith.

1397 The one and twentieth

Iohn Woodcocke,—

William Ascham:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior, Sir Richard Whitington, Mercer.

1398 The two and twentieth

[Page]

Iohn Wade,—

Iohn Warnar:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior, Sir Drew Barentin, Goldsmith.

King Henry the fourth began his reigne the twentie ninth of September, in the yeere, 1399.

1399 The first

William Waldern,—

William Hende or Hide:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior, Sir Thomas Knoles, Grocer.

1400 The second

Iohn Wakel,—

William Ebot:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior, Sir Iohn Francis, Goldsmith.

1401 The third

William Venor,—

Iohn Fremingham:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior, Sir Iohn Shadworth, or Chadworth, Mercer.

The Conduit upon Cornehill was this yeere made, being before an old prison house, called the Tunne.

1403 The fourth

Richard Marlow,—

Robert Chicheley:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior, Iohn Walcote, Draper.

1403 The fifth

Thomas Falconer,—

Thomas Poole:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior, Sir William Ascham, Fish-monger,

1404 The sixth

William Louth,—

Stephen Spilman:—

Sheriffes.

Maior, Iohn Hind, Draper.

This Iohn Hynd was a new builder of the Parish of Saint Swithen, by London-Stone.

[Page]1405 The seventh

Henry Barton,—

William Cromer:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior, Sir Iohn Woodcocke, Mercer.

This Maior caused all the Weres in the River of Thames, from Stanes to the River of Medwey, to bee destroyed, and the Trinkes to be burned, &c.

1406 The eighth

Nicholas Wotton,—

Geffrey Brooke:—

Sheriffes.

Maior, Sir Richard Whitington, Mercer.

This yeere a great Pestilence in London tooke away more than 30000. people.

1407 The ninth

Henry Pontfract,—

Henry Halton:—

Sheriffes.

Maior, Sir William Stondon, Grocer.

1408 The tenth

Thomas Ducke,—

William Norton:—

Sheriffes.

Maior, Sir Drew Barentine, Goldsmith.

This Drew Barentine builded a part of Goldsmiths Hall, and gave them lands.

1409 The eleveth

Iohn Law,—

William Chichley:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior, Richard Marlow, Ironmonger.

A great play at Skinners well, which lasted eight dayes, and was of matter from the creation of the World: the most part of all the great Estates of England were there to behold it.

1410 The twelfth

Iohn Penne,—

Thomas Pike:—

Sheriffes.

Maior, Sir Thomas Knowles, Grocer.

This Thomas Knowles began a new to build the Guild-Hall in London, &c.

1411 The thirteeth

Iohn Rainwell,—

William Cotton:—

Sheriffes.

Maior, Sir Robert Chichley, Grocer.

1412 The foureteenth

Ralph Lovenham,—

William Sevenoke:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior, William Waldren, Mercer.

[Page]Henry the fifth beganne his reigne the twentieth of March, the yeere 1412.

1413 The first

Iohn Sutton,—

Iohn Michaell:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior, Sir William Cromar, Draper.

Sir Iohn Oldcastle assembled a great power in Fickets field in London, which power was overcome and taken by the King and his power.

1414 The second

Iohn Michaell,—

Thomas Alen:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior, Sir Thomas Falconer, Mercer.

This Maior caused the Posterne called Moregate to be builded, and he lent to the King 10000. markes upon Iewels, &c.

1415 The third

William Cambridge,—

Allen Everard,—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior, Sir Nicholas Wotton, Draper.

1416 The fourth

Robert Whitigton, or Widington,—

Iohn Coventrie:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior, Sir Henry Barton, Skinner.

This Henry Barton ordained Lanthornes with Lights, to bee hanged out on the Winter evenings, betwixt Hallontide and Candlemasse.

1417 The fifth

Henry Read,—

Iohn Gedney:—

Sheriffes.

Maior, Sir Richard Marlow, Ironmonger.

1418 The sixth

Iohn Brian,—

Ralph Barton,—

Iohn Paruesse:

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior, VVilliam Sevenoke.

[Page]This Willam Sevenoke, sonne to William Rumsched of Sevenoke in Kent, was by his Father bound an apprentice with Hugh de Bois a Citizen and Ferrer of London, for a tearme of yeares, which being expired in the yeere 1394. the eighteenth of Richard the second, Iohn Hadley being Maior of London, and Stephen Spilman, Chamberlaine of the Guild-Hall: hee alledged, that his master had used the trade or mystery of a Grocer, and not of a Ferrer, and therefore required to bee made free of the Grocers Company, which was granted. This William Sevenoke, founded in the towne of Sevenoke in Kent, a free. Schoole, and Almes-houses for the poore.

1419 The seventh

Robert Whitington,—

Iohn Butler:—

Sheriffes.

Maior, Sir Richard Whitington, Mercer.

This Maior founded Whitington Colledge.

1420 The eighth

Iohn Butler,—

Iohn Welles:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior, William Cambridge, Grocer.

1421 The ninth

Richard Gosseline,—

William Weston:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior, Sir Robert Chichley, Grocer.

This Maior gave one plot of ground thereunto, to build the Parish Church of Saint Stephen upon Walbrooke.

Henry the sixth began his reigne the one and thirtieth day of August, in the yeere, 1422.

1422 The first

William Eastfield,

Newgate this yeere builded by the Executours of Richard Whitington.

—

Robert Tatarsal:—

Sheriffes.

Maior, Sir William Walderne, Mercer, sonne of Geffrey Walderne, of the Parish of Walderne in Sussex.

1423 The second

Nicholas Iames,—

Thomas Watford, or Wind-ford:—

Sheriffes.

Maior, William Cromar, Draper, sonne of Iohn Cromar of Aldernham in Hertford-shire.

1424 The third

Simon Seman,—

Iohn Bywater:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior, Iohn Michell, Stockfishmon [...]ne of Iohn Michell of Ekelingham in Suffolke.

[Page]1425 The fourth

William Milred, or Milreth,

Iohn Brokle:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior, Iohn Coventrie, Mercer; sonne of William Coventrie, of the City of Coventrie in Warwick-shire.

1426 The fifth

Iohn Arnold,—

Iohn Higham:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior,

Three Wards in London discharged from Fifteenes by this Maior.

Sir Iohn Rainewell, Fishmonger, sonne of Robert Rainewell, Citizen, and Haberdasher of London.

1427 The sixth

Henry Frowick,—

Robert Otely.—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior, Sir Iohn Gedney, Draper, sonne of William Gedney, of Saint Edes, in Cambridge-shire.

1428 The seventh

Thomas Duffhouse, or Defe-house,—

Iohn Abbot:—

Sheriffes.

Maior, Sir Henry Barton, Skinner, sonne of Henry Barton, of Myldenhall in Suffolke.

1429 The eighth

William Russe,—

Ralph Holland:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior, Sir William East-field, Mercer, sonne of William East field, of Tickel in Yorkeshire. Ralph Holland the Sheriffe gave to impotent poor on hundred and twenty pounds, to prisoners fourescore pounds, to hospitals fortie pounds, &c.

1430 The ninth

Walter Chertsey,

A Charitable Sheriffe.

—

Robert Large:—

Sheriffes.

Maior, Nicholas Wotton, Draper, sonne of Thomas Wotton of London, Gentleman. Walter Chertsey, Draper, gave to the poore, one hundred pounds, beside twentie pounds, to the Hospitals, &c.

1431 The tenth

Iohn Aderley,—

Stephen Browne:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior,

He builded the Standard in Cheape [...].

Sir Iohn de Welles, Grocer, sonne of Iohn de Welles, of the City of Norwich. This Iohn de Welles was a great benefactor towards the new building of the Chappell [...] the Guild-hall: besides he builded the South Ile of the Quire [Page] at Saint Antlins Church, as by his picture, (strangely there found) his Motto and Armes doth yet plainely appeare.

1432 The eleventh

Iohn Olney,—

Iohn Paddesley:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior, Sir Iohn Parveis, Fishmonger, sonne to Iohn Parveis of Ersgeston in Barkesh [...]e.

1433 The twelfth

Thomas Chalton,—

Iohn King:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior, Sir Iohn Brokle, Draper. sonne to William Brokle, of Newport Pannel in Buckinghamshire.

1434 The thirteenth

Thomas Barnewell,—

Simon Eyre:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior,

A great Frost of 14. weekes long.

Sir Roger Oteley, Grocer, sonne to VVilliam Oteley of Vfford in Suffolke.

1435 The fourteenth

Thomas Catworth,—

Robert Clopton:—

Sheriffes.

Maior, Sir Henry Frowicke, Mercer, sonne to Henry Frowicke of Middlesex.

1436 The fifteenth

Thomas Morsted,—

William Gregorie:—

Sheriffes.

Maior againe, Sir Iohn Michell, Stockfishmonger.

1437 The sixteenth

William Hales,—

William Chapman:—

Sheriffes.

Maior againe,

This Maior a great [...] to the [...] Conduits.

Sir William Easfield, and then made a Knight of the Ba [...]h.

1438 The seventeenth

Hugh Dyker,—

Nicholas [...]owe:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior,

A great dearth Bread made of Fitches, Pease, Beanes, & Fear [...]e [...].

Sir Stephen Brown, Grocer, son to Iohn Browne of Newcastle upon Time. Wheat was then sold for three shillings the Bushell; but this Maior sent into Prusia, and caused to bee brought from thence, certaine Ships laden with Rie, which caused great reliefe in so extreame a necessity.

1439 The eighteenth

Philip Malpas,—

Robert Marshall:—

Sheriffes.

[Page]

[figure]

Maior, Robert Large, Mercer, sonne of Thomas Large, Borne in London. Philip Malpas, at his decease, gave one hundred and twentie pounds to poore Prisoners: and every yeere, for five yeere, foure hundred and three shirts and smockes,

Bountifull Charity.

fortie paire of sheets, and one hundred and fiftie gownes of good frize, to poore people. To poore maids marriages, one hundred markes. To repairing high wayes, one hundred markes: And to five hundred poore people in London, every one six shillings eight pence, &c.

1440 The nineteenth

Iohn Sutton,—

William Welinhale:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior,

Hee was master of the money in the Tower of London.

Sir Iohn Paddesley, Goldsmith, sonne to Simon Paddesley, of Bury Saint Edmond in Suffolke.

1441 The twentieth

William Combis, or Combes,

Richard Rich:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior, Robert Clopton, Draper, sonne of Thomas Clopton, of Clopton in Cambridge shire.

1442 The one and twentieth

Thomas Beaumont,—

Richard Nordon:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior, Iohn Alderley, Ironmonger, sonne of Iohn Aderley or Hatherley, of the City of Bristoll.

1443 The two and twentieth

Nicholas Wyfold,—

Iohn Norman:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior, Thomas Catworth, Grocer, sonne of Iohn Catworth of Rushton in Northumberland.

1444 The three and twentieth

Stephen Foster,—

Hugh Witch:—

Sheriffes.

Maior,

Pauls Steeple was fired with lightening and hardly quenched.

againe Sir Henry Frowicke, son to Henry Frowicke of Totenham in Middlesex Gounty.

1445 The foure and twentieth

Iohn Darby,—

Godfrey Fielding:—

Sheriffes.

[Page]

[figure]

Maior, Sir Simon Eyre, Draper, sonne to Iohn Eyre, of Brandon in Suffol [...]e. This Simon Eyre builded [...] Hall in London, to be a Common Carner for the Citie.

1446 The five and twentieth

Robert Horne,—

Godfrey Bullen:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior, Iohn Olney, Mercer, sonne of of Iohn Olney of the City of Coventrie.

1447 The six and twentieth

William Abraham,—

Thomas Scot:—

Sheriffes.

Maior againe, Sir Iohn Gedney, Draper.

1448 The seven and twentieth

William Cotlow, or Catlow,—

William Marrow:—

Sheriffes.

Maior againe, Sir Stephen Browne, Grocer.

1449 The eight and twentieth

William Hulin,—

Thomas Canning:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior,

[...].

Sir [...] sonne to Thomas [...] in Redfordshire.

1450 The nine and twentieth.

Iohn [...]—

William Deare:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior, Nicholas Wilford, but more truely Wyfold, Grocer, sonne to Thomas Wyfold of Hertley in Barkeshire.

1451 The thirtieth

Mathew Philip,—

Christopher Wharton:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior, Sir William Gregory, Skinner, sonne of Roger Gregory of Milden-hall in Suffolke.

1452 The one and thirtieth

Richard Zee,—

Richard Alley:—

Sheriffes.

[Page]

[figure]

Maior,

A great Fray was this yeere at the westling.

Sir Geffrey Fielding, Mercer, sonne to William Fielding of Litterworth in Leicestershire. This Lord Maior was made of the Councell to King Henry the sixth and King Edward the fourth.

1453 The two and thirtieth

Iohn Walden, or Waldron,—

Thomas Cooke:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior,

The Aldermen (before) rode by land on hourseback to West [...].

Sir Iohn Norman, Draper, son to Io. Norman of Banbury in Oxfordshire. This I. Norman was the first Maior that was rowed by water to Westminster, to take his Oath: he caused a Barge to be made at his owne charge, and every Company had severall Barges, well decked & trimmed, to passe along with him. For joy whereof, the Watermen made a Song in his prayse beginning.

Row thy Boate, Norman, &c.

1454 The three and thirtieth

Iohn Field,—

William Taylor:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior, Sir Stephen Foster, Fishmonger, sonne of Robert Foster of London, Stock-fishmonger. This man enlarged Ludgate, for ease of the prisoners there.

1455 The foure and thirtieth

Iohn Yong,—

Thomas Oldgrave:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior, Sir William Marrow, Mercer, sonne to Stephen Marrow, of Stebunheath, in Middlesex.

1456 The five and thirtieth

Iohn Styward.—

Ralph Verney:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior, Sir Thomas Canning, Grocer, sonne to Iohn Canning, of the City of Bristoll.

1457 The six and thirtieth

William Edwards,—

Thomas Reyner:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior,

This Maior gave 1000 [...] poore housholders in London.

Sir, Godfrey Bullen, sonne to Geffrey Bullen of Salle in Norfolke.

1458 The seven and thirtieth

Ralph Ioceline,—

Richard Medham:—

Sheriffes.

[Page]

[figure]

Maior, Sir Thomas Scot, Draper, sonne to Robert Scot of Dorney in Buckinghamshire.

1459 The eight and thirtieth

Iohn Plummer,—

Iohn Stocker:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior,

Now were the wofull battailes of Blorebeath, Northhampton, Wakefield, Saint Albanes, & Mortiners Crosse each ofter other.

Sir William Hulin, Fishmonger, sonne to Nicholas Hulin of Fulham in Middlesex.

1460 The nine and thirtieth

Richard Fleming,—

Iohn Lambert:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior, Sir Richard Leo, Grocer, sonne to Simon Lee, of the Citie of Worcester.

King Edward the fourth began his reigne the fourth of March, in the yeere 1460. after the account of the Church of England.

1461 The first

George Ireland,—

Iohn Locke:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior, Sir Hugh Witch, Mercer, son of Richard Witch, of Wice Malbano in Cheshire.

1462 The second

William Hampton,—

Bartholomew Iames:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior, Sir Thomas Cooke, Draper, son of Robert Cooke of Lavenham in Suffolke. This Maior was made Knight of the Bath,

This Maior was knight of the Bath and after Knighted in the field by the King.

and had great troubles after.

1463 The third

Robert Basset,—

Thomas Muschamp:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior, Sir Mathew Philip, Goldsmith, sonne to Arnold Philip of the Citie of Norwich.

1464 The fourth

Iohn Tate,—

Iohn Stone:—

Sheriffes.

[Page]

[figure]

Maior,

Sir Ralph Ioceline, Knight of the Bath in the field.

Sir Ralph Ioceline, Draper, sonne to Geffrey Ioceline, of Sabridgeworth in Hertfordshire.

1465 The fifth

Henry Weaver,

Henry Weaver, knight of the Bath being Sheriffe, Surmistedly charged with Treason.

—

William Constantine:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior, Sir Ralph Varney, Mercer, son to Ralph Varney, borne in the Citie of London.

1466 The sixth

Iohn Browne,—

Henry Brice,—

Iohn Darby:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior, Sir Iohn Yong, Grocer, sonne of Thomas Young of the City of Bristoll. This Maior was made Knight in the field: and this yeere began the troubles of Sir Thomas Cooke, and of other Aldermen, as you may read more at large in my Summarie.

1467 The seventh

Thomas Stalbrooke,—

Humfrey Hoyford:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior, Sir Thomas Oldgrave, Skinner; sonne of William Oldgrave, of Knottysford in Cheshire.

1468 The eighth

Simon Smith,—

William Harriot:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior, Sir William Taylor, Grocer, sonne to Iohn Taylor of Ecclestone in Staffordshire.

1469 The nint

Richard Gardner,—

Robert Drope:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior,

King Henrie the sixt delivered out of the Tower.

Sir Richard a Lee, sonne to Iohn a Lee, of the City of Worcester. This yeere, the Tower of London being delivered the Lord Maior, and his brethren the Aldermen, they deliverd, King Henry the sixt, who was kept there Prisoner.

1470 The tenth

Iohn Crosby,—

Iohn Ward:—

Sheriffes.

[Page]

[figure]

Maior, Sir Iohn Stockton, Mercer, sonne to Richard Stockton, of Bratoft in Lincolneshire. Thomas Nevil, the Bastard Falconbridge, with a riotous company,

The insurrection of the Bastard Faulconbridge and his complices.

did this yeere set upon this Citie, at Aldgate, Bishops-gate, the Bridge, &c. And twelve Aldermen, with the Recorder were Knighted in the field, by Edw. the fourth, to wit, Iohn Stockton, Maior; Ralph Veruey, late Maior; Iohn Yong, late Maior; William Taylor, late Maior; Richard a Lee, late Maior; Mathew Philips,

The most of these Knights were afterward made Maiors.

late Maior, George Ireland; William Stocker; William Hampton; Thomas Stalbrooke; Iohn Crosby; Bartholomew Iames; and Thomas Vrswike, Recorder.

1471 The eleventh

Iohn Alen,—

Iohn Shelley:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior, Sir William Edwards, Grocer, sonne to William Edwards of the Parish of Hoton in Essex. The water-Conduit in Aldermanbury, and the Standard in Fleetstreete were this yeere finished.

1472 The twelfth

Iohn Browne,—

Thomas Bledlow:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior,

Mychenhampton.

Sir William Hampton, Fishmonger, sonne to Iohn Hampton of Minchen-hampton in Glocestershire.

Punishmēt inflicted on strumpets and Vagabonds.

This Maior punished Strumpets, and caused stockes to be set up in every Ward, to punish Vagabonds.

1473 The thirteenth

Sir William Stocker,—

Robert Belisdon:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior, Sir Iohn Tate, Mercer, sonne of Iohn Tate,

Serjeants and their yeomen appointed to the Sheriffes.

borne in the Citie of London. This yeere the Sheriffes of London were appointed (each of them) to have sixteene Serjeants, & every Serjeant to have his Yeoman. Also six Clerkes, a Secondary, a Clerke of the Papers, and foure other Clerkes, besides the Vndersheriffes Clerkes.

1474 The fourteenth

Edmond Shaa, or Shawe,—

Thomas Hill:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior, Sir Robert Drope, Draper, [Page] sonne to Iohn Drope of Saint Edes in Huntingdonshire.

This Maior increased the Water-Conduit in Corne-hill.

1475 The fifteenth

Hugh Brice,—

Robert Colwich:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior, Sir Robert Basset, Salter, son to Robert Basset of Billerykey in Essex.

1476 The sixteenth

Richard Rawson,—

William Horne:—

Sheriffes.

Maior againe,

He corrected the Bakers & Victualers of this Citie.

Sir Ralph Ioceline, Draper, Knight of the Bath, by whose diligence the wals of the Citie were repaired.

1477 The seventeenth

Henry Collet,—

Iohn Stocker:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior, Sir Humfrey Heyford, Goldsmith, sonne to Roger Heyford of Stratford Bowe neere London.

1478 The eighteenth

Robert Harding,

Robert Bifield gave 50. li. towards the water Cō duits.

—

Robert Bifield:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior, Richard Gardener, Mercer, sonne of Iohn Gardener of Exning in Suffolke.

1479 The nineteenth

Thomas Ilam,

Tomas Ilam newely builded the great Conduit in Cheape side.

—

Iohn Ward:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior, Sir Bartholomew Iames, Draper, sonne to Edward Iames of London, Vpholder.

1480 The twentieth

Thomas, or William Daniel,

William Bacon:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior, Sir Iohn Browne, otherwise called Iohn de Werks, Mercer, sonne of Iohn Browne of Okeham in Rutland-shire.

1481 The one and twentieth

Robert Ta [...]e,—

Richard Chawrey,—

William Wiking:—

Sheriffes.

[Page]

[figure]

Maior,

New building of Creplegate.

Sir William Heriot, or Harriot, Draper, sonne to Iohn Heriot late of Segrave in the County of Leicester.

1482 The two and twentieth

William White,—

Iohn Mathew:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior, Sir Edmond Shaa, or Shaw, Goldsmith, sonne to Iohn Shaa, late of Donkenfield, in the County of Chester. This Sir Edmond Shaa, caused the Posterne called Creplegate to bee newly builded.

King Edward the fift began his reigne the ninth of April, in the yeere 1483.

Richard the third began his reigne the two and twentieth of Iune in the yeere 1483.

1483 The first

Thomas Newland,—

William Martia:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior, Sir Robert Billesdon, Haberdasher, sonne to Alexander Billesdon, of Queeningborough in the County of Leicester.

1484 The second

Richard Chester,—

Thomas Britaine,—

Ralph Astrie:—

Sheriffs.

[figure]

Maior,

3 Lord Maiors, & three Sheriffes in one yeere, by reason of a sweating sickenesse.

Sir Thomas Hill, Grocer: Sir William Stocker, Draper, and Iohn Ward, Grocer. Thomas Hill was sonne to William Hill of Hilston in the County of Kent. William Stoker was sonne to Thomas Stocker of Eaton in the County of Bedford: and Iohn Ward was sonne to Richard Ward of Howdon in the Countie of Yorke. Thomas Hill appointed by his Testament, the water Conduit in Grasse-street to be builded this yeere.

Henry the seventh began his reigne the two and twentieth of August in the yeere 1485.

1485 The first

Iohn Tate,—

Iohn Swan, or Swans:—

Sheriffes.

[Page]

[figure]

Maior, Sir Hugh Brice, Goldsmith, sonne to Richard Brice of Dublin in Ireland. This Hugh Brice was keeper of the Kings Mints at London.

1486 The second

Iohn Percivol,—

Hugh Clopton:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior,

This was father to him that builded Pauls Schoole.

Sir Henry Collet, Mercer, son to Robert Collet of Wendover in the County of Buckingham. This yeere the Crosse in West Cheape was new builded in beautifull manner.

1487 The third

Iohn Fenkel,—

William Remington:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior, Sir William Florne, Saiter, sonne to Thomas Horne of Snaysewell in the County of Cambridge. This William was made Knight, in the field, by King Henry the seventh, and gave to the repairing of high wayes betwixt London and Cambridge, five hundred Markes, and bountifully to the Preachers at Pauls Crosse.

1488 The fourth

William Isaac,—

Ralph Tinley or Tilney:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior, Sir Robert Tate, Mercer, sonne to Thomas Tate of the Citie of Coventr [...]y.

1489 The fifth

William Capell,—

Iohn Brooke:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior, Sir William White, Draper, sonne to Williamwhite of Tickhill in the County of Yorke.

1490 The sixth

Henry Cote, or Coote,—

Robert Revell,—

Hugh Pemberton:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior,

This man lived and dyed a Batchelor and never was Batchelour Maior before.

Iohn Mathew, Mercer, being first a Linnen Draper, and translated to the Mercers. He was sonne to Thomas Mathew of Sherington in the County of Buckingham,

[Page]1491 The seventh

Thomas Wood,—

VVilliam Browne:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior, Sir Hugh Clopton, Mercer, sonne to Iohn Clopton of Stratford upon Avon in the County of Warwicke, where the said Hugh builded the goodly stone Bridge.

1492 The eighth

William Purchase,—

William Welbeck:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior, Sir William Martin, Skinner, sonne to Walter Martin of the County of Hertford. This yeere there was a ryot made upon the Easterlings, by the Mercers servants and others. d others.

1493 The ninth

Robert Fabian,—

Iohn Winger:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior,

This Maior was made Knight by King Henry the seventh.

Sir Ralph Ostrich, or Astrie, Fishmonger, sonne to Geffrey Ostrich, or Astrie, of Hitchin in the County of Hertford. Robert Fabian, Alderman, made Fabians Chronicle, a very painefull labour, to the great honour of the City, and the whole Realme.

1494 The tenth

Nicholas Alwin,—

Iohn Warner:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior, Sir Richard Chawrie, Salter, sonne to William Chawrie, of Westram in Kent.

1495 The eleventh

Thomas Kneesworth,—

Henry Sommer:—

Sheriffes.

Maior againe,

One man twice Lord Maior.

Sir Henry Collet Mercer. This yeere was much trouble, about the entercourse betweene England and Flanders.

1496 The twelfth

Iohn Shaa,—

Richard Haddon:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior, Iohn Tate the yonger, sonne to Thomas Tate of Coventrie, and brother to Robert Tate, Maior before named. The King made this Maior, Robert Shifield, Recorder, and both the Sheriffes Knights, for their service against the Rebels at Blacke-Heath Field.

[Page]1497 The thirteenth

Barthelomew Rede,—

Thomas Windew or Windout:

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior,

The levelling of More-fields.

William Purchase, Mercer, son to Iohn Purchase of Gamelinghey in the County of Cambridge. This yeere all the Gardens in More-fields were destroyed, and made plaine ground.

1498 The fourteenth

Thomas Bradbury,—

Stephen [...]—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior,

Made Knight in the field by the King.

Sir Iohn Percivall, Merchant-Taylor, sonne to Roger Percivall of London.

1499 The fifteenth

Iames Wilford,—

Thomas, or Richard Brond:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior,

A good Maior for the poor [...].

Sir Nicholas Aldwine, Mercer, sonne to Richard Aldwine of Spalding in Lincolneshire. Hee gave twelve pence a peece to three thousand poore people in London, and the like to as many more in and about Spalding.

1500 The sixteenth

Iohn Hawes,—

William Steed:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior, William Rennington, Fishmonger, sonne to Robert Rennington of Bostone in Lincolneshire.

1501 The seventeenth

Lawrence Aylmer,—

Henry Hede:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior,

The Lord Maiors first riding from the Guild hell to take Barge for Westminster.

Sir Iohn Shaa, Goldsmith, son to I. Shaa of Rochford in Essex. This Maior was made Knight in the field by the King, and he caused his Brethren the Aldermen to ride from the Guild-hall to the waters side, when he tooke Barge to Westminster, where he was sworne by the Kings Councell. Hee first kept Court in his owne house, and called and redressed all matters comming before him.

1502 The eighteenth

Henry Kebble,—

Nicholas Nives:—

Sheriffes.

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[figure]

Maior, Sir Bartholomew Rede, Goldsmith, sonne to Robert Rede of Crowmer in Norfolke. Thomas Granger.

1503 The nineteenth

Christopher Hawes,—

Robert Wats:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior, Sir William Capell, Draper, sonne of Iohn Capell of Stoke-Neyland,

Hee was Knighted by Henry the seventh.

in the County of Suffolke. This Maior first caused Cages to be set up in every Ward, for the punishment of Rogues and Vagabonds.

1504 The twentieth

Roger Acheley,—

William Browne:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior, Sir Iohn Winger, Grocer, sonne to William Winger of Leicester.

1505 The one and twentieth

Richard Shoare,—

Roger Grove:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior, Sir Thomas Kneisworth, Fishmonger, sonne to Iohn Kneisworth, of Kneisworth in Cambridgeshire. This Thomas Kneisworth appointed the water-Conduit at Bishops-gate to be builded.

1506 The two and twentieth

William Copinger,

This Fitz-William, Merchant-Taylor, was after of councel to King Henry the eighth, He builded also the greater part of the Parish Church of Saint Andrew Vnder [...]aft In London.

—

Thomas Iohnson,—

William Fitz-Williams:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior, Sir Richard Haddon, Mercer, sonne of William Haddon, Citizen and Mercer of London.

1507 The three and twentieth

William Butler,—

Iohn Kerkby:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior, VVilliam Browne, Mercer, son of Iohn Browne, Citizen and Mercer of London, for part of the yeere; and Lawrence Aylmer, Draper sonne of Thomas [Page]Aylmer, of Ellesnam in Essex for the other part.

1508 The foure and twentieth

Thomas Exmewe,—

Richard Smith:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior, Sir Stephen Iennings, Merchant-Taylor, sonne to William Iennings of Woolnerhampton, in Staffordshire, where he builded a Free-School, which is still worthily maintained by the Company of Merchant-Taylors of London.

King Henry the eighth began his reigne the two and twentieth of April, in the yeere 1509.

1509 The first

George Monox,—

Iohn Doget:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior, Thomas Bradbury, Mercer, sonne to William Bradbury of Branghin in Hertfordshire, for part of the yeere, and Sir William Capell for the rest.

1510 The second

Iohn Milborne,—

Iohn Rest:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior,

He gave also 1000. li. to finish up his Parish church of Aldermary, with a steeple, not yet performed▪

Sir Henry Kebble, Grocer, sonne to George Kebble, Citizen and Grocer of London. He new builded the Parish Church of Aldermary by Watling-streete.

1511 The third

Nicholas Shelton,—

Thomas Mirsine:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior, Sir Roger Acheley, Draper, son to Thomas Acheley, of Stanwardine in Shropshire.

A carefull Magistrate for Corne.

This Roger Acheley provided Corne for service of this Citie in great plenty, and caused the same to be stowed up in Leaden Hall, being called the Common Garner.

1512 The fourth

Robert Holdernes, or Aldernes;—

Robert Fenrother:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior,

This Copinger gave halfe of his goods to his wife and the other hal [...] to the poore that had most need▪

Sir William Copinger, Fishmonger, sonne to Walter Copinger, of Buckfeill in Suffolke for part of the [Page] yeere, and Sir Richard Haddon for the rest.

1513 The fifth

Iohn Dawes,—

Iohn Bruges,—

Roger Basford:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior, Sir William Browne, Mercer, sonne to Iohn Browne, Citizen and Mercer of London. Iohn Tate Mercer, this yeere builded the Church of Saint Anthonies Hospitall in London.

1514 The sixth

Iames Yarford,—

Iohn Mundy:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior, Sir George Monox, Draper, borne in London, but his fathers name not remembred.

1515 The seventh

Henry Warley,—

Richard Grey,—

William Baily:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior, Sir William Butler, Grocer, sonne to Richard Butler, of Bindenham in Bedfordshire.

1516 The eighth

Thomas Seymer,—

Iohn, or Richard Thurstone:

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior, Sir Iohn Rest, Grocer, sonne to William Rest of Peterborough in Northhamptonshire.

1517 The ninth

Thomas Baldrie,—

Ralph, or Richard Simons:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior,

He made the water Conduit at London wall by Moregate.

Sir Thomas Exmewe, Goldsmith, sonne to Richard Exmewe, of Ruthin in Flintshire.

1518 The tenth

Iohn Allen,—

Iames Spencer:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior, Sir Thomas Mirfine, Skinner, sonne to George Mirfine of Ely in Cambridgeshire.

[Page]1519 The eleventh

Iohn Wilkinson,—

Nicholas Partrich:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior,

Maiors Knighted by courtefie of the Kings.

Sir Iames Yardford, Mercer, sonne to William Yardford of Kidwelley in Wales. From this time onward, the Maiors of London (for the most part) were Knighted by courtesie of the Kings, and not otherwise.

1520 The twelfth

Iohn Skevington,—

Iohn Kyme, alias Keble:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior, Sir Iohn Brug, or Bruges, Draper, sonne to Thomas Brug, or Bruges, of Dymmocke in Glocestershire.

1521 The thirteenth

Iohn Breton, or Britaine,—

Thomas Pargitor:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior,

He builded the Almeshouses by Tower hill▪

Sir Iohn Milborne, Draper, sonne to Iohn Milborne of Long Melford in Suffolke.

1522 The fourteenth

Iohn Rudstone,—

Iohn Champneis:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior,

Not thirteen thousand Parishes in England. then approved.

Sir Iohn Mundy, Goldsmith, sonne to William Mundy of Wycombe in Buckinghamshire.

1523 The fifteenth

Michaell English,—

Nicholas Iennings:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior, Sir Thomas Baldrie, Mercer, sonne to Richard Baldrie of S [...]ow market in Suffol [...].

1524 The sixteenth

Ralph Dodmere,—

William Roche:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior, Sir William Ba [...]ly, Draper, sonne to Iohn Baily of Thacksted in Essex.

1525 The seventeenth

Iohn Caunton, or Calton,—

Christopher Askew:—

Sheriffes.

[Page]

[figure]

Maior, Sir Iohn Allen, Mercer, sonne to Richard Allen of Thacksted in Essex.

1526 The eighteenth

Stephen Peacocke,—

Nicholas Lambert:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior, Sir Thomas Seymer, Mercer, sonne to Iohn Seymer of London, Fishmonger, who was sonne to Robert Seymer of Walden in Essex.

1527 The nineteenth

Iohn Hardy,—

William Holleis:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior,

This yeere was the great sweating sickenesse.

Sir Iames Spencer, Vintner, sonne to Robert Spencer of Congleton in Cheshire.

1528 The twentieth

Ralph Warren,—

Iohn Long:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior,

Testament in English translated by [...].

Sir Iohn Rudstone, Draper, sonne to Robert Rudstone of [...] Yorkeshire.

1529 The one and twentieth

Michaell Dermer—

Walter Champion:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior,

This Maior was translated frō the Brewers to the Mercers.

Sir Ralph Dodmer, Mercer, sonne to Henry Dodmer, of Pickering-Leigh in Yorkeshire. This yeere it was decreed that no man should be Maior of London more than one yeere.

1530 The two and twentieth

William Dauntesey, or Dancy,—

Richard Champion:

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior,

The King first called Supreame head.

Sir Thomas Pargitor, Salter, sonne to Iohn Pargitor, of Chippingnorton in Oxfordshire.

1531 The three and twentieth

Richard Gresham,—

Edward Altham:—

Sheriffes.

[Page]

[figure]

Maior, Sir Nicholas Lambert, Grocer, sonne to Edward Lambert of Wilton in Wiltshire.

1532 The foure and twentieth

Richard Reynolds,—

Iohn Martin,—

Nicholas Pinchon,—

Iohn Priest:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior,

This yeere was queen Elizabet's borne at Greenwich.

Sir Stephen Peacock, Haberdasher, sonne to Stephen Peacock of the City of Dublin in Ireland.

1533 The five and twentieth

William Forman,—

Thomas Kitson:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior,

Oath taken to the succession.

Sir Christopher Askew, Draper, sonne to Iohn Askew of Edmonton in Middlesex.

1534 The six and twentieth

Nicholas Leveson,—

William Denham:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior,

The Popes power expelled out of England.

Sir Iohn Champneis, Skinner, sonne to Robert Champneis, of Chew in Sommersetshire.

1535 The seven and twentieth

Humfrey Monmouth,—

Iohn Cotes:—

Sheriffes.

Maior,

Serieants and their Yeomen put away by the Sheriffes.

Sir Iohn Allen, Mercer, and made a Privie Counsellor to the King, for his great wisedome. The forenamed Sheriffes, Monmouth and Cotes, did put away twelve Sergeants & twelve Yeomen; but by a Court of Cōmon Councell, they were enforced to take them againe.

1536 The eight and twentieth

Robert, or Richard Paget,—

William Bowyer:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior,

The River of Thames over-frozen.

Sir Ralph Warren, Mercer, sonne to Thomas Warren Fuller, who was sonne to William Warren, of Fering in Essex.

1537 The nine and twentieth

Iohn Gresham,—

Thomas Lewin:

Sheriffes.

[Page]

[figure]

Maior,

The great Bible printed in English printed.

Sir Richard Gresham, Mercer, sonne to Iohn Gresham of Holt, in Norfolke.

1538 The thirtieth

William Wilkinson,—

Nicholas Gibson:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior,

Suppression of Abbies and religious houses.

Sir William Forman, Haberdasher, son to William Forman, of Gainsborough in Lincolneshire.

1539 The one and thirtieth

Thomas Ferrer,—

Thomas Huntlow:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior, Sir William Holleis, sonne to William Holleis, Citizen and Baker of London.

1540 The two and thirtieth

William Laxstone,—

Martin Bowes:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior,

[...] in every [...] Church.

Sir William R [...]che, Draper, sonne to Iohn Roche of Wixley in Yorkeshire.

1541 The three and thirtieth

Rowland Hill,—

Henry Suckley:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior, Sir Michael Dormer, Mercer, sonne to Geffrey Dormer of Tame in Oxfordshire.

1542 The foure and thirtieth

Henry Hobberthorne,—

Henry Amcoates:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior,

The great Plague at London.

Iohn Cotes, Salter, sonne to Thomas Cotes of Bearton in Buckinghamshire.

1543 The five and thirtieth

Iohn Tholouse,—

Richard Dobbes:—

Sheriffes.

[Page]

[figure]

Maior,

Bu [...]en besieged and yeelded.

Sir William Bowyer, sonne to William Bowyer of Harston in Cambridgeshire for one part, and Sir Ralph Warren Mercer, for the rest.

1544 The six and thirtieth

Iohn Wilford,—

Andrew Iud:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior, Sir William Laxton, Grocer, sonne to Iohn Laxton of Yongdell in Northamptonshire.

1545 The seven and thirtieth

George Barne,—

Ralph Allen, or Alley:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior, Sir Martin Bowes, Goldsmith, sonne to Thomas Bowes, an Inhabitant of the Citie of Yorke for many yeeres.

1546 The eight and thirtieth

Richard Iarveis,—

Thomas Curteis:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior,

The death of King Henry the Eight.

Sir Henry Hobberthorne, Merchant-Taylor, sonne to Christopher Hobberthorne of Waddingworth in Lincolneshire.

King EDVVARD the sixth began his reigne the eight and twentieth day of Ianuary, in the yeere, 1546.

1547 The first

Thomas White,—

Robert Chertsey:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior,

2 Sonnes of one man Maiors of London each after other.

Sir Iohn Gresham, Mercer, sonne to Iohn Gresham of Holt in Norfolke, and Brother to Sir Richard Gresham, formerly Lord Maior.

1548 The second

William Lock,—

Sir Iohn Ayleph:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior,

A great death in London.

Henry Amcoates, Fishmonger, [Page] sonne to William Amcoats, of Astrap in Lincolnshire.

1549 The third

Iohn Yorke,—

Richard Turke:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior,

Booke of Common Prayer in English.

Sir Rowland Hill, Mercer, sonne to Thomas Hill of Hodnet in Shropshire.

1550 The fourth

Augustine Hind,—

Iohn Lion:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior,

The second great Sweating Sicknesse.

Sir andrew Iud, Skinner, sonne to Iohn Iud of Tonebridge in Kent.

1551 The fifth

Iohn Lambert,—

Iohn Cowper:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior, Sir Richard Dobbes, Skinner, sonne to Robert Dobbes of Baitby in Yorkeshire.

1552 The sixth

William Garret, or Gerrard,

Iohn Mainard:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior,

The death of King Edward the sixth.

Sir George Barne, Haberdasher, sonne to George Barne, Citizen and Haberdasher of London.

Queene Marie began her reigne the sixth day of Iuly in the yeere 1553.

1553 The first

Thomas Offley,—

William Hewet:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior,

The bounty of Sir Thomas White.

Sir Thomas White, Merchant-Taylor, sonne to Thomas White of Rickmansworth in Hertfordshire.

[...], his rising and suppressing.

This Sir Thomas White founded Saint Iohn Baptists Colledge in Oxford, and gave two thousand pound to the Citie of Bristol to purchase one hundred and twentie pound land yeerely.

1554 The second

David Woodroffe,—

William Chester:—

Sheriffes.

[Page]

[figure]

Maior,

Lady Iane beheaded▪

Sir Iohn Lyon, Grocer, sonne to Thomas Lyon of Peryfare in Middlesex.

1555 The third

Thomas Lee, or Leigh,—

Iohn Machel:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior,

Seven Aldermen in London dyed in lesse than 10 Months▪

Sir William Garret or Garrard, Haberdasher, sonne to Iohn Garret, Citizen and Grocer of London, who was sonne to William Garret of Seddingbourne in Kent.

1556 The fourth

William Harper,—

Iohn White:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior,

First ordaining of the night Belman.

Sir Thomas Offley, Merchant-Taylor, sonne to William Offley of the City of Chester.

1557 The fifth

Richard Mallory,—

Iames Altham:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior,

Callis lost to the French.

Sir Thomas Curteis, Fishmonger, sonne to Iohn Curteis of Enfield in Middlese [...]. Hee was free of the Pewterers, and translated to the Fishmongers.

1558 The sixth

Iohn Halsey,—

Richard Champion:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior,

Death of Queene Mary.

Sir Thomas Lee, or Leigh, Mercer, sonne to Roger Lee of Willington in Shropshire.

Queene ELIZABETH began her reigne, the seventeenth of November, in the yeere, 1558.

1559 The first

Thomas Lodge,—

Roger Martin:

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior,

Common Prayer in English, & Images pulled downe.

Sir William H [...]wet, Cloth-worker, [Page] worker, sonne to Edmund Hewet of Wales in Yorkeshire.

1560 The second

Christopher Draper,—

Thomas Rowe:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior, Sir William Chester, Draper, sonne to John Chester, Citizen and Draper of London. This yeere the Merchant-Taylors founded their notable Free-Schoole for poore mens children, &c.

1561 The third

Alexander Avenon,—

Humfrey Baskervile:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior,

Pauls steeple burned Iune 4. 1561.

Sir William Harper, Merchant-Taylor, sonne to William Harper of the Towne of Bedford.

1562 The fourth

William Allen,—

Richard Chamberlaine,—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior,

New-Haven yeelded to the French.

Sir Thomas Lodge, Grocer, sonne to William Lodge of Cresset in Shropshire.

1563 The fifth

Edward Bankes,—

Rowland Heyward:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior,

The great Plague: No Maiors Feast by reason of the Plague The great frost and Thames over-frozen▪

Sir Iohn White, Grocer, sonne to Robert White of Farneham in Surrey.

1564 The sixth

Edward Iackman,—

Lionel Ducket:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior,

The Bursse builded by Sir Thomas [...]

Sir Richard Mallory, Mercer, sonne to Anthony Mallory of Papworthamus in Cambridgeshire.

1565 The seventh

Iohn Rivers,—

Iames Hawes:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior,

The birth of our Royal Soveraigne King [...] Iune 9. 1566.

Sir Richard Champion, Draper, sonne to Richard Champion of Godilming in Surrey.

[Page]

1566 The eighth

Richard Lambert,—

Ambrose Nicholas,—

Iohn Langley:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior, Sir Christopher Draper, Ironmonger, sonne to Iohn Draper of Melton Mowbray in Leicestershire.

1567 The ninth

Thomas Ramsey,—

Iohn Bond:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior,

Downegate Conduit builded.

Sir Roger Martin, Mercer, son to Lawrence Martin of Melford in Suffolke.

1568 The tenth

Iohn Oleph,—

Robert Harding,—

Iames Bacon:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior,

The great Lottery at Pauls and the New Church-yard builded neere Bethlehem.

Sir Thomas Rowe, Merchant-Taylor, sonne to Robert Rowe Citizen and Merchant-Taylor of London, who was sonne to Reynald Rowe of Lee in Kent.

This yeere Sir Thomas Row enclosed a piece of ground by Moore-fields, with a Bricke wall, to be a place for buriall of the dead, to such Parishes in London as wanted Churchyards.

1569 The eleventh

Henry Beecher,—

William Dane:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior,

Rebellion of the Earles in the North.

Sir Alexander Avenon, Ironmonger, sonne to Robert Avenon, or Avenand of Kings-Norton in Worcestershire.

1570 The twelfth

Francis Barneham,—

William Boxe:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior,

Queene Elizabeth her comming to the Royall Exchange.

Sir Rowland Heyward Clothworker, son to George Heyward of Bridge north in Shropshire.

1571 The thirteenth

Henry Milles,—

Iohn Branche:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior, Sir William Allen, Mercer, [Page] sonne to William Allen, Citizen and Pasteller of London, who was sonne to Richard Allen of Stondon in Hertfordshire.

1572 The fourteenth

Richard Pipe,—

Nicholas Woodroffe:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior,

Duke of Norfolke beheaded, Iune 2. 1572.

Sir Lionell Ducket, Mercer.

1573 The fifteenth

Iames Harvey,—

Tho. Pulloccell or Pullison:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior,

M. Saunders murdered: his wife, Browne, Mistris Drewry, & trusty Roger executed.

Sir Iohn Rivers, Grocer, sonne to Richard Rivers of pensehurst in Kent.

1574 The sixteenth

Thomas Blancke,—

Anthony Gamage:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior, Sir Iames Hawes, Clothworker, sonne to Thomas Hawes, Citizen and Merchant of London, who was son to Iohn Hawes of Stoke-Newington in Middlesex.

1575 The seventeenth

Edward Osborne,—

Wolstane Dixie:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior, Sir Ambrose Nicholas, Salter, sonne to Iohn Nicholas of Nedingworth in Huntingdonshire.

1576 The eighteenth

William Kempton,—

George Barne:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior,

Oldbourne. Conduit builded by by Master Lambe.

Sir Iohn Langley, Goldsmith, sonne to Robert Langley of Althrope in Lincolneshire.

1577 The nineteenth

Nicholas Backhouse,—

Francis Bowyer:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior,

Strange sicknesse at Oxenford death of the Iudges.

Sir Thomas Ramsey, Grocer, sonne to Iohn Ramsey of Flenbridge in Kent.

[Page]

1578 The fourteenth

George Bond,—

Thomas Star [...]le:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior,

The blazing Star. The great deepe Snow.

Sir Richard Pipe, Draper, son to Richard Pipe of Woolverhampton, in Staffordshire.

He was free of the Leathersellers, and from them translated to the Drapers.

1579 The one and twentieth

Martin Calthrope,—

Iohn Hart:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior,

The great and generall Earthquake, on Wednsday in Easter weeke the fir [...] of April, 1580.

Sir Nicholas Woodroffe, Haberdasher, sonne to David Woodroffe, Citizen and Haberdasher of London, who was sonne to Iohn Woodroffe, or Woodrove, of the Parish of Vscombe, in Devonshire.

1580 The two twentieth

Ralph Woodcocke,—

John Allot:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior,

The bla [...]ing starre [...] two [...]one the [...]ightly.

Sir Iohn Branche, Draper, sonne to Iohn Branche, Citizen and Draper of London, who was sonne to Iohn Branche of Laynham in Suffolke.

1581 The three and twentieth

Richard Martin,—

William Webbe:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior,

Mouesiers comming into England, and his return.

Sir Iames Harvey, Irohmonger, sonne to William Harvey, of Cotwalton in Staffordshire.

1582 The foure and twentieth

William Rowe,—

Iohn Haydon, deceased,—

Cuthbert Buckle succeeded:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior,

Standard at Leaden-Hall for Thames-water.

Sir Thomas Blanke, Haberdasher, sonne to Thomas Blanke, Citizen and Haberdasher of London, who was sonne to Thomas Blanke of Gilford in Surrey.

1583 The five and twentieth

William Masham,—

Desmonds head set on London-bridge.

Iohn Spencer:—

Sheriffes.

Arden and Somerviles Treason.

[figure]

Maior, Sir Edward Osborne, Clothworker

[Page]worker, son to Richard Osborne, of Ashford in Kent.

1584 The six and twentieth

Stephen Slany,—

Henry Billingsley:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior,

W. Parries treason. E. of Northumberl. murdered himselfe in the Tower.

Sir Thomas Pulloccill, or Pullyson, Draper, sonne to William Pulloccill, of Footescray in Kent.

1585 The seven and twentieth

Anthony Ratcliffe,—

Henry Pranell:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior, Sir Wolstane Dixie, Skinner, sonne to Thomas Dixie, of Catworth in Huntingdonshire.

1586 The eight and twentieth

Robert House,

Sir Philip Sidney his honourable Funerall, Febr. 16. 1586.

—

William Elkin:

Ludgate new builded by the Cities charge.

—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior, Sir George Barne, Haberdasher, sonne to Sir George Barne, Knight, Citizen, Haberdasher, and Lord Maior of London; who was son also to George Barne, Citizen and Haberdasher of London.

1587 The nine and twentieth

Thomas Skinner,—

Iohn Catcher:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior, Sir George Bond, Haberdasher, sonne to Robert Bond, of Trull in Sommersetshire.

1588 The thirtieth

Hugh Offley,

The [...].

—

Richard Saltonstall:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior,

Queene Elizabeth her comming to Pauls Sermon.

Sir Martin Calthrop, Draper, sonne to Martin Calthrop, Citizen and Draper of London: He served one part of the yeere, and Sir Richard Martin, Goldsmith, the other.

1589 The one and thirtieth

Richard Gurney,—

Stephen Some:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior,

Death of [...].

Sir Iohn Hart, Grocer, sonne [Page] to Ralph Hart, of Sproston-Court in Yorkshire.

1590 The two and thirtieth

Nicholas Mosley,—

Robert Brooke:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior, Sir Iohn Allot, Fishmonger, sonne to Richard Allot of Limbergh in Lincolnshire: He served one part of the yeere, and Sir Rowland Heyward the other.

1591 The three and thirtieth

William Rider,—

Benet, or Benedict Barnham—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior,

The Thomas almost empty of water for two daies space.

Sir William Webbe, Salter, sonne to Iohn Webbe, of Reading in Barkshire.

1592 The foure and thirtieth—

Robert Taylor:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior,

No Bartholomew Fayre at London.

Sir William Rowe, Ironmonger, sonne to Thomas Rowe of Penschurst in Kent.

1593 The five and thirtieth

Paul Banning,—

Peter Haughton:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior,

Doctor Lopez executed at Teyborne.

Sir Cuthbert Buckle, Vintner, sonne to Christopher Buckle, of Bourgh, in Westmerland: Hee served one part of the yeere, and Sir Richard Martin, Goldsmith, the other; which Sir Richard Martin was sonne to Thomas Martin, of Saffron Walden in Essex.

1594 The six and thirtieth

Robert Lee,—

Thomas Bennet:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior,

Vnrely youth executed on Tower-hill.

Sir Iohn Spencer, Clothworker, sonne to Richard Spencer of Waldingfield in Suffolke.

1595 The seven and thirtieth

Thomas Lowe,

A Provost Marshall for London.

—

Leonard Hallyday:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior, Sir Stephen Slany, Skinner, sonne to Iohn Slany, of Mitton, in Staffordshire.

[Page]1596 The eight and thirtieth

Iohn Wats,—

Richard Godard:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior, Sir, Thomas Skinner, Clothworker, sonne to Iohn Skinner, of Walden in Essex. Hee served the one part of the yeere, and Sir Henry Billingsley, Haberdasher the other.

This Sir Henry Billingsley was sonne to Roger Billingsley, of the City of Canterbury, in Kent.

1597 The nine and thirtieth

Henry Row,—

Iohn More:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior,

Lectures reading in Greshams College.

Sir Richard Saltonstall, Skinner, sonne to Gilbert Saltonstall, of Hallyfax in Yorkshire.

1598 The fortieth

Edward Holmedon,—

Robert Hampson:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior,

Earle of Essex his going towards Ireland.

Sir Stephen Some, Grocer, sonne to Thomas Some, of Bradley in Suffolke.

Hee was free of the Girdlers, and from them translated to the Grocers.

1599 The one and fortieth

Humphrey Welde,—

Roger Clerke:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior,

Earle of Essex returned, & L. [...] sent into Ireland.

Sir Nicholas Mosley,

Earle of Essex his rising, troubles, and death.

Clothworker, sonne to Edward Mosley, of Hough in Lancashire.

1600 The two and fortieth

Thomas Smith,—

Thomas Cambell,—

William Craven:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior, Sir William Rider, Haberdasher, sonne to Thomas Rider of Mucklestone in Staffordshire.

1601 The three and fortieth

Henry Anderson,—

William Glover:—

Sheriffes.

[Page]

[figure]

Maior,

Spaniards and Irish overcome in Ireland.

Sir Iohn Garret, or Garrard, Haberdasher, son to Sir, William Garret, or Garrard, Knight, Lord Maior and Haberdasher of London, son to Iohn Garret or Garrard, Citizen and Grocer of London, who was sonne to William Garret, or Garrard, of Seddingborne, in Kent.

1602 The foure and fortieth

Iames Pemberton,—

Iohn Swinnerton:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior, Sir Robert Lee, Merchant-Ta [...] ler, sonne to Humphrey Lee of Bridge-North in Shropshire.

King IAMES began his reigne the foure and twentieth of March in the yeere, 1602.

1603 The first

Sir William Rumney,—

Sir Thomas Middleton:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior,

This yeere died good Queene Elizabeth.

Sir Thomas Bennet, Mercer, sonne to Thomas Bennet, of Willingford in Barkeshire.

1604 The second

Sir Thomas Hayes, Knight,

Sir Roger Iones Knight:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior,

Tearme [...], and [...] plague at London.

Sir Thomas Low, Haberdasher, sonne to Simon Low, Citizen and Merchant-Tayler of London, who was sonne to Ralph Low, of London.

1605 The third

Clement Scudamor, Knight,

Sir Iohn Folles, Knight:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior,

The most happy discovery and prevention of the Gunpowder Treasons.

Sir Leonard Hollyday, Marchant-Tayler, sonne to William Hollyday of Redborough in Glocestershire.

1606 The fourth

William Walthall,—

Iohn Lemon:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior, Sir Iohn Wats, Clothworker, sonne to Thomas Wats of Buntingford in Hertfordshire.

[Page]1607 The fifth

Geffrey Elwes,—

Nicholas Style:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior, Sir Henry Rowe, Mercer, sonne to Sir Thomas Rowe, Knight, Lord Maior, Citizen and Merchant-Tayler of London.

1608 The sixth

George Bolles,—

Richard Farrington:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior,

This yeere Aldgate was fully finished.

Sir Humfrey Weld, Grocer, sonne to Iohn Weld of Eaton in Cheshire.

1609 The seventh

Sebastian Harvey,—

William Cockaine:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior,

The Lord Maiors [...]hews long left off, were now revived againe by order from the King.

Sir Thomas Cambell, Jronmonger, sonne to Robert Cambell, of Fulsam in Norfolke.

1610 The eighth

Richard Pyat,—

Francis Iones:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior, Sir William Cravon, Merchant-Tayler, sonne to William Craven of Appletreewick in Yorkeshire.

1611 The ninth

Edward Barkham,—

George Smithes:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior,

This yeere died the Royall Prince Henry.

Sir Iames Pemberton, Goldsmith, sonne to Iames Premberton, of Ecclestone in Lancashire.

1612 The tenth

Edward Rotherham,—

Alexander Prescot:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior,

Marriage of the [...] to the Lady Elizabeth.

Sir Iohn Swinnerton, Merchant-Tayler, sonne to Thomas Swinnerton, Citizen and Merchant-Tayler of London, who was sonne to Richard Swinnerton, of Oswestrey in Shropshire.

[Page]1613 The eleventh

Thomas Bennet,—

Henry Iaye:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior,

The new River brought to London frō Amwell.

Sir Thomas Middleton, Grocer, sonne to Richard Middleton, of Denbigh, in the County of Denbigh.

1614 The twelfth

Peter Proby,—

Martin Lumley:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior, Sir Thomas Hayes, Draper, sonne to Thomas Hayes of the City of Westminster.

1615 The thirteenth

William Goare,—

Iohn Goare:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior,

This yeere two brethen Sheriffes and the younger first chosen.

Sir Iohn Iolles Draper, sonne to Thomas Ielles of Stratford-Bow in Middlesex.

The Kings great iourney to Scotland, and happy returne.

1616 The fourteenth

Allen Cotten,—

Cuthbert Hacket:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior,

This Maior was the second Batchelor.

Sir Iohn Leman, Fishmonger, sonne to Iohn Leman of Gillingham in Norfolke.

1617 The fifteenth

William Hollyday,—

Robert Iohnson:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior, the right Honorable, George Bolles, Grocer, sonne of Thomas Bolles, of Newbold in the County of Leicester.

1618 The sixteenth

Richard Hearne,—

Hugh Hamersley:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior, Sir Sebastian Harvey, Iro [...] monger, he was sonne to Sir Iames H [...] vey, Knight, Lord Maior of London, which was sonne to William Harvey, of Cot [...] ton in Staffordshire.

[Page]1619 The seventeenth

Richard Deane,—

Iames Cambell:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior,

Doctor Abbot Lord Bishop of London, translated and enstalled Archbishop of Canterbury Aprill 9.

Sir William Cockaine, Skinner, he was sonne to William Cockaine, sonne of Roger Cockaine of Baddesley in Warwickeshire.

1620 The eighteenth

Edward Allen,—

Robert Ducie:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior,

The new River brought from Amwell, was finished the twentininth of September.

Sir Francis Iones, Haberdasher, he was the sonne of Iohn Iones of Claverley in the County of Saloppe.

1621 The ninteenth

George Whitmore,—

Nicholas Rainton:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Sir Edward Barkham, Draper, [...] sonne of Edward Barkham, [...] in the County of [...]

1622 The twentieth

Iohn Hodges,—

Humfrey Hanford Knight:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior,

Prince Charles having been in Spaine arrived in England the sixt of October.

Sir Peter Proby, Grocer, commonly in the Countrey called Peter ap-Robin, his fathers name is not recorded, but is sayd to be borne neere Whitchurch in Shropshire.

1623 The one and twentieth

Ralph Freeman,—

Thomas Moulson:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior,

Our gracious queen Mary landed at Dover the 12. of Iune.

Sir Martin Lumley, Draper, he was the sonne of Iames Lumley, of London.

1624 The two and twentieth

Rowland Heilin,—

Robert Parkhurst:—

Sheriffes.

[figure]

Maior,

King Iames died at Theobalds the 27. day of March.

Sir Iohn Goare, Merchant-Taylor, hee was the sonne of Gerrard Goare, who was the sonne of Iohn Goare of London.

[Page]King Charles began his reigne the seven and twentieth of March, in the yeere, 1625.

1625 The first

Thomas Westwray,—

Ellis Crispe,—

Iohn Poole,—

Christopher Cletherowe:—

Sheriffes.

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Maior, Sir Allen Cotton, Draper, hee was sonne to Ralph Cotton, of Whitchurch in the County of Salop.

1626 The second

Edward Bromfield,—

Richard Fenne:—

Sheriffes.

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Maior,

The Duke of Buckingham made his voyage to the Isle of Ree neer R [...]hell.

Sir Cuthbert Aket, alias Hacket, Draper, hee was sonne of Thomas Aket, or Hacket, who was the sonne of Thomas Aket, or Hacket, of Dertford in Kent.

1627 The third

Maurice Abbot,—

Henry Garway:—

Sheriffes.

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Maior,

The death of Lambe called by divers Doctor Lambe.

Sir Hugh Hammersley, Haberdasher,

The drawbridge also newly repaired.

he was the sonne of Hugh Hammersley, who was the sonne of Richard Hammersley, of the Towne and County of Stafford.

1628 The fourth

Rowland Backhouse,—

William Acton, Knight and Baronet:—

Sheriffes.

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Maior,

Iohn Felton for killing the Duke of Buckingham, executed and hanged in chaines.

Sir Richard Deane, Skinner, he was sonne of George Deane, of Muchdunmowe in Essex.

1629 The fifth

Humfrey Smith,—

Edmund Wright:—

Sheriffes.

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Maior,

The birth of Royall Prince Charles, May the 29 at S. Iames's neere Charing Crosse.

Sir Iames Cambell, Ironmonger, hee was the sonne of Thomas Cambell, who was sonne of Robert Cambel, of Fulsam in the County of Norfolke.

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Arthur Abdy,—

Robert Cambell:—

Sheriffes.

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Maior,

Mervin Lord Audley, and [...]arle of [...]haven beheaded on Towerhill, May 14.

Sir Robert Ducy, Merchant-Taylor, he was the sonne of Henry Ducy of London.

1631 The seventh

Samuel Cranmer,—

Henry Prat:—

Sheriffes.

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Maior,

The houses joining to the Cathedrall Church of St. Paul began to be pulled downe.

Sir George Whitmore, Haberdasher, hee was the sonne of William Whitmore, who was son to Richard Whitmore, of the Parish of Charely in the County of Salop.

1632 The eighth

Hugh Perry,—

Henry Andrewes:—

Sheriffes.

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Maior,

The third part of London-Bridge burned.

Sir Nicholas Raynton, Haberdasher, he was the son of Robert Raynton of Highinton in the County of Lincolne.

1633 The ninth

Gilbert Harrison,—

Richard Gurney:—

Sheriffes.

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Maior, the right Honourable, Ralph Freeman, Clothworker, sonne of William Freeman of the Towne and County of Northampton.

Thus much for the chiefe and principall Governours of this famous City; of whose publike Government, with the assistance of other inferiour Officers, their charges for preserving the Peace, service of the Prince, and Honour of this City, much might have beene said, and shall be hereafter discoursed more at large, when I have more spacious ground to walke in, and other helpes (thereto belonging) can more conveniently be had.

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OF THE TWELVE HONOVRABLE COMPANIES OF THIS ANCIENT AND Famous Citie; out of which the Lord Maior is to be chosen yeerely, because those of inferiour rancke, are not capable of such dignitie. MERCERS.

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THe Mercers were enabled to be a Company, and to purchase Lands, to the value of twenty pounds by the yeere, the seventeenth yeare of King Richard the second, Anno Dom. 1393.

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GROCERS.

GOD GRANT GRACE

The Company of Grocers, in elder times called Pepperers: were first incorporated by the name of Grocers, in the twentieth yeere of King Edward the third, Anno Dom. 1345. The Armes antient, and supporters granted by Thomas Benote, Clarencieux, in the time of King Henry the eight, Helme and Crest, by William Harvey, Clarencieux, Anno Dom. 1562.

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DRAPERS.

VNTO GOD ONLY BE HONER & GLORY.

THe Company of Drapers were incorporated in the seventeenth yeere of King Henry the sixt, Anno Dom. 1430. The Armes first granted by Garter King of Armes: Crest and Supporters by William Harvy, Clarencieux, Anno Dom. 1561.

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FISHMONGERS

AL WORSHIP BE TO GOD ONLY

THe Fishmongers were (at the first) two Companies, namely, Stockfishmongers, and Saltfishmongers; which Saltfishmongers, in the beginning of the Reigne of King Henry the eighth, Anno Dom. 1509. did beare their Armes as here is set downe. But lastly, in the 28. yeere of the same King, Anno Dom. 1536. the said Companies were vnited in one, and then their Armes more fully granted.

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GOLDSMITHS.

TO GOD ONLY. BE ALL GLORY

THe Goldsmiths, were incorporated and confirmed in the sixteenth yeere of King Richard the second, the Crest and Supporters were granted by Robert Cooke, Clarencieux, Anno Dom. 1571.

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SKINNERS.

TO GOD ONLY. BE ALL GLORY.

THe Company of Skinners were incorporated in the first yeere of King Edward the third, Anno Dom. 1327. And made a Brotherhood in the eighteenth yeere of King Richard the second. The Crest and Supporters were granted by William Haruy, who was free of the same Company, Anno Dom. 1561.

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MERCHANT-TAILORS.

CONCORDIA PARVA RES CRESCVNT.

THe first Patent of these Armes, were granted by Sir Thomas Holne Knight, Clarencieux, King of Armes to the Company of Tailors and Linnen Armourers, in the one and twentieth yeere of King Edward the fourth, Anno Dom. 1480. And since then incorporated by King Henry the seventh, by the name of Merchant-Tailors, in the seventeenth yeere of his reigne, Anno Dom. 1501. The Crest and Supporters being granted by Robert Cooke, Clarencieux, Anno Dom. 1585.

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HABERDASHERS.

SERVE AND OBEY

The Haberdashers, or Hurrers, (of old time so called) were incorporated a Brotherhood of Saint Katharine, in the six and twentieth yeere of King Henry the sixth Anno Dom▪ 1447. And they were confirmed in the seventeenth yeere of King Henry the seventh, and named Merchant-Haberdashers. The Crest and Supportters were granted by Robert Cooke, Clarencioux, King of Armes. Anno Dom. 1571.

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SALTERS.

SAL SAPIT OMNIA

THe Company of the Salters had their Armes first granted to them in the two and twentieth yeare of King Henry the eight, Anno Dom. 1530. by Thomas Benolt, Clarencieux. The Crest and Supporters by Robert Cooke, Clarencieux In the nine and twentieth yeere of Queene Elizabeth, Anno Dom. 1587.

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IRONMONGERS.

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THe Ironmongers were incorporated, in the third yeere of King Edward the fourth, Anno Dom. 1462. And their Armes first granted by Lancaster, King of Armes, Marshall to Clarencieux, King of Armes, Anno Dom. 1455. And the foure and thirtieth yeere of the reigne of King Henry the sixth.

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VINTONNERS.

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THe Vintonners were incorporated in the Reigne of King Edward the third, by the name of Wine-Tonners, and confirmed in the fifteenth yeere of King Henry the sixt, Anno Dom. 1436. The Armes first granted by Clarencieux, in the sixth yeere of King Henry the sixt, Anno Dom. 1427.

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CLOTHWORKERS

MY TRVST IS IN GOD ALONE

THe Clothworkers had their Armes first granted by Thomas Benolt, Clarencieux, in the two and twentieth yeere of King Henry the eighth, Anno Dom. 1530. The Crest and Supporters granted by Robert Cooke, Clarencieux, King of Armes, Anno Dom. 1587.

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NOW FOLLOW THE COMPANIES OF Merchants, and their seuerall Armes, so many as I could attaine vnto.

MERCHANTS Of the Staple.

GOD BE OVR FRIEND

THe Company of Merchants, called of the Staple, incorporated by King Edward the third: in whose time they had their Staple of Wools at Callis.

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Merchants Adventures.

GOD BE OVR FRIEND

THe Company of Merchants, called Merchants Adventures, were incorporated by King Edward the fourth: And had their Priviledges confirmed and enlarged by Queene Elizabeth.

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Merchants of Russia.

GOD BE OVR GOOD GVIDE

THe Company of Merchants of Russia, who were incorporated by King Edward the sixth: and againe confirmed and augmented by Queene Elizabeth.

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Merchants of Elbing.

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THe Company of Merchants of Elbing, they became incorporated by Queene Elizabeth.

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Merchants of Levant, or Turkie Merchants.

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THe Company of Merchants of Levant, or (more commonly) termed Turkie Merchants, being first incorporated by Queene Elizabeth, were afterward confirmed and enlarged by our Soveraigne Lord King Iames.

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Merchants of Spaine.

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THe Company of Merchants of Spaine, or more usually called Spanish Merchants, were incorporated by Queene Elizabeth.

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Merchants of East-India.

DEVS-INDICAT

DEO DVCENTE, NIL NOCET.

THe Company of Merchants, called Merchants of East-India, were incorporated by Queene Elizabeth, Anno Dom. 1600.

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New French Merchants Adventurers.

REDDITE CVIQVE SVVM.

A New Company of Merchant Adventures, but of their incorporating I am able to say nothing: but the Coat and Crest of their Armes were given and granted by Sir William Seger, Garter, and Master William Camden, Clarencieux, Kings of Armes, the thirteenth day of November, in the 14. yeere of King Iames, 1616.

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The Company of French Merchants.

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THe Company now called of French Merchants: of their creating, incorporating, and Patents granting, no intelligence hath beene given me, and therefore I am the lesse able to speake of them: onely I heare them to be a Company of worthy Gentlemen; and let that honest title at this time suffice them.

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Merchants of Virginia.

EN DAY VIRGINIA QVINTAM.

THe Company of Merchants, called Merchants of Virginia, Bermudas, or Summer-I [...]ands, for (as I heare) all these additions are given them. I know not the time of their incorporating, neither by whom their Armes, Supporters, and Crest were granted, and therefore am compelled to leaue them abruptly.

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THE OTHER COMPANIES following the Twelve.

DYERS.

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KIng Henry the sixt, late King of England, of famous memory, by his Highnesse Letters-Patents, or Charter of Incorporation, bearing date the sixteenth day of February, in the nine and fortieth yeere from the beginning of his Reigne; and in the first yeere of the redemption of his Royall power, did incorporate the Company of the Dyers in London, and so they have ever since continued.

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BREWERS.

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THe Charter of the Brewers was granted by King Henry the sixth, and his Letters-Patents dated at Windsor, the two and twentieth of February, in the sixth yeere of his Reigne. Moreover, it was reconfirmed at Greenewich, Iuly the 13. and second yeere of Queene Elizabeth of blessed memory.

LETHER SELLERS.

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THe Lethersellers being formerly a Society, or Brotherhood of long time, became incorporated in the sixth yeere of King Richard the second, and when Whittington was Lord Maior of London.

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PEWTERERS.

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THe Pewterers were a Company, or Meeting of friendly and neighbourly men, in the time of King Edward the fourth; and in the thirteenth yeere of this King became incorporated, Ianuary the 20. And from this King they have beene still confirmed by all Princes since: lastly, by King Iames.

Barbers-Chirurgions.

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THe Barbers-Chirurgions, being a Company of no meane credit and estate, became a Brotherhood and Fellowship, incorporated by the Charter of King Edward the fourth; afterward by the Henries, the seventh and eighth, Philip and Mary, and Queene Elizabeth: last of all they were againe confirmed by King Iames, with other additions also: and all those former Charters have bin reconfirmed (with larger additions) by our most gracious King Charles.

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ARMOVRERS

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THe Society or Company of the Armourers, have beene a Brotherhood of ancient continuance, and became incorporated in the beginning of the reigne of King Henry the sixth: the King being pleased to stile himselfe a Brother of their Society.

WHITE-BAKERS.

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THe Company of White-Bakers are of great Antiquity, as appeareth by their Records, and divers other things of Antiquity, extant in their common Hall. They were a Company of this City in the first yeere of Edward the second, and had a new Charter granted unto them in the first yeere of Henry the seventh; the which Charter was confirmed unto them by Henry the eighth, Edward the sixth, Queene Mary, Queene Elizabeth, and King Iames.

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VVax-Chandlers.

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THe Company of Wax-Chandlers, having beene a Brotherhood of very ancient standing, and much used in the times of superstition, became yet to be incorporated in Anno, 1484. it being the second yeere of King Richard the third.

Tallovv-Chandlers.

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THe company of the Tallow-Chandlers, were a Society of great antiquity, living in good formality among men, and loving agreement with themselves: they became to be incorporated in the second yeere of King Edward the fourth, and from him successively to King Iames.

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CVTLERS.

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COncerning this Company of Cutlers, I finde them to be of great antiquity, and that they were incorporated in the beginning of the Reigne of King Henry the fifth, and afterward confirmed by King Henry the sixth, King Henry the eighth, King Philip and Queene Mary, famous Queene Elizabeth; and King Iames in his fifth yeere, the eighth day of February, fully confirmed all.

GIRDLERS.

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I Finde the Company of the Girdlers not to be much behind-hand (with others) for eminency and antiquity, because they have held good correspondency with the world and with themselves: they became to bee incorporated the sixth day of August, in the seven and twentieth yeere of the Reigne of King Henry the sixth.

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BVTCHERS.

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THe Butchers were incorporated by King Iames, under his Letters-Patents, bearing date the sixteenth day of September, in the third yeere of his Reigne of England, and of Scotland the nine and twentieth: they were incorporated by the name of Master, Wardens, and Comminalty of the Art or mystery of Butchers of the City of London, the Fraternity being very ancient.

SADLERS.

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THe Company of Sadlers questionlesse declare themselves to be of great antiquity, as shewing their beginning in the times of these Kings following: Edward the first, Rich. the second, Henry the fourth, Edw. the second, Edw. the third, Henry the fifth, Henry the sixth, Edw. the fourth, rich. the third, Henry the seventh, Henry the eighth, Edw. the sixth, and since the first King above named, the Craft of the Sadlers hath given Livery, and so have continued in their Livery by the space of 300 yeeres and more. What all the precedent Princes gave and granted, King Iames confirmed.

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CARPENTERS.

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THe Company of the Carpenters, being a Society of ancient standing, were incorporated by Letters-Patents, bearing date the seventh day of Iuly, in the seventeenth yeere of the Reigne of King Edward the fourth; by the name of Master, Wardens, and Comminalty of the mystery of Freemen of the Carpentry of the City of London.

CORDWAINERS.

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THe Company of Shoomakers or Cordwainers, as they stile themselves, have beene of long continuance, and were first incorporated in the seventeenth yeere of King Henry the sixth; being afterward confirmed by Philip and Queene Mary, in the fourth and fifth yeeres of their Reigne: then againe re-confirmed by Queene Elizabeth, in the fourth yeere of her Reigne: and lastly, by King Iames.

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PAINTERS.

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THe Company of the Painters, having the addition of Painters-Stainers, for their skill and cunning in divers mysterious workes, have beene a Society of great antiquity from time to time, and were incorporated in Anno Dom. 1580. it being the three and twentieth yeere of Queene Elizabeth, &c.

CVRRIERS.

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THe Company of Curryers, a Company of long continuance, and of good community amongst themselves, became incorporated in the third yeere of King Iames, the twelfth day of Iune.

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MASONS.

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THe Company of Masons, being otherwise termed Free-Masons, of ancient standing and good reckoning, by meanes of affable and kinde meetings divers times, and as a loving Brotherhood should use to doe, did frequent this mutuall assembly in the time of King Henry the fourth, in the twelfth yeere of his most gracious Reigne.

PLVMBERS.

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THe Company of Plumbers, of large and very memorable antiquity, remaining a Fellowship or Brotherhood by the name of Plumbers. At length they attained to be incorporated by Letters-Patents, the eleventh or twelfth day of Aprill, in the ninth yeere of King IAMES of England, and of Scotland the foure and fortieth, &c.

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INHOLDERS.

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THe Company of the Inholders, having beene a Community or Society of honest friendly men, by their often meeting and conversing together, as in those dayes it was a matter much observed: became to be incorporated in the sixth yeere of King Henry the eighth, and so renued from time to time.

FOVNDERS.

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THe Company of Founders, no doubt of antiquity and long continuance in Brotherhood and Fellowship together, were incorporated the eighteenth day of September, in the twelfth yeere of the Reigne of King IAMES.

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EMBROIDERERS.

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THe Company of the Embroiderers can make appeare by their worthy and famous pieces of Art, that they have beene of ancient use and eminence, as is to be seene in divers places at this day: but for the matter of their incorporating, it hath relation to the fourth yeere of Queene Elizabeth, &c.

POVLTERS.

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THe Company of the Poulters were incorporated in the nineteenth yeere of King Henry the seventh, the three and twentieth day of Ianuary, and renued againe in the thirtieth yeere of the Reigne of Queene Elizabeth, February the two and twentieth.

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COOKES.

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THe Company of the Cookes, having beene a Fellowship or Brotherhood of antiquity, became to be incorporated in the twelfth yeere of the Reigne of King Edward the fourth, the eleventh day of Iuly: re-confirmed againe by Queene Elizabeth: and afterward by King Iames, in the thirteenth yeere of his Reigne, May the nineteenth day.

COOPERS.

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THe Company of the Coopers, became to bee incorporated in the sixteenth yeere of the Reigne of King Henry the seventh, by the name of Master, Wardens, or Keepers of the Comminalty of the Freemen of the mystery of Coopers in London, and the Suburbes of the same City.

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Brick-layers and Tylers.

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THe Company of Tylers and Brick-layers, or Brick-layers and Tylers, notwithstanding their antiquity, were first incorporated in the tenth yeere of the Reigne of Queene Elizabeth, and confirmed againe in the second yeere of the Reigne of King Iames.

BOWYERS.

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THe Company of Bowyers, in regard that the use of the long Bow hath added no meane honour to this Realme of England, making it famous in farre remote nations: they may well stand on a great priviledge of antiquity, yet their incorporating speakes but of the one and twentieth yeere of the Reigne of King Iames.

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FLETCHERS.

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ALthough there is small reason of sundering Bowes from Arrowes, or Arrowes from Bowes, yet because they have divided themselves into two severall Companies, let the fault be on their owne heads: for as I finde them, so I leave them.

BLACK-SMITHES.

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THe Company of Smithes, or Black-Smithes, by which title you please to tearme them, being a very ancient Brotherhood or Fraternity of the City of London, were first incorporated by Queene Elizabeth, in the twentieth yeere of her Reigne, their Charter bearing [...]ate the fifteenth of Aprill, &c. Afterward it was reconfirmed by King Iames, in the second yeere of his Reigne, the one and twentieth day of March.

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IOYNERS.

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THe Company of the Ioyners, called also Ioyners and Seelers, of ancient standing, and reputed to be a loving Society, were incorporated by Queene Elizabeth, in the thirteenth yeere of her Reigne.

PLAISTERERS.

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THe Company of the Plaisterers, of larger antiquity then leasure will admit to be delivered, of good and mutuall agreement among themselves, like affable and loving Brethren, were incorporated in the time of King Henry the sevent, &c.

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WEAVERS.

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THe Company of Weavers (not meaning them which are now called Silke-Weavers) were of very ancient note indeed; as having three severall Societies of themselves, the Woollen-Cloth-Weavers, the Arras-Weavers, and the Linnen-Weavers: all which I referre to a further relation.

FRVITERERS.

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THe Company of the Fruiterers, being a very ancient Brotherhood, and of long continuance, became to be first incorporated in the third yeere of the Reigne of King Iames, &c.

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SCRIVENERS.

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THe Company of the Scriveners, an ancient and long continued Society, were incorporated the eight and twentieth day of Ianuary, in the fourteenth yeere of the Reigne of our Soveraigne Lord, King Iames.

Bottle-makers and Horners.

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AS for Bottle-makers and Horne-makers, the precedent times have remembred them to be of Antiquity, and two distinct Companies combined in one: But I finde no Record that they were at any time incorporated.

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STATIONERS.

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THe Company of the Stationers, of great antiquity, before the famous Art of Printing was invented or brought hither, as (for the most part) their then dwelling in Pater-noster Row, and the adjoyning parts can testifie. Their Charter of incorporation was granted the fourth day of May, in the third and fourth yeeres of King Philip and Queene Mary.

MARBLERS.

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THe Company called by the name of Marblers, for their excellent knowledge and skill in the Art of Insulpting personages for Tombes, Grave-stones, and Monuments in Churches, and elsewhere in Religious places: their antiquity and what respect they have carried, is unknowne to me; nor can I finde them to bee incorporated, but hold some friendship with the Masons, and are thought to be esteemed among them in Fellowship.

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WOOLL-PACKERS.

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THe Company of Wooll-packers I know not what to say of them, because it seemes that there were such men in the Haunse dayes, when the Wooll-Staple flourished, and that our Wooll-Merchants had their eminency. Further, I cannot speake of them, but leave them and their Armes to your consideration.

FARRIERS.

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THe Company of the Farriers. My relation concerning them, must needs be answerable to their owne allegation. Henry de Ferraris, or Ferrers, a Norman borne, came over with William the Conquerour, who gave vnto the said Henry de Ferraris (as being his Farrier, or Master of his horse) the Honor of Tutbury, in the County of Stafford, which was the first Honor given to the Ferrars in England.

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PAVIOVRS.

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THe Company of the Paviours, no doubt have beene a Company of antiquity, and maintained a Community or Brotherhood among themselves; but for incorporation, no Record doth testifie it to me, and therefore I have the lesse to say of them.

LORINORS.

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THe Company of the Lorinors, or Lorimers, which they please to accept, I have received a note from themselves, that the second day of October, and fourth yeere of King Henry the seventh, the Wardens of the Art of Lorimers came into the Court of our Lord the King, in the Chamber of Guild-hall, in the City of London, before Sir William Horne Knight, then Lord Maior, and Aldermen of the said City, preferring then and there a Bill or Supplication to the Maior and Aldermen. And this is all that I can finde remembred of them.

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BROWN-BAKERS.

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THe Company of the Brown-Bakers, a Society of long standing and continuance, prevailed to have their incorporating granted the ninth day of Iune, in the nineteenth yeere of the Reigne of our Soveraigne Lord King Iames.

WOOD-MONGERS.

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THe Company of the Wood-mongers, being a very ancient Fellowship, and of good and amiable agreement together for long time, became to be incorporated the nine and twentieth day of August, in the third yeere of the Reigne of our Soveraigne Lord King Iames.

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VPHOLSTERS.

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THe Company of the Vpholsters, or Vpholders, were in elder times of good reckoning and esteeme, and had a Brotherhood or Fellowship among themselves, but concerning their incorporating I finde it not recorded.

TVRNERS.

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THe Company of the Turners had long continued a loving Fellowship or Brotherhood among themselves, to the good president and example of others: they became incorporated in the second yeere of King Iames.

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GLASIERS.

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THe Company called of the Glasiers, have beene a Society of ancient memory, and maintained a league of Brotherly affection together; but because I am able to say nothing of their incorporating, I am the more willing to passe them over.

CLEARKES.

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THe Company of the Clearkes, commonly tearmed Parish-Clearkes, I finde to bee very ancient in continuance, and stand registred in the Bookes of Guild-hall; they became first to bee incorporated in the seventeenth yeere of King Henry the third, and followed on still in all the Princes Reignes, to the ninth yeere of our Soveraigne Lord King Iames.

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WATERMEN.

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THe Company of the Watermen, that have their maintenance by rowing in Boats on the River of Thames, being a Brotherhood under the power and command of the Lord Maior of London, I leave them for this time.

APOTHECARIES.

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THe Company of the Apothecaries, that have divided themselves from the Ancient Society of Grocers, grew so highly favoured by our Soveraigne Lord, King Iames, that (as I have heard) he called them his Company; and granted them order for incorporation the sixth day of December, in the fifteenth yeere of his Highnesse Reigne.

SILKE-THROVVERS.

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THis Company of Silke-throwers, having gained their Trade of Silke-throwing from the Strangers, since Anno quinto of Queene Elizabeth, and being for the most part Free men of this City, were made a Fellowship of this City 4. die Iunii, Anno 19. of King Iames, Sir Francis Iones, Knight, being then Lord Maior. And 23. die Aprilis Anne quinte Caroli Regis, they were incorporated by the name of the Master, Wardens, Assistants and Commonalty of the Trade, Art, or Mystery of Silke-throwers of the City of London.

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LONDON.

DOMINE DIRIGE NOS

THus our most Noble, Ancient, and famous Mother, LONDON, (the Queene or Empresse of all Cities in this West part of the World) having, like an Amazonian Virago, led forth her warlike City-Sonnes into their Fields of Honour, without her Walls, to take an ample view of her Armes, Furniture, and other warlike Embellishments, such as beseemed their worth, and her dignity; like a valiant Captaine, that takes it to be his honour, of abiding last in the field, and marshalling them home before her into her walled City, followes after them her selfe, in her owne Armes and brave Accoutrements.

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The names of the Wards, and their Aldermen, as they now are.

THere are in this City (according to the number of the Wards) six and twenty Aldermen: wherof, yeerely on the Feast of Saint Michael the Arch-angell, one of those Aldermen is elected to bee Maior for the yeere following: He is to begin and take place on the eight and twentieth day of October then next following. The other Aldermen his Brethren are to him Assistants in Councels and Courts, &c.

As the Wards are formerly set downe, according to the order of their beginning Eastward: so I thought it fet to set downe those Aldermens names that have the instant government and direction of them: wherein let no exception be taken, although Aldermen (not knighted) are named as their Wards successively follow, because this observation is done but onely for orders sake.

Wards on the East side of VValbrooke.

WARDS. | ALDERMEN.
1 Portsoken. | Alderman Parkhurst.
2 Aldgate. | Alderman Rainton.
3 Tower-streete. | Sir Hugh Hammersley.
4 Limestreet. | Sir Iames Cambell.
5 Bishopsgate. | Alderman Bacchus.
6 Broadstreet. | Alderman Moulson.
7 Cornehill. | Alderman Freeman.
8 Langborne. | Sir George Whitmore.
9 Billingsgate. | Alderman Cletherow.
10 Bridge within. | Alderman Poole.
11 Candlewickstreet. | Sir Richard Deane.
12 Walbrooke. | Sir Iohn Goare.
13 Downegate. | Alderman Bromfield.
[Page] 14 Vintry. | Alderman Garaway.
15 Cordwainerstreet. | Alderman Wright.
16 Cheape. | Sir Edward Barkham.
17 Colemanstreet. | Sir Maurice Abbot.
18 Basing-Hall. | Sir Robert Ducie.
19 Creplegate. | Alderman Cranmer.
20 Aldersgate. | Sir William Acton.
21 Faringdon within. | Alderman Smith.
22 Breadstreet. | Sir Martin Lumley.
23 Queene Hithe. | Alderman Perry.
24 Castle Baynard. | Alderman Venne,
25 Faringdon without. | Alderman Cambell.
26 Bridge without. | Alderman Abdy.

Thus these Wards have (from time to time) held, and still doe their severall Aldermen, till either death, or occasion of remove, do make an alteration of them in their Aldermen. As for an example, since the last Impression of this Booke, which is within the compasse of fifteene yeeres, of all the Aldermen that then were living, there remaine no more then three at this instant.

MOre, there is a Recorder of London, a grave and learned Lawyer, skilfull in the Customes of this City, also assistant to the Lord Maior: hee taketh place in Councels and in Courts before any man that hath not beene Maior, and learnedly delivereth the Sentence of the whole Court.

THe Sheriffes of London (of old time) chosen out of the Comminalty, Commoners, and oftentimes never came to bee Aldermen; as many Aldermen were never Sheriffes, and yet advanced to be Maiors. But of later time, (by occasion) the Sheriffes have beene made Aldermen, before, or presently after their Election.

Nicholas Faringdon was never Sheriffe, yet foure times Maior of this City, and so of other; which reprooveth a by-word, Such a one will be Maior, before he be Sheriffe, &c.

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These Gentlemen beare Offices of especiall respect in the City.

MAster Chamberlain of London,

Master Common Sergeant.

Master Town-Clarke, or Common Clarke.

The Coroner of London.

Officers belonging to the Lord Maiors house, according as they were first published by Master STOWE.

SWord-bearer.

Common Hunt.

Common Crier.

Water-Bayliffe.

Esquires 4.

Coroner of London.

Sergeant Carvers. 3.

Sergeants of the Chamber. 3.

Sergeant of the Chanell.

Yeoman of the Chanell.

Yeomen of the water side. 4.

Vnder-Water-Bayliffe.

Yeomen of the Chamber. 2.

Meale-weighers. 3.

Yeomen of the Wood-wharfes. 2.

The Sword-bearers man.

Common Hunts men. 2.

Common Criers man.

Water-Bayliffes men. 2.

The Carvers man.

Gentlemens

men,

seven.

Whereof nine of these have Liveries of the L. Maior, viz. The Sword-bearer and his man, the three Carvers, and the foure Yeomen of the Water-side. All the rest have their Liveries from the Chamber of London.

Thus farre after my notes delivered by an Officer of the Lord Maiors house, but unperfect: for I remember a Crowner, an Vnder-Chamberlaine, and foure Clarkes of the Maiors Court, and others.

According to a TABLE hanging in the ancient Councell Chamber, and their dayes of waiting.

MAster Sword-bearer, to waite dayly.

Master Common Hunt, to wait Mundaies, Wednesdays, Frydayes and Saturdayes.

Master Common Crier, to wait Tuesdayes, Thursdayes, Frydayes, and Saturdayes.

Master Water-Bayliffe, to wait Mundayes, Tuesdayes, Wednesdayes and Thursdayes.

The three Sergeant Carvers, to wait weekly, all excuses set apart.

The three Sergeants of the Chamber likewise, to wait weekely, without any excuse.

The Sergeant of the Chanell, to wait dayly.

The two Yeomen of the Chamber, one of them to wait dayly at dinner, to Vsher the Hall.

The foure Yeomen of the Waters side, two of them to wait weekely, and not to be absent.

The Yeomen of the Chanell, to wait dayly.

The Vnder-Water-Bayliffe, to wait on Holydayes and Court dayes, if hee goe not up the River.

The six young men, to wait dayly.

The three Meale-Weighers, to wait on Holydayes, and Court dayes.

The two Yeomen of the Wood-Wharfe, to wait on generall dayes.

The Forraigne-Taker, to wait likewise on generall dayes.

The Sheriffes of London, their Officers.

THe Sheriffes of London, in the yeere 1471. were appointed each of them to have sixteene Sergeants, [Page] every Sergeant to have his Yeoman. And six Clarkes, to wit, a Secondary, a Clarke of the Papers, and foure other Clarkes, besides the Vnder-Sheriffes Clarkes, their Stewards, Butlers, Porters, and other in houshold many.

Of the Maiors and Sheriffes Liveries somewhat.

TO follow president of former time, the Clarks of Companies were to enquire for them of their Companies, that would have the Maiors Livery, their money (as a benevolence given) which must be twenty shillings at the least put in a purse, with their names that gave it, and the Wardens to deliver it to the Maior by the first of December. For the which, every man had then sent him foure yards of broad Cloth, rowed or striped thwart with a different colour, to make him a Gowne, and these were called Rey Gownes, which was then the Livery of the Maior, and also of the Sheriffes; but each differing from others in the colours.

Of older times I read, that the Officers of this City ware Gownes of party colours, as the right side of one colour, and the left side of another: as for example; I reade in Bookes of accounts in the Guild-Hall, that in the nineteenth yeere of Henry the sixth, there was bought for an Officers Gown two yards of Cloth, coloured Mustard-villars (a colour now out of use) and two yards of Cloth coloured blue, price two shillings the yard, in all eight shillings. More, payed to Iohn Pope, Draper, for two Gowne clothes, eight yards of two colours eux ambo deux de Rouge (or red) Medley Brune and Porre (or Purple) colour, price, the yard two shillings. These Gownes were for Piers Rider, and Iohn Buckles, Clarkes of the Chamber.

More, I reade, that in the yeere 1516. in the 7. of Henry the 8. it was agreed by a Common Councell in the Guild-Hall, that the Sheriffes of London should (as they had beene accustomed) give yeerely Reyed Gownes to the Recorder, Chamberlaine, Common Sergeant, and Common Clarke, the Sword-bearer, Common Hunt, Water-Bayly, Common Cryer, like as to their owne Officers, &c.

1525. More, in the sixteenth of Henry the eighth, Sir William Bayly then being Maior, made a request, for that clothes of Ray (as hee alleaged) were evill wrought, his Officers might bee permitted (contrary to custome) for that yeere to weare Gownes of one colour, to the which (in a common Councell) one answered and said, Yea, it might be permitted: and no man said nay, and so it passed. Thus much for party-coloured, and Ray Gownes have I read. But for benevolence to the Maior, I finde that of later time, each man giving forty shillings towards his charges, received foure yards of broad Cloth to make him a Gowne: for Sir Thomas White performed it in the first yeere of Queene Mary, but Sir Thomas Lodge gave (in stead of foure yards of broad Cloth) three yards of Satten to make them Dubblets, and since that, the three yards of Satten is now turned into a silver Spoone, and so it hath held.

The order observed by the Lord Maior, the Aldermen, and Sheriffes for their meetings, and wearing of their Apparell throughout the whole yeere.

Vpon Midsummer day, for the election of the Sheriffes of LONDON, &c.

THe Lord Maior and the Aldermen (with the Sheriffes) meet at the Guild-Hall, Their morning meeting at the Guild-Hall. at eight of the clocke in the morning, apparelled in their violet coloured Gownes lined, and their Cloakes of Scarlet lined, but without their horses.

[Page] And when they have beene together in the Councell Chamber a certaine time, concerning the nomination of certaine persons to bee elected: the Lord Maior and the Aldermen come forth, and put on their Cloakes in the Orphanes Court, and then goe downe in order to the Hustings Court,What is done in the Hustings Court after the Speech of Master Recorder. where being set, Master Recorder ariseth, and standing forth before the Bench and Companies, for the same cause there assembled; having done his obeisance first to the Court, and then to them all: he declareth unto them, the reason why they are thus there assembled together: Shewing unto them, that it is for the election of one of the Sheriffs of London, and the Sheriffe of Middlesex for the yeere next ensuing: As also the confirmation of the other Sheriffe, nominated by the Lord Maior according to his prerogative. Then afterward, is the choice and election of Master Chamberlaine of London, and of other Officers.

But first, the Lord Maior and Aldermen go up into the Lord Maiors Court, The naming and chusing of the Sheriffe by voyce and hands. and there remaine, untill the Sheriffe be named and chosen, the doore being fast shut to them all the while.

Then the Sheriffes, Master Chamberlaine, Master Common Sergeant, Master Towne-Clarke, and the Councellors of the City, and other Officers, continue still in the Hustings Court, to take and receive the name of him, that shall seeme (by their judgements) freely, and without consent to be nominated and elected, and justly tryed out, not only by voyce, but also by hands, to be Sheriffe for the yeere following.

Then the Commons goe to the election of Master Chamberlaine;The election of Master Chamberlaine. and other Officers. the two Bridge-Masters; the Auditors of the City and Bridge-house accounts; and the Surveyors for Beere and Ale, according to the accustomed manner.

That done, the Sheriffes, Master Chamberlaine, Master Common Sergeant, Master Towne-Clarke, the Councellors of the City,The certifying of the Sheriffes choice. the two Secondaries of the Compters, and the Wardens of the head or chiefe Companies (Master Common Cryer going before them, bearing his Mace) thus they carry up the report to the Lord Maior and Aldermen, concerning what they have done in their election.

Which report being received, the Lord Maior and Aldermen came down againe to the Hustings Court.Their comming downe againe to confirme the Election. And there being in order set and placed, Master Recorder standeth up againe, as he did before, and maketh rehearsall of the names of those persons, whom they have nominated and chosen. Then hee demandeth of them, whether it bee their free election, yea or no? Which they confirming to be their free choice, Master Recorder giueth them thankes: And so they arise, and all depart thence home.

On BARTHOLOMEVV Eve, for the Fayre in Smithfield.

THE Aldermen meete the Lord Maior and the Sheriffes at the Guild-hall Chappell,Meeting at the Guild-Hall Chappell. at two of the clocke after dinner, having on their violet Gownes lined, and their horses, but without their cloakes, and there they heare Evening Prayer. Which being done, they mount on their horses, and riding to Newgate, passe forth of the Gate.A Proclamation in the Cloth-Fayre. Then entring into the Cloth-Fayre, there they make a Proclamation, which Proclamation being ended, they ride thorow the Cloth-Fayre, and so returne backe againe thorow the Church-yard of great Saint Bartholomewes to Aldersgate: And then ride home againe to the Lord Maiors House.

On BARTHOLOMEVV day, for the Wrastling.

SO many Aldermen as doe dine with the Lord Maior,The meeting at the Lord Maiors house on Bartholomew day. and the Sheriffes, are apparelled in their Scarlet Gownes lined; and after dinner, their horses are brought to them where they dined. And those Aldermen which dine with the Sheriffes, ride with them to the Lord Maiors house for accompanying him to the Wrastling. When as the Wrastling is [Page] done, they mount their horses, and ride backe againe thorow the Fayre, and so in at Aldersgate, and then home againe to the Lord Maiors house.

The next day (if it be not Sunday) is appointed for the Shooting,The Shooting day. and the service performed as upon Bartholomew day: but if it bee Sunday, the Sabbath day, it is referred to the Munday then following.

For the day of our LADY Fayre in Southwarke.

THE Lord Maior and the Sheriffes ride to S. Magnus Church in their Scarlet Gownes lined,The Lord Maior weareth his Collar of Esses, without Hood, and the Sword beater weareth the embroiderd Cap, and carryeth the Pearle Sword. without their cloaks, after dinner at two of the clocke; and there the Aldermen meet the L. Maior: when evening Prayer is ended, they ride thorow the Faire, till they come unto St. Grorges Church, and then ride further to Newington Bridge, or to St. Thomas of Waterings to the Stones that point out the Liberties of the City (if it bee so their pleasures) and they then returne backe againe unto the Bridge-house, where they refresh themselves with a Banquet. Then returning over the Bridge, the Aldermen take their leave of the Lord Maior, and depart the next way every one unto his own house. After all this is done, & the Lord Maior brought home: his Officers have a supper provided for them by the Bridge-Masters.

For swearing the Sheriffes upon Michaelmas Eve.

WHat day soever it falleth on,Their meting at the Sheriffes houses. so many of the Aldermen as are bidden to dinner at either of the Sheriffes houses, come thither first to breakefast, or else to drinke, at eight of the clocke in the morning, in their violet coloured Gownes furred, and their violet cloaks, which are brought with them, without their horses. But if the Sheriffe bee an Alderman; then they must put on their Cloakes, and the Sheriffe likewise his Cloake:If the Sheriffe be an Alderman, or not. and so hee goes on to the Guild-Hall, betweene two Aldermen wearing their gray Cloakes. But if the Sheriffe be no Alderman: then hee is to come thither betweene two of the Aldermen without Cloakes, and the Sheriffe wearing his Livery Gowne and Hood. After he is sworne, then he is to put on his violet Gown and Cloak and his Chaine thereon. All which being done, the Aldermen are to bring him home to his dwelling place to dinner, wearing their cloakes: and after dinner, they may take their pleasure.

Vpon Michaelmas day, for the election of the Lord Maior.

ALL the Aldermen meet the Lord Maior and the Sheriffes,Their meeting at Guild-Hall in the morning by eight of the clocke. at eight of the clocke in the morning at the Guild-Hall, wearing their Scarlet Gownes and Cloakes furred, riding on their horses. And after they have beene a certaine time together in the Councell Chamber; they come forth into the Orphans Court, where putting on their Cloakes, they goe in order to the Chappell, there to heare Service and a Sermon: where also the Lord Maior (with certaine Aldermen) receive the Communion.

After that the Communion is ended, and they have delivered their Offrings,The manner of proceeding to the election of the L. Maior. they returne backe into the Councell Chamber, and pausing there a while, they come to the place where the court of Hustings is kept. Being there set in [...] Recorder ariseth up, and making his obeisance first to the Lord [...] after to the Commons, he [...] unto them, that the manner [...] custome is well knowne [...] as also the reason of their [...] and thus meeting together of [...] Companies in London, which is, for the election of the Lord Maior for the yeere ensuing:From the time of King Richard the first, to this instant yeere. declaring unto them divers grants from the Kings [...]rogenitors, for this their election from time to time. That done, the Lord Maior and the Aldermen goe up again [Page] into the Lord Maiors Court: and there remain (the doors fast shut unto them) untill the election shall be brought unto them.

Then standeth up Master Common Sergeant, having the Sheriffes standing on either side of him; and by the Sheriffes, Master Chamberlaine, Master Towne-Clarke, the two Secondaries of the Compters, and the Councellors of the Citty, in the said Hustings Court before the Commons. At that time, the said Common Sergeant maketh a briefe rehearsall of those former presidents which Master Recorder had before delivered to them, saying; There remained no more now for him to say, but onely to put them in remembrance in what order and sort they should carry themselves in their election.Advice given them what they are to doe in their election. As namely, how they are to nominate and chuse two: of the which two, the Lord Maior and the Aldermen must confirm one. Those two being nominated, elected and chosen; Master Common Sergeant, the Sheriffes (with the rest before-named) and certain of the prime Wardens of the chiefe Companies, go up to the Lord Maior and Aldermen, and there present the names of those two men, which the Commons have nominated in their election.

Then the Lord Maior and the Aldermen proceed by Scrutiny,One of the two nominated persons is elected by Scrutiny. to elect one of those two persons, which the said Commons had before nominated. Then commeth downe the Lord Maior againe to the Hustings Court, and hee (whom they have chosen) goeth on his left hand; and so the Lord Maior and Aldermen sit downe againe in order. But hee who is chosen, sitteth next unto the Lord Maior on his left hand. Then standeth up Master Recorder, and readeth unto them the names of such persons whom they have nominated and chosen. Of which, the Lord Maior and the Aldermen have admitted one, whose name is N. demanding of them, whether it be their free election,The freedome of the parties election. or no. Then the Commons affirming it to bee their free choice: the Sword-bearer steppeth to him, and taketh off his Tippet, which he hath for his labour, and putteth on his Chaine. And the Maior so lately elected, standing upon the Hustings Court,The breaking up of the Court. given them thankes, &c. which being done, the old Maior doth likewise give them thankes, &c. Then they arise up, putting off their cloakes, and the Lord Maior hath the Lord Elect riding with him, to the eldest Sheriffes to dinner.

For presenting the Lord Maior Elect to the Lord Chancellor, or Keeper.

THen after dinner,How the Lord Elect goeth attended to his presenting. the Lord Elect goeth to the Lord Chancellor, if he be at home at his place or neere unto it, attended with five or sixe of the Aldermen, and Master Recorder also with him, they wearing their violet Gownes, passing either by land or by water, according as fitteth with conueniencie of the Lord Chancellors dwelling place. The Common Hunt, with the extraordinary Officers, and those that be at liberty, doe also attend on him.

The morrow after Michaelmas day, for the new Sheriffes going to Westminster to bee sworne there.

ALL the Aldermen are to meet at the two new Sheriffes houses in the morning at eight of the clocke,Meeting at the two new Sheriffes houses in the morning. wearing their violet Gownes furred, without their cloakes, yet having their horses there ready. But the Lord Maior, Master Recorder, and the two Sheriffes, must weare their Scarlet Gownes furred, and their cloakes carried with them to Westminster. First, they ride to them Guild-Hall, and from thence to the Vinetree, and there taking Barge, land at Westminster-Bridge, and in the Hall they put on their cloakes;The swearing of the new Sheriffes, and the old ones delivering their account. then goe they up into the Exchequer, where the two new Sheriffs be presented, and the old sworne to their account.

Then they put off their cloakes, and take Barge, landing againe at the Vinetree, where they mount their horses. And the Lord Maior rideth to the eldest [Page] Sheriffes to dinner; Master Recorder & the Sheriffes riding next to the Lord Maior. The two Sheriffes carrying two white rods in their hands, and their Hench-men going after them.

The ancient Order for the day of Simon and Iude.

THe old Lord Maior is to have so many of the Aldermen,The fetching of the old Lord Maior from his owne house. as are appointed to dine with him that day, come to his house by eight of the clock in the morning, wearing their violet Gownes furred, with their violet cloakes furred, and their horses attending. Then the Sheriffes come to fetch him and them to the Guild-Hall, and there abide in the Councell Chamber, untill the comming of the new Lord Maior, and the rest of the Aldermen, with the Companies of either the Lords old and new going before them. After they haue continued in the Councell Chamber a certaine space of time, they come forth into the Orphanes Court, where they put on their furred cloakes, and then goe downe to the Hustings Court, where being set in order, the common Cryer maketh Proclamation, commanding every man to keep silence.

Then Master Towne-Clarke giveth the new elected Lord his Oath,The new Lord Maior taketh his Oath in the Hustings Court, and the ceremonies there done. which when he hath taken, the old Lord Maior ariseth, and giveth the new Lord his place, the old Lord sitting downe where the new Lord was placed. Then Master Chamberlaine first delivereth to him the Scepter, next the Keyes of the common Seale; and lastly, the Seale of the office of the Maioralty. Afterward, Master Sword-bearer giveth him the Sword. And then they arise, put off their Cloakes, and the old Lord rideth home with the new Lord to his place, and there leaveth him, and so many of the Aldermen as dine with him. The old Lord (with the rest of the Aldermen) ride home to his house, the Sword being carried before him. And so after dinner, the Aldermen depart home at their pleasure.

On the morrow after the day of Simon and Iude, for the new Lord Maior his going to take his Oath at Westminster.

ALL the Aldermen and the Sheriffes meet at the new Lords house,Meeting at the new Lord Maiors house. by eight a clocke in the morning,The new Lord weareth a velvet Hood and the rich Coller: the Sword bearer the Cap of Maintenance. wearing their Scarlet Gowns furred, and their Cloakes, and their Horses there attending on them; from thence they ride to the Guild-Hall, with the Batchelers and Livery, as also the Gentlemen Vshers of the new Lords Company, going in decent order before him.

But before this,The old Lord rideth alone to the Guild-Hall, but weareth his velvet Hood. the old Lord rideth alone from his owne place to the Guild-Hall, having no Officers to wait upon him, except the Common Hunt, as a Gentleman Vsher going before him, and those Officers that are at liberty, as also the Common Hunts man (with his owne men following him) and so he tarrieth at the Hall.

And after they be all come together, they mount on their horses, riding on to the Vine-tree, where they take Barge to Westminster Bridge, where when they are landed,The orders and ceremonies performed at Westminster. the Lord Maior and Aldermen put on their Cloakes within the Palace, and then goe round about the Hall, where they performe many courtefies, going vp afterward into the the Exchequer Chamber to be sworne. When the Oath is taken in the Exchequer, they returne downe againe, and goe first to the Kings Bench, then to the Common-Pleas, and so putting off their Cloakes, walke about the Kings Tombes in Westminster Abbey, and then returne to take Barge againe.

Being landed at London, The service done to him at London, after his landing. all the severall Companies of the City, who had honoured him in their Barges to Westminster and backe againe, doe likewise performe their attending service, as he (with the Aldermen) ride on to the Guild-Hall to dinner. Full well may this be called a Feast, and ranked next in Honour to Saint Georges Feast: For the Honourable Lords of his Highnesse Privie Councell, other Lords, Barons, [Page] Iudges, Ladies, Gentlemen, and Gentlewomen, with forraigne Ambassadors and Strangers, dine there as invited Guests. And therefore it is desertfully termed,The Lord Maiors Feast. The Lord Maiors Feast.

At their comming into the Hall, the new Lord Maior, with two of the ancientest Aldermen,What order is observed at the Guild-Hall in welcomming the Guests. Master Recorder, and the Sheriffes, goe vp to the Lords Table to bid them welcome, as they doe the like to all the other guests, Lords, Ladies, and other. From thence they goe to the Lady Maioresse her Table, the Gentlewomens, and the Iudges; and then the said new Lord Maior (and they with him) goe into the Chamberlaines Office, where he dineth. Concerning the old Lord Maior, so soone as they come into the Hall, hee goeth vp to the high Table in the Hustings, and there keepeth the State for that Feast. When the Hall is served with the seconds, then the new Lord Maior goeth with Master Recorder, and those Aldermen that dined with him, to bid the old Lord, and all the Companies or Guests in the Hall welcome.

Then after dinner he rideth with the Aldermen to Pauls, Order observed after dinner, and for going to Pauls. the Companies waiting, and standing in their due places for his comming.

For going to PAVLS on All-Saints day, Christmas day, Twelfe day, and Candlemas day.

ALL the Aldermen and the Sheriffes come to the Lord Maiors house,The new and old Lords weare both of them their blacke velvet Hoods, and the Swordbearer the Hat of Maintenance. in their Scarlet Gownes furred, and their Cloakes, as also their Horses brought thither with them. From thence they ride to the Guild-Hall, the Company belonging to the Lord Maior, and the band of Batchelers, with their Gentlemen Vshers walking orderly before him; and there they heare Evening Prayer. When Prayer is ended, then they ride thence to Pauls Church, where both the new Lord Maior and the old put on their Cloakes,An ancient custome observed in Pauls Church. and goe vp into the Quire, where they sit to heare the Sermon. Which being done, the [...] [...] about the Church, and [...] Cloakes where they did put them on. Then they mount on their Horses againe, and the Aldermen, with the Companies and Batchelours bring the Lord Maior home to his house: where they have Spice-bread and Hypocrasse, and so take leave of the Lord Maior. Here is further to be vnderstood, that All-Saints day is the last day of the old Lords riding with the new in this manner.

On Saint Thomas day.

THe Lord Maior,If it bee not Sunday. and every Alderman likewise, is to sit in the Ward belonging to him, about such businesse as is then necessarily required to be done. Each of them is to weare his Violet Gowne and Cloake furred.

For the CHRISTMAS Holydayes.

FOr the Christmas holydayes,No Cloak to bee worne with their Scarlet. vntill Twelfe day, if the Lord Maior and Aldermen go abroad to any publike meeting, they are to weare Scarlet. But on the working dayes, within compasse of the Twelve dayes, if the Lord Maior goe to the Guild-Hall, Markets, or Streets, then he and they weare blacke.

On INNOCENTS day.

VPon Innocents day,No State is observed. the Aldermen dine at the Lord Maiors and the Sheriffes, wearing Scarlet: but the Ladies weare blacke.

For Munday after Twelfe day.

THe Lord Maior and the Aldermen meet at the Guild-Hall by eight of the clocke in the morning, Indentures of the Wardmote Enquests. wearing their furred Scarlet Gownes, and their furred Cloakes, [Page] but using no Horses. Then and there they receive of their severall Wards, their sealed Indentures of the Wardmote Enquests: And take the Oathes of the Constables and Scavengers.

For GOOD-FRYDAY.

THe Lord Maior and the Aldermen meet at Pauls Crosse at one of the clocke in the afternoone, Pauls-Crosse Sermon on Good-Fryday: The Black Sword. to heare the Sermon for that day appointed: they then wearing their Pewke Gownes, and without their Chaines and Tippets.

For Munday and Tuesday in Easter weeke.

ALL the Aldermen and Sheriffs come unto the Lord Maiors dwelling house,A Hood for the L. Maior. before eight of the clock in the morning, to breakfast, wearing their Scarlet Gownes furred, and their cloakes, as also their horses attending. When breakefast is ended, The Cap or Hat of Maintenance. they mount on their horses, and ride to the Spittle, the Sword and Mace borne before the Lord Maior. Being come thither, there they put on their Cloakes, and then sit downe in order to heare the Sermon. Which being done, they ride thence homeward in due order, till they come to the Pumpe within Bishopsgate; and there, so many of the Aldermen as doe dine with the Sheriffes, take their leave of the Lord Maior, and the rest go home with him.

For Wednesday in Easter weeke.

LIke as before on the other two dayes:The last Sermon at the Spittle▪ onely reserved, that the Lord Maior and the Aldermen must then weare their violet Gownes, and sutable Cloakes: But the Ladies (on the two former daies) wearing their Scarlet, on this day are attired in blacke.

For Lowe Sunday.

ALL the Aldermen meete the Lord Maior and the Sheriffes at Pauls Schoole,The Rehearsall Sermon. wearing their Scarlet Gownes furred (yet without their Cloakes or horses) and there stay to heare the Sermon.

For Whitsunday.

VPon Whitsunday,Sermon at the New Church-yard. all the Aldermen use to meet the Lord Maior and the Sheriffes at the new Church-yard by Moore-fields: wearing their Scarlet Gownes lined, without Cloakes, to heare the Sermon there appointed for that day, which being ended, they depart thence againe.

For Munday and Tuesday in Whitsun weeke.

ALL the Aldermen are to meete the Lord Maior and the Sheriffs at Pauls; If his pleasure be to goe. wearing their Scarlet Gownes, without Cloakes, to heare the Sermon at the Crosse.

For the day of the Lord Maiors Knighthood.

ALL the Aldermen doe meet the Lord Maior,Preparation for either place of the Kings then being. either at the three Cranes (if the King then bee at Westminster) or at Saint Mary Hill (if the King be then at Greenewitch) by seven of the clocke in the morning; wearing their Scarlet Gownes; and their Cloakes carryed with them. After morning Prayer is ended, they take Barge to the King his place, and there they give attendance, untill that the Ceremony bee finished: and then returne home with the Lord Maior to dinner.

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For going to Pauls the first Sunday of every Terme.

ALL the Aldermen doe meet the Lord Maior and the Sheriffes at Pauls, The Maior and Sheriffes only ride. wearing their Scarlet Gownes, either furred or lined, according as the time of the yeere requireth: but without Cloakes or Horses, when the Terme beginneth.

For Election of Knights and Burgesses of the Parliament.

ALL the Aldermen doe meet the Lord Maior and the Sheriffes at Guild-Hall, Knights and Burgesses for sitting in Parliament. by nine of the clocke in the morning, wearing their Violet Gownes and their Cloakes, either furred or lined, according as the time of the yeere requireth when they are to be chosen, and they sit in the Hustings Court, vntill the Commons doe make choice of them. The order hath beene observed, that they chuse Master Recorder for one of their Knights, and one Gray Cloake for the other, and two Commoners for the Burgesses: which being done, they depart thence.

For the LORDS of the Councell, when they come about the Subsidies.

WHen the Lords and Commissioners come downe for assesment of the Subsidies, Commissioners for assessing the Subsidies. the Lord Maior and the Aldermen doe weare their blacke Gownes, as they use at other times. And the Commissioners are to be warned by the Officers, which doe belong to both the Sheriffes.

For Election of Master Chamberlaine, and the Bridge-Masters, if any of them depart within the yeere.

THe Lord Maior and the Aldermen, Vpon death, or removing. wearing their violet Gowns without their Cloakes, being seated in the Hustings Court, doe there continue their sitting, and not remove thence, untill such time as the Election bee made.

At such time as a King is to bee Crowned.

ALL the Aldermen doe meet the Lord Maior and the Sheriffes at the three Cranes in the Vinetree, How the L. Maior and Aldermen are apparelled for such a solemnity. according to the houre of their summons appointed. The Lord Maior (for that time of service & attendance) weareth a Crimosin Velvet Gowne, a Coller of Esses and Scepter, but no Cloake. The Aldermen weare their Scarlet Gownes, and their Cloaks carried with them, either furred or lined, according as the season of the yeere requireth. There taking Barge, they land at Westminster, and there they give attendance in the Exchequer Chamber (being served with Cakes and Wine) vntill they be called by the Heraulds: and then they put on their Cloakes.

At what times the Lord Maior weareth his Cloake.

FRom Michaelmas to Whitsontide, Beginning upon Michaelmas Even. Violet furred: and from Whitsontide to Michaelmas, Scarlet lined.

The Lord Maior, and those Knights that have borne the office of the Maioralty, [Page] ought to have their Cloakes furred with Gray Amis. And those Aldermen that have not beene Maiors, are to have their Cloakes furred with Calabre.

And likewise,A very necessary observation. such as have been Maiors, are to have their Cloaks lined with changeable Taffata: and the rest are to have their Cloakes lined with greene Taffata.

For the first day of every Quarter Sessions.

THe first day of every Quarter Sessions (in the forenoone only) the Lord Maior and the Sheriffes weare their violet Gownes and Cloakes furred. But at Midsummer Quarter Sessions, the first day, they weare Violet Gownes and Scarlet Cloakes: and on the other dayes Black.

For the buriall of Aldermen.

THe Aldermen are to weare their Violet Gownes,The last love, duty, and ceremony one to another. except such as have (of their friends allowance) blacke Gownes, or mourning. When an Alderman dieth, Master Swordbearer is to have a blacke Gowne, or three and thirty shillings and foure pence in money. And if the Alderman deceased doe give the Lord Maior mourning, then Master Sword-bearer is to have mourning also, or forty shillings in money, as the value thereof, and so to carry the Sword in blacke before the Lord Maior.

Master Chamberlaine is not to weare his Tipper, but when the Lord Maior or Aldermen doe weare their Scarlet or Violet.

At the Nomination of an Alderman.

FOr the Nomination of an Alderman, Nominating an Alderman▪ the Lord Maior weareth his black Gowne, and violet Cloake, and both the Sheriffes their blacke Gownes.

For the Orphanes Court.

THe Lord Maior and the Aldermen doe meet at the Guild-Hall, On the day, and at the houre appointed. wearing their Violet Gownes without Cloakes: but the Lord Maior ought to weare his Cloake. The Common Cryer is the Warner of this Court.

Orders taken and enacted for Orphans and their Portions. Anno 1580.

AD Commune Concilium, tentum in Guildhaldia Civitatis Londini, xiij. die Octob. Anno Regni Edvardi sexti, Dei gratia Angliae, Franciae, & Hiberniae Regis, fidei defensoris, & in terra Ecclesiae Anglicanae, & Hibernicae supremi capitis, quinto: coram Andrea Iudde Milite, tunc Maiore, & Aldermannis Civitatis illius, ordinata sunt inter alia, inactitata, concessa & stabilita, omnia & singula subsequentia.

FOr as much as the City of London is of late yeeres sore decayed, and dayly is like to decay more and more: A great cause and occasion wherof, among other, hath beene, for that freemens children (Orphans of the said City) sometimes in the lives of their Parents, and sometimes after their deceases, being left wealthy and rich, doe bestow themselves in ungodly Marriages, for the most part in their young age, at their owne wills and pleasures, without the consent, and against the mindes of their friends, saying and affirming, that the Law and Custome of the said City giveth unto them their portions, whether they marry by the assent of their friends or not, and so doe dayly cast away and undoe themselves, in trust to have their said Portions, [Page] whether their parents or friends will or will not.

And thereby doe they bestow themselves upon simple and light persons, having neither cunning, knowledge, substance, nor good or honest conditions. By reason whereof, such Orphans, inordinately, and insolently, doe spend and consume their patrimony and portions in short time, not onely to the undoing of themselves, and to the great ignomy and shame of their friends, but also to the great slander of the Lord Maior and Aldermen of this City (who been reputed and taken as Fathers and Protectors of the same Orphanes) and to the great losse and hindrance of the said City.

And for as much as the said Lord Maior and Citizens, have by their lawes, and customes, power and authority to make lawes and ordinances, by their Common Councel, for redresse of the same:

It is therefore now (to the intent to reduce the same to a more godly, more profitable and decent order and conformity) by the said Lord Maior, & Comminalty, and Citizens, in this present Common Councell assembled, and by authority of the said Common Councell, enacted, ordained, authorized, and established for a law perpetually to bee observed and kept within the said City: That if any Orphane, or child of any free man or free woman of the said City, doe offend in any the things hereafter expressed, and bee thereof lawfully convicted, afore the Lord Maior and the Aldermen or else where, that then they and every of them, shall to all entents, purposes, constructions and meanings, be unabled and barred to demand and claime their portion or portions, and also shall lose and forgoe and bee barred for euer, of all and every his, her or their part or parts, and portions to him or them belonging, by and after the death of his or their said father or mother, of the goods and cattals, of every such father and mother, by reason of any law, custome, ordinance, usage, franches, priviledge, act of Common Councell, or other thing, heretofore had or used, within the said City: The same Law, Custome, Ordinance, or other thing whatsoe're, heretofore had, made, ordained, allowed, and put in ure, to the contrary in any wise notwithstanding. That is to wit: First, if any manchild, or woman-child, shall maliciously goe about or attempt to doe, or cause to be done, any bodily harme, death, or destruction to his or their Father or Mother: Or if any man-child doe hereafter marry or contract marriage in the life of his father or mother (by whom he will claime any portion) under the age of one and twenty yeeres, without the consent of his said Father, or Mother, by whom he will claime any portion: Or if any woman-child doe hereafter marry or contract marriage, in the life of her father, or other parent, by whom she shall claime any portion, before the age of eighteene yeeres, without the consent of her father, or such other parent by whom shee shall or may claime any portion: Or if any man-child be a Theefe, or a Fellon, or a common whore-hanter; a common Diser, or a common player at unlawfull games notoriously known: Or if any womanchild shal hereafter commit any whoredome, or bee a common Picker, that then every of the persons so offending, shall be barred and excluded to have, or demand any portion.

Provided alwaies, that it shall bee lawfull for the father, or mother of any such child, or children, to give and bequeath in Legacy, to such child or children, as much as the portion of such childe so offending shall amount unto, by the custome of the said City, & then such child therby to be enabled to have and demand the same, as portion, this Act notwithstanding, so that the same Legacy bee contained in his or their restament in writing, and not otherwise.

And that then, and from thenceforth his said child or children, to be admitted and restored to claime such legacy, or legacies, in such sort, manner and forme, as if there had beene never any such offence done, or committed by any such childe.

Item, it is further ordained, enacted, authorized and established, by the authority aforesaid, that if any womanchild, being an Orphane, and under the age of one and twenty yeeres, at any [Page] time hereafter, after the death of her Father, doe ensure or contract her selfe in marriage, or else according to the Ecclesiasticall lawes of this Realme, doe perfitly solemnize or consummate Marriage, with any free man of this City, the consent and agreement of the Lord Maior and Aldermen of this said City of London for the time being, not obtained and had, that then for every such default and offence committed or done by any Orphane, or Orphanes, of the said City, the same being confessed, or sufficiently proved by two witnesses; or otherwise before the said Lord Maior and Aldermen of this said City of London, for the time being, at and in a Court of Aldermen, she or they that so happen to behave her or themselves, as is aforesaid, shall forfeit, forgoe and lose two pence of and for every pound, so due or to bee due unto her, or them, by reason of any such Orphanage, the summe of twelve pence of every pound, to goe, or to be to the use of the Chamber of the said City, according to the ancient custome before this time, in such case used.

And if the said contract or marriage of the said Orphane or Orphanes, bee made with any forreine, not being free of this City, at the time of any such contract or marriage made, that then the said Orphan or Orphans, and every of them shall forfeit and lose three shillings of every pound, or to be due unto her or them, by vertue of any Orphanage or custome had and used within the said City.

The one shilling of the said three shillings of every pound, to goe, or to be, to the use of the Chamber of the said City, in such manner and forme as is aforesaid.

And the other two shillings so forfeited of every pound, to goe to the use of such other Orphane, or Orphanes, as then shall remaine unmarried. Or else for default of such Orphans, or Orphan, to remaine to the next of the kindred of the Orphane so offending.

Also, be it further ordained, enacted, and established by authority aforesaid, for, & in eschewing of divers variances, contentions, and suits, that daily heretofore have, and hereafter may ensue: that if any free mans child, man or woman fortune to bee married hereafter, in the life time of his, or their father, by his consent, and not fully advanced of, and to his, or her full part, or portion of his or her said Fathers goods, as he shall be worth at the time of his decease, according to the ancient lawes and customes of this said City: that then every such free mans child, so being married in the life time of his, or her Father, shall bee to all intents and purposes, disabled to demand any further part or portion of his or her fathers goods, after the decease of his, or her father, but shall be adjudged, reputed, and taken to be fully advanced, according as the law and custome of this City hath beene long time out of minde, except his or her said father doe mention certainely in his last Will or Testament, or by other writing signed with his owne proper name, or marke the certainety of the summe or summes of money, goods and cattels, and the value of them that the Father gave, payed or departed withall, or otherwise assured, or hereafter shall give, pay, depart withall, or otherwise make assurance of unto him, or her, before, at or after the marriage of him or her, or otherwise in his life time, for and towards their advancements, in the name of his, or her part, or portion.

And then every such Orphane, or child, which after the decease of his or her said father, can bring forth the said Testament, or other writing signed or marked with the fathers hand or mark, wherein the certainety of such money, goods, or cattels, as they have or shall have received of their said Father, or by the same Father, assured by especialty, or otherwise, shall have asmuch of the ready money, goods, cattels, and debts of the said Father, as (with that which he or they shall have received towards their advancements, in the life of their said Father) shall make up a full childs part, of his goods and cattels, as he shall bee worth at the time of his decease. The same to be demanded, asked, and claimed, or sued for against the executor, or executors, administrator, or administrators, of the goods, and cattels of the said Father, by bill Originall, to [Page] be commenced to our Soveraigne Lord the Kings Court, holden in the vtter Chamber of the Guild-Hall of the said City, before the said L. Maior and Aldermen of the same City for the time being, any Law or Custome heretofore made or used to the contrary notwithstanding. In which action, no wager of Law, or Essoine, shall bee admitted or allowed.

Provided alway, and it is further enacted, that if any freee mans sonne, being of full age (which shall hereafter be married with the consent of his Father, or any other person, being of full age, which shall hereafter marry any free mans daughter) doe at the time of the Espousals, or any time after, confesse themselves by writing fully satisfied, of his or their portion, or doe otherwise acquit and discharge the Father of such free mans sonnes or daughters, of all their part and portion due, or to be due, by the Law and Custome of the City; that then every such person, so confessing, acquitting, or otherwise discharging, shall be reputed and taken as fully advanced of his or their whole part or portion, and shall not be enabled to demand any further or greater part of the substance, goods, and cattels of his or her Father: this Law, or any other Law or Custome heretofore had, made, or used to the contrary notwithstanding.

And further, for as much as it is thought very prejudiciall and hurtfull to the fatherlesse children & Orphans, when the mother, or mother in Law, being Executrix of the last Will and Testament of her late husband, by whom, and after whose death, the Orphanes are intituled to an Orphanage, (according to the said laudable Customes of this City) doe divers times marry, or contract Matrimony, some with Forriners, and persons unknowne, and some with Free men, or ever a just Inventory of the Goods, Cattels, Plate, Iewels, ready Money of the Testators, be by them brought in: By reason wherof, many times they (either for feare or affection of their husbands, or for some other sinister cause) doe bring in very suspicious Inventories, omitting therein either ready Money, Plate, Iewels, or Debts, or some other thing or things, whereby some benefit should redound to the fatherlesse children, to the great losse and hinderance of the Orphanes, and sometimes slander to the Lord Maior and Aldermen of the City, notwithstanding their great care and travaile that they take for the good ordering, and true answering of the said Orphanes:

It is therefore, by like authority, ordained, established, and enacted, that if after the first day of November next ensuing, any Widow, which is, or shall be made Executrix of the Testament & last Will of her late Husband (being a free man) or shall take upon her the administration of the Goods and Cattels of her late Husband (being a free man) doe not upon her Oath bring in and exhibit, or cause to be brought in and exhibited before the Lord Maior and Aldermen of this said City for the time being, at and in a Court of Aldermen, a just and perfect Inventory (to their knowledge) of all the Goods, Cattels, Plate, and Jewels, ready Money, and Debts, as were her said Husbands at the time of his death, appraysed according to the Law of the said City, before she do ensure her selfe in marriage, or contract marriage, or else according to the Lawes of the Realme, doe perfectly solemnize or consummate marriage with any person before such time as aforesaid, that then every person so offending, shall forfait and lose eight shillings of every pound, of her Portion, of the goods of her late Husband, due to her by the laudable Custome of the said City, the same to goe to the use of such Orphane, or Orphanes, as then shall bee intituled to have or demand any Orphanage or Portion, after the death of his or her late Father▪ the same to be demanded, asked, claimed, or sued for, against such Executrix, or Administratrix, by Bill originall of debt, to bee commenced in our Soveraigne Lord the Kings Court, holden in the vtter Chamber of the Guild-Hall of the said City, before the Lord Maior and Aldermen of the same City for the time being, any Law, &c. In which action no wager, &c.

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For the election of Governours at Christs Hospitall, &c.

FOr the election of Governours belonging to the severall Hospitals: At time and place appointed. the Lord Maior and the Aldermen do weare their blacke Gownes.

A Note of Observation.

THe foure Pleaders,Festivall times and generall dayes. the Chamberlaine, Towne-Clarke, Common Sergeant, two Judges of the Sheriffes Court, the Secondaries, the Vnder-Chamberlaine, and Bridgemasters, are to attend the Lord Maior at his house, before his going abroad on all Festivall times, and generall dayes.

Courts of Aldermen.

COurts of Aldermen in ordinary,Court dayes, and of exception. are kept at the Guild-Hall, every Tuesday and Thursday thorow the whole yeere; except Holydayes, the moneth of August, untill Bartholomew day bee past, the weeke before Christmas, Shrove-Tuesday, and the weeke before Easter.

The Lavves of the Market.

FIrst, in all the Markets of this City, no Victuall shall bee sold, but by the price set by the Maior of this City.

2 No man shall forestall any Victuall comming to the Market, as for to buy in any Inne or other privy place, or yet comming to the Market, whether it be found in the hands of the buyer or of the seller, under paine of forfeiture of the same: and no Inne-holder shall suffer nothing to bee sold in his house, vpon paine of forfeiture of forty shillings.

3 No man shall regrate any Victuall which is in the Market, or buy any Victuall to ingrate in the Market, so that the Commons can or may have any part of such Victuall, as in especiall, such as be knowne for Hucksters, or other people, occupying their living by such Victuall as they would so ingrosse, under paine of forfeiture of such Victuall so regrated: Provided alwayes, that any Steward for any noble Feast, may buy or ingrate such Victuall as is convenient for the same Feast.

4 No Butter shall be sold, but according to the waight, for the time of the yeere allowed.

5 No Poulters shall deceiveably occupy the Market, to sell any stale Victuall, or such as bee Poulters of this City, for to stand in strange cloathing so to doe, under paine of forty shillings, and the forfeiture of such Victuall, forty shillings.

6 No Hucksters shall stand or sit in the Market, but in the lower place, and the ends of the Market, to the intent they may be perfectly knowne, and the Stranger-market-people have the preeminence of the Market, under paine of three shillings foure pence, if the Hucksters disobey the same.

7 No unwholsome or stale Victuall shall be sold under paine of xi. s. and forfeiture of the same Victuall.

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THE STATVTES OF THE STREETS OF THIS CITY, against Annoiances.

FIrst, no man shall sweepe the filth of the Street into the Chancell of the City, in the time of any raine, or at any other time, under paine of six shillings eight pence.

2 No man shall cast, or lay in the Streets, Dogs, Cats, or other Carren, or any noysome thing contagious of Aire. Nor no Inholder shall lay out dung out of his house, but if the Cart bee ready to carry the same away incontinently, under paine of forty shillings.

3 No Brewer shall cast wilfully dregs or drosse of Ale or Beere into the Chanell, under paine of two shillings.

4 No man shall encumber the streets with Timber, Stones, Carts, or such like, under paine of forfeiture of the same thing that so encumbreth the streets, which is twenty shillings fine, if hee remove it not at the warning of the Sergeant of the Market.

5 Euery builder of houses ought to come to the Maior, Aldermen, and Chamberlaine, for a speciall licence for hourd of, by him to bee made in the high Street, and no builder to encumber the Streets with any manner of thing, taking downe for the preparing of his new building, under paine of forty shillings, except hee make a hourd of forty shillings.

6 No man shall set any Carts in the Streets by night time, under the paine of twelve pence, and recompence to such persons as shall bee hurt thereby, if any such be, twelve pence.

7 No Budge-man shall leade but two horse [...], and hee shall not let them goe vnled, under paine of two shillings.

8 No man shall ride, or drive his Car or Cart atrot in the Street, but patiently, under paine of two shillings.

9 No man shall gallop his horse in the Street, under paine of two shillings.

10 No man shall shoot in the Street, for Wager or otherwise, under like paine of two shillings.

11 No man shall bowle, or cash any stone in the Street, for wager, or gaine, or such like, under paine of two shillings.

12 No man shall dig any hole in the [Page] Street for any matter, except hee stop it up againe, under paine of two shillings, and recompence to any person hurt thereby, two shillings.

13 No man shall bury any dung, or goung, within the Liberties of this City, under paine of forty shillings.

14 No Goungfermour shall carry any Ordure till after nine of the Clocke in the night, under paine of thirteene shillings foure pence.

15 No Goungfermour shall spill any Ordure in the Street, under paine of thirteene shillings foure pence.

16 No man shall bait Bull, Beare, or Horse in the open street, under paine of twenty shillings.

17 No man shall have any Kine, Goats, Hogs, Pigs, Hens, Cocks, Capons, or Ducks in the open Street, under paine of forfeiture of the same.

18 No man shall maintaine any biting Curs, or mad Dogs, in the streets, under paine of two shillings, and recompence unto every party hurt therewith, two shillings.

19 No Carts that shall be shod with Spig-naile, that shall come upon the streets of this City, under paine of three shillings foure pence.

20 No Carts using daily carriage within this City, nor Car shall have Wheeles shod with any Iron, but bare, under paine of six shillings.

21 No man shall burne any Straw, Rushes, or other thing, Linnen or Wollen in the streets, by night or by day, under paine of three shillings foure pence.

22 No man shall blow any Horne in the night within this City, or Whistle after the houre of nine of the clocke in the night, under pain of imprisonment.

23 No man shall use to goe with Vizards, or disguised by night, under like paine of imprisonment.

24 That Night-walkers, and Evesdroppers endure like punishment.

25 No Hammer-man, as a Smith, a Pewterer, a Founder, and all Artificers, making great sound, shall not worke after the houre of nine in the night, nor afore the houre of foure in the morning, under paine of three shil. foure pence.

26 No man shall cast into the Ditches of this City, or the Sewers of this City, without the walls, or into the walls, Grates, or Gullets of this City, any manner of Carren, stinking Flesh, rotten Fish, or any Rubbish, Dung, Sand, Gravell, Weeds, Stones, or any other thing to stop the course of the same, under paine of cleansing them at his own cost and charge, under paine of imprisonment.

27 No man shall make any Widrawtes in any of the Towne-Ditches, or the Towne-Gullets, under paine of twenty shillings.

28 No man shall build nigh the Walls of this City, without licence of the Lord Maior, Aldermen, & Chamberlaine, under paine of throwing down the same, and no licence may be granted, except that the Chamberlain freely at all times have convenient and needfull ingresse, and entry, going out, and cleare recourse.

29 No man shall goe in the streets by night or by day with Bow bent, or Arrowes under his Girdle, nor with Sword unscabberd, under paine of imprisonment; or with Hand-Gun, having therewith Powder and Match, except it bee in an usuall May-game or Sight.

30 No man shall after the houre of nine at the Night, keep any rule whereby any such sudden out-cry be made in the still of the night, as making any Affray, or beating his Wife, or Servant, or Singing, or Reve [...]ing in his house, to the disturbance of his neighbors, under paine of 3. shil. 4. pence.

31 No man shall make any Affray, [Page] upon any Officer, which with good demeanour doth his message by commandement of my Lord Maior, or any Alderman, or M. Sheriffes, or M. Chamberlaine, or misbehave himselfe in any rayling upon any Judge of this City, or their Officers, which by commandement are sent to bring any breaker of this Law and Custome to Ward, or to distresse, or such like, upon paine of Imprisonment of forty dayes, and forfeiture of the double penalty: for the offences asseasing, railing upon any Alderman, or Maior in his office, is judgement of the Pillory: railing upon Master Chamberlaine in his office, forty dayes imprisonment: beating, threatning, and railing of an Officer, is imprisonment, after as the trespasse is.

32 Memorandum, That every offence found in this City, it is accustomed that the Officer, a Free man, finding it, which is called primus Inventor, hath halfe the penalty by the grace of the Court.

33 Also, every Free man may finde any offence, but hee hath no power to bring the party before any Judge of this City without an Officer, except the party will come to his answer by free will.

34 No man hath power to Arrest, Attach, or make distresse of any goods forfeitable, or offences, except the Constable or Sergeant of the Mace.

35 No Butcher, or his servant shall not use to drive any Oxe or Oxen, atrot in the streets, but peaceably: and ifan Oxe happen to be let goe when he is prepared to slaughter, the Butcher shall forfeit two shil. besides recompence, if any person be hurt thereby.

36 No Butcher shall scald Hogs, but in the common scalding house, upon paine of six shillings eight pence.

37 No Butcher shall sell any Measell Hog, or unwholsome flesh, under paine of ten pounds.

38 No Butcher shall sell any old stale Victuall: that is to say, above the slaughter of three dayes in the Winter, and two in the Summer, under paine of ten pounds.

39 None unreasonable Victuall for all manner of Victuals.

40 No Victualer of this City shall give any rude or unsetting language, or make any clamour upon any man or woman in the open Market, for cheapning of Victuall, under paine of three shillings foure pence.

41 No Butcher shall cast the inwards of Beasts into the streets, cleaves of Beasts feet, Bones, Hornes of Sheepe, or other such like, under paine of two shillings.

42 The Pudding-cart of the Shambles shall not go afore the houre of nine in the night, or after the houre of five in the morning, under paine of six shillings eight pence.

43 No man shall cast any Vrineboles, or Ordure-boles into the streets by day or night, afore the houre of nine in the night: And also hee shall not cast it out, but bring it downe, and lay it in the Chanell, under the paine of three shillings foure pence. And if he doe cast it upon any persons head, the party to have a lawfull recompence, if he have hurt thereby.

44 No man shall hurt, cut, or destroy any Pipes, Sesperals, or Windvents pertaining to the Conduit, under paine of imprisonment, and making satisfaction, though hee doth it out of the City, if hee may bee taken within the City.

45 No man within this City may make any Quill, and breake any Pipe of the Conduit, comming thorow his house, or nigh his ground, under paine of the Pillory, or take any water privily unto his house.

46 Casting any corrupt thing, appoysoning the water, is Lourgulary and Felony.

[Page] 47 Whosoever destroy or perish any Cocks of the Conduit, must have imprisonment, and make satisfaction.

Old Lawes and Customes of this City.

48 NO man shall set up shop, or occupy as a Free-man, afore he be sworne in the Chamber of London, and admitted by the Chamberlaine, under paine of▪

49 No man shall set over his Apprentice to any other person, but by license of Master Chamberlaine, and there to be set over, under paine of▪

50 No man which is a Forraine, shall not buy nor sell within the liberties of this City with another Forraine, under paine of forfeiture of the goods so forraine bought and sold.

51 No Free-man shall be disobedient for to come at Master Chamberlaines commandement, to any summons to him given by any officer of the Chamber, under paine of imprisonment.

52 Master Chamberlaine hath power to send a free man to Ward, so that he incontinently after send to the Lord Maior, the cause why that he is punished, so that the Lord Maior release him not, but by the Chamberlaines assent: and if he be a great Commoner, and disobeying to the Chamberlaine, Master Chamberlaine may referre it to a Court of Aldermen.

Master Chamberlaine hath authority for to send or command any Apoprentice to the Counter for their offences: and if their offences bee great, as in defiling their Masters houses by vicious living, or offending his Master by theft, or disslander, or such like, then to command him to Newgate.

Apprentice Enrolled, his Master payeth two shillings six pence.

Apprentice set over, hee that receiveth, two shillings.

Apprentice made Free, hee payeth foure shillings.

Apprentice never Enrolled, and made free, his Master payeth thirteene shillings two pence.

A man made Free by his Fathers Copy, payeth eighteene pence.

A Proclamation made in the time of the Maioralty of Sir Michael Dormer, Knight.

An Act of Common Councell, made in the Even of Saint Michael, Anno Regis Henrici Octavi xxxj. That no person should lay any Wares in the Street, or beyond the edge of their Stall, upon paine of forfeiture the first time six shillings eight pence: the second time thirteene shillings foure pence: and the third time, the Ware so laid.

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AN ACT FOR THE REFORMATION OF DIVERS ABVSES VSED IN the Wardmote Inquest: Together with the Articles of the charge of the said Inquest.
By the Maior. To the Alderman of the Ward.

Wardmote Inquest for a yeere.

WEE charge and command you, that upon Saint Thomas day the Apostle next comming, you doe hold your Wardmote, and that you have afore us at our generall Court of Aldermen to be holden in the Guild-Hall, the Munday next after the Feast of the Epiphany next comming, all the defaults that shall bee presented afore you by Inquest in the said Wardmote, and the said Inquest shall have full power and authority by one whole yeere, to enquire and present all such defaults as shall be found within your said Ward, as oftentimes as shal be thought to you expedient and needfull, which we will, shall bee once every moneth at the least.

Inquest dying.

AND if it happen any of your said Inquest to dye, or depart out of your said Ward within the said yeere, that then in place of him or them so dying, or departing out of your said Ward, you cause to be chosen one able person to inquire and present with the other in manner and forme aforesaid.

Non appearance.

AND that at the said generall Court, you give afore us the names and sur-names of al them of your said Ward, that come not to your said Wardmote, if they be duely warned, so that due redresse and punishment of them may bee had, as the case shall require, according to the Law.

Watch, Light, Vizard.

AND that ye doe provide, that at all times convenient, covenable Watch bee kept: and that Lanthornes with light by Nightertaile in old manner accustomed, be hanged forth, and that no man goe by nightertaile [Page] without light, nor with Vizard, on the perill that belongeth thereto.

Common Councell.

AND also that you doe cause to be chosen men of the most sufficient, honest, and discreet men of your said Ward, to be for your said Ward of the Common Councell of this City for the yeere ensuing, according to the custome in that behalfe yeerely used. And also that you doe cause the said men so to be chosen to be of the Common Councell, to be sworn before you and in your presence, according to the oath for them used, and of old time accustomed, the Tenor of which oath hereafter ensueth.

The Oath.

YE shall sweare, that ye shal bee true to our Soveraigne Lord the King that now is, and to his heires and successors Kings of England, and readily yee shall come when ye be summonned to the Common Councell of this City, but if yee be reasonably excused, and good and true counsell ye shall give in all things, touching the Common-wealth of this City, after your wit and cunning: and that for favour of any person ye shall maintaine no singular profit against the common profit of this City, and after that you be come to the Common Councell, you shall not from thence depart, untill the Common Councell be ended, without reasonable cause, or else by the Lord Maiors License. And also any secret things that be spoken on said in the Common Councell, which ought to be kept secret, in no wise you shall disclose, as God you helpe.

Constables, Scavengers, Beadle, Raker.

AND that also in the said Wardmote you cause to be chosen certaine other honest persons to bee Constables, and Scavengers, and a common Beadle, and a Raker to make cleane the streets and lanes of all your said Ward, according to the custome yeerly used in that behalfe, which Constables have, and shall have full power and authority to distraine for the [...]a [...]ary and quarterage of the said Beadle and Raker, as oftentimes as it shall bee behinde unpaid.

Roll of names.

ALso, that you keepe a Roll of the names, sur-names, dwelling places, professions and trades of all persons dwelling within your Ward and within what Constables precinct they dwell, wherein the place is to bee specially noted by the street, lane, alley, or signe.

Constable. Roll.

ALso that you cause every Constable from time to time, to certifie unto you, the name, surname, dwelling place, profession, and trade of every person, who shall newly come to dwell within his Precinct, whereby you may make and keepe your Roll perfect: and that you cause every Constable for his Precinct to that purpose to make and keepe a perfect Roll in like manner.

Inholder, Lodger, Sojourner.

ALso that you give speciall charge that every Inholder, and other person within your Ward, who shall receive any person to lodge or sojourne in his house above two dayes, shall before the third day after his comming [Page] thither, give knowledge to the Constable of the Precinct where hee shall be so received, of the name, surname, dwelling place, profession, and trade of life, or place of service of such person, and for what cause hee shall come to reside there: and that the said Constable give present notice thereof to you: and that the said Inholder lodge no suspected person, or men or women of evill name.

Search. New commers.

ALso that you cause every Constable within his Precinct, once every moneth at the farthest, and oftner, if need require, to make diligent search and inquiry, what persons bee newly come into his Precinct to dwell, sojourne, or lodge: and that you give speciall charge, that no Inholder or other person shall resist or deny any Constable, in making such search or inquiry, but shall doe his best endeavour to aide and assist him therein.

Franke pledge.

ANd for that of late there is more resort to the City of persons evill affected in Religion, and otherwise than in former times have bin: You shall diligently inquire if any man bee received to dwell or abide within your Ward, that is not put under frank pledge, as he ought to be by the custome of the City, and whether any person hath continued in the said Ward by the space of one yeere, being above the age of twelve yeeres, and not sworne to bee faithfull and loyall to the Kings Majesty, in such sort as by the Law and custome of the City he ought to be.

Beadle.

TO all these purposes the Beadle of every Ward shall employ his diligence, and give his best furtherance.

Fire.

ALso that you have speciall regard that from time to time, there be convenient provisiō for Hooks, Ladders, and Buckets, in meet places within the severall Parishes of your Ward, for avoiding the perill of fire.

Streets.

ALso that the Streets and lanes of this City, be from time to time kept clean before every Church, house, shop, ware-house, doore, dead wall, and in all other common passages and streets of the said Ward.

Hucksters of Ale and Beere.

AND where by divers acts of Common Councell, afore time made and established for the Common-weale of this City, amongst other things it is ordained and enacted, as hereafter ensueth:

Also it is ordained and enacted, That from henceforth no Huckster of Ale or Beere, be within any Ward of the City of London, but honest persons, and of good name and fame, and so taken and admitted by the Alderman of the Ward for the time being, and that the same Hucksters doe find sufficient surety afore the Maior and Aldermen for the time being, to bee of good guiding and rule: and that the same Hucksters shall keepe no bawdry, nor suffer no letchery, dice-playing, carding, or any other unlawfull games, to be done, exercised, or used within their houses: and to shut in their doores at nine of the clocke in the night from Michaelmas to Easter, and from Easter to Michaelmas, at tenne of the clocke in the night, and after that houre sell none Ale or Beere. And if any Huckster of Beere or Ale, after this act published and proclaimed, sell any Ale or Beere within any Ward of the City of London, and bee not admitted by the Alderman of the [Page] same Ward so to doe, or finde not sufficient surety as it is above rehearsed, the same Huckster to have imprisonment, and make fine and ransome for his contempt, after the discretion of the Maior and Aldermen: and also that the said Hucksters suffer no manner of common eating and drinking within their Cellars or Vaults contrary to the ordinance thereof ordained and provided, as in the said act more plainely appeareth at large: wee charge you that you doe put the same in due execution accordingly.

Measures sealed.

AND also that ye see all Tiplers and other sellers of Ale or Beere as well of privy Osteries, as Brewers and Inholders within your Ward, not selling by lawfull measures sealed and marked with the letter C. crowned, according as in that behalfe it is ordained and purveighed, bee presented, and their names in your said Indentures bee expressed, with their defaults, so that the Chamberlain may be lawfully answer'd of their amersements.

Stranger borne.

ANd also that you suffer no stranger borne out of the Realme, to bee of the Common Councell, nor to exercise or use any other Office within this City, nor receive or accept any person into your Watch, privie or open, but Englishmen borne: and if any stranger borne out of this Realme, made Denizen by the Kings Letters Patents, or any other after his course and lot be appointed to any watch, that then ye command and compell him or them to find in his stead and place one Englishman to supply the same.

Billets and fire-wood.

AND also that you cause an abstract of the Assize appointed by act of Parliament, for Billers and other fire-wood, to bee faire written in Parchment, and to bee fixed or hanged up in a Table in some fit and convenient place in every Parish within your Ward, where the common people may best see the same.

Streets. Paine 40. s.

AND furthermore we charge and command you, that you cause such provision to be had in your said Ward, that all the streets and lanes within the same Ward be from time to time cleansed and clearely voided of ordure, dung, mire, rubbish, and other filthy things whatsoever they be, to the anoyance of the Kings Majesties subjects.

Vagarants.

AND also that at all times, as you shall thinke necessary, you doe cause search to bee made within your said Ward, for all vagarant Beggers, suspicious and idle people, and such as cannot shew how to live, and such as shall bee found within your said Ward, that you cause to be punished and dealt with according to the law and the statute in such case ordained and provided.

Iury-men.

AND also wee will and charge you the said Alderman, that your selfe certifie and present before us, at the same generall Court to be holden the foresaid munday next after the Feast of Epiphany, all the names and sur-names truely written of such persons within your said Ward, as bee able to passe in a grand Iury by themselves: and also all the names and sur-names truly written of such persons, being and dwelling within your said Ward, as be able to passe in a petty Iury, and not able to passe in a grand Iury by themselves, that is to say, every grand Iury man to be worth in goods an hundred Markes, and every petty Jury man forty Markes, according to an Act in [Page] that case made and provided: and the same you shall indorce on the backeside of your Indenture.

Harlots.

ITem, for divers reasonable and urgent considerations, vs especially moving, wee straightly charge and command you on the King our Soveraigne Lords behalfe, that you diligently provide and foresee, that no manner of person or persons within your said Ward, of what condition or degree soever he or they be of, keeping any Taverne or Ale-house, Aleseller or victualling house, or place of common resort to eate and drinke in, within the same Ward, permit or suffer at any time hereafter, any common women of their bodies, or Harlors to resort and come into their said house, or other the places aforesaid to eat or drinke, or otherwise to bee conversant or abide, or thither to haunt or frequent, upon paine of imprisonment, as well of the occupier and keeper of every such house or houses, and all other the places afore remembred, as of the said common women or Harlots.

Articles.

ALso that you doe give in charge to the Wardmote Inquest of your Ward, all the Articles delivered to you herewith.

An Act for the Reformation of divers abuses, used in the Wardmote Inquest.

Commons, Dinners, Banquetings.

ITEM, Where the Wardmote Inquests within the severall Wards of this City, for the maintenance of Honesty, Vertue, & good Living; and for the abolishment, exiling, and suppressing of all kinde of Vice, evill Rule, and Iniquity, according to the ancient laudable Lawes and Customs of the said City, are yeerely severally charged and sworne, upon the day of S. Thomas the Apostle, before the Aldermen of the said Wards, chiefely and principally to the end and intent, that they with all diligence should truly and duly inquire and present all such Enormities, Nusances, Misorder, and Offences, as are, or at any time within the space of one whole yeere then next ensuing, shalbe severally used, committed, or done within the said Wards, and have day yeerely to make their said Presentments, untill the Munday next after the Feast of the Epiphany: The said Inquests heretofore little or nothing at all regarding (as it is very manifest and not unknown, the more is the pity) their said Oathes, or yet the great commodities, Vtility, Quietnesse, Honour, and Worship, that might or should grow and insue to the said City, and inhabitants of the same, through their good, industrious, and indifferent proceedings, for the advancement of Vertue, and repressing of Vices, have drawne it in a manner into a very ordinary course and common Custome, to consume and spend a great part of their said time, that they have yerely given unto them, when they receive their said charge; partly in setting up among themselves a certaine Commons, and making and [Page] keeping many costly and sumptuous Dinners, Suppers, and Banquets, inviting and calling to the same at sundry times, in a manner, all the Inhabitants of the said severall Wards, to the no little charges of the same Inhabitants, and partly in passing and occupying much part of the same time in playing at Dice, Tables, Cards, and such other unlawfull Games both to the great costs, charges, and expences of the said Inquests (whereof the greater part most commonly are but poore men) and also to the very lewd, pernitious, and evill example of all such as have any accesse or recourse unto the same Inquests. And where also the said Inquests have of late usurped to dispense with such persons, as they by their search, and otherwise, have founden to offend and transgresse the Lawes, in using and occupying of unlawfull Weights and Measures, taking of the said Offenders certaine Fines (as it is said) the said Inquests have commonly used to imploy toward the maintenance of their said Feasting and Banqueting, directly against the due order of our Soveraigne Lord the Kings Lawes, and the publike wealth of all his Highnesse Subiects within the said City, and much to the reproch and dishonour of the same City.

For remedy and Reformation thereof, be it Ordained Enacted, & Established by the Lord Maior, Aldermen, and Commons, in this present Common Councell assembled, and by authority of the same, That all and every the Wardmote Inquests of the said City, from henceforth to be yeerely charged & sworne within the severall Wards at the time afore rehearsed, shall at all times and places meet and convenient for the due execution of their said charge, meet and assemble themselves together, and that they and every of them after their said meetings, inquisition, and treating of their said necessary matters, shall goe home to their owne severall houses to Breakefast, Dinner, and Supper, during all the said accustomed time of their charge and Session abovesaid: And that none of the said Inquests shal from henceforward set up any manner of Commons, or keepe or maintaine any manner of Dinners, Suppers, or Banquets among themselves, or use at their said Assemblies and Sessions, any of the Games above mentioned, or any other whatsoever unlawfull Games or Playes at any time, before the giving up of the said Presentments at the time above remembred. Or shall take or receive any maner of Fine or Fines, for the concealement and discharging of any of the Offences afore recited: but truly present the same Offences, and every of them, according to their Oaths, upon paine of imprisonment by the discretion of the Lord Maior and Aldermen of the said City for the time being.

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Fire and Candle, &c. Recreation.

PRovided alway, and bee it enacted by the Authority aforesaid, That it shall bee lawfull for all the every of the said Inquests, to take and receive towards the charges of their Fire and Candles, and other necessaries during the time of their said Session, all and every such summes of money, as any honest person or persons of their free will and benevolent minde, will give or offer unto them: and when they have made their said Presentments, to goe and assemble themselves together for their Recreation and solace, where they shall thinke it good: and there not onely to bestow and spend the twenty shillings, which every Alderman within his Ward, according to a certaine order lately taken, shall yeerely give unto them at the time of the delivery of the said Presentments, towards their said charges in this behalfe, but also the residue of the said money received and gathered, as it is aforesaid, of the benevolence of their said loving friends, if any such residue shall fortune to remaine. Any Clause or Article in this present Act contained to the contrary notwithstanding.

Not fayling hereof, as ye tender the Common weale of this City, and advancement of good Iustice, and as ye will answer for the contrary at your vttermost perill.

The Articles of the charge of the Wardmote Inquest.

Peace.

YEE shall sweare, that yee shall truly enquire if the Peace of the King our Soveraigne Lord bee not kept as it ought to be, and in whose default, and by whom it is broken or disturbed.

Franke pledge.

ALso if any man be received within this Ward, but if he be under Free pledge, that is to say, bee sworn after the Alderman at his Court, or else afore the said Alderman, between this & the Munday next after the Feast of the Epiphany next comming.

Outlawes, Traitors, Fellons, &c.

ALso if there dwell any man within the Ward, that is outlawed or indited of Treason or Fellony, or bee any receiver of Traitors or Fellons.

Thames.

ALso yee shall enquire, and truly present all the offences and defaults done by any person or persons within the River of Thames, according to the intent and purport of an Act made by our late Lord King Edward the sixth, in his high Court of Parliament, and also of divers other things ordained by Act of Common Councell of this City, for the redresse and amendment of the said River, which as now is in great decay and ruine, and will bee in short time past all [Page] remedy, if high and substantiall provision and great helpe be not had with all speed and diligence possible: as more plainely appeareth in the said Act of Parliament, and the said Act of Common Councell of this City.

Congregations.

ALso if any maner of person make Congregation, or be receiver or gatherer of evill companies.

Riotor, Barrator.

ALso if any man be a common Riotor, or a Barrator, walking by nightertaile without light, against the rule & custome of this City.

Peace, hue and cry.

ALso if there be any man within this Ward, that will not helpe, aide, nor succour the Constables, Beadle, and other ministers of this City in keeping of the peace, and arrest the evill doers with rearing of hue and cry.

Hucksters, receivers of Apprentices Artificers, &c.

ALso if there be any Huckster of Ale and Beere, that commonly useth to receive any Apprentices, servants, Artificers or Labourers, that commonly use to play at the Dice, Cards, or Tables, contrary to the form of the statute in that case ordained and provided.

Inholder, Taverner, Victualer.

ALso if there bee any Inholder, Taverner, Brewer, Huckster, or other Victualer, that hold open their houses after the houre limited by the Maior.

Curfue.

ALso if any Parish Clarke doe ring the Bell, called the Curfue Bell, after Curfue rungen at the Churches of Bow, Barking Chruch, and Saint Giles without Creplegate.

Bawds, maintainers of quarrels.

ALso yee shall enquire if any Putour, that is to say, man-Bawd, or woman-Bawd, common hazerdours, contectour, maintainer of quarrels, champartours, or embracers of Inquests, or other common mis-doers bee dwelling within this Ward, and present their names.

Strumpet, Adulterer, Witch, Scold.

ALso if any Baud, common strumpet, common Adulterer, Witch or common Scold bee dwelling within this Ward.

Hot-house.

ALso if there be any house, wherein is kept and holden any hot-house, or sweating-house, for ease and health of men, to the which be resorting or conversant any strumpets, or women of evill name or fame, or if there be any hot-house or sweating ordained for women, to the which is any common recourse of young men, or of other persons of evill fame and suspect conditions.

Also, if there bee any such persons that keepe or hold any such hot-houses, either for men or women, and have found no surety to the Chamberlaine for their good and honest behaviour, according to the Lawes of this City, and lodge any manner of person by night, contrary to the ordinance therof made, by the which he or they shall forfeit [Page] twenty pounds to the Chamber, if they doe the contrary.

Thames, ditches, streets, &c.

ALso if any manner of person cast or lay dung, ordure, rubbish, seacole dust, rushes, or any other thing noyant, in the River of Thames, Walbrooke, Fleet, or other ditches of this City, or in the open streets, waies, or lanes within this City.

Chanell.

ALso if any person after a great rain falleth, or at any other time sweepe any dung, ordure, rubbish, rushes, Seacole dust, or any other thing noyant, downe into the chanell of any street or lane, whereby the common course there is let, and the same things noyant driven downe into the said water of Thames.

Hogs, Kine, Oxen, Ducks.

ALso if any manner of person nourish Hogs, Oxen, Kine, Ducks, or any beasts within this Ward, to the grievance and disease of their Neighbours.

Vsury.

ALSO if any Vsurers or false chevesancers be dwelling within this Ward.

Persons indited in one Ward, flying into another.

ALso where afore this time it is ordained and enacted as hereafter followeth. Item, for to eschew the evils of misgoverned persons that daily when they be indited in one Ward, flye into another: It is ordained by the Maior and Aldermen, that as soone as a man or woman suspect, first doe come to dwell within any house, in any Ward within the City, the Constables, Beadles, or other Officers of the same, shall bee charged by their Oathes, at the generall Court, to enquire and espy from whence they come. And if they finde by their owne confession, or by the record of any of the Bookes of any Alderman of the City, that they be indited or cast of evill and noyous life, and will not finde surety for their good abearing and honest governance to the Alderman for the time being, that then they shall not dwell there from thenceforth, but shall bee warned to avoid within three or foure dayes, or more or lesse, after, as it shall bee seene to the Alderman of the Ward for the time being, and that the Landlord that letteth the house, or his attourney, shall bee also warned to make them to avoid out of his house aforesaid, within the said time limited by the Alderman: and if they bee found there after the time, that then not onely the said dishonest persons shal have imprisonmēt of their bodies after the discretion of the Maior and Aldermen, but also the said Landlords, letters of the said houses, shall forfeit to the Guild-hall, as much as they should have had for letting of the said house, or should be paid by the yeere, if the said persons or others had dwelled in the said house.

Colouring forraine goods.

ALso if any Freeman against his Oath made, conceale, cover, or colour the goods of Forrains, by the which the King may in any wise lose, or the franchises of this City bee imblemished.

Forraine buying and selling.

ALso if any Forraine buy and sell with any other Forraine within this City or the Suburbs thereof any goods or Merchandises, the same [Page] goods or Merchandises bee forthwith forfeit, to the use of the Comminalty of this City.

Freemen not resident.

ALso if every Freeman, which receiveth or taketh the benefit, and enjoyeth the franchises of this City, bee continually dwelling out of the City, and hath not, nor will not (after his oath made) bee at scot and lot, nor partner to the charges of this City, for the worship of the same City, when hee is duely required.

Orphans, Wards, Marriages.

ALSO if any man conceale the goods of Orphanes of this City, of whom the Ward and marriage of right belongeth to the Maior and Aldermen of this City.

Officers.

AND if any Officer by colour of his Office, doe extortion unto any man, or bee maintainer of quarrels against right, or take carriage, or arrest victuall unduely.

Boatman, Ferriour.

ALso if any Boatman or Ferriour be dwelling in the Ward, that taketh more for Boatmanage or ferriage, than is ordained.

Purprestures.

ALso if any man make Purprestures, that is to say, encroach, or take of the common ground of this City, by land or by water, as in walls, pales, stoopes, grieces, or doores, or cellers, or in any other like within the Ward; or if any porch, pent-house, or jetty bee too low, in letting of men that ride beside, or carts that goe thereforth.

Pent-houses, Ietties, Stalls, &c.

ALso that Pentises and Ietties be at the least the height of nine foot, and that the stalls bee not but of two foot and a halfe in breadth, and to be flexible or moveable, that is to say, to hang by Iemewes or garners, so that they may bee taken up and let downe.

Way, Watercourse.

ALso if any common way or common course of water be foreclosed or letted, that it may not have his course as it was wont, to the noyance of the Ward, and by whom it is done.

Pavements.

ALso if any pavement bee defective, or too high in one place, and too low in another, to the disturbance of riders and goers therby, and carts that goe thereupon.

Regrators, Forestallers.

ALso if any Regrator or Forestaller of victuall, or of any other Merchandizes which should come to this City to be sold, bee dwelling in this Ward: a Regrator is as much to lay, as hee that buyeth up all the victual, or Merchandizes, or the most part thereof, when it is come to the City or the Suburbs of the same at a low price, and then afterwards selleth it at his owne pleasure, at a high and excessive price: a Forestaller is he that goeth out of the City, and meeteth with the victual or Merchandize by the way, comming unto the City to be sold, and there buyeth it, both these bee called in the [Page] Law, Inimici publici patriae, which is to say, open enemies to a Country.

Price of victuall.

ALso if any Butcher, Fishmonger, Poulter, Vintner, Hostler, Cook, or seller of Victuall, doe sell Victuall at unreasonable prices.

Hay.

ALso if any Hostler sell Hay, Oats or Provender at excessive prices, taking greater gain therby then is reasonable and lawfull.

Victuall unwholsome. Price.

ALso if any Victualer sell any Victuals not covenable, or unwholsome for mans body, or else dearer than is proclaimed by the Maior.

Measures unsealed.

YE shall diligently make search and inquiry, whether there bee any Vintner, Inholder, Alehouse-keeper, or any other person or persons whatsoever within your Ward, that doe use or keepe in his or their house or houses, any Cans, Stone pots, or other measures which be unsealed, & by Law not allowed to sell Beere or Ale thereby, and whether they doe sell any of their best Beere and Ale above a penny the quart, or any small Ale or Beere above a halfe penny the quart, & whether any of them doe sell by any measure not sealed. If there bee any such, you shall seize them, and send them to the Guild-Hall to the Chamberlaines Office, & present their names and faults by Indenture, so oft as there shall be any occasion so to doe.

Weights and Measures.

YE shall also make search in the Shops and Houses of all the Chandlers, and of all others which sell by Weight or Measure, dwelling within your Ward, and see that their Scales bee not one heavier then another, and that their Measures, as well Bushels as lesser Measures, as well those that sell Sea-coales by (which ought to bee heaped) that they bee in bredth according to the new Standard, sealed as all others; and that all Yards and Ells be their just lengths & sealed, that the poore and other his Majesties subjects be not deceived. And further, if any doe buy by one Weight or Measure, and sell by others: and if in your search you finde any false Weights, Measures, or Scales, ye shall seize them and send them unto the Guild-Hall to the Chamberlaine: and you shall also doe the like, if you shall finde any that doe sell any thing by Venice Weights, contrary to the Law, and his Majesties Proclamations, present their names and faults.

Inholder, Browne-Baker.

ALso if any Inholder bake any Bread to sell within his house: and if any Baker of sowre Bread bake white Bread to sell, or marke not his Bread, or else take more for the baking then three pence for a Bushell.

House, Tyle.

ALso yee shall enquire, if any house bee covered otherwise, then with Tile, Stone, Lead, for perill of fire.

Leper, Begger.

ALso if any Leper, Faitour, or mighty Begger bee dwelling within this Ward.

Bakers, Brewers.

ALso if any Baker or Brewer bake or brew with Straw, of any other thing which is perillous for fire.

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Painted Vizage.

ALso if any man goe with painted Vizage.

Candle-light.

ALso if there be any man that hangeth not out a Lanthorne with a Candle therein burning after the Vsage, according to the commandement thereupon given.

Tall-wood, Billets, Faggots.

ALso if any person bring or cause to be brought to this City or the Liberties thereof, to be sold, or sell, offer or put to sale, any Tall-wood, Billets, Faggots, or other fire-wood, not being of the full assize which the same ought to hold.

Wood, Country.

ALso if any Free man of this City, use to resort into the Countries neere to this City, and there to ingrosse and buy up much Billet, Tallwood, Faggot, Tofard, or other Fire-wood, and convey the same by water unto this City, and there lay it upon their Wharfes and other places, and so keepe it till they may sell it at high and excessive prices at their owne wills.

Also if any Wood-monger, or any other, sell any Billets or other Fire-wood above the price set by the Lord Maior.

Cheese, Butter.

ALso if any Citizen of this City, by himselfe, or any other person for him or to his use, use to resort into the Country, and there buy and ingrosse great quantitie of Cheese and Butter, as well barrelled as otherwise, and after conveigh it by water or otherwise to this City to be sold at deare and excessive prices.

Freemen to shew their Copies.

ALso forasmuch as it is thought that divers and many persons dwelling within the Liberties of this City, dayly occupy as Freemen, whereas indeed they bee none, nor never were admitted into the Liberties of this City, ye shall therefore require every such person dwelling within this Ward, whom ye shall suspect of the same, to shew you the Copy of his Freedome, under the Seale of the Office of the Chamberlaine of the said City; and such as yee shall finde without their Copies, or deny to shew their Copies, ye shall write and present their names in your Indentures.

Melting Tallow.

ALso you shall inquire and truly present all such persons as use melting of Tallow, contrary to an Act of Common Councell in that case made and provided.

Fire-Presses.

ALso you shall truly present all persons which have or use any Fire-Presses within the said City or Liberties of the same, for pressing or dressing of Nether-stockes, Wollenclothes, or other things.

Also you shall enquire of all Armorers [...] other Artificers, [...] to work [...] which have or [...] Reardor [...], or any other places dangerous or peri [...]ous for fire.

Appraysers.

ALso if any have appraised any goods of any Free-man deceased, leaving behind him any Orphan [Page] or Orphanes, and the Appraisers not sworne before the Lord Maior or the Alderman of the Ward.

Beames.

ALso if any Free-man buy any Wares or Merchandizes unweighed, which ought to bee weighed at the Kings Beame, of any stranger or forreigne free of the Liberties of this City, contrary to the Act of Common Councell in that case made and provided.

Clothes.

ALso if any buy or sell any Cloth or Clothes in the house, shop, ware-house, or other place of any Cloth-worker, or other person against any Ordinance or Custome of this City, or if any Cloth-worker or other doe receive or harbour any Clothes, before the same be brought to Blackwell-Hall, contrary to the ordinance made in that behalfe.

Carmen.

ALso if any Carman take any money for carriage of any Goods, Wares, and Merchandizes, above the rates ordained.

Buildings, divided Houses, Inmates.

ALso if any make or cause to bee made any new Building or Buildings, or divide or cause to bee divided any House or Houses, or receive any Inmate or Inmates contrary to the Kings Majesties Proclamation, or contrary to Law, or any Statute of this Realme.

Hawkers.

ALso if any bee dwelling within this Ward, which doe offer or put to sale any Wares or Merchandizes in the open Streets or Lane of this City, or goe from house to house to sell the same, commonly called Hawkers, contrary to an Act made in that behalfe.

Freedome.

ALso if any have covenously, fraudently, or unduly obtained the freedome of this City.

Collectors.

ALso if any Collector of Fifteenes or other duties for the publike service of the King or of this City, doe retaine in his hands any part of the money collected to his owne use.

Women receivers of Servants.

YE shall also enquire if there bee dwelling within your Ward any Woman-broker, such as refort unto mens houses, demanding of their Maid-servants if they doe like of their services: if not, then they will tell them they will helpe them to a better service, and so allure them to come from their Masters to their houses, where they abide as Boorders untill they bee provided for. In which time it falleth out, that by lewd young men that resort to those houses, they be oftentimes made Harlots to their undoing, and the great hurt of the Common-wealth: wherefore if any such be, you shall present them, that order may be taken for reformation.

Privies.

ALso if any have or use any common Privie, having issue into any common Sewer of the Citie.

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Vagabonds.

ALso if any Constable, Beadle, or other Officer, be negligent or remisse in discharging his duty touching the execution of the Statute made for punishment of Rogues, Vagabonds, and sturdy Beggers, or otherwise, and wherein the default is.

Poore.

ALso if any to whom the execution of the Statute made for reliefe of the poore doth appertaine, be remisse in discharging his duty touching the execution of the same Statute, and wherein the default is.

Legacies.

ALso if any Executor or other person retaine in his hands any Legacy, summe of money, or other thing given to any charitable use.

Drunkard, Whoremonger, Sabbath-breaker, Iesuite, Seminary Priest, Secular Priest, popish Recusant, Coozeners, &c.

YEE shall inquire whether there be within your Ward any common Drunkard, Whoremonger, Blasphemer of Gods holy Name, Prophaner of the Sabbath, Iesuite, Seminary or Secular Priest, or any Receiver, Releever, or Maintainer of any of them, or any Popish Recusant, Coozener, or swaggering idle Companion, such as cannot give account how they live; if there bee any such, you shall present them and the names of those that lodge them or aid them.

Masse.

YEE shall also enquire, whether any person or persons doe or shall say or sing Masse within your Ward, or bee persent at any Masse.

Roman Catholike Religion.

ALso if any person or persons within your Ward being evill affected, doe or shall extoll the Roman Catholike Religion above the Religion professed and established by the Kings Majesties authority in England, or doe or shall deprave the Religion now professed in this Realme by authority as above, which may breed discord in the City, and dissension in the Common-wealth, ye shall carefully present the same persons and their offences.

Stable-Dung.

ALso if any person or persons that keepeth Horses in their houses, doe lay his or their Stable dung, or such kinde of stinking filth in any Streets or Lanes of this City, to the great annoyance of the people passing that way, and doe not leade his Dung-Cart to his Stable doore as he ought to doe.

Assembly monthly.

YOu shall assemble your selves once every moneth, or oftner if need require, so long as you shall continue of this Inquest, and present the defaults which you shall finde to bee committed concerning any of the Articles of your charge, to the end due remedy may bee speedily supplied, and the offenders punished as occasion shall require.

Here end the Articles.

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AN ACT OF PARLIAMENT FOR THE PRESERVATION OF the River of Thames, made in the 27. yeere of the raigne of our most dread Soveraigne Lord, King HENRY the eighth.

WHere before this time the River of Thames, among all other Rivers within this Realme, hath beene accepted and taken, and as it is indeed most commodious and profitable unto all the Kings liege people: and chiefly of all other frequented and used, and as well by the Kings Highnesse, his Estates, and Nobles, Merchants, and other repairing to the City of London, and other places, Shires and Counties adjoyning to the same: which River of Thames is, and hath been most meet and convenient of all other, for the safegard and ordering of the Kings Navy, conveighance of Merchandizes, and other necessaries, to, and for the Kings most Honourable houshold, and otherwise, to the great relief and comfort of all persons within this Realme, till now of late divers evil-disposed persons, partly by misordering of the said River, by casting in of dung and other filth, laid nigh to the bankes of the said River, digging & undermining of the said banks and walls next adjoyning to the same River, carrying and conveighing away of way-shides, shore-piles, boords, timber-worke, ballast for ships, and other things from the said bankes and walles in sundry places: by reason whereof, great shelfs and risings haue of late beene made and growne in the farway of the said Riuer, and such grounds as lye within the levell of the said water marke, by occasion thereof haue bin surrounded and ouerflowne by rage of the said water, and many great breaches haue ensued and followed thereupon, and daily are like to doe, and the said River of Thames to be utterly destroyed for euer, if conuenient and speedy remedy bee not sooner provided in that behalfe.

For reformation whereof, be it enacted, established, and ordained by the King, our Soueraigne Lord, and by the assent of the Lords spirituall and temporall, and the Commons in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, That if any person or persons hereafter, doe or procure any thing to be done in the annoying of the streame of the said River of Thames, making of shelfs by [Page] any manner of meanes, by mining, digging, casting of dung, or rubbish; or other thing in the same Riuer, or take, plucke, or conueigh away any boords, stakes, piles, Timberworke, or other thing from the said bankes or walls, except it bee to amend, and the same to repaire againe, or dig or undermine any bankes or walls on the water side of Thames aforesaid, to the hurt, impairing or dammage of any the said walls and bankes, then the same person or persons, and euery of them, shall forfeit and pay for euery time so offending, one hundred shillings: the one moity thereof to be to the King our Soueraigne Lord, and the other moity thereof to the Maior and Comminalty of London for the time being, the same to be recouered and obtained by the Maior and Comminalty of London, by Bill or plaint, writ of debt or information seuerally against euery offender in any of the Kings Courts, in which actions and suits, or any of them, the party defendant shall not be essoined or wage his law, or any protection to be allowed in the same.

And it is further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that if complaint shal happen to be made to the Lord Chancellor of England, Lord Treasurer, Lord President of the Kings Councell, Lord Priuie Seale, or to any of them by any person or persons or body politick, that Sir Thomas Spert Knight, now hauing the Office and ordering, of, and for ballasting of Ships, or any other that hereafter shall haue the Office and order of ballasting of Ships, doe take any ballast for Ships neere the said Riuer of Thames, and do not take for parcell of the said ballasting, the grauel and sand of the shelfs betweene Greenhyth and Richmond within the said Riuer of Thames, or in any place or places, that is or shall bee unto the dammage or annoyance of the said Riuer of Thames, or in any part thereof, that then upon euery such complaint, the said Lord Chancelor, Lord Treasurer, Lord President of the Kings most honourable Councell, Lord Priuie seale, and euery of them, calling both the chiefe Iustices of either bench, or one of them, shall haue power and authority from time to time, to heare and finally determine euery such complaint by their discretion, and to put such order therein, for the taking of ballast for ships upon euery such complaint, as by their discretions shall seeme most conuenient for the preseruation of the said Riuer of Thames, and the parties offending such order, shall suffer imprisonment, and make no lesse fine than 5. pound to the Kings use for euery time offending or breaking the same.

Prouided alwaies, and be it enacted, that it shall be lawfull to euery person and persons, to dig, carry, and take away sand, grauell or other rubbish, earth, or thing lying or being in, or upon any shelfe or shelfs within the said Riuer of Thames, without let or interruption of any person or persons, or paying any thing for the same, any thing contained in this present Act to the contrary notwithstanding.

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AN ACT OF COMMON COVNCELL, CONCERNING the Conservation and Cleansing of the River of THAMES, made the 28. of September, in the thirtieth yeere of the Reigne of our Soveraigne Lord King Henry the 8.

WHere by the Statute made in the 27. yeere of the Reigne of our Soveraigne LORD, King HENRY the eighth, among other, for reformation of the mis-ordering of the River of Thames, by casting in dung and other filth, many great shelves and other risings have beene of late growne and made within the same River: By reason whereof many great Breaches have ensued by occasion thereof, which of like shall be the occasion of the utter destruction of the said River, unlesse that the same Law bee put in due execution according to the true intent and meaning thereof.

Wherefore for a further reformation of the same, and to the intent that the said good and wholsome Statute may bee put in more execution, and better knowledge of the people: It is enacted by the authority of this Common Councell, that Proclamation may be made within this said City, and the same to be put in writing, and Tables thereof made and set up in divers places of this City, that it shall be lawfull to every person or persons, to dig, carry away, and take away Sand, Gravell, or any Rubbish, Earth, or any thing lying or being in any Shelfe or Shelves within the said River of Thames, without let or interruption of any person or persons, and without any thing paying for the same, and after that to sell the same away, or otherwise occupy or dispose the said Gravell, Sand, or other thing at their free liberty and pleasure. And that all Paviours, Brick-layers, Tilers, Masons, and all other that shall occupy Sand or Gravell, shall endevour themselves with all their diligence, to occupy the said Sand or Gravell, and none other, paying for the same reasonably, as they should & ought to pay for other Sand or Gravell digged out of other mens grounds about the said City, which after is filled againe with much filthy things, to the great [Page] infection of the inhabitants of the said City, and all other repairing unto the same. And that further, humble suit may bee made to the Kings Highnesse, that all persons having lands or tenements along the said River side, upon certaine paine by his Highnesse, and the Lords of his Honourable Councell to bee limited, shall well and sufficiently repaire and maintaine all the Walls and Bankes adioyning unto their said Lands, that so the Water may not, nor shal break in upon the same: and the same to bee continued till the time that the said noble River be brought againe to his old course and former estate. And that strong grates of iron along the said water side, and also by the street side, where any Water-course is had into the said Thames be made by the inhabitants of every Ward so along the said Water, as of old time hath beene accustomed. And that every grate be in height foure and twenty inches at the least, or more, as the place shall neede, and in breadth one from another one inch; and the same to bee done with all expedition and speed. And if the occupiers of the said Lands and Tenements make default contrary to the Ordinance aforesaid: or else if any person or persons in great Raines and other times, sweepe their Soylage, or filth of their houses into the Chanell, and the same after is conveyed into the Thames, every person so offending, shall forfeit for every such default twenty pence, and that upon complaint to bee made to any Constable, next adioyning to the said place where any such default shall bee found, it shall be lawfull for the said Constable, or his sufficient Deputy for the time being, from time to time to distraine for the same offence: and to retaine the same irreplegiable, and like Law to be observed and kept. And like penalty to bee paid for every person that burnes Rushes and Straw in their houses, or wash in the common streets or lanes, and to bee recoverd as aforesaid, and the one moity thereof to be to the Maior and Comminalty, and the other moity to bee divided betweene the said Constable that taketh paine, and the party finder of the said default. And if the Constable or his Deputy, refuse to doe his duty according to the true meaning of this Act, that then the Constable or his Deputy, which shal so refuse to do his duty as aforesaid, shall forfeit and pay for every time so offending, three shillings foure pence. And the same penalty of the said Constable to be recovered and obtained by distresse irreplegiable, to bee taken by any of the Officers of the Chamber of London, to the use of the Maior and Comminalty of London.

And further, that no person or persons having any Wharfe or House by the said Water side, make not their Lay-stalls nigh to the River aforesaid, except onely the common Lay-stalls, where the common Rakers of [Page] this City use to repose, and lay all their soylage, to bee carried a way by them with their Dung-boats. And that the said Rakers shall lay their said Dung, carried in their Dung-boats, to such convenient place or places as shall bee appointed by the Lord Maior of LONDON, for the time being, with the advice of his brethren, the Aldermen of the same, and to no other place or places, upon paine to forfeit for every such default five pounds, to bee recovered in any of the Kings Courts within the City of LONDON, by Bill, Plaint, moity of Debt, or information by any person that will or shall pursue for the same: the one moity thereof to bee unto the Maior and Comminalty of London, and the other moity to him or them that will or shall pursue for the same; in which actions or suits, no wager of Law nor essoigne shall be allowed.

The Oath of the Constables within the City of LONDON.

YE shall sweare, that ye keep the Peace of our Soveraigne Lord the King, well and lawfully after your power. And yee shall arrest all them that make, contect, Riot, Debate, or afray, in breaking of the said Peace, and leade them to the house or Compter of one of the Sheriffes. And if ye bee withstood by strength of misdoers, ye shall reare on them an Outcry, and pursue them from street to street, and from Ward to Ward, till they be arrested: and ye shall search at all times, when ye bee required by the Scavengers or Beadles, the common noysance of your Ward. And the Beadle and Raker yee shall helpe to reare, and gather their Sallary and Quarter age, if yee bee thereunto by them required. And if any thing bee done within your Ward against the Ordinance of this City, such defaults as ye shall find there done, ye shall them present to the Maior and Ministers of this City: and if ye bee letted by any person or persons, that yee may not duly doe your office, yee shall certifie the Maior and Councell of the City, of the name or names of him or them that so let [...].

Yee shall also sweare, that during the time that yee shall stand in the Office, and occupy the roome of a Constable, yee shall, once at the least every moneth, certifie and shew to one of the Clarkes of the Maiors Court, and in the same Court, as well the names as surnames of all Free-men, which yee shall know to bee deceased within the moneth, in the Parish wherein yee bee inhabited, as also the names and surnames of all the Children of the said Freemen so deceased, being Orphanes of this City. And thus ye shall not leave to doe, as God you helpe, &c.

God save the King.

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The Oath of the Scavengers.

YEE shall sweare, that yee shall diligently oversee that the Pavements within your Ward, bee well and sufficiently repaired, and not made too high in noysance of your Neighbours: and that the Wayes, Streets, and Lanes bee cleansed of Dung and all manner of fil [...]b for the honesty of this City. And that all the Chimnies, Furnaces, and Reredoes be of stone sufficiently and defensively made against perill of fire. And if yee finde any the contrary, ye shall shew it to the Alderman of the Ward, so that the Alderman may ordaine for the amendment thereof. And thus yee shall doe, as God you helpe.

God save the King.

Instructions for the Apprentices in the City of LONDON.

YOV shall constantly and devoutly, on your knees every day, serve God Morning and Evening, and make conscience in the due hearing of the Word preached, and endevour the right practice thereof in your life and conversation: You shall doe diligent and faithfull service to your Master for the time of your Apprentiship, & deale truly in what you shall be trusted: You shall often reade over the Coveants of your Indenture, and see and endevour your selfe to performe the same to the vttermost of your power: You shall auoid all evill Company, and all occasions which may tend, or draw you to the same, and make speedy returne when you shall be sent of your Masters or Mistresse errands: You shall avoid idlenesse, and be ever imployed either for Gods service, or in your Masters businesse: You shall be of faire, gentle, and lowly speech and behaviour to all men, and especially to all your Governours. And according to your carriage, expect your reward, for good or ill, from God and your friends.

God save the King.

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The Oath of every Free-man of this City of LONDON.

YEE shall sweare, that yee shall be good and true to our Soveraigne Lord, King CHARLES, and to the Heires of our said Soveraigne Lord the King. Obeysant and obedient yee shall bee to the Maior and Ministers of this City, the Franchises and Customes thereof yee shall maintaine, and this City keep harmlesse in that which in you is. Yee shall bee contributory to all manner of charges within this City, as Summons, Watches, Contributions, Taxes, Tallages, Lot and Scot, and to all other charges, bearing your part as a freeman ought to doe. Yee shall colour no Forraines goods, under, or in your name, whereby the King or this City might or may lose their Customes or Advantages. Yee shall know no Forraigne to buy or sell any Merchandize with any other Forraigne within this City or Franchise thereof, but yee shall warne the Chamberlaine thereof, or some Minister of the Chamber. Yee shall implead or sue no Freeman out of this City, whiles ye may have right and Law within the same City. Ye shall take none Apprentice, but if hee be free borne (that is to say) no bond-mans Sonne, nor the Sonne of any Alien, and for no lesse tearme then for seven yeeres, without fraud or deceit: and within the first yeere yee shall cause him to be enrolled, or else pay such Fine as shall bee reasonably imposed upon you for omitting the same: and after his tearmes end, within convenient time (being required) ye shall make him free of this City, if hee have well and truly served you. Yee shall also keepe the Kings Peace in your owne person. Ye shall know no Gatherings, Conventicles, or Conspiracies made against the Kings Peace, but ye shall warne the Maior thereof, or let it to your power. All these points and Articles ye shall well and truly keepe, according to the Lawes and Customes of this City to your power. So God you helpe.

God save the King.

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Commune Concilium tentum die Veneris primo die Iunii, An. Regni Regis Henrici octavi, &c. decimo octavo, in praesentia Iohannis Allen Maioris, Gulielmi Butler Militis, Iohannis Milbourne Militis, Iohannis Mundi Militis, Thomae Baldri Militis, Gulielmi Bayly Militis, Thomae Semer Militis, Iacobi Spencer Militis, Iohannis Rudstone, Radulphi Dodmer, Iohannis Browne, Nicholai Lambert, Stephani Peacocke, Iohannis Harding, Nicho. Iennings, Hen. Dacres, Iohan. Canulen, & Christopheri Askew, viz.

AT this Common Councell, it is agreed, granted, ordained, & enacted, That if hereafter any Free man or Free woman of this City, take any Apprentice, and within the terme of seven yeeres suffer the same Apprentice to goe at his large liberty and pleasure: and within, or after the said terme, agree with his said Apprentice for a certaine summe of money, or otherwise for his said service, and within or after the end of the said tearme, the said Free man present the said Apprentice to the Chamberlaine of the City, and by good deliberation, and upon his Oath made to the same City, the same Free man or Free woman assureth and affirmeth to the said Chamberlain, that the said Apprentice hath fully served his said tearme as Apprentice: Or if any Free man or Free woman of this City, take any apprentice, which at the time of the said taking hath any Wife: Or if any Free man or Free woman of this City, give any wages to his or her Apprentice, or suffer the said Apprentices to take any part of their owne getting or gaines: Or if any Free man or Free woman of this City hereafter colour any Forraines goods, or from henceforth buy or sell for any person or persons, or with or to any person or persons, being Forraine, or Forrainers, Clothes, Silks, Wine, Oyles, or any other goods or merchandize whatsoever they bee; whether hee take any thing or things for his or their wages or labour, or not: Or if any person or persons being free of this City, by any colour or deceitfull meanes from henceforth, doe buy, sell, or receive of any Apprentice within this City, any Money, Goods, Merchandize, or Wares, without the assent or licence of his Master or Mistresse: & upon examination duly proved before the Chamberlaine of the said City for the time being: And the same reported by the mouth of the said Chamberlaine at a Court to bee holden by the Maior and the Aldermen of the same City in their Councel Chamber: That as well the said Master as the said Apprentice, shall for evermore bee dis-franchised.

God save the King.

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A DISCOVRSE OF THE NAMES AND FIRST CAVSES OF THE INSTITVTION of Cities and peopled Townes: And of the commodities that doe grow by the same: and namely, of the City of LONDON. Written by way of an Apology (or defence) against the opinion of some men, which thinke that the greatnesse of that City standeth not with the profit and security of this Realme.

CIties and well peopled places be called Oppida in Latine, either ab ope danda, or ab opibus, or ab opponendo se hostibus. They bee named also Civitates a coëundo, and (urbes) either of the word urbare, because the first inclosure of them was described with the draught of a Plow, or else ab orbe, for the round compasse that they at the first had.

In the Greek a City is tearmed [...], either of the word [...], multus, or of [...], id est, habitare, alere, gubernare.

In the Saxon (or old English) sometimes Tun, which we now call Towne, derived of the word Tynan, to enclose or tyne, as some yet speake. But for as much as that word was proper to every Village, and inclosed dwelling, therefore our Ancestors called their walled Townes, Bu [...]h or Bi [...]i [...], and we now Bury and Borow, of the Greeke word [...], (as I thinke) which signifieth a Tower or a high building.

The walls of these Townes had their name of vallum, because at the first they were but of that earth which was cast out of the trench, or ditch wherewith they were environed.

But afterward, being made of matter more fit for defence, they were named A muniendo maenia. By the Etymologie of these names it may appeare, that Common Weales, Cities and Townes were at first invented, to the end that men might lead a civill life amongst themselves, and be saved harmelesse against their enemies: Whereupon Plato saith, Civitates ab initio utilitatis causa constitutae sunt. Aristotle, 1. Politicorum 2. saith, Civitas à natura profecta est: homo enim animal aptum est ad coetus, & proinde civitatis origo ad vivendum, institutio ad bene vivendum refertur. And Cicero, lib. primo de inventione, in the beginning saith, Fuit quoddam tempus cùm in agris homines passim bestiarum more vagabantur, &c. quo quidem tempore, quidam (magnus viz. vir & sapiens) dispersos homines in agris, & tectis silvestribus abditos, ratione quadam compulit in unum locum, at (que) eos in unamquam (que) rem induxit utilem & honestam. Vrbibus vero constitutis fidem colere, & justitiam retinere discebant, & aliis parere sua voluntate consuescebant, &c. The same man discourseth notably to the same effect, in his Oration Pro Sestio, a little after the middest thereof, shewing that in the life of men dispersed, vis, beareth all the sway: but in the civill life and society, ars, is [Page]better maintained, &c. This thing well saw King William the Conqueror, who in his lawes, folio 125. saith, Burgi & Civitates fundata, & edificata sunt, ad tuitionem gentium & populorum Regni, & idcirco observari debent cum omni libertate, integritate & ratione. And his Predecessors, King Ethelstane, and King Canutus in their Lawes, fol. 62. and 106. had commanded thus: Oppida instaurantur, &c.

Seeing therefore that as Cicero, 2. officior. saith, Proxime & secundum Deos, homines hominibus maxime utiles esse possunt. And that men are congregated into Cities and Common-wealths, for honesty and utilities sake, these shortly be the commodities that doe come by Cities, Cōminalties, and Corporations. First, men by this neerenesse of conversation, are withdrawne from barbarous ferity and force, to a certaine mildnesse of manners and to humanity and justice: whereby they are contented to give and take right, to and from their equals and inferiors, and to heare and obey their heads and superiors. Also the Doctrine of God is more fitly delivered, and the discipline thereof more aptly to be executed, in peopled Towns than abroad, by reason of the facility of common and often assembling. And consequently, such inhabitants bee better managed in order, and better instructed in wisedome: whereof it came to passe that at the first, they that excelled others this way, were called Astuti, of the Greeke word [...], which signifieth a City, although the terme bee now declined to the worst part, and doe betoken evill, even as Tyrannus Sophista, and some such other originally good words are fallen: And hereof also good behavior is yet called Vrbanitas, because it is rather found in Cities, than elsewhere. In some, by often hearing, men be better perswaded in Religion, and for that they live in the eye of others, they bee by example the more easily trained to justice, and by shamefastnesse restrained from injury.

And whereas Commonwealths and Kingdomes cannot have, next after God, any surer foundation, than the love and good will of one man towards another, that also is closely bred and maintained in Cities, where men by mutuall society and companying together, doe grow to alliances, Comminalties and Corporations.

The liberall sciences and learnings of all sorts, which bee Iumina reipublicae, doe flourish onely in peopled Townes, without the which a Realme is in no better case than a man that lacketh both his eyes.

Manual Arts or handy crafts, as they have for the most part been invented in Townes and Cities, so they cannot any where else bee either maintained or amended. The like is to bee said of Merchandize, under which name I comprehend all manner of buying, selling, bartering, exchanging, communicating of things that men need to and fro. Wealth and riches, which are truely called, Subsidia belli, & ornamenta pacis, are increased chifely in Townes and Cities, both to the Prince and people.

The necessity of the poore and needy is in such places both sooner to be espied, and hath meanes to be more charitably relieved.

The places themselves be surer refuges, in all extremities of forrain invasion, and the inhabitants be a ready hand and strength of men with munition to oppresse intestine sedition.

Moreover, for as much as the force of the warres of our time consisteth chiefly in shot, all other Souldiers being either horse-men or footmen, armed on land, or Mariners at the Sea: It seemeth to me, that Citizens and Townesmen be as fit to bee imploied in any of these services, that on horse backe onely excepted, as the inhabitants that bee drawne out of the Country.

Furthermore, even as these societies and assemblies of men in Cities and great Townes, are a continuall bridle against tyranny, which was the cause that Tarquin, Nero, Di [...]nisius, and such others have alwaies sought to weaken them. So, being well tempered, they are a strong fort and Bulwarke not only in the Aristocritie, but also in the Lawfull Kingdome or just royalty.

At once propagation of the Religiō, the execution of good policy, the exercise of charity, and the defence of the countrey, [Page] is best performed by Townes and Citties: and this civill life approacheth neerest to the shape of that mysticall body whereof Christ is the head, and men be the members: whereupon both at the first, that man of God Moses, in the common wealth of the Israelites, and the Governours of all Countries in all ages sithence, have continually maintained the same. And to change it, were nothing else but to Metamorphose the world, and to make wilde beasts of reasonable men. To stand longer upon this, it were in re non dubia, uti oratione non necessaria; and therefore I will come to London.

The Singularities of the City of LONDON.

WHatsoever is said of Cities generally, maketh also for LONDON specially: Howbei t these things are particularly for our purpose to bee considered in it. The situation; the former estimation that it hath had; the service that it hath done; the present estate and government of it, and such benefits as doe grow to the Realme by the maintenance thereof.

This Realme hath onely three principall Rivers, whereon a Royall City may well bee situated: Trent in the North, Severne in the South-West, and Thames in the South-East: of the which, Thames, both for the strait course in length, reacheth furthest into the belly of the land; and for the breadth and stilnesse of the water, is most navigable up and downe the streame: by reason whereof, London standing almost in the middle of that course, is more commodiously served with provision of necessaries, then any Towne standing upon the other two Rivers can be, and doth also more easily communicate to the rest of the Realme, the commodities of her owne entercourse and trafficke.

This River openeth indifferently upon France and Flanders, our mightiest neighbours, to whose doings we ought to have a bent eye and speciall regard: and this City standeth thereon in such convenient distance from the Sea, as it is not onely neere enough for intelligence of the affaires of those Princes, and for the resistance of their attempts: but also sufficiently removed from the feare of any sudden dangers that may be offered by them: whereas for the Prince of this Realme to dwell upon Trent, were to turne his backe, or blind side, to his most dangerous borderers: and for him to rest and dwell upon Severne, were to be shut up in a cumbersome corner, which openeth but upon Ireland only, a place of much lesse importance.

Neither could London be pitched so commodiously upon any other part of the same River of Thames, as where it now standeth. For if it were removed more to the West, it should lose the benefit of the ebbing and flowing: and if it were seated more towards the East, it should bee neerer to danger of the enemy, and further both from the good Ayre, and from doing good to the inner parts of the Realme: neither may I omit, that none other place is so plentifully watered with springs, as London is.

And whereas amongst other things, Corne and Cattell, Hay and Fuell bee of great necessity: of the which, Cattell may bee driven from afarre, and Corne may easily be transported. But Hay and Fuell, being of greater bulke and burthen, must be had at hand: only London, by the benefit of this situation and River, may bee sufficiently served therewith. In which respect and Alderman of London reasonably (as mee thought) affirmed, that although London received great nourishment by the residence of the Prince, the repaire of the Parliament, and Courts of Iustice, yet it stood principally by the advantage of the situation upon the River: for when as on a time it was told him by a Courtier, that Queene Mary, in her displeasure against London, had appointed to remove with the Parliament and Terme to Oxford; this plaine man demanded, Whether shee meant [Page] also to divert the River of Thames from London, or no? And when the Gentleman had answered, No; Then quoth the Alderman, by Gods grace we shall doe well enough at London, whatsoever become of the Terme and Parliament. I my selfe being then a young Scholler at Oxford, did see great preparation made towards that Tearme and Parliament, and doe well remember that the common opinion and voyce was, that they were not holden there, because provision of Hay could not be made in all the Country to serve for ten whole dayes together, and yet is that quarter plentifully stored with Hay for the proportion of the shire it selfe.

For proofe of the ancient estimation of London, I will not use the authority of the British Historie, nor of such as follow it (although some hold it credible enough that London was first Trinobantum civitas, or Troia nova, that famous City in our Histories, and then Luds Towne, and by corruption London, as they report) because they be not of sufficient force to draw the gain-sayers. Neither will I stand much upon that honourable Testimony which Gervas. Tilberiens. giveth to London in his booke De otiis Imperialibus, saying thus, concerning the blessing of God towards it.

In Vrbe London, exceptione habet divulgatum id per omnes aequè gentes Lucani Proverbium.

Invida fatorum series summisque negatum Stare diu:

Name ea annis 354. ante Romam condita, nunquam amisit principatum, nec bello consumpta est.

But I will rather use the credit of one or two ancient forrain Writers, & then descend to latter Histories. Cornel. Tacitus, lib. 4. Annal. saith, Londinum copia negociatorum, & comeatu maximè celebris; and Herodian in the life of Severus the Emperour, saith, Londinum urbs magna & opulenta; Beda lib. Ecclesiastic. 10. chap. 29. sheweth that Pope Gregory appointed two Archbishops Sees in England, the one at London, the other at Yorke. King Ethelstane in his Lawes appointing how many Mint-Masters should be in each City, allotteth eight to London, and not so many to any other City. The Penner of those Lawes that are said to be made by Edward the Confessor, and confirmed by William the Conquerour, saith, London est caput Regni, & Legum. King Henry the first, in the third Chapter of his Lawes, commandeth that no Citizen of London should bee amerced above an hundred shillings for any pecuniary paine. The great Chapter of England, that Helena, for which there was so long and so great warre and contention, in the ninth Chapter saith, Civitas London habeat omnes suas Libertates antiquas, &c. About the time of King Iohn, London was reputed, Regni firmata Columna, as Alex. Necham writeth: And in the beginning of the Raigne of King Richard the second, it was called Camera Regis, as Thomas Walsingham reporteth. I passe over the recitall of the Saxon Charter of King William the Conquerour; or the Latine Charters of Henry the first and second; of Richard the first; of Iohn; and of Edward the first; all which gave unto the Citizens of London great Priviledges, and of Edward the third, who reciting all the grants of his Predecessors, not onely confirmed, but also increased the same: and of the latter Kings, who have likewise added many things thereunto. Onely I wish to bee noted by them, that during all this time, all those wife and politike Princes have thought it fit, not onely to maintaine London in such plight as they found it, but also to adorne, increase, and amplifie it with singular tokens of their liberall favour and good liking. And whether there bee not now the same or greater causes to draw the like or better estimation and cherishing, let any man be judge, that will take the paines to compare the present estate of London, yet still growing to better, with the former condition of the same.

It were too much to recite particularly the Martiall services that this City hath done from time to time: neither doe I thinke that they be all committed to writing; only for a taste, as it were, I will note these few following.

Almost threescore yeeres before the Conquest, a huge Army of the Danes, (where of King Sweyne was the Leader) besieged King Etheldred in London (then [Page] the which, as the story saith, then hee had none other refuge) but they were manfully repulsed, and a great number of them slaine.

After the death of this Sweyne, his sonne Canutus (afterward King of England) besieged London, both by land and by water: but after much labour, finding it impregnable, he departed: and in the same yeere repairing his forces, hee girded it with a new siege, in the which the Citizens so defended themselves, and offended him, that in the end he went away with shame.

In the dissnsion that arose between King Edward the Confessor, and his Father in law Earle Goodwin (which was the mightiest subject within this Land that ever I have read of) The Earle with a great Army came to London, and was, for all that, by the countenance of the Citizens resisted, till such time as the Nobility made reconciliation betweene them. About seventy yeeres after the Conquest, Maude the Empresse made warre upon King Stephen for the right of the Crowne, and had taken his person prisoner, but by the strength and assistance of the Londoners and Kentishmen, Maude was put to flight at Winchester, and her Brother Robert then Earle of Glocester, was taken in exchange, for whom King Stephen was delivered; I dispute not whose right was better, but I avouch the service, seeing Stephen was in possession.

The History of William Walworth the Maior of London, is well knowne, by whose manhood and policy, the person of Richard the second was rescued, the City saved, Wat Tyler killed, and all his stragglers discomfited, in reward of which service, the Maior and other Aldermen were Knighted.

Iacke Cade also having discomfited the Kings Army, that was sent against him, came to London and was there manfully and with long fight resisted, until that by the good policy of the Citizens, his Company was dispersed.

Finally, in the tenth yeere of the raign of King Edward the fourth, and not many dayes before the death of Henry the sixth, Tho. Nevill, commonly called the Bastard of Fauconbridge, armed a great Company against the King, and being denied passage thorow London, hee assaulted it on divers parts: but hee was repulsed by the Citizens, and chased as farre as Stratford, with the losse of a great many.

Thus much of certaine their principall, and personall services, in warre only: for it were infinite to repeat the particular aides of men and money which London hath ministred: and I had rather to leave it to be conjectured at, by comparison to bee made betweene it, and other Cities, whereof I will give you this one note for an example. In the twelfth yeere of the raigne of King Edward the second, it was ordered by Parliament, that every City of the Realme should make out Souldiers against the Scots: at which time London was appointed to send two hundred men, and Canterbury, being then one of our best Cities, forty, and no more. And this proportion of five to one, is now in our age encreased, at the least five to one, both in Souldiers and subsidy. As for the other services that London hath done in times of peace, they are to bee measured by consideration of the commodities, whereof I will speake anon. In the meane season let the estate and government of this City be considred, to the end that it may appeare that it standeth well with the policy of the Realme.

Caesar in his Commentaries is witnesse, that in his time the Cities of Britaine had large Teritories annexed unto them, and were severall estates of themselves, governed by particular Kings or Potentates, as in Italy and Germany yet be: and that Mandubratius was King of the Trinobants, whose chiefe City London is taken to have beene. And I finde not that this government was altered, either by Caesar, or his successors, notwithstanding that the Country became to bee tributary unto them: but that it continued, untill at length the Britaines themselves reduced all their peoples into one Monarchy, howbeit that lasted not any long season: for upon Vortiger their King, came the Saxons our Ancestors, and they drave the Britains into Wales, Cornwall, and Britain in France, and in processe of warre divided [Page] the Country amongst themselves into an Eptarchy, or seven Kingdomes, of the which one was called the Kingdome of the East Saxons, which having in manner the same limits that the Bishopricke of London now enjoyeth, contained Essex, Middlesex, and a part of Hertfordshire, and so included London. Againe it appeareth, that in course of time, and about 1800. yeeres after Christ, Egbert (then King of the West Saxons) Vt pisces saepe minutos magnus comest, overcame the rest of the Kings, and once more erected a Monarchy, the which till the comming in of the Normanes, and from thence even hitherto hath continued.

Now I doubt not (whatsoever London was in the time of Caesar) but that under the Eptarchy and Monarchy it hath been a subject, and no free City, though happily endowed with some large priviledges: for King William the Conquerour found a Portreeve there, whose name was Godfrey (by which name hee greeteth him in his Saxon Chre) and his office was none other than the charge of a Bayliffe, or Reeve, as by the selfe-same name continuing yet in Gravesend, and certaine other places may well appeare. But the Frenchmen using their owne language, called him sometime a Provost, and sometime a Bayliffe; whatsoever his name and Office were, he was Perpetuus Magistratus, given by the Prince, and not chosen by the Citizens, as it seemeth, for what time King Richard the first needed mony towards his expedition in the Holy Land, they first purchased of him the liberty to choose yeerely from amongst themselves two Bailiffes: and King Iohn his successor, at their like suit changed their Bayliffes into a Maior, and two Sheriffes. To these Henry the third added Aldermen; at the first elegible yeerely, but afterward by King Edward the third made perpetuall Magistrates, and Justices of the peace within their Wards, in which plight of governement it presently standeth. This shortly as I could, is the Historicall and outward estate of London: now come I to the inward pith and substance.

The estate of this City is to be examined by the quantity, and by the qualitie.

The quantity therefore consisteth in the number of the Citizens, which is very great, and farre exceedeth proportion of Hippodamus, which appointed 10000. and of others which haue set downe other numbers, as meete stints in their opinions to be well gouerned; but yet seeing both reason and experience have f [...]eed us from the law of any definite number, so that other things be observed, let that be admitted: neither is London, I feare mee, so great as populous: for well saith one, Non idem est magna Civitas & frequens, magna est enim quae multos habet qui arma ferre possunt: Whatsoever the number bee, it breedeth no feare of sedition: for as much as the same consisteth not in the extremes, but in a very mediocrity of wealth and riches, as it shall better appeare anon. And if the causes of English Rebellions bee searched out, they shall bee found in effect to bee these twaine, Ambition and Covetousnesse, of which the first raigneth in the minds of high and noble personages, or of such others, as seeke tobee gracious and popular, and have robbed the hearts of the multitude, whereas in London if any where in the world, Honos verè onus est, and every man rather shunneth than seeketh the Maiorality, which is the best marke amongst them, neither hath there been any strong faction, nor any man more popular than the rest, for as much as the government is by a Patern, as it were, and alwaies the same, how often soever they change their Magistrate. Covetousnesse, that other Syre of sedition, possesseth the miserable and needy sort, and such as bee naughtypackes, unthrifts, which although it cannot be chosen, but that in a frequent City as London is, there shall be found many, yet beare they not any great sway seeing the multitude and most part there is of a competent wealth, and earnestly bent to honest labour. I confesse that London is a mighty arme and instrument to bring any great desire to effect, if it may be won to a mans devotion: whereof also there want not examples in the English Historie. But for as much as the same is by the like [Page] reason serviceable and meet to impeach any disloyall attempt, let it rather bee well governed then evill liked therefore; for it shall appeare anon, that as London hath adhered to some rebellions, so hath it resisted many, and was never the Author of any one. The quality of this City consisteth either in the Law and government thereof: or in the degrees and condition of the Citizens, or in their strength and riches.

It is besides the purpose to dispute, whether the estate of the government here be a Democratie, or Aristocratie, for whatsoever it bee, being considered in it selfe, certaine it is, that in respect of the whole Realme, London is but a Citizen, and no City; a subject, and no free estate; an obedienciary, and no place endowed with any distinct or absolute power: for it is governed by the same Law that the rest of the Realme is, both in causes Criminall and Civill, a few customes onely excepted, which also are to bee adjudged, or forjudged by the common Law. And in the assembly of the estates of our Realme (which we call Parliament) they are but a member of the Comminalty, and send two Burgesses for their City, as every poore Borough doth, and two Knights for their County, as every other Shire doth, and are as straightly bound by such Lawes, as any part of the Realme is: for if contribution in subsidy of money to the Prince be decreed, the Londoners have none exemption, no not so much as to assesse themselves: for the Prince doth appoint the Commissioners.

If Souldiers must be mustered, Londoners have no Law to keepe themselves at home; if provision for the Princes houshold be to be made, their goods are not priviledged. In summe therefore, the government of London differeth not in substance, but in ceremony from the rest of the Realme, as namely, in the names and choice of their Officers, and in their Guildes and Fraternities, established for the maintenance of Handicrafts and Labourers, and for equity and good order, to bee kept in buying and selling. And yet in these also are they to bee controlled by the generall Law: for by the Statutes of 28. Edward the third, chap. 10. and of the first of Henry the fourth, chap. 15. the points of their misgovernment are inquirable by the inhabitants of the forren Shires adjoyning, and punishable by such Iusticiars as the Prince shall thereunto depute: to conclude therefore, the estate of London for government, is so agreeable a Symphony with the rest, that there is no feare of dangerous discord to ensue thereby.

The multitude (or whole body) of this populous City is two wayes to bee considered, generally, & specially: generally, they bee naturall Subjects, a part of the Commons of this Realme, and are by birth for the most part a mixture of all Countries of the same, by blood Gentlemen, Yeomen, and of the basest sort without distinction; and by profession busie Bees, and travellers for their living in the hive of this Common-wealth; but specially considered, they consist of these three parts, Merchants, Handicrafts-men, and Labourers. Merchandise is also divided into these three sorts; Navigation, by the which, Merchandizes are brought, and carried in and out over the Seas: Invection, by the which, commodities are gathered into the City, and dispersed from thence into the Country by land: and Negotiation, which I may call the keeping of a retayling or standing Shop. In common speech, they of the first sort bee called Merchants, and both the other Retaylers. Handicrafts-men bee those which doe exercise such Arts as require both labour and cunning, as Goldsmithes, Taylors, and Haberdashers, Skinners, &c. Labourers and Hirelings, I call those Quorum operae non artes emuntur, as Tully saith, of which sort bee Porters, Carmen, Watermen, &c. Againe, these three sorts may be considered, either in respect of their wealth, or number: in wealth, Merchants, and some of the chiefe Retaylers have the first place: the most part of Retaylers, and all Artificers, the second or meane place: and Hirelings, the lowest roome: But in number, they of the middle place bee first, and doe farre exceed both the rest: Hirelings be next, and Merchants bee the last. Now out of this, that the estate [Page] of London, in the persons of the Citizens, is so friendly interlaced, and knit in league with the rest of the Realme, not onely at their beginning by birth and blood (as I have shewed) but also very commonly at their ending by life and conversation (for that Merchants & rich men being satisfied with gaine, doe for the most part) marry their children into the Countrey, and convey themselves after Ciceroes counsell, Veluti-ex pontu in agros & possessiones: I doe referre, that there is not onely no danger towards the common quiet thereby, but also great occasion and cause of good love and amity. Out of this, that they be generally bent to travell, and doe flie poverty, Per mare, per saxa, per ignes, as the Poet saith▪ I draw hope, that they shall escape the note of many vices, which idle people doe fall into. And out of this, that they be a great multitude, and that yet the greatest part of them bee neither too rich nor too poore, but doe live in the mediocritie: I conclude with Aristotle, that the Prince needeth not to feare sedition by them, for thus saith he, Magnae vrbes, magis sunt à seditione liberae, quod in eis dominetur mediocritas, nam in parvis nihil medium est, sunt enim omnes vel pauperes vel opulenti. I am now to come to the strength and power of this City, which consisteth partly in the number of the Citizens themselves, whereof I have spoken before, partly in their riches, and in their warlike furniture: for as touching the strength of the peece it selfe, that is apparent to the eye, and therfore is not to be treated of.

The wealth and warlike furniture of London, is either publike or private, and no doubt the common treasure cannot be much there, seeing that the revenue which they have, hardly sufficeth to maintaine their Bridge, and Conduits, and to pay their officers and servants. Their Toll doth not any more then pay their Fee-Farme that they pay to the Prince. Their Issues for default of appearances bee never levied, and the profits of their Courts of Iustice doe goe to particular mens hands. Arguments hereof bee these two, one, that they can doe nothing of extraordinary charge, without a generall contribution: another, that they have suffered such as have borne the chiefe office amongst them, and were become Bankrupt, to depart the City without reliefe, which I thinke they neither would nor could have done, it the common Treasure had sufficed to cover their shame; hereof therefore we need not bee afraid. The publike Armour and munition of this City remaineth in the Halls of the Companies, as it doth thorow out the whole Realme, for a great part, in the Parish Churches; neither is that kept together, but onely for obedience to the Law, which commandeth it; and therefore if that threaten danger to the State, it may by another law bee taken from them, and committed to a more safe Armory.

The private riches of London, resteth chiefly in the hands of the Merchants & Retaylers; for Artificers have not much to spare; and Labourers had need that it were given unto them. Now, how necessary and serviceable the estate of Merchandise is to this Realme, it may partly appeare by the practice of that peaceable, politike, and rich Prince, King Henry the seventh, of whom Polidore (writing his life) saith thus, Mercatores Ille saepenumero pecunia multa data gratuite [...]uvabat, ut mercatura ars una omnium cunctis aequè mortalibus tum commoda, tum necessariae, in suo Regno copiosior esset. But chiefly by the inestimable cōmodities that grow thereby: for who knoweth not that we have extreme need of many things, whereof forraine Countries have great store, and that we may spare many things whereof they have need? or who is ignorant of this, that we have no Mines of Silver or Gold within our Realme, so that the increase of our Coine and Bulloine commeth from elsewhere, & yet neverthelesse, we be both fed, clad, and otherwise served with forraine commodities & delights, as plentifull as with our domesticall? which thing commeth to passe by the meanes of Merchandise onely, which importeth necessaries from other countries, and exporteth the superfluities of our owne. For seeing we have no way to increase our Treasure, by Mines of Gold or Silver at home, and can have nothing without Money or Ware from [Page] other Countries abroad, it followeth necessarily, that if we follow the Counsell of that good old Husband Marcus Cato, saying, Oportet patremfamilias vendacem esse, non emacem, and doe carry more commodities in value over the Seas, than we bring hither from thence: that then the Realme shall receive that overplus in mony: but if we bring from beyond the Seas Merchandize of more value, than that which we doe send over may countervaile, then the Realme payeth for that overplus in ready mony, and consequently is a loser by that ill husbandry: and therefore in this part great and heedfull regard must be had, that Symmetria and due proportion bee kept, lest otherwise either the Realme bee defrauded of her treasure, or the Subjects corrupted in vanity, by excessive importation of superfluous and needlesse Merchandize, or else that we feele penurie, even in our greatest plenty and store, by immoderate exportation of our owne needfull commodities. Other the benefits that Merchandize bringeth, shall hereafter appeare in the generall recitall of the commodities that come by London, and therefore it resteth that I speake a word of Retaylors, and finally shew that much good groweth by them both. The chiefe part of Retayling, is but a hand-maid to Merchandize, dispersing by piece-meale that which the Merchant bringeth in grosse: of which trade be Mercers, Grocers, Vinteners, Haberdashers, Ironmongers, Millayners, and all such as [...]ell wares growing or made beyond the Seas, and therefore so long as Merchandize it selfe shall be profitable, and such proportion kept, as neither we lose our treasure thereby, nor be cloyed with unnecessary forraine wares, this kind of Retayiing is to be retained also.

Now, that Merchants and Retaylors of London be very rich and great, it is so farre from any harme, that it is a thing both praise-worthy and profitable: for Mercatura (saith Cicero) si tenuis est, sordida putanda est, sin magna est & copiosa, non est vituperanda. And truely Merchants and Retaylers doe not altogether intus Canere, and profit themselves only: for the Prince and Realme both are inriched by their riches: the Realme winneth treasure, if their Trade bee so moderated by authority, that it breake not proportion, and they besides beare a good fleece, which the Prince may sheare when he seeth good.

But here before I conclude this part, I have shortly to answer the accusation of those men, which charge London with the losse and decay of many (or most) of the ancient Cities, corporate Townes and Markets within this Realme, by drawing from them to her selfe alone, say they, both all trade of trafficke by Sea, and the Retayling of Wares, and exercise of Manuali Arts also. Touching Navigation, which I must confesse, is apparantly decayed in many port Townes, and flourisheth onely or chiefly at London, I impute that partly to the fall of the Staple, the which being long since a great Trade, and bestowed sometimes at one Town, and sometimes at another within the Realme, did much enrich the place where it was, and being now not onely diminished in force, but also translated over the Seas, cannot but bring some decay with it, partly, to the impayring of Havens, which in many places have impoverisht those Towns, whose estate doth ebbe and flow with them, and partly, to the dissolution of Religious houses, by whose wealth and haunt, many of those places were chiefly fed and nourished. I meane not to rehearse particular examples of euery sort: for the thing it selfe speaketh, and I haste to an end. As for Retaylors thereof, and Handicrafts-men, it is no marvell if they abandon Countrey Townes, and resort to London: for not onely the Court, which is now adayes much greater, and more gallant than in former times, and which was wont to bee contented to remaine with a small company, sometimes at an Abbey or Priory, sometimes at a Bishops house, and sometimes at some meane Mannor of the Kings owne, is now for the most part either abiding at London, or else so neer unto it, that the provision of things most fit for it, may easily bee setched from thence: but also by occasion therof, the Gentlemen of all shires doe flye, and flocke to this City, the yonger sort of them to see and shew vanity, and the [Page] elder to save the cost and charge of hospitality, and house-keeping. For hereby it commeth to passe, that the Gentlemen being either for a good portion of the yeere out of the Countrey, or playing the Farmers, Grasiers, Brewers, or such like, more than Gentlemen were wont to doe within the Country, Retaylers and Artificers, at the least of such things as pertaine to the backe or belly, doe leave the Country Townes, where there is no vent, and doe flie to London, where they be sure to finde ready and quicke Market. And yet I wish that even as many Townes in the Low-Countries of King Philips doe stand some by one handy Art, and some by another: so also that it might bee provided here, that the making of some things, might (by discreet dispensation) be allotted to some speciall Townes, to the end, that although the daintinesse of men cannot be restrained, which will needs seeke those things at London, yet other places also might bee relieved at the least by the Workemanshippe of them.

Thus much then of the estate of London, in the government thereof, in the condition of the Cittizens, and in their power and riches. Now follow the enumeration of such benefits, as redound to the Prince and this Realme by this City: In which doing, I professe not to rehearse all, but onely to recite and run over the chiefe and principall of them.

Besides the commodities of the furtherance of Religion, and Justice: The propagation of Learning: The maintenance of Arts: The increase of riches, and the defence of Countries (all which are before shewed to grow generally by Cities, and be common to London with them) London bringeth singularly these good things following.

By advantage of the situation, it disperseth forrain Wares, (as the stomack doth meat) to all the members most commodiously.

By the benefit of the River of Thames and great Trade of Merchandize, it is the chiefe maker of Mariners, and Nurse of our Navy and Ships, which (as men know) bee the woodden walls for defence of our Realme.

It maintaineth in flourishing estate, the Countries of Norfolk, Suffolke, Essex, Kent, and Sussex, which as they lye in the face of our most puissant neighbor, so ought they above others, to bee conserved in the greatest strength and riches: and these, as it is well knowne, stand not so much by the benefit of their owne soile, as by the neighbourhood and neerenesse which they have to London.

It relieveth plentifully, and with good policy, not onely her owne poore people, a thing which scarcely any other Town or Shire doth, but also the poore that from each quarter of the Realme doe flocke unto it, and it imparteth liberally to the necessity of the Vniversities besides. It is an ornament to the Realme by the beauty thereof, and a terror to other Countries by reason of the great wealth and frequency. It spreadeth the honour of our Country farre abroad by her long Navigations, and maketh our power feared, even of barbarous Princes. It onely is stored with rich Merchants, which sort onely is tolerable: for beggerly Merchants doe bite too neere, and will doe more harme than good to the Realme.

It onely of any place in this Realme, is able to furnish the sudden necessity with a strong Army. It availeth the Prince in Tronage, Poundage and other his customes, much more than all the rest of the Realme.

It yeeldeth a greater Subsidy than any one part of the Realm, I mean not for the proportion of the value of the goods onely, but also for the faithfull service there used, in making the assesse; for no where else bee men taxed so neere to their just value as in London: yea many are found there, that for their countenance and credit sake, refuse not to bee rated above their ability, which thing never hapneth abroad in the country. I omit that in ancient time, the Inhabitants of London and other Cities, were accustomably taxed after the tenth of their goods, when the Country was assessed at the fifteenth, and rated at the eighth, when the Country was set at the twelfth: for that were to awake a sleeping dog, and I should be thought dicenda, tacenda, locutus, as the Poet said.

[Page] It onely doth, and is able to make the Prince a ready prest or loane of mony.

It onely is found fit and able to entertaine strangers honourably, and to receive the Prince of the Realme worthily.

Almighty God (qui nisi custodiat Civitatem, frustrà vigilat custos) grant, that his Majesty evermore rightly esteeme and rule this City, and He give grace, that the Citizens may answer duty, aswell towards God and his Majesty, as towards this whole Realme and Country, Amen.

An Appendix containing the examination of such causes, as have heretofore moved the Princes, either to fine and ransome the Citizens of LONDON, or to seize the Liberties of the City it selfe.

THese all may be reduced to these few heads: for either the Citizens have adhered in aid or armes, to such as have warred upon the Prince, or they have made tumult, and broken the common peace at home: or they have misbehaved themselves in point of government and justice: or finally, and to speak the plaine truth, the Princes have taken hold of small matters, and coyned good summes of money out of them.

To the first head I will referre whatsoever they have done, either in those warres that happened betweene King Stephen and Maud the Empresse, being competitors of the Crown: or between King Iohn and his Nobles assisting Lewes the French Kings sonne when hee invaded the Realme: for it is apparent by all Histories, that the Londoners were not the movers of these wars, but were onely used as instruments to maintaine them. The like is to bee said of all the offences that King Henry the third, whose whole raigne was a continuall warfare, conceived against this City, concerning the bearing of Armour against him: for the first part of his reign was spent in the continuation of those warres that his Father had begun with Lewes. And the rest of his life hee bestowed in that contention, which was commonly called The Barons wars. In which Tragedy London, as it could not be otherwise, had now and then a part, and had many a snub at the Kings hand for it. But in the end, when he had triumphed over Simon Mountford at Evesham, London felt it most tragicall: for then he both seized their Liberties, and sucked themselves dry: and yet Edictum Kenelworth, made shortly after, hath an honourable testimony for London, saying, Te London laudamus, &c. As for the other offences that he tooke against the Londoners, they pertaine to the other parts of my division.

Next after this, against whom the Londoners did put on armes, followeth King Edward the second, who in the end was deprived of his Kingdome, not by their meanes, but by a generall defection, both of his owne wife and sonne, and almost of the whole Nobility and Realme besides. In which trouble, that furious assault & slaughter, committed by them upon the Bishop of Excester, then Treasurer of the Realme, is to bee imputed, partly to the sway of the time wherewith they were carried, and partly to a private displeasure which they had to the Bishop.

Finally, commeth to hand King Richard the second: for these three onely in all the Catalogue of our Kings, have beene heavy Lords to London, who also had much contention with his Nobility, and was in the end deposed. But whatsoever countenance and aide the City of London brought to the warres and uprores of that time, it is notoriously true, that London never led the Dance, but ever followed the Pipe of the Nobility. To cloze up this first part therefore I affirme, that in all the troublesome actions during the reigne of these three Kings, as also in all that [Page] heaving in, and hurling out, that afterward happened betweene King Henry the sixth, and King Edward the fourth, the City of London was many times a friend and fautor, but never the first motive or author of any intestine warre or sedition.

In the second roome I place a couple of tumultuous affraies, that chanced in the daies of King Richard the first: The one upon the day of his Coronation against the Jewes, which, contrary to the Kings owne Proclamation, would needs enter the Church to see him sacred, and were therefore ctuelly handled by the common people. The other was caused by William with the long beard, who after that hee had inflamed the poore people against the richer sort, and was called to answer for his fault, took Bow Church for Sanctuary, and kept it Castle-like, till he was fired out.

Here is a place also for the stoning to death of a Gentleman, servant to the halfe Brother of King Henry the third, which had before provoked the Citizens to fury, by wounding divers of them without any cause 1257. for the riotous fray between the servants of the Goldsmiths and the Taylors, 1268. for the hurly burly and bloodshed between the Londoners and the men of Westminster, moved by the Youngmen upon an occasion of a wrestling on Saint Iames day, 1221. and made worse by one Constantine an ancient Citizen: for the brawle and businesse that arose about a Bakers loafe at Salisbury place 1391. for the which and some other misdemeanors, King Richard the second was so incensed by evill counsell against the Londoners, that he determined to destroy them, and raze their City, and for the fight that was betweene the Citizens and Sanctuary men of Saint Martins 1454. under King Henry the sixth. And finally, for the misrule on evill May day 1519. and for such other like if there have beene any.

To the third head may bee referred the seizer of their liberties, for a false judgement given against a poore widdow, called Margaret Viel, 1246. The two severall seizers in one yeere 1258. for false packing in collections of money and other enormities: And finally, the seizer made by King Edward the first, for taking of bribes of the Bakers 1285. But all this security in seizing and resuming of the liberties, which was in old time the onely ordinary punishment was at length mitigated by King Edward the third, and King Henry the fourth, in their statutes before remembred.

In the last-place it and those offences, which I repute rather taken than given, and doe fall within the measure of the Adage, Vt canē caedas, citò invenias baculum: for King Iohn in the tenth of his reigne deposed the Bailiffes of London, because they had bought up the wheate in the Market, so that there was not to serve his Purveyors. King Henry the third his sonne compelled the Londoners to pay him 5000. pound, because they had lent to Lewes the French the like summe, of a good mind to dispatch him out of their City and the Realme, at such time as the Protectour and the whole Nobility fell to composition with him for his departure. And the same King fined them at three thousand markes, for the escape of a prisoner out of Newgate, of whom they took no charge: for he was a Clarke, prisoner to the Bishop of London, under the custody of his owne servants; and as for the place, it was onely borrowed of the Londoners to serve that turne. Hitherto of these things to this end, that whatsoever misdemeanor shall bee objected out of History against London, the same may herein appeare, both in his true place, and proper colour.

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The Author to the Reader.

BEcause amongst other mine Authors I have oftentimes alleaged Fitz-Stephens, as one more choice then other, namely, for the ancient estate of this City, more then foure hundred yeeres since: and also the said Author being rare, I have in this place thought good by impression to impart the same to my loving friends, the learned Antiquaries, as the Author wrote it in the Latine tongue. And first to note in effect, what Master Bale in commendation of the said Author writeth.

William Stephanides, or Fitz-Stephen, a Monke of Canterbury, borne of worshipfull Parents in the City of London, well brought up at the first under good Masters, did more and more increase in honest condicions and learning: for ever in his young yeeres there appeared in him a certaine light of a Gentleman-like disposition, which promised many good things, afterward by him performed. Such time as others spent in brawles and idle talke, hee imployed in wholsome exercises for the honour of his Country, following therein the example of Plato: and was very studious both in humanity and divinity.

The City of London, his birth place, the most Noble of all other Cities of this Land, and the Princes Seate, situated in the South part of this Iland, hee loved above all the other, so that at length he wrote most elegantly in Latine of the site, and rites of the same. Leland in divers of his Bookes commendeth him for an excellent Writer. He lived in the Raigne of King Stephen, wrote in the Raigne of Henry the second, and deceased in the yeere of Christ, 1191. in the Raigne of Richard the first.

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DESCRIPTIO NOBILILISSIMAE Civitatis LONDONIAE.

De Situ ejusdem.

INter nobiles Vrbes orbis, quas fama celebrat, civitas Londonia, Regni Anglorum sedes una est, quae famam sui latiùs diffundit, opes & merces longiùs transmittit, caput altiùs extollit. Foelix est aëris salubritate, Christiana Religione, firmitate munitionum, natura situs, honore civium, pudicitia matronali, ludis etiam, quàm iucunda, & Nobilium faecunda virorum: quae singula semotim libet inspicere.

De Clementia aëris.

IBi siquidem emollit animos hominum clementia Coeli, non ut sint in venerem putres, ut ne feri sint & bestiales, potius benigni & liberales.

De Religione.

ESt ibi in Ecclesia beati Pauli Episcopalis sedes, quondam fuit Metropolitana, & adhuc futura creditur, si remeaverint cives in Insulam: nisi forte Beati Thomae Martyris titulus Archiepiscopalis, & praesentia corporalis, dignitatem illam Cantuariae (ubi nunc est) conservet perpetuam. Sed cum utramque urbium harum Sanctus Thomas illustraverit, Londoniam ortu, Cantuariam occasu: ipsius sancti intuitu, cum iustitiae accessu, habet altera adversus alteram, quod amplius alleget. Sunt etiam (quod ad Christianae fidei cultum pertinet) tum in Londonia, tum in suburbano, 13. maiores Ecclesiae conventuum, praeter minores parochianas, 126.

De Firmitate Vrbis.

HAbet ab Oriente arcem Palatinam, maximam & fortissimam, cuius & area, & muri à fundamento profundissimo exurgunt: cemento cum sanguine animalium temperato. Ab occidente duo castella munitissima: muro urbis alto & magno, duplatis Heptapylae portis intercontinuante, turrito ab Aquilone per intercapedines, Similiter (que) ab Austro Londonia murata & turrita fuit: sed fluvius maximus piscosus Thamensis, mari influo refluoque qui illac allabitur, maenia illa tractu temporis alluit, labefactavit, deieci [...]. Item sursùm ab occidente Palatium Regium eminet super fluvium eundem, aedificium incomparabile, cum autemurali, & propugnaculis, duobus millibus ab urbe; suburbano frequenti continuante.

De Hortis.

VNdi (que) extra domos suburbanorum Horti civium arboribus consiti, spatiosi, & speciosi, contigui habentur.

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De Pascuis & Sationalibus.

ITem à Borea suno agri paseui, & pratorum grata planities, aquis fluvialibus interfluis: ad quas molinorum versatiles rotae citantur cum murmure iocoso. Proximè patet foresta ingens, salcus nemorosi ferarum, latebrae cervorum, damarum, aprorum, & taurorum sylvestrium: Agri urbis sationales non sunt teiunae glareae, sed pingues Asiae campi qui faciunt laetas segetes, & suorum cultorum repleant horrea cerealis ingere culmi.

De Fontibus.

SVnt & circa Londoniam ab Aquilone suburbani fontes praecipui aqua dulci, salubri, perspicua, & per claros rivo trepidante lapilles. Inter quos Fons Sacer, Fons Clericorum, Fons Sancti Clementis nominatiores habentur, & adeuntur celebriori accessu, & maiori frequentia scholarum & vrbanae iuventutis in scrotinis aestivis ad auram exeuniis. Vrbs sanè bona, cùm bonum habeat Dominum.

De honore Civium.

VRbs ista viris est honoratae, armis decorata, multo habitatore populosae, ut tempore bellicae cladis sub rege Stephano bello apti, ex ea exeuntes ostentatui, haberentur 20000. armatorum equitum, 60. mille peditum aestimarentur. Cives Londoniae ubicun (que) locorum prae omnibus aliis civibus ornatu morum, vestium & mensae, locutione, spectabiles & noti habentur.

De Matronis.

Vrbis Matronae ipsae Sabinae sunt.

De Scholis.

IN Londonia tres principales ecclesiae Scholas celebres habent de privilegio & antiquae dignitate. Plerunque tamen favore personae al [...]us, vel aliquorum doctorum, qui secundum Philosophiam noti & praeclari habentur, & aliae ibi sunt Scholae de gratia & permissione. Diebus festis ad ecclesias festivas magistri coventus celebrantur. Disputant scholares, quidam demonstrativè, Dialecticè alii: alii recitant enthymematae: hi meliùs perfectis utuntur Syllogismis. Quidam ad estemationem exercentur disputatione, quae est inter colluctantes. Alii ad veritatem, ea quae est perfectionis gratia: sophisiae simulatores agmine & inundatione verborum beati iudicantur. Alii paralogizantur: Oratores aliqui quandoque orationibus Rhetoricis aliquid dicunt apposiiè ad persuadendum, curantes artis praecepta servare, & ex contingentibus nihil omittere. Fueri diversarum scholarum versibus inter se conrixantur: & de principiis artis Grammaticae, regulis praeteritorum vel futurorum contendunt: Sunt alii qui epigriimatibus, rithmis & metris utuntur, vetere illa triviali dicacitate, licentia Fescennina socios suppressis nominibus liberiùs lacerant, Laedorias inculantur & scommata, salibus Socraticis sociorum, vel fortè maiorum vitia tangunt, vel mordacius dente rodunt Theonino. Auditores muliùm, ridere parali ingemidant tremulos naso crispante cachinnos.

De dispositione Vrbis.

SIngulorum officiorum exercitores, singularum rerum venditores, singularism operarum suarum locatores, quotidiano mane per s. sunt locis distincti omnes, ut officiis. Praetereà est in Londonia supra ripam fluminis inter vina in navibus, & cellis vinariis venalia, publica coquina: ibi quotidiè pro tempore est invenire cibaria fercula, assa, frixa, elixa, pisces, pisciculos, carnes grossiores pauperibus, delicatiores divitibus, venationum, avium, avicularum. Si subitò veniant ad aliquem civium amici fatigati ex itinere, nec libeat ieiunis expectare, ut novi cibi emantur, cequantur, dant famuli manibus limphas panesque, interim adripam curritur, ibi presso sunt omnia desiderabilia. Quantal bet militum vel perigrinorum infinitas intrat urbem, qualibet dici vel noctis hora, vel ab urbe extitura, ne vel hi nimium ieiunent, vel alii impransi exeant, illuc si placeat divertunt, & se promodo suo singuli reficiunt: qui se curare volunt molliter, accipenserem vel aliam avem [Page] vel attagen Ionicum non quaerant, appositis quae ibi inveniuntur deliciis: Haec equidem publica, coquina est & civitati plurimum expediens, & ad Civitatem pertinens: Hinc est quod legitur in Georgia Platonis, juxtae medicinam esse coquorum officium, simulantium & adulationem quartae particulae civilitatis. Est ibi extra unam portarum statim in suburbio quidam planus campus re & nomine. Omni sexta feria, nisi sit major festivitas prae ceptae solemnitatis, est ihi celebre spectaculorum nobilium equorum venalium. Spectaturi vel empturi veniunt, qui in urbe adsunt, comites, harones, milites, cives plurimi. Iuvat videre gradarios succussatura nitente suaviter ambulantes: pedibus later aliter simul erectis, quasi à subalternis, & demissis: Hinc equos, qui armigeris magis conveniunt, durius incedentes, sed expeditè tamen, qui quasi à contra dictoribus pedes simul elevant & deponunt: Hinc nobiles pullos juniores, qui nondum fraeno bene assueti, altius incedunt, & mollia crura reponunt: Hinc summarios membris validis & vegetis. Hinc dextrarios precioses, elegantis formae, staturae honestae, micantes auribus, cervicibus arduis, clunibus obesis.

In horum incessu spectant emptores, primo passum suaviorem, postea motum citatiorem, qui est quasi à contrariis pedibus anterioribus simul solo amotis & admotis, & posterioribus similiter. Cum talium soni pedum cursus imminet, & aliorum fortè qui similiter sunt in genere suo ad vecturam validi, ad cursuram vegeti: clamor attollitur, vulgares equos in partem ire praecipitur: Sessores alipidum pueri tres simul, aliquando bini ex condicto & bini certamini sepraeparant docti equis imperitare, indomitorum lupatis temperant fraen [...]s ora: hoc maximè praecavent, ne alteralteri concursum praeripiat. Et qui similiter pro modo suo ad certamen cursus illius attollunt; tremunt artus, morae impatientes, stare loco nesciunt, facto signo membra extendunt, cursum rapiunt, agilitate pervicaci feruntur: certant c [...]ssores laudis amore, spe victoriae, equis admissis subdere calcaria, & nec minus urgere eos virgis & ciere clamoribus. Putares omnia in motu esse, secundum Heraclitum, & falsam omnino Zenonis sententiam, dicentis, quoniam, non continget moveri, neque stadium pertransire. Parte alia stant serosim rusticorum peculia, agrorum instrumenta, sues longis lateribus, vaccae distentis vberibus, corpora magna boum, lanigerumque pecus: stant ibi aptae aratris, trahis & bigis equae: quarundam ventres foetibus tument: alias editi foetus obeunt pulli lasciviores, sequela inseparabilis.

Ad hanc urbē ex omni natione quae sub coelo est, navalia gaudent institores habere commercia. Aurum mittit Arabs, species & thura Sabaeus, Arma Scythes, oleum palmarum divite silva. Pingue solum Babylon, Nilus lapides preciosos. Seres purpureas vestes. Norwegi, Russi, varium, grisium, sabelinas: Galli sua vina. Vrbe Roma secundum Chronicorum fidem satis antiquior est. Ab eisdem quippe patribus Trojanis haec prius à Bruto condita est, quàm a Remo & Romulo. Vnde & adhuc antiquis eisdem utuntur legibus communibus institutis. Haec similiter illi regionibus est distincta: habet annuos pro consulibus vicecomites: habet senatoriam dignitatem & magistratus minores: Eluviones & aquaeductus in vicis: Ad genera causarum deliberativae, demonstrativae, judicialis loca sua, fora singula: habet sua diebus statutis comitia. Non puto urbem esse, in qua sint probabiliores consuetudines, in ecclesiis visitandis, ordinatis Dei honorandis, festis feriandis, eleemosynis dandis, in hospitibus suscipiendis, in desponsationibus firmandis, matrimoniis contrahendis, nuptiis celebrandis, conviviis ornandis, conivis hilarandis, etiam in exequiis curandis & cadaveribus humandis. Solae pestes Londini sunt, immoderata stultorum potatio, & frequens incendium. Ad haec omnes ferè Episcopi, Abbates, & Magnates Angliae, quasicives & municipes sunt urbis Londoniae: sui ibi habentes aedifi [...]ia praeclara, vbi se recipiunt, ubi divites impensas faciunt, ad consilia, ad conventus celebres in urbem evocati, a Domino rege, vel Metropolitano suo, seu propiis tracti negotiis.

De Ludis.

AMplius & ad ludos urbis veniamus, quoniam non expedit utilem tantum & seriam urbem esse, nisi dulcis etiam sit, & iucunda. Vnde & in sigillis summorum Pontificum, us (que) ad tempor a Leonis Papae, ex altera parte Bullae, sculpto per impressionem piscatore Petro, & [Page] supra eum clave quasimanu Dei de coelis ei porrecta & circa eum versu,

Tu pro me navem liquisti, suscipe clavem.

Ex altera parte impressa erat urbs, & Scriptura ista, Aurea Roma. Item ad laudem Caesaris Augusti, & Romae dictum est:

Nocte pluit tota, redueunt spectacula mane,

Divisum imperium cum Iove Caesar habes.

Londonia pro spectaculis theatralibus, pro ludis scenicis, ludos habet sanctiores, repraesentationes miraculorum, quae sancti Confessores operati sunt, sea repraesentationes passionum, quibus claruit constantia Martyrum. Praeterea quotannis die, quae dicitur Carnivale, ut à puerorum ludis incipiamus (omnes enim pueri fuimus) scholarum singuli pueri suos apportans magistro suo gallos gallinaceos pugnatores, & totum illud antemeridianum datur ludo puerorum vacantium, spectare in scholis suorum pugnas gallorum. Post Prandium exit in campos omnis iuventus vrbis ad lusum pilae celebrem. Singulorum stud [...]orum scholares suam habent pilam: singulorum officiorum urbis exercitores suam singuli pilam in manibus. Majores natu patres & divites urbis, in equis spectatum veniunt certamina juniorum, & modo suo inveniuntur cum juvenibus, & excitari videtur in eis motus caloris naturalis, contemplatione tanti motus & participatione gaudiorum adolescentiae liberioris. Singulis diebus dominicis in Quadragesima post prandia, exit in campos juvenum recens examen in equis bellicosis: in equis certamine primis: quorum quisque aptus & in gyros currere doctus equus. Erumpunt à portis catervatim filii civium laici, instructi lanceis & scutis militaribus, juniores hastalibus ferro dempto praefurcatis, simulachra belli cient & agonisticam exercent militarem. Adveniunt & plurimi Aulici, Rege in vicino posito, & de familiis Consulum & Baronum ephebi: nondum cingulo donati militiae gratia concertandi. Accendit singulos spes victoriae: equi feri adhinniunt, tremunt artus, fraenos mandunt, impatientes morae stare loco nesciunt. Cum tandem, Sonipedum rapit ungula cursum, sessores adolescentes divisis agminibus, hi praecedentibus instant, nec assequuntur hi socios dejiciunt & praetervolant. In feriis Paschalibus ludunt quasi praelia navalia: in arbore [...]iquidem mediamna scuto fortior innexo, navicula remo & raptu fluminis cita, in prora stantem habet juvenem, scutum illud lancea percussurum: qui si scuto illi Linceamillidens frangat eam, & immotus persistat, habet propositum, voti compos est: si vero lancea integra fortiter percusserit, in profluentem amnem dijicitur: Navis motu suo acta praeterit. Sunt tamen hinc inde secus scutum duae naves stationariae, & in eis juvenes plurimi, ut eripiant percussorem flumine abscorptum cum primo emersus comparet, vel summa rursus cum bullit in unda. Supra pontem & in solariis suprae fluvium, sunt qui talia spectent, multum rideri parati. In festis tota aestate juvenes ludentes exercentur, in saliendo in arcu, in lucta, jactu lapidum, amentatis missilibus ultra metam expediendis, parmis duellionum. Puellarum Cytherae [...] ducit choros, & pede libero pulsatur tellus, usque imminente Luna. In hyeme singulis fere festis ante prandium, vel apri Spumantes pugnant pro capitibus, & verres falmineis accincti dentibus addendi Succidiae, vel pingues tauri Cornupetae, seu ursi immanes cum objectis depugnant canibus. Cùm est congelata palus illa magna quae maenia urbis aquilonalia alluit, exeunt lusum super glaciem densae juvenum turmae: Hi ex cursu motu captato citatiore, distantia pedum posita, magnum spatium latere altero praetenso perlabuntur. Alii qu [...]si magnos lapides molares de glacie sedes sibi taciunt: sessorem unum trabunt plurimi p [...]aecurrentes, manibus se tenentes: in tanta citatione motus aliquando pedibus lapsi cadunt omnes proni. Sunt alii super glaciem ludere doctiores, singuli pedibus suis aptantes, & sub talaribus suis alligantes ossa, tibias scilicet animalium, & palos ferro acuto superposito tenentes in manibus, quos aliquando glaciei allidunt: tanta rapacitate feruntur, quanta avis volans, vel pilum balistae. Interdum autem permagna procul distantia ex condicto, duo aliqui ita ab oppositis veniunt, concurritur: palos erigunt, se invicem percutiunt: vel alter, vel ambo cadunt, non sine laesione corporali, cùm post casum etiam vi motus feruntur ab invicem procul: & qua parte glacies caput tangit, totum radit, totum decorticat. Plerumque tibia cadentis, vel brachium, si super illud [Page] ceciderit, confringitur. Sed aetas avida gloriae, juventus cupida victoriae, ut in veris praeliis fortius se habeant, ita in simulatis exercentur. Plurimi civium delectantur, ludentes in avibus coeli, Nisis, accipitribus, & hujusmodi, & in canibus milit antibus in silvis. Habentque cives suum jus venandi, in Middlesexia, Hertfordscira, & to a Chiltra, & in Cantia usque ad aquam Graiae. Lundonienses tunc Trinovantes dicti, Caium Iulium Caesarem, qui nullas nisi sanguine fuso vias habere gaudebat, repulerunt. Vnde Lucanus,

Territa quaesitis ostendit terga Britannis.

Civitas Londonia reperit aliquos, qui regna plurima, & Romanum sibi subdiderunt imperium: & plurimos alios, quos mundi Dominos virtus euixit ad Deos, ut fuerat in Apollinis oraculo Bruto promissum:

Brute sub occasu solis, trans Gallica Regna,

Insula in Oceano est undique clausa mari:

Hanc pete: namque tibi sedes erit illa pe [...]ernis,

Haec fiet natis altera Troja tuis.

Hic de stripe tua reges nascentur, & ipsis

Totius terrae subditus orbis erit.

In temporibus Christianis nobil [...]m illum edidit imperatorem Constantinum, qui urbem Romam, & imperialia insignia omnia Deo donavit, & beato Petro & Silvestro Papae, cui & stratoris exhibuit officium, & se non amplius Imperatorem, sed Sanctae Ecclesiae Romanae defensorem gavisus est vocari: & ne pax Domini Papae occasione praesentiae ejus secularis strepitus tumultu concuteretur, ipse ab urbe Domino Papae collata discessit, & sibi civitatem Bizantium edificavit. Lundonia & modernis temporibus, reges illustres magnificosque peperit. Imperatricem Matildem, Henricum regem tertium, & beatum Thomam Archiepiscopum Christi Martyrem gloriosum, quali non candidiorem tulit, nec quo fuerit devinctior alter omnibus bonis totius orbis Latini.

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A DESCRIPTION OF THE MOST HONOVRABLE CITY OF LONDON.

The Situation thereof.

AMong the Noble Cities of the World, honoured by fame, the City of LONDON is one, the chiefe Seate of the Kingdome of England, whose renowne is spred abroad farre and neere, but transporteth her wares and commodities much further, and so advanceth her greatnesse. It is happy by reason of the Aires wholsomnesse, by Christian Religion, her munition also and strength, the nature of the situation, the honour of the Citizens, the chastity of grave Matrones. Very pleasant also with sports and pastimes, and replenished with Honourable Personages. All which I thinke meet severally to consider.

The temperatenesse of the Aire.

IN this place, the calmnesse of the Aire doth mollifie mens minds, not corrupting them with venereall lusts, but preserving them from savage and rude behaviour, and seasons their inclinations with a more ingenious temper.

Of Religion.

THere is in the Church of Saint Paula Bishops See: It was formerly Metropolitane, and as it is thought, shall recover the said dignity againe, if the Citizens shall returne backe into the Iland, except perhaps the Archepiscopall title of Saint Thomas the Martyr, and his bodily presence, doe perpetuate this honour to Canterbury, where now his Reliques are. But seeing Saint Thomas hath graced both these Cities, namely, London with his birth, and Canterbury with his death; one place may alleage much against the other for the beholding of that Saint, and further additions to their holinesse. Now, concerning the worship of God in the Christian faith: There are in London and in the Suburbs 13. Churches belonging to Covents, besides 126. lesser Parish Churches.

Of the strength of the City.

IT hath on the East part a Tower Palatine large and strong, whose Court and Walls are secured with a very deepe foundation, the morter is [Page] tempered with the blood of beasts. On the West side are two Castles well fenced. The Wall of the City is high and spacious, with seven gates, which are made double every way, and on the North side distinguished with Turrets. Likewise on the South side, London hath beene inclosed with Walls and Towers, but the large River of Thames being well stored with Fish, and in which the Tide ebbes and flowes, by continuance of time hath washed and worne away those walls. Further, above in the West part, the Kings Palace is eminently seated upon the same River, an incomparable building, having a Wall before it, and some Bullwarks; it is two miles from the City, and a continuall Subvrbs doth lye betweene.

Of the Gardens.

NEere to the houses of the Subvrbs, the Citizens have Gardens and Orchards planted with trees, large, beautifull, and one joyning to another.

Of Pasture and Tillage.

ON the North side are Fields for Pasture, and open Meadowes, very pleasant, into which the River-waters doe flow, and Mills are turned about with a delightfull noise. Next, lieth a great Forest, in which are wooddy places, and Beasts for game. In the Coverts whereof doe lurke the Stag, the Bucke, the wilde Bore, and the Bull. The arable Lands are no hungry pieces of gravell ground, but like the rich fields of Asia, which bring plentifull Corne, and fill the Barnes of the owners with a dainty crop of the fruits of Ceres.

Of their Wells.

THere are on the North part of London principall Fountaines of water, sweet, wholsome, and cleare, streaming forth among the glistering pebble stones: In this number Holy-well, Clerken-well, and Saint Clements well, are of most note and frequented above the rest, when Schollers and the youth of the City take the Aire abroad in the Summer evenings. Certainly the City is good, seeing it hath a good Lord.

Of the Citizens honour.

THe Honour of this City consists in proper Men, brave Armour, and multitude of Inhabitants. In the fatall warres under King Steven, there went out to a Master, men fit for warre, esteemed to the number of 20000. horsemen armed, and 60000. footmen. The Citizens of London are knowne in all places, and respected above all others, by their civill Demeanour, their good Apparell, their Table, and their Discourse.

Of their Matrones.

THe Matrones here may be paralleld with the Sabine women.

Of their Schooles.

IN London three famous Schooles are kept at three principall Churches, which they retaine by priviledge and ancient dignity. Notwithstanding by favour of some persons, or Teachers, who are knowne and well reputed for their Philosophie; there are other Schooles upon good will and sufferance. Vpon the Holydayes, assemblies flocke together about the Church, where the Master hath his abode. There the Schollers dispute; some use demonstrations, others topicall and probable arguments: Some practise Enthimems, others are better at perfect Syllogismes: Some for a shew dispute, and for exercising themselves, & strive like adversaries: Others for truth, which is the grace of perfection. The dissembling Sophisters turne Verbalists, [Page] and are magnified when they overflow in speech; some also are intrapt with deceitfull arguments. Sometime certaine Oratours, with Rhotoricall Orations, speake handsomly to perswade, being carefull to observe the precepts of Art, who omit no matter contingent. The Boyes of divers Schooles wrangle together in versifying, and canvase the principles of Grammar, as the rules of the Preterperfect and Future Tenses. Someafter an old custome of prating, vse Rimes & Epigram: these can freely quip their fellowes, suppressing their names with a festinine and railing liberty: these cast out most abusive jests, and with Socraticall witnesses either they give a touch at the vices of Superiours, or fall upon them with a Satyricall bitternesse. The hearers prepare for laughter, and make themselves merry in the meane time.

How the Affaires of the City are disposed.

SEverall Craftmen, and sellers of Wares, and Workemen for hire, all are distinguished every morning by themselves, both in their places and imploiments. Besides, there is in London upon the Rivers banke, a publike place of Cookery, betweene the Ships laden with Wine, and the Wines laid up in Cellers to bee sold: there ye may call for any dish of meat, rost, fried, or sodden, Fish both small and great, ordinary flesh for the poorer sort, and more dainty for the rich, as Venison and Fowle. If friends come upon a sudden, wearied with travell, to a Citizens house, and they be loth to wait for curious preparations, and dressings of fresh meat, the servants give them Water to wash, and Bread to stay their stomacke, and in the meane time goe to the water side, where all things are at hand answerable to their desire. Whatsoever multitude, either of Souldiers or other strangers, enter into the City at any houre, day or night, or elle are about to depart, they may turne in, bait there, and refresh themselves to their content, and so avoid long fasting, and not goe away without their dinner. If any desire to fit their dainty tooth, they need not to long for the Accipenser, or any other Bird; no not the rare Godwit of I [...]nia. This publike victualing place is very convenient, and belongs to the City. Hereupon we reade in Platoes Gorgias, that the office of Cookes is neere to Physicke, and the [...]latrery of dissemblers is the fourth part of civility. Without one of the gates is a certaine field, plaine both in name and situation. Every Fryday, except some Festivall come in the way there is a great market of horses: some come out of the City to buy or looke on, Earles, Barons, Knights, and many Citizens resort thither. It is a pleasant sight there to behold the Nags to jog on with an ambling pace, and their feet on either side up and downe together by turnes, or else cro [...]ing horses which are more convenient for men that beare armes; these although they set a little harder, goe away readily, and lite up and set downe together the contrary feet on either side. Here are also young Colts of a good breed, that have not beene well accustomed to the bridle; these fling about, and by mounting bravely, shew their mettle. Here are principall horses, strong and well-limmed. Here also are brest horses, fit to bee joyned by couples, very faire and handsome, and sleeke about the eares, carrying their necks aloft, being well flesht, and round about the buttocks.

The buyers at first looke at their soft and slow pace, and after cause them to put on with more speed, and behold them in their gallop. When these Coursers are ready to runne their race, and perhaps some others, which in their kinde are both good for carriage and strong for travaile: The people give a shout, and the common Hackneys are commanded to go aside The boyes that ride, make matches among themselves, two and two together, being expert in governing their horses, which they rule and curbe with a sharpe bridle, labouring by all meanes that one get not before the other. And the very beasts, after their fashion, doe not cease to strive, while their joynts tremble, [Page] and impatient of delay, endure not standing still in a place. When the token is given, they stretch out their bodies and runne speedily away, the Riders spurring them on for the love of praise, or hope of victory. You would thinke every thing were in motion with Heraclitus, and Zenoes opinion to bee false, saying that nothing moves from place to place. In another part stand the country people with Cattell, and commodities of the field, large Swine, and Kine with their Vdders strutting out, faire bodied Oxen and Sheepe. There are also Cart-horses fit for the Dray, or the Plough, and some Mares big with Foale, together with others that have their wanton Colts following them close at their side.

To this City Merchants bring in Wares frō every Nation under heaven: The Arabian sends his Gold; the Sabean his Frankincense & other Drugs; the Scythian his provision frō the plentifull wood of Date trees; Babylon bestowes the fruits of a fertile soile; and Nylus his precious stones; the Seres send Purple garments; they of Norway and Russia, Trowts, Furs, and Sables. According to the report of Chronicles, it is more ancient then the City of Rome: for both being descended from the same Trojan stocke, Brute builded this, before Remus and Romulus the other. Whereupon it comes to passe, that their ancient Lawes doe so agree: For this our City is distinguished by Wards and severall limits; it hath Sheriffes every yeere, answerable to their Consuls; it hath Aldermen, enjoying the dignity of Senators, besides inferiour Magistrates; it hath also Conduits and conveyances for water in the streets. Concerning causes in question; there are severall places and Courts for matters Deliberative, Demonstrative, and Judiciall: upon set dayes also they have their Common Councell and great Assemblies. I thinke there is no City that hath more approved Customes, for frequenting the Churches, for honouring Gods Ordinances observing of Holy-dayes, giving Almes, entertaining Strangers, confirmation of Contracts, making up and celebrating of Marriages, setting out of Feasts, welcomming the Guests; and moreover, in funerall rites, and burying of the dead. The only plagues of London are immoderate drinking of idle fellowes, and often fires. Moreover, almost all Bishops, Abbots, and Noble men of England, are as it were, Citizens and Free-men of London; there they have faire dwellings, and thither they doe often resort, and are called into the City to Consultations and solemne meetings, either by the King, or their Metropolitane, or drawne by the peoples affaires.

Of Exercise and Pastimes.

LEt us also come at last to their Sports and Exercises; for it is expedient that a City bee not onely commodious for gaine, and serious, but also pleasant and delightfull. Therefore to the time of Pope Leo, the Popes gave in their Seales, on one side of their Bull, Saint Peter like a Fisherman, and over him a Key reached forth to him as it were from Heaven by the hand of God, and this verse about it:

For me thy Ship

thou didst forsake,

Therefore the Key

of Heaven take.

On the other part was stamped a City with this Inscription, Golden Rome. Also this was written to the praise of Caesar

Augustus, and Rome:

All night the Sky distils

downe watry showeres,

The morning cleeres againe

to shew the play.

Great Iove and Caesar

have their severall houres,

And in this Vniverse

by turnes beare sway.

London, in stead of common Enterludes belonging to the Theatre, hath plaies of a more holy subject, representations of those miracles which the holy Confessors wrought, or of the sufferings wherein the glorious constancy of Martyrs did appeare. Besides that, wee may beginne with the Schooles of youth, seeing once wee were all children; Yeerely at Shrovetide the Boyes of every Schoole bring fighting Cocks [Page] to their Masters, and all the forenoone is spent at Schoole, to see these Cockes fight together. After dinner, all the youth of the City goeth to play at the Ball in the fields, the Schollers of every Schoole have their Balls. The teachers also that traine up others in seats and exercises, have every one their Ball in their hands. The ancient and wealthy Citizens come on horsebacke to see these yongsters contending at their sport, with whom in a manner they participate by motion, stirring their owne naturall heat in the view of youth, with whose mirth and liberty they seeme to communicate. Every Sunday in Lent, after dinner, a company of young men ride out into the fields on horses which are fit for warre, and principall runners: every horse among them is taught to run his rounds. The Citizens sonnes issue out thorow the gates by troupes, furnished with Lances and warlike Shields: the yonger sort have their Pikes not headed with yron, where they make a representation of battell: There resort to this exercise many Courtiers, when the King lies neere-hand, and young striplings out of the families of Barons and great persons, which have not yet attained to the warlike Girdle, doe traine and skirmish. Hope of victory inflames every one: the neighing and fierce horses bestir their joynts, and chew their bridles, and cannot indure to stand still; at last they beginne their race, and then the yong men divide their troupes; some labour to outstrip their leaders, and cannot reach them; others fling downe their fellowes, and get beyond them. In Easter Holy-dayes they counterfeit a Sea-sight: a Pole is set up in the middle of the River, with a Target well fastened thereon, and a yong man stands in a Boat which is rowed with Oares, and driven on with the tide, who with his Speare hits the Target in his passage; with which blow, if he breake the Speare, and stand vpright, so that hee hold footing, hee hath his desire: but if his Speare continue unbroken by the blow, hee is tumbled into the water, and his Boat passeth cleere away: but on either side this Target, two Ships stand in Ward, with many yong men ready to tak him up after he is sunke: assoone as he appeareth againe on the top of the water; the spectators stand upon the Bridge, and other convenient places about the River to behold these things, being prepared for laughter. Vpon the Holy-dayes, the youth is exercised all Summer, in Leaping, Shooting, Wrestling, casting of Stones, and throwing of Javelins fitted with loopes for the purpose, which they strive to fling beyond the marke; they also use Bucklers, like fighting men. As for the Maidens, they have their exercise of Dancing. In Winter, almost every Holy-day before dinner, the foaming Bores fight for their heads, and prepare with deadly Tushes to bee made Bacon; or else some lusty Bulls, or huge Beares, are baited with Dogs. When that great Moorish Lake at the North part of the City wall is frozen over, great companies of young men goe to sport upon th yee, then fetching a runne, and setting their feet at a distance, and placing their bodies sidewise, they slide a great way. Others take heapes of yee, as if it were great Mil-stones, and make seats: many going before, draw him that sits thereon, holding one another by the hand; in going so fast, sometime they all fall downe together: some are better practised to the yee, and binde to their shooes, Bones, as the legs of some beasts, and hold Stakes in their hands, headed with sharpe yron, which sometimes they strike against the yee; and these men goe on with such speed, as doth a Bird in the Aire, or Darts shot from some warlike Engine: sometime two men set themselves at a distance, and runne one against another, as it were at tilt, with these Stakes, wherewith one or both parties are throwne downe, not without some hurt to their bodies; and after their fall, by reason of the violent motion, are carried a good distance one from another: and wheresoever the yee doth touch their head, it rubs off the skin and bruiseth it: and if one fall upon his leg or his arme, it is usually broken: But young men being greedy of honour, and desirous of victory, doe thus exercise themselves [Page] in counterfeit battels, that they may beare the brunt more strongly, when they come to it in good earnest. Many Citizens take delight in Birds, as Spar-hawkes, Gosse-hawkes, and such like, and in Dogs to hunt in the wooddy ground. The Citizens have authority to hunt in Middlesex, Hertfordshire, all the Chilterns, and in Kent, as farre as Gray-water. The Londoners, once called Trinovants, repulsed C. Iulius Caesar, who commonly paved his way with blood: whereupon Lucan;

He was afraid,

and foil'd by Britons hand,

That first presumed

to invade their land.

The City of London can bring out some who subdued many Kingdomes, and the Empire of Rome, and many others who (being great Lords heires) were deified in another world: as Apolloes Oracle did promise Brute:

Brute, thou shalt finde

an Iland in the West,

Beyond the Gaules,

environ'd with the maine;

Direct thy journey

thither for thy rest,

And there a second Troy

shall rise againe.

Kings from thy Hieres,

and Conquerours shall spring.

Who will the world

into subjection bring.

In the times of Christianity, it brought forth the Noble Emperour Constantine, who gave the City of Rome, and all the Imperiall Armes to God, and to Saint Peter, and Silvester the Pope, whose Stirrop hee refused not to hold, and pleased rather to be called, Defendour of the holy Romane Church, than Emperour any more. And lest the peace of our Lord the Pope should suffer any disturbance, by the noise of secular affaires, he left the City, and bestowed it on the Pope, and founded the City of Constantinople for his owne habitation. London also in these latter times hath brought forth famous and magnificent Governours; Maud the Empresse, Henry the third, King, and Thomas the Archbishop, a glorious Martyr of Christ, then whom no man was more innocent, or more devoted to the generall good of the Latine world.

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AN ABSTRACT OR BRIEFE RELATION OF THE TVVO MANNORS OR Lordships of Stebunheath, alias, Stepney; and Hackney, in the County of Middlesex; with the free customes, benefits, and priviledges to them belonging; and how they are holden by the Copy-hold Tenants, of the right Honourable, Thomas Lord Wentworth: with some other especiall and remarkeable notes, both of reverend Antiquity, and moderne memory.

Concerning the Indenture of Covenants, &c.

WHereas (of late) differences have arisen betweene the right Honorable Thomas L. Wentworth, The cause of the now compounding. Lord of the Mannors of Stepney and Hackney, and his Lordships Copyhold Tenants of the said Mannors, for and concerning some of the customes, benefits, and priviledges of the said Tenants: It hath now pleased the said Thomas Lord Wentworth, in consideration of three thousand pounds,Thè consideration given for it. of lawfull money of England, in the thirtieth yeere of the Reigne of our late Soveraigne Lady Queene Elizabeth, by the Copy-holders of the said Mannors, unto the right Honourable Henry Lord Wentworth (his Lordships Father) then satisfied and paid: As also of other three thousand and 5. hundred pounds more, to him the said Thomas Lord Wentworth now paid, by Indenture bearing date the 20. day of Iune, in the 15. yeere of the Reigne of our Soveraigne Lord King Iames of England, France, and Ireland, and of Scotland the 50. made betweene him the said Thomas Lord Wentworth, The Deed of Covenants. Lord of the said Mannors on the one part, and Sir Iohn Iolles Knight, and Alderman of London, and divers other of the Copy-hold Tenants of the said Mannors (whose names are particularly in the said Indenture recited) on the other part: for the appeasing and finall end of the said differences, and for prevention of the like, and all other which (in time to come) might happen, arise or grow, betwixt the said Lord his heires or assignes, Lords of the said Mannors, and the said Copy-hold Tenants, their heires or assignes, to covenant, grant, conclude, and fully agree to the effect following, that is to say:

Imprimis, that the said Thomas Lord Wentworth is,The Lord Thomas is seized in Fee. and untill a perfect Act of Parliament shall bee had and made, whereby all the liberties, priviledges, benefits, customes, immunities, discharges, additions, alterations, enlargements, matters and things, in the Scedules to the said Indenture annexed, mentioned; shall be for ever confirmed, shall be and continue seized of a good, absolute and indefeazeable estate of Inheritance in fee-simple to him and his [Page] heires for ever in possession, of, & in the said Mannors, and either of them, and of the Copy-hold Lands, Tenements and Hereditaments of the said Copy-hold Tenants before mentioned, parties to the said Indenture. And that hee now hath,And hath power to confirme the following Articles. and then shall have full power and lawfull authority, to ratifie, confirme, establish and make good, all and singuler the covenants, articles, alterations, enlargements, free-customes, immunities, discharges and agreements contained in the said Indenture and Scedules, or either of them, to the said Copy-hold Tenants respectively, and to their severall and respective heires and assignes, of and in the severall and respective Messuages, Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments, whereof they are seized of any estate by Copy of Court-Roule.

And that the said Thomas Lord Wentworth, That these Articles for ever be observed. his heires, assignes, and all other Lords of the said Mannors, shall for ever hereafter observe, performe, fulfill, allow, ratifie, make good and keepe all the said Articles, certainty of fines, usages, customes, priviledges, benefits, immunities, discharges, compositions and agreements in the said Indenture and Scedules contained: And shall not at any time hereafter leavy, take, require, or demand any other fines, suites, customes, workes or services, or in any other manner, than in the said Scedules are specified: And the rents which for the said Copy-hold Tenements, by the space of two yeeres now last past, have beene yeelded and paid by the Copy-hold Tenants thereof. And also that the said Tenants, their heires and assignes, shall for ever hereafter peaceably and quietly have, hold, maintaine, and enjoy their severall and respective Copy-holds, with their appurtenances, according to the severall grants thereof to them made; and under the severall rents for the same respectively, now due and payable according to the true meaning of the said Indenture and Scedules, without let, suit, or hindrance, interruption, alteration, question, or contradiction whatsoever of him the said Lord Wentworth, his heires or assignes, or under any other claiming any estate, right, title, use, interest, office, profit, charge, or demand, under his Lordship, his heires or assignes, or under the said Henry Lord Wentworth deceased.

And that the said Thomas Lord Wentworth, That hereafter none of these Lands shal be severed from the Mannor. his heires or assignes hath not, nor hereafter shall grant or conuey, severed from the Mannor thereof, the same is now holden; any of the Messuages, Cottages, Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments of the said Copy-holders, for any other estate or terme, other than by Copy of Court-Roule, according to the custome of the said Mannors, except the free-hold to bee severed, at the desire of such person, as then shall bee Copy-holder thereof respectively: And that the certainty of sines, free customes, immunities, liberties, priviledges, articles, discharges, and agreements in the said Scedules contained, for and concerning the severall Messuages, Cottages, Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments, whereof the said parties to the said Indenture are Copy-holders; shall (for ever) be, and bee had, used, accounted, adjudged, taken and enjoyed, as the true customes, usuages, priviledges, immunities, discharges, and liberties, of and within the said Mannors, and either of them not to be violated, altered, changed, or denied by the Lord or Lords of the said Mannors, or either of them now or hereafter, at any time or times in any wise being.That a decree shall be had in the Chancery, to confirme the now agreements▪

Item, that for the better ratifying, establishing, confirming, strengthening; perfecting, and making good of all and singuler the said Articles, covenants, agreements, certainty of fines, usuages, customes, enlargements, and alterations of usuages and customes, compositions, liberties, priviledges, freedomes, immunities, discharges, matters and things in the said Indenture and Scedules contained, and for the setting forth of what estate the said Thomas Lord Wentworth is now, and then shall be seized of the said Mannors and premisses, upon a Bill of complaint against his Lordship, in his Majesties Court of Chancery to be exhibited: his Lordship will appeare, and make such answer, and further such proceedings, [Page] that thereupon a perfect decree (with the free consent and agreement of his Lordship) may bee had, and there enrouled against his Lordship, his heires and assignes. By which the said Articles, covenants, agreements, certainty of fines, usuages and customes, and all the compositions, liberties, priviledges, freedomes, immunities, discharges, matters and things in the said Indenture and Scedules, or any of them contained; shall bee decreed, ratified, established and made good, and put in ure, used and enjoyed for ever.

That he the said Thomas Lord Wentworth, That an Act of Parliament shall be procured, to confirme the same for ever. his heires and assignes, at his and their own proper costs and charges, will procure at the first Session of the next Parliament of our Soveraine Lord the Kings Majesty, his heires or successors, one Statute or Act of Parliament, by force whereof the said Articles, covenants, agreements, certainty of fines, usuages, customes, compositions, enlargements, and alterations of usuages, customes, compositions, liberties, priviledges, benefits, freedomes, immunities, discharges, matters and things in the said Indenture and Scedules, or either of them expressed; shall be established, ratified, enacted and confirmed to be, and to continue for ever of force, and to be put in ure and used for ever hereafter, in such state, manner and forme, quality, condition and degree, as the same are in the said Indenture or Scedules, or any of them expressed, for and concerning the Lands, Tenements,The Tenants must pay twenty pounds towards the charges of it. and Hereditaments, wherof they now are Copy-holders, or reputed Copy-holders. Towards the charges of procuring of which the said Act of Parliament, the said Tenants are to pay unto the said Thomas Lord Wentworth, his heires or executors, within one moneth next after the obtaining and passing thereof, the sum of twenty pounds.

That he the said Thomas L. Wentworth, For better assurance within five yeeres. his heires and assignes, at any time within five yeeres next ensuing the date of the said Indenture, before such Act of Parliament, as aforesaid, had and obtained, at the costs in the law of the said Copy-hold Tenants, or some of them, upon request made unto him the said Thomas Lord Wentworth, his heires or assignes, by the said Sir Iohn Iolles, Knight and Alderman of London, William Gough, Edmund Barber, Iohn Eglesfield, The names cō tained in the Indenture. Isaack Cotton, Thomas Best, Richard Hoskins, George Saris, Henry Dethicke, Iohn Howland, Thomas Yardly, Iohn Lowden, Richard Cheyney, Gresham Hoogan, William Palmer, Nicholas Dickens, Nicholas Diggins, Peter Summer, Iohn Bennet, Richard Edwards, Michael Bonner, & Nicholas Hollam, or any ten of them, or any ten of the Heires or Assigues of them, shall and will make, doe, acknowledge, execute and suffer all and every such further acts, deeds and assurances, for better setling, assuring and confirming of the usuages, customes, benefits, liberties, priviledges, immunities, discharges, certainty of fines, compositions, agreements, matters and things in the said Indenture and Scedules contained, as by them, or any ten of them shal be reasonably devised, advised and required. That every one of the said Copy-hold Tenants,That leases may be let for thirty one yeeres and foure meneths without licence. their heires and assignes, shall and may freely hereafter from time to time, grant, lease or demise by deed or otherwise (without licence or Copy of Court Roule) such or so much of their said Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments, to such person and persons, and for such tearme and estate, not exceeding one and thirty yeeres and foure moneths, in possession from the time of the making of any such grant or demise; as to them, and every, or any of them respectively, shall bee thought fit or necessary, without any forfeit of estate, seizure, claime, disturbance, deniall or impeachment of his Lordship, his heires or assignes, or any of his or their Officers. So alwaies, that such grant, lease and leases so to bee made, be at the first or second generall Court, (for the Mannor whereof, the Lands or Tenements so happening to be granted, leased or demised are parcell) to be holden next after the making thereof, be published in open Court of that Mannor, before the homage there, and a remembrance thereof to bee required to bee made in the Roules of the said Court, for the date, tearme and quantity of Lands, Cottages, or Tenements [Page] so granted, leased or demised. Which remembrance, the said Thomas Lord Wentworth convenanteth and granteth for him, his heires and assignes; to and with the said Sir Iohn Iolles, and the rest of the said Copy-hold Tenants, upon the tender of a certainty thereof in writing, to the Steward, or Deputy Steward that Mannour for the time then being, together with sixe pence in money, for the entring thereof, shall be in the Court Roules of that Mannor duely, and in convenient time, and without delay enrolled, and a note thereof delivered by the Steward, or his Deputy, to the party so leasing, or any for him, without any other consideration, see or reward, to bee given or paid for the same.

That whereas the said Thomas Lord Wentworth, Recitall of the Letters Patents from the King to my L. concerning the Free-hold. by his Highnesse Letters Patents under the great Seale of England, dated the nineteenth day of Iuly, in the thirteenth yeere of his Majesties reign of England, and forty eighth of Scotland, Hath obtained license to grant to such of his Majesties liege people as he shall thinke fit, Messuages, Cottages, Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments, parcell, or reputed parcell of the said Mannors: To hold to them, their heires and assignes (in free and common Socage) respectively, of his said Mannors of Stepney and Hackney, by such and the same rents and services, and other profits, as in the conveyances thereof shall be expressed, and not to hold of the King in Capite, nor of any of his Majesties Honours, or Mannors in Knights service, as by the said Letters Patents more at large may appeare. If the Act of Parliament bee not procured, thē the Tenants (upon request) shal be made Free holders. Now if the said Thomas Lord Wentworth shall not at the first Session of the next Parliament procure such an Act of Parliament, to bee good and effectuall in law for the purposes aforesaid: Then his Lordship will at all times, after the end of the said first Session of the said next Paliament, upon reasonable requests, and at the costs of the Tenants (whom it shall concerne) their heires or assignes, make, doe and execute such reasonable acts, devices, and assurances in Law; whereby the said Copy-holders, their heires or assignes respectively, shall hold and enjoy their, and every of their said Copy-holds, Messuages, Houses, Lands, Cottages and Hereditaments, with the like wayes, easements, commons and commodities, as are thereto now belonging, or now therewith used or enjoyed. And the free-hold and inheritance thereof respectively to them and to their respective heires and assignes for ever, to be holden of such of the same Mannors, whereof the same is now holden in free and common Socage, for and under the severall & respective yeerely rents for all services and demands, as they or any of them doe now severally and respectively pay for the same, as by them, or their Councel learned, shall bee reasonably devised and required.

That the said Copy-hold Tenants,For enjoying the Common. their heires and assignes respectively, shall and may for ever hereafter, without any let, impediment, interruption, deniall or contradiction of his Lordship, his heires or assignes, or any claiming under the said Lord Henry Wentworth deceased, not onely during the time they shall be Copy-holders, but also afterwards, when they have obtained the free-hold and inheritance of their severall and respective Copy-holds; peaceably hold and enjoy such and the like Commons of pasture, and in such manner, in all the Commons, wastes and common able places of the said Mannors, as they or any of them hertofore have had, used, held, taken, or enjoyed, or might lawfully have taken or enjoyed. Neverthelesse, it is agreed, that neither the said Indenture and Scedules, nor any covenant therein contained, The Tenants not compounding, are excepted from all benefit hereby. shall in any wise extend or enure, to the benefit or advantage of any other Copy-hold Tenants of the said Mannors, other than the Copy-hold Tenants, named parties to the said Indentures, their heires and assignes, and that for such and the same Lands, Tenements, Cottages, and Hereditaments, with the appurtenances onely, as they or any of them now hold, or claime to hold, by Copy of Court-Roule of the said Mannors, or one of them, as by the said Indenture (whereunto relation be had) more plainly and at large appeareth.

[Page] Memorandum, that the said Indenture of the twentieth of Iune, together with a duplicity thereof, were acknowledged by the said Thomas Lord Wentworth the 21. day of Iuly 1617. before Sir Mathew Carew Knight,The enrolling of the Deed, and where it is left. to bee enrolled, and is enrolled in the Chancery accordingly. The one part of which Indentures, is left in the custody of the Company of Goldsmiths in the City of London, and the other in the custody of the Brethren of the Trinity house at Radcliffe: In trust, and to the use of the said Copy-hold Tenants, named parties to the said Indentures.

The ninth day of Iuly 1617. in the said fifteenth yeere of his Majesties Reigne,A Statute of 12000. pounds for performance of Covenants. the said Thomas Lord Wentworth acknowledged a statute of the summe of twelve thousand pounds of lawfull money of England, unto Alexander Prescot and Iohn Gore, Aldermen of London, Thomas Iones common Serjeant of London, Francis Fulner and George Whitmore Esquires, and Robert Mildmay Grocer; In trust for, and to the use of the Copy-holders named in the Indentures, and thereof is a defeasance by Indenture, dated the same day to this effect (viz.) That if the said Thomas Lord Wentworth doe performe the covenants and agreements,The defeasance. contained in the aforesaid Indenture of the twentieth of Iune: Then the same Statute to bee void, and that the said Conusees shall deliver up the same Statute to the said Thomas Lord Wentworth, his heires, executors, administrators or assignes, so soone as the said Act of Parliament shall be procured, according to the intent and true meaning of the said recited Indenture.

To this end, the said Statute and defeasance are left in the Chamber of the City of London, Where the Statute and Defeasance are kept. to bee kept in such sort, as that the said Conusees may have the same to bee delivered according to their Covenant. And the Chamberlain of the said City hath charged himselfe with the receit thereof, by order of the Court of the Lord Maior and Aldermen 1617. Sir Iohn Leman being then Maior, and Master Cornelius Fish Chamberlaine.

In Trinity Tearme, in the said fifteenth yeere of his Majesties Reigne,The proceedings in the Chancery. to a Bill of complaint was by the Copy-holders, named parties to the said Indenture of the twentieth of Iune, exhibited against the said Thomas Lord Wentworth in his Majesties high Court of Chancery; whereto the said Thomas Lord Wentworth did appeare, and by his answer confessed the contents of the said Bill to bee true. Whereupon, a perfect Decree (with the free consent and agreement of the said Thomas Lord Wentworth, The Decree. bearing date the two and twentieth day of July, in the said fifteenth yeere of the Reigne of our Soveraigne Lord King Iames) was obtained. And by the same, the said free customes, orders, immunities, &c. and all and whatsoever contained in the said Indenture of the twntieth of June, and the Scedules unto the same Indenture annexed, are for ever established and confirmed. The said Decree is likewise there enrolled. The true Copy of the said Scedules followeth.

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The Scedules, containing the free Customes, Orders, Immunities, Discharges, Benefits, and Priviledges of the Mannors of Stepney, alias, Stebunheath and Hackney, in the County of Middlesex: Agreed vnto, approved, allowed, and ratified, as well by the Right Honourable, Thomas, Lord Wentworth, Lord of the said Mannors; as also by his Lordships Copy-hold, or Customary Tenants, or reputed Copy-hold, or Customary Tenants of the said Mannors, or of either of them, named parties to the said Indenture, where vnto those Scedules are annexed. By which, all and every the same Copy-holders or Customary Tenants, their, and every of their Heires and Assignes, are to hold, vse, and enjoy, inherit, alien, demise, or dispose all and every, or any the said Lands, Messuages, Tenements, Cottages, and Hereditaments, which they, every, or any of them respectively doe hold, claime, or enjoy, byforce, or pretext of any grant heretofore made by the Copy of Court Roll of the said Mannors, or either of them, the day of the date of the said Indentures: That is to say, the twentieth day of Iune, in the yeeres of the Raigne of our Soveraigne Lord IAMES, by the grace of God of England, France, and Ireland King, Defender of the Faith, &c. the fifteenth, and of Scotland the fiftieth.

These Copy-holds are of inheritance, held of the Lord by the Rod, according to the custome.

IMprimis, by the Customs of the said Mannors, and either of them, all the Copy-hold Lands, Tenements, & Hereditaments, which the particular persons (named parties to the Indentures, whereunto these Scedules are annexed) doe hold or enjoy, and (time whereof the contrary hath not beene within the memory of man) have been Copy-hold and customary Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments of inheritance, demised and demiseable by Copy of Court Roll of the Mannors aforesaid, or one of them respectively, according to the Customes of the Mannor whereof the same are holden. And all Copies of Court Rolls of the same Mannors, and either of them, by all the time aforesaid, for the same Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments, have beene made, and ought to be made, to hold of the Lord by the Rod, according to the Custome of the Mannor whereof the same is holden, by the [Page] Rents and services therefore due and accustomed. And all the said Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments have beene passed, and are to passe and goe from such persons, as (according to the contents of these Scedules) have power, How Surrenders are to be made. and are enabled to make Surrenders to any other person or persons by way of Surrender, to bee made to the hands of the Lord,See further in the 19. Article. by the acceptance of the Steward of the Mannor, or his Deputy for the time being, in Court or out of Court; or by the acceptance of the Reeve of the Mannor, whereof the same are holden, or by his Deputy within the same Mannor, or elsewhere, in presence of sixe Customary Tenants; or by any Headborough of some Township or Hamlet within that Mannor, in presence of sixe customary Tenants, in or out of the same Mannors. Which Surrender or Surrenders have beene, and shall, and may bee to the use of any person or persons, and their Heires for ever in Fee-taile, or for life or lives, with Remainders or without Remainders, as Lands may be assured by the course of the common Lawes of this Realme, or else to the use of the last Will and Testament of the Surrenderers, or of any other persons, according to the intent and limitation of such last Will and Testament.

Quit-rents are to be paid yeerely at Michaelmas.

ITem, the Rents of all the Tenants, both Free-holders and Copy-holders, which hold any Messuages, Cottages, Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments of the said Mannors, or of either of them, are yeerely payable only at the Feast of Saint Michael the Arch-Angell, to the Lord and his Heires: the same to be collected by the Reeves of the said Mannors (severally and respectively to be yeerely chosen, as hereafter is expressed) or their Deputies. And all and every the said customary Copy-hold Tenants, to pay the severall yeerely Rents, now yeerely due & payable for their severall Copy-holds. And if any of the said Copy-holds, An intire Quit-rent come into severall hands, shall be apportioned. for which any intire Quit-rent is now paid, shall hereafter come into severall hands, the Rent thereof shall then bee apportioned by the Homage, at the Court of the Mannor whereof the same are holden; and so much only as by the Homage shall bee appointed to be paid (pro rata) shall be paid to the Lord for the time being.

At what Courts Tenants are bound to appeare.

ITem, all and every Copy-hold Tenant of the said Mannors, or either of them, which now be, or hereafter for the time being shall bee, ought to appeare yeerely at two severall generall Courts holden for the Mannor, whereof his Lands or Tenements are holden, upon warning, as hereafter followeth. And also so many of them, at all other set or appointed Courts, set, appointed, and kept for the said Mannor whereof their Lands are holden, under the number of eighteene, as shall be (for that purpose) especially warned thereunto by the Reeve, or his sufficient Deputy for the time being. And the said Tenants shall doe their suits and services according to their tenures; except they bee essoined, licensed, or have some other lawfull excuse, upon the paine hereafter following.The two generall Courts yee rely held. Which two generall Courts have beene commonly kept (and are to be kept yeerely) the one of them on Tuesday, the ninth day after Easter day; and the other, about the Feast of Saint Andrew the Apostle, upon reasonable warning: That is to say, in the Churches and Chappels within the said Mannors, openly upon the Sunday sevennight, or Sunday fortnight, before the day of such Courts to be holden.

Tenants failing to appeare, and not essoined, or reasonable excuse, shall be amended.

ITem, if any of the Copy-hold, or Customary Tenants of the said Mannors, or of either of them, doe or shall make default of their appearance [Page] at any of the said two generall Ceuris, to which their suits shall bee due; Or if such Copy-hold Tenants, as shall be especially and lawfully warned to appeare at any of the said Courts (in forme aforesaid) yeerely to be holden, doe make default (to which the said suit is or shall bee due) and warning openly given (as aforesaid) of the day and place of the holding of the same general Courts, and upon speciall and lawfull warning to be given for the said set or purchased Courts: That then they that shall so make default (except they be essoined, or have some other lawfull or reasonable excuse) shall be amerced by the Homage of the said Court,The manner of amercing. to bee taxed and afferred by two Afferrors of the said Court: that is to say, by two Tenants of the Homage, or of either of them for the time being, hath alwayes vsed to chuse, and shall chuse one for the Lord, and the residue of the Homage have chosen, and hereafter shall chuse the other.

What the Tenants are to be allowed at set Courts.

ITem, if any Tenant bee summoned to appeare at any set Court, or Courts to bee holden within the said Mannors, or in any of them, and doth appeare upon the said summons, he ought, and is to have for his paines foure pence, and his dinner, or eight pence and no dinner; which ought and is to be paid (by the said custome) by such person or persons, who shall bee the cause that any such Tenants doe appeare for his or their matter: So it bee not any matter or cause that concerneth an enquiry or presentment to be made, only for the Lord for the time being, his Heiros and Assignes.

The like allowance for view, partitions, and other summons.

ITem, the Copy-hold Tenants of the said Mannors, and of either of them, ought to have every of them like allowance, upon every view by them to bee made, and upon every partition by them to bee made, or upon other summon to appeare betwixt Tenant and Tenant, when they be appointed thereunto by precept from the Steward of the said Mannors, or of either of them for the time being, or by his sufficient Deputy.

How Tenants way be righted against Encroachments, Annoyances, &c.

THe Homage of the Court of the said Mannors, or of any of them, may appoint six or seven Tenants, upon any complaint to them made, by any person or persons, being Tenants of the said Mannors, or of either of them in open Court: that hee or they bee wronged by any Incroachment, or any other Annoyance to their Copy-hold Tenements, which Tenants shall (after the said Court) view the same Incroachment, Annoyance, and Impediment, or place whereof any such complaint shall be made. And thereupon, to present or notifie the same by a day to the Steward, or to the Homage at the next generall Court; that there may be set a paine or amerciament, or both, for the same, by the Homage at the said next Court, according to the quality of the offence.

The Homage at every generall Court, is to present deceased Tenants.

ITem, the Homage of either of the said Mannors, are to make presentment at every generall Court to be holden for the said Manors, or of either of them, of all the Customary or Copy-hold Tenants, that they shall know shall be deceased after the Court then last past, or at any time before the said Court, whose deaths were not then found and presented, and that held any Copy-hold, or Customary, or reputed Copy-hold or Customary Lands or Tenements of the said Mannors, or of either of them. And also (as neere as they can) present what Lands every of them died seized of, and of what estate, [Page] and when he died, and who is the next Heire or Heires to the same person or persons so dying seized, and of what age or ages the said Heire or Heires shall then be of, as neere as they can.

Also they must present the deaths of Free-holders, &c.

ITem, the Homage likewise ought to present the deaths of the Free-holders, and when they dyed, and who be their next heire or heires, and the ages of their heires, which held any Lands or Tenements of the said Mannors, or of either of them, and the nature of their tenures, so neer as they can: To the intent the Lord may have his reliefe, which is but the value of one yeeres quit-rent, of the Tenements holden of the said Mannors, or of either of them by Socage tenure.

What shall bee done, if the next heire bee not knowne.

IF the Homage at any of the said Courts of either of the said Mannors, shall not know who is next heire or heires to any of the said customary Tenants so dying seized, when they shall make their presentments; that then they shall make their presentment so accordingly, and then upon the said presentment at the next generall Court then after, the Steward of the said Mannors of either of them, or his Deputy for the time being, within the said presentment shall so bee made, shall cause a Proclamation to bee made in open Court, to the intent every such heire or heires may have knowledge to come, and take up the Lands and Tenements of his or their Ancestours, and so the Steward or his Deputy shall cause a Proclamation to be made,Three Proclamations shall bee made in two yeeres space, for the heire to take knowledge, &c. from generall Court to generall Court, untill three open and publike Proclamations be made in full Court, at three generall Courts: which generall Courts (by the said custome) are used to be holden commonly one halfe yeere after another, or thereabout: So that from the presentment made by the said homage, of the dying seized of the said last Tenant, unto the last Proclamation, shall be fully two yeeres.

And if there shall come no heire of the said Lands or Tenements, nor any for him or them, before the end of the Court next after the Court, whereat the last of the said three Proclamations shall bee made, to male his or their claime, and prove himselfe, or themselves to the Homage of the Court, in such sort as they or the greater part of them shall allow of, to be the next heire or heires of the whole blood to the said Tenant deceased, or to have title to the Lands and Tenements, nor to shew and prove, as aforesaid, who is or ought to be next heire or heires of the whole blood to the said Tenant deceased,If no heire or heires appeare, the Lord may then seize the Land. or next heire or heires expectant, upon any estate determined: Then the Lord of the Mannor, whereof the same Land is holden for the time being; shall and may after the next Court, next after the said three Proclamations so to be made, seize the Lands and Tenements, which were the said persons so dying seized, whose next heire or heires, or such as shall have title thereunto cannot bee found, or shall not come and make his or their claime and proofe as aforesaid. And the same L. then to take the issues and profits thereof to his owne use,The Lord may keepe it, untill a an heire doe come. untill such person or persons come, that shall prove him or them next heire or heires to the said person or persons so dying seized.If no heire come with in three yeeres after the 3. Proclamation, then the Land shall escheat to the Lord. And if none shall come in within three yeeres next after the third and last Proclamation made as aforesaid, that shall and can convey and prove him or them to be next heire or heires of the whole blood, or shew or prove, who is or ought to be next heire or heires, or to have title as next in Remainder or or Reversion as aforesaid; that the said Lands and Tenements be forfeited, or shall escheat unto the Lord of the said Mannor or Mannors for the time being.

Except,1. Except women covert baron. that if the said Land and Tenements shall or ought immediately to descend, remaine, revert, come to any woman Covert,2. Infants within age▪ or Infant within the age of one and twenty yeeres, or to any person or persons being in prison,3. Prisoners. or any [Page] person or persons not of Sanae memoriae, 4. Persons Non sanae memoriae. or that shall not be within the Realme at the time of the death of the said last Tenant dying so seized,5. Persons out of the Realme. or at the time of the first, second or third Proclamation to be made as aforesaid, that there, in every such case, the Lord (for the time being) shall have but the profits of the said Lands and Tenements, untill such persons, or his, her or their heire or heires shall come and make their claime: So that the said claime be made by the said woman, or her heires,Five yeers limitation to make the claime in. within five yeeres next after the death of her said husband, or by her husband and her selfe during the time of her Coverture: And by such person being within age, or his heires, before he shall or should accomplish his full age of one and twenty yeeres: And by the person of Non sanae memoriae, within five yeeres, next after he shall recover, and be of Sanae memoriae; and by the heire of such person of Non sanae memoriae, within five yeeres next after the death of his said Ancestor, or before: And by the said person that shall so be out of the Realme, or his heires, within five yeeres after he shall returne; or if he shall not returne, within five yeeres after his death: And by the said person or persons in prison, within one whole yeere next after his or their enlargement from such imprisonment.

No dower for women, nor courtesie of England for men.

ITem, in the said Mannors, or either of them, women ought not to have dowers of any customary Lands or Tenements within the Mannors aforesaid, nor any of them: Nor men to have any estate as Tenants, by the courtesie of England.

Estates of inheritance shall descend according to Gavelkind.

ITem, if any shall bee seized of any customary Lands or Tenements, holden of the said Mannors, or of either of them, of an estate of Inheritance and shall have two sonnes, or three sonnes, or more: Or having no sonnes, shall have divers daughters: Or having neither sonnes nor daughters, shall have divers Collaterall heires in one neernesse of blood; or that are to make their resort, from those that were of the same neerenesse of blood to the Tenant dying: They shall bee all co-heires to their said Father, Mother, or other Ancestor, touching the said customary Lands and Tenements, according to the custome of Gavelkind.

Touching descents where the Tenant left issue.

ITem, if any man or woman die seized (as aforesaid) of any customary lands or Tenements of any state of Inheritance, holden of the said Mannors, or of any of them, and shall have issue two or three sonnes, or more, whereof one or two or more of them shall be married, and have issue in the life of their Father or mother, and shall dye before his or their Father or Mother: Or having no sons, shall have divers daughters, whereof one or more shall be married and have issue, and dye in the life of the Father or Mother: that then the said issue shall inherit, and be co-heire with the said sonne or sonnes, daughter or daughters that shall survive his, her, or their said Father or Mother, that so shall dye seized as is aforesaid; whether the said issue bee male or female, according to the custome of Gavelkind.

How Lands shall descend to those of the whole blood, where the Tenant left no issue.

ITem, if any person or persons dye seized as aforesaid, and shall leave behind him neither son nor daughter; then the next of his or their kinne (being of the whole blood) shall be heire or heires to the said person or persons so dying seized: That is to say, his, her, [Page] or their brother or brothers, brother or brothers children, or childrens children, according to the custome of Gavelkind: & so forth, as long as any of that issue shall be alive, being of the whole blood. And in default of such issue, the sisters and sisters children, according to the custome of Gavelkind: and so forth so long as any issue shall be alive, and of the whole blood. And for lacke of such issue; the Vncles and their issues, being of the whole blood, so long as any issue shall be living. And in default of such issue; the Aunts and their children, so long as any shall be living of the whole blood. And for lacke of such issue, the next of kin of the whole blood, according to the custome of Gavelkind.

Males and Females of one wombe, cannot joyne to be co-heires.

ITem, if any person so dying seized as aforesaid, without issue of his body, and having divers Brothers of the whole blood, whereof the one or some of them shall have beene married, and shall have issue, and after issue had, shall dye, before the said Brother dying seized, as aforesaid; that then the issues of the said Brother or Brothers, so dying before him that died seized, as aforesaid, shall joyne and bee co-heire with his Brother or Brothers, that surviveth the Brother that so dyed seized, as aforesaid, whether the said issue bee males or females. But males and females of one belly or womb, canot joyn to be co-heires together: So that the course of descents is to be observed by the said custome, according to the custome and nature of Lands in Gavelkinde.

Touching Descents.

ITem, likewise shall the issue of the daughter, that shall dye in the life of the Father or Mother, bee co-heire with the Aunt that liveth, being of the whole blood.

Descents.

ITem, likewise shall the Vncles, and the Vncles Brothers children (being of the whole blood) be co-heires together as aforesaid.

Descents. [...]

ITem, likewise shall the Aunts, & the Aunts Sisters children joyne and be co-heires as aforesaid, and so forth of all other further degrees, of all Collaterall heires, being of the whole blood, which may convey themselves to be any Cousins, and heires of the whole blood to any person or persons, dying seized of any of the aforesaid customary Lands or Tenements, according to the custome of Gavelkind.

How Copy-holders of inheritance may surrender.

ITem, by the custome of the said severall Mannors, every Copy-holder of inheritance in fee-simple, may surrender his said Copy-hold Lands and Tenements, or any part or parcell therof unto the Lord, to the use of any person or persons, and to his and their heires for ever, or to his or their heires of his or their bodies, or any otherwise in taile, or for life or lives, or yeeres, or to any person or persons, and his or their heires: To the intent the said Copy-hold Tenant may declare his last Will and Testament upon the same Lands and Tenements,See more in the first Article, and in the 20. and 21. Articles, &c. or to any other use or uses, unlesse it be to any corporation or corporations, or bodies politicke or corporate. And every Copy-holder in taile, or for life, lives or yeeres, of either of the said Mannors, may in like manner (by the customes of the said Mannors and of either of them) surrender their Copy-hold Lands, Tenements or Hereditaments, or any part thereof, according to the nature of their estates: so the same Surrender be made according to the custome concerning Surrenders, as afore in these presents is [Page] specified, or hereafter ensueth. And all the same persons, to whose use every Surrender shall bee made, are to have their Copies made to hold of the Lord by the Rod, according to the custome of the Mannor, whereof they have beene holden by the Rents and services therefore due and accustomed. Vpon every of which Surrender,The Fines must be entred into the Copies: See Article 29. the Fine and Fines for the same hereafter expressed, is by the said custome to bee paid, and to be entred into the severall Copies, or the Margents of them.

Surrenders taken by the Headborough or Reeve, inpresence of sixe Tenants.

ITem, by the custome of the said Mannors, and of either of them; every Surrender taken out of the Court by the Headborough or Reeve, or his Deputy, and in the presence of sixe Customary Tenants of the Mannor, of which the said Lands or Tenements surrendered shall be parcell, witnessing the same Surrender of any person or persons, of his or their customary Lands or Tenements, holden of the said Mannors, or of either of them. And being of the full age of one and twenty yeeres, or upwards (except women Covert-baron, and such as are not of perfect minde) to the use of any person or persons; are, and ought to bee as good, as if it were taken in open Court by the said Steward of the Mannors, or of either of them; so that such Surrender bee by the Homage presented, as hereafter followeth.

Surrender of women Covert-Baron, in extremity of sicknesse.

ITem, the Surrender by a woman Covert-baron, being of the age of one and twenty yeeres, made together with her husband, of the Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments, whereof she is seized or estated; is, and shall bee a good Surrender of her Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments, whereof she is seized and estated: and shall bee a good Surrender of her Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments, holden of the said Mannors, or of either of the same: the same Surrender being made in her extremity of sicknesse, or likelihood of death, by the acceptance of the Reeve of the Mannor, whereof the Lands and Tenements so surrendered, are parcell, and his Deputy, or either of them, in the presence of sixe customary Tenants, or by the acceptance of the Headborough, in the presence of sixe customary Tenants.Concerning the womans recovery of her health. But if any such woman Covert-baron, so surrendering, doe after that recover her health, and doe not at the next generall Court then following ratifie and confirme the same, before the Steward or his Deputy, in the presence of the Homage, then the same Surrender is and shall be void.All other Surrenders by women Covert-baron. And all other Surrenders made by any woman Covert-baron, except before the Steward of the Mannor, or his Deputy, where she shalbe solely examined, or in extremity of sicknesse, as is aforesaid, are and shall be void.

All Surrenders taken by the Reeve or Headborough, must be presented at the first or second next generall Court.

ITem, all Surrenders taken of women, as aforesaid, or of men by the Reeve, or his Deputy, or by a Headborow for the time being, and in the presence of six Customary Tenants, as aforesaid; shall be, and ought to be, by the Homage presented, at the first or second next generall Court, holden for the Mannor whereof the same is holden, after the taking thereof; or within one yeere and a day next after the taking of the same Surrender, if any such generall Court bee holden within a yeere and a day next after the same Surrender so taken. Or else if no such generall Court bee holden within a yeere and a day; then to be by the Homage presented at the next generall Court to be holden for the same Mannor, next after the same yeere and day; [Page] is and shall be a good Surrender, as if the same had beene taken by the Steward or his Deputy of that Mannor; or woman examined, as foresaid, in open Court, or otherwise. All Surrenders taken by the Reeve or his Deputy, or by a Headborough, and in the presence of six Tenants, and not presented by the said Homage in manner and forme aforesaid,Or else they shall be void. are and shall be void. But when any Surrender shall be made by any person,When Surrenders, to the use of the last will, must be presented, or else void. to the use of his or her last Will and Testament, to the intent that hee or shee may thereby, or thereupon, make and declare his or her last Will and Testament: that Surrender is to be presented at the first or second Court generall of that Mannor, hapning next after the decease of the party so surrendring perfectly knowne, and not before. But if the same be not at the first or second Court (next after the death of the same party) presented; or if the same party hath before (in his life time) made any other Surrender of the same Lands or Tenements, and the same to bee presented: Then the said Surrender, to the use of such last Will and Testament, is, and shall be void.

The Homage must write Billa Vera upon their Presentments and good Surrenders.

ITem, the Homage must write Billa Vera, upon every Surrender by them presented, when they finde the same Surrenders agreeable to the custome. And also upon every other of their Presentments, shall make Billa Vera, when they be agreeable to the said custome. Or else, if the said Homage receive any Surrender, or other Bills to them exhibited, which be doubtfull or repugnant to the custome of the Mannor whereof the Land is holden, upon euery such Surrender or Bill, Ignoramus shall be made, or the like Superscription, to the intent it may bee knowne to bee doubtfull or naught: or else returne the same naughty Surrenders or Bills backe againe, to the parties that exhibited the same.

What Women Covert-baron may doe.

ITem, every Woman being Covert-baron, of the age of one and twenty yeres or upwards, having any customary Lands or Tenements to her or her Heires, for life, lives, or yeeres, and holden of the said Mannors, or of either of them; may together with her Husband (by the hands of the said Steward, or his sufficient Deputy) surrender all her said Lands and Tenements, Interest, and terme of yeeres, to the use of her said Husband, or to any other person or persons at their will and pleasure;Solely examined before the Steward or his Deputy. so as she be solely and secretly examined before the Steward, or his sufficient Deputy.

Surrenders taken out of Court by the Steward or his Deputy.

ITem, all Surrenders taken out of the Court by the Steward of the said Mannors, or of any of them, or his sufficient Deputy, of any person or persons, being of the full age of one and twenty yeeres or more, and of Sanae memoriae, of any of their customary Lands and Tenements holden of the said Mannors, or of either of them, be good by the customes of the said Mannors, and of either of them;Must bee presented, at the next generall Court. and the same ought to bee published and notified to the Homage at the next generall Court, or else those Surrenders are also void.

The Fines are certaine, and not arbitrary.

ITem, all the Fines upon admittances for any the now Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments, of all and every the persons, named parties to the said Indenture, holden by Copy of Court Roll, are and ought to bee certaine, and not arbitrary, or at the will of the Lord. And the Lord or Lords of the said Mannors, or of either of them, ought to have and take Fines upon admittances, as hereafter followeth, and not other, or greater: That is [Page] to say, upon the admission of the Heire or Heires after a descent, for every Acre of land (of what nature and kind soever) sixteen pence, and so after that rate, for greater or lesser quantities of land.What Fines are due. And upon admission of one person only, after any Surrender, the like summe of sixteene pence for every Acre; and so after that rate, for every greater or lesser quantity of land. But if more then one person bee admitted after or upon any Surrender:If more then one Person be admitted, then &c. then every of the same persons are to pay halfe so much as one person ought to pay, and not more. Likewise upon admission of the Heires of Heire, after a descent for every messuage Customary, with the Courts, Yards, Easements, Orchards, and Gardens thereunto belonging, for a Fine, the summe of thirteene shillings foure pence, and not more. And for a dwelling house, called a Tenement, with the Courts, Yards, Orchards, Easements, and Gardens thereunto belonging, the summe of ten shillings, and not more. And for a Cottage, used for a dwelling, with Easements and Gardens thereunto belonging, or without Garden, and not demised for more then three pounds by the yeere, the summe of twenty pence.What Fine for a building, not used for a dwelling house. But for a building, not used for a dwelling house, so much onely as according to the quantity of the land, after the rate of sixteene pence the Acre. And for greater Cottages used for dwelling, & which shalbe let for above three pounds by the yeere, with the Courts, Yards, Orchards, and Easements thereunto belonging, the summe of ten shillings. And the like is of Messuages, Tenements, and Cottages hereafter to bee built. And upon or after any Surrender, at the admission, the like Fines are to bee paid for one person. Admission of man and wife, a whole Fine. But if any Surrender be made by any person or persons, to a man and his wife, then a whole Fine is to be paid for the Husband, and halfe a Fine is to bee paid for the wife. And if more persons bee admitted upon one Surrender; then every of the same persons are to pay for Fine, halfe so much as one person ought to pay, and not more.

All Acres are to bee accounted, according to the Statute or Ordinance, De terris mensurandis, and Orchards and Gardens not belonging to such Messuages, Tenements, or Cottages are to pay as Lands according to the quantity thereof, according to the rate aforesaid. And parts of Messuages, parts of Tenements, and parts of Cottages, are to pay for Fines respectively (in regard of the whole) according to the rate of the whole.The Fines must bee entred in the margent of the Copies: See Article 19. And all Fines paid, are to bee set downe and expressed in the Copy of the Court Roll therof, or in the margent of the same Copy. And if any question or doubt shall hereafter arise, about the discerning and true estimation what, or which be, or ought to be accounted a Messuage; and what, or which, a dwelling house, called a Tenement; and what, or which, a Cottage: the same is to bee referred to the Homage of the Mannor at the next generall Court, and by the same to bee tried, ordered, determined, and presented, and according to such presentments, Fines are to bee paid.

If the Lord refuse to admit, then, &c.

ITem, if the Lord or Lords of the said Mannors, or either of them, or his or their Steward (for the time being) shall refuse to admit any person or persons, to whom or to whose use such Surrender (as in the precedent Article is expressed) shall bee made, or shall refuse to admit such person or persons, to whom any of the said Copy-hold, or Customary, or reputed Copy-hold, or Customary Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments shall descend, according to the custome of the said Mannors, and true meaning of these Scedules: then the person so not admitted, paying or tendering to the Lord or his Reeve, Fine or Fines for the same (according to the true meaning of these Scedules) shal and may into such Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments, so surrendered or descended, respectively enter; and the same quietly have, hold, and enjoy as freely, and in such sort, as if hee or they had [Page] beene thereunto lawfully admitted, and not otherwise.

Surrender to make the Wife a Ioynture.

ITem, if any man make a Surrender, onely to the intent to make his wife a Jointure, or to assure it to his wife for tearme of her life, or during her widow-hood, not alterning the estate of the inheritance; then for the fine of the same, or any admittance thereupon; there shall bee paid but halfe a fine for the same things so surrendred: That is to say, halfe so much as one person should pay upon admittance, according to the true meaning of these Scedules. And the like is to be used, where the Husband, and Wife make a Surrender of the Lands of the Wife; to the end onely, to make an estate thereof to the Husband ioyntly with his Wife, or to the Husband for terme of his life in possession or remainder. And likewise (by the said custom) for every Tenant that shall not bee admitted in Reversion or Remainder expectant,Concerning Tenants not admitted, &c. upon the estate of any particular Tenant for life, in taile or for yeeres, granted by the Copy; the same is but halfe so much as it is upon other admittances, upon alienations, surrenders, or dying seized as aforesaid.

Duties to the Homage and Tenants for Bills and Surrenders.

ITem, every person that exhibiteth or delivereth any Surrender, or Bill to the Homage, ought to give and pay to the same Homage, for every such surrender or Bill, foure pence, and every of the said sixe Tenants, and also the Headborought or Reeve (which shall be at the taking of any Surrenders as aforesaid) ought to have foure pence apiece of the parties that make the Surrender, if the same Surrender be taken within the said Mannors,Taking Surrenders out of the Mannors. or in either of them. But if they goe out of the said Mannors, or either of them, for the taking of the same, then to have eight pence apiece, and their charges, if they shall goe further off. And the party that procureth the said Surrender, ought to give to the said Tenants foure pence, beside the said sees; which foure pence is to be delivered with the said Surrender; or else he that bringeth in the said Surrender, without the said foure pence shall pay it of his owne [...] to the Homage.

Though an heire be admitted, yet upon a new claime, the Homage shall enquire, &c. for a Co-heire.

ITem, if it chance at any time, upon the death of any Copy-holder, or customary Tenant, that there is an heire or heires found, and presented by the Homage, and after, is or are admitted to the Lands or Tenements of the said Copy-holder, and at that time no other heires shall be knowne. And after it shall chance that one or other commeth, and claimeth to be Co-heire with the said Heire that is admitted; then the Homage ought thereof to enquire; and if they finde his claime true, they ought to present the same. And then he or they so claiming, shall bee likewise admitted, and pay his fine, and have his part of the premisses, notwithstanding the former admission.

Where Tenants are admitted, and after that another claimeth the whole: the Homage is not bound to enquire, but he is driven to his suit.

ITem, if any man bee admitted to any possession, or to any Reversion or Remainder of any Lands or Tenements, whether they bee to him descended as shall be supposed, or to him surrendred by any other person, and after that commeth another person or persons, who pretendeth a title to the whole premisses, or any part thereof, and desireth that the Homage may enquire thereof: In this case the said Homage is not bound thereof to enquire: but he or they are driven to his or their suit or plaint, whether his or their title [Page] be right or wrong: Except in such case, where any person or persons shall claim as in the next precedent Article. And yet if any shall require the homage, to finde whether hee or they were the son or daughter, or sonnes or daughters of such a one or no, and the homage knowing, or well enformed of the truth, that he or they shall be the sonne, or sonnes or daughters of him or her, that dyed seized of the Lands then in question The Homage ought therein to present the truth:How farre the Homage are to present, and what not. But not to present, whether he or they ought to have the premisses, or any part thereof, to the which another person is already presented. But in such case, he or they shall be driven to his or their suit or plaint, as aforesaid; for recovery of their said right, if any right they have. Except in such case, where any person or persons shall claime, as in the next precedent Article.

How Lands descended are to bee taken up.

ITem, after the death of every person, being a Ccustomary Tenant of the said Mannors, or of either of them; the next heire or heires ought to come and take up the Lands and Tenements, whereof his or their Ancestors so shall dye seized, of what age soever he bee. And if he or they be of the age of foureteene yeeres or upwards;At foureteen yeers he is to be presented and admitted in his owne person. hee is to bee admitted in his owne person, within a convenient time after he or they shall be presented. Or else if he or they bee under the age of foureteene yeeres; then to come and take it up by his Gardian,Vnder 14. yeeres by a Gardian. untill hee bee of the age of foureteene yeeres, as aforesaid, and to pay for his fine, according to the rates expressed in these Scedules; and the Gardian to pay but three shillings and foure pence at the most for his fine for the Gardianship,Gardian three shillings foure pence. or lesse, as the Steward or his Deputy shall thinke fit. And for Lands descended from the part of the Father; the next Cousien of the part on the Mother, not able to inherit those Lands, ought to be Gardian. And if the Lands came from the part of the Mother;Who shall be Gardian. then the like Cousien of the part of the Father ought to be Gardian, if that person will accept thereof.See Article 37. And upon their refusall, or not praying to be admitted Gardian, at the first or second Court after that Infant ought to be admitted; then may the Steward admit any other of the kindred of the Infant (to whom his Lands cannot descend) to bee Gardian.The kindred refusing to be Gardian. And if none of the kindred will accept of the Gardianship; then may another bee admitted. And every Gardian shall account to the heire of the profits, and repaire the Copy-hold Tenements of him whose Gardian he is: And upon admittance shall be bound to the Lord for the time being,And shall be bound to the L. for performance. with condition for performance thereof, in such summe as the Homage of the said Court, or the greater part thereof shall like of. And of the Lands of every Infant under foureteene yeeres of age, that shall bee a purchaser; a Gardian shall be admitted, and shall so demeane himselfe in such manner, as for the Gardian of an Infant (having Lands by descent) is limited and appointed.

They to whose use Lands are surrendred, ought within three yeeres after the presentment take them up.

ITem, every person, to whose use any of the said Lands ot Tenements shal be surrendred, ought to come within three yeeres after the same bee presented, and take up the same by himselfe, if he be of age, and to bee admitted as aforesaid, and to pay his fine, or else by his Gardian, as is aforesaid.

The Lord may distrain for the Fines; or by default of distresse, seize the Lands.

ITem, if any of the said Heires, Alienees or Gardians, doe not pay their fines within one moneth after the same fines bee extracted, and the extracts delivered to the Reeve or his Deputy for the gathering thereof, and by them or either of them demanded; then it shall be lawfull for the Lord or [Page] Lords of the said Mannor or Mannors for the time being, or his or their Officers to distraine, and avow as for rents: And for want of distresse, to seize the Lands and Tenements, for the which the said Fine or Fines are to be paid, and to enjoy the same to his or their owne use, untill he or they shall bee fully satisfied, and paid the said Fine or Fines, to bee paid by him or them that so ought to pay the same.

The like he may doe for non payment of the Quit-rent.

ITem, if any Customary or Copy-hold Tenant of the said Mannors, or of either of them, shall not pay his Rents for his Copy-hold, for which the same is due, and demanded by the said Reeve or his Deputy, then it shall bee lawfull for the Lord or Lords of the said Mannor or Mannors for the time being, or his or their Officers to distraine and avow. And for want of sufficient distresse, to seize the Lands and Tenements out of the which the same ought to be paid, and to take and enjoy the Rents, Issues, and profits of the same to his or their owne use, untill hee or they shall bee fully satisfied and paid the same Rents by him or them that so ought to pay the same.

Who shall be the Gardian.

ITem, that when any Tenant dieth seized leaving his Heire under the age of fourteene yeeres, the next of the kin (to whom the said Lands and Tenements cannot descend) shall have, if hee shall require it, the custody of the Heire, and of his Lands and Tenements, committed unto him for the use of the Heire, untill he come to the age of fourteene yeeres,See Article 33. as is aforesaid, and then hee to chuse his owne Gardian, And the former Gardian at any time after (upon reasonable request) to yeeld account to the Heire, of the profits of his Lands received.

Tenants may let Leases for 31. yeeres and foure moneths, without any Licence or Fine.

ITem, if any person or persons bee disposed to let his or their customary Lands or Tenements to any other person or persons, and to their Executors and Assignes, for the terme of one and thirty yeeres, or lesse; the same person or persons have and shall have full power and authority, to set or let to farme his or their Copy-hold Lands, or Tenements to any person or persons, their Heires, Executors, and Assignes, for the terme of one and thirty yeeres and foure moneths,See the Abstract of the Indenture. or lesse, in possession from the time of the making thereof in writing, without any Licence to him or them to bee granted, and without paying Fine to the Lord, or incurring any forfeiture or seizure of or for the same: So as the same Lease doe not exceed one and thirty yeeres and foure moneths, from the time of the making thereof.If such Leases be not presented to the Homage within one yeere after the making, they shall be void. But such Lease is and ought to be presented to the Homage of the Mannor, whereof the Lands or Tenements so leased are held, within one yeere after the making thereof: or else the same Lease so made, and not presented as aforesaid, shall bee void and of none effect.

Either Mannor is vpon every change of Lord, to pay five pounds for Recognition money.

ITem, the custome of the Mannor is, to give to the Lord of every of the said Mannors, upon the change of every Lord, at the next Court after the first entry, bona fide, ten pounds of lawfull money of England; that is to say, out of each Mannor five pounds, for the recognition and acknowledgeing the services, which is to be levied and collected by the Reeve for the time being; amongst all the said Copy-holders of the said Mannors, respectively, according to the rates they shall be taxed at, by the Homage at [Page] the next Court to bee holden, after the comming of the new Lord.

How the Reeve of either Mannor is to bee chosen.

ITem, the homage of every of the said Mannors ought yeerely (at the generall Court to be holden next after Michaelmas) to elect & chuse severall Reeves for every of the said Mannors; that is to say, to elect and chuse two Customary Tenants, either of the said persons named parties to the said presents, their Heires or Assignes, or of others not named, to beare the Office of the Reeve for each of the said Mannors: namely, he that was before in election (if he bee alive) and one other: or if he be dead, two other, to the intent the Lord of the said Mannors, or of either of them, or his Steward, may appoint the one of them so elected for one whole yeere;Hee shall serve one whole yeere. that is, one to serve for each of the said Mannors; so he be appointed within that Mannor of which he is a Tenant, and for which he shalbe so chosen. Which Reeve being so appointed, ought to take upon him the said Office for one whole yeere then next ensuing, to execute the same by himselfe or his Deputy, for whom hee shall answer, and to be subject to account and answer for the same, as in the said presents is set downe.

And if a Copy-holder shall bee duly chosen, and appointed by the Homage, to bee the Lords Reeve, as aforesaid, and (according to his turne) presented by the Homage, and shall refuse to serve the said Office by himselfe or his Deputy:For refusing the Office, and what Fine to be paid in Hackney. then every such person so refusing, within the said Mannor of Hackney, shall pay for a Fine, sixe pounds thirteene shillings and fourepence. And every such person so refusing,The Fine for Stepney. within the said Mannor of Stebunheath or Stepney, shall pay for a Fine, ten pounds to the Lord of the Mannor,The Homage shall chuse another, untill one do accept and serve. whereof his Lands are holden. And the Homage of the same Mannor shall bee charged from time to time to chuse another Reeve in the place of him that shall so refuse, untill such time as (for the same Mannor) one be chosen that shall and will serve the said Office. And every Copy-holder that shall bee chosen and appointed to the said Office as aforesaid, and shall refuse to serve the same Office, shall pay the Fine aforesaid to the Lord of that Mannor for his refusall. The halfe of Fines paid by refusers, shall be allowed him who next shall serve. The one halfe of all which Fines or Fine, of Tenant or Tenants so refusing to accept and execute the said Office of Reeveship, according to the true meaning of these Scedules, the Lord or Lords of the said Mannors, or either of them, of whom such Tenant or Tenants so refusing shall hold, ought, and shall from time to time allow unto such person or persons, as being chosen and appointed to bee Reeve as aforesaid; And shall and will, next after the refusall of any one or more of the said Tenants so chosen, accept and serve the said Office; the moity of the said Fine or Fines, respectively to bee by him defaulked and retained in his account.And be by him retained at his accounting. And by the Lord of that Mannor, upon the same Reeves account (whensoever hee shall account for the same) to be duly and justly allowed.

In what cases the Lord may seize the Reeves Lands.

ITem, if any Copy-holder, that shall accept, and execute the said Office of Reeve, shall refuse to satisfie and pay unto the Lord, the yeerely quitrents and fines for admittances upon Alienations or Descents, wherewith such Reeve shall or may bee lawfully charged, by and according to the true meaning of these presents; or shall refuse to account with the Lord, within two moneths next yeerely after Michaelmas, having had the Rentall and Estracts of Fines upon admittances, as aforesaid, for that yeere, by the space of two moneths: Every such Reeves Lands & Tenements, that shal so refuse to account, and pay the said Rents and Fines which he shall or may have collected, as aforesaid, shall bee seized into the Lords hands, and the Lord shall and may take to his owne use the [Page] issues and profits of his said Lands and Tenements, untill he shall pay unto the Lord the Rents and Fines aforesaid: And untill hee hath also satisfied and paid for his said offence (viz.) being Reeve of Hackney, What he is to pay for his offence in both the Mannors. six pounds thirteene shillings foure pence: And being Reeve of Stepney, ten pounds. Neverthelesse, the Reeve ought not, nor shall be charged or chargeable to answer any Quitrents, contained in any Rentall or Estracts, Hee is not to answer any Quitrent, unlesse hee know the Tenant, or where the Land lyeth. unlesse it appeare unto him by the Rentall of the former Reeve, or otherwise bee made knowne unto him by some of the Lords Officers, who is the Tenant, or where the Land lyeth; for and in respect of which, the same Quit-rents ought to be paid.

No Reeves within this composition, shall be charged with the Leet, or Court Baron, otherwise then in Article 45. Nor provide for any dinners, except, &c.

ITem, no Copy-holder of the said Mannors, or of either of them, being named parties to the said Indenture, nor their Heires or Assignes, ought or shall (at any time) bee charged to collect or gather any of the Amerciaments, Fines, or other Issues or Profits of the Courts-Leets, or Courts-Baron, holden within the said Manors, or of either of them, otherwise then in the last precedent Article is mentioned: nor to provide or allow for any Dinners, either on the day or daies the Court-Leet shall be holden upon, or on the day or dayes of the two generall Courts: but are and shall bee thereof for ever freed and discharged; except that such Tenant, or his Heires, shall hereafter purchase or have other customary Lands then those that the said persons, named parties to the said Indenture, or some one of them the said persons doe now hold, which shall be worth to be sold (at the least) two hundred pounds of lawfull money of England, or shall bee of the cleere yeerely value of twenty pounds of like money.

What Tenants may be chosen Reeves.

ITem, every one of the said Customary Tenants, named parties to the said Indenture, whose Lands, Tenements, and Hereditaments, holden by Copy of Court-Roll of either of the said Mannors, are worth sixteene pounds of like money, as aforesaid, by the yeere to be let, or two hundred pounds to be sold, by the estimation and presentment of the Homage of the same Mannor, shall beare the Office of Reeve, of and for such of the said Mannors wherof hee shall bee a Tenant by Copy of Court-Roll, and for which he shall bee chosen and appointed Reeve, as aforesaid, when his or their time and course doth come.

What allowances the Reeve is to have of the Lord.

ITem, every of the said Reeves, is to bee allowed of the said Lords or Lord, for the executing of the said Office for one yeere, as followeth, viz. The Reeve of Stebunheath, three pounds sixe shillings and eight pence: and sixe shillings eight pence more, for and in respect of an allowance of a Coat-cloth to the said Reeve: And the Reeve of Hackney, fifty three shillings and foure pence: and sixe shillings eight pence more, for and in respect of an allowance of a Coat-cloth to the same Reeve: And all other commodities due and incident to the said Office, for either of them, or used heretofore to be paid to the said Reeve, by any of the Tenants of the said Mannors respectively.

The Reeve to deliver the Rentall to his Successour.

ITem, the Reeves of the said Mannors, and of either of them, shall at the next generall Court, after his yeere of service expired, deliver the Rentall by which he made his account, to the Reeve that shall next succeed him,To bee amerced. upon paine to be amerced, or fined by the Homage, if he shall not so doe.

What the Copy-holders may freely doe without forfeiture.

ITem, all the Customary Tenants of the said Mannors, & of either of thē, may break and dig their Copy-hold [Page] grounds, holden of the said Mannors, and of either of them, at his or their will & pleasure; and fell, and cut down their timber and woods growing, or that shall grow upon the same, and convert it to their best use and profit: and may also suffer their Copy-hold Tenements and houses to decay, without incurring any seizure or forfeiture of their estates therefore, or other paine: and may take and pull downe their said Tenements, and erect or set them up againe, either where they stood before, or upon any other Lands, holden by Copy of Court-Roll of the said Mannors, or of either of them.No houses may bee pulled downe, to set them upon free-hold land. But they may not, or shall not take or pull them downe, to set them (or any part of them) upon their owne Free-holds, or upon the Free-holds of any other.

Copy-holders may lop Trees growing upon the waste before their houses.

ITem, every of the said Copy-holders, or reputed Copy-holders, named parties to the said Indenture, may lop and shred all such Trees as grow before their houses or Tenements, upon the waste ground, and convert the same to their owne use, without any offence, so the said Trees stand for the defence of their Houses, Yards, or Gardens:They may dig Gravell, &c. upon the waste. And also they may dig Gravell, Sand, Clay, and Lome upon the said waste grounds, to build or repaire any of their Copy-hold Tenements within the said Mannors, or in either of them without any licence; so alwaies, as every of the said Copy-holders doe fill up so much as shall bee digged by him or them.

Letting of Lands for more then 31. yeeres and foure moneths, is a forfeiture.

ITem, if any person or persons, being Tenant Customary, shall (without Licence by Indenture, or other writing, or otherwise) let his said Customary Lands or Tenements for more then one and thirty yeeres and foure moneths, it shall be a forfeiture of his estate, by the custome of the said Mannors, and of either of them, being found and presented by the Homage, or else otherwise lawfully and sufficiently proved.

For what offences these Copy-holders may forfeit their estates.

ITem, for Treason or Felony whatsoever, that shall bee committed by any Copy-holder of the said Mannors, or of any of them, for which hee shall be lawfully attainted, he shall forfeit his Copy-hold Lands and Tenements to the Lord of the said Mannor. And for all other offence or offences, act or acts whatsoever, for which a Free-holder ought (by the common Lawes of the Land) to forfeit his Free-hold Lands and Tenements: There a Copy-holder of the said Mannors, or of either of them, shall forfeit as a Free-holder ought to forfeit in like case his Free-hold.Outlawry except for Treason or Felony, shall be no forfeiture. But if a Copy-holder be out-lawed for any cause, saving Felony or Treason, the Lord shall not have the issues or profits of his Lands. And if a Copy-holder make a Feoffement of his Copy-hold, Gift in taile, or Lease for life or lives, by deed, or without deed, by livery and seizin thereupon: or shall suffer a recovery at the Common Law, levy a Fine, or wilfully refuse or deny to pay, doe or performe his Rents, Fines, Suits, Customes and Services, at any time due to the Lord or Lords of the said Mannors, or of either of them for the said Copy-holds:How a man may make a further forfeiture of his estate severall waies. The same wilfull refusall being presented to the Homage, by the oathes of three Customary Tenants, with the Reeve or his Deputy (the said Tenants or Reeve, nor his Deputy, being none of the Lords servants) and being found and presented by the Homage, the same shall be holden and reputed a forfeiture of his estate, whatsoever hee shall have by Copy of Court-Roll, at the time of any such act committed or done; in so much of his or their Copy-hold Lands and Tenements, as he shall have committed any such act: and only for so much of his Lands and Tenements, Denying to pay Rents, Fines, &c. out of the which the said Quitrent, and other duties is demanded, and shall be due, and wilfully denied [Page] by the said Tenant or Tenants, as aforesaid. Or if any Copy-holder shall in the Lords Court,Disclaiming to hold of the Lord, and claiming their Copy-holds to be free-holds. or elsewhere in any court of Record, disclaime to hold his said Copy-hold Lands and Tenements of the Lord of the Mannor, whereof his Lands and Tenements are holden; or shall (by pleading in the Lords Court, or other Court of Record) wilfully claime their Copy-holds to bee Free-holds; Pleading wittingly in a reall action at Common Law, in chiefe as a Free-hold. or willingly and wittingly plead in any Reall action at the Common law in chiefe as a Free-hold Tenant; or shall willingly and wittingly doe any other act, or things, in or concerning his now Lands and Tenements, which shall be a disseisin or dis-inheritance of the Lord or Lords of the said Mannors, or of either of them, their heires or assignes (other than such acts, as in these Articles are especially mentioned, (or dispensed withall) that then hee shall forfeit his and their estate, of and in the same Lands and Tenements so disclaimed, to be holden or claimed to be free-hold; or for which he shall plead in chiefe, or do any such other act or thing as is aforesaid.What other forfeitures the Lord shall haue. Finally, the Lord of the said Mannors, or of either of them, shall have all such other Forfeitures, Issues, Profits, and Advantages of the said Copy-holds, as shall grow due to him by any Statute Lawes of this Realme, being not against and contrary to these Articles and Customes here expressely set downe.

The Act or Neglect of Tenant for lives or yeeres, shall not prejudice those in remainder.

ITem, if any person or persons, having any estate of any Copy-hold Lands or Tenements, holden of the said Mannors, or of either of them, for terme of life or lives, or for terme of yeeres, or (in the right of their wives) of any estate, although he, she, or they, shall doe or suffer, or neglect to doe any act or acts during the time aforesaid, in or upon the said Copy-hold Lands and Tenements, which may or shall be contrary to the custome of the said mannors, or of either of them. The same act or acts so being done, shall not prejudice or bee hurtfull unto the next person or persons to whom the said Customary Lands or Tenements should or ought to remaine, revert, or come,Concerning the Wife and her heires. nor to the said Wife or her Heires, not being party in Court, or consenting in Court to the said act or forfeiture. Nor that the Lord of the said Mannors, or of either of them, shall take any longer Advantage, Issues, or Profits of the same Copy-hold Lands or Tenements, then during the time of such estates as aforesaid, of the party committing, doing, or assenting to such act or acts. So that after his or their decease, or estates determined, the said Lands and Tenements shall remaine, revert, or come to the next person or persons, or to such person or persons to whom the same should have come or remained, or goe or revert immediatly after such estate or estates ended or determined; as though there had bin no such act or acts done, contrary to the tenor or true meaning of these presents, by any such person or persons.

Private Acts of Tenants, hurt not the customes of the rest.

ITem, the particular or private act or acts of any customary Tenant or Tenants of any of the said Mannors, which shall happen to be done by, or betweene them, or any of them, and the Lord or Lords of the said Mannors, or either of them, and his or their Reeve, or of either of them, contrary to the Articles and true meaning of these presents, neither doth nor shall extend to be construed to be a breach of the ancient customes of the said Mannors, or of either of them, to the hurt or prejudice of the rest of the Customary Tenants, but of themselves only, doing the said particular act.

Tenant for life or yeeres, making waste, shall be fined by the Homage.

ITem, that if any Tenant for terme of life, or lives onely, or for terme of yeeres of Customary Lands, shall make any waste, then he shall bee fined by the Homage; the third part of which Fine shall bee to the Lord, and the other two parts shall come to him in the reversion or remainder of the said Copy-hold.

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The Lord may distraine, but not seize.

ITem, the Lord, for non payment of Amerciaments, may distraine his said Tenants, parties to these presents, and avow for the same as for Rents: But hee cannot seize any of his or their Customary Lands or Tenements, parties to these Presents, for non payment thereof, vntill hee bee payed.

How partition is to be made betweene Co-heires, Ioynt-Tenants, or Tenants in common.

ITem, upon the admission of any Coheires, Ioynt-Tenants, or Tenants in common, if they cannot agree to occupy their Lands and Tenements, or to make partition among themselves: then hee or they that bee grieved, may (by the custome of either of the said Mannors) have a Precept from the Steward, directed to seven Customary Tenants, or more, of the said Mannors within which the said Lands and Tenements doe lye, and they shall make partition thereof, and the same returne to the Steward of the said Mannors againe, to bee enrolled in the Court Rolls of the said Mannor, whereof the said Lands and Tenements bee holden. Whereupon the said Heires shall goe to the said Steward of the said Mannor, within which the said Lands or Tenements shall lye: and then elect and chuse their parts in forme following:

That is to say,The m [...]nner of electing and chusing their parts, either in sons or daughters. The youngest Sonne to chuse first, and then hee that is next to the youngest to chuse next, and so after that rate unto the eldest (how many soever) which eldest shall chuse last. And likewise the same order is to be observed amongst daughters, if there bee no sonnes, and amongst all other degrees of Heires, touching the Customary Lands and Tenements holden of the said Mannors, or either of them. And upon every such partition,Fine upon every such partition. they shall pay for a Fine to the Lord, two shillings and six pence, or lesse, at the discretion of the Steward, according to the quantity of the Lands or Tenements so parted betweene Tenants in common and Ioynt-Tenants; for the like Fine the said division to bee by the said Tenants, without election of the parties themselves, but by casting of Lots, if they cannot otherwise agree.

Copy-holders shall pay but a penny for poundage.

ITem, if any Customary or Free Tenants Cattell, or the Cattell of their Farmers, bee brought to the Lords Pound, the said Tenant, or his Farmer shall pay for all his Cattell (if they bee a hundred heads, or upward or under) for the poundage therof, but one penny. And hee that is no Tenant, shall pay for every distresse of Cattell so pounded, foure pence.

Cattell impounded to be delivered by two Copy-holders.

ITem, if any Cattell be impounded within the Lords Pound, by any person or persons, being a Customary Tenant or Tenants of the said Mannors, or of either of them, for any trespasse committed or done within the said Mannors, or in either of them, upon their Copy-holds: that all such Cattell being so impounded, may by two of the said Customary Tenants, of such of the said Mannors, or of either of them, wherein the said trespasse shall be committed, which will answer for such damages and costs as shall bee recovered in the said Court, against the owners of the same Cattell for the said trespasse, bee delivered out of the said Pound, unto the owner of the said Cattell, by the custome of the same Mannors, and of either of them.

No Suits for title of Copy-holds out of the Lords Court, without licence.

ITem, no Customary Tenant shall sue, vexe, or trouble any other Customary Tenant, for any title of Lands or Tenements, lying and being within the said Mannors, or in either of them, being Copy-hold Lands or Tenements of the said Mannors, or of either of them, out of the Lords Court, without the speciall Licence first had and obtained of the L. of the said Mannors, or of either of them, or of his Steward for the time being; if any person do the contrary, he shall have his Lands or Tenements seized into the Lords [Page] hands, untill he pay a Fine to the L. for the same offence, viz. such Fine as shall be ceassed by the Homage at the next generall Court of the said Mannor.

Cattell offending, shall bee driven to the Lords Pound.

ITem, that no Customary Tenants of the said Mannors, or of either of them, for any offence to be done by any mans Cattell, within the said Mannors, or in either of them, shal drive the same Cattell to any forraigne Pounds, but to the Lords Pounds, being within the said Mannors, or in either of them: if any man doe the contrary, to be amerced at the next generall Court by the Homage. So alwaies as there be a sufficient Pound of the Lords there.

How Stakes, Markes, and Meares, betweene Tenant and Tenant ought to bee set.

ITem, that no Tenant, or any other person shall set any Stake, Marke, or Meare, betweene Tenant and Tenant, or betweene Tenant and any other person that lieth next to him, without the parties doe thereunto agree, unlesse an order be appointed by the Homage, or the greatest part of them, that it may bee first viewed by twelve Tenants of the said Mannors, or of either of them, where the Stake or Meare is to bee set, and there to set the Stake or Meare (indifferently) betweene both the said parties, & so to continue it, upon paine of amercement by the Homage.

Drivers of Commons, when to be chosen.

ITem, the Homage doe, and shall yerely use at the next general Court, holden upon the Tuesday, the ninth day next after Easter day, to elect and chuse out of the Hamlets within every of the said Mannors, certaine customary Tenants, to be Drivers and Viewers of the Wasts and Commons of the said Mannors, and of either of them, for one whole yeere. Which Tenants so elected, have authority (by the said custome) to drive the Commons at any time when they finde it surcharged, and to impound the Cattell by them so taken: and no other to drive the said Common, then the persons that were so chosen as aforesaid.

How surcharging the Commons is to be remedied.

ITem, If by their driving, the surcharging cannot be remedied, then they ought to informe the Homage therof at the next Court, that they may amerce the offenders, whether the offenders be Tenants or no Tenants. And also to put a [...] amerciament upō their heads, that they shall not likewise offend.

The Drivers shall account to the Homage.

ITem, if the said Drivers receive by the said poundages, any more mony then they spend in travaile, the rest shalbe imployed to the scowring of the common Sewers, which bee upon the said waste ground and Commons, and laying of Bridges over the said common Sewers; and shall make their account (in that behalfe) to the Homage at the generall Court, when the yeere (for which they were chosen) shall expire.

The Homage may make by-Lawes, which shall binde the Tenants.

ITem, the Copy-hold and customary Tenants, may make by-lawes at their generall Courts, when need shall require, which custome shall be so continued. And the said by-lawes so by them made, shall binde all the Copy-hold Tenants of the said Mannors, or of either of them: so the same be not contrary to the true meaning of these Articles.

Recoveries may be suffered to barre Entailes.

ITem, by the custome of the said Mannors, and of either of them, Tenants in taile of customary Lands and Tenements, may suffer common recoveries within the said severall Mannors, with single or double vouchers; or (by agreement) forfeit the said Lands and Tenements into the Lords hands, for the cutting off the estate taile: which custome (by these Articles) shall have still continuance, and such recoveries and forfeitures, are and shall be good to barre the said Entaile.

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Tenants not appearing a [...] set Courts, shall not be amerced above 4. pence.

ITem, whensoever there shall be any Court, or Courts Baron (or other then the said two generall Courts) kept within the said Mannors, or either of them; no Copy-holder ought or shall be amerced above the summe of foure pence, for any default of his appearance at any the same Court or Courts, except the said two generall Courts: Neither shall incurre any forfeiture, or seizure of his Copy-hold Lands or Tenements, or any other damage for any such default. And the said amerciament to be taxed by the Assurers Tenants of that Court.

The Stewards Fees.

ITem, the Steward or his Deputy is to have such Fees and allowances, as hereafter is expressed, viz. for every Surrender taken out of the Court five shillings, and nothing for any Surrender taken in Court. For every woman covert-Baron, that shall be examined, sixe shillings eight pence; for every admittance of every person, two shillings; for entring every Surrender, and making the Copy of Court Roll thereupon, sixe shillings eight pence; for every Precept for a view of partition, and entring the same, and the returne thereof upon the Court Roll, and the Copy thereof, two shillings six pence; and if it exceed two sheets of paper, then for every sheet over and above two sheets, twelve pence more. For searching the Court Rols for every yeere, foure pence. For every purchased Court, thirteene shillings foure pence. For entring a note of a Leafe, granted of any Lands or Tenements, containing the date, quantity of Lands or Tenements, and certainty of terme, and to whom the same shalbe granted, & for a note thereof to the party, sixe pence. For these things before expressed, the Steward shall have only such Fees as before is declared; and for all other things, he shall have as formerly hath anciently bin used, and no more.

Buildings to bee erected, shall pay Fines, as those already built.

ITem, all Messuages, Tenements, and Cottages, that shall hereafter bee built upon any the copy-hold Lands, wherof the customes are hereby meant to be declared; shall be held and enjoyed by the Copy-hold Tenants thereof, under the same Customes and Articles herein declared, as the Lands whereon they shall bee built are holden and enjoyed; but shall pay such Fines therefore, as is before expressed or declared for Messuages, Tenements, and Cottages, that shall be new built.

The Lord shall not sever from the Mannor any of these Copy-holders, to any persons in Fee-simple, or other estate of Free-hold.

ITem, the Lord of the said Mannors, or of either of them, their Heires or Assignes, shall not at any time hereafter grant, or convey (severed from the Manor wherof the same is now holden, or ought to be holden, any of the Messuages, Cottages, Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments, whereof any of the said persons, named parties to the said Indenture hereunto annexed, is now copy-holder or customary Tenant, to any person or persons in Fee-simple, Feetaile, or for terme of life, or other estate of Free-hold, or for any estate or terme, otherby Copy of Court Roll, according to the customes of the said Mannors, and true meaning of these presents, and the Indenture whereunto the same are annexed; except the Free-hold to be granted or severed, at the petition and desire of such person or persons as then shall be Copy-holder thereof, according to the true meaning of these presents.

And if the Lord hath granted away the Free-hold of any the Copy-hold Lands or Tenements,What the Lord is disabled of doing. whereof the Custome is hereby meant to bee declared: he shall get and take the same backe againe; and the same shall (notwithstanding such grant or alienation) be annexed to the Mannor whereof it was, or is held, and shall be held and enioyed by the Tenant, his Heires and Assignes thereof, by Copy of Court Roll of the same Mannor, under the Rents, Services, and Customes in these Articles expressed, & not otherwise: and also, that the Lord shall admit by his Steward or his Deputy, all such Tenant & Tenants that ought of right to be admitted upon the presentment of the Homage.

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HERE FOLLOVVETH THE COPY OF THE CHARTER OF London, of the first grant, and of the confirmation of divers Kings after.

HEnricus Dei gratia Rex Anglie, Dominus Hibernie, Dux Normandie & Aquitanie com. anegëarchîepiscopis Episcopis, &c. Salutem. Sciatis nos concescisse & hac presenti carta mea confirmasse Baronibut nostric de Civitate nostra London quod eligant sibi Mayer dese ipsis singulic annis qui nobis sit fidelis discretus & idoneus ad Regimen Civitatis. Ita quod electus fuerit nobis vel justiciis nostris si presenter nō faimus presentetur & nobis juret fidelitatem. & liceat omnes ipsum in fine anni ammovere & aliqui subtinere si voluerint vel eundem retinere. Ita tn̄ quod nobis ostendatur idem vel Iustice nostris si presenter non fuerimus.

Concessimus & eisdem baronibus nostris & hac carta nostra confirmavimus quod habeant bene & in pace libere & quiete & integre omnes libertatès suas quibus hactenus ubi sunt tam in Civitate London quam extra & tam in aequis quam in terris & omnibus aliis locis salva nobis camberlengeria nostra. Quare volimus & firmiter recipimus quod praedicti Barones nostre Civitatis London eligant sibi singulis annis de seipsis predeō mō. Et quod habeant omnes predictas libertates bn̄ & in pace integre & plenarie cū omnibus ad hujus libertatis pertin̄. Secundum cartam domini patris nostri Iohannis illustris Rex Anglorum quam Inspeximus raecionabiliter testamur. Testis dominus Episcopus London Episcop. &c. Apud Westm. 18. die mensis Februarii. Anno Regni nostri 11.

A Statute for the Hustings in the time of Saint Edward to be holden in London.

SIcut continetur in lege Sancti Edwardi Capitulo 46. quod debet in London quae caput Regni est & legum & semper curia domini Regis singulis Septim. die Lune Hastings sedere et tenere fundata enim erat olim & edi ficata ad instar magne troie & ad modum & in memoria in se continet in quae fuit super fuit ardua compota & ambigua p [...]cta corone & cor. domini regis tocius regni pred. quia usus & consuetudines suas una semper inviolabilitate conservat ubi (que) ubicun (que) ipse Rex fuerit sive in expeditione sive alibi propter fatigaciones gencium & populorii regni juxta veteres consuetudines bonorum prim. & predecessorum & omnium principium & procerum & sapientum seniorum tocius regni predict. &c.

The Charter of London grant by William Conquerour and of his Sonne.

WIllm̄. kyng greit William bysshop and Godfregis porterē and eall the borough waren byndē London [Page] franchisce & engliste & ichkyd eth yt Ick yill ye grete bē ealbra yeara laga yee die ye gret yer an en Edwardis dage kinge end ick yill yet sulke childe be his fader yrfnū achter his fader dage & ick nel geyolyan that enynge man ethe doīg yrang bede god ye be helde.

Hoc est trāscriptū carte regis Willē cōquestorē frē ciuibus loudō que ad modum p̄scriptū in vera lingua Saxonica in angliā mirabiliter cō uertā ad modernā scripturam que totaliter nunc scribitur videl. An. dom. M. iii. C. xiiii. & nota quod ista littera. y. ī antiqua li tera [...]onitur pro. w. & ista littera. y. pr [...] d liquid computatur i. y.

WIlliam kynge grete William bisshop and godfrey porters and al the burgeis within London French and English. and I graunte yow that I wyll that yee be all your lawe worth that ye were in Edwardis dayes the kyng ¶And I wyl that ich childe be his faders eyer and I nyl suffur. that ony man you any wrongys beed. and god you kepe.

Hoc est transcriptum in latinum.

WIllm. rex salutat Willm. episcopum & godfridū portegrinum & omnem bovighwr. infra london francisces & anglices amicabiliter. Ego vobis facio quod [...]go volo quod vos sitis omni lege illa digni qua fuistis diebus Edwardi regis. Et volo quod omnis puaer sit patris sui heres post diem svi patris. Et ego nolo pati quod aliquit homo aliquam injuriam vobis inferat. Deus vos salvet.

The Ordinance for the Assise and Weight of Bread in the City of London.

The price of a quarter Wheate. iii. s.

THe ferthing simnell poise. xv. vuncis & di. qt (er).

The q whyt loof coket poise. xvii. vuncis di. & ob.

The ob. whet loof poise. xxxv. vuncis & a peny.

The ob. whet loof poise lii. vuncis di. & peny ob.

The peny whet loof poise. Cv vuncis & di. q & ob.

The ob. whet loof of al graynes poise lxx vuncis & ii d.

The quarter Wheat at iii. s. vi. d.

The ferthing simnell poise. xix. vuncis di. qt (er). & quat.

The q whit loof coket poise. xvi. vuncis & half peny.

The ob. whit loof poise. xxxii. vuncis id. ob.

The ob. whete loof poise. xlviii vuncis ii. d. q.

The peny whet loof poise. xcvi. vuncis & di. a q & ii d. weight.

The ob. loof of all graynis poise. lxiiii. vunics & iii. d.

The quarter whete at iiii. s.

The q simnell poise. xii vuncis q iii d.

The q whit loof coket poise. xiiii. vuncis iii. q. i. d.

The ob. whit loof poise. xxix. vunces di. ii. d.

The ob. whete loof poise. xliiii. vuncis qt (er). di. & ob.

The i. d whete loof poise. lxxxviiii. vuncis iii. q. i. d.

The ob. loof of all graynis poise. lix. vuncis & a q i. d. ob.

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The quarter Wheat at iiij. s. vj. d.

The q simnel poise. xj. vuncis qt (er) & ij. d.

The q whyt loof coket poise. xiij. vuncis di. and iij. qt (er).

The ob. whyte loof poise. xxvij. vuncis and halfe.

The ob. whete loof poise. xij. vuncis and a qt (er).

The peny whete loof poise. lxxxij. vuncis and halfe.

The ob. loof of all graynis poise. lv. vuncis.

The quarter Wheat at v. s.

The q simnell poise. x. vuncis. qt (er). di. j. d. ob.

The q whyt loof coket poise. xij. vuncis. iij. qt (er). & ij. d.

The ob. whyt loof poise. xxv. vuncis. di. & half q j. d. ob.

The ob. whete loof poise. xxxviij. vuncis. di. & j. d.

The peny whete loof poise. lxxvij. vuncis ij. d. di. & ob.

The ob. loof of all graynis poise. lj. vuncis. qt (er). di. & ob.

The quarter Wheat at v. s. vj. d.

The q simnell poise. ix. vuncis. di. di. qt (er). j. d. [...] vunc.

The q whyt loof coket poise. xij. vuncis. j. d. ob.

The ob. whyt loof poise. xxiiij. vuncis. di. q. & ij. d.

The ob. whete loof poise. xxxvj. vuncis. di. qt (er). & ob.

The peny whete loof poise. lxxij. vuncis. q. di. j. d. ob.

The ob. loof of all graynis poise. xlviij. vuncis. qt (er). & j. d.

The quarter Wheat at vj. s.

The q simnell poise. ix. vuncis.

The q whyt loof coket poise. xj. vuncis. qt (er). & di. ob.

The ob. whyt loof poise. xxij. vuncis. iij. qt (er). j. d.

The halfpeny whete loof poise. xxxiiij. vuncis. di. qt (er). & ob.

The peny wheat loof poise. lxviij. vuncis. qt (er). di. & ob.

The ob. loof of all graynis poise. lxv. vuncis. di. ij. d. weight.

The quarter Wheat at vj. s. vj. d.

The q simnell poise. viij. vuncis. qt (er). & di. & ob.

The q whyte loof coket poise. x. vuncis. iij. qt (er). & [...]. j. d.

The ob. whyte loof poise. xxj. vuncis. di. & ij. d.

The ob. whete loof poise. xxxij. vuncis. qt (er). di. & ob.

The peny whete loof poise. lxiiij. vuncis. iij. qt (er). & j. d.

The ob. loof of all graynis poise. xliij. vuncis. di. qt (er). j. d. ob.

The quarter Wheat at vij. s.

The q simnell poise. vij. vuncis. iij. qt (er). ij. d. q.

The q whyt loof coket poise. x. vuncis. qt (er). and q.

The ob. whyt loof poise. xxj. vuncis. di. ob. weight.

The ob. whete loof poise. xxx. vuncis. iij. q & ob. q.

The peny whete loof poise. lxj. vuncis. & half. j. d. ob.

The ob. loof of all graynis poise. xlj. vuncis. j. d.

The quarter Wheat at vij. s. vj. d.

[Page]The q simnell poise. vij. vuncis qt (er) di. & q.

The q whyt loof coket poise. ix. vuncis. iij. qt (er). ob. q.

The ob. whyt loof poise. xix. vuncis. & di. & j. d. ob.

The ob. where loof poise. xxix vuncis. qt (er). ij d. q.

The peny where loof poise. lviij. vuncis. & di. & di. qt (er). ij. d.

The ob. loof of all graynis. poise. xxxix. vuncis. di. qt (er). & ob.

The quarter Wheat at viij. s.

The q simnell poise. vj. vuncis. iij. qt (er). di. j. d. ob. q.

The q whyt loof coket poise. ix. vuncis qt (er). ij. d. q.

The ob. whyt loof poise. xviij. vuncis. di. qt (er). ij. d.

The ob. whete loof poise. xxviij. vuncis. i. d. ob. q.

The peny whete loof poise. lvj. vuncis. di. & qt (er). i. d.

The ob. loofe poise. of all graynis xxxvij. vuncis. qt (er). di. j. d. ob.

The quarter Wheat at viij. s. vj. d.

The q simnell poise. vj. vuncis. di. & j. d. ob.

The q whyt loof coket poise. viij. vuncis. iij. qt (er). di. ij. d.

The ob. whyt loof poise. xvij. vuncis. iij. qt (er). di. j. d. ob.

The ob. whete loof poise. xxvj. vuncis, iij. qt (er). di. j. d.

The peny whete loof poise. liij. vuncis. iij. q [...]. ij. d.

The ob. loof of all graynis poise. xxxv. vuncis. iij. qt (er). di. ob.

The quarter Wheat at ix. s.

The q simnell poise. vj. vuncis. & di. qt (er). j. d. q.

The q whyt loof cocket poise. viij. vuncis. & di. ij. d. q.

The ob. whyt loof poise. xvij. vuncis. di. qt (er). ij. d.

The halfe peny whete loof poise. xxv. vuncis. iij. qt (er). j. d. ob. q.

The peny whete loof poise. lj. vuncis. di. & half quar. j. d.

The ob. loof of all graynis poise. xxxiiij. vuncis. qt (er). & j. d. ob.

The quarter Wheat at ix. s. vj. d.

The q simnel poise. v. vuncis. iii. qt (er). ʒ. q.

The q whyt loof coket poise. viii. vuncis qt (er). q.

The ob. whyt loof poise. xvi. vuncis, ʒ. & j. d.

The ob. whete loof poise. xxiiii. vuncis. iii. qt (er). ii. d. q.

The peny where loof poise. xlix. vuncis. ʒ. & di. qt (er). ii. d.

The ob. loof of all graynis. poise. xxxiii. vuncis. di. qt (er). & ob.

The quarter Wheat at x. s.

The q simnell poise. v. vuncis. ʒ. & ii. d. in weight.

The q whyt loof coket poise. viii. vuncis.

The ob. whyt loof poise. xvi. vuncis.

The ob. whete loof poise. xxiiii. vuncis.

The peny whete loof poise. xlviii. vuncis.

The ob. loof of all graynis poise. xxxii. vuncis.

[Page]The q simnell poise. v. vuncis. q. & j. d. ob. weight.

The q whyt loof coket poise. vij. vuncis. di. & qt (er). ij. d.

The ob. whyt loof poise. xv. vuncis qt (er). ʒ. j. d. ob.

The ob. whete loof poise. xxiij. vuncis. half qt (er). j d.

The peny whete loofe poise. xlvj. vuncis & t. ij. d.

The ob. loof of all graynis poise. xxx.vuncis iii. qt (er). ob.

The quarter Wheat at xj. s.

The q simnell poise. vj. vuncis. j. d. ob. weyght.

The q whyt loof coket poise. vij. vuncis. qt (er). & ʒ ij. d.

The ob. whyt loof poise. xiiij. vuncis. iii. qt (er). x j. d. ob.

The ob. whete loof poise. xxij vuncis. q ʒ i. d.

The peny whete loofe poise. xxij. vuncis. qt (er). 11. d.

The ob loof of all graynis poise. xxix. vuncis. iij. qt (er). ij. d.

The quarter what at xj. s. vj. d.

The q sinmnell poise. iiij. vuncis. iij. qt (er). ʒ & ob.

The q whyt loof coket poise. vii. vuncis. qt (er).

The ob. whyt loof poise. xiii. vuncis. ʒ.

The ob. whete loof poise. xxj. vuncis. iiij. qt (er).

The peny whete loof poise. xliij. vuncis. ʒ.

The ob. loof of all grynis poise. xxix. vuncis.

The quarter Wheat at xij. s.

The q simnell poise. iiij. vuncis. ʒ & half qt (er).

The q whyt loof coket poise. vij. vuncis. & ob.

The ob. whyt loof poise. xiiii. vuncis. & i. d.

The ob. whete loof poise. xxj. vuncis. j. d. ob.

The peny whete loof poise. xlii. vuncis ʒ & half q. i. d.

The ob. loof of all graynis poise. xxviii. vuncis. ii. d. weyghr.

The quarter Wheat at xij. s. vj. d.

The q simnell poise. iiij. vuncis. qt (er). ʒ & j. d.

The q whyt loof coket poise. vj. vuncis. iij. qt (er). i. d. ob.

The ob. whyt loof poise. xiij. vuncis. ʒ & di. qt (er). ob.

The halfe peny whete loof poise. xx. vuncis. q. ʒ & ij. d.

The peny whete loof poise. xl. vuncis. iij. qt (er). ʒ. j. d. ob.

The ob. loof of all graynis poise. xxvij. vuncis. qt (er). j. d.

The quarter Wheat at xiij. s.

The q simnell poise. iiii. vuncis. & di qt (er). ij. d. q.

The q whyt loof coket poise. vi. vuncis ʒ & d. q. qt (er).

The ob. whyt loof poise. xiii. vuncis, qt (er). & ob.

The ob. whete loof poise. xix. vuncis. iii. qt (er). ʒ. ob.

The peny whete loof poise. xxxix. vuncis. iii. qt (er). i d. ob.

The ob. loof of all graynis. poise. xxvi. vuncis. qt (er). ʒ & i. d.

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The quarter Wheat at xiij. s. vj. d.

The q simnell poise. iiii. vuncis. & i. d. qt (er).

The q whyt loof coket poise. vj. vuncis. qt (er). ʒ j. d. ob. q.

The ob. whyt loof poise. xij. vuncis. iii. qt (er). ʒ j. d.

The ob. whete loof poise. xix. vuncis. qt (er). ʒ q.

The peny whete loof poise. xxxvj. vuncis. iij. qt (er). ij. i. d.

The ob. loof of all graynis. poise. xxv. vuncis. iii. qt (er). ii. i. d.

The quarter Wheat at xiiij. s.

The q simnell poise. iij. vuncis. iij. qt (er). ʒ & ob.

The q whyt loof coket poise. vj. vuncis. qt (er). & j. d.

The ob. whyt loof poise. xiij. vuncis. iii. ʒ & ij. d.

The ob. whete loof poise. xviij. vuncis. iii. q ʒ & ob.

The peny whete loof poise. xxxvij. vuncis. iii qt (er). & i. d.

The ob. loof of all graynis poise. xxv. vuncis. & di. q. j. d. ob.

The quarter Wheat at xiiij. s. vj. d.

The q simnell poise. iij. vuncis. iij. qt (er).

The q whyt loof coket poise. vj. vuncis. & di. qt (er). & ob.

The ob. whyt loof poise. xii. vuncis. qt (er). & i. d.

The ob. whete loof poise. xviij. vuncis. qt (er). ʒ i. d. ob.

The peny whete loof poise. xxxvi. vuncis. iii. q. ʒ & ob.

The ob. loof of all graynis poise. xxiiii. vuncis. ʒ & ii. d.

The quarter Wheat at xv. s.

The q simnell poise. iij. vuncis. ʒ & ii. d.

The q whyt loof coket poise. vi. vuncis. in weyght.

The ob. whyt loof poise. xii. vuncis.

The ob. whete loof poise. xviij. vuncis.

The peny whete loof poise. xxxvi. vuncis.

The ob. loof of all graynis poise. xxiiij. vuncis.

The quarter Wheat at xv. s. vj. d.

The q simnell poise. iij. vuncis. qt (er). ʒ & j. d. ob. qt (er).

The q whyt loof coket poise. v. vuncis. iij. qt (er). ii. d.

The ob. whyt loof poise. xj. vuncis. ʒ & di. qt (er). & ij. d.

The halfe peny whete loof poise. xvij. vuncis. ʒ & j. d. ob. q.

The peny whete loof poise. xxxv. vuncis. & di. q. & j. d.

The ob. loof of all graynis poise. xxiii. vuncis. qt (er). ʒ & j. d. ob.

The quarter Wheat at xvj. s.

The q simnell poise. iii. vuncis. qt (er). & j. d. qt (er).

The q whyt loof coket poise. v. vun. & half & di. q. ob. iii. d. q

The ob. whyt loof poise. xi. vuncis. qt (er). ʒ & ii. d.

The ob. whete loof poise. xvii. vuncis. & di. qt (er). i. d. ob. q.

The peny whete loof poise. xxxiiii. vuncis. qt (er). ʒ & i. d.

The ob. loof of all graynis. poise. xxii. vuncis. qt (er). ʒ & i. d. ob.

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The quarter Wheat at xvj. s. vj. d.

The q simnel poise. iij. vuncis. & half qt (er). i. d. q. ob.

The q whyt loof poise. coket v. vuncis. & ʒ & ij. d. qua.

The ob. whyte loof poise. xj. vuncis. & half q. ij. d.

The ob. whete loof poise. xvj. vuncis. iij. qt (er). j. d. ob. q.

The peny whete loof poise. xxxiij. vuncis. ʒ & half qt (er). j. d.

The ob. loof of all graynis poise. xxij. vuncis. qt (er). ʒ i. d. ob.

The quarter Wheat at xvij. s.

The q simnell poise. iij. vuncis. ij. d. wyght.

The q whyt loof coket poise. v. vuncis. & half.

The ob. whyt loof poise. xj. vuncis.

The ob. whete loof poise. xvj. vuncis. & half.

The peny whete loof poise. xxiij. vuncis.

The ob. loof of all graynis poise. xxij. vuncis.

The quarter Wheat at xvij. s. vj. d.

The q simnell poise. ii. vuncis. ii [...]. qt (er). ʒ ij. d. q.

The q whyt loof coket poise. v. vuncis. qt (er). ʒ & q.

The ob. whyt loof poise. x. vuncis. iij. qt (er). & ob.

The ob. whete loof poise. xvj. vuncis. & di. qt (er). ob. q.

The peny whete loof poise. xxxij. vuncis. qt (er). & j. d. ob.

The ob. loof of all graynis poise. xxj. vuncis. & half. j. d.

The quarter Wheat at xviij. s.

The q simnell poise. ij. vuncis. iij. qt (er). ʒ & q.

The q whyt loof coket poise. v. vuncis. & qt (er). ob. q.

The ob. whyt loof poise. x. vuncis. ʒ & j. d.

The half peny whete loof poise. xv. vuncis. iij. qt (er). ij. d. q.

The peny wheat loof poise. xxxj. vuncis. ʒ & di. qt (er). ij. d.

The ob. loof of all graynis poise. xxj. vuncis. & di. j. d.

The quarter Wheat at xviij. s. vj. d.

The q simnell poise. ij. vuncis. iij. quar. ob. q.

The q whyte loof coket poise. v. vuncis. & di. quar. j. d. q.

The ob. whyte loof poise. x. vuncis. quar. & di.

The ob. whete loof poise. xv. vuncis. di. & j. d. q.

The peny whete loof poise. xxxj. vuncis. & di. q.

The ob. loof of all graynis poise. xx. vuncis. iij. quarter.

The quarter Wheat at xix. s.

The q simnell poise. ij. vuncis. ʒ & di. quar. & j. d. q.

The q whyt loof coket poise. v. vuncis. & j. d. ob. q.

The ob. whyt loof poise. x. vuncis. & di. qt (er). & j. d.

The ob. whete loof poise. xv. vuncis. qt (er). & q.

The peny whete loof poise. xxx. vuncis. ʒ & ob.

The ob. loof of all graynis poise. xx. vuncis. quar. & ij. d.

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The price of a quarter Wheat at xix. s. vi. d.

The q simnell poise. ij. vuncis ʒ & ij. d. weyght

The q whit loof coket poise. v. vuncis.

The ob. whit loof poise. x. vuncis.

The ob. whete loof poise. xv. vuncis.

The peny whet loof poise. xxx. vuncis.

The ob. loof of all graynis poise. xx. vuncis.

The quarter Wheat at xx. s.

The q simnell poise. ij vuncis. ʒ & a qt (er).

The q whit loof coket poise. iiij. vuncis. iii. qt (er). ʒ ob. qt (er).

The ob. whit loof poise. ix. vunces. iij. qt (er). j. d. ob.

The ob. whete loof poise. xiiij. vuncis. & di. qt (er). ij. d. q.

The peny whete loof poise. xxix. vuncis. quart. ʒ ij. d.

The ob. loof of all graynis poise. xix. vuncis. ʒ & di q. ob.

¶Item, the half peny loof whyt of Stratford must wey ij. vuncis more than the half peny whyt loof of London.

¶Item, the half peny whete loof of Stratford must wey iij. vuncis more than the half peny whete loof of London.

¶Item, the peny whete loof of Stratford must weye vj. vuncis more than the peny whete loof of London.

¶Item, iij. half peny whyt loofes of Stratford must weye as much as the peny whete loof.

¶Item, the loof of all graynes, that is to say, the whete loof must weye as much as the peny whete loof and the halfe peny whyt loof.

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The Copy of the Bull for the Offerings to the Curates of the Parishes of the City of LONDON in Latine and English, and of the composition of the same. Chap. LXXXVI.

NIcholaus Episcopus servus servorum Dei ad perpetuam rei memoriam, &c.

The Copy of the Bull of Pope Nicholas for the same matter.

OVr holy fader pope Nicolas, for perpetuall memori wylleth to sequester & avoyed all doughtis, by the whiche stryues dyscordes and grete loffys that is feryd to happen to Curatis and their Perysshens, lest that if it be not remedyid, grete hurt might happen bothe to the curatis and perysshens, as well in things temporall as spyrituall. So it is that now of late, after that the right honourable Thomas Archibishop of Canterbury, had shewed that he had found as he Rode in his visitation, that one Roger, byishop of London, had made a constytucyon upon offryngis on hooly dayes and solemp and doble festis, and namely of the appl'es whoos vygyls ben fasted by the inhabitants of houses, hostryes, and shops howsoever they be occupyed within the cite of london: that is to say, that all inhabitants and every of them, occupyenge the sayd houses, hostryes, or shoppis, and pay for the yerly rent of them ten s. shall offer a q And yf his rente be twenty s. ob. and so upward as it hath ben used to bee payd by the sayd peryshes tyme out of mynde of man. And that the same constytucyon was good and laufull, it appereth by that, that divers of the predecessours of Archbisshops of Canterbury; by theyr Letters patents, hath it confirmed and approuyd, and whan some evyll dysposed of the perysshens wolde labour and study to construe this constytucyon to other sensys than it was made for: They made explanacions of the same, and ordained that the Mayre and Aldyrmen of the said Cite, and all the inhabytants that wolde bee rebell therto, sholde stonde a cursyd by the same dede, and many other things than expressed, ordayned our holy fader and predecessour Innocentius vii. ratefyenge and confermynge the letters of the said Thomas Archbysshop, addinge and amendynge defaultys if ony were, as more plainely apperyth by the lytters of the foresaide Innocent, wherin be contayned the lytters of the forsaid Thomas. And after as it hath been shewed vs of diuers credible persones that thought the Mayre, Sherefs, Aldyrmen, the Citezens, and the inhabytantes aforesaid, of the more part of them, after the olde and laudable custume in their offryngys on Sondayes and other folempne and double festys of the Appostles, namely whose euyns be fastyd yet within foure yeres or there aboute, Diuers hauyng litell regard to the well of their soules, and vnkinde to their moder the holy Chyrche, couetinge be litell and litell to minishe and [Page] take away the foresayd offryngys: (The which yf they were deuoute, they sholde encrease and freely giue) refuse to offyre but onely on Sondayes and on the solempne festys of the Appostles, whoos Euens been fastyd.

And as for other solempne dayes, whiche be many; they sayd that it was not expressed in the lytters of Roger Bysshop, nor in they said constitucyon, that they ought to offyre on them: nother in the lytters of Innocent, nor Thomas Bysshop, there was no parsight sense; wherefore they thought the were but voyde.

And also where we vnderstonde that iii. sentensys have been giuen agaynst one Robert Wryght, that is to say, one in this partyes, & in the court of Rome; for as moche as refused to offer accordinge to the rate as aforesaid; as on Sondayes, festis of the Appostles, whos vygyls ben fastyd: but as for thes thre Natiuities, of Saint Stephen, Saint Iohan, and in the Innocentis, he vrterly refused, and as many dayes in Ester, and in many dayes in Witsontide, and the Circumcision, Epiphanye, and Ascencion of our Lorde, and Corpus Christy, and foure vygyles of our Lady, Philip and Iacob, and the translacion of Saint Edmonde.

And for as moche as it were painfull to all Curatys, if they sholde sue for euery particular cause, if their parisshens wolde bee frowarde. And for as much as we understonde that our welbelouyd Herry King of England, wolde that all stryfs and dewte touchinge the said offryngys sholde be auoyded. We will, and by our poure Appostolick conforme the lytters of the foresaide Innocent predecessour, and Thomas Archbishop, contayninge the constiucyon of the said Robert to bee observed and kepte for euer.

And ouer that by this presentys, We will and ordaine that all inhabitantys houses, hostryes, shoppys; foure yeres paste, and that aftyr this shall inhabit, paye their offryngys according to the rate aforesaid in the thre Natiuites of Saint Stephen, Saint Iohan, and the Innocentis, and as many daies in Ester and Witsontide, Circumcision, Epiphanye, and Ascencion of our Lorde, Corpus Christi, foure of our Lady, and Philip and Iacob, and euery dedicacion daye, and euery Sonday, and the festys of the Appostles whoos vygyls ben fasyd, and other double and solempne festys.

And more plainely apperyth in the lytters of Innocent and Thomas archbisshops aforesaide, and in all dayes they have vsed to offere foure yeres passe to the parishe Chyrche. Within the bondys whereof the foresaid houses, hostrys or shoppes ben sette vpon the paine of excommunicacion, contained in the lytters of the said archbisshop, and of the which the shall not be asso [...]d, out if hee satyfie the said offrings, or elles friendly agree with his Curat, but if it be in the point of dethe. So that if it hapned him to live, or his eyers make dew satisfaction. And also we giue power to the Ordinarijs of the said Chyrches where such offryngys be not paid, that the may without citacion summarily enquere of the said offryngys; and if the finde that be vnpaide, to accurse the offenders, and them to punish according to this ordinance; ony maner Bulle graunted writing generall or speciall; now knowen or herafter to bee knowen; not with standinge.

The Letters of Innocent Bishop.

THerfore for the parte, the Curatys of the cite of London, a peticion was made to vs, that a constituction the which was made by one Roger Bisshop of London, for the well both of the parisshens and the Curatys, the whiche was vsed the time out of minde, yet some vsed to constrew the said constitucion otherwise than it ought to be after their forward mind, and the which constitucion the saide Thomas Archbisshop of Canterbury, and in ony his predcessours hath approued and confirmed, that the same constitucion by vs sholde be confirmed. I inclined by their peticion, conferme all the said constitucion by the autorite appostolik; and fulfille all defautis, if [Page] ony by the tenor of the said letters followeth.

Thomas Archbishop of Canterbury, Primate of England, to the Mayer, Sheriffes, Aldermen, and Citizens of London, greetings.

ALmighty God to whom belongeth therto and all that is therin, commaundithe that tenthis sholde be giuen him, and wolde be honoured spiritually with offrings; and therfore the reuernde fader, Roger Nyger, late Bisshop of London, made a constitucion, as we finde in our vistacion, upon offring on Sondaies and solempne and doubly festis, and nambly of the Appostils, whoes vigils ben fastid, by the inhabitantis of houses, hostries, and Shoppis within the Cite of London: that is to say, that all and euery inhabitantes houses, hostries or Shoppes; for an house, hostrie, or shoppes, whoos pension is x. s. by yere, a ferthing: and so forth, if it assende to xl. s. a peny. Some yet hauing littell regarde to their soules, construed that if the said pension neuer so moch excedid xl. s. that hee shall pay but one peny. We therfore willing that all alteracion as touching that sholde be remoued, will by the autorite of this letters, that if the said pension excede xl. s. by x. s. that he shall pay one peny ferthing, and for euery x. s. a stending q̄t (er). and for as moche as we will not hereafter onely forward exposicion of this confirmation to be had, we will that all the that hereafter will not obey and follow this our exposicion, stonde acursed by the gret sentence by the same dede, and for as moche as no man shall excuse himselfe by cause of ingnorunce, wee will and ordaine that all Curatis within the said Cite iiij. times in the yere in the Masse time, publisshe and expowne: and moreouer, wee ordaine and giue power to all Persones and Vicars of the said Cite, to cite all the offenders of the said constitucion to apere before vs or our officiall, that there to obbey the law as reson will, to the whiche officiall by this presentis we giue our power, in witnesse wherof, &c. Let no man therfore offende this ordinaunce, for if he doe it, he shall ronne in the indignacion of God and his holy Appostolis, Peter and Powle. Giuen at Rome at Saint Peters, the xvj. kalendas of May. Maister William Freston officiall to the Deane of Powles, after that he had by grete deliberacion examined a cause of witholding of thentis. By me Robert Wright, of the parisshe of Saint Edmond in Lumberstret in the solempne and double festis, and the festis of Saint Stheuen, Iohn, and Innocents, after Christmes, Circumcision, Epiphanie of our Lord, iij. holy daies in Estirweke, iij. holy daies in Witsoweke, Corpus Christi, ascencion of our Lord, Phelip and Iacob, and v. sestis of our Lady, and every dedicacion day by his sentence condempned the said Robert Wright, the which appealed to Rome, where the same sentence in all thing was affirmed by one William of Fundera, Bisshop of Olern, and Commissary to the Pope; saue that hee sholde haue said in three festis of our Lady and not in fiue, and therin the sentence was reuersed, and for that cause the said Robert was not condempned in the expensis. And after the same Robert appellyde to the Pope himselfe, the which affirmed in euery thing the sentence of the said William de Fundera, and condempned the defendant in expencis in the last apppelle.

The composition of all Offrings within the City of London, and Suburbs of the same.

FIrst, that every persone dweller and inhabitant in ony houses in London, or suburbis of the same, hired and occupied as for the full rente and pension of x. s. yerely, shall offer to God and to the Chyrche, in whoos parisshe suche place standeth, one q euery day in the festis that following, that is to say, in euery Sonday in the yere, Christmas day, Circumcision, Ephiphanie, Purificacion of our Lady, Mathei Appostle, Annunciacion of our Lady, the Assencion of our Lorde, Corpus Christi, Saint Mathewe Appostle, [Page] Simon and Iude, Alhalowen, Andrew Appostle, Concepcion of our Lady, Thomas Appostle, Iohn Baptist, Peter and Powle, Iames Appostle, Bartilmew Appostle, Assumpcion and Natiuity of our Lady, Dedication day, whiche from the day forward shall be through all London, and for the paris Chirches in London that be halowid the iij. day of Octobre, also one day of the principall festis of the Patron of euery Chirch through London, the suburbis of the same, yerely without contradiction, and if such inhabited houses be leten for xx. s. ob. and if for xxx. s. ob. q. and if for xl. s. i. d. and if for l. s. i. d. q. and so euery assending and dissending by x. s. into what summe that euer it bee, shall alwaie offer ferthing after the rate of x. s. in the festis abouesaid; and if such dwellings, occupied and inhabited houses be not leten, but perauenter that owner that dwelle therin, or frely let, or otherwise occupied as for a dwellingis, that than the offringis shalbe as it was leten before, or else after a common value; and dowt thereof, that rent to be extemyd by the Chirch wardeins for the time being; and if a man dwell and inhabite diuers places & houses within the said Cite, in one or diuers parisshes, he than shall after the rate & daies aforesaid, offer euery house to the Chirch in whoos paris the stonde, prouided alway that when ii. of the festis aforesaid fall vpon one day, than the offring shalbe for one day.

Item, where ony dwelled in the said Cite, inhabited or occupied a dwelling place an howse, vnder the price, rent, or pension of vj. s. viij. d. that than he shalbe bound to offer iiij. daies in the yere, in the iiij. principall festis of the Chirch there as he is parishen, of and if such pension or rente extende to the full summe of vj. s. viij. d. or aboue, and not fully to the summe of x. s. that than them inhabitant for euery s. shall pay to the Chirch j. d. ob. onis in the yere. Prouided alway that if the said dweller come before his Curate, and say vpon his faith and trouthe, that he may not pay his said money according to the ordinaunce aforesaid beneth x. s. that then the said Curate shall holden him content with such as he will giue him, aught or naught, and the dweller thereupon shall be quite. Also and the pension of rent of such inhabitant houses, extend aboue the summe of x. s. and not fully to the summe of xxx. s. and so to any summe being betweene x. and x. than the Inhabitant shall pay ones a yere to the Curate for euery s. of the said summe being betweene x. and x. j. d. ob. yerely.

Item, where as a dwelling house is hired of gret, and after leten out by parties to sondry folkes, that than the hirer in grete, if that he dwelle in the principall parte of the same house, shall offer to God and to the Chirch in the daies aforsaid, for the rent of all the holy rent, if the said house bee inhabited and occupied, as dwelling places, and ellis after the rule that followeth: and if the said hirer in gret dwelle not in ony parte therof, but lete it out againe, that then hee that dwelleth in the principall parte shall offer all, and the remenunt iiij. d. by yere.

Item, all tho in the said Cite or suburbis, or that occupied houses not inhabited, as Shoppis, Celars, Shaddis, Ware houses, Stables, Wharfes, Kranes, Timbre hawes, Teinter places for Fullers, or other places, Gardeins, shall ones in the yere for euery pounde that they be leten fore, if they be hired, or after a common value, if they be not hired, giue vnto the Curate of the Chirch there as such houses bin, vj. d. without ony other offrings for the said houses, affendingis and diffendingis after the rate of vj. d. of the pounde, and for x. s. iij. d. and so after the rate affendingis and deffendingis, without more charge of offring for it.

Item, that all apprentices, seruants, and hired men within the said Cite, not shargede with such rent and housings, which shall be houselder at Ester or about Ester, shall iiij. times in the yere, at iiij. principall festis offer to God and to the Chirch. Also as for personall tythes, the parisshens by this ordinance shall neither be charged nor dissharged, sauing that hereafter shall no Curat vex, trouble, sue, ordaine Sacraments or Seruice for no payment of the same, but leue them to good deuocion, and conscience of the parisshens.

[Page] Item, all offryngs vndone before this day, or ony other attempted contrary beside, or against this present Wryting, by ony person or persons, shall stonde quite, and not be remembred as vnto ony suit or stryf, but all such things before this day done, shall cleane be remet, and forgiuen on boothe perties.

BE it in mynde, that this bonde and arbitrement is made the xvii. day of Decembre, the yeere of the incarnacion of our Lord, M. iiij. C. L. vij. by Maister Laurence Bothe, Maister William Radclyf, Master Lucas Lancok, Maister Iohn Aleyn, Master Iohn Lyleford, Geffrey Felding, William Taylor, Master Robert Kent, arbitratour, chosen vpon the Premisse, as in the tenor of the compremisse thereupon made openly made it may appeare.

In this Chapter is shewed the Patrones of all the Benefices in London.

ANne on the Towrehill, and Abbey of white Monkes.

Anne within Aldrichgate, diocis London, Patron Deane of Saint Martyn the graunde. The desine.

Augustin in Bradstretward, the Priour of friers August.

Anthonius in Bradstretward, a College, the Kinge Patron.

Augustin by London wall, Priour of Crichirche in London Patron.

Augustin in Watlingstrete by Poules gate, Patrone.

Antelyne in bogerowe, diocis London, Patrone Deane and Chapitur of Poules. The decins xx. s.

Albon in Woodstret, diocis London, Provost of Eaton Patron, Decins xx. s.

Alphey within Criplegate, diocis London, Patrone Deane of Saint Martin the graunte. The sine.

Alborought without Bishopsgate.

Alhalwyn in Bredstrete, diocis Canterbury, Patrone Bisshop of Canterbury.

Alhalwin Lumberstret, diocis Canterbury, Patrone Priour of Crichirch in Canterbury. The desine.

Alhalwin by London wall, diocis London, Patrone Priour of Crichirche in London. The desine.

Alhalwin the more, diocis London, the Kinge Patrone. The decis xiii. s. iiii. d.

Alhalwin the lesse, diocis London, Patrone the Master of Laurence Pulteney. The sine.

Alhalwin Brekinge Chirche, diocis London, Patron Abbot of Breking. The desine x. s. viii. d.

Alhalwin Staynings, diocis London Patron the Abbot of Tourhill. The decis xvii. s. iiii. d.

Alhalwin in Honilane London, Patron the Wardeins of Grocers. The decis xvii. s. iiii. d.

Andrew in Cornehill, diocis London, Parone Bisshop of London. The decis xvii. s. iiii. d.

Andrew Hubert in Eastchepe, diocis London, Erle of Shrewisbury Patrone. The decis xvii. s. iiii. d.

Andrew at Baynard Castle, diocis London, Patrone Bishop of London. The desine xx. s.

Andrew in Holborne, diocis London, Patrone Abbot of Bermonsey. The decis xiii. s. iiii. d.

BOtulfe by Billings gate, diocis London, Patron Deane and Chapitur of Poules. The decis x. s. iiii. d.

Botulfe without Algate, diocis London, Patrone the Priour of Crichirche in London. The dicis.

Botulfe without Bishoppisgate, diocis London, Patron the Bishop of London. The decis xvii. iiii. d.

Botulfe without Aldrichgate, diocis London, Patron Deane of Saint Martins graunt. The decis.

Benet at Greshirche, diocis London, [Page] Patrone Deane and Chapiter of Pouls. The decis xxiiii. s.

Benet at Poules wharf, diocis London, Deane and Chapiter of Poules Patrone. The decis xvii. s. iiii. d.

Benet Sherehog, called Saint Sithes, diocis London, Patrone Priour of Saint Mary onirthere. Decis xx. s.

Benet Fynke, diocis London, Patrone the Master of Saint Anthony. The decis xvii. s. iiii. d.

Bride in Fleetstreet, diocis London, Patrons the King and the Abbot of Westminster. Decis xx. s.

Barthilmew the little, diocis London, Patrone the Abbot on the Towrehill. The decis xvii. s. iiii. d.

Barthilmew in Smithfield Prioury, Temperalties lxxxx. li. xiiii. s. iiii. d. Desine viii. li. xvii. s. q.

Barthilmew in Smithfield spytell, a Master and a Colege.

CLement beside Estchep, diocis London, Patrone Abbot of Westminster. Decis xx. s.

Clement without Temple barre, diocis London, Patron the Bishop of Excester. Decis.

Clare Systers, Minores without Algate, in the suburbs of London.

Christofer by the Stokkys, diocis London, Patrone the Bishop of London. The decis xxix. s. viii. d.

Dominick Frier Pryechers of London at Ludgate

Dunstan in the Est, diocis Canterbury, Patrone Prior of Crichirche in Canterbury. The Decis.

Dunstan the West, diocis London, Patrone the Abbot of Alnewik. The decis xx. s.

Deonise in Fanchirche stret, diocis Canterbury, Patrone the Bishop of Canterbury, and the Priour of Crichirche of Canterbury. Decis.

EEdmond without Newgate, called Saint Sepulcre, diocis London, Patron Priour of Saint Barthilmewes. Decis x. s.

Edmond in Lombardys strete, diocis London, Patron Priour of Chrichirche in London. Decis xx. s.

Ethelborugh within Bisshopsgate, diocis London, Patron Priouresse of Saint Helyne. The decis.

FAith within Powles, diocis London, Patrons Deane and Chapiter of London. The decis xx. s. Foster in Fosterlane, diocis Cant. Patron Bishop of Canterbury. The decis.

Fraunces within Newgate Freers.

GRegory by Powles, diocis London, apropred to the pety Chanons of Poules. The decins xx. s. Giles without Crepilgate. diocis London, Patrons Deane and Chapiter of Powles. The decins xx. s.

George in Pudding lane, diocis London, Patron Abbot of Bermonsey. The decins.

George in Southwerke, diocis Winchester, Patron Abbot of Bermonsey. The desine.

Gilis, an Hospitall beyonde Holborne.

HEleyne, Prioury of Nunnes within Bishopsgate. The decin xvii. s. iiii. d.

Heleyne paryschyrche within Bisshopsgate, diocis London, the Prioures of Saint Heleyn Parson.

Heleyne beside Martlane, a Prioury of crossed Freers.

IOhns, an Hospitall beside west Smithfield of London.

Iohn Zachary, diocis London, Patrons Deane and Chapiter of Poules. The decin xx. s.

Iohn Euangelist in Fryday stret, diocis Canterbury, Patrone Priour of Crichirche of Canterbury. The decis.

Iohns in Walbroke, diocis London, Patrone Prioures of Saint Helene. The decis x. s. viii. d.

Iames at Garlykhith, diocis London, Patron Abbot of Westminster. The decins ix. s. iiii. d.

Iames an Hermitage within Crepilgate.

Iames an Hospitale beside Charingcrosse.

Iames parish Chirche within the Prioury of Halywell.

Iohns of Halywell without Bishopsgate, a Pryoures of Nonnes.

[Page] KAterine on the Towrehill, Maister and Colege, the Kinge Patrone.

Katerine Chapell beside Charingcrosse, an Hermitage.

Katerine Chirch within Algate, diocis London, Patrone Priour of Crichirch in London. The decis.

Katerine Colman within Algate.

LEonard in Estchep, diocis Canterbury, Patrone the Priour of Crichirche in Canterbury. The decis.

Leonard in Fosterlane, diocis London, Patrone Deane of Saint Martins graunt. The decis xvii. s. iiii. d.

Leonard in Shordich, diocis London, belonging to the Archdeken of London. The decis.

Laurence Pultendy, diocis London, Patrone Duke of Suffolke. The decis xx. s.

Laurence in the Iury, diocis London, Patron Bayly Colege of Oxford. The decis.

MAry at Bowe, diocis Canterbury, Patron Bisshop of Canterbury. Decis.

Mary Aldirmary Chirch in Watlingstrete, diocis Canterbury, Patrone Bisshop of Canterbury. The decins.

Mary Bothhawe by the Erber, diocis Canterbury, Patrone Priour of Crichirch of Canterbury. The decins.

Mary Colchirche, diocis London, Patrone Maister of Saint Thomas of Acres. The decins.

Mary Staininglane, diocis London, Patrone Prioures of Clerkenwell.

Mary in Aldermanbury, diocis London, Patron Priour of Elsinge spitell. Decis xvii. s. iiii. d.

Mary Wolnothe in Lumbardstrete, diocis London, Patrone Priours of S. Heleyn. The decis xxiiii. s.

Mary Abchirche, diocis London, Patron Maister of Saint Laurence Pulteney. The decins v. s. iiii. d.

Mary Wulchirche, diocis London, the Abbot of Saint Iohns Colchester Patron. The decins xxiiii. s.

Mary Foundchirche, diocis London, Priour of Crichirche Patrone in London. The decins xvii. s. iiii. d.

Mary Somerset, diocis London, Patron Deane and Chapiter of Poules. The decis.

Mary on the Hill, diocis London, Patron Page of Dortford in Kent, Gentleman. The decins xxiiii. s.

Mary at Ax, diocis London, Patron Prioures of Saint Helyns. Dec.

Mary Mounthawe, diocis London, Patron the Bisshop of Herford. The dec.

Mary Matfelow, diocis London, Patron Bisshop of London. The decis.

Mary at the Stronde crosse, diocis London, Patron Bisshop of Wurceter. The deocis.

Mary in Fletstrete, a priory of white Freers.

Mary Chapell by Berking chirche.

Mary de grace, an Abbey of Monkes by the Towre of London.

Mary Priory of Elsingspitell within Crepelgate.

Mary the newe Hospitall without Bisshopsgate.

Mary salutacion Chartyrhous, by West Smitfelde in London.

Mary Hospitall of Bedleem without Bisshopsgate.

Mary ouer the ree in Southwerke, a Priory of Chanons.

Mary, called S. Mary Spitell, without Bisshopsgate.

Mary Magdalenen in Milkstreete, diocis London, Patrone Deane and Chapiter of Poules. The decis xx. s.

Mary Magdalenen in old Fishstrete, diocis London, Patrone Deane and Chapiter of Poules. Dec. xiii. s. iiii. d.

Mary Magdalenen by Bermonsey, diocis Winchester, Patron Abbot of Bermonsey.

Mary Magdalenen by Saint Mary ouer the Ree, diocis Winchester, Patrone the Prior of Saint Mary ouer the Ree. The decis.

Mary Magdalenen at Tuthill, called Lawlesse.

Martin Otyrwich, diocis London, Patrons Wardens of Taylours. The decis xvii. s. iiii. d.

Martin Pomers in Irmonger lane, diocis London, Patron Priour of Saint Bartilmews. The decis xvii. s. iiii. d.

Martin in the Vintre, diocis London, Patron the Abbot of Glouceter. The decis xxvi. s. viii. d.

[Page] Martyn by Ludgat, diocis London, Patron Abbot of Westminster. Decis xxvi. s. viii. d.

Martyn Orgar in Candilwykstrete, diocis london, Patron Deane and Chapiter of Powles. The decis xvii. s. iiii. d.

Martyn in the felde beside Charingcrosse.

Magnes by london bridge, diocis london, patron the Abbot of Westminster and Bermonsey. The decis xxv. s. viii. d.

Mathew in Frydaystrete, diocis london, patron the Abbot of Westminster. The decis xx. s.

Margret in Lothbury, diocis london, patrones Abbeys of Berkinge in Essex. The dec.

Margret in Brydgstrete, diocis london, patrone Abbot of Winchester. The dec.

Margret Moyses in Friday strete, diocis london, the Kinge patrone. The decis xxvi. s. viii. d.

Margret patens, diocis london, patrone Maior and Aldermen of london. The dec.

Margret in Southwerk, diocis Winchester, patron the priour of Saint Mary ouer the ree. The desine.

Margret at Westminster.

Mildredys in bredstrete, diocis london, patrone the priour of Saint Mary ouer the ree. The decins xvii. s. iiii. d.

Mildrede in the pultry, diocis london, patrone priour of Saint Mary ouer the Ree. The decis xvii. s. iiii. d.

Mihell in Cornehyll, diocis london, patrone Abbot of Eyuesham. The decins liii. s. iiii. d.

Michell in Bassingys hawe, diocis london, patrone Deane and Chapytur of powles. The decins xiii. s. iiii. d.

Mighell by Quenehyth, diocis london, patrone Deane and Chapitur of powles. The decis xx. s.

Michell Querene by powles gate, diocis london, partone Deane and Chapitur of powles. The decis.

Michell in Woodstrete, diocis london.

Michell in Crokedlane, diocis Canter. patrone bysshop of Canter. Decins.

Michell pater noster Whittyngton College, diocis Canter. patrones Wardens of Mercers. The decins.

NIcholas Colde Abbey, diocis london.

Nicholas Oluf in bredstrete, diocis london, patrone Deane and Chapitur of powles. The decis xvii. s. iiii. d.

Nicholas Acon by Lumbardstrete, diocis london, patrone Abbot of Malmesbury. The decis xx. s.

Nicholas in Fleshhamels, diocis london, patrons the King and the Abbot of Westminster. The decis xl. s.

OLuf in Silverstrete, diocis london.

Oluf in the Olde Iury, diocis london, patrone priour of bottle in suffolke. The decis. x. s.

Oluf by the crossed Fryers, diocis london, patrone Cely in Martlane. The decis xx. s.

Oluf in Southwarke, diocis Winchester, patron priour of Lews in Southsex. The decis.

Owyn within Newgate, diocis london, patrone lord of Saint Iones Ierl. The decis.

Powles the Cathedrall Chyrche of london, Deane and Residences.

Peter in Cornehill, diocis london, Patrons Maior and Aldermen of london. The decis xxvi. s. viii. d.

Peter in West Chepe, diocis london Patrone Abbot of Saint Albons. The decis xx. s.

Peter the Poore, diocis london.

Peter the lytell at Powles wharfe diocis london, Patrons Deane and Chapitur of Powlis. The decis xvii. s. iiii. d.

Pancrasse in Nedeler lane, diocis Canter. Patrone bisshop of Canter. decis Pancrasse in the felde.

Peter within the Towr of london.

Peter of Westminster, Abbey of blacke Monkys.

STephan in Walbrok, diocis london, Mayster Lee of the same Parishe Patrone. The decis xiii. s. iiii. d.

Stephan in Colmanstret, diocis london, Patron Priour of botle in Sulfelde. The decis x. s.

Stephan a College and the Kings [Page] Chapell at Westmonster.

Stephan in Candilwikstrete, diocis London, Patrone Priour of Cottington. The decis xx. s.

Saluator of Bermonsey, an Abbey of blacke Monkes.

TRinite called Crichirch, within Algate of London, a Priory.

Trinite in Knight riders strete, diocis London, Patrone Deane and Chapitur of Powles. The decis xx. s.

Thomas of Acres, a College in west chepe.

Thomas Appostell, parish Chirch in the Ryall.

Thomas, a Spitall in Southwerke.

Thomas Martyr, a Chapell on London bridge.

Corpus Cristi Chapell, in the Pultry of London.

Corpus Cristi Chapell, in the College of Saint Laurence Pulteney.

Trinite Chapell vpon the Charnehill, in the Chirch hawe of Saint Michell in Crokedlane.

The Chapell vpon the Charnehill in the Chirch hawe of Saint Powles in London.

The Chapell of Saint Thomas in pardon Chirch haw, London.

The Chapell vpon the Charnell in the Chirche hawe of Saint Dunstan in the Este.

The Chapell of the Guilde hall in London, called Saint Nichans.

The Chapell vpon the Charnell, at Mary Spitall without Bisshopsgate.

The litell Chapell of Bedlem without Bisshopsgate.

The litell Chapell vpon the Charnell, in the Chirch hawe of Saint Thomas in Southwerke.

The Chapell in the Chirche hawe at Chartirhous.

The frary Chapell beside Saint Iohns Ierusalem, called Vrsula.

The Chapell without Temple bare, called Saint Spirite.

The Chap. of our Lady at Rounceuale.

The Chapell within Barthelmew Spitell.

The survey of London containing the original, increase, modern estate and government of that city, methodically set down : with a memorial of those famouser acts of charity, which for publick and pious vses have been bestowed by many worshipfull citizens and benefactors : as also all the ancient and modern monuments erected in the churches, not only of those two famous cities, London and Westminster, but (now newly added) four miles compass / begun first by the pains and industry of John Stow, in the year 1598 ; afterwards inlarged by the care and diligence of A.M. in the year 1618 ; and now compleatly finished by the study & labour of A.M., H.D. and others, this present year 1633 ; whereunto, besides many additions (as appears by the contents) are annexed divers alphabetical tables, especially two, the first, an index of things, the second, a concordance of names.[2]

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THE REMAINES OR REMNANTS OF DIVERS WORTHY THINGS, which should have had their due place and honour in this Worke, if promising friends had kept their words.

But they failing, and part of them comming to my hands by other good meanes, they are here inserted, to accompany my Perambulation foure miles about London.

LONDON, Printed by Elizabeth Purslow, and are to bee sold by Nicholas Bourne, at his Shop, at the South Entrance of the ROYALL EXCHANGE. 1633.

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The Colledge of Gods-Gift, at Dulwich, in the County of Surry: founded, raised, and builded, at the cost and charges of Master EDWARD ALLEYNE, Esquire, in Anno Dom. 1614.

THe thirteenth day of September, How the Colledge was confirmed & established by the Founder himselfe. being Munday, Anno 1619. the Colledge of Gods-gift in Dulwich, consisting of one Master, one Warden, and foure Fellowes; three of which are persons Ecclesiasticall, and the fourth a skilfull Organist. Moreover, twelve aged poore people, and twelve poore children; Master Edward Aileyne, publikely and audibly, in the Chappell of the said College, did reade and publish one Writing Quadrupartite in Parchment, bearing date the day and yeere forementioned. Whereby he did make, create, erect, found, and establish the said Colledge, according to the power and liberty given him by his Majesties Letters Patents, under his great Seale, bearing date at Westminster the 21. of Iune, in the yeere abovesaid. When he had read and published the said Writing, he subscribed it with his name, and then fixed his Scale to every part of the Quadrupartite writing, in the presence and hearing of these witnesses:

Frances Lord Verulam, Lord Chancellour of England, and one of his Majesties Privy Councell.

Thomas Earle of Arundell, Knight of the Garter, Earle Marshall of England, and one of his Majesties Privy Councell.

Sir Edward Cecill, Knight, alias Generall Cecill, second Sonne to Thomas Excester.

Sir Iohn Howland, Knight, and high Sheriffe of the Counties of Sussex and Surry.

Sir Edmund Bowyer of Cammerwell, Knight.

Sir Tho. Grymes of Peckham, Knight.

Sir Iohn Bodly of Stretham, Knight.

Sir Iohn Tonstal of Cashaulten, Knight.

And divers other persons of great and worthy respect.The disposing of the foure Writings. The foure Quadrupartite Writings forenamed, were ordered to foure severall Parishes.

viz.

Saint Betolphs without Bishopsgate.

Saint Giles without Cripplegate.

Saint Saviours in Southwarke.

And the Parish of Cammerwell.

A briefe recitall of the particulars.

Recitall of King Iames his Letters Patents.

Recitall of the Founders deed Quadrupartite.

Ordination of the Master, Warden, &c.

Ordination of the assistant members, &c.

The Master and Warden to bee unmarried, &c.

The Master and Warden to bee one and twenty yeeres of age at the least.

Of what degrees the Fellowes ought to bee.

[Page] Of what condition the poore Brothers and Sisters ought to be.

Of what condition the poore Schollers ought to be.

Of what Parishes ought the Assistants to be.

Of what Parishes the poore are to be taken, and members of the Colledge.

The forme of their election.

The Warden to supply, when the Masters place is void.

The election of the Warden.

The Warden to be bound by Recognizance.

The Warden to provide a dinner at his election of his owne charges.

The manner of investing the Fellowes.

The manner of electing the Schollers.

Election of the poore of Cammerwell.

The Master and Wardens Oath.

The Fellowes Oath.

The poore Brothers & Sisters Oath.

The Assistants Oath.

The pronunciation of admission.

The Masters Office.

The Wardens Office.

The Fellowes Office.

The poore Brothers & Sisters Office

The Matron of the poore Schollers.

The Porters Office.

The Office of the thirty members.

Of Residency.

Orders for the poore, and their goods

Of obedience.

Orders for the Chappell and buriall.

Orders for the Schoole and Schollers, and placing of poore Schollers forth.

Order of Diet.

The Schollers Surplices and Coats.

Time for viewing Expences.

Publike Audit, and private sitting dayes.

Audit and Treasure Chamber.

Of Lodgings.

Orders for the Lands and Woods.

The Master and Warden allowed diet for one man apiece; and what Servants for the Colledge, and their wages.

Disposition and division of the Revenues.

Disposition of the Rent of the blue house.

The poore to be taken out of any other Parish or County, in case none be found capable in the Parishes prescribed.

The disposition of forfeitures.

The Statutes to be read over foure severall times in the yeere.

The disposition of certaine Tenements in Saint Saviours Parish, and Southwarke.

A briefe Remembrance of such Noble and Charitable deeds, as have beene done by the late Right Honourable, Baptist Lord Hicks, Viscount Campden, as well in his life as at his death: Recorded to the glory of God, his owne honour, and good example of others.

Good deeds done to the Towne of Campden, in the County of Gloucester.

HE built an Almes-house or Hospitall for sixe poore men, and sixe poore women, which cost 1000. li.

Since the yeere of the foundation of the said Almes-house, to wit, 1612. he hath allowed the said twelve poore people weekely maintenance, to the value of 1300. li.

And at his death, he hath settled 140. li. per annum, (for ever) upon the said Almes-house, allowing to each of the said poore Pentioners three shillings foure pence weekely; and yeerely, a Gowne, a Hat, and a Tunne of Coales.

Hee built a commodious Market-house in the said Towne, which cost 90. li.

By his last Will, he gave to the said [Page] Towne, for the setting of the poore to worke, a Stocke of 500. li.

To the Church of Campden.

He gave a Bell which cost threescore and sixe pounds.

He caused a Pulpit to be made, and gave a Cloth and Cushion thereto, which cost two and twenty pounds.

He built a Gallery there, which cost eight pounds.

Hee made a Window, which cost thirteene pounds.

He gave a brasse Faulcon, which cost sixe and twenty pounds.

Hee gave two Communion Cups, which cost one and twenty pounds.

He built the Roofe of the Chancell, and new leaded it, which cost 200. li.

He repaired the Chappell by the said Chauncell, supplied and new cast the Leads, which cost 20. li.

He round walled the Church-yard, which cost 150. li.

Within the County of Middlesex.

He built a Sessions house for the Iustices of Middlesex, to keepe their Sessions in, which cost 600. li.

He repaired and adorned the Chappell of Hampsted, which cost threescore and sixteene pounds.

He caused a Window to be set up in the Chancell of Kensington, and beautified it, which cost 30. li.

He hath given by his last Will to the said Towne of Kensington, to be imployed for the benefit of the poore, the sum of 200. li.

In the City of London.

Hee hath given by his last Will to Saint Bartholmewes Hospitall, 100. li.

To Christs Church Hospitall, 50. li.

To Newgate, Ludgate, and the two other prisons of the Counters, 40. li.

He erected a Window in Saint Laurence Church in the Old Iewry, and gaue a Pulpit Cloth, and a Cushion also, which cost 30. li.

Impropriations purchased, and bestowed upon the Church.

One in Pembrokeshire, to be given to the Towne of Tewkesbury in Gloucestershire; whereof one moity goeth to the Preacher, and the other moity to the poore, which cost 460. li.

Another in Northumberland; whereof one moity is to be given towards the maintenance of an able Preacher in Hampsted, the other moity to Saint Pauls Schoole in London, towards the maintenance of certaine Schollers in Trinitie Colledge in Cambridge, which cost 760. li.

One in the Bishopricke of Durham, to bee bestowed on such Churches as shall have most need thereof; according to the disposition of the Supervisers, which cost 366. li.

Another in Dorsetshire, to bee bestowed in the like manner, which cost 760. li.

Certaine Chauntry Lands also in Lincolneshiere, which cost 240. li.

He hath also given to two Ministers, to bee chosen out of Iesus Colledge in Oxenford, to serve in their severall places, 40. li. each man per annum, which cost 80. li.

He hath bequeathed Legacies to severall Ministers, the summe of 140. li.

Hee hath given to Master A. E. during his life, yeerely the summe of 100. li.

He hath given among his houshold servants the summe of 300. li.

An Epitaph made in his Memoriall.

Reader, know,

who-ere thou be,

Here lies Faith, Hope,

and Charity,

Faith true, Hope firme,

Charity free,

Baptist, Lord Campden,

was these three.

Faith in God,

Charity to Brother,

Hope for himselfe,

what ought he other?

Faith is no more,

Charity is crown'd,

Tis onely Hope

is under ground.

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Vpon a Tombe in the Temple Church in London.

Here lieth the body of Anne Littleton, Wife of Edward Littleton, of the Inner Temple, Esquire, sonne and heire of Sir Edward Littleton of Henley, in the County of Salop, Knight; daughter of Iohn Littleton of Franckley, in the County of Worcester, Esquire, by Meriel, the daughter of Sir Thomas Bomley, Knight, Lord Chancellor of England. She died the vj. day of February 1623. on whom was made this Epitaph:

Here she lies, whose spotlesse fame

invites a stone to learne her name.

The rigid Spartan, that deny'd

an Epitaph to all that dy'd,

Vnlesse for Warre or Chastity;

would here vouchsafe an Elegy.

Shee did a Wife, but yet her minde

(beyond Virginity refinde)

From lawlesse fire remain'd as free,

as now from heat her as [...]es be.

Her husband (yet without a sinne)

was not a stranger, but her kin,

That her chaste Love might seeme no other,

vnto a husband then a brother.

Keepe well this pawne, thou marble chest,

till it be cal'd for, let it rest:

For while this Iewell here is set,

The grave is but a Cabinet.

Vpon a Tombe in the Chancell in Saint Botolphs Aldersgate.

She died a Virgin on Whitsunday, Anno Domini 1622. about eighteene yeeres of age, and having at her death a spirituall combat with Satan about her Salvation, wherein shee prevailing most cheerefully, departed from Earth to Heaven, to bee married to Christ Jesus the Lord of both.

At the bottome.

The Monument of Mistres Iudeth Plat, the onely Daughter of Sir Hugh Plat, Knight, with the matches of her Ancestours, and neere Allies on her Father and Mothers side; as also her lineall Descent from the ancient Earles of Surry, Huntingdon, Arundell and Chester, and her spirituall conquest at her death against Satan.

This Tombe is in Saint Brides Church.

Here resteth the body of Sir George Curzon, of Croxall, in the County of Derby, descended from ancient Gentry, and of long continuance in that place; who, like the Race from whence he came, was a man of upright life, religious and hospitable; He tooke to Wife Mary, the daughter of Sir Richard Leveson, of Lelleshull, in the County of Salop, Knight, by whom he had Walter, who died young, and Mary, then his onely Daughter and Heire, who was married to Edward Sackvill, Earle of Dorset, Knight of the Honourable Order of the Garter; which Lady caused this Monument to be here infixed, to the sacred memory of her deare Father. He departed this life the 17. of November, 1622.

This Tombe stands in Saint Giles Cripplegate Church.

Memoriae Sacrum.

Here lieth the body of Matthew Palmer, Esquire, who died the 18. of May, 1605. together with Anne his Wife, who died the last day of Iune, 1630. by whom hee had foure Sons and one Daughter, viz. Thomas Palmer, his eldest Sonne, deceased the fifth of May, 1631. and here also buried: Elizabeth, Edward, Andrew, and Ralfe, who when as it so pleaseth [Page] God, desire this place for the custody of their bodies likewise, till their assured and glorious Resurrection.

This Monument stands in St. Andrewes Church in Holborne.

Antiquo Stemate Nobilis, avitis suis virtutibus clarius; hic jacet Iohannes Ashburnham, nuper de Ashburnham miles, qui obijt in festo Sancti Petri, 1620. Aetatis 49. Relictis conjuges charissimis Iohanne, Gulielmo; Elizabeth, Francisca, Anna, & Catherina.

Domina Eliz. Ashburnham.

Vidua F. Thomae Beamount de Staughton in Com. Leicestr. Milit. Hoc amori & officio consulens, meritissimo viri lugubris posuit, 1621.

This Tombe was made 1629. and stands in the Temple Church.

Memoriae Sacrum.

Here resteth the body of Clement Coke, of Langford, in the County of Derby, Esquire, youngest Sonne of Sir Edward Coke, Knight, late chiefe Justice of England; and of Bridget his Wife, Daughter and Co-heire of Iohn Paston of Paston, in the County of Norfolke, Esquire: this Clement married Sara, Daughter and Co-heire of Alexander Rediche of Rediche, in the County of Lancaster, Esquire, and of Katherine his Wife, sole daughter & Heire of Humphrey Dethick of Newal, in the County of Derby, Esquire, and had issue by the said Sara, living at his death, Edward Robert, Bridget, and Avise: hee in the Inner Temple being a Fellow of the same, Christianly and comfortably in his flourishing age, yeelded up his soule to the Almighty, the three and twentieth of May, Anno Dom. 1629.

This Monument stands in Christs Church, and was made 1627.

Neere unto this place lyeth buried the body of Nicholas Beamount, of Cole-Overton, in the County of Leicester, Esquire, and Anne his Wife, the Daughter of William Saunders, of Welfard, in the County of Northamton, Esquire, by whom he had issue foure Sonnes and two Daughters, viz. Henry, Francis, Thomas, and Hunting, Dorothy, and Katherine; the said Nicholas died the fourth of November, 1598. His Wife died the tenth of February, 1591. In remembrance of whom, this Monument was erected at the care and cost of Elizabeth Lady Ashburnham, Widdow, late Wife of Sir Iohn Ashburnham, Knight, Daughter to Sir Thomas Beamount of Staughton, in the County aforesaid; their third sonne, at the appointment of her Vnkle, Master Francis Beamount, Esquire, their second Sonne, to whom the Erector hereof was Executrix.

This Tombe was made 1631. and stands neere the South doore in Westminster.

Michael Draiton, Esquire, a memorable Poet of this age, exchanged his Laurell for a Crowne of glory, Anno Dom. 1631.

Doe pious Marble, let thy Readers know,

What they, and what their children owe

To Draitons name, whose sacred dust

We recommend unto thy trust:

Protect his Memory, and preserve his Story,

Remaine a lasting Monument of his glory:

And when thy Ruines shall disclaime,

To be the Treasurer of his Name:

His Name that cannot fade, shall be

An everlasting Monument to thee.

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The Foundation of the Armory of that remarkable Nurcery of Military Discipline, called the Artillery Garden London, was begun to be erected the first day of May, An. Dom. 1622. and was finished the last day of November then next following, Colonell Hugh Hammersley being then President, Edward Pierce Treasurer, Henry Petowe Marshall, and Iohn Bingham Esquire, Captaine, and one of the Councell of warre for this Kingdome.

Vpon which Monument these Lines following were composed.

Londons Honour, and her Citizens approved Love, exercising Armes in the Artillery Garden London.

The Fabricke.

THis Architecture, Phoenix of our age,

(All Europe cannot shew her Equipage)

Is Mars his Mistresse, which retaines the store

Of Mars his Armes, being Mars his Paramore,

This Fabricke was by Mars his Souldiers fram'd,

And Mars his Armory's this Building nam'd.

The Souldiers Honuor.

It holds five hundred Armes to furnish those,

That love their Soveraigne, and will daunt His foes,

They spend their time, and doe not spare for cost,

To learne the use of Armes, there's nothing lost;

Both time and coyne to doe their Country good,

They'l spend it freely, and will lose their blood.

The Aldermans Love.

Our City London is a Royall thing,

For it is call'd the Chamber of our King;

Whose worthy Senate we must not forget,

Their Grant and our Request together met,

They cherrish us, and wee doe honour them;

Where Souldiers finde true love, they'l love agen.

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The Ground.

The Ground whereon this building now doth stand,

The Teasell ground hath heretofore beene nam'd.

The Donor of the ground.

And William, Pryor of the Hospitall,

Then of our blessed Lady, which wee call

Saint Mary Spittle without Bishopsgate,

Did passe it by Indeuture, bearing date,

Ianuaries third day, in Henry's time,

The eighth of that name, the Covent did conjoyne.

The Vse.

Vnto the Guyle of all Artillery,

Crosse-bowes, Hand-guns, and of Archery,

The terme of yeeres.

For full three hundred yeeres excepting three,

The time remaining wee shall never see.

The Councels confirmation.

Now have the Noble Councell of our King,

Confirm'd the same, and under Charles his wing,

We now doe exercise, and of that little

Teasell ground, we inlarg'd Saint Mary Spittle,

Trees we cut down, and Gardens added to it,

Thankes to the Lords that gave us leave to doe it.

A loyall Subjects desire.

Long may this worke endure, and ne'r decay,

But be supported till the latest day.

All loyall Subjects to the King and State,

Will say Amen, mauger Spleene or Hate.

Mariscallus Petowe composuit.

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On a Tombe in the South wall of Saint Botolphs Church without Aldersgate, London.

Neere to this place lyeth buried the body of Pierce Edgcombe, in the County of Devon, Gentleman, who deceased the 8. day of Iuly, 1628. in assured hope of a ioyfull Resurrection.

Behold the end of Dust and Clay,

O thou which livest with living eye,

Yet doth his soule for ever raigne

With Christ, which he by faith did gaine:

In Learning he his time did spend,

And Vertue was the only end;

So long before his glasse was runne,

With World and Vanity he had done.

A. E. Frater ejus.

In Saint Botolphs Church, on a Tombe there.

Here lyeth the body of Christopher Tamworth, of Grayes-Inne, in Holborne, in the County of Middlesex, Esquire, third Sonne of Christopher Tamworth of Halsted, in the County of Leicester, Esquire, who died the 19 of September, 1624. being of the age of threescore and ten yeeres.

HE having dealt kindly and liberally with his Wife, and many of his kindred & friends, and to the poore of divers Parishes, hath also by his Will given xx. li. of currant money of England, to the Deane and Prebends of the Colledge of Saint Peters of the City of Westminster, in the County of Middlesex, to bee imployed by them about the reparations of the said Colledge Church of Saint Peters.

And 400. markes, to the intent that with that mony, there should be twenty markes worth of Lands of inheritance of yeerely rent to be purchased, whereby there may be one in holy Orders maintained, to say Divine Service, such as the Church of England shall allow of, every worke day in the yeere, twice perpetually, viz. at or about nine of the clocke in the morning, and at or about three of the clocke in the afternoone, in the Parish Church of Saint Botolphs without Aldersgate, London.

And 400. li. to the end and intent that there should be 20. li. of lands of annuall Revenew, of inheritance by the yeere bought with it, to allow perpetually to sixe poore men, and foure poore Widdowes past labour, dwelling and inhabiting within the Parish of Saint Botolph aforesaid, 40. shillings a yeere apeece, to be paid quarterly, with this limitation, that the said poore people shall bee bound to repaire every worke day in the yeere twice a day, to heare Divine Service in the Parish Church aforesaid, at the houres and tearmes aforesaid.

And 200. markes more to purchase Lands of inheritance of the annuall value by the yeere of 6. li. 3. s. 4. d. for the maintenance of one within holy Orders, to say divine Service as aforesaid, every worke day in the weeke twice, thorow the whole yeere perpetually, in the Parish Church of Saint Martins in Leicester, in the County of Leicester aforesaid, at the hourses and times afore mentioned.

All which said summes of money he willed should be actually and really delivered into the hands and possession of the Deane and Prebends of Westminster aforesaid, within xx. dayes next immediatly after his death, for the performance and use afore mentioned, within the space and time of two yeeres at the vttermost, after his death.

And having made Audrey, one of the Daughters of Charles Allayne of the Mote, in the County of Kent, Esquire, Sonne and Heire of Sir Christopher Allayne, Knight, his deare and loving Wife, his full Executrix, she faithfully performed the same, according to the trust reposed on her by her Husbands Will: and in remembrance of him, hath at her owne cost and charges erected this Monument.

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The Gift of Sir Paul Pinder to Saint Pauls Church in London.

SIR Paul Pinder Knight, in the time of King Iames, his Majesties Embassadour many yeeres, resident at Constantinople with the great Turke, hath of sate, to the glory of God, to the delight and content of all good Protestants, and for the better expression of his love and zeale to true Religion, beautifully and bountifully with great costs and charges, repaired the old decayed stone worke of the Westfront of the Chancell in Saint Pauls Church in London, adorning the outside thereof with many faire polished pillers of blacke Marble, and with curious carved Statues of Kings and Bishops, the first Founders and Benefactors of the whole Fabricke, and also graced the inside thereof with divers Angels and other ornaments; he hath likewise amended and repaired all the decayes and defects of the Wainscot worke of the Quier, and hath further beautified the same with a faire rayle of Wainscot, and a great number of Cherubins artificially carved: all which work he hath caused to be sumptuously gilded and painted with rich colours in Oyle; hee hath also magnificently clothed the whole Quier, and the upper part of the Presbytery, with faire and chargeable Tapestry-Hangings: Whose godly and pious example, will (I hope) excite and stirre up other Religious and well-minde Gentlemen, and Citizens, to performe some acts of piety and bounty towards the reparation of the same Church.

Of the ancient Court of the Hustings.

I Finde it diversly written in Latine, Hustingum, Hustingus, Hustingia, and sometimes (but falsely) Hustangus. It is the ancientest and the highest Court of Justice, of the famous City of London. The name it takes from the place of keeping that Court (as Prytaneum did at Athens) for [...] (hus) among the old Saxons, signified an house, and [...] dhing or thing, a Cause or Plea; so that [...] Husthing, signified the house of Causes or Pleadings: whereupon in the Saxon tongue [...], Thingere, Thingarius, signified an Advocate or Lawyer: which others would perchance derive rather from [...] or [...] thung, or gedhung, which signified Honourable, for that the most honorable Magistrates of the City, held their Court there; like as the Lord Maior and Sheriffes, and in absence of the Sheriffes, sixe of the Aldermen at this day doe.

The Antiquity of this famous Court of Hustings, is much magnified by the Compiler of King Edwards Lawes, cap. 35. in these words: There ought alwayes in the City of London, which is the head City of the Kingdome and of the Lawes, to bee held upon everyThis is altered unto Tuesday, because of the Sheriffes intending of the Markets: which being kept upō Munday, would hinder their sitting in the Hustings. Munday weekely, a Court of our Soveraigne Lord the King, at the Huststings. This Court was founded and built of old, after the fashion and manner, yea and in the memory of the ancient City of Troy: and even unto this day containes it within it selfe the Lawes, and rights, and dignities, liberties, and customes Royall of that ancient and great Troy. There be handled the intricatestCompta perchance the word signifies Measures rather thā Accounts: for Compotus ager, is a field surveighed, whose quantities were set downe in the Land marke or Terrier: and here perchance was kept a generall surveigh of all the Lands of the Kingdome, as now in the Domes-day Booke in the Exchequer. The forme whereof, the Conquerour perchance tooke from the Hustings. accounts and the doubtfull Pleas of the Crowne, and of the Court of our Lord the King, of the whole Kingdome aforesaid: and this Court hath even to this day preserved [Page] her owne ancient Customes most inviolably. Thus farre my Author, who (by his leave) smels too rankly of that Fabler, Geffery of Munmouth.

And yet something there is in the Hustings, which might give countenance to this comparison of old Troy, namely, that the well-knowne weight used for Gold and Silver, called Troy-weight, was in time of the Saxons called, The Hustings weight of London, and kept there in the Hustings. So an ancient Record in the booke of Ramsey, Sect. 32 and 127. I Aethelgina Countesse, &c. bequeath two silver Cups of twelve markes of the Hustings weight of London.

The former Law of the said King Edward the Confessor, commands the Hustings Court to be held every Munday, though at this day it be held upon the Tuesday: which that it may not be perceived by the Monuments and Rolls of the Court, to have differed too much from the first Institution, is yet said and written, to be holden upon the Munday. It is as it were distinguished into two Courts: for one weeke the Iudges sit upon Pleas meerely reall, and the next weeke upon Actions mixt, or of any other nature whatsoever.

Out of the same Booke of Ramsey Abbey, Sect. 268. will I here set down the ancient forme of purchasing and giving of possession used in the Hustings: which is farre different from the fashion used at this day. Be it knowne unto all the sonnes of holy Church, that Wlfnoth of Walebroc, London, have sold unto Reynold, Abbot of Ramsey, a certaine piece of land which hee hadSuper Walbroc. in Walebroc, whence he was called Wlfnoth of Walbroc. As also a certaine house of stone, and a Shop which hee had built upon that land, with doores of yron, and windowes above and beneath, &c. Which said Wlfnoth hath sold that Land unto the Abbot of Ramsey, and hath given him seisin of it, by delivery of a certaine staffe, and hath Et clamavit solam & quietam, & abs (que) omni calumpnia. quite claimed unto it to all encumbrance: quiet, and void of all encumbrance: both he, and Mahald his Wife and his first wives Daughter: and Mahald his second Wife, and Henry his sonne by his second wife, and Christine her daughter, before the whole Husting of London, in the house of Alfwine, sonne of Leofstan: to bee held from this day forth for ever by the Church of Ramsey, in consideration of ten pounds of pence, which hee gave unto him in presence of the whole Court of Hustings; of which ten pounds, he the said Wolfnoth gave forty shillings unto Maud his daughter for herPropter concessum suum. For giving up her right in it, perchance. good will, because he had the Land by her Mother. And the Abbot for his part gave her halfe a marke of silver; and unto Wlfnoths Wife, and other two children, for their good wills, he gave five shillings. Of this bargaine and sale, be on the part of the Hustings these witnesses, William of Einesford, Sheriffe of London, and Iohn his Vnder-Sheriffe, and Gervase his Clarke; Andrew Bucuint, and Ralfe his sonne, and Ralfe his cousin; Gilbert Proudfoot, William Bukerell, and many others.

This deed hath no date mentioned, but I finde this Reinold to have beene made Abbot of Ramsey, by King Henry the first as his Charter shewes, Sect. 214. The Successor to this Reinold was one Walter but what yeere he was made Abbot in, I finde not; but I finde that he flourished Anno, 1149. that is, the fourteenth yeere of King Stephen. By this may you judge of the antiquity of the deed, though the precise day be not dated.

By this passage it cleerely appeareth, that London was honoured with her Sheriffes Office, even in the age of King Henry theWhich was above 500. yeers since. first, although our Chroniclers affirme the Sheriffes to be made first by King Richard Which was almost 100. yeeres after. the first, at his comming to the Crowne: from whose time our said Chroniclers begin to reckon the first Maior and Sheriffes, that is, from the yere of our Lord 1189. But that the Sheriffes were granted unto the City, together with the County of Middlesex, plainely appeares by the said Kings Charter concerning the liberties of London, given in the beginning of his Raigne: nor doe the Maior and Sheriffes much differ from those former Magistrates of the City, the Portreve, and Provost, as might bee proved.

[Page] Moreover, the Cities, of Yorke, Winchester, Lincolne, the Ile of Shepey, with other Burroughs and Cities, are also said to have had their Hustings. See Fleta. Lib. 2. cap. 55.

A briefe Collection how the Court of Request, commonly called the Court of Conscience, in London, hath beene established and continued for many yeeres past, for the reliefe of poore Debtors in London, and the Liberties thereof, viz.

FIrst,Anno 9. H. 8. I finde that primo February, Anno 9. H. 8. an Act of Common Councell was made,The first begining of the said Court. that the Lord Maior and Aldermen of the same City for the time being, should monethly assigne and appoint two Aldermen, and foure discreet Commoners to be Commissioners to sit in the same Court twice a weeke, viz. Wednesday, and Saterday, there to heare and determine all matters brought before them betweene party and party, (being Citizens and Freemen of London) in all cases where the due debt or damage did not exceed forty shillings.

This Act was to continue but for two yeeres then next ensuing: But being found charitable and profitable for the reliefe of such poore Debtors as were not able to make present payment of their debts;The reasons why the said Court hath had continuation. and to restraine malicious persons, from proceeding in their wilfull Suits: and also to bee a great ease and helpe to such poore persons as had small debts owing to them, and were not able to prosecute Suits in Law for the same elsewhere:Other Acts made since to the same purpose. The same Act hath sithence bin continued by divers other Acts of Common Councell: and hereby (besides the said two Aldermen monthly assigned) the number of Commissioners were increased, from foure to twelve. And so by that Authority, the same Court continued till the end of the Raigne of Queene Elizabeth, &c.

And then divers people, being Citizens and Freemen of London (contrary to their Oathes formerly taken) repining at the authority of the same court, and not regarding the expence of any charges how great soever, so they might have their desires upon their poore Debtors,The malicious proceeding of cruell Creditors against poore men that claimed the benefit of the Court. and being often animated thereunto by divers Attorneys and Solicitors (for their owne particular gaine) did dayly commence Suits, for such petty debts and causes against poore men (Citizens and Freemen of London) in the high Courts at Westminster, or else-where out of the said Court of Requests, to avoid the jurisdiction of the same Court, and to barre the said Commissioners from staying such Suits, and examining the said causes, and thereby caused the said poore men many times to pay sixe times as much charges as their principall debts or damage did amount unto, to the undoing of such poore men, their wives and children, and also to the filling of the Prisons with the poore so sued: where otherwise they might have got their Debts in the said Court of Requests, for very small charge and little trouble.

For remedy whereof, & for the strengthening & establishing the said Court, an Act of Parliament was then made in Anno primo Iacobi Regis, An. 1. Ian. An Act of Parliament for confirming the power of the Court. that every Citizen and Freeman of London, that had, or should have any Debts owing to him, not amounting to forty shillings, by any Debtors (Citizens and Free men of London) inhabiting in London or the liberties thereof, should or might cause such Debtors to be warned to appeare before the Commissioners of the said Court; and that the said Commissioner, or the greater number of them, should from time to time set downe such orders betweene such parties, Plantiffe and Defendant, Creditor and Debtor, touching such debts not exceeding forty shillings, as they should finde to stand with equity and good conscience.

But sithence the making of that Act, divers persons (intending to subvert the good and charitable intent of the same) [Page] have taken hold of some doubtfull and ambiguous words therein, and have wrested the same for their owne lucre and gaine, to the avoiding the jurisdiction of the same Court, contrary to the godly meaning of the said Act.

For remedy whereof, and to the intent that some more full and ample provision might bee made for the further establishing and strengthening of the said Court, and for the better reliefe of such poore Debtors; another Act of Parliament was made,An. 3. l [...]. Anno 3. Ias. whereby the authority of the said Commissioners were much inlarged, viz. that every Citizen and Freeman of London, An other Act of Parliament concerning all debts under the summe of forty shillings. [and every other person and persons inhabiting, or that shall inhabit within the City of London, or the liberties thereof, being a Tradesman, Victualer, or Labouring man,] which have or shall have any debts owing to him or them, not amounting to forty shillings, by any Citizen or Freeman [or by any other person or persons (being a Victualer, Tradesman, or Labouring man) inhabiting within the said City, or the Liberties thereof] should or might cause such Debtors to be warned to appeare before the said Commissioners of the said Court of Requests. And the said Commissioners, or any three, or more of them, shall have power to set downe such Orders betweene Plaintiffe and Defendant, Creditor and Debtor, touching such debts not amounting to forty shillings, as they shall finde to stand with equity and good conscience.Power of administring an Oath. Also the said Commissioners, or any three, or more of them, have power (by the said Act) to minister an Oath to the Creditor or Debtor, and to such Witnesses as shall bee produced on each part: And also to commit to prison in one of the Counters, such Creditor or Debtor, as shall not appeare upon lawfull Summons, or not performe such order as the said Commissioners, or any three, or more of them shall set downe. And by this last Act, the said Court of Requests is established & continued to this day; and God grant it may so long continue to the reliefe of the poore, &c.

Collected by Thomas Griffins, sometimes a Clarke of the same Court, &c.

This Tombe stands in St. Giles Cripplegate Church.

P. M. S.

Virtute, Prudentia, Generis Nobilitate Inclytus, Clarus, Illustris, Hic Iacet.

HENRICVS STAPLETONVS E. Dioecesi Eboracensi,

Acri Wighilnencis Olim Dominus, Aetatis Suae An. 56. ab Incarnato Verbo. 1630.

Decimo Sexto die menfis Feb. V [...] tam morte mortem Immortali gloria Commutavit, atque Stipante Amicorum Syrmate collacrymantis, Patriae Cerentium vices, in hac aede elatus D. Andreae Terrae mandatus est.

MARIA,

Iohannis Fosteri Equitis Aurati, mediorum Angliae finium borialium Custodis, Filia,

Moestissima hoc Junere vidua, tanti conjugij memor, Artemisianae pietatis aemula non magnificentia, hoc perpetuum tam meritorum ejus, quam Superstitis amoris sui, Monumentum Erigit, Consecrat, Dicat.

By his Honourer and Kinsman, Robert Stapleton.

There are thirteene Scutchions of Armes.

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Vpon a Tombe in Grace Church, being at the corner as you goe into Fen-Church street, with this Inscription.

To the memory of Iames Bun [...]e, Esquire, sometime Burgesse of the Parliament for this City, married Mary, daughter of George Holmeden of Kent, Gentleman, by whom hee had seven children, whereof living at the time of his decease, Iames his eldest son, who married Sarah, daughter of Thomas Gipps, Esquire, Mathew, and Mary, wife of Master Iohn Langham, of this City Merchant; he departed this life the 26. of Ianuary, Anno 1631. aged 68.

When death cuts off a branch

from earths worne stem,

Faith, hope, transports the soule

to heavens Di [...]dem.

On a Grave-stone there.

Here lyeth Iames Bun [...]e, Esquire, that departed this life the 26. of Ianuary, Anno 1631. and Mary his wife, that died the second of October, 1612.

Vpon a Gravestone in St. Fosters Church in Faringdon Ward within, with this Inscription on it.

Heere lyeth the bodyes of Lawrence Hawes, Citizen and Fishmonger of London, about 63. yeeres of age, and of Vrs [...]la his Wife, the daughter of Iohn Hericke, of Leicester Esquire, 82. yeeres of age; they had issue together five Sonnes and two Daughters, Edward, George, Humfrey, Iohn, Dorothy, and Thomasin; he deceased the [...]inth of Aprill, 1588. and shee died the 24. of November, 1614.

This Monument stands in Saint Margarets Church in Westminster, and hath this Inscription.

Annae, vxori suae a mantissimae & optimae, Filiae Willielmi Barlowi, Episcopi Cicestrensis, & Agathae Welsborne, generosae conjugis ejus, diem suum quinto idus Decembris, Anno Domini 1597. obeunti Westmonasterij, quo virum ad Parliamentum comitabatur; Harbartus Westfalingus, Episcopus Herefordiensis, susceptis ex ipsa quin (que) liberis; Harbarto, qui duxit Franciscam Rudhall generosam; Anna quae Gulielmo Ieffereys Ar. Margareta, quae Richardo Eedes wigorniae Decano; Elizabetha, quae Roberto Walweyne generso; & Francisca, quae Francisco Ienkes generoso nupta est.

In memoriam virtutis, & amoris ipsius posuit.

In the same Church is a new Monument lately erected, in the North Ile, and this Inscription on it.

In expectation of a joyfull Resurrection, neere this place resteth the body of Robert Golding, Gentleman, borne in this City of Westminster, and sometime chiefe Burgesse thereof: His Honesty, and Charitable life, gained good esteeme; his Age, due and deserved respect of all. And in the house where he tooke beginning in his infancy, hee most peaceably and piously ended his dayes on the 22. of November, 1629. Being alwaies carefull of his wayes, charitable to the poore, and very judicious and ready in discharging of all Offices incident to the civill Governement of this City, wherein he fully [Page] proceeded long before his death. He lived to see the change of foure Kings and Queenes, and yet in assured hope of never changing blisse, by the meritorious passion of his only Mediator, Christ Jesus: Hee never altered or changed from the now truly professed Religion, wherein he most constantly died in the 78. of his age▪ leaving behinde him two sons and three daughters.

To whose pious memory William Golding, his eldest sonne, and sole Executor, hath at his owne charge erected this Monument, Iune 1631.

This Monument stands in Westminster Abbey, and hath this Inscription.

Here [...]es expecting the second comming of our Lord Iesus Christ, the body of Edmond Spencer, the Prince of Poets in his time, whose divine Spirit needs no other witnesse, then the workes which hee left behind him: He was borne in London, in the yeere and died in the yeere 1596.

This Monument stands in Westminster Abbey with this Inscription. Deo Optim. Maxim.

Hic in Domino requiescit Richardus Cox de Porters, eques Aurat: Filius

Tertius Thomae Cox, de Beymonds Comit. Harford. Armigeri,

In hospitio Regio per multos annos Oeconomicus, Fidelitate, Diligentia,

Et Prudentia probatus,

Reginae Eliz. à Dietis, Item & R [...]gi Iacobo, cui tandem factus est

Magister Hospitij Digniss.

Vir Religionis Cultu, Morum Comitate, Corporis Castitate Affectuum temperantia,

Imprimiss spectatus

Erga Bene-meritos Amore, suos Beneficentia, Pauperes Caritate, omnes Aequitate, Clarus.

Anno Aetatis 69. Coelebs, postquam se vitae Meliori, multâ vigilantiâ, & Devotione

praepar âsset, Deo placidè Animam r [...]ddidit, 13. Decemb. 1623.

Ioannes Cox de Beymonds Armiger, Frater secundus Fratri è Testamento

Haeres, Amoris hoc Monumentum posuit.

Deus non est Mortuorum sed viventium.

This Monument of Master Camden is in Westminster Abbey, where hee holds a Booke with Britannia on it. There followes this Inscription.

Qui fide Antiqua, & opera assidita,

Britanicam Antiquitatem

Indagavit,

Simplicitatem Innatam Honest [...]s

Studijs excoluit,

Animi Solertiam Cando [...]e illustravit,

Guliemus Camdenus, ab Elizabetha

R [...]ad Regis Armorum

(CLrentij Titulo) Dignitatem evucatus,

Hic spe certa Resurgendi in Christo. S. E. Q.

Obijt Anno Domini 1623. 9. Novembris.

Aetatis suae, 74.

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IOHN KING Bishop of London, descended from the Ancient KINGS of Devonshire by his Father, and from the CONQVESTS of Haughton Conqnest, in Bedfordshire, by his Mother, lyes buried in the South Ile of Saint Pauls, behind the Bishops Seat, having onely a plaine Marble over him, and RESVRGAM written on it for his Epitaph; as himselfe directed in his Will.

These Verses hang by in a Table.

IOANNIS KING Episcopi Londinensis, quicquid mortale est in hoc pulvere componitur.

HICIACET, nisi quis calumnietur,

Mendax Transliberinus Ambulator,

Transferri Cineres, Fidemque Romam.

Et migrâsse semel, simulque utrumque;

Praesul Catholicus, sed Orthodoxus.

Non partis studiosus, evagari

per divortia multa opinionum,

Aut Sectas didicit novas creare:

Quod si qui fuerint notae prioris,

Quos vulgus facit & colit Magistros,

His tantâ levitate non adhaesit,

Vt persona fide magis placeret:

Magna nomina, sed minora semper

Isthaec omnia, Veritate duxit.

Tantum-non fuit Ille de Locustis,

Aut rasis Monachis, pijs que nequam,

Vrbem qui gravidâre Septicollem:

Qui circum Capitolium strepentes

Romanum, velut Anseres sonori,

Cygnaeas temerare cantilenas

Audent, per modulamen inficetum:

Et pro vocibus ultimis Oloris,

Commendare suas, & Anserinas.

Sed, quod nec Calami, nec Ora centum:

Nec Perjuria mille de Duaco;

Nec Satan Decumanus ille mendax;

Nec tandem Legio Diabolorum,

Extorquere suis strophis valebunt:

Vnus si Deus est, Fides & vna▪

Huic vni immoriens, & Anglicanae.

Quod si quis Logodaedalus profanus,

Aut Famae Plagiarius Scelestus,

Quicquam Sacrilego reponat ore:

Si Vafer Fidei [...],

Qui vult de similâ Deum creare,

Et Christum jubet innatare vino:

Et sic Hereticos & Orthodoxos

Confundit, facit utque symbolizent

Plus quam Pythagorae [...],

Seductum crepat hunc Apostatâsse:

Tam ventosa Fides videtur illis;

Tam ventosus & Ille Christianus;

Vt post tot, docilis Senex, aristas,

Accessisse putetur imparatus,

Infansque, ad Documenta Lessian [...].

Non plures libet, Arbitros citare,

Quam Conscire suum: quod apprecares

Testem, Carnificamque, Iudicemque,

Illi, quisquis erat Sacer Poeta;

An plus crediderit suae Legendae,

Quam vulgi pius ille fascinator,

Autor plumbeus Aureae Legendae.

Quin si jurat idem sat impudenter,

Lingua peierat; at quid inde? Mentem

Injuratus habet; Scioque habebit.

Tis si credideris secus VIATOR,

Nugis, Impliciti necessitate

Assensus, bibulam fidem recludens,

Si quis Ser aphicus propinet Autor;

Veternum excutias: & absque tandem

Susceptore, tuum pares Adultus

Examen, tibi teque cognitorem

Ponas, & sapias monente Amico.

Sin sis Credulitatis obstinatae,

Conclamatus es: ILICET. Deinceps

Te Stultum jubeo libenter esse.

In Diem Obitus.

Quem [...] Domini fecerat Sacriū Diem,

Et Mors coronis integri Certaminis:

Hunc aeque Amicum Numen indulsit diem.

Desider ando, quod prope hic, Capiti, lacet,

Quo solveretur Vita vitalis parum.

Dolorum utrumque dixeris recte Virum;

Hic Saxeam, Ille Ligneam sensit Crucem,

Hic intus, Ille bajulans Extra suam:

Dolorum, utri (que) Lux posuit una & modii.

Quin ipsa Lux haec masculum robur dedi [...],

Vt nil tremendum Mortis, incuteret metus;

Sed Pascha verum, Transitus potius foret,

Aeternitati Prodromus. Marmor loquax

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Spirat RESVRGAM, Mysticis cand [...]es Notis:

Nec ipse Sadducaeus apparet Lapis.

Condit (que) tantum, non Premit Corpus: grave

Spes ista superat pondus, & Summum petit;

Nec detine bit mole Depositum suâ;

Sed sponte ruptus Exitum tandem dabit.

Cum Triduanum dormierit. Ipsus tulit

Hanc, Christus Olim, Tertiae Lucis moram.

(Nec mille Saecla Triduum excedunt Dei.)

Sic tota demum, juncta Primitijs, Seges

Egerminabit. Haec Via ad Patriam, Mori.

Cal [...]ata Mors est; Surget ad Patriam vigil.

Hanc spē fovebat Ille: quod sculptii hic legis,

Sed Corde fixum fuerat, & Coeloratum.

Anagram: Nominis, & Chronogr: Aetatis 62. currentis.

IOANNES KINGVS PRAELATVS.

EN APERTVS IONAS ANGLIKVS.

Chronogramma Anni Domini 1621.

[...]CCE CV [...]IO DISSOLVI, AC

CHRISTO ADGLVTINA [...]L

Philip. 1. 23. Pauli hoc dissolvi, repeti non desiit, ante Quam, quae protulerat, Lingua soluta fuit.

EPITAPHIVM.

Non hic Pyramides; non sculpta Panegyris ambit

Hos Cineres; lapidum nec pretiosa strues.

Quod fr [...]gale magis, Tibi Te cōmittimus unū:

Si jaceas aliter, vilior Vmbra fores.

Nam Tibi qui similis vivit, moritur (que), Sepulcrū

Ille sibi vivax, & sibi Marmor erit.

SE QVENTVR QVI NNONDVM PRAECESSERE.

Valentine Cary, sometimes Deane of Saint Pauls Church, and after Bishop of Excester, lyes buried on the South side of the Quire, vnder a plaine Stone, with this Inscription about it.

Hic jacet Valentinus Carey, Sacrae Theologiae Doctor, olim Decaenus hujus Ecclesiae, qui obijt Episcopus Exon: Cujus Monumentum, ibidem, erectum patet. 1626.

In the South side of the Quire of Saint Pauls Church stands a white Marble Statue on an Vrne, with this Inscription over it.

Ioannes Donne

Sac. Theol. profess.

Post varia studia, Quibus

ab Annis Tenerrimis Fideliter,

nec infaeliciter incubuit,

Instinctu, & Impulsu Spir. Sancti,

Monitu, & Hortatu Regis Iacobi.

Anno sui Iesu, 1614. & suae Aetat. 42.

Decanatu hujus Eccles. indutus

27. Novemb. 1621.

Exutus morte ultimo die

Martii. An. 1631.

Hic licet in Occiduo Cinere,

Aspicit eum

Cujus Nomen, est Oriens.

Vpon a faire Monument standing in the South Ile of Saint Pauls Church this is written.

W. S.

Gulielmus Cokaynus, Eques Auratus, Civis & Senator Londinenfis: Septemque abhine Annis, vrbis praefectus, Antiqua Cokaynorum Derbiensium Familia oriundus, Quia Bono publico vixit, & damno publico decessit, & Gaudio publico, Regem Iacobum, ad decorum hujus domus Dei, senescentis jam, & Corrugatae Restitudinem, solemnitèr, huc venientem, Consulatu suo, Magnificê excepit, id circo, in Templo publico, ad Aeternam Rei Memoriam,

Hîc situs est.

At verò, & Famae Celebritas, Quae viget in ore Hominum, & Gloria Beatitudinis, Quam Migrando adeptus est, & splendor Sobolis, quam Numerosam Genuit, atque Nobilem Reliquit, Iunctim Efficiunt omnia, ne dicatur,

Hîc situs est.

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Vnà cum illo, tot Homines mortui, quot in illo defunctae sunt virtutes; simul que & acies Ingenij, & popularis eloquij suada, & Morum gravitas, & probitas vitae, & Candor Mentis, & Animi Constantia, & prudentia singularis, & veri senatoris Insignia,

Hîc sepulta sunt.

Iam tuum est, Lector, Felicitatis ad Culmen Anhelare, per ista vestigia laudis, & venerandi imitatione Exempli, curare, ne unquam virtutis sic semina intereant, vt dicatur,

Hîc sepulta sunt.

Obijt 20. Octob Anno Dom. 1626. Et Aetatis suae 66.

Vpon another faire Monument standing by it is this Inscription. Memoriae S.

Gulielmo Hewyr Armigero,

Roberti Hewyt

A. Killamarch in Agro Derbiensi,

Filio secundo Genito,

Qui, mortuo Fratre Natu Maiore,

Paternam crevit Haereditatem,

Posterisque Transmisit.

Nobilem Mercaturam exercuit.

Vita integerrima fuit, & Moribus

suavissimis.

Bonarum literarum studia promovit,

Egenorum proventus Largiter Auxit,

Liberalitate,

Charitate,

Insignis,

Nec minor pietate.

Religionem, cum Ministris sacris, &

Coluit, & Fovit,

Ita, per omnia, se ubique gessit, ut

Probitatis,

Comitatis,

Candoris,

Vivum Exemplar,

Christum Redemptorem Cogitans

Vitam ante Mortem Consummaverit.

Filios Genuit Quatuor,

Ioannem, Salomonem,

Thomam, Gulielmum,

Et Filias duas,

Mariam, Elizabetham.

Annum, Lxxvij. Agens,

xij. Iunij. M.D.XCIX. ad patriam Coelestem evocatus,

Magnum sui desiderium Reliquit

Posteris,

Qui Hoc pie ac Maeren.

P. P.

§

The Monument upon which this Inscription is set, stands in our Ladies Chapell, in S. Pauls Church: at the foure corners of this faire Monument stand foure Iet Pillars, upon each the figure of an Angell, on the one side of it is the representation of Sir Iohn Wolley and his Lady; on the other, of their sonne Sir Francis, at the head and foot of it, all in blacke (as Mourners) the curious and artfull shadowes of his two Executors, Sir Arthur Mannering, and Master Iohn Minterne.

The Inscription.

WOllei clarum nomen,

natusque paterque,

Ambo Equites, Natus

Franciscus patre Ioanne,

Clarus vt Haeredem virtutis,

amoris, Honoris

Praestaret, Monumenta sibi haec,

& utrique Parenti

Constituit, Generis

qui nominis unicus Haeres,

Tam cito, tam Claros,

est defecisse dolendum.

Ille Pator, Lumen,

literarum Nobile sydus,

Oxoniae ex Meritis,

Reginae accitus Elizae,

Vt qui a secret is cum

scriberet illa Latine,

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Atque a consiliis cum

consultaret in Aula,

Atque Periscelidis,

qui Cancellarius esset,

Tantum ille ingenio valuit,

tantum instar in illo.

Non minus omnimoda

virtute illa inclyta Mater,

Nobilibus Patre & Fratre

illustrissima moris,

Clara domi per se:

sed Elisam ascivit Elisa,

Clarior ut fieret,

Wollei ornata Marite.

Quo viduata, vire

quo non praeclarior alter

Nubat Egertono, Repetat

sed mortua primum.

Franciscus tandem, at

nimium cîto utrum (que) sequutus,

Hic jacet ante pedes

eques illustrissimus, illis

Haecponi jussit, seque

& tria nomina Poni:

Sic voluit, placuit,

superis pia grata voluntas.

Discite mortales,

Memores sic esse Parentum,

Dicite qui legitis,

sic sic petit Aethera virtus.

The Stone bearing this Inscription, is in the middle Ile of this Church, not farre from the steps to the Chancell.

Spe Resurgendi

Hic jacet

Thomas Raymond

Sacrae Theologiae

Professor,

Sancti Albani

Archidiaconus,

Hujusque Ecclesiae

Canonicus.

Obijt 4. die Novembris.

Anno

Aetatis 47.

Salutis 1631.

Not farre from this, a Stone with these words about it.

Hic jacet Gulielmus Bonham, nuper Civis, & Vinitarius London, Filius Thomae Bonham de Stanway in Comitatu Essex Arm. Qui obijt duodecimo Februarij. Anno Dom. 1628.

Not farre from the other.

Over against the little North doore, in the same Ile, under a faire marble stone, without any Inscription upon it, lyeth buried the body of Doctor houson, late Bishop of Durham.

This Monument is in Saint Giles Cripplegate Church, on the South side the Chancell, and hath this Inscription.

Piae Memoriae Charissimorum Parentum.

Iohannis Speed, Civis Londinensis, Mercatorum Scissorum Fratris, servi fidelissimi Regiarum Majestatum Eliz. Iacobi, & Caroli nunc superstitis.

Terrarum nostrarum Geographi acurati, & fidi antiquitatis Britannicae Historiographi, Genealogiae sacrae Elegantissimi delineatoris. Qui postquam Annos 77. superaverat, non tam morbo confectus, quam mortalitatis taedio lassatus, Corpore se levavit, Iulij 28. 1629. & jucundissimo Redemptoris sui desiderio sursū elatus, carnem hîc in custodiā posuit, denuò cum Christus venerit, Recepturus.

On the other side of him.

Susannae suae suavissimae, quae postquam duodecim illi Filios, & sex Filias peperat, quinquaginta septem junctis utriusque solatijs cum illo vixerat, [Page] LIberos, gravi & frequenti Hortamine, ad Dei cultum sollicitaverat, pietatis, & Charitatis opere quotidiano praeluxerat, emori demum erudiit suo exemplo. Quae septuagenaria placidè in Christo obdormivit, & Fidei suae mercedem habuit, Martij vigessimo octavo, Anno domini Millessimo sexcentessimo vigessimo octavo.

Another Monument on the North side the Quire, with this Inscription.

Memoriae Sacrum.

Hic jacet Robertus Cage Armiger, omnium literarum Homo, Vita integer, morte Christianus, nec dum mortuus, nam in memoria aeterna erit justus.

Solus Christus,

Mihi sola salus.

Anno Domini 1625.

Another Monument neere to this last, with this Inscription on it.

Here lies the body of Matthew Palmer, Esquire, who died the 18. of May 1605. together with Anne his wife, who died the last day of Iune, 1630. by whom he had foure sons and one daughter, viz. Thomas Palmer, his eldest sonne, deceased the 5. of May, 1631. and is also buried. Elizabeth, Edward, Andrew, and Ralphe, who when it so pleaseth God, desire this place for the custody of theìr bodies likewise, till their assured and glorious Resutrection.

Another Monument on the South side of the Quire, with this Inscription.

To the Memory

Of Constance Whitney, eldest daughter to Sir Robert Whitney, of Whitney, the proper possession of him and his Ancestors, in Herefordshire, for above 500. yeeres past. Her Mother was the fourth daughter of Sir Thomas Lucy. of Charlecoite in Warwickshire, by Constance Kingsmell, daughter and Heire of Richard Kingsmell, Surveyor of the Court of Wards. This Lady Lucy, her Grandmother, so bred her since she was eight yeeres old,

Thus farre written upon the figure or resemblance of a Coffin.

As she excel'd in all noble qualities, becomming a Virgin of so sweet propertion of beauty and harmony of parts, she had all sweetnesse of maners answerable:

A delightfull sharpnesse of wit;

An offencelesse modesty of conversation;

A singular respect and piety to her Parents; but Religious even to example.

She departed this life most Christianly, at seventeene; dying, the griefe of all; but to her Grandmother an unrecoverable losse, save in her expectation, shee shall not stay long after her, and the comfort of knowing whose she is, and where in the Resurrection to meet her.

This Table is on the South side of the Quire in Saint Sepulchers, with this Inscription.

To the living Memory of his deceased Friend, Captaine IOHN SMITH, who departed this mortall life on the 21. day of Iune, 1631. with his Armes, and this Motto,

Accordamus, vincere est vivere.

HEre lies one conquer'd

that hath conquer'd Kings,

Subdu'd large Territories,

and done things

Which to the World

impossible would see me,

But that the truth

is held in more esteeme.

Shall I report

his former service done

In honour of his God

and Christendome:

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How that he did

divide from Pagans three,

Their Heads and Lives,

Types of his Chivalry:

For which great service

in that Climate done,

Brave Sigismundus

(King of Hungarion)

Did give him as a Coat

of Armes to weare,

Those conquer'd heads

got by his Sword and Speare?

Or shall I tell

of his adventures since,

Done in Virginia,

that large Continence:

How that he subdu'd

Kings unto his yoke,

And made those Heathen flie,

as wind doth smoke;

And made their Land,

being of so large a Station,

A habitation

for our Christian Nation:

Where God is glorifi'd,

their wants suppli'd,

Which else for necessaries

might have di'd?

But what availes his Conquest,

now he lyes

Inter'd in earth,

a prey for Wormes and Flies?

O may his soule

in sweet Elizium sleepe,

Vntill the Keeper

that all soules doth keepe,

Returne to Iudgement,

and that after thence,

With Angels he may have

his recompence.

Captaine Iohn Smith, sometime Governour of Virginia, and Admirall of New England.

Coya Shawsware.

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THis Monument, or that of which this is a shadow, with their Characters ingraven about it, stands in Petty France, at the West end of the lower Churchyard of Saint Botolphes Bishopsgate (not within, but without the walls, the bounds of our consecrated ground) and was erected to the [Page] memory of one Coya Shawsware, a Persian Merchant, and a principall servant and Secretary to the Persian Ambassadour, with whom he and his sonne came over. He was aged 44. and buried the tenth of August, 1626. The Ambassadour himselfe, young Shawsware his sonne, and many other Persians, (with many expressions of their infinite love and sorrow) following him to the ground betweene eight and nine of the clocke in the morning. The rites and ceremonies that (with them) are due to the dead, were chiefly performed by his sonne, who sitting crosselegged at the North end of the grave, (for his Tombe stands North and South) did one while Reade, another while Sing; his Reading and Singing intermixt with sighing and weeping. And this, with other things that were done in the Grave in private (to prevent with the sight the relation) continued about halfe an houre.

But this was but this dayes businesse: for, as this had not beene enough to performe to their friend departed, to this place and to this end (that is, Prayer, and other funerall devotions) some of them came every morning and evening at sixe and sixe, for the space of a moneth together. And had come (as it was then imagined) the whole time of their abode here in England, had not the rudenesse of our people disturbed and prevented their purpose.

Camera Dianae.

VPon Pauls wharfe Hill, within a great gate, and belonging to that gate next to the Doctors Commons, are many faire Tenements, which in their Lea [...]es made from the Deane and Chapter, goe by the name or title of Camera Dianae; so denominated from aspacious and specious building, that in the time of Henry the second, stood where they now are standing.

In this Camera, or arch'd and vaulted Structure (full of intricate wayes and windings) this H. the second (as sometime he did at Woodstocke) did keepe, or was supposed to have kept, that Iewell of his heart, faire Rosamond; she whom there he called Rosa Mundi; and here, by the name of Diana; and from hence had this house that title.

To this day are remaines, and some evident testifications of tedious turnings and windings; as also of a passage under ground, from this house to Caste-Baynard, which was no doubt the Kings way from thence to his Camera Dianae, or the Chamber of his brightest Diana.

Of the three Brethen appointed to preach at Saint Maires Spittle at Easter 1632.

HAving renued the memory of this, from a time so long before us, let us remember and endevour to maintaine to posterity, among many memorable things of our owne time, that of those three worthy Brethren, Doctor Samuel Wincope, Master Thomas Wincope, and Master Iohn Wincope, learned and reverend Divines, that upon Munday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, in Easter weeke, 1632. preached at Saint Maries Spittle. Three Brothers, such a thing (as but in these) is not knowne to any man living, nor recorded to any mans reading. Yet to this let me adde this more, being called to this place to prech, from places divided by many miles one from another [Page] other, they met not so happily here to preach, as in the matter upon which they did preach: for though their Texts were severall, their subject was one and the same, this is worthy our observation; yet to make it worth admiration, and a perpetuall memory, wee are to take notice, how upon that one and the same subject, they did precede and succeed one the other like the linkes in a golden chaine, the second beginning where the first ended, and the third where the second ended; the last absolutely concluding what the two former had so absolutely induced to, with their admirable ends and uses.

A briefe relation of the six children drowned at the Ducking pond, Ianuary 19. 1633.

VPon Saterday the 19. of Ianuary, 1633. sixe pretty young Lads, going to sport themselves upon the frozen Ducking-pond, neere to Clearken well, the Ice too weake to support them, fell into the water, concluding their pastime with the lamentable losse of their lives: to the great griefe of many that saw them dying, many more that afterward saw them dead, with the in-expressible griefe of their Parents.

A briefe Relation of that lamentable Fire, that hapned on London Bridge, the 13. of February 1633.

FRom this let us turne, our eyes upon that lamentable Fire upon London bridge, that upon Monday the 13. of February, 1633. betweene eleven and twelve towards midnight gave us ashes in stead of Beauty: the ashes, into which the third part of the Bridge was consum'd, for the beautifull Frames so consumed.

The number of the houses then burnt on both sides the Bridge, from the Church called Saint Magnus, to the first open place, were two and forty; all which (with a great part of their wares, the goods, and rich furniture in them) were devoured to the ground (though many hands, much labour, with a great deale of feare and danger, were carefully employed to prevent it) before eight of the clocke the next morning. Thus suddenly they were burnt to the ground, all above ground quencht and extinguisht, but beneath in their Vaults and Cellars, the fire remained glowing and burning for the space of a whole weeke after.

The house in which it began was the house of one Master Brigs (at the hither end of the Bridge) a Needle-maker: but now it beganne, because divesly spoken by many, I would not set downe from any.

The losse was great and sudden, presenting (as a glasse) the length of a lease or of life, when such a sad chance shall betide us. Though getting a long lease of our lands, we presume of a lease of our lives, of a long and secure possession; like those in the 4. of Iames, that say, To day or to morrow we will goe into such a City, and continue there for a yeere, and buy, and sell, and get money. They will goe, they will stay, they will get, such losses as these never thought on; though the same Prophet (in the same place) tell them, They know not what the morrow may bring with it.

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A PERAMBVLATION OR, CIRCVIT-VVALKE foure miles about LONDON: And what Memorable matters and Monuments wee have found and met withall in our Iourney.
In the Church at Fulham are these ensuing Monuments.

This Monument is at the upper end of the Chancell, and hath this Inscription.

HIc situs est Gulielmus Biliesby,Fulham. Eques Auratus, Fisci Regij ostiarius, cum Anna vxore, è Familia Brogravia, quae illi peperit duas Filias, Franciscam, & Margaretam, totidemque Eilîos, qui infantes objerunt.

Obijt ille 25. Martij 1607.

Illa 27. Maij 1608.

Francisca Filia primogenita, primum n [...]pta Ioanni Madocks Armigero, postea Thomae Walker Armigero, Fisci Regij ostiario. Obijt die 6. Novembris 1607. & hic parentibus tumulatur. Margar. altera Flia enupta Hugoni Parlor, de Plumsted Armigero. Obijt & in Ecclesia Sanct. Margaretae Westmonasterij Requiescit.

Another Monument on the South side the Quire, with this Inscription.

D. O. M.

Thomae Smitho Equiti Aurato, Regij Majestati, à supplicum libellis, & ab Epistolis Latinis, viro doctrina, prudentiaque singulari, Francisca Guil. Baronis Chandos filia, optimo Marito Conjux Moestiss. plorans posuit. Obijt 28. die Novemb. 1609.

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Another Monument on the South side the Quire, with this Inscription.
Epitaphium D. Gulielmi Brutij Equitis Aurati, & Medici Regis Henrici octavi, qui obiis An. Dom. 1545. Novem. 17.

Quid Medicina valet?

quid Honos? quid Gratia Regum?

Quid popularis Amor,

Mors ubi saeva venit?

Sola valet pietas,

quae structa est, Auspice Christo

Sola in morte valet,

caetera cuncta fluunt.

Ergo mihi in vita

fuerit quando omnia Christus,

Mors mihi nunc lucrum,

vitaque Christus erit.

Epitaphium hoc primitus inscriptum pariete, & situ jam penè exesum, sic demum restituit Leonardus Butts Armiger Norfolciensis. Oct. 30. 1627. Amoris ergo.

Another Monument neere to this last, with this Inscription on it.

At Earth in Cornwall

was my first beginning,

From Bonds and Corringtons,

as it may appeare:

Now to Earth in Fulham,

God disposed my ending,

In March the thousand

and six hundred yeere

Of Christ, in whom

my body here doth rest,

Till both in body and soule

I shall be fully blest.

Thomas Bond. Obijt Anno Aetatis suae 68.

In the Church at Putney are these ensuing Monuments.

This Monument is in the Chancell on the North side, and hath this Inscription.

Memoriae Sacrum.

HEre lyeth the body of Richard Lusher of Putney, Putney. in the County of Surrey Esquire: who married Mary, the second Daughter of George Scot of Staplefoord Taune, in the County of Essex, Esquire. He departed this life the 27. of September, Anno 1615. Aetatis sua 30.

What tongue can speake

the vertues of this creature,

Whose Body faire,

whose Soule of rarer feature?

He liv'd a Saint,

he di'd a holy Wight,

In Heaven, on earth,

a joyfull heavy sight.

Body Soule united,

agree'd in one,

Like strings well tuned

in an Vni-sone.

No discord harsh

this Navell could untie,

'Twas Heaven, the Earth,

this Musicke did envy.

Wherefore may well be said.

He lived well;

And being dead,

the world his vertues tell.

Though Richard Lusher

sleepeth in the dust,

He sleepes in hope,

and hopes to live againe:

His soule in Heaven

is waking with the just,

And wakes in joy,

being free'd from sense of paine,

Bones take your rest,

your soule in Heaven attends,

The blest re-union

of two loving friends.

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Marito dilectissimo, Maria Lusher conjux Moestissima, in perpetuum Amoris Testimonium, hoc Monumentum plorans posuit.

Mary, by her first match, Lusher, daughter of George Scot, Esquire, descended from Iohn Scot, Lord chiefe Justice of England, in the raigne of King Edward the third, and after wife to Thomas Knivet, descended from Iohn Knivet Knight, Lord chiefe Justice in the same Kings raigne, and Lord Chancellour of England.

To Thomas Knivet.

That you have laid

my body here,

By that first side

I lov'd so deere,

I thanke you Husband:

That the poore

Are still your care,

I thanke you more.

These last I charg'd

you with alive,

Being done, I rest,

while you survive.

But yet I have

another Boone,

When Fate shall come

(as come full soone

It will, and will

not be deni'd)

That you would close

my other side.

Y'ave thought it worthy

to bee read

You once were second

to my bed;

Why may you not

like title have,

To this my second bed,

the Grave?

This Stone will cover

us all three,

And under it

we shall be free

From Love, or Hate,

or least distrust

Of Jealousie

to vexe our dust:

For here our bodies

doe but wait

The summons for

their glorious state.

On the same Monument is this Inscription. Quam Diu Domine. Siste Siste Hospes:

Quod Reliqui est Lectissimae Foeminae

Te Rogitat,

Etiam ego, superstes Maritus,

superstes ipse Funeri meo.

Nam in Conjuge, Conjunx vixi,

et cum illa Elatus sum.

Maria, mea Maria,

Dulcissima Maria

Hic sita est.

Cor Gratiarum, flos venustatis Merus,

Sedes amorum, Castitatis exemplar

Tanti erga me affectus

Talisque.

Morum ac vitae perpetuae Sanctimoniae,

ut vivens, Moriensque,

Singulari Praeluxerit Face

omoibus

Vel ordinis sui, vel sexus.

Heu qualem amisi

Ex puerperio Raptam?

Et cum ea, spem Posteritatis.

Sic me relinquis? Sic Terras deseris?

O Christianae perfectionis Imago,

Injuriarum contemptrix Facilis,

Doloribus Ferendis Fortis:

Omnes in te certabant virtutes

sed vicit Pie [...]as.

Fulges etiam in ipsa mortis umbra,

Divini amoris d [...]m vixisti Flamma

Et Postquam vixisti Astrum.

Vale, Vale Maria:

Nullum de te dolorem

Nisi ex Acerbissima tua morte

Accepi.

At (Cara Conjunx) non ego te desinam

Lugere, donec vi doloris obrutus

Meis & ipse liquero luctum parem.

M. S.

Mariae

Pientissimae Mariae

Cui lucis ortum Staplefordia dedit,

Genus (que) Scottorum Familia vetus,

Georgiae Filiae & Cohaeredi:

Primis Nuptijs Richardo Lushero junctae,

Nicholai Equitis Aurati Filio;

Proximis mihi Thomae Knivetto,

Maritorum Moestissimo.

Obijt xxvij. Aug. CIO. IOC. xxiij.

Aetatis 35.

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In the Church at Chelsey, are these ensuing Monuments.

In the South side of the North Ile is this inscription.

In obitum illustrissimi viri,Chelsey. Domini Arthuri Gorges, Equitis Aurati, Epicedium.

Transtulit Lucanum

Te deflent Nati, Natae, Celeberima Conjux;

Te dolet argutae, magna

Caterva scholae;

At Lucanus ait, se vivo, non Moriturum

Arthurum Gorges, Transtulit ipse decus,

Aethereas Cupiens Arthurus adire per Auras,

Et nonus ex ejus Nomine Natus adest.

Domin? Arth. Gorg. Equ. Aurat. Filius eius Natu Maximus.

In the same Ile on the South side is this inscription.

Here [...]ieth the right Noble and Excellent Princesse, Lady Iane Guilford, late Dutchesse of Northumber land; Daughter and sole Heire unto the right Honourable, Sir Edward Guilford, Knight, Lord Warden of the five Ports. The which Sir Edward, was sonne to the right Honourable, Sir Richard Guilford, sometimes Knight, and Companion of the most Noble Order of the Garter. And the said Dutchesse was wife to the right High and Mighty Prince, Iohn Dudley, late Duke of Northumberland; by whom she had issue 13. children, that is to wit, eight sonnes and five daughters: and after shee had lived 46. yeeres, she departed this transitory world at her Mannor of Chelsey, the 22. day of January, in the second yeere of the raigne of our Soveraigne Lady, Q. Mary the first, An. 1555. on whose soule Jesus have mercy.

Another on the South side, thus inscribed.
In obitum Nobilissimorum Conjugum Gregorij D. Dacres, & Annae uxoris.

Quos ardens copulavit Amor,

Iuvenilibus annis,

Abstulit atra dies,

mors inopina rapit;

Ille prior Fatis, Dacrorum

Nobile Germen

Occidit, In Morbum,

at incidit illa prius.

Quae languescendo, Miserae

praetedia vitae

Sensit, tam dulci conjuga

Cassa su [...].

Vt teneri cordis concordia

junxerat ambos,

Sic idem Amborum contegit

ossa locus.

Quos jungit tumulus,

conjungunt coelica Tecta,

Vt teneant Coelum,

qui tenuere fidem.

Nobilis iste Vir obijt, Septem. 25. 1594.

Nobilis ista Mulilier obijt, Maij 14. 1595.

Nobilis Anna Iaces,

prudens Sackvillia proles

Viva tui defles

funera Moesta viri.

Nil mortale placet,

Coelum tua pectora spirant,

Postquam Parca viri,

conscidit Atra, diem

Foeminei lux Clara chori,

pia, casta, pudica,

Aegris subsidium,

Pauperibusque decus.

Fida deo, perchara tuis,

constansque diserta,

Vt patiens M [...]rbi,

sic pietatis amans.

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O quoties manibus passis,

ad culmina Coeli,

Hanc Animam dixti,

suscipe quaeso Deus

Menspia, Coelestis patriae

pervenit ad Arcem,

Hic tumulus corpus,

mentis inane tenet.

Another Monument on the North side the Chancell, and hath this inscribed.

O Lord, in thee have I trusted,

Let me never be confounded.

Here lieth the body of Thomas Hungerford of Chilsey in the County of Middlesex Esquire; the second sonne of Robert Hungerford the elder, of Cadname in the County of Wilth Esquire; who hath served King Henry the 8. in the roomth of a Gentleman Pentioner, and was with his Majesty at the winning of Boloine; and King Edward the sixth at Mussleborough field; besides Queene Mary and Queene Elizabeth, in their affaires, being of the age of 70. yeeres, who had to Wife Vrsula Matdenhead, the Daughter of the Lady Sands. Anno Domini 1581.

Another on the North side with this inscription.

The yeeres wherein I liv'd

were fifty foure,

October twenty eight

did end my life:

Children five of eleven

God left in store,

Sole comfort to their mother,

and my wife.

The world can say

what I have beene before,

What I am now,

examples still are rife:

Thus Thomas Laurence

speakes to times ensuing,

That Death is sure,

and Time is past renuing.

Obijt. 1593.

On the South side

a Monument of Sir Thomas Moore, dated Anno Domini. 1532.

Another Monument in the same Church, with this inscription.

Sacrum Memoriae Gulielmi Plumbe Armigeri & Elizabethae Vxoris ejusdem.

Guilielmus Plumbe, Filius & Haeres Ioannis Plumbe, de Eltham Armigeri. Duas Vxores duxit; priorem Magaretam, Filiam, & unicam Haeredem Thomae Nevill Equitis, quam Robertus Southwell Eques viduam Reliquerat, Ex qua nullam prolem Genuit. Alteram Elizabetham, ex qua unicus filius n [...]tus est, Franciscus Plumbe. Elizabetha, unica Filia & Haeres Edvardi Dormer de Fulham Armigeri, Filij natu minimi Galfridi Dormer de Thame Armigeri. Priorem conjugem habuit Iohannem Gresham, de Mayfield, in Comitatu Sussexiae Armigerum, & secundum filium Iohannis Gresham Equitis (quondam Majoris London) cui tres peperit filios, Thomam, Guilielmum, & Edvardum Gresham, eo defuncto Guilielmum Plumbe praedictum conjugem accepit. Guilielmus Plumbe, obijt 9. die Febr. Anno 1593. Aetatis suae 60.

In the Church at Stepney are these ensuing Monuments.

On a Monument in the Chancell is this Inscription.

ONe ancient Monument of Sir Henry Collet, Stepney. Knight, twice Lord Maior of London, and free of the Mercers, and Father to Doctor [Page] Iohn Collet sometimes Deane of Saint Pauls, refreshed by the Company of Mercers in the yeere 1605. on the North side.

In the upper end of the Chancell.

In the upper end is a faire Monument of Elizabeth Startute, erected by Captaine Michael Miriall, and Clare his Wife, sometime Daughter to the said Elizabeth Startute.

On the North side of the Chancell, as followeth.

Here resteth the body of Robert Clarke Esquire, sonne of Roger Clarke Esquire, late Alderman of the City of London, a man humble in prosperity, & a liberall distributer to the poore, courteous and affable to all, an upright and a just dealer in this world, and a most religious seeker of the world to come. Hee had to wife Margaretta, daughter to Iohn Langton Esquire, sometimes Governour of the English Company in Sprucia, under the King of Polonia, who lived together in great love and integrity almost sixe yeeres, he had by her one onely Daughter, named Frances, who lived one yeere three quarters, and here lies interred with her most deare and loving Father.

In whose memory the said Margaretta, to expresse her true love and affection, hath caused this Monument to be erected; he died the xxx. day of May, Anno Dom. 1610. having lived xxxvj. yeeres.

A little Monument on the South side in the Chancell, and hath this Inscription.

Genero suo Guilielmo Dawtrey, quondam Lincolniensis Hospitij socio, Willielmi Dawtrey Sussexiae Armigeri, Filio & Haeredi, viro ingenij acumine, mentis acie, & non vulgari Municipalium Angliae legum scientia praecellenti, Richardus Stonley Armiger, hoc Amoris, & pietatis simbolum posuit. Obijt 16. Octobris 1589.

This Monument is at the upper end of the Chancell, and hath this Inscription.

Sacrae Memoriae.

Ianae Nevillae Dominae Dethicke Matronae Religiosissimae, Modestissimae, omnibus qua corporis, qua Animi (dum vixit) dotibus ornatissimae: Iesu Christi servae devotissimae; conjugi suae fidelissimae, amantissimae. Quae cum viginti fere duos Annos felicissime transegerat. Alexander Nevillus Armiger, hoc nunquam intermorituri amoris sui Monumentum fieri Testamento curavit. Postquam Annos ferè sexaginta novem vixerat vicessimo nono Novembris 1606. placidissimè in Domino obdormivit.

Tobiah Worthington, Alexandro Nevillo, ex Testamento solus Executor, ipsius mandato, hoc Monumentum posuit.

On a little brasse Monument in the South side of the Chancell is thus written.

Here under lieth buried Nicholas Gibson, Citizen and Grocer of London, and Avis his wife, who were Founders of the Free-Schoole at Ratcliffe; and after she married with Sir Anthony Knevit, Knight, which lyeth here buried also. Which Nicholas died the xxiij. of September, Anno 1510. And the said Lady Avis died the third day of October, 1554. whose soules Jesu pardon.

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In that Chancell likewise this is written.

D. O. M.

Here under was laid up the body of Sir Thomas Spert, Knight, sometime Controuler of the Navy to King Henry the eighth, and both the first Founder and Master of the worthy Society or Corporation of the Trinity-house. He lived enobled by his owne worth, and died the eighth of September, in the yeere 1541. To whose pious memory the said Corporation hath gratefully erected this Memoriall.

Not that he needed

Monument of stone,

For his well gotten fame

to rest upon,

But this was rear'd,

to testifie that he

Lives in their loves,

that yet surviving be.

For unto vertue,

who first rais'd his name,

He left the preservation

of the same:

And to postery

remaine it shall,

When Brasse and Marble

Monuments doe fall.

Learne for to die

while thou hast breath,

So shalt thou live

after thy death.

Anno Domini 1622. by the Company of the Trinity-house, this Monument was erected 81. yeeres after the decease of their Founder.

Another Monument in the same Chancell.

Here lieth also in the same Chancell, under the Communion Table, the body of Henry Steward, Lord Darley, of the age of three quarters of a yere, Sonne and Heire of Matthew Steward Earle of Lenox, and Lady Margaret his Wife, which Henry, deceased the 28. day of November, in the yeere 1545. whose soule Iesu pardon.

In Stratford-Bow, and Bromley, are these ensuing Monuments.

This Monument is in the South side of the Chancell, with this Inscription.

Abrahamus Iacob Armiger, Maria Conjux Superst, maestis. Obijt 6. Maij. A. D. 1629. Aetatis suae 56.

Hic tumulus

PArentes optimi cum prole numerosâ,Stratford-Bow and Bromley. non vestrae virtutis, sed Doloris mei Monumentum esto. Quam uterque erga Deum Pius, quam Regi suo obsequens, & commodus; quam amicis Fidus, quam Patriae utilis, quam pauperibus benignus, aliorum esto effari, meum imitari, pij Lectoris supplere, quod Filialis modestia Retinuit.

Valete Posteri.

Sic in Christo & vivite, & morimini. Ioh. Iacob. F. Parentibus maerens merentibus P.

As Nurses strive

their Babes in bed to hie,

When they too liberally

the wantons play:

So to prevent

his future grievous crimes,

Nature his Nurse

got him to bed betimes.

On another Monument in the same Church is thus written.

Here lies the body of William Ferrars, the onely Sonne and Heire of William Ferrars Esquire, late Citizen and [Page] Mercer of London, who tooke to wife Iane, one of the Daughters of Sir Peter Van-lore of London, Knight, by whom he had one Childe, his Wife and Childe died both before him, and he departed this life a moneth before his Father. He was a Gentle-man of a religious soule towards God, and a sweet behaviour towards men, and his death was by his Kindred, and generally by all much lamented. Hee died the 25. of August, 1625. and left his Vnkle Thomas Ferrars his Executor, who to the memory of him hath erected this small Monument.

In this most pure and blessed shade,

(Such by the sacred ashes made,

That here inhabit must) do's lye

The man, whose vertues cannot dye.

His Almes, his Prayers, his Piety,

Have sent his soule above the skie.

Nature full well had taught his Wife,

To summe her hourses in plous life;

To God, to Friend, to poore, to all,

She was as good as we dare call

Fraile flesh; good passenger give praise

To them who liv'd such happy dayes.

Anno Domini 1625.

In the same Church this is written.

This Bread is given to the poore for the honour of God, and to the memory of William Ferrars the younger, by Thomas Ferrars his Executor.

In the Church at Lambeth are these insuing Monuments.

On the North side on a Marble Tombe as followeth.

HEre under this Tombe lyeth buried the body of Thomas Clere Esquire,Lambeth. sonne of Robert Clerc in the County of Norfolke, Knight, which Thomas deceased the 14. day of April, Anno Domini 1545. on whose soule, and all Christian soules, Jesus have mercy.

In the Chancell on the North side is an old Tombe of Marble, thus written on.

Sub pedibus ubi statis, jacet corpus Magistri Hugonis Peyntwin, Legum Doctoris, nuper Archi. Cant. Reveredissimorum Patrum Dō. Ioannis Morton Cardinalis, Henrici Dene, & William Warham Cant. Archiepiscop. Audien. Causar. Auditoris. Qui obijt vj. die Augusti, Anno Dom. M. D. iiij. cujus Animae Propicietur Deus. Amen.

On a flat Stone there is thus written.

Volente Deo.

Hic jacet Richardus Bancroft, S. Theologiae Professor, Episcopus Londinensis Primo, deinde Cantuariensis Archiepiscopus, & Regi Iacobo à Secretioribus Consiliis. Obiit secundo Novembris, Anno Dom. 1610. aetatis suae 67.

Volente Deo.

On another flat Stone thus is written.

Here Lieth the Lady Elizabeth Howard, sometimes Countesse of Wiltshire.

On the South side

Lieth the body of Sir Nowell Caroone, Ledger Ambassadour for the States of Holland, with his Armes and Hatchments, as namely his Crest, Helmet, Armes, Sword, Gantlet, and Spurres.

In the South Chapell is a faire Monument of Marble, ingraven as followeth.

Here lieth Sir Iohn Legh Knight of the Bath, sonne of Ralph Legh Esquire, [Page] Lord of the Mannors of Stockwell and Levehurst, and Dame Isabel his wife, Daughter of Otwell Worsley, which Sir Iohn deceased the 17. day of August, Anno Dom. M. D. xxiij. and the same dame Isabel deceased the 18. day of Aprill.

On the upper end on the wall, a Monument as followeth.

Here lieth the body of Iohn Arundell of Gwarnicke, in the County of Cornwall, Esquire, Sonne and Heire of Roger Arundell, of the said County, Esquire, of an Ancient, Honourable, and faire descended Family, who died the 25. of May, 1613. without issue, and in the 56. yeere of his age.

Sape & praevale.

On the North side of the Quire is this Inscription.

Neere to this place, lyeth interred, the body of Robert Scot Esquire, descended of the ancient Barons of Bawery in Scotland. Hee bent himselfe to travell, and study much, &c. And amongst many other things, he einvented the Leather Ordinance, and carried to the King of Sweden 200. men; who after two yeeres service, for his worth and valour, was preferred to the office of Quarter Master generall of his Majesties Army; which he possessed three yeeres. Frō thence, with his favour, he went into Denmarke (where he was advanced to be Generall of that Kings Artillery.) There being advised to render his service to his owne Prince, which hee doing, his Majesty willingly accepted and prefer'd him to be one of the Gentlemen of his most Honourable Privy Chamber, and rewarded him with a Pension of 600. li. per annum.

This deserving Spirit, adorn'd with all Indowments befiting a Gentleman; in the prime of his flourishing age, surrendred his soule to his Redeemer, 1631.

Of his great worth to knew

who seeketh more,

Must mount to Heaven,

where he is gone before.

In France hee tooke to wife Anne Scot, for whose remembrance she lovingly erected this Memoriall.

This Monument is neere unto the other, and hath this Inscription.

Epitaphium Thomae Clarear, qui fato functus est, 1545. Auctore Henrico Howard, Comite Surrey, in cujus foelicis ingenij specimen, & singularis Facundiae argumentum, appensa fuit haec Tabula per W. Howard Filium Tho. nuper Ducis Norff. Filij ejusdem Henrici Comitis.

Norfolke sprung thee,

Lambeth holds thee dead:

Clere, of the Count

of Cleremont thou hight:

Within the wombe

of Ormonds race thou bred,

And sawest thy Cosin

crowned in thy sight.

Shelton for love,

Surrey for Lord thou chase;

Aye me, while life did last,

that league was tender,

Tracing whose steps,

thou sawest Kelsall blase,

Laundersey burnt,

and batter'd Bulleyn's render,

At Muttrell gates,

hopelesse of all recure,

Thine Earle halfe dead,

gave in thy hand his will,

Which cause did thee

this pining death procure,

Ere Summers foure times seven

thou couldst fulfill.

Aye Clere, if love had booted,

care or cost,

Heaven had not wonne.

nor Earth so timely lost.

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Over against the other in the same Ile, lieth the body of Elizabeth Bayly, late wife of Iohn Bayly. Obijt 24. of Iune, Aetatis suae 25.

Reader tread soft,

under thy foot doth lye,

A mother buried

with her progeny:

Two Females and a Male,

the last a sonne,

Who with his life,

his Mothers thred hath spun;

His breath her death procur'd

(unhappy sinne,

That thus our joy

with sorrow vshers in.)

Yet he being loth to leaue

so kinde a Mother,

Changes this life

to meet her in another.

The daughters first

were rob'd of vitall breath,

The Mother next

in strength of yeeres met death,

The Fathers onely joy,

a hopefull Sonne,

Did lose his life

when life was scarce begun.

If harmlesse Innocence,

if loyall truth,

Found in a constant wife

combin'd with youth,

If a kind Husbands prayers,

or Fathers teares

Could have prevail'd,

they had liv'd many yeeres.

But these all fayling,

here rak'd up in dust,

They wait the resurrection

of the just.

A Husbands love,

a Fathers piety,

Dedicates this

unto their memory:

And when he hath his debt

to Nature pai'd,

In the same Grave

himselfe will [...]hen be lai'd,

That altogether,

when the Trumpe shall sound,

Husband, Wife, Children,

may in Christ be found.

Another Monument on the South side the Quire, with this Inscription.

Here lieth foure foot distant from this wall, the body of William Suthes, Gent. a man adorned with the gifts of Grace, Art, and Nature: by Grace hee was Religious and Charitable; by Art he was in Masonry exquisite; and by Nature he was humane and affable. He, by Gods appointment, changed his mortall life of misery for glorious immortality on the fifth of October 1625. His sorrowfull and gratefull Wife, Mistresse Anne Suthes, as a loyall Testimony of her love to her deceased Husband, caused this Monument to be erected for an exemplary of his worthinesse, and her affection. He was Master Mason of Windsor Castle; he was a Citizen and Goldsmith of London, and an Assistant of the said Worshipfull Company. He left three sonnes towardly and hopefull, to bee each of them the imitators of their Fathers vertues, Iohn, Iames, and Matthew. And herein the Reader may see exprest the goodnesse of the deceased Husband, and the thankfulnesse of a surviving Wife.

He now sings praise

amongst the heavenly Host,

To God the Father,

Sonne, and holy Ghost.

In the Church at Newington, on the North side, is this Monument.

Deo viventium. Pietati sacrum.

SIr Hugh Brawne, Newington. Knight, the Founder and Adorner of this Ile, and for the space of 22. yeeres, the whole ornament of this Parish; Religious towards God, and respectfull of [Page] the poore, determining to provide for the day of his death, desires here to repose his body, in a happy hope of a glorious Resurrection.

Reader it pleas'd

th'Almighty to infuse,

Sense of his goodnesse

in my blessed heart,

Faith quickned Loue,

and did this Churchworke choose,

Both ioyntly here

doe shew themselves in part:

His be the glory, Peace,

(soule saving) mine,

Prayer, Thanksgiving use,

example thine.

1614. Vivens posui. Anno Aetatis 77.

In Saint Georges Church in Southwarke, on the North side are these Monuments thus written on.

LOe,

S. Georges.

Master William Evans,

he whose body lieth here,

Bequeathed hath by his last will,

for ever by the yeere

Ten pound eight shillings to the poore,

which is a blessed stay,

And must be given them in bread,

on every Sabbath day:

One halfe to Creekens poore,

his native soile so deare,

The other moity to the poore

of this our Parish here.

See now all ye that love the poore,

how God did guide his wayes;

Tenscore & eight are serv'd with bread,

in two and fifty dayes,

More then money would have done,

to yeelded any share:

Praise God, ye poore, who gave to him

so provident a care.

Hee was of the Right Worshipfull Company of the Merchant-Taylors, and deceased the 29. of Iuly, Anno 1590. in the 32. yeere of the most prosperous raigne of our Soveraigne Lady, Queene Elizabeth. Aetatis suae 67.

Another Monument on the North side, having this Inscription.

Behold, Iames Savage, graciously

Hath done a godly deed;

To the poore of this Parish,

For to releeve their need,

Five pounds a yeere for evermore,

By will he hath bequeath'd,

Which must out of the Angell rents

Quarterly be received,

By the Churchwardens of this Church

Whom he hath put in trust,

As Fathers in the poores behalfe,

To be vpright and just.

Which men, I doubt not, but our God

Who seeth all things shall finde,

True in dispensing of the same

According to his minde.

Ye poore, thanke Christ for Savage still,

Extoll Gods Name with praise,

That he, to follow his good Act,

In time may many raise.

Anno 1588.

In the Church at Wansworth, are these insuing Monuments.

In the North side of the Chancell is thus written.

Vnder a Stone,

Wansworth.

within this place,

doth lie Iohn Powel, who for the space

Of thirty yeeres before Her death,

did serve the Queene Elizabeth:

And to King Iames of worthy fame,

for nine yeres more he did the same:

And when the yeeres of seventy foure,

were now come to an end,

Into the hands of God above,

his soule he did commend.

Obijt 26. die Iunij.

Anno Dom. 1611.

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At the upper end of that Chancell, is thus written.

Here lyeth the body of Henry Smith, Esquire, sometime Citizen and Alderman of London, who departed this life the 30. day of Ianuary, An. Dom. 1627. being then neere the age of 79. yeeres, who while he lived, gave unto these severall Townes in Surry following, one thousand pounds a piece, to buy Lands for perpetuity for the reliefe and setting the poore people on worke in the said Townes, viz. To the towne of Croydon, one thousand pounds; To the towne of Kingstone, one thousand pounds; To the towne of Guilford, one thousand pounds; To the towne of Darkin, one thousand pounds; To the towne of Farneham, one thousand pounds. And by his last Will and Testament did further give and devise, to buy lands for perpetuity for the reliefe and setting their poore on worke, unto the towne of Rigate one thousand pounds. And unto this towne of Wandsworth, wherein he was borne, the summe of 500. pounds, for the same uses as before. And did further will and bequeath one thousand pounds to buy land for perpetuity, to redeem poore Captives and Prisoners from the Turkish tyranny. And not here stinting his charity and bounty, did also give and bequeath the most part of his estate, being to a great value, for the purchasing lands of inheritance for ever for the reliefe of the poore, and setting them on worke.

A patterne worthy the imitation of those whom God hath blessed with the abundance of the goods of this life to follow him herein.

Another Monument on the South side the Quire, with this Inscription.

Here lieth the body of Edward Snow of Chicksands, in the County of Bedford, Esquire: in memory of whom, Em his Wife, daughter to William Byne, in the County of Sussex, Esquire, erected this Monument; he had issue Elizabeth, Alice, and Sarah. He deceased at the Mannor of Alfarthing, Anno Dom. 1587.

At the upper end of this Chancell is this Inscription.

Susanna Powell, late of Wandsworth Widow, Daughter of Thomas Hayward of Wandsworth, Yeoman of the Guard unto King Henry the 8. King Edward the 6. to Queene Mary, and to Queene Elizabeth (of ever precious memory) and wife unto Iohn Powell of Wandsworth, Gentleman, who was servant to Queene Elizabeth. This Susanna Powell was a gracious Benefactor unto this Towne of Wandsworth. She lived a Window the space (almost) of twenty yeeres, deceased the 19. day of February, 1630. & at her death bequeathed by her Will unto 24. poore Widowes of this Towne of Wandsworth for ever, foure pence in bread and foure pence in mony, to be distributed every Lords day, 12. on one Sabbath, and 12. another for ever, at the North doore of the Church at Wandsworth.

She also bequeathed 40. shillings every yeere for ever, to put forth a poore man child an Apprentice, with divers other loving Remembrances unto her good friends and neighbours. These foresaid Donations are to issue out of the benefits and profits of the Rectory of Wandsworth.

This was desired to be recorded, that God might be glorified, the memoriall of the Iust might bee blessed, and the living stirred up to such like good workes of Piety and Compassion.

More,

To this Church, for the Communion Table, two Flagon pots of Silver, price xx. li. and upwards.

To release poore Prisoners out of prison, on the day of her buriall, xx. li.

[Page] To the poore of the parish of Putney, long before she deceased, 50. li.

To the poore Housholders of Wandsworth, for many yeeres before her death, toward payment of their Rent, per annum, 5. li.

In the Church at Battersey, are these ensuing Monuments.

On the North side of the Quire is this Inscription.

Deo Trino & Vni Sacrum.Ba [...]ersey.

OLivero, Nicolai Sanct. Iohn de Lydeard, Filio secundo, Equiti Aurato, Antiquissimis, & illustribus de Belle Campo, de Blestoe Grandisonis, & Tregoziae Familiis oriundo. Terra Marique, Domi Forisque, Belli pacisque, Artibus egregio, Diu Elizabethae è Nobilissima Pensionariorum cohorte, suis inde meritis, & singulari Divi lacobi gratia, in Hibernia instrumentis Bellicis praefecto, Conaciae propraeside questori summo, & Regis Vicario, procomiti de Grandisonis, & Trigoziae de Hyworth in Anglia Baroni, Eidem divo Iacobo, & Filio ejus pijssimo à secretioribus & Sanctioribus Consiliis, Postquam is Annos Honoribus Aequaverat, & Tranquillissimè senuerat somnienti similiter extincto, Iohannes de Sanct. Iohn, Eques & Baronettus, ex Fratre Nepos & Haeres Auunculo Moerentissime. Moestissimus P. in Ecclesia de Battersey. Vixit Annos 70. Mor. 29. Decembris 1630.

This Monument is in the South side of the Chancell, with this Inscription.

Memoriae Sacrum.

Elizabethae, Filiae Christophori Toldervey Armigeri, quae vivens moriensque fuit conjux dilecta Danielis Caldwall, Filij Laurentij Caldwall Armigeri, per quatuor annos, Filiorum par Enixa ac vnicam Filiolam, ipsa Mater, virgo prius Casta, Vxor dein fida, Morum suavitate vitae integritate, Religionis Conscientia insignis, fideliter obijt, & in domino foeliciter obdormivit die Iunij 20. Aetatis suae Anno 23. 1620.

Moerens ejus Maritus, hoc Qualecunque Monumentum, Epitaphium, Amoris verè conjugalis ergo, posuit, composuit.

D. G.

This stone doth tell, the Children

and the Mother,

That liu'd and dy'd

all in one yeere together:

The children first

Death did deprive of life,

Yet stai'd not there,

but tooke away the Wife.

Insatiate Death,

not with the Fruit content▪

But thy last malice

on the Tree hast spent.

Her vertuous life

it needlesse were to praise,

That's still the glosse

to cover vicious wayes:

Ile say but this,

that all who knew her well,

For life, for death,

will say she did excell.

Another Monument in the same Chancell with this Inscription.

To Henry Hussy Esquire, his loving Wife Iudeth Paget hath erected this Monument: He was borne at Slinkfold in Sussex, he was Clarke of the Spicery to Queene Elizabeth and King Iames, and lived in the Court 35. yeeres. He delivered his soule to God the 23. of May 1611. in the 64. yeere of his age, his body lyeth buried here, waiting for a joyfull esurrection.

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In the Church at Hackney are these ensuing Monuments.

A Monument made for Sir Henry Row, with this Inscription.

HEre under sime

of Adams first defection,

Hackney.

Rests in the hope

of happy Resurrection,

Sir Henry Row

(Sonne of Sir Thomas Row)

And of Dame Mary

his deare yoke-fellow)

Knight, and right worthy

(as his Father late)

Lord Maior of London

with his vertuous Mate.

Dame Susan his

(twice fifteene yeeres & seven)

Their issue five

(surviving of eleven)

Foure named here

in these foure names forepast,

The fifth is found,

if Eccho sound the last:

Sad Orphanes all, but most

their Heire (most debtor)

Who built them this,

but in [...] a better.

Quam pie obijt, [...] [...]lutis 1612. die Novemb. [...] [...]atis 68.

This Monument is neere unto the other, and hath this Inscription.

Memoriae Sacrum.

What needs an Epitaph

to found our praise,

Our wealth, our greatnes forth,

or length of dayes;

When briefly on this Marble

we may reade,

The glory of the living

and the dead.

A modest, chaste,

religious loving Wife

Lies here at rest,

patient in death and life;

Even all the graces

which 'mongst many were

Divided, sweetly flow'd

and met in her.

And though death did his worst,

thinking in rage,

To leave no patterne

for succeeding age,

Yet lives her vertues,

and this memory

Tells what she was,

and what her Sex should be.

Erected by Iohn Bennet, in memory of Elizabeth his beloved wife, who departed this life the 18. of November, 1625.

An ancient plaine Monument in the Chancell, with this Inscription.

Christopher Vrswyke, Rector.

Misericordiam.

Another Monument there also, with this Inscription.

Here under lyeth the body of Henry Thoresby, of Thoresby, in the County of Yorke, Esquire, late Councellor in the Law, Bencher and Reader of Lincolnes Inne, Iustice of Peace, and of the Quorum, one of the Masters of the most Honourable Court of Chancery, and one of the sixteene Governours of King Iames Hospitall, elected at the first foundation thereof by Iohn Sutton Esquire the only Founder: which Henry Thoresby passed his pilgrimage in this life, in [Page] all godlinesse and Christian piety, and so constantly did continue unto his last breath, which hee yeelded up to the Almighty in this Towne of Hackney, on the eleventh day of May, 1615.

Heere under lyeth the body of Iane, late wife to the said Henry Thoresby Esquire, Daughter to Iohn Palmer of Clarkenwell, in the County of Midalesex, Esquire, and Paulina his wife, daughter to Anthony Sands of Throwly in the County of Kent, Esquire, which Iane lived with the said Henry in wedlocke 30. yeeres and more, and had issue by him two Daughters, viz. Iane, who died in her infancy about six yeeres of age, and Elinor Lady Hardresse, the now wife of Sir Thomas Hardresse, of great Hardresse, in the County of Kent, Knight, by whom she had issue foure Sonnes and one Daughter. Which said Iane overlived her said husband, Henry Thoresby, and died in all Christian piety on the 18. day of August, 1616.

An Epitaph upon the death of the vertuous & worthy Gentleman, Edward Saunders Esquire, Obijt vltimo die Novembris Anno 1599.

His name, his place,

the gentry of his birth,

And credit held

unto his dying dayes,

Were things that gave him

favour here on earth,

But gave him not

the greatest of his praise.

His greatest glory

was his godly life,

The bounty of his house

and open doore,

His Countries love,

his kindnesse to his wife,

Faith to his friend,

and pitty to the poore.

His vertue, valour,

and all good desires,

His zeale and life

agreeing to the same,

And last the death

that such a life requires,

These be the true records

of lasting fame.

These wright him blessed

in the Heavens above,

And leave him in the world

good will and love.

On the North side of the Chancell, as followeth.

A memory of the right Honourable, the Lady Lucy Latimer.

Such as shee is,

such surely shall ye be,

Such as she was,

such if ye be, be glad;

Faire in her youth,

though fat in age she grew,

Vertuous in both,

whose glosse did neuer fade,

Though long alone

she lead a widowes life,

Yet never Lady

liv'd a truer wife.

From Wales she sprang,

a branch of Worsers race,

Graft in a stocke of Brownes

her mother side;

In Court she held

a maid of Honors place,

Whilst youth in her,

and she in Court did bide:

To Iohn Lord Latimer

then became she wife,

Foure Daughters had they

breathing yet in life.

Earle of Northumberland

tooke the first to wife,

The next the heire

of Baron Burleigh chose,

Cornwallis hap

the third for terme of life;

And Sir Iohn Davers

pluckt the youngest Rose.

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Their Fathers heires,

mothers all she saw,

Pray or praise her,

make your list the Law.

Made by Sir Will. Cornewallis, Knight, this Ladies sonne in law.

A Monument of Sir Thomas Rowe, who lieth buried in this Church, and hath this Inscription.
Anno Domini 1570. September 2. day.

Sir Thomas Rowe lies buried here,

Of London Knight and Alderman

Who late was Maior, & rule did beare,

To right the cause of every man:

A Merchant venturer was he,

Of Merchant-Taylors Company:

A Citizen by birth also,

And eke his Wife dame Mary Rowe.

In wedlocke one and thirty yeere,

They did continue man and wife,

Eleven children she did beare,

But five of them have left this life,

And sixe alive doe yet remaine,

Foure of them sons, & daughters twain,

His soule with God we hope is blest,

And doth remaine in Abrahams brest.

In the Church at Islington, are these ensuing Monuments.

In the South side of the Chancell is this inscription. Vnder the hope of the Resurrection.

HEre lyeth the body of Alice Owen Widow,Islington. the Daughter of Thomas Wilkes, she was first married to Henry Robinson, by whom she had sixe sonnes, Iohn, William, Henry, Iohn, Thomas, and Henry, which said Henry the younger, was married unto Mary, the daughter of Sir William Glover, Knight, Alderman of London; and five Daughters, Margaret married to Sir Iohn Bret of Edmonton, in the County of Middlesex Knight, Susan, Anne, and Anne the younger maried Sir Robert Rich, of Horndon on the Hill, in the County of Essex Esquire; and Alice married to Iohn Washborne of Withingfoord in the County of Worcester, Esquire. The second Husband was William Elkin Esquire, Alderman of the City of London, by whom she had issue, only Vrsula Elkin, married to Sir Roger Owen of Condover, in the County of Salop, Knight. The third Husband was Thomas Owen, one of the Iudges of the Court of Common Pleas to Queene Elizabeth.

On a faire Stone in the Chancell is this Inscription.
Hinc Sperat Resurrectionem (Filius Harbottelli Grimeston, Militis & Baronetti Natu Tertius.)

Henricus Grimeston. Anagramma. En Christi Regno sum.

Qui moritur, vivit, Christo, huic,

Mors semita, Ductor

Angelus, ad vitam Ianua

Christus erit.

Hac itur ad superos, calcane

vestigia Lethi,

Intrabam Christi Regia,

Templa Dei.

12. die Mensis Iulij. An. Dom. 1627.

In the North side of the Chancell is thus written.

Here lieth buried the body of Sir Nicholas Kempe, Knight, one of his Majesties Justices of the Peace, and an Honourable Member of the high Commission Court, &c. who had [Page] to his first wife Cicely, with whom he lived in blessed amity neere forty yeeres, together with Sarah his second wife sixe yeeres: and having past, with much Prosperity, Love, and Credit, the reverend yeeres of 72. he changed this terrestriall condition for that everlasting state of blessednesse, the third of September 1624.

Wife, Loving Liberall,

Religious, lust;

Those graces fil'd the soule

of him, whose dust

Lies here in Tombe;

all that praise can bring forth,

There are not words enough

to expresse his worth:

For his good workes,

this stone cannot comprise

Half the particulars

of his Pieties:

What goodnesse ever was,

is, and to come,

In mortall man,

that makes up his just summe.

Another Monument on the North side the Chancell, and hath this inscribed.

Vivit post funera virtus.

Here lyeth the body of William Riethorne, late of Canonbury Esquire, which William married with Anne, the Daughter of Iohn Quarles of London, Merchant, and died without issue, the 18. day of November. In the yeere of our Lord God 1582. and in the 54. yeere of his age.

A Monument in the South Ile, with this inscription.

To the sacred Memory of

Anne late wife of Henry Chitting, Esquire, Chester Herauld at Armes, eldest Daughter of William Bennet, Gentleman, by Ioice, widow of Richard Ioselin, of Newhall Ioselins in Essex, Esquire, and Daughter of Robert Atkinson of Stowell, in the County of Glocester, Esquire, shee had foure children, whereof three are living, Thomas, Ioyce, and Henry, of which last she died in Child-bed, the 8. of May 1632. in the 27. of her age, and 4. yeere of her marriage.

Mors mihi vita.

Life is Deaths roade,

and Death Heavens gate must be,

Heaven is Christs Throne,

and Christ is life to me.

The Angels of the Lord protect

All those that are his owne Elect.

Vivit post funera virtus.

In the Church at Kenzington, is this ensuing Monumeat.

An Epitaph in memory of Sir William Blake, Knight, who deceased the 30. day of Oct. An. Dom. 1630.

STay Reader,

Kenzington.

gaze, admire,

and passe not sleightly ore,

The Casket of his corpes

imbalmed in this flore:

Let his industrious hand,

patterne of patternes be,

And blazon forth his worth

to all posterity.

Let his ost foot-steps

vnto this sacred place,

Be pious. Clues to guide

thee to like holy trace.

Let him in peace

rest here in peace,

Till God of Peace

returne,

And give him peace

that loued peace,

And call him from

his Vrne.

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Vnto the worldly wise,

Death doth Apologize.

Suspend thy by-thoughts,

his thoughts did ever aime at good,

Had I forborne, they had

at full beene better understood.

The figure of Death lying under these lines.

In Saint Giles Church in the Fields, are these ensuing Monuments.

On the North side of the Quire is this Inscription.

M. S.

CHarissimae Matris Alliciae,Saint Giles▪ vxoris venerabilis olim viri Alexandri Sheppard, Legum Doctoris, Nec non suavissimae nuper conjugis Annae, ex Antiquâ Daunteseyorum Familia in Agro Wilton oriundae,

Pietatis, & Amoris ergô posuit, Thomas Sheppard hic loci, juxta quem (si Deo videbitur) mortales suas exuvias Humandas designavit, providus. Anno Dom. 1631.

Another Monument on the North side, having this Inscription.

Here before lyeth buried the body of William Styddulfe, third Sonne of Iohn Styddulfe, of Mickleham in the County of Surrey, Esquire; hee had issue by his wife Elizabeth, Daughter of Iohn Fox, of Saint Iohns in London, Gentleman, William, Iane, Mary, Thomas, and Elizabeth. Hee departed this life at the age of 55. being the last of December, Anno Domini 1600. Here also before resteth the body of the aboue named Elizabeth, who departed this life at the age of 60. yeeres. 10. of February 1623.

In Saint Martins Church in the Fields, are these ensuing Monuments.

On the South side is a faire Monument, with this Inscription.

Arthur Gregory married Christian.

HEre lyes buried William Downes, S. Martins. whom God hath taken to his mercy, who beleeved that he should rise at the last day, and see the glorious Majesty of God, and receive life everlasting. Who while he lived here had two Wives, Margaret Ward & Elizabeth Rolfe; who had by his first wife one Son and one Daughter, and by his second wife two Sons and foure Daughters, who died the 26. of September 1589.

Otho Maudit married Elizabeth.

Iohn Thorpe married Margaret.

William Bret married Mary.

Another Monument there also, with this Inscription.

Here lieth the body of Thomas Fouler, Esquire, borne in Wicam, in the County of Lancaster, who was Controuler and Pay-master of the works to Queene Mary, and to our Soveraigne Lady, Queene Elizabeth, by the space of ten yeeres. He was very charitable to the poore in his life time, and at his death hee gave by Will out of his dwelling house, a [Page] perpetuall annuity of 40. s. by the yeere, to be given to 20. poore hous-holders of this Parish at Christmas for ever. He had in marriage three wives, Ellen, Margaret, and Elizabeth, which also lyeth here intombed. He surviving them, having no childe at his death, made three of his old servants, namely Henry Bludder, Matthew Switzer, and William Humphrey, his Executors, who in remembrance of him, have caused this Monument to be made.

Another on the South side, thus inscribed.

Expectans Gloriam.

Iuxta hoc requiescit Iohn Bembow, Arm. deputatus clerici Coronae in curia Cancellaria D. Regis. In quo officio, per spacium 40. An. Industriam praestitit, —expiravit die Veneris 7. Octob. An. 1625. Termino sexaginta Anno. Aetatis suae finito. Tres habuit vxores, Dorotheam Prowde, & Katherinam Sparkes, eodem tumulo sepultas, Per quas genuit liberos etiam perfunctos, Et Elizabetham Hodges modo extantem, quae sibi duos peperit filios, Gulielmum Bembowe, Aetatis 4. & 6. mens: & Iohannem Bembowe posthumum, Tres tantum Hebdomadas viventem, cum patre humatum.

This Monument is neere unto the other, and hath this Inscription.

Here lieth the Corpes of Iohn Worsley, Gentleman, who was Messenger to Queene Elizabeth, by 20. yeeres space. Hee died the 25. of March, 1595. in the 37. yeere of her raigne, being aged 40. yeeres. He gave to be paid yeerely vpon each Christmas day, during the space of 21. yeeres, as well 15. shillings to the poore of Saint Martins Parish in the Fields, where he was a Parishoner, as also 10. shillings to the poore of the Parish of Whichurch, in Salop.

In the same Ile on the South side is this inscription.

To the memory of Sir Carew Keynell, Knight, late Gentleman Pentioner to Queene Elizabeth, and Gentleman Vsher of the Privy-Chamber to King Iames. Hee died the 7. of December 1624. in the 61. yeere of his age.

Another Monument on the same side, with this Inscription.

Hic jacet Thomas Heron Armiger, Filius Thomae Heronis de Edgecombe, in proviciae Surrey Armigeri scaccarij Mareschallus. Vxorem cepit olivam, Thomae Britton generosi de Felmingham Norfolciae filiam. Cum qua viginti novem annos vixit; atque ex ea unico dotatus Filio Edoardo. Diem obijt martij 1590. Marito plurimum dilecto, praedicta conjux Amantissima, Moerore, & lachrimis perfusa, Monumentum hoc Amoris & Fidei Conjugalis ergo, Posuit & sacravit.

On the same side is another Monument, with this Inscription.

Hic jacet Maria, vxor Thomae Clopton Armig. filia Domini Willi. Waldgrave Militis, vtrisque tam Mariti, quam patris illustrata Familiis. Obijt 19. Decemb. 1599. de qua sunt superstites 4. Liberi, Willielmus, Gualterus, Elizabetha & Maria.

Cloptoni jacet hic Conjux, Waldgravia proles,

Vxor digna viro, Filia digna Patre:

Alter in alterius splendet virtutibus, vt lux

Sitque viro, & Patri, virque pater (que) sibi.

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This Monument is in the South side of the Chancell, with this Inscription.

Hic sita est Eliza. Dutton filia primogenita Thomae Egerton, equitis aurati filij primogeniti Tho. Egerton, Equit. Aurat. Dom. magnis sigilli Angliae custodis, qui nunc honorem summi Angliae Cancellarij & Baronis de Elesmere gerit. Nupta fuit Iohan. Dutton ex antiquissima familia Duttonorum in Comitatu Cestriae, sed vxorem viduam & Virginem ab avo pie educatam, venustate pietate & modestia prestantissimā praematura mors ad loca excelsa & beatissima (quo omnes tendimus) non [...] meltorum lacrimis praemisit. Obijt die secundo Octobris 1611 vixit annos 16. M. iiij D. XXI.

Idem nobilissimus baro de Elesmere, Angliae Concellarius avus indulgentissimus moestissimusque nepoti charissimae amoris ergo posuit.

Another Monument in the same Church, with this inscription.

To the worthy, learned, and godly Gentleman, William Cooke, Esquire, her deare Husband, Sonne to the Right Worshipfull, Sir Anth. Cooke, Knight, Frances his most loving wife, Daughter to that most noble Gentleman, the Lord Iohn Gray, brother to the sometime high and mighty Prince, Henry Gray, the last Duke of Suffolke, hath dedicated this Monument in memory of his vertue and her love, died the 14. day of May, and in the yeere of his age 56.

This Tombe for her deare Spouse,

hath noble Frances placed,

Lamenting much, with greater gifts

this Tombe should not be graced,

And grives as much companion-like,

this Tombe should not containe

Their wills in earth, since both on earth

one will they did retaine.

On the North side of the Chancell is this Inscription.

Honoratissimo patri Dauncio Pouleto equiti aurato, insulae Ierseae praefecto, apud Christianissimum regem quondam legato, nobilissimi ordinis Garterij Cancelario & serenissimae principis Elizabethae Consiliario, Antonius Pouletus filius, hoc pietatis Monumentum Moerens posuit.

Gardez la foy.

Quod verbo servare fidem

(Poulete) solebas,

Quam bene conveniunt

haec tria verba tibi:

Quod gladio servare fidem

Poulete solebas,

Quam bene conveniunt

haec tria signa tibi.

Patria te sensit,

sensit Regina fidelem,

Sic fidus Civis,

sicque senator eras.

Te fidum Christus,

te fidum Ecclesia sensit,

Sic servat inter

multa pericla fidem,

Ergo quod servo princeps,

Ecclesia nato,

Patria quod fide

cive sit orba dolet,

Interea Christus defuncti

facta coronat,

A quo servatam

viderat esse fidem.

Margareta Poulet hoc Epitaphium moetoris simul & amoris sui perpetuum testem amicio conjugi suo charissimo clarissimoque dicavit.

Conjugis est (testante Deo)

pars altera conjunx,

Vir caput est, vnum

corpus uterque refert,

Vna caro, mens una,

thoro sociata jugali,

Solamen vitae

praesidiumque suae:

Ergo meo luctus quis

par queat esse dolori

Cui vitae pars est altera

dempta meae.

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Sed quid flere juvat,

non sic revocabere conjux,

Namque tibi pietas

stravit ad astra viam:

Haec spes sola juvat:

qui nos conjunxit in vnum,

Hunc sibi postremo

jungere velle die.

Another Monument in the same Church, with this Inscription.

Hic jacet Maria Da. Cheake, filia R. Hill Armig. foemina pia & prudens, & quae fuit vsque ad obitum una dominarum in privata Camera Reginae Elizabethae (quae fuit tunc dignitas in praecipuo honore) nupta fuit primo Iohanni Cheake, Magist. principali Secretario Regis Edwardi 6. viro-optimo & eruditissimo, cui peperit Henricum haeredem paternae virtutis, & Regiae Majestatis à Secretis in Consilio Eboracensi, Iohan. Cheake virum egregium & magnanimum, Edwardum Cheake.

Vixit circa 84. Anno obijt Novemb. 30. 1616.

Secundo nupta Henrico Mackwillims Arm. viro ex Nobilis. Familia Hibernorum cui peperit Henricum qui sine prole obijt, & Margaretam seniorem filiam nuptam viro honor. Iohanni Domino Stanhop, Baroni de Harrington, Vicecamerario Reginae Eliza. & R. Iacobi thesaurario camerae & Magistro cursarum Rigiō. Susannam nuptam Edwardo Sandeys Arm. deinde Gothardo Pemberton Mil. & vltimo Thomae Ireland Mil. Ambrosiam nuptam Willielmo Kingswell Mil. Cassandra Georgio Cotton Mil. & Ceciliam nuptam Thomae Dom. Ridgway, Dom. thesaurario Regio in Hibernia.

On a flat Stone in the Chancell, is this written.

Hem viator, Infans te paucis vult

Carolus Blown [...], Honoratis. Dom. Mountjoy, Comitis de Newport, & lectiss.

Dom. Annae è nobili Bottelorum in agro Herfordiensi familia oriundae.

Filius natu secundus bimulus hic praematurae posuit mortalitatis exuvias: tantum est.

Vivus nil poteram fari,

quin mortuus infans,

Ecce loquar mortis

sis memor atque vale.

In the Church at Greenewich, are these ensuing Monuments.

In the Chancell, on the South side, this is written.

Dilectissimae Conjugi sacrae Hettonae Franciscus Hettonus viduus Moestus, non sine Lachrimis, posuit

OMea sacra oculis multo

mihi Charior ipsis,

Greenewich▪

Deseris (Heu) viduum

cur ita sacra virum?

Tu secura manes,

portu requiescis Amoeno

Non tibifraus, Moribus

nec mala obesse valent.

Tu pace Aeterna frueris,

tu vivis ovasque,

Quippe tibi est Terris,

gratior Aula Dei,

Conjux ipse tuus mance

vivoque superfles,

Moestificis plenus

solicitudinibus,

Spero tamen tempusque brevi,

(mea sacra) futurum est

Cum te visurus sim,

vel in Arce poli.

Cuncta tibi scio salva manent,

vereque Beata es,

Cui mors vita fuit,

vitaque morte viret.

Eheu quam nostrae est

evanida gloria vitae,

Certa dies nobis nulla,

nec hora datur:

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Stare decet vigiles ergo,

semper que paratos,

Ne mors incautos

nos inopina premat.

Ecce rei testis, sacra

hic Blomera, jugali

Francisco Hettono

Consociate Thoro.

Annos octodecim, placuitque

Marita Marito,

Nulla magis potuit,

nec placuisse magis.

Filiolos illi peperit,

ter quinque utriusque

Pignora: & ex illis,

octo fuere Mares.

Quadraginta Hyemes,

binos si dempseris annos

Vixit, & octodecim,

suasilis vxor erat.

Obijt 13. Iul. Anno Dom. 1600.

Another Monument on the South side the Quire, with this Inscription.
D. O. M. Et salvatori. I. C. S. In Memoriam.

Gulielmi Hattecliffe, ex Antiqua Hatteclifforum, de Hattecliffe, in Agro Lincolniensi Familia oriundi. Qui cum summa in Deum Pietate, In pauperes Benignitate, in amicos humanitate, in omnes bonitate, Annos plus minus quinquaginta septem Coelebs in terris vitam egisset tranquillam, Tandem 17. nempe die Maij, Anno 1620. Deo Animam Reddidit Grenovici, & hic situs in pace quiescit.

On a Monument on the North side of the Chancell is this Inscription.
In piam Memoriam Dilectissimae suae conjugis.

Dorotheae Lok Filiae Iacobi Brampton, de Brampto, in Comitatu Norfolciae Generosi, & Mariae vxoris ejus, Filiae Claclarissimi viri Edwardi Bulein militis, & Annae Tempestiae vxoris ejus, &c. Quae post Annos triginta sex, in hac peregrinatione terrena peractos (Annosque pene Trinos, in fideli, Castissimoque Matrimonio perimpletos) in vera Fidei Christianae confessione, & Ardentissima Dei omnipotentis invocatione, pie ex hac vita decessit 24. die Februarij 1596.

Cujus corpus juxta inhumatur, in medio hujus Chori, Adjacente à sinistra corpore Henrici Lok filii sui. Zacharias Lok Amoris & officii ergo Monumentum hoc poni fecit 24. die Octobris 1597.

In an Ile on the North side is this Inscription.

Egregio viro, Roberto Adams, operum Regiarum Supervisori, Architecturae peritissimo; Religione, & moribus Integerrimo. Qui piè obiit Anno suae Aetatis 1595.

Simon Basil operationum Regiarum Controtultor hoc posuit Monumentum 1601.

Next to the other is this Inscription.

Spiritus in Caelis,

fax hic Clementis Adami,

Cui ex tredecim,

septem pignora viva Manent,

Regius ille diu vixit,

Moriturque scholarca,

Tumque ubi bis septem

lustra peregit, obit

Anno Dom. 1586. Ian. 9.

Et lateri conjuncta jacet

suavissima conjux,

Quindenis Annis

qua fuit ille minor.

Anno Dom. 1588. Maîj 11.

Next to the other is this Inscription.

Neere to this place lyeth interred, the body of Mistresse Mary Ward, late [Page] wife of Richard Ward, Esquire, Serjeant at Armes vnto King Iames, and King Charles, Father and Mother of Captaine Caesar Ward, who died in the service of his King and Country in October 1627. She died in February following, in the foresaid yeere.

Which three moneths time with sighs

Her grieved life did spend,

Her Sonnes untimely death

Hastned her end.

In the Church at Detford, or West Greenwich, are these ensuing Monuments.

This Monument is at the upper end of the Chancell, and hath this Inscription.
M. S.

H. S. E. Rogerus Boyle,De [...]ford. Richardi Comitis Corcagiensis Filius Primogentius, qui in Hibernia natus, in Cantio solo Patris Natali denatus, Dum hic ingenij cultum capessit. Puer eximiae indolis, praecocitatem ingenij funere luit immaturo. Sic luculenti, sed terreni Patrimonij factus exhaeres, coelestem crevit Haereditatem. Decessit A. D. 1615. iv. eid. viii. Bris.

Death.
Richardus, praenobilis Comes Corcagiensis Vxoris suae Patruo. B. M. P.

Memoriae perenni Edwardi Fenton, Reginae Elizabethae, olim pro corpore Armigeri, Iano O-Neal, ac post eum, Comite Desmoniae, in Hibernia Turbantibus, Fortissimi Taxiarchi, qui post lustratum improbo ausu, septentrionalis Plagae Apochryphum Mare, & excussas variis Peregrinationibus inertis Naturae la [...]bras, Anno 1588. in celebri contrae Hispanos Naumachia, meruit Navis Praetoriae Navarchus.

Obijt Anno Domini 1603.

Cognatos Cineres, &

Amicam Manibus umbram,

O Fentone, tuis,

excipias Tumulo.

Vsuram Tumuli victure

Marmore Pensat,

Et reddit gratus,

pro Tumulo Titulum.

At the upper end of that Chancell, on the North side, is thus written.
Sacrae perpetuae (que) Memoriae Gulielmi Haukyns, de Plimouth Armigeri.

Qui verae Religionis verus cultor, Pauperibus praecipuè Navicularijs Munificus, Rerum Nauticarum studiossissimus, longinquas instituit saepè Navigationes; Arbiter in causis difficilimis Aequissimus, Fide, Probitate & Prudentia singulari. Duas duxit Vxores, è quarum una 4. ex altera 7. suscepit liberos.

Iohannes Haukyns Eques Auratus, Classis Regiae Quaestor, Frater Moestissimus posuit.

Obijt specerta Resurgendi 7. die mensis Octobris, An. Dom. 1589.

In the upper end of the Chancell.

There lyeth buried neere this place the body of Iane Edisbury, Widow, Mother of Kenrick Edisbury, Gentleman, Pay-master of the Kings Majesties Navy, under Sir William Russell, Knight, Treasurer. She died on the 16. day of March, 1618.

On the North side of this Quire, a worthy Memoriall of Sir Sackevile Crow, for Seeling and beautifying of that North Ile.

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In the Church at Roderith, are these ensuing Monuments.

In the South Ile, on the wall, is this written.

Post tenebras, spero Lucem.

NExt without this Wall,Roderith. are buried Brian, Richard, and Marke, Alize, and Elizabeth, the three Sons and two Daughters of Nicholas Reynolds, Citizen and Goldsmith of London, and of Elizabeth his wife. The forenamed Elizabeth, their younger Daughter, was married to Robert Wheatley, Salter, the 20. day of August, 1593. and died the 18. of September, in the same yeere.

These Blossomes yong and tender, loe,

Blowne downe by deadly wind,

May vrge the riper sort to know,

Like blast shall them out find.

For Flesh, as grasse, away doth wither,

No age can it eschew,

The young and old decay together,

When death shall them pursue.

No Parents, Friends, or Advocate,

Can him intreat to spare,

The Faire, the Fine, or Delicate,

For threats he doth not care.

Let that most certaine Statute made,

By God our heavenly King,

All men assure, and eke perswade,

Death shall them equall bring.

Post Mortem, Vitam Aeternam.

In the middle Ile of this Church is thus written.

Trinitas in vnitate.

Here lies buried the body of Richard Hills, Mariner, one of the eldest Brothers and Assistants of the Company of the Trinity, and his two wives; who while hee lived in this place, gave liberally to the poore, and spent bountifully in his house: and after many great troubles, being of the age of 80. yeeres and upward, departed this life without issue, upon the 16. of February, 1614.

This was made at the charge of Robert Bell.

Though Hills be dead,

Hills Will and Act survives,

His Free-Schoole, and

his Pension for the poore;

Thought on by him,

performed by his Heire,

For eight poore Sea-mens

children, and no more.

1627.

On the outside of the North Wall is a Monument, bearing the figure of a Ship at Sea; under it the portraiture of him for whom it was erected, with his Wife, six Sons, and foure Daughters; the living and the dead distinguished by Deaths-heads, which the buried seeme to beare in their hands, and under them this Inscription.

Here beneath lyeth interred, the body of Captaine Anthony Wood, who departed this life the 24. of August, 1625. being the 40. yeere of his age, and had issue by his wife Martha Wood, sixe Sonnes and foure Daughters.

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In Saint Margarets Church at Westminster, are these ensuing Monuments.

On a very ancient Monument in Brasse, at the upper end of the North Ile, is thus written.

Sacrum doloris.

SHall teares,

S. Margarets at Westminster.

the silent

Messengers of death,

Dissolve their streames

into a Sea of moane?

No, no, in vaine

you sacrifice reliefe,

Over his Tombe, with eyes,

with voyce, with groane,

For Cole assign'd by God,

the poore to pity,

The widowes comfort,

and eke the Orphans Sire,

Who tun'd each string of hate

to loves sweet ditty,

Is dead: aye me, will death

the best desire?

Remorselesse death,

thy wrath in him is ended,

Maugre thy darts,

his praises cannot dye,

Thou hast his body,

but his soule ascended

Into the place

of joyes eternity,

And though his corps inter'd

lye dead in grave,

Yet still his vertues

life and being have.

An. Dom. 1597.

In Parliament, a Burgesse,

Cole was placed,

In Westminster

the like for many yeeres,

But now with Saints above

his soule is graced,

And lives a Burgesse

with Heavens royall Peeres.

Oblessed change, from earth,

where Death is King,

To be united there

where Angels sing.

Ejusdem in eundem.

Terra tegit Corpus, mens scandit

ad Aethera Coeli,

Fama virens floret,

Caetera mors rapuit.

Thus in English.

The Grave my body,

Heaven my soule doth keepe,

The World my fame,

the rest in death doth sleepe.

Margaretta Cole posuit. In another columne of the same Table.

This Monument unites

two constant Lovers,

He that is dead,

and her that lives in death:

His Body she, his Spouse,

in honour covers,

Wishing her dayes

were shortned with his death.

But she must live,

yet living shall be mated,

With him in death,

while death her life hath dated.

Full twenty yeeres and odde

their league was firme,

Witnesse the world,

their children, and their love,

Nothing but death, by death

should give the tearme

Of farewell to their faith,

by false remove.

Of breach of concord

no tongue can accuse them,

Vnlesse base envy

by her Saints abuse them.

O envy not the dead,

but die to sinne,

Expect the harvest

of this dead mans blisse,

Desire the Crowne

which envy cannot winne,

Amend in you, not others,

what's amisse.

Sad death shall be

your Herauld to procure

Rest to your soules

with Christ for to endure.

Marget in woe, distill

those teares to comfort,

And in thy childrens love

addresse thy anguish:

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Three live with thee,

then love their living consort,

No longer in thy Husbands

sorrow languish.

But imitate thy Cole

in Vertues lawes,

That thou maist live where

Vertue pleads his cause.

This Monument is in the North Ile, and hath this Inscription.

Here lyeth the Lady Dorothy Stafford, Wife and Widdow to Sir William Stafford, Knight, Daughter to Henry Lord Stafford, the onely Sonne of Edward, the last Duke of Buckingham: her Mother was Vrsula, Daughter to the Countesse of Salisbury, the onely Daughter to George Duke of Clarence, Brother to King Edward the fourth. Shee continued a true Widdow, from the age of 27. till her death. She served Queene Elizabeth 40. yeeres, lying in the Bedchamber, esteemed of her, loved of all, doing good all she could to every body, never hurted any; a continuall remembrancer of the suites of the poore. As shee lived a religious life, in great reputation of honour and vertue in the world, so she ended in continuall fervent meditation and hearty prayer to God. At which instant (as all her life) so after her death shee gave liberally to the poore, and died aged 78. the 22. of September 1604. In whose remembrance, Sir Edward Stafford her Sonne hath caused this memoriall of her to be, in the same forme and place as she her selfe long since required him.

On a Monument on the North side of the Chancell is this Inscription.

To the memory of Rob. Peeter, Esquire, Auditor of the Receipt, her first Husband, who gave to the use of the poore of this Parish one hundred pound: and of Edward English, her second Husband, a Gentleman, kinde, courteous, and of great Hospitality, who gave twelve pounds in Annuity for ever to the same use.

Margaret their loving wife, Daughter of Sir Iohn Tyrill of Gipping, Knight, who likewike hath bequeathed one hundred pounds for the purchasing of one yeerely Annuity of twenty nobles for ever to the foresaid poore, Lamenting their death, and for testification of her dutifull love hath erected this Monument.

Another Monument in the same Ile, with this Inscription.

Here lyeth the body of Thomas Arneway, buried the 8. of September, Anno Dom. 1603. And Margaret Arneway his Wife, who was buried the 9. of August, Anno Dom. 1596.

Neere unto the other, in a faire Plate, is this following Epitaph.

A memoriall on the death of Iohn Varnam Gardiner, who deceased the xj. of December, 1586. Aetatis suae 46.

O mortall man that lives on earth,

consider well thy end,

Remember that thou must depart,

when God for thee doth send.

This life is but a pilgrimage,

so soone it doth decay,

And all the riches of this world

shall fade and passe away:

As by example daily shew'd,

before our eyes we see,

That rich & poore to earth are brought

for their iniquity.

Let us that live on earth behind,

to God for mercy call,

With wofull heart & wringing hands,

and he will blesse us all.

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And now to speake of this good man,

Iohn Varnam cal'd by name,

Who in his life he lived well,

by labour, travaile, and paine,

In helping of the fatherlesse,

and widowes very poore,

And setting ever them on worke

which went from doore to doore.

A Gardiner by Art he was,

great skill he had therein,

And prosper'd well in all his life,

with every living thing

That he at all times tooke in hand:

To God be given all praise,

That did increase this honest man

with riches many wayes.

The poore they had great work of him,

by weeding of his ground,

And he to them was well content,

to leave assurance [...]ound,

Of land and living to releeve

the fatherlesse in need,

So he confirmed this his minde,

by will it was decree'd.

Agnes Varnam left behind,

his loving wife most sure,

By her he had foure sonnes, likewise

foure daughters, Virgins pure:

Who all being dead, and none alive,

but Elizabeth by name,

And in remembrance of his life,

they have set up this same.

He willingly did yeeld himselfe,

in God was all his trust,

And in the last houre of his death,

he shew'd his faith most just,

To leave this world most cheerefully,

desirous to depart,

Asking forgivenesse of the world,

and forgiving with his heart

To those which he at any time

in deed or word offended:

Most joyfully his soule was then

vnto the Lord commended.

And thus he left his life,

in briefe to tell you plaine,

Hoping in Heaven to be receiv'd,

for ever to remaine.

In the same Ile, in the body of the Church, is this Inscription.

Cornelius Vandun lieth here, borne at Breda in R [...]abant, Souldier with King Henry at Turney, Yeoman of the Guard, and Vsher to King Henry, King Edward, Queene Mary, and Queene Elizabeth: of honest and vertuous life, a carefull man for poore folke, who in the end of this towne did build for poore widowes twenty houses of his owne cost.

Round about his figure wrought as in his Guards Coa [...], these words.

Obijt Anno Dom. 1577. buried the 4. of September. Aetatis suae 94.

At the upper end of the South Ile in the Chancell, as followeth.
Frances Haughton, in token of her love to her Husband, caused this Monument to be erected.

Here resteth in assured hope to rise in Christ, the body of Hugh Haughton, the fourth sonne of Thomas Haughton of Haughton, in the County of Chester, Gentleman, who married Frances, Daughter of William Coothe of Sherbourne, in the County of Dorset, Gentleman, and by her had issue two Daughters, Elizabeth and Frances: He departed this life the 17. day of October, 1616. aged 50. yeeres, and Elizabeth departed this life the 28. of August, 1615. aged seven yeeres, and lieth here also interred.

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On an ancient brasse Monument close by the other, is thus written.

Give thankes to God for Edward Courtney Esquire, Sonne and Heire to Sir Peter Courtney of Devonshire, Knight, who living a life agreeable to his estate and stocke, ended the same like a fithfull Christian, the 27. day of November 1566. and is buried before this stone.

On another neere to that is thus written.

Here lyeth the body of Alexander Tomkins, the fifth sonne to Richard Tomkins of Momington upon Wye, in the County of Hereford, Esquire, who was buried in August, in the yeere of our Lord God 1615.

On another neere to that is thus written.

Vnderneath lieth the body of Iames Tomkins, second sonne to Iames Tomkins, of Momington upon Wye, in the County of Hereford, Esquire, buried in December, in the yeere of our Lord God 1613.

Close to this a very faire Monument in the South wall of the Chancell, thus written on.

Here under is intombed Blanch Parry, Daughter to Henry Parry of NewCourt, within the County of Hereford, Esquire, chiefe Gentlewoman of Queene Elizabeths most honourable privy Chamber, and Keeper of her Majesties Jewels, whom she faithfully served from her Highnesse birth; beneficiall to her Kinsfolke and Countrimen, charitable to the poore, insomuch that shee gave to the poore of Bacton and Newton in Herefordshire, sevenscore bushels of Wheat and Rye yeerely for ever, with divers summes of money to Westminster and other places for good uses. She died a Maid in the 82. yeere of her age, the 12. of February 1589.

Another faire Monument in the fame Ile, in the Chancell, thus written on.

Here under resteth in expectation of a glorious Resurrection, the body of Thomas Bond Gentleman, sometimes a Burgesse of this City of Westminster; and also the bodies of Ellin his wife, of Thomas Bond their Sonne, and of Ellen their Daughter.

To the memory of whose Christian vertues, their dutifull Sonne, and loving Brother Iohn Bond, hath erected this Monument.

A Father, Mother, Sonne,

and Daughter deere,

Cover'd with earth,

their corps be buried here;

Two aged died, and two

in prime of strength;

To teach that death will

conquer all at length:

A vertuous life they liv'd,

made Christian ends,

And now a Crowne of glory

them attends.

At the foure corners of this Monument are these inscriptions.

Thomas Bond the Father died the 7. of Aprill 1616.

Ellin Bond the Mother died the 31. of May 1628.

Thomas Bond the Sonne died the 26. of May 1627.

Ellin Butts the Daughter died the 12. of August 1625.

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On a faire Stone in the middle of the Chancell is this written.

Here resteth in God the body of Anna Ebbis, borne in Denmarke, who served our gracious Queene Anna, in her Bed-chamber, was married to Master Thomas Seringe, her Majesties Chaplaine, the 28. of Aprill, in the yeere of our Lord God, 1598. and died at Westminster the 26. of February 1608. unto whom God Almighty give a joyfull Resurrection.

Moerentis musa Mariti.

Astra tuam foveant Animam,

bona fama sepultae

Restet in his terris,

capiat tandem omnia Coelum.

Iohannes Seringius,

Thuringius.

A faire Monument at the lower end of the North Ile in the wall, thus written on.

Here lieth interred the body of Edward Reynolds, Esquire, late Clearke of his Majesties privy Seale, and Register of the Court of Requests, who departed this life the 18. day of December Anno Dom. 1623. by him also lieth the body of his Brother, Master Owen Reynolds, who deceased the 16. of Aprill 1610. To whose memories Edward and Launcelet Reynolds, Gentlemen, have here placed these ensuing Verses, made by the said Edward Reynolds in his life time.

Gloria, Vita, Decor, Thesaurus, Fanta, Voluptas Vana, brevis, fragilis, fluxus, temeraria, mollis, Fumus, Bulla, Iris, Fax Viatus, Dulce venenū, Vanescit, perit, arescit, [...]quefit, fugit, angit.

Orbe nihil toto stabile est,

citò corruet orbis,

Et vasti in nihilum

vanescet fabrica Mundi.

Sola fides firmam parit,

aesern amque Coronam,

So [...] fides Christi meritis,

sunt [...]etera Nugae.

Haec vixi, hac morior side, mihi Christus in vitae, & morte lucrum.

In the middle of the same Ile, in the wall, is a faire Monument, thus written on.

M. S.

Hîc sepultus jacet Iohannes Corbettus de Sprowslon, in Com. Norf. Baroncttus, qui vxorem duxit piissimam Annam, filiam Arthuri Capel de Ha [...]ham, in Com. Hareford Militis, ex qua suscepit Filios ties, totiden que Filiae, Vitam vixit integerrimam, Rei assertor publicae, Christianae columen, Mecaenas literariae, hinc migrans, Anno Dom. Millesimo, sexcentesimo vigesimo septimo (Aetatis trigesimo septimo) die decimo nono Ianuarij. Abunde illud supplevit, in quo Marmor deficit, famam & memoriam indeptus terris diutius, at Caele in aeternum victuram.

Iohannes Corbettus miles.

Sanctusue is homo & liber?

Et sanctus isle homo liber.

Sir Iohn Corbett Baronet.

Another in the same wall, thus inscribed.

D. M. M. S.

Ioannes Makeulio

de Merton D N.

Scoto-Britannus,

Magni Hetruriae ducis

Archiater quondam,

Nec non

In sapientia illustris, Pisis

Cathedrae Doctor,

Dein

Magnae Britanniae Regis

Medicus, Medicorum sui seculi

Aesculapius, Therapeutices;

promus-condus, conditumque prodigium,

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Mortales, huic Cippo, in spem

Resurrectionis, vitaeque melioris

Reliquit exuvias

Reparatae salutis 1622.

Aetatis suae 46. Mense.

Nascentes morimur, finisque

ab origine pendet.

On the same Wall, in a Table, is this Epitaph.

In memory of the late deceased Virgin, Mistris Elizabeth Hereicke.

Sweet Virgin,

that I doe not set

Thy Grave-verse up

in mournfinll Jet

Or dapl'd Marble,

let thy shade

Not wrathful seeme,

or fright the maid,

Who hither at her

weeping howres,

Shall come to strew

thy earth with flowres:

No, know blest soule,

when there's not one

Remainder left

of brasse or stone,

Thy living Epitaph

shall be

Though lost in them

yet found in me:

Deare, in thy bed

of Roses then,

Till this world shall

dissolve (as men)

Sleepe, while we hide thee

from the light,

Drawing thy Curtains round—

Good night.

On a Table hanging at the upper end of the South Ile is this written.

In memory of the right vertuous and beautifull Gentlewoman, Mistris Margaret Radcliffe, Daughter to Sir Iohn Radcliffe Knight, one of the Maids of Honour to Queene Elizabeth, who deceased at Richmond the 10. of November, and was here buried with solemnity the 22. of the same, Anno Dom. 1599. An. Reg. Eliz. 41.

Tell thou my wailing verse,

and mourning show,

What beauteous frame

lies here interr'd below.

Here underneath entomb'd

a Dazie lies,

The pride of nature,

with perfection fil'd;

O woe, whom Zephyres blasts

can ne'r make rise,

Being by Deaths blacke storms

untimely kild.

Ratcliffe's thy name,

the glory of the Court,

Vertue and Beauty strove

t'adorne thee most,

Though here inclos'd,

yet fame shall still report

Thy Vertues praise,

thy graces time shall boast,

Thou di'dst a Virgin pure,

and spotlesse liver,

Griefe caus'd thy death,

death makes thee live for ever.

If any aske, who sigh'd

this sad complaint,

Say one that liv'd, that lov'd,

that ioyed, now faint.

Another faire Monument at the vpper end of the Chancell, thus inscribed.

Epitaphium Religiosissimi, spectatissimique viri, Francisci Egioke, de Egioke in Comitatu Vigorniae Equitis Aurati, vitae Famaeque integerrimae, Musarum, Militum, Pauperumque Fautoris Meritissimi, Qui à Londino, Vigorniam versia proficiscens, in Vxbrigia vita defunctus est 21. die Novemb. 1622. Hic vero repositus habet Cineres.

[Page] Dilectissima, Moessissimaque vxor ejus Elinor, Filia Fra. Ding [...]ey Armigeri, in eodem Vigor [...]iae Co [...]itatus, Lugubre Hoc, Pij Amoris & obsequii, Monumentum posuit.

Ad Tumulum niflere libet,

discedito Lector,

Qui legis haec, Fletu,

prodigus esto pio.

Cum Musis omnes flerent,

in [...]pumque Catervis,

Illis Patronus,

His Benefactor erat.

Arma virumque canit,

Mors imperiosa, triumphans,

Quod miles strenuus

sic spoliatus obit.

Vana quid insultas?

te jam tua praedafefellit;

Artes, arma, preces,

hunc periisse vetant.

Hunc (Mors) insequeris frustra,

cui militat aether,

Nec tibi, sed superis,

praeda beata jacet.

Quid quoditer carpens Cecidit?

Moriturque viator?

Quae supra terram est noverat;

hîc Patriam.

Quo tendens, proprios Lares,

Terrasque relinquit,

Et Coelum media

possidet ille via.

This Monument is neere unto the other, having this Inscription.

Here lyeth entombed Mary Lady Dudley, Daughter of William Lord Howard of Effingham, in his time Lord high Admirall of ENGLAND, Lord Chamberlaine, and Lord Privy Seale. Shee was Grand-childe to Thomas Duke of Norfolke, the second of that Sir-name, and Sister to Charles Howard Earle of Nottingham, Lord High Admirall of England, by whose prosperous direction, through the goodnesse of God, in defending his Handmaid, Queen Elizabeth, the whole Fleet of Spaine was defeated and discomfited.

She was first married to Edward Sutton, Lord Dudley, and after to Richard Mountpesson Esquire, who in the Memory of her Vertues, and l [...]st Testimony of his love, erected this Monument. Shee slept in Christ Iesus, in the yeere of our Lord 1600. the 21. of August, attending the joyfull day of her Resurrection.

A faire Monument at the upper end of the North Ile, with this inscription.

Here in peace resteth the body of Thomas Seymour, second sonne to the Right Honourable, Edward Earle of Hartford, and Isabel his VVife, eldest Daughter to Edward Meley of Katesby, in the County of Northampton, Esquire, which said Thomas departed this life the 3. day of August, 1600. And the said Isabel the 20. day of August 1619. in the true faith of Iesus Christ, and in the blessed hope of a joyfull Resurrection.

On a faire Marble in the Chancell is thus written.

Depositum

Mariae Filiae unicae Thomae Egerton Militis Ba [...]onis de [...]llesinere Ca [...]cella [...]ij A [...]glis. Francisci Leigh Militis fidelissimae, optime meritae, ac unice [...]llectae conjugis, quae tertio die Aprilis, An. Dom. M. DCXII. Aetatis suae 36. post partum Filliorum 4. Filiarum 5. inpuerperio Filiae 6. Spiritum Deo, Corpus sepulchro liquit, in Christo obdormiens, Cui fide, spe & Charitate, Constantissimè vixit. Pudicitiae, Pietatis, & Venustatis Rarissimum decus.

Non obijt sed abijt.

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In Westminster Abbey are these ensuing Monuments.

In Obitum Serenissimae

Principis & omnium virtutum genere Cumulatissimae Annae Dei gratia Magnae Britaniae, Franciae & Hiberniae Reginae, Dominaeque suae longè gratiosissimae, carmen funebre.

Ad Potentissimum Serenissimae Annae Maritum Iacobum, Dei gratia, Magnae Britanniae Regem fidei defensorem &c.

Annus & Anna in se redit,

Westminster Abbey.

hic novus, illa perennis:

Cujus vir pa [...]er & frater Rex, Regia proles,

In Coelo Aeternos Regina est Anna per Annos.

Floreat illa suis in prole aeterna Britannis,

Inque suo vigeat feliciter Anna Iacobo.

Inclite Rex Britonum, veniam da vera loquenti.

Iacobus caret Anna, & non caret Anna Iacobo:

Maxime Rex Regum, Regem solare Iacobum.

Ad Invictissimum Christianum Quartum Dei Gratia Daniae, Norwegiae, Gothorum, Vandolorumque Regem, &c.

Pondere pressa, suo sub pondere, Palma Resurgit:

Marmore pressa soror tua, Fertur ad Aethera victrix.

Sanguinolenta olim, inter Danos atque Britannos,

Pugna, nihil potuit, nostro conjuncta Iacobo,

Absque cruore, omnes vicit Dana Anna Britannos,

Aeterneque suis conjunxit Foedere Danis.

Orbis, Danorum Pacis, Britonumque sit idem

Terminus, & Reges Rex protegat orbis utrosque.

Ad Foelicissimam Iacobi & Annae prolem Carolum Walliae Principem, Elizabetham, Frederici Electoris Comitis Palatini Vxorem, Regalemque eorum Progeniem quae nunc est, vel Dei gratia erit in Posterum.

Indiae Phoenix, volucris per annos

Vna sexcentos deciesque senos,

Dicitur foelix superesse, dirae

Nescia Mortis.

Quod tibi Parcae dederant sorores

Fila correptae breviora vitae,

Anna, dicaris Mulier, sed esto

Caetera Phoenix.

Igne solari, moriens Crematur

Mortuo-Vivos Cineres in albos,

Sic, ut ex illis rediviva surgat

Altera Phoenix.

Anna, eui nunquā similem videbit

Phoebus, expiras? moriare sic, ut

In tua semper vigennt Beati

Prole Britanni.

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Hinc, illinc, ubicunque, cadem est, & ubique Beata.

Obijt in Domino Anno Domini 1618. quarto Nonarum Martij, Annos nata 44. Menses 4. & dies 18.

Ad sereuissimae Reginae familiam Moerore obrutam.

Vos canite, O socij, funebria Carmina mecum;

Nos relevet Dominus, perdidimus Dominam.

Responsio Familiae.

Non sunt canendo, talibus pressi malis,

Sed nec loquendo, quos habet talis dolor:

Nostris adhaerent fiucibus linguae graves.

Loquantur alij, dum luctus nostri stupent.

Edidit Serenissimae Reginae Moestissimus Capellanus, Guliclmus Swadonus, Collegij Wickamici Alumnus, Sacrae Theologiae Doctor, & Archidiaconus Wigorniae.

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Vpon a very rich and stately Monument in the same Church is thus written.

Depositum Illustrissimi & Excellentissimi Principis Ludovici Stuarti Esmei Leviniae Ducis Filij Ioannis Propatrui Seren: Regis, acobi Nepotis, Richmondiae & Leviniae Dacis, Novi Castelli ad Tinam & Darnliae Comitis, &c. Magni Scotiae Camerarij & Thalassiarchae Hereditariè. Sacri Palatij Iacobi Regis Seneschalli, Cubiculariorumque principalium primi, Regi à Sanctitribus Consilijs. San-Georgiani ordinis Eq. Scoticorumque per Gallias Cataphractorum praefecti.

Viri excelsi ad omnia Magna & bona nati, ad meliora defuncti, vixit Annos 49. Menses 4. Dies 17.

2 Sam. 3. 38. Chronog:

AN IGNORATIS, QVIA PRINCEPS ET VIR MAGNVS OBIIT HODIE.

16. Febr. primo generalium Regni Comitiorum designato.

On the other side of the same Monument is thus written.

Illustrissima & Excellentissima Princeps, Francisca Richmondiae & Leviniae Ducissa, Domini Thomae Howardi Dindoniae Filia, Thomae Howardi Norfolciae Ducis, ex Elizabethâ Edovardi Ducis Buckinghamiae Filiâ Neptis, Lodovici Stuarti Richmondiae & Leviniae Ducis Vxor,

Chariss [...]vi conjugij nunquam non memor, conjugi optimè merito sibique posuit hoc Monumentum.

Obijt Die mensis An. Dom.

On a Table in the same Quire, is this following Inscription.

P. M. S.

Vanae multitudinis Improperium hic jacet cuius tamen

Hispania Prudentiam.

Gallia Fortitudinem.

Belgia Industriam.

Toto Europa Mirata est Magnanimitatem.

Quem

Daniae & Reges Integerrimum.

Sweciae

Germaniae

Transilvaniae & Princip. Ingenuum.

Nassauviae

Veneta Respublica Philobasilia.

Subaudiae &

Lotharingiae Duces Politicum.

Palatinus Comes Fidelem.

Imperator Pacificum.

Turca Christianum.

Papa Protestantem.

Experti sunt.

Quem

Anglia Archithalassum

Cantabrigia Cancellarium

Buckinghamia Ducem

habuit.

Verum siste viator, & quid ipsa Invidia sugillare nequit audi.

Hic est Ille

Calamitosae virtutis

Buckinghamius.

Maritus redamatus, Pater amans,

Filius obsequens.

Frater amicissimus, Affinis Beneficus,

Amicus perpetuus,

Dominus Beniguus &

Optimus omnium servus.

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Quem

Reges adamarunt, optimates honorarunt,

Ecclesia deflevit,

Vulgus oderunt.

Quem

Iacobus & Carolus

Regum perspicacissimi, intimum habuerunt.

A quibus

Honoribus auctus, & Negotijs onustus,

Fato succubuit

Antequam par animo periculum Invenit.

Quid jam Peregrine?

Aenigma mundi moritur;

Omnia fuit, nec quidquam habuit,

Patriae Parens & Hostis audiit.

Deliciae idem & querela Parlamenti.

Qui dum Papistis Bellum infert, insimulatur Papista,

Dum Protestantium partibus consulit,

occiditur à Protestante.

Tesseram specta Rerum Humanarum,

At non est quod serio triumphet malitia,

Interimere potuit, laedere non potuit.

Scilicet has Preces fundens expiravit.

Tuo ego sanguine Potiar (mi Iesu) dum

mali pascuntur meo.

This Monument is in a Chappell on the North side of the high Altar.

Georgio Holles

Eq. Anglo-Brit. Clariss. Penatib. oriundo, rerum Militar. sic à pueritia dedito ut Castror. Alumnus nasci videretur, Qui postquam cuncta quae decerent Nobilem, stipendia in Belg [...]a Fecerat ordin. Ductor suae gentis, supremus vulgo Sergiant Major Generalis,

Declaratus est.

Augustaeq. Trinobantum Pacifice excessurus hic propter Franc. Verum Imper. suum & Consanguin. Cui tamen Periculis quam sanguine Conjunctior, Ambitu Honestiss. Componi voluit.

Ioannes FN. Comes de Clare FR. Merentissimo Moerentissimus P. vixit A. L. M. iij. D. iiij. ob xiiii. Kal. Iun. Anno Dom. M. DC. XXVI.

This Monument is in a Chappell on the South side of the high Altar.

What so thou hast

of Nature or of Arts,

Youth, Beauty, Strength,

or what excelling parts

Of Mind and Body,

Letters, Armes, and worth,

His eighteene yeeres, beyond

his yeeres, brought forth,

Then stand and reade

thy selfe within this glasse,

How soone these perish,

and thy selfe may passe.

Mans life is measur'd

by the worke, not dayes,

No aged sloth, but

active youth hath praise.

Francisco Holles juveni fortissimo qui ab exercitu è Belgia aeger regress [...] obiit Prid. Id. [...] Anno Dominicae Aetatis M. DC. XXII. suae XVIII. Iohannes Comes de Clare, Filio natis 3. & merentissimo moerentissimus pater posuit.

This Monument is in another Chappell on the South side the high Altar.

Bonae Memoriae

Georgio Villerio Equiti Aurato Marito B. M. Iuxta se P. Clarissima conjux Maria Cometissa Buckingamiae.

S. P. I. T.

D. O. M. OSSA

Mariae de Bello Monte Cometissae [...] kingamiae E quinque Potentissimor [...] totius Europiae Regnorum regibus, [...] que per totidem Immediatos

Descensus oriunde

Vix Ann. Lxij. M. xj. D. xix. Ho [...] Mon. V. I. C.

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On a Pillar on the North side of the high Altar is this Inscription.

Iuliana Crem

Virgo Pientissima Charissima & vnica filia Ranulphi de Creme, Equitis Aurati, Regii Tribunalis capitalis Iusticiarij, ex Iuliana de Cleppesby conjuge, vetustae familiae de Cleppesby in agro Norfolciensi Cohaerede suscepta,

Redemptoris adventum hic expectat, vernante Aetate, in patriam abijt xxij. April. M. DC. XXI.

In the Abbey, in the North Ile, about the middle of the Ile, is thus written.

Mors mihi Solus Christus

Lucrum mihi sola salus.

Spe Resurgendi▪

Hic jacet Iana Stotevill, Filia Thomae Stotevill de Brinckley, in Comitatu Cantabrig. Armigeri, uxor primo Edvardi Ellis de Chesterton, in Comitatu Cantabrig. Armigeri, Cui peperit 6. Filios, & 3. Filias, vxor deinde Othewelli Hill Doctoris in Iare Civil, & Cancellarij Dioces. Lincoln. Cujus Relicta obijt 27. die Aprilis Anno Dom. 1631. Aetatis suae 78.

Vivit post funera virtus.

In another Chappell on the South side the high Altar, is this Inscription.

Hic jacet Anna Garrard Filia (& Cohaeres cum Fransisca) Georgio Garrard, & Margaretae Dacris, Parentibus, Nobilium, & antiquorum stemmatum, Vxor Dudleio Baroni Carleton de Imbercourt. Cui cum Filium vnicum pepererit in infantia expirantem, eique legationibus ad Remp. Venetam, Subaudiam, & unitas Belgiae Provincias per Sedecem annorum spatium indivisa comes adhaeserit, dum iter illuc demo meditatur, rapta est morbo Apoplectico è molestis hujus Aevi laboribus in requiem aeternam 18. Aprilis, Anno Dom. 1627. Aetatis suae 42. à conjugio 20.

Memoriam Posteritati faciens probae, & Religiosae Foeminae, Vxoris conjunctissimae, oculatae Matrisfam: cui hoc Monumentum sacravit Gemibundus conjux, Testimonium Amoris integri, ob eamque amissam intimi cruciatus, dum visum fuerit Deo Op. Ma. & illum etiam deducere in hoc idem Dormitorium, cui ipse vivens se mortuum designavit.

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A RETVRNE TO LONDON:

In which most of the Parish Churches have of late yeeres beene Rebuilded, Repaired, or at least Beautified.

A Catalogue whereof here followeth, wherein not only the yeere in which, but the meanes likewise by which, each Worke was perfected are set downe, as also all the Monuments of Queene Elizabeth, as they are in every Church.

S. Albanes Woodstreet.

I Am sorry, that, but now beginning to speake of Building, repairing, and Beautifying of all the Parish Churches in this famous City of London, I must in the very Front of the Alphabet (for that is the rule I goe by) speake of the pulling downe, Demolishment, and Ruines of a Church, and one of the most ancient among them; Saint Albanes in Woodstreet.

This Church, being wonderfully decayed and perished, was by these Gentlemen, Sir Henry Spiller, Enigo Iones, Esquire, Captaine Leake, and Captaine Williams surveyed, to see what repaire might helpe it. But by these Gentlemen, and Workemen appointed with them, it was found to be too farre gone for Repaire; neither would any Workeman put himselfe into hazard upon it: affirming it to be in every part of it, so spent, decayed, and enfeebled, that they must suddenly plucke it downe, or it would suddenly prevent that labour, and fall to the ground of it selfe: which the Fallings every day encreasing (and more and more growing and appearing) did most evidently seeme to threaten.

For this cause, many of the Parishoners refused to goe to it, many that went, went unwillingly, but all with much feare, where they sate with more; their danger all the time much troubling and disturbing their Devotion.

This great necessity inforcing, it was the last yeere 1632. betwixt Easter and Midsummer pul'd downe, and yet Iuly, 1633. (a sad object) so lies in its pitifull ruines.

Many of the ablest sort of this Parish, to shew they would doe what they could towards the recovery of [Page] this great losse, have joyned certaine monies (their free and voluntary gifts) together, which they have againe disbursed in Stone, and some other Materials.

But this many, being but few, to the number of those that in this kind, can doe little or nothing, and their good wills falling extremely short of that great summe that must beginne and finish so great a Worke as this, they were constrained to petition his Highnesse for his Letters Patents, for the helpe of a collection for it.

Their Petition graciously received, his Majesty was pleased (as a cause of all other his Piety especially favours) to send his Letter to the Lord Bishop of London, for the forwarding and effecting their desires.

Yet notwithstanding this faire degree to their wish, they are for a time put off, by reason (as I am informed) of the great Collection for the repaire of the famous Cathedrall Church of Saint Paul, but they hope it will not be long.

In which hope they have many Partners, as also in their Prayers, for all the good meanes that may be, to the speedy rebuilding of it; till which time, the Church appointed unto them for the Sabbath. Exercises, Marriage, Burying, Churching, and the Sacraments, is the Parish Church of Saint Alphage neere Cripplegate. And thus much of this Church, Saint Albanes.

Alhallowes Barking.

THis Church was repaired and beautified in the yeere of our Lord God, 1613. and within some few yeeres before and after (in their severall times) other wants were supplied and furnished, viz.

A very faire new Pulpit set up, many faire Pewes, a faire Communion table, with other gracefull Ornaments to it. This Table was the gift of one Master Iohn Burnell, all the rest the charge of the Parish: Also in the South Ile, over the entry into the Church, in the yeere of our Lord 1627. there was a very handsome Gallery erected, at the cost and charge of the Parish.

Thomas Covell

Iohn Shaw

Churchwardens.

In the South wall is a Monument with this Inscription.

In the Ile against this place, lyeth the body of Francis Covell, Citizen and Skinner of London, he lived in this Parish 52. yeeres, was married to his wife Margery 42. yeeres, had Issue by her Thomas his onely sonne. He had borne Office in his Company, and this Ward, with good reputation, was in his life Religious, Peaceable, and Charitable, and at his death gave Clothing to the poore of this Parish yeerely for ever. Hee lived 69. yeeres, and rendred his soule in peace to God, September 7. 1625.

Alhallowes Bredstreet.

THis Church, in the many decayed places of it, was repaired, and in every part of it richly and very worthily beautified, at the proper cost and charges of the Parishioners, in the yeere of our Lord God 1625.

Samuel Tucker

William Hunt

Churchwardens.

On the South side of the Chancell, in a little part of this Church, called The Saltars Chappell, is a very faire Window, with the Portraiture or Figure of him that gave it, very curiously wrought upon it, with this Inscription:

Thomas Beamont Salter, the Founder of this Chapell, and a worthy Benefactor to the Company of the Salters. 1629. This Window being then erected.

In the midst of this little Chappell, in a faire Marble Tombe, this man with his two wives lies interred. The words round about this Tombe, with the Verses, you may reade in page 391.

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To the sacred Memory▪

Of that worthy and faithfull Minister of Christ, Master Richard Stocke, who after 32. yeeres spent in the Ministery, wherein by his learned Labours, joyn'd with Wisdome, and a most holy life, Gods glory was much advanced, his Church edified, Piety increased, and the true honour of a Pastors place maintained, deceased Aprill, 20. 1626. Some of his loving Parishoners have consecrated this Monument of their never-dying love, Ian. 28. 1628.

His situs exanimis Stocki

sub pulvere Truncus,

Quem quondam agnovit

Pastorem Ecclesia Fidum:

Istae suum nunc Sancta tenent

Habitacula Sanctum,

Quo Magn Vs Pan DV Cit oVes

oVi Vmque magIstros.

Thy livelesse Trunke

(O Reverend Stocke)

Like Aarons Rod

sprouts out againe,

And after two

full Winters past,

Yeelds Blossomes

and ripe fruit amaine.

For why, this worke of Piety,

Performed by some of thy Flocke,

To thy dead Corps and sacred Vrne,

Is but the fruit of this old Stocke.

A faire new Monument in the South Ile, on the wall, almost at the upper end.

This Monument was erected at the cost of this Parish, in memoriall of Master Iohn Dunster, Citizen and Cothworker of London, who lieth buried neere this place, and gave amongst other charitable gifts, 200. pounds towards the late building of this Church, and 200. pounds, which hath purchased 12. pounds a yeere for ever, towards the reparation of the same. He departed this life the 14. of October, 1625. being of the age of 58. yeeres.

Queene Elizabeths Monument.

I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith, and henceforth is laid up for me a Crowne of Righteousnesse, &c.

Alhallowes the great.

THis Church, with much cost bestowed on the Steeple, was in many parts of it Repaired, and thorowout richly and worthily beautified, at the proper cost & charge of the Parishioners, in the yeere of our Lord God 1627. and 1629.

Iames Ashby

Henry Clinket

and

Christopher Robotham

William Pagen

Churchwardens.

There was at this time a faire Gallery built at the West end of the Church, and in the North Ile a new doore made, almost at the upper end.

The last yeere 1632. all the Iles, to the Chancell, were raised a foot and a halfe, and the Pewes a foot above that; A worke much gracing the Church, but especially done for a ready and more easie hearing. The charge of these times rising to 600. pounds and upwards.

Queene Elizabeths Monument.

If Royall Vertues ever crown'd a Crowne,

If ever Mildnesse shin'd in Majesty,

If ever Honour honour'd true Renowne,

If ever Courage dwelt with Clemency,

If ever Princesse put all Princes downe,

For Temperance, prowesse, prudence, equity,

This, this was she, that in despight of death,

Lives still admir'd, ador'd, ELIZABETH.

Many Daughters have done vertuously, but thou excellest them all.

In the figure of a Booke over Her, these words.

They that trust in the Lord, shall bee as Mount Sion, which shall not be removed for ever. Psal. 125.

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On the one side.

Spaines rod, Romes ruine,

Netherlands reliefe,

Heavens Iem, Earths Ioy,

World wonder, Natures chiefe.

On the other side.

Britaines blessing, Englands splendor.

Religions Nurse, the Faiths Defendor.

Vnder her.

I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, &c.

Alhallowes Honylane.

THis Church was repaired and beautified at the proper cost and charge of the Parishioners, in the yeere of our Lord 1625.

Francis Waterhouse

Edward Powell

Churchwardens.

The charge of this repaire amounting unto 55. pounds and upwards.

Alhallowes the lesse.

THis Church was repaired and beautified within and without, at the cost and charge of the Parishioners, in the yeere of our Lord 1616.

In the yeere 1613. two faire Dormers were made on the South side of this Church to enlighten it, before being very darke: the one at the cost of Sir Thomas Glover, Knight, the other at the cost of Master Thomas Iones Gentleman.

In the yeere 1633. a faire large Gallery built on the North side of the Church, and within nine or ten yeeres past, two other Galleries, which both in their cost and ends, but especially the last, much commend their religious Founders.

Queene Elizabeths Monument.

I have fought a good fight, &c. 2. Tim. 7, 8.

Alhallowes Lumberstreet.

THis Church was repaired and beautified at the proper cost of the Parishioners, in the yeeres of our Lord God 1622. and 1623.

The charge of this repaire amounting to the summe of 171. pounds, and nine shillings.

William Skelton

Henry Collinson

Churchwardens.

Alhallowes Stayning.

THis Church was repaired in many parts of it, and very nearly and decently beautified, at the cost of the Parishioners, in the yeere of our Lord 1630.

Simon Parrat

Robert Stileman

Churchwardens.

In the South wall of this Church is a Monument with this Inscription on it.

Before this place lieth the body of Em Charleton, wife to Robert Charleton Citizen and Fishmonger of London, by whom shee had Issue three Sons and foure Daughters, and died in Childbed the 23. or Iune, 1623. having beene married ten yeeres, ten moneths, and thirteene dayes, and lived 31. yeeres, 4. moneths, and odde dayes. She was the youngest childe of Thomas Harby of Adston, in the County of Northampton Esquire, by his last Wife Katharine Throgmorton, Daughter of Clement Throgmorton of Hasdley in the County of Warwicke Esquire, and of Katherine Nevill, sister to the then Lord Aburgavenie.

Et genus, & nomen nôsti,

Nomenque Mariti,

Progeniem atque dies,

sic obitum & tumulum,

Te latet ipsa tamen,

licet haec externa tueris,

Nobilia interius,

Nobiliora latent.

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Nobilitas vera est

sanctis virtutibus orta,

Hanc teneris annis,

huic dedit omnisator.

Nam cum lacte simul

Materno Religionem

Imbibit, assidue

Matre docente pia.

Posteaque ut vires Crescebam

crevit in illa

Vera Dei veri cognitio,

atque fides.

Nec sine fruge fides,

fuit Alma, Pudica, Benigna,

Compatiens, humilis,

mitis, amica, Bona.

Sic veram verâ cum justitia

piecatem, &

Facta bonis verbis

junxerat illa bona.

Vt Mater, Natam,

Matris sic nata Nepotes

Imbuit imprimis

cognitione Dei.

Non specie tantum,

sed verè Religiosa,

Et virgo, & conjux,

& domina & Genitrix.

Principio finis similis:

sic vltima primae

Linea conformis:

mortua viva simul.

Alhallowes at the Wall.

THis Church was repaired and beautified at the charge of the Parishioners, in the yeere of our Lord 1613.

Iohn Streame

Robert Priest

Churchwardens.

It was againe repaired, richly and very worthily beautified at the cost of the Parishioners, in the yeere of our Lord 1627.

Robert Hanch

Harman Brockard

Churchwardens.

The charge of the last repaire, accounting to the summe of 200. and 20. pounds.

Queene Elizabeths Monument.

Reade but her Reigne,

this Princesse might have beene

For wisdome called

Nicaulis, Sheba's Queene,

Against Spaines Holifernes,

Iudeth shee.

Dauntlesse gain'd many

a glorious victory:

Not Deborah did her

in fame excell,

She was a Mother

in our Israel.

An Hester, who

her person did ingage,

To save her people

from thé publike strage;

Chaste Patronesse

of true Religion,

In Court a Saint,

in Field an Amazon,

Glorious in life,

deplored in her death,

Such was unparallel'd

ELIZABETH.

Borne Anno 1534.

Crowned Anno 1558. Ian. 15.

Reigned yeeres 44. mon. 4. dayes 17.

Died Anno 1602. March 24.

S. Alphage.

THis Church (the decayes in divers parts of it, calling upon the Parishioners for it) began to be repaired in the yeere of our Lord God 1624. the repaire continuing 25. and 26. in which time, the Masons worke amounted to 400. pounds. The farther repaire, in 27. and 28. in the last of which it was beautifully finished, arising to 100. pounds more; The sole cost and charge of the Parish.

William Syddon

Iohn Laurence

Churchwardens.

In the South Ile, upon a faire Marble stone is this Inscription.

Hic jacet Willielmus Phillip [...], Ar. [...] Rever. Patris Dom. Epi. London. suae Cur.

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Commisariatus London, & qui 80. Annorum pie transactis in Dom. placide obdormivit 4. die Mens. Septembris, An. Dom. 1625. Relinquens post se 6. ex 18. liberis.

On another faire stone in the same Ile.

In Christ alone I onely trust,

To rise in number of the just.

Here under lyeth buried the body of Katharine Edwards, sometime beloved wife of Iohn Edwards, of this Parish of Saint Alphage; she departed this transitory life on the sixth day of Ianuary, 1628. and in the 45. yeere of her age, having had issue by her said Husband five Sonnes and seven Daughters.

My body here in dust doth rest,

Sin caus'd that earth claimes it as due,

My soule's in Heaven for ever blest,

Yet both in one Christ will renew.

Andrew Hubbard.

THis Church was repaird and richly beautified at the cost and charge of the Parishioners, in the yeere of our Lord God 1630.

Enoch Lynd

William Clobery

Churchwardens.

The charge of it amounting to sixe hundred pounds and above.

Andrew Vndershaft.

THis Church was repaired and laudably trimmed and beautified, at the cost and charge of the Parishioners, in the yeere of our Lord God 1627.

William Bargins

Simon Farewell

Churchwardens.

Then (I say) trimmed and beautified, although for some few yeeres before and since, to this present yeere 1633. The care and cost of the Parishioners have beene still imployed in the supplying and furnishing of it with such things, as either for necessity or beauty, their love to Gods house, should finde wanting. Among other things these, viz.

They have new raised their Chancell, adding to that cost a Communion Table, with a very faire frame about it, they have made many new Pewes, a faire Alabaster Font, and a Clocke: a necessary thing, that in the memory of man this Parish hath not had, nor the eldest Parishioner ever heard of.

They have also in this Church (much commending the Founders & Continuers of it) at the lower end of the North Ile, a faire Wainscot Presse full of good Bookes, the workes of many learned and reverend Divines, offering (at seasonable and convenient times) the benefit of reading, to any that shall bee as ready to embrace it, as they and their Maintainers to impart it.

A faire Monument in the middle of the wall of the South Ile, with this Inscription.

Death hath added to the ornament of this place the blessed memoriall of Edward Warner Esquire, a worthy Citizen and Merchant of London, who departed this mortall life the 28. of October 1628. He was the second sonne of Francis Warner of Parham, in the County of Suffolke, Esquire, by Mary his second Wife, [...] Daughter & Co-heire of Sir Edmond Rowse of the said County, Knight, which Francis Warner was truly and lineally descended from the ancient and generous Family of the Warners, who possessed a place of their owne name, at Warners hall in great Waltham, in the County of Essex. Hee died without Issue, and made Francis Warner of Parham aforesaid, Esquire, his Nephew, and next Heire in blood, the Executor of his last Will, and principall Heire to his estate; who out of his duty and affection to the memory of his deare Vncle, hath dedicated this Monument.

[Page] Hee had to his first Wife, Mary, the Daughter of Master Ailmer, of Risden in Hartfordshire; and to his second, Margaret, Daughter of Master Iohn Cheyney.

On a faire Grave-stone lying in the same Ile, is thus written.

I. H. S. Mors Christi, mihi vita.

The memoriall of Mistresse Elizabeth Turnor, whose body resteth here in expectation of her Saviour. Shee lived the sorrowfull Widdow of three Husbands, Andrew White, Cutbert Burby, and Humphry Turnor, Gentleman, and the most deare Mother of seven children, being the Issue onely of her second: three of them buried her, Edward Burby, Cutbert, and Ioane, which inherit her sorrow to bewaile their losse.

Her dissolution hapned in her great Clymactericall, being on the tenth Calends of August, in the yeere after her Saviour, 1630.

Resurgam.

Andrew Wardrope.

THis Church was repaired, and worthily beautified at the cost and charge of the Parishioners, in the yeere of our Lord God, 1627.

A very faire Window on the South side of this Church, with this Inscription.

This Window was glased at the charge of Peter Leonarts the elder, of East-Sm [...]-field Brewer, Anno Domini 1627.

In the South Ile, at the lower end of the Church, is this Epitaph.

When God was pleas'd,

(the world unwilling yet)

Helias Iames, to Nature

paid his debt,

And here reposes:

As he liv'd, he died,

The saying strongly

in him verified,

Such life, such death:

then a knowne truth to tell,

He liv'd a godly life,

and died as well.

Anne Aldersgate.

THis Church was repaired richly, and very worthily beautified in the yeere of our Lord God 1624.

In the yeeres 1629. and 1630. the Steeple decayed and perished, with great care and much cost was repaired, a new Turret made for the Saints-Bell.

Also the walls of the two Church-yards (the greater and the lesse) were raised, two faire Arched doores made in the middle of them, with a very faire Arched Entrance to the Church on the South side of it; and the Alley, or passage from Saint Annes lane into Noble Street, raised, levelled, and (with free Stone) very neatly and handsomly paved.

Gabriel Butcher

Robert Dimpleton

Churchwardens.

An Epitaph in the Chancell, with this Inscription.

Here lyeth the body of Francis Spencer, eldest sonne of Richard Spencer, Esquire, who departed this life the 20. of Iune 1629.

Mortis memor sis, me Ridebat Horula Natum, Renatum, Mortuum.

Anne Black-Fryers.

THe ancient Church belonging to the Black-Fryers, London, was (before the dissolution of Religious Houses by Henry the 8.) one [Page] of the most spacious and faire Churches in London: but the Friers being put out, the Church (together with other faire buildings) was utterly demolished. Therefore the Inhabitants of the said Black-Fryers, London, fitted an upper Roome, of 50. foot in length, and 30. foot in breadth, for a publike place of Divine worship. The charges of purchasing and fitting the said Roome for a Church, appeareth not in any Record that we can finde.

In Anno 1597. when the Church was empty, and no body in it, a great part of the Roofe thereof fell downe, whereupon the then Inhabitants being about to repaire their said Church, obtained of Sir George Moore Knight, so much ground as enlarged their Church with an Ile on the West, 50. foot in length and 15. foot in breadth: for which ground they built at their owne cost a faire Ware-house under the said Ile for the use of Sir Ierome Bows, Knight, who then had the said ground in lease, and also gave him 133. li. The new building of their said Church and Ile (beside the foresaid 133. li. given to Sir Ierom Bows) cost 300. li. 18. shillings.

In Iune 1607. the Inhabitants of the said Black-Fryers paid 120. li. to Sir George Moore, for the purchase of their Preachers house, their Church-yard, their Church, and the Porch appertaining thereunto, together with the right of Patronage of, in, and to the said Church.

In Anno 1613. the Inhabitants of the said Black-Fryers, purchased on the South of their Church, so much housing as enlarged their Church aforesaid 36. foot in length and 54. foot in bredth, the purchase whereof, together with the Vault for burying, and other Roomes under that part of the Church, and the new building of all, and making new Pewes, and Pulpit, cost 1546. li. 6. shillings.

In Anno 1632. the Inhabitants of the said Black-Fryers, purchased the Roomes directly under the above mentioned upper Roome converted to a Church, which said under Roomes they purchased to repaire the Foundation & Walls whereon the Church stood, which Walls were very much decayed. The Purchase whereof, and repaire of Decayes, cost 500. li.

The summe of all bestowed upon Black-Fryers Church, since the reformation of Religion in England, amounteth to 2600. pounds 4. shillings.

A faire Monument at the South end of this Church, with this Inscription.

P. M.

Iohannis Bill Mercatoris Librarij, qui Nationibus ab exteris supellectilem litterariam in hoc Regnum per plusculos Annos Importavit.

Vt

Librorum Thesaurus,

Bibliothecarum Parens,

Academiarum Mercurius

Merito dici possit.

Typographi etiam Regij Iacobo & Carolo R. R. Serenissimis, per Annos XIII. fidele in hoc opere ministerium praestantis. De Republica Librariâ bene, desuis optime Merentis. Non sine luctu & Moerore Amicorum, Anno Aetatis suae LVI. publicae vero salutis M. DC. XXX. Defuncti. Qui interim duas Vxores pudicas duxerat, Annam Filiam Tho. Montfort Theologiae Doctoris, Quae sine liberis obijt, & Ianan Henrici Francklin Filiam, quae liberis quinque▪

Familiam auxit.

Hoc Monumentum

Fidei & Amoris ergo

Iana Vxor Moestissima P.

Quueene Elizabeths Monument.

Sacred unto Memory:

Religion to its primitive sincerity restored, Peace thorougly setled, Coine to the true value refined, Rebellion at home extinguished, France neere ruine by intestine mischiefes relieved, Netherland supported, Spaines Armado vanquished, Ireland with Spaniards expulsion, and Traitors correction quieted, both Vniversities Revenues, by a Law of Provision, exceedingly augmented, Finally, all England enriched, and 45. yeres most prudently governed, [Page] Elizabeth, a Queene, a Conqueresse, Triumpher, the most devoted to Piety, the most happy, after 70. yeeres of her life, quietly by death departed.

On the other side of the Monument.

For an eternall Memoriall▪

Vnto Elizabeth Queene of England, France, and Ireland, Daughter of King Henry the eighth, Grandchild to King Henry the seventh, great Grandchilde to King Edward the fourth, the Mother of this her Country, the Nurse of Religion and Learning: For perfect skill in very many Languages, for glorious Endowments, as well of minde as body, and for Regall Vertues beyond her Sex.

She

began

ended

her raigne

17 No. 1558.

24 Mar. 1602

Vnder her Monument.

I have fought a good fight, &c.

S. Antholines.

THis Church was repaired and beautified in the yeere of our Lord 1616. towards which the Gentlemen here under named, were free and very bountious Benefactors, Sir William Craven, Alderman, Master Henry Iay, Alderman, Master Adrian Moore, Master Thomas Boothby, Master Francis Dorrington, Master William Parker, Master Cleophas Smith, Citizen and Draper of London.

Richard Dight

Thomas Browne

Churchwardens.

To this was added a very rich and beautifull Gallery, every Pane or division of it (the number of them 52.) fil'd with the Armes of Kings, Queens, and Princes of this Kingdome, beginning with Edward the Confessor, and ending with the Badge or Simboll of Fredericke Count Palatine of the Rhine, Duke of Bavere and Prince Elector, &c.

Begunne in the yeere 1623.

Francis Bickely

William Stacy

Churchwardens.

And fully built and finished in the yeere 1624.

William Stacy

Edward Banbury

Churchwardens.

The charge of the foresaid Reparation, 1616. as I was informed by some Officers in the Church, amounting to the summe of nine hundred pounds and upwards.

S. Austin.

THis Church was in part Rebuilded, Leaded, and in every part of it richly and very worthily beautified, at the proper cost and charge of the Parishioners, in the yeeres of our Lord God, 1630. and 1631.

Ralph Tonstell

Daniel Hallingworth

Samuel Langham

Churchwardens.

The charge of this great and costly Repaire, amounting to the summe of 1200. pounds.

Bartholomew Exchange.

THis Church was repaired and beautified, at the proper cost and charge of the Parishioners, in the yeere of our Lord 1620.

William Drew

La [...]ncelot Iohnson

Churchwardens.

At the West doore is a very faire Screene, with this Inscription.

Ex dono Richardi Croshawe, Civis & Aurifabri Londinensis 1631.

Monument in the South side of the Chancell thus written on.

Here lieth Richard Croshawe, sometimes Master of the Company of Goldsmithes, [Page] and Deputy of this Ward. Hee was very liberall to the poore, and in the time of the great Plague 1625. neglecting of his owne safety, he abode constantly in this City to provide for their reliefe, he did many charitable acts in his time, and by his Will he left above 4000. li. to the maintaining of Lectures, reliefe of the poore, and other pious uses.

He dwelt in this Parish 31. yeeres, and being 70. yeeres old, hee died the the 2. of Iune, 1621.

In the same Church, and the same Ile, upon a faire stone, is this Inscription.

Heere lieth interred the body of William Drew, Citizen and Grocer of London, who departed this life the 29. day of August, 1631. being of the age of 56. yeeres, expecting a blessed and joyfull Resurrection at the comming of Christ.

Queene Elizabeths Monument.

Eliza Beata,

Spaines rod, Romes ruine,

Netherlands reliefe,

Earth's joy, Englands jem,

Worlds wonder, Natures chiefe.

I have fought a good fight, &c.

Regni 45. Aetatis 70. obijt 24. Martij, Anno salutis 1602.

Close by the word Eliza, is the figure of three Crownes, and these words by them.

Manet ultima Coele.

Bennet Fynck.

THis Church is now repayring, they began in March last 1633. and by Michaelmas at the farthest, doe make account (God willing) it will be finished: and so compleatly and absolutely, with all things befitting furnished, that wee may for that time say of this as of the rest. This Church was repaired and (at the cost and charge of the Parishioners) richly and very worthily beautified, in the yeere of our Lord God 1633.

The charge of this repaire and beautifying, by what they have done, and what they have to doe, very probably imagined, amounting to foure hundred pounds and upwards.

Edward Barcocke

Robert Claxon

Churchwardens.

Bennet Grace-Church.

THere hath beene bestowed on this Parish-Church within the passage of 20. yeeres, severall charges, amounting to the summe of 700. pounds. But the greatest part of this in the last repaire, which was in the yeere of our Lord 1630. in which as it was very carefully repaired, so richly and very worthily beautified.

Some usefull, necessary, and most needfull things in (and since added to) this worthy repaire, were these; A new Clocke, a new Diall, new Chimes, and now 1633. a very faire Turret for the Steeple. The Churchwardens in the time of this repaire 1630.

Iohn Cudney, and Iohn Offeley.

Queene Elizabeths Monument.

Elizabeth Queene of England, France, and Ireland, Daughter of King Henry the eighth, by Queene Anne Bullen his Wife.

She died at Richmond the 24. of March, 1602. being 69. yeeres, sixe moneths, and seventeene dayes old, when shee had reigned 44. yeeres, 4. moneths, and 7. dayes.

As in the figure of a Booke.

They that put their trust in the Lord, are even as the Mount of Sion, which may not be removed, but standeth firme for ever.

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On the one side.

Britaines blessing, Englands splendor,

Religions Nurse, the Faiths defendor.

On the other side.

Spaines rod, Romes ruine,

Netherlands reliefe,

Heavens Iem, Earths joy,

Worlds wonder, Natures chiefe.

Vnder her.

If Royall Vertues ever crown'd a Crowne,

If ever Mildnesse shin'd in Majesty,

If ever honour honour'd true Renowne,

If ever Courage dwelt with Clemency,

If ever Princesse put all Princes downe,

For temperance, prowesse, prudence, equity,

This, this was she, that in despight of death,

Lives still admir'd, ador'd, ELIZABETH.

Bennet Pauls-Wharfe.

THis Church hath had no repaire or beauty bestowed upon it for many yeeres; but now standing in great need of both, it is shortly (as I am informed) to be (as the rest) repaired, richly and very worthily beautified.

A faire Monument at the upper end of the South Ile, standing under and adjoyned to the Monument of his Father, Master David Smith, Imbroytherer to Queene Elizabeth, with this inscription.

William Smith his seventh sonne, a willing Imitator of his Parents vertues, who deceased the third of October, Anno 1632. aged 68.

He was the only survyving sonne and Heire to his Father, Aldermans Deputy of the Ward for the space of fifteene yeeres. He maried Sarah the Daughter of William Feake of London, Goldsmith, by whom hee had Issue Katharine his only Daughter and Heire, who was married unto Samuel Owfield of Gatton, in the County of Surrey, Esquire.

Bennet Sherehog.

THis Church being very much decayed and perished, was amply repaired and beautified at the cost of the Parishoners, in the yeere of our Lord God 1628.

Divers faire Marble stones, that formerly lay hid under the Pewes, then removed and placed in the body of the Church, to adde (as most fit) to its further grace and beauty.

Iohn Reyner

William Parker

Churchwardens.

Botolph Billingsgate.

THis Church was repaired, and very worthily beautified, at the cost and charge of the Parishioners, in the yeere of our Lord God 1624.

Robert Dowley

Robert Lemman

Churchwardens.

A very faire Monument in the wall of the South Ile, with this Inscription.

Anna Saris, nuper Vxor Iohannis Saris Armigeri, Filia Gulielmi Meggs Armigeri, quam suscepit ex conjuge secunda Dorothea, filia venerabilis Dominae Annae Cambel adhuc superstitis, Ex hac vita Migravit, Febru. 21. Anno Dom. 1622.

Aetatis 29.

Conjugij 8.

Haec pietate Deo,

casta virtute Marito,

Decessu sanctis, Matri

conjuncta sepulcro est.

Moestissimus conjux, Meritissimae conjugi, hoc Monumentum, Amoris & Reminiscentiae ergo posuit.

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Queene Elizabeths Monument. Eliza Beata,

Spaines Rod, Romes ruine,

Netherlands reliefe,

Heavens Iem, Earths joy,

Worlds wonder, Natures chiefe.

Vnder the figure of three Crownes. Vltimum manet in Coelo.

I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, &c.

This Table was the gift of William Wigmore, being Churchwarden 1625.

Christs Church.

THis Church, within some few yeeres past hath had many repaires and charges; but wee especially here remember the faire and spacious Gallery, that (at the cost of the Parishoners) was erected in the North Ile, in the yeere of our Lord God 1628. The charge of it amounting to 149. pounds 10. shillings.

A worke very worthily supplying a necessity, and adding to this Church a great deale of grace and beauty.

Matthew Nelson

Samuel Savin

Churchwardens.

A Table of Armes for the Lady Digby, of all her quarterd Coats, which by the right of Heires generall are involved into the Noble Family of her Fathers.

Insig. praeclariss. Dominae D. Venetiae Digby, è Familia Stanleyorum Com. Darbiae exparte Patris, & Perciorum Com. Northumbriae Materno jure, aliisque quamplurimis Christian. orbis principibus oriundae.

Hard by the other this, and thus written on.

Memoriae Sacrum.

Neere to this place lyeth buried the body of Nicholas Beamount of Cole-Overton in the County of Leicester Esquire, and Anne his Wife, the Daughter of William Saunders of Welford in the County of Northampton, Esquire, by whom he left Issue foure Sonnes and two Daughters, viz. Henry, Francis, Thomas, and Huntington, Dorothy and Katherine. The said Nicholas died the 24. of November, Anno Dom. 1585. His wife died the tenth of February, 1581. In remembrance of whom this Monument was erected, by the care and cost of Elizabeth Lady Ashburnham Widdow, late Wife of Sir Iohn Ashburnham Knight, daughter to Sir Thomas Beamount of Stawton, in the County aforesaid, Knight, their third sonne, at the appointof her Vncle, Master Francis Beamont, Esquire, their second sonne, to whom the Erector hereof was Executrix.

Vpon a faire Stone in the North Ile, is this Inscription.

Spe Resurgendi hîc jacet Corpus, Ioannae Vxoris Edmundi Philipps Londini Armigeri, quae cum solo & Amantissimo Marito, in dilecto matrimonio vixit per annos 48.

Hec doloris Amphitheatrum Reliquit, mensis Aprilis, die 12. Anno salutis 1632. Aetatis suae 72.

Vpon a faire stone at the entrance into the upper Church, with this Inscription.

Lodovicus Williams, venedocus

Hic jacet.

Nuper Civis & Haberd. Lond.

Vna cum Elizabetha, vxore ejus,

Qui objerunt

Anno Dom. M. DC. IX.

Octob. ij.

Hîc optat Cineres suos jacere

Mauritius Wnis. in Mna. Dr. defunctorum

F. vnicus superstes.

A very faire Armes over it.

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Vpon a faire stone in the middle Ile, is this Inscription.

Here lyeth buried the body of Elizabeth Draper, the Wife of Robert Draper of this Parish, borne the third day of December, 1581. and died the third of December, 1613.

All those that knew her,

lov'd her; for her life,

Chaste, Pure, and Pions,

was of all approv'd;

(A rich possession's

such a vertuous Wife)

All ill she hated,

and all good she lov'd:

Be this his comfort then

bewailes her most,

In Heaven shee's found,

that here on Earth is lost.

In a Table in the Quire, hanging upon the Organs, is this written.

Memoriae Sacrum.

Neere this lyeth the body of Ioaxe, Daughter and sole Heire of Edmond Bigs, Gentleman, and late Wife to Clement Goldsmith of Graies Inne, Esquire, who was in this Church Baptized the third of March, 1564. and interred the 17. of February, 1631.

Close by this small

Remembrance, you may finde

That which apparel'd est

an honest minde,

A body there In-urn'd,

where once did rest

A charitable soule

that was its guest.

But see what sicknesse,

age, and death hath done,

These have they parted,

yet the day shall come,

When they shall meet,

and re-unite againe,

And be assum'd above

the Heavens to raigne:

Vntill which time

may this poore Monument,

To Reader, shew

a sad sonnes true intent.

But if this perish,

yet her vertue shall

(Shee dead) preserve

her blest Memoriall.

These two Stones lie close together, and close to the Communion Table. In which place also lyeth buried the body of that learned and worthy Divine, Doctor Sampson Price.

Fui Claphamus, pater Istius Iohannis nuper defuncti, Et hìc sepulti, Qui obiit septimo die Feb. Anno Dom. 1621.

Fui Claphamus, pater Istius Iohannis subter hunc [...]pidem sepulti.

Here lyeth buried the body of Iohn Clapham, Esquire, one of the sixe Clearkes of the Chancery, who died the sixth day of December, Anno 1618. his Father Luke Clapham then living.

S. Christophers.

THis Church was repaired and beautified at the proper cost of the Parish, in the yeere of our Lord 1621.

But is now very shortly to be repaired and beautified againe, with a great deale of cost intended.

In the same Church is this following Epitaph.

Siste viator, leviter preme,

Iacet hîc juxta, Quod mortale fuit,

C. V.

Thomae Harrioti.

Hic fuit Doctissimus ille Harriotus

de Syon ad Flumen Thamesin,

Patria & educatione

Oxoniensis,

Qui omnes scientias Calluit,

Qui in omnibus excelluit,

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Mathematicis, Philosophicis, Theologicis.

Veritatis indagator studiosissimus,

Dei Trini-unius cultor piissimus,

Sexagenarius, aut eo circiter,

Mortalitati valedixit, Non vitae,

Anno Christi M. DC. XXI. Iulii 2.

Clements Eastcheape.

THis Church was repaired and beautified at the cost & charge of the Parishioners, in the yeere of our Lord God, 1632.

Iohn Stoner

Thomas Priestman

Churchwardens.

Queene Elizabeths Monument. Monumentum Elizabethae. In the figure of a Booke. Psal. 125.

They that trust in the Lord, shall bee as Mount Sion, which cannot be removed, but remaineth for ever.

On the one side.

Spaines rod, Romes ruine,

Netherlands reliefe,

Heavens jem, Earth's joy,

Worlds wonder, Natures chiefe.

On the other side.

Britaines Blessing,

Englands Splendor,

Religions Nurse,

The Faiths Defendor.

I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, &c.

Dionis Back-Church.

THe middle Ile of this Church was new layed in the yeere of our Lord 1629.

The Steeple was repaired, a new Turret built, new Frames were made for the Bells, and this Church very decently beautified, in the yeere of our Lord, 1632.

A Monument in the North Ile, with this Inscription.

Cur quod partu obeas lachrimis

Rigat ora Maritus,

Et quasitu pereas

se macerat per eas?

Dum cedis domino,

discedis ab orbe scelesto,

Parendo & praeis,

non pariendo peris.

Hic jaceo Triplici Monumento

à Morte beata,

Marmoris hoc, Moesto

vir mihi corde dedit;

Virtus, Nobilitas, Pietas,

Patientia nostra,

Dant alium, hoc vero

vincit honore prius:

At Ternum Aeternum est

coeloque locatus, & illud

Nec vir, nec virtus,

sed dedit ipse Deus.

In obitum Foeminae Generosissimae Dom. Mariae Stanley, Vxoris Tho. Stanley Armigeri, Filiae Rogeri Apleton, Militis & Baronetti, Quae cum viro suo Tres Filios peperisset (quorum duo hîc jacent sepulti) ultimi partus, qui nunc superest, laboribus extincta fuit. 4. die Iunii 1609. Anno Aetatis suae 23.

S. Dunstans in the East.

THis Church began to be repaired in the yeere of our Lord God 1631. And was fully repaired, richly and very worthily beautified, in the yeere of our Lord 1633.

Christopher Vincent

Iohn Dines

Churchwardens.

I might here dilate and enlarge my selfe, by spreading this generall into its particulars, but for that this shall suffice: The decayes of it were many and great, and consequently the repaires. The many and great parts of [Page] it, almost making up the whole, which may easily be beleeved by the summe of this sumptuous repaire; the charge of it amounting to two thousand foure hundred pounds and upwards.

To the making up of which, many of the worthy Parishioners have lent to the Lord, in giving to this poore decayed Church very large summes: And of such Givers, thus the Lord saith, He that giveth to the poore, lendeth to the Lord, &c.

A faire Monument in the North Ile of the Chancell, with this inscription.

Heere lieth the body of Richard Wyche, Merchant and Citizen of London, free of the Company of Skinners, amongst whom having borne all Offices, his life and carriage was exemplary.

Hee married Elizabeth, the Daughter of Sir William Salting stall, Knight, sometimes Alderman and Maior of this Honourable City of London, by whom he had issue, 12. Sonnes and 6. Daughters, viz. Richard, Thomas, Susan, Daniel, George, Saemuel, Peter, Elizabeth, Iames, Mary, Anne, Edward, Iulius, William, Henry, Abigaile, Nathaniell, Rebecca.

Sonnes

4

8

deceased.

living.

Daughters

2

4

deceased.

living.

Hee yeelded his soule in peace to his Maker the 20. of November, after 67. yeeres pilgrimage here amongst men, whose latter yeeres were bestowed in expectation of his end, exprest in setling of his estate here on earth, and in preparation of his soule for Heaven, where it now remaines in peace and happinesse.

Edmonds Lumbardstreet.

THis Church was repaired, and very worthily beautified at the proper cost and charge of the Parishioners, in the yeere of our Lord God 1631. and 1632.

In the first yeere

Humphrey Gravenor

Anthony Bradshaw

Churchwardens.

In the last

Robert Smith

Edward Hooke

Churchwardens.

The cost of it arising to two hundred eight and forty pounds.

S. Ethelborough.

THis Church was repaired and beautified at the charge of the Parishioners, in the yeere of our Lord 1612. In the yeere 1620. the Steeple greatly decayed was repaired. And in the yeere 1630. a Gallery built in the South Ile, at the proper cost of Owen Santpeere of this Parish.

William Mefflin

Peter Gaile

Churchwardens.

S. Faith.

WEE cannot in this place keep our ordinary course, in speaking of decayes and repairing, for (as it is anciently said of this Church)

This Church needs no Repaire at all,

Saint Faith's defended by Saint Paul.

And for beauty it hath sufficient, being still supplied and furnished with whatsoever the vertuous and religious Guardians of it know fit, either for use or ornament. Which while we speake of, we cannot forget that especiall addition of beauty, Light; that Light, that by pulling downe those houses that stood before it, is plenteously descended into it: Nor (with that) the cost of the Parishioners, (having gained such a long wanted benefit) in trimming and new glasing their Windowes.

At that time also 1632. they purchased at the lower end of the South Ile (going up thorow the Entry into Pauls) a convenient place for a Vestry, [Page] upon which (having none before) they have bestowed a great deale of cost and beauty.

William Aspeley

Ioh Gill

Churchwardens.

A very faire Marble stone in the Chancell under the Communion Table, with these words.

About it.

Vnder this Stone lie buried the bodies of Iohn and Francis Astley, the Sonnes of Sir Iohn Astley of Allington Castle in the County of Kent, Master of the Revels, and a Gentleman of the Privy Chamber in Ordinary to Charles the first.

Vpon it.

In obitum immaturum Ioh. & Fr. Astley, Filiorum Domini Ioh. Astley, Equitis Aurati, quorum hic undecem, Alter Duo de viginti Annos Natus, ad superos Migravit. Vtrique vero sub eodem Marmore Tumulantur.

Sic Rebar, solum spes tanta

invida Fata

Ostendisse viris, &

Rapuisse simul.

Aut pater omnipotens,

& qui dedit, abstulit, aptes

Vidit quippe Astris,

asseruitque sibi.

Illi autem Humanis exempti

Rebus, Olympum

Nunc habitant, ubi pax,

& sine fine quies.

Vno hoc Felices; quod cum

unus venter utrosque

Foverat, una etiam

nunc capit urna duos.

A faire Monument on the North side of the Chancell, with this Inscripion.

M. S.

Hic juxta situs est Richardus Ironside, vir summa prudentia, industria, vstaeque integritate, vna cum 2. Lectiss. vxorib quarum posteriorem, morum suavitate, Elegantia, & Amore Conjunctam, Fato sibi Raptam, non ita multo post sequutus est. Quibus hoc Monumentum in opprobrium mortis, Quae has tampias Animas eripuit à 13. liberis, qui se ipsos poene quaerunt in illarum desiderio, Consecravit

E. I. Filius & Haeres. 1627.

A faire Monument at the upper end of the Chancell, with this inscription.

Here lieth buried the body Katherine, (third Daughter of Edward Lord Nevill, Baron of Abergaveny) Wife of Sir Stephen Lessieur, of Chiswicke, in the County of Middlesex, Knight, She was brought from her said house to this Parish, in hope to recover her bodily health, by the helpe of God and Physicians. But the same God knowing, and having ordained that which was best for her pious soule, hath beene pleased to take her from the miseries of this vaine world, and to receive her soule with his Saints in Heaven. As she did professe in all the time that she lived in the state of a Maid, and of a Wife, to bee a true and obedient child of God; even so shee did behave her selfe in her sicknesse, bearing her affliction with a true Christian Patience, much delighting to Reade, or to heare the Word of God read unto her, hoping and trusting to be saved by the onely Merits and Passion of our Saviour Jesus Christ: And recommending her Spirit into the hands of Almighty God, shee exchanged her mortall life for the Immortall, the 4. of August 1630.

Revel. 14. 13.

Blessed are the dead that die in the Lord, yea saith the Spirit, that they rest from their labours, and their workes follow them.

Quid aliud est Mors vitae hujus mortalis, quam finis mortis hujus vitalis, & Ianua vitae immortalis?

Ergo

Vive diu, sed vive Deo, nam vivere Mundo

Mortis opus: viva est vivere vita Deo.

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A very faire Table hanging about the middle of the South Ile of Saint Faiths Church. Anno Dom. 1630.

Benefactors, and their Gifts to the Poore of this Parish.

Yeeres. Names. Gifts.

1586 David Smith Embroiderer, gave 20. shillings a yeere for ever.

1592 The Lady Allington gave 5. pounds to be distributed.

1598 Iohn Payne, Esquire, gave 12. pence a weeke in Bread for ever.

1600 Iustinian Kidd, Gentleman, gave 10. pounds to be imployed for ever.

1605 Francis Lamplow, Clothworker, gave 10. pounds to bee imployed for ever.

1610 George Bishop, Stationer, Alderman, gave 10. pounds to bee distributed.

1611 William Evans, Tallow-Chandler, gave 40. pound to be imployed for ever.

1612 Iohn Norton, Stationer, Alderman, gave 150. pounds for 12. poore people to receive three pence a piece every Wednesday weekely for ever.

1613 Mary Bishop, the Wife of George Bishop, gave 10. pounds to be distributed.

1614 Iohn Law, Proctor of the Arches, gave 10. pounds to bee imployed.

1620 Thomas Adams, Stationer, gave 10. pounds to bee distributed.

1623 Iasper Vnderwood, Vintener, gave 10. pounds to bee distributed.

1624 Iohn Sanderson, Draper, gave 150. pounds for 12. poore men to receive three pence a weeke, every Sunday weekely, for ever.

1625 Elizabeth Vnderwood, Widdow, gave 10. pounds to be distributed, and 60. pounds towards a Lecture for ever.

1626 Iohn Beliall Silkeman, gave 10. pounds to be distributed.

1628 Ally Mercer, gave 5. pounds to be distributed.

1629 Iohn Speed, Merchantaylor, gave 5. pounds to be distributed.

Ex dono Iacobi Trussell.

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S. Fosters.

THis Church was repaired, the Gravestones new squared and layed, the Pewes new made, a Window in the North Ile enlarged, the rest new glased, and the whole thorowout trimmed and beautified, in the yeere of our Lord 1614.

Iohn Drake

Iohn Hall

Churchwardens.

To this Church at the Chancell end, the breadth being 20. yards and above, was added 20. foot of ground, which ground so to eng [...]en the Church, was given unto the Parish ont of a faire Court then belonging to the Sadlers Hall.

Gabriel Fen-Church.

THis Church was enlarged in length nine foot, richly and very worthily beautified, at the proper cost and charge of the Parish, in the yeeres of our Lord God 163 [...] and 1632.

Thomas Colt

George Godscall

Churchwardens.

The cost of it aruing to 537. pounds 7. shillings and 10. pence.

A very faire figure of the Kings Armes in Glasse in the Chancell Window, was the free gift of Thomas Clarke of this Parish, G [...]asier.

Over the head, Touch not mine anointed. Vnder them,

Qui leo de Iuda est,

& flos de Iesse Lyristae,

Carmina qui sacro

psallere sacra dedit,

Dulsisonam ô faciat

Citharam, fortesque Leones,

Foecundet Florem

Carole magne tuum.

George Botolph-lane.

THis Church was repaired and beautified at the cost and charge of the Parish, in the yeere of our Lord God, 1627.

Walter Carter

Iohn Delabar

Churchwardens.

Queene Elizabeths Monument.

Regni 45. Aetatis 70. obijt 24. Martij, Anno salutis 1602.

I have fought a good fight, &c.

Gregories by Pauls.

THis Church was repaired, and within, without, and in every part of it, richly and very worthily beautified, at the proper cost and charge of the Parishioners, in the yeeres of our Lord God, 1631. and 1632.

In the first, William Weston, Citizen and Merchanraylor of London, and Iohn Hart, Gentleman, and Proctor of the Arches, Churchwardens.

In the [...]ast, the said Iohn Hart and Thomas Brandwood, Churchwardens.

I have not here named any great particulars, as Roofe, Wall, Arch, Porch, or the like; but the greatnesse of them, of their cost, and the love of the worthy Bestowers, may be read in the summe of this sumptuous repaire, which is two thousand pounds and upwards.

S. Hellens.

THis Church was begunne to bee repaired in the yeere of our Lord 1631. and was fully repaired, and in every part of it richly and very worthily beautified, at the [Page] cost and charge of the Parishioners, in the yeere of our Lord 1633.

William Hurt

Thomas Aldridge

Churchwardens.

If this briefe shall bee thought too little for so great a repaire and beauty, I desire the Reader to enlarge the commendations from that, among the rest, that most shall make to that purpose.

The charge of this great repaire, the summe of one thousand three hundred pounds, and upward.

In the South Ile of this Church, is a very faire Window with this inscription.

This Window was glazed at the charges of Ioyce Featly, Daughter to William Kerwyn, Esquire, and Wife to Daniel Featly, D. D. Anno Domini 1632.

This Window is beautified with three rich Coates, her Fathers, her first, and her second Husbands.

Over against this Window, towards the middle Ile, is a Monument erected to the memory of her worthy Father, the aforenamed William Kerwyn, Esquire, dated 1594. the time of his death and buriall.

Also of Mistresse Magdalen Kerwyn her Mother, buried in the yeere of our Lord 1592.

Of Benjamine Kerwyn her Brother, buried the 27. of Iuly, Anno 1621. who had Issue seven sonnes and five daughters, five of those children deceast, and here (with them all that are before named) interred.

This Monument in this passage of 39. yeeres, somewhat defaced and withered, was raised, repaired, beautified, and encompast with iron Barres, in a faire and gracefull manner, at the charge of this loving Daughter, the aforenamed, Mistresse Ioyce Featley, 1632.

About this Tombe these words.

Here lyeth the body of William Kerwyn, of this City of London Free Mason, who departed this life the 26. of December 1594.

And here also lyeth the body of Magdaline Kerwyn his Wife, by whom he had Issue three Sonnes and two daughters; she deceased the 23. of August, 1592.

On the one side these Verses.

Aedibus Attalicis

Londinum qui decoravi,

Exiguam tribuunt

hanc mihi fata domum [...]

Me duce surgebant

aliis regalia tecta,

Me duce conficitur

ossibus urna meis.

On the other side these Verses.

Magdalena jacet, virtus

post fata superstes,

Conjugiique fides,

Relligioque manent.

Corpus humo tectum

Christo veniente resurget,

Vt Mentis consors

astra suprema colat.

Christus mihi vita,

Mors mihi lucrum.

Nos quos certus amor

primis conjunxit ab annis,

Iunxit idem Tumulus,

junxit idemque polus.

About the bottome these words.

Benjamin Kerwyn, the sonne of William Kerwyn, deceased the 27. of Iuly, 1621. who had Issue seven sonnes and five daughters; five of these children being buried in this Vault.

Iames Dukes-place.

OF this Church, from the beginning to the finishing, and of every particular in it, you may reade in page 146, 147.

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James Garlick-hithe.

THe North Ile of this Church was new built, and the whole Church repaired and beautified at the charge of the Parishioners, in the yeere of our Lord 1624.

William Gunnell

Robert Boydell

Churchwardens.

The charge of it amounting to seven hundred pounds and upwards.

John Baptist.

REaedificatum & ornatum fuit hoc. Templum, Anno Millesimo sexcentesimo vicesimo primo Roberto Peterson Rectore.

Rogere Price, & Iohanne Smith, tunc Gardianis ejusdem Ecclesiae.

Queene Elizabeths Monument.

If Royall Vertues ever crown'd a Crowne,

If ever Mildnesse shin'd in Majesty,

If ever Honour honour'd true Renowne,

If ever Courage dwelt with Clemency,

If ever Princesse put all Princes downe,

For temperance, prowesse, prudence, equity,

This, this was she, that in despight of death,

Lives still admir'd, ador'd, ELIZABETH.

Vertue liveth after death,

So doth Queene Elizabeth.

I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, &c.

Iohn Evangelist.

THis Church was repaired and beautified at the sole and onely cost of the Parishioners, in the yeere of our Lord 1626.

Iames Barnard

Richard Malbone

Churchwardens.

In the same yeere a Gallery new built and beautified, at the onely cost of Thomas Goodyeare, Citizen and Draper of London, and here a Parishioner.

S. John Zachary.

THis Church within the time of 12. yeeres past hath had these many Repaires and charges.

The last, in the yeere 1631. the charge 27. li. 10. s. 8. d.

William Young

Iohn Devoreaux

Churchwardens.

In the yeere 1629. the charge 76. pounds 10. shillings.

Clement Carter

Henry Tyler

Churchwardens.

In the yeere 1625. the charge 30. pounds.

Richard Morrell

Iohn Reynolds

Churchwardens.

In the yeere 1619. the charge 32. pounds 3. shillings 8. pence.

William Young

Patrick Chambers

Churchwardens.

In the yeere 1616. the charge 44. pounds 6. shillings 8. pence.

William Raine

Oliver Burnwood

Churchwardens.

The whole cost of these Repaires, 120. pounds 11. shillings.

A faire Monument in the South Ile, with this Inscription.

Here under lieth interred the body of Philip Strelley, late of London Goldsmith, who gave to the poore of this Parish 40. s. a yeere for ever, out of the Revenues of the Manor of Vlkerthorpe, lying in the Parish of South-winfield, in the County of Derby, to be paid to them by the hands of the Warden and Rentors of the Worshipfull Company of Goldsmiths, whom he left in trust, to see it and other gifts disposed, as may appeare by his Will, dated September the 6. Anno Dom. 1603. though this Monument was erected but 1630.

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Katherin Coleman.

THis Church was repaired and beautified in the yeere of our Lord 1620. In the yeere 1624. their Vestry was built, and a Gallery new made for the poore of the Parish to sit in.

Katherine Cree-Church.

THe foundation of this now famously finished House of God, was begun to be laid upon the 23. day of Iune, in the yeere of our Lord God 1628.

The first Bricke, as also the first Stone in this Foundation, was laid by Master Martin Bond, of this Parish Aldermans Deputy of the Ward, and one of our City Captaines. The Bricke was laid (as is aforesaid) the 23. of Iune, and the Stone (a principall corner Stone) the 28. of Iuly following.

Many of the Parishioners (following this worthy Leader) laid every man his Stone, with which they layd something else, which the Workemen tooke up very thankfully.

On the backside of the North wall of the old Church was a Cloister, the breadth of it seven foot and above, which Cloister, by the taking downe of that wall, being taken into the Church, gave it all its breadth to enlarge it.

In digging under this wall, there was found the figure of halfe the face of a man, cast in Lead, the Mould setting likewise upon it this word, Comes.

Digging under the South Row of Pillers, they found the scull of a man, the thicknesse of which was three quarters of an inch and better, measured by many, and admired by all that have seene it.

At the West end of this Church adjoyning to the Steeple, stands a Pillar of the old Church, as it stood and was there erected: This Piller (from the Basis or foot, to the Chapiter or head, upon which the old Arch was raised) being eighteene foot high, and but three to bee seene above ground, shewes the measure or height to which the flore of this new Church hath beene raised above that of the old, which is, the hidden part of the Piller, or the 15. foot of it buried.

This Structure, not of Bricke, but built from the ground with the choisest Freestone might be got, without, within, and in every part of it supplyed, furnished, and inriched, with whatsoever might adde to its greatest grace and lustre, was finished in the yeere of our Lord God, 1630.

In this yeere (accounting from March to March) upon the 16. day of Ianuary, it was consecrated by the right Reverend Father in God, Wil. Lord Bishop of London, and upon the same day (as on such it is usuall with us) were the Sacraments of the Lords Supper, and the Sacrament of Baptisme administred.

In this Church the Pulpit and Communion Table are pure Cedar and (both) the gift of Master Iohn Dyke, a Merchant, living in this Parish.

A very faire Gate built at the East end of the South wall, was the gift of William Avenen, Citizen and Goldsmith of London, who died in December 1631.

Queene Elizabeths Monument.

Spaines Rod, Romes ruine,

Netherlands reliefe,

Heavens Iem, Earths joy,

Worlds wonder, Natures chiefe.

Britaines blessing, Englands splendor,

Religions Nurse, the Faiths defender.

Many Daughters have done vertuously, but thou excellest them all.

I have fought a good fight, &c.

If Royall Vertues ever crown'd a Crowne,

If ever Mildness shin'd in Majesty,

If ever Honour honour'd true Renowne,

If ever Courage dwelt with Clemency,

If ever Princesse put all Princes downe,

For Temperance prowesse, prudence, equity,

This, this was she, that in despight of death,

Lives still admir'd, ador'd, ELIZABETH.

[Page] This Table of Queene Elizabeth, one of the fairest that I have seene in this City, was the gift of one that is a stranger to this Parish, at least to any to be the bestower of it, he is yet conceal'd, and still is desirous to be so.

That of that great number of great and magnificent Benefactors, that joyned to the making up of this great, and (in our time) unparalleld piece of worke, I have onely touched upon these, may (no doubt) seeme strange; there being none in this number, whose liberall hand and heart deserves not a golden Character. I confesse it. To all that may bee said, my answer is (briefly) this: Being doubtfull of getting all, or all of those I might get, and loth of great things to speake to little purpose, I onely tooke these (that offered themselves) by the way, leaving the rest to the Register of the Giver of their meanes to give: with whom all good deeds are recorded, and (undoubtedly) shall be rewarded.

Lawrence Jurie.

This Church was repaired, richly and worthily beautified at the charge of the Inhabitants of this Parish, in the yeere of our Lord 1618.

Thomas Dalby

Edmond White

Churchwardens.

To this, in the yeere 1631. they added the cost of a new and very curious Pulpit; then also setting off their Font, and the place in which it stands, with a great deale of cost and beauty.

In this yeere 1618. the time of this Repaire, all the Windowes in this Church were glazed by so many good Benefactors, the Armes of the Company of every one of them in them.

Vnder the middle window in the Chancell, a very rich and costly one, is thus written.

Sir William Eastfield Knight, and Alderman of this Honourable City, and free of the Worshipfull Company of the Mercers, glazed this Window at his owne proper cost and charges, in the yeere of our Lord 1442. And it was afterward repaired, and the story supplyed at the charge of the said Company, in the yeere of our Lord, 1618.

A faire Window on the North side of it.

Glazed at the cost and charges of Sir Baptist Hickes, Knight, in the yeere of our Lord 1619.

A faire Window on the South side of it.

Glazed at the charges of Richard Pyot, Grocer, and Alderman of this City of London, Anno Dom. 1618.

A faire Window next to this, at the upper end of the South Ile.

Glazed at the charges of Thomas Morley, Merchant, and free of the Worshipfull Company of the Lethersellers, a Parishioner here, Anno Dom. 1618.

A faire Window downeward next to this.

Glazed at the charges of Edmond White, Citizen and Haberdasher of London, and Parishioner, Anno Dom. 1618.

A faire Window next to this downeward.

Glazed at the charges of Thomas Dalby, Mercer, Anno Dom. 1618.

A faire Window next to this downeward.

Glazed at the charges of Rowland Wilson, Citizen and Vintner of London, Anno Dom. 1618.

A faire Window, the lowest on this side.

Glazed at the charges of Robert Ducy, Citizen and Merchant-Taylor of London, Anno Dom. 1618.

At the Westend of this Ile, a faire Window.

Glazed at the charges of William [Page]Pyot, Citizen and Grocer of London, Anno Dom. 1618.

On the North side, the lowest Window.

Glazedat the charges of Henry Hopkins, Citizen and Vintner of London, Anno Dom. 1618.

A faire Window next to this upward, the resemblance of a blazing Starre on it.

Glazed at the charges of Hugh Ley, Citizen and Skinner of London, and a Parishioner here, Anno Dom. 1618.

At the bottome of this Window thus.

Forget you not the Blazing Starre,

This yeere to us is showne;

Make use thereof both neere and farre,

The like hath not beene knowne.

Anno. Dom. 1618.

The next Window upward.

Glazed at the charges of Barbara Burnell, Widow, late wife of Iohn Burnell, Merchant, and free of the Clothworkers, Anno Dom. 1618.

The next Window upward.

Glazed at the charges of the Lady Elizabeth Ihones, Wife to Sir Francis Ihones, Knight, and Alderman of this City, and Daughter to Master Henry Rolffe, of this Parish, deceased Iuly 1618.

The next Window upward.

This Window was Glazed at the charge of Cicilia Cleyton, late Widow to Master Richard Cleyton, Citizen and Salter, but free of the Worshipfull Company of Dyers of London, and deceased the 23. of October 1602. Glazed in October 1618.

The uppermost Window on the North side.

This Window was Glazed at the charge of Edmond Wright, Grocer, 1618.

A faire Monument in the Chancell, on the North side, with this Inscription.

Deo O. M.

Memoriae & posteris sacrum.

Hic in Choro intra Cancellos, sub medio sacrae Mensae, Franciscae Filiae Tho. walker, de Beconfield Armig. Dilectissimae Conjugis Gulielmi Bosweli, hujus Ecclesiae Vicarij, sub spe gloriosae Resurrectionis, Cineres & exuviae Reponuntur.

Lectissima Foemina, vultu, Moribus. Gestu, incessu, vestitu, venusta, Modestissima; Lingua pauciloqua, Ma [...]edica nunquam; sacrae lectioni, lachrymis & precibus assidua; Deo devotissima, Marito fidelissima, Amicis gratissima; In re familiari, & libera & provida; Pauperibus (quoad Facultatulas) indulgentissima; Bonis chara, Malis invisa, omnibus Aequa; post piè & sine strepitu pacificè transactam vitam, circa medium Aetatis, Anno salutis 1630. ult. Oct. Dominico Requievit in Domino.

Benè dixit, & benè tacuit,

Benè vixit, & benè latuit.

Moestissimus Maritus (cujus per latera transfixa jacet) L. M. Q. serò tandem, sed & seriò posuit.

Quicunque hanc Tabulam temeraris malae Conscientiae Reus esto.

Ipse post illam vixit, sed vitam vix vitalem, Annum nec integrum, demumque moriens, Octob. 3. Anno 1631. Hîc juxta cum illa sepultus jacet.

Natus fuit Bristolae, ubi primis litteris institutus, posteâ Oxonii in Artibus Magistratum, & in Theologia Bacchalaureatum Adeptus est, Baliolensis Collegii Socius, unde cum Domine Iohanne Digbeio, Comite Bristol. in Hispaniam, legato Regio, profectus, Per An. 5. plus minus illi à sacris ibidem inservivit, tandemque Reversus à Collegio Baliol. hujus Ecclesiae Vicaria, & à Domino Digbeio, Rectoria Ecclesiae de Horton juxta Colbrooke, in Com. Buck. donatus, postquam diû cum infirmo Corpore, mens vegeta colluctata fuisset, postremum

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hî in Domo Vicariatus hujus,

placide & piè in Christo obdormivit.

Anno Aetat. 50. sobole Relicta nulla.

Ingenium floridum, Mores ingenui, Manus larga, pectus Apertum.

Gulielmus Bosvelus, hujus Ecclesiae Vicarius per An. 15.

Qui obiit Octob. 3. Anno 1631.

Et Vxor ejus, Octob. ult. 1630.

This is written upon his Graveston in the Chancell, under the Communion Table.

A very faire Monument over against it, on the South side of the Chancell.

Christi quibus obierunt Anni Isthinc Numerantur.

1619. Apocalyps. cap. 14. vers. 13. BeatI qVi In DoMIno qVIesCVnt.

1624. Prima ad Corinth. cap. 15. vers. 57. Deo sIt gratIa qVI trIbV [...]t NobIs (fatI) VICtorIaM.

At the lower end of this rich Tombe this.

Memoriae Sacrum▪

Richardi Pyot, nuper Civis, & Celeberrimae hujus Civitatis Adermani venerabilis, Nec non Margeriae Pyot Vxoris suae ut Fidelissimae, ita & Religiosissimae, qui quum in prospero rerum afflatu tranquille vitam Transegissent, tandem Annorum pleni, Pythagorico liberorum numero beati denario, omnium denique Bonorum suffragiis, laudibusque honorati, vitam auspicat [...] initam, Feliciter Actam, fine quoque beato (carnis soluti ergastule) clauserunt. Hic quidem 19. die mensis Ianuarii, Anno Dom. 1619. Illa vero mensis Februarii, vicesimo octavo; Anno Dom. 1624. Et hic Beatam manent Resurrectionem.

Quos connexît Amor verus,

Castum que cubile,

Queis longi dantur

Nestoriique dies;

Vna quibus Regio natalis,

Dives, opima,

Vnum quique Dei

Templum adiêre duo,

Per totam tenuit

nos una Paraecia vitam,

Sors rerum nobis

una eademque fuit:

Denique (lector amans)

quoniam convenimus ambo,

Nos mens una Duos,

nos rogus unus habet.

On the North side of the Chancell, a very faire Monument, with this Inscription. M. S.

Prudens senator Mercimonii Indici,

Vigil Magister integrae famae & Rei,

Domi Beatus conjug [...] atque liberis,

Poterat videri seculo felix suo,

Nisi lapidasset tot bona infestus silex,

Silex latentes cuspide lanians sinus,

Sed Christianus id mali vertit bene

Virtute adaucta: Fluxanam fastidiens,

Mercator A [...]dax Avidus [...]niri Deo,

Hac unione Reliqua mutavit libens.

Sub hoc Marmore expectat Resurrectionem Gulielmus Haliday ex Antiqua Halidaiorum Familia in Comitatu Glocestr. Civis & Senator Londinensis, singulare, Integritatis, Prudentiae & Pietatis, exemplar: Is postquam VII. Annos inter purpuratos Patres urbis Rebus cum magna Aequitatis & Sapientiae laude vacasset, Indicae societati prope Biennium, quantum per Aegritudinem licebat, summa cura praefuisset.

Longis ex calculo doloribus fractus,

Mente semper intacta, inter suorum

Amplexus & lacrymas, bonis desideratus,

Placide Animam suo Creatori Reposuit.

Anno Aetatis 58. Febr. 14. Anno Dom. 1623.

Marito dilectissimo Susanna Henrici Roe Equitis, quondam praetoris urbani Filia, Amisso compare suavissimo. M. P.

Parenti dulcissimo Anna Vxor Henrici Mildmaei aequitis, ex Nobilis. Mildmaeor umprosapia, in comitatu Essexiae.

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Margareta nupta Edwardo Hungerford, militi ex illustri Hungerfordiorum domo in comitatu Wiltoniae. M. M. P. P.

A very faire Stone in the South Ile, with this inscription about it.

Here lyeth the body of Anne Barker, the Wife of Iohn Barker, of London, Merchant, the Daughter of Thomas Westrow, Alderman of London; She deceased the 2. of August 1629.

In the middle of the Stone, with their Armes at the foure corners of it, these words.

Though we are dead, yet our lives are hid in Christ with God.

Christ is to mee both in life and death advantage.

Though my flesh fayleth, and my heart also, yet God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.

Queene Elizabeths Monument.

Here lies her Type, who was of late,

The prop of Belgia, stay of France,

Spaines foile, Faiths shield, and Queene of State,

Of Armes, of Learning, Fate, and Chance:

In briefe, of Women ne're was seene,

So great a Prince, so good a Queene.

Sith Vertues Her immortall made,

Death (envying all that cannot dye)

Her earthy parts did so invade,

As in it wrackt selfe Majesty.

But so her Spirit inspir'd her Parts,

That she still lives in loyall hearts.

I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, &c.

Obiit 24. die Martii 1602.

Anno Regni 45.

Aetatis suae 70.

Lawrence Pountney.

THe Steeple of this Church was new Leaded, five new Bells were hung, and the Frames they hang in new made, all the Iles were new raised and levelled, and the whole Church within and without worthily repaired and beautified, at the cost and charge of the Parish, in the yeeres of our Lord God 1631. and 1632.

George Downes

Robert Meade

Churchwardens.

A Monument at upper end of the North Ile, with this Inscription.

Hoc est nescire, sine Christo,

plurima scire,

Si Christum bene scis,

satis est, si caetera nescis.

This Monument▪

Was erected Anno Dom. 1620. by the Lady Anne Bromley, late Wife vnto Sir Henry Bromley, of Holt, in the County of Worcester, Knight, Daughter of William Beswicke of London, Alderman, in remembrance of her first Husband, William Offley, of London, Merchant, who being free of the Merchant-Taylors, fined both for Sheriffe and Alderman.

He had issue by the said Anne 15. children, whereof five are living, viz. William, Elizabeth, Margaret, Robert, and Mary, the rest died Infants.

Leonard Eastcheape.

IN the yeere of our Lord 1618. this Church by a casualty of fire, hapning by whiting of Baskets, in the house of one Ierome Baynton a Turner, (situate in Little Eastcheape, on the North side of the said Church, whose house was burned downe, and in the place thereof another built with Bricke) was fired in the Steeple thereof, being a Spire covered with Lead; it was quenched, but not without great paines and much danger to some persons (who were not unrewarded by the Parish) before any great hurt was done to it by the fire, more then the defacing of it, and other parts of the [Page] Church; but for the said Steeple was very old, much ruined and decayed in the stone worke thereof, to prevent further danger, it was pulled downe, and all the West end of the Church thereto adjoyning, a new Foundation laid, inlarged three foot toward the East, and new built, not without great charge to the Inhabitants of the Parish, who were all willing and ready to contribute towards the Rebuilding, Repairing, and Beautifying of the house of God; and the better to set forward the worke, the Inhabitants of the Parish did taxe themselves toward the charge at 198. li. 6. s. 4. d. but for that the Parish is but small, and the greater part of the Inhabitants poore, they were inforced by their Petition to seeke help from his Majesty, who was graciously pleased to grant them his Letters Patents (for their reliefe) to collect and gather in severall Counties within this Kingdome towards the charge of the Rebuilding the Steeple, and the Repairing of the Church.

The Steeple being finished as it now standeth, the South wall toward the Churchyard being much decayed, was also taken downe and new built, and the Church in other parts repaired, the charge thereof amounting to above 850. pounds, of which the Parish received by way of collection (toward their charge) in London, and other places, the summe of 170. li. 1. s. 9. d. and of other Benefactors, 10. li. 15. s. they having one Patent for sixe Shires also, the partie that was imployed to lay the Briefes, and gather the Collections, went away with all, and brought to the Parish neither Briefe nor Peny. The Steeple of this Church, and the wall on the South side (toward the Churchyard) was builded, and the Church in other parts repaired and beautified, in the yeeres 1618, 1619, 1620, 1621.

Abraham Colfe Rector.

Edwin Fisher

Richard Foster

Richard Bourne

Henry Gulstone

Churchwardens.

Leonards Fosterlane.

INcurvate Domino, in decore Sanctitatis, Chron. 6. cap. 9. Psal. 29. v. 2. Domine dilexi decorem Domus tuae.

Psalm. 26. 8.

Haec Dei Domus, Auctior est facta, & Augustior, Opere, & Impensis Parochianorum Sancti Leonardi Faust-lane, London. Guardianis Ecclesiae tunc temporis existentibus, Francisco Ash, Cive & Aurifabro, una cum Richardo Stephano Martiniensi, 1631.

Vnus huic operi suppetias fecit Majeres Iohannes Trot, Civis & Mercator, Pro singulari suo in Ecclesiam amore, hanc imprimis, quia Patria.

A very faire Window at the upper end of the Chancell, 1633.

The charge of this amounting to the summe of five hundred pounds and upwards.

S. Magnus.

THis Church, in the yeeres of our Lord God 1623, 1624, and 1625. in many parts of it, had many Repaires and Charges, the summes of them amounting to the summe of 500. pounds and upward.

Also in the yeere of our Lord 1629. it was richly and very worthily beautified.

Iohn Langley

Iohn Broome

Churchwardens.

This, as the former, being the sole cost and charge of the Parishioners.

A very faire Monument in the South Ile of the Chancell, with this inscription.

Here lyeth interred the bodies of Sir Iohn Garrard, Knight, and Dame Iane his Wife, who was Daughter to Richard Partridge, Citizen and [Page] Haberdasher of London, by whom he had 13. Children, five whereof died young: they lived comfortably together 43. yeeres.

He was Lord Maior of London in the yeere of our Lord God 1601.

She departed this life the 24. of Ianuary 1616. And hee left this world the 7. of May, 1625. being 79. yeeres old, leaving only two sonnes and sixe daughters behind him.

This Monument was erected at the charges of Benedict Garrard, Gentleman, his youngest Son, Anno 1629.

Margaret Lothbury.

THis Church was repaired and thorowout very worthily beautified, at the cost and charge of the Parishiones, in the yeere of our Lord God, 1621.

Francis Haddon

Iohn Walker

Churchwardens.

A faire Monument in the South Ile, at the upper end, with this Inscription.

Quid Diurnare Magnos invides Parea?

Heis

Robertus

Ierminorum à Rushbrooke Nobile Germen,

Hîc situs est,

Plos Iuvenum, sub Aevi flore Raptus,

Qui virtutum utriusque Aetatis

Apicibus Potitus,

Ingenio & Indole Iuventutis,

Nec non senili pietate ac prudentia

Infra se turbam Coaetaneam Reliquit,

Impubes senex:

Et quod negavit saeculo, Coelo dedit.

Sic sapere ante annos nocuit,

nam maxima virtus,

Persuasit morti,

ut Crederet esse senem.

Margaret Moses.

THis Church was very worthily repaired and beautified, at the proper cost and charge of the Parishioners, in the yeere of our Lord God, 1627.

Symon Price

Iohn Whitcombe

Churchwardens.

A very faire Monument on the South side, with this inscription.

Here lyeth the bodies of Iohn Harper, Citizen and Fishmonger, Treasuror of Christs Hospitall, and Aldermans Deputy of Breadstreet Ward, London: and Francis his Wife, Daughter to Iames Smith, of Great Limber, in the County of Lincolne, Gentleman, by whom he had issue five Children, but at the time of their death left onely a sonne Iohn, and a daughter Anne, married to Iohn Whitcombe of London. He died the 27. of November 1632. in the 79. yeere of his age. And shee departed this life the 30. day of October 1630. being 72. yeeres old.

Credimus quod Redemptor noster vivit, & Novissimo die videbimus deum salvatorem nostrum.

Margaret New-fishstreet.

THis Church, not having any cost, or but little in a long time bestowed upon it, is now very suddenly to be repaired, and (as wee speake of the rest) very worthily trimmed and beautified.

Margaret Pattons.

THis Church was repaired and beautified, at the cost and charge of the Parishioners, in the yeere of our Lord God, 1614.

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Master Godwin

Master Peate

Churchwardens.

The charge of it then amounting to the summe of 71. li. 15. s. 6. d.

But since that time, as necessity hath called upon these honest and carefull Parishioners, for a supply either of strength or beauty, it hath had many repaires & charges, the whole summe of them all, from 1614. arising to the yere of our Lord 1632. to 275. li. 5. s. 6. d.

Master Shalcrosse

Master Milksoppe

Churchwardens.

A pretty fine Monument on a Pillar in the Chancell, on the North, with this inscription.

In the middle part of this Chancell, lieth interred the body of Mistresse Elizabeth Freeman, Wife to Master Thomas Freeman, of this Parish, Merchant, to whom shee was espoused sixteene yeeres, two moneths, and eight dayes, by whom she had issue sixe Sonnes and three Daughters living, and died in Childbed of the last Sonne. She descended of worshipfull Parents, and as shee was vertuously bred, so lived and died, full of Faith, Hope, and Charity, as knowne to many that had made use thereof, to their great comfort in time of necessity; for her only study was, to serve God, and doe good to others; shee was of the age of 35. yeeres, and departed this life to a better the 21. of February 1631.

On a faire Marble in the Chancell is this inscription.

Here lieth buried Mistresse Anne Elkington, the beloved Wife of Master Thomas Elkington, Merchant, shee was the Daughter of Master Iohn Goodwin, Merchant, likewise of this City. Shee lived and died in the feare of God, and in the faith of our Lord Iesus. Shee exchanged this life for a better the 27. day of September 1632. in the 23. yeere of her age, and in the third yeere of her marriage, leaving behind her Anne her only daughter, her only son is not.

She shall rise againe.

Mary Abchurch.

THis Church was repaired and beautified, at the proper cost and charge of the Parishioners, in the yeere of our Lord God, 1611.

William Stanly

Iohn Cornish

Churchwardens.

A faire Monument in the Chancell, at the upper end, with this inscription.
An Epitaph Vpon the departure of the Illustrious President of bounty and pious industry, Master Roger Montague, Esquire.

In life and death,

thy workes did well pursue

The honourable name

of Montague,

Nobility of birth

ran in thy blood,

Nobility of Action

made that good.

Thy Charity,

the top of all thy fame,

The figure that thy Monument

may claime

With Justice, tis thine owne,

fit to enroule

Thy memory (here)

as Heaven adornes thy soule.

Summe up all Vertues,

in man ever knowne,

And set them to thy actions,

th'are thine owne:

That's the neer'st way

to make for thy worth roome,

Particular praises

would o'respread the Tombe:

Here's all, in briefe,

who shall henceforth indite

A good mans Epitaph,

let him but write

The Copy of thy life,

it stands for all,

That ever made mans praise,

or ever shall.

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Mary Aldermanbury.

THis Church, for the space of 4. yeeres past, hath in one decayed part or another beene repairing; as the Steeple, Bels, Battlements, many decayed places of the Walls, two faire Galleries built, many of the Pewes new made, the rest being all in hand, it can be no great offence to account them already done; which granted, and the Church in this yeere finished, we may conclude as we beganne with the rest of these Churches, thus: This Church was repaired, richly and very worthily beautified at the cost and charge of the Parishioners, in the yeere of our Lord 1633.

Bartholomew Edwards

Abraham Nuns.

Churchwardens

A very beautifull Tombe at the upper end on the South side of the Chancell, with this inscription.

Mary Brigs, the Daughter of Thomas Crofts, deceased the 8. day of August, Anno Dom. 1610. being of the age of 31. yeeres.

William, out of a dutifull respect to his deare Parents, consecrated this Monument.

Ioyning with this in the same Monument.

David Brigs, Citizen and Skinner of London, who had two Wives, Mary the Daughter of Thomas Crofts, Draper, by whom hee had two sonnes and foure Daughters; and Rebekah, the Daughter of Humphrey Street, Merchant-Taylor, by whom he had no Issue; who deceased the 17. day of Iune, Anno Dom. 1626. being of the age of 57. yeeres, lyeth here intombed in hope of a glorious Resurrection.

A very faire Monument in the Chancell, over against the other, with this inscription.

Here lyeth the body of Master Robert Offley, Gentleman, sonne of Hugh Offley, Alderman of this City, who tooke to Wife Elizabeth, the daughter of Humphrey Street, by whom he had issue seven Sons and six Daughters; he died at the age of 64. yeeres, on the 4. day of November 1631.

A very faire Monument on the North side of the Chancell, with this Inscription.
Deo Trino & Vai-sacrum.

Thomas Hayes, Eques Auratus, secundum Christi Adventum, sub hoc Tumulo expectat. Qui cùm ab Adolescentio, per magnam Europae partem Mercaturam exercuisset, ita industria, & judicio claruit, nt unanimi omnium consensu, Major hujus Civitatis cooptatus fuerit, & cum hoc summum summi Magistratus officium, non solum singulari integritate, sed & excellenti verae Religionis promulgandae cura, & pietate exequutus fulsset, tandem septuagesimo Aetatis Anno, Deo bonisque Charus, piè & placidè in Domino obdormivit 27. Septem. Anno salutis 1617.

Martha Vxor Moestissima viro suo optimo, Officiosae pietatis, & memoriae ergo, hoc Monumentum posuit.

Mary Aldermary.

THis Church was repaired, richly and very worthily beautified, at the cost and charge of the Parish, in the yeere of our Lord 1632.

Iohn Edwards

Thomas Archer

Churchwardens.

But while wee speake the love and liberality of the living, wee must not forget the dead, whose bounties (thogh they be dust) are as fresh in this good worke, as theirs that have seene it finisht.

[Page] And first, of Master William Rodoway, one borne and buried in this Parish, though from his youth to his end he lived and died in another, Michael Bassishaw, who at the time of his death (which was in the yeere of our Lord 1626) gave towards the Re-building of the Steeple of this Church, then greatly decayed and perished, the summe of 300. li.

In this Parish, in the same yeere also, there died one Master Richard Pierson, who towards the better and more beautifull building of this Steeple, gave the summe of 200. Markes, with this condition, with those with whom he intrusted this mony, that this Steeple (thus to be built) should follow its ancient paterne, and goe forward and be finished, according to the foundation of it, laid 120. yeeres since, by the Founder of this Church, a Knight, one Sir Henry Kibbell, which within three yeeres after was so finished, the cost of it amounting to a thousand pounds: of which all, above the cost of these two very worthy Benefactors (beside the charge before named) being the cost and charge of the Parish.

Queene Elizabeths Monument. Monumentum Elizabethae Angliae Reginae. In the figure of a Booke.

Psal. 112. The Righteous shall be had in everlasting remembrance.

On the one side.

Spaines rod, Romes ruine,

Netherlands reliefe,

Heavens jem, Earth's joy,

Worlds wonder, Natures chiefe.

On the other side.

Britaines Blessing,

Englands Splendor,

Religions Nurse,

The Faiths Defendor.

Vnder her Monument.

Many Daughters have done well, but thou excellest them all.

Mary le Bow.

THis Chancell was raised, the Church new Pewed, and thorowout repaired and beautified, in the yeere of our Lord God, 1620.

William Parnell

William Wallis

Churchwardens.

In a little Chappell on the South side of the Church, is a Monument thus written on.

Per fidem introitus.

Robertus Blankworth Scriptor peritus, justus, ac sapiens, qui desideratus vixit, obiitque una cum Bina conjuge, Sarah fideli ac pia, Elizabetha prudente ac sobria, & duabus filiis, Deborah patiente ac Religiosa, Martha Innocente Puellula. Non Carni sed Carnem hîc seminantes, gloriesam expectant Resurrectionem.

Robertus Blankworth, filius Roberti ac Sarae unigenitus, unicè dilectus, qui memoriale istud, in honorem patris ac paternae sortis extrui fecit, in hac valle Lachrymarum pacificam expetit dissolutionem.

Istos Cista capit, Lachrymarum hunc orbe, utrosque pacifici gloria parta manet.

Hac spe vivo.

Dignitas ejus in ipso incipit, tua & is.

A faire Monument in the Chancell, with this Inscription.

Here lyeth interred the body of Edmond Criche, Esquire, late Citizen and Merchant-Taylor of London, and Master of the said Worshipfull Company, Annis 1624. and 1625. who married Thomasin, the Daughter of Simon Henden of Beneden, in the County of Kent, Gentleman, and lived with her in conjugall love 40. yeeres, and had issue 12. children, and left at his decease 5. sonnes, viz. Iohn, Edward, Nathan, Samuel, Peter, [Page] and 3. Daughters, Elizabeth, Thomasine, and Margaret; and among them eleven Grand-children.

Obiit 23. Decemb. Anno 1627.

Aetatis suae 73.

Iohannes Criche filius suus primogenitus, ex officio, & amore suo, Moestissimus hoc posuit.

Edward Criche, eldest sonne to the said Iohn Criche, lieth here interred by his Grandfather. Obiit 25. Febru. 1628. Aetatis suae 50.

Queene Elizabeths Monument. In the Table onely this.

I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith.

From henceforth is laid up for me a Crowne of Righteousnesse, which the Lord, the righteous Iudge shall give mee at that day; and not me onely, but to them also that love his appearing, 2 Tim. 4. 7, 8.

Vpon the Wall, on either side of this Table, these lines.

A representation of the Monument erected by King Iames (sacred unto Memory, and for an eternall Memoriall) for Elizabeth Queene of England, France, and Ireland, &c. Daughter of King Henry the eighth, by Queene Anne Bullen, Grandchild to King Henry the seventh, great Grandchild to King Edward the fourth, and Sister to King Edward the sixth and Queene Mary; who restored Religion to its primitive sincerity; setled Peace thorowly; reduced Coine to the old Standards; extinguished Rebellion at home; relieved France, neere ruine by intestine mischiefes; supported the Netherlands; vanquished Spaines Armado; quieted Ireland, with Spaniards expulsion, and Traytors coercion; augmented exceedingly both Vniversities Revenewes, by a Law of Provision, and enricht all England:

Was

The Mother of this her Country; the Nurse of Religion and Learning; and for perfect skill of very many Languages; for glorious Indowments, as well of Minde as Body; and for Regall Vertues beyond her Sex;

A Prince Incomparable.

And in the 45. yeeres most prudent and happy Governement, she died; in the 70. yeere of her age, and of our Redemption 1602. Whose Corps is interred in the famous Collegiate Church of Westminster, under the aforesaid Magnificent Monument.

On the other side.

Fame blow aloud,

and to the world proclame,

There never ruled

such a Royall Dame.

The Word of God

was ever her delight,

In it she meditated

day and night.

Spaines rod, Romes ruine,

Netherlands reliefe,

Earths joy, Englands [...]em,

Worlds wonder, Natures chiefe.

She was, and is,

what can there more be said?

On Earth the Chiefe,

in Heaven the second Maid.

In a booke held over her by an Angell these words.

Verbum Dei.

Mary Bothaw.

THis Church was repaired and beautified at the charge of the Parishioners, in the yeere of our Lord God, 1621.

Iohn Bennet

Thomas Dight

Churchwardens.

Queene Elizabeths Monument.

Elizabeth Queene of England, France, and Ireland, &c. Daughter to King [Page] Henry the eighth, and Grandchild to King Henry the seventh, by Elizabeth, [...]ldest Daughter of Edward the fourth, Having restored true Religion, reduced Coyne to the just value, assisted France and the Low-Countries, and overcame the Spanish invincible Navy, enriched all England, and administred most prudently the Imperiall State thereof 45. yeeres in true piety, In the 70. yeere of her age, in most happy and peaceable manner she departed this life, leaving her mortall parts interred in the famous Church at Westminster.

I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, &c.

Mary Colechurch.

THis Church was repaired and beautified at the charge of the Parishioners, February 1623.

William Shamrocke

Thomas Pulcher

Churchwardens.

Mary Hill.

THis Church, in the many decayed parts and places of it, was repaired, richly and very worthily beautified, at the cost and charge of the Parishioners, in the yeere of our Lord God, 1616.

To the continuing of which, the carefull overseers of it, every third or fourth yeere ever since, have bestowed a new trimming upon it: No sooner (as I am informed) finding any defect, fayling, or declining of it, than applying their care to revive, refresh, and restore it, which appeares in its present beauty.

Mary Mounthaw.

THis Church was in part new built, and very much inlarged and beautified, in the yeere of our Lord 1609.

Robert Ploncker

Marke Bateman

Churchwardens.

Benefactors towards this building: Robert Bennet, Bishop of Hereford, Sir William Craven, Sir Thomas Middleton, and Doctor Edwold.

In the yeere 1610. this Church was wholly Glazed at the cost and charges of Thomas Tyler, Haberdasher, and Richard Tichburne, Skinner.

In the South Ile of this Church hangs a very faire Picture of King IAMES, with the figures of Peace and Plenty on either side of him; Peace with her Olive Branch, and Plenty with her Sheafe of Wheat in her hands. The gift of the aforenamed Robert Ploncker, then Churchwarden.

Mary Summerset.

THis Church was repaired and beautified, in the yeere of our Lord, 1624.

Robert Violet

Thomas Cumbers

Churchwardens.

In a Table hanging close by the Pulpit are these words.

Dictum Thomae Burtoni, Rectoris Ecclesiae, tempore Reparationis, & exornationis hujus Aedificii.

Dominus Petra mea, & Arx mea, & Liberator meus, Deus meus, Adjutor meus, Sperabe in cum. Psal. 18. 2.

Queene Elizabeths Monument.

Psal. 112.

The righteous shall bee had in everlasting remembrance.

Prov. 6.

The memoriall of the just shall bee blessed, but the name of the wicked shall rot.

2 Tim. 4. 7, 8.

I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, &c.

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Mary Staynings.

THis Church was repaired and beautified at the cost of the Parish, in the yeere of our Lord, 1630. August 23.

Charles Medowes

Thomas Francis

Churchwardens.

The Armoriall Atchievements of Sir Arthur Savage, Knight.

In the Vault underneath, lyeth the body of the honourable Sir Arthur Savage, Knighted at Cadez in Spaine, 1596. Generall of her Majesties forces in the Kingdome of France, at the siege of Amyaunce, the 39. of Queene Elizabeth: Colonell, Vice-Treasurer, Receiver generall, and Councellor of estate in Ireland: He had Issue by his second Wife, Sarah Daughter of Anthony Woolhouse, of Clapwell, in the County of Darby (Widow of George Smithes, Sheriffe and Alderman of London 1611) one onely Daughter named Iune. Hee died the 13. of March, 1632.

Mary Woollchurch.

THis Church was richly repaired and beautified, at the charge of the Parishioners, in the yeere of our Lord 1629.

Francis Browne

Robert New

Churchwardens.

A very faire Screene at the middle West doore of this Church, was the gift of Capitaine Edward Dichfeyld, at the time of his going out of the Office of Churchwarden, in the yeere 1620.

Queene Elizabeths Monument.

Elizabeth Queene of England, France, and Ireland, &c. second Daughter to Henry the eighth, begotten of the Lady Anne Bullen his second Wife, and Grandchild to K. Henry the seventh, and Elizabeth, eldest Daughter to Edward the fourth, borne at Greenewich the 17. of September, 1534. Shee succeeded her Sister Queene Mary, as Queene of England, restoring true Religion, reduced Coine to the just Value, assisted France, and the Low Countries, overcame the Spanish invicible Armies, and was for Prudence, Justice, and Piety, not onely the Patron of her Sex, but a Patterne for all Princes of Christendome.

She died at Richmond the 24. of March, 1602. being 69. yeeres, sixe moneths, and seventeene dayes old, when shee had reigned 44. yeeres, 4. moneths, and 7. dayes.

If Royall Vertues ever crown'd a Crowne,

If ever Mildnesse shin'd in Majesty,

If ever Honour honour'd true Renowne,

If ever Courage dwelt with Clemency,

If ever Princesse put all Princes downe,

For Temperance, prowesse, prudence, equity,

This, this was she, that in despight of death,

Lives still admir'd, ador'd, ELIZABETH.

As in a Booke.

They that trust in the Lord, shall bee as Mount Sion, which cannot be removed, but remaineth for ever.

Spaines Rod, Romes ruine,

Netherlands reliefe,

Heavens Iem, Earths joy,

Worlds wonder, Naturos chiefe.

Vnder her.

Th'admired Princesse

through the world applauded,

For supreme Vertues

rarest imitation;

Whose Scepters rule, Fames

loud voic'd Trump hath lauded,

Vnto the eares

of every forraigne Nation,

Canopied under

powerfull Angels wings,

To her immortall praise

sweet Science sings.

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Mary Woollnoth.

IT is so long since this Church was repaired and beautified, that wee now rather looke upon what it is, than what it was; and forward to a repaire to come, then backward to that that is gone. Wee see it seemes to call upon the Parishioners for it, and heare it is shortly to have it: for (as I am informed) it is promised and preparing; the preparation likewise promising a great deale of cost and beauty.

Martins Ironmonger lane.

THis Church was repaired and beautified, at the cost and charge of the Parishioners, in the yeere of our Lord 1629.

A very faire Screene at the entrance into this Church, with this Inscription:

Me fieri fecerunt Hamletus Clarke, Generosus, & Radulphus Latham, Armiger, 20. Martii 1629.

In the yeere 1627. a great part of the North wall of this Church, being very much decayed and perished, was at the cost of the Parish rebuilded: but in it a very faire Window, with these words:

This Window was new built and finished, at the sole cost of Iohn and Humphrey Slany, 1627.

The Armes of these Gentlemen over it, with this Motto:

Deo Duce, Comite Industria.

A faire Monument at the upper end of the Chancell, on the North side, with this Inscription.

Here under lyeth buried Eleanor, Wife of Hamlet Clarke, free of the Worshipfull Company of Fishmongers London, and one of the foure Clerkes of the Lord Maiors Court, London, aforesaid. She died on Sunday the 14. of Ianuary, 1626. and was buried on Fryday the 19. of the same, after they had beene married 33. yeeres and about two moneths. And they had issue onely Mary, married to Ralph Latham of Vpminster, in the County of Essex, Esquire, Common Sergeant at Law of this Honourable City.

And the said Eleanor, had also Elizabeth, another Daughter, by Charles Barnard, a former Husband, married to Thomas Latham of Stilford in Essex, Gentleman.

A very faire Stone in the North Ile, with this inscription about it.

Here lyeth interred the body of Randoll Pickering, late Citizen and Haberdasher of London, borne at Turvine in the County of Chester, who put off this mortality, March 10. 1629. And Alice his Wife, daughter of William Madox, and borne in this Parish, who departed this life the 20. of Iune, 1618. By her hee had Issue three Sonnes and three Daughters, William, Randoll, Anne, and Elizabeth surviving, Iohn and Mary deceased.

Martins Ludgate.

THis Church was repaired and beautified at the cost & charge of the Parish, in the yeere of our Lord God 1623.

Henry Iohnson

William Liod

Churchwardens.

A very handsome Monument in the Wall, at the upper end of the Chancell, with this Inscription.

M. S.

Here lieth the body of Thomas Allen, of London, Gentleman, who died [Page] the 22. day of October 1630. divers of whose Ancestors have beene interred in this Church.

No Epitaph need make

the just man fam'd,

The good are prais'd,

when they are onely nam'd.

Martins Orgars.

IN the yeere 1630. the Steeple of this Church was repaired, the East Window in the Chancell, and three great South Windowes, were new Glazed, which with the Plumbers worke and Tiling, amounted to the summe of 122. li. 6. s. 6. d.

Richard Tomes

Iames Pickering

Churchwardens.

A rich and very beautifull Monument in the Chancell, with this Inscription. M. S.

Sir Allen Cotton, Knight, and Alderman of London, sometime Lord Maior of this Honourable City, son of Ralph Cotton of Alkington, in the Parish of Whitchurch, in the County of Salop, Gentleman, was espoused unto Ellinor, the Daughter of Edmond Moore, Citizen and Draper of London, by whom he had Issue seven Sons and seven Daughters, and lived unto the age of 70. yeeres, generally beloved, and died the 24. of December, 1628. being the Eve of the celebration of our blessed Saviours Nativity, which sell out by Gods providence, to bee the day of his second birth, and convoy to eternall blisse. He left behind him three Sonnes, Edmond, Iohn, and William, and two Daughters; which sonnes, in a filiall expression of their duties, have caused this Monument to be erected, in memory of their deare deceased Father.

When he left Earth, rich Bounty d [...]'d,

Mild Courtesie gave place to [...]

Soft Mercy to bright Iustice said,

O, Sister, we are both betraid;

White Innocence lay on the ground

By Truth, and wept at eithers wound.

The sonnes of Levi did lament,

Their Lamps wentout, their Oyle was spent;

Heaven hath his soule, and onely we

Spinne out our lives in misery.

So Death, thou missest of thy ends,

And kilst not him, but kilst his friends.

Queene Elizabeths Monument.

Here lies her Type, who was of late,

The prop of Belgia, stay of France. (State,

Spaines foile, Faiths shield, and Queene of

Of A [...]mes, of Learning, Fate, and Chance:

In briefe, of Women ne're was seene,

So great a Prince, so good a Queene.

Sith Vertue Her immortall made,

Death (envying all that cannot dye)

Her earthy parts did so invade,

As in it wrackt selfe Majesty.

But so her Spirit inspir'd her Parts,

That she still lives in loyall hearts.

Prov. 31. 29.

Many Daughters have done vertuously, but thou surmountest them all.

She is is not dead, But sleepeth.

I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, &c.

Martin Outwitch.

IT is since this Church was repaired and beautified 39. yeeres, in the passage of which time, that repaire and beauty being lost, it is (as I am informed, by some that belong to the Church) to bee repaired againe very shortly, with a great deale of cost and beauty.

Martins Vintrey.

THis Church was in part Re-edified, and in many parts Repaipaired and beautified, at the [Page] cost and charge of the Parishioners, in the second yeere of the reigne of our Soveraigne Lord King Iames, King of great Britaine, France, and Ireland.

Iohn Woodbridge

William Barnaby

Churchwardens.

The charge then amounting to the summe of foure hundred sixty and odde pounds.

It was againe repaired, richly and very worthily beautified, in the yeere of our Lord 1632. as before, at the cost of the Parish.

Iohn Norton

Richard Travers

Churchwardens.

In this Church, at the upper end of the South Ile, lyeth buried the body of Sir Cutberd Hacket, sometime Lord Maior of this City; his Coat, Streamers, and other Adornments, hanging over his Grave, but no other Monument.

Queene Elizabeths Monument.

To the eternall memory of Elizabeth, Queene of England, France, and Ireland: Daughter to King Henry the eighth, Neece to King Henry the seventh, by the Daughter of King Edward the fourth; a Mother to her Country, a Nurse to Religion, and all good Arts, being of incomparable Knowledge in very many Languages, and indued with rare Ornaments of Body and Minde, in all Princely Vertues above the Sex of Women.

I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, &c.

Matthew Frydaystreet.

THis Church was repaired and very worthily beautified, at the cost of the Parishioners, in the yeeres of our Lord, 1632. and 1633.

Richard Clay

Ioseph Stacy

Churchwardens.

The charge 140. pounds.

Maudlin Milkestreet.

THis Church was repaired and beautified at the charge of the Parish, in the yeere of our Lord God 1619.

Gilbert Ward

Thomas Smith

Churchwardens.

All the Chancell Window was built at the proper cost of Master Benjamin Henshaw, Merchant-Taylor, and one of our City Captaines, the charge of it arising to 60. pounds and upwards.

In the yeere 1633. there was added to this, a faire Communion Table, with a faire Frame about it, which with some other things then done to the further beautifying of the Church, amounted to the summe of 30. pounds.

Iohn Rundell

Iohn Clutterbucke

Churchwardens.

Queene Elizabeths Monument.

Obiit 24. die Martii 1602.

Anno Regni 45.

Aetatis suae 70.

In the figure of a Booke over Her, these words.

Verbum Dei, manet in Aeternum.

Vnder her.

I have fought a good fight, &c.

On the one side.

Elizabeth Queene of England, France, and Ireland, &c. Daughter to King Henry the eighth, and Grandchild of King Henry the seventh, by Elizabeth, eldest Daughter of Edward the fourth, Having restored true Religion, reduced Coyne to the just value, assisted France and the Low-Countries, and overcame the Spanish invincible Navy, enriched all England, and administred most prudently the Imperiall State thereof 45. yeeres in true piety, In the 70. yeere of her age, in most happy and [Page] peaceable manner departed this life, leaving her mortall parts interred in the famous Church of Westminster, till the second comming of Christ.

On the other side.

Monumentum Elizabethae Reginae.

If Royall Vertues ever crown'd a Crowne,

If ever Mildnesse shin'd in Majesty,

If ever Honour honour'd true Renowne,

If ever Courage dwelt with Clemency,

If ever Princesse put all Princes downe,

For temperance, prowesse, prudence, equity,

This, this was she, that in despight of death,

Lives still admir'd, ador'd, ELIZABETH.

Spaines rod, Romes ruine,

Netherlands reliefe,

Heavens Iem, Earths Ioy,

Worlds wonder, Natures chiefe.

Maudlins Oldfishstreet.

THis Church was repaired and beautified, at the charge of the Parish, in the yeere of our Lord, 1630.

Richard Hubbard

Iohn Blew

Churchwardens.

The charge of it amounting to the summe of 140. pounds.

A very Monument in the same Church with this Inscription.

Epitaphium. 1622.

Clarissimi viri Gulielmi Druraei, ex Antiqua & Illustri Druraeorum Familiâ oriundi, Iuris Caesarii Doctoris, & Amplissimae Curiae praerogativae in Angliâ Dignissimi Iudicis, jam olim defuncti, Recenter verò Mariae Vxoris ejus Foeminae laudatissimae, ex spendidissimo Southwellorum genere prognatae.

Hâc Gulielmus humo

Terdenis dormiit Annis,

Nunc subiit tumulum

juncta Maria viro.

Iustitiae fuit hic cultor,

jurisque Magister,

Haec quoque Magnanimâ

Nobilitata fide.

Senâ prole ferax, virtutum

exempla futuris,

Aeternanda Aevis

liquit uterque Parens,

Felices nimium utrâque,

& Funere sponsos,

Dant quibus haec unum

Cor, Humus, Astra, Locum.

Charissimis suis Patri &

Matrihoc Carmine

Parentavit

Gulielmus Druraeus.

Hoc Monumentum in memoriam de functorum Amicorum poni curavit Tho. Cotton, A. R.

Queene Elizabeths Monument.

Here lies her Type, who was of late,

The prop of Belgia, stay of France.

Spaines foile, Faiths shield, and Queene of State,

Of Armes, of Learning, Fate, and Chance:

In briefe, of Women ne re was seene,

So great a Prince [...] good a Queene.

Sith Vertue Her immortall made,

Death (envying all that cannot dye)

Her earthy parts did so invade,

As in it wrackt selfe Majesty.

But so her Spirit inspir'd her Parts,

That she still lives in loyall hearts.

Many Daughters have done vertuously but thou excellest them all.

I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, &c.

Michael Bassishaw.

THis Church was repaired and beautified at the cost and charge of this Parish, in the yeere of our Lord God, 1630.

Thomas Barnie

Christopher Price

Churchwardens.

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Michael Cornehill.

HEre a Repaire followes a Repaire so close, that while I speake of the one I must not forget the other, the former being in the yeeres of our Lord God, 1618, 1619, and 1620. at the finishing.

William Stannard

George Hill

Francis Mosse

Churchwardens.

Of the beauty conceive by the cost, the charge of it amounting to 644. li.

The other in this present yeere of our Lord, 1633. in which the Roofe over the Chancell was new trim'd, the Chancell likewise inriched with a faire and very curious Table of the Commandements, the Windowes about it were new Glazed, the Stones thorow the whole body of the Church taken up, new layed and levelled, and in a word, every part of it at the cost and charge of the Parishioners, was well and very worthily beautified.

Iohn Collison

Richard Norton

Francis Middleton

Churchwardens.

The charge of this arising to 300. li. and upward.

A very faire Monument on the Wall, in the North Ile, with this Inscription.

Memoriae Sacrum Laurentio, & Mariae Caldwall Conjugibus, sacro Foedare Iunctis, & Duodenae prolis Parentibus; Quorum Vxor, & Mater Maria obiit Octobris xx. Anno Dom. 1621. Maritus, & Pater Laurentius, Novemb. xxj. 1625. Septuagenariis utrisque; Liberalibus & suis, & de suis; Hoc sepulcrum posuere, parentalis Haeredes bonitatis, Filii eorum observantissimi, quos defunctos, & Deus habet, & pauperes Carendo lugent.

As it were in a Scroll, held by an Angell.

Omnia ossa justi custodit Dominus.

Vnder this upon the figure of a Tombe.

Heere is lodg'd a loving paire,

Sleeping rest they free from care;

Though their journey, from their birth,

Hath beene tedious long on earth,

He that freed them from their sinne,

Sent them to this holy Inne,

Ioyfull Requiems for to sing,

Hallelujahs to their King,

Till the summons, till the day,

Till the Trumpe sound, Rise, Away.

Michael Crookedlane.

THis Church was repaired and beautified, in the yeere of our Lord God 1610.

In the yeere 1621. the whole Roofe of it found to bee greatly decayed and perished was taken downe, with strong and sufficient Timber re-builded, and with the Lead new cast Re-covered.

The charge of it amounting to 500. pounds.

Not long after this, two Windowes at the East end of the Church, very much defaced and decayed, were repaired; the charge of it 40. li.

A rich and very beautifull Monument on the South side the Chancell, this Ile called The Fish-mongers Chappell.

S. S.

Nec non piae Memoriae

Ioanni Lemanni.

ViriClariss. civis, ac Senatoris integerrimi,

Equitis Aurat. olim hui Vrbis Praetoris.

Qui se, in suo munere, laudatissime Gessit,

Pietatis Cultor, Iustitiae vindex.

Suis in Coelibatu perpetuo vixit parens.

Et suis plus quam pater munifice mortuus.

Hî R. Exp.

Sallinghamiae

ex

Agro Norfolciensi

oriundus

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Probitate,

Simplicitate,

Nixus.

Anno salut. Hu. CIC. ICC. XXxij.

Et suo octagesimo octavo,

die Mart. 26.

Reg. Coeleste,

Certa Fide

Praestolatur.

Vpon a Marble stone in the Chancell is this Inscription.

Sub hoc Marmore Requiescit, in spe resurrectionis ad Gloriam, Maria, fidelis Vxor Iohannis More Mercatoris, Filia Edwardi whorwood, Grocer.

Obijt 10. Decemb. Anno Christi 1632. Aetatis 35.

The figure of a Deaths head.

Memento Mori.

Hîc

Mitis, Amans, Humilis, Pia,

pulchra, pudica, Modesta,

Grata Deo, sponso Chara,

Maria jaces. I. M.

Queene Elizabeths Monument.

The Righteous shall bee had in remembrance.

Queene Elizabeth both was, and is alive,

what then more can be said

In Heaven a Saint, in Earth a blessed Maid.

She ruled England yeeres 44. and more,

and then return'd to God,

At the age of 70. yeeres, and somewhat od.

Christ is to me life, Death is to me advantage.

Phil. 1. 21.

I have fought a good fight, I have finished

my course, &c.

Michael Queenehithe.

THis Church was repaired and beautified, great cost bestowed on the Roofe, the East and West Windowes new built and glazed, with other Repaires about it, at the cost and charge of the Parish, in the yeere of our Lord 1615.

Miles Gunthorpe

Stephen Scot

Churchwardens.

Queene Elizabeths Monument.

Many Daughters have done vertuously, but thou excellest them all.

She is not dead, But sleepeth.

On the one side.

Here lies her Type, who was of late,

The prop of Belgia, stay of France,

Spaines foile, Faiths shield, and Queene of State,

Of Armes, of Learning, Fate and Chance:

In briefe, of Women ne're was seene,

So great a Prince, so good a Queene.

On the other side.

Sith Vertue her immortall made,

Death (envying all that cannot dye)

Her earthy parts did so invade,

As in it wrackt selfe Majesty.

But so her Spirits inspir'd her Parts,

That she still lives in loyall hearts.

I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, &c.

Michael Querne.

THis Church was repaired, and with all things, either for use or beauty richly supplied and furnished, at the sole cost and charge of the Parishioners, in the yeere of our Lord 1617.

A faire Monument in the North Ile, with this Inscription.

Iohn Bankes, Mercer, and Esquire, whose body lyeth here interred, the Sonne of Thomas Bankes, free of the Barber-Surgeans; this Iohn was aged 59. and expired the ninth of September, Anno 1630.

[Page] His first Wife was Martha, a Widow, by whom he had one onely Sonne deceased: his second Wife was Anne Hasell, who left unto him one Daughter and Heire, called Anna, since married unto Edmond Wallers, of Berkensfield in Buckinghamshiere, Esquire. He gave by his last Will and Testament (written with his owne hand) to unbenificed Ministers; to decayed Housekeepers; to the poore of many Parishes; to all (or the most) of the Prisons, Bridewells, and Hospitalls, in and about London; to young Beginners to set up their Trades; to the Artillery Garden, and towards the maintenance thereof, for ever, very bountifully; to his owne Company, both in Lands and Money; to his Friends, in tokens of remembrance; to divers of his Kindred; and to other charitable and pious uses, the summe of 6000. li. notwithstanding Noble and sufficient Dower to his Daughter reserved. And all these severall Legacies, by his carefull Executor Robert Tichbourne, and his overseers, punctually observed, and fully discharged.

Inbalm'd in pious Arts,

wrapt in a shroud

Of white in nocuous Charity,

who vow'd,

Having enough,

the world should understand

No deed of mercy

might escape his hand,

Bankes here is laid to sleepe,

this place did breed him,

A president to all

that shall succeed him.

Note both his life

and immitable end,

Know he th'unrighteous

Mammon made his Friend,

Expressing by his Talents

rich Increase,

Service that gain'd him praise

and lasting Peace.

Much was to him committed,

much he gave,

Entring his treasure there,

whence all shall have

Returne with use:

what to the poore is given,

Claimes a just promise

of Reward in Heaven:

Even such a Banke,

Bankes left behind at last,

Riches stor'd up, which

Age nor Time can waste.

A faire Monument in the South Ile, with this Inscription.

Piae Memoriae Sacrum,

Gilberto Erington, de Wolsington Armigero, ex antiqua Eringtonorum Familia, de Denton in Comitatu Northumbriae orto. Qui ex Dorothea Vxore Chrarissima una filiarum Iohannis de Lavale, de Seaton de Lavale, in dicto Com. Militis, tres filios Marcum, Robertum & Cuthbertum, & sex Filias Annam, Margaretam, Katherinam, Elizab. Dorotheam, & Graciam, suscepit. Ex agro Nativo huc in hanc Civitatem profectus, morboque correptus, obiit xviij. die Iunii, Anno Domini 1578 Aetatis suae 63. Patri optimo & Charissimo, efficiosae pietatis, & Memoriae perpetuum restem, novissimum hoc parentale Munusculum persolvit, posuit, praestitit Marcus Erington filius Maerens xx. die Feb. 1618.

In te Domine speravi, non confundar in Aeternum, Psal. 31.

Vita bonos sed poena malos,

aeterna capescit,

Vita bonis, sed poena malis,

per secula crescit.

His mors, his vita, perpetuatur ita.

Queene Elizabeths Monument.

Here lies her Type, who was of late,

The prop of Belgia, stay of France,

Spaines foile, Faiths shield, and Queene of State,

Of Armes, of Learning, Fate, and Chance:

In briefe, of Women ne're was seene,

So great a Prince, so good a Queene.

Sith Vertue Her immortall made,

Death (envying all that cannot dye)

Her earthy parts did so invade,

As in it wrackt selfe Majesty.

But so her Spirit inspir'd her Parts,

That she still lives in loyall hearts.

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Monumentum Reginae Elizabethae.

Many Daughters have done well, but thou surmountest them all.

She is not dead, But sleepeth.

I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, &c.

Michael Royall.

THis Church was repaired and beautified at the proper cost of the Parish, in the yeere of our Lord, 1630.

Richard Mills

William Hawes

Churchwardens.

The charge of it amounting to 120. li. 9. s.

Michael Woodstreet.

THis Church was repaired, and thus beautified in the yeere of our Lord God, 1620. at the charge of the Parishioners.

Thomas Wilson

Humphry Michael

Churchwardens.

In the yeere 1627. the Parishioners made a new doore to this Church, through the head of the North Ile (being the Chancell end) into Woodstreet; where till then it had onely one doore in the middle of the South Ile, standing in Huggin lane.

Queene Elizabeths Monument.

Here lies her Type, who was of late,

The prop of Belgia, stay of France,

Spaines foile, Faiths shield, and Queene of State,

Of Armes, of Learning, Fate and Chance:

In briefe, of Women ne're was seene,

So great a Prince, so good a Queene.

Sith Vertue her immortall made,

Death (envying all that cannot dye)

Her earthy parts did so invade,

As in it wrackt selfe Majesty.

But so her Spirits inspir'd her Parts,

That she still lives in loyall hearts.

Mildred Breadstreet.

THis Church was repaired and very worthily beautified, in the yeere of our Lord 1628.

The greatest part of the North wall was new built, the Arches in the middle of the Church, foure faire Windowes over them, and a very faire Gallery, at the cost and charge of the Parish.

M. Nicholas Crispe

M. Ralph King

Churchwardens.

This for a generall charge, somewhat of particular bounties.

At the upper end of this Church, on the South side, is a faire Window with this Inscription.

This Window was glazed at the charge of Hester Crispe, late Wife of Ellis Crispe, Citizen and Alderman of London, who lieth fixt in a Vault at the bottome of this Window 1629.

At the upper end of the Church, on the North side, another with this Inscription.

This Window was glazed at the charge of Samuel Crispe, Citizen and Salter of London, 1630.

Betweene these two, at the upper end of the Chancell, is a faire Window full of cost and beauty, which being divided into five parts, carries in the first of them a very artfull and curious representation of the Spaniards great Armado, and the battell in 1588. In the second, of the Monument of Queen Elizabeth. In the third, of the Gunpouder plot. In the fourth, of the lamentable time of infection 1625. And in the fifth and last, the view and lively Portraitures of that worthy Gentleman, Captaine Nicholas Crispe, at whose sole cost (among other) this beautifull piece of worke was erected, as also the figures of his vertuous Wife and Children, with the Armes belonging unto them: The Verses to every Story are these:

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The Story of Eighty eight.

Starre-gazing Wizards

sate upon this yeere,

Matter of wonder,

and did threaten feare

Towards us, in so much

that Rome and Spaine,

This Land accounted

their assured gaine.

But marke how God did

quite their hopes confound,

Both Ships and men

we did see flee and drown'd.

Queene Elizabeths Monument.

Marvell not why

we doe erect this Shrine,

Since dedicated tis

to Worth divine;

Religion, Arts,

with Policy and Armes,

Did all concurre

in her most happy Raigne,

To keepe Gods Church and us

from plotted harmes,

Contriv'd by Romish wits,

and force of Spaine.

The Powder Plot. 1605.

When force could not prevaile,

nor plots abroad

Could have successe,

finne now invents new fraud:

Guy Vaux is sent

Ambassador to Styx,

And thence returning,

furnisheth with trickes

His damned Crew,

who forth withall conclude,

To blow up King, the State,

and Multitude.

The great Plague 1625.

The Stories past,

Gods blessings to the State

Doe clearely shew;

But sure we were ingrate,

For now, behold,

in stead of sweet protection,

Thousands are swept away

by foule Infection.

But marke Gods mercy,

in midst of greatest cryes,

He sheath'd his sword,

and wip't teares from our eyes.

The Founders figure, with his Wife, Children, and their Armes.

These Ensignes which you see,

and Monument,

Are not so much

to represent

The Founders Person,

as his zealous care

T'expresse Gods love,

and mercies rare

To this his Vineyard;

for to that sole end

Did he these Stories

thus commend

To after ages, that

in their distresse,

They might Gods goodnesse

still expresse.

With this, this Gentleman gave towards the repaire of this Church, among the Parishioners, above his share as a Parishioner 75. li.

Also for the Communion Table, two great Flag on Pots, to the value of 57. li.

Also very faire Font, in which a Childe of his owne was first Christened.

His Brother, Master Samuel Crispe, beside his Window, above his ordinary share as a Parishioner, gave to this faire Reparation 25. li.

The Mother of these worthy Gentlemen the aforenamed Hester Crispe, the late Wife of Ellis Crispe, Citizen and Alderman of London, now (by a second, and thrice happy Nuptialls) the Lady Pie, beside her Window, gave to this faire Reparation 20. li. though at that time out of the Parish, and removed from thence to Christ-Church.

A faire Stone in the South side of the Chancell.

This Stone openeth upon the Staires of a Vault, made by Captaine Nicholas Crispe, Anno 1628. wherein lyeth buried his Grandfather, Master Iohn Ireland, late Deputy of this Ward, he [Page] was buried the 29. day of Iune, 1614. And Mistresse Elizabeth Ireland his Wife, buried the 13. day of Aprill, 1613. And his Father Ellis Crispe, late Alderman, and died Sheriffe, he was buried the 10. day of November 1625. And his Sonne Nicholas. Crispe, who was buried the 23. day of Ianuary 1626.

Nicholas

Elizabeth

Iohn

Children of Captaine Nicholas Crispe, buried Anno Dom. 1632.

A faire Monument belonging to this Stone standing over it, with this Inscription.

Ere his worth was fully knowne,

London lost him, once her owne;

Let that yeere lye buried here,

In which London two did gaine,

Sheriffes good, and lost againe.

City, Church, Wife, Children, weepe,

Reason good, though he but sleepe.

Ill can London not lament,

Spoil'd of one chiefe Ornament,

Pity Death had him oregrowne,

Ere his worth was fully knowne.

Mildred Poultrey.

THis Church was repaired and beautified, at the proper cost of the Parishioners, in the yeere of our Lord God 1626.

George Besse

Thomas Brownell

Churchwardens.

The charge of it amounting to the summe of 183. li. and upwards.

A Monument on the wall in the North Ile, with this inscription.

In this Ile lyeth buried the body of Susan Lewin, Daughter of Thomas Lewin, of Broxborne, in the County of Hartford, who had first to Husband, Iohn Palmer, having Issue only one sonne, which Husband deceased Anno 1589. And after some yeeres, the said Susan married with Iohn Kirby, Citizen and Merchant-Taylor, of this Parish, by whom she had foure Sonnes and eight Daughters, who departed this life after 30. yeeres living, the 30. of September 1624.

Queene Elizabeths Monument.

Elizabeth Queene of England, France, and Ireland, &c. Daughter to King Henry the eighth, and Grandchild of King Henry the seventh, by Elizabeth, eldest Daughter of Edward the fourth, Having restored true Religion, reduced Coyne to the just value, assisted France and the Low-Countries, and overcame the Spanish invincible Navy, enriched all England, and administred most prudently the Imperiall State thereof 45. yeeres in true piety, In the 70. yeere of her age, in most happy and peaceable manner departed this life, leaving her mortall parts interred in the famous Church of Westminster, till the second comming of Christ.

If Royall Vertues ever crown'd a Crowne,

If ever Mildnesse shin'd in Majesty,

If ever Honour honour'd true Renowne,

If ever Courage dwelt with Clemency,

If ever Princesse put all Princes downe,

For temperance, prowesse, prudence, equity,

This, this was she, that in despight of death,

Lives still admir'd, ador'd, ELIZABETH.

On the other side of the top of the Monument.

If prayers or teares

of subjects had prevail'd,

To save a Princesse

through the world esteem'd,

Then Atropos

in cutting here had fail'd,

And had not cut her thred,

but beene redeem'd,

But pale fac'd Death,

and cruell churlish Fate,

To Prince and people

brings the latest date.

Yet spite of Death and Fate,

Fame will display

Her gracious Vertues

through the world for aye.

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Spaines rod, Romes ruine,

Netherlands reliefe,

Heavens Iem, Earths Ioy,

Worlds wonder, Natures chiefe.

On the other side.

Britaines blessing, Englands splendor,

Religious Nurse, the Faiths defendor.

In the figure of a Booke over Her, these words.

They that trust in the Lord, shall bee as Mount Sion, which cannot be removed, but remaineth for ever. Psal. 125.

Vnder her.

Th' admired Empresse

through the world applauded,

For supreme Vertues,

rarest Imitation,

Whose Scepters Rule, Fames

loud voyc'd Tumpet lauded,

Vnto the eares

of every forraine Nation.

Canopied under

powerfull Angels wings,

To her immortall praise

sweet Science sings.

Nicholas Acons.

THis Church was repaired and beautified in the yeere of our Lord God 1615. at the cost and charge of the Parishioners.

Robert Old

Nathaniel Buckcock

Churchwardens.

A handsome Monument on the South side of the Chancell, with this Inscription.

This Picture is for others,

not for me,

For in my breast

I weare thy memory.

It is here plac'd,

that passengers may know,

Within thy ground no weeds,

but Corne, did grow.

That there did flow

within thy vitall blood,

All that could make one

honest, just, and good.

Heere is no Elbow roome

to write of more,

An Epitaph yeelds taste,

but seldome store.

Thy troope of Vertues

grac'd thee amongst men,

And now attend thee

at the Court in Heaven.

Thy worth, sweet Charles,

deserves the rarest wit,

Thy Iane, for such a taske,

is most unfit.

Corpus Caroli Haukins, Civis & Aromatarii Londinensis, in hoc Tumulo depositum est. Erat Deo devotus, Charitatis plenus & virtutis; adeo studiosus, ut vitam laudabilem, fixemque optimum peregerit. Iana Vxor ejus, filia Iohannis Reeve Armigeri natu minima, postea nupta fuit Iohanni Suckling Equiti Aurato, Regiae Majestati à supplicum libellis, praedicti Caroli & Ianae insignes Dotes tanti Aestimavit, ut Monumentum hoc, sumptibus propriis, in honorem defuncti pie posuerit, Anno Dom. 1621.

Over these lines, as in a Booke in the hands of this Gentleman, these words:

Beatus vir, cui Dominus non imputavit peccatum, & in cujus Spiritu, non est Dolus.

A Monument on the North side the Chancell, with this Inscription.

In God is all my hope.

All men are borne to dye.

In Christi is my Redemption.

Iohn Hall, Draper, of the age of 90. yeeres, a Housholder in this Parish 58. yeeres, and in that time, by the providence of God, the Father of 27. Children, all borne here. These great mercies, I doe confesse in my heart, not to be of my deserts, but of God his good grace only, shewed unto mee more abundantly, than [Page] unto many thousands in my time, wherefore with heart and tongue, I yeeld all honour and praise unto thee, O God.

Here under lyeth interred the body of Iohn Hall, once Master of the Worshipfull Company of the Drapers, and 25. yeeres one of the Bridgemasters of the City of London, who deceased the 19. day of November, 1618. aged 93. yeeres. And also the body of Anne Browne, Daughter of Master Iohn Browne, Gentleman, being his third Wife, by whom he had 23. Children: she died the 17. of December 1619. being aged 73. yeeres.

Nicholaes Coleabby.

THis Church was repaired and beautified, at the cost of the Parish, in the yeere of our Lord 1630.

Robert Bromly

Henry Hewes

Churchwardens.

In the yeere 1626. new Frames were made for their Bells. And in the yeere 1628. new Battlements added to the Steeple.

Nicholas Olaves.

THis Church was repaired and beautified in the yeere of our Lord God 1623.

Edward Whitwell

Alexander Colsen

Churchwardens.

The cost of it 24. pounds.

Since that, in the yeere 1628. the South Ile, that like a Cottage before, was onely Tyled (and in that unseemly and unbefitting manner so left) was Seiled, and in that decently and very gracefully beautified, which with some cost bestowed on the Steeple, did arise to the summe of 22. li.

This, as the former, being the sole cost and charge of the Parish.

An ancient Monument on the North wall, revived and beautified with the Church, with this Inscription hanging by it.

This Monument of Thomas Lewya, and Agnis his Wife, was newly revived and beautified at the charge of the Right Worshipfull Company of the Ironmongers, whereof hee was free, the 29. of May, Anno Dom. 1623.

Olaves Hartstreet.

THis Church in the many decayed places of it (which indeed were many and great) was repaired richly, and very worthly supplyed with whatsoever it wanted, and furnished with whatsoever might further decke and adorne it (at the proper cost and charge of the Parishioners) in the yeeres of our Lord God, 1632. and 1633.

In the first Thomas Redding and Roger Dreyton, Churchwardens; in the next, Roger Dreyton and Christopher Wigley.

The charge of this repaire amounting to the summe of 437. pounds and upwards.

Some especiall particulars (leaving the Steeple, Walls, and Battlements) within the Church, were these: The Roofe in the middle Ile decayed, to the danger of falling, was with new Timber rebuilt, new Leaded, and the inside very worthily garnished. The Stonework of all the Windowes greatly defaced and perished; were new wrought, and all the Windowes new Glazed. And within some few yeeres before this, two very faire Galleries at the lower end of the Church, one on the North side, the other on the South were erected.

A very faire Monument on the North side of the Chancell, with this Inscription.

Paul Bayning, Esquire, sometimes Sheriffe and Alderman of London, [Page] lived to the age of 77. yeeres, and died the 30. of September, Anno Dom. 1616.

Consecrated to the Memory of Paul and Andrew Bayning, Esquires.

If all great Cities

prosperously confesse,

That he by whom

their Trafficke doth increase

Deserves well of them,

then th' Adventure's worth

Of these two, who

were Brothers both by birth,

And Office, prove,

that they have thankfull bin,

For the Honours which

this City plac'd them in.

And dying old,

they by a blest consent

This Legacy bequeath'd,

Their Monument.

The happy summe and end

of their Affaires,

Provided well both

for their Soules and Heires.

This Monument of his Brother adjoyning to this.

Andrew Bayning, sometimes Alderman of London, lived to the age of 67. yeeres, and died the 21. of December, Anno Dom. 1610.

Over the Tombe of Paul Bayning, Esquire, hang the Ensignes of Honour, as his Coat, Streamers, and the like of the Lord Bayning, Vicount Sudbury, his Sonne, there buried in the Monument of his Father.

Next to that of Paul Bayning, Esquire, is this, having this Inscription.

Eave sis Gradum

pergas Viator,

piusquam haec

perlegeris.

In certam beatae Resurrectionis spem, Terrae sequestratum,

Hic est exanime Corpus, praeclarae quondam Mentis Hospitium, viri juvenis Domini Ludolphi de Werder, Anhaltini, praenobili ac Antiquâ werderorum Familiâ Orti: Cujus summam in Deum pictatem, inclyti Generis seriem, Amplas eruditi pectoris Dotes, cum tam angusto Marmoris non Comprehendantur, sacro silentio meritò obsignamus. Generosus hîc vir Mxām partem, primum Germaniam lustravit, in quâ Famigerabilium aliquot Academiarum, puta Lipsien. Ienev. Gissen. non Degenerem Incolam, diu egit, magnis literarum numinibus mirum quantum carus. Deinde in Belgiam concessit, ubi veram Nobilitatem, decentibus studiis Quadrien. Leidae Combussit. Tandem in Angliam perveniens hîc Londini sesquiannum phthisi solito vehementius laboravit; cujus malignâ obstinatione, etiam Factum est, ut die 26. Decemb. Anno 1628. Natus Annos 29. Rebus humanis valere, suis verô plangere, dixerit, Animâ suâ, Creatori suo, unde tam nobile depositum acceperat, Magnâ in Christum Fide Redonatâ. Monumentum hoece Agnati, quibus accerbum sui desiderium Reliquit, pio ducti Affectu erigi Curarunt.

Lectori.

Quisquis adhuc vitam vivis,

sic vivito vitam,

Linquere eam quovis

tempore rite queas.

Neere unto the other this, having this Inscription. D. O. M. S. Viator Commorare, Rimare, Mirare.

Christophorus Iacobus Elssenhaimer, ab Elssehaim in preprum Iunior, Welsinsis Austrius Generis splendore, verâ in Deum Religione, pietate in parentes, observantia in superiores, Charitate & Comitate in quosvis, verè Nobilissimus juvenis, Nobile Familiae Columen, Iuventutis exemplar, Artium & Linguarum Cognitionem infignem, pro divinis ingenii sui dotibus, in Ratisponensium Gymnasio Poetico Altorfiana Argentinensi, Basiliensi, Leidensi Academiis [Page] acquisitam peregrinationibus adaucturus, hîc in Anglia, ad Angelorum Sanctorum Coelum avocatus, Animam suā Christo Redemptori reddidit, corpus verò huic solo commisit, Desiderium sui tristissimum omnibus bonis relinquens, Imprimis parentibus Christophoro Iacobo Elssenbaimero ab Elssenham in Preprunn Seniori, & Dorotheae ex Nobili Haendeliorum Familia prosatae, Qui Filio unicè unisoli senectutis portui extremum hoc quod sibi ab illo desideravere animitus Amoris Monumentum inter Candissimas Lacrymas statuerunt.

Obiit Anno Aetatis 21. Men. ix. die. 28. Anno Christi M. D. C. XVIII. die vj. August.

Nemo nostrum sibi vivit, & nemo sibi moritur, sive enim vivimus, Domino vivimus, sive morimur Domino morimur; sive ergo vivimus, sive morimur, Domini sumus. Paul ad Rom. cap. 14. vers. 17.

Fili ad Parent.

Vivo fruor tandem veris, ne flete parentes, Deliciis, Coelo posteritate Deo.

On a faire Stone in the middle Ile, with these words about it.

Here lyeth the body of Alice Hull, the Wife of Walter Hull of London, Gentleman, who was buried the 16. day of November, Anno Dom. 1627.

In the middle of the Stone, with their Armes over it, these words.

Though we are dead, yet our lives are hid in Christ with God.

Christ is to me both in life and death advantage.

Though my flesh faileth, and my heart also, yet God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.

Olaves Jewrie.

THis Church was repaired in the yeere 1608. and againe repaired and beautified in the yeere of our Lord God, 1628.

A faire Monument in the same Church with this Inscription.

Memoriae Sacrum, Roberti Bowyer, Mercatoris London, ex Antiqua Familia Bouyes: De Knipperslay, in Com. Staffordiae oriundi, secundi filii Francisci Bowyer. Ar. Quondam Aldermani hujus Civitatis, Honorabilis Societatis Grocerum London, olint pro tempore praefecti. Margaretam unum Filiarum Thomae Cordall, quondam etiam Mercator London, ac Honorabilis Societatis Mercerum, ejusdem Societatis prefecti, in Vxor: ducentis amplissimam suscipientis prolem quinque Filios, viz. Thomam, Robertum, Williclmum, & Henricum, modo Coelebes, superstites existentes, & Iohannem defunctum, & secundum Christi adventum hîc expectantem.

Margareta Vxor, Thomas, & Robertus filii ejus, a ultimi Testamenti Executores, pietatis, & observantiae ergo, Moerentes posuerunt.

Vnder this Tombe,

the sacred Ashes hold,

The drossie part

of more Celestiall gold;

The body of a Man,

a Man of men,

Whose worth to write at large,

would loose my Pen.

Then doe thy worst, Death,

glut thy selfe with Dust,

The precious Soule

is mounted to the Just.

Yet Reader, when thou read'st,

both reade and weepe,

That men so good, so grave,

so wise, doe sleepe.

N. S. Moerens Posuit.

Olaves Silverstreet.

THis Church, being greatly decayed and perished, was in the yeere of our Lord God 1609. new built, and enlarged in the breadth seven foot and above.

[Page] In the yeere of our Lord, 1619. it was againe repaired and beautified. And in the yeere of our Lord, 1632. inrched with a very faire Gallery, with this Inscription in the severall panes or parts thus:

Deo Patri Filio Spiritu Sancto

Trino & uni Gloria in aeternum.

Richardus Turner, & Iohannes Morrell, Hanc porticum suis sumptibus erexerunt.

Pancras Soperlane.

THis Church was repaired and beautified, in the yeere of our Lord 1621. towards which Reparation, Sir Thomas Bennet, Alderman, Dame Anne Soame, and Master Thomas Chapman, were free and bountifull Benefactors.

The last of these, Master Thomas Chapman, having in the yeere 1617. given a faire and very costly Table, bearing the figure of the Monument of that ever famous after death, as in her life, Queene Elizabeth.

In the yeere 1624. the Sonne of this worthy Gentleman, Master Thomas Chapman the younger, to the further beautifying of this Church, in the more gracefull entrance into it, built a very faire Porch, at his owne proper cost and charges.

Also a faire Communion Table, with some other repaires in the South Wall, was the cost of Master William Doricke, Citizen and Grocer of London.

Queene Elizabeths Monument.
Mors mihi lucrum Spiritus Astra petat.

To the most happy, blessed, and precious Memory, of the late famous, renowned, aud never to bee forgotten Monarch, Q. Elizabeth.

The Restorer of true Religion, A tender nursing Mother of the Church of God, A powerfull Protector (under Almighty God) of her owne Dominions, A ready helper of her neighbouring Princes, A hearty and unfeyned Lover, and beloved of her Subjects; who lived gloriously full of dayes, and whom the eternall Iehovah blest with the longest life of any Prince of England since the Conquest.

By way of due thankefulnesse to the most holy, sacred, and individuall Trinity, and her ever honoured Royall Vertues, this Memoriall of hers was here erected, set up, and Consecrated, the 17. of November, 1617.

Terram Terra Tegat.

Peters Cheape.

THis Church was repaired and beautified at the charge of the Parishioners, in the yeeres of our Lord, 1616. and 1617.

Iames Ridgeard

Walter Eldred

Churchwardens.

The charge of it amounting to 314. pounds.

Peters Cornehill.

THis Church is yet in repaire; the Steeple beganne to be repaired in the yeere of our Lord, 1628. and was finished 1629.

The Church it selfe was begunne to be repaired in March, 1632. and is (as they make account) about All Saints day, in this present yeere 1633. to be finished, and (at the sole cost & charge of the Parishioners) without, within, in all and every part of it, richly and very worthily beautified.

The certaine charge cannot yet bee knowne, but as I have heard (probably imagined by what is done and to doe) it is about 1400. pounds.

The Churchwardens this yeere of finishing, Thomas Birket and Theophilus Boulton.

[Page] In a Vault in the Chancell, upon the 18. day of December, in the yeere of our Lord 1625. was buried the body of Thomas Westrow, Alderman and Sheriffe of London, the sonne of Timothy Westrow, sometime Citizen and Grocer, in this Parish.

His Hatchments, and such Ensignes as were to his name and degree, hanging over him.

Neere to this in the Chancell, about a faire Marble stone is this inscription.

Here lyeth buried the body of Iudith Fowler, with her new borne sonne, deceased the 22. of November, Anno Dom. 1613. Stilo Angliae.

Vpon it thus:

She was borne in Antwerpe, the daughter of Iohn Schine, Merchant (stranger) of Middlebroche, and Wife of Iaspar Fowler, Citizen and Mercer of London; she died in Childbed in the faith and love of God. Shee left behind her living, one onely sonne, and one daughter, Richard and Cornelia.

Peters Pauls Wharfe.

THis Church was repaired and beautified, at the cost and charge of the Parish, in the yeere of our our Lord 1625. and in the first yeere of the raigne of our Soveraigne Lord King CHARLES.

Thomas Finch

William Stanfoy

Churchwardens.

There is a very faire Table of the Commandements at the upper end of the Chancell, dated 1619. for then it was set up, standing so long as to the aforenamed date to shrinke, and was then finished.

Queene Elizabeths Monument.

I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith.

From henceforth is laid up for me a Crowne of Righteousnesse, which the Lord, the righteous Iudge shall give mee at that day; and not me onely, but to them also that love his appearing, 2 Tim. 4. 7, 8.

Peters Poore.

THere hath beene in this Church since the beginning of the yeere 1615. to the yeere 1630. many costly repaires and charges.

In the yeere 1615. this Church was on the West side inlarged in the breadth eight foot and better, by the taking downe of the North wall, and over a slip of ground that formerly lay behind it so farre outward, erecting another.

Vpon the foundation of the old wall were erected new Pillars and Arches, and from them to the new, a faire Roofe.

This empty uselesse and rude piece of ground, being turned to this use and beauty (with the very faire Windowes in it) at the sole cost and charge of Sir William Garway, Knight, who at the East end of this wall, in a Vault (made likewise at his owne cost) lyes under his faire Monument interred. The charge of this Ile was 400. pounds.

In the yeere 1616. this new Ile, and the whole Church was new pewed, and the great Window in the Chancell enlarged.

In the yeere 1617. the Roofe, and the inside of the Church thorowout, was richly and very worthily beautified.

In the yeeres 1629. and 1630. the Steeple, and a very costly Gallery at the West end of the Church, were new built and beautified, and the Bells new cast and hung.

The charge of all this amounting to the summe of 1587. pounds and upwards, all which, deducting the 400. pounds cost of the Ile, was the cost and charge of the Parish.

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A very faire Monument at the upper end of the North Ile in the Chancell, with this Inscription.

Hic vivit Gulielmus Garway, Eques Auratus, Civis Londinensis, qui Annos egit. 54. cum Elizabetha Vxore integerrima, Filia Thomae Anderson, Civis etiam Londinensis, beatitudine Lecti fructifera, Pater erat 17. liberorum, illustre probitatis, & pietatis exemplar, Industria singulari, universalem expectavit Mercaturam. Feliciter magis quam avare, bis ad Senatoriam dignitatem vocatus, qui Purpuram recusavit, nunc triumphat in Albis. Tandem postquam Alam hujus Templi sinistram construxisset, placide corpus suo operi, Animam suo opifici reposuit.

Anno Aetatis suae 88. Domini 1625. Septemb. 26.

Templa Dei in terris duo sunt,

Ecclesia, Corpus,

Vna Domus carnis, cultus

domus altera, & Ambo

Conveniunt tumulo,

parvo coeuntque socello.

Non quaeras igitur Cineres

sub cespite Lector,

Est templum in templo clausum,

non essa sepulchre.

Marmore sublato,

subsellia, porta, columnae,

Ala haec, & paries, spatium

totum, atque Fenestrae,

Omnia structorem monstrant,

resonantque patronum,

Sic tenet immortalem,

& mortalem locus idem.

Conditur in Templo quod condidit,

& Monumentum

Hoc unum vitae, & mortis

commune Relinquit.

In the North Ile, upon a faire Marble Stone is this Inscription.

As in a Sheafe of Arrowes.

Vis unita Fortior.

The band of love,

The unitor of brethren.

Here lyeth the body of Thomas Harvy, of London, Merchant,

Who departed this life the 2. of Feb. Anno Dom. 1622.

With his first Wife Elizabeth, (the Daughter of Nic. Exton, of London, Merchant) she died the first of Ianuary Anno 1618.

He was a faithfull man, and feared God above many, Ier. 7. 2.

A faire Monument at the upper end of the Chancell, with this Inscription. Anno 1624. Aetatis 54. A Memoriall Of the Worshipfull Master Robert Wadson, late Citizen and Merchant-Taylor of London. Epitaphium.

So fraile and brittle

is the life of man,

That who lives longest

liveth but a span;

In yout and age all dye,

God hath so doom'd,

That Earth returnes to Earth

to be intomb'd.

Wadson, who of that substance

was compos'd,

Lies in his Mothers Center

here inclos'd,

A sheet doth hide his face,

but not his fame,

The Grave containes his corps,

not his good name:

For his good name outlives

(O blessed man)

When others good names dye

before they can.

The sixt of Ianuary

(that fatall day)

Sixteene hundred twenty foure,

he did pay

The debt to Nature,

which all men doe know,

He was no sooner borne

but he did owe.

If Vertues could have staied

the hand of Death,

Then Wadson still

had drawne his vitall breath.

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His soule above,

his worths doe here remaine,

Till Christ shall come

to raise him up againe:

Thus he enjoyes

Heav'ns immortality,

And here on Earth,

Earths happy memory.

Post varios vitae casus,

dabit urna quietem.

Stevens Colemanstreet.

THis Church was (in many parts of it) carefully repaired, and thorowout fairely and commendably beautified at the proper cost and charge of the Parishioners, in the yeere of our Lord God, 1622.

Francis Wheeler

Thomas Newton

Churchwardens.

And further inriched and beautified with a very faire Gallery in the South Ile, in the yeere 1629.

Robert Kay

Robert Daukes

Churchwardens.

In the Chancell lyeth buried the body of Master Samuel Aldersey, Merchant, Citizen and Haberdasher of London, Iuly 25. 1633.

His Hatchments and Ensignes proper to his Name and estate hanging over him.

To the memory Of that ancient Servant to the City, with his Pen, in divers imployments, especially the Survey of London, Master Anthony Munday, Citizen and Draper of London.

He that hath many an

ancient Tombstone read,

(Ith labour seeming, more

among the dead

To live, than with the living)

that survaid

Obstruse Antiquities,

and ore them laid

Such vive and beauteous colours

with his Pen,

That (spite of time)

those old are new agen,

Vnder this Marble lies inter'd:

His Tombe,

Clayming (as worthily it may)

this roome,

Among those many

Monuments his Quill

Has so reviv'd,

helping now to fill

A place (with those)

in his Survay: in which

He has a Monument,

more faire, more rich,

Than polisht Stones

could make him, where he lies

Though dead, still living,

and in That, nere dyes.

Obiit Anno Aetatis suae 80. Domini 1633. Augusti 10.

Queene Elizabeths Monument.

Elizabeth Queene of England, France, and Ireland, &c. Daugter to King Henry the eighth, and Grandchild of King Henry the seventh, by Elizabeth, eldest Daughter of Edward the fourth, Having restored true Religion, reduced Coyne to the just value, assisted France and the Low-Countries, and overcame the Spanish invincible Navy, enriched all England; and administered most prudently the Imperiall State thereof 45. yeeres in true piety, In the 70. yeere of her age, in most happy and peaceable manner departed this life, leaving her mortall parts interred in the famous Church of Westminster, till the second comming of Christ.

If Royall Vertues ever crown'd a Crowne,

If ever Mildnesse shin'd in Majesty,

If ever Honour honour'd true Renowne,

If ever Courage dwelt with Clemency,

If ever Princesse put all Princes downe,

For temperance, prowesse, prudence, equity,

This, this was she, that in despight of death,

Lives still admir'd, ador'd, ELIZABETH.

I have fought a good fight, &c. 2 Tim. 7, 8.

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Stevens Walbrooke.

THis Church within the time of 12. yeeres past, hath had these many and costly repaires.

As first, in the yeere 1622. all the Chancell, and the two side Iles, as farre as the Chancell, repaired; the Pulpit, Pewes, and Communion Table new.

The charge of all this amounting to the summe of 126. li. 15. s. 6. d.

Tobias Massie

Affable Fairecloughe

Churchwardens.

In the yeere 1623. in the North side of this Church two Windowes new made, and certaine other Windowes repaired, the charge of this amounting to the summe of 16. li. and upwards.

Tobias Massie

Griffith Morgan

Churchwardens.

In the yeere 1626. the whole body of the Church was new Pewed, the charge of it amounting to 333. li. and upwards.

Iohn Warner

Ellis Southerton

Churchwardens.

In the yeere 1632. the repaire of the Steeple, the North side of the Church, the Tower on the South side, with other repaires and mendings, amounted to the summe of 35. li.

Iohn Booker

Richard Winston

Churchwardens.

The whole cost of these Repaires 510. li. 15. s. 6. d.

S. Swithins.

THis Church hath had no repaire since the yeeres of our Lord 1607. and 1608. In the first of which it was begunne to be repaired, Richard Glover and Thomas Wood Churchwardens: and in the last fully beautified and finished at the cost and charge of the Parishioners.

Thomas Wood

Richard Hewit

Churchwardens.

A very faire Monument on the South side of the Chancell, with this inscription. This Monument

Was erected at the sole cost and charges of Ione, Lady Bolles, in memory of her late deare and worthy Husband, the Right Worshipfull, Sir George Bolles, Knight, sometimes Lord Maior of the City of London, a Gentleman worthily descended, of an ancient and unblamed Family, seated in Lincolnshire, which Lady Ione was the eldest Daughter of that worthy & famous deceased Knight, Sir Iohn Hart, sometimes likewise Lord Maior of the said City of London, and both Brothers of the Right Worshipfull Fraternity of the Grocers. Two branches of that vertuous Stem now flourishing: his Son Iohn Bolles, Esquire, now living at Skampton in Lincolnshire, and his eldest Daughter Anne, the Wife of Captaine Humphry Smith, of London, Grocer, who deceased the first of September 1621. being aged 83. yeeres.

Epitaph.

Honour, In [...]grity,

Compassion,

Those three fil'd up

the life time of this man:

Of Honour, the grave

Praetorship he bare,

Which he discharg'd with

Conscience, Truth, and Care,

He posses'd Earth,

as he might Heaven possesse,

Wise to doe right,

but never to oppresse.

His Charity was better

felt than knowne,

For when he gave,

there was no Trumpet blown.

What more can be compriz'd

in one mans fame,

To crowne a soule,

and leave a living name?

All his just praise

in her life may be read,

The true Wife of his worth

as of his bed.

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Over against the other, in the same Ile, is a faire Monument, with this Inscription. Epitaphium

Generosi, & summae spei juvenis, Georgii Bolles Armigeri, Domini Iohannis Bolles, Baronetti, de Skampton in Comitatu Lincolniensi, & Dominae Katharinae Vxoris Filii primogeniti, qui cùm ageret Annum Aetatis vicessimum, exiit ex hac vita, Anno Dom. 1632.

Nil opus hos cineres,

florum decorare corollis:

Flos, hîc compositus

qui jacet ipse fuit.

Moribus, Ingenio,

Naturâ suavis, aperto

Pectore, cui niveus

nilnisi Candor, erat.

Quem Sidneiani spatiis,

umbraque lycei,

Artibus excoluit

Granta diserta suis.

Bis denos vitae, nondum

numer averat Annos,

Cum brevis extremum

clauderet hora diem.

O quantos gemit usque suis

luctusque reliquit,

Tam properè Angelices

dum sitit ire domos.

Euge Beate, tuo cum Christo

sorte fruaris,

Sentiat & similem,

qui legit ista sitim.

Ri. Dugard, Moerens composuit.

Thomas Apostle.

THis Church was repaired, and very worthily beautified at the cost and charge of the Parishioners, in the yeere of our Lord God, 1630.

Henry Whaley

Robert Perkins

Churchwardes.

The charge of it amounting to neere 300. pounds.

Queene Elizabeths Monument.

If Royall Vertues ever crown'd a Crowne,

If ever Mildnesse shin'd in Majesty,

If ever Honour honour'd true Renowne,

If ever Courage dwelt with Clemency,

If ever Princesse put all Princes downe,

For Temperance, prowesse, prudence, equity,

This, this was she, that in despight of death,

Lives stilladmir'd, ador'd, ELIZABETH.

If prayers or teares

of subjects had prevail'd,

To save a Princesse

through the world esteem'd,

Then Atropos

in cutting here had fail'd,

And had not cut her thred,

but beene redeem'd,

But pale fac'd Death,

and cruell churlish Fate,

To Prince and people

brings the latest date.

Yet spite of Death and Fate,

Fame will display

Her gracious Vertues

through the world for aye.

Monumentum Elizabethae Angliae Reginae. As in a Booke. Psal. 112.

The righteous shall bee had in everlasting remembrance.

On the one side.

Spaines rod, Romes ruine,

Netherlands reliefe,

Heavens Iem, Earths Ioy,

Worlds wonder, Natures chiefe.

On the other side.

Britaines Blessing,

Englands Splendor,

Religions Nurse,

The Faiths Desendor.

Vnder her Monument.

Many Daughters have done well, but thou excellest them all.

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Trinity Parish.

THis Church was repaired and beautified at the cost & charge of the Parish, in the yeere of our Lord 1626.

Nicholas Salbye

Thomas Allam

Churchwardens.

This Church, in the yeere 1606. was so lamentably decayed and perished, that (in that great necessity of it) they were constrained to pull it downe to the ground, and from thence, with what speed they could, with much care and cost to rebuild it, which in the yeeres of 1607. and 1608. was finished.

In the South Ile in the wall, hang two large Tables, the one shewing the Contributions of all her owne Parishioners; the other the Contributions of all the Parishes within and without London, towards the rebuilding of it; the particular summes of every man in the first, and of every Parish in the last, there fairely set downe before them.

Richard Owfall

George Haeffeld

then Churchwardens.

To this pious worke also, the worshipfull Companies of the Merchant-Taylors and Vinteners were very free and bounteous Benefactors.

As also these Aldermen:

Sir Thomas Cambell.

Sir Iohn Swinnerton.

Sir Iohn Gore.

Sir William Craven.

Sir Thomas Middleton.

Their Names and Armes standing in a faire Window at the upper end of the Chancell.

A Review also of the sixteene Parishes without the Walls of this City.

Andrew Holborne.

THis Church hath had no repaire or cost bestowed upon it (worthy any record or memory) for the space of many yeeres; indeed so many, that the many decayed parts & places of it, call rather for a Rebuilding, than a Repairing. Which is (as I am told) now providing for; the Parishioners purposing very shortly to pull it all downe, and rebuild, enlarge, and enrich it, with that beauty that becomes so great a worke, and the House of the great God Almighty.

What I have heard, I relate, and beleeve, both for the truth and speed: which when it begins, in the progression and finishing, the blessing of God goe with it.

A very comely Monument upon a Pillar in the South Ile, with this Inscription.
Aspice, Respice, Prespice.

Neere to this place lyeth buried the body of Elizabeth Ade, late the wife of Iohn Ade, of Doddington, in the County of Kent, Gentleman: and eldest daughter of Thomas Waller, of Beckonfield, in the County of Buckingham, Esquire, who in her time was the Mirror of her Sex, repleat with all the gifts that Grace or Nature could affoord: Religious towards God, and charitable towards men; loving and faithfull to her Husband, beloved of all, hated of none.

This world not worthy of her, she was translated to a better, the third of May, 1619. and about the 32. yeere of her age, leaving by her death a most infortunate Husband, three Sonnes, Iohn, Edward, and Nicholas, [Page] and foure Daughters, Dorothy, Elizabeth, Mary and Francis.

Whosoever thou art, that passest by,

Learne here to live, and here to dye.

On the South side of the Quire, upon a faire Marble stone, is this Inscription.

Here lies buried the body of Christopher Sherland, Esquire, Reader of Greyes Inne, who died the 27. day of Ianuary, Anno Dom. 1631.

On a stone neere unto the other, is this Inscription.

Here lyeth the Body of Henry Topham, Esquire, one of the Readers of Greyes Inne, who died the first day of May, Anno 1612.

Vpon a Brasse plate, neere the North doore, is this Inscription.

Here lies a Maid,

for Heaven by her pure life

So fit, she could not stay

to be a Wife;

And with her, halfe a man

lies buried,

That is but halfe himselfe,

now she is dead:

His other halfe lives

but in hope to be

Inclosed in this Vrne,

as well as she.

In losing her, the Lovets

lost a Iemme,

A Margarite, too rich

(indeed) for Them,

But not for Him, to whom

she went from hence,

Vsher'd by Faith, Hope, Love,

and Innocence.

Then you that are her friends,

your Griefe forget,

In Heaven your Margarite

is richly set.

Obiit 4. die Februarii, Anno Domini, 1631.

Bartholomew the Great.

OF this Church we are certainly informed, that from the yeere of our Lord, 1622. to this present 1633. there hath not beene a yeere in the passage of which, there hath not beene (in one part or another of it) a great deale of money expended.

What was done in every particular yeere, I doe not certainly know, but what I could learne take thus:

In the yeere of our Lord 1620. the Porch at the West end of the Church was new built, which in the yere 1632. was againe repaired and beautified.

In the yeere 1622. the inside of the Church was new painted, richly and very worthily beautified.

In the yeere 1624. the Gallery at the lower end of the Church, was rebuilded, very much enlarged, and beautified.

In the yeeres of our Lord 1625. and 1626. great cost was bestowed in Lead, and in the Plumbers labour.

In the yeere 1628. the Steeple of this Church, being formerly part of Stone, and part of Timber, the upper part especially Timber, being all ruined and decayed, was pulled downe to the very foundation, and a new re-builded of Bricke and Free-stone, very richly and fairely finished.

Also the East Ile, and some other parts of this Church (very defective) were repaired and beautified at the cost and charge of the Parishioners.

The charge of this yeere amounting to 698. pounds and upward.

Richard Glover

Richard Toppin

Churchwardens.

A Monument in the North Ile in the Chancell, with this Inscription.

Sacred to the memory of that worthy and learned, Francis Anthony, Doctor in Physicke.

There needs no Verse

to beautifie thy praise,

Or keepe in memory

thy spotlesse Name,

Religion, Vertue,

and thy skill did raise

§

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A threefold pillar

to thy lasting fame:

Though poysonous envy

ever sought to blame,

Or hide the fruits

of thy intention;

Yet shall all they

commend that high designe,

Of purest Gold

to make a Medicine,

That feele thy helpe

by that thy rare invention.

Hee died the 26. of May 1623. his age 74.

His loving Sonne, Iohn Anthony, Doctor in Physicke, left this remembrance of his sorrow.

Another Monument neere the Pulpit, with this Inscription.

Roberto R. F. Chamberlanio, Iacobi Magno-Britanici, Francici, Hibernici, Pii Foelicis semper Augusti Inauguratione Nobiliss. De Balneo ordinis Militi, Castelli de Sherburne in Agro Oxoniensi Domino, ab Antiquiss. Tankevillae in Normandia Comitib. longa Majerum serie demisso. Quantecunque fortunae capaci Animo Magna nato, nec vir [...]utibus Minorib. Quas dum sibi, suisque fovet, exteras Nationes complurimas lustravit, Morum Calidus Linguarumque. Terram postremo sanctam, & sepulcrum domini venerandus adiit, sumque (Heufata) quale, aut ubi incomperto Reperiit, littore siquidem solvens, Anno Virginei partus, 161 [...]. Tripolim inter Cyprumque (quantum Conjici fas est) fatorum an hominum inclementia,

Coelebs à suis procul periit.

Tam dulcis olim contubernii memor, tantoque dolori & desiderio impar, Amico Amicus merenti Moerens. P.

Vixit Annos circiter 30.

Coelo tegitur qui non habet urnam.

A faire Monument in the South Ile, close by the Vestry doore.

Here lyeth interred the body of Elizabeth Freshwater, late Wife of Thomas Freshwater of Heubridge, in the County of Essex, Esquire, eldest Daughter of Iohn Orme, of this Parish, Gentleman, and Mary his wife. She died the 16. day of May, Anno Domini, 1617. being of the age of 26. yeeres.

Mors properans, quali

tinxisti tela veneno,

Vt sic trina uno

vulnere praeda cadat:

Vnam saeva feris, sed & uno

hoc occidit Ictu,

Vxor dulcis, Amans filia,

Chara soror.

Here also lieth the body of the said Iohn Orme, who died the 12. of Ianuary, Anno Dom. 1617. And the body of the said Mary Orme, who died the 16. of Aprill, 1618.

Vpon a faire Marble Stone close by the last Monument, is this Inscription.

Hîc jacet Nicholas Orme, de Hospitio Lincolniensi Armiger, qui postquam Annos 28. explevisset 4. die Februarii, Anno salutis 1628. expiravit; & jam placidè requiescit unà cum utroque parente, duobus fratribus, unâ sorore, & duobus sobrinis, ex Thoma Gundroy Generose oriundis, qui quod motale in illis fuit, hoc in pulvere prius deposuerunt.

Vpon a faire Stone close to the other is this Inscription.

In the figure of a Rose.

Oritur & Moritur.

Here lyeth the body of Abigall Coult, the Daughter of Maximilian Coult, who departed this life the 19. day of March, 1629. in the 16. yeere of her Virginity.

Bartholomew the Lesse.

OF this Church I can say but little; receiving in my enquiry of it, touching its repaire and [Page] beauty, so little and so sleight an answer; for all that I could get, of those that might best have informed mee, was, that either for Monument or cost, there was nothing they thought, worth the Recording.

My carefull inquiry and entreats, for the knowledge of that that was, prevailing no farther with them: If any man seeme offended, that I speake neither more or better, hee sees where to place his displeasure.

Notwithstanding all this, though I cannot point upon the yeere, yet I must tell you, that within these few yeeres, it hath had some repaire and beauty, though in respect of many other Churches, the cost was but sleight and easie: yet such as is worth remembrance, and such as in that, it yet remaines decent and comely.

S. Brides.

THis Church was repaired, and every part of it richly and very worthily beautified, at the proper cost and charge of the Parishioners, in the yeeres of our Lord God, 1630. 1631. and 1632. In the last

Thomas Lee

Thomas Turner

Churchwardens.

Some memorable particulars (though included in the general commends) are these: The Battlements were new built, the middle Roofe, and a very faire Gallery on the North side of this Church, answerable to that on the South, which was erected in the yeere of our Lord, 1607.

A very faire Monument standing in the South Ile, in the Chancell, with this Inscription.

In this Chancell lyeth buried Frances Trevor, Wife of Sir Thomas Trevor, Knight, Solicitor Generall to the Prince, at the time of her death, and now one of the Barons of the Exchequer; shee was Daughter and Heire of Daniel Bleverhasset of Norfolke, Esquire. Shee died the 6. of Ianuary, 1624. In whose memory her said Husband, Haec piè posuit.

They had a Daughter buried neere unto her.

In this Chancell also was buried, the sixth of Ianuary 1614. Prudence Trevor, Daughter of Henry Butler, and former Wife to the said Sir Thomas, who bate him a Sonne, named Thomas, now living, Also Iohn Trevor of Trevallyn, in Comitatu Denbighe, Esquire, Father to the said Sir Thomas, died the 15. of Iuly, 1589. and lieth buried here.

Randulph Trevor, Brother to the said Sir Thomas, died the 21. of Iuly, 1590. and is buried here.

Margarite, Neece to the said Sir Thomas, and Daughter of Sir Richard Trevor, of Trevallyn, Knight, was married to Iohn Griffith, of Lyn, in Comitatu Carnarvon, Esquire, and left many children, and was buried here the 19. of March, 1624.

In the same Ile, at the upper end of this Church, on a faire Monument, in this Inscription.

Here resteth the body of Sir George Curzon, of Croxall, in the Country of Derby, Knight, descended from ancient Gentry, and of long continuance in that place, who, like the Race from whence hee came, was a Man ofuprightlife, religious, and Hospitable. Hee tooke to Wife Mary, the Daughter of Sir Richard Levison, of Lolleshull, in the Country of Salop, Knight, by whom hee had Walter, who dyed young, and Mary then his onely Daughter and Heire, who was married to Edward Sackvile, Earle of Dorset, Knight Sackvile, Earle of Dorset, Knight of the Honourable Order of the Garter. Which Lady caused this Monument to bee here infixed, to the sacred memory of her deare Father. He departed this life the 17. of NoVember, 1622.

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Bridewell Precinct.

THis Chappell was enlarged and beautified, at the proper cost and charge of the Governours and Inhabitants of this Precinct, in the yeere of our Lord God, 1620. Sir Thomas Middleton being then President, and Master Thomas Iohnson Treasurer of this Hospitall.

This enlargement was by the taking in of a large Roome, that (before the date above named) joyned upon the head of the Chappell. This ground adding to the length of it (all the full breadth going with it) 24. foote and better.

This Roome thus taken in, trim'd, beautified, and consecrated, is now a beautifull Chappell, it being before a Roome empty, vast, rude, and unsightly: though then, in the use, deserving a faire commendation.

For then, that ground that is now a Chancell to the Prisoners of the house, was a Chappell, into which every Sabbath (through a bye or backward passage) they were brought from their severall Lodgings, to heare divine Service and Sermons.

So that then, and now, in that worthy use, and this worthy alteration and beauty, we may see the Pious and Religious care of these worthy and right Worshipfull Governours, continually imployed, and applyed to things of this excellent nature.

Close by the Pulpit hangs the Picture of King EDVVARD the sixt, with these lines under it.

This Edward of

faire memory, the sixt.

In whom with greatnesse

goodnesse was commixt,

Gave this Bridewell,

a Palace in old times,

For a chastising house

of vagrant crimes.

Queene Elizabeths Monument.

Here lies her Type, who was of late,

The prop of Belgia, stay of France,

Spaines foile, Faiths shield, and Queene of State,

Of Armes, of Learning, Fate and Chance:

In briefe, of Women ne're was seene,

So great a Prince, so good a Queene.

Sith Vertue her immortall made,

Death (envying all that cannot dye)

Her earthy parts did so invade,

As in it wrackt selfe Majesty.

But so her Spirits inspir'd her Parts,

That she still lives in loyall hearts.

I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, &c.

Obiit 24. die Martii 1602.

Anno Regni 45.

Aetatis suae 70.

Botolph Aldersgate.

THough I cannot here speake of a generall repaire and beauty, yet I may say for this Church, that the eye of the yeerely Gardians of it is so continualy watchfull over it, that whensoever any part of it stands in need of either or both, they carefully and suddenly bestow it. An instance of this thus followes:

The Steeple of this Church, being very much decayed and perished, was (so farre as they found it needfull) pulled downe, and rebuilded with Portland stone, beautified with new Battlements, and a Turret; some part of the Church repaired, and many of the Pewes were new made; as also a new Clocke and Diall (at the cost and charge of the Parishioners) in the yeere of our Lord God 1627.

Iohn Wooton

Anthony Ierman

Churchwardens.

The charge of all this 415. li.

And but three yeeres before (in the yeere 1624.) was a very faire new Pulpit set up, the cost of that (that likewise [Page] being the charge of the Parish) 35. li.

William Wells

George Graves

Churchwardens.

The whole cost of these times 450. li.

A very faire Monument on the South wall of the Chancell, with this Inscription.

Vicessimum tertium aetatis Annum Ingressui obiit, vicessimo quarto die Novembris, 1616.

Vnder this in an Ovall, these words.

Percivallo Smalpage, Michaelis filio Percivalli Pronepoti, ex Antiquis Baronum Familiis Hooe Wells & Engane oriundo, optimae spei Adolescenti, Immaturae Morte surrepto, fratri suo Charissimo, Moestissima soror Anna Monumentum hoc Amoris & gratitudinis ergo posuit.

Vpon a Stone in the Chancell, is this Inscription.

Hic jacet Iana, Filia Arthuri Ducke, L. L. L. Doctoris, obiit 1. Aprilis 1633. Hi sequuntur Agnum quocunqueierit.

On a Stone neere to the other, is this Inscription.

Here lyeth the body of Thomas Gillet, Gentleman, who deceased the 18. of October, 1624.

A very handsome Monument on a Pillar on the South side of the Chancell, thus inscribed. Pars Terrestris

Ioannis Coston Registarii sedis Archiepiscopalis Cantuarien. Principalis. Almaeque Curiae Cant. de Arcubus Lond. Procuratorum generalium unius. Sexaginta octo annos, cum multa pietate & probitate sub polo praetergressus, 3. Iulii 1614. Animam efflavit, Relictis simone, & Anna, filio & filia unicis, in sacros Cineres Redact. sub pedibus diem Novum expectat.

A very faire Table full of rich Coats of Armes, hanging on a Pillar in the middle Ile, over against the Pulpit, with these severall Inscriptions in it.

1. Francis Beaumont, 2. daughter, married to Sir Woolston Dyccy, of the County of Leicester, Knight.

2. Farnham Beaumont, 2. sonne, married Luce Dawes, of Dawson, in the County of Leicester.

3. Sir Henry Beaumont, Knight, eldest sonne, married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir William Turpin of Knaptoft, in the County of Leicester, Knight.

4. Thomas Bcaumont, 3. sonne, lives unmarried.

5. Anne Beaumont, third daughter, married to Sir Iohn Dillon, of Northamptonshire.

6. Iane Beaumont, 6. daughter, married to William Temple, of London, Merchant.

7. Elinor Beaumont, 4. daughter, lives unmarried.

8. Elizabeth Beaument, eldest daughter, married to Sir Iohn Ashbornham, of Ashbornham, in Sussex, Knight.

9. Isabel Beaumont, 5. daughter, married to Hugh Snasell, of the County of Yorke.

10. Mary Beaumont, 7. daughter, married to Richard paramoure, Esquire.

In memory of the religious and vertuous Lady, Katharine Beaumont, late Widow of Sir Thomas Beaumont, of Stoughton, in the County of Leicester, Knight, Daughter and sole Heire of Thomas Farnham of Stoughton aforesaid, Esquire, who deceased on Ascention day, Anno 1621. leaving [Page] Issue then alive, as above written, three sonnes and seven daughters.

This Table was set up out of the love and true affection of Elizabeth, Lady Ashbornham, Widdow, her eldest Daughter, Anno 1622.

And Mary, one of the Daughters of the aforesaid Lady Ashboruham, was likewise buried in this Church, November 25. 1619.

Botolph Algate.

THis Church was repaired and beautified in the yeere of our Lord God, 1621.

In the yeere of our Lord, 1633. all the ground through the Church, was new laid and levelled. In the doing of which, where before from the lower end of the Church to the upper end, it was all but one even floore, without any ascent or rising, they have made a faire ascent at the beginning of the Chancell; and in that againe, at the place where they give the Communion: further gracing and inriching it with a faire new Table, and the whole Chancell with new Pewes, very decently wrought and disposed.

A faire Monument upon a Pillar on the South side of the Chancell, over against the Pulpit the figure of the Gentleman for whom it was erected leaning upon a Deaths head.

A Memoriall erected by the Right Worshipfull, the Company of Merchantaylors, for Robert Dove, Esquire, Citizen and Merchantaylor of London, Master of the same Company, and one of the Customers in the Port of London.

Who gave in his life time 3528. li. 10. s. 8. d. to performe divers charitable deeds for ever, to divers poore Brethren of the same Company, and other uses for the said Company, viz.

To Christs Hospitall. To Saint Sepulchers Parish. To the two Compters. To Ludgate, and Newgate. To the poore of this Parish. To Saint Iohn Baptists Colledge in Oxford, and to Queene Elizabeths Hospitall at Bristoll, 2958. li. 10. s. 8. d.

To the Company.

320. li. To Christ-Church Hospitall.

50. li. To Saint Sepulchers.

100. li. To Saint Iohns Colledge in Oxford.

100. li. To the City of Bristoll.

He lived vertuously all his life time, and died in the true faith of our Lord Iesus, the second day of May, An. Dom. 1612. being full of dayes, at the age of 90. yeeres.

His armes under him, Three Doves.

Vpon a Marble Stone (in the middle of this Church) under the figure of a Deaths-head is this Inscription.

Vnder this Marble stone, resteth in hope of a joyfull Resurrection, the bodies of two Sisters; Elizabeth Roe, Wife to Iohn Roe, Mariner, who died the 16. day of Iuly 1625.

And Sarah Stevens, Wife unto Iohn Stevens, Citizen and Cooke of London, who died the third of August, in the same yeere of our Lord, 1625.

Botolph Bishopsgate.

THe North wall of this Church, with the Roofe thereof, and the middle Roofe likewise were new built, and the Church begun to be repaired in the yeere of our Lord, 1617. Master Stephen Gosson, being then Parson.

William Whitwell

Dominicke Lomlie

Churchwardens.

The repaire of it, in pewing the Church thorowout, in painting, altering, adding, and ordering, to its greater conveniency and beauty, continued to the yeere 1620. in which it was fully finished.

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Samuel Fond

Iohn Day

Churchwardens.

The charge of it amounting to 600. li. and upward.

A Monument on the South side of the middle Ile, with this Inscription.

Hugo Wicksteed, Filius Hugonis Wicksteed, nuper Civis & Mercatoris Scissoris London, & Aliciae Vxoris ejus, hoc Monumentum, & lapidem inferius positum, Parentibus suis, & sibi ipsi dicatum, ultimo Testamento suo curavit fieri: Fuit Iuvenis egregiae indolis, Mira suavitate morum preditus, erga deum & parentes summè pius, Flore Iuventutis suae Arreptus, magnum dolorem amicis Reliquit.

Quis non, qui novit juvenem,

sua funera deflet?

Terra tegit corpus,

Spiritus astra tenet.

Obiit vicesimo septimo die Augusti, Anno Dem. 1625. & aetatis suae, vicesimo primo.

Gualterus Stonus hanc Inscriptionem amici sui dilectissimi Memoriae consecravit.

Dunstans West.

IT is since this Church was repaired 20. yeeres, yet though so long, it hath more of that beauty still, and still remaines fresher and fairer than many other Churches, that halfe so much time hath not wrought upon. And yet, as I am informed (which is more to the businesse in hand) It is shortly againe to bee repaired, richly and very worthily beautified.

A faire Table in Glasse, upon a Pallar in the middle Ile, thus written on.

The comfortable farewell of a young Infant, sighed out in his dying sicknesse, to his mournefull Parents.

Let not my Father greeve,

or Mother moane,

That I this wretched world

have soone forgone,

Better I dye

before I doe amisse,

Than live to sinne,

and be berest of blisse;

All I can now be charg'd with

at the Tribunall Throne,

Is sinne originall,

for actuall I have none:

And that I know

my Saviour with his blood

Hath washt away,

and made my badnesse good.

And cause I know (though

knowledge I have small)

That Iesus Christ did dye

to save us all,

I passe with joy, in Heaven

to meet my King,

With Angels and Archangels

there to sing.

Then Father mourne,

and Mother weepe no more,

I now dye rich, that might

have liv'd but poore;

For had I progrest

unto mans estate,

It is not certaine

what would be my sate:

Whether a Crosse, or

Blessing I should prove,

Or merit Parents

direfull hate, or love.

For oft you see, how youths

rebellious prankes

Make sonnes ingrate, to those

they owe most thankes:

And might not I have beene

amongst the number,

Of those that doe their

Parents states incumber?

Yes, yes, I might perhaps

have beene a slave,

And kil'd your hearts with care,

and dig'd your grave.

But now my silly Dove-like

soule doth part,

In peace of God,

and love of Parents heart;

Sweet Innocence, my shield,

I beare in hand,

To guard me towards

that most holy Land,

Where Parents both,

and Sister I shall see,

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In Gods appointed time

triumphantly.

Till when

Adieu, sweet Parents,

Jehovah calls away,

My name is

Simon signifies obedience.

Simon,

and I must obey.

Epitaphium.

Young Simon up to Sion

is ascended,

His best life is begunne,

his worst being ended.

A faire Albaster Monument at the upper end of the South Ile, with this Inscription.

Hîc requiescunt ossa Roberti Houghton, Militis, unius Iusticiariorum Dom. Iacobi nuper Regis ad placita coram Dom. Rege tenenda Asig. Qui natus est apud Gunthorpe, in Comitatu Norfolciae tertio die Augusti, Anno Dom. 1548. & ex hac vita Migravit infra hanc parochiam sexto die Februarii, Anno Dom. 1623. ex Maria Vxore Filia Roberti Rychers de Woortham, in Comitatu Cantiae Armigeri, tres suscepit Filios, totidemque Filias, ex quibus (Roberto & Susanna in vita ejus extinctis) Franciscus, Iohannes, Elizabetha, & Maria, tempore mortis suae, dei favore fucre superstites.

A very faire Monument on the North side of the South Ile, at the upper end, with this Inscription. M. S. Nicholai Hare▪

Viri morum suavitate & elegantia, animi candore & magnitudine, ingenii denique Acumine & judicii gravitate Incomparabilis: Disciplinarum & Linguarum, tam quae ad Artes, quam quae ad Aulas spectant cognitione ornatissimi, cujus Egregias & Raras Animi dotes, Anglia, Belgia, Gallia, ipsaque Italia jamdudum suspexêre & stupuêre: Qui desiderio sui apud amicos, omnesque bonos relicto obiit, Eheu nondum quadragenarius, Anno M. DC. XXI.

Iohannes Harvy, Amico dulciss [...]. & B. M. in perpetuam grati animi memoriam P. Magnificentius positurus si ei suam ipsius pietatem magis quam amici voluntatem exequi licuisset.

Vale anima candidissima, vale tuorum quos dolore & luctu conficis Aeternum desiderium, vale Patriae & seculi summum ornamentum.

A faire Monument in the South Ile, on the wall, under the Monument of one Cuthbert Fetherstone.

Before this Pew doore, next to the body of the above named Cuthbert Fetherstone, lyeth his beloved Wife, Katharine Fetherstone, who as they piously lived in Wedlocke forty odde yeeres together, so at their deaths they desired to bee interred together, not doubting at the generall Resurrection, through Christs merits, to rise together, and for ever in Heaven to live together.

Obiit Novemb. 1622. Aetatis 85.

And this in part

they doe attaine,

Who by their deaths

new lives doe gaine.

Corpus moritur per poenam, resurgit per gloriam,

Anima moritur per culpam, resurgit per gratiam.

A Table with a faire Coat Armes, encompast with a Wreath of Lawrell, upon a Pillar in the Chancell, over against the Vestrey, thus inscribed.

In this faire fragrant

maiden moneth of May,

When earth her Flowre.

embroydery doth display,

Iane Watson, one of

Vertues flowers most faire,

For Beauty, Wit, and Worth,

a Primrose rare,

Adorn'd this Earth, changing

earths marriage bed,

To joyne her Virgin soule

to Christ her head.

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A faire Monument over the Vestrey doore in the Chancell, with this Inscription.

In memory of the Honourable, and Vertuous, Margaret Talbot, Widdow, who deceased the 31. of March, 1620.

By this small Statue (Reader)

is but showne,

That she was buried here,

but hadst thou knowne

The Piety, and Vertues

of her minde,

Thou wouldst have said,

Why was she not enshri'nd?

Both Veres and Windsors

best blood fil'd her veines,

She matcht with Talbot,

yet their noble straines

Were farre below her Vertue,

in whose breast,

God had infus'd his graces

'bove the rest,

Of all her Sex, whose sacred

course of life,

Both in the State of Widow,

Maid, and Wife

For each she had beene,

though her latter dayes

Chaste widow-hood crown'd,

to her immortall praise,

Was so immaculate,

she deserves to be

The Crystall mirrour

to posterity.

More honour hast thou

by her buriall here,

Dunston, than to thee

chanc'd this many a yeere;

Earth from her Coffin

heave thy ponderous stones,

And for thy sacredst relique

keepe her bones:

Since, spite of envy,

it cannot be deni'd,

Saint-like she liv'd,

and like a Saint she di'd.

A Table hanging upon a Pillar, in the middle row of Pewes, with this Inscription.

On the death of the Discreet and Vertuous, Mistresse Mary Davies, daughter of Thomas Croft, of Okley-Parke, in the County of Salop, Esquire, and Wife of Iohn Davies of Hereford, she died on New-yeeres day, 1612.

Here lies her dust,

who in a span of life,

Compast the vertue

of the worthiest Wife:

If oddes therebe

(well measur'd) twill be found,

She more acquir'd;

so her bright stocke renown'd:

And to those Wives

that glory most doe gaine,

She was a mirrour

that no breath could staine.

Though she a Female were,

her judgement was,

To truest Masculines

a truer Glasse:

For she by Nature, Grace,

and Wisdome too,

Shew'd by a Woman,

what best men should doe

In their best actions:

for she acted nought

That came not from a grave

and gracious thought.

But Nature (though familiar,

yet most strange,

Shewing how much

she doth delight in change,

In thousand fashions

doth her selfe array)

Permits nought heere

to stand at constant stay.

And Time and Death

with her therein conspire,

Else had these Ashes still

held vitall fire.

But these just lines,

in Time and Deaths despight,

Shall leade all times

to doe her vertue right.

A good name is better than a good Oyntment, and the day of death, than the day that one is borne, Eccles. 7. 3.

Queene Elizabeths Monument.

Here lies her Type, who was of late,

The prop of Belgia, stay of France.

Spaines foile, Faiths shield, and Queene of

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Of Armes, of Learning, Fate, and Chance:

In briefe, of Women ne re was seene,

So great a Prince, so good a Queene.

Sith Vertue Her immortall made,

Death (envying all that cannot dye)

Her earthy parts did so invade,

As in it wrackt selfe Majesty.

But so her Spirit inspir'd her Parts,

That she still lives in loyall hearts.

Many Daughters have done well, but thou excellest them all.

I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith.

From henceforth is laid up for me a Crowne of Righteousnesse, which the Lord, the righteous Iudge shall give mee at that day; and not me onely, but to them also that love his appearing, 2 Tim. 4. 7, 8.

George Southwarke.

A Very faire Window in the North Ile, with the Armes and summes of all such Companies as were bountifull Benefactors towards the great repaire of this faire Parish Church of Saint George.

Mercers 20. li.

Grocers 15. li.

Drapers 10. li.

Fishmongers 26. li. 13. s. 4. d.

Goldsmithes 3. li.

Skinners 6. li. 13. s. 4. d.

Merchantaylors 15. li.

Haberdashers 10. li.

Salters 5. li.

Ironmongers 6. li. 13. s. 4. d.

Vintners 5. li.

Clothworkers 13. li.

Dyers 2. li.

Brewers 5. li.

Leathersellers 5. li.

Pewterers 3. li.

Wax-Chandlers 4. li.

Tallow-Chandlers 2. li.

Girdlers 2. li. 10. s.

Sadlers 2. li.

Cordwainers 5. li.

The summe is 166. li. 10. s.

Vnder these this Inscription.

This Church, Steeple, and Gallery, was repaired, new Pewed, and beautified, and the South Ile inlarged by the Parishioners, with the assistance of these, and other good Benefactors, in the yeere of our Lord God, 1629.

Twigden Masters

Thomas Cooke

Launcelot Hobson

Churchwardens.

The enlargement of the South Ile (above named) is above halfe the length of the Ile.

The ground of it, from that small part of an Ile to which it was then adjoyned (downeward) taken out of the Churchyard, making a compleat Ile, and adding to the Church, as a great deale of roome, so a great deale of grace and beauty.

In a Window next to this downeward, is the Armes of one Master Thomas Stone, at whose charge it was glazed.

The upper Window of the South Ile, is thus inscribed:

The Armes of Iohn Wyndell, Citizen and Fishmonger of London, a good Benefactor to this Parish.

There adjoynes to this Window, the Armes of the Worshipfull Company of the Fishmongers, very artfully carved in Wood, and under them a very faire large Pew, with two long Seats, one for the Men, the other for the Women-Almes-folke of Saint Peters Hospitall, the Fishmongers Hospitall, or Almes-house at Newington, situate and being in this Parish.

Next to this downeward, is a Window with a very faire Coate, but no name, the Motto,

Sed Sanguine.

Next to this another, with the Armes of one Master Robert Shaw, to this Church a good Benefactor.

Next to this another, with the Armes of one Master Lionell Bennet, to this Church a good Benefactor.

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A very faire Table, with a rich Coate Armes, hanging on the South side of the Chancell, with this Inscription.

Here lyeth the body of Elizabeth, the Daughter of Walter Spendelew, Gentleman, and Ione Trussell his Wife; she departed this life in the faith of Christ the 7. of November, Anno 1625.

Vpon a Marble Stone in the Chancell, neere the Communion Table, is this Inscription.

Here under lyeth the body of Etheldred Reynell, Daughter and sole Heire to Sir Edward Peacocke, of Finchley, Knight, Wife to Sir George Reynell, Marshall of the Kings Bench, by whom he had Issue three sonnes and three daughters: She departed the 11. day of September 1618. in the 34. yeere of her age.

Modest, Humble, Godly, Wife,

Pity ever in her eyes,

Patience ever in her breast,

Great in Good, in Evill least,

Loving Wife, and Mother deare,

Such she was that now lies heare.

Vpon another Stone close to the former, is this Inscription.

Sub hoc lapide, inhumatur corpus Iohannis Iones, qui migravit è vita quinto die Februarii, Anno 1600.

Hîc genitor situs es,

consumpto corpore letho,

At Coelis puro mente

manente Deo.

Giles Cripplegate.

HOw this Church, any thing in or about it (either for necessity or beauty) hath from time to time beene kept, supplyed, and maintained, all men that know it know; to the perpetuall credit and commends of those worthy Gentlemen, to whom, in their severall times and succession, the charge of it hath beene committed.

But to leave this generall commends, and come to some particulars, with their times, but a little time past, wee begin with the yeere 1623. In which all the Roofe over the Chancell, was on the outside repaired, and in the inside very curiously clouded.

To the further grace and ornament of this Chancell, there was added in the same yeere, the cost of a very faire Table of the Commandements, and with these the Church (then) was thorowout very worthily beautified.

In the yeeres of our Lord God, 1624. and 1626. the two side Galleries were built, both very faire and spacious.

In the yeere of our Lord, 1629. the Steeple very much decayed, was repaired, all the foure Spires (standing in foure Towers at the corners of it) taken downe, with new and very substantiall Timber-worke re-built, and with the Lead new cast new covered; every one of these Spires inlarged somewhat in the compasse, a great deale in height, but most in their stately, eminent, and gracefull appearance.

In the midst of these, where there was none before (gracing and being graced by them) was a very faire Turret erected; the head of it (which much overpeeres those Spires) covered with Lead, as also the props that support it: This, and the Spires, having every one a Crosse, with very faire Vanes upon them.

The charge of all this I could not certainly get, and would not uncertainly speake it: But the greanesse of the things speake the cost to be great, all being the sole charge of the Parishioners.

A very faire Table, with a rich Coat Armes hanging upon a Pillar in the middle Ile, about it this Inscription.

The sacred corps of Sarah, Wife of Henry Goodericke, daughter of William

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Within it thus:

Buried the 6. of Iune, Anno 1616.

The Bearers sorrow,

sable Lions shew,

Like to that Lion

which did overthrow

The man of God:

And charg'd alike, doe stand,

Grand Guardants here,

to checke the upheav'd hand,

Vnweeting wights,

or ignorant, shall lay

Vpon her hallowed corps,

that here did pray.

A sacred Temple 'twas,

wherein did shine

Her Makers glory,

Humane and Divine:

Sweet commerce sanctified

with zeale, mov'd there

In Beauties Fabricke,

its owne proper spheare,

For which it towers

above the sight of eye,

Gods Temples must lie low

that tower so high.

Vnder two hands joyn'd, one out of a Cloud, the other out of a Globe, these words:

Till then, Farewell.

Vpon a very faire Marble Stone, in the South Ile, is this Inscription.

Here lyeth buried the body of Ellen Monyns, who died the 29. of Aprill, in the yeere of our Lord 1632.

Here also lyeth buried the body of her Sister, Mistresse Frances Monyns, who died the 17. of Iune in the same yeere.

They were the Daughters of Sir William Monyns, of Waldershaw, in the County of Kent, Baronet, and of the Lady Iane his Wife, the Daughter of Roger Twisden, of Roydon Hall, in the same County, Esquire.

They lived Religious and Vertuous lives, and in their youths departed this life in the true faith of Iesus Christ.

Olaves Southwarke.

THis Church was repaired and beautified at the cost and charge of the Parishioners, in the yeere of our Lord God, 1617.

Edward Candish

Benjamin Fry

William Hundman

Richard Clearke

Churchwardens.

Queene Elizabeths Monument. Monumentum Elizabethae.

I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith.

From henceforth is laid up for me a Crowne of Righteousnesse, which the Lord, the righteous Iudge shall give mee at that day; and not me onely, but to them also that love his appearing, 2 Tim. 4. 7, 8.

All the Monuments here being very ancient, are to bee turned to before, in the Church as it stands in its Ward, which you may finde at folio 457.

Saviours Southwarke.

VPon this spacious and specious Church (for well it deserves those Epithites) we look backward twenty yeeres or thereupon, at which time it was in many parts of it repaired, and within thorowout richly and very worthily beautified.

About two or three yeeres after, that Gallery that is over that part of the Church that is called Saint PETERS Chappell, and that that is over against it, as also that Gallery that crosses the middle Ile, over the entrance into the Chancell (much gracing the Church, and supplying a [Page] great necessity) were worthily contrived and erected.

In the yeeres of our Lord God, 1621. and 1622. it was againe in many parts of it repaired; all the North side of it (at once) strengthened and beautified, with a substantiall and very artificiall Rough-cast, the other side Plaistered and Whited.

Among many rich and beautifull things that have beene added to this Church at divers times, and to severall parts and places, some of a generall cost, and some of particular bounties (for some reserved causes omitted) we here only remember that extraordinary faire and curious Table of the Commandements, and the Screene at the West doore, set up in the yeere of our Lord God, 1618.

But passing all these, somewhat now of that part of this Church above the Chancell, that in former times was called, Our Ladies Chappell.

It is now called, The new Chappell; and indeed, though very old, it now may be cal'd a new one, because newly redeemed from such use and imployment, as in respect of that it was built to, Divine and Religious duties, may very well be branded, with the stile of wretched, base, and unworthy, for that that before this abuse, was (and is now) a faire & beautifull Chappell, by those that were then the Corporation (which is a body consisting of 30. Vestry men, sixe of those thirty, Churchwardens) was leased and let out, and this House of God made a Bake-house.

Two very faire doores, that from the two side Iles of the Chancell of this Church, and two that thorow the head of the Chancell (as at this day they doe againe) went into it, were lath't, daub'd, and dam d up: the faire Pillars were ordinary posts, against which they piled Billets and Bavens; in this place they had their Ovens, in that a Bolting-place, in that their Kneading-trough, in another (I have heard) a Hogs-trough; for the words that were given mee were these, This place have I knowne a Hog-stie, in another a Store-house, to store up their hoorded Meale: and in all of it, something of this sordid kind & condition.

It was first let by the Corporation afore named, to one [...] Wyat, after him to one [...] Peacocke, after him to one [...] Cleybrooke, and last to one [...] Wilson; all Bakers, and this Chappell still imployed in the way of their Trade, a Bake-house, though some part of this Bake-house was sometime turned into a Starch-house.

The time of the continuance of it in this kind, from the first letting of it to Wyat, to the restoring of it againe to the Church, was threescore and some odde yeeres, in the yeere of our Lord God 1624. for in this yeere the ruines and blasted estate that the old Corporation sold it to, were by the Corporation of this time, repaired, renewed, well, and very worthily beautified: the charge of it for that yeere, with many things done to it since, arising to two hundred pounds.

This, as all the former Repaires, being the sole cost and charge of the Parishioners.

One Ile in this Chappell, was paved at the onely cost of one Master Iohn Hayman, Taylor, and Merchantaylor, in the yeere 1625.

A faire Monument on the North wall of the new Chappell, with this Inscription.

Donec redeat Dominus Iesus Christus Subest quod Reliquum Iohannis Morton, in Artibus Magistri, qui cum singulare cum pietatis, tum eruditionis exhibuerat specimen, Literatam juventutis Ambitionem Gemens, unicique salvatoris Iesu Christi adventum anhelans, expiravit die 17. Septem. Anno salutis 1631. Annum aetatis agens 25. V. M. Graecis Musis lugentibus.

In the same Chappell and Ile, upon à Grave-stone is thus written.

Not twice ten yeeres of age,

a weary breath,

Have I exchanged

for a happy death;

My course so short,

the longer is my rest,

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God takes them soonest

whom he loveth best:

For he that's borne to day,

and dies to morrow,

Loseth some dayes of rest,

but more of sorrow.

Here lies buried the body of Iohn Buckland, Glover, 1625. Who deceased the 16. of August.

Vpon a faire stone close to this, under the Grocers Armes, is this Inscription.

Garret, some cal'd him,

but that was too hye,

His name is Garrard,

who now here doth lye;

He in his youth was toss'd

with many a wave,

But now at Port ariv'd,

rests in his grave.

The Church he did frequent

while he had breath,

And wisht to lye therein

after his death.

Weepe not for him,

since he is gone before

To Heaven, where Grocers

there are many more.

In the same Ile, upon a faire Marble stone, with the Merchantaylors Armes at the head of it, is this Inscription.

This Stone was laid, and this Ile was paved, by Iohn Hayman, Taylor, and Merchantaylor, the 28. of October, 1625.

Next to this, upon a brasse plate, is this Inscription.

Here lyeth the body of Alice Dudson, the Wife of Thomas Dudson, who departed this life the 14. of October, 1626. who sometime did dwell in this Parish, but died in Saint Georges Parish.

All these, with that rich and cosly Monument of the right Reverend Father in God, Launcelot Bishop of Winchester, are in this Chappell.

Queene Elizabeths Monument.
Elizabetha Regina.

Saint Peters Church at Westminster,

Her sacred body doth interre;

Her glorious soule with Angels sings,

Her deeds live patternes here for Kings:

Her love in every heart hath roome,

This onely shadowes forth her Toome.

Sepulchres Parish.

Anno 1624.

THere was expended this yeere extraordinary, about the new Vestry Window, in Masons worke, Glasiers worke, Iron worke, and other charge extraordinary, besides the usuall charges of repaires, 30. li.

Anno 1625.

In this yeere the ten North Church-Windowes were new built, and repaired, the charge whereof amounted to 86. li. 14. s. 7. d.

Anno 1626.

In this yeere the sixe Windowes on the East end, and South side of the Church, with the Water-tables, Battlements, and Buttresses, were new made and repaired, the Windowes new glazed, and the Walls pointed downe, which with some Plumbers worke and Pew worke, cost 105. li. 3. s. 10. d.

Anno 1627.

The charge of repaire of the Church Windowes at the West end, & South side of the Church and Porch, with the Battlements, Water-table, and Buttresses, and pointing downe the Walls, and other repaires this yeere within the Church, appeare by the accounts to have beene 169. li. 2. s. 8. d.

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Anno 1628.

In making new Pewes in the Church, and Plumbers worke upon the Church, and in Glazing worke this yeere, expended extraordinary, besides other ordinary repaires, 40. li.

Anno 1629.

The new Pewes this yeere made in the Church and Chancell, the cleering of the Churchyard, and other reparations there, 55. li. 16. s.

Anno 1630.

The charge of taking downe, and new building of one of the great Pinacles of the Steeple this yeere, appeareth by the accounts and Bills examined, to be 139. li. 19. s. 4. d.

Other Repaires done about the Church this yeere, in Plumbers worke upon the Steeple, and new Leading the Vestry, and making of new Pewes in the Church, 75. li.

Anno 1631.

The new casting of the fifth Bell, with the charge of Iron and Timber-worke, to the Bell-Founder, Bell-hanger, and Smith, paid 40. li.

The Plumbers worke, and Carpenters worke, in strengthening and new Leading the Roofe over Saint Stephens Chappell, and other Repaires of the Church this yeere, appeareth by the accounts to be above 100. li.

Annis 1632. & 1633.

The three great Pinacles of the Steeple of the Church, with the Battlements, and Water-tables round about the same, repaired, built, and made up with vent and crest, in manner, forme, height, thicknesse, and all other respects answerable to that Pinacle which was there lately new made, with the taking and cutting out of the decayed stones, putting in new stone, working and pointing them downe, putting in new top stones, and three Vanes, answerable to the former Vane on the other Pinacle: the Masons work by composition, 140. li. the Vanes, Iron, and Lead-worke, 13. li. 6. s. 8. d.

The new Leading and strengthening the Roofe in the North side of the Church thorowout with Lead and Timber worke, 115. li.

Summa totalis expensarum Annis praedict.

1110. li. 3. s. 1. d.

Thomas Southwarke.

THE Steeple of this Church greatly decayed, was repaired, new Leaded; from the ground to the top coated with a beautifull Rough-cast; and inriched with a very faire Turret, in the yeere of our Lord God, 1663.

At the same time the Parishioners bestowed upon the entrance into the Church, a new bricke Wall, with a doore in the middle of it, fit for so worthy passage.

About foure or five yeeres since, some cost was bestowed upon the East Window; and in the yeere of our Lord 1618. (at the lower end of the Church) a very handsome Gallery builded.

A Table with this Inscription. 1632.

The yeerely gift of foure pounds, given by Master Henry Smith, Esquire, to this Parish of Saint Thomas, hath beene dispended on the poore this yeere past in manner and forme following. In witnesse whereof, wee the Minister, Churchwardens, and Over-seers, have subscribed our names.

Widdow stringfeyld, aged 95. yeeres, a Coat, with letters, cost xviij. s. 1. d.

Dorochy Burket, aged 82. yeeres, a Coat, with letters, cost xviij. s. iiij. d.

Thomas Wingfield, aged 61. yeeres, a Coat, with letters, cost xvij. s. x. d.

Nicholas Leeke, aged 70. yeeres, a Coat, with letters, cost vij. s. x. d.

Ellen Gray, Innocent, aged 34. yeeres, a Coat, with letters, cost xviij. s.

The summe 4. li.

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Benjamin Spencer, Minister.

William Phife

Nicholas Eliot

Churchwardens.

Iohn Berry

Gamaliel Voyce

Sidemen.

Trinity Minories.

THis Church greatly decayed in the Roofe, (the Timber repaired and mended) was new Tiled in the yeere of our Lord God, 1618.

In the yeere 1620. the Steeple, that before (as the Church) was covered with Tyles, was untyled, and (the Timber repaired and strengthened) was covered againe with Lead.

In the yeere 1628. all the inside of the Church was well and very commendably beautified.

Also in the yeere 1623. the Churchyard, that before was onely paled in with Boords, was (to the better defence and grace of it) encompast about with Bricke, with a very handsome entrance into it.

This, as all the Repaires before named, being the sole cost and charge of the Parishioners.

A handsome Monument on the North wall of the Chancell, with these following lines.

Death first did strike Sir Iohn,

here tomb'd in Clay,

And then inforc'd his sonne

to follow fast;

Of Pelhams line, this Knight

was chiefe and stay:

By this behold,

all flesh must die at last.

But Bletsow Lord,

thy Sister most may mone,

Both Mate and Sonne

hath left her here alone.

Sir Iohn Pelham died the 13. of October, 1580.

Oliver Pelham his sonne, died the 19. of Ianuary, 1584.

About a faire Marble stone in the Chancell, close by the Communion Table, are these words.

Constantia Lucy, D. Thomae Lucy Iunioris, Militis Aurati, & D. Constantiae Vxoris Foeminae Filia, Natu maxima, Annum agens plus minus undecimum, pridie Idus Februarii in Domino, quam Foelicissimè, hîc posita, fato fungitur, Anno Dom. 1596.

Vpon it these:

Nascimur & Morimur,

non exorabile fatum,

Vita fugax, fragilis,

lubrica, vana, brevis.

Ocyus in Campis, flos

Formosissimus aret:

Optima praetereunt,

deteriora manent.

Rapta immaturo fato,

Constantia Lucy,

Nunc jacet: & quondam

Lucida, luce caret.

Ante annos Constans,

humilis, mansueta, modesta,

Dixeris, & Paphia

membra polita manu.

In vere aetatis, persensit

frigora Brumae:

Sic sic praepro [...]erè

praeoquapoma cadunt.

On another Stone, neerè unto the last, is this Inscription.

Hîc jacet corpus Irausis Mar [...]un. Generosi, qui obiit 14. die Septemh. Anno Dom. 1606.

Haec verba soepissime in ore illius viventis: O Domine secundum merit a mea, Noli me judicare. Deprecor Majestatem tuam ut misericorditer deleas iniquitates meas.

Credo videre hona Domini, in Terra viventium.

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In the body of the Church, is a Monument with this Inscription.

Vivere Cornices multos

dicuntur in Annos:

Cur nos Angusta

conditione sumus.

The figure of a Child.

Henricus Nowelus, Filius D. Iohannis Noweli Doctoris Medici, optimae indolis puerulus, unicum patris solatium, Natus 23. Iulii, 1598. & mortuus ex Atrophia 4. Augusti, 1599. Hîc sepultusjacet.

Melioribus utere fatis.

A Review also of the nine out Parishes in Middlesex and Surrey.

Clement Danes.

THe care of those that by an Annual succession, have the charge and over-sight of this Church, hath continually beene such, as upon the least defect or failing, either in strength or beauty, it hath instantly beene imployed, both in Repaires and Adornment.

And first we beginne with that great costly repaire in the yeere of our Lord God, 1608. at which time, upon sixe and twenty foot of the Churchyard in length, and twenty foot in breadth (taken in at the East end of the Church) they built up a very faire Chancell. The charge of this building and repairing, amounting to the summe of 1000. pounds, and upward.

In the yeere of our Lord, 1616. there was laid out upon the Steeple, in repairing and inlarging of it, with some other needfull things in the Church, the summe of 496. li.

In the yeere of our Lord God, 1631. some parts of this Church were againe repaired, and the whole body covered with a faire and beautifull Rough-cast, the charge of it 40. li.

In the yeere 1632. and this present yeere 1633. this Church was within, thorowout richly and very worthily beautified. The charge of it 50. li.

The summe of all these Repaires, all being the sole cost of the Parishioners, 1586. li.

A faire Monument in the Chancell, on the North side, at the upper end, with this Incription.

Georgii

Roberti

Wilelmi

Christopheri

Annae

More de

Lothesley

Equit:

Aurat:

Filiae.

Soror:

Nept:

Pronep:

Foeminae Lectissimae, Dilectissimaeque,

Conjugi Charissimae Castissimaeque,

Matri Piissimae Indulgentissimaeque,

XV. Annis in Conjugio Transactis,

VII. post XII. partum (quorum VII. superstant) dies

Immani Febre Correptae

(Quod hoc saxum Fari jussit, [...]pse prae dolore infans)

Maritus (miserrimum dictu) olim

Charae Charus

Cineribus Cineres spondet suos,

Novo Matrimonio (Annuat deus) Hoc loco sociandos,

Ioannes Donne,

Sacr. Theolog. Profess.

Secessit,

Anno XXIII. Aetat. suae & sui Iesu

CIO. DC. XVII.

Aug. XV.

A faire Monument over against this, on the South side, with this Inscription.

Viro praeclaris: Animi Corporisque dotibus ornate.

Qui in Angelicani juris studio Foeliciss. versatus, Iuriscons. munere, quod Iure [Page] optimo obtinuit, intermisso, Officiis in Curia Cancellariae, cum examinatoris, per integros 17. annos, tum sex Clericorum unius, per menses quosdam fatales integerrimè perfunctus est: vitâ Londini in hoc vico (ubi & natus) Majori expartetransactâ, die Apr. 26. Anno Dem. 1610. Aetatis 51. defuncto, scil. Animâ Christo, Corpore hîc humo traditis, relictoque sui desiderio, non sine multis multorum lachrymis.

Maria ipsi superstes vidua

Thomae Oneli Filia, de Charleton, in Northantonensi quondam Agro Armigeri, Fidissima conjux Charissimo Marito, Quî cum ad Annos ferè 25. Conjunctissime vizerat, Amoris inviolati perpetuum posteris Testimonium, nec sibi minus lugubre, hoc posuit Monumentum.

A very faire Monument neere unto the other, with this Inscription.

Memoriae Sacrum.

Here lieth the body of Hippocrates de Otthen, Nobly descended from the Noble Family of the Otthens, out of Holsatia, Doctor of Physicke in the Vniversity of Monutpelliers, in France, and most worthily incorporated in the Vniversity of Oxford. After his first comming into England with his Father (who was the Emperours Physician, and sent for over by Queene Elizabeth) he was desired by the Earle of Lecester himselfe, to pertaine unto him, in whose service (for many yeeres, both at home, and abroad in the Low-countries, with his Lord) he performed such worthy parts, as well in his owne faculty, as being imployed in other laudable services, that her Majesty and the State tooke especiall note of his worth. After the decease of the Earle, hee was in the same esteeme and regard with the Earle of Essex, and by her Majesty commanded to attend upon him in the wars of France, and afterwards in his prosperous Voyage to Cadiz. Returning home (hoping to retire himselfe to his owne Practice, and a more private life) hee was againe commanded to goe (as Physician in service into Ireland) with the Lord Montjoy (afterwards Earle of Devonshire) her Majesties Leiutenant in that Kingdome. But returning againe into England with his Lord, in the beginning of his Majesties Reigne, he continued not long, but went as Physician with the Earle of Hartford, his Majesties Ambassadour unto the Arch-Duke of Austria and Burgundi, in that Honourable imployment: And so returning againe into England, hee spent the residue of his yeeres with his deare and most vertuous Wife, Mistresse Dorothy Drew, daughter to Master Roger Drew, of Densworth, in Sussex, Esquire, in great blisse and happinesse: And being a most zealous and penitent Christian, full of yeeres, and (unto his last gaspe) of perfect Memory, hee ended his pilgrimage here on earth, and with alacrity of spirit surrendred his soule into the hands of his Creator, the 13. of November 1611. For whose love and memory, his late Wife (the now Lady and Wife unto Sir Stephen Thorneburst of Kent, the most worthy and valerous Knight) hath caused this Monument to bee erected, Amoris ergo P. P.

Next to this another handsome small Monument, with this Inscription.

Anne, the Daughter of Francis Cary, Wife of Hugh Prust of Devon, 17. yeeres, aged 40. havig by him 9. Children, was buried here the 13. of February 1627.

In Life and Death,

most strict in right accord,

She liv'd, she di'd

true Servant of the Lord.

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A faire Monument on the South side of the Chancell, with this Inscription.

By the Churchwardens and Feofees of this Parish, this Monument was set up, the 20. of Ianuary, 1603.

Here lieth buried the bodies of Richard Bedoe, Gentleman, and Anne his first Wife, one of the ancientest of this Parish, and a Feosee of the poore, who ended his life with a charitable disposition, the first day of September 1603. Annoque Regni Regis Iacobi, &c. primo. Being when he died of the age of 56. yeeres, and was borne in the Parish of Ricken, in Salop, who of their Charity, have given so many of their Tenements within the Dukes place in Cree-Church, alias Christs-Church, neere Algate, London, as do now go for 20. li. per Annum, to the maintenance and use of the poore of this Parish for ever. And also 110. li. to be lent gratis to 50. poore Housholders, and young beginners of the same Parish, for two yeeres a piece, putting in good security for the same: With condition, that this Stone, by the Churchwardens and Feofees of the same Parish for the time being, shall from time to time for ever be maintained; and foure Sermons yeerely for ever to bee made, on the Feast-dayes of All-Saints, the Purification of our Lady, the Ascension of our Lord God, and Saint Iohn Baptist, to remember and give God thankes for the Givers thereof. God increase Charity unfeyned.

Margaret Bedoe, last Wife of Richard Bedoe, gave by her last Will, in the yeere 1633. the summe of twenty pounds to bee added to her Husbands gift of a hundred pounds, and so to bee imployed and disposed of, as her Husbands now is, the Preacher foure times a yeere, mentioning her gift with his, according to her Will, or else her gift to be void.

A very faire Monument on the North side of the Chancell, with this Inscription. M. S.

Nobilissimo juveni Wolfgango Balthâsari à Crailsheim, ex Antiqua & clara Familia in Franconia, cum in Sereniss. Frederici V. Electoris Palatini Comitatu huc in Angliam profectus & morbo Correptus, piè diem obiisset 29. Ian. Anni 1612. Hoc Monumentum positum fuit.

A faire Monument at the upper end of the South Ile, with this Inscription.

Vnto the Memory of Richard Iacob, late Vintener, deceased, who after 66. yeres of his life, whereof he spent more than halfe in this Parish, wherein he had with good credit passed through all Offices, both in the Parish, as also in his Company, and for his Fidelity was elected one of the Governours of Bridewell, and likewise done many charitable Acts, both to the Parish, to his Hall, to the Hospitall of Bridewell, Christs-Church, Saint Bartholomewes, and Saint Thomas in Southwarke, to divers persons in London, and Southwarke, and many other places, comfortably gave up his soule to his Redeemer, the 13. of October 1612.

Sibil his mournefull Wife, hath caused this Monument to be erected.

On the same wall downeward, another faire Monument, with this Inscription.

This Monument was made at the only charges of Katharine Metcalfe of Bedale, in the County of Yorke, Widdow, Mother to the hereunder named Thomas and Nicholas, and Executrix to the said Nicholas, the 28. of May, Anno Dom. 1583.

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Memento Mori.

Here against this place lyeth buried the body of Thomas Metcalfe, late of Bellerby, in the County of Yorke, Gentleman, who died the 18. day of May, 1575.

And also the body of Nicholas Metcalfe, Esquire, late one of the six Clerkes of the Chancery, and Brother to the said Thomas, who died the 8. day of September, Anno Dom. 1581.

To whom God granta joyfull Resurrection, Amen.

A faire Table in Glasse, hanging close by the Pulpit, with this Inscription. S. Memoriae Virg.

Helenae Moseley ex equestri Moseleyorum Familia oriundae, cujus Annos nubiles summa virtus at modestia merito Coronarunt, Correptae praematurâ morte, heu dies 17. Feb. Anno Christi, 1607. Supremus diluxit.

Amoris ergo Moest. P. Q. A.

A faire Monument on the North side, with this Inscription.

Iussus Iohannes Painus

concedere Fate,

Paruit, & Moriens

constitit ipse sibi:

Nam cum animas Caelo

deberi, corpora Terrae

Sciret, utrique suum

reddidit ipse lubens.

Hinc animam ipsius

sedes Aeterna beavit,

Foelici jussam

conditione frui.

Corporis haec Domus est,

Terreni Terrea moles;

Illa Dei, haec Fidi

cura Nepotis erat.

Anno Domini 1573. Aprilis 25.

A very faire Monument in the same wall, neere unto the other, with this Inscription.

Secundum Christi Redemptoris Adventum, hoc in tumulo, expectat Rogerus Houghton, antiqua Houghtonorum Familia, in Agro Lancastriensi oriundus, Qui quum illustrissimi viri Dom. Roberti Cecill Salisburiae Comitis & Angliae Magni Thesaurii per annos 42. Summa cum Fide & Industria Familia praefuissit, in Patriam Coelestem evocatus, placide pieque emigravit, Anno Dom. 1617. Aetatis 64.

Charissimo viro Anna Conjux, filia Iohannis Little, Moestissima, hoc Monumentum in memoriam ejus & Filiolae, ac Mortuae, posuit.

Vpon a faire Marble Stone in the middle Ile, is this Inscription.

Quam facit incertos

humani temporis annos

Addidit exemplo

mors inimica novo.

En Gulielmus erat teneris

cui nomen ab annis

Hac Saint albonus

membra sepultus humo.

Cujus non minimum

mores meruere favorem,

Regia in hoc plenus

curia testis erit.

Virtutis causa, comes

Arundellius illum

Qui summo studio

persequeretur erat.

Mitto quod assiduus

fuerat virtutis amator,

Quodque erat ex ortu

stirps generosa suo.

Membra sepulerali conduntur

frigida lecto,

Spiritus aethereis aestra

petivit equis.

William Saintalbone sleepes in rest,

Within this Marble Stone,

Whose corps in Clay, and soule well

Deserves dispraise of none.

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He had such feats, so full of fruits,

So prompt with word and pen,

So skilfull in his courtly suits,

So deare a friend to men.

So ripe to rule the workes of fame,

So tempering hot and cold,

His deeds deserve that his good name

Were siphered here in gold.

Vpon a Stone in the middle Ile, is this Inscription. Memoriae sacrum, & Deo opt. max. Sacrum.

Secundum Christi Redemptoris adventum hoc in Tumulo expectat Rogerus Houghton, Antiqua Houghtonorum Familia in Agro Lancastrensi oriundus. Qui quum illustrissimi viri Domini Roberti Cecilii Sarisburiae Comitis, & Angliae Magni Thesaurarii, per annos 42. summa cum Fide & Industria familia praefuisset, in Patriam Coelestem evocatus, placide pieque emigravit. Anno Dom. 1617.

Charissimo viro conjux Moestissimae Monumentum hoc, Amoris & observantiae causa posuit.

On another Stone neere to the former is this Inscription.

Here lieth buried the body of Elizabeth, late Wife of George Dalton, Esquire, who died the 2. day of Ianuary, 1605. and hath left Issue of her body to her Husband, Maximilian, and Thomas.

Yea, though I should walke thorow the valley of the shadow of death, I will feare no evill, for thou art with me, the Rod and thy Staffe they comfort me.

Iesus Christ is my light and my salvation, whom then shall I feare? God is the strength of my life, of whom then shall I be afraid?

A faire Stone in the middle Ile, neere the Chancell, having this Inscription.

Bartinus Hes [...]rigg Armiger, Capitaneus Militiae Leicestrensis, hic sepultus est, qui obiit 4. Maii, Anno Dom. 1630. Aetatis suae 24.

Another in the same Ile, with this Inscription.

Hic jacet Edmundus Arnold,

postremus Aprilis

Vlcere quem rapuit

tristis atroxque dies,

Istius Ecclesiae Rector

Meritissimus olim,

Et summus medica

Doctor in Arte fuit,

Non Ipocrate minor erat

hic, non Peone, Doctor,

Non opifex mirum

vincis Apollo virum.

M. D. deme ter X. semel V.

Christi cadit Anno,

Cui vitam Medicus

det sine fine Deus.

A handsome Monument on the Wall, in the South Ile, with this Inscription.

Here by lyeth buried the body of Edward Price, Gentleman, and of Edward his onely Sonne, who for the space of 24. yeeres, lived in this Parish, wherein God so blessed him, that of his good and charitable devotion, he hath given three pounds a yeere for ever out of his free Land, called the Blew Lyon in the said Parish, to be bestowed in Sea-coales, and to bee distributed freely to the poore by the Churchwardens. And also twenty pounds for ever to bee lent to two poore young Housholders gratis, from two yeeres to two yeeres, ten pounds apiece.

He departed this life the 8. of March, 1605.

On the same Tombe, under that above, is this written.

This Tombe was erected at the charge of Elizabeth, the Wife of Henry Baten, Esquire, one of his Majesties Sergeants at Armes, and late Wife of Edward Price, deceased, who of [Page] her godly disposition, hath given 20. s. a yeere for ever to the Preacher of this Parish, to be paid out of her house called the three Cups, next adjoyning on the West side of the same Blew Lyon, onely that he shall make recitall hereof at two severall Sermons yeerely; one on the Sunday before Christmas day, and the other on the Sunday before Midsummer day. And the said Elizabeth also, of her godly love and zeale to the Church, hath given a Flagon-Pot, silver and guilt, weighing 38. ounces and an halfe, for the service of the Communion Table, to remaine for ever; and three pounds to the poore, to be distributed at her Funerall, and five pounds to the poore of Kniton in Derbyshore, where shee was borne. Shee departed the 10. of November, Anno 1616.

A very faire Glasse Table, hanging on a Pillar in the South Ile, in which there is the figure of a Gentlewoman all in blacke, with a guilt booke in her hand, laid as upon her Tombe: Over her head an Angell, over her at the feet, Death with a Dart and Houre-glasse.

Over her, adjoyning to a very faire Coat, encompast with a Lawrell wreath, these words:

Filius Ararhnes Cyllenii, Factor paterque Tanaquillae. Vnder her. Memoriae Sacrum

Katherinae Brydges (filiae & Haeredis Roberti Essington generosi, unius olim Guardianorum pontis London) triplici jugo junctae: Primò Thomae Gwyn de London generoso, filio secundo Gulielmi Vaughan de Berain in Com. Denbighe, Armigeri, & Margaretae Gwin, Vxoris ejus, defunctorum, Cui unicum Foetum edidit (Nimirum Edwardum Guyn, adhuc vitales Carpentem auras) Secundo Gulielmo Forset Armigero: Postremo Guilielmo Bridges, interioris Templi London Armigero: Vitae sua virtute Clara, omnibusque naturae dotibus eximiè praedita. Cui (post laudabilis vitae stadium, nitentemque in aulam migrationem) E. G. defunctae proles, officiosa pietate (ut decet) Novissimum hoc Parentale Munusculums exolvit.

Obiit 16. Maii, Anno a partu Virginis salutifero 1598. Annoque Aetatis suae 45.

Giles in the Fields.

BEfore I speake of this new Church, I must briefly say of the old, that indeed it was very old: and in the antiquity of it, stood now still in danger of falling: that some part of it did fall, foretelling the rest to follow, if not speedily prevented, by pulling it downe to Re-build it, which after a diligent search, the necessity found, was done.

For this new Church, it beganne to be raised in the yeere of our Lord God, 1623. was finished 1625. and encompast with a faire bricke Wall in the yeere 1631.

Which take more amply, in that absolute delivery of it, that I finde engraven over the doore on the North side of this Church, the words are these:

Quod felix bonumque sit

Posteris,

Hoc Templum loco veteris ex Annosâ

vetustate

Collapsi, Mole & Splendore Auctum

Multo paraecorum Charitas

Instauravit,

In quibus pientissimae Heroinae

D. Aliciae Duddeley

Munisicentia gratum marmoris hujus

meretur eloquium.

Huc etiam accessit aliorum quorundam

pictas,

Quibus provisae in Coelo sunt grates.

Opus

Surgere Coepit

Ad umbilicos deductum

Muro undiquaque vallatum

Anno

1623

1625

1631

Heus Viator, an effaetum est bonis operibus hoc seculum?

[Page] To the raising, finishing, and (in every part of it) richly, and very excellently beautifying of this great worke, there were many good and great Benefactors: The names of all, with their particular gifts, my time gave not leave to compasse: neither for many of them, could any enquiry get them, they desiring to bee conceald, and by vertue of what they have done, obliging those that know them, not to divulge or reveale them.

For the rich and costly Glazing of this Church, the Worke and Workemasters thus follow.

A very rich and beautifull Window in the head of the Chancell, of foure severall Panes or Parts: In the first, the figure of Abraham sacrificing his Sonne: in the second, Moses with the Table of the Commandements: in the third, the figure of the holy Prophet David: in the fourth and last, Salomon.

The inscription to the first is this:

Credidit Abraham Deo, & reputatum est illi ad Iustitiam. Anno Dom. 1628.

Of the second is this:

Erat vir Moyses Mitissimus super omnes homines qui morabantur in terra. 1628.

Of the third this:

Solum medium tutum. 1627.

Of the fourth this:

Dum Spiro Spero. 1628.

The first of these, was the charge of Abraham Speckart, Esquire.

The second, of Hamo Claxton, Esquire.

The third, of Sir Iohn Fenner, Knight.

The fourth, of Frauncis Lord Mount-Norris.

A very faire Window on the South side of the Chancell.

At the top of it, Iehovah.

Vnder the figures in it,

Shelbery 1617. Shelbery and Wrothe.

Domine misere nostri.

A very faire Window on the North side of the Chancell: two faire Figures in it; the one of the Virgin Mary, with Christ in her armes; the other of Mary Magdalen.

Vnder this Window lyeth buried, the body of Mary Pill, of this Parish; which Window was set up at the charges of Mary Maudit, her daughter and Heire, 1629.

Vnder the first thefe Verses:

From Maries teares to Maries joy,

This Mary is translated:

And after threescore yeeres annoy,

In Heaven she is instated.

With this, she chose the better part,

Never to be repented;

And held her Saviour in herart,

Thus are her joyes augmented.

Vnder the other these:

This, sought her Saviour at his Tombe,

His feet with Teares bedewed,

That, bore our Saviour in her wombe,

Whereby our joyes renewed.

Then happy soule, thrice happy this,

Happily interessed;

In Maries Teares, and Maries blisse,

Rest thou for ever blessed.

A very faire Window, with the Kings Armes in it, over the entrance into the Chancell,

Glazed at the charge of Sir William Segar, Knight, alias Garter principall King of Armes, Anno Dom. 1626.

A very faire Window at the upper end of the South Ile,

Glazed at the charges of Marmaduke Rawdon, Citizen and Clothworker of London, Anno Dom. 1625.

Another next to this downeward,

Glazed at the charge of Robert Rawdon, Citizen and Fishmonger of London, Anno Dom. 1625.

Another next to this downeward, bearing the figure of a Lyon in the Wildernesse,

Glazed at the charge of M. Iohn Iohnson, Inne-keeper, in High-Holborne, 1625.

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Another next to this downeward, having the Figures of Saint Iohn, Saint Philip, and Saint Matthew,

Glazed at the cost and charges of Philip Parker.

Next to this downeward, a very faire Window,

Glazed at the charges of Katherine Best, Widdow, late Wife of Iohn Best, deceased, who gave order in his life time for the glazing of this Window and was buried there under, the 7. day of Aprill, 1625. And there lie also his Son Iames, and his Daughter Dorothy.

Next to this downeward, a very faire Window,

Glazed at the charges of Alice Hodges, Widdow, late Wife to Thomas Hodges, Baker, deceased, who was buried under this Window, the 6. day of October, 1625. And here lye also his three children.

A faire Window next to this, the lowest in the South wall,

Glazed at the cost of William Perkins, of London Merchantaylor, 1626.

At the lower end of this Ile, over the Southwest doore, a very faire Window, bearing in it (very curiously done) the Figure of our Saviour.

Over his head, as in a garland supported by two Angels, these letters:

I·H✚·S·

Round about him Clouds full of Cherubins.

On one side of him this,

I am the doore, by mee if any man enter in, he shall be saved, Ioh. 10. 9.

On the other side,

Come unto me all yee that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest, Matth. 11. 28.

Beckinghamus Boteler Armiger fieri fecis.

Anno Domini 1627.

Over the great West doore, is a faire Window, with the Carpenters Armes, and a faire Coat Armes close by it.

This Window hath no name, or other Inscription; It was (as I was told) the gift of a Stranger.

One, that upon a day that they made a Collection for it, being there, was (among the rest) desired to bestow his good will, hee answered, Hee had no Money, but if the glasing of a Window, if they had any yet undisposed of, wouldbe accepted of, he would bee at the charge to doe it. The Collectors giving him thankes, and shewing this Window, he suddenly set a Glasier on worke, and what he had promised hee performed.

A very faire Window at the head of the North Ile, bearing the figure of Christ crucified as also (one on the one side, the other on the other) of the two Maries.

On the right side of him this,

Woman, Behold thy Sonne.

On the left,

Behold thy Mother.

Glazed at the cost of Thomas Esto, Cooke, of this Parish, Anno Dom. 1625.

Another next to this downeward,

Glazed at the charges of Iohn Beacon, of the City of Westminster, Yeoman, 1625.

Another next to this downeward,

Glazed at the charges of Robert Iohnson, free of the Company of the Ioyners, 1625.

A faire Window over the doore in the middle of the North Ile, bearing a worthy Coat Armes, with these words: Whitaker & Egerton.

This Window is divided into three parts, under the first this,

[Page] Ego sum ostium, per me si quis introierit, servabitur, & ingredietur, & egredietur, & pascua inveniet. Ioh. 10. 9.

Vnder the second thus:

In tuo lumine (Domine Iesu) lumen Ae [...]ernum videre sperantes, vitreum hoc luminare fabricari fecerunt Laurentius & Margareta Whitaker, Anno salutis humanae 1625.

Vnder the third thus:

Eligo frequentare limen in domo Dei mei magis quam habitare in Tentoriis Improbitatis. Psal. 84. 11.

A faire Window next to this downeward, bearing a very faire Coat Armes, with these words: Cope & Aston.

Glazed at the charges of the Lady Katherine Cope, Widdow, late Wife to Sir Ed. Cope, of this Parish, 1625.

A very rich Window next downward, divided into three parts, bearing the curious Figures of the three Theologicall Vertues, under them, Fides, Spes, Chaeritas. Vnder Faith this:

Faith Root, Hope Stocke,

the branch is Charity;

Faith sees, Hope lookes,

for Charity is free;

Faith knits to God, to

Heaven hope, Love to men;

Faith gets, Hope keepes,

and Love poures out agen. 1626.

Mandatum novum do vobis, ut diligatis unus alium, Ioh. 13. 34.

Vnder Hope this:

Tres Elohim: pater est

primus qui procreat, inde

Filius est, ex his

Spiritus almus adest.

Sunt Tria dona Dei:

sit prima Fides pia Mater,

Filia Spes, ex his

[...]ertius ortus Amor. 1626.

Nam Speservati sumus, Spes autem si cernatur non est Spes: quod enim quis cernit, cur speret? Rom. 8. 24.

Vnder Charity this:

Now remaine these three, Faith, Hope, Charity, but the greatest of these is Charity, 1 Cor. 13. 13.

Scriptum est, Iustus ex Fide vivet, Rom. 1. 17.

Next unto this downeward, the last of this North Ile, is a plaine Window, without either colour or Inscription.

Vpon a faire Grave-stone in the middle Ile, is this Inscription.

Here lyeth buried the body of Elizabeth, late Wife of Richard Maunsell, Esquire, one of the Daughters and Heires of Roger Wingfield, of great Dunham, in the County of Norfolke, Esquire. She departed this life upon the sixt of October, in the yeere of our Lord God, 1620.

Vpon a faire Stone neere to the other, it this Inscription.

Inter'd, the Corps of

Baron Birch lies here,

Of Greyes Inne sometime,

by degree, Esquire;

In Chequer 18. yeeres

a Iudge he was,

Till soule from aged body

his did passe.

Alive his Wife Eliza

doth remaine,

Of Stydfolke stocke, one Sonne

and Daughters twaine,

She bare by him:

the eldest in his life,

He gave to Thomas Boyer

for his Wife.

His body sleepes till

Angels Trumpe shall sound,

God grant we all may

ready then be found.

Iohannes Birch, Obiit Anno Dom. 1581. Maii 30. Aetatis suae 66.

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On another Stone neere to the former, is this Inscription.

Here lyeth buried the body of Elizabeth Byrche, Widdow, late Wife of Iohn Byrche, Esquire, and one of the Barons of her Majesties Court of the Exchequer, Daughter of Iohn Stydfolke, Esquire, who deceased the third day of December, 1588.

Close by the former

Lyeth buried the body of Iohn Densill, sometime Serjeant at Law, and Mary his Wife.

In the same Ile is a very faire Stone, which hath beene beautified with many faire Figures in Brasse: but much of it being gone, all we can see now of it is this:

Here lieth George Carew, the fourth son of Sir Edmund Carew, &c. 1583.

In the South Ile

Eyes buried the body of Alexander Barnes, Vinter, sometime Church-warden of this Parrish, &c. Hee deceased the 4. of November, 1614. being of the age of 57. yeeres.

Alexander Barnes

here doth lye,

Glory bee

to God on high,

For he on earth

hath finished his dayes,

And now liveth in Heaven

to give God praise.

And now having done with the Chruch, we beginne in the Church-yard with this Inscription, standing in the middle of the South wall.

Laus Deo.

In cujus, & Christianae Sepulturae, honorem, nimis arcti olim Coemeterii fines, novi hujus, 128. pedes longi, & 17. lati, Donatione, Abrahamus Speckart, Arm. & Dorothea Vxor ejus Ampliarunt, Anno Dom. 1630.

A very faire Tombe-stone in the Church-yard, about it these Verses.

Thornton of Thornton,

in Yorkeshire bred,

Where lives the fame

of Thorntons being dead:

Full South this stone

foure foot doth lye,

His Father Iohn,

and Grandsire Henry.

Vpon it.

Iohannes Thornton, in Memoria Charissimae Vxoris Margaretae, Filiae Georgii Collins, hujus parochiae sancti Aegidii in Campis, hoc Monumentum posuit.

Vnder this sad

Marble sleepes,

Shee, for whom

even Marble weepes:

Her praise lives still,

though here she lies

Seeming dead

that never dyes:

Religion, Love,

in suffering Breast,

Her Charity, Mildnesse,

and the rest,

Hath crown's her soule;

all mourne with fame,

Her Husbands losse,

and Midwives blame.

She died in Childbed,

seventy times blest and seven,

Her child and she deliver'd,

both in Heaven.

Obiit octavo die Ianuarii, Anno Dom. 1611. Aetatis suae 16.

On a faire Stone in the Church-yard, is this Inscription. I·H✚·S·

Here under lyeth buried the body of Ioane Barker, late Wife of Richard Barker, 17. yeeres of this Parish, who deceased the last day of Iuly, [Page] Anno Dom. 1626. whom the Lord send a joyfull Resurrection.

Expecta donec veniat.

Vpon it thus:

Honesta mors initium vitae.

Turne againe then unto thy rest, O my soule, for the Lord hath rewarded thee; and why? thou hast delivered my soule from death, mine eyes from teares, and my feer from falling.

I will walke before the Lord, in the land of the living. Psal. 116.

This Stone was laid by her Husband Richard Barker, one of the Yeomen of the Guard to Queene Elizabeth and King Iames 30. yeeres, and now to King Charles. And was married to his late deceased Wife 20. yeeres and one moneth, and had seven children, wherof five live, Horatio, Anne, Elizabeth, Katherine, and Mary.

Close by this lies buried the body of William Howe, Aprill 3. 1626.

Also the body of Elizabeth Mason, Wife of Amos Mason, Curate of the Temple, Iuly 18. 1632.

Of Iohn Cartwrite, Gentleman, August 13. 1620.

Of Richard Bestibitch, sonne of Daniel Bestbitch.

James at Clarkenwell. 1623.

THere hath beene within these few yeeres a great sum of mony expended upon this Chruch, by the sad and lamentable accidents of twice the fall of the Steeple. Speaking of which, I should say, the first in such a yeere, such a moneth, such a day; and as of that for the second: but my Information (though given mee by a very good friend) could by no meanes make me so punctuall. Howsoever, it was about the time afore dated; and the second, within a little time after.

The first falling of this Steeple (or part of it) was through the antiquity, or length of time it had stood, without any repaire or mending; for (as I have beene certified) it hath had no cost, in that kinde, bestowed upon it, within the memory of any Parishioner living: neither among their Records can they finde any such thing mentioned.

The second fall (as some have suspected) was either by the ignorance or dishonesty of the principall Workman, that for a certaine summe of money (from the ruines of the first) had undertaken to raise and rebuild it. Ignorance in not looking into the strength of that, upon which hee was to reare such a burthen; Or dishonesty, in sleightly passing over (for the speedier dispatch of his Taske) a weaknesse upon which he knew (or might suspect) such an eminent danger to follow.

How just the suspicion, I know not, but in the Re-building of this Steeple, before it was fully finished (although almost upon the end of that labour) it fell, with the Bells, their Carriages and Frames, beating a great part of the Roofe downe before them: the weight of all these together, bearing to the ground two large Pillars of the South Ile, a faire Gallery over against the Pulpit, the Pulpit, all the Pewes, and whatsoever was under or neere it.

But now (as of all the rest) let us speake of building, repairing, and beautifying, which briefly for this Chruch we doe thus:

All those decayes and losses (excepting the want of the Steeple which (at the lower end of the South Ile) is begun, and from the ground raised as high as the roofe of the Church) are recovered and made whole againe: all the Walls of it firme and faire; in the South wall a faire new doore: The Chruch, in the place of the old, furnished with all things new, and is without and within (notwithstanding there is much still to doe) well and very worthily beautified.

[Page] The cost of all this amounting to (or much upon) 1400. pounds.

It was thus finished in the yeere of our Lord, 1627.

Vpon my very worthy Friend, Master Iohn Weaver, a learned Antiquary.

Weaver, who laboured

in a learned straine,

To make men long since dead

to live againe,

And with expence of Oyle,

and Inke, did watch,

From the Wormes mouth

the sleeping Course to snatch,

Hath by his industry

begot a way,

Death (who insidiates

all things) to betray,

Redeeming freely

by his care and cost,

Many a sad Herse, which time

long since gave lost;

And to forgotten dust

such spirit did give,

To make it in our

memories to live.

Where Death destroy'd

when he had power to save,

In that he did not seeke

to rob the Grave,

For where so e're

a ruin'd Tombe he found,

His Pen hath built it

new out of the ground.

'Twixt Earth and Him

this interchange we finde,

Shee hath to him,

he bin to her like kinde,

Shee was his Mother,

he (agratefull Child)

Made her his Theme,

in a large worke compil'd

Of Funerall Reliques,

and brave Structures rear'd,

On such as seem'd unto her

most indear'd.

Alternately a Grave

to him she lent,

O're which his Booke

remaines a Monument.

Master Weaver upon himselfe.

Lankashire gave me breath,

And Cambridge education,

Middlesex gave me death,

And this Church my humation,

And Christ to me hath given

A place with him in Heaven.

Obiit Anno Aetat. suae 56.

For the ancient Monuments of this Church, turne to folio 484, 485.

Katherines Tower.

THis Church was repaired, and within thorowout trimmed, and very commendably beautified, in the yeere of our Lord God, 1618.

A very faire Gallery at the lower end of the Church, built in the yeere 1613. was (with a great addition in the breadth of it) inlarged in the yeere 1621.

The Walls & outside of this Church was againe in many decayed places of it repaired, and all over cloathed in a faire and very beautifull Rough-cast, at the sole cost and charge of Sir Iulius Caesar, Knight, in the yeere of our Lord God, 1629. His charge being (taken to be done by the great) 250. li.

About the same time, there was a very faire Clocke-house built at the West end of the Chruch, and some other things done. All before named, except that of Sir Iulius Caesar, being the proper cost and charge of the Inhabitants.

Vpon the South wall in the Chancell, is this inscribed.

The gift of Master Steven Scudamore, late Citizen and Vintener of London, deceased, 20 s. per Annum, to be bestowed in Fewell amongst the poore of this Precinct, at the discretion of the Collectors for the time being, [Page] Beganne the 20. day of December, Anno Dom. 1606. to bee continued unto them for ever.

Neere unto the former is another Inscription, as followeth.

The gift of Master Iohn Bourne, late Citizen and White-baker of London, being 5. li. per Annum, to be bestowed in Bread amongst the poore of this Precinct, Beganne the 10. day of May, Anno Dom. 1609. to be continued unto them for 40. yeeres following.

On the same South Wall, this Monument done at the charges of William Beereblocke, Goldsmith, one of his Executors.

Here dead in part,

whose best part never dieth,

A Benefactor,

William Cutting lyeth:

Not dead, if good deeds

could keepe men alive,

Nor all dead, since good deeds

doe men revive.

Gunvile and Kaies,

his good deeds may record,

And will, no doubt,

him praise therefore afford:

Saint Katherines eke,

neere London, can it tell,

Goldsmiths, & Merchantaylors,

know it well:

Two Country Townes

his civill bounty blest,

East Derham, and

Norton-Fitzwarren West.

More did he than

this Table can unfold,

The world his fame,

this earth his earth doth hold.

Leonards Shorditch.

FOr the Repaires of this Church, Monuments, and Gifts, with the names of the bountifull Givers, and the like, turne to page 471, 472, and 473.

Martins in the Fields.

THe enlargement of this Church was begunne in the yeere of our Lord God, 1607. being the fifth yeere of the Reigne of our Soveraigne Lord King Iames, of England, France, and Ireland, and of Scotland the 41. and it was finished in the yeere 1608. To the which enlargement, our said Soveraigne Lord King Iames, and our most Noble Prince Henry, were most gracious Benefactors; the rest of the charges were borne by the Inhabitants of this Parish.

Randall Hopkins, and Andrew Hacket, being the first yeere Churchwardens.

And in the second yeere, Andrew Hacket, and Richard Stile.

This inlargement was onely that ground, that at the East end of this Church (taken out of the Churchyard) was then made a beautifull Chancell.

A very faire Table fastened to a Pillar neere the Pulpit; in which is curiously drawne the figure of an Angell, holding the Coat of the Gentry, of the living Husband, and dead Wife, for whom it was there set up; Also of a Deaths-head, with an Houre-glasse upon it: The border of the Table filled (excellent in proportion and colours) with Deaths-heads, braches of Palme, and other fresh and beautifull Flowers.

Nascendo Morimur.

Quid Cranii sibi forma novi

vult ista? Quid Hora?

Quidque super Cranio,

lumen nova nata, segesque?

Nempe dies mortis,

vitae fit origo perennis;

Quae moritur mundo,

Nascitur illa Deo.

What doth this Scull? what

doth this Houre-glasse show?

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The Corne and Palme, that

on the Scull doth grow?

It meaneth this, that Death

the end of strife,

Is the beginning

to eternall life:

Death is the doore

to immortality,

Shee's borne to God,

that to the world doth dye.

The burning Taper

to his end doth waste,

Whilst life and death

to meet each other haste;

Then happy she,

that did her life apply,

Here and above

to live eternally.

To the permanent honour and remembrance of the Pious and All-vertuous Gentlewoman, Mistresse Susan Price, Daughter to the Honourable Baronet, Sir Paul Tracy, of Stanway, in Glocester; and the late dearely beloved Wife of the Religious, Learned, and truly Vertuous Gentleman, William Price, of Winchester, Esquire, one of his Majesties most honourable Privy Chamber. She died the 13. of March, 1632.

Ye holy Angels,

and ye Powers of light,

The glad injoyers

of Gods glorious sight;

You that in faithfull

Abrahams bosome rest,

You have receiv'd

your sanctified Guest.

Faire Susan Price

hath blessed Heaven obtain'd,

And for her well run Race,

Gods glory gain'd,

Shining in Robes

of Immortality,

Contemnes the earth

and worldly vanity.

True Christian faith

indued her constant minde,

And unto her

the promise was assign'd.

Most honour'd be

her memory, outwasting

All Genealogies,

and everlasting.

Whilst therebe Elements,

Stars, Orbes, or Spheares,

Dayes Sunne, or Nights

Moone, to direct the yeeres,

The Heavens possesse her soule,

the World her Fame,

And faire example, her Vertues,

Worth, and Name:

What Nature, Goodnesse,

Institution, Fact,

Could heape to a perfection,

was her Act.

The Angels sing her glory,

who did call

Her sweet soule home

to its originall,

And now shees gone hence

for to passe the time

She ought her Husband,

in a better Clime.

There shall her Harvest

and her Summer be,

Where she shall never

any Winter see.

Then Price grieve you no more,

she lives in joy,

Wipe you your teares,

her teares are wip'd away.

The Epitaph.

Stay ere you passe,

lament, and fix your eyes

Vpon a worthy

Consorts obsequies.

Susan here lies, for beauty,

worth, and life,

Admir'd, the worthy

William Prices Wife.

Never was after death

one more desir'd,

Nor ever living

was one more admir'd.

A file of lasting praises

crownes her name,

Perpetuall glories

doe attend her fame:

Rich in all joyes, she

now hath chang'd her bed,

Ioyned in marryage

unto Christ her head.

Come, whosoever would

enjoy like state,

Endevour all her worth

to imitate.

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Over the figure of Death: Ibimus omnes.

Ladies, when you

your purest beauties see,

Thinke them but Tenants

to mortalitie:

Ther's no content on earth,

Ioyes soone are fled,

Healthfull to day we live,

to morrow dead:

I was as you are now,

young, faire, and cleere,

And you shall once be

as you see me heere.

Mors mihi lucrum.

Moriendo Nascimur.

Vpon her Tomb-stone, at the foot of this Monument.

Mistresse Susanna Price, the wife of William Price, Esquire, one of the Groomes of his Majesties most Honourable Privy Chamber, Daughter of Sir Paul Tracy, Baronet, departed this life the 13. of March, 1632. before shee had beene married full 14. weekes.

She was so full of Vertue and of Goodnesse, few might compare with her, none could excell her.

Her body is here interred, here is her body, her soule is in Heaven with her Saviour.

A faire Tomb-stone in the Chancell, with this Inscription.

Here lieth buried the body of Mistresse Dorothy Hervy, that Honourable matchlesse Virgin, the Daughter of the Right Honourable, William Lord Hervy, Baron of Kidbrooke, and of the Religious Lady his Wife, the Lady Cordelia Hervy, Daughter and Heire to Master Brian Ansley, Esquire, of Lee, in Kent, who departed this transitory life the 19. of February, Anno 1632.

Glorious Dorothy

here intombed lies,

Lord Hervies Daughter,

and faire Vertues prize.

Modell of Honour,

Graces Paragon,

In whose great losse

her Parents Ioyes are gone.

Her life was such

as well may be deni'd,

That she did ever ill,

but when she dy'd▪

Pity so soone

so rare a Virgin must

Stoope to Corruption,

and be cloath'd in dust.

Heaven and the world being

Sutors, who should have her,

To end the strife, she went

to him that gave her.

Nascendo Morimur.

A very faire Table, with a rich Coat Armes, hanging on the North side of the Chancell, with this Inscription.

Hae sunt Antiqua Moraviorum Insigniae, in memoriam Patricii Moravii, Domino Carolo Regi à poculis, nuper defuncti hîc posita.

Mary Whitechappell.

THis Church, in the many (and greatly) decayed parts of it, was repaired; and within, without, and in every part of it richly and very worthily beautified, at the cost and charge of the Parishioners, in the yeere of our Lord God, 1633.

For Whitechappell side.

Thomas Farrar

Iohn Wood

Iohn Mannering

Churchwardens.

For Wapping side.

Captaine Hatch

Master Allen

Churchwardens.

The cost of this Repaire, 300. li. and upwards.

[Page] To shew the never-dying love of these Parishioners, to their deceased Pastor, Master William Crashaw, take this Inscription from a very faire Gallery in the South Ile.

To the honour of God, the advancement of Religion, and in thankfulnesse to God for the safe returne of our hopefull and gracious Prince Charles from the dangers of his Spanish Iourney, this Gallery was erected at the charge of this Parish, Anno 1623. and the seventh yeere of Master Crashawes Residence.

His Name, as in this, in many other places remembred.

The ground of this South Ile was added to the Church, and the Ile new built in the yeere of our Lord, 1591. And in the foure and thirtieth of the Reigne of Queene Elizabeth, Master Richard Gardner Parson.

A faire Monument on the North wall of the Chancell, with this Inscription.

Christo optimo maxime,

pietati & posteritati,

Sacrum,

Elizabethae Conjugis dulcissimae,

Foeminae Lectissimae è Claris. Skinneriana,

& Emersoniana Familiis oriundae,

In qua (Rara Felicitate)

Pietas cum Pulchritudine,

Ingenium cum Virtute,

Forma cum pudicitia,

Mirifice conveniebant,

Quae in primo puerperio, in ipso enixu,

Animam Deo, Memoriam Mundo,

Vitam Naturae, Carnem terrae,

Patri puerulum, Amicis luctum,

Conjugi Moerorem ineffabilem,

Omnibus ingens sui ipsius desiderium

moriendo Reliquit,

W. Crashaius, hujus Ecclesiae

Rector, Conjux longe Moestissimus

multis cum Lachrymis

Lugens Lubens

Invitus Posuit.

I know that my Redeemer liveth, Iob 19. 25.

To the honour of Christ Jesus, to the praise of Piety, to the example of Posterity, and for the preservation of the godly memory of Elizabeth, his most worthily beloved Wife, in whom (by a rare Conjunction) Godlinesse with Comlinesse, Wisdome with Vertue, Beauty with Chastity, Youth with Discretion, and Discretion with Devotion, were most sweetely combined; who in the prime of her yeeres, upon her first Childe, yeelded up, by untimely death, as her selfe often had foretold, her soule to God, her life to Nature, her body to the Earth, her memory to the World, and left to the pensive Earth a deare bought Sonne, to her friends heavinesse, hard to be removed, to her Husband sorrow, not to be expected, and to all that knew her, a longing desire after her,

William Crashaw, her most sad and sorrowfull Husband, Pastor of this Church, most unwilling to part with her, but most willing to honour her with many sighes and teares, dedicated this Monument in assurance of her glorious Resurrection.

She died October 8. in the 24. yeere of her age.

A handsome Tombe, encompast with Iron grates in the Churchyard, hath this Inscription.

To the Memory of Alice Shelton, daughter of Sir Ralph Shelton, of Shelton-Hall, in Norfolke, Knight, who had Issue by her first Husband, Thomas Waller, Esquire, 9. Sonnes, and 9. Daughters; and by her second Husband, William Wrove, of London, Merchantaylor, had Issue two Sonnes and one Daughter; but had no Issue by her third and last Husband, Tobias Wilkinson. 1630.

Another close by the former, with this Inscription.

Favour is deceitfull, and beauty is vanity, but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised.

[Page] Here lieth buried that vertuous Thamozin, that gracious young Woman, the faithfull Wife of Master William Eeles, of Limehouse, Marriner; this mirrour of young Women, departed this life on the 10. of Iuly, 1620. Shee being of the age of 25. yeeres, and was Mother of a Sonne and a Daughter; but Thamozin the Daughter, departed this life on the 18. of December, 1621. being of the age of 6. yeeres, and lieth here buried.

Every wise Woman buildeth her house, but the foolish pluketh it downe with her hands.

The memory of the Iust is blessed, but the name of the wicked shall rot.

Remember,

As you are now, so was she;

As she is now, so you must be.

William Eeles.

Magdalens Bermondsey.

THis Church was inlarged by the addition of all that ground that is now the South Ile, taken out of their spacious Churchyard; this Ile was begunne to be built in the yeere of our Lord God, 1608.

Christopher Robinson

Thomas Freeman

Churchwardens.

The Worke going on, and continuing to the yeere 1610. in which it was very worthily and compleatly finished. The charge of it amounting to 860. li.

In the yeere 1619. on the top of the Steeple, was a very faire Turret erected. The charge of it, 33. li. 16. s. In the same yeere a new Clocke made, 7. li.

The Steeple was againe repaired, and the inside of the Church trimmed and very commedably beautified, in the yeere 1621.

The cost of this last (though I could not set downe the summe) as of all the former severall Repaires and Building, the sole cost and charge of the Parishioners.

A very faire Brasse Branch in this Church, was the gift of Ralph Alder, of this Parish, 1613.

Savoy Parish.

WE have not in the collection of all these Churches, looked so far backe upon any Repaire as this: but as wee finde it we present it.

The repairing and trimming of this Church (which was at that time performed with great cost and beauty) was in the yeere of our Lord God 1600. at the sole cost and charge of the Parishioners.

Iames Houson

Thomas Martin

Churchwardens.

In the yeere 1618. there was a faire Gallery built at the lower end of this Church.

Rowland Hodges

Daniell Hall

Churchwardens.

A very faire Monument at the upper end of the Church, having this Inscription.

Ecce pudicitia, & pietas,

Coeli utraque proles

Accingunt, Dextra haec,

haec tibi levae latus,

Iure, salo coluere, Polo

Rapuere, nec usquam

Te neque jam tumulum

destituere tuum.

Da. Humius Theag. Non Delendae Amicitiae sempiternum Monumentum.

M. N. M. S. Siste paululum quisquis es, & paucis quid Marmor hocce te volet scies.

Hîc sacrum Beatissimae Animae depositum, & felicissimae quiescunt exûviae Nicolaae Moraviae, ex clarissima Moraviorum, cum Tilibardinorum, tum Abircarniorum Gente, per utrumque parentem ortae, & Roberti Duglassii, equitis Aurati, conjugis Lectissimae, Quae incredibili ingenio, rarissimo Iudicio, [Page] Summa pietate, singulari prudentiae, omnique virtutis genere, imprimis modestia, pudicitia, & suavissimis moribus ornatissima, cum omnem propè Aetatem, contempt is mundi hujus Foecib. in Rerum divinarum speculatione, & assidua meditatione consumpsisset, in Theologicis porrò ad miraculum usque docta doctissimos quosque Theologos in admirationem sui & stuporem Rapuisset, Nihilque unquam, per universam vitam quam Christum sperasset, ad eundemque tota jam adspirarat, primo partu longissimis, & Acerrimis doloribus divexata, ubi Moestissimum conjugem, & circumfusos amicos ad vitae hujus fluxae ac caducae contemptum, & ad certissimam immortalitis spem erexisset prolixissimâ etiam & suavissimâ oratione, ipsam se suosque omnes, maximè vero conjugem Deo commendasset, gratissimam Christo Animam reddidit, & extincto Foetu, in summo omnium Moerore expiravit.

Abi jam quisquis es, & non dissimilem vitae exitum ipsi tibi opta & vale. Obiit die Novemb. Anno 1612. Aetatis suae

A faire Monument on the West side, close to the former, with this Inscription. Morieris. Resurges. Ianua vitae sepulchrum.

Here lyeth Nazareth Coppin, Wife to George Coppin of London, Gentleman, Daughter to Thomas Thwaits of Hardington, in the County of Norfolke, Esquire, who being of the age of 24. yeeres, in the prime of her youth and beauty, as she lived most vertuously, so she died most godly, the 22. of Iune 1592. in the 34. yeere of the most happy reigne of Queene Elizabeth.

Mors certa, inevitabilis, incertae.

On either side of her these lines.

Morti praedajaces,

potuit nec plurima formae

Gratia, nec mentis

vincere fata pudor:

Et tamen in terris ultra

spes figitur? alto

Quaerenda est merces

non peritura pole.

Peregrinatio est vita.

Vivis & aeternum victa

de morte triumphas,

Exuvias tantum

possidet illa tui:

Omnia sic patrias sedes

unde orta revisunt,

Redditur & Coelo

mens pia, corpus humo,

Mors meta laborum.

Next to the other is a very Ancient Monument, with this Inscription.

Pray for the soules of Sir Richard Rokeby, Knight, and Dame Iane his wife, whose bones rest here under this Tombe, which Sir Richard deceased the 27. of Aprill, 1523. and the said Dame Iane deceased the 15. On whose soules Iesu have mercy.

Over the Vestry doore in the Chancell, is a very faire Tombe with these words.

Hîc jacet Alicia, Filia Simonis Steward, de la Kingheth, Suff. Obiit 18. Iunii, Humanae salutis, 1573.

Virtutis praemium virtus.

Vpon a faire Marble Stone in the Chancell, is this Inscription.

Here lies interred the bodies of Peter Lilly, Doctor of Divinity, one of the Brothers of the Savoy, Prebend of Paules, and Archdeacon of Tanton, who died at the Savoy, Anno Dom. 1614. And of Dorothy Lilly, his vertuous Wife, who also died at the Savoy, the 1. of Iune, Anno Dom. 1627. and of Mary Lilly, their onely Daughter, who departed this life at Fulham, the 10. of October, 1625.

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Close to the other this:

Here under lyeth the body of Frances Bulbecke, late of Clevedon, in the County of Somerset, Esquire, the 8. sonne of Iohn Bulbecke, of the same place and County, Esquire, deceased, which said Frances died, being never married, the 9. of November, in the yeere of our Lord God, 1585.

Close to the other this:

Here lyeth buried Peter Richardson, Goldsmith and Ieweller, borne in Holland, in the parts beyond the Seas, servant to the most famous King, Henry the 8. and King Edward the the 6. to Queene Mary, and to our most dread Soveraigne Lady, Queene Elizabeth: which Peter having married Anne, the Daughter of Robert Wilson, lived to the age of 84. yeeres, and died a faithfull Christian, the 24. of March, in the yeere of our Lord God, 1586.

There is also in this Chancell buried, the body of one David Bedo, Batchelour of the Law, and Steward to the Lord of Carleil, &c. 1541.

Close by the former

Lieth buried the body of Humphrey Lovell, Esquire, with his two Wives and five Children. He died the 16. of November 1585.

Close to the other is this.

Hîc jacet Dominus Richardus Ellis, quondam Hospitularius hujus Hospitalis. Qui obiit 3. die Augusti 1550. quadragessimo 5. Cujus animae propitietur Deus. Amen.

At the upper end of the Chancell, in the East corner, is a very ancient Monument, with this Inscription.

Wilielmus Chaworth, secundus filius Iohannis Chaworth, de Wynerton, in Comitatu Notingham, Militis, hic in suo Coelibatu repulverescit, cujus spiritus in Coelis, carnis reassumptionem expectat.

Obiit 24. die Martii, Anno salutis à Christo 1582. & suae Nativitatis 28.

Necessitudinis Symbolum.

A very faire Table with a rich Coat Armes, on the East wall, toward the lower end of the Church. Over it these words:

So good a Father and Mother are never to be forgotten.

Vnder it these:

Here lieth the body of Rebecca Burton, Wife to Captaine Nicholas Burton, and Daughter to Henry Somaster of Painesford in Devonshire, Esquire; who departed this life the 28. of February, Anno Dom. 1632.

In the wall on the West side of the Church, is this ancient Memoriall.

The first sepulted in this place

after they it sacrated,

Was Humphrey Summerset,

Deacon, which here doth lye,

Batchelour in the Arts,

whom cruell Death oppressed,

The sixteen hundred & fifteenth yeere

of God Almighty,

The fifteenth day of Aprill,

which Humphrey doth call and cry,

With lamentable escrikes,

and good devotion,

All devout Christen men

and women, that passe hereby,

Pray for my dolorous soule

for Christs bitter passion.

On an ancient Plate close to the formes, is this Inscription.

Here by this wall side buried is William Vevian, Sonne and Heire unto Michael Vevian, of Cornewall, Esquire, which William was servant unto the Right Noble; Charles Sommerset, [Page] Earle of Worcester, the Kings Chamberlaine, and by mis-fortune drowned in the Thames, on Passion Sunday at afternoone, in the yeere of our Lord God, 1520. For whose soule pray of your Charity, as you would be prayed for.

In the body of the Church, upon a brasse plate on the ground, is this Inscription.

Here lyeth Humfrey Gosling, of London Vintener, of the White Hart of this Parish, a Neighbour of vertuous behaviour, a very good Archer, and of honest mirth, a good Companykeeper,

So well inclin'd

to poore and rich,

God send more Goslings

to bee sich.

He was servant to the Right Honourable, the Lord Hunsden, Lord Chamberlaine, and deceased the 22. of Iuly, 1586.

Close by the other lyes buried the body of George Skoowith, 1525.

Also the body of Iohn Danson, 1577.

A very faire Stone, with a faire Picture of the party buried wrought in Brasse, having these severall Inscriptions.

Over his head two brasse Circles.

In the one thus:

Credo quod Redemptor meus vivit, & in novissimo die, de terra surrecturus sum.

In the other thus:

Et in Carne mea videbo Deum salvatorem meum.

In a Circle upon his brest thus:

Repesita est haec spes mea, in sinu meo.

Vnder him thus:

Situs hic est pietatis, ac Religionis cultor Ioannes Floid, Artis Muscae Bacchalaureus, qui dum vixit, Regis Henrici octavi in sacello cecinit, & Christi Sepulcrum invisit Ierosolimis. Obiit Anno Dom. 1523. Mens. Aprilis die tertio.

Neere unto the other is this Inscription.

Here resteth the body of the Lady Eleanor Kempe, Widdow, late Wife of Sir William Kempe, Knight, and Daughter and Heire unto Robert Browne, Esquire, which Lady Eleanor, deceased the 26. of September, in the yeere of our Lord God, 1559.

Neere vnto the former is this Inscription.

Orate pro anima Domini Iohannis Sampull, quondam unius Vicariorum Collegii Regii Sancti Steph. Westmonasterii, & in sua aetate in Cantaria Delinwood, Celebrans in Bassa Capella Sanctae Mariae D. Collegii. Qui obiit Anno Dom. 1510.

Neere unto the other is this Inscription.

Hic jacet Anna Pynta, Ispaniae, quae obiit 8. die Martii, Anno Dom. 1523. cujus animae propitietur Deus, Amen.

On a faire Stone close to the other, is this Inscription.

Orate pro anima Iohannis Brime, Sacerdotis, qui obiit 13. die mensis Martii 1525. cujus animae, &c.

Neere to the other.

Lyeth buried the body of Iohn Borwet, Esquire, sometime Sergeant Plumber to King Henry the 7. and to King Henry the 8. deceased the 7. of December 1525.

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Next unto the other is this Inscription.

Of your Charity, pray for the soule of Humphrey Cooke, Citizen and Carpenter of London, and Master Carpenter of all the workes to our Soveraigne Lord, King Henry the 8. and Master Carpenter at the building of this Hospitall, called The Savoy: the which Humphrey deceased the 13. day of March, in the yeere of our Lord God 1530. and lyeth under this Stone.

On the next unto the other, is this Inscription.

Pray for the soule of Newell Loveday, Gentleman, late Groome for the moneth in the office of the Cellar, to the most excellent Prince, King Henry the 8. who died the 18. day of May, Anno Dom. 1523.

A Table, or Memoriall of all such Benefactors as have given any summes of Money or Legacies, to the value of five pounds and upwards, to this Parish of Saint Mary Strand, alias Savoy, for the use of the poore, or to other pious uses within this Parish; beginning from the yeere of our Lord God 1597. And as touching all other Legacies and summes of Money under five pounds, given by Benefactors in this kinde, since the time aforesaid, they are registred in a Booke kept for that purpose.

Anno Dom. 1622.

Richard Denham

Iames Bradford

Churchwardens.

Ralph Abnet of this Parish, died in the yeere of our Lord God 1597. and gave unto the use of the poore of this Parish the summe of twenty pounds, and five pounds more for the advancement of 5. poore Maidservants of this Parish in marriage.

Richard Iacob, of the Parish of Saint Clement Danes, Vintener, died in the yeere of our Lord God 1612. and gave unto the poore of this Parish, forty shillings per annum, for 32. yeeres, to be paid out of the Rent of the Cheaquer Taverne, in the Parish aforesaid.

Meredith Thomas, of the Parish of Saint Clement Danes, Taylor, dyed in the yeere of our Lord God 1620. and gave the summe of sixe pounds to this Parish for ever, to bee lent unto two poore men of this Parish, either of them three pounds a piece for three yeeres, without interest; they giving good security to the Churchwardens for the time being, to repay the said sixe pounds at the three yeeres end.

Francis Smith, of this Parish, Grocer, died in the yeere of our Lord God, 1621. and gave the summe of twenty pounds, whereof ten pounds to the poore of this Parish, and the other ten pounds for the maintenance of a Sermon to bee yearely preached upon Midsummer day in this Church for ever.

Dame Margaree Walter, Wife of Sir Iohn Walter, Knight, of this Parish, died in the yeere of our Lord God 1622. and gave unto the poore of this Parish, the summe of five pounds.

Iohn Bennet, Baker, of this Parish, died in the yeere of our Lord God 1625. and gave unto the poore of this Parish, the summe of ten pounds for ever.

Iane Lane, Widdow, Daughter of Iames Howson, of this Parish, died in the yeere of our Lord God 1625. and gave unto the poore of this Parish the summe of five pounds.

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There is given unto this Parish, the sixe and twentieth day of March, 1628. by the summe of five pounds, for the maintenance of two Sermons to bee preached yeerely, on Easter Monday, and Whitson Monday, by some sufficient and able Minister.

A second Memoriall.

of this Parish, Widdow, in the yeere 1629. gave unto this Parish the summe of six pounds to buy a second Pulpit Cloth, to remaine to the Church for ever▪

Sir Iohn Walter, Knight, Lord chiefe Baron, died in the yeere 1630. and gave to the use of the poore of this Parish for ever, the summe of twenty pounds.

Iames Howson the elder, of this Parish, died in the yeere 1631. and gave unto the poore of this Parish the summe of five pounds.

To the Reader.

WE are here to give you notice (gentle Reader) that the Monuments, Epitaphs, and Inscriptions, that in this collection of Churches (Builded, Repaired, and Beautified) are here (with their Churches) inserted, are onely such as as have beene raised, composed, and added, since the last imprinting of this Booke, called The Survey of London, that Impression being in the yeere 1617. those of greater times and antiquity, are to be turned to as they stand before in their severall Wards and Parishes.

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A Schedule indented, Containing a Survey taken the xxx. day of December, Anno Dom. 1567. and the tenth of Queene Elizabeth, of the Mannor of Finsbury, in the County of Middlesex, belonging to the Prebend of Hallywell and Finsbury, in the Cathedrall Church of Saint Paul, London. Wherein are particularly specified, as well the capitall Messuage and Scite of the said Mannor, and all other Messuages, Houses, Gardens, Orchards, Lands, Tenements, Medowes, Pastures, Leasures, and other Grounds, being of the Demaynes of the said Mannor; with the Butts and Bounds thereof. As also the Rents and Services belonging to the said Mannor: and the names of the Tenements by whom the same are to be paid. With mention also, for what Lands the same Rents and Services are due: with the Butts and Bounds thereof.

The Demayne Lands.

THe Mannor house, commonly called Finsbury Farme; a great Barne, a Gatehouse, and Stables: A Court and Orchard belonging to the said Mannor house.

Sixe Gardens, whereof one in the tenure of William Chivall, Draper; the other five severally held by Master Lionel Ducket, Alderman; Iohn Bull, Grocer; William Fulwood, Grocer; Iohn Hewet, Clothworker; and William Leonard, Mercer. All which lye together adjoyning to the said Mannor upon the North; and the Moore Field and Lane there, leading betweene the said Gardens, and other Teintors and Gardens, belonging to the Prebend of the Moore: and now in the Tenure of the Merchant-Taylors, upon the South. And a Garden now divided into more parcels, also belonging to the said Lordship, in the Tenure of Iohn God Merchant-Taylor, on the West, and the Ditch and way there, leading from London towards Finsbury Field, and Hallywell, on the party East.

A Lodge, and certaine Gardens and Teinter ground, in the Tenure of Iohn God Merchant-Taylor, inclosed on the North towards Chiswell street, with a bricke wall; and upon a Tenement and Garden belonging to Richard Marten, Goldsmith; and others upon the West. And upon a Way lying betweene the same, and certaine Gardens and Tenters belonging to the Prebend, called the Moore, in the Tenure of the Merchant-Taylors of London, on the South. And the great Garden and Orchard belonging to the said Mannor, now in the Tenure of Iohn Gresham, Mercer, and other Gardens belonging to the said Lordship, on the party East.

[Page] A Tenement, a Lodge, a Loft over a Gate, and five Gardens, now in the Tenure of William Erdiswick, Merchant Taylor, whereof foure abutting upon Finsbury Field on the East, and Chiswell street on the South; and the Lands of late belonging to Iohn Coningsbye, now the Lands of William East, Gentleman, in the right of his Wife, one of the Daughters of William Wakefield: and late in the Tenure of Iohn Hillyard, Gold-smith, on the North party. And upon a Gate-way, leading from Chiswell street, as well toward the said Gardens, as towards a little Barne there, in the Tenure of Alban Chisselton, Bowyer, on the West. And the fifth Garden East, upon the said great way; and South, upon the said Barne, in part; and West in part, upon a Tenement and Garden in the Tenure of Thomas Lee, Fletcher, being parcell of the said Demaine Lands, and the said Tenement, Lodge, and Loft, over the said gate, abutting on Chiswell street towards the South.

Another Tenement, a Garden, and the said old Barne, in the Tenure of Alban Chisselton, Bowyer, butting upon the South side of Chiswell street, and next adjoyning to the said Tenement, now in the Tenure of the said Thomas Lee, on the party East.

A Tenement and a Garden in the Tenure of Hugh Greene, Fletcher, next adjoyning to the said Alban Chisselton on the East, and upon Chiswell street on the South.

A Cottage and certaine Gardens, in the Tenure of Iohn Mansbridge, Merchant Taylor, lying in Chiswell street on the South, containing in length from South to North, stretching alongst a Bricke wall, belonging to the Lands sometimes Iohn Wishes, Founder, on the West party, thirteene Rods and eight foot of Assise; and in breadth at the North end, butting upon the ground or Garden plots, sometimes Iohn Conisbies, Gentleman, and now in the Tenure of William East, Gentleman, from the East to the West fifteene Rods and three foot of Assise; and in length from the North to the South, towards the East, running towards certaine Gardens belonging to the said Mannor, now in the Tenure of the said Erdiswick, fifteene Rods and sixe foot of Assise; and in breadth, at the end towards the South, from the East to the West, butting upon Chiswell street aforesaid, foureteene Rods and five foot of Assise.

A peece of ground converted into certaine Gardens, now in the Tenure of Iohn Medcalfe, Skinner, lying neere Whitecrosse street, betweene the Pasture ground belonging to the said Mannor of Finsbury, called Bonhill Field, or Finsbury Fields, on the East, and the ground of Iohn Conisbye, Gentleman, now in the Tenure of Iohn Hillyard, Goldsmith, on the West & South, and the grounds of late belonging to the Priors of Hally-well, now belonging to the said Iohn Medcalfe, on the party North.

A Garden plot, in the occupation of William Gill, stretching from Whitecrosse street on the East, Westward 165. foot of Assise; on the South side of the said ground, and on the North side from the said street, stretching Westward, 180. foot of Assise; and at the West end of the same, stretching North and South 62. foot of Assise; in breadth, right Line and Plummet, from limit to limit, and butting South upon the Lands late belonging to the Parish Clearkes of London, and the Lands of the said William Gill, (late Ralfe Symonds's) on the party North and West, and the said Whitecrosse street on the party East.

And eleven Tenements lying on the West side of Grubstreet, with eleven Gardens to the same belonging, in the severall Tenures of David a Powell, Iohn Gilham, Nicholas Hunt, Iohn Wildbore, Iohn Hayes, Iohn Tompson, Iohn Andrewes, Iohn Ap Rice, Henry Everton, Iohn Reeve, and George Fuller, lying in the said Lordship, and County of Middlesex, and adjoyning to a corner Tenement, being in the Liberties of the City of London, in the Tenure of William Franklin, Fletcher, belonging to Henry Southcot, Mercer, and the Lands of the said Henry Southcot, in the Tenu [...]e. of William Bullen, and a Garden ground in the Tenure of Philip Garland, Cloth-worker, on the South, and extendeth in length upon the said South side, [Page] from Grubstreet, aforesaid, unto certaine Gardens upon the West, belonging to Iohn Whitehorne, and others there, 199. foote of Assise; and in breadth, at the West end of the said Gardens, from the said South side, stretching unto Chiswell street on the North, 183. foot of Assise, and extendeth in length at the North side upon Chiswell street, 205. foot and a halfe of Assise.

The Field called Bonhill Field, belonging to the said Mannor of Finsbury, butting South upon the high way there, called Chiswell street, and extending North upon the high way that leadeth from Wenlocks Barne, to the Well called Dame Agnes the cleere. The high way leading from the Mannor of Finsbury aforesaid, towards Hollywell, on the East party, and the Gardens and grounds late belonging to the Priors of Hollywell, now in the Tenure of Iohn Medcalfe, Skinner, William Gill, Gardiner, and other the Lands belonging to Iohn Hillyard, Goldsmith, and certaine Gardens belonging to the said Mannor of Finsbury, now in the Tenure of the said Medcalfe; the Lands of late of Iohn Coningsby, Gentleman, now in the Tenure of William East, Gentleman: And also foure Gardens, now in the Tenure of William Erdiswick, also belonging to the said Mannor of Finsbury, on the party West: and the same Field, with halfe the Ditches measured with the same, East, West, North, and South, containeth 23. Acres, one Rod, and sixe Pole.

Whereof, foure Acres and a halfe, being at the South end of the said Field, butting upon Chiswell street, beginning at the Ditch on the party West, extendeth towards the ground and Pond there (belonging to the said Mannor) on the party East, in breadth sixttene Pole: and extendeth from Chiswell street on the South, unto Bonhill on the North: in length 45. Pole, and from the East side, at the North end against the Bonhill, to the midst of the said Ditch on the West party, 16. Pole; and from the North end upon the West side, stretching to Finsbury Bridge, to Chiswell street there South, in length 45. Pole, every Pole containing sixteene foot and a halfe. And also there is one other Acre claimed for the lands late Iohn Coningsbys's, Gentleman, supposed to lye in the said Field, beyond the said Bonhill (as it is said) but it hath beene occupied as parcell of the Demaines of the said Mannor, by the space of 40. yeeres last passed.

The Field called the Mallow Field, butting upon the Railes next to the Moore Field South, the high way leading from the Bricke Bridge there towards the Wind-mils, belonging to the said Mannor of Finsbury on the party West, the high way leading from the said Wind-mils towards Norton-Folgate, on the North, and the Lands belonging to Iohn Worsop, Merchant-taylor, and Iohn Nichols, Girdler, on the party East, containing with the halfe Ditch, in measure on the sides, East, West, and North, 12. Acres and a halfe, and 12. Pole.

The Field called the High Field, or Medow ground, where the three Windmils stand, commonly called Finsbury Field, Pare of this Field is the medow where they usually shoot at twelve score, and where the Wrestling is usually. butting upon the high way that leadeth unto Norton-Folgate, on the party South; the high way that leadeth to Hollywell, and the lands belonging to the Earle of Rutland on the party East; the lands belonging to the Heires of Mascall Brewer, and the high way leading from the Mannor of Wenlocks Barne, to the Well called Dame Agnes the cleere, upon the Bonhill Field on the party West: all which Field containes in measure 45. Acres, with the halfe Ditches that enclose the said Field on the party South, East, and North, in the said measure.

Where of Iohn Worsop hath on the East side of the said Field, butting upon the high way leading to Norton-Folgate on the party South, the Windmils and ground of the said Mannor on the party West, and the Medow and Pasture ground belonging to the said Mannor on the party North and East, six Acres and a halfe.

More adjoyning to the said high way on the party South, and next the said Worsops Land there on the party East, one Acre and three Rods of Medow or Pasture ground, belonging to Iohn Nichols, Girdler.

[Page] The summe of the Acres of the said three Fields, are 80. Arcres, 3. Rods, and 18. Poles, by the measure aforesaid.

Whereof belongeth to the said Iohn Worsop, in the High Field aforesaid, sixe Acres and a halfe.

To the said Iohn Nichols, in the same Field, one Acre and three Rods.

To the Maior, Commonalty, and Citizens aforesaid, in Bonhill field aforesaid, foure Acres and a halfe.

Summe 12. Acres and 3. Rods.

So remaineth 68. Acres, and 18. Poles.

Golding lane.

The Free Tenants

Of Henry Edon, Esquire, out of certaine Tenements and Gardens at the North end of Golding lane, Saint Giles Parish. sometimes Master Ponds, and of late Richard Callerds, and since Elizabeth Hayes, daughter and Heire of the said Richard Callerd, butting on the West side of the said Lane;Sure of Court. and on the South side upon the Lands late of Henry Cletheroe, now in the Tenure of Iohn Hillyard, 13. s. 4. d.

Of the said Henry Edon, out of a Tenement called the Swanne, and other Tenements thereunto adjoyning; in the Tenure of Iohn Collins, Sute of Court. Gardiner, abutting on the East side of the Lane, late the said Callerds, and since as aforesaid, 3. d. ob.

Of William Hall, out of certaine Tenements there adjoyning to the signe of the Swanne in the said Lane,Sute of Court. now in the Tenure of Richard Drake, Gardiner, 3. d. ob.

Of the Master and Governours of Saint Bartholomewes Hospitall in West Smithfield, the hands of Thomas Hallway their Farmour, out of certaine Tenements and Gardens late Robert Melli;hes, Merchantaylor, of the West side of Golding lane, Sute of Court. at the signe of the Leg, butting upon the Lands of the aforesaid Henry Edon, and upon the South of the Lands of William Wakefield, late in the Tenure of Dionise Wilson, 3. s.

Of Richard Roper, Baker, out of certaine Tenements and Gardens at the signe of the George, on the East side of Golding lane, Sute of Court. and the Lands now of William Gill, Gardiner, Thomas Langham, Fishmonger, on the North, and th'eirs of Gregory Nicholas on the South, 2. s. 2. d.

Of th'eirs of Iohn Willoughby, since Peter Dove, in the right of Ioane his Wife, out of certaine Lands and Tenements on the East side of Golding lane, Sute of Court. now in the Tenure of Ioice Austen, Widdow, butting upon the Lands belonging to Gregory Nicholas, now Thomas Walton, Esquire, North and South, 2. s. 4. d.

Of the Dutchesse of Suffolke, out of a Messuage and nine Tenements on the West side of Golding lane, butting upon the Lands of William Wakefield on the North:Sute of Court. and the Tenements late belonging to the Parish of Aldermary in London, now in the Tenure of Walter Cooper, Tyler, on the South, 1, li.

Of Richard Atkinson, in the right of his Wife, out of a Cottage and Garden in the said Lane, butting upon the Lands of Richard Buckland, Haberdasher, late Sir Michael Fishers, Knight, North and West, and on the South, butting upon the Lands of Henry Keene, upon Golding lane on the East, 1. s. 4. d.

Of Henry Kneene aforesaid, Tenant by the courtessie, in the right of Agnes his Wife, Daughter and Heire of Henry Warner, deceased, out of the Tenement Chequer, and other Cottages and Gardens on the West party of Golding lane, butting South upon the lands belonging to the Hospitall of Saint Bartholomewes aforesaid,Sute of Court. late the said Robert Mellishes, now in the Tenure of Thomas Hallyway; and North, as well upon the land of Richard Atkinson, as also upon the Lands, now the said Richard Bucklands, late the aforesaid Sir Michael Fishers, Knight, on the party West, 1. s. 1. d.

Of Thomas Wilkinson, out of certaine Tenements at the signe of the Cocke, at the North end of Golding lane, Sute of Court. belonging to Armiger Wade, Esquire, 1. s.

Of Thomas Walton, Esquire, out of certaine Tenements and Gardens lying on the East side of Golding lane, Sute of Court. late called Armitage Aley, late Gregory [Page]Nichola's, & before that Richard Yongs, butting upon the Lands late Peter Doves, who married Ioane the Daughter and Heire of Iohn Willoughby, on the North side, and the Lands of the said Gregory Nicholas on the South, 2. s.

Of the said Thomas Walton, out of certaine Tenements and Gardens at the signe of the Windmill, late the aforesaid Gregory Nicholasses, at the East side of Golding lane, sometimes Iohn Mores, Sute of Court. and before that William Wigmorepoles, abutting upon the Lands late the said Peter Doves, as is aforesaid, on the South: and the Lands belonging to Saint Bartholomewes Hospitall, late Robert Mellishes aforesaid, and now in the Tenure of the said Richard Roper on the North, 2. s. 2. d.

Of Iohn Hillyard, Goldsmith, out of the Tenement Flower-de-luce, and a Garden on the West side of Golding lane, now in the Tenure of Iohn Bankes, Brewer, butting upon the Tenement of Iohn Leese, Sute of Court. Carpenter, on the South, and the Tenements belonging to the said Hospitall of Saint Bartholomewes, late the said Robert Mellishes, and in the Tenure of Walter Cooper, Tyler, on the North, 7. d. ob.

Beech lane.

Of the Vicar of Saint Giles Cripplegate, out of the corner Tenement at the West end of Beech lane, Sute of Court. on the South side of the said lane, in the Tenure of Martine Capons, Barber-Surgeon, and openeth upon Red-crosse street on the West side, 8. d.

White-crosse street.

Of William Blighton, Butcher, out of two Tenements on the West side of White-crosse street, Sute of Court. late Edmond Godwins, butting upon the Lands late belonging to the Parish Clerkes of London, on the North, and a corner Tenement belonging to the said Blighton, on the South, 9. d.

Of Thomas Perkins, Butcher, Tenant of certaine Lands and Tenements of late belonging to the said Parish Clerkes,Sute of Court. now belonging to [...] How, Gentleman, on the West side of White-crosse street, butting upon the Lands of William Blighton aforesaid, on the South party; and the Lands of Richard Lister, late Iohn Cores; in the Tenure of Thomas Verey, Brewer, on the North, 1. li. 4. s. 4. d.

Of Richard Lister, Clothworker, out of certaine Tenements and Gardens on the West side of Whitecrosse street, Sute of Court. late belonging to Iohn Core, Grocer, and since that Nicholas Carew's, and since that Adam Hutchinsons, butting upon the said Lands and Tenements of late belonging to the said Parish Clerkes, North and South, 4. s. 1. d.

Of the said William Gill, out of a Cottage and Gardens at the West side of Whitecrosse street, Sute of Court. of late Ralfe Simonds's, and after Thomas Langhams, Fishmonger; and abutting upon a Garden belonging to the said Mannor of Finsbury, on the South side, and on the North part, of the Lands belonging unto Iohn Worsop, 1. s. 10. d.

Of Iohn Travies, in the right of his Wife, out of a Cottage and Garden on the West side of Whitecrosse street, Sute of Court. late belonging to Iohn Worsop, Scrivener, and before that to Lettice Ireland, and late Thomas Popplewell, adjoyning to the said Gill on the South, 9. d.

Of the said Travies, out of a little parcell of ground there,Sute of Court. on the North side of the said Gill, whereupon sometimes stood a Mill, late the said Worshops, and late the said Popplewels, 3. d.

Of Iohn Barnes, Mercer, out of two Tenements and a Garden, on the North side of Chiswell street, now in the Tenure of Thomas Mountaine, abutting to the Gardens belonging to the Mannor of Finsbury aforesaid, on the East side, and the Tenements of Robert Traps, Goldsmith, late Thomas Barnes's, and before that, Iohn Wishes's, Founder, on the West side, 1. s. 4. d.

Finsbury Field.

Of Iohn Worsop, Merchantaylor, for sixe Acres and a halfe of Medow and Pasture, lying in Finsbury Field. Sute of Court. in the Parish of Saint Leonards in Shoreditch, towards the Windmills; abutting upon the Windmill next Norton Folgate, in the Tenure of Thomas Pullson [Page] on the party West, the high way leading towards Norton-Folgate aforesaid, on the party South; and Medow and Pasture grounds, parcell of the Demaines, belonging to the said Lordship on the party North and East, now or late in the Tenure of Iohn Popebolle, 4. s. 10. d.

The said Iohn Worsop, In the Parish of S. Leonards Sho [...]dit [...]h. for ten Acres and three Rods of Land, lying in the said Field called the Moore, butting upon the Lands aforesaid of the said Nichols, now being Gardens, on the party South; and the said Mallow Field West: the high way leading from the said Farme of Finsbury, towards Norton-Folgate, on the party North, and the Lands and Gardens, late Sir Martin Bowes, East, 7. s. ob.

One Annuall Rent of 20. s. issuing and going out of certaine Tenements without Ludgate, S. Martins within Ludgate. adjoyning to the said gate, in the Parish of Saint Martin within Ludgate, of London, sometimes in the Tenure of Iohn Benson, Haberdasher, and now in the Tenure of Christopher Harbottell, Citizen and Haberdashet of London, 1. li.

Memorandum, that this Survey was copied out of the Survey annexed to the last Lease granted to the Lord Mayor, Commonalty, and Citizens of London, of the said Prebend, Mar. 15. 1582. Reg. Elizabetha 25.

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Additions out of severall Charters of Kings, &c. concerning the ancient Liberties, bounds and privileges, of Saint Martins le grand in Aldersgate Ward; to bee inserted Page 330. in the second Columne, betwixt the words Gospell and lower downe.
An Abstract out of King William the Conquerors Charter, mentioned Page 327. of this Booke.

Willimus Conquester per chartam suam corroborat et conconfirmat, Deo & Ecclèsiae Beati Martini infra muros London Sitae; qùod sit qui eta ab omni exactione & inquietudine Episcoporum, Arohidiaconorum, &c. Et possessiones suas ab omni regali jurisdictione liberas, & ab exercitus expeditione, pontis restauratione, munitione & castelli auxilio, quietas, habeat; Secuam Sacam, & Toll, & Team, & Infangthefe, Blodwite, Mundbrice, Burghbrice, Meskenning, Seawing, Alcesting, Frithsorne, Fleamina, Firnithe, Wergeldtheofe, Vthleap, Forfeng, Fyhfeng, Firdwyte, Firthwit, Weardwite, Hengwite, Hamsokne, Forsteal, & si quas alias libertates, & Consuetudines, aliqua Ecclesiarum regni mei Angliae meliores habeat. Si quis verò hoc in aliud quam concessimus, transferre praesumpserit, cum Iuda proditore Dei luat poenas. Dat. Anno Domini 1068. Anno (que) Regni mei secundo, die natalis Domini. Et postmodum, in die Pentecostes confirmat: quando Matilda conjunx mea in Basilica Sancti Petri Westmonasterii, in Reginam divino nutu est consecrata.

Subscript. per ipsum Regem, Reginam,

Forte Robertum.

Richardum filium Regis, ambos

Archiepiscopos, & diversos alios.

Notes out of King Henry the third his Charter, Anno Regni 50.

HEE grants to Saint Martins, Secuam, Sak, Thol, & Theam, & Infangentheof: cum omnibm libertatibus, consuetudinibus & quietanciis suis, in bosco & in plano, in viis & in semitis, in pratis, pascuis & pasturis; in aquis molendinis & vinariis, in stagnis & piscariis, in moris & maressis, in grangiis & virgultis, infra burgum, & extra, infra civitatem & extra, infra villam & extra: & in omnibus aliis locis & rebus, ad ipsum Decanum & memoratam ecclesiam Sancti Martini pertinentibus. Et quod omnes terrae, tenementa, & omnes homines praedicti Ecclesiae Sancti Martini, sint quieti de Shiris, hundredis, & de sect. Shirarum & hundredarum & Wapentakarum: & de pecunia danda pro forisfactum; & de murdro & latrocinio, & geldis & danegeldis, hidagiis, assisis, & de operationibus Castellorum & murorum, fossarum, parkarum, pontium, calcearum; & de gualtis, regardis, & de essariis & placitis forestae: & de ferdwyta & hengwyta; & de flemenssir the & hainsoka, & de blodwyta & frithwyta, & de leirwyta, & de hundred spenny & de wardpenny & de haverpenny, & de [Page] vigiliis faciendis, & de pont agio, passagio, lastagio, tallagio, stallagio, thelonio, scutagio, & omni secua, examinatione, servitio, & servili opere; & omnibus placitis & querelis & occasionibus & consuetudinibus Sem:

All this was confirmed in the second yeere of the reigne of King Edward the second, with this addition. Et prohibemus, ne de aliquo ponantur in placitum extra curiam suam; nisi coram nobis vel capitulari Iusticiario nostro: quia concessimus eisdem curiam suam, de omnibus hominibus tenentiis suis. Me teste.

King Henry the 3. directs his Writ Vicecomitibus London, ne ingrediantur seu levent amerciamenta infra libertates Sancti Martini, pro transgressionibus & aliis contractibus, Regi debitis.

The like was sent by King Edward the first, Iuly 10. in the eighth yeere of his reigne.

Out of a Charter of King Henry the sixth, Data per manum nostram apud Westmonasterium 13. Martii Anno Regni 20. Per ipsum Regem, ac de dat. praedict. authoritate Parliamenti: pro decem marcis solutis in Hanaperio.

Concedimus & confirmamus,Ligier fol. 69. quod praedicti nunc Decanus & Capitulum & successores sui, virtute & praetextu dictarum chartarum praedictorum Progenitorum nostrorū, & verborum in iisdem contentorum, ac vice & nomine eorum quae in dictis verbis generalibus & obscuris continentur; in perpetuum habeant curias suas & usum franciplegii retornas omnium brevium, praeceptorum et mandatorum et billarum nostrorum, ac praeceptorum Iusticiariorum nostrorum et haeredum nostrorum itinerantium, tam ad placita forestae, quam ad communia placita, & placita coronae, & aliorum Iusticiariorum quorumcunque: necnon attachimenta tam placitorum coronae, quam aliorum placitorum quorumcunque; de & in omnibus terris, tenementis, et feodis dictorum nunc Decani & Capituli & successorum suorum; qui per se & per Ballivos et ministros suos, habeant in iisdem tenementis, terris, & feodis, executiones eorundem brevium, praeceptorum, & mandatorum, & billarum. Ita quod nullus Vicecomes, Ballivus, vel minister noster aut haeredum nostrorum, tenementa, terras, & feoda praedicta, pro aliqua executione Brevium, praeceptorum, mandatorū & billarum praedictorum: seu aliquas alias res hujusmodi executionem tangentes facienda, ingrediatur: nisi in defectu ipsorum Decani & Capituli & successorum suorum, seu ministrorum suorum.

Item, quod habeant bona & catalla forisfacta, ex causa quacunque; tam utlegata pro proditione, &c. felonia de se, & bona forisfacta coram quibuscunque Iusticiariis & ministris Regis.

Item exitus,Fol. 70. amerciamenta & forisfacta quaecunque, ratione cujuscunque statuti.

Item quod dicti Decanus & Capitulum & Canonici,Ibid. & sucessores sui, & tenentes, & alii residentes, in perpetuum sint quieti de thelonio, pontagio, passagio, & stallagio, & carriagio, & picagio, & terragio, in omnibus locis per totum regnum nostrum, tam per terram quam per aquam.

Fines & forisfacta quaecunque;Fol. 71. quascunque forisfacturas, annum diem & estreppamentum; & quicquid ad nos vel haeredes nostros partinere poterit, de anno, die, vasto, & estreppamento.

Nec Seneschallus,Fol. 71. marischallus neque Coronator Curiae Marischalciae hospitii nostri vel haeredum nostrorum; nec eorum aliquis minister, serviens, vel officiarius in praesentia nostra vel haeredum nostrorum, in feoda & terras dictorum Decani & Capituli & successorum suorum, ad aliqua eorum officia facienda, ingrediantur: sine speciali licentia dictorum Decani & Capituli & successorum suorum.

Quod nullus emptor nec provisor noster vel haeredum nostrorum,Ibid. de ipsis nunc Decano & Capitulo aut successoribus suis, aut de aliquibus tenentibus eorundem; contra voluntatem suam quicquid capiat in futurum.

By the said Ligier-Booke it likewise appeareth, that the said Deanry of Saint Martins had also priviledge of Sanctuary, in the time of the said King Henry the sixth; see folio 78. and 79. There be diverse Presentations also and Probates of Wills; from Page 81. to the end of the of the said Ligier-Booke.

For the exposition of the words of priviledge, occurring in the Charters aforesaid; I have added these following observations.

Sok, est Secta de hominibus in curia vestra (Sancti Martini) secundum consuetudinem regni.

[Page] Sak, est placitum et Emenda de transgressionibus hominum in curia vestra. Sok, idem pre quele acheson: et Sak dicitur pur forfet.

Tol, est quod vos & homines vestri, de toto homagio vestro sit is quieti, in omnibus mercatis, de toto tolneto, de rebus emptis & venditis.

Tem, est quod habeatis totam generationem villanorum vestrorum, cum eorum sectis & catallis, ubi cunque in Anglia fuerint inventi. Excepto, quodsi aliquis nativus, quietus per unum annum et unum diem, in aliqua villa privilegiata manserit; ita quod in eorum communitatem et guildam, tanquam unus eorum receptus fuerit: eo ipso a villenagio liberatus est.

Infangtheof, est quod latrones capti in Dominico vel feodo vestro, & de suo latrocinio convicti; in curia vestra judicentur.

Hangewyte, est quietus de latrone suspenso; sine judicio, vel extra custodiam vestram evaso.

Vtfangtheof, est quod latrones de terra veslra, vel de feodo vestro, extra terram vestram vel feodum vestrum capti cum latrocinio; ad curiaem vestram revertantur, & ibi judicentur.

Hamsoken, est quietum esse de amerciamento promagistro hospitiorum, violenter et sine licentia, & contrae pacem: & quod teneatis placita de hujusmodi transgressionibus factis, in curia vestra, & in terra vestra.

Grithbrech, et pax Domini Regis fracta.

Blodwite, est quietum esse de amerciamento pro medlets: et quod teneatis placita in curia vestra: et quod habeatis amer ciamenta inde provenientiae.

Flistwite, est quietum esse de contentione et conviciis: & quod habeatis inde placitum in curia vestra: & quod habeatis inde amerciamenta.

Fledwite, & quietum effe de amerciamento, cum quis utlegatus fugitivus venerit ad pacem domini Regis, sponte vel licentiatus.

Flemenefith, quod habeatis catalla sive amerciamentae hominis vestri fugitivi.

Letherwyte, est quod capiatis emendationem ab ipso qui corrupit nativam vestram, sine licentia vestra.

Childwyte, est quod capiatis ger [...] mam de nativa vestra corrupta & pregnata sine licentia vestra.

Forstatt, & quietum esse de amerciamento de cattallis arrestatis, infra terram vestram: & habeatis amerciamenta inde provenientia.

Scot, est esse quietum de quadam consuetudine; sicut de tallagio facto ad opus Vice comitis, vel Ballivorum ejus.

Geld, est quietum esse de consuetudinibus servilibus, quae quondam dari consueverunt, & adhuc dantur. Sicut Hornegeld, & de alijs similibus.

Hidage, & quietum esse si Dominus Rex talliaverit totam terram per Hidam.

Caruage, si Dominus Rex talliaverit terram per Carucas.

Danegeld, est quietum esse de quadam consuetudine, sive solutione; quam quidem Dani levaverunt primum in Anglia.

Hornegeld, est quietum esse per totam terram de quadam consuetudine exactam per talliam: sicut de quasunque bestia cornuta.

Lesteage, est quietum esse de quadam consuetudine exactam in nundinis & mercatis, pro rebus cariandis, ut homo vult.

Stallage, est quietum esse de quadam consuetudine exactam proploceis captis vel assignatis in nundinis vel mercatis.

Seawing. Chewyng, est quietum esse de aettachiamento in aliqua curia, & coram quibuscunque; de querelis ostensis, & non advocat.

Miskennyng, est quietum esse de amerciamento pro querela, coram quibuscunque; in transumptione prolata.

Burgbruch, est quietum esse de transgressione facta in Civitate vel Burgo, contra pacem.

Wardwyte, est quietum esse de denario dando pro Ward facienda.

Hundred, est quietum esse de denario, vel consuetudine facienda Praepossto & Hundredae.

Bordhalepeney, est quietum esse de quadam consuetudine exactionis, pro tabula levatae.

Brigbote, est quietum esse de auxilio dando ad reficiendos pontes.

Burgbote, est quietum esse de auxilio dando ad reficiendum burgum, castrum, civitatem, vel muros prostratos.

Haverpeney, est quietum esse de denariis dandis Averagio Domini Regis; cum similibus.

For a larger and more accurate exposition [Page] of these old words, I referre the Reader to that most elaborate and diligent Glossary of Sir Henry Spelman, Knight, the learnedest Antiquary of our Nation; yea (and in this kind) of all Europe.

This Deanry, together with the Sanctuary and Priviledges, was after put to the Abbey of Saint Peters in Westminster: as appeareth by what next followeth.

A Declaration of William Abbot of the Monastery of St. Peter of Westminster, concerning his title to the Privilege and Sanctuary of St. Martins le grand in London: with the precincts, Circuit, and Bounds of the same.

FIrst the said Abbot saith, That the free Chappell of St. Martins le grand in London, and the Precincts of Saint Martins aforesaid, is a place priviledged: and was founded and endowed long time before the Conquest, aswell of possessions, as of immunities, franchises, and liberties: and corroborate and inlarged by King VVilliam the Conquerour, like as it appeareth as well by the Charter of the said King VVilliam the Conquerour; as by divers other Charters, Writings, and Records.

Item, the said King William the Conquerour granted by his Charter to the same place of Saint Martins, divers liberties and franchises, by speciall and generall words, aswell in the Latine tongue as Saxon. And over that granted to the said place of Saint Martins, all other liberties, immunities, and customes, which any Church of this Realme, best had. Which grant importeth and includeth in himselfe as great priviledges, franchises, and immunities, as VVestminster, Beverlay, or any other place priviledged, hath within the Realme. And also the said words in Saxon, importeth such sentence. That the said place should bee a Sanctuary franchised, priviledged, and have tuition and immunities of all those persons, which for treason, felonies, trespasses, or any other cause, should flee to the same or abide therein. Which franchises, priviledge, tuition, and immunities, the said place hath alway peaceably had and enjoyed, from the said Conquerours dayes unto this present time.

Item, the said franchises, immunities, and priviledges, of Saint Martins, have beene corroborate, confirmed, allowed and enlarged, by King Henry the first, King Stephen, Henry the second, King Iohn, King Henry the third, King Edward the second, King Edward the third, Richard the second, Henry the fifth, Henry the sixth, and in all other Kings times sithence the Conquest: as by divers Charters and Allowances before Justices of Oyer and Determiner, Writings and Records, more plainely at large is shewed, and may appeare.

Item, it appeareth by divers Returnes made by the Sheriffes of London, aswell in the Kings Bench, the Common Pleas, and all other the Kings Courts, that the said place of Saint Martins, is a place priviledged, and Sanctuary: as by the same Returnes remaining of Record, more plainely may appeare.

Item, the said Abbot saith, That the Precinct, Circuit, and Bounds of the priviledge and Sanctuary aforesaid, be and extend, as hereafter followeth.

Imprimis, beginning at a wall lying directly against a Poast that standeth in the midst of one Roger VVrights a Grocers house, which standeth of the East side of the south gate of St. Martins: and from the wall in the said Grocers house, with the halfe-deale of the street unto the chancell of the same side that house standeth upon, Sanctuary. And so forth from the East Westward unto the middest of Saint Martins lane next to the Chappell of Saint Martins, against the Tenement of the Bulls head, which Tenement lieth at the south end of the said lane on the West part.

Item, halfe part of the streete of St. Martins lane, Sanctuary, from the south unto the North, as farre forth as the houses appertaining to the Bull-head do extend Northwards.

Item, from the said place of the Buls head, then the whole lane of St. Martins, [Page] Sanctuary on both sides, unto a Post or Stoope that standeth of the North side or end of the two Tenements, standing by the great gate next going into the Deanes Court.

Item, from the said Saint Martins Lane, at the aforesaid Buls head, turning by a wall that divideth the said Tenement of the Bulls head, and Saint Martins ground: Which wall turneth and extendeth from the East Westwards, unto a backe wall that closeth in Saint Martins ground of the West side: all within the said Wall, Sanctuary.

Item, along by the same backe wall, that closeth in the West part of Saint Martins ground, from the South end of the said wall into the North, unto a wall that divideth my Lord of Northumberlands ground, and Saint Martins ground from the South end; all within the aforesaid Walls, Sanctuary: and so forth from the South side into the North my Lord of Northumberlands ground, Sanctuary; along by a backe wall of the Grey Fryars: which backe wall closeth in my Lord of Northumberlands ground of the West part, unto the North part of Angell Alley, abutting Northwards upon the South side of Robert Bowmans house, into the Streetwards. And so Sanctuary still, from the said backe wall of Grey Fryars, along by the Angell Alley, and by the South part of the said Robert Bowmans house, from the West unto the East, untill you come to a Post or Stoope standing on the North part of the two Tenements next lying on the North side of a great gate entring into the Deanes Court.

Item, from the same Post or Stoope before rehearsed, standing North from the great gate of the said Deanes Court directly Eastwards, by the North part of a Tenement, with the same Tenement inclosed (as by the wall there it sheweth) Sanctuary: which Tenement is now in the hands of one Hugh Payne.

Item, from the aforesaid wall, along from the North, Southward unto Hugh Paynes dwelling house; and from thence by the North side of the said Hugh Paynes Garden, Sanctuary still; from the West unto the East part thereof.

Item, againe from the North side of the above rehearsed Hugh Paynes Garden Southward, unto the Deanes Garden, Sanctuary.

Item, along by the wall on the North side of the Deanes Garden, from the West into the East thereof, Sanctuary.

Item, from the North unto the South, of the East part of the aforesaid Deanes Garden, with Saint Leonards Church, Sanctuary, as by a wall it there sheweth.

Item, from the East end of Saint Leonards Church, Westwards of the South of Saint Martins, unto the Bell-Alley, Sanctuary, as appeareth also thereby another wall.

Item, from the Bell-Alley Southwards, unto the wall spoken of at the beginning, which is within the Grocers house, against the Post that standeth within the middest of the same house. And so forth directly againe unto the Chanell of the high street, that lyeth afore the South gate of Saint Martins: all within the bounds rehersed, Sanctuary.

Item, by a Statute made in the yeere of King Edward the third, it is affirmed, The said place of Saint Martins to bee a place franchised and priviledged, having tuition and immunity, in manner and forme as is above rehearsed. And in speciall, and for them that come in thither for Debt, Treason, and Felony. In proofe whereof, the Iudge that sitteth there for the King, as in a place not of the City, but by priviledge seperate, (the Maior not called thereto, as he is to the deliverance of Newgate, and other such Acts in the City) to have knowledge there in a case of Treason or Felony, hath ever, from time that no minde is, sitten in the gate of the said Sanctuary. And the person appeached or endited of Treason or Felony, hath beene kept by the Officers on the further side of the street afore him, to the intent that he come not of the other side of the Chanell towards the Sanctuary there, to claime the liberty and Franchises of the same.

Item, wheras divers Kings of this land, for causes such as moved them, have [Page] seazed into their hands the Franchises and Liberties that the City of London had, by reason whereof they were not suffered to use or enjoy the said Franchises, for as long as it hath liked unto the said Kings: yet the said Chappell of Saint Martins le grand, in the said City of London, with the Precinct of the same, at the said times of such seasing of the aforesaid Franchises; was afore and since alwayes a place priviledged, without any disturbance, diminishing, or taking away by the said Kings, or by their Ministers: and peaceably used and enjoyed their Franchises, Liberties, and immunities, within the Sanctuary and Precinct of Saint Martins, as in a place excepted and priviledged, and no wayes pertaining unto the said City, ne parcell thereof, though it be set within the same.

And moreover, the said Abbot saith, that the said Church or Chappell of Saint Martins, within the said Sanctuary and Precinct of the same; were of late by the late King of famous memory, King Henry the seventh, lawfully annexed and given to the said Monastery of Saint Peter of Westminster; at which time, and times without mind of man before that, the said Chappell, and Precinct, circuit and bounds of the said Sanctuary, comprized within the Limits above rehearsed, were used, allowed, and taken, and yet be, as Sanctuary.

Thus farre the Abbot of Westminsters declaration, at which time (as it appeareth) there fell out so much contestation, concerning the Precincts of this Sanctuary, that the matter was faine to be tried by ancient sworne men deposed in Court as Witnesses. Some of their Depositions are come to my hands, which I here give you: the rest (and the beginning) have miscarried.

Item, the said Henry Williamson deposeth for the claimed bounds, and also for the priviledge of Sanctuary men, in the halfe Street and Lane next to Saint Martins; and for the setting up of the Gallowes on Evill May day; and for the removing thereof, as others therein before have deposed.

Item, Ralfe Twyn deposeth, all wholly the claimed bounds to be Sanctuary; and also the setting up of the Gallowes, and removing of the same, and the Pavement, to bee done by the Abbot: and that he knew one Bland privileged both for Treason and Murther, ever used to walke in the street claimed as Sanctuary, without any disturbance.

Item, William Bayley deposeth, all the claimed bounds, and also the sitting of the Iustices in the South gate: and that he heard the Iustices say, that halfe the street against the said gate was Sanctuary: and that there was persons then arraigned, and others therein deposed: and that he knew the said Bland priviledged for Treason and Fellony, to dwell in Angell Alley: and that the Abbot ought to make the Pavement, as others have deposed there.

Item, Iohn Smith, Clerke, deposeth for all the claimed bounds: and further saith, that hee knew Doctor Morton, and also the Cardinall Morton to lye there, one in Roger Wrights house, and the other in Angell Alley, they both being priviledged for Treason. And also he supposeth both Angell Alley and Bland Alley, to be holden of Saint Martins by certaine Rent, as parcell of the Earle of Northumberlands Tenements. And also for the Pavement, as others before have deposed.

At this time (I suppose) was there a Survey or Plat of the Precinct, exhibited into the Court of Chancery, where it appeareth these Witnesses to have beene deposed. The figure of which Plat we here exhibite unto you.

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The Grey W. Fryars.

All this is Shoomakers houses, which pay Rents to the Abbots of Westminster.

Aldersgate

The Chanell. Sanctuary ever used. The Chanell. No Sanctuary.

S. Martins lane, and Sanctuary on both sides.

A New Window broken out by Francis Godlike.

The West Church doore.

The Deanes gate.

The Post.

Hugh Paines Garden.

The Deanes Garden.

S. Leonards Church.

All the Bounds and Limits about this Plat mentioned, beene contained in the Abbots claime: and is well proved to be good Sanctuary, by divers Witnesses sworne in the Chancery, as well Free-men of the City, as other credible persons.

A stone Wall.

Good Sanctuary ever used.

The South Gate.

Good Sanctuary ever used.

The Chanell on the South side.

Foster E. lane.

The Post in Roger Wrights house.

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It seemes that there hath beene some latter differences about a new doore into the Liberties of the Freedome;Saint Martins le grand▪ whereupon a Court being called, December 20. 1625. this Order was given out, to bee enquired upon and certified.

It is ordered by the Court, that the Foreman of the Enquest, with others of the same Enquest, shall view the South gate and Entry leading from Bladder street into this Liberty: and also a doore made by Thomas Rodes in the East side of the same Entrey; and make their reports under their bands in writing, on Monday next after the Epiphany.

ACcording to the direction of the Order abovesaid, we whose names are under written, being all of the Enquest sworne for this yeere, having viewed the Gate and Entry, doe find, and accordingly certifie, that Thomas Rodes, a Linnen-Draper, dwelling in a house next adjoyning to the said Entry, on the East side thereof, (in part of which house Roger Wright did sometimes dwell) hath of late, without the privity or knowledge of most of the Inhabitants of this Liberty, taken downe, or caused to bee taken downe and carried away, a paire of strong, sufficient, and serviceable gates, in the night time; which were, and time out of mind have bin, the common South gate of this Liberty. And in stead therof, hath set up a new gate of Deale, opening all one way, viz. towards the West side; whereas the former paire of Gates or Leaves did fall open, the one towards the East side, and the other towards the West side of the said Entry. Also the said Thomas Rodes hath broken downe the partition wall on the East side of the said Entry; against which, one Leafe of the said old Gate did fall open, as aforesaid: and hath there made a new doore (where never any was before, in the memory of man) of almost an Ell in breadth, out of the said Shop, into the said Entry or common passage into this Liberty. Wherby a free and open passage is made out of the City of London, thorow the shop of the said Rodes into this Liberty; to the great prejudice of the Lords of the same Liberty, and to the great hinderance and damage of the Tenants and Inhabitants within the same. In witnesse whereof wee have hereunto subscribed our names, dated the 9. day of Ianuary, Anno Dom. 1625.

Mathew Iumpar

William Hewes

William Hewes

Richard Mattock

Anthony Iohnson

Timothy Smart

Edward Napper

Thomas Speare

Henry Kuevet

William Hunt

Philip Richard

William Purse.

A very ancient Deed, to prove Lambs-Chappell to have anciently beene in the Parish of Saint Olaves Silverstreet.

KNow all men, present and to come, that I Laurence de Frowik have granted and dimissed, and by this present Charter of mine have confirmed, unto Richard of Clerkenwell, Chaplaine, all that Land of mine, with the houses, buildings, and appurtenances which I have in London, in Muckwell street, in the Parish of S. Olaves; lying betweene that Land which William Throtegos held of mee, towards the South, and the Land of the Fryars of the new Hostell, towards the North; and which extendeth it selfe in length, from the Kings high-way, even unto the wall of the City towards the West, &c. he paying me twenty shillings a yeere, &c. and giving unto the Church of Saint Olaves aforesaid, one Waxe Candle of a pound weight, at the Feast of Saint Thomas the Apostle yeerely: and unto the Chappell (de inclusorio) in the Close or Cloister, within Criplegate, [Page] at the upper end of Muckwell street towards the North, one other Waxe Taper of three quarters weight, upon the Feast of Saint Iames yeerely, &c. Witnesses, Nicholas Bat, then Maior of London, Iohn of Northampton, and Richard Pycard then Sheriffes, &c.

Notes upon this Deed.

These were Maior and Sheriffes, Anno 1253. which was the thirty eighth yeere of Henry the third. Out of this so ancient a Deed, may wee observe, first, That by the bounding of this Land, betwixt the streete and the City wall, towards the West; that this was that ground which is now Lambes Chappell yard. Secondly, by the assigning the latter Candle to bee paid to the Chappell, upon Saint Iames his day; that it was meant to this Lambes Chappell: which was anciently called, The Chappell of Saint Iames in the wall. Vpon whose Festivall, this Chappell seemes to have beene dedicated: and to honour the solemnity of which Wake, the Gentleman directed this Candle to be yeerely paid.

The Originall of this Deed in Latin, is in the hands of that most Learned Antiquary of our dayes Sir Henry Spelman Knight.

The Circuit of the Hospitall or Free Chappell of Saint Katharine neere the Tower of London.

FRom the East gate of the said Tower by the Thames, unto the Bancke beyond Saint Katharines Docke, Eastward: and from thence through all the Lane which leadeth from the said Docke, and in and by every part of the said Lane, unto the Kings high way, Northward: which way, lyeth between the Abby of Grace and the said Hospitall or Free Chappell; and leadeth from the City of London, unto Radcliffe. And also from the said way, against the same Lane, unto the Tower Ditch, Westward; and from thence to the River of Thames, Southward.

An Ancient Record concerning East Smithfield to bee inserted Page 268.

IN the times of King Knowt (or Kanutus) the Dane, Out of Book Danthorne in Guildhall folio 78. were there thirteene Knights very well beloved both of King and Kingdome. These begged of the Kings Grace, a certaine piece of Land in the East part of London; which the Inhabitants had lately forsaken, by reason of the hardshipPro nimiâ servitute. and service they there stood charged withall. The Knights suit for to have this Land granted unto them for ever, with the liberty of a Guild upon it, the King upon this condition granted: Namely, that every one of them should performe three combats upon the land, and in the water; and come off with victory: and also, that upon a day appointed, they should runne at Tilt against all commers, in the field which is now called East Smithfield. This they having performed gloriously, the King gave them the field, and the same day named it K [...]ytte-guilden; These were English Knights; and therefore in some writings it is called Anglish K [...]ytte-guilden. appointing these Boundaries unto it. First, that it should reach from Ealdgate to the place where the Barres now are, Eastward on both sides the Towne. He extended it another way toward Bishopsgate, as farre as the house of William the Priest. To the Southward, the liberties of this Guild reached so farre into the water of the Thames, as a horseman riding into the River at a dead low water, could dart his horsemans staffe from him. So that all East Smithfield, with part of the right hand way, which stretcheth, by Doddings pond into the Thames; and also the Hospitall of Saint Katharines, with the Mills, (which Hospitall was founded in the reigne of King Stephen) together with the outer stone wall, and the new Ditch of the Tower, stand and [Page] are within the Fee aforesaid. For the said Wall and Ditch,The Tower Ditch first made. were not as yet made; but were afterwards, in the very time that King Richard the first was at Ierusalem. Which was done by the Bishop of Ely, the Kings Justice over all the Kingdome. The occasion was, a difference betwixt Earle Iohn the Kings Brother, and the chiefe Iustice. By the digging of this Ditch in the ground of East Smithfield, did the Church of the Holy Trinity in London lose half a Marke a yeere revenue; and the Mill which belonged unto the poore Brotherhood of the Hispitall of Saint Katharines, and unto the Churches of Saint Katharines, and of the Holy Trinity altogether, was faine to be removed, to their no little hindrance. A Garden also which the King had hired of the Brotherhood aforesaid, at the rent of sixe Markes a yeere, was for the most part destroyed also by the said Ditch. Recompence was often sued for, but not made very speedily, though promised faithfully. Afterwards, King Edward gave five Markes and an halfe unto the poore Brotherhood, for that part of their Garden which the Ditch had destroyed, and that part which it had not, hee restored unto them againe, which they hold unto this day. As for their Rent of five Markes and a halfe, hee gave them his Charter, by which they receive it very duly either out of the Exchequer or the Hanaper, even untill this present.

This Guild was by divers Kings afterwards confirmed. And first by Edward the Confessor, then by King William Rufus; Out of the Booke C. fol. 134. of whose Charter, I here give you this Abstract.

William King of England, &c. to Bishop M. G de Magu, and R de Boare, and to his faithfullFidelibus. By which perchance both in this and other Kings Charters of those times, are meant, such as were the Kings Tenants or held lands of him, & had sworn fealty for them, to him. Liege-people of London, sendeth greeting. Know ye that I have confirmed unto the men of Cnittengilda, their Guild and Lands pertaining unto it, with all their customes, entire; even as they enjoyed them in the time of King Edward, and of my Father: Witnesse Henry de Both at Rethyng.

Of King Henry the first his Charter this is the Abstract.

Henry King of England, &c. to Bishop M. to theVice [...]omiti London. Sheriffe of London, and to all his Barons and faithfull people of London, aswell French as English, sendeth greeting. Know yee that I have granted unto all the men of the Cnyttengilda, their Guild, and lands pertaining unto it; together with all their customes after the best manner, even as they enjoyed the same in the times of King Edward and my Father, and as the King my Brother by his Charter and Seale confirmed them. And I free it from any forfeiture that might accrue unto my selfe, forbidding all men, that upon pretence hereof, they presume not to offer them any molestation. Witnesses, R. de Momford, R. de Bigot, and H. de Booth, at Westminster.

More concerning the Liberties and extent of the said Guild.

Know yee,Out of Booke H. in fol. 48. that the Soken of Knyttengilda, reaches from Aldgate with the lands on both sides the streete, even unto the outer Barre. On the South side it reaches towards the Thames; joyning with the Soken within the Barre, 66. foot of Saint Paul. On the North it goes within the Barre 16. foot of St. Paul. The Soken also extendeth towards Bishopsgate, even unto the house belonging sometimes unto William the Priest, and after unto Geffrey Tannar, together with all Smithfield, and so farre into the Thames as a horseman at low water riding upon hisSuper dextrarium his Horse of service, or great Horse. Destrier into the River could dart his Lance from him; together with the right hand part of the streete, which goes by Doddings pond to the Thames. But as for that on the left hand, it is not of that Soken; but yet in the Parish of Saint Botolphs.

More, concerning the Tower Ditch before mentioned; and of the enclosing the whole City of London with a Ditch.

Whilest King Richard in his returne from Ierusalem, Out of Booke Dunthorn fol. 82. was kept prisoner by the Emperor of Almayne, there sell out a dissension betwixt Earle Iohn the Kings Brother, and the Bishop of Ely, Lord Chiefe Iustice of England: whereupon, the Bishop thought good to fortifie the KingsThe Tower. Castle, which the [Page] Earle at that time provided to beleager. It seemed good to the Bishop therefore, to encompasse in the whole Bulwarke, with a wall of a most wonderfull thicknesse, and to make a broad and deepe Ditch about that, which the Thames flowing into, the whole Tower might both be encompassed and fortified by it. Vpon occasion therefore of this Ditch, which was then made in Smithfield; and by reason of that other Ditch, which the Citizens for the same cause then beganne to make round about their City: did the Church of the Holy Trinity lose halfe a Marke of yearely revenew; and the Mill also belonging unto the poore of the Hospitall of Aldgate was taken away. Whereupon there accrewed no small damage both untoThis is a Character of the antiquity of this writing, and also that it was done either by the Parson, or some of the Parishioners of Trinity Parish. us, and to those poore people: for which, though recompence hath beene often promised, yet have we hitherto received no satisfaction.

More concerning this matter, out of a french Record in Booke H. folio 199. and in Booke Dunthorne, folio 88. Which is a desire of the Master of Saint Katherines Hospitall, to have leave of the City to enclose a certaine peece of ground neere the Tower of London.

It was told unto the Maior, Aldermen, and Commonalty, how that Iohn Hermesthorpe, Master of Saint Katherines Hospitall, by the Tower of London, had a certaine peece of Land, which had somewhile beene a portion of the Garden of his Hospitall; which portion King Edward, sonne to King Henry, had purchased of those of the said Hospitall, for the enlargement of the Tower Ditch; for which hee paid unto the Master, Brothers, and Sisters of the said Hospitall, 3. li. 13. s. 4. d. yeerely for ever: and that the said Hospitall had received the said Rent ever since the time of the Purchase. This place indeed, had heretofore laine void and waste, and had beene of no profit to any; serving onely for a resort or meeting place of Rogues and Women of ill conversation. For the restraining of which naughtinesse and pilferies, the said Iohn had againe purchased it of King Edward the third, of whom he had received licence to enclose the said void peece for the benefit of his Hospitall: he paying to the King and his Heires, into their Exchequer, vj. s. viij. d. for ever. By vertue of which Licence, the said Master had already begunne to enclose the said void Plat of ground. This the Maior, &c. hearing of, sent to forbid the enclosure of; affirming, that the said Plat belonged unto the Commonalty of the City of London: whereupon the Master forbare to proceede further for sixe or eight yeeres together.

At the end of this terme, the said Master made sure unto the Maior and Commonalty, that they would please to give him leave to enclose the said place, were it but onely to prevent and take away the Villanies which he affirmed to be there committed: for which courtesie he then promised, that himselfe, and all the Brothers and Sisters of the said Hospitall, would particularly, and in especiall manner, pray for the good estate of the City; and be willing moreover to pay some small yeerely Rent unto the Chamber of Guihald, London, for ever. To this suit the Maior, Aldermen, and Commonalty consented: and further made choice of some certaine Aldermen and Commoners, who should take a view of this, and other void places belonging to the City, and make report to them, &c.

To prove that the Hospitall of Saint Katherines, with the Mils, and all that belong to it, together with the Tower Ditch, all East-Smithfield without the Posterne, before the Abbey of Grace, with the right hand part of the street leading along by Duddings Pond, are, and time out of minde have beene within the Liberty of the City of London, and parcell of Portsoken Ward without Algate, in the Suburbes.I finde two severall Copies of this: one in Booke Dunthorne, fol. 80. & another in Booke K. fol. 56.

The Maior and Commonalty of the City of London affirme, that in the time of the Conquerour, and long before, the said Ward of Portsoken, was called the Ward of Anglish Knightgilden. And that afterwards, about the eighth of [Page] King Henry the first, Ralfe the sonne of Algode, Wolfard le Deverish, Otgar le Prude, with divers other substantiall Citizens of London, descended of the ancient race of the English Knights, being Lords of the Liberty of the said Guild, in the Soken aforesaid, and were seazed of all the Lands in the said Soken (as by the Charter of the said King Henry it appeareth) did bequeath the said Soken and Lands, unto the Church and Canons of the Holy Tinity, within Algate, London. Which gift the said K. Henry, by his Charter (which the Maior and Commonalty have here to shew) also confirmed. Vpon pretext of which Gift and Confirmation, Norman, at that time Prior, and the Covent of the Church aforesaid, as also their Successors, stood a long time possessed. Afterwards, among other things, Ralfe the Prior, with the Canons of the said Church, did grant unto Maud Queene of England, Wife to King Stephen, a certaine parcell of Land in the said Soken (the very same, namely, upon which the said Hospitall of Saint Katherines is now founded) together with all the Mill there in theIn Escambio. Shambles, in lieu of sixe yard land in the Mannor of Bracching, in the County of Hertford: even as by two Patents of the said King and Queene made upon that occasion, it manifestly is declared. Moreover they affirme, That whereas the Lord Edward the first, sometimes King of England, had not any piece of ground of his owne proper Lands neere enough unto his Tower of London, whereupon to build up his Wall, and to make his Ditch about the Tower, which he purposed to doe a new; hee purchased of the Master, Brethren, and Sisters of the Hospitall of Saint Katherines by the Tower aforesaid, a certaine Plat of ground with the appurtenances in East Smithfield, adjoyning unto the Tower, both for the laying of the Sand, Gravell, and Marle, which should be digged out of the Ditch, and that which should serve for the repairing of the Wall aforesaid. And that he paid unto the Master, Brothers, and Sisters aforesaid, five Markes, sixe shillings and nine pence, both for the purchase of the said Plat, and the recompence of their losse long since sustained, by the enlargement of the Ditch, and reparation of the Wall aforesaid: which hee caused for himselfe and his Successors to be yeerely payable out of the Exchequer. Which five Markes sixe shillings nine pence, the Masters, Brothers, and Sisters (for the time being) of the said Hospitall, have ever since the said Grant received, and doe actually at this present receive it by vertue of the said Patent, which they now have by them, &c. the Copy whereof was entered upon Record in the Chamber ofThis is severall times written Gin [...]ald. Guildhall; and acknowledged by them before Nicholas Brembre, then Maior, and the Aldermen. They affirme also, that in the fourteenth yeere of King Edward the second, at such time as he held Assises in the said Tower; it was proved, that the said Ward of Portsoken, (heretofore called English Knightgeld) was in and of the Liberties of London; and that, so often as any Taxe was to bee raised for the King, or to bee assessed for the Commonalty of London, upon the Commoners of the said City, or that any other Assessement was to bee made by the said Commonalty, either for the raising of some Wall, making of any enclosure, or for the defence of the City: that all the people inhabiting the said Ward, were accustomed to pay the said Taxes, like other Freemen of the City; and the said Assessements were wont to bee levied upon them, as upon other Freemen of the City, like as by the Transcript of the Rolls of the saidIn [...]. Assizes of the Kings, now remaining in the Treasury of the Guildhall of the same City, most clearely it appeareth.

They further affirme, that the Lord Edward the third, late King of England, Progenitor of our Lord the King that now is, in the seventeenth yeere of his Reigne, directed by hisPer [...] suum. Letter unto Iohn Hamond, at that time Maior of his City of London, and his Majesties Escheator in the same: in which Letters he made rehearsall of all the former businesse concerning the Wall and Ditch of the Tower, made in his Grandfathers time. Hee rehearsed also, how Ralfe of Sandwich, and Iohn de Weston, [Page] late Constables of the Tower, did let out the same place by parcels unto divers men, without leave or licence had therefore, either from the Kings his Grand-father, Fathers, or Himselfe; and that the said place was then builded upon,East Smithfield builded upon. and rented out for 40. s. a yeere, and that himselfe had given out Commissions to enquire upon the reasons, manner, right, and valew of every thing, &c. And that the said Iohn Hamond making enquiry hereupon, made returne of all into the Chancery, &c.

They affirme moreover, that all the Lands and Tenents, upon the foresaid right hand of the way by Duddings Pond, and about the said places of East Smithfield, Tower-hill, and Romeland, circularly situated, were and have beene in the time of the holding the Assises of the said King, impleaded and sued within the said City, and not elsewhere; as by the evidences of the said Lands and Tenents, upon Record enrolled in the Guildhall, &c. appeareth.

They further say, That in the times of all the former Kings and Assizes (time out of minde) so often as any mis-hap or casualty, such as Murther, Drowning, or other indirect death of any person, in any of the places forementioned, hath fallen out, upon which there was any enquiry to be taken, or any Summons, Attachment, or Execution to bee made in any of the said places: yea, and which more is, even within the Tower it selfe, and at such time as the King (now and then) hath beene present, have the Sheriffes, Coroners, and other Officers of the said City of London for the time being, and no other, used to make such Quests of Enquiry, Summons, Attachments, and Executions, and had right so to doe: as it is most manifestly to be proved by divers Rolls of the Crowne, and other Records of the times aforesaid, now being in the sayd Treasury.

They say moreover, that amongst other Liberties granted by the Kings Predecessors unto the Citizens of London, and ratified in divers Parliaments, this expressely is one, That no Arrest, Attachment, or Execution, bee made by any Officers of the Kings within the said Liberty, either by Writ or without Writ, but onely by the Officers of the City. By all which Charters, Letters, Patents, Bills, Acts of Assize, Writs, Enquests, Returnes, Rolls of the Escheators, and Crowne Office, Assizes, Pleadings, Enrollments, Freedomes, and most plentifull other kinds of Records and Proofes, it may easily and undoubtedly be concluded, That the said Hospitall of Saint Katherines, with the Mills and other its appurtenances, as also the whole Tower Ditch, with all the Lands of East Smithfield without the Posterne, before the Abby of Grace, together with the right side of the street going by Duddings Pond, as also the whole Ditch and Plaine without the Tower, within the Posterne, called Romeland, with all the Houses and Gardens round about them, have all the time aforesaid, bin within the compasse of the Liberty of the City.

The selfe same Copy of what is last above, is something differently recorded also in Booke Dunthorne, fol. 84. the different poynts whereof, not mentioned in this former, I have transcribed.

That the Hospitall, Ditch, and the Tower hill, are of the Parish of Saint Botolphs Algate, and parcell of Portsoken Ward. That another part, by Romeland and the Thames, towards the Posterne, by Saint Katherines Hospitall, were of the Parish of Alhallowes Berking, and of the Ward of the Tower of London. That Queene Maud was the Foundresse of Trinity Church within Algate; that the Ditch begunne by the Citizens in Richard the firsts time, was for the defence of the City. That there is another Soken within the Walls of the City, called the Inner Soken, Inner Soken▪ which reacheth from Algate, even unto that gate of the Tower called Cuninggate, perchance, or the Kings gate. Cinigate; which Soken is within the Liberties of the City, as by some Records kept by the Prior doth appeare. That the Inhabitants of Portsoken and the Tower, are to be impleaded onely in the Courts of the City, for all Matters, Causes, and Contracts howsoever arising. That the Tower [Page] hath no proper Court of its owne, but onely the Court of the Baron, which is no Court of Record; as by Records exemplified in the Kings Bench it appeareth. That when any murther or drowning hath beene within the said Hospitall or Tower, the City Officers have attached the Malefactors within the Tower, notwithstanding that the King himselfe sometimes hapned to be present within the said Tower, and have carried the said men so arrested into some of the Kings Prisons within the City. That when the Iustices Itinerant have used to come to keepe Assizes in the Tower, the Officers of the City have had the keeping both of the inner and outer Gates of the said Tower; and that nothing was executed within the Tower, which pertained to the office of aSergeant perchance servant, but by the servants of the City. That the Sheriffe of London hath had the charge of all the Prisons in the Tower, so often as the said Iustices itinerant have comne thither: as appeares in many Rolls of Pleas of the Crowne, and of the said Itinerant Iustices.

By another short Record in the said Dunthorne, Refer all this concerning the priviledge or the City within the Tower, unto page 125. fol. 85. it is specified, That if any were murthered within the Tower, or drowned in the Tower Ditch, or in the Gate, called The Water Gate, that notwithstanding the King himselfe were there present, yet have the City Sheriffe and Coroner sitten upon the dead body, and empanelled their Iuries.

The Letter or Commission of King Edward, unto Iohn Hamond Maior of London, before mentioned, is to bee seene in Dunthorne, fol. 87. Tis dated at Westminst. Octo. 21. in the 17. yeere of his Reigne over England, and over France the 4. The L. Maiors returne of the Inquisition is also there recorded.

Of the founding of Trinity Church within Aldgate, and of the beginning of the Canons Regular, and Augustine Fryers in ENGLAND.
Insert this in page 145.

IN the yeere of Christ 1108. and in the eighth yeere of King Henry, Out of Booke C. in Guildhall folio 135. and Dunthorne, fol. 79. was the Church of the holy Trinity, within Aldgate, London, founded by the Venerable Lady, Maud, Wife unto the said King, by the perswasion of Archbishop Anselme. It was given unto Norman, who became the first Prior not onely there, and first Canon Regular of the whole Kingdome. For by him was all England (saith my Record) adorned with the Rule of Saint Augustine, and the Canonicall habit of that Order. Which Order, by the gathering together of many Fryers into that Church, was the number of those that praised God day and night so much increased, that the whole City was much delighted with the sight of it. Insomuch, that in the yeere of our Lord, 1125. certaine Burgesses of the City, descended of the ancient race of the English Knights; by name, Ralfe the sonne of Algode, Wolsard le Deverish, Orgar le Prude, Edward Vp [...]hill, Blacstan, and his Cosin Alwin, Alwis and Robert his brother, sonnes of Leostan, Leostan the Goldsmith, and Wyz [...] his sonne, Hugh the sonne of Wolgare, Algar Secusenne, Orgar the sonne of Dereman, Osbert Drinchepyn, and Adelardus Hornpite, meeting together in the Chapter of the Church of Christ, which is situated within the Walls of the City neere Aldgate, freely gave unto the said Church, and unto the Canons serving God, all that Land and Soken, which was called Anglish Cnithgilda, [Page] which lies by the wall of the City without Aldgate, and reaches into the Thames. They gave it, I say, themselves becomming Fryars, and partaking of the benefits of that place, by the hand of Norman the Prior, who received them into the Society, as he had done others before them; by an oath taken upon the Text of the Gospell.

And to the intent that this gift of theirs might stand firme and unchangable; they surrendred up (among other Writings which they had for it) the Charter of St. Edward. After which, they gave the Prior seisin and possession of the said Land, byThat is, by giving him entrance & possession into the Church of St. Botolphs; which was the head, or (as it were) the Capita [...] Messuage of the Mannor. the Church of Saint Botolph which had beene builded upon the same, and was the head of it. All this was done before these Witnesses, Bernard, Prior of Dunstaple, Iohn Prior of Landa, and divers others French and English people. The said Donors hereupon, sent one of their owne Company (Ordgar le Prude by name) unto King Henry, with their petition, that hee would bee pleased to give his consent and confirmation to their said gift; Whereupon, the King very willingly allowed the said Land and Soken unto the Church; and to be free and acquitted from all service to himself, as franck Almes ought to be: which he thus confirmed by his Charter.

Henry King of England, to R. Bishop of London, and to the SheriffeEt Vice. comiti & Praeposito. and Provost, and to all the Barons, and to his Liege people both French and English, both of London and Middlesex greeting.

Know yee that I have granted and confirmed unto the Church and Canons of the Holy Trinity, London, the Soken of the English Cnittengilda, with the Lands which belong unto it, and the Church of Saint Botolphs, even as the Homines. Lords of the same Guild have given and granted it. And I will, and firmely doe command, that they may well and honourablyHonorisice and freely hold it; together with Sak and Sok, and Toll, and Thea, and Infangtheof, and all other their old customes; like as the men of it in the best manner did, in the times of King Edward, and like as King William my Father, and my Brother, by their Charters granted it unto them. Witnesse A. the Queene, and Geffrey the Chancelor, and Geffrey de Clinton, and William de Clinton, at Wdestocke. The King also sent his Sheriffes; namely, Albric de Veer, and Roger Nephew of Or Hubert. Herbert; which, for his part, should invest the Church in the said possession.

More, concerning the same matter; and of the restoring to the Church of a little piece of Land, encroached upon by the Constables of the Tower.

Stephen King of England, to the Bishop of London, and to the Iustices, Sheriffes, Barons, Officers, & all hisFidelibus. Liege people of London, French and English, greeting. Know yee, that I have restored and new granted unto God and the Church of the Holy Trinity, London, and to the Canons Regulars serving God there, for the soule of King Henry, and for the salvation of my selfe and Queen Maud my wife, and Eustace my Sonne, and of other my Children, and for ever doe restore and grant, that Land of theirs inEast Smithfield. Smithfield, which Earle Geffrey had in his occupation for the making of his Vineyard. Wherefore I will, and hereby firmely doe command; that they shall well and peaceably, freely, quietly and honourably, have and hold the Land aforesaid: even as after the best manner they did freely and quietly enjoy other their Lands: and even as King Henry had before granted, and by his Charter confirmed it unto them. Witnesse Maud the Queene, Thomas my Chaplaine, William de Ipra, and Richard de Lucye, at London.

At the same time did Earle Geffrey resigne up his possession, as by this his Deed appeareth.

Geffrey Earle of Essex, principall Constable of the Tower, &c. to the Bishop of London, Fidelibus Ecclesiae. and all that hold of holy Church, greeting. Know yee that I have restored unto the Church of Christ in London, and to the Fryars there, their Mills neere unto the Tower, and all their land without the Tower; belonging [Page] sometimes unto the English Cnittengilda; with Smithfield, and theHominibus. tenants, and all other things belonging thereunto. I also restore unto them halfe a hide of land Hidam de terrae de Brebelegia. of Brebelegia, with the Land and medowes and pastures, and all other things, liberties and customes; as William Widois sometimes gave it unto them, when as he tooke the habit of a Canon Regular upon him. And I will and command, that they hold the said Lands from mee and from mine heires, free, cleered, and acquitted, from all claime and secular service. That is to say, in such manner as it shall never bee lawfull either for me or for mine heires to do them any injury or contumely in consideration of the Lands aforesaid. Witnesse, R. In the Transcript taken out of the Originall, which I used: I finde her written Rosha, with a dash, ignorantly; so that I know not what to make of [...]. the Countesse my wife, Gregory Draper, Payn of the Temple, &c.

And I also give unto them one Mark of silver, out of the service of Edward de Sekegeford. Witnesse those above-named, and William Archdeacon of London.

King Stephen also restored something unto the said Church; as by this following Charter appeareth; which the Constables of the Tower had encreached. This was done after the lands were proved by oath to belong to the Church, before the Kings Chiefe Iustice.

Stephen King of England, to the Bishop of London, the Iustices, Sheriffes, Barons, Officers, and all his Liege people, both French and English, of the County of Hertford, greeting. Know yee that I have given & granted unto the Church of the Holy Trinity, and to the Canons serving God there, T. S. of Land in the Manor of Bracking in perpetual almes; for the rest of the soules, that is to say, of Baldwin my sonne, and Maud my Daughter, which lye buried there. I have further also given and granted unto the said Church and Canons sixe yeards of Land in the same Mannor of Bracking; for thePro escaembio. exchange of their Mil and that plat of their ground, which they heretofore granted unto Queene Maud my wife, neere unto the Tower of London; upon which she hath now founded an HospitallSt. Katharines. for the poore. Those sixe yeards of Land, I meane, which I still kept in mine owneDominico meo. demaines, after I had made partition of the other parcels of the said Mannor: that is to say, that part upon which the Church is founded, and unto which, the Market belongeth. Wherefore I will, and firmly hereby command, that the said Church and Canons shall wel, peaceably, freely, and honourably for ever possesse the said Lands, acquitted from all secular exaction, as it becommeth free Almes. That is to say, my demaines with Sak, and Sok, and Toll, and Thea, and Infangtheof, with all such other customes, as they now hold other their possessions. Witnesse Theobald Archbishop of Canterbury, Robert B. of London, Robert B. of Hereford, and Robert B. of Excester, and I [...]ard B. of Chichester, and William B. of Norwich, and Maud my Queene, and Earle Eustace my sonne, and William [...], and Robert de Veer, and William Mart, Henry de Essex, and Richard de Lucye.

Then next followes Queene Mands confirmation of the Kings gift; dated at London, under the same Witnesses, where the same things are repeated.

Other things given by Queene Maud, to the same Church.

Maud by the grace of God Queene of English, Out of Booke, C. fol. 136. to Robert Bishop of London, and to all that hold on holy Church, greeting. Know yee that [...] the counsell of the Archbishop Anse [...]me, and by the grant and confirmation of my Lord King Henry, I have given and confirmed the Church of Christ within the Walls of London, to be free and acquitted from all subjection, as well of the Church ofTo understand this, see pag. 145. Waltham, as of all other Churches, excepting the Church of S. Paul, and of the Bishop of London; together with all the appurtenances, unto the honour of God and to the Canons Regular there serving God with Norman the Prior, for ever; and that for the redemption of our soules, and the soules of our Parents. In like manner have I given unto them, the gate called Aldgate, with the Soken thereunto belonging, which was mine owne demaines; and two parts of the revenues of the City of Excester. And I will and [Page] command that the said Canons shall well, peaceably, freely, and honourably possesse those Lands and all belonging unto their Church; together with those customes and liberties, which my Lord King Henry hath by his Charter confirmed unto them; so that no injury or reproach bee therefore done unto them. Witnesse William Bishop of Winchester, Roger Bishop of Sarum, Robert Bishop of Lincolne, &c. Dated at Westminster.

Notes upon the foresaid Charters.

First, observe the time of the building of Saint Botolphs Church without Aldgate, which was about the age of the Conquerour. So much wee know by this; that it was builded betwixt the time of Canutus, and Henry the firs;t. Adde this to page 118.

Secondly, whereas the Kings write to the Barons of London; know what Mathew Paris in his Henry the third sayes, that the Citizens of London, both for their antiquity and the honour of the City, were called Barons. But they were onely the principall Citizens that had this title. The chiefe men of the City, whom we now call Barons, were heretofore stiled Captaines. They were the Kings Free Tenants, priviledged all over England. Sometimes the Kings Writs were directed to the Sheriffe and Barons of London. The Church also had its Barons or Free Tenants; and divers other Cities of England. See for this word, in Sir Henry Spelmans Glossary.

Thirdly, observe London and Middlesex to be in those dayes joyned together, as in King Henries Charter.

Of the setting up of the Stone Conduit by the Stockes. To be inserted pag. 244. after the fifth line.Not [...]s of Survey taken out of Acts of Common Councell, holden in the City.

AT a Common Councell held on Tuesday, November 27. in the first yeere of King Henry the 8. was this patition preferred, and granted. To the Right Honourable Lord the Maior, and his Brethren the Aldermen, and to the discreet persons of the Common Councell of this City of London.

Beseeching your good Lordship and Masterships, the Inhabitants dwelling about the Stockes, that by the space of five or sixe yeeres past, a vent of water hath runne by a Pipe of Lead beside the Stockes; which pipe of Lead by reason that it is not closed, is daily hurt with Horses and Carts. It may therefore please your good Lordship and Masterships, and all our Masters of the Common Councell, to grant and give licence unto the said Inhabitants, upon their owne proper costs and charges to make or cause to bee made, a little Posterne of Stone with a Cesterne of lead therein: so that the said water shall bee therein preserved and conveyed: and so to bee drawne out by Cocks, to the Common weale of all the said Inhabitants thereabout dwelling. Thus at the reverence of God, and in the way of charity.

This is the Posterne now presently there standing over against the South-East.

A Note concerning Bretaske lane in Downegate Ward. To be inserted page 253. Col. second, after, Edward the fourth.

AT a Common Councell holden December 11. Anno 3. of Henry the 8. A Bill was exhibited at this Court by the Wardens of the Dyers Company; whereby they claimed a lane in the Ward of Downegate, called Bretaske lane, to bee their severall ground. For this, a search was made in the Bookes and Records of the City; by which it appeared, that the said lane was the common Lane of the City, and not severall to them. And so they were answered by the Court.

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Concerning Blackwell Hall; An Act of Common Councell held August the first, in the 8. of Henry 8. To be inserted Page 129. Col. 1. after these words: This house (of late yeeres)

WHereas by an Act of Common Councell, in the 22. yere of the reigne of King Richard the second, it was ordained and established, that no manner of person should bring or conveigh any Woollen Clothes to the said City to bee sold, except they were first brought, harboured, and discharged at the Common Market of Blackwell hall, therefore ordained and provided, and of old time accustomed, upon paine of forfeiture of all the said Clothes so harboured and laid, contrary to the said Ordinance; which Act and Ordinance, was by another Act of Common Councell holden at the Guild hall aforesaid, the day and yeere abovesaid, ratified, approved, and confirmed. And over that, it is now at this present ordained, established, and enacted, that no manner of person being Freeman of this City, after the Feast of the Nativity of our Lady next comming, suffer any manner of person whatsoever, bee hee free or forraigne, to buy or sell any manner of Woollen Clothes harboured or lodged contrary to the said Ordinance: As broad Clothes, Carsies, Cottons, Bridgewater Frizes, Dosseins, or any other manner of Cloth made of Wooll, within his Shop, Chamber, or other place within his house, unlesse the said Clothes were first brought to Blackwell hall aforesaid, and there bought and sold. Or else the said Freeman, the said Clothes lawfully bought in the Country out of the said City, upon paine to forfeit and to pay to the use of the Commonalty of this City; for his first offence, for every Broad-Cloth so sold, harboured, or lodged, contrary to the said Ordinance, vj. s. viij. d. for every Carsie iij. s. iiij. d. for every Dosseine, Bridgewaters, and other pieces of Cloth made of Wooll, xx. d. And for the second offence, the said pains to be doubled: and for the third offence, the party so offending to be disfranchised and deprived cleerely from the Liberties of this City for ever.

Of the enlargement of the Crossed Fryars Church.

AT the Common Councell, the day and yeere above mentioned, was there an Act passed for the grant unto the Prior and Covent of the Crossed Fryars, besides the Tower of London (to the intent that they should pray for the good estate of the City) of the common ground of the said City, for the enlargement of their Church, viz. in breadth from the East end of their Church, from the maine Wall thereof on the North part, into the high street there, five foot of Assise; and at the West end of their Church, in breadth foure foot and a halfe, stretching in length from the East part to the West part, seven score and eight foot and an halfe.

Afterwards, at a Common Councell holden on Tuesday, September 25. Anno 12. of Henry 8. the said Prior and Covent petitioned for succour towards the edifying and maintenance of their new Church, and to take upon them and the whole City to be their second Founders. Whereupon it was agreed, that severall exhortations should bee made in Writing to every Fellowship in London, to see what they would doe of their devotions towards the same; and such summes to be certified to the Maior and Aldermen, to the intent it may be knowne to what it will amount.

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Of the Conduit of Saint Giles Creplegate. To be inserted pag. 319.

AT a Common Councell held Aprill, the same yeere, it was agreed, that the Chamberlaine should, at the costs of the Chamber, cause the common Well and Spring at Saint Giles, to bee covered with a house of Bricke.

Something to be added to page 281. concerning Saint Thomas of Acons in West-Cheape.

TVesday, Aprill 27. Anno 10. of Henry the 8. it was granted unto the Master and his Brethren of the Hospitall of Saint Thomas of Acon, in West-Cheape, whereThomas Becket. Saint Thomas the Martyr was borne, because they wanted roome in the said Hospitall, that for their more ease they might make a Gallery in convenient height and bredth, from their said house overthwart the street in the Old Iury, into a certaine Garden and Buildings, which the Master and Brethren had then lately purchased. So as the said Gallery should bee of such height, as should not annoy Man, Horse, nor Cart. And to make a Window on either side of the said Gallery, and therein yeerely in the Winter to have a sufficient Light for the comfort of them that passe that way.

Of Leaden Hall. To be inserted page 206. Columne 2. after Chamber of London.

AT a Common Councell, holden September 28. Anno 10. Henry 8. was there a Petition exhibited, to the Right Honourable the Maior, and his Worshipfull Brethren the Aldermen, and to the discreet Commoners in this Common Councell assembled.

Meekely beseeching and shewing unto your Lordship and Masterships, divers and many Citizens of this City, which with your favours under correction thinke, that the great place called Leaden Hall, should nor ought not to be letten to farme to any person or person; and in especiall, to any Fellowship or Company incorporate, to have and to hold the same Hall for terme of yeeres; for such inconveniences as may thereby insue and come, to the hurt of the Common weale of the same City in time to come. As somewhat more largely may appeare in the Articles hereafter following.

1 If any Assembly or hasty gathering of the Commons of the said City,The uses of Leaden-Hall. for oppressing or subduing of mis-ruled people within the said City, hereafter shall happen to bee called or commanded by the Maior, &c. there is none so convenient, meet, and necessary place to assemble them in within the said City, as the said Leaden Hall; both for largenesse of roome, and for their City defence in time of their counselling together about the Premises. Also in that place hath beene used the Artillery, Gunnes, and other common Armors of the said City, safely to be kept in a readinesse for the safegard, wealth, and defence of the City, to be had and occupied at times when need required. And also, the Store of Timber for the necessary reparations of the Tenements belonging to the Chamber of the said City, there commonly hath beene kept.

2 Item, if any Triumph or Noblesse were to bee done or shewed by the Commonalty of this City for the honour of our Soveraigne Lord the King, or Realme, and for the Worship of the said City, the same Leaden Hall is a most meet place to prepare and order the same Triumph therein, and from thence to issue forth to the places thereto appointed.

3 Item, at every Largesse or Dole of Money made unto the poore people [Page] of this City, by or after the death of any Worshipfull person within the said City, it hath beene used to bee done and given in the said Leaden hall, for that the said place is most meete therefore.

4 Item, the honourable Father that was maker of the said Hall, had a speciall intent, will, and minde (as it is commonly said) that the Market men and women that came to the City with Victuall and other things, should have their free standing within the said Leaden hall in wet weather, to keepe themselves and their Wares dry, and thereby to encourage them and all other to have the better will and desire, the more plenteously to resort to the said City to Victuale the same. And if the said Hall should be letten to farme, the Will of the said Honourable Father should never be fulfilled nor take effect.

5 Item, if the said place (which is the chiefe Fortresse, and most necessary place within all this City, for the tuition and safegard of the same) should be letten to farme out of the hands of the chiefe heads of the same City, and especially to another body politike, it might at length (by likelihood) be the occasion of discord and debate, betweene the said bodies politicke, which God defend, &c.

For these and many other great and reasonable causes, which hereafter shall be shewed to this honourable Court, your said beseechers thinke much necessary, that the said Hall be still in the hands of the City, and to be surely kept by discreet & sad Officers: in such wise that it may alwayes be ready to be used and occupied for the common Weale of the said City, when need shall require, and in no case to bee letten out to any body Politicke.

This Petition was granted.

Of the new Seale of the Bridge-house.

AT a Common Councell, Iuly 14. Anno 33. Henry 8. It was ordered that the Seale of the Bridge-house should bee changed, because the Image of Thomas Becket, sometimes Archbishop of Canterbury was graven therein. And a new Seale to be made, to bee devised by Master Hall, to whom the old Seale was delivered.

Note, This was occasioned by a Proclamation, which commanded the names of the Pope and Thomas of Becket to be put out of all Bookes and Monuments; which is the reason that you shall see them so blotted out, in all old Chronicles, Legends, Primers, and Service bookes printed before those times.

Of the priviledge of Saint Bartholomewes Hospitall. To be inserted, Pag. 345.

AT a Common Councell, Tuesday Iuly 19. 33. Henry 8. The most gracious Letters Patents of King Edward the second, made and granted to S. Bartholomewes Hospitall in Smithfield, were allowed; for and concerning such Priviledges as they doe claime thereby at this present time. Which is, that none of the Officers or Ministers of the City, should doe or execute any Arrest within the Precinct of the said Hospitall, and that the Arrest made by Vnderhill (one of my Lord Maiors Servants) upon Alice Browne, shall be discharged, &c.

Also at a Common Councell, August 1. the sixth of Edward the sixth, it was enacted, that the Lord Maior and Aldermen should have leave to breake downe a piece of the City Wall behind Christ Church, for the making of a doore or passage thorow the said Wall, for the Governours of the house of the poore, of the Foundation of King Henry the 8. in West Smithfield, and other Citizens, to goe to and from the same house, unto and from the house ordained by the City for the reliefe of the poore, called The house of Worke, and Law, &c. notwithstanding.

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Against abuses offered to Pauls. To bee inserted Page 371. Col. 2. after To his Will.

AT an Act of Common Councell, August 1. Anno 1. and 2. of Philip and Mary. Forasmuch as the Materiall Temples of God were first ordained for the lawfull and devout assembly of people, there to lift up their hearts, and to laud and praise Almighty God, and to heare his Divine Service, and most holy Word and Gospell, sincerely said, sung, and taught, and not to bee used as Markets, or other prophane places or thorowfares, with carriage of things. And for that (now of late yeeres) many of the Inhabitants of the City of London, and other people repairing thither, have (and yet doe) commonly use and accustome themselves very unseemely and unreverently (the more the pity) to make their common carriage of great Vessels full of Ale and Beere, great Baskets full of Bread, Fish, Flesh, and Fruit, and such other things, Fardels of stuffe, and other grosse Wares and things, thorow the Cathedrall Church of Saint Pauls: and some in leading Moyles, Horses, and other Beasts thorow the same unreverently, to the great dishonour and displeasure of Almighty God, and the great griefe also and offence of all good people. Bee it therefore for remedy and reformation thereof, ordained, enacted, and established, &c. that no person, either free or forraigne, of what estate or condition soever, doe at any time from henceforth carry or convey, or cause to be carried or conveyed thorow the said Cathedrall, any manner of great Vessell or Basket with Bread, Ale, Beere, Fish, Flesh, &c. or any other like thing or things, upon paine of forfeiture or losing for every such his or their first offence, 3. s. 4. d. for the second 6. s. 8. d. for the third x. s. and for every other offence after such third time, to forfeit x. s. and to suffer two dayes and two nights imprisonment, without Baile or Mainprise. The one moity of all which paines and penalties shall be to Christs Hospitall within Newgate, and the other halfe to him that will sue for the same in any Court of Record within the City, by Bill, originall plaint, or Information, to be commenced or sued in the name of the Chamberlaine of the said City for the time being; wherein none Essoine or wager of Law for the Defendant, shall be admitted or allowed.

The Abstract of an Act of Common Councell, held September 19. in the third and fourth yeeres of Philip and Mary, for the removing of the Compter Prison out of Breadstreet into great Woodstreet. To bee inserted pag. 312. or pag. 395. Col. 1. after Pitifull Prisoners.

BY reason of divers hinderances, injuries, extremities and displeasures done unto the poore Prisoners in Breadstreet Compter, by the Keepers of the same, who hiring the house of the Goldsmiths Company, would not (many times) suffer the Sheriffes of London (who stand charged with the Prisoners) to use them so well as they had purposed: whereby the City hath beene slandered, Law and good orders broken, and poore Prisoners too much abused. Therefore was the Prison removed to a house belonging to the City, situate in great Woodstreet, where the Sheriffe and his Officers were to keepe their Courts, &c. as they had before used in Breadstreet. At which time it was also enacted; that the said Compter in Woodstreet should never hereafter for any cause whatsoever, be letten out to any other use or person, &c.

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The Abstract of an Act of Common Councell, the last of February, the second and third of Philip and Mary, concerning Bridewell. To be inserted Page 436. Col. 2. after By Queene Mary.

FOr as much as King Edward the sixth had given his house of Bridewell unto the City, partly for the setting of idle & lewd people to work, and partly for the lodging and harbouring of the poore, sicke, weake, and sore people of the City, and of poore wayfaring people repairing to the same; and had for this last purpose, given the bedding and furniture of the Savoy to that purpose. Therefore in consideration that very great charges would be required to the fitting of the said house, and the buying of Tooles and bedding, the money was ordered to be gotten up among the rich people of the Companies of London, &c.

Leystow by Baynards Castle removed. To be inserted page 405.

AT a Common Councell, August 7. the third and fourth of Philip and Mary, it was agreed at the request of the Earle of Pembroke, that the Cities Leystow adjoyning to his Lordships house, and being noysome to the same, should be removed. Vpon condition, that hee should give the City, towards the making of a new Leystow in another place, 2000. foot of hard stone, to make the Vault and Wharfe thereof, or else forty Markes in ready Money, to buy the same stone withall.

Something about Ludgate.

LVdgate Prison, to pay Tithes, Clerkes wages, and Church duties, to Saint Martins Church within Ludgate. Agreed upon by Common Councell, March 21. in the second yeere of Queen ELIZABETH. Adde this to page 372. before these words, The Monuments here.

Something about Broken wharfe. To be inserted page 403.

AT a Common Councell, Iuly 23. the second of Queene Elizabeth, order was taken, that out of a certaine void space of ground at Broken Wharfe, there should bee 33. foot inclosed and laid to the Cities Brewhouse; which was to have a substantiall pale about it, to keepe the Cities Fewell, and other goods, &c.

Of the opening of a Lane in Downegate Ward.

VVHereas certaine private persons had wrongfully set up a doore at the end of [...] Lane, in Downegate Ward, and had converted it to their private use, it was order May 28. Anno fourth of Elizabeth, that the City Chamberlaine should take downe the doore, and leave the Lane common, like other streets in the City.

Something to be inserted page 217. Col. 2. after Royall Exchange.

BEfore the building of the Exchange, it was by divers Common Councells, about the 26. yeere of Henry the 8. consulted upon, whether there should bee a Bursle or convenient place of meeting, for Merchants to treat of their feat of Merchandize. The same yeere, the King sent his Letters to the City, for the making of a new Bursse at Leaden Hall. Whereupon it being put to hands, whether the new Bursse should be removed out [Page] of Lumbardstreet: it was agreed, that it should not. So that the Merchants meeting continued there, till the Royall Exchange was builded.

Something of Queenhith. To be inserted page 402. Col. 2. after Edward the third.

THese were the impositions, and the occasions of them. This Romeland, being annoyed with Dung, Filth, &c. so as the Sellers of Corne and Victuall there, could not stand to sell their commodities as formerly they had done: it was ordered by a Common Councell, Anno 41. of King Edward 3. That the place should forthwith be made cleane and paved. And that from thenceforth towards the perpetuall cleansing and reparation thereof, there should be taken for every quarter of Corne of what kinde soever, there sold or comming, a Farthing; for every quarter of Salt, a Farthing; for every Vessell called a Battell, bringing Rushes, foure pence; for every Vessell called a Shout, bringing Corne or Malt, two pence; for every Shippe bringing other Victuall, two pence; and of every person daying Soile there, two shillings; and the Seller of Rushes to pay for every boat of Rushes, foure pence.

Something concerning the Iurisdiction of the River of Thames. To be inserted page 26. Col. 2. after these words, And the like Sessions kept there for the same purpose. To my Honorable Friend Sir HENRY MARTEN, Knight, Iudge of the High Court of the Admiralty.

SIR, his Majesty understanding that there is a second Edition of Stowes Survey of the City of London, new put to sale, wherein there are some passages prejudiciall to his Majesties right in his Admiralty and Derogatory to the just power belonging thereunto. He doth therefore require you his Iudge in that High Court to examine the said Booke, and to cause the said passages inserted in prejudice of the Admirall Iurisdiction, and in support of any other pretence against the same to be left out, or else to prohibit the publishing and sale of the said Booke. And for so doing this signification of his Majesties pleasure may be your sufficient Warrant. So I rest

Garlicke Hith 21. December, 1633.

Your assured Friend to serve you Iohn Coke.

Further execution of the Letter above-mentioned could not bee made, for that it came after the impression was finished and published.

Henry Marten.

To the Master and Wardens of the Company of Stationers.

YOu may understand by the contents of the Letter above-mentioned, directed unto me what is required at my hands to performe. I am therefore to require you upon your receipt hereof, forthwith to cause the Booke to be brought unto you, and to take order that all the words together with the copy of the Letter, and my answer thereunto, as above made for this impression to be imprinted page 939. Col. prima, verbatim in all the said Bookes, aswell sold as hereafter to be sold, before any further sale of the said Bookes bee made; and this shall be your Warrant in this behalfe.

Doct. Commons `24. December, 1633.

Henry Marten.

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The first Table Containing all the Ancient and Memorable places, Charitable and Noble Acts of Citizens, and most Honourable and Worthy Monuments recorded in this Booke; Alphabetically digested: Wherein the Figures referre to the Page, the Letters to the Columne, and the
Asteriskcs * to the top of both Page and Columne. † to the middle of both Page and Columne. ¶ to the bottom of both Page and Columne.

A

For false Accusation, a Fuller of Shoresditch hanged & quarted. 474 b ¶

Adelstreet tooke name of King Adelstanes house, standing there. 308 a ¶

Admiralty Court. 454 a ¶

Adultery and Fornication, how punished. 207 b *

S. Alban, the first Martyr in England. 308 a *

Abbot of Saint Albans Inne. 187 b *

Aldermanbury street, whence so named. 302 b †

Aldermanry purchased. 335 a ¶

Aldermen Knighted. 237 a *

Seven Aldermen died in lesse than ten moneths. 585 a *

Aldersgate. 34 b 320 b †

Aldersgate street. 321 a *

Aldgate. 31 b ¶121 a ¶

Vide Ealdgate.

Alhallowes Church in breadstreet suspended. 92 a ¶

The charitable Almes of the Lord Cromwell, &c. 74 a *

Of Thomas Sutton. 481 b

Of Baptist, Lord Hicks, Viscount Combden. 960

Of Christopher Tamworth. 766 a ¶

Of Sir Paul Pinder. 767 a †

Of Henry Smith. 794 a † 887 b ¶

Of Susanna Powell. 794 b †

Henry the second fed 10000. poore people, and Henry the third 6000. every day for a certain time, 74 b ¶ Vide Actions of worthy Citizens. 86. &c.

An Almory at Westminster. 525 a ¶

The Widdow Allingtons buildings. 480 b *

The Allome house at Wapping, with the proceeding against it. 462. b †

Amen lane 371 b ¶

Anchor lane, anciently called Palmers. 256. a ¶

An Anchorage by little Saint Bartholomewes. 415 b †

Anne Queene of England, Wife to Richard the second, her Monument. 508 b ¶

Anne wife to Richard the third, her Monument. 513 a ¶

Anne of Cleve, her Monument. 513 a ¶

Anne Wife to King Iames, her Monument. 814

Anne Wife to Edward Duke of Sommerset, her Monument. 513 b †

Anne Countesse of Oxford, her Monument. 514 b †

Anthonies Pigs. 65 a 190 b *

The Apologie of the City of London. 691

Instructions for the Apprentices of the City of London. 688

An Archbishops See at London. 528 a †

The Court of Arches kept in Bow Church. 268 b †

Three Arch-Flamines in England

at

London

York

Cacrleon

211 a †

Coat-Armors, Ar [...]es of England supported with Angles. 216 a †

Armes of the City of London what they bee, with the Sword of Saint Paul in the first quarter. 237 a b 646

Seale and Armes of the Baron of London. 339 b †

The Armes of the twelve preceding Companies of London 598

[Page]The Armes of the ten Companies of Merchants, 611. and of the other Companies following the twelve. 621

Artilery yard. 175 b *

The Artilery Garden founded, Anno 1622. 764

The Kings Artirce in Limestreet. 161 a ¶

Arundell house. 489 b ¶

Ave-Mary lane. 371 b ¶

Church of S. Augustine in the wall, now quite lost. 166 b *

Of Augustine Fryers. 185 b *

Their beginning. 930

Church of Saint Mary Axe, whence so called. 166

B

BAiliffes of London. 536 a¶

Bakewell, or Blackwell hall sometimes the mansion house of the Bassings. 298 a † b ¶

A Market place for woollen Cloth, 299 a † See more concerning this 934

Rich. Bancroft, Archbishop of Canterbury, his Monument. 790 b *

The Banner of S. Paul. 57 b ¶

The Banner-bearer of the City of London. 57 b

Banqueting houses, like Bankerouts, bearing great shew and little worth. 476 a †

Banquetings. 673 a ¶

Barbican or Burghkenning. 318 b ¶

Barkley house. 407 a *

Barnards Inne. 430 b ¶

Barons of London. 359 b † 933

The Barons slaine at Barnet, buried. 486 a ¶

Barrators. 676 a *

Bartholomew lane. 183 a ¶

Saint Bartholomewes Hospitall, 415 a b. Suppressed, 417 b ¶ The privileges thereof, 936 b ¶Priory, 418. Suppressed, 420 a ¶The Archbishop visits the Priory of S. Bartholomewes with stripes, 418. Bolton the last Prior there, 419 a † Bartholomew Faire, 419 a ¶423 a † How the Lord Maior goes to it, 651 b * The order of Wrastling on S. Bartholomewes day. 651 b ¶

Bassingborne in Cambridge shire 298 b ¶

Basing lane, or Turnebase lane, 264. or the Backhouse. 393 b †

Bassings-Hall street. 293

Bathe place. 427 a *

Battaile Bridge in Southwarke. 459 a ¶

Bay Hall. 293 a *

Baynards Castle, 56. Rob. Fitzwater, Lord thereof, banished by King Iohn, and recalled; by place Banner-bearer to the City of London, 57 Burnt, 59 a ¶King Edw. 4. and Rich. 3. crowned there, 60. Henry 7. lodged there, ibid. A Soke or Court belonging thereto, 405 b † The Leystow neere to it removed. 938 a †

The Normans ware no Beards. 45 a †

Bearehinder lane. 244 b *

Beare lane. 137 b ¶

Beauchamps Inne. 238 b ¶

Beauments Inne. 405. A Monument of the Beauments. 877 b †

Thomas Becket first a Sheriffes Clerke, afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury, & Chancellor of England. 86 a ¶

Bedford house, anciently the Bishop of Carliles Inne. 491

Bedlem, 173 a ¶When founded. 542 a †

Beech lane, and the Abbot of Ramseys Inne there. 318 b †

Belins Vrne of Brasse set over Belinsgate. 39 b *

Belinsgate, with the Customes thereof, 225. The Bosse of Belinsgate. 226 b ¶

The great Bells at Westminster, 524 a † Bow-Bell, 269 a ¶ The best ring of sixe Bells in England. 213 a *

Bellman when first ordained. 585 a ¶

Belzetters lane. 144 a ¶

Benbridges Inne. 161 b †

Bermondsey street, with the Priory of S. Saviours, called Bermonds Eye, in Southwarke. 459 a †

Berwards lane. 175 b *

Bevis markes: See Buries.

Sir William Billesby his Monument. 783 a ¶

Billitar lane: See Belzetter.

Birchin, or rather Birchovers lane. 215 b ¶

Bishopsgate. 33

A Catalogue of the Bishops of London, 367 a * A lineall succession of them, 528 b * The Bishop of London his Palace. 412 b †

Blacke Fryers, the originall of them, 375 b * A Parliament holden in the Black-Friers, 374 a † The liberties and privileges of the Black-Friers, 375. A Riot committed therein, ibid. The fatall Vesper, or fall at Black-Friers, 381. b ¶The names of those that were slaine thereby, 386 b ¶ Black-Friers church in Holborne, 487 a ¶Their convocation and removall. ibid. b ¶

Bladder street. 337 b † 388 b *

Blanch Apleton. 160 a †

Blodwyte, what. 919 a ¶

Bornes: Oldborne, Langborne, Shareborne. 10 b

Bordhalepeney, what. 919 b ¶

Bosomes Inne, or Blossomes Inne 282 a *

Bosse alley. 226 b ¶

Bosse lane. 403 b ¶

Bow Bell not suffered to be rung late. 269 a ¶

Bow lane: See Cordwainer street.

Bowyer-row, from Pauls to Ludgate. 372 a *

Breadstreet. 390 a ¶

The Maior charged for not looking to the assize of Bread, 542 b ¶The Ordinance for the Assize & weight of Bread, 740. Bread-carts of Stratford at the Bow. 164 b *

Bretaske lane in Downgate. 933

Brickles lane. 255 a †

[Page]Bridewell, King Henry the 8. his house, 62 a † How from a Kings Palace, it came to bee an house of correction. 436. 937 b ¶

Bridewell Precinct, 312. The Chappell there. 876 a †

Bridges, 27. London Bridge first of Timber, ibid. Men went dry-shod under it, 28 a † Founded of stone, 28 b † A Subsidie granted for the repaire of it, 546 b † Burnt, 28 a ¶29 a ¶782 ¶Famous actions done on it, 29 The description of it, 30 a * The Bridgehouse, 459 a † The Seale thereof made new, 936 b † Westminster Bridge 524 b ¶Fleet Bridge, Old-borne Bridge, Cow Bridge, Horse- [...]ho [...]e Bridge. 30

Brigbote, what. 919 b ¶

Britaines, the first Inhabitants in London, 1. b. What their ancient Cities were of old, 2 b * Given to gluttony and drunkennesse, 5 a † Invaded by the Scots and Picts, 4 a * by the Saxons. 5 a *

Britaines Burse. 464 b ¶

Briton street. 321 a * 330 b *

Broad lane. 255 a ¶

Broad street. 183

Broken wharfe. 403 b † 938 b *

Brokers in Houndsditch, called Aetatis at ramentum, and Baptizati Iudaei. 122 b ¶

Brookes wharfe. 403 b †

Sir William Bruce, Henry the 8. his Physician, his Monument. 784 a †

Bucks head: See Procession at Pauls.

The Duke of Buckinghams Monument. 116 b † 817 b ¶

Buckles-bury. 246 a ¶276 a *

Budge row. 264 a *

The cause of Stone Building in London. 209 b ¶

Burgbote, what. 919 b ¶

Burgebruch, what. 919 b ¶

The Citizens of London first called Burgesses, 535 b † Ancient Burgesses of this City became Fryers. 930

Burhkenings, or Watch-towers. 62 b †

Burley house. 405 a *

A Persian buried without Christian Buriall. 173 a † 780 ¶

Whittingtons body thrice Buried. 256 a ¶

Buries markes. 144 b ¶156 b †

A motion that Butchers should kill no meat within London, 340 a ¶ Butchers-hall lane, or Stinking lane, or Chicklane. 340 a ¶

Buttolph lane, 228 b * The Church of Saint Buttolph without Aldgate when built 933 a †

C

IAcke Cade entred the City by London bridge. 29 b ¶

When Callice was won from the French, 552 a ¶When lost. 585 b †

Master Camden Clarenciaux, his Monument. 774 ¶

Camera Dianae, neere Doctors Commons. 781 *

Candlewicke street, whence so called. 235 a †

Henry Carey, Baron of Hunsdon, his Monument. 416 b ¶

Val. Carey, Bishop of Exeter, his Monument. 776 a ¶

A Monument of the Lord Carletons. 818

Sir Nowell Caroone, Ambassador for the States of Holland, his Monument. 790 b ¶

Caruage, what. 619 b †

Castle, a Shoomaker, called the Cocke in Westminster. 344 b ¶

The Castle Taverne in Cornehill. 209 b *

Catteten street. 282 a ¶

Cecill house, 493 a ¶ Elizabeth Cecill, her Monument, 514 b †

The Chaire of the Kings of Scotland, brought in by Edward the first, kept in Westminster. 510 b †

Chancelar, or Chancery lane. 435 a ¶487 a †

Change of the King in Bucklesbury. 44 b ¶

The Old-Change, 46 a. See Exchange.

Charing Crosse. 495 b †

In whose Maioraltie K. Charles began his reigne. 597 a †

Charles Earle of Lenox his Monument. 513 a *

Ancient Charters concerning the Priory of the holy Trinity. 931 a *

The Charter of London confirmed by divers Kings. 739

Charterhouse, the first foundation, 477 b The Monuments there, 478 b † Afterwards bought by M. Sutton, and made an Hospitall. 479, &c.

Gessery Chaucer, his Monument. 517 a *

The Cheapnesse of Flesmeat in former times. 206 a ¶548 a ¶

Cheapeside a Market place. 278 b ¶The Standard in Cheapside, 278. Executions done there, 279 a * The Crosse in Cheapside indicted, & the Images broken, 279 b. Iusts and Tournaments in Cheape-side, 280 b * A faire paved way found fifteen foot deep in Cheapside, 390 b ¶Goldsmiths Row there, 391 a *

Chelsey College, the true reason of the first foundation, with many worthy m [...]tives to stir up the charity of good Christians towards it. 527

Chequer Alley, anciently Bash-lane. 249 a ¶

Chewying, what. 919 b *

Chicke lane. 130 b ¶

Chicken lane. 420 b [...]

Childwyte what. 919 a ¶

Christs Church, anciently the Gray Fryers, with the annexion of S. Bartholomewes Hospitall, and the revenues of the Officers: The Maior of London Parson thereof. 341 b ¶

Christs Hospitall, the erection

[Page]thereof, and charity of King Edward the sixth thereto. 342 a ¶

Church lane. 138 a ¶251 a †

Cities whence so cald, 691 a * why built, ib. b * The commodities that come by them 692 a *

Honourable and worthy actions of Citizens of London, 86. &c. The honour of Citizens, 710 b † Their riches, 6. 8 b * Three kinds of Citizens: 1 Merchants, 2 Handicraftsmen, 3 Labourers. 697 b *

Clarkenwell, a Priory. 484 a †

Where the Clarkes Hall was anciently. 178 a ¶

Clements Inne and Well. 493 a †

S. Clements lane. 222 a * 235 a *

The Church without Templebarre, why called Clement Danes. 491 a ¶

Clergie men forbidden by the King to be punished of the Laity. 207 a ¶

Cliffords Inne. 435 a *

The Clinke. 449 b *

Clocke house at Westminster. 524 b *

Northerne Russet Cloth, sold for 4. d. the yard. 71 b *

Poore Clothiers relieved by the bounty of Sir Thomas White. 91. Many others, 93 a ¶ M. Kenrick. 199 a ¶

Coat-Armorus: See Armorus.

Cobhams Inne. 143 a †

Sir William Cockaine his Monument. 776 b ¶

Cocke lane. 415 a *

Cold Harbrough. 251 b ¶

Coleman street. 293

Iohn Collet Founder of Pauls Schoole, his Monument made by W. Lily. 363 b ¶

Court of Common Pleas. 522 b †

Common Councell men, and their Oath. 670 a

Doctors Comment. 409 a †

Conduits, 11 b * The water Conduit at Aldgate, 121 a † By Leaden Hall 206 b ¶In Cornehill, 208 a ¶By the Stocks, 244. 933 a ¶By Saint Stephens, 296 b ¶In Grasse street 230 a ¶Vpon Downegate, 248 a * In Lothbery 293 a † In West Cheape, 278 b ¶At London wall, 296 b ¶In Aldermanbury, 303 a ¶Without Creplegate, and a Bosse, 317 b ¶935 a † By Pauls gate, 388 a † By Saint Nicholas Coleabby, 398 b ¶ By Magdalenes Old-fishstreet, 410 a * In Oldborne 425 b † In Fleetstreet, 431 a ¶In Forestreet, 476 b † Pissing-Conduit. 190 a †

Court of Conscience in London: See Request.

Constables Oath. 687

Cony-hope lane. 275 b †

The incorporation of the Company of Cookes. 330 b *

A publike place of Cookery, where all manner of provision might be bought at any time. 711 a * 234 a *

A Monument of the Corbets. 811 b *

Cordwainer street. 264 b †

Corne not to be brought from beyond Sea, 250 a ¶The custome therof: See Queenhith and Leaden Hall.

No street call'd Cornehill before the Conquest, 211 a † Vpholders, sellers of old stuffe in Cornhill. 215 b ¶234 a ¶

Cornets Tower in Buckles-bury. 276 a ¶

Cosin lane. 249 b †

The Counter in the Poultry, 275 a ¶In Woodstreet, 308 a † Formerly in Breadstreet, 394 b * Why and when removed, 937 b † In Southwarke. 454 a ¶

The cause of decay in the Country. 699 b †

A remedy to people Country Townes againe. 700 a †

Ancient Coynes and manner of payment used in England, 44 b * The penny Easterling, 45. Numi and Denarii whence so called, 45 b * Of Halfe-pence and Farthings, 45 b ¶Groat & halfe Groat 46 a ¶Rose Nobles, 46 b ¶ Coynes of Gold enhanced, allayed, ibidem. Halfe-faced Groats, 47 a. Crownes and halfe Crownes of silver Coyned, ibid. Leather Money used in France. 47 b *

Cowbridge Pens and Street, so called. 420 b

Cow-crosse. 483 b ¶

Sir Richard Cox his Monument 774 *

Cradocks lane. 222 b ¶

Three Cranes, or painted Tavernes lane. 255 a *

The malice of cruell Creditors. 469 b †

Creed lane. 371 b ¶

Creplegate, a prison for Trespassers. 34 a ¶

A Monument of the Crew's. 818

Crooked lane. 233 a † 236 a ¶

Crookehorne Alley. 430 b *

Crosbie place. 181 b †

Old Crosse in Cheape, 280 b † The Crosse in Cheapside commanded to be repaired, as being an Ensigne of Christianity. 280 a ¶

Crossed, or Crowched Friers, 144 b ¶156 b ¶The Church there inlarged. 934 b *

Crownesilde, a shed or standing in Bow Church for the King, 270 b † 280 b ¶281 b ¶

Culver Alley. 144 b ¶

Curfew Bell. 83 a * 676 b †

Curriers Row. 184 a *

Cursitors Office in Chancery lane. 487 a †

Custome-house. 142 a †

Customes and Orders. 67 ¶

Ancient Lawes and Customes of London. 668 a †

Bladers, Ha [...]makers, Sheathmakers, drawne all three into one Fraternity of Cutlers. 158 b †

D

[Page]A Monument of the Dacres. 786 b †

The addition of a Dagger in the Armes of the City of London. 54 a † 237 b *

Dance of death, called the dance of Pauls. 88 a ¶

Dainegeld, what. 919 b *

Bishop of Saint Davids house. 436 b ¶

If ye call mee so, I will call you Davy, A Proverbe whence. 422 a ¶

The Deane of Pauls his lodging. 412 b ¶

Reliefe of poore Debters. 769

Desborne lane. 397 a ¶

Distaffe lane, 395. See Maiden lane.

The Towne-Ditch about the Wall of the City. 26 *

Divine Service to be read continually at 9 and 3 of the clock. 766 b *

Doctors Commons. 409 a †

Doe-little lane. 410 a ¶

Iohn Donne Deane of Pauls his Monument. 776 b †

Anne Donne his wife her Monument. 889 b *

Downegate. 248

A Lad of 18 yeeres old drownd in the channell at Downegate. 248 a ¶

Drink-water Wharfe. 232 b ¶

Drury lane. 493 a ¶

Laurence Ducket hang'd in Bow-steeple. 269 a †

Ducke lane. 418 a ¶

Sixe Children drown'd in the Ducking-pond. 782 †

A Monument of the Dudley's. 813 b ¶

Duke Humphrey's servants. 368 b ¶

The Dukes place. 146 b *

Dulwich College in the County of Surrey, founded by Edward Alleyne E [...]quire. 759

A new-borne Child buried in a Dung-hill of Sea-coale ashes. [...]80 b ¶

S. Dunstanes curse against King Ethelred. 358 a ¶

Durham House, a great Feast there, 494 a † A row of Stables there made a Royall Exchange. 494 b *

The Dutch Church, anciently Sir W. Powlets house. 184 a ¶

The Dutchy Court. 523 a ¶

E

EAldgate, 144. See Aldgate.

East-cheap a Cooks Row; The Kings Sons beaten there 234 a *

East-Smithfield a Vineyard 41 a † See Smithfield.

Ebgate lane. 231 b *

Editha Queene of England, her Monument. 501 b *

Edward the Confessors Monument in Westminster. 501 a ¶

Edward 1. reigned 34 yeeres; Maiors in his time, 545 a * His Monument. 502 a ¶

Edward 2. reigned 20. yeeres; Maiors in his time. 547 b ¶

Edward 3. reigned 50. yeeres; Maiors in his time, 549 b ¶ His Monument. 504 b ¶

Edward the Blacke Prince his house, now the Blacke Bell. 233 b †

Edward 4. elected in St. Iohns field, took on him the Crown in Baynards Castle, 59 b * Hee reigned 22 yeeres; Maiors in his time. 568 a ¶

Edward 5. when hee began his reigne. 572 a ¶

Edward 6 his vertuous and godly Speech to Bishop Ridley, concerning reliefe of the poore, 342 344 b * He was chiefe Founder of the Hospitals in London, 344 a ¶He reign'd 6 yeeres; Maiors in his time, 583 b † His picture in the Chappell at Bridewell, 876 a ¶His Monument. 511 a ¶

Elbow lane. 246 a †

Eleanor, Queene of England her Monument. 503 b ¶

Elizabeth Daughter to Henry 4 and wife to Henry 7 her Monument 511 a ¶

Elizabeth Daughter to Henry 7 her Monument. 510 a *

Queene Elizabeth reigned 44 yeeres; Maiors in her time, 385. Her Monument in 34 Churches, Westminster, 511 b † Alhallowes Breadstreet, 821 b † Alhallowes the great 821 b ¶Alhallowes the lesse, 822 a ¶Alhallowes on the Wall, 823 b † Anne Black-Fryers, 826 b ¶Bartholomew Exchange, 828 a * Bennet Grace-Church, 828 b ¶Botolph Belinsgate, 930 a † Clements Eastcheape, 832 a * George Botolph Lane, 836 b † Iohn Baptist, 838 a * Katherine Cree-church, 839 b ¶Laurence Iewry, 843 a * Mary Aldermary, 848 a ¶Mary le Bow, 849 a * Mary Bothaw, 849 b ¶Mary Summerset, 850 b ¶Mary wool-Church, 851 a ¶Martins Orgars, 853 b * Martins Vintry, 854 a * Maudlins Milkestreet, 854 b * Maudlins Old Fish-street, 855 b * Michael Querne, 858 b ¶ Michael Woodstreet, 859 a ¶Mildred Breadstreet, 859 b * Mildred Poultry, 861 b † Peters Pauls wharfe 867 a ¶Stephens Colemanstreet, 869 b ¶Thomas Apostle, 871 b † Bridewell Precinct, 876 b † Dunstans west 881 b ¶Olaves Southwarke 884 b * Saviours Southwarke. 886 b †

The Erbar. 247 b † 249 a *

Erkenwald Bishop of London, buried in S. Pauls, An. Dom. 700. 358 a * 367 a †

Essex house, anciently cal'd Exceter house. 489 a ¶

Ethelred King of West Saxons his Monument in Pauls, whereon is engraven Saint Dunstanes curse against him. 358 a ¶

Everards well street. 476 b ¶

[Page]Saint Ewins Church now decayed. 389 a †

The Duke of Exeters daughter what. 60 a *

The Royall Exchange, so called by Queene Elizabeth, when and where founded, 209 a. b A place of Merchants meeting. 938 b ¶

Cornets Tower in Bucklesbury, anciently the Kings Exchange. 276 a ¶

The Old Exchange. 351 a †

The Office of Kings Exchanger. 46 a †

Court of Exchequer. 522 b ¶

F

FAbian, an Alderman, wrote the Chronicle, call'd Fabians Chronicle. 574 b †

This Iland received the Christian Faith in the time of K. Lucius. 527 a ¶

Faringdon Ward, whence so called. 335

The Lord Fawconbridge, with his Rebels, set upon Ealdgate, 32 b † When that Insurrection was. 570 a †

Great Feasts in Westminster Hall. 520, 521

Sir Iohn Sha kept the first Maiors Feast in Guildhall, 283 b † The order at the Maiors Feast, 656 b No Maiors Feast, by reason of a great plague, 586 b * The Sergeants Feast at Ely house, whereto invited, came Henry the 8. and Queene Katharine, 426 a ¶Seven hundred messe of meat at one dinner at Totehill. 527 b ¶

Fenchurch street. 144 b ¶217 a ¶

Fewtars, or Fetter lane. 430 b *

Fickets croft, now part of Lincolnes-Inne Fields. 435 b ¶

Fifteenes: See the end of every Ward. Certaine Wards discharged of all Fifteenes. 226 a *

Finimore, or Fivefoot lane. 397 a ¶

Finkes lane. 183 a ¶189 b *

A Survey of the Mannor of Finsbury (belonging to a Prebend of Pauls.) 911

Finsbury Fields. 472 a *

Fire in Rood-lane, 228 a * At London Stone, 243 a * On London Bridge. 782

Fishwharfe. 233 a †

Fishers Folly, now the Earle of Devonshires house. 175 a ¶

Antiquity of the Company of Fishmongers, 231 b ¶Sixe Hall-motes belonging to them, 400 a ¶A controversie betweene the Lord Maior and them. 232 a †

Old Fishstreet. 391 a ¶

Fitz-Osbert, a seditious Traytor hanged in Smithfield, renounced his Saviour, 268 b *

Fitz-Stephen, his birth and parentage, 703. His description of London. 704

Fledwite, what. 919 a ¶

The Fleet, a Gaole in Richard the seconds time. 431 a *

Flemenefith, what. 919 a ¶

Flistwite, what. 919 a ¶

The Flower-de-luce, an Inne in Southwarke, anciently the Abbot of Battailes Inne. 459 a ¶

Forrenners, 677. A tumult in London about Forrenners & Strangers. 80 a ¶

Forstat, what. 919 b †

Foster lane. 338 a *

Fowle lane. 138 a ¶

Petty France. 172 b † 525 b *

Frances Dutchesse of Suffolke, her Monument. 515 a ¶

Frances Countesse of Hertford, her Monument. 516 a †

Frances Countesse of Sussex, her Monument. 516 b †

French King Prisoner in the Tower. 47 b *

The French Church, where S. Anthonies Hospitall was. 191 a †

Freemen non-resident, 678 a † Every Freeman his Oath, 689 An Act concerning them. 690

Fryers, Austin, 185. 930 a ¶ Crossed or Crowched, 144. Gray, 340. Blacke, 373. White, 437 b ¶A Fraternity of begging Fryers, 287 b * Ancient Burgesses of this City turn'd Fryers, 930 b ¶The Friery Cart at Saint Iohns. 478 a ¶

Furnivals Inne. 427 a *

G

GAlley-Key. 142 a †

Galley-Row. 138 a ¶

Ancient Games: See Sports. A Game at Westminster on Lammas day, cause of a great tumult. 77 a. b

The Garland in little Eastcheape, 229 b

A Garner for Corne, at Leaden Hall, 164 b † And Queenehithe. 403 a *

Garter place. 319 a †

Gates in the Wall of this City, 31 † 709 b ¶At first but 4. afterwards 7. and more, 31 a * The Posternes and Gates as they now are, bee these: 1 Posterne by the Tower. 31 a ¶

2 Ealdgate. 31 b ¶

3 Bishopsgate. 33 a

4 Posterne of Mooregate, 33 b

5 Posterne of Creplegate. 34 a

6 Aldersgate. 34 b

7 Posterne out of Christs Hospitall. 35 a

8 Newgate. 35 *

9 Ludgate. 36 b

Many Watergates now turned to wharfes. 38 *

Bridge-gate now destroyed. 39 *

Buttolphs gate. 39 a ¶

Belinsgate. 39 b

The Gatehouse at Westminster. 524 b ¶

Gayspur lane. 304 a *

Geld, what. 919 b †

Saint Georges lane, an Inne of [Page] Chancery there. 427 b †

The George Inne in Lombard street. 220 b *

Gerards Hall, and the Giant Gerards Staffe, forty inches long, and fifteene inches about, 393 b ¶All the Story of the Giant and his Hall overthrowne. 394 a ¶

Saint Giles in the field, anciently an Hospitall, 488 b † St. Giles his bowle. 488 b *

Giltspur street. 415 a *

Gisors Hall, corruptly called Gerards. 261 a ¶394 a *

A Glasse-house in Crossed Friers Hall. 157 a *

Mount Goddard street. 337 b † 388 b *

Gold lane. 414. 425 b ¶

Golding lane. 318 b *

Goldsmiths Row in Cheape, 391 a † The first Maior and principall men of this City Goldsmiths. 324 a †

Sir Arthur Gorges, his Monument. 786 a †

Earle Goodwin, the mightiest Subject that ever was in England. 695 a *

Goose lane. 265 a †

Goslins Monument. 908 a †

Goswell street. 321

London Governed by Barons, 339 b † 933. By a Custos, 544 a † By Maiors, 546 b † By Portgraves, 535 a * 696 a b By Provosts. 535 b ¶

Government of this City. 695 b Ecclesiasticall. 527 Temporall. 535

What kinde of Governement therein, 697 a † It differs but in ceremony, not substance, from the Lawes of this Realme. 697 a ¶

Iohn Gower, his Monument, in Saint Mary Overies Priory. 450 b †

Granthams lane. 249 a ¶

Customes of Grasse street Market. 231

Grayes Inne, a Prebend to Pauls. 486 b †

Gray Friers, how it became a Friery, by the charity of well disposed people; their Library, &c. 340, 341

Greengate. 162 a *

Greenwich lane, or Frier lane, 249 a ¶

Greenyard of Leaden hall. 161 a ¶

Gristes house. 137 b *

Grithbrech, what. 919 a ¶

The Pole-Groat (or the GropeGroat) granted to Richard the second, cause of the Kentish tumult under Wat Tylar, 48 a *

Grub-street. 467 b *

The Guild Hall, antiquity therof, and number of Courts kept therein, 282 b. The Councell Chamber there new builded, 282 b. Verses on the Images over the gate, 283 a ¶Kitchins by it for the Maiors Feasts, ibid. The Chappell there new built, 283 b ¶Monuments therein, 284 a ¶The Library at Guild Hall. 284 b *

The Lady Iane Guilford, her Monument. 786 a ¶

Houses in Crooked lane blown up with Gunpowder. 238 b *

Guthuruns lane. 338 a †

H

HAberdashers Almeshouses. 321 a ¶

The body of Alice Hackney found incorrupted more than 150. yeeres after she was buried. 227 a †

The Customes of the Mannor of Hackney. 715

Halliwell: See Finsbury.

Hamsoken, what. 919 a *

Hangewyte, what. 919 a *

Where the Hanse-Merchants landed their Corne. 38 b *

Harpe lane. 138 a †

Hart-horne Alley. 144 a *

Hart lane. 138 a †

Hart street. 145 a †

Sir Christopher Hattons Monument. 365 a *

Haverpeney, what. 919 b ¶

Little Saint Helens. 178 b ¶

Henry the first, made the first Parke in England. 42 a ¶

Henry the third reigned seven and fifty yeeres; Maiors in his time, 538 b ¶His Orchard by the Tower, 42 a * His Monument. 501 b ¶

Henry the fourth reigned fourteene yeeres; Maiors in his time. 559 a †

Henry the fifth reigned nine yeeres; Maiors in his time, 561 a † His Monument. 506 b *

Henry the sixth reigned nine and thirty yeeres; Maiors in his time. 562 b *

Henry the seventh reigned foure and twenty yeeres; Maiors in his time, 572 b ¶He and the Knights of the Garter rode from the Tower to Pauls Church, 60 b ¶His Monument. 510 b ¶

Henry the eight reigned eight and thirty yeeres; Maiors in his time. 577 a *

Henry sonne of Richard King of Romans, his Monument. 510 a *

Henry son to Henry the eighth, his Monument. 513 a ¶

Prince Henry, sonne to King Iames, his Epitaph. 518 b *

Haywharfe lane. 251 b *

The Heart of Queene Eleanor and others, buried in Black-Friers. 374 b †

Heralds. 408 b *

Bishop of Herefords Inne. 399 b ¶

An Hermitage of Saint Iames in the wall; 339 b ¶Another in Nightingall lane, 468 b ¶ Another with a Chappell of Saint Katharines. 495 a ¶

William Hewit, his Monument. 777 a *

The charitable Almes of Baptist Lord Hicks, Viscount Cambden, as well in his life as at his death, 760 a ¶His Epitaph. 761 b ¶

Hidage, what. 919 b †

[Page]The Highest ground of the City of London. 207 a †

Holborne: See Oldborne.

Holles his Monument. 817 a ¶

Hog lane. 120 b ¶

Holy-well, anciently the Priory of Saint Iohn Baptist, 470 a * See Finsbury.

Hony lane. 282 a *

Hornegeld, what. 919 b *

Horners Key. 141 b ¶

Horse-market, what it was ancienty. 711 b †

Horse-mill in Grasse street. 163

Horse-shoo-bridge street. 246 b † 254 b †

Hosier lane, in Cordwainer street, 264 b † In Smithfield. 420 b ¶

The Hospitall of S. Katharines, 117 a † For Lunatikes, 142 b ¶Called the Papey, 156 a * Of Bethelem, 173 a ¶ Of Saint Mary Spittle, 175 b * Of Saint Anthonies, 190 a * Of Saint Thomas of Acons, 281 a * 935 a * Called Elsing Spittle, 304 a * Of the French order, 318 a * Called Christs Hospitall, 342 a * Of Saint Bartholomewes, 415 a. Of Bridewell, 456 a. In Oldborne, 428 a ¶ Of Saint Thomas in Southwarke, 456 b * Of King Iames, called Charterhouse, 479 Of Saint Mary Rouncivall, 495 a ¶Of Saint Iames, 495 b † The beginning and true end of the severall Hospitals now being in the City of London. 343 b ¶

Hucksters of Ale and Beere, 671 b *

Huggen lane. 311 a †

Duke Humphrey not buried in Pauls. 368 b *

Hundred, what. 919 b ¶

Liberty of Hunting confirmed to the City of London, 539 b ¶

The ancient Court of Hustings in London. 767

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THe confession of Iacke Straw, to the Lord Maior of London. 54 b

Iames the fourth, King of Scots, slaine at Flodden field, his head buried in Saint Michaels Church in Woodstreet. 311 b ¶

King Iames reigned two and twenty yeeres; Maiors in his time, 593 a * In whose Maioralty he was borne, 586 b ¶His Picture in Mary Mounthaw Church. 850 b †

Saint Iames's Faire, S. Iames's his Parke. 495 b *

Lady Iane Seymor, her Monument. 515 b †

Iesus Commons. 249 a †

Iewes of Norwitch hanged for Circumcising a Christian Childe, 35 b ¶289 a. Iewes houses spoiled, 37 a † The Iewes Synagogue, now the Wind-mill Taverne, 287 b † 296 b ¶Where they inhabited, and what Kings favoured, what punished and banished them, 288, 289. Their burying place, 318 a. The house of converted Iewes, now the Rolls. 435 b †

The old Iewrie. 287 b ¶288 a ¶The Kings Palace there, 291 b ¶The poore Iewrie. 258 a *

The Inclosure of common grounds. 475 b †

Infangtheof, what. 919 a *

The Incorporation of the company of Inne-holders. 249 a * 670 b ¶

Innes of Court and Chancery, their names and situation. 66 *

Chesters Inne, or Strand Inne, where Summerset house new stands. 66 a ¶

Iohn of Gaunts Tombe in Pauls. 360 a *

Iohn of Eltham, Earle of Cornwall, and sonne to Edward the second, his Monument. 515 a *

Priory of Saint Iohn of Ierusalem, with the Monuments. 483 a †

King Iohn reigned seventeene yeeres; Maiors in his time. 537 a *

A Monument of the Saint-Iohns 795 a *

Ipres Inne. 260 a ¶

Ironmonger lane. 282 a †

Ivie lane. 388 a ¶

Ivie bridge. 491 b *

The comming of Iulius Caesar into England, and his conquest over the Britons. 1 b ¶

Iury men. 672 b ¶

False Iurors, their course and punishment. 208

Courts of Iustice kept in Westminster Hall. 522 a †

Iustings or Tournaments; In Cheapside, 280 b * In Smithfield, with the manner how. 420 b ¶

Iusting-Feast at Durham house. 494 a †

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SAint Katharines Hospitall, 117 a † The circuit thereof, 925 a ¶Monuments therein. 117 a ¶901 a †

Katharine Knowles, her Monument. 415 b *

Katharine Valois, Queene of England, that married Owen Tudor, her Monument. 507 a ¶

Master Iohn Kendricks Will. 193 b *

Kerion lane. 255 a † 261 a *

Kery lane 338 a *

When the King of England was first called Supreme head. 580 b ¶

Kings of this Realme have sate on the Kings Bench in Westminster Hall. 522 b ¶

Kings Alley. 293 a ¶

Prior of Okebornes house, now Kings Colledge. 405 a ¶

[Page]Bishop Kings Monument. 775

Order of making a Knight for service in the field. 237 a †

Knighten-Guild, 115 a * 925 b * Given to the Priory of the holy Trinity within Aldgate. 930 *

Knight-riders street. 254, 258 b *

Knights Templers: See Temple.

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LAd or Ladle lane. 308 a * Alice Perrers rode from the Tower to Smithfield, as Lady of the Sun. 421 Chappell of our Lady in the Piew, at Westminster. 524 a ¶

Lambes Chappell proved to have anciently beene of the Parish of Saint Olaves in Silverstreet. 924 b ¶

Lamborne hill. 397 b †

Liberties of the Dutchy of Lancaster, 489. Governement thereof. 492 b †

When Lanthorne [...] with lights began to bee hung out in Winter, and by whom. 561 b *

Saint Laurence lane. 252 a † 282 a *

A monstrous Shanke-bone of a man reserved for a monument in the Church of Saint Lawrence Iewrie. 285 a †

Leaden Porch, 162 a ¶In Crooked lane. 236 a ¶

Leaden Hall, at first a Mannor, 162 b † A Chappell therein, 163 a * Burnt, 164 a † First used as a Garner, 164 b † Meant to have beene made a Burse for Merchants, 166 a † A Flesh-market there, 206 a ¶The necessary uses thereof. 935 b ¶

Love to Learning. 86, &c.

Lectures in London; Of Chirurgery, Of Mathematikes, Of the seven Liberall Sciences, founded by Sir Thomas Gresham, Anno Dom. 1596. 65 b *

Legates Inne. 405 a ¶

The Duke of Lennox, his Monument. 816

The Earle of Lennox, his Monument. 513 a *

The Arch-Deacon of London, Parson of S. Leonard Shoreditch. 471 a †

A Bishop of London died of a Leprosie. 530 a †

Lesteage, what. 919 b *

Letherwyte, what. 919 a ¶

Library at Sion College 304 b ¶At Guild Hall, 284 b * At Pauls. 354 a

William Lily, his Monument. 370 a ¶

Limehouse. 469 a †

Limestreet. 161

Linacer, his Monument. 369 b *

Lincolnes Inne. 488 a *

Lion Key. 225 b ¶

Lions, where kept at first. 42 a ¶

Lions Inne of Chancery. 493 a ¶

Lither lane. 427 a *

The Liveries of the Maiors and Sheriffes. 652 a †

Lodgers. 670 b ¶

The Lok a Lazarhouse in Southwarke. 460 b †

Lollards Tower, the last Prisoner there. 410 b ¶

Lollesworth field. 177 a ¶

Lombard street. 217 b *

LONDON, the Originall, &c. 1 a. Thought founded by Brute, 1. a b. a * Repaired and increased by King Lud, 2 b. Called Trinobantum, 3 a † How by ancient Writers, the old Britaines, Strangers, and Inhabitants, 5 b † Famous for Merchants, 3 a ¶ Walled, 3 b ¶Situation, 6 a † 693 b * 709 a * Antiquity, 6 a ¶694 a * Martiall Services done by it, 695. How watered, 8 a ¶ How divided, 113. Happy in temperatenesse of Ayre, Religion, Strength, 709. Happy in Gardens, Pasture and Tillage, Wells, Honor of Citizens, Matrons, Schooles, 710. Affaires well disposed, 711. Exercise and Pastimes, 712. The Charter of London confirmed by divers Kings, 739. The description of London (both in Latine and English) written by Fitz-Stephen, in the Reigne of Henry the second, 704. The cause of increase of Inhabitants in it, 699 b ¶ Freed from imputation of decaying other Cities and Markets in this Realme, 699 b † Of London the quantity or populousnesse, 696 b † Quality or profession, 697. Power, consisting in her Riches, and warlike furniture, 698. Benefits and honour that comes to the Realme by it, 700 a ¶It was never the Author of any Rebellion, 697 a † 701. Liberties confirmed by Edward the third, 549 b ¶Why at any time seized by the Prince, 701. Officers, 648, 649. Manner of electing Knights and Burgesses, 659 a * An Archbishop of London, 528. Two Plagues of London, Quassing and casualty by Fire, 69 b * Barons of London, 359 b † A song called, London-licke-peny, made by Lidgate the Monke, 234 b * London. Stone. 243 a †

Long lane. 420 b †

Long ditch at Westminster. 496

Lothbury. 187 b † 287 a ¶

Love lane. 293 a ¶308 a * See Lucas.

Lovels Inne. 388 b †

Lucas lane, or Rope lane. 228 b *

Ludgate, 36 b. A free Prison, or for Freemen, 37 a ¶To pay Tithes, &c. to S. Martins. 938 b ¶

Lord Lumleyes house. 157 b ¶

An Hospitall for Lunatike persons. 142 b ¶

The Monument of the Lushers at Putney. 784 b †

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THE principall Magistrates of London, were Noble persons Inhabitants, 298 a ¶Cal'd Barons of London. 339 b † 933 a *

Maiden lane or Distar lane. 312 a ¶395 b *

Mother Mampudding. 142 b *

Saint Margarets Church on the H [...]ll in Southwarke, made a Court of Justice. 454 a ¶

Margaret, Daughter to Edward the fourth, her Monument. 509

Margaret Countesse of Richmond, her Monument. 512 a *

Margaret, Countesse of Lennox her Monument. 512 b ¶

The Lawes of the Market. 664

Marriage-Money for poore Maids. 94 a ¶95 b ¶

A Mart at Westminster. 499 a ¶

Mart lane. 137 a *

Martins lane. 233 a †

S. Martin Orgars lane. 238 b ¶

College of S. Martins le grand, 327 a † Privilege of Sanctuary there, 330. Severall Charters of Kings, &c. concerning the ancient Liberties, Bounds, and Privileges thereof, 917 Surrendred 330 a ¶

The first Martyr, See Alban.

S. Mary lane. 226 b ¶

S. Mary street. 144 b ¶

Parish Church of Saint Mary the Virgin, Saint Vrsula, and 11000. Virgins, commonly called S. Mary Axe. 166 b †

The Antiquity of St. Mary le Bow Church, together with the fall of the Steeple, and overturning the roofe of the Church, 268. The Church interdicted and encroached upon. 269 a *

The Bishop of Hereford Patron of Saint Mary Mounthaw. 400 a *

S. Mary Church in the Strand, either lost, 489 b ¶Or changed to the Savoy. 909

Queene Mary reign'd 6. yeeres; Maiors in her time, 584. Her Monument. 511 a ¶

Mary Queen of Scots, her Monument. 517 b ¶

Bennet a Monke brought Masons first into this Land. 5 a ¶

Matilda Queene of England, her Monument. 501 b ¶

Evill May-day. 81 a †

May-games. 79 b *

The first Lord Maior, Henry Fitz-Alwine; when obtained, continued from the first of Richard the 1. to the 15. of King Iohn, 536 b † Where buried, 247 a † 538 a ¶Liberty granted by King Iohn to chuse a Maior, 538 a ¶ A Maior denyed to bee admitted by the King, 541 a * The Barons of the Exchequer to admit him, 542 b † The first Lord Maior that went by water, 567 a * The first Batchelor Maior, 573 b. When the Maiors beganne to be Knighted by the courtesie of the King, 579 a † A Maior made of the Privy Councell to two Kings, 567 a † 581 b * Three Maiors in a yeere 572 b ¶Two sonnes of one man Maiors, each after other, 583 b ¶An order for the Lord Maior and Aldermen their meeting, 652 b ¶The Lord Maiors Election, 652 b * The Officers of the Lord Maior, 649. An Order of all things on (Simon and Iude, or) the Lord Maiors day, 656. The manner of Lord Maiors going to Pauls on solemne Festivals, 657. The Lord Maiors attendance and attire at the Kings Coronation, 659 b * A Maior feasted foure Kings in one day, 255, 553 b † The Maioralty shun'd alwaies because Onus, 696 b * The City governed by a Custes in Henry 3. his time. 544 a †

Measures sealing. 672 a * 679 a *

Mercers Chappell sometimes an Hospitall of S. Thomas of Acon, 281 a † Monuments therin, 281 a ¶That Company incorporated. 281 b *

Noblemen of this Realme (of old as well as of later yeeres) have dealt in Merchandise, 222 a † The commodity of Merchandise to this Realme, 698 b * Three sorts of Merchandise, Navigation, Invection, Negotiation. 697 b *

Merchants of all Nations traded in this City, 68 a. 69 a 712 a * Of Italy, 142 b † Of the Han [...]e-Townes, 38 b * Of Almaine, 249 b * Their privileges, 250 a * Of Burdeaux. 254 a †

Staple Merchants the most ancientest in this Realme. 497 a ¶

The Armes and Names of the ten Companies of the Merchants. 611, &c.

Beggerly Merchants hurt a Kingdome. 700 b *

Merchant-Taylors Company, 188 b ¶Their Schoole. 252 b ¶

The Mewes by Charing-crosse. 493 b ¶

A Pulpit-crosse in the Church-yard of S. Michaels in Cornhill. 215 b †

Iames the fourth King of Scots, his head buried in S. Michaels Woodstreet. 311 b ¶

A passage thorow St. Michaels at the Que [...]ne. 388 a

Midsummer day meeting of the Lord Maior and Aldermen. 650 b ¶

The Antiquity of St. Mildred the Virgins Church, with the Church yard and Parsonage house. 273

Milford lane. 489 b ¶

Molkestreet. 306 a †

A Mill by Baynards Castle. 405 b †

Corne Mills on the Thames, [Page] set betwixt a Lighter and a Barge. 403 a *

When Millers had but an half penny for grinding a quarter of Wheat. 546 a *

Mincheon lane. 137 a ¶

The Minories, anciently the Abbey of S. Clare Nunnes. 118 a *

Mint in the Tower, 44 b In Southwarke, 454 b † Other Mints in England. 46 a

The body of King Edmund the Martyr, brought thorow Creplegate, wrought Miracles. 34 a †

Miskennyng what. 919 b ¶

Monkeswell-street. 312 a ¶340 a †

A Monument of Sir Thomas Moore. 787 b †

Moore-fields a meere marish ground. 33 b ¶301 a ¶475

Mooregate. 33 b

A great famine and Mortality of people. 548 b *

Mount Calvary, now a Wind-Mill. 477 a ¶

Mountfiquit Tower. 61 a ¶

A widdow Murther'd. 469 b ¶

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NEedlers lane. 264 b ¶

Ill Newes quickly spreds 48 b

Newgate first builded, and the cause why. 35 a b

Newgate Market. 388 b ¶

New Inne the Originall of it. 727 b † 493 a †

The New River brought from Chadwell and Amwell to the City of London, by Sir Hugh Middleton. 12 b †

Nicholas Cold-Abbey, why so called. 398 a †

A Prison for Night-walkers. 207 a †

Nightingall lane in Wapping, 468 b ¶A Stagge hunted thither by King Charles. 462 a ¶

No-mans Land. 477 b ¶

William Norman Bishop of London his Monument in Pauls. 358 b ¶Why the Maior and Aldermen walke about his Tombe on solemne daies 359 a ¶

Northumber land-house. 158 a † 330 b †

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THE Offerings of Parishes to the Curates in London. 747

Old-Bayly, 427 a ¶The Chamberlaine of London kept Court there. 427 a ¶

Oldborne, 10 b The Conduit by Oldborne-crosse, 425 b † Oldborne Hall. 428 a †

Sir Iohn Oldcastle's rebellion & overthrow. 361 a *

Ormond place in S. Thomas Apostles. 261 a †

The Orphans Court, with an Act Common Councel concerning them. 660 b * 678 a *

A Monument of Hippocrates de Ott [...]en, a famous Physician. 890 a *

S. Mary Overies a Priory. 450 a †

The scalpes of Oxen digged up by Pauls. 367 b *

Oxford Place neere London-stone. 242 b ¶

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Robert Parkenton slaine with a Gun going to Masse. 277 b ¶

Panyer Alley. 388 a ¶

The Papey, 156 a * Church of S. Augustine Papey in Limestreet. 166 b *

Pardon Church-yard. 477 b ¶

The first Park in England made by Henry the first. 42 a ¶

Parliaments kept in Westminster Hall, 522 a † The black Parliament, 374 a † Parliament House. 524 a ¶

Passekes Wharfe. 141 b ¶

Pater-noster lane, 256 a ¶ Pater noster Row, so called of Pater noster makers. 371 b *

Cathedrall Church of S. Paul founded by Aethelbert Mauricius, 352. The Church burnt, 113 b † 352 b * Fir'd by lightning, 353 a ¶The steeple built repair'd with a Weathercocke, 353. The steeple burnt and repaired, 357 b * The height and length of both Church and steeple 353 b ¶Governors of the Church, 353. The great Cloystry, Dance, and Library, 354. Chappels, in Pardon Church yard, at the North doore of the Holy Ghost of Iesus, 354. The Charnell house and Schoole 356 b The Bell-house and Pulpit-crosse, 357 a The Gates of the Church, 410 b * The Monuments, 358 a * 725. Contribution to the repaire of Pauls Church, 198 b † Master Parkers gift to the glazing of the windowes 371 b † The Quire beautified and adorned by Sir Paul Pinder, 767 a † An Act against abuses offered to the Cathedrall Church of Saint Paul, against carriage thorow, &c. 937 a † Pauls thought to have beene the Temple of Iupiter, 367 b * A Buckes head borne before the Procession at Pauls, 368 a † Pauls Pigeons, 65 a * Pauls Wharfe. 405 a †

The Earle of Pembrokes Monument. 361 a *

Peneritch street. 276 b †

The Penny Easterling. 44, 45

Pentecost lane. 340 a *

Penthouses. 678 a †

Pepper alley in Southwark, 454 a *

Pepperers in Sopers lane. 278 b *

Coia Shawsware, a Persian, his Monument. 780 *

King Lucius founded St. Peters Church in Cornehill. 210

Peters hill lane, and Peters Key. 408

Petty Wales. 142 a †

[Page]Philip Queene of England, her Monument. 505 b †

Philosophy Schooles in London. 63 a. 710 b ¶

Philpot lane. 222 a *

A counterfeit Physician had his head set on the Tower of London. 55 a ¶

Pickering house. 156 a *

Piepowders Court. 419 a ¶

Master Suttons gift to the Charter house, the greatest gift was ever given to Pious uses. 481 a ¶

The Company of Pinners now decayed. 510 b ¶

The Plantagents Monument in Pauls. 360 a ¶

Perillous Pond. 11 a ¶

Nine kinds or degrees of Poore people, 343 b * Releefe of the Poore, 86, 87, &c. See the Benefactors to every Parish in London.

Pope lane. 325 b ¶

The name of Pope blotted out in all old Bookes, why. 936 b *

Popes-head Taverne in Cornehill, sometime a Kings house. 216 a *

The Populousnesse of this City. 696. &c.

Porters lane, or Porters Key. 142 a †

The Governours of the City of London, called Portgraves, 535 a * Or Portreeves. 696 a *

Portpoole lane. 486 b †

Portsoken, whence. 115

Pot, a Brewer. 251 b *

Poultney lane. 253 a †

The Powlehead Taverne, anciently Pauls Brewhouse. 408 b ¶

A remarkable punishment of Pride in high buildings. 161 b ¶

Printing of Bookes at Westminster, the first in England. 525 a ¶

The Priory of the Trinity without Aldgate, 116. 145. Of S. Iohns of Ierusalem, 483 a † Of S. Bartholomewes, 418. Of Clarkenwell, 484 a † Of S. Mary Overies. 450 a †

Reliefe of poore Prisoners, 94 a ¶&c. See the Benefactors to every Parish Church, and Master Kendricks Will, 197 a † 428 a † The Prisoners going to bee executed at Teyborne, were presented with a great Bowle of Ale, thereof to drinke as their last refreshing in this life. 488 b ¶

Pophams, builders of Saint Sepulchers Church. 423

Prisons; the Tun on Cornehill, now changed, 207 a † At Ludgate, 37 a ¶At Newgate, 35. The Counters in the Poultrey, 275 a ¶In Woodstreet, 308 a † In Southwarke, 454 a ¶Lollards Tower, 410 b ¶The Fleet, 431 a * The Clink, 449 b * The white Lion, 455 a ¶The Kings Bench, 455 a ¶The Marshalsea, 455 b * The Gatehouse at Westminster. 524 b ¶

The Keepers of Prisons indited for using their Prisoners hardly. 395 a †

Procession of Pauls. 367 b ¶

Provosts Governours of London. 535 b ¶

Pudding lane. 229 a †

Puddle wharse. 405 a ¶

Pulpit-Crosse at Pauls, 357 a At Michael Cornehill, 215 b † At Spittle. 176

Punishments of Sabbath-breaking, 394 a † Of Adultery, 207 b * Of Slander, 232 a ¶The Pillory for Bakers, Millers, &c. 208 a ¶

Sir Stephen, an haire-brain'd Puritan. 151 a ¶

Pyel lane. 400 b *

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BEatrix, Sister to Peter of Savoy, Mother to five Queenes. 490 b †

Queene hithe, or Edreds hithe, the antiquity, liberties, and customes thereof, 401. &c. When let to Farme to the City of London, 542 a † An Act of Common Councell concerning it. 939 a †

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THe Racke in the Tower called the Duke of Exceters Daughter. 60 a *

Radcliffe. 469 a †

Thomas Raymond, Archdeacon of Saint Albans, his Monument. 778 a ¶

Ambition and Covetousnesse, the two causes of English Rebellions. 696 b *

London never the Author of any Rebellion. 701

The Rebellion of the Commons under Wat Tylar, 48 a * Of Sir Iohn Oldcastle, 561 a * Of Lord Fawconbridge, 32 b †

An Alderman made Recorder of London. 547 b *

Red [...]rosse street. 318 a * 476 b ¶

Reding, why so called. 15 a ¶

Redriffe: See Roderith.

Redrose, or Rother lane. 229 a †

Ree, or Rhe, what it signifies. 15 a ¶

Regrators. 678 b ¶

Repaire of Churches: See the Churches.

Court of Request, or Conscience, in London, for reliefe of poore Debtors. 769

When three men had their hands cut off for Rescuing a Prisoner arrested by a Sergeant. 546 b ¶

Retayling, an handmaid to Merchandize. 699 a ¶

Richard the first reigned ten yeeres; Maiors in his time. 336 b †

Richard the second reigned 22. yeeres; Maiors in his time, 556 a † He in danger by the Rebels of Kent, 49 b ¶He lodged in Tower-Royall, 258 a * His Monument, 508 a ¶

Richard the third reigned three [Page] yeeres; Maiors in his time, 572 a ¶Hee tooke on him the Crowne at Baynards Castle: See Baynards Castle.

Ringed Hall in Saint Thomas Apostles. 261 a †

Three principall Rivers in this Kingdome to build a Royall City on, 693 a ¶Navigable Rivers are as Via Regia, 25 b ¶The new River, 12 b † The River of Thames. 14 * 693 a ¶

Robin Hood and his men shot before the King. 79 b ¶

Rochester house. 449 b ¶

The Rolls in Chancery lane. 435 b †

Rood lane. 228 a †

Ralph Rookeby, his charitable bounty. 428 a †

Faire Rosamond, where kept by Henry the second. 781

Rotten Row, or Russell Row. 470 b ¶

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THe names of Saints given to Churches, not for superstition, but for distinction sake. 273 a ¶

Salisbury Court, anciently the Bishop of Salisburies house. 437 b *

Sak, what. 919 a †

Salt wharfe. 403 a ¶

A Sanctuary for offenders at S. Martins, with the privileges and articles thereto belonging, 327. &c. 917. A Sanctuary at Westminster. 519 a †

Sandy house. 403 b ¶

The Savoy lands given unto Christs Hospitall, 344 b † The Savoy built by Peter Earle of Savoy and Richmond, 490 a ¶Burnt by the Rebels and built againe for an Hospitall. 491 a *

Scalding Alley. 183 a † 204 b ¶272 b ¶

Scavengers, 670 b † Their Oath 688.

Schooles of Philosophy in London, 63 a. 710 b ¶Every Cathedrall Church had a Schoole, 63 b. A free Schoole at Saint Pauls, 63 b * 356 b ¶Westminster, 63 b ¶ Saint Anthonies, 190 a * S. Peters on Cornehill, 211 a * In Bow Church yard, 269 b ¶In the Hospitall of S. Thomas of Acons, now Mercers Chappell, 281 a ¶ Christs Church, 64 b † S. Saviours, 64 a † Merchant-Taylors, 64 b * 252 b ¶ Meetings of Schoole-masters, and disputations of Schollers. 64 b *

Scoggans Ballad sent to King Henry the fourth his sonnes. 256 a †

Robert Scot, Quarter Master Generall to the King of Swedens Army, his Monument. 791 a ¶

Scot, what. 919 b †

Scotland yard. 495 b ¶

Scroopes Inne, sometimes Serjeants Inne in Oldborne. 425 b ¶

S [...]acole lane, 427 b ¶When Seacoles were forbidden in London. 547 b *

Sebba King of the East-Saxons, his Monument in Pauls. 358 a ¶Hee became a Monke of Pauls. 529 a *

Sebert King of East-Saxons, his Monument. 500 b †

Sentlegers house in Southwarke. 458 b †

Sergeants Inne, 435 a ¶438 b ¶ The Sergeants Feast, and manner of it, with the provision. 426 a

Sermon lane, or rather Sheremoniers. 410 a ¶

Sessions Hall. 427 a ¶

A Shankebone of a man 25. inches long, 285 a † Another 28. inches and an halfe long. 302 b ¶

Shareborne, or South-borne lane. 217 a *

Shere lane. 435 b ¶

The Sheriffe-wicke granted to the City, 537 a ¶The first Sheriffes, or Bailiffes thereof, when obtained, 536 a † The Sheriffes election, 650 b ¶ Their Officers, 649 b ¶ Their swearing on Michaelmas day, 652, 655. Sheriffes in London in Henry the first his time, almost 100. yeeres before our Chronicles set downe, 768 b ¶The Sheriffes of London Prisoners in the Tower. 36 a †

Shoo-lane. 428 a †

Long piked Shooes tied to the knees, in use amongst English men. 395 b ¶

A penalty on Shoomakers, for Shooing men on the Sunday. 394 a †

The Shops under Saint Peters in Cheape. 338 a †

Tom Shorthose, his Monument. 310 a *

Margaret Countesse of Shrewsbury, her Monument. 369 a †

Side-Saddles first in use. 70 a ¶

Sir Philip Sidney, his Monument. 363 a †

Silver street. 312 a ¶

Saint Sithes lane, 264 b ¶Saint Sithes Church: See Bennet Sherehog.

Simpsons lane, or Emperours head lane. 255 a †

Single women that plaid the Whores in the Stewes were forbidden the rights of the Church, and therefore had a Churchyard proper to them for buriall. 449 b †

The Six-Clerkes office, anciently a Brewhouse. 435 b ¶

The Incorporation of the Company of Skinners, 248 b † Six Kings brethren of that Company. 248 b †

Slander punished in a Fine of 1000. Markes. 232 a ¶

William Foxley Slept in the Tower of London 14. dayes and more, without waking. 55 b ¶

Smarts Key. 225 a *

Sir Thomas Smith, Master of Requests, his Monument. 783 b ¶

[Page]Captaine Iohn Smith, his Monument. 779 b ¶

East-Smithfield, 41 a † First builded upon, 931 a † Somtimes a Monastery called New Abbey, 117 a ¶An ancient record concerning it. 925 b †

West Smithfield; the Pond there and Elmes, a place of Execution, 420 b ¶Horse-market there, 420 b ¶711 b † Iustings there, 421 a † Paved. 423 a †

Snore hill. 425 b *

Sojourners. 670 b ¶

Sok, what. 918 b ¶

Inner Soken. 931

Sommers Key. 225 b ¶

Sommerset house. 490 a †

Gray Sope made in London, dearer than bought from Bristow. 265 a †

Sopers lane. 264 b ¶

Sophia daughter to King Iames, her Monument. 512 a †

Southampton house, sometimes the Bishop of Lincolnes Inne. 486 b ¶

The Borough of Southwarke, how it became one of the 26. Wards in London, 442 a * Sir Iohn Ayliffe, the first Alderman there, 446 a * The Lord Maiors comming thither to our Lady faire. 652 a *

Iohn Speed his Monument. 778 b ¶

Edmond Speneer, his Monument. 517 b * 774 b ¶

Chappell of S. Spirit, now lost. 489 b ¶

The Spittle, 175 b ¶When founded, 537 b ¶The Pulpit-Crosse there, and anci-custome of Sermons at Easter, 176. Three Brethren preached there, on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday in Easter weeke, 1632. 781 ¶

Sports and Pastimes used in this City, 75. Stage-playes, Tennis-play, running at Quinten. 76. &c. 712 b *

Sprinkle Alley. 144 a †

A Monument of the Staffords. 808 a *

Stallage, what. 919 b *

Staple Inne. 431 a †

Starling money whence so cal'd 45 b ¶

The Starr-chamber Court. 523 b †

Stationers Hall, sometimes the Duke of Britaines house. 372 a †

Stayning lane. 321 a ¶

Customes, Priviledges, &c. of the Mannor of Stebunheath, or Stepney, and Hackney, &c. 715

The Steel-yard a place for Merchants of Almaine. 249 b *

S. Stephens Alley in Westminster. 496 a *

S. Stephens Chappell in Westminster. 523 b ¶

Stew lane. 403 a ¶

The Stewes on the Banke side kept onely by the Froes of Flanders, 449 a * Put down 449 b † Constitutions to be observed by the keepers of them. 448 b ¶

Master Stocke his Monument. 821 a †

Stocke-fishmonger row. 231 b *

Stockes Market, the midst of the City, 113 a ¶The antiquity and beginning thereof. 243 b †

Stodies lane. 255 a ¶

A Monument of the Stotevils. 818 b *

Strand Inne an Inne of Chancery, 490. Strand Bridge and Stone-crosse there. 490

The number of Strangers misliked in London, 80 a ¶226 b * Strangers borne. 872 a ¶

The Statutes of the Streets of London against annoyances 665, &c. 672 b †

Studenes in the Common Law, their preferment. 66, 67

The Suburbs without the City of London and liberties therof. 461

Simon Sudbury, Archbishop of Canturbury, slaine by Wat Tylar and the Kentish Rebels. 50 a *

Suffolke house in Southwarke. 454 b †

Suffolke lane. 252 b ¶

Summers Hithe, now Queene Hithe. 400 b ¶

Thomas Suttons Will, together with the erection of the Charter house, 479 b * His Monument. 482 b ¶

Old Swan 231 b * See Ebgate lane. 256 a ¶

Sweating sicknesses; the first 572 b ¶the second, 584 a ¶the third. 588 b ¶

Sydon lane. 134 b ¶

Fyon College for the Clergy of London built by Doctor White together with the Library, and Benefactors thereto. 304, 305

T

THe Tabard, an Inne in Southwarke, 456 a ¶ Atwods Wife plaid so long at Tables, that she bore a man, the Priest, who was justly punished for his letchery. 207 b ¶

The pious and memorable charity of Christopher Tamworth of Grayes Inne, Esquire. 766 a ¶

A Popes head Tavern in Cornhill; a pint of wine was sold for a penny, 216 a † Cardinals Hat Taverne in Lombard street. 216 b †

A grievous Taxe and Tallage granted to King Richard the second, cause of a great rebellion. 47 b ¶

Tazell Close. 175 *

Tem what. 919 a †

Tempests of lightning and thunder, 79 b † A Tempest drove all the people from Divine Service at Pauls, but Roger surnamed Niger, Bishop of London, 359 b ¶530 b ¶ The Spire of Alhallowes Steeple Thunder-stricken [Page] 392 a ¶S. Michaels Steeple fired in a Tempest. 213 a *

The new Temple; the originall of the Knights Templers, their Profession, Seale, and dissolution, 438. &c. Their house granted to the Students of the Common Law, 440 b † Monuments in their Church 762 a † 763 a ¶Why the Images of Knights buried in the Temple, are laid crosselegged, 440 b * The old Temple in Holborne. 486 b ¶

Foure Termes or times of pleading:

Hilary.

Easter.

Trinity.

Michaelmas.

522 b.

Thames street. 231 b *

Thames River, 14 * 675 b ¶ The head of it, 14 b ¶The course, 15 a. Commodities, Length, Plenty of Fish, 16. Constant Tides, 17 a † number of Boats and Watermen, 18 a. Iurisdiction of the Lord Maior over it, 18 * 20, 21. &c. Acts for the conservation thereof, 683. 685. An Engine to enforce

Thames water. 403 b *

Thavies Inne. 430 b †

Theeving lane in Southwarke, 456 b * In Westminster. 497 b ¶

Saint Thomas of Acons Hospitall. 281 a * 935

Thomas of Woodstock, his Monument. 510 a †

Three-needle street. 183 a ¶

Throckmorton street. 183 a * 187 a †

Tiltyard at Westminster. 495 b ¶

Timber hithe. 403 a ¶

Tinckermen in the River of Thames. 18 b

The Popes Bull, for the offerings of the Parishes to the Curates in London by way of Tithes, 747. The ancient composition for them. 749 b ¶

Toll, what. 919 a †

Tom Shorthose, his Epitaph. 310 a *

Totehill street and Fields. 525 b †

The Tower of London, first built by William the Conqueror, 40. Constables thereof, 41 a † Compassed with a Wall & Ditch, 41 a ¶926. Lyons kept in it, 42 a ¶Scaffold first set on Tower hill, 42 b Gates of the Tower, 42. See Gates. Famous actions done there, 43 a † Mint there, 44 b * Vse of the Tower to defend the City, 56 a. Liberties thereof, 125 b ¶The controversie betwixt the Lord Maior and the Lievtenant of the Tower about privileges. 126. 932

Two Towers on London-bridge. 56

Tower hill. 117 b ¶125 a *

Tower street. 130 b ¶

Tower-Royall, 62 b ¶The antiquity and honour thereof, 257 b * King Richard the second lodged there, 258 a * King Stephen lodged there. 260 a ¶

Townesend lane. 401

Men of Trades in distant places, 67 a ¶Change of place and Tradesmen, 68 b. Tradesmen lived of their owne Trades, without medling with others. 254 a ¶

Trigge lane. 403 b ¶

Trinity Priory in the Dukes place, 145 a ¶The first founding thereof, 930 * Ancient Charters of divers Kings concerning it, 931. Monuments therein. 145 b ¶

Trinity lane. 397 a *

Triumphs and shewes, as Mummeries, Maskings, Lord of Mis-rule, May-games. 78 a *

Tunne in Cornehill, a Prison. 207 a †

Turne-againe lane. 414 b ¶427 b ¶

Turne-mill street, now called Turne-bold street. 483 b ¶

V

VAgrants. 672 b *

Vanners lane. 255 a *

The fatall Vesper, at the Black-Friers. 381 b ¶

All manner of Victuals to bee bought anciently at all times in a certaine place called the Cookery. 711 a *

The Incorporation of the Company of Vintners. 255 a ¶

The Vintrie, 225 a * King Henry the fourth his sonnes supped there. 256 a †

Virginity (by Matilda the faire) defended with the losse of life. 57

Vsurers. 677 a ¶

Vsury forbidden by King Edward the first. 289 b *

Vtfangtheof, what. 919 a *

W

WAll about the City of London, 4 a. When and why the Wall of the City was broken thorow Saint Bartholomewes Hospitall. 936 b ¶

The Brooke called Walbrooke, 10 a * 113 b * Walbrooke street, 243 b † Vaulted over & paved with stone, 30 b ¶ Barges towed up Walbrooke into Bucklesbury. 276 a *

Lodgings for the Prince of Wales. 142 a ¶

The Walnut-tree, an Inne in Southwarke. 458 a ¶

Sir Frances Walsinghams Monument. 362 a ¶

Walworth, Lord Maior, did not slay Iacke Straw, 232 b ¶ 236 b * His Monument defaced in St. Michael Crooked lane, and since falsified. 237 a *

Wapping, 461 b ¶The new Chappell there. 462 a †

The names of their Aldermen, as they are this yeere, 1633. 647

[Page]Court of Wards. 523 b *

An Act for reformation of abuses in the Wardmote Inquest. 669, 673 a ¶

The Kings Wardrobe. 408 a †

Warwicke, or Eldnese lane. 388 b *

Wardwyte, what. 919 b ¶

Wat Tylars outragious rebellion, 48, &c. His demand of the King, 51. Slaine by William Walworth. 53 a. 236 b *

Watches, the originall and manner, 83. &c. King Henry the eighth came to the Kingshead in Cheape, to behold the Watch. 270 b ¶

Water-gate. 141 b ¶

Water lane. 437 b *

Watheling street. 391 a *

The Incorporation of the Company of Weavers. 297 a ¶

Wels River, decay thereof, 9 a * Holy-Well, Clements Well, 10 b ¶710 a ¶Clarkes Well 11 a † 710 a ¶Skinners Wel, Fags Well 11 a * A Well cal'd Dame Annis the Cleere, 11. A Well of great depth at Aldersgate, 34 b A Well under the East end of St. Olaves Church in the Iewry. 290 a †

Weights; the Kings beame upon Corne-hill, 209 a † Tronage of Wools at Customehouse, 141 b ¶Tronage of Wooll at St. Mary Wooll-Church. 244 a †

Wenefrid, Marchionesse of Winchester, her Monument. 514 a †

The City of Westminster, 493. Foundation of the Abbey, 497 b † The burning thereof 499 a ¶King Henry the seventh his Chappell the miracle of the World, 498 a * A Bishop of Westminster, 498 a ¶500 a † The first Deane there, 498 b † Monuments 500 b † 763, 774, 814. The Palace, 519 b * The great Hall, 519 b ¶The use therof, to feed poore people; a Feast there, and Wherries rowing, 560. Parliaments kept there, and Courts of Iustice, 522. Government of the City of Westminster. 525

When Wheat was sold for 16. and 12. pence a quarter. 546

A Widdow in White-chappell murthered by a French man whom she brought up, 469 b ¶The Parson of Stepney Patron of White-chappell, 469 b *

White-crosse street. 318 a † 476 b ¶

White Friers the antiquity therof with the Monuments. 437 b ¶

White-Hall heretofore call'd York-Place. 487 b † 496 a †

The White Lion in Southwark a Gaole for the County of Surrey. 455 a ¶

Whittington College. 256 b †

Whores, 673 a † 676 b. See Stewes. All knowne Whores were to weare striped coloured cloth on their heads by an Act of Parliament. 553 a †

Wildgoose, or Windgoose lane. 250 b *

William of Windsor, sonne of Edward the third, his Monument. 515 a *

Winchester house, 449 b † Bishops of Winchester, Wickam, and Andrewes, their Monuments. 452

Samuel, Thomas, and Iohn Wincope, three Brethren. 781 ¶

A Pint of Wine sold for a peny, and Bread given into the bargaine, 216 a * 551 b * Malmsey Wine sold for three halfe pence a pint, 255 b ¶ Rumney Sacke sold for Medicines only. ibid.

Reyne Wolfe, Stationer, collected Holensheads Chronicle. 303

Sir Iohn Wolley, his Monument. 777 b †

Famous and honourable Women. 107 b †

Woodroffe lane. 156 b *

Woodstreet. 307 b ¶

Wooll-wharfe, 141 b ¶ Woollstaple at Westminster, 496 a ¶See Weights.

Wolseyes lane. 251 b ¶

Worster house. 256 a ¶

Wrestlings, and other exercises used on Bartholomew day, now left, and worse taken up. 85 b ¶

Wringwren lane. 258 b *

Y

YOng beginners, provision for them. 91 b 94 b ¶95 a ¶See Kendricks Will.

Yorke place, now Whitehall. 487 b †

Yorke house. 495 a *

Z

ALlen dela Zouch, Custos of the City of London, slaine in Westminster Hall, by Iohn Warren Earle of Surrey. 544 a ¶

The end of the first Table.

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The second Table Containing the Sirnames of all those, whom Honorable Dignities, Memorable Benefactions, Remarkeable Actions, and Venerable Monuments, have made worthy to be recorded in this Worke; Alphabetically digested: Wherein the Figures referre to the Page, the Letters to the Columne, and the
Asteriskes * to the top of both Page and Columne. † to the middle of both Page and Columne. ¶ to the bottome of both Page and Columne.

A

ABbot. 134 b * 285 a ¶534 a ¶B. 563 a ¶597 a ¶

Abdy. 391 b * 598 a †

Abingdon. 548 b † M.

Abraham. 566 a ¶

Acheley. 193 a † 245 a ¶576 a ¶577 b * M.

Acton. 265 b † 346 b * 598 b *

Adams. 804 b *

Ade. 872 b ¶

Aderley. 563 b ¶565 b † M.

Adrian. 543 a ¶M.

Adys. 322 a †

Agmondesham. 285 a *

Ailofe. 199 a ¶583 b ¶

Albany. 391 b ¶

Albert. 285 a *

Alderban. 191 a ¶

Aldersey. 96 b ¶869 a *

Aldworth. 429 a ¶

Alison. 284 b †

Allen or Alley. 90 b † 170 b † 281 b † 285 a * 311 a ¶350 a ¶ 561 a * M. 578 b ¶ 580 a † M. 581 b * M. 583 a ¶586 a ¶ 852 b ¶566 b ¶587 b ¶. M.

Allot. 106 b * 395 b * 589 a ¶59 [...] a † M.

Altham. 580 b ¶585 a ¶

Alwine, or Alewine. 270 a † 574 b † 575 a ¶M.

Amades. 223 b *

Amcotes. 283 b * 58 [...] b ¶583 b ¶M.

Anderson. 105 a ¶291 a ¶592 b ¶

Andrew, or Andrewes. 554 a * M. 132 b † 452 a ¶

Anger. 544 a †

Anthony. 873 b ¶

Antiloche. 537 a *

Antrobus. 373 b †

Apleyard. 351 b †

Appleton. 346 a †

Archer. 244 a ¶

Arderne. 335 a ¶

Armenter. 547 a *

Armorer. 131 b † 134 a †

Arneway. 808 b *

Arnold. 293 b † 563 a * 893 b ¶

Arundell. 186 a * 346 a † 791 b *

Ascham. 558 b * M.

Ascough. 484 b *

Ascue. 145 b ¶395 a * 579 b ¶581 a ¶M.

Ashburnham. 763 a *

Ashcombe. 308 b ¶

Ashehill. 274 a ¶

Ashfield. 145 b ¶

Ashwy. 540 b † M.

Askham. 211 b †

Asseldey. 157 a †

Astly. 834 a †

Astry. 261 b * 572 b *

Atcourt. 186 a *

Atkins. 337 b *

Atkinson. 96 a ¶285 a ¶

Atwell. 312 b ¶

Atwood. 207 b ¶

Aubry. 345 b † 546 b ¶551 a ¶M.

Audley. 146 a ¶460 a *

Avenon. 286 a * 337 b ¶586 a * 587 b * M.

Avesey. 146 a †

Avinger. 395 a *

Austen. 406 b † 452 b ¶453 a ¶557 b †

Aunsham. 189 b ¶

Ayer. 296 a ¶

Aylesbrough. 241 a ¶

Aylesham. 551 a ¶

Aylmer. 153 b * 573 b ¶

B

BAbalius. 135 b †

Babham. 355 b †

Baby. 338 a ¶

Backehouse. 588 b ¶ 597 b †

Bacon. 133 a * 364 b ¶ 571 b ¶226 b † 138 b * 139 b ¶587 a ¶

Bainham. 108 a *

Baker. 285 a * 411 b ¶

Bakhurst. 299 b *

Balamer. 548 b ¶

Baldocke. 365 b † 531 b ¶B.

[Page]Baldry. 269 b * 281 b † 578 b * 570 b * M.

Baldwin. 346 a ¶

Balgay. 120 a ¶

Balthorp. 416 a †

Bambrough. 311 a ¶

Banne. 87 b ¶228 b * 556 b ¶557 b ¶M.

Bancroft. 534 a * B. 790 b *

Band. 186 b *

Bane. 431 b ¶

Banester. 324 b †

Bankes. 270 a † 388 a * 586 b † 857 b ¶

Banning, or Bayning. 101 a * 105 a * 305 a † 591 b † 863 a ¶

Bardolph. 145 b ¶

Barentine. 186 b † 322 b † 558 a ¶M.

Barker. 843 a † 898 b ¶

Barkham. 594 b † 596 a ¶M.

Barkley. 425 a ¶484 b ¶

Barnard. 398 a ¶407 a ¶

Barne, or Barnes. 87 a ¶ 191 a ¶220 b ¶242 a † 258 b ¶299 b † 583 a * 395 a ¶532 b ¶B. 553 b ¶M. 584 b † 588 b * 590 a ¶M. 898 a ¶

Barneham. 105 a * 235 a ¶587 b * 591 a *

Barners. 158 b ¶

Barnocke. 257 a *

Barnwell. 392 b * 564 a ¶

Barons. 145 b ¶

Barradaile. 189 b ¶

Barre. 238 a *

Barret. 325 b * 556 b †

Barry. 138 b †

Bartholomew. 340 b ¶ 537 b †

Bartlet. 285 a * 432 a *

Barton 285 a * 312 b * 356 b * 372 a ¶561 b * M. 560 a †

Bartram. 345 b ¶

Barwis. 411 a †

Bas. 552 a *

Basford. 578 a †

Baskervile. 281 b † 366 b * 586 a *

Basset. 391 b * 531 a ¶B. 568 b ¶571 a † M.

Bassing. 178 b ¶298 a ¶538 b † 542 b † M.

Bat. 540 a ¶M.

Bate. 538 a ¶

Bateman. 150 a ¶

Batencourt. 545 a ¶

Bath. 330 b ¶

Bathurst. 246 b ¶

Battail. 351 a *

Batte. 193 a *

Baude. 368 a *

Bayly. 257 a ¶415 b ¶578 a ¶579 b ¶ M. 792 a †

Beale. 183 b *

Beame. 530 a * B.

Beard. 151 a †

Beastby. 415 b ¶

Bean. 537 a *

Beauchampe. 368 b †

Beaumond, or Beamont, 292 a ¶349 a ¶391 b ¶763 b † 565 b † 820 b ¶830 a ¶877 b †

Becket. 86 a ¶292 a *

Beckingham. 136 a ¶

Bedingfield. 485 b ¶

Bedoe or Bedow. 150 a ¶891 a † 907 a *

Beecher. 193 a ¶587 a †

Bell. 186 b ¶484 b † 546 b *

Belengham. 273 b *

Belgrave. 230 b *

Belknape. 406 a *

Bellesdon. 351 b † 570 b *

Bellow. 316 b ¶

Belwase. 372 a ¶

Belwin. 290 a †

Bembow. 801 a *

Ben. 363 a *

Benalias. 133 a ¶

Benam. 222 b ¶

Benneson. 215 a †

Bennet. 148 b ¶561 b † 593 a ¶M. 796 a ¶

Bennington. 285 b *

Benolt. 179 a †

Benson. 457 b †

Berching. 308 a ¶

Beringham. 146 a †

Berry. 554 a †

Berryman. 100 b *

Besaunt. 597 a †

Bestbitch. 899 a ¶

Beswike. 239 b †

Betaine. 546 a ¶

Betwell. 545 b ¶

Bieus. 428 b ¶

Bifield. 571 a ¶

Bildington. 415 b ¶

Bill. 826 b †

Billesby. 783 a ¶

Billet. 547 b *

Billesdon. 572 b † M.

Billing. 519 b †

Billingsley. 139 b † 158 a ¶159 b ¶590 a † M.

Bilsington. 330 b ¶

Bingham. 452 a ¶

Bintworth. 531 b ¶B.

Birch. 897 b ¶

Bishop. 96 b †

Blackney. 548 a †

Blake. 799 b ¶

Blakynbury. 326 b ¶

Blanch. 230 b *

Blanke. 227 a ¶588 a ¶589 b ¶M.

Blankwell. 186 a *

Blankworth. 848 b *

Bledlow. 138 b * 579 a ¶

Blighton. 316 a ¶

Blitheman. 399 b †

Blondell, or Blundell. 95 b * 186 a ¶285 a * 537 b †

Blonket. 460 a *

Blound, or Bland. 230 a ¶538 a *

Blount, or Blunt. 267 a * 311 a ¶346 a * 484 a ¶537 a * 540 b † 547 a ¶M. 803 a ¶

Bloxley. 369 b †

Bluntivers. 538 b ¶

Boaley, or Bodeleigh. 416 b * 548 b *

Bohun. 186 a †

Bois. 274 b *

Bokerell. 539 a † M.

Bold. 239 a †

Bolen, or Boleyne. 313 a ¶285 b *

Bolles. 595 b * M. 870 b †

Bond. 121 a ¶218 a * 179 b ¶132 b * 281 b † 341 a † 587 a * 589 a † 590 b † M. 784 a ¶810 b *

Bongey. 540 a ¶

Bonham 778 b †

Bonnet. 533 a † B.

Bonpfant. 285 a ¶

Boron. 313 b †

Borresby. 193 a *

Borwet. 908 b ¶

Boseham. 556 a ¶

Bostock. 222 b †

Boswell. 841 b †

Bovel. 262 b ¶

Bourne. 901 a †

Bourser. 186 a *

Bowden. 451 a ¶

Bowler. 191 b *

Bowes. 157 a † 223 b * 460 a * 582 a ¶583 a ¶

Bowyer. 105 b ¶211 b * 223 a † 581 b * 583 a † M. 588 b ¶ 865 b †

Box. 546 a † 587 b *

Boxhull. 369 b †

Boyle. 805 a *

Bradbery. 293 b † 346 a * 575 a * 577 a ¶ M.

Bradburge. 398 b †

Brade. 398 b †

Bradmote. 330 b ¶

Brainforth. 472 b †

Brame. 250 b *

Brampton. 211 b † 230 b † 238 a *

Bramre. 346 b ¶

Bramston. 558 a ¶

Branch. 235 b ¶334 a † 587 b ¶589 a ¶ M.

[Page]Brandon. 451 a * 553 a ¶

Brapson. 552 a *

Brawne. 792 b ¶

Bray. 395 a ¶

Breakspeare. 290 a * 321 b ¶

Brembar. 345 b * 555 b † M.

Bremisgrave. 132 a †

Bret 330 b ¶351 b *

Brewer. 367 b †

Brewes. 451 a ¶

Brewster. 424 b *

Breybrook. 367 b † 532 a * B.

Brian. 397 b ¶561 b ¶

Briar. 189 b ¶

Brice. 223 a ¶569 a * 573 a † M.

Bricket. 170 a ¶

Brickles. 251 a ¶b †

Bridges. 223 a † 894 a ¶

Brigs. 847 a ¶

Brime. 908 b ¶

Bristow. 123 b *

Britaine, or Breton. 146 a † 218 a * 267 a * 341 a † 546 a * M. 549 b * M. 572 b * 579 a ¶

Broke. 193 a * 259 a *

Broke-it-well. 327 b †

Brokle. 563 a † M.

Brome. 138 b †

Bromer. 262 b ¶

Bromfield. 597 a *

Bromflit. 299 b †

Bromley. 843 b *

Broud. 527 b ¶575 a.

Brook. 505 a † 416 a † 573 b * 560 a * 591 a †

Brooker. 454 a *

Brosked. 157 a †

Browke. 433 b ¶

Browne. 88 b * 103 a † 131 a ¶239 b † 281 b † 303 a ¶306 a * 338 a * 451 a * 537 b * 563 b ¶M. 569 a * 571 b ¶M. 576 b ¶M. 578 a † M. 558 b † M.

Browning. 543 a ¶

Brudge. 238 b *

Bruges. 578 a † 579 a * M.

Brune. 86 b † 175 b ¶ 537 a *

Bubwith. 532 a *

Bucke. 303 a ¶

Buckland. 886 a †

Buckle. 227 a ¶589 b * 591 b * M.

Buckmote. 536 b ¶

Budd. 316 b ¶

Budge. 392 b *

Bugge. 218 a †

Buke. 270 a *

Bukysworth. 554 b †

Bulbeck. 907 a †

Bullen, or Bullein. 89 a † 313 b ¶566 a † 567 b ¶M.

Bunce. 773 a †

Burder. 345 b ¶

Burel. 237 b ¶

Burgan, or Burgaine. 285 a ¶416 b ¶

Buris. 553 b ¶

Burley. 161 b † 277 b ¶360 b †

Burnell. 133 a † 135 a † 345 b ¶

Bursted. 351 b †

Burton. 152 b ¶154 a † 299 a ¶472 b ¶ 850 b * 907 b †

Burwash. 346 a *

Bury. 376 b †

Busby. 313 a ¶315 b † 316 a ¶

Butler. 100 b ¶179 a ¶241 a ¶281 a ¶ b † 337 b * 346 a † 407 b † 484 b ¶547 b ¶562 a † 576 b ¶ 578 a ¶M.

Byng. 153 a †

Byrch. 135 b †

Byry. 416 b ¶

Bywater. 562 b ¶

C

CAge. 350 b † 779 a †

Caldset. 416 a †

Caldwell. 97 a * 215 b † 326 a † 372 b * 795 a ¶856 a ¶

Calfe. 398 a ¶

Callet. 547 a ¶

Calthrop. 184 b ¶344 b * 589 a * 590 b * M.

Calton. 579 b ¶

Calverley. 87 a ¶

Cambell. 107 a † 291 a † 592 b * 394 a ¶ 597 b ¶M.

Cambery. 346 a †

Cambridge. 227 a * 561 a ¶M.

Camden. 774 a ¶

Campe. 102 a †

Candish, or Cavendish. 281 a ¶553 b † M.

Canning. 566 a ¶M.

Cantilow. 306 a ¶

Capell. 191 a ¶573 b * 576 a * M.

Caponig. 136 b †

Cappe. 101 a * 296 a ¶

Carew, or Carey. 149 b * 776 a ¶898 a *

Carleshull. 557 b †

Caroon. 790 b ¶

Carpenter. 88 a ¶

Carre. 98 b ¶

Carter. 154 b ¶454 a †

Cartwright. 153 b * 899 a ¶

Castell. 344 b ¶

Castleton. 261 a ¶

Caston. 548 b *

Castor. 346 a †

Catcher. 185 a † 590 b †

Catworth. 308 a ¶564 b † M.

Causton. 258 b ¶

Cawood. 244 b † 331 a †

Cawson. 547 b *

Caxton. 241 a ¶

Cayfi. 132 a †

Cely. 134 b ¶

Chadwell. 406 a *

Chadworth. 393 a † 557 b ¶559 b † M.

Chalons. 345 b †

Chalton. 564 a * 566 b † M.

Chamber. 397 b ¶

Chamberlaine. 101 a † 290 a ¶537 b * 586 a ¶874 a *

Champion. 106 a † 139 a * 191 a † 346 b ¶ 580 b ¶585 b * 586 b ¶M.

Champnies. 137 b * 547 a ¶579 b † 581 a † M.

Chape. 346 a ¶

Chapman. 98 b ¶221 b * 263 a ¶432 a † 564 b *

Chapone. 135 a †

Chartam. 146 a †

Charles. 186 b *

Charleton. 822 b ¶

Chartney. 235 a ¶

Chartsey. 285 a * 563 a * 583 b *

Chatesteshunt. 360 b ¶

Chaunticlere. 549 b *

Chaury. 391 b * 571 b ¶574 b * M.

Chawcer. 267 a †

Chaworth. 907 a ¶

Chayhee. 285 a ¶

Cheeke. 309 a * 803 a *

Cherry. 133 a ¶

Cheshull, or Chishull. 360 b ¶531 b † B.

Chester. 118 b ¶178 b * 220 b ¶281 b † 344 b * 572 b * 584 b ¶586 a * M.

Cheyney. 153 b * 179 b † 346 a * 406 a *

Chibary. 186 b *

Chichester. 555 a * M.

Chickley. 88 b † 244 b * 263 a † 562 b † M. 559 b *

Chickwell, or Chigwell. 360 b ¶545 b ¶548 b † M.

Chirwide. 145 b ¶

Chitcroft. 149 b †

Chitting. 799 a ¶

Cholmley. 372 a ¶433 a *

[Page]Choppin. 313 a ¶

Chornet. 186 b *

Christopherson. 274 a *

Church. 101 a † 138 a † 192 a †

Churchman. 87 b ¶ 187 b ¶557 a †

Churchyard. 346 b ¶

Clapham. 831 b †

Clare. 341 a *

Clarell. 312 b ¶

Clarke. 120 a ¶123 b ¶230 b † 398 b † 472 b ¶551 a † 592 b † 788 a * 852 a ¶

Clavering. 193 a †

Clay. 134 b †

Clere. 790 a ¶791 b ¶

Clifford. 186 b ¶532 a ¶B.

Clifton. 346 a ¶

Clixston. 284 b †

Clitherow. 187 b ¶597 a †

Clivelod. 393 a ¶

Clopton. 89 a ¶292 a * 552 a † 564 a † 573 a † 574 a † M. 801 b ¶

Clun. 100 a ¶

Cobham. 346 b * 540 b *

Cocham. 540 a †

Cockain, or Cocken. 148 b ¶179 a ¶185 a * 364 b † 595 a † M. 776 b ¶

Cockes. 120 a †

Codras. 540 b ¶

Cogger. 226 a †

Coggeshall. 231 a † 398 a ¶

Coke. or Cooke. 186 b ¶ 299 a † 372 b ¶412 b † 415 b ¶429 a † 560 b * M. 567 a † 763 a * 802 a ¶909 a †

Colborne. 435 a †

Coldock. 153 a †

Cole. 239 a ¶807 a †

Coleman. 292 a * 410 a †

Collet. 89 b ¶265 b ¶ 306 a ¶308 a ¶571 a * 573 a ¶787 b ¶

Collingborne. 186 b ¶

Collins. 218 b * 392 b ¶

Colsell. 293 b †

Columbars. 261 a ¶

Colwich. 571 a †

Combarton. 246 b * 303 a *

Combes. 228 b ¶238 b * 565 a ¶

Combmartin. 547 b †

Comerton. 213 b *

Comin, alias Chilcot. 96 a †

Coningston. 431 b ¶

Constable. 108 b †

Constantine. 549 a * 569 a †

Coolby. 189 b ¶

Cooper, or Cowper. 149 a † 215 a ¶230 b * 548 a † 584 a ¶

Cootes, or Cotes. 245 a * 338 a * 573 b ¶581 a † 582 b ¶

Cope. 397 b ¶

Copinger. 393 a * 576 b * 577 b ¶M.

Copland. 269 b ¶

Coppin. 906 a ¶

Corbet. 429 a * 811 b *

Cordell. 432 a ¶

Cornhill. 536 b † 543 a ¶

Cornewallis. 261 a ¶ 556 a ¶

Cornish. 322 a †

Costin, or Coston. 222 a ¶331 b ¶877 a ¶

Cosyn. 239 a † 249 b †

Cotlow. 566 a ¶

Cotton. 148 b ¶425 a * 560 b ¶597 a * 853 a *

Covel. 134 b † 346 a † 820 b †

Coventry. 270 a * 543 a ¶561 b † M.

Coverdale. 191 b †

Coult. 874 b ¶

Courtney. 186 a ¶532 a † B. 810 a †

Cowch. 99 a †

Cowdorow. 157 a †

Coxe. 352 a * 774 b *

Cradock. 186 a *

Crane. 551 a †

Cranmer. 598 a *

Crashaw. 904 a *

Cravon. 592 a ¶594 b † M.

Crayhag. 293 b †

Creke. 371 a †

Cresacre. 281 b †

Creswell. 334 b †

Crew. 818 a †

Criche. 848 b ¶

Crisp. 219 b * 597 a † 856 b ¶

Criswick. 149 b †

Crofts. 370 b ¶485 a ¶

Croke. 149 b ¶305 a †

Croles. 119 b ¶123 b * 131 b †

Cromar, Cromer, or Crowmer. 238 b ¶ 560 a † 561 a * M.

Cromwell. 187 a *

Crosby. 179 a ¶181 b † 469 b ¶

Croshaw. 827 b ¶

Crosse. 546 a ¶

Crow. 805 b ¶

Crowch. 434 b †

Crowley. 313 a ¶

Crowner. 238 b ¶

Croydon. 552 a †

Crud. 332 a ¶

Culverwell. 96 b *

Cure. 96 a ¶451 b †

Curteis. 218 a * 551 a † 583 a ¶

Curzon. 762 b *

Cushen. 231 a ¶

Cuthing. 186 b *

Cutting. 901 a *

D

DAcres. 786 b †

Dalling. 549 a †

Dallison. 484 b *

Dalton. 434 b ¶893 a ¶

Dalusse. 261 b †

Dancer. 191 b †

Dane. 150 a ¶395 a ¶ 587 b †

Daniel. 294 a * 395 b * 571 b ¶

Danne. 108 a †

Danson. 908 a *

Danvers. 416 a †

Darby. 218 a † 565 b ¶569 a ¶

Darcy. 117 b ¶118 b ¶119 a † 324 a ¶ 549 b ¶M.

Darling. 132 a †

Darlington. 398 a ¶

Darr. 295 b *

Davies. 881 a ¶

Dauntesey. 295 b ¶ 580 b ¶

Davy. 304 a †

Dawbeney. 176 b † 186 b *

Dawes. 578 a †

Dawtrey. 186 b ¶788 a ¶

Day. 315 a † 316 b †

Deane. 105 b ¶136 a * 146 a † 597 b * M.

Deare, or Dere. 351 b † 566 b †

Deddam. 145 b ¶

Delakere. 229 a †

Delamere. 545 b *

Denham. 131 a ¶581 a ¶

Dennie. 152 a ¶

Dennis. 131 a ¶133 b † 554 a †

Dennison. 151 a †

Densill. 898 a †

Dent. 191 b †

Deoly. 244 a ¶

Depham. 241 a ¶

Deskie. 186 b ¶

Dethick. 371 a ¶406 a * 409 b ¶788 b †

Devereux. 131 a ¶345 b †

Dewes. 290 a ¶

Deyncourt. 346 b *

Dickman. 290 a † 554 b ¶

Dickson. 214 a *

Digby. 830 a ¶

Digges. 303 a ¶

Dimock. 292 b *

Dinham. 346 a *

[Page]Dixie. 106 a * 139 b † 299 b * 588 b † 590 a * M.

Dobber. 395 a ¶582 b ¶584 a ¶M.

Dockwray. 355 a ¶

Dodmere. 579 b * 580 b * M.

Dogget. 231 a * 395 a * 556 b † 577 a ¶

Dolseby. 552 a ¶M.

Dolssell. 553 a ¶

Donne, or Dunn [...]. 137 b * 269 a ¶776 b †

Dormer. 285 a ¶580 b † 582 b * M. 787 b *

Dorset. 537 b †

Dove. 102 a † 119 b * 878 a ¶

Downer. 309 b †

Downes, or Downis. 331 a * 800 b †

Downham. 103 b ¶

Draper. 106 a † 139 a ¶152 a ¶311 a ¶ 586 a † 587 a † M. 831 a †

Drayton. 274 b * 763 b ¶

Drew. 193 a * 349 b † 828 a *

Drifield. 187 a ¶

Drope. 213 b * 569 b * 570 b ¶M.

Drury. 547 b ¶

Dryland. 228 b ¶

Ducy. 149 a † 598 a † M.

Ducke. 560 a ¶877 a *

Ducket. 106 a † 537 a * 586 b * 588 a †

Dudley. 242 a ¶813 a ¶

Dudson. 886 a ¶

Duffehouse. 563 a ¶

Duffield. 123 b *

Duke. 431 b ¶536 b * 540 a † M.

Dummer. 100 a ¶

Duncell. 451 a ¶

Dunstable. 245 a † b † 547 a †

Dunster. 821 a ¶

Dunthorne. 308 b †

Durant. 537 a *

Duresme. 541 a ¶

Durham. 542 b *

Durrem. 183 b *

Dutcon. 802 a †

Dyker. 564 b *

E

EAstfield. 88 b * 303 a * 387 b ¶ 562 b * M.

Ebot. 559 a ¶

Edgecombe. 766 a †

Edisbury. 805 b ¶

Edlyn. 773 b *

Edmonds. 347 a †

Edwards. 157 a † 186 b ¶220 a * 567 a ¶ 570 a * M. 824 a †

Eeles. 905 a †

Egeock, or Egioke. 430 a ¶812 b ¶

Eliot. 321 b ¶

Elkenton. 346 b †

Elkin. 104 b ¶388 a †

Ellis. 558 b † 907 a ¶

Elmer. 98 a * 366 b † 473 a ¶534 a † B.

Elrington. 211 b * 451 a ¶471 a †

Elsing. 86 b ¶

Elwes. 105 b * 107 a ¶ 594 a †

Emerson. 452 b ¶

Emfield. 347 a †

Empson. 242 a ¶

English. 579 b † 808 b †

Eomans. 473 a †

Erington. 858 a †

Esgastone. 398 a ¶

Essex. 293 b † 419 b * 424 a *

Eston. 458 a *

Evans. 454 b ¶793 a ¶

Evenger. 131 b †

Everard. 561 a ¶

Every. 215 a †

Evington. 100 b ¶

Eure. 360 a †

Ewin. 238 b * 340 b *

Exmew 306 a * 577 a † 518 b * M.

Exton. 227 a * 557 a † M.

Eyland. 538 a ¶

Eyre. 89 a † 163 a * 223 b † 564 a ¶566 a † M.

F

FAbian. 89 a ¶ 214 a † 574 a ¶

Fairford. 238 a * 458 a ¶

Falckins. 188 a †

Falconer. 88 a † 561 a ¶ M. 559 b *

Falleron. 187 b ¶

Falstaffe. 557 a ¶

Faringdon. 105 b † 335 a * 337 b * 545 b * M

Farnford. 398 b †

Farrer. 277 a †

Farrington. 594 a *

Fastolph. 179 b †

Fauconbridge. 179 b † 366 b ¶530 b * M.

Fauset. 145 b ¶

Featly. 837 a †

Felcham. 340 b ¶

Felding. 285 b ¶

Fen. 419 b * 597 a *

Fenkell, or Finkill. 238 b * 573 a ¶

Fenrother. 577 b ¶

Fenton. 245 a ¶805 a ¶

Ferrers. 429 a ¶582 a ¶789 b ¶

Fetherstone. 435 a † 880 b *

Fetiplace. 292 a *

Ffoy. 260 a *

Field. 567 a ¶

Fielding. 565 b ¶567 a † M.

Fikeldon. 311 a *

Filpot. 87 a ¶

Fines. 345 b *

Finke. 186 b *

Fingrith. 547 a *

Fished. 555 b *

Fisher. 96 b ¶97 a †

Fitz-Alwine. 146 a * 245 a † 536 b * M.

Fitz-Arnold. 537 a †

Fitz-Hugh. 532 b † B.

Fitz-Iames. 370 a ¶ 532 b ¶B.

Fitz-Isabel. 537 a †

Fitz-Mary. 86 b * 544 a †

Fitz-Richard. 543 b † M.

Fitz-Roger. 542 a ¶M.

Fitz-Water. 416 b †

Fitz-William. 89 b ¶ 184 b ¶308 b †. &c.

Flemming. 149 a ¶285 a * 568 a *

Fletcher. 366 b † 534 a † B.

Floid. 908 b †

Foliot. 530 a ¶B.

Ford. 393 a ¶

Forman. 108 a * 228 b ¶581 a ¶582 a * M.

Forrest. 290 a †

Forster, or Foster. 226 b † 107 b * 311 a * 541 b * 567 a ¶M.

Fortescue. 285 a * 424 a †

Forthe. 411 b *

Fowler. 397 b ¶800 b ¶867 a †

Fox. 101 a ¶288 b † 313 a ¶b * 545 b *

Foxton. 211 b †

Frances. 146 a † 179 a * 322 b † 550 a † M. 557 b ¶559 a ¶M.

Franckland. 325 b ¶

Franke. 123 b * 239 a *

Fray. 191 a ¶

Freemen. 596 b * 846 a *

Fremingham. 559 b ¶

French. 230 b † 557 a †

Frere. 398 a *

Freshwater. 874 a ¶

Friole. 290 a †

Frosham. 551 a ¶

Frostling. 553 b †

Frowike. 346 b ¶542 a † 562 a ¶M.

Froyshe. 558 b †

Fuller. 97 b ¶269 b ¶ 472 a ¶

Furneis. 548 b ¶

G

[Page]GAbeter. 262 b *

Gainsford. 239 a †

Galder. 338 a ¶

Gale. 99 b ¶

Gamage. 350 a ¶588 a ¶

Ganon. 281 a ¶

Garaway. 185 a ¶597 a ¶868 a †

Gardener. 211 b * 462 a ¶569 b * 571 b † M.

Garinsers. 186 a *

Garland. 152 a * 274 b * 538 a ¶

Garman. 214 a *

Garme. 293 b †

Garrard, or Gerrard. 148 b ¶152 a ¶230 b ¶ 330 b ¶584 b † 585 a * 591 a ¶593 a † M. 818 b † 844 b ¶ 886 a *

Garth. 281 b †

Garton. 548 a ¶

Gayle. 228 b ¶

Gedney. 561 b ¶M.

Gelson. 228 a ¶

Gennings. 89 b †

Gest 372 a ¶

Gibs. 296 a *

Gibson. 107 b ¶309 b * 582 a † 788 b ¶

Gifford. 186 b † 313 b *

Gilbert. 107 ¶131 a ¶

Gilborne. 150 a *

Gillet. 877 a *

Gips. 474 a *

Girdler. 554 b ¶

Gisors. 255 a * 261 a ¶ 345 b ¶541 a † M.

Glocester. 406 a † 546 b ¶

Glover. 105 a ¶228 a ¶293 b * 314 b †

Goad. 249 b †

Goare, or Gore. 148 b ¶246 a * 306 b † 595 a ¶596 b ¶

Goddard. 105 a * 592 a †

Godfrey. 303 a ¶

Godney. 193 a †

Golding. 294 b * 419 b ¶773 b ¶

Goldsmith. 831 a ¶

Gonnel. 305

Goodcheape. 546 a †

Goodman. 293 b †

Goodrick. 883 b ¶

Goodwin. 146 a † 333 b †

Gorges. 786 a †

Goslin, or Gosling, or Gosseline. 227 a * 562 a ¶908 a †

Govere. 313 a *

Gower. 179 a ¶237 b ¶

Grace. 213 b †

Gramstone. 238 b *

Granado. 138 b *

Grantham. 265 b ¶346 b ¶549 a ¶M.

Grasse. 538 a *

Gravesend. 531 b * B.

Gray. 261 a ¶400 b † 552 a ¶B. 578 a ¶

Greek. 333 b ¶

Green. 331 b ¶

Greenough. 305 a †

Greenway. 138 b *

Greenwood. 322 a ¶

Gregory. 326 b ¶564 b † 566 b ¶M.

Gresham. 90 b * 92 b * 179 b † 182 a † 184 b * 285 b ¶299 b † 303 a ¶580 b ¶581 b ¶582 a † M. 583 b * M. 787 b ¶

Greswold. 152 a *

Gretsim. 239 a †

Grevill. 451 a *

Grey. 313 a †

Griffith. 157 a * 230 b *

Grimeston. 798 b *

Grindall. 533 b ¶B.

Grove. 576 b *

Guilford. 360 b ¶786 b ¶

Gunter. 214 a ¶

Gurden. 548 a ¶

Gurney. 104 b ¶238 b ¶590 b ¶

H

HAcket. 148 b ¶ 179 a † 595 a † 597 a ¶854 a *

Hackney. 227 a †

Haddon. 135 a † 326 a * 349 a † 574 b † 576 b * M.

Hadley. 337 b * 555 b ¶M.

Haines. 134 a *

Hales. 148 b ¶564 b *

Hall. 92 a ¶100 b ¶ 276 b ¶346 b ¶ 392 b ¶862 b ¶

Halsey. 585 b †

Halstock. 419 b †

Hallyday. 299 b * 591 b ¶842 b *

Halton. 180 b † 308 b † 560 a ¶

Halye. 398 b *

Hamber. 313 a * ¶

Hamersley. 595 b ¶ 597 b † M.

Hammond. 550 b * M.

Hamney. 293 b †

Hampson, or Hampton. 105 a ¶193 a * 227 b ¶568 b † 570 b † 592 a ¶

Hanbury. 152 b † 154 b * 316 a ¶

Hanford. 148 b ¶244 a ¶596 b †

Hansard. 550 b *

Hansby. 473 b ¶

Harbeck. 293 b †

Harby. 215 a ¶

Hardell. 154 b † 538 b ¶M.

Harding. 230 b ¶231 a ¶239 b † 571 a ¶ 587 a ¶

Hardy. 580 a *

Hardley. 558 a ¶M.

Hare. 371 a ¶880 a ¶

Harington. 370 b * 434 b ¶

Hariot. 138 b * 569 b † 572 a † 831 b ¶

Harlingridge. 274 b *

Harper. 92 b * 585 a ¶ 586 a * M. 845 b †

Harp [...]field. 179 a ¶

Harrison. 430 a †

Hart. 106 b † 117 b ¶ 241 b ¶346 b ¶589 a * 590 b ¶

Hartford. 252 a *

Hartshorne. 331 a †

Harvey. 218 a * 311 a * 545 a † M. 588 a * 589 b † M. 595 b ¶ M. 868 a ¶903 a ¶

Harvist. 103 a † 315 a ¶316 b *

Hary. 338 a ¶

Hasken. 223 b ¶

Hastings. 345 b ¶

Hatcliffe. 804 a *

Hatfield. 244 a ¶555 a ¶

Havelock. 290 a †

Haverell. 536 b * 537 b ¶

Havering. 245 b †

Haughton, or Hawton. 549 b ¶591 b † 809 b ¶

Having. 257 a *

Hawes. 150 a † 235 b ¶269 b * 308 a ¶ 310 b ¶575 b † 586 b ¶588 a ¶M. 773 a ¶

Hawkins. 139 b ¶805 b * 862 a ¶

Hawlen. 392 b ¶

Hawteine. 546 a ¶

Hay, or Hayes. 187 b ¶ 593 b † M. 595 a * M. 847 b *

Haydon. 95 a † 257 a ¶ 584 b *

Hayman. 886 a ¶

Heardson. 139 a †

Hearn. 149 a † 595 b ¶

Hede. 575 b †

Heila. 183 b ¶

Heilin. 596 b ¶

Heliland, or Holiland. 537 b ¶341 a †

Helisdon. 556 b †

Hemenhall. 552 a †

Hend. 241 a ¶

Henneage. 179 b ¶366 a *

Henningham. 145 b ¶

Henshaw. 306 b *

Herbert. 349 b ¶

[Page]Hereford. 546 a ¶

Hereick. 812

Herenden. 326 b †

Heriot. 411 a ¶

Heretagh. 310 a *

Herlion. 536 b *

Heron. 801 b *

Hertelepole. 547 b *

Heselrigg. 893 a ¶

Hetton. 803 b *

Hewet, or Hewyt. 219 a † 322 a * 364 a † 777 a *

Heyban. 238 a *

Heyford. 220 b ¶569 a † 571 a ¶

Heyward. 226 b ¶305 b † 586 b † M. 587 b ¶M. 591 a † M.

Heywood. 170 a †

Hicks. 760 a ¶

Hide. 155 a ¶559 a *

Higham. 563 a *

High-lord. 136 b ¶

Hildie. 274 b *

Hill or Hils. 89 a ¶90 b ¶92 b † 155 b * 192 a * 245 a * 281 b † 309 a † 532 b * B. 570 b ¶572 b * M. 582 b † 584 a * M. 806 a ¶

Hilliard. 451 a *

Hiltoft. 554 ¶

Hilton. 101 a ¶223 b * 406 a †

Hinchlade. 309 a ¶

Hinde. 88 a † 265 a ¶ 267 a * 337 b ¶544 a † 556 b ¶M. a *

Hobby. 171 a *

Hobson. 274 a *

Hodge, or Hodges. 148 b ¶472 a ¶596 a † 558 a † M.

Hodgson, or Hodson. 261 a ¶306 a †

Holbech. 554 a †

Holdernesse. 577 b *

Holdich. 555 a †

Holgrave, or Holigrave. 123 b ¶460 a ¶

Holland. 265 a ¶267 a * 563 b †

Holliday. 149 a † 593 b * M.

Hollis. 179 b † 580 a ¶ 582 a ¶M.

Holmedon. 592 a ¶

Holmes. 96 a ¶

Holstocke. 227 a ¶

Holt. 222 b * 351 b ¶

Hondon. 235 b ¶

Hone. 416 b ¶

Hopton. 346 a †

Horne. 245 a † 571 a * 573 a ¶M.

Hosepoole. 219 b * 431 b ¶

Horton. 432 a †

Hothersall. 150 a ¶

Houghton, or Howton. 214 a † b † 346 a † 880 a * 892 b †

House. 391 b ¶590 a.

Howard. 131 a ¶790 b ¶

Howe. 899 a *

Howpill. 153 a †

Huberthorne. 211 b † 212 a † 582 b ¶583 b † M.

Huddy. 346 b †

Huit. 238 b ¶

Hulin. 566 a ¶568 468 a * M.

Hulit. 454 a †

Hull. 865 a ¶

Hulson, or Hulton. 387 b ¶392 a *

Humble. 452 a †

Hunnes. 905 b ¶

Hungate. 281 a ¶

Hungerford. 346 b ¶ 787 a †

Hunt. 107 a ¶108 a ¶

Huntington. 179 a ¶

Huntlow. 582 a ¶

Hurstwaight. 392 b ¶

Husband. 550 b †

Huse, Husse, or Hussie. 146 a † 349 b ¶372 a ¶795 b ¶

Huysh. 278 a †

Huytley. 246 b ¶

I

IAckman. 245 a * 586 b *

Iacob. 99 b † 789 b * 891 b *

Iaie. 221 b † 595 a †

Iames. 132 b * 138 b ¶ 226 a † 562 b * 568 b † 571 b * M. 825 a ¶

Iarveis. 583 a ¶

Iawdrell. 235 b ¶

Ienkins. 101 a †

Ienner. 430 b †

Iennings. 95 b * 152 a * 303 a ¶346 b † 575 a * 577 a † M. 579 b †

Iermin. 845 a ¶

Iken. 274 a ¶

Ilam. 89 a * 281 b † 571 a *

Illingworth. 308 a ¶

Ingham. 417 a †

Ioceline. 241 a ¶567 b ¶569 a † M.

Iohnson. 149 a † 191 a † 350 a ¶576 b * 595 b *

Iolles. 593 b * 595 a ¶M.

Iones. 103 a ¶105 b † 593 b † 596 a * 883 a ¶

Iorden. 118 b ¶123 b ¶

Iosue. 537 a † 538 a *

Ioyner. 340 b ¶541 a † M.

Ireland. 100 b ¶393 a ¶554 b * 568 a ¶

Ironside. 834 a ¶

Isaac. 138 b † 573 b †

Isham. 415 b ¶

Islip. 138 a ¶

Iud. 90 b ¶179 b † 182 b † 583 a * 584 a * M.

Ive. 311 a *

K

KAyor. 186 b ¶

Keble. 89 b * 276 a ¶575 b ¶577 b † M.

Kelsey. 306 a *

Kempe. 145 b ¶370 a † 532 a ¶B. 798 b ¶908 b †

Kempton. 588 b *

Kendall. 274 b *

Kendricke. 193 b *

Kenly. 186 b *

Kennington. 138 a ¶

Kenuda. 186 b †

Kerkby, or Kirby. 152 a * 245 b ¶290 a * 576 b ¶

Kerveyn, or Kervin. 180 b † 837 a *

Keston. 274 a ¶

Kettle. 235 b ¶

Keynell. 801 b †

Keyton. 322 a †

Kiligreie. 259 b †

Killingbery. 557 b † M.

King. 293 b † 534 a ¶ B. 564 a * 775

Kingston. 211 a ¶550 b *

Kinnon. 437 a ¶

Kirketon. 346 b *

Kirkman. 262 a *

Kirton. 454 b ¶

Kiryoll, or Kyriell. 138 a ¶156 b ¶

Kitriell. 138 a †

Kitson. 581 a ¶

Knape. 431 b ¶

Knesworth. 182 a * 284 a ¶574 b * 576 b † M

Knight. 416 b ¶

Knighthode. 556 b †

Knowles. 87 b * 86 a † 265 a ¶266 b † 558 a ¶M.

Kyme. 257 a * 579 a *

Kyrton. 152 a ¶

L

LAcy. 186 a ¶ 367 b * 398 a ¶

Laken. 281 b †

Lambard, or Lambert. 92 b † 223 a † 311 a ¶270 a * 537 a ¶ 568 a * 580 a † 581 a †

Lambe. 93 a * 355 b ¶

Lambin. 548 a ¶

Lancaster. 419 b *

Land. 136 b † 186 a *

Lane. 275 a *

Langford. 546 b †

[Page]Langham. 392 b ¶

Langly. 188 a ¶284 b † 315 a ¶545 b * 587 a † 588 b * M.

Langthrop. 179 a ¶

Langton. 179 a * 423 b.

Large. 88 b ¶290 b † 563 b * 565 a † M.

Latimer. 797 b *

Laud. 534 b † B.

Laund. 555 b ¶

Laurence. 787 a ¶

Law. 211 a ¶560 a ¶

Laxton. 90 b * 267 a ¶268 a * 582 a ¶ 583 a *

Lazar. 550 a *

Lee, Legh, or Leigh. 106 b ¶150 a ¶245 a * 274 b * 281 b † 292 b † 433 b ¶407 a ¶ 434 b ¶566 b ¶ 568 a * M. 569 b ¶ 585 a † b * M. 591 a * 593 a * M. 472 a * 474 a ¶790 a ¶ 813 b ¶

Leg. 551 b ¶

Legget, or Leggy. 217 a ¶551 a † M. 552 a ¶M.

Lekhimpton. 326 a †

Lemman. 148 b ¶593 b ¶595 b † M. 856 b ¶

Lepington. 191 a ¶

Lessieur. 834 b *

Levison. 152 a * 581 a ¶

Lewen. 399 b ¶581 b ¶861 a ¶

Lewes. 428 b ¶

Lewknor. 451 a ¶

Leyland. 387 b ¶

Liade. 179 b †

Lichfield. 321 b * 251 a *

Lichterveld. 331 a ¶

Lily. 370 a ¶906 b ¶

Linacer. 369 b *

Lindericle. 186 a †

Lions. 105 b ¶250 b * 262 b * 555 b * 584 a * 585 a †

Lisle. 341 a * 345 a ¶

Little. 553 a †

Littlesbury. 258 b ¶

Littleton. 235 b ¶762 a †

Liveley. 474 b †

Lloyd. 406 b *

Lock. 270 a † 281 b † 568 a ¶583 b ¶581 b †

Lodge. 268 a ¶585 b ¶586 a ¶M.

Lofken, or Loveken. 87 a * 236 b † 551 b * M.

Lok. 804 a ¶

Long. 235 b ¶407 b † 580 a ¶

Lonyson. 338 a ¶

Love. 557 a *

Loveday. 909 a *

Lovel. 157 a † 274 a ¶ 359 b * 531 b † B. 907 a ¶

Lovenham. 560 b ¶

Lover. 308 b ¶873 a.

Louth. 419 b * 559 b ¶

Low. 148 b ¶185 a ¶ 230 b ¶591 b ¶593 b † M.

Lowen. 221 b †

Lucas. 185 a † 551 a ¶

Lucy. 345 b † 346 b * 888 b *

Ludlow. 419 b *

Lumley. 148 b ¶134 a ¶595 a * M.

Lupton. 257 b †

Lusher. 784 b †

Lutkin. 584 a ¶

Lye. 417 b *

M

MAbbe. 350 a ¶

Machel. 306 a * 585 a *

Mackley. 416 b †

Mackman. 257 a *

Mafield. 558 a †

Mainard. 584 b †

Malifant. 415 b ¶

Malin. 212 b ¶

Malledge. 457 b ¶

Malmaynas. 346 b *

Malory. 281 b † 336 a ¶585 a ¶586 b * M

Malpas. 88 b ¶152 a ¶162 a * 564 b ¶ 565 a †

Malton. 331 a †

Malwen. 146 a †

Man. 152 b * 295 b ¶

Mancer. 311 a ¶

Mandevile. 146 a *

Manhall. 211 a ¶

Manners. 186 a. 471 a.

Manning. 101 a * 242 a †

Manningham. 186 b †

Manny. 186 b ¶

Manthrop. 145 b ¶

Marbeler. 551 a *

March. 237 b ¶

Markby. 415 b ¶

Marlow. 400 b † 561 b ¶M. 559 b † M.

Marpor. 228 b *

Marrow. 331, 566 a ¶ 567 b † M.

Marsh. 311 a ¶338 b.

Marshall. 149 b † 179 a * 286 a † 454 a * 532 b * B. 564 b ¶

Martin. 105 b * 193 a † 259 a * 265 b ¶ 299 b † 406 a * 572 a ¶574 a * M. 581 a † 585 b ¶587 a * M. 589 b †

Mascall. 99 a ¶

Masham. 104 b * 589 b ¶

Mason. 211 a † 314 b ¶316 b † 331 a † 361 b † 899 a *

Master. 218 a *

Matthew. 238 b ¶572 a † 573 b ¶M.

Maunsell. 897 b *

S. Maure. 285 a ¶

May. 98 b * 185 b * 391 b ¶

Medham. 567 b ¶

Medly. 311 a ¶

Medlycote. 412 a *

Melchborne. 187 b ¶

Melford 361 a †

Mellington. 156 b ¶

Mellishe. 392 a *

Melrith. 285 a *

Merick. 186 a †

Messe. 212 a †

Metcalfe. 891 b ¶

Meteren. 219 b †

Metwood. 548 a ¶

Mewes. 186 a ¶

Michael. 223 b † 330 b ¶372 a ¶561 a †

Michell. 230 b * 290 a ¶562 b ¶M.

Micell. 261 b *

Middleton. 148 b ¶ 303 a ¶566 b * 593 a * M.

Milborne. 90 a ¶157 a * 220 b ¶339 a * 577 a ¶579 a ¶M.

Mildmay. 420 a *

Milford. 306 a *

Mill. 332 a ¶

Milred. 563 a †

Mils. 146 a * 587 b ¶

Milsam. 331 a *

Minors. 235 b ¶

Mirfin. 356 b * 397 b ¶451 a * 577 b * 578 b ¶M.

Mirley. 308 b ¶

Moager. 223 b †

Mocking. 550 a ¶

Mollington. 157 a †

Moncaster. 351 b †

Mond, or Mund. 337 b ¶355 a ¶

Monden. 360 b ¶

Monmouth. 131 a ¶ 581 b †

Monox. 90 a ¶577 a ¶578 a ¶M.

Montague. 846 b †

Monyns. 884 a ¶

Mordant. 227 a *

Mordaske. 186. b. ¶

Mordon. 237 b ¶549 b † M.

Morens. 186 b *

Moré, or Moore. 155 a † 263 a † 346 b * 556 b ¶557 a * 558 b * M. 592 a * 787 b † 857 a *

Morgan. 230 b *

Morley. 135 a † 186 a ¶333 a ¶

Morris. 206 b ¶211 b † 551 a ¶

Mortain. 346 b †

Mortimer. 145 b ¶ 345 a ¶

[Page]Morsted. 273 b * 290 a * 308 a ¶339 b * 564 b †

Morton. 825 b ¶

Mosley. 591 a † M. 892 a *

Motte. 238 a *

Mountfort. 228 b ¶ 307 a ¶510 a *

Mountgomery. 346 b ¶

Moyle. 346 b †

Munday, or Mundy. 578 a * 579 b † M. 869 a ¶

Mullert. 150 a †

Mulshew. 257 a *

Multon. 149 b †

Mun. 222 b ¶

Murray. 905 b ¶

Muschamp. 306 a * 568 b ¶

Mustell. 261 a ¶

Mutas. 162 a ¶

N

NAle. 152 b *

Nash. 311 a ¶

Naylor. 187 b ¶

Neale, or Nele. 258 b * 333 b ¶530 a ¶B. 551 a †

Nedham. 416 b *

Nelson. 98 a *

Neve. 241 a ¶

Nevel. 186 a * 336 b * 345 b * 369 b * 788 b *

Newbery. 98 a ¶

Newenton, or Newington. 186 a ¶558 a †

Newland. 538 b † 572 a ¶

Newley. 536 b ¶

Newman. 98 b †

Newport. 360 b ¶399 a ¶531 b ¶B. 555 b ¶

Newton. 123 b † 387 b ¶

Nicholas. 93 a † 312 b † 392 b ¶398 b † 587 a † 588 b † M.

Nicols. 355 b *

Nicolson. 236 a † 407 b ¶

Niger. 530 b ¶B.

Nives. 573 b ¶

Norbery, or Norborow. 157 a † 346 b * 367 b †

Nordon. 432 a † 565 b †

Norford. 192 b ¶

Norlong. 285 a *

Norland. 281 b †

Norman. 282 a ¶548 b † 565 b * 567 a † M.

Norris. 186 a * 303 b ¶

North. 285 b † 433 b †

Northampton. 542 b ¶ M. 556 b ¶

Northbroke. 532 a † B.

Norton. 96 b * 281 a ¶

Norwich. 138 b †

Notte. 552 b * M.

Nottingham. 553 a ¶

Nouncy. 398 a ¶

Nowell. 361 b * 889 a †

O

OFfley. 94 b † 96 b ¶105 a † 152 b † 153 a * 154 a ¶584 b * 585 a ¶M. 590 b * 843 b * 847 b †

Oldgrave. 567 b † 569 a † M.

Oldhall. 257 a *

Oleph. 587 a ¶

Olney. 237 b ¶306 a * 564 a † 566 a * M.

Olyffe. 239 b †

Organ. 136 a * 290 a † 557 a †

Orme. 874 b *

Orrell. 179 a ¶180 b ¶

Orwell. 530 a † B.

Osborne. 218 a * b ¶ 588 b † 589 b ¶M.

Ostrich. 308 b † 574 a ¶M.

Otely. 563 a ¶M.

Otwell. 543 a ¶

Overton. 155 b ¶

Overye. 235 a ¶

Owen. 245 a * 798 a ¶

Owfield. 100 b †

P

PAckenton. 277 b ¶332 a †

Paddesley. 564 a † 565 a *

Paget. 218 a * 333 b *

Paine. 892 a ¶

Palin. 101 b † 124 a † 472 b ¶

Palmer. 337 b * 392 b * 485 a * 548 a † 762 b ¶779 a ¶

Par. 407 a †

Pargitar. 391 b * 579 a ¶580 b ¶M.

Paris. 545 a †

Parker. 100 a ¶101 a ¶320 b ¶371 b † 558 b *

Parkhurst. 305 a † 596 b ¶

Parkinson. 428 a ¶

Parnell. 392 b ¶

Parrie. 135 b * 810 a ¶

Parsall. 346 b *

Partrich. 228 b ¶579

Parveffe. 561 b ¶M

Paskim. 295 a ¶

Pats. 346 b ¶

Patten. 92 b *

Pattesly. 238 a *

Paulet. 346 b ¶

Payton. 185 b †

Peach. 223 a ¶552 b ¶ M

Peacocke. 372 a ¶580 a † 581 a * M.

Peake, or Peke. 311 a ¶ 472 b †

Pelham. 888 a ¶

Pemberton. 107 a † 187 b ¶322 b * 326 b ¶ 573 b ¶593 a * M.

Penne. 560 b *

Pepper. 138 b †

Percers. 186 b *

Percivall. 89 a ¶193 a * 223 b † 573 a † 575 a * M.

Perry. 87 a ¶

Pert. 350 b ¶

Peter. 88 a ¶

Peterson. 218 a *

Peyntwin. 790 b †

Philip, or Philips. 227 a * 458 a * 566 b ¶ 568 b ¶M. 823 b ¶ 130 b *

Philpot. 345 b † 555 b † M

Picard. 87 a † 255 a * 542 b ¶552 a ¶M.

Pickering. 179 b * 285 a ¶852 b *

Picking. 169 b †

Piel. 555 a † M.

Pierson. 270 a †

Pigot. 547 b ¶

Pike. 131 b † 191 a * 550 b † 560 b *

Pikehurst. 308 b ¶

Pikeman. 226 556 a *

Pikeworth 460 a *

Pinchenon. 581 a †

Pinder. 171 a ¶767 a †

Pipe. 588 a † 589 a. M

Piriton. 369 b †

Plat. 263 a ¶762 b †

Plesseis. 369 b ¶

Plumbe. 787 b *

Plummer. 242 a ¶568 a †

Pointell. 549 a †

Pole. 350 a ¶

Pontfract. 560 a ¶

Poole. 559 b * 597 a †

Pope. 245 a * b ¶

Porter. 103 a † 134 b † 340 b ¶346 b ¶

Portman. 433 b †

Poster. 275 a ¶

Potter. 544 b †

Poulsted. 132 b ¶

Poultney. 86 b ¶239 a ¶252 a * 360 b ¶ 550 a ¶M

Pourt. 547 b †

Powel, or Powle. 186 b * 432 b † 793 a ¶794 b ¶ Powlet. 184 a * 82 b †

Poynes. 346 b †

Prannell. 104 ¶387 b ¶590 a †

[Page]Prat. 598 a †

Prescot. 339 a † 594 b ¶

Preston. 549 a † M.

Price. 170 b * 831 b † 893 b ¶901 a ¶

Pricot. 211 a ¶

Priest. 581 a †

Prince. 313 a †

Prior. 548 b ¶

Proby. 148 b ¶595 a * 596 b † M.

Prodham. 549 a *

Provost. 460 a †

Prust. 890 b ¶

Pullison. 588 a * 590 a * M.

Purchase. 574 a * 575 a † M.

Purchat. 285 a ¶

Purde. 331 b *

Purfet. 325 b †

Purpoint. 237 b ¶

Puty. 274 a ¶

Pye. 348 b ¶

Pyel. 594 a ¶842 a ¶

Q

QVarles. 100 a * 185 a † b †

R

RAdcliffe. 135 a † 239 a ¶ 812 b †

Radwell. 237 b ¶

Rainsford. 148 q †

Rainton. 596 a ¶528 b † M.

Rainwell. 88 b † 226 a † 563 a * M. 560 b.

Ramsey. 106 a * 155 a * 223 b * 224 a ¶ 348 a ¶587 a † 588 b ¶M.

Randall. 101 a ¶103 a * 400 b *

Randulph. 94 b * 322 a ¶409 a ¶

Ratcliffe. 590 a *

Rave. 290 a *

Raven. 351 b †

Ravis. 370 b † 534 a ¶B.

Rawson. 89 a * 306 a * 133 b ¶391 b *

Raymond. 778 a ¶

Read, or Rede. 186 b ¶ 321 b ¶351 a ¶ 561 a ¶575 a † 576 a † M.

Redman. 167 b † 411 a *

Rosham. 547 a ¶M.

Reinere. 536 b †

Reive. 171 b †

Remington. 227 a ¶ 573 a ¶

Renger. 539 a ¶M.

Rennington. 575 b † M.

Rest. 577 a ¶578 b † M.

Revell. 227 a ¶573 b ¶

Reynell. 883 a *

Reyner. 567 b ¶

Reynolds. 581 a † 806 a † 811 a ¶

Rich. 89 b † 281 b † 285 a * 565 a ¶

Richards. 544 a *

Richardson. 907 a †

Ricroft. 138 b † 175 a ¶

Ricthorne. 799 a *

Rider. 591 a * M.

Ridge. 94 b ¶

Ridley. 533 a * B.

Ripton. 123 b *

Rishby. 397 b ¶

River. 346 b * 586 b ¶588 a ¶M.

Roberts. 133 b * 150 b † 293 b ¶

Robinson. 131 b † 133 b ¶180 a *

Robsart. 346 a ¶

Roch. 184 b ¶223 b † 579 b ¶582 b † M.

Rochester. 179 a ¶

Rochford. 313 a *

Rodlegete. 186 a *

Roc. 299 b † 878 b *

Rogerbrooke. 416 a ¶

Rogers. 97 a ¶124 a † 242 b * 347 b † 412 b ¶312 b *

Rois. 221 b *

Roiston. 419 b *

Rokeby. 331 a * 428 a † 429 b † 966 b *

Rokesby. 306 a † 340 b ¶345 b † 543 b ¶ M.

Rallingcourt. 186 b ¶

Roman, Romaine, or Romany. 118 b ¶ 258 b ¶267 a * 546 b * 548 a † M.

Roose. 146 a †

Roper. 315 b ¶

Roston. 346 b ¶

Roswell. 257 a *

Rotham. 269 a *

Rocheley. 346 b †

Rotherham. 594 b ¶

Rothing. 549 a *

Rowe. 92 b ¶98 a ¶ 106 b ¶107 a ¶188 b † 285 b † 586 a † 587 b ¶M. 589 b * 591 a ¶M. 594 a † 796 a † 798 a *

Rowse. 153 b † 337 b * 451 a ¶

Rudston. 215 a † 579 b † 580 b † M.

Rumney. 105 b † 107 a ¶305 a † 593 a ¶

Rus. 213 b * 563 b †

Russell. 99 b * 133 b ¶ 221 b ¶387 b ¶ 472 b ¶M. 546 b ¶ 806 a ¶

S

SAckford. 486 a *

Sackvile. 346 b * 484 a ¶

Saint Albane. 892 b ¶

Saint Iohn. 228 b *

Salter. 134 a ¶

Saltonstall. 215 a ¶ 590 b * 592 a * M.

Sampson. 453 b ¶

Sampull. 908 b *

Sandhill. 398 b ¶

Sanderford. 179 b †

Sandwich. 347 a † 531 b † B. 546 a * M.

Sandys. 412 a † 534 a † B.

Sarich. 300 b †

Saris. 829 b ¶

Savage. 455 a † 532 b ¶B. 273 b † 851 a.

Savill. 415 b ¶

Saunders. 297 a ¶

Saxton. 274 b †

Scarlet. 419 b ¶

Schrader. 135 a ¶

Scot. 99 a ¶244 b † 566 a ¶M. 791 a ¶

Scriven. 472 b ¶

Scroop. 186 b *

Scudamore. 124 a † 170 b † 296 a † 473 a † 593 b * 900 b ¶

Seamer. 179 a *

Segrave. 531 b ¶B.

Seinturer. 538 b ¶

Seliock. 274 b *

Sely. 547 a † 556 b ¶ 562 b ¶

Seman. 321 b ¶

Sentleger. 423 b ¶

Seringe. 811 a †

Serle. 409 b † 538 b * M.

Sevenock. 88 a * 372 a ¶561 b ¶M. 558 b †

Seyle. 594 a †

Seymer. 472 a † 578 b † 580 a † M. 813 b *

Sha, or Shaw. 89 a ¶ 281 b † 283 b † 337 b * 570 b ¶572 a * M. 575 b ¶

Shandoys. 355 a *

Sharborough. 308 b ¶

Sheldon, or Shelton. 259 a ¶577 b * 904 b ¶

Shelley. 138 b † 310 a ¶570 a *

Shepley. 417 a *

Sheppard. 800 a *

Shere. 192 b ¶

Sherington. 192 b ¶ 218 a *

Seerland. 873 a †

Shirley. 416 a †

Shore. 244 a ¶274 a ¶ 576 b.

Shorthose. 310 a *

[Page]Shrow. 238 a †

Shute. 221 b †

Simonds. 392 b ¶453 a † 578 b *

Skales. 138 b †

Skevington. 157 a * 297 b † 579 a *

Skidmore. 99 a ¶

Skinner. 106 b ¶306 a ¶590 b † 592 a † M.

Skip. 400 a *

Skoowith. 908 a *

Slany. 106 b * 241 a ¶ 590 a † M.

Smales. 473 b †

Smalpace. 419 b ¶877 a †

Smithes. 105 b ¶321 b † 594 b †

Smith. 99 a * 134 a * 150 a † 213 b * 214 a * 291 b † 296 b † 316 b * 349 b ¶398 b † 406 a ¶453 b ¶ 473 a * 569 b * 597 b ¶779 b ¶783 b ¶ 794 a † 829 a ¶

Snelling. 424 a †

Snow. 794 a ¶

Sokeling. 293 b †

Some. 590 b ¶592 a ¶M.

Sommer. 179 a ¶574 b *

Sotherton. 332 a †

Southlee. 346 b *

Southwell. 245 a †

Southworth. 179 a ¶

Speare. 308 b ¶

Spence. 472 b ¶

Spencer. 180 a † 186 a * 228 b ¶341 a * 578 b ¶580 a ¶589 b ¶591 b * M. 774 b † 825 b ¶

Spendelew. 883 a †

Spert. 789 a †

Spicer. 186 b † 539 a *

Spilman. 400 a ¶559 b ¶

Stafford. 345 b ¶471 a * 808 a *

Staham. 262 b *

Stalbrook. 569 b †

Standelfe. 338 a ¶

Standhurst. 451 a ¶

Stanes. 395 a ¶546 a.

Stanhope. 369 b ¶

Stanley. 262 b ¶832 b †

Staper. 188 b †

Staple. 555 a ¶M.

Stapleton. 770 b †

Starkey. 152 b †

Startute. 788 a †

Steed. 230 b * 575 b †

Steward. 211 a ¶551 b ¶789 a ¶906 b ¶

Stile. 98 a ¶105 b † 131 a ¶246 a † 292 b ¶

Stiward. 222 b † 567 b *

Stocke. 821 a †

Stocker. 228 b ¶568 a † 570 b †

Stoddard. 100 a ¶135 a †

Stoder. 99 a ¶

Stody. 87 a † 553 b. M

Stokes. 152 a ¶486 a *

Stokesby. 261 b † 367 b † 533 a † B.

Stonard. 262 b ¶

Stondon. 557 a * M.

Stone. 107 a ¶222 b † 246 b * 306 a ¶568 b ¶

Storyt 471 b ¶

Stotevil. 818 a *

Stotley. 552 b ¶

Stow. 152 b ¶214 a *

Strange. 314 a ¶

Stratford 157 a *531 b ¶B.

Street. 265 b †

Strelley. 322 a * 838 b ¶

Studinham. 131 a ¶

Sturgeon. 231 a ¶417 a ¶

Sturges. 399 a ¶

Suckley. 392 a † 582 b

Sudbery. 532 a † B.

Sugar. 409 a ¶

Summerset. 907 b ¶

Suthes. 792 b ¶

Sutton. 153 a ¶193 a * 322 b † 479 a † 561 a †

Swan. 171 a † 572 b ¶

Swandland. 550 a * M.

Swetenham. 308 b †

Swift. 331 b ¶

Swinflat. 179 a *

Swinnerton. 107 a * 793 a * 594 b ¶M.

Sydnam. 428 a ¶

T

TAbinham. 239 a †

Talbat. 313 a * 531 b † B. 881 a †

Talmage. 186 a ¶

Tame. 554 a †

Tamworth. 333 a * 766

Tatam. 212 a ¶

Tatarsali. 562 b *

Tate. 90 a * 138 b ¶ 190 b ¶222 b † 568 b ¶570 b * M. 574 b ¶

Taverner. 311 a ¶372 a ¶

Taylor. 105 a * 119 a ¶ 190 b ¶214 b ¶ 267 a * 294 b ¶543 b † 567 a ¶569 b * M. 591 a ¶

Tempest. 220 b ¶

Terry. 296 a ¶

Test. 222 b †

Thame. 391 a †

Thinne. 131 a ¶132 a ¶

Thirlewall. 419 b *

Tholouse. 582 b ¶

Thomas. 308 a ¶458 a

Thompson. 212 a *

Thoresby. 796 b ¶

Thorn. 90 a ¶193 a †

Thorney. 100 b ¶429 b ¶551 a ¶

Thornhill. 285 b † 295 a ¶

Thernix. 132 b ¶

Thornton. 472 a ¶898 b †

Throckmorton. 149 a ¶ b *

Throwstone, or Thurston 338 a * 578 b †

Thunderley. 547 b *

Tiligham. 262 b ¶

Tilne, or Tilney. 281 b † 573 b †

Tipper. 428 b *

Tirrell. 124 a * 145 b ¶186 b ¶

Tirres. 156 b ¶

Tolason. 540 b * M.

Tolderney. 219 a ¶

Tolus. 214 a *

Tomes. 303 a ¶

Tomkins. 810 a *

Tony. 541 a † M.

Topham. 429 b * 873

Torald. 419 b *

Torkington. 221 b *

Towerson. 292 b ¶

Townley. 351 b †

Traps. 325 b †

Travers. 218 a * 278 a ¶538 b ¶

Tredway. 349 b ¶

Trehearne. 451 b ¶

Treszawall. 347 a †

Trever. 875 a ¶

Trindle. 214 a *

Trisilian. 345 b *

Trist. 338 a *

Trotter. 309 a ¶

Trusbut. 281 b †

Trussell 437 a *

Tryon. 193 b †

Tudnam. 186 a *

Tuke. 292 a ¶

Tunstall. 533 a † B.

Turke. 145 b ¶230 b † 398 a ¶550 b * M. 584 a †

Turner. 135 b ¶153 a ¶274 b * 311 a ¶ 392 b ¶825 a †

Turngold. 554 b ¶

Tusser. 274 b ¶

Twiford. 322 a † 350 b † 556 a * 557 b † M

Twiselton. 350 a ¶

Tylar. 48 a *

Tilling. 132 a *

V

VAle. 132 a *

Valens. 432 a ¶

Vamere. 557 b.

Vancke. 419 b ¶

Vandun. 809 b †

Varnam. 808 b ¶

Varney. 569 a * M

Vavasor. 471 b †

[Page]Vaughan. 135 a † 370 a ¶534 a * B.

Vennar, or Venor. 179 a * 261 a ¶263 a † [...]57 a ¶M.

Vere. 186 a *

Verney. 567 b *

Vernon. 102 b ¶214 b.

Vev [...]n. 907 b ¶

Vine. 330 b ¶

Vivent. 557 b ¶

Vnd [...]ll. 451 a *

Voyle. 541 a ¶

Vpton. 550 b ¶

Vrswyke. 796 b ¶

Vyrby. 131 b ¶

W

WAddington. 349 b ¶

Waddis. 150 b †

Wade. 546 a ¶559 a †

Wadson. 868 b *

Wai [...]. 539 a *

Wakefield. 149 b †

Wakering. 415 b *

Wake [...]. 559 a ¶

Walbrooke. 543 b †

Walcot. 102 b ¶270 a ¶557 b * 559 b. M.

Walden. 419 b † 532 a * B. 567 a †

Walderne. 562 b * M. 559 a * M.

Walgrave. 537 b ¶

Walker. 220 b †

Waller. 310 b *

Walles, or Wallis. 86 b ¶ 146 a † 340 b ¶544 b ¶M.

Walmond. 543 a †

Walpole. 391 b †

Walraven. 544 a †

Walsingham. 134 a ¶

Walter. 95 b † 419 b ¶ 540 a *

Walthall. 105 a * 212 a ¶503 b ¶

Waltham. 211 a ¶285 a ¶

Watton. 228 b *

Walworth. 87 b † 232 b ¶236 b * 555 b * M.

Ward. 554 b * M. 569 b ¶804 b ¶

Warden. 212 b *

Workham. 532 b ¶B.

Warley. 337 b ¶578 a.

Warner. 352 a † 416 a † 574 b †

Warren. 277 a ¶311 b † 580 a ¶581 b. M.

Warton, or Wharton. 419 b † 566 b ¶

Wase. 338 b †

Waters. 138 b †

Watford. 419 b * 562 b.

Wats. 106 b ¶139 b † 576 a † 592 a † M.

Watson. 221 b ¶880 b.

Weaver. 569 a † 900 a †

Webbe. 106 b * 158 a ¶ 589 b † 591 a * M.

Welbeck. 574 a †

Weld. 106 b ¶153 a * 290 b † 592 b † 594 a * M.

Welinhale. 567 a *

Wels. 88 b † 146 a * 193 a * 284 a ¶399 b † 429 b ¶562 a ¶M.

Wengham. 367 a †

Wentworth. 290 a ¶

West. 186 a † 228 a * 246 b ¶306 a *

[...] 314 a *

Westfaling. 773 a †

Weston. 562 a ¶

Westwick. 417 b †

Westwray, or Westrow. 597 a † 867 a †

Wheatly. 303 a ¶

Whitby. 211 a ¶

White. 91 a † 160 a † 241 a ¶274 b * 295 b ¶394 b * 309 a ¶ 484 a ¶572 a † 573 b ¶M. 583 b * 584 b * M. 586 a * M.

Whirgift. 355 b ¶

Whithall. 103 a ¶

Whitley. 538 a *

Whitmore. 96 b * 596 a ¶M.

Whitney. 779 a ¶

Whittington. 88 a * 244 b ¶256 b † 915 b † 561 b * M. 558 a * M.

Whorwood. 259 a ¶550 a *

Wiat. 351 b ¶

Wich, or Whyche. 218 a † 292 a * 565 b ¶568 b † 833 a *

Wic [...]am. 452 a †

Wicksteed. 879 a †

Widnell. 399 b *

Wiking. 571 b ¶

Wilford, or Wyfold. 191 a ¶228 b ¶548 a ¶ 565 b * 566 b * M. 583 a † 558 b *

Wilhall. 540 b ¶

Wilde. 553 a *

Wilkinson. 233 b ¶134 a ¶473 a ¶579 a † 582 a †

Williams. 179 a ¶830 b ¶

Williamson. 123 b ¶

Wilson. 277 b ¶309 a.

Wimbledon. 539 a * 542 a ¶

Wimborne. 542 b * M.

Wimondham. 554 b ¶

Winchcombe. 235 b * 303 a * 556 b ¶

Windany. 186 b ¶

Windent. 265 b ¶

Winderhall. 419 b ¶

Windsor. 324 a ¶

Winford. 257 a *

Wingar. 244 a ¶574 a ¶576 a ¶

Wingfield. 186 a * 460 a *

Wingham. 531 a ¶B.

Wingrave. 548 b ¶M.

Witchcote. 433 a †

Witchingham. 551 b M.

Withypoll. 239 b *

Wokendon. 360 b †

Wolley, or Woolley. 102 b * 363 a ¶777 b *

Wood. 123 b ¶169 b * 230 b ¶238 a ¶307 a ¶337 b * 485 a † 574 a † 806 b ¶

Woodcock. 303 b ¶308 a ¶387 b ¶558 b ¶ 560 a † M. 589 a ¶

Woodhouse. 333 b † 415 b 555 b *

Woodroffe. 152 a ¶b † 153 b ¶187 b ¶409 a ¶584 b ¶588 a † 589 a * M.

Woodstock. 87 a ¶

Woodward. 218 b ¶

Woolaston. 102 b ¶

VVorsley. 801 a ¶

VVotton. 550 b ¶M. 560 a *

VVright. 160 a † 597 b ¶

VVrithesley. 313 a † 428 a †

VVroth. 262 b ¶552 b ¶M.

VVrotsley. 346 a ¶

Y

YAle. 412 a *

Yaxley. 215 b *

Yeardley. 373

Yerford. 299 b * 578 a * 579 a * M.

Yevcle. 230 a ¶

Yong. 257 a * 346 a ¶ 451 a ¶567 b † 569 a ¶M.

Yorke. 245 a * 584 a †

Yowe. 191 a * [...]64 b *

Z

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The survey of London containing the original, increase, modern estate and government of that city, methodically set down : with a memorial of those famouser acts of charity, which for publick and pious vses have been bestowed by many worshipfull citizens and benefactors : as also all the ancient and modern monuments erected in the churches, not only of those two famous cities, London and Westminster, but (now newly added) four miles compass / begun first by the pains and industry of John Stow, in the year 1598 ; afterwards inlarged by the care and diligence of A.M. in the year 1618 ; and now compleatly finished by the study & labour of A.M., H.D. and others, this present year 1633 ; whereunto, besides many additions (as appears by the contents) are annexed divers alphabetical tables, especially two, the first, an index of things, the second, a concordance of names.

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— The survey of London containing the original, increase, modern estate and government of that city, methodically set down : with a memorial of those famouser acts of charity, which for publick and pious vses have been bestowed by many worshipfull citizens and benefactors : as also all the ancient and modern monuments erected in the churches, not only of those two famous cities, London and Westminster, but (now newly added) four miles compass / begun first by the pains and industry of John Stow, in the year 1598 ; afterwards inlarged by the care and diligence of A.M. in the year 1618 ; and now compleatly finished by the study & labour of A.M., H.D. and others, this present year 1633 ; whereunto, besides many additions (as appears by the contents) are annexed divers alphabetical tables, especially two, the first, an index of things, the second, a concordance of names., Stow, John, 1525?-1605., Munday, Anthony, 1553-1633..

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Editorial practices

EEBO-TCP is a partnership between the Universities of Michigan and Oxford and the publisher ProQuest to create accurately transcribed and encoded texts based on the image sets published by ProQuest via their Early English Books Online (EEBO) database (http://eebo.chadwyck.com). The general aim of EEBO-TCP is to encode one copy (usually the first edition) of every monographic English-language title published between 1473 and 1700 available in EEBO.

EEBO-TCP aimed to produce large quantities of textual data within the usual project restraints of time and funding, and therefore chose to create diplomatic transcriptions (as opposed to critical editions) with light-touch, mainly structural encoding based on the Text Encoding Initiative (http://www.tei-c.org).

The EEBO-TCP project was divided into two phases. The 25,363 texts created during Phase 1 of the project have been released into the public domain as of 1 January 2015. Anyone can now take and use these texts for their own purposes, but we respectfully request that due credit and attribution is given to their original source.

Users should be aware of the process of creating the TCP texts, and therefore of any assumptions that can be made about the data.

Text selection was based on the New Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature (NCBEL). If an author (or for an anonymous work, the title) appears in NCBEL, then their works are eligible for inclusion. Selection was intended to range over a wide variety of subject areas, to reflect the true nature of the print record of the period. In general, first editions of a works in English were prioritized, although there are a number of works in other languages, notably Latin and Welsh, included and sometimes a second or later edition of a work was chosen if there was a compelling reason to do so.

Image sets were sent to external keying companies for transcription and basic encoding. Quality assurance was then carried out by editorial teams in Oxford and Michigan. 5% (or 5 pages, whichever is the greater) of each text was proofread for accuracy and those which did not meet QA standards were returned to the keyers to be redone. After proofreading, the encoding was enhanced and/or corrected and characters marked as illegible were corrected where possible up to a limit of 100 instances per text. Any remaining illegibles were encoded as <gap>s. Understanding these processes should make clear that, while the overall quality of TCP data is very good, some errors will remain and some readable characters will be marked as illegible. Users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a TCP editor.

The texts were encoded and linked to page images in accordance with level 4 of the TEI in Libraries guidelines.

Copies of the texts have been issued variously as SGML (TCP schema; ASCII text with mnemonic sdata character entities); displayable XML (TCP schema; characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or text strings within braces); or lossless XML (TEI P5, characters represented either as UTF-8 Unicode or TEI g elements).

Keying and markup guidelines are available at the Text Creation Partnership web site.