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THE

HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES

O F

TI-EE PARISH OF

SAINT LEONARD SHOREDITCH,

AND

LIBERTY OF

NORTON FOLGATE,IN THE SUBURBS OF

LONDON.

By henry E,LLIS,FELLOW OF ST. JOHN'S COLLEGE, OXFORD,

LONDON:PRINTED BY AND FOR J. NICHOLS,

PRtNTERTO THE SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES!

AND SOLD BY ALL THE BOOKSELLERS IN LONDON, OXFORD, CAMBRIDGE, &e

M DCC XCVIII.

[Price Sixteen Shillings in Boards.]

T O

RICHARD GOUGH, Esa.

OF ENFIELD, IN THE COUNTY OF MIDDLESEX,

IN ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF

^ uHIS KIND ASSISTANCE IN ITS PROSECUTION^

THIS WORK IS GRATEFULLY INSCRIBED

BY

HIS OBLIGED SERVANT,

St. John's College^ . •

OS. 6, X798.

HENRY ELLIS,

[

St. LEONARD, SHORED ITCR

THE derivation of the name of this Parifh from the ill-

fated Miftrefs of King Edward the Fourth has no better

foundation than the following flanzas of an old fong, intituled,,

" The woeful Lamentation of Jane Shore," &c. which was,

printed in *' Dr. Percy's Reliques of Ancient Englifh Poetry*,"

from an old black-letter copy in the Pepyfian Colledlion-f j and

before in a Collection of old Ballads, 17^7, iamo|:

" Thus weary of my life, at length" I yielded up my vii»il ftrength*' W ithin a ditch of loathfome fcent,

" Where carrion-dogs did much frequent.

" The which now fince my dying daye" Is Shoreditch call'd, as authors fay;** Which is a witnefs of my finne

*' For beinge concubine to a king."

This ftory has, however, gained firm footing in the parifh, and

is efteemed by the inhabitants as a tradition §. In the window

of a -public houfe, nearly oppofite the Bell in Shoreditch, are tw(x

* Vol. II. p. 248. •f'Now in the library of Magdalen College. J Vol. I. p. 1 45.

§ Near to the public-houfe in Shoreditch known by the name of "The Jane

Shore," is an alley, called " Jane Shore Alley."

B; fmalL

2 HISTORY AND ANTICLUITIES

fraall figns ; the fubjedt of the one is this unhappy Favourite

in the height of her fplendour ; the other reprefents her when" unfriended and worn out of acquaintanc *," lying in a forlorn

ftate, and a baker f relieving her neceflities with a penny-loaf;

for which, as thisfalfe tradition informs us, he was afterwards '

hung by order of Crook-backed Richard, and the unfortunate

Fair perifhed for want of food. The only proof which I fhall

bring againfl this miferable tale is, the words of a contemporary

Hiftorian, Sir Thomas More, who tells us t? " Proper fhe was" and fair; nothing in her body that you would have changed,

" but if you would have wiihed her fomewhat higher. Thus" fay thei who knew hir in hir youthe. Albeit fome that now §

" fee her (for flie yet liveth) deem her never to have been well-

" vifaged ; for, now is fhe old, lene, withered, and dried up,

" nothing left but ryvilde fkin and hard bone."

This place is alfo fuppofed to be alluded to in the Vifions of

Piers (i. e. Peter the) Plowman, in thefe words:

" To the fortry of Southwarke, or of Short-ditch^ dame Eve."

But it moft likely received its name from Shore-ditch^ q. d.

Sezver-ditcb, i. e. CloacincB foJfa\ whence alfo the family of Sir

John de. Sordig (lord of the manor her.e) derived their name **.

It is called in old Records Sordig^ Sordicb, Sorejditcb^ and

Shordych\ is one of the 23 out-pari(hes of Middlefex and

* Sir Thomas More's Life of Richard III. edit. 1557, p. 56.

•f Though the fong afore quoted makes it a particular friend, whofe life Ihe

had faved whilft in the meridinn of princely favour.

X Sir Tho. More's Life of Richard IIL edit. 1557, p. 56.

§ Sir Thomas More wrote his Life of Richard 111. in 15 13, about 30 years after

the death of king Edward IV-

IIPair. XIII. fign. T. III. edit. 1561.

** Of whpm hereafter.

Surrey,

OFSHOREDITCH. 3

Surrey, named in the bills of mortality, and is fitiiated on the

North fide of the Touer divilion of the hundred of Offulton,

in the county of Middlefex.

This PariQi is divided from that of Hackney by a ditch,

leading from a ftone on the Eaft fide of Mut.ton Field \ which

ditch continues to the houfe of Mr. P.hodes in Kingjland Road,

Thence it goes through a vinegar-yard -'•• belonging to Mr. Cham-

pion^ and continues to Providence Row, where is a mark between

N" 21 and 22; then to the end of Mi Idle Mdor/ields, where 3

ftones are placed to fhew the bounds of this Parifh, St. Stephen

Coleman-Jireet, and St. Luke Old Street. At the ftone here, the

line turns towards Rofi and Crown Court by the Brown Bear

public houfe, continuing on the Weft fide of the faid court to

Crown Jireet, SkinnerJireet, Primrofe Jireet, and to the houfe of

Mr. Ruflel, dyer, in Hog lane. Here it turns Eaftward (joining

Norton Falgate), which it crofles to Mr. Read's, Calendar.

Thence continuing to BloJJbm Jireet, Shorditch is on the right

fide, and Norton Falgate on the left. In Fleur-de-lis- ftreet the

parifhes of St. Leonard Shoreditch, Chrift-church Spital-fields,

and the liberty of Norton Falgate, meet; where is a boundary

mark of each, and pofts fet up at the end of the ftreet, to di-

vide the parifhes. Hence the line continued to the North fide

of the church, where a mark is fixed on one of the gate- pofts of

the church-yard, continuing to the Hackney road (which road

divides Shoreditch from the parifh of St. Matthew, Bethnal

Green), by pafling the middle of the faid road till it comes to a

ftone near the houfe of Mr f on the left, where it turns

along the bank, at the end of which is a ftone belonging to

Mr. Bath's garden, to a ftone in the corner; from which

* Late belonging to Mr. Calvert,-f-

This houfe is at prefent uninhabited.

B, 2 ftone

4 HISTORY AND A N T I<Û I T I E S

ftone it leads to another at the Eall fide of the houfe of Mr. M/-

chell, a gardner, ending at the mark on the bank of Mutton-field.

It is divided into t;he four liberties of

Church Endy

Hoxton,

Holywell,

Moorfields,

Here are three ecclefiaftical, and (though formerly three *)

now only two lay-manors. It contains one parifh-church, fix

"Diflenting meeting-houfes ; and, in 1786, the number of af-

fejable^ houfes amounted to 1,890, the rents of which pro-

duced ^.21,200; though, in 1735, at the time of making the

fiarvey, the total number of houfes in the parifli was 2302;viz. in the liberty of Church End 402, in that of Hoxton 503,

in that of Holywell 767, and in that of Moorfields 630.

I. The Liberty of Church End.

The land-tax of this liberty produced, in the laft four years,

as follows ;

OF SHORE DITCH. 5

St. Leonard's Church, Shoreditch.

The original building was a neat old llru6lure, of Saxon

origin, the dimenlions of which, as taken in 1708, were,

Length - - - 75 feet;

Breadth - - 66 feet;

Height of fteeple, in which^

were 5 bells *, about

It had 4 ailes, a circumftance rarely feen in any church f.

In 1581, a gallery was built within the great door, and a

brick wall on the Weft fide of it, at the expence of William

Thornton t.

In 1617, a gallery was eredled on the North fide of the

church, at the coft of well-difpofed parifhioners§.

In 1630, Captain James Slade, fervant to the Eaft India Com-pany, built a gallery

|| on the South fide of the church, with a

long feat between that and the North gallery for the catechizing

of youth out of the pulpit.

In i67 5*-'-, this church was repaired, and the altar frefh

painted in 1700 ff; at which time forae rogues, having con-

cealed themfelves in the church, ftripped the pulpit cloth, See.

of their gold and filver orrice embroidery, &c.; which had but

juft been put up at the expence of Samuel Benfon, Efq, Whatvelvet was left was, however, employed in the new church J|.

* New View of London, 1708, vo!. I. p. 311. -f-Ibid.

X Dr. Denne's Regirter of Benefacftions, N° r. § btow's Survev.

IIDr. Denne's Regifter of Benefadions, N° 30.

** And (fay the Parifii Clerks Remarks, 1732,) nothing has been done to it fince

worthy to be called a repair. -j-f New View of London, vol. L p. 311.

II See Dr. Denne's Regifter of Benefaftions, N° 6^ ; and, for many other gifts

of branches, flaggons, plate, &c. &c. fee N"^ 7, 14, 16, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, zy,

28, 31, 34> 36, 51. 65, 68, 73, 75—80, &c, of the fame Regifter.

2, With

6 HISTORY AND ANTI QJJ I T I E S

With regard to the bells belonging to the old church, I find,

that, in one of Queen Elizabeths progreiTes to Enfield, flie was

much pleafed with Shorditch bells -; by which we may fuppofe

them not to have been an unpleafant ring, as her Majefty had

fome tafte for mafic.

In the papers relative to the conteft of Hanmer the vicar with

Thornton the churchwarden, concerning the houfe now in-

habited by the parifli-clerk, N" i t, dated 0(51. 13, 1589, I

find a Complaint of William Thornton againft the faid vicar,

" concerning the right and title of two tenements, fituate

" near this parilh church, which had been before given to

** certain chauntrie priefts, and other perfons, for the main-" tenance of the fame priefts. to fay mafiTe, dirges, and for

*' other fuperftitious ufes in that church."—It was alfo proved,

that the faid tenements were concealed chantrie land, but

that they had been employed as a fchool-houfe, and for the

meeting of veftries, and other purpofes during memory; and it

was allowed, that, about 50 years before (about 1540), a m^fs-

prieft was lodged in a part of the chambers over the fchool-

houfe by the fufferance of the parifhioners. And, according to

the depofition of " Thomas Haddon, of Hogfdon, set. 70 years,

" he knew the mafle-prieft, called fir Thomas."

This chauntry appears to have been given without licence,

and in mortmain l ; and moft probably by fir John Eirington,

as in the Certificates of Colleges, &c. 24, 126, in the Aug-mentation Office, I find, that,

* Nichols's Progreffes of Queen Elizabeth, vol. 1. p. 12.

f Appendix oi Records, N° i. Thefc Records throw great light on the Ec-cleiiaftical Hiftory of this Parifh.

J See Appendix of Records, N° i.

Amongft

OF SHORE DITCH.

Amongft the

"PocHiaS'i

Leonardi in

Shordice,

Lands, tents, and

hereditaments, ge-

ven, willed, and

âppoyntedjUntothe

Church by Sir i

John Eldrington *,

knyght, of the

yerely value of

viij y

S.

vilj

To the Kynge's Majefty in quit-

rents, viijs. ixd. oB. qu.

To Mafter Wate in quit-rent, xv s.

To John Butt in quit-rent, ijl.

To Will*" Bull in ditto, ijs.

To Sir James Stock--^

ton, morow-maffe-

priefte, for his fa- /-vijli. iiijs.

lary, with iiij s. for

his chamber.

And then reraayneth clere ijli."

3

*3

And in the particulars for the fale of chauntries in the

reigns of Henry VIII. and Edward VI. Ukewife in the Augmen-tation Office, 1 find the following Inventory of what belonged

to this chauntiy; viz.

« Pocllia S''

One grove of wood there of fix

yeere's growth, conteyning twoacres valued at vs. the acre.

The foyle or fprynge of the

xs.

L^' in Shorediche.-{ two acres aforefaid, rated yerely

Mem', at viijd. the acre, amounteth to

the fome of xvjd. ; wiche, rated

after xx yeare's purchafe, comethto the fome of xxvjs. viijd'._

'xxxvjs. viij 3.

Alfo, in the fecond volume of Mr. Willis's Hiftory of Mitred

Abbies, amongft the penfions paid, 1553, to incumbents of

chantries in the county of Middlefex, is, " St. Leonard, Shore-" ditch, To Thomas Stoughton, chantry-prieft, ^("5,"

* Of Sir John Elrlngton, fee amongft the Monumental Infcriptions.

The Reader will here obferve, that for this, as well as every other Extraf> fromthe Records, &c. in the Augmentation Office, I am indebted to the kindnefs of

John Cayley, Efq.

Over


Over the gate of the old church-yard was the mufic of the

looth Pfalm *. Above it was an emblem of mortality (a fkele-

ton lying at full length); above which was an hour-glafs, and on

either fide a flcull.

The pavement of the old church was feven feet below the

furface of the ftreet, fo that the cufliion of the pulpit was alfo

even therewith f.

About four years before the rebuilding of Shoreditch church,

a high wind carried off a part of one of the corners of the

fteeple J ; and about a year before (on a Sunday afternoon), one

of the corners of the tower gave way during the ferviee -time,

and caufed a great alarm §. Upon thefe accounts the Bifhop

of London obliged the inhabitants either thoroughly to repair,

or to rebuild, their church.

In 1734, the inhabitants having applied to parliament, an adt

was granted; purfuant to which, on 06tober 6, 1735, they be-

gan to ere<5l a tabernacle ** in the church-yard, for the per-

formance of divine ferviee -ff ; which being finifhed, the work-

* See the Copy of the Ticket for the Natives of the Parifli, which was en-

graved in 1694; in my pofleffion.

-f"Ek Inform. Dom. Kinder; who alfo gave me a farther inftance of the manner

in which the ftreet then lay; that, before the re-buildingof the church, the public-

houfe(the fign the King's Arms) had 3 or 4 fteps up to it, which now hath 3 fteps

down ; and that oppofite the door was a wooden bridge for the convenience of foot-

paflengers, the water in wet weather rendering the road impaffable. It is a tra-

dition in the parifh, that, about 1660, the old church went up two fteps.

I So that two of the bells might be entirely feen.

§ Ex Inform. W. Kinder.(|

Ibid.

•*'* Juft before which the old church was robbed of feveral articles.

-f-'f'This tabernacle flood at the back of the prefent ftruflure, leaving juft room

enough between for the men to work. It was very large, and had all the pewing ofthe old churqh, wiihthe pulpit, deft, clock, and two bells ^vvhich laft were placedbehind the door), &:c. ; and, upon the finifliing and opening of the new church, wasremoved to Aldgatc church; and, upon the opening of that church, was fold by the;

parifliioners to lome church in the country. Ex Inform. W. Kinder.

men

Missing Page

O F S HO R E D I T C H. 9

men began to take down the old church on May 31, 1736;in the room of which the prefent , light and elegant edifice was

ere(Ste4 *j .?nd opened on Auguft 34, 1740 f.

To this church there is an afcent by a double flight of fteps,

which lead to a portico of the angular kind, fupported by four

Doric columns, and bearing an angular pediment. The body is

plain, but well enlightened ; and the fteeple light, elegant, and

lofty. The tower, at a proper height, has a feries of fine columns,

and, 'oh their entablatures, fcrolls' which fupport as many Corin-

thian columns, placed on pedeftals, and fnpporting a dome, from

whofe crown rifes a feries of columns of the Compofite order,

on )the, entablature of which refts the fpire, ftanding upon four

balls, which give it an additional air of lightnefs; and on the

top area ball and fane j. Tlid dimenfions are as follow:

Length from Weft to Eaft 130 feet

Breadth from North to South ^ 72 feet

Height from the pavement of^ ^f . 1- TQ2 leetthe portico

j^

From the fftound in the vaulrl -

; .

'

-^ ? '

r . • > • 200 feet .- -under the Ipire

J' ' * ' '

,

. . .

'

* "Oil Monday,Nov. 15, 1736^ about twelve at noon, was laid at the South-welT:" etid of ;Shoreditch new church, by Dr. Denrie, the church wardeiis, and a few of" the principal inhabitants, the foundation-ftone, with this infcription :

" HaSi^ês in Dei cultum & honorenn,

Parochiani, autoritate publica,

fed fiiis fumptibus, a fundamentis refecerunt

;

Et hunc lapidem AKPOmNIAlON polliit

JOHANiNES DENNE, S.T,P, ecclefia? vicariusv

xv°dieNovembris, A.D. M.D.CC.XXXVI. -

Georgib Dance, Architcjft'o;

Gulielmo Gofwell. 1 ^-r •, ,,

n \ T^ .f>Artincibias."

L.?.rolo JJuno,J , ; '

Gent. Mag. vol. VI. p. 682',

Upon which occafion Dr. Denne gave the workmen ten guineas.

•f 'JVIr, George Dance,, the archit'dt,' died in 175 i.

X London and its Environs^ vol. VI, article Shoreditch.

G Heio-ht

lo HISTORY AND ANTIQÛITIES

Height infide from the pave-

ment of the communion-table to the upper part of

the deling of the Attic

Itory

50 feet.

The Eafl window hath painted in glafs our Saviour fitting

at his laft fupper with his difciples, all upon forms; Judas,

with the purfe in his hand; and beneath him is his portrait in

fmall reprefented as hanging upon a tree. The table is fur-

nifhed with a ftanding cup, a candle, a faltceller, two fmall

loaves, a knife, fquare trenchers, and the Pafchal lamb in a

difh. In the background are fmall reprefentations of our Saviour

wafliing his difciples' feet; Judas betraying him; his agony in

the garden ; and the parables of the loft fheep and piece of money.This pidlure was bought and fet up at the charge of certain

parifhioners *; and, in 1735, at the rebuilding of the church,

this, with the other windows, was cafed in wood pitched, andburied under ground. In Dr. Walker's Sufferings of theClergy f, I find that the i oth article exhibited againft Mr.Squire vicar here in 164 a, was, *' allowing the pidlure of*' the Virgin Mary, and our Saviour, and his twelve Apoftles** at his lall fupper, in glafs. In return to which," faith Dr.Walker, " it muft be known, that there was no pi(5ture of the« Virgin Mary in his church; of our Saviour and his Apoftles" there was indeed. The pariQiioners (which is owned by the" article itfelf) would have had thefe taken down, and a crucifix

" erected in the room of them ; but this Mr. Squire oppofed |."

* Dr. Dennc's Benefaflions, p. 14. N° 34. -f Part I. p. 69.

I Amongft other articles brought againft Mr, Squire, was that of having "Re-" moved the communion-table, fet it altarwife, and caufed it to be railed in and" gotten a purple velvet cloth for it." Walker, ib.

To

OFSHOREDITCH. ii

To this I will beg leave to add, that the figure, taken for that

of the Virgin, was no other than that of St. John, who has a

very eflfeminate face *, and fits next our Saviour.

On one fide of this painting is another (which was in the Eaft

Window of the third aile of the old church); the fubjedt of

which is the Reconcihation of Jacob and Efau; and under it,

" Ex dono Thoinffi Auftin, Civis & Clothworker, Londini,

" Anno Domini i634'f'."

The fecond light of this latter compartment is the vifion of Ja-

cob; the third reprefents Jacob on. his knees, with this fcroU

proceeding out of his mouth :

" Minor fura cunîs miferationibus tuis, &" Veritate tua quam explevifti fervo tuo." Genefis, xxxii. lo.

Over thefe, in four fmaller lights, are the Evangelifts, with their

proper fymbols. On one fide are the arms of the Clothworkers'

Company; and on the other thofe of Thomas Aufi:in J, Azure

on a chevron, between three lapwings, Or ; as many quatrefoils

Vert. Creft, on a wreath, a lapwing Argent.

The new church was repaired in 1766, and again thoroughly

repaired and beautified in 1792.

* Ex inform. Geo. Liraming.

•f This window, with that which reprefents Jacob on his knees, Were painted byBaptifta Sutton. Walpole's Anecdotes of Painting.

X See Dr. Denne's Regifterof Benefadtions, p. 14, N° 34.

C 2 Library.


Library.

In a room on the South fide of the Communion is a Library,

kft by the will ofJohn Dawfon*-, of Hoxton Market-place, bearing

dateO<5t. 14, 1763, to the; vicar of this parifh for the time being,

and to his fucceflbfs for even The books, which, together with

a catalogue of them, written by hirafelf, are all bound uniform,

amount to 870 f, and coft him 300/. 16s. He was 53 years

in coUecfting them ; from 1710101763.

' * John Dawfon was tht fon of James Dawfon (a native of Dew&ury in York*

fliire), clothworker of Leeds, whete he was born; as appears by the following

extraft from the Parifh Regifter:" Burgus 1 " It appears by the Parifh Regifler of Leeds, that John the fon

Leeds, !•'* of James Dawfon, of Meadow-lane in Leeds, was born Sept. 21,

com. Ebor.J " and baptized Oft. 7, A. D. 1692.''

* " Examined p Roebuck, .;V

' "Regifter," Nov. 28, 1723."

This I took from a book in his own hand-writing in the Library. Dawgreen, in

the parifh of Dewfbury in Yorkfhire, belonged to him, as appears by his mort-

gaging a part of it for £100. on Dec. 2, 1714, to Mr. William Walker, of Wake-field; and the whole of it for ;^200. to the fame perfon on May 20, 1715; to

•whom, 6n Sept. 13, 1717, he fold the whole for jT.gzo'^. He died about

January 3, and was buried at Shoreditch on January 9, 1765, He left money for

the chimes.

-|- See my Catalogue of them.

1 This Mr. Walker died on Oftober the 28th, 1732, aged upwards of 70 yeais, leaving the

Dawgreen and other eftates, belonging to him, to William Dawfon, coufin to this John Dawfon.

Views

Tl.lSl.pi3.

S H01B.BBITCH CjEWRCH, X.WTJ.T. '797-

OF SHORED ITCH., 13

,,., ,..> Views of the Old Church.

1. A We,ft, yiew * at the head of, a ticket for the natives of the

. parifii, which was. engraved, anno 1694.

2. A South-weft view of the old church, 1734, by Toms.

3. A South-wett view 0^ the old churdti, 1735, by Bernard

Lens ; in my pofleffion^.

4. An Eah: view or ditto, 1735, by, Bernard Lens; likewife in

my ppffeffion.

5. Mr. George, Edwards fhewed the Society of Antiquaries in 175aan, old, print of this church -{-.,

6. An Eaftj view of the old cJtiurch by Toms.,

Yjews of the New Church.

1. A p^rofpeca of the n^w church built by G. Dance, engraved' by Toms, 1740.

2. Ih-Stow's Survey, vol. IL p* 50, is a South-weft profpeit t.

3. A South-weft view §, at the hâd of a ticket for the natives

of the parifti an St. Leonard's day, engraved in 1736,

Surveys of the Parish. •

I. A furvey of this parifh was made and engraved about the

year 1666, which took in fir George Whitmore's houfe|I.

a. A fecond was made and engraved by Chaflereau in 1745,which left out, the ôz(/^; the ftory of which is fully re-

lated in the account of Balmes Houfe.

* Which has been engraved for thefe iketches. See Plate I.

-f*Gough'sBritifh Topograpny, vo). I. 540.

X Here given, fiom ibe original; Plate II.

§ In this is engraven the large flag-flalf, no kfs than 70 feet in height.

IIEx inform. G. Limming,

Some

14 HISTORY AND A N T I CÛ I T I E S

Some Account of the Vicars of "Sti L'eOnard, ShoreditcH.

The canons of the Holy Trinity, London, in the reign of king

Henry II, pretending a right to this church, that king, in a

fuit againft them, making it appear that it was in his gift, re-

covered the fame; arid, at the king's presentation, the biihoj) of

London conftituted one Walter de Witenor, parfon thereof*.

After this, kirig John, in the firft ye^r of his reign f ,granted

to William de SanSia Maria. Ecckjidy bifhop of London, this

church of Shoreditch near London, for the foundation of the

office of precentor, or chief chanter, in the cathedral of St.

Paul; notwithftanding which, after fome time, this churcli,

it feems, was alienated from the faid office of precentor (but

when, by whom, upon what occafion, or confideration, I have

not found), and appropriated to the office of archdeacon of

London ; who hath from time to time immemorial always been

parfon thereof, and always prefents the vicar ; and all matters ec-

clefiaftical in this parifti, in fubordination to the bifhop (except

in thofe parts known by the names , of , Norton Falgate and

Hoxton, which belong to the dean and chapter of St. Paul's), are

fubje(5t to his jurifdidtion. The meffuages, yards, gardens, &c.

belonging to the archdeacon of London, as parfon or redtor of

Shoreditch, contain on the Weft, fronting towards theftreet, 329feet, on the South 91, on the Eaft 250, and on the North to-

wards the church yard 191 feet.

By a compofition made between Dr. Theophilus Aylmer,archdeacon of London, as parfon or redlor, and Dr. Richard Alli-

fon, vicar, (and confirmed by the bifhop of London andredor Of this church,) April 6, 161 1, it' was agreed, that

* Newcourt's Repertorium, vol. I. p. 685.

•f-See the Appendix of Ancient Records.

a the

OFSHOREDITCH. 15

the rector for the future fhould receive all the tithes of grain

and hay, and all the tithes of gardens containing half an

acre or more, to wit, of fuch gardens only as formerly have

been, or for the future fliould be, made out of fuch grounds,

in this parifh as before the turning thereof into gardens did

pay tithes to the re«5tor; and all the tithe of brick, made, or to

be'made out of land in this parifh : that the vicar fhould receive

all the tithes of pafture, and all the tithes of barren and fruitful

creatures; alfo all the tithe of wood, and orchards, and gardens,

and the tithes of all gardens not extending to the quantity ofhalf an acre;

Alfo all oblations and other ecclefiaftical rights belonging to

the faid church; and all fees for marriages, chriftenings, andburials; and all other fmall tithes; but Ihall fultain all bur-

thens, ordinary and extraordinary, for the future, which havehitherto been accuflomed to be fuftained by the vicars of this

parifh *.

In the Harleian MSS. N" 60, is a curious illuminated vellummanufcript, intituled, " Taxatio Spiritual' 8c Temporal' Clerl*' infra Diocef London';" which, as far as I can ffnd, is copied

from the taxation of 1291, now in the King's Remembrancer's

Office, Exchequer f ; wherein I find Shoreditch thus defcribed i,

" Decanatus Midd^x. Spualia.. j^rc'

" Ardia Ecctia de Shordycfi — - xxj.

Decia _ _ _ xxviijs.

Medietas _ _ _ xiiijs."

* Newcourt's Repertorium, vol. I. p. 685;

\ Upon farther infpedtion, I find a few variations; and Mr. Lyfons, in his En-virons of London, vol. III. p. 440, makes the date of it 1372. There is the fameValuation of Shoreditch, however, in both thefe Manufcripts,^

Alfop

*' Pochia S''

Leonard! in

Shordiche.

Mem'.

i6 HISTORY AND A N T I QÛ I T I E S

Airp, Jimongft the CertifteateS of Colleges, &c. in the Aug-mentation Office, tempore diffblutionis monafteriorum^ 34* ia6.

aforeqiioted *, is

:

There is of howfcling people -within the faid piflie the

number of, ; Ef

' viiic.'^

'The decon of London is pfon ; and his patronage is by yere xIjlT.

And fir Griffith VVillyams is vicar j and his vicarage by yere is xvj li.

and the cure is fervcd by the vicar only.

And in Newcourt's Repertorium is, the following

:

" Onera hujus vicariffi

:

^Î. s. d.

Primitise - - - 17 o oDecirase — - i 14 o

Proc Epilc < TT- ,^ \ Vicar - .050Prpc' Archidiac' -

-|^ , , o 3 4Synodalia - - - " "

.

N. B. The kingdom of England, at the time of the grand re-

bellion, inftead of fo many diocefes, was divided into a certain

number of provinces, made up, of reprefentatives from the

feveral clafles within their refpedlive boundaries f ; in the 8^h

claffis of which I find St. Leonard Shoreditch.

* P. 6. \ Neal's Hiftory of the Puritans, vol. II. p. 225.

A Clofe

1323-

1368.

1368.

1382.

1385-

1397-

1409.1410.

1429-

1441'

i46ft-

14691481.

1524.

1543-1552.

1554-1-556.

1568.

1576.

i57>

Vicars,Walter d« Witt^nor.

John de-Walthara.

Wiilian,! ShortWopd.

Roger Depham.William de Dalby.

Geoffrey Smith.

Bernard Eyton.

Adana de HernirtgflKirCh*

Robert Bowmerfh.Robert Hoo.John Holborne,

John Chapleyn^

John Langleye.

Henry Fewer.William Vinour.

1 homas Tongue.Robert Spront.

Robert Weilers..

John White-

John Cowper.WilliaiTi Flefliraonger, D.IXJohn Ofborne.

pF SHOREDITCH.A Clofe List of the

and Patrons.King Henry II.

Richard de Afton, Archdeacon.

Icherus de Concoreto.

^

The Archdeacon of London, not named.

Adam de Hertington.

The Archdeacon of London,not named,

> Thomas de Baketon.

Thomas Stow.

I Reginald Kentwood.

John Snell.

> Richard Morefby.

> Richard Martin.

John Heryng.

John Young, Bifliop of Callipolis.

Richard Gwent.Griffith Williams,

John Maykebrayer, whoWas deprived. 7j^j^^^ Wimmerfley.

Robert Stoopes. J

William Mo vk. iO'' • -'

• John Harpsfield.

Jobi^ Dane*. -,,';,> ; 1 ,,

Nicholas ap. Evans IJaniel-f^.

> John Mullins.

William Ayleward, alias Confcience.

Gay Eaton, Sv T. B.

Robert Gharke.

.1 580., Ralph Maynwaring-i

1581. Meredith Hanmer, D. jCli-

Edward Vaughan.

Richard Allifon. D. D,

John Squir,es*,

AmbroJ'e Atfield.,

Jtihn Wickes.

Giles Pooky.D.D.Francis Stanley.

1592,

1596-1612.

1665.

1684.

1708.

1J2.0.

1723.

1767.

»779v

Bifliop of London, per tapfum.

\ John Mullins aforementioned.

The Queen, per literas patentes. •

The Queen, per lapfum.

William Hamon, Efq. pro hie vice,.

Theophilus- Aylmer.

Thomas Lamplugh.Edward Still ingfleet, D. D.William Stanley, D. D.William Stanley, D.D.Robert Tyrwhit,' D. I).

John Jortin, D. D.John Denne, D. D.John Hotham, D. D. _ .

John Blake, M. A. th€ prefent Vicar \ Richard Beadon, D(i795)' J ®^ Gloucefter.

* John Dane buried at Shoreditch, Oaober 2, 1563- Parifh Regifter.

+' Nicholas Daniel, M. A. had a licence to preach, dated Nov. 155®

Meiu. vol. II. p. 522.

D

D. now Bifliop

Strvpe's Ecclef,'

Notej

.

m HISTORY AND ANTIQÛItlES

Note,

In 1645, Matthew Clarke,! ,^- -/r r, *J^^ „. ,, , , M were Minilrers here >

1644, Richard Lee, J ,

upon the fequeftration of Mr. Squiers by the rebels ; but, as

tkey never received indudlion as vicars, I chofe to omit them in

the Clofe Lift.

Francis Raworthf was vicar here| in 1657.

Some Account of feveral of the VICARS.

Walter de Wittenor.

Mr. Newcourt mentions one Walter de Witen, who was canon

of the cathedral of St. Paul, and a witnefs, among oth^s, to the

* Parifli Regifter.

"f Spelt RaywoTthinKennet's Regifter and Chronicle, p. 518; where he is ftyled

minifter of Shoreditch, and this charadter given of him:" Mr. Ray.worth, a good man, and a man of good learning an'd parts, happening

" alfo, upon the unhinging of the Government, to fall into the errors of inde-' pendency and feparation ; proceeded fo far as to gather a church, and vi'alked in

" that way iwhile, in time became fenfible of the evil of it, and the mifchief it did** to the publick, and returned to the communion of the church of England again,*« and became minifter of Shoreditch." He died there of the plague on the 14th

of September, 1665 1|, where he was moft probably buried; but, as the parilh

regifter is wanting during this period, the hi\ cannot be afcertained.

INewcourt's Repertoriura.

IIMSB. in Blbl, Sloan. 886. Plut. 21. D.

donation

g jj I

OF S H O R ED ITCH. 19

donation of St. Nicholas Olave by Gilbert Foliot, bifhop of Lon-

don, to the dean and chapter of St. Paul's '••. Our Walter de

Wittenor was prefented by king Henry II. about the year 1 185 -f-.

'1^23. ' ' - John de Waltham

wa5 prefented to the redtory of St. Benet Sherehog, 15 kal.

Mar. 13,23 Xi having, been made vicar here on the 3d of that

month. He was alfo redor of Willingale, Doe in EfTex, whichhe jrefigned in 1334 § ; and oil 2 kal* Feb. 1 326, was inftituted

to the deanry of Bocking j|.

1469. John White

was prefented on May 11, 1468, by the warden, fellows, and

fcholars, of Winchefter college, to the vidarage of Twickenham,

whichhe refrgned. the fame year**;, and on April the 17th,

1469, was prefented to this, church, by Richard Martin, arch--

deacon of London.

148 1

»

John CoQPER,,,or CowPER,

was prefented on September the 7th, 1479 ffj to the vicarage

of 'Fulham by the bifhop of London, which he refigned in

14815 and on the 4th of July, ,that year, was prefented to

this church by the abovementioned Richard Martin. On April

the a8th, 148-9 J|,' he was prefented to the redlory of Little

Parndon in Eflex by John Colt, gent, which he religned before

L523; and died J)oirefred of this church in 1524.

* Newcourt's Repertoriura, vol. I. p. 231;•

-f-For more of Which, fee p." 14; and the Appendix of Antient Charters, N° I.

| Newcourt's Repertorium,. vol. I. p. 304. § Ibid. II. 667.

II,Ibid. II. 67. «* Ibid. I. 758. tt Ibid. I. 609. H Ibid. II. 463.

D2 ' 1524,

80 HISTORY AND A N T I QÛ I T I E S'

1524,, William Fleshmonger, 'D.D.^ •-

was a fellow of New College, Oxford, where he became LL. D.

in 1513 *, and fucceeded John Young archdeacon of London,

and bifhop of Callipolis, in the deaory of Chichefter about 1526.

He gave f the manor of Shering-hall, in the parifli of Takeley in

Effex, to the fellows of New College, Oxford; andjTaoo. towards

purchafing the manor of Stanton St, John's, in the county of Ox-

ford, upon condition that they fliouldbeftow annually in exhibition

upon twelve fellows j(" 12. He was a great benefaôr to Wick-ham's College at Winchefter; as a' writing there, dated 10

March, 31 Henry VIII, flieweth J.

1543. Gkiffith Williams

was prefented to this church on July the tizd, 1 5 43; andbecame rector of Hedingham Sible, in the county of Effex, onFebruary 4, 1551 §.

'

' / o....

There was one Griffith Williams, who was fellow of NewCollege, Oxford, and took the degree of LL.B. in 1552; andin 1552 became chan^êllor.of the diocefe of Worcefter; wasfucceedcid by Willaîm TumbuU, LL.B, J|, in 1553; but,

whether the farcie Williamis, who was chancellor Xo the biftiop

of Gloucefter about the fame time, remembered by Fox for hi$

ftrange and fudden death in 1558, whith. was ^fteem^d as a

judgement upon him for condemning a blind boy to be burnt.in

1556**, my author ôes not fey. i.j j!) .

* Newcourt's Repertorium, vol. I. p. 687. .

-^ Gutch's Hitory and Antiquities of the Oxford Colleges and HalLs, artide NewCollege, p. 185. ^ Ibid. p. 1-85.

§ Newcourt's Repertoriona, U. 323. .>

IIWood's Fafti Oxon. vol. I. p. 706* ** Ibid.

6 A

OFSHOREDITCH. xi

A GrifEth Williams was in 1560 collated to the prebend of

Norton in the cathedral of Hereford. He occurs poflefled of it

and a canonry in 1576 ^=*.

There was alfo a Griffith Williams inftituted to the firft

ftall in Glouj::eller cathedral, June 16, 1567, and died in

1573 t«

1552. John Maykebrayer

was prefented to this vicarage on May the 15th, 1552, but was

ihortly after deprived by bilhop Bonner as a Proteftant %,

1554. Robert Stoopes, A.M.

was prefented on May the 6thj 1554, and refigned before June

the 23d, 1556; and was on the lothof Oilober following col-

lated to the prebend of Sneating, in the chui^ch of St. Paul, of

which he was depri,ye;d before December the i8tb, 1559 §•

156S. William Ayleward, ^^//^î- Conscience,

was prefented to the prebend of Hampton in the cathedral of

Hereford oh March the %^d, 1560 |j; to the red?tory of St.

Anne, Alderfgate, on December the 29th, I56i:'''"^-; and to this

vicarage on April the 13th, i 568 ff ; although Mr. Willis in his

Cathedrals tells us, lie was inftituted here in 1556.

.'Bfpy/'De Wiljis's Cathedrals.'f-

Willis's Survey, 'vol. I. p. 74i*

J At tlae funeral of fir Ant-bony -Wingfield, who was buried ,at,Stepney oii the

icth of \|ûguft, i$S^> th^rewas a commjuniop; at which preached the vicar of

Sihoreditch, a Scot, (named Makebray} .if 1 miflake not, afterwards an exile-

Sirype's Ecclef. Mem. voj. IL p. 341.

§ Newcourt's Repertorium, J. a 1 1 ., ||

Willis's Cathecâls.

** Newcourfs Repertorium, I. 278'. -f-f-Ibid. vol. I. p. 687.

1576,'

ai HISTORY A N D ; AN T I QÛ I T I E S

1576' Guy Eatqn, S.J.B. , j. ni.

was prefented to this vicarage on May the 1 0th, 1576*.There was one Guy Eaton, Etton, or Eton, a Minorite, Gre}',

or Francifcan Frier, who took the diegree of ^B. D. at Oxford on.

January the 29th, 1534; and in the reigii of Edward VLbecame archdeacon of Gloucefter; but, queen Mary coming to

the crown, he left that dignity and certain fpiritualities, and

went with his companion and friend. John Jewel into Gerniany,

and Uyed as an exile at Strafburgh; whence returning into

England in the beginning 6f qUeen Elizabeth's reign, he was

reftored to his archdeaconry, which he kept till 1571; about

which time we find him ftyled vir plus &" eruditus -j-. Whe-ther this were the fame with our Guy Eatoil, I am not cer*airt %,

• - K^ '

1577. Robert Charke.

In 157a, the ait of the 13th of Elizabeth for, fubfcritîng the

articles was put in execution all over 'England,' together' with the

queen's injun6tions. The Univerfity of Cambridge was at that

time a neft of Puritans; and, amongft a number of others, I

find Mr. Charke was expelled from Peter Houfe §. He after-

•* Newcourt's Repertoiium, I. 687. -j^ Fafti- OxonieufeSj I. 686*

^ Dr. Denne feems not to haVe had any doubt of Guy Eaton,, vicat of Shorc-

ditcb, being the perfo'n who was archdeacon of Glouceftef. He mentions him' as

having been alfo prebendary in the fixth ftall in that cathedral', and admitted to the

fame in 1559. on the authority, as 1 believe, of Willis's Survey, vo^ I. p. 744..

He fays, he was admitted to the vicarage of St. Leonard', Shoreditch, May 10,

1576; but died the next year. He had in April, 1553* ^ licence to pceach.

Strype's Ecclef. Mem. vol. II. p. 534. He was, as archdeacon of Gloucefter,. in

convocation, Feb. 5, 15^2, and fubfcribed the XXXIX articles; as alfd XXIartieles

of difcipline; and to the abolifliing and altering of feveral rites and ceremonies.

Strype's Ann. .vol. I. pp. 290, 291. 304 ; and vol. II. Add. p. 15,*'

§ Charke, Chapman, Field, and Wilcox, were complained of by biQiop Ayi-mer to the Lord Burleigh, as- hindering unitj of quietnefs in the church.

wards

OF SHOREDITCH, 23

wards wrote a handfome Latin apology to Lord Burleigh the

Chancellor, who, knowing him to be a good fcholar, and in

confideration that he had been hardly dealt with, interceded for

him ; but to no purpofe *. He was prefented to the redtory of

St. Alban, WoOd-ftreet, on March 20, 1577; and on the 4th

of June following to this vicarage.

He wrote

*' An Anfwer to a feditious pamphlet lately cafl: abroad by a Jefuit, with a

*' difcovery of thatblafphemousfeft. Lond. 1579-80, Dec. 17." izmo-j*.

Which was anfwered in a pamphlet, intituled,

' *' Brief Cenfure upon the two bobks of W. Charke and M. Hanmer," written againft the reafon and proffer. Lond. 1581." 8vo.

This was faid by fome to have been written by one Robert Par-

fons, and, according to others, by E. Gampanius ; to which(faith Wood) Charke made a reply, printed in 8vo X'

'

He was buried here, Feb. 19, 1579-80 §.

1580. Meredith Hanmer, D.D.

wasTon to Thomas Hanmer of Pofkington, in Shropfhire, 'where

he was born, though Fuller faith he was born in Flintfhire ([.

He became chaplain to Corpus Chrifti College, Oxford : in

April, 1 567, he took a degfêe in arts; and, after fome time fpent

there, became vicar of this church, Dec. 8,15 81 *^* ; where he for

covetoufnefs of the brafs, which he converted into coined fjlver,

plucked up many (brafs) plates fixed on the grave-ftones, and left

*Nears HiRory of the Puritans.-f"

Tanner's Bibliotheca Britannica.

J Athenae Oxon. I.p. 306. - § Parifli Regifter. .

:J)

Eulkr's Worthies. Flintlhire, p.'sg.** Reg. Lond.


no memory of fuch as had been buried vmder them *." In 1 581and 1582, he took, a degree in divinity; apd on November the

4th, 1583, was prefented to the vicarage of Iflingtoo, which

he refigned in 1590; and, in 1592, or 1593, liaving. re-

figned Shoreditch, went to hêland, and at length became

treafurer to the church of the Holy Trinity in DubUn, which;;

he kept till 1604, when he died of the plague, aged 61 years, -j-.

Though, if we may believe Weever (who tells us he had it

from fonie of the inhabitants), he committed fuicide upon him-

felf|; by the halter, as it is yet traditionally preferved by fomeof the inhabitants §.

In Strype's Annals, vol. III. pp. 216, 217, tinder the oc-

currences,of the year 1584, is related the fcandalization of the

earl of Shrewfbury, that he had got a child by the queen ;.

and, among the witneiTes examined before the jury, writes.Re-^

corder Fleetwood in his Diary, " was one Meredith Hanmer, a. do6lor of divinity, ein-d vicar of Illyngtdn ; who dealt ias ieudly*' towards my Lord in fpeeches, as did the othei^, Walmefley." This Doctor regardeth not an oath ; furely he is a very bad" man."

In the Confiftorial Ads of- the diocefe of Rochefter, A. D.

1588—1590, fol. 40. b. is this entry of a charge againft

Hanmer:" Dr. Hanmer, vicar of Shoreditch, married Richard Turke

" of Dartforde, and Gertrude, the wife of John Wynd, without" bannes or licenfe.'*

He was efteemed an exa(5\: difputant, a good preacher andGrecian, and excellent for eccleliaftical and civil hillories

||»

* Stow's Survey, "vol. II. p. 54 ; and Weever's Fun. Mon. p. 427.

•f ArheiisB Oxonienfes. I. p. 279. fuller's Worthies, Fliatniire, and fir.Jeifles

Ware's Defcriptio Hibernias, p. 137. J Fun. Mon. p. 427.§ Ex informatione Geo.Limramg.

1|, Aibenae Oxonienfes, vol. I. p. 279.

He

OFSHOREDITCH. z^

He was married here on June the 21ft, 1 581, to Mary Auftin,

by whom he had iflue four daughters;

Mary, who was baptifed, Aug. 29, 1582, at the vicarege

houfe.

Margaret, baptifed Feb. 5, 1583-4,Magdalen, baptifed Jan. 8, 1587-8, 2X \h.Q, vicaredge^

Martha, baptifed Feb. 2, 1589-90*.He wrote

1. " The Jefuit's Banner, difplaying their original, fuccefs, &c." 158 1.

Lond. 4ro.

2. " A Confutation of a brief cenfure upon two books, written by W." Charke and M. Hannver in anfwer to. Mr. Campion's offer of difpu-" tation." Printed with the Jefuit's Banner, &c. Lond. 158 1. 4to.

3. " Confutation and Anfwer of the great brags and challenges of Mr." Campion the Jefuit, containing 9 articles, by him dhreded to the" Lords of the Privy Council." Lond. 1581. Svo.

4. " A Chronography, &c." Lond. 1585. &c. Folio.

5. •' A Sermon at the baptizing of a Turk." Lond. Rob. Waigrave.

1586. Svo. On Matthew v. i6 -j~.

6. " He alfo tranflated " The Ancient Ecclefiaflrcal Htftories of the firfl

" 600 years after Chrilf, originally written by Eufebius, Socrates.,

" and Evagrius." Lond. 1585. Folio J.

With which were printed

7. " The Lives, Ends, and Martyrdoms, of the Prophets, Apoftles, and" Difciples of Chrift, originally writtea by Dorotheus, bilhop of« Tyre."

8- " An Ephemeris of the Saints of Ireland."

9. " The Chronicle of Ireland, in two parts ;" the third part of which was

publilhed in 1633, at DubUn, in folio.

* Parifti Regifter-

-j- On the 2d of October, 1586, a remarkable fermon was preached at the col-

legiate church of St. Katharine by Meredith Hanmer at the baptizing of one

Climano, born at Negropont. This fermon is printed, and the Turk's confeffion

fubjoined thereto. Ducarel's Hiftory of St. Katharine's Hofpital, p. 27.

X The dedication to the earl of Leicefter, prefixed to the fecond edition, is dated

from Shoreditch, Dec. 15, 1584.

1592.

26 HISTORY AND ANTIQ_UITIES

1592. Edwari> Vaughan,

I believe, was the author of

1. "A Divine Difcourfe on Death." Lond. i6iz. 8vo.

2. " Method for undeiftanding the Bible, by way of dialogue." Lend.

1617. 8vo.

To whom he was married, I know not; but he had three

children baptifed here;

Mary, Aug. 27, 1593.

Martha, April 21, 1595.

Thomas, Jan. 21, 1596-7*.

And in the parilh regifter for 1592 I find, "William*' Vaughan, preacher, buried the 1 4th of January vi-

" caredge." Whether he was any relation to our vicar, I amunable to fay; but I rather think him to have been his brother,

Richard Allison, D. D.

was married here to Margaret Coker, widow, on January the 31ft,

1603-4; ^^^ buried here on April the 27th, i6ia f.

John Squier, M. A.

was the fon of Adam Squier, D. D. fome time mailer of Baliol

College, Oxford J, and, by the mother's fide, grandfon § to Dr.

John

* Parilh Regifter. f Ibid.

J He was looked upon as a learned but very fantaftical mati; (Wood's Hiftory

of Halls and Colleges at Oxford by Gutcb, p. 184.) He Was collated to the arch-

deaconry of Middlefex June, 1577; and died before 0&. 26, 1588. (Newcourt.)

§ This Squire's father was in fuch reputation with the bifhop, that he gave himone of his daughters in marriage. But how he proved afterwards, we fhall fee

by-and-by. Strype's Life of Bilhop Aylmer, p. 179.

Bifhop Aylmer bequeathed legacies to little John and Judith, fon and daughter

of Squire, that married his daughter. Strype's Life of the Biflaop, p. 173.

At

OF SHORED ITCH. 27

John Aylraer, bifhop of London. He Avas born about the year

1587, and educated at Jefus College in Cambridge* hy the

care of his uncle Dr. Theophilus Aylmer, archdeacon of Lon-

don, who on April the a9th, 161 2, prefented him to this

vicarage f. His diligence in vifiting the lick in this parifli was ex-

traordinary,

At p. 187, Strype gives the promifed charafter of Squire, the father of the vicar

of Shoreditch; and at p. 185, is an account of the friendfliip of two of bifliop

Aylmer's fons, ZaChary and Edmund, who were buried in Shoreditch church." Zachary Aylmer, fourth fon of bifliop Aylmer, buried Augufl; 3;" Edmundj fevcnth fon of the bl(hop, July 29, iSz-j." Parifli Regifter.

* Fafti Oxonienfes, T. 805.

f- Mr. Squier preached at Paul'si Crofs, in 1619, (fee p. 40.) a fermon upon the

fecond commandment, which, as Strype obferves, has a great deal of read'ng ip it.

Life of bifliop Aylmer, p. 191. He pabiiflied this fermon wi;h an epiflle before it,

containing an acknowledgement of the favour conferred upon him by Dr. TheophilusAylmer in prefenting him to this vicarage in 1612: " confefling it was he fenc'• him to the tiniverfity, procured his preferments there, and had been his patron" ever fmce."

A fpecimen of the ftyle of preaching of vicar Squire Ihall here be given in his

fourfold explanation of the etymology of Whitfunday; and to it is added, relative

to the fame fubjeft, part of a note from Wheadey on the Common Praj'er, p. 241.From a fermon apppinted for the New-church yard, by London, on Whitefunday.Page 3. " Our countrey and cuftome call this feaft by another name than Pente-

cofl, viz." Whitfunday, that is Whitefunday; the attribute White being annexed to

the Sunday for foure caufes; from the time of the yeare, from the cuftome of the

time, from the mercy of God to man, and from the mercy of man to man, i. Thetime is, tempus albi foils, a feafon of Angular funfhine, the funne having now th;;

clearcft or whiceft luftre: the time is therefore tearmed White-Sunday. 2. Thecuftome of the primitive time was, that this was Dominica in Albis: they ufed albis

vejlibus poji bapLifmum; thofe who were baptized were accuftomed to wear white

garmepts about this time : the time therefore was called White-Sunday, c. Throughthe mercy of God, the Holy Ghoft came downe on man this day (a wliite, that is,

an happy day for all Chriftians), rightly called White-Sunday. 4. Then alfo wasit the guife of the church (in thankfgiving for this great gift from God) to give a

fipall gift to man, white loaves, by way of alms to the poore: and hence alio it is

termed White Sunday. Let your firft care bee to praftife this lad point, by wayof gratitude for this great gift, on this great dayj give almes to the poore, as it

were white loaves; and (according to our homely proverb) White-Sunday fliall

rqake you white fonnes unto God, obedient children unto your Father which is in

heaven."

.-vj E 2 From

28 HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES

traordinary, particularly at the time of the plague in 1625 *

when (though he retired forae way out of town with his family) ye

he came conftantly to his parilh, as well at the weekly fafts, as

on Sunday, to his duty. His charity was very extenfive; and

he was held in high efteem by archbiftiop Laud. Upon the

breaking out of the rebellion in Scotland, he became a ftrenuous

champion for allegiance, to which he exhorted his parifhioners;

and this was the primary caufe of all his after-fufFerings.

The more diforderly part of the parifh got an order from the

Houfe of Commons, at the breaking out of the rebellion in 1640,

to have a lecturer, who (as Dr. Walker terms it) might preach

up faction amongll: them; but at the meeting of the parifhioners

to choofe. one, the fober and more honeft part of it (and who were

by far the moft numerous) chofe Mr. Squier. The Houfe of

Commons, however, " foiiled in a New England fellow upon

them," imprifoned, and at length fequeftered, the poor vicar.

The time of his being firft called before the committee is not

known ; but we find him once before them ori February the

1 8th, 1640; but for what does not appear. They afterwards

drew up articles againft him, which were prefented on Auguft

the 7th, 1 64 1. Upon this, however, his more refpedtable

parifhioners drew up a certificate in his behalf, fetting forth his

having been 30 years their minifter, his great diligence in the

From Wheatley's lUuftration of the Common Prayer.** Ideoque dies intelleftus dicitur Witfonenday, vel item Vitfonenday, quia prjede-

ceflbres noftri omne lac ovium & vaccarum fuaruni folebant dare pauperibus illo die,

pro Dei amore, ut puriores efficerentur ad recipiendum donum Spiritus Sanfti."

—

" (ôcum, fere ad verbum, confentit manufcriptus alter, hoc titulo; * Doflrina,

quomodo curatus poffit Sanftorum vitas per annum populo denunciare.' Et certe,

qucd de lafle vaccarum refert, illud percognitum habeo, in agro Hamptonienfi (an

& alibi nefcio) decimas laSiciniorum venire vulgo fub hoc nomine, the IFhites ofJQne.

Apud Leicejlrenfes eorum lafticinia vulgariter dicuntur Whitemeat."

* In which year there died in this parifti of St. Leonard, Shoreditch, no lefs

than 1995; of which 1407 of the plague.

difcharge

OF SHORED ITCH. 29

dKcharge of his duty, his conftant preaching againft Popery,

and arming the youths he catechized againft it; alfo the mifery

and ruin of his family, fhould he be deprived, &c. He was, how-ever, fequeftered on March the 17th, 1642, to their great grief.

His wife and children were turned out of doors, and himfelf

imprifoned, firll: in Grefliam College, whence he was removed to

London Houfe, and after that to Newgate. He at lafl: fettled at

Richmond in Surrey, where he kept a private fchool, read the

liturgy, preached every other Sunday, and died there of a quartan

ague on St. Simon and St. Jude's day, 1653 '''5 '^^^j according to

MS. Sloan. 886, in the Britilh Mufeum, was buried on Novem-ber the 2ifl:, that year. The articles againft him, and his an-

fwer (which he printed, together with feveral others, in 1641),

may be feen in Walker's Sufferings of the Clergy"f".

He became

M. A. at Cambridge, and was incorporated in the fame degree at

Oxford on July the 12th, i6q8 J.

He had two fons and three daughters chriftened here;

Judith, baptized Nov. 7, 1618; and buried here Aug*

24, i6i9»

John §, baptized Jan. 14, 1620-1.

TheophilusY buried here Aug. 19, 1622;

and ^baptized Aug. 17, 1622.

Margaret J

Judith, baptized Odt. 13, ,162411.

* Walker's Sufferings of the Clergy. -f Part I. p. 68.

X Fafti Oxonienfes, I. 805.

§ In Bibl. Sloan. 886. Plut. 21. D. I find the following entry:

" 1662. \Mt. John Squier, reader of Barnes in Surrey, died, only fonof*' January 9. J. John Squier, minifterof Shoreditch."

By only fon, I fuppofe, is meant only furviving fon,.

IIParifti Regifter.

Befides

30 HISTORY ANB ANTI Q^\J I T I E S

Befides the fermops already mentioned, Mr. Squier publilhed fix fermon^ * between

the years 1617 and 1637 ''\''

n- v" An Anfwer to the Articles" (of the Prefbyterians at the time of the Rebelhon)

" againfl: John Squires, &c. 1 641."

. .

He alfo left behind him in MS. a folio, written againft " Sanfta Clara;" and

feveral other folio volumes, intituled, " an Englifh Rhapfodie, or the Judgement of

" particular Men concerning the general Judgement of God in England, our civil

" War, &CC.;" which he had written during his confinetnent.

1665. Ambrose Atfield

was of Baliol College, Oxford; prefented to this vicarage on

March i, 1665; to the recSlory of St. Mary Sonjerfet, Odt. 21,

1676; and on Aviguft the 29th, 1683, to the prebend of Re-

culverland in the cathedral of St. Paul. He was a very chari-

table man, infomuch that in his funeral fermon J we are in-

formed, that he gave no lefs than £4.0. per annum arifing from

a Sunday evening le(Slure towards the ufes of a generous cha«

rity. He died in March, 1683-4.

1708. Giles Pooley, D. D. and F.R.S.

had been re<5lor of Wrington in Somerfetlhire. He died on the

1 8th of September, lyao.

He publifhed the following llngle fermons on

John xiii. 35. 4to, 1705, on November the 5th

,

Pfalm cvii. 2. 8vo, 1716, Thankfgiving after the Rebellion;—alfo, In

Phil. Tranf. N° 198, p 673, Ati Aecpunt of the digging and pre-

paring the Lapis Calaminaris near Wrington.

* Ex inform. Qeo, Limming.

•f-One of thefe maybe the fermon mentioned, p. 27.

Mr. Peck, in his Defiderata Curiofa, mentions a fermon by Mr. Squier,

preached at St. Paul's Jan. I, 1636, and printed at London in 1637, ^tq, intituled,

" A Thankfgiving for the decreafing and hope of removing the Plague."

% By Richard Pearfon, reftor of St. Michael, Crooked Lane.

1720.

OFSHOREDITCH. 31

lyao. Francis Stanley

was a fellow of Corpus Chrifti College in Cambridge*. Hevacated this vicarage in 1723, on being collated to the redlory of

Much Hadham, co. Herts, on the refignation of his father'Wil-

liam Stanley, dean of St, Afaph, archdeacon of London, &c.

who had before prefented him to this vicarage.

1723. John Denne, D. D.

The following account of him is chiefly extradled from Mafters^s

Hiftory of Benet College, Cambridge, pp. 277, 288:" John Denne, D. D. was defcended from a family of good note

in the county of Kent; which was feated at Denne Hill in the

parifh of Kingfton, fo long ago as the reign of Edward the

ConfefTor; and there continued in a diretSl line of male iffue

till 1656; nay, longer in the name, by the marriage of a col-

lateral branch Vincent Denne, efq. ferjeant at law with Marya coheirefs in the diredt line, in whofe female iffue it ended

in 1693." From this antient ftem fprung many flioots, that were

planted and flourifhed at different times and places tfiroughout

that county f. Whereof there was one at Littlebourne in the

time of Henry Vll. from whom came John Denne, gent, whohad the place of woodreve to the fee of Canterbury in thofe

* See Mafters's Hiftory of that College, p. 176.

•f-What concerns the antient and flourifliing Hate of this family is confirmed by

fome manufcript pedigrees belonging to it; and may be feen in Philpot's Villare

Cantianuin, pp. 207. 52^ 89. 94. 26 u 364. 385; Weever's Fun. Mon. p. 26;Collins's Peerage, vol. I. p. 386; Preface to' Somner's j^ iniquities of Canterbury;

and in a very remarkable inlcfiition on tiie South wall of the Temple churchj

\?vbich is printed in Dugdjle's Orjg. Jur d p 17.^.

parts.

32 ^ HISTORY AND A N T I QÛI T I E S

parts, by a patent for life frorri archbifliop Tenifon. Dr. John

Denne, his eldeft fon, was born at Littlebourne on the S5th of

May, 1693; and brought up in the free fchools of Sandwich

and Canterbiiry. He went thence to the Univerfity of Gam-bridge, and was admitted of this college under the tuition of

Mr. Robert Dannyeon Feb. 25, 1708; and afterwards a fcholar

of the houfe upon archbifhop Parker's foundation. He pro-

ceeded B.A. in 1 71 2; M.A. in 1716; and was elected fellow,

April 20. in the fame year. Soon aftet;, be took upon him the

office of tutor jointly with Mr. Thomas Herring, afterwards

archbifliop of Canterbury; and was ordained deacon on Trinity

Sunday, 17 16, by bifhop Trimnell ; and priefl, Sept. 21,

17 1 8. Not long afterwards, he was nominated by the college

to the perpetual cure of St. Benedift's church in Cambridge;

whence he was preferred and inftituted June 13, 1721, to the

recSlory of Norton-Davy, alias Green's Norton, in Northamp-

ton ftiire, upon a prefentation from the king ; but this he ex-

changed, Sept. 30, 1723, for the vicarage of St. Leonard

Shorditch in London. He was appointed -preacher of Mr. Boyle's

ledlure in 1725, and fo continued for three years. His next

promotion, immediately after taking the degree of D. D. was to

the archdeaconry of Rochefter, with the prebend annexed; being

collated thereunto July 21, 1728, by bifliop Bradford, to whomhe had been donieftic chaplain for many years, and whofeyoungeft daughter Sufanna he was fo happy as to marry in

1724. He was inftituted July 24, 1729, to the vicarage of St.

Margaret's in Rochefter ; but this he refigned, on taking pof-

feffion of the re<5lory of Lambeth, Nov. 27, 1731, through

the favour and patronage of archbifliop Wake. He was unani-

moufly chofen prolocutor of the lower houfe of convocation

in the province of Canterbury on their late meeting ; to which

office

OFSHOREDITCH. jj

ofBce he. had prefented bilhop Lifle in February, 1734; and

was afterwards his deputy therein."

The affiduity and ufefulnefs of Dr. Denne, in promoting what

he conceived to be for the intereft and credit of the j>arifh of

Shoreditch, were confpicuous, in his fuccefsful refearches after the

benefadions, and the application of them ; in the bufinefs of re-

building the church from its origin to the completion ; and in

eftablifhing upon the prefent plan the vegetable le<Sture founded

by Fairchild. His general character, and his fervices in his.

other preferments, may be collected from Mr. Mafters's Hiftory,

already cited; from Memorials of the Cathedral Church of Ro-

chefter,- annexed to Cuftamale Roffenfe, pp. 332, 233, 234 r ancE

from the Hiftory of Lambeth parifli, and the Addenda, to it*v

He died on the 5th of Auguft, 1767, aged 75 ; and

was buried in the South tranfept of the nave of Rochefter ca*-

thedrak

He wrote,

*' Articles of Enquiry, wFth a Letter to tHe Clergy Ta order to a Fa-" rochial Vifitatiou. 1732."

"•The Sntf- of Bromley CoUege in KentJ"" A Regifter of Benefaftions to the Parifti of St. Leonard Shoreditch i"

iirawn up in 1745 with notes, but not printed till 1772; 4to»

He alfo publifhed the following fingle fermons, on

2 Cor., vi. 8,. 4to, 1720 ; Ordination by Bifliop Bradford-f.-

Ifaiah xlix. l—4, 4to, 172.3; Vifitation Sermon :|;.

Mark iv. 3,0—3^3 4tOj 1725; Ordinatron, Trinity Sunday*

* It wauldrbe unpardonable here not to- mention^ with the greateil' gratitude ?.n(fi

rafpift, tlie obligations due to his fon the Rev. Samuel Denne, M. A. F.S.A.vicar of Wilp.iwgton an<3 D-arentk. in Kent, who- haa contributed much to the im—proveuient of -liiefj fketches>

•f-Preached in the chapel of Corpus Chrilti. CoUegCj, Cambridge-

\, At Daventry^ at the vifitatjon of the bilhop of Peterborough,.

I? ' jSSas

34 HISTORY AND ANTIQÛITIES

Afls xix. 5, 6, 4to, 1726. and 1737 ; Confirmation Sermon*. ,

1 Cor. X. 31, 410, 1729; Reformation of Manners.Matt. vi. z8—30, 4to, 1730; Fairchild's Lcflure.

Mark xvi. 15, 410, 1730; Propagation of the Gofpel.

Gen. i. 11^-13, 4to, 1733; Fairchild's Le6ture,

Deut. vi. 6, 7, 4to, 1736; Anniverfary Meeting of Charity Schools.

2 Chron. ix'. 4, 8vo, 1737; -Acceffion before the Commons.Heb. xiii. 7, 410, 1738; Confecration of Bifliop Herring.

Pfalm ]x. ic— 12, 4to, 174.0; Fafl: -{".

Matt. vii. 12, 4to, 1740; Spital Sermon.

I Kings XX. II, 4to, 1744, April ii; preached at Lambeth.

Ifaiah Iviii. 3, 410,, 1744-5; The Keligious, Moral, and Civil, State of

the Nation confidered X-

Pfalra viii. 4—6, 410, 1745; Fairchild's Leflure.

* Preached at Weftram in Kent, but dedicated to the parifhioners of St. Leonard,

Shoreditch ; whom Dr. Denne thus addrefles

:

" My Good Friends,

" Although the immediate occafion of publifhlng the following fermon is

" the order of the Bilhop, and the defire of the Clergy who heard it; yer,

" as it was at firfl compoled and preached for your ufe, fo I now dedicate ic

" to you, that I may thus ftir you up, and that you may have always in re-

" membrance the direftions of your Minifter concerning the right ufe of a*' moft excellent inftitution; which has often, through mifunderitanding or*' fuperftition beai fo much abufed, as not only to lofe all good efFcds in

," the Chriftian church, ,but to be neglefted and defpifed," &c. &c.

•\- Dedicated to the inhabitants of St. Mary, Lambeth, and St. Leonard, Shore-

ditch :

" I print this fermon, not fo much at the requeft of fome of you who heard it

" from the pulpit, as for the fake of thofe among you, who, though they heard*' it not, have yet an equal right to the firft religious inftrudion I can give them" under fo^fflifting a difpenfation of Providence, as that of our going to war after

" fo long and full an enjoyment of the bleiEngs of peace." &c. &c.

J Preached in Shoreditch churth, and dedicated to the inhabitants of that

parifli

:

" Though I have already printed two fermons upon the like folemn occafions as" the prefent, which I preached at my other parifh; and, though what I have faid

" therein may be looked upon as a fufficient admonition, or inftruftion, to yon in"" your duty from htm who has nothing more at heart than your temporal, as well as*' fpiritnal welfare; yet I cannot refift the afFeftlonate opportunity, wherewith you*' preffed me to put this difcourfe into your hands, that you might read at leifure,

" and with deliberation, what you heard from the pulpit; though, as I fear, too•*' many of you imperfeftly, confidering the largenefs both of our church and** congregation."

Dr.

OFSHOREDITCH. 35

Dr. Denne collated Hearne's edition of the Textus Roffenfis

with the original at Rochefter, and tranfcribed the marginal ad-

ditions by Lambard, paring, 8cc. &c. carefully referred to the

other MSS. that contain thefe inftruments, as Reg. Temp. RofF.

and the Cotton Library; and permitted the late truly venerable

Dr. Pegge to have thefe additions tranfcribed into his copy by

the Rev. Richard Hulband, minor canon of Rochefter *.

1767. John Hotham, D. D.

was born in Febrliary, 1734-5; ^^^ ^^^ ^^^ fecond fon of fir

Beaumont Hotham,^^ baronet, of the county of York.'^- In 1763,he fucceeded Dr. Nichol as vicar of NoFthall, or North Olt;

was for fome time archdeacon of Middlefex, and one of the

chaplains in ordinary to his Majefty; and married, April 11,

1765, Sufan,, daughter of Flerbert Mackworth, efq. of Knole

in Glamorgan/hire, by whom he had one fon, Charles, born

May 24, 1766. In 1768, he was^prefented by Dr. Jortin to

this vicarage, which he refigned in 1779; and, 06t. 13, that

year, was promoted to the bilhoprick of Oflbry in the, kingdomof Ireland; whence, on April 6, 1782, he was tranllated to

the fee of Clogher in the farne kingdom ; and, on January the

25th, 1794, fucceeded his elder brother Charles (who died

without iflue male) as a baronet of England. He died at Bath^.

Nov. 4, 1795, aged upwards of 60 years.

* Cough's Britlfli Topography, L 461 ; and Bibliotlieca. Topograpliica Britan-

nica, N° XX,V..

F 2 Ministers


Ministers during the Rebellion.

1643. Matthew Clarke.

I find the Committee for the Sequeftratbn of Minifters put in

one Matthew Clerk to the living of Streatham in Surry at the

recommendation of the earl of Carlifle on March the 19th,

1643*; but, whether the fame with our Matthew Clarke, I

cannot fay ; but am rather inclined to think that it is f

.

1644. Richard Lee.

Whether he was the fame with Richard Lee, who was pre-

fented to the redlory of Crickfea on March 30, 1660 ; and, on

the 26th of November following, to the rectory of Stanefgate

;

or with one Richard Lee, D. D. who was redlor of Hatfield

Regis in Hertfordfhire, and publifhed a fermon, intituled,

" Cor humiliatum & contritum." Pfalm li. 17. Lond. 410. 1663.

I know not.

1649. George Masterton

fubfcribes as vicar here on May the loth J.

* Walker's Sufferings of the Clergy, part I. p. 1 17.

•f-Qu.? was he the fame with Matthew Clerk, mentioned in Calamj's Life and

Times of Baxter, 581 ? J Veftry Book.

Curates,

OF SHOREDITCH, 17

Curates, who occur in the Parilh Regifter, Src.

John Haigge, died Aug, 1 577.

R, Gibbons, buried here with") June 2 8, J,

his wife Ahce, J June 30,^

In the parilh Regifter of St. Botolph without Bilhopfgate, in

1621, I find,

" Robert Ley, curate of St. Leonard Shorditch, and*' Ann Norman, the daughter of Thomas Norman, of

" this parifh, were married per lycence from Sir Henry" Martin, Chancellor, on the a5th day of February."

In Burn's Ecelefiafticul Law '5^, is the following long and curious

account of the fufpenfion -j- (for 3 years) of the Rev. Mr. Bri^gen,

who was curate here in 1735 +, for marrying a young gentle-

man to an heirefs under age: " According to canon 6a, no mi-*' nifter, upon pain of fufpenfion for three years ipfo faSlo, fliall

<* celebrate matrimony between any perfons, when banns are

*' thrice alked, and no licence in that cafe neceflary, before the

* Vol. n. pp. 383, 384.

•f-The Chancellor of London was, in his opinion, under the difagreeable ne-

ceffity of pafling this fevere fentence, becaufe the clerk Jibelled could not prove his

having enquired of the parties, v?hether they were of age; and that, if this hadbeen in evidence, and the, minors had anfwered in the afErmative, it would havebeen fufficient.

J This gentleman was the refpeftable Dr. John Bridgen, who was chofen Di-vinity Profeffor of Grefliani college, Sept. 25, 172,8. Of whom, hereafter, in the

Additions to Dr. Denne's Regifter of Benefadions.

*^ parents


' parents or governors of the parties to be married, being under' the age of twenty-one, fhall either perfonally, or by fuiFident

teftimony, fignify to him their confents given to the faid

marriage. Purfuant to which canon, about 1725, Mr.

Bridgen, curate of Shoreditch, London, having married a

couple by banns pubhlhed in that church, and they appearing

not to be of age, was articled againft before the chancellor of

London, (Dr. Henchman), and had fentence againft him, as

being guilty of a breach of the canon. Mr. Bridgen, being

a man of chara6ler, and it appearing that he was impofed

upon, the chancellor and bilhop of London were willing to

have mitigated the penalty ; but, upon a confultation at Doc-

tors Commons, it was agreed, that, the canon having fixed a

penalty without leaving it in the power of the judge to miti-

gate it, he mull: undergo the penalty of it. Then he pe-

titioned the archbifhop of Canterbury for a difpenfation of

the canon ; but it was agreed by all the civilians, that, as the

father had been at the expence of profecuting, and Mr. Bridgen

was convi<fled of a breach of the canon, he had a right to have

lawful punifhment, thereby diredled to be infli6led ; and Mr,

Bridgen could have no relief." To which I can add *, that

e publication of the banns was afterwards erafed out of the

)ok ; and that the father of the lady left a fum of moneyhis will, wherewith to carry on the profecution againft Mr..

idgen.

* Ex inform. Geo* Limraing..

6 Parish

OF 5HOREPITCH.

Parish Clerks.

A9

James Hurst, buried here July 25, 1561.

Hugh Williamson was married here on Nov. 30, 1560;and buried on Feb. 2, 1 596. He had one fon, who fucceeded

him. ^-^^'

'^-•

Samuel Williamson, appointed by the vicar in 1596; and

(as appears by the parilh regifter) was buried here on Aug. 5,

1609. Joane his wife was buried h^re on June 19, 1607.

f George Cottrel, appointed in Auguft, 1653, died of the

plague in September, 1665.Daniel Dodd, appointed in March, 1666.

Michael Tooley, appointed March 25, 1670.

Richard WinnIngton, who (as he ufed to fay) was iS

years of age at the time king Charles was beheaded j whichiixes the time of his birth to 1630 ; was appointed parifh clerk

in 1681 ; and died about 1724.Francis Cartwright, nephew to the former, appointed in

1726, died on December 34, 1751.William Burgess, iappointed June 24, 1752, died Jan. ar,

1784, aged 77 ; and was fucceeded by his grandfon.

George Limming, Feb. 17, 1784.

N. B. One Mackley officiated (in the vacancy between Win-nington and Cartwright) in 1725, and would have been ap-

pointed parilh clerk, had not his over officioufnefs in Mr.

Bridgen's unfortunate affair fet him afide.

Lecturers.

V HISTORY AND A N T I QÛ I T I E S

Lecturers.

1641. John Squier, vicar of this parillr*.

We have already cited from Dr. Walker his eledion to be

ledturer ; and in another part of the Do6tor's v^ôrk it is faid, that

Mr. Squires f was thruft out of the ledturefhip in 1641, be-

caufe he had preached againlt the Scots? rebellion.

Who the « New England fellow," who fucceeded Mr. Squier,

was, I am unable to difcover i but the aext le6lurer, of whomX find any account, is

i68S. Luke Milbourne^ M. A»

He was of Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, and afterwards redor of

St. Ethelburga within Bilhopfgate ; to whom Dr. Walker makes

great acknowledgements, as having received from him feverat

* See before, pp. 26, 27, 28, 29.

In 1 61 9 were publiflied in 410, two fermons; one preached at Paul's Crofs, De-cember 20, by Roger Lea -f. Matter of Arts, of Jefus College in Cambridge,

and preacher at Sr. Leonard's Shorditch, in. Middlefex, by London; another

preached in Paul's church, December z6, being St. Stephen's day, by J,ohn Squire^

Matter of Arts of the fame college, and preacher of the fame parifh. The motto,,

Luke xxii. 38, Ecce ! duo gladii hie.

•f-Anthony Wood, Newcourt, Walker, &c. all concur in fpclling it thusj but

in Shorediteh Regifter, &c. he always wrote his name Squier.

t The dedicatioH is to Dr, Moumfort,. canon refidentiaiy of St. Paul's, and fubfcribed„

"Rogerus !.£)."

ifaluabtar

OFSHOREDITCH. 41

valuable communications * relative to fequeftered divines. Heis mentioned by Mr. Pope, both in the Art of Griticifm f , and

the Dunciad j: ; is frequently coupled with Blackmore by Mr.

Dryden ; and his abihties are very candidly difcuffed in Dr.

Johnfon's Life of that Poet §. He died April the 1 5th ||, and was

fucceeded at St. Ethelburga by Mr. Emmerfon on April the 20th,

1720.

He wrote :

1. A whimfical Copy of, Latin Verfes by Luke Milbourne, B. A. in the" Lachrymfe Cantabrigienfes, 1670,"^ on the death of Henrietta,

dutchefs of Orleans.

2. " Myftcries in religion vindicated," 8vo, i69Z.

3. " A Poetical Tranflation of the Pfalms/' 1698.

4. " Notes on Dryden's Virgil," 1698.

5. " Tom of Bedlam's Anfwer to Hoadley," &c6 A " Defcription of Fame, in Imitation of Virgil's 4th iEneid," printed

in Nichols's Seleft Collection of Poems, vol. IV. p. 320.7. Twenty-nine lingle fermons ** in the following order

:

Acls XXV. 8, 4to, 1682; on the 30th of January.

Ezra iv. i—5, 4to, 1683; Thankfgiviog, September 9.

I Cor. xiii. 3, 4to, 1698 ; before the Lord Mayor.

Phil. iv. 9, 4to; 1699; Farewel.

Judges v. 12, 4to, i704j-Thankfgiving, Sept. 7. ,-;:

Zech. i. 5, 4to, 1704; Funeral of the rev, Mr. Copping.;j

I Cor. XV.- 19, 4to, ,1704; Funeral of Dr. Symfon.

I Pet. ii. 17, 4to, 1704; County Feaft.

Rom. xiii. i, 8vo, 1707; January 30.

Ifaiah xiv. 20, 21, 8vo, 1708; January 30.

Acts XXV. 10, II, 8vo. 1 709 ; Debtor and Creditor made eafy.

Rom. xiii. 2, Svo, 1710; January 30, ::;

I Sam. xxiv. 13, Svo, 171 ij January 30.Gen. xlix. 5—7, Svo, 1712; January 30.Rom. xiii. 2, Svo, 1713; January 30.

Matt. xxii. 21, Svo, 171 4; May 29.

* Preface, p. xxvii.-f-

At line 463.

j: Book II. line 349. t § Vol. II. pp. 77. 97. 171.

IILeaving one fon, Luke, born Dec. 3, 1684, and entered at Merchant Tailors

School in September, 1693. See vol. III. of the Probation Book in the Library

there. ** Cooke's Preacher's Affiftant.

G 2 Chron.

4^ HISTORY AND ANTIQÛITIES

2 Cbron. xxix. 30, 8vo, 171 3; before the Company of Parilji ClwkfeIfaiah lyii. 19. 21, 410, 17 13; Thankfgiving for Peace.

2 Sam. i. 16, 8vo, 1714; January 30.

Heb. xi. 38, Svo, 1714; R,oyal Funeral.

Prov. xxiv. 21, 22, 8vo, 1715; January 30.

Matt. XXV. 46, Svo, 1715; Conciones duae ad Cleruaf Londinenfcm,

2. Cor, i. 12, 8vo, 17 15; Concio ad Clerum,

John xviii. 36, 8yo, 1716: January 30. , ., , ..

Ifaiah i. 26, '4to, 1716; May 29.

Rom. iii. 8, 8vo, 171 7; January 30.

1 Pet. ii. 15, 8vo, 1719; January ô.•,;c'["''

Nehemiah ix. 33, 8vo. 1720; January 30 *.

He alfo publtHied a book againft tbe Sooiauaos, 121110, ' iS^z,

1720. Henry Wheatley,

chofen ledturer on May 27, 1730^ 4ied May 0, 1756, aged 69.

1756. Roger Shackleton,

ivho was chofen on May the 2 5th> 1756, having fucceeded Mr.

Bedford as chaplain to Afke's Hofpital 03 0<5lober 2 a, 17459 died

Aug. 30, 1757, aged only 38 years.

After Mr. Shackleton's death, the paHftii wiflied to choofe the

Rev. Mr. Day for their leititrer; whi«h the vkar (Dr. Penne)oppoling, g^d, they a,t length' Piiak-ing choice of him, Dr,. Sherlock

(then bifhop of London) wa$ at the QhairgQ- of ^ filiog an infor-

mation of trefpafs, in the name pf the attoxney general:,, againft

the churchwardens, Thomas Stallwood and. John Staple; the

conclulion of which was the fohowiiig decree- of the Court of

King's Bench againft thpm for; fgrcing Mr. Day into the ûJît;,

* Trîtlor) has B'^^^^."''A4 this atiecijQte of M^r. Milbourne^ thgt, after- he badpreachcfj in the forenoon of January, thp 3Qth in his church of St. Ethejbur^bwithin Bifhopfgate, he ufe4' to withdraw, to^ Shpr*.dilf;h Tcftry, and pafs the hoursin faftipgi^ till the evening fervice began.,

and

OFSHOREDITCH. 43

And faying that he (Mr. Day) fliould preach in fpite of the vicar,

the bifhop, the devil, or the pope ; whereby they were obliged

to beg pardon in open court, and pay all cofts of fuit *

:

" Wednefday next, after r 5 days from the Day of St.

Martin, in the thirty-third year of King George II.

<' Middlefex.

The King

verfus

Thomas Stallwood

and

John Staple.,

The defendants being prefent here in court,

and having now here in court afked pardon

of the court and of the public for the offence

whereof they are convicted; by confent on

both fides it is ordered, that it be referred to

James Burrowes, efq. coroner and attorney of

this court, to tax the cofts to be paid by them the faid defend-

ants to the profecutor in this caufe; and alfo to fettle the fti-

pend, or allowance, to be made and paid by them the faid de-

fendants to the clergyman who has officiated in the afternoon

in the church of St. Leonard, Shoreditch, during the difpute,

being from the i8th of February laft to the 35th day of No-vember inftant, inclufive ; and that, upon payment of fuch colts

and fuch flipends as aforefaid, recognifance be difcharged, and

all proceedings againft any other perfon relative to the faid com-plaint."

" By confent of Mr, Norton for pfofecutof f

.

By confent of Mr. Hale for defendant,"

" By the Court."

• Mr. Baddeley, the other candidate, made affidavit that he was in great fear ofIjeing hurt, and was obliged to go to the Robing Room for fafety.

"f- Dr. Nichols, Matter of the Temple, condikfted the bufiiiefs fot Bp. Shetlock ; ahdfir Fletcher Norton was the leading counfel. The decifion was of great importance tothe incumbents of all parifhes where there is not a leflurer endowed; for,th,atwasthe jet

of the queftidtl ; aiid luckily Dr. Denne had declined accepting the bequeft df Fairchild

for a vegetable ferraon, becaufe, by the words of the will, it was to be preached by thelefturer. The executors, however, of FgJtchild agreed to the plan propofed by Dr.Denne; and what that was will hereafter appear amongft the benefactions to the parifh.

44 HISTORY AND ANT J QJJ I T I E S

The following remarks on this profecution were communicatedto me by the Gentleman, to whom I have already acknowledged

my obligations for feveral particulars concerning the incumbents

of this parifli -; and, as he was fo nearly related to the vicar whowas with reluctance engaged in the bufinefs that gave rife to it,

the prefumption is, that he was well informed of the principal

circumftances, and that they would make a lafting impreffion onhis mind:

" Dr. Denne, in the dedication to the inhabitants of St. Leo-

nard Shoreditch of the fall fermon preached in that church on

January 9, 1745, expreffed the pleafing fatisfadlion he felt on

the good underftanding there had been between him and his

parilhioners, as well as his grateful acknowledgements of the

many civilities he had received from them in the courfe of morethan twenty years' connexion with them : nor was there any

interruption of the harmony previous to the conteft about the

choice of a ledlurer, in which he could not acquiefce without

injuring the rights of his fucceffors. Unhappily, the pro-

ceedings of the zealous efpoufers of Mr. Day were fo hafty and

intemperate as to prevent all conciliatory overtures of accommo-dation; for, after the fuit was inftituted in the bifliop of Lon-don's court, where alone could be properly decided the merits

of the queftion, it not being blended with any legal claim of a

temporal kind, that there might not be any interruption to the

ufual performance of divine fervice, the vicar readily confented

that Mr. Baddeley, as his curate, under a licence from the bilhop,

fhould, without any gratuity, preach in the afternoon; but hisi

entrance into the pulpit was indecently impeded by the church-

wardens, and the bhhop was confequently obliged to fupport his-

authority by an application to the Court of King*s Beach ; where.

* See p. 33 in noiis^

lord

OF S H O R E D I T C rf, 45,

lord Mansfield, who prefided at the trial, without hefitation de-

clared in favour of the vicar's abfolute right to the pulpit, as

there was not a ledlurer endowed," Of the advantages and inconveniences of popular elecflions

to fupply vacant pulpits much has been written ; and, if we at-

tend to the notions and fpirit of the age, it is not likely that the

topic will foon be exhaufted. In the Shoreditch cafe the point

of law was clearly with the vicar; but, as the litigation was

very dilireffing to him, and the more fo from its happening at

a time, when his health was impaired, and he began to be-

fenfible of the infirmities of advancing years, he rather declined'

talking upon the fubjedl:* From expreffions, however, whichoccafionally dropped from him there is ground to infer, that his-

wiQi was to fee the fame plan adopted at Shoreditch that hadfo well anfwered at Lambeth ; and not any caufe has there been-

to regret, that in that parifli, for almofl a century, this turbid

and corrofive fpring of contention has not been opened. If the

fcheme did not originate with the judicious Dodtor, afterwards^

Eifhop, Gibfon, it was certainly countenanced and eftablilhedi

by him, while he was redtor of Lambeth ; for he agreed, that

one . of his curates (and in that extenfive and populous diftri<5t

there mûft be always two afliftants) fhould preach in the after-

noon of Sunday, inftead of expounding in the defk ^^ the cate-

chifra, as was the antient pradlice. It was alfo underftood, that

all voluntary contributions for this purpofe fhould be the per—

quifite of the fenior curate ; and reafonable is it that a perfon^

who may for feveral years have been engaged in fo laborious a^

cure, fhould be. preferred to the junior curate;, and much more;

* At Shoreditch the antient ufage was for tEe catechift ta be in tfie pulpft ;.

Captain Janies Slade being recorded as a benefaftor, A. D. 1632, in having built a*

gallery on the South fide of the church, with a long feat between that and the Noith.--

galJery for the catechizing youth out cf the pilfit>.

4$ HISTORY AND A N T I QÛ I T I E S

to a clergyman, who, as.it often happens, is a ftranger to almoft

all the inhabitants of a parifll, till his name is announced as a

candidate for the le6lurefhip.

*' Mr. Day, the junior curate at Shoreditch, not having been

long in that ftation, the vicar was much hurt that he, without

confulting his principal, fhould have been the inftrument of ex-

citing a conteft fo warm and rancorous, in which, had he been

vidlorious, it muft have been to the prejudice of the fenior curate,

of whom the parifhioners had hitherto, and not without reafon,

entertained a favourable opinion ; and by the fpecimen Mr.

Baddeley had givfen of his talents, as a preacher, in the volume

of fermons he had publifhed *, he had lliewn that he was well

qualified for the office in which he wifhed to fucceed Mr. Shackle-

ton. Befides, the vicar could not but be of opinion, that the en-

couraging of a fpirit of party and rivalry between two clergymen,

who ought to be well affefled towards each other, as coadjutors

in promoting the tranquillity of the parilh, was not one of the

advantages refulting from a popular eledlion of a preacher of

benevolence and peace. In the part which Dr. Denne found

himfelf neceffitated to take, he certainly could not have been

prompted by any lucrative motive; for, whether the fenior or

the junior curate had been appointed; or, which, as circumftances

then were, might have been a defirable compromife, the emolu-

ments of the ledturelhip had been divided between the two cu-

rates, as long as they flood in that relation to the pari/h; they,

as the vicar's affiftants, would have been equally entitled to the

itipulated allowances.

" By the fuit in the ecclefiaflical court the vicar incurred fomecxpences, though much lefs than thofe to which Bifhop Sher-

* George Baddeley, B. A. reftor of Markfield in Leicefterlhire, and curate ofSt. James's, Weftminfter, publiftied twelve fermons on feveral fubjeds in lamo,1752; and twelve more in 1766, 8vo.

4 loqfe

OFSHOREDITCH. 47

lock was fubje(3:ed in Weftminfter Hall. The heavy charge

iuftained by the parifh will appear from the underwritten items,

copied from the churchwardens' accounts

:

r j-. ^^

*' In the Commons — — 160 o o" The Bifhop of London's bill, after the Mafter"!

of the Court of King's Bench, had ftruck ofF^^'go.J^^

" Paid Mr. Humphreys for preaching, while],

the caufe was depending j ^

jr.336 o o"

After which, there was no letSlurer, whilft Dr. Denne was vicar;

but, in 1767, Dr. Denne dying, and the rev. Dr. Hotham fuc-

ceeding, the churchwardens prefented a lift of the candidates, int

number thirteen ; three of which be ftruck off the lift*

Soon after which was chofen.

1768, James Grant, LL. D,

vicar of Kempfton in Bedfordftiire; and ith June-,:' ^795f in-

ftituted to the re<51:ory of Garforth in the county of York, by

W. F. Scot, efq.

He was the author of

Sixteen fermons in 8vo, 1775, on- Taarous- fubj^s j- and one ffngle ferrxioa-

on Pfalm Ivi. 7, 8vo, 1777, Faft.

He refigned on, February 12, 1796, when the, floodgates of

tli^t rajii^ a^^d deftrut^Lve torrent, vsfkich muft eyei,' rufl^ frpni; a

popular; ele6îan, to a pulpit ini a pari-ih la.exteniive, were, opened ;.,

and on Tue0ay, Feb, 23, the, books containing the names, de--

grees>, ajgi.d ,colleges, of the cajia!di4atest beiu^ clofed^ ,a. lift, was

mfertedi

48 HISTORY AND ANTI CÛ I T I E S

iaferted in a letter to the vicar for his approbation, who returned

an anfwer in the following words, having previoufly dafhed hUpen iuvertedly through the names of

Rev. Geo. Pattrick, LL.B.

;

Rev. Cavalier Jouet

;

Rev. W. Jarvis Abdy, B. A.

;

Rev. Jofeph Cuthbert, M. A.

;

Rev Buchanan, B, A.

*' SirJS. Molton, February %^, 1796.

" / received your letter to-day^ inclofing a lift of gentlemen as

*' candidates for the vacant leBureJhip of my pari/h; alfo a pro-

" pojition to have a joint leBurepip. Tthe latter I totally difapprove

" of\ and, in purfuance of my predeceffor Dr. Hothanis plan,

*' have Returned a lijl of Jix gentlemen (and who are equally alike

" to me), from which the gentlemen of the pari/h may make their

** choice.

" I antj Sir,

" Tour faithful humble Servant*'

J. Blake.'' Rev. y. Cope Weflcott,

J, Jofeph Ellis,

;

JV, Wilmot Kimpton^

John Armflrong, *

John Robinfon,

'Thomas Walker^

Every candidate thus excluded, Mr. Pattrick excepted, refigned

with becoming decency. The zealous efpoufers of Mr. Pattrick,

who refufe the communion of the church of England, yet claim

a right of depriving its conftant attendants of their moft im-

portant privilege by endeavouring to impofe upon them a partizan

of

OF SHOREDITCH. 49

of their own; and in thus ading have not only fliewn great

impropriety of conduct, but have been, to ufe their own ex-

preffion, *' deplorably" tumultuous. In oppofition to the vicar's

deciiion, thefe invaders of the church's happinefs determined to

ftand the poll ; which if the churchwardens upon application

would not take in compliance to their wilh, they themfelves

in defiance to all order had purpofed to receive. They (the

churchwardens), for the purpofe of preferving a decorum con-

fonant to the feelings of thofe of the Eftablilhed Church, con-

fented ; and,

On March 17, the poll commenced, finally doling on the

19th, when the numbers were as follow:

Mr. Pattrick - 947Ellis - - 357Wellcott - 132Armftrong - 45Kimpton - 14

Walker - - i

Upon the churchwardens refufing to declare Mr. Pattrick duly

eleiled, a fcene of confufion immediately enfued, actuated bythe fupporters of Mr. P. whofe condiidt muft ever remain a

Handing mark of indecency and violence on the annals of their

parifh ; for, fcarcely to be credited, from their premeditated in-

tentions, the upper warden providentially efcaped with liis life, al-

though with the ftricleft propriety he had fulfilled his office.

From this time the parifhioners were continually difturbed by the

frequent diftribution of hand- bills containing illiberal infinuations,

until the 2d of April, when the vicar appointed

Rev. John Joseph Ellis, M. A;

the firft upon the lift returned, to take the pulpit.

H For

so HISTORY AND ANTIQ_UITIES

For an account of the redtqrs of this parifli, fee Newcourt's

Repertorium, article Archdeacons of London.

Monuments in the Old Church.

OF thefe but. few remained in the time of Stow and Weever;

the latter of whom, with great indignation, tells a ftory of Dr.

Hanmer,^ vicar here from 1581 to 1592, upon the credit of

the inhabitants of Shoreditch, by no means likely to endear his

memory to an Antiquary; that, while he was vicar of this pa-

rifl.1, he ftripped the tombs of their brafs figures, which he con-

verted into coin for his own ufe *.

Mr. Thorpe, in his preface to his " Cuftumale RofFenfe,'*

fays, *' The adt of the 5d and 4th of Edward VI. was produdlive

of the ruin of great numbers of fepulchral braffes and other

ecclefiaftical remains of antiquity; nor could the proclamation,,

iffued by queen Elizabeth to reftrain thefe flagrant abufes, totally

prevent their being defaced and torn away at times by the hands.

of mechanics and other perfons, as honeil John Weever hath,

remarked

:

* WeevetV Fun. Mon. p. 427. See alfo Lyfons'sEmfirons of London, 11. 148..

" Finally,

--yiwiUMftefiâ l^îereaa{n,^\^fi^'^jû/<e^, ajO/t^-Ûi/ca^nd S^fm/y. ^

^

^

^

OF SHOREDITCH. 51

"« Finally, the dreadful havock made of them by the fanatical

mifcreants in the time of the great rebellion had well nigh com-pleted their deftru<Stion. Thefe memorials, belldes accuratenefs,

were brief, pious, and void of oftentatious encomiums on the

deceafed."

Of the monuments in the old church, the infcriptions were

copied by Stow and Weever ; and in the Britifh Mufeum, Bibl,

Harl. 1096*, are copies of the epitaphs in the churches of St.

Maiy Magdalen Old Fifli Street, St. Nicholas Cold Abbey, St.

Michael Royal and Queenhithe, St. Mary Moimthaw and So-

merfet, St. Nicholas Olaves, St. Leonard Shoreditch, and St.

Catharine Colman ; which were " begun to be taken the 25th

of May, 1597." Several of thofe from St. Leonard Shoreditch

may be feen in the following account f :

On the North fide of the altar, on an altar tomb, was the

figure of fir John Elrington, Knight of the Bath, in cropped

hair, plated armour, and gorget of mail. On the fhoulders and

front of his tabard his arms; Argent, on a fefs wavy Sable be-

tween five heathcocks Sable fix plates. At his feet, a grey-

hound looking up to him ; his helmet under his head. By him

* Ai'airer copy of this MS, wherein the armorial bearings are tricked in a neater

manner, may be fben in Harl. MS. 6072.

JC Mr. LethieuUier ftiewed the Society of Antiquaries, 1739, fir Charles Fre-

derick's drawing of a plan of the old chnrch of St. Leonard, Shoreditch ; monu-ments of fir John Elrington, treafurer of the houfehold, K. B. on the marriage of

Richard, duke of York, fecond fon of Edward IV. 1477, and Lady, 1481, in a

North aile chapel ; alfo its Eaft window, with their arms and a figure of St. George ;

brafs of fir Thomas Leigh, knight, 1455, fixed againfl: the North wall, the in-

fcriptlon in Stowe gone; tomb 'of Catharine, wife of Thomas earl of Rutland,

1551 ; Mary, wife of Henry earl of Rutland, 1560; Catharine, daughter of Henryearl of Weftmorland, and wife of fir John Conllable, 1590; fir Thomas Manners,

1 59 1, and Oliver Manners, 1563, both fons of the earl of Kent")-.'

Thefe (ketches (except the plan, and the Rofs monument which is in Mr. Nichols's

Leicefterfhire), having fince fallen into the hands of Mr. Gough (who rather fuppofes

them to have been drawn by Vertue), are here engraved in Plates IIL and IV.

t Gough's Bridfli Topography, vol, I. p. 567.

H 2 was

52 HISTORY AND ANTIOJIITIES

was his lady in a flat head-drefs with a ftudded frontlet, mantle

(the cape adorned with double crofles patee, and fattened by a

double cordon), furcot, and belt: a little dog at her feet, and

angels fupporting the cufhion under her head. At the fide of the

tomb fix niches, in which were contained as many figures ; of which

only two remained when the drawing was taken (i 735)> and thofe

very much mutilated. On the tomb were his arms, as before

given, impaling on a bend three fleurs de lis. Ichingham.

Weever * hath given us this infcription :

" <!El,i!i5BB4B3t:<©i^ \, mabo m\tf^

€t JEargactta conjuf

;§it pietatc 5Bei Sita pecijennijS ci,

3IU €. quater jc femel .... ^ ....."

In the Eaft window of the North aile, or the chantry chapel

belonging to this family, was the portrait of St. George, his crofs

on his furcot, and on the pennon which he held in his right

hand ; and in the front of the window, over his head, the arms

* Funeral Monuments, p. 42.7.

•^ Under this defaced monument, fir John Elrfngton, knight, with Margarethis wife, daughter and heir to Thomas Lord Ichingham, widow to William Blounr,

fon and heir to Walter Blounr, fiifl lord Mountjoy, lye entombed. Weever'sFun. Mon. 427. Which Margaret died in 1481. Stow, 11. 50. Sir John El-

rington was ireafurer of the houfehold to Edward IV. (Pat. 14 Edw. IV. p. 2-,

MS. Kennet) fteward and bailiff of the lordflilp of Enfield, and " niaifter of the

"game," as well in the park as in the chace there. Harl. MS. 433. f. 30. And at

fol. 122. of the fame MS. is a " commiffion" (from king Richard ill.) " for fir John" Elrington to feaze to the king's ufe the lordlhip of South Mymmes, and all other*• lands late belonging to his rebelle and traitour Thomas Le>vkenor, knight. Yoveii" the 8th day of November, a° primo." Mr. DalUway, in his Heraldic Enquiries,

faith, •' Item, that on the year of our Lord i486 the king kept his Chriftmas at-

** Windfor;. amongft other gifts at which time was fir John Elrington's, ôs"Weever (Fun. Mon. p. 537O mentions an infcription at Hackney for " John

*' Elryngton, fylycer of London, and keeper of the records of the common pleas," who departed 1501;" perhaps fon of our fir John Elrington ; amiin the Parifti Regifler there I find this entry : " Elizabeth Elldringeton, the daughter" of JahnEldringeton was chrijlened the xxx^^ daye of Jpiill, 1613;" probably anotherdefcendant of the fame-family. Norden's Middlefes (Harl. MS. ff7o.) mentions this,

family as anciently of. Neefdon in that county..

of

Missing Page

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of Elrington; impaling, Azure frette ; which may have belonged

to another wife of fir John, or to the next heir of another

branch of his family *.

On the South fide, in a chapel of brais

:

" tic jacent gjoijanne.^ «5a&De f. quonaam citi^ et ^cjbacman

" ItontJDii. ; ©Hi ob. . . . . . oie vcmU an. 2&om. 3Ha.C€CC°.—€t" anna, rxfti mi, quae ob. pcimo Die menf- 3!an. an. ©om»

The prayer for their fouls defaced %.

" (©rate pzo ailBiS jlumftptii .t>ta2fecp §, milttf^K

" nup Capitali^ 2Baroni^ Oe ^t&tcs.m tii%\i \" et gjCabelte

||ujrojis! ejuji, ct omnium araicor

" fuor ; qucr animabu:^ pzopicietur gêuj!. amen/' **

Stowe calls this an ancient marble tomb in the choir.

Againft the wall of the North aile was a brafs plate with the-

figure of a man kneeling, bare-headed, in curled hair and plated

armour : on his tabard, quarterly i .. and 4, on a fefs, three crofs^

crofllets fitche; 3.^ and 3, barry of 6 on a dexter canton, a.

* In Harl. MS. 109(5, I find thefe arms; a chevron Sable between three crofs

erofflets, quartering the fame number of boars' heads; and" <PKate p?a animabu:» iDiHmi Jgiingcrfcrd et aiicie ujrojisf, qui iflam fcnett.'am ffce.nint,"

From which I conclude, that both the arms and infcription were formerly painted'

on glafs in one of the windows. Thefe are not the arms of the noble family ofHungerford, nor of that branch of them fettk-d at Chelfea in Middlefex. See:

Lyfons, II. 98.-j- One Richard Gadde " of &hordyche'' was executor to the will of Elizabeth'

Roliyfley (mother to Mary laft priorefs of St. Helen's within Biftiopfgate), bearing,

date Auguft 22, 5 Hen. VIII. (Madox, Form. 783.); who might pofTibly be foil'

to John Gadde here mentioned. \ Stow's Survey, 11. 51.

§ Sir Humphfey Starky was created' Serjeant at Law 17 E. IV. 1478, aird'con-

llituted cliicf baron of the Exchequer, June 26, 1484. (Pat i Edw. V. m. 2.)

*'.He was defcended from the Starkies of Wrenbery and Oulton in Chefhire, and'

lies entombed under a fair monument in the parifli church of St. Leonard, Shore-ditch, in London, which the injuries of time, and impious mechanics together, have-

much impaired." Philipot's Kent, p. 374.

11Daughter and coheir of —r— Weldon, by whom Sir H. left four daughters

his coheirs. ** Harl. MS. 1096. Arms: Sable, a ftork proper.^

Various Reading,' Siow and Weever read " domini regis Jicnrici Sepimu"

mulii£S*

54 HISTORY AND ANTI CLU I T I E S

mullet. Over his head a brafllefs figure, as of the Deity; and

under him this infcription

;

*' idejeunDcj fie"" ttie afijc^ anti tlje tonesS

<©fM 2ri)oma^ %ti^ ^ tjjat gooti ano tuojtljp *= MmhU .

i©l30fc Jjaftji deatij, alaji, tlje «Bnti[p flill bemoaned,

CljDugi) Ibi^ foul alliaapiS rejoice in <!Bob'^ Cgtit ''.

•<!52eat VoaiS JjiiS isi^'Dom % anD ' ^nsXzi toa.si |i]i^ toit,

Sdi^ tifage comelp, Suit}) ^ no faa cijange s bifmapeo

:

ja .iftan in aK affair^, a ftina ^ to fe:tic moft fit,

tao not 35eatt) fo foon })i^ m02taf life betrajeb '.

l|e Dieb'' tlje zftJ) bap of Bobembcr, anno ©omini 1545." *

On an antient marble tomb in the chancel was this infcription

(Harl. MS. 1096.):" *©f pour cjjajitpc prap for tlje foule of ^' CtiomaiS

<§epmoje, iKniBtit, late aibcrman anb A®ajor

nf 3Lonbon, anb 3Bame lEarp JjijS toife ; ^t toljicl)

<Sir arijoma^ beccaCeb tije j:jt!b of ©cfembcr,

in tije peajc of ou2e 1L02b oBob, 153a; one tei})OCe

fotoie Siefu î!az mcjcp." ^

In the North wall

:

" ileje unber lepetl) ItoBt âap ionge ",

anb M'&ims fei^ îfe, anb jSicjjarb

ilârp Monge iiiS fonne, ^lijabeti) anb

Haajgajet jbi^ toibe.s Cometpme botJ)

proboG^ of tt)e Jlting'^ mint tditlj in

tjje acotoer of Eonbon ; toJjici) iliitljara

tarpe gonge beccafeb ttie 23- bap

of auguU, 1545"."

* Stow's Survey.

Various Readings.' lytth. Harl. MS. 1096. *• Leiye. Harl. MS. 1096.* learned. Ibid.; and New View of London, 1708,1. 315. ^ %^/. Ibid.

' ivorjhip, but. Ibid. ^ which. Ibid. ^chance. Ibid. ^ Knighte. Ibid.

' bewreathed. Ibid. '^ New View of London, I. 315, faith, " 0^. 1616."

* Stowe's Survey, II. 51, reads, "Here lieth the body of Sir Thomas Seymer,

" knight, late alderman and lord mayor of London, and dame Mary his wife. The"which Sir Thomas deceafed the nth day of December, anno Domini 1532.."

Sir Thomas Seamer (for fuch is the true orthography of his name) was lord mayor

of Lond'. n in 1526. His arms were, Party per pale. Argent and Sable, a fefs

nebulee between three grifBnb' heads erafed, all counterchanged. Wright's Prae-

torian Banner. " Harl. MS. 6072, f. 76, reads, " Harry Tounge."

" Stowe's Survey adds, " in the 36th year of the reign of King Henry VIII," &c.

4 On

OFSHOREDITCH. 55

On a fair tomb in the chancel, faith Stow * :

" l^cje Hit]) ' biicieO (jHijabeti) •f , tJje toife of

t])e late teberent) '' fatl}Ct in ijBnO,

5EoI]n .îfenjp t S fate biOjop of iffrefotD.

(Elbe toiO trtieKtiD fatlja-, in tjje reign

* New View of London, I. 314, calls it a fpacious ton^b of marble of the com-pofite order.

f- Elizabeth, widow of bifliop Scory, was buried March 9, i592yfrom Haliwell; as

was fir John Scory, knighr, December 29, 1616, from Chancery-lane; as alfo Syl-

?anus Scory from St. Peter's Hill, Oft. 15, 16 17; and fir Edmund Scory, May 11, 1632..

J" Scoiy, that had been bi 1 op of Chichefter, though upon Day's being reftored

lie was turned out of his bifhoprick, did comply merely. He came before Bpnner,

and renounced his wife, and did penance for it, and had his abfolution, being,

allowed to exercife his ecclefiaflical and paftoral funftions within the diocefe of

London, under his feal the 14th of July this- year (1554); which is in the Col-

leftion." Burnet, Hiftory of Reformation, vol. II. p. 256. Colledl. part 11. bookllVNumber i^.—Banner's Certificate that Bi(hop Scory had put away his wife; MS.Sym.ondb, ex Pieg. Bonner, p. 347, in. Pvichardfon's Godwinn, p. 513.

" On the feal" (writes Strype), " in hard wax, of one of the bifhop's lettersr

(which I have feen) appears his caat of arms; having on a bend three crefcents;

and round about it thefe words, Meliora fpero; as if it had been his motto in his

exile." Annals, vol. IIL p. 328.

Scory was a married man; and fo,. deprived at the beginning of queen Mary's,

reign, he fled abroad, and was fuperintendant of the Englilh congregation at Embdea.in Friezeland. Sirype's Life of Cranmer, p. 16']..

In November, 1551, a licence was graiued to John (Skory) bifhop of Rochefter,

and Elizabeth his wife, to eat llefh in Lent and other fading days during his life.

Strype's Ecclef. Mem. vol. IL p. 514.

He was a native ot Norfolk, and for theological learning confecrated, whenS. T. P. and at the age of 47, bifhop of Rochefter, Aug. 30, 155 1 ; of Chichefter,.

May 23, 1552, of which he was difpoffeffed by Mary; and by Elizabeth pro-

moted to Hereford, 1559. Dying at the age of 90., June 26, 1585, at his palace

at Whitburne, he was buried in h's cathedral, or, according to Wood, at Whit-burne. He left ;^"20O. to the town of Leominfler; and as much to the city of Here-ford, to be lent to the poor without interefl; and ;{,'400. to St. Bartholomew's andChrift's hofpitals, London. His writings may be feen in Ath.Oxon. I. 682; wherehis only fon Silvanus is fuppofed to have ! een buried in the chancel of St. LeonardoShoreditch, 1617, near to the grave of his mother.

Various Readin&s.* lyeth. Harl. MS. 1096; and New View of London, 1708., I. 3,i4>** reverent. Harl. MS. 1096.

'- Scorye, Harl. MS. 1096. Skorye. New View, of London, 1708, 1. 314.


of idling <!Etitaaj& ti)t 0)it|) *, tna^ bidjop

Df JiDctieftcr, anti tjanjitettb fjom

ti}ence to €jbici)efi«|. te Ofpaiteti

tl)!^ life at !©})itbnrn ^ in tlje countu

of iêjefeB, tJje 26 dap of 5;nne'', anna

<©omini 1585. flniJ tjie l"aiO ^ Cfisabctf)

Dcceafed in ^ôl'stoell ^ in tijijS paiiRj,

tjje 8''' Bap of Mîcl), 1592."

The New View of London, I. 314, adds:

*' SSeati mottui qui <ôniino moriiintur.

" Jlft corp^ Igt^ ])V.t in c])tS:,

" ter foul in {êatcn noio libejJ

;

" Snti ffje tn)v0 Hjst reft,

" 3©l3ic}) <!5dd to ])ii faintsf gitie;;!

:

" ^nt in Cijrift flje oiD tzufi,

" Stiat ])i toil! l)er ixttoze

" again out of tfje Duft

" ato libe for tbermore."

Arms, as they appear tricked in Harl. MSS. J 096. and 6072 :

I. and 4, Or on a faltire Gules, five cinquefoils Or ; 2, Argent,

a chevron Gules between three billets Sable ; 3. Gules, a falcon

Or, on a caftle proper.

On the front of an handfome monument, erected to the me-

mory of feveral Ladies of the Rutland family, was this infcription

:

" This monument is ere6ted in memory,

that within this church do lie buried the bodies

of the right honourable and noble Ladies,

Lady Katharine Stafford,

daughter to Edward duke of Buckingham,

and wife to Ralph earl of Weftmerland,

Various Readings.» /yxt. Harl. MS. 1096. 6"*. New View of London, I. 34.* pyhitborne. Harl. MS. 1096. « 26 of June. Ibid.

^/aide. Ibid. ! HalHwell. Ibid.

who

OFSHOREDITCH. 57

who died in 1553;Lady Eleanor, daughter to fir William Pafton, knight,

and wife to the right honourable lord Thomasearlof Rutland, buried in 1551;

Lady Margaret Nevel *,

daughter to Ralph earl of Weftmoreland,

and wife to Henry earl of Rutland, who died in 1560;and the Lady Katharine Nevel

f-,

wife to fir John Conftable, of Holdernefs, knight, and

daughter to Henry earl of Weftmoreland and lady

Anne Manners, daughter to Thomas earl of Rutland,

which Katharine died the 27th day of March, 1591.

And that here do lie alfo the bodies of two right

worthy Gentlemen, honourably defcended ; namely, of

Sir Thomas Manners, knight, and Oliver Manners |, Efq.

brethren, being the fourth and fifth fons

of the aforefaid Thomas earl of Rutland.

The firft died about his age of fifty, in June, 159 1,

after many valiant fervices performed by himfor his prince and country, both in Ireland

• Of whom hereafter, in the notes upon the curious extrafts from the Parifh Re-gifter. f-

" Lady Katharine Conftable, March 27, Savoye." 1591. Par. Reg.

J He died young in 1563, and is faid to have been buried at Uffington in Lincoin-

ftiire; where is his epitaph; Nichols's Leicefterfliire, vol. H. parti, p. 44§; thoughthe entry of his burial occurs in Shoreditch Regifter, Sept. 3, that year. Qu. Is the

entry of the burial in the Regifter of Uffington ? If not, the prefumption is, that the

body was interred at Shoreditch^ and afterwards removed by a faculty to Uffington.

§ " MERE LYEl OLTVER. MANNERS,THE 5 SONNE TO THE SAID

LATE ERLE||

; AND SERVEDOUR QirEENE ELIZABETHE IN

HER W4.RRS AT NEWHAVEN;AND THER FELL SICKE, ANDDIED OF THE SAME SICKNES,

ANNO DOMINI 1563."

*!

J]Thomas Earl of Rutland, who died Sept, xo, I543.

I and

^S HISTORY AND ANTI (Û I T I E S

and in Scotland, where he was knighted; and

witneffed by fundry great wounds he therein received.

The fecond died in his younger years, in 1563,about his age of twenty; yet not before

good proof made of his valour and forwardnefs

in the fervice of Newhaven againft the French

;

where he took the ficknefs>

whereof he died fhortly after at Shoreditch.

Founded by the Lady Adeline Nevel at the diredlion

of the faid lady Katharine ConftablCy deceafed-,

her fifter, in February, 159 1."

In the nîiddle chancel, faith Stdw, this infcription on brafs

:

*' Georgius Gips, generofus, fide fubjedlus,

fpe eredtus, charitate Deo unitus, vitam

mortalem mutavit pro immortali 12 Julii,

161 1. Quatuor genuit filios, filiafque

undecim; quorum Richardus, Georgius,

Thomas, Anna, Maria^ & Martha, patris

clauferunt, reliquorum ipfe claufit,

lumina.'*

On a curious old marble monument, with the figure of a

young lady neatly cut in a kneeling pofture, the following in-

fcription in gold letters * :

f

Oleum efFufiim noraen tuum,

Ide6 adolefcentulae dilexerunt te. Cant. i.

Fallax eft gratia, Si vana pulchritudo i mulier

timens Deum, ipfa laudabitur. Prov, xi. -f

, ** Hac tuleris quicunque gradum, fta, perlege, plora;

Hie decor, hie pietas, nobilitafque jacet.

Virgo, annis animifque Dei, I'beodojia |, donum,

* New View of London, I. 312. "f"Stow, II. 52.

X (Theodofia). New View of London, I. 312.

4 Qu^

OF SHOREDITCH. ^9

Qui mentis certat fama, decore pudor.

Sed famam mentis fuperavit, moribus annos,

Ingenio fexum, relligione genus.

Quam neque nobilitas tumidam, nee forma procacem,

Fecerat; una humilis, clara, pudica, decens.

Flos asvi; florem dixi? dixi ergo dolorem;

Ut raatura brevi eft, heu ! ita rapta brevi eft.

Rapta fed sethereis rofa tranfplantanda viretis,

Lseta ubi perpetui tempora veris aget.

Inter Sc asternas Agni comes agna choreas,

Ignotum cafto fuccinet ore melos.

Candida virginei tumulo date lilia coetus

;

Virginis, O! partus, virginis, efto memor.Ereptam Domino Jociat lux ultima fcelix.

O foelix virgol quod cupit ujque tenet.

Anno Domini 1616, Martii 17 *.'*

Arms : on a lozenge within a chaplet Or, a fefs indented Sable,

On a tomb, on the South fide of the chancel, the kneelingfigure of a lady ; beneath, as a creft, on a wreath a lion paflant,

Gules, holding in the dexter paw a broken fword proper; belowit this infcription:

«' Jane, the wife" of Ralph Hanfby f, efq. daughter to Wm.'

* Ibid. " 1644, Theodofia Vavafour, gentlewoman, from the Sayoye, March1 8." Parifh Regifter.

f Had. MS. 1487, fol. ip, is a copy of this infcription, (which wants the Latinverfes,) taken March 5, 1639, by John Withie; beneath it this Ihort defcent:" John Hanfby,=pAwdry, dau. of Edward Hanfby,.=Margrett, dau. of

ad fonne. The. Louell of a.clerke, 3d fonne. Bryan Snawfell.Skelton.

r ., „— r~T —-T

Ralph Hanfby^ Thomas, Beatrice, ux.fonne and hejre, ad fonne. Herbert Davyaet. 23, 1612. of Yorke."

'

Various Readings.Jane, wife. Harl. MS. 1487, fol. 50. * Wiii. Ibid.

I ^ Vavafour,

6o HISTORY AND A N T I QÛ I T I E S

Vavafour, efq. grandchild' to Thomas Manners, knt. died the azc!

day of July, in the year*" of our Lord 1617, and of her age the

33d. To whofeblefled memory her dear "^ hufband dedicates'' this

faid monument, to fignify, that with her his joy Hes here interred

:

*' Si genus, & virtus, 8c moribus auc5ta figura,

Pulchra bonis pietas, liquid honoris habent;

Hunc Jana tumulum fpe6lans venerate, viator.

Cum qu^ tot bona, tarn bella, fepulta jacent;

Nee minor his aderat vidlrix patientia vidtse,

Nee fpolium mortis, fed pudor ilia fuitJ'

The New View of London adds

:

** If birth, if virtue % if fair ^ features deckt

With gifts of mind % if piety breeds refpe6t

;

Her tomb then view, and grace, kind ^ paffenger.

With whom fo' many graces bury'd" were.

Conquered, by patience yet fhe' overcame;

Nor was her youth death's triumph, but his Ihame."

Arms : three coats quarterly ; i. and 4, (Hanfby) Sable, three

Ihouvellers Argent ; 2, three quaterfoils proper ; 3, Sable two

bars, Or furtout, a lion rampant Gules * :—thefe impaled with

the arms of Vavafour Or, a fefs dauncette Sable.

Nigh to the tomb of Mr. Gips upon a grave flone was,

" May 23, 161 8, Richard Leigh•f',

merchant and citizen of

• 2. and 3. borne by the name of Haichf. See H'arl. MS. 1487, fol. 50.

•f"Qu. Was he related to Sir John Leigh before mentioned, p. 54?

Variotts Readings.» chiJde. HarL MS. 1487, fol. 50. * yeare. Ibid. ' deare. Ibid.

• hath dedicated. New View of London, I. 313; and Harl. MS. 1487. fol. 50.• vertue, Harl. MS, 1487, f. 50. ^ faire. Ibid. « vilnde. Ibid.

1^ khde. Ibid. ^ foe. Ibid, ^ buried. Ibid. ^ Jhee. Ibid»

" London,

OFSHOREDITCH. 6i

" London, placed this flone in memorial of his dear wife Anne*' Leigh, who lieth here interred by the body of Richard Brat-

*' tnph, her firft hufband; and of her three children, Richard,

" Sarah, and John, which fhe bare to the faid Richard Brattuph.

** In fome fad ficknefs pain, and pain impatience,

In thee a patient penitence it wrought.

Thy ficknefs joy, thy tribulation hope,

Thy body's death gave life unto thy fouL

Thus for his lambs the Lord can honey drawFrom th' all-devouring cruel lion's jaw.

Ubi tua, O mors, viSioriaf ubi tuus^ O fepu/abrum, tumulus i'*

On the South fide of the church this infcription on brafs:

" Here lyeth Catharine Lively," wife of EdwardLively, gent, and daughter of Henry Hodg, citizen

and brewer of London, and Joice his wife; whoyafter fhe had run a virtuous and religious

courfe of life 21 years, finilhed the fame the

15th day of July, 16^3.

" The memory of the juft is bleffed. Prov. x. 7.,

adorned with the effigies of a lady in piano *.

Stowe mentions likewife amongft others in the chancel:

" Guthbert Burbage and Elizabeth his wife. Theydeparted in September, i636.''f

Over the monument of Richard Hary Yonge, mentioned at

page 54, was another, with this infcription:

" Sir Alexander St. John J, knight,, fon of the right honourable

* New View of London, I. 3 14. -f See the Account of the Curtain Playhoufe.

% He reprefented the town of Bedford, 12, r8, 21, James I. and i Charles I;:

and was knighted, 1608, with his brother Anthony. CoUins's Peerage, VII. 22.

Oliver

6z HISTORY AND A N T I QÛ I T 1 E S'

Oliver lord St. John, baron of Bletfo, canfed this monument to

be eredted in memory of his late faithful and truly virtuous con-

ibrt lady Margaret St. John *, daughter of John Frye, of Hard-

wick in the county of Gloucefter, efq. ; whofe body lieth near

nnto this place interred, expe6ling a glorious refurretflion."

On a flat ftone:

" Fenimus, vidimus, redivimus, refurgemus.

*' William Frenilen, efq.' eldeft fon of Thomas Fremlen, of

this parifli. He refided agent for the Eaft India Company at the

Great Mogul's court; aftervvârds fecond in council and commandat Surat; then prefident. He arrived in fafety, after twelve

years and three months, to find a grave in England, and this

parifh of his nativity; and put a period to his life in 1645,having, by his laft will, bequeathed to charitable ufes £^70,and more particularly to the poor of this parifli j^" a 00."

The New View of London (I. 312.) calls it a fpacious marble

monument, of the Ionic order, on the South fide of the altar;

and reads the infcription thus:

" This monument is erecSted in memory of William Fremlin,

'* efq. eldeft fon of Thomas Fremlin and Anne his wife, both

" of this parifli, deceafed ; whofe better genius having difpofed

*' his defires wholly unto travel, he was in the i8th year of" his age entertained by the honourable Eaft India Company,** and by them employed into the remoteft regions of Afia,

*' where his abilities and fair comportment found fo good appro-

*' bation, that within three years after his arrival he was fent to

** refide agent at the couit of the Great Mogul; and then, the

*' more important affairs of the honourable Company wanting

* Stc died without iflue, Aug. 27, 1636, aged 73. Collins, ubi fupra.

«« his

OF SHOREDITCH. 63

** his affifl-ance, in the chief relidence at Surat: he was called

" thither to fupply the place of fecond in council and command;" which truft he difcharged with fuch approved diligence and" dexterity, that by exprefs order he was appointed prelident,

" and fo continued five years, to the great fatisfatftion of his

*' honourable employers, and the abundant content of his own*' nation, whom he governed, and thofe other among whom he" lived; and then, returning for England, God was pleafed to

" deliver him from as eminent danger of fliipwreck as ever any" man efcaped, that he arrived in fafety, after the expiration of" nineteen years, three months, and twenty-one days, to find a

*' grave in the land and parifh of his nativity; for now, alas!

" he began to languilh; and upon the 13th of March, 1645,*' put a period to this, in the 28th year of his age; having, by" his laft will and teftament, bequeathed to charitable ufes ^(".870;

" and, more particularly to the poor of this parhh, ^^200.

" Reft, weary traveller! a quiet repofe

*' Suits well with adtive men ; but chiefly thofe,

" Of whofe unwearied works we truly fay,

" They bear the brunt and burthen of the day t,

*' Such days in fuch a climate fo well fpent,

" As made the precedent a prefident.

" Apres Travilie Repof.*'^

In the North aile:

" Juxta hunc tumulumjacent

Johannes Byde,

civis & Aldermannus Londinenfis, &Dorothea conjux ejus, ex qua feptem fufcepit liberos;;

viz. Edwardum, Elizabethamj

Thomamj

^4 HISTORY AND ANTICLUITIES

Thomam, Johannem, Petrum, Samuelem, Edwardum;quorum fuperftites

Thomas Byde, eques auratus

;

8c Edwardus Byde, natu minor, e

focietate Lincolnienfis, arm',

1665."

Arms: Or, on a pile engrailed Azure, three anchors of the firft.

This monument is now fixed againft the North wall of the

chancel at Bengeo, co. Herts, brought from the chapel at Warepark; and to the infcription is added :

"From Shoreditch church, 1736.

Wm. Stanton fecit.

A morte immortalitas."

** Winifred; and Marina, daughter of fir Charles Pitfield, of

Hoxton, knight, whofe daughter died in 1673, and his wife in

1676*."

* Anne Slater, i68x."

*' Eflher Haughton, wife of Samuel Haughton, citizen and

fcrivener of London, departed in 1688, and buried near her

father Robert Cock."

* Of this family, fee the notes on the curious extracts from the Parilh Regifter.

MONU-

OFSHOREDITCH, 65

Monuments in the prefent Church, taken Dec. 28, 1795.

On a plain marble tomb, fixed againft th« wall of the porchj^.

nigh the South-weft door of the church:

" Near this place lieth interred the body

of RICHARD WALLIS, gent, late of CHARLESSquare in this parifli, who departed this life

April 10, 1726, aged 86.

Alfo in the fame place lieth interred the bodyof his niece Mrs. MARY MASON, wife of

JOSEPH MASON, Gent. : fhe departed this life

January the 20th, 173 1-2, aged 66.

Likewife of JOSEPH MASON, gent, hulband of

the abovefaid Mrs. MARY MASON, who departed

this life September 17, 1733, aged 74."

On a handfoine tomb of variegated marble, fixed againft thewall of the South aile

:

" SUSANNAH DRAPERdied March the 1 8th, 1775,

aged 28 years.

Life's little Jiage is a fmall eminence,

Inch-high above the grave ; that home of manyWhere dwells the multitude : We gaze around ;

We read their monuments-^ -we ftgh\ and^ while

K We

66 HISTORY AND A N T I QÛ I T I E S

fTe figb^ we Jink, and are what we deplofd^^l

1'bou poor pale piece

Of outcajl earth in darknefs ! what a change

From yejlerday! HARK! what voice is this.

Which in hoarfe accents murmurs from the tombf^

tnflant " Prepare to meet thy God ! Fly froHa

" The wrath to come!" ere irrevocable

t T^j/ dreadful doom by death be f.x'd in woe

Unutterable !

MARTHA DRAPERdied Jamiary 22, 1777,

aged 69 years."

Nigh to which is another, over which are the arms of Croflley-f^

and upon it the following infcription

:

"In a vault beneath lie the remains of

ELIZABETH CROSSLEY, wife of NAHUM CROSSLEY,of this parifli, gent, died February 26, 1760,

in the 54th year of her age^

Alfo NAHUM, fon of NAHUM and ELIZABETH GROSSLEY,died April the 29th, 1760, in the a6th year of his age.

Alfo MARY C60KE, daughter of the abdve, died March 2,

1778, in the 33d year of her age.

Likewife NAHUM CROSSLEY, hiafband of the abovefaid

ELIZABETH CROSSLEY, died Feb. 4, 1774,in the 68th year of his age.

Alfo Mr. PETER WHITELOCK, of this parim, departed

this Hfe Auguft the lOth, 1781, aged 79 years.

Alfo Captain JAME§ ALEXANDER, a fnicere friend to

* Thefe five lines are from Young's Night Thoughts, Niglit the fecond.

+ Gules, a fefs Or, between three ctofs inolines Or. Creft a tiger's head.

4 the

OF SHORE DITCH. 67

the above family, departed this hfe September the

ayth, 1 78 1, aged 62 years.

Alfo the body of SAMUEL CROSSLEY, fon of the above,

who departed this hfe December 3, 1784, aged 47 years.

Alfo ELIZABETH CROSSLEY, wife of the above

SAMUEL CROSSLEY, died Feb. 12, 1789, aged 55 years.

Alfo Mrs. MARY HILLS died Feb. g, 1790,in the 5 9th year of her age."

Eaftvvard from this, on the South fide of the altar, is a neat

marble monument fixed againft the wall ; the fubjedt, two figiires

of Death forcibly dividing a large oak tree, from the branches

of which hangs the following infcription

:

M.f tiiy-'" Quicquid rôri debuit

^ ELIZABETHS BENSON,clariffimi philofophi filiae,

clariflimi germanse;

gente paterna atavis Pannoniae regibus,

matern^ equeftribus Cantianis, editae;

., j matronae religiofas,

fandae, piae, munificae,

ingenio vivido,

antiqua virtute 8c fide;

hujus ecclefiae coemeterlo,

fub eodem fepulchrali marnlore contegittirj

quo pia fraternos cineres condiderat.

Hanc talem, heu! nonagenariam,

valentem, nee fenecStutis fuae pcenitentem,

infidiofe Libitina pede proripuit;

Si ftamina vitae non evoluta funt,

K a fed

^8 History and anti qjj i t i e

s

fed difrupta,

XIV" KAL. JAN.

MDCCX."

On the root of the oak is this motto:

" RAPIT. MATURIOR. VLS."

Beneath all, the arms *.

On the North fide of the altar, nigh the veftry dooT, is a neat

tomb; on- the top of which are the arms of Auftin; Azure, ona chevron, between three lapwings Or, as many quatrefoils

Vert. The creft; on a wreath, a lapwing Or;

*' Near to this place in the chancell, by the communiontable, lyeth enterred the bodyes of Thomas A,uften f

,

and John Auften, Efqrs. two moft dearly affeiStionate

brothers (on each fide of their worthy father

Thomas Auften, Efq.), of this parifli, who wereboth of the honourable honfe of Lincoln's Inn.

Thomas Auften marryed Katharine Wilfon, daughter

to Robert Wilfon, citizen and draper of London;had iftiue by her two fonns and two daughters, and

departed this life the 31ft October, 1658, aged 86 yeares.

* Argent, three trefoils flipt oh a bend Sable, between two gemels Gules; im-paling. Azure, a bird clofe. Argent, on a radicated ftaff fefs-wife Or; in his beak aring of the laft.

•f-Among the early entries of the Auften family in the Parifli Regifter are thefe:

*' Francis Auftin, the fonne of Richard Auftin, was baptized the 25th of Febru-•' ary, 159^. Hoxton."

"...... Auftin, the wife of Thomas Auftin, gent, buried Oft. 5, 1597."" Marg. Auftin, wife of Tliomas Auftin, Hoxton, buried Sept. 9, 1602."** Eliz. Auftin, wife of Richard Auftin, buried Dec' 4, 1602." Thomas Auftin, fon of Rich^rdj buried July 7, 1603."** Thomas Auftin, buried Ap rill 1 8, 1610."

John

OFSHOREDITCH, §^

John Auften maryed Sufannah Winftanley, daughter

to James Winftanley, Efq. had ifhue by her a daughter;

and departed this hfe the 29th February, 1659,aged 32 yeares. resvrgemvs,"

Beneath, the arms of Thomas Auftin (eldeft fon), impaling

thofe of Wilfon ; and the arms of John Auftin, impaling thofe

of Winftanley.

On a plain monument againft the wall of the North aile 5

" Near this place

lieth the body of

JOSEPH NEWSOM, Efq.

of this parifti, one of his majefty's juftices

of the peace, for the counties of Middle/ex

and Effex, who departed this life the

2, 2d day of June, 177a, aged 34."

Nigh which is another, with the following infcription t

« Subtus jacent Fr: Clarke, A"". M'. ^SarsB uxoris eius exuviae quas

Depofu^re;

Alter SepBris 35'° Air Dom. 169O.

^tatis 65 :

Altera cum Viri obitum chariffimi

annos pene 20 fleviflet vidua.

ejus hie in gremio demumdoloribus fuccubuit,

Aug. 17. 1709.iEtatis 64^

HIC ex antiqui de Cbisfield in agro Hertf:

profapia ortum ultimus tulit, marium inde

oinniun:^

70 HISTORY AND ANTICL0ITIES

omnium 8c ultimiis morti ceffitj

' Ecclefic£ Stoke-dauborn Surr. *

olim ReSior,

Jlla Rich. Bankes 3bns Regibus Lapidicse

foboles noviffiraa exfilivit;

Reliquifqi Fratribus 2bus, Sororibus 3bus etiam

Superfuit.

Annos prope 19 perduxerunt conjuges;

Filios habuere 14, Flliamc^ unicam, Sararrr,

quam et Filium unicum Fr: \ natu minimuin

Pofteros reliquere.

In fuoru parentum memoriam virtutum

hocce addidit Filli folius^ Gratitudo

Cenotaphivira.

His accefllt Rebeccah, uxor dicSli

Francifci Clarke filii Prima Septembris

36tQ: Anno Dom. 17 15, iEtat. a ado."

* Natural Hiftory and Antiquities of Surrey by Aubrey, vol. III. pp. 140, 141:

In Stoke Davernon chancel, on a white free ftone grave-ftone, is this infcription:

" Here lieth the body of William Ckrke, the fon of Francis Gierke of

this parifti, and Sarah his wife, who died the 21"^ of June,, 1685."

On another white free ftone grave-ftone is this infcription

:

" Nicholas, the fon of Francis Ckrke, reftor of this parifb,

and Sarah Ms wife, was buried here, March the 28th, 1678.

Francis, the fon of Francis Ckrke, reftor of

this parifli, and Sarah his wife, was buried here, November the 21ft, 1679."

Ibid. p. 142: On a wh-ite free ftone grave-ttone on the North fide of the

chancel is this infcription

:

*' George—Francis, the twins of Francis Ckrke, reflor of this

parifli and Sarah his wife were buryed here Aug' the 27, 167.6."

\ ' Filium unicum Fr.'—In Letfome's Preacher's Affiftantis this entry: " Gierke,

"Francis, LL.D. commiffary of Lewes in SufTex, and chancellor of Chichefter."

—

Amos iii. 2, 8°, iâa. Qu. the youngeft fon oif Francis Cli?ike, reftor of Stoke

Dabernon?

Beneath,

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Beneath, thefe arms : Party per chevron, Azure, three leo-

pards' heads Or; Or, an eagle difplayed, Azure; impaling on a

crofs Or a crofs patee Gules, between four fieurs de lis Or*

EXTRACTS FROM the PARISH REGISTER*OF St. LEONARD, SHOREDITCH*

Christenings.

N"* I. } " Henry Parker, fon of the right Ho. Lord Mount-1600. I" eagle of Hoxton, September the a 8th.'*

This Henry Parker (the fon of Wilh'am Parker Lord Mounteagle, who difcovered

the Gunpowder Plot) was afterwards Lord Morley and Mounteagle,, furaraoned toparliament, in 16^4, 16^7, 1628, the ift, 3d, and 4th years of king Charles I;,

and, laftly, in the firft parlian:ient of 1640, 15 Charles L His father, the LordMounteagle here mentioned, wasfummoned to parliament in the 3d, 4th, ych, 8thând I2th, of James Lf-

N° a. T " Mary and Anne, daughters of Hugh Middletore

1634. j" and Elizabeth, Odlober the 12th."

Sir Hugh Was the fixth fon of Richard Middleton, of Denbigh, created a baronetAugufl: 22, 1622+. He married Eli2abeth, daughter and fole heirefs of JohnOlmefteaid, efq. of Ingateflxtne in Eflex; by her he had iffue five fons, the fecond.

of whom was, I believe, the Hugh Middleton here mentioned,

* The Reader will obferve that thofe entries in this Regifler, which relate to Balmes Hbufe^Mdggerftone, or the Curtain Phy-hoiife, arc given with the account of thofe Places^

t Dvjgdale's Summons to Parliaaleat^

J,Beatfon's: Political Index^

7* HISTORY AND ANTICLUITIES

N« 3. \*'

1704. J" w

*« Faith, Hope, and Charity, Lewin, three twins «*,

were buried Auguft the 4th. Hoxton.

Marriages.

N° I. 1 *' The reverend father in God Edwin, biftiop of

.11 5 59-60. J" Worcefter, and Sicelye AUin, gentlewoman, Feb. 1

9."

Edwin Sandys made bifhop of Worcefter, 1559; London, T570; archbifliop of

York, 1576; and died July the loth, 1588 f. In the pedigree of Sandys, given

in Nalh's WorcefterQiire ^, archbifhop Sandys is faid to have married Cicely, daughter

of fir Thomas Wilford, which Cicely died in 16 10; {o that the archbifliop was

probably her fecond hufband.

The archbifliop was certainly a widower; for, in the reign of queen Mary, whenhe found it expedient to efcape into Germany, he carried his wife with him § ; andit is likely, (he died during his exile, confidering the da'te of this fecond marriage.

Averfe as queen Elizabeth was to a clergyman's marrying, it was hardly to be ex-

pefted, that a fecond marriage flaould not have hindered his fubfequent tranflation

to the fees of London and York.

In Strype's Ecclef. Mem.||

is this paragraph: "A. 1553. The faid Gardiner

(lord chancellor and chancellor of the univerfity) wrote a ftiort letter to the Society

of Katharine Hall, recommending Mr. Cofin to be chofen their mailer in the roomof Dr. Sandys, becaufe he was married; and fo they did."

In Strype's Annals ** is this paragraph : " Sir John Bourne faid, the bifliop feemedto be difpleafed with him, when he was at the bifliop's table, for drinking to his

wife, (whom Bourne gave this charafter of; that {he was fair, well nurtured, fober,

and demure, fo far as he had feen;) and for calling her lady : whereat, faid Bourne,

he chafed, ,and faid he mocked both him and her."—At p. 357. is the bifliop's

anfwer; " He bringeth in my wife to fpeak evil of her, if he could, that I fhould

be oifended with him, becaufe he drank unto her. I would gladly know, how heunderftood it by word or countenance. I need not fear fir John Bourne of all other men

;

for, he mifliketh all priefts' wives, and dare call them whores ; and, I fuppofe, noneof them have great caufe to favour him. In calling her ladyf which is not her name,neither ever was fo called, either before or fince (and he then did it to mock her),

I told him, that therein he abufed us both."

* Sic in Grig. f Le Neve's Lives of the Archbilhops of York, p. 65.

X Vol. II. p 221. § Magn. Britan. Antiq. & Novaj vol. VI. p. 297. || Vol. III. p. 52.** Vol. I. p. 348, chap. 35, intituled, ' Biftop of Worceftcr's Vindication of himfelf

againft Sir John Bourne."

4 N! a,:

1588

OFSHOREDITCH. 73

I *< Richard Scory* and Alice Eldrington, June 31."

Alice Eldrington, here mentioned, I look upon to have been defcended from fir

John EIrington, who was buried here. Edward Elrington -j-, efq. was chief butler

to king Edward VI, queen Mary, and queen Elizabeth, He had a grant of the tithes

of the donative of Theydon Bois in EfTex, in 1548 |, and his defcendants poffeiled

them till 1656. He held the manor of Widyngton in Effex, and prefented to the

reftory of Widyngton in 1558 § ; in which year he died, leaving a fon Edward

31 years old, who held the manor of Birch -hall in Theydon Bois, Ellex ||. He died

in 1578, and his fon and namefake held this and the manors of Theydon Bois, Wy-dyngton **, and Shortgrove in Newport

-f-'f-; and died in 1578, and was fucceeded

by his fon and namefake, 7 years old at his father's deceaie, who died in 1618,

leaving a fon Edward 17 years old J^. For a farther account of this family fee

page 52.

16^'

I " Roger Parker §§, D. D. and Alice Probie, June 3d."

N° 4. 1 *' Mr. Alex' St. John to Margaret Draynor, widow,

i^SS- J" 12 Nov."

Mr. Alexander St. John, fon to Oliver, third Lord St. John, of Bletfoe||||,

was elefted to parliament for the town of Bedford in the 12th, i8th, and 2,1 ft,

years of James I, and ift of Charles I; and knighted in 1608, with his brotherAnthony. He married Margaret (widow of Thomas Draynor, Efq. ***), whowas daughter of John Frye, of Hardwick in the county of Gloucefter. She died,

and was buried here on the 27th of Auguft, 1655, aged 73 -f-f -f-.

1680. J"

" Thomas Hare, Knt. to Elizabeth Dafliwood, 20April."

* Qu. What relation to the bifliop, mentioned at page 5 J ?

\ Probably the fame with Edward Elryngton, to whom, with Humphrey Metcalf, the fite ofthe Gilbertine prjory in the town of Cambridge was granted, 35 Hen. VIII. (Tanner, Not.Mon, p. 19.) ; as was the manor of Chiftiull Grange in Eflex. Morant, II, 607.

X Morant, I. 163. § lb. II. 556, ||lb. I. 162. ** lb. II. 556.

t+ lb. II. 586. It was probably his daughter Mary, who was married to Richard Cutt ofArkefdene, Effex; and died in 1594. J| lb. I. 162; II. 566.

§§ Air. Denne fuggefts a query, whether ' Roger Parker, D.D.' was not Roger Parker, who wasclca-ed dean of Linco'n, Nov. 29, 1613. ||l| Collins's Peerage, vol. VII. p. 22.»** See Dr. Denne's Regifter of Benefaftions, N's?, 1633. fff See before, p. 62.

L N° 6.


N° 6.

1680•

I" Alex' Pitfield, Efq. to Eliz. Waller, 20 Ap."

It perhaps may not be difagreeable to infert here feme account of the family of

Pitfield; for which I am obliged to James Browne, Efq. of Stoke Newington.Sir Charles Pitfield (who lived at Hoxton *) was knighted Auguft 22, 1676;

v/hofe fon Alexander Pitfield, efq, here mentioned, had iffue by Elizabeth,

daughter to Waller, efq. one fon and two daughters. The fon had iffue

one fon, Charles Pitfield, efq. who died in July, 1740, aged 23 or 24 years, havingmarried Dorothy -f, daughter of Solomon Alhley, efq. by whom he had iffue twodaughters; the firft of whom died an infant; and the other, Mary, born in April,

1743, who now enjoys the eftate, married in. 1756 to Humphrey Sûrt, efq. late

member in parliament for Dorfetfliire, by whom flie has thirteen children. Theeldeft daughter Diana is married to fir William Milner, hart.; and the eldeft fon,

Humphrey Afhley Sturt, was married about December, 1781, to Marv, third

daughter of the reverend Edward Woodcock, LL.D. reftor of Watford, Herts.

Of the two daughters of Alexander Pitfield, efq. aforementioned, one was married

to fir Thomas Clarke, knight, member in parliament for the town of Hertford ia

the reigns of William III, Anne, George I, and George II; and died without iffue.

The other daughter Winifred was married to Solomon Afliley, efq. by whom (he

had iffue two daughters; one married to Julines Beckford, efq. who had iffue Peter

Beckford, efq. (married to the honourable Louifa, daughter to George 1 ird P^.ive^s);

and the other married firft to Charles Pitfield, efq. and afterwards to the honourable

Felton Hervey aforenientioned.

The North part of the Hoxton effate was fold to pay the debts of Charles Pitfield,

efq. and bought by his "fon in law Mr. Sturt. The reft remains in poffeffion of his

daughter Mrs. Sturt.

Burials.,

N° I. 1 " The righte Ho. Lady Margarett Rutland was buried

;.]"1559. J" the xxift of oaober." " HalHwell."

Lady Margaret Rutland was daughter to Ralph Nevil, earl of \^"eftmoreland^

and firfl wife to Henry, (econd earl of Rutland, to whom Ihe bore two foiis and one

daughter.

* In a large red brick houfe, long fince detnoliflied.

^ Who was afterwards (aged only 18) married to the honourable Felton Hervey (the proto-

type of the charafter of Fribble in *• Mifs in her Teens,") on December the 2'sih, 1740,

From

ÔFSHOREDITCH. 75

From this houfe (fays Stow, fpeaking of Halywell *) was carried the Corpfe of the

Lady Rutland, Oftober the 21 ft, 1559, to Shoreditch church, with thirty Clerks and

Prieftsfinging; about threefcore poor men and women in black gowns; mourners to the

number of an hundred; two heralds of arm?, Garter and York; then came the

corpfe before a great banner of arms; and about her four goodly banner rolls of

divers arras.' Mr. Becon preached, after was difperfed a great dole of money, being

2d. a-piece to each; and fo all departed to the place to dinner; and about the

valance was written, .§ic tcanUt gfDl'ta muntii.

T. Becon was a native of Norfolk, or Suffolk, educated at Cambridge, and a

ftrenuous defender of the reformation. He was twice imprilbned in Mary's reign,

and efcaped to Marpurg ; but on her death he returned, and died at Canterbury

about 1570, in his 60th year, being chaplain to Archbifliop Cranmer, who ap-

pointed himoneof the fix preachersjand afterwardscollated him to the fourth prebendal

ftall in Canterbury cathedral. He was prefented on IVIay the 24th, 1547, to the

reftory of St. Stephen Walbroke-f-,

of which it appears he was deprived in

1554 \ ; on Oftober the 2ifl:, 1,560, he was preferred to the redtory of Buckland,^^ in Hertfordfliire§; and, Auguft 10, 1563, to the rectory of St, Dionis Backchurch ||.

In Fox's Afts and iMonumenrs I find, that at the time bifbop Bonner fet in com-miffion for the fix articles, 1641, Robert Wifedome and Thomas Becon, preachers,

\?ere prefented unto him, and brought to Paul's Crofs, to recant and revoke their

doftrines, and burn their books **. Wood calls him an old Calvinift-f>-}-. He wrote:

I. " CcenffiDominicae & MifiTsePapiflicffi comparatioBaf. 1559;" 8vo|];.

^ 2. " Various Treatifes ;" folio, black letter by Day, 1560; very fcarce.

- 3. " The AdtsofChrifteand Antichrifte;" Lond. izmo, 1577; fcarce§§.

4. " The Reliques of Rome-," black letter by Day, 1563, fquare i6rao;

fcarce. On the fide oppofite to the title is the head of Thomas Becon;behind which is written, "^tatis fuze 41, An°Dm 1553;" which makesthe time of his birth 15.12; and, at the time of his perfecution in 1541,he muft have been about 29 years of age,

5. " Poflills upon the fundrye Gofpels, 4to, Load. 1566. Printed by T.Marfh.

6. " His Works ;" in 2 vols. Lend. 1564 U||.

7. " The Sick Man's Salve, or direftjons in Siclcijefs, aad how to dye ;"

Edinb. 1613, 8vo***,

* Stowe's Survey, edit. 1754, vol. 11. p, 49.

t Newcourt's Repertorium, vol. I. p, 540. * Ibid.

§ Ibid. vol. I. p. 815.II

Ibid. I. 330.** Afts and Monuments, vol. 11. p. 450, edit. 1684. -f-f Ath. Ox. vol. I. p. 348.XX Bodl. Cat. 1674. io. §§ In the Britilh Mufeum.

||||Bodl. Cat. 1674. fo.

*** Ibid. His writings are enumerated by Tanner in BibliOtheca Britannica, p. 85; andHerbert's edition of Ames /ub amis.

La N° 2.

76 HISTORY AND ANTI QÛ [TIES

N° 2. 1 " William by the grace Of God 25 Septem.

1563- J" Church End."

This was moft probably William Chifliolm, who was made biftiop of Dumblanein Scotland in 1527, upon the refignation of his brother James. He was a greatadverfary to the Reformation, and alienated a great part of the revenues of his fee, mpftof which he beftowed upon his nephew fir James Chifholm of Cromlix, and the reft

on his own three baflards. He was fucceeded in 1564. by his nephew WilliamChifliolm*.

^ -*}

f

:}" Nicholas Parker Novemb 6. Hoxton,

N°31563

N° A "V

161 " Walter Greene, the Serg' of London, May ad.**

N° 5.I

" Rob' Draynor, fon of John, Charter-houfe, 8th

1561. J" June."

N° 6. "1 " Lady Katharine Mountjoye frona Greenwich, JuneI 576- 1" 25."

She was wife to Charles Blount lord Mountjoye, who was created earl of

Devon in 1603 by James Ij but the title became extinft by his death in 1606.

Lord Orford in his Royal and Noble Authors -}-, tells us, that *' Sir Charles" Blount, afterwards earl of Devonfliire

J, a very comely young man having didin-" guilhed himfelf at a tilt, her majcfty (queen Elizabeth) fent him a cbefs queen of•' gold enamelled, which he tied upon his arm with a crimfon ribband. Eflex,.

" perceiving it, faid with affefted fcoru, * Now, I perceive, every fool muft have a•' favour!' On this fir Charles challenged, fought him in Marybone park, difarmed" him, and wounded him in the thigh."

1578.J" William Thornton §, Minifter, Church End, Dec. 3."

* Keith's Scotch Bifliops, p. loj. f Vol. I. p. 131.

J See a longer account of this nobleman in CoUiei's Diftionary.

§ William Thornton. Qu. vicar of Bromfield in Eflex ? as in Newcourt's Repertorium, vol. II.

p. g6, John Maddox is mentioned as inflituted to ih^t benefice, June 25, 1579, fer mart. Thornton.

N° 8.

OFSHOREDITCH. 77

00 I " Thomas Cam aged 107, 28 January."1588. J

^'I «' Sir Thomas Manners knt. 29 May. Strande."

Lady Manners, with fir Thomas Manners, and Mr. John Manners as a knight,

attended as mourners at the funeral of Mary Queen of Scots in Peterborough ca-

thedral on Aug. I, 1586 ||.

Alfo " Bridget Manners (gent.) Stebenheath, Oft. 24, 1592," occurs in the Re-

gifler of Burials here.

N° 10. 1 " Dorothy Lee, daughter of Rob Lee Merchant

1593. J" Taylor, 10 Septem."

Robert Lee was fon to Humphrey Lee of Bridgenorth in Shropftiire. He was

iherifF in 1594, afterwards knighted, and made mayor of London, 1602-f.

N° I i.l " Thomas Taylor, a Meflenger of her Majefties cham-

i6ot. J" her, 5 October. Holywelle Streete."

N° 12.] " Lady EHz. Rutland huried from Stepney i6th Ja-. -I-

"

N° 1 2. 1 <

i6o|. J" n

N° 13-11606. J'

uary:{:.

" The righte ho. Lady Iflabell countiffe of Rutland,

Stebinheathe i6th Jan^"

Edward, third earl of Rutland, married jfabel, daughter to fir Tliomas Hoi-croft, of Vale Royal in the county of Chefter, knt. The earl died April 14, 1387,at his houfe nigh Puddle Wharf.

In Mr. Nichols's Hiftory of Leicefterihire §, is an original letter of this lady, to

ford keeper Puckering, dated " 18 Nov. 1592 at Stepney j" the fignature to whichis engraved in vol. L pi. XIL of the fame work, together with her monument.

* Ballard's Memoirs of Learned Ladies, 4to. in the Life of Mary Queen of Scots, p. i68.

•[• Stow's Survey, vol. II. ed. 1754, p. 229.

J Elizabeth, daughter and heir to the famous fir Philip Sidney, and wife of Roger, fifth earl

of Rutland, who died without. iffue in 161 2. Collins, I. 437. § Vol. II. P. ].p. 47.

N° 14.

78 HISTORY AND AN T I Q_U I T I E S

N° 14, I" Richard Jordan, fon of Edw. Dpaor of Phificke*.

1610. J" 31 Auguil."

N° 15. 1

1610. J«

N° 15. ] *' Nicholas Tavernor, chapleine to the counteiTe of

Kent, 25th September."

N° 16. "1 *' John Sinaeon, the firft perfon buried in the new1614^. J" church yard, 5 Ap."

!N° 17 1

f-\ " Sufan Countefs Dowager of Kent, 5 Aprill."

She was daughter to Richard Bertie, efq. (by Catharine his ,wife, widow of

Charles Brandon, duke of Suffolk,) relict of Reginald Grav, earl of Kent, v ho re-

ceived fummons to parliament in 1572, 14 Eliz. This Reginald, having by his

frugality -f much recovered the family eftate, re-affumed the title of fearl of Kentin 157 1, which his father had declined, being the fixth of his family to whom the

dignity belonged. In the 15th of Elizabeth J he was one of the peers for the trial

of the duke of Norfolk; and, dying § on March the 17th, 157I, was buried in

St. Giles's church, Cripplegate, leaving no iffue.

N°i8.-1,,

1616. J

Sir Roger Halton Knt. Dec. a6th."

Whofe widow was buried here, May 25, 1625 |(. In the year 1621, ThomasDraynor, efq. died feifed of the manor of Rumbalds in Stepney. His next heir wasElizabeth Halcon, grand-daughter of Robert Halton, ferjeant at law, who married

his Cfter **.

N° IQ 1^*V " Alex' Nafmith, aged 84, 20th Aprill;"

having failed round the world with lord Anfon, declared a few days before his death,

that there was but one other perfon livingwhohad failedupon the fame expedition -f-f-.

• Who wrote on the Bath waters in 165.2. Brit. Top. II. 196,

f Camden's Annals of Elizabeth. % i^^'^- Hafted's Kent, vol. I. p. Ixxiv,

§ Stowe's Annals, p. 674 y Parifli Regiller.

** Lyfons' Environs ot London, vol. III. p. 426; from Harl. MS.

tf Ex inform. Geo. Limming. Nafmith probably liiennt Jofeph Allen; M.D. for upwards

of 30 years mafterof Dulwich College, who died Jan. 10, 1796, and is mentioned in the Obituary

of Gent. Mag. vol, LXVl. p. 85, as having been the fuppofed laft furvivorpf thcfe circumnavigators.

Q, Singular

OF SHORE DITCH. 79

Singular Entries *.

N° 20. "1 '< Eight perfons buried from Thomas Bovie's houfe;

57 5. J "viz.^575* J "viz. his wife, two children, fervants, &c. Odt. i."

As far as I am able to find, no ficknefs or particular difeafe prevailed at this

time, which makes the entry fomewhat extraordinary.

N° 21. 1 *' Steven Larramore, Steven his fonne, and Mary his

1593. J" daughter, were all three buried the 15th day of

" Julye Haliiwell Street."

N° 22. 1 " John Edwards, being excommunicated, was buried

1619. J" the 7 June in the King's high waie in HoUywelle

*' Li/iae near the Gurtaine." June 7, 1619.

N° 23.] " Margaret Breame, wyfe of Gyles Bream, and Eliza-

i6o|. }" betli his daughter, perrilhing in the fire which hap-

*' pened the 27th ot December."

* Mention is made, in the Reg'fter of Burials between the years 1^59 and 1592, of the names

of fonrteen ptrl n^» who arc ftyled Liy occupation Moniers; and the fame term is given to Thomas

L inr\ I'uried in 1614. Alfo " Wm Charrols, Oatmeal maker, June 30, 1593." And " John

^ Lu';. v C fl.::m.iigir, D.c c, 1612." This laft is 'no uncommon appellation ; and, though applied

to fruiterers in general, feems, ai cording to Dr. Johnfon's explanation of " cojiard, an tipple," to

have beer, in general confined to dealers i.i that fpecies of fruit, unlefs appleWks pomum be a general

term, including all forts of fruits. Cojiard, faith Bailey, is a fort of apple; and cofiardmonger oi

mangejne (Sax. a trader), an apple-monger, a dealer \afruit : but neither of thefe lexicographers give

\ls any etymology of cojiard.

Though the etymology of cojiard afple is unknown, it is plain, that it ivas an apple in repute

with the monVs of the abbey of Reading, 5s will appear from the following article, copied from

C(Avcl's Law DiiSionary; " Coftard, an apple, whence co/?i:.' J-monger, i. e. a feller of apples

—

" reddendo inde annuatim nobis & AeffrfiZ/âj noftris unum pomum costard de forgabulo f ad feftum" S. Michaelig. Cartular. Abbat Radings, MS. fol. 916." But qu. is not /j^?fi^;âj rather an

improper term for a body corporate, particularly as the members thereof were under a vow of

celibacy ?

Miller in his Gardener's Didl'onsry has' no' even notic;d the once-famous coftard apple; but he, enlarges on a tree, or plant, growing in the Weft and E'aft Indies, which he denominates guana~

bonus, rendering it the cujlard apple. •

t QS- '5 /orgoiK.'affl equivalent to wliat is now called a Joicband rent in the miilland counties, msaning a rent referved

!

Burials.

So HISTORY AND ANTIQÛITIES

* OF S H O R E D I T C H. 8i

Plague

years.

1582

1592

1593

1603

1625

16361665

Number of

Perfons who died.

225311

1202

II88

Of whomwere ofthe Plague.

773

1995

7673669

1,407

406

1949

{

at the coming on of the plague.

Not above half this yeai's

burials were regiftered.

From March to l!)ecember.

The plague in 1603 is faid

to have Jafted, more or lefs, 8

years, as from Shorjsditch Re-gifteris evidenr. In 1604, there

died 148; 1605, 14-5; 1606,186; 1607, 238; 1608, 326;1609, 429; but in i6iOj wefind them reduced to 295, andlefs onward.

("From December 16, 1624,

(^ to December 15, 1625.

betwixt April and December.

No burials were regiftered from

July the 7th, 1663, to Marchthe 8th, 1665.

Of this year take the follow-

ing, from the weekly Bills ofM o rtal ity concerning th is parifh:

July ir to July 18 died 64 perfoni.

July 18 to July 25, 84

July 25 to Auguft I, Tio

Sept. 12 to Sept. ig, 183.Sept. 19 to Sept. 26, 156Sept. 26 to Oft, 3, 128

715 perfons

in 37 days.

M Ancient

8i HISTORY AND ANTI QJJ I T I E S

"" Ancient Cross at Shoreditch.

** From Holywell in the High Street (faith Stow) is a continual

"building of tenements to Shoreditch, having one fmall fide of

" a field, already made a garden-plot. Over againft the North'* corner of this field, between it and the church of St. Leonard*' Shoreditch, fometime flood a crofs, now a fmith's forge, di-

" viding three ways *." And, as we learn from the fame writer f,it was of ftone ; whence, and from its fituation, I was at firft led

to conjedlure, that it was one of thofe celebrated memorials of

the affedlion of Edward the Firft for his beloved Eleanor; and

the fite to have been the fpot where her body refted in its wayto Weftminfter, the place of interment; but for this I find no

authority: and very frequently, as in the prefent -inftance, they

were eredled at the divifion of roads.

This crofs might probably have been deftroyed at the time of

the diffolution of religious houfes, as in the papers in the parifh

cheft '^y relative to Dr. Hanmer's conteft, dated " i gib Marcb," 317^ ^f êen Eli^f'', 1589, I, find it called the Smith ^.

" Thomas Haddon of Hog/don at. 70 2""" appears to have*' depojed upon oath,'''' (amongft other particulars) " that when be

" was young many parijlnoners of S'. Leon^ Shorditch, beinge haymen** and Women, did fundrye tymes meet together^ ^ did make good*' Cheere, and contribute their Monyes towards the mayntenance ^*' repayringe 0/ ^Z*^ Smith

|| ; ^ meetings were termed Brotherhoods',

* Strype's Stow, ed. 1754, tol. II. p. 50. Hackney R.oad is not included

herein, being cf more recent date.-f-

Ibid. vol. I. p. 17.

X See the Appendix of Records, N° IV.

§ Which name it retained till it was taken down, foon after 1764, when the aft

for re-paving Shoreditch, Holywell Street, Hog Lane, &c. took place. Accordingto the depofition of Haddon, it (liould feem that it was-called the Smith before the

Reformation, becaufe Afterwards it is not likely thefe fhould have been avowedbrotherhoods of S' X"?^", or of our Ladie.

flQu. if this does not prove, that the crofs bore this name before a fmith's forge

fucceeded It? Was it the work of a man of that name or profeffion?

" viz,'

O F S H O R E D I T C II. 85

« viz. one Brotherhood of Si X''^'"" &' S'. James, W one other of*' our Ladie *"."

The Spring of St. Agnes le Clere f

derived its name from the clearnefs and falubrity of its water,

and was dedicated to St. Agnes.

It occurs in an old record, dated June ig^ 37 Hen. VIII. in the

Augmentation Office |, by the name of " Fons voc" Dame Agnes*' n Clere;^^ as alfo in the Survey of the prebendal manor of

Halliwell, alias Finfbury, taken in the year 1 567 ^, by the nameof " 'the- Well called Dame Agnes the Cleere\\ ;" and, amongft

the Parliamentary Surveys in the aforementioned Office, is one **,

taken in December, 1650, by which this well appears to have

lain upon the wafte lands if, then " late belonging to Charles

" Stuart, fometime king of England," and was environed with

a brick wall; and alfo that by an inquifition, taken on the 1 »th

of September, 20 James I, by Sir William Smith and Sir ThomasWalfingham, knights (to whom a comraiffion had been granted

for that purpofe, bearing date Auguft 20'^, that year), that it was

then (1633) tenanted by John Million, and was at that time

valued at forty fhillings per annum', and that it arofe from cer-

tain little fprings arifing from Mr. Marfh's grounds in Newington.

* See the Appendix of Records, N° IV.

•f-Vulgarly Annifea Clere. % Fee-farm Rolls,, 45. 150.

§ Strype's Stow, ed. 1754, vol. II. p. 98.

11The fame author, vol. I, p. 25, faith, '^fomewhat North from Eoly Well is

•' one other well, curbed fquare with (lone, and is called Dame Annes the Clear."** N° 70.

•f-f-Thefe confifted entirely of open fields, from Agnes St. Clare to Hoxton town,

tfll about the year 1689, or thereabout. Pitfield Street was a bank, parting twopafture grounds; and Afke's hofpital was another open field. Tour through GreatBritain, edit. 1769, vol. II, p. 102.

Ma It


It is an excellent fpring, of the depth of eighteen feet, faid to

be of great benefit in all rheumatic and nervous complaints, and

efFedtually to remove head-achs, &c. Here is novv^ a commodious

hoiife ; and the fpring is divided into two baths, the larger of

, which -is fet apart for the accommodation of the gentlemen, and

the fmaller for that of the ladies.

The Vicarage House

was rebuilt in 1631, by Mr. Squier, at the expence of jTioo.

only of his own money * ; the better part of his parifiiioners

fupplying the reft'-j-; and the initials in the following infcription,

are probably thofe of the moil: munificent benefaiStors

:

s:^ J. F-

IL~

THAILMER

1 63 1 \_f:^

IM ^ÊS'^ J. F„ might probably mean Sir John Fenner, who was a

o-reat benefactor to the parifh about this time "^ ;" though fome

perfons think thefe to be the initials 6f Sir John Foliot, whofe

lady § was either aunt, or afterwards mother, of Mr. Squier([.

I. has been fuggefled to me as the initial of Bijhop

Jewel, who had been Mr. Squier's tutor; but this is unlikely,

as Bp. Jewel died in September, 1571.

* The whole cofting ^(400, Ex inform. G. Limming.

•f Walker's Sufferings of the Clerg)', part II. p. 175.+ Dr. Denne' Regifler of Benefaftions, N° 163.

§ Elizabeth, fecond daughter of biftiop Aylmer, was married to fir John Foliot

of Pirton, co. Worcefter. Strype's Life of Bifliop Aylmer, p. 186; as likewife

Na^'s Worcefterftiire, II. 25 8.

_

IIBiographia Britann'ica,' article Aelmer.

(SL.)

O F S H O' 11 E D I T C H, 85

(sL.) I wtuld rather take the I. sl together, and apply them to

Cai)tain Jcnnc'^ Siade^ who was a great benefadior to the church

about this time *.

I. L. mi^ht perhaps be meant for Judith Lynche, daughter to

bifliop Ayhner, and after whom r.Ir. Squier named his daughter

Judith f. Slie was eldefl: daughter of bifhop Aylmer, and

married William Lynche, of the county of Kent, efq.

S. I obvioufly means Mr. Squier, and the year of his re-

163 1. J building the houfe.

IM. John Mordaunts, who was the fecond hufband of Judith

Lynche aforementioned.

TH. 1 T'beophilus Aylmer, archdeacon of London, whoAiLMER. Jprefented Mr. Squier to this vicarage in i6i2:|:.

Z ^ E. are doubtiefs the initials of Zachary and Edmund Ayl-

mer, the fir ft of them official to his brother the archdeacon,

and both of them benefadlors to the church ^. But thefe letters

could only have been put up in memory of them, as they both

died before the re-building of this houfe|I

; - viz. Edmund on July

3, and Z,ach-ary on Auguft 39, 16:^7 **.

This houfe was pulled down in 1784 (and, in 1785, a watch-

houfe was eredted on the fite of it); at which time the above

infcription was copied. It was partly engraved by W. Tomsand B. Lens in their S. W. views of the old church; and is

engraved in PL L,

It was 4a feet in length; 17 in width; and contained 17roorfis, being 3 ftories in height

f-f-.

* Dr. Denne's Regifter of Benefaftions, N° 30. -j-'See p. 29.

\ Seep. 27 in noiis. § Dr. Denned Regifter of BenefaiSions, N" 21, 1627.

IIMr. Denne obferves, that Zachiiry and Ecmund might give or bequeath a fum

for the purpofe, when vicar Squier might find tiimfelf able, -per fe Cs? per alios, to

re-build the vicarage houfe.** See p. 27 in noiis, -W Ex inform. Geo. Limming,

Upon


Upon the taking down of this houfe, the parifli agreed to

purchafe a fuitable refidence for the vicar in Hoxton Square, in

;lieu of rebuilding it.

The Bell Inn,

In tlie year 15 14, I find *, that one Richard Hunne, Mer-

chant-tailor, being fent to the Lollards Tower, was afterwards

privily murdered there on Sunday December 3, that year; and

Charles Jofeph, the chief adtor in this tragical fcene, on the

Saturday in the Chriftmas week following, came home late

at night, bringing with him three bakers and a fmith of Strat-

ford; and the fame night they carried out of his houfe all his

goods by the field-fide to the Bell in Sboreditchy and conveyed

them early the next morning in carts to Stratford.

Part of this houfe ftill remains, and is known by the nameof "The Old Bell.

In ^he Augmentation Office f is the furvey of a tenement,

(taken ^^ tempore interregni^ 1653,") adjoining to a fmith's (hop

by Shoreditch, valued at ^^4. per annum^ late the poflTeflion cif

Charles Stuart, fometime king of England.

* Fox's A£ls and Monuments, ed. 1684, vol. II. pp. 12, 13.

•f-Parliamentary Surveys, N" 78.

Manor

OFSHOREDITCH. 87

Manor of Shoreditch.

The firft lord of this manor, of whom I find any account, was

Sir John de Sordig, or Sbordycb\ of whom hereafter.

After Sir John de Shordych, John de Northamptanj draper,

occurs. In J1381 and 1382, he was lord mayor of London *j

and, upon the confifcation of his goods (for what caufe does not

appear) in 1383, this manor reverted to the crown, and John

de Northampton was fentenced to perpetual imprifonment.

In 1 39 1, 15 Ric. II, I find the manor of Shoreditch, with the

PoleHoufe and Bowes (fo expreflTed in the Record, faith Sto.w f), late

belonging to John de Northampton, granted to Edmund^ duke

of York, and earl of Cambridge', Ifabel, his wife; and Edward,

earl of Rutland^ their fon.

Of that part of the manor of Stepney and Hackney, which' lieth, or hath lain, in Shoreditch,

Roger de Winchcombe, John de Leycefter, ^nd John de

Haveryng, anno 1376, gave 80 acres of land in Hackney,

Shoreditch, and Stepney, to the new hofpital of our Lady without

* This John de Northampton had been fheriff of London ia 1376; and, during

his mayoralty, had been very aftive in the fuppreffion of ufury. (See Stow's Sur-

vey.) His lafl will bore date 1382; and he died in 1397. His arms were; Gules,

two lions rarr.pant, guardant,. conjoined; their tails between their legs, wrappedover their thighs. Or'; with only one head, crowned, Azure.

•f Suivey,. ed^ 1754,, vol. II. p. 50.

Bifhopl^

.1


Bifhopfgate*; and, at the diffolution, king Edward VI. by let-

ters patent, dated April i6, in the fourth year of his reign,

granted to fir Thomas Wentworth, lord chamberlain, a part of

his late received gift, viz. the lordfliips of Stepney and Hackney,

with all the members and appurtenances thereto belonging in

Stepney, Hackney-way, Shoreditch, Holywell Street, &;c. f

Family of Shoreditch J.

The earliell: mention of any perfon of this family, whom I

have been able to difcover, is

Elias de Sboredicb, clerk ; who was prefented to a moiety of

the church of Springfield November the i8th, 1397 §. I find

likewife, that Elis de Schordich, clerk (probably the fame), was

prefented by king Edward II. to the church of Northope in Wales,

and difpoifefled by the bifhop of St. Afaph, who gave it to one

David ap Blethyn, to the great hurt of the king and council, and

a writ was iflued to the juftice of Chefter to fummon the bifliop

before the king in parliament to fhew caufe, (a Edw. II.) 1308 ||.

* Efch. 50 Edw. III. p. 2. Pat. 50 Edw. III. p. 2. m. 9. Lyfons' Environs

of London, vol. II. p. 458. -f-Strype's Stow, vol. II. p. 121.

J Arms: Family of Shoreditch of Bekyfwell ' in Norfolk; quarterlyj- Argent

and Ermine, a bend Sable; over all a crofs Gules. (Edmondfon, vol. I.) Family

of Shoreditch: quarterly, Ermine and Argent, a crofs Gules; over all a bend Or.

(Ibid. vol. II.) § Pat. I Edw. 11. Newcourt's Repertoriutn, vol. II. p. 537.

IIRot. Pad. I. 277.

* The manor of Bexwell in Norfolk was held by a family of its own name from the time of

Henry H. to that of Edward II : 5 Hen. VIII. Richard Bexwell, alias Shorrlich, was lord of it.

I Edw. VI. John Bexwell, alias Shordich, died feifed of it; in 1577, Francis Bexwell enjoyed it;

and Henry Bexwell, efq. died feifed of it in 1654. Blomcfield, vol. IV. p. 68.

. The

O F S H O R E D IT C H. 89

The next of this family, of whom I find any account, is John

de Shordiche *-, who was, moil probably educated at Queen's Col-

lege, Cambridge, as the name of " Joh'es Shordyche" occurs

amongft its early benefadors f. In 1331, (4 Edw. III.) he was

made advocate of the Court of Arches ; and in the fame year

was rewarded (as we find by the Rolls of Parliament) with the

manor of Paflenham, in the county of Northampton, which

he might give up for £^0. in land or rent; but he was dilpof-

feffed of it, and prayed to be compenfated for his lofs, andj

reprefenting that the place of chief clerk in the Court of

Common Pleas was not fufficiqnt provifion for him, defired forae-

thing, more :|:. In January, the fame yeai", (133 1-2 ^,) the king

appointed the bifhops of Worcefter and Hereford, Henry earl of

Lancafter his relation, John Walewyn canon of the cathedral

of Hereford, and John Shordich LL. D. his arnbafladors to treat

with Philipj king of France*, concerning the marriage of John j

eldeft foh of the faid king with Eleanor, filler of king Ed-

* Nigh the South crofs, and not far from the tomb of Dryden, was buried onefir John de Shorditch ; of which name there were two; the firft a man of charafter

in the time of Henry III. by whom he was feht ambaffador to Rome ; the fecofld ia

like favour with Edward III. by whom he was fent ambaffador to France, and wasthe man who vindicated to the French king his mafter's bearing theEnglifii pards in

his arms befbre the Fretich lilies. If w'hat the hiftorians of this cliurch fay is true,

that Helena bis wife lies buried here, it Ifiould feeili to be the latter '. The father

appears to have died before 1331, as abbot Curlington is mentioned as having beenburied near the tomb of fir John de Shorditch. The antient account of this tombis, that it was placed in the South crofs, before' the altar of St. Benedift, under a lampthere burning near the door '.

f Baker's MS Coileaioas. flarl. MS. 7048, fol. 4.

% Rot. Pari. 11. 41. V § Pat. in Turr. 4 Edw. III. p. i.

• Dart's Hillory of St. Peter's, Weftminfter, I. 90. * Ibid.

N ward


ward III. « In 1334, (7 Edw. III.) John d€ Shordich appears to

have had the office of chirographer, or engroffer of the fines

to the Court of Common Pleas^ granted to him for the term of

his life, " dum in Jlatu extltit crkali-^ and afterwards, being

knighted on February 3, that year, the king permitted him to

hold the fame \. He appears to have been fumrapned to par-

Hament in the 7th, 8th, 9th, and twice in the 10th, years of

king Edward III; in the i ith, three times; in the 12th and

13th, and, laftly, in the T4th, year of that king's reign, tvi'ice:

the fummons were diredled " Johanni de Shorediche'':|:. OnNovember t;he loth, 1337, the king appointed him a baron of

the Exchequer during tlie royal pleafure §. About this time wefind him holding lands in Hackney ||, as appears by a; deed of

grant from him and Elena his wife, with Nicholas his brother,

to William de Croftone, his chaplain, bearing date (12 Edw. III.)

1339 **• In 1343, fir John Shordich (as Holinftied tells us -ff),

aperfon well fkilled in the laws, and greatly trufted by king Ed-

ward the Third, was fent by him to Pope Clement the Sixth,

then at Avignon, to remonftrate^ to his holinefs againft his claim,

of prefenting to Englifh livings, and filling them with foreigners,

who never refided on their cures, and drained the kingdom of its

wealth. This the pope took much amifs, infomuch that fir

John, who had perhaps too zealoufly e!xecuted his coramiflion,

* A" 13J0, fays Rapin, Edward, in his attempt towards the conqueft of France,

tried to gain time, by propofals of a double marriage of his brother and lifter witli

the fon and daughter of Philip. Rapin's Hiftory of England, 8vo, III. 416; whorefers to Aft. Pyb. IV. pp. 392. \\\, 413. 427. Eleanor, fecond daughter of king

Edward the Second, was however married in 1332, (6 Edw. III.) to Reynald, dukeof Guelders; and had £15,000. to her portion. Ibid. III. 382.

•f Pat. 7 Edw. III. p. I. \ Dugdale's Summons to Parliament.

§ Pat. 10 Edw. III. p. 2; & Dugd. Orig. Jurid. Chronica Series, p. 43.

})Qu. if the fame with the manfion called Beaulieu, (mentioned at page 91,) as

that was not granted to Nicholas de Shordych till 1352- Lyfons, II. 458.* Wecver's Fun. Mon. p. 427. -f-f-Holinflied's Chroniclej ed. 1557, II. 922.

thought

OFSHOREDITCH. î

thought it beft to make a Cpcedy retreat. The time of his

death is not known; but Strype * has recorded, that " Sir John*' Shordich was buried' in Hackney church, and had anciently a

" monumental ilone and infcription, though no'sv both are gone;"

and Weever '|~ gives us this infcriprion at the fame church

:

•' Here lyeih Jone Curteys, the daughter of Shordyche, . . . . 1399-"

Nicholas de Shordich, brother to fir John, appears to have

been the firft of the family who fettled at Ick:enham in Middle-,

fex, where his defcendants jj'^/ rellde; for, in 1349, John, fon

and heir of William de Brook, confirmed to John de Charleton,

citizen and merchant of London, during his life; and to Nicholas

de Shorediche and Juelle his wife:|:

; and to John, fon of the

abbvementioned John de Charleton; and to William de Shure-

Ihall; and the heirs of their bodies; the manors of " Ikenham"and Southalle; and one meffuage, with three carucates of arable

land, 23 acres of meadow, and fixty of woodland in Tykenham;and the advowfon of the church of " Ikenham" v^. In 1352,Philip de Thame, prior of the hofpitalof St^ John of Jerufalem,

granted a capital manfion, or place, (placea edificata^) in Hack-ney, called Beaulieu, with its appurtenances, late the property

of John de Banbury, to Nicholas de Shordych and John Blaunch,

to be held by an annual quit-rent of 6j-. 8^.**. The fite of

this manfion I fuppofe to have been the fame with that vulgarly

called Shore Place, conjedlured by Strype-j-f-

to have been the

* Strype's Stow, II. 796.

-f Funeral Monuments^ p. 537; and Strype's Stow, II, 796.

X Daughter of the abovementioned John de Charleton; fee the pedigree at p. 92,

§ CI. 22 Edw. HI. p. 2. Harl. MS. 1176, fol. 113. The defcendants of Ni-cholas de Shordich appear to have prefented to the refVory of Ickenham from 1382.See Newcourt's Repertorium, I. 663.

** Lyfons' Environs of London, II. 458; and Cotton MS. Nero E. VI. fol. 66.

f-f Strype's Stow, vol. II. p. 796.

N 2 habitation

9i HISTORY AND ANTIQÛITIES

habitation of fir John de Shordich; the proper name, however,

appears to have been Shorditch Place, from the two following

entries in the Parifh Regifter of St. John at Hackney:

" Jn% the fon of Jotn Key of Shorditch Place, buried 28 Sepf, 1600."

" Maria, flia pofuli *, born at Shorditch Place m the barn there, 1602,"

In the Monafticon Anglicanvira -j- Alexander de Schoredych

appears amongft thofe who figned the foundation charter of St.

Mary Bethlehem, " Anno Domini MCGxlvii. die Mercurii pod" feftum fandli Lucse Evangeliftae." How he was related to fir

John 1 know not.

* Filia populi. Is not this a curious, a peculiar, entry?

Without father, without mother, &c. is, remarks Mr. Gilpin ', a very commonway in fpeaklng of thofe whofe anceftors are unknown. Thus Livy fays, " patre

" nullq, matre fervaj" Liv. and Seneca, (Epift. 108.) fpeaking of two RomanIcings, Servius Tullius and Ancus Martiua, fays, " alter pattern non habet ; alter

** matrem;" aTrctjcitp Tum «ji/.j)7wp were common expreffions, among the Greeks alfo, to

4iftingui(h people c^ unknown families.

t Vol. m. p. 382.

' E:q)ofition of tlie New Teftajnent, vol. II. Hebrews, vii. 3, note.

Pedigree

OF SHORED ITCH. ^^

Pedigree of the Ancient Family of Shordich; from the Heralds' Office.

Sir John Shnrdich, 50=Elene, Nicholas (brother to-^Jewel, daur of

Edw. 3°. ux. SirJohn),marr.8Ed.IlI.

i333,died34Edw.3<'.John Charleton *,

8th Edw. 3''.

f—

I

'

John Shordich, Dec' 4, 1407, & fepultus eft=pElefle,

in boriali infula Eccl. de Chelchiih.j

ux.: \ /

r \\

John Shovd;ch, Dec' 15, 1410 -j-, fepultus eft in Choro Ecc'l.=pElizabeth,

novi Hofpitalis Beats Mdris extra Bifliopfg.( ux.

^ ^

/

John Shordich, died about the 22'' year of Edw. 4"", i472.=pMatrId3, ux,

^^ ^

/'

Rob. Shordich died 1 5 15.=^Margaret Tan6eld of Northamptonfli.

^ ^ -^ -. ^George \ Thomas§ Shordich=pMaude Sankye, aunt toTho* A daghter, marrtt©

fans iffiie. died 151 8. Sankye of Eldefborowe Pigot ofHertford.

r —/

Robert Shordich died i567,,=pMarie, daughter of John Ofhaftone, Efquier,

buried at Iknahm.j

of Oxfordfliire, of Hartfordfliire.

John. Edmond Shordich died 1 583.=pEllen, the da. of WiJl.Saye. Thomas^

r T . ^ VMarie, marr. to Ri- Michael Shordich,=pElliaor, the d^. of Sir Edmond ||, an ho-chard Stepham. eldeft fon. [ RicLaclifordofSurrye. n,eft youDg m^,

/ 1 ^ -

Richard Shordich of .Ickenham,=pJaHe, da. of John Qarret,

eldeft fonne, living in 1634.J

of Uxbridge.

/ -r-^ ^ sRobert Shordich, eldeft fonne. Elizabeth, eldeft daughter. Mary, z* daur."'

* See p. 91.

t The manor of Southall (held under the archbifbop of Canterbury) vras in 1595 and 144athe f>roperty of John Shoredych, efq. as appears by the Court Rolls, Lyfons, III. 321.

X In the year 1512, it was p.refented by a jury, that the bridge called Terpple Mill Bridge,

alias Marfti Street Bridge, in Hackney Maifli, was very ruinous, and that William Teye of Col-chefter ought to repair it, as proprietor of a^ certain pafture, called Wallisj-in Hackney, formerly

belonging to Andrew de Barking, and afterwards to George SchordUhc, Lyfons, II. 460; anct

Cotton MS. Nero, E. VI.

§ Clofe Rolls Hen. IV, Thomas de Shordich, of the city of Weftminfter, and others releafed t»Thomas Joriftiam, of the fame place, and his heirs all his right to one meffuage and garden ad-jacent. (1-297 Rawl.)

y The only entry of the 'Shordich family in the parifti regifter of Shoreditch is of the daughter©f (I believe) this Edmund Shordich, by which it appears he lived at Hpxton ; viz, i6i7, "i/iaa-" beth Shordich, daughter of• Edmund, July llth, Hoxton" buried^

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OF SHORE DITCH. 95

Manor of Haggerstone.

Haggerftone *, or Agafton, and in old records Haggerfton-f-^

Haggarllon I, Hagarfton §, Hoggefton|J,

Hargarfton **, Har-

gefton ff» Argarfton J']:, and Heregoteftane §§ ; from which lait

1 am incUned to think, that in the Saxon times it -was written

He']ae'5C'ar-|-cancf, and that its name may be derived from H€?|ief-

je'ac, militaris apparatus, and zon, or conef, oppidum, having

perhaps- been a military ftation ; or from he'ne^, exercitus ; 5e'ac,

via% and cone:', oppidum\ as being the firft town beyond the fub-

urbs of London, through which the Via Militarise or ErminIJ|J

Street ran.

* The family of Haggerfton did not derive their name hence, but from the townof Haggerflon in Northumberland, where they have had their refidence for ages." Richardus Hagerjioun, miles, '^ was one of the Scottifti knights who figned the

;

treaty with the Englifli, 12,49. (NLcholfon, p. 2, note.') Thomas Haggerftonoccurs among the commiffioners returned for Northumberland in 12 Hen. VI. 1433.(Fuller's Worthies, p. 310.) Sir John of Agerflone is mentioned as fighting on thefide of lord Percy in the ancient ballad of Chevy Chace (Percy's Reliques, L 14.);and fir James Agurftone in that of the battle of Otterbourn (ibid. I, p. 30.) The*pedigree of this family may be feen in Hutchinfon's Hiflory of the County Palatineof Durham, III. 378.

f Parifh Regifter, 1558, and 1580. % Ibid. 1562* § Ibid.

||_CI. 26 Edw. III. m. 21. 23. d.

** Parifh Regifter, 1566.«f-j~

Ibid. 1605.

XX Record in the Augmentation OfEce, ^^ Hen. VIIL§§ Domefday, vol. I. fol. 130. xiV

jjllErmin, q. d. Pepeman, fignifying a foldier,, and SrjieC, a; road or way.-

Thia

96 H I S T O R Y A N D A N T I QJ3 I T 1 E S

This manor in the reign of king Edward the Confeflbr * washeld of the crown by Alumnm^ -f,

a free man, Vy'ho had powerto difpofe of it. At the time of the general furvey, which was

completed in 1086, it was held o~f the king by Robert de Gernon;

at which time it appears, that in the reign of the Confeflbr it

confifted of two hides % » and, at the time of forming the furvey,

was aflefled at 1 ploughlands. There were then 3 ploughs

upon it, with 3 villans § and 7 bordars |1, who were tenants of

the

* " Terra Roberti Gernon Ofvlveftane Hund.Ho _ '

'1

CO Rotbert Gernon ten de rege . 11-. hid in Hergo

TESTANE . Tra . e . II . car .7 ibi funt . iii . car . Ibi . iii .

uifti .7 VII . bord qui tene/l' banc tra .7 yaJ-XLV . fot

(ô recep xl fat .T . R .E . l . fot. Hoc CO tenuit'

"j

Aluuin ho regis E. uende potuic cui voluit."

Domefday, vol. I. fol. 130. i'^.

•f' Aluuinus homo', homager, or vaffal, which laft was then only another name

for the tenant or holder of the lands '. In Domefday, vol. II. fol. 24. b. he -is

called " Aluuinm Uber homo" ; and-Mr. Majendie* (VetuftaMonumeata, vol.111.)tells us, the manor of Hedingham, in Effex, wai originally. poffeffed by Uluuims,a Saxon of great note '.

\ " Hida'k primicivacooftitutione tx 100 acris conftat." (Liber Niger.) " Sci-*' endum, qu6d magnum feodum militis coadsit ex quatuor Bidis, bcunahida ex qua-" tuor virgatis, & una virgata ex quatuor forlingis, & una forlinga ex decern acris;

'

*' ita ut feodnm militis magnum conftat ex ^80 acris." Ex initio Lib. Rubfi in

Scaccario. x

5 The ' 'villam' had their name de villis, becaufe they had ffermes, and were the

lord& tenants of a fomewhat fuperior order, but burthened with fuch ftated fervilc

works as had been annexed to their lands and tenements.

IIThe * i/ordarii' are called by lord Coke boors, or hufbandmen; by Spelman,

cottagers who refided on the borders of the village: but Mr. Nichols, in the Dif-

fertation on Domefday fubjoined to his Hiftory of Leicefterfhire, vol. I. p. xliv.

' Blackftone, vol. II. p. 53.* Fjom Domefday; and MS. F. H. in Bibl. Bodl.

* Qu. was our Aluuinus tlie fame with Alwin Stichehare ("a fervant of the king"), or Alwinfon of Britmar ; both of whom held lands in the adjoining parifli of Stepney? The latter tenanted

the fame parcel of laud in the time of the ConfelTor. See Domefday.

with

OF SHORE DITCH. 97

the land, which was valued, at the time they had it firft granted

them, at 40 J. per annum, and had been before valued, in the

reign of king Edward, at 50 J", though it then produced only

45 J. per year.

Robert de Gernon, Gernun, or Greno, was defcended froni

the houfe of Bologne. He affifted WilUam, duke of Normandy,

in the invafion of this reahn ; and, in reward of his fervices,

had grants of many lordfhips, in the counties of Middlefex,

Hertford, Buckingham, Plereford, Cambridge, EiTex, Norfolk, and

Suffolk *. How,'' or upon what occafion, this manor became

alienated from himj or his defcendants, I am at alofsto difcover;

but hope the following cor^cife account of the Gernon family

may prove an agreeable digreffion :

with good reafon, fuppofes them to have been hufbandmen, or farmers, who occupied

part of the lord's demefnes, and paid their rents principally, if not entirely, in pro-

vifions; but were of lefs elevated rank than the w7/«»/.

* Morant's Efl[ex, vol. II. p. 576 ; and Kelham's UluftratioQ of Domefday.

Ars^

98 HISTORY AND ANTI QÛ T T I E S

Arms of Ge.non and Montjlchet: Palie, wavy of fix, Argent and Gulei.

Robert Gernon, who arrived in England with Duke Williaxn,

I1066, and became lord of the manor of Haggerftone,

I'

Robert de Gernon *.J

Matthew, or, as others call;

him, Anthony Gernon, livingia

the reign of King Stephen.

Wiliiam, who aflumed the furname of Montfichet f .':=: .....

I

-*.

:Hodierna de Gilbert Montfichet J, who, with hisfon,

Saucaville. | builttheprioryof Ankerwyke,Buck.s,I

bui

Hen. 11.

Ralph de Gernon:: = ...'. fitter to

Pain Briewfe.

Sir Ralph Ger-:

non,kt.juflice

itinerant, ob.

"47 §•

r- . > . . Richard Mont-= Mar-

Baflet. fichet||, ob. garet,

1258, f. p.

Richard Montfichet, keeper of the foreft of=pMelicenr,

Eflexj.in the yeai' 1194, attended King Ri

chard I. into Normandy, and died 1203

T r; ;

Margery, wife Aveline, wife

to Hugh de ofVVilliamde

Botbec, of

Northumberl'.

Forz, Earl

of Albemarle.

Philippa, mar-

ried to HughAc Plaitz.

_L

Sir William Gernon^, of the councilÊleanor.

to King Henry HI. ob. 1259.

-7")Edward de Gernon. Mary Gernon, married

to William Mantell.

SirRaljjhde Gernon, ktj=p Geoffrey Gernon,'of Moorhall, in the Peak, co Derby.r^.

I

~William Gernon ob.=p

.

43 Henry III **. I

1'

Richard Gernon f f.

zrRoger de Gernon, of Grimfton-=pMary daughter of John Pot-

hall, in the county of Suffolk,jton, lord of the manor of Ca-

died.17 Ed. III.Iveudifli, near Clare, Suffolk.

He left four fons, who all took the furname of Cavendifti, fromthe manor above-mentioned ; and from whom the prefent noble

family of Cavendifti, Dukes of Devonfliire, are lineally defcended.

• This Robot de Gernor, in iiiz, was a great benefaftor to the monaftery of St. Peter, Glouceller. See Dugd.Mon. I. 120.

f He founded the abbey of Stratford Langthorne, 1135. In Harl. MS. 606, f. 67, I find " Sir Richard Montfichet, endthe hart of his ivife Dame 'Jonei, itiere burled at Stratford abbey, tuhich he had founded.^* Sir Richard appears to have given

certain lands in Fuilmere; fee Dugd. Monaft. 1 883. Amongft the witiieffes to the foundation deed of Stratford ahhey byKilliam Montfichet we find, " Mathia Gernun it, Willielmo filio Radulfi, & WiUielmo de Monteficliet nepote meo;" ibid.

t The builder of Mouatfichet's tower, near the Thames.

§ " Ob. 1-47, Jit Mariis frox' foft ftftum S'ci Andrea'' Cott. MS. Julius, C. vii.

\ Who, fiding with the Barons againft king John, was one of the twenty-five who were made cliocce'of to govern the

realm; and was taken prifoner at the battle of Lincoln, June 18, 1217; though afterwards, in 1236, conftiiated Juftice

of the King's Forefts in Effex. Hewas flieriffof Effexfrom 1241 101146.In Cott MS. Julius, C. vii. are tricks of two of his feals, on each of which appears a man, clothed in armour, mounted

upon a horfe, holding in his right hand a pennon, whereon are depifled the arms <if Geinon and Mountfichet afure-

mentioned, as well as on the ftiield which he fupports with his left. In another part of this MS. is a third feal, whereon theman, inftead of 4 pennon, bearsa large fword, in hisriglu hand, with the following in(cription : " sioillvm richardiCE MONFXTCHET." Appendant to this is a fmaller fejl, with" sigillvm secretit" round it, and the arms in thecentres

f\ Prom whom the maaor of Iheydxn derived the adjunct of Cermn, diftinguilhing it from Jhcjdtm Boyi, both in the sountyofElTex.** MorantlL 159. tt I*''^'

Mr.

OFSHOREDITCH. 99

Mr. Lyfons, in his Environs of London *, tells us, that,

" In the year 1352, Sir* John de Afpale leafed his mano^ of

" Hoggejion in Hackney to Thomas Harwold f . It was in the

^ poffeffion of Elizabeth Afpale, his widow, anno i 372 :J:.In

" the year 1389, John Quy releafed all right in this manor to

" Henry Vanner and others § ; John Philpot died feifed of it

" anno 1485,, his fon John being his heir. It was held of the

" bifhop of London by a quit-rent of laJ". ||I have not met

" with any other records relating to this manor, nor do I know" its lite. The hamlets of Hoxton and Haggerflone are both" within the adjoining parilh of St. Leonard Shoreditch."'

Whether this has any relation either to Hoxton or Haggerftone,

I am unable to determine; but, as the name and lite of the

manor are entirely unknown in Hackney, I am inclined to give

it to Haggerftone: with what juftice, the candour of the Reader

will determine.

The next mention which I find of this manor of Haggerftone

is in the Fee-farm roll **, in the Augmentation-office,, dated the

26th ofAuguft, 1535; where it appears as parcel of the polTeffions-

of the late-diflblved priory of St. Mary Spital without Bitliopfgatey

and to have been part of the great manor of Hickmans, belong-

ing to the faid priory, confifting of certain inclofures, with fe-

veral meffuages, then in the tenure of Robert Beckett or his

uflignees, and valued at ixj. xi^. per annum. To whom it wasgiven at the fuppreffion^ I know not; but by the Index of the

above record, it appears to have been to " various granteesJ'

* IL 457. f CI. 26 Ed\v. III. m. 21. 23. d. + CI. 46 Edw. IH. m. 17. dl§ C!. 12 Ric. IL m. 32. ||

Efch. 2 Ric. lil. N° 26,* * Fee-fcrm Roll, 45. 149

:

" Parcel]. polT, nup Priorat. five Not, Hofp. be Mar. Virg. extra Bifliopefgate," Reddit. refervat f>ro toto illo maner..de Hickmans" ac eriarn oran. & fingHlis meff. &c. in Arârjlon infra. ^ ^""*

" poch. de Shoredich, in tenura Rob" Beckett veL . jx^.xj'^.

" aiBgnatorum fuorum, 26 Aug. 35 Hen. VllL'*

O % The

loo HISTORY AND ANTIQÛITIES

The fcattered fragments of a once-noble manlion are ftill

vifible here, though nothing material remains belide an old

ftone door-way ; and its extenfive boundaries may yet be traced

by an antient wall of brick, which nearly furrounds the lite of

the old houfe.

The poor people, who inhabit the tenements which are built

within the wall, mention a tradition, that the great Earl of Effex

formerly refided here; though I am unable to difcover anygrounds for the aflertion. By the Parifh Regifter of Shoreditch it

appears, that " Sir Roger Chamleys''' had two fervants buried hence;

one on May 13, 157a; and the other, named Roger Cocke,

Nov. 12, 1583; from which I conclude that he refided here.

Sir Roger Chamley,

Cholmeley, or Cholmondley, was natural fon to Sir Richard

Cholmondley, who was knighted in 1497* by king Henry VII.

He was made lord chief baron of the Exchequer Nov. 11, 1546;and on March 21, 1552, conftituted chief juftice of the court of

King's Bench. And it might probably be to this houfe that^ on

June 27, 1558, forty Proteftants being found in a field near

Iflington, and feized upon by the conftable of that town,

27 of whom (the reft having efcaped) were carried before fir

Roger Cholmeley (the juftice who lived neareft at hand not

being at home), who, with the Recorder of London, made out

a bill of their names, and committed 22 of them to Newgate;

of which number, fome time after, feven were burnt at Stratford,

and fix at Brainford f . He founded the free fchool at Highgate

in 1562 J.

~

* Archdale's Iri(h Peerage, vol. V. p. 56.

•\- Fox's Ads and Monuments, ed. 1684, fo. vol. III. p. 732.

X Strype's Stow ; and Mr. Lyfons' Environs of London, vol. III. where is a long

and curious account of that inftitution.

By

'o^ ^ ii b R rbî T CH. Voi

By another entry in the Parifh Regifter, 1603, I find,

" Netherhil Bogges, ferv' to my lord mayor, was buried on Sepr 30'^ Haggerflone."

The mayor of London at that time was S"" Thomas Benet,

who might probably have *made this 'his couhtry retirerfi^nt.

In a MS. in the Britifli Mufeiim *, intituled " Smith's Cata-

" logne of Perfons deceafed, whom he knew in his life-time," is,

" 1665," Scptem. 14. Alderman Bide, at Haggerftone, ex pejle -f."

Haggerftohe continues in'^the pblleffibn of Mr, Byde's dcfcend-

ants till 1720 J, when the premifes were fold by Thomas Byde,

efq. of Hertfordfhire to . ... . "Nichors, efq. whofe grandfon in

1794 ôld a part of them to Mr. Rhodes of Hoxton §.

* Bibl. Sloan. 886. Plut. 21. D. .i'

, ^ ..-.

f. Mr. Peck, ^whppubliih^dltfpgeextraas from this MS. in the "Pefiderâ Cu-fiofa,", by mift'alce reads it Pride, p. 544. The infcription on Alderman Byde'stomb, forinerly at Shoreditch, now at Bengeo in Herts, may be fecn at p. 63. ofthis work.

X Allen Badger, gent, a great benefadtor to this parlflijidied^ here in 1676; ofwhbm fee Dr. ^3cnne'% Regifter of Benefeftions, lSl»'XLH; arid in the Britifli

Mufeum, Bibl. Sloan. 886. I find, " 1^74, Auguft 7, died M" A6ne Badger, ofHaggefftbn, buried at Shoreditch Aug. 11, when D"^ Hatfield preached."

§ Ex inform. Geo. Limmirig.

{'\i-

Of

lo* HISTORY AND ANTIQÛITIES

Of the ROMAN ROADS in Shoreditch Parifh.

I. Erminge Street.

Dr. Stukeley, fpeaking of the antient Romans, tells us *,

that " in the reign of Nero, in all probability, they made the«* Hermen Street, as now called by a Saxon word equivalent to

** the Latin Fia Militaris ^. That this was the firft feems inti-

*' mated by the narne,' in that it has retained KcPi eôj^rjv, what" is but a common appellative of fuch roads;" and afterwards

tells us X-)" it is generally thought the Hermen Street goeS

" through Bijhopfgaie, and along the Northern road;" and, in

another part of his work §, he fays, " a third road is the Hermen" Street from the fea-fide in Suffex to Scotland i it went by Bi-

<' Ihopfgate."

To this account I am rather inclined to give credit, than to that

of its palling under Cripplegate|| by way of Old Street-, though

the latter is (if I miftake not) the notion generally received by

* Itinerarium Curiofum, I. p. 6.

\- See the derivation of Erminge Street at p. 9.5.

X Itin. Curiof. V. p. 77. § Ibid. Cent. 11. p. 13.

IISyftera of Geogrs^hy, 2 vols. fo. art. London,. Pennant's London, ift ed. p. 9.

the

O F S H O 11 E D I T C H. loj

the Antiquaries of the prefent age. The groundwork of this

laft idea (of its proceeding by way of Qld Street) may, doubtlefs,

be found in Stow *, who tells his readers, that, before the

erection of this gate, travellers, refufing to take their journey

eaftward, out at Aldgate, " muft then take their way by the

" North, out at Alderfgate^ through Aider/gate Street and" G'ofwell Street^ towards Iflingto7t\ and by a crofs of ftone on" the right hand, fet up for a mark by the North end of*' Golden Lane^ to turn eaftward through a long ftreet, unto this

*' day called Al'de-Jlreet^ to another crofs, ftanding where now a

*' fmith's forge-f

is placed by Sewers-ditch churchy and then to

" turn again North towards 'Tottenham^ Edmonton^ Waltham^*' Ware, &c."

PafTingover the'inconfiftency of fo many turnings with the

cuftom of the antient Romans, whofe roads ran invariably in a

ftraight line, except where they met with fome local impedi-

ment:|: ; let us examine its route from that part of Surrey, where

the writers on this road feem to have mifled its track.

Dr. Stukeley thinks it " goes by Stane Street, Croydon, Stret-

ham ^, and by its pointing was defigned originally to pafs the

Thames at the ferry, called Stangate, ,by Lambeth, where it co-

incided- with the Watling Street." He then conjedlures, that it

might afterwards have " defledted a Tittle from its primitive in-

tention, to falute the Augufta of Britain, deftined to be the altera

Roma.'''' I rather think the Ermin Street never to have led to

Stanegate by Lambeth ; but the moft antient paflage of the

Romans over the Thames to ,what has been fince denominate4

* Strype's Stow, 1754, vol. I. p. 17. - ,1 -f See p. 82.

X Mr. Leman's Effay oa the i Romam Roads, in Mr. Nichols's Leicefterfttire,

Incrodudtory Volume, p. cxlix.

§ Itinerarium Curiofum, Cent. I. It. V. p. 77.- Stretham, q. d. Street-bam^ orthe town fituated on the high road.

Lon-

J«4 HISTORY AND A N T I QÛ I T I E S

London ^. to have been above the prefent bridge, at the terrain

nation of a ilVeet in the parilh of St. Mary Overy, {till called

Stone (or Stoney) Street ; and it is highly probable, that there

might l)e a road branching off from the oppofjte fliore towards,

BiJJjopfgate^ the earheft note of which, that I read, faith Strypef,

is in I2JO X\ but in the Domefday Survey § (1086) mention is

made of twelve acres of land belonging to the dean aad chapter

of 5t. Paul's " ad efi portam,'"' which is doubtlefs that tra6t of;

land now known by the name of The Dean and Chapter's Manorof Norton Falgate. Stow

1|conje6inres it to have been built

about 685 by Erkienwald, bifhop, of London; and Weever **,

on the credit of fome of our old chroniclers, makes it§ exift-

ence coeval with the time of Julius Caefar, 5 1 years prior to the ,

birth of our Saviour; but, to lay afide the fabulous accounts

of'^bur ancient Rhymei;s, may we not fuppofe Bjjhopfgate, a fe-

condaryname, evidently Saxon^ to have been one of the earlieft

ereited gates of oiir metropolis, and to have been rcrbuilt,, rather

than built, ty Erkenwald ?

In the earlier ages, I haiveTDut little doubt that Finfbnry and

Lolefworth fields compofed one valt mprafs ; and, . inftead of

,

agreeing with t)r, Stukeley ff and fevexaj, other writers ++, who,

havie derived the latter from Lollius Urbicus, I flioi^ld rather think

they took the^name oi .holefy)orth from the time of the ere(5tion,

' ,.,•; .i-rr !. ' •'i --4. f:I

. i) -'^ " ' » 'I

* Probably by way of Kent Street, where many Roman remains have been

difcpvei*ed.' See Lelahd's Collefllnea, vol. I: lViii. r " r;

"f Stow's Survey, ed. 1754, I. .17.

% " BJlh'opfga'te (faitH Mr. Gough in his Additions to Camden, II. 16.) is firft

mentioned in 1 2 12." § Mid^lleie, ?ol.

IjSurvey, I. 17, ed. 1754. *• Fun. Mon. p. 419, 420.

^\ Itinerarium Guriofum, Cent. I. p. 8. ' >''

JJ.Horfley's Brit. Rom, 51. Gale, in Anton. It*in» aS.'

4 ^

O F S II O R E D I T C H. ios

of Bifliopfgate only, when the high-way was carried through it

;

deriving the name from the Saxon jLuH, a mar/h^ fen, or ;;/56»r '••

;

and pop's, an high-wayj^; and that it was- no uncommon thing

with the Romans to diredt the courfe of their highways through

fenny ground appears from the remonftrances of the antient

Britons, who '* complained that the Romans wore out their

" bodies and hands in fortifying woods and marflies, accompany-" ing their blows with infults ;]:."

Lolefwortb, or Spittle-fields, is fuppofed by Stow to have been

nfed as a cemetery, not only by the Romans §, but the Saxons[(,

from the veflels, lamps, lachrymatories, paterce **, and coins

of the former ; and from the coffins of ftone, &c. of the

latter : but whether he rightly deemed it Saxon, from the

coffins of ftone, may be doubted, as they have been found in

Roman cemeteries-f-f",

and in countries where it is to be doubted

if the- Saxons ever reached; and that the Romans in Britain did

not always burn the remains of their departed friends is

evident, not only from the prefent inftance, but from others in

its vicinity "^ : thus, on re-building Bllhopfgate church,

amongfi many other fepulchral remains, with a filver coin of

* Whence the Scotch and Irifli loch^ lough.

\ Dr, Gale, in his Commentaries upon Antonine's Itinerary, (p. 28,) mentionsLowiefworth upon the Hermen Street, without Bifliopfgate, in Spittle Fields.

4: Mr. -Gough's Camden, I. xlvii. from Tacitus, Vit. Agr. c. 51.

§ Strype's Stow, I. 418, ed. 1754. ||Ibid. I. 419.

** Some of white-earth, with long necks and handles, fuppofed for fa:ri ic^s.

Mr. Gough's Camden, II. 16.

•f-f At Bootham Bar, near York. Mr. Gough's Camden, III. 62. At Cnr!';iiff:,

CO. Durham. Ibid. III. 113. See alfoMr. Gough's Sepulchral "'lonunc: l., vî. I.

p. xviii. & feqq.

U Though burning and enclofing the allies of the deceafed withia ar !;rn wasthe ordinary cuftom, yet many inftances of interment occur; and we find tac greatlaw-giver Numa particularly forbad the burning of his own body, bue cc . mandedit to be laid entire in a Jione coffin. Kennet's ilon.an Antiquities, 335.

P Antoninus

io6 HISTORY AND ANTI QJJ I T I E S

Antoninus Pius (rev. vict. aug. cos. hi.), an arched vault was

difcovered, 14 feet deep, with large equilateral Roman bricks,

and in it two Jkektom perfect; fuppofed a Roman burial-place

after the eftablifliment of Chriftianity *.

It has been a cuftom amongft the earlieft nations to appoint the

place of burial v/ithout the city ; and that this cuftom was at-

tended to with more tiian ordinary diligence by the antient

Romans, who neither burned nor buried their dead within the

city, we can have but little doubt, as it was enforced by the

law of the twelve tables, ** Hominem mortuum in urbe ne fepelito

" 7ieve urito f :" their places of interment were ufually near the

high-ways |, not only to be confpicuous, but to remind thofe

who pafledby of mortality; and hence we may derive the fre-

quent infcription of " siste, (or aspice,) viator." Here then

we have every argument to believe the Hermen Street paffed byway of Lolefworth, not only from the derivation of its name, and.

the antiquity of Bilhopfgate, but from its fituation as a funereal

receptacle^ and inftances of thefe are far from wanting in almoft

every part of the kingdom.

Hence we trace this celebrated road by a ftreet known by the

name of Artillery Lane, which, with feveral others in its vicinity,

once conftituted the liberty of the Old Artillery Ground^ formerly,

faith Bagford ^, a Roman ftation, being ufed by that warlike

people, as a field of Mars, for the training up of the Britifh as

well as Roman youth in the exercife of arms. It "is " obferved

" (faith he) to have been a Roman camp by a judicious author in

* Mr. Cough's Camden, II. 16, 17J from Le Neve's notes in the Antiquary

Society's minutes.

\ Cicero, de Leg.ii. c. 23. Sec alfo Woodward's Remarks on the Antiquity of

London, ed. 1723, p. 36, &c.

+ Kennct, 353. Adams' Roman Antiquities. Horfley's Brit. Rom. 391.

Mr. Cough's Camden, I. xlviii. Salmon's Hertfordfliire, i6p. 355, &c.

§ Leland's Colleftanea, I. lxi.

*' the

OFSHOREDITCH. 107

" the latter end of queen Elizabeth's reign, publifhed in a valuable

" quarto pamphlet; but I have forgot the author's name." This

will, doubtlefs, ferye as another barrier to the proofs already-

adduced, if we call to mind that the camps and ftations of the

Romans were always fituated in the neighbourhood of their

military ways.

Hence we trace it through Norton Folgate (which in Brune's

fouridation charter of St. Mary Spittle, i 247, is called " vicum''^ regium'''' '-'^)^ h-^ Shore-ditch^ XowzvAs Kingjland '\^ fomewhat to

the Weft of the prefent road | ; which it leaves on the Eaft

by Kinglland-green, a little to the North of the turnpike, in the

parifh of Hackney § ; where we will for the prefent take our

leave of it.

II. Old II Street.

This road, as Dr. Stukeley tells us, came from Stanes (the

Pontes of Antoninus) through Brentford, " being the common" road to Turnbam Green, where it turns Northward from the

*' prefent road, pafling over a little brook, called from it Stanford-

" bridge, entering the A6ton road at a common and a bridge, a

" little Weft of (jamden houfe, fo along Hyde-park wall, and" crofles the Watling Street at Tyburn, then along Oxford" Road**," continuing to Old Street, on the North fide of the

city ; whence it goes to Colchefter in ElTex"f-f . Dr. Stukeley

named this road Fia Iceniana %% or Trinobantica §§.

* Mon. Angl. II. 383.\ 'King/land' road ; of the fame import as the Saxon riyne-fcprer, re^'a v'ra,

fublica via. Lye v. yVj\seV. j^ Stukeley, Itin. Guriof. II. p. 77.

§ Sketches of the Hiftory and Antiquities of Sroke\Newington, Bihl. Top.N°'IX. p. 2.

IISax. eal6. ** Itin. VII. p. 205. - ff TheB'ill.p. iV,

^X Itin.Cent.lt. p. 13. Caraufius, p. 12— 14.''^'

§§ Ibid,

Pa Prebend

loS HISTORY AND A N T I Q_U I T I E S

Prebend of Old-Street.

This Prebend, in 1291, was taxed* at 50s. and the fame

valuation occurs in the taxation of 1327 f.

In the Parliament Surveys of 1649, the following note of

Eald- Street occurs amongft thofe Prebends which have no

Surveys I

:

"Eald-Street,1 The corps loft, and fuppofed to be fwallowed

Mr. HallleadJ by Wenlock-barnes on one fide, and Hoxdon onthe other. But the prefent Incumbent has re-

covered a Well called Annis de Cleer, after feveral

chargeable law-fuits, and lett a leafe of it to the

Brewers' Company for 2,1 years, at 25/. per annumJ*'

Prebendaries of Eald-Street, from Newcourt's Repertorium,

vol. I. p. 148. V

Aufchitinus, Ardhid. Cant.

Fulcherus Epifcopus.

* This taxation was madb at the time that Pope Nicolas IV. granted a tenth

of all ecckfiaftical revenues to the king, to defrajr the cxpences of the holy war.

A record of this taxation, together with the original roils whence it was compiled,

is preferved in the King's Remembrancer's ofHce in the Exchequer. Another copy,

iiot fo full as that at Weftminfler, is in the Bodleian library % amongfl Sir HenrySpelman's MSS, to whom it formerly belonged, and is often referred to under the

title of the Bodleian Valor; this MS. is imperfefl^, and confifts of 197 foho leaves,

containing the dates of the diocefes of York, Durham, Carlifle, Canterbury, Ro-cheller *, Chichefter, London, Norwich, Ely, London, Winchefter ', Salifbury *,

V/orcefter », part of Exeter, part of Exeter and Wells, part of Exeter and Bath,

Coventry and Lichfield*, Chefter, LlandafF, St. David's, part of St. David's and

Bangor, part of Bangor, St. Afaph, Hereford '. See Mr. Lyfons's Environs of

London, L 10, and Britifli Topography L 116.

f Harl. MS. 60, in Brit. Muf. X MS. Rawl. in Bibl. Bodl. No. 1375.

* N° 3395.' Printed in pp. 78, 79, of the Antiquities of the Church of Rochefter,

5 Printed p. 324 of the fifth Vohime of Aubrey's Antiquities of Surry.

* Printed p. 383 of th - third Volume of Afliraole's Berkfliire.

' Printed p. 4 of the Antiquities of the Church of Worcefter.

' Printed p. 2 of the Antiquities of the Church of Lichfield.

' Printed p. 145 of the Antiquities of the Church of Hereford.

Hamo

OFSHOREDITCH. 109

Hamo de Reins, vel Reme.

Theodoricus, junior. ^

Godefridus de Luci ^.

Petrus de Walmer.

Will, de San6lae Mariae Ecclefia ^.

Alanus de Hertiland, vel Heruland.

Hugo archid. Wellen ^.

Barthol. archid. Winton.

Hugo de Sandto Edmundo ^.

Almaricus de Montforti.

Will, de Sardena e.

Tho. de Cobham f.

Ric. de Ellesfeld g.

Rog. de Halis, Feb, 4, 1327^;Hen. de Shorn a.

Joh. de Eggifhale. '*

Joh. Bramore'.

Joh. de Ixworth, LL. D. Nov. Tg, 1418^.Pet. Hendewyck, Jun. 9, 141 9'.

Joh. Piquet, Mar. 26, 1426.

Alan Kyrketon, D. D. Dec. 7, 1432.

'.Dean of St. Paul's from 1231 to his death in 1241..•> Dean of St. Paul's on the death of Godfrey de Luci, died 1243.' Archdeacon of Colchefter. ^ Archdeacon of Colchefter 1250—1260,' Prebendary of Ifledon, official of the arches 1297.* D. D. prebendary of Fenton, York, and of Hereford, till 1317 ; canon and

fubdean of Salifbury; chofea archbifhop of Canterbury by the monks; but,

Reynolds obtaining the fee, he accepted that of Worcefter in his room in 13 17;a learned writer, and known by the name of the Good Clerk; died in 1327; andwas buried in his cathedral. Godwin. Newcourt. -

s Succeeded Cobham in 1317, being king's chaplain, and dean of St. Martin le

Grand, and reftor of Stawell, Middlefcx. He died in i;528.

1" Archdeacon of Middlefex in 1326. ' Died in 1418.^ Archdeacon of Worcefter, and prebendary of Erlington inChichefter; ofRecul-

rerland in 1419, or 1421J and St. Pancras in 1421, refignedfor John Ixworth, jun.

Archdeacon of Colchefter in 1424, died in 1426.

Pbii-

no HISTORY AND A N T I QÛ I T I E S

Phil, ap Rice, D. D. Aug. 1443.Will. Byconyll, LL. D. Nov. 1445^.Rog. Keys ^.

Ric. Lanftrother, 4. Feb. 1448.Walter Heit, A. M. Sept, 23, 1467'^.

John Smith, LL. B. May 30, 1484'^.

Ric. Terynden, LL. B. Ap. 12, 1487^.' Joh. Wyppyll, A.M. oa. f, 1488^.

Tho. Norbury.

Hugo Saunders, S. T. P. Jan. 10, 15088.

Tho. Bennet, LL. D. Nov. a6, 1517 ^^

John Afhwell, D. D. Nov. 7,,.isai K

Rob. Higden, S. T. B. Aug. 23, 1541''.

John Crook, LL. D. June ^5, 1544.

John Warner, cl. M. D. April 3^), 1547 '.

^ Official of the arches in 1444. *> Refigned in 1448; reftor of St. Dunftan's

in the Eaft in 1443, which he refigned in 1452." Reftor of Rochford, Effex, in 1464; refigned it in 1.455; reftor of St.

Martin Vintry in 1456; refigned in 1472; died in 1484. Qu. if \icar of Hallfted

in i4ro? * Probably of Cadington Major in 1487.= Or Torrington, reflor of Ramfden Cray, Effex, in 1481; refigned in 1488.' Redtor of Birtiop's Wickhara, Effex, in 1485 ; refigned in 1487 for Hornfey;

and died in 1504.B Of Merton college, D. D. in 1500; principal of Alban hall in 1501 ; vicar

of Mepham, Kent; reftor of Mixbury, co. Oxford; vir Uteris & •ulrtute Celebris.

Ath. Oxon. I. 637. Hift. & Ant. Oxon. II. 341. He was redtor of White-chapel in 15 12; Geflirtgthorpe, Effex, in 15 16; died in 1.557.

^ Treafurerof St- Paul's in 1520; died in 1558. Qu. if precentor of Sarumin 1541?' B. D. reftor of Mifley in 1504; refigned in 1516; D. D. and vicar of Little-

bury; vicar of Halfted, which he refigned in 1537; and died in 1541.^ Vicar of Northall, Middlefex; of St. Botolph's, Bifhopfgate, in 1541; and

"died in 1544.' Fellow of ^Ml Souls college; proflor of the univerfity in 1529; M. D. in 1535;

warden of All Souls, which he refigned in 1555, and refumed in 1558 (Ath. Ox. II.

176); profeffor of phyfic ; and in 1541 one of the firft prebendaries of \\'înche{lcr;

archdeacon of Cleveland and of Ely after 1547; recflor of Hayes, Middlefex, in

1557; in 1559 prebendary of Ulfscomb, Sarum, and dean of Winchefter; died in

1564; and was buried at Great Stanmore, Middlefex. (Ath. Oxon. f. 678. 687.)

Ric.

OFSHOREDITCH. iii

Ric. Rogers, S,T.B. 061. 25, 1566^John Spencer, S. T. P. Nov. 13, 161a''.

Tho. Weftford, S.T. B. Apr. 12, 1614.

Win. Wilfon, S. T. P. '^

Joh. Whiting, S. T. P. June 27, 1613 d.

Joh. Taylor, S. T. P.

Will. Walwyn, S.T.B. Aug. 27, 1660^.

Hen. Halfted, A.M. Jun. 21, 1671 f-

Will. Butler, LL. B. Dec. a 6, 1729.

Jofeph Syms, 1755.Samuel Carr, D. D, ^

Matthew Feilde'', M. A. in May, 1795.

Rev. Robert Watts ', 1797.

^ Vicar of Great Dunmow 1560—1569; Little Canford till 1566 ; fuppofed by

-Newcourt fuffiagan bifljop of Dover in 1569; and dean of Canterbury in 1589.

(Ath. Oxon. I. 587.)" A Suffolk man, of Corpus Chridi college, Oxford, A. B. in 1557; Greek

reader in sssS-, fellow and A, M. in 1579; a noted preacher, chaplain to James I.

prefident of his college, P. D. 1607; 'lAi^^d in compiling and publifhing " Hook-er's Ecclefiadical Polity;" died in 1614; and was buried in his collegiate chapel,

where he has a monument^ with his buft and epitaph. (Antiq. Oxon. II. 234.)" Chancellor of St. Paul's, died in 16 15."i Seems to have been reftor of St. Martin Vintry in 1611; Eaft Ham in 1612;

D.D. of Cambridge; and died in 1629. (Ath. Oxon. I. 832.)" Of Merchant Tailors' fchool, fcholar of St. John's, Oxford, about 1634; a

noted preacher, and look arras for the king; B. D- in -1647; ejefted from his feJlow-

fhip in 1648; and, after much fuffering, obtained the vicarage of Eaft Coker,Somerfet (Ath. Oxon. II. 74 3.) » chaplain to fir John Stawell, who prefented himto the reflor of Rampifham, Dorfet, where he died in 1671.

^ Reftor of St. Benet, Gracechurch Street.

s Of Clare Hall, Cambridge, D. D. reftor of St. Andrew Underfliaft, St. MaryAxe, and of Finchley ; to all which he was prefented in 1770 by bilhop Terrick,

on the ceffion of his lordfliip's nephew Walter, and died Jan. 1794.*> Vicar of Ugley in Eflex, 1785 ; reflor of the united churches of St. Anne Al-

derfgate and St. John Zachary, 1788; prebendary of Gretten, in the church ofLincoln; and under grammar-mafter in Chrift's Hofpital. He died Aug. 11, 1796.

' Re6lor of St. Helen's, and Thurfday-afternoon lefturer of Allhallows, Bread-

ftreet.^

6 Alms-

iiz HISTORY AND ANTIQÛITIES

Almshouses, 8cc. in the Liberty of Church-End.

Morrel's, or the Goldsmiths', Alms-houfes,

are fituated at the extremity of the parifh, near Hackney road.

On the front is the following infcription, beneath the arms of the

Goldfmiths' Company:

" Anno Domini 1705.Then fix Alms-houfes were

ere<Sted, by the worlhipful Companyof Goldfmiths of London, for the

relief of fix poor members of

that Company, purfuant to the laft will

of Mr, Richard Morrell, a late

member of the fame Company, wholeft a competent eftate, in lands,

for maintaining the fame

Alms-houfes for ever."

Mr. John Cooper

Mr. Zouch Watfon

Mr. John Snell

Mr. Edw^. Blagrave

Wardens.'

Each member has two rooms, 2 s. per week, half a chaldron

of coals, a quarter of an hundred of faggots, and a gown, yearly *.

* Maitland, vol. II. p. 13 18.

On

OFSHOREDITCH. 113

On the Eaft fide of Kingfland road are twelve Alms-houfes.

On the front:

" THESE XII ALMS HOUSES WERE BUILT AND ENDOWED ANNO

DOM*"'. 1713, AT y" sole COST OF MR. SAMUEL HARWARR,

CITIZEN AND DRAPER, OF LONDON, LATE OF THIS PARISH DECE'",

fHIS NEPHEW MR. RICHARD SAVILLT tr „BY< ^HIS EXECU ."

fHIS NEPHEW MR. RICHARD SAVILLT

Land mr. tohn blandford, JJOHN BLANDFORD,

Adjoining Northward of thefe is the Ironmongers Hofpital,

founded by Sir Robert JefFryes.

In the centre is the chapel, on the front of which, in a niche,

is the ftatue of Sir Robert, in a flowing wig, and habit of Lord

Mayor of London; near him the city fwprd: and beneath,

" S*^ ROB"^. GEFFRYE, KN'^. ALDERMANAND IRONMONGER,

FOUNDER OF THIS HOSPITAL."

. Behind the North wing of thefe Alms houfes (the firft houfe

in which belongs to the chaplain) lies the burial ground.

On a plane of ftone againft the Weft wall

:

*' Revd. W"i. HESSE,Obt. Novr. i9'\ 1792,

^t, 31.

* Sir Robert Geffrye was Mayor of London 1686, He died Feb. 26, 1703,in the 91ft year of his age; and lies buried in the chancel of St. Dionis Back-church, with this epitaph :

" In this chancel is interred the body of Sir R. Geffrey," knt. and alderman, fome time fince lord mayor of the city of London, prefident of" Bridewell and Bethlehem ; a moft excellent raagiftratc, and of exemplary charity," virtue, and goodnefs ; who departed this life the 26th of Feb. 1703, in rhe 91ft" year of his age. And alfo the body of Dame Perciila, his wife, daujnter of" Luke Cropley, efq. who died the 26th of 0&. 1676, in the ^^d year of uis age."Thefe Alms-houfes were not built till 17 13.

Q Belpw


j[

Below this on an upright ftone :

" M. S.

Here lyeth the body

of Mrs. MARY COOK,the wife of Mr. JOHf^ COOK,

citizen and ironmonger,

of London.She departed this life

December the 2 2d, 1747,in the 73d year of her age.

And near unto heth y^ body

, of Mrs. MARY GREGORY,her daughter, who died

Auguft the 31ft, 1 746,in the 30th year of her age."

Ml

Oil one fide of this, on a fmall head' flone, is

' "E.G."

Oppofite to the above, between two lime trees and an horie-

chefnut tree, is an altar tomb, without any infcriptiori ; but on

the top appear thefe arms :

Argent, two pales Sable, each charged with three crofs

croflets fitchee Or.,

It was ereded, about 1729, to the memory of Mr. Betton^,

* In November 1729,. the raafter and keepers or wardens and commonalty o£

the Fifhraongers of the city of London obtained the king's licence to take and

purcbafe any freehold lands and tenements not exceeding the yearly value of;/,' 1000.

above all charges and reprizes, the profits tliereof to be difpofed of for certain

charitable ufes appointed by the Jaft will and teftament of Thomas Betton, deceafed,

late merchant, and member of the faid Company. London Evening Poji, Nov. 8,

17*9.

of

OFSHOREDITCH. n^

of the Ironmongers' Company, who left lol. per annum to in-

creafe the chaplain's falary *.

Laftly, on a fm^l head ftone, at the Eaft end :

" E. H."

Chaplains.

Jofeph Cookfon.

William Hefle.

1792. J. Gerrard,

In one of thefe almfhoufes lived the fon of the celebrated

Bernard Lens, drawing-mafter to the Duke of Cumberland,

who engraved the Views of ShpreditQh in 1736, (fee p. 13.)

Fullers Almshouses

are fituated on the South fide of Old Street ; on the front,

" Thefe Almshoufes were built

*' and endowed by Judge Fuller, 1591.-v.

* Parifh Clerks Remarks,, p. 430.

r Qz *' Rebuilt

ii6 HISTORY AND A N T I QÛ I T.I E S

" Rebuilt by Voluntary Contribution;

" Benjamin Brookman, 1 ^, ,

,, ,, . > Churchwardens.*' Moses Alsept, J,,

1787."

And at the Eaft end is the ftone which was placed at the front ofi"

the old houfes

:

*' Thefe 12 Houfes were built 1591, the gift,

"ôf John Fuller, ^fq,. to i a poor Widows" of this parilh, aged 50, who endowed," them jCso. per annum, for ever.

" This ftone was put up 1736;

« tL'^^'mL^ls? }Churchwardens.-

For a farther account of them, fee Dr. Denne'sRegiftfer of Bene--

fa<5lions, hereafter to be given^, N° III. 15 91..

Oppofite Fuller's are eight Alrnflioufes founded byvJohn Wal-

ter, efq. (See Regifter of Benefaaions, N° XLV. 1658.) Onthe front,

" M. S.

^," Anno Dom'. 1,658.

' ** Thefe Almlhoufes were built by" the; appointment and at the colt

"and charge of Mr. John Walter,<* Citizen and Draper of LondoHy" late deceas'."

Adjoining

OF SHORE DITCH. U7

Adjoining to thefe laft are feveral other Almflioiifes ; at the

front and Weft end of which is this infcriptionj under, an effaced I

fhield:.

" This building was eredled by the

"Company; of Weavers, London,'* For the ufe and benefit of. poore

"Members of that Company.*' Towards the charge thereof Mr. William

" Watfon, aNmember of thefame" Company, was a good benefactor,-

" AnaoL 1670^"

In 1774,. an A<51 of Parliament was obtained for building a 1

Workhoufe for the better relief and .employment of the Poor,

and for purchafing a piece of land for a burial-ground; for the

explanation and amendment of whieh another a6t was pafTed the

following year.. On the front, of , the Workhoufe,. fituated oiii

the Weft lide of Kingfland Road, is the following infcription :

.

" Shoreditch Workhoufe, finifliedAnno Domini 1777,," Richard Wright,' n ^, , ,

<«. r- 1 . J T. • KChurchwardens.""^ Edward Lewis, J

And " on Wednefday, 19 Aug. 1778, the Bifhop of Londonc

confecrated the new burying ground behind the new-eredledi

workhoufe belonging to St. Leonard, Shoreditch"*.

Gent. Mag. vol. XLYIII. p. 388.,

Thst

ii8 HISTORY AND AN TICLUITIES

The Liberty of HOXT0N.

Eftreats.

The Land Tax of this Liberty /. s. d. L s. d.

for 1789 produced - - 801 10 8 22 981 79 1 produced - - 849 00 8150

HOXTON,

Hochefton*, Hpckefdonf, or HogfdenJ.

The name of this Hamlet may probably be derived from the

Saxon daca § lignifying an Additament, and Con or Consfj a 'Town

or Village ; as not having been built till fome time after Shore-

ditch; and, in this opinion, I believe I am fupported by the

Bifhop of London's Regiller, wherein is this entry

;

" Ric de Ravenfer preb. de Hoxton ab atitiq. nominala" Shoredich et Job. de Ludham preb. de Empyngham" in Eccl. Lincoln, pmutant non. Novemb. 1363 [|."

* Domefday, vol. I.

tf- Norden's MS Colledtions in the Britifh Mufeum; and Ray^s Letters, p, 193,

J Ray'*. Leit' rs, p. 127.

§ Fr ui Gi an, addere, augere.

\ Had. MSS. 6955, 6956, intituled, " Excerpta e Regiflro Lend."

And

OF SHORE DITCH. ir^

And ill Harl. MS. 2195, intituled, " Certificatio Hundred, per

Angliam" taken in the ninth year of King Edward II. I

find

I a a f^^^^^^ Shordiche cu Stokneuton^ Decanus & Capit.

' Oilnefton|g^Fynefbury 1 S'î Pauli Lond.""

the firft of which undoubtedly alludes to the Manor of

Hoxton.

According to the Domefday Survey, which -was begun in io8oe

and finiflied in 1086, this manor appears to have been then (as

now) in the poffeflion of the Dean and Chapter of St. Paul's,

cathedral, and is thus recorded :

00 Hocheftone tenejT^ canon j) . iii . hid. Ad. in.

car . eft . tra . 7 ibi funt .7 vii . uiffi q ten banc tia

7 XVI . cot . I1U totu valet .lv . fol.qdo recep.

Similk . T.R.E. lx. fot . Hoc CO jacuit 7 jacet

in seccta S Pauli *. viz.

The Manor of Hocheftone is held by the canons of St. Paul,

confifling, in the reign of King Edward the Confeflbry of 3hides, and novy aflTeffed at 3 ploughlands, which are tenanted

of thofe canons by 7 villans and 1 6 cottagers, and is altogether'

valued at fifty-five fhillings per annum^ in like manner as at the

time they firft received it ; thougli in the reign of the Confeffor

it was valued at fixty fhillings.

This manor lies (as formerly) within the deraefne of theCathedral Church of St. Paul.

* Domefday,^,

HOXTON

u^ :HIST0RY and ANTIQÛITIE:S

HoxTON Square

iis pleafantly fituated; of the figure of a parallelogram, whofe.area is above an acre and a half.

It has been remarkable as the refidence of many eminentNon-conformift and other diffenting Divines.

Cha.rles's Squarx.

A fmall neat Square near Prtfield Street, Hoxton. The area

is furrounded with wooden xaih and a row of trees on each

iide.

It was built, in 1684, by Mr. Charles, and was known for

manyêars by no other name than that of " The New Square;"

"by which name it occurs (1685) in a letter from Sir Philip

Skippon to Mr. Ray, Dec. 13, 1667^ in Ray's Philofophical

Letters, p. 193 Jwhere, and at p. 27, of the fame work, may

be found a curious account of the nature, qualities, 8cc. of a

bituminous fweet-fmelling earth found in Capt. Maffey's garden,

from which a fvveet-fmelling oil had been extradled. It was

difcovered in digging a cellar for a new houfe at the end of a

garden, three feet below the furface, the feveral fuperincumbent

layers having all of them more or lefs the fame fcent. The.

uppermoft

. OF SHOR EDITCH. 121

uppermoft ftratum was loam intermixed with a bituminous

fubftance of a brownifh colour, the tough confifterice preferving

its fmell a pretty while in the air, and 8 pounds troy weight of

it, yielding 1 pound of phlegmatic liquor, and 6 drams of oil of

a different fmell from any thing yet met with. The next layer

was gravel from 37 to about 47 feet deep like the former, but

lofing its fmell fooner. The third layer was an earthy fand

fmelling ftronger and much more fragrant than the other two,

and ftronger at the greateft depth, but lofing its fcent in a fort-

night in the air; 8 pounds of this at 9 feet deep yielded only

6 ounces of phlegmatic liquor and two drams of oil. At

t8 feet deep, water came in plentifully, which had at top a

curioufly-coloured film like a rainbow ; vinder it a white

coloured water, which, after ftanding a few days, let fall a

brownifh fediment. It fmelt very ftrong like the earth, and

was bitter and clammy. Galls would turn it red immediately

after taking out, but not after two days. Several perfons having

drunk of this well about 3 pints fay that ufually it works about

3 times by ftool and very plentifully by urine. Such was Sir

Hans Sloane's account of it to Mr. Ray, Nov. 10, 1635.Mr. Ray, in reply to this letter of Sir Hans Sloane, Nov, 17,

1685, fays, he was " lately informed that it was no natural

" bitumen mixed with this earth, but had its origin from the

" burning of a painting-fliop Handing over the fpot where the

" earth was digged up, and that there was no fuch earth around" about, but juft within that compafs. Whether there be any" truth in this you can beft inform me, but I fuppofe there is

" none, becaufe you mention no fuch thing, and you have done" very well to examine the eaith, fo that probably there may be*' good ufe made of it."

R This

122 HISTORY AND A N T I Q_U I T I E S

This hint was ll:iortly after adopted by a regular phyfician, irr

*' A (hort and plain account of the late found balfamick Wells

" at Hoxdon, and of their excellent virtues above other mineral' ** waters; which made 'em efFedUially cure moil difeafes, both

" inward and outward. With dire6lions how to ufe'em by T. ^

" Byfield, M. D. Lond. 1687," lamo; dated from the

Dodlor's houfe in " New Street by Shoe lane, near the Five

" Bells;" and dedicated to the " proprietors of the late-founded

" balfamic wells at the Golden-heart in Hoxdon fquare."

He difcovered the conftituent principles to be only thofe fol-

lowing: " The firft ens or mother of falts, the balfamick prin-

** ciple îfulphur well digefted and purified by a volatil fait, and" retaining in it a great deal of the embryonate fulphur, and-

" both thefe fixed by the third principle the vitriol of Mars.*' But, befides thefe, we are as forward as any other mineral*' water; for we have a pure vitriol of iron depurated and cleanfed

" by nature from a dangerousVrZifô, or ironifh rufl", which may** be precipitated in fome mineral waters. A parallel to thefe,

** waters, I believe, is not difcovered. The more I examine*' them, the more I wonder to fee fuch life in waters from them-** felves fo pure. There is no unwholefome glebe, or any" dangerous mineral or metal, that cafts one unhappy ray into

*' this healing fountain, fo that it appears to be a moft excel-

*' lent compofition, no lefs than the original property of fait and'* fulphur digefted with the fineft vitri,ol of Mars. Now as I can

" difcover by my art no other principles in this water, fo I hope" there is no other; for I cannot imagine what is wanting to

** render them highly valuable, and promoting the greateft

" benefits to human bodies if rightly ufed. 'Tis true they are

" not far-fetched, therefore, may be difefteemed by fome ; but" I have

Ot-SHOREDITCH. 123

*' I have found out a way to make them grateful even to fuch per-

*' fons. Since then we cannot remove the wells to Germany or

" Tunbridge, if they will but remove thither, and fo fend for

*' them, or come once a year to them, that fqueamifh diftemper

'« will be cured." He pronounced them antifcorbutic, which,

rightly confidered, '* is a proud medicine," and good againft ftone

" and gout ;" they are " admirable againft dropfies, juftly

" recommended againft the jaundice, yellow and black, melan-" choly and fearful paflions, colick, diarrhoea, dyfenterea, and*' the diftempers called vapours offending head and heart ; they*' ftrengthen the lungs, cleanfe the kidneys , and are com-" mended to thofe fubjedl to head-aches, vertigo, megrim, &c." and good for wounds, ulcers, fiftulas, fores, itch, fcabs, fore

** eyes, fore legs, leprofie, Sec. are to be taken alone from one** quart to two or five pints at moft (but to fickly perfons but*' half a pint a little warmed in cold weather) after flight pre-

*' paration in the morning fafting, and at convenient intervals,

** and followed by gentle exercife to promote them by urine.

" It is not fit to dine till the waters are paft, and half an hour** before dinner for fome perfons a glafs of rhenifh, white wine*' or claret I think not amifs. The ufe to be continued for a*' fortnight or three weeks together, and again after two or

" three weeks for fear of a diabetes or other injuries. Now if

*' in this lliort trail I have not given fome fatisfaitory account of" thefe balfarmc wells as to their virtue and ufe, I Ihall be ready

*''to give further directions to any that are pleafed to require it."

R a Akcient


Antient Houses, &c. in HOXTON LIBERTY.

Balmes House.

This houfe, now known by no other name than that of Sir

George Whitmore's (having once been the rural retreat of that'

worthy knight), was originally called Balraes *, Baumes, Barnes,

Bams, or Barmes, from its firll pofFeflor ; and, though at this

time confidered as belonging to the parilh of St. John, Hackney,

originally belonged to that of St. Leonard, Shoreditch, and

appeared as fuch in the plan of the latter parifh, as taken

about 1666 1-. It is remarkable that the entries of

chriftenings and burials from this houfe between the years

1580 and 1603-4 may be found in the parifli-regifter of Shore-

ditch; but from 1608 to the prefent time they are madeat Hackney. I have received information from feveral

of the parilhioners of Shoreditch that it has been traditionally

delivered to them, that this houfe and its appurtenances were

originally within the boundaries of their parilli ; but that, about

1680, a man was drowned in the moat there, who, being

brought to the churchwarden of Shoreditch, was refufed inter-

ment ; but, upon application being made at Hackney,^ his body

was received there, from which time the parilhioners of Hackney

claimed the houfe and its appurtenances, as parcel of their

parilh ; and ever fince the extent of the boundaries of Shoreditch

parifh has been fixed, and the perambulations made, at the top

* All the leafes and other deeds relative to this houfe are made out in the nameof Balms, as I was informed by the prefent inhabitant.

-f See p. 13.

f The double row of antient elms, which ufed formerly to ftand on either fiJe

the road leading to the gate of the houfe from Hoxton, the lafl of thefe trees werein 1794, grubbed up; and, in the fpring of 1795, a few young (hoots placed in

their room.

a of

. : i : OF S H O R E D I T C H. 125-I.

of Balmes Walk f , inftead of going entirely round the houfe

as tijey had been accuftomed to do.

In the parifh-regifter of St. John, Hackney, amongft the

burials in 1662, is this extraordinary entry:

'< A young man was found drounded in a pond nere the

*' Barnes. Not knowing from whence he came, was buried the

" 2ift of March—

"

which may probably relate to the above-mentioned tradition.

This houfe is fituated at the extremity of Hoxton, built of

brick *,' and in fuch a manner, as to appear to have two ftories

of what would be commonly called garrets. The Old Hall was

a few years fince ornamented with the bulls of the twelve

Caefars upon brackets -j-. The cielings are all uniformly carved*

It has a large garden walled in, and was, in better days,

entirely furrounded with a moat, a great part of which yet

remains; and no longer than fifty years fince, the only entrance

was over a large draw- bridge X- There are now two avenues to

* The outer gate was of brick, and on each fide of it, over the door-pofts, weretwo globes, and in the centre, over the door (the date cut in the pannels of whichwas 1623) a fun-dial. This gateway was deftroyed in 1794, and a modern oneeretfted in its room.

•f The remaining eight of thefe are now (1795) removed to a fummer-houfe at

the bottom of the garden.

In a South window of the Old Hall were a few years fince feveral fragments ofpainted glafs, which are now (1795) removed into a fmaller room. They confift

of the old arms of Great Britain, with a family coat, but modern ; alfo fomepaiiwings of birds.

J Amongft the Dutch views in five volumes, mentioned in Mr. Cough's Topo-graphy, I. lii. is,

" Balms in the couniie of Mid'dlefex, maifon de campagne de thon. Richard" Sr de Beauvoir fituee au bout du village de Hogfden dans la paroijfs de Hackney" (3 un quart de lieue de hondr^sT

" h.le Canal. " B. Porte deFer."The arms under it, a chevron between 3 cinquefoils. Creft, a griffin's head

and wings.

In Canonbury field, Ifllngton, is a very antlent well, which has fupplied this

houfe with water, time out of mind, till within thefe few years.

it.


it, one from the Northern extremity of Hoxton, the other from

the turnpike road * leading from Shoreditch to Kingfland, Stoke

Newington, &c.

Without fide the wall, though within the moat, was a walk,

adorned with fruit trees; demolifhed about 30 years ago.

This houfe was originally built (as I am informed by the

prefent inhabitant) about 1540, by two Spanilh merchants,

brothers, of the name of Balms ; and in one of the rooms yet

remains the original portrait of one of them, having on one fide

of the head

« NATH^. BALMS,^t. 57 Yrs."

and on the other

" JOHN DE HEMESSIN,1543."

He is reprefeiited with a black cap upon his head, in a black gownfurred; on the third finger of his left hand is a gold ring, which

appears fet with a large ruby in the middle, and on either fide of

it a diamond ; and in his right hand a white glove. This pidture

(as the fame gentleman informed me) was found in a clofet, in the

back room of the firft ftory. The hiftory of Don Quixote, in

tapeftry, whi^h originally adorned the room, yet remains. But, as

Cervantes, who was born in 1549, publifhed the firft part of

that celebrated fatire on chivalry in 1605, and the fecond in

161 5, it is hardly probable that the builders of the houfe (as has

been fuggefted) could take fubjedVs for tapeftry from it.

* At the time of the city's entertainment of King Charles I. on Nov. 25, 164T,

the mayor, recorder, &c. received his majefty, in the fields between this houfe

and Kingfland road, at which time the Icing knighted both mayor and recorder in

the field i fee Stow's Survey, Ed. 1754. vol.11.

To

OF SHORED ITCH. 127

To whom this houfe afterwards belonged, I know not ; but in

the paiilh rcgifter of St. Leonard Shoreditch, in 1582, is this

entry

:

" Henry Steepe was buried the twelfth day of 0(51. Bawmes."

And again in 1587,

*' Rachel Ure, the daughter of Robert Ure, was buried the" eighth day of December. Bawmes."

Alfo in the regifter of chriftenings, 1590,

" Anne Munt, the daughter of Geo. Munt, was baptized*' the agth of September. Baumes."

And, 1594^

" Eliz. Munt, the daughter of Geo. Munt, was baptized"^ the 1 3th of December. Barmes.'*

In 1595,

*' Mary Croch was baptized the 7th of September, born ia« Copt Hall. Barme."

And laflly amongft the burials in 1603-4,

** Geo. Mounte, from Barnes, 25 Jan.'^

At the death of Mr. Munt, or Mounte, it moft probably cameinto the pofleflion of the Weld family, as in the parifh regifter

of St. John, Hackney, is the following entry

:

" Ann Welde, the daughter of John Weld, of London,*' Efquier, and of Fraunces, his wyfFe, was borne att Ballmes*' in the p'ishe of Hackeneye in the count' of Midd', uppon" the 27th daye of September, a° 1608, and baptized the" fame daye."

To

128 HISTORY AND ANTIQ_UITIES

To explain this entry, I fliali here exhibit the pedigree of

Weld, partly from Had. MS. 1476, "f. 106, (Vilitation of Lon-

don, 1634,) and partly from a colleflion of Shropfhire pedi-

grees, in the library of Richard Gough, efq. at Enfield.

' John Weld of Eton co. Chefter, gent.I .

Sir Humphrey =:pAnne da. of John Weld ci- =pDorothy da. of=Hughj| Offley

Weld mayor of

London, 1609,built Aidgate,

died Nov. 29,1610.

Nicholas

Wheelerefq.

tizenandhaber-

daftier of Lon-don, fettled at

Wiliey, in

Shropfhire.

Roger Grefrt old

citizenandtaylor

d. June 8, 1610,

aged 68 §.

alderman of

London, fecondhulband.

Mary da. of= Sir John=pFrancesda. of

Sir Stephen

Slaney knt.

living 1610,

fecond wife.

Weld-^

knt.

Wm. Whit-more of Lon-don, efq.

HumphreyWeld, whodied young.

Joanna Weldwho married

Sir R. Brookeof Cockfield

CO. Suffolk kt.

John Weld -f.

knt. banneret,

of ComptonBaffet, Wilts,

d. 1674.

1Anne Weld, Jone wife

born Sept. 27, of Henry1608: Slaney of

London,mer.^

Sir JohnWeld=town -clerk of

London and of

Wiliey CO. of

Salop, knt.

anno 1633.

—

I

:Eliz. eldeft Dorothyfda. of Sir m. Sir W.William Whitmoreliomney, of Aplyknt. and co. Staff.

alderman. "**

Sir John Weld=of Chelmerft],

CO. Salop, fonne

and heire anno

1633 tf.

"Elizabeth da. of

Sir G. Whitmore

mayorofLondon,knt.

1

Rebecca,

Mary,Dorothy j|.

* The pedigree in the hands of Mr. Weld cf LuUvorth is carried back for five generations

errlier. See Hutchins's Dorfet, I. p. 226. 2d Ed.

* St Jolin Weld lived ft Balms, (fee p. 125.) In the Lulworth pedigree he is fty'.ed of

Arnolds' in Edmon on, co. Midditfex. He married a daughter of Vv'm. Lord Stourton. (Hiit-

chinf. lb.) t MS. penes R. Gough, Arm,

\ f«r. Reg. of Hackney, (fee p. 125.) § MS. penes R. Gough, Arm.

II

Hr.r.. MS. 1476, % Ii)id.

** Mr. Gough's MS. calls her Eliz. Jones of Doifct, and mentions four daughters, viz.

Mary, Sarah, and Elizabeth, who died young, and Anne, married to Rithr.rJ Co btt of Stoke

on Ternc, co. Salop. In the Lulworth pedigree Corbel is laid to marry the fecond daughter of Sir

Humph. Weld, lord mayor.

f See page 127. ff Harl. MS. 1476. H Ibid.

Pedigree

OF SHOREDITCH. 129

I30 HISTORY AND A N T I QJJ I T I E S^

From tbe Weld family this houfe came into the poffeflion of

Sir George Whitmore, whofe elder brother married Dorothy,

daughter of John Weld, efq. brother to Sir Humphrey Weld.

Sir George Whitmore

was fecand fon to William Whitmore, of Apley* in Shropfhire,

He was a citizen and haberdalher of London, of which coni'-

pany he became mailer in 1 6 ..

, alderman of Langbourn-ward,

IherifF in 1621-2, and mayor of London, 1631-3,'!" at which

time he was a great benefa(ftor to the repairs of St. Paul's

cathedral: he was alfo a great fupport to, and fufFerer for,

king Charles's government, his confcience having coft him (for

his great age would not permit him to ferve his majefty other-

wife) 15,0001. belide plunders, decimations, and many other

troubles :|:. He was a fufferer for his loyalty (faith Mr. Ly-fons§) during the reign of Charles I, having been imprifoned

in Crofby Houfe together with Sir Kenelm Digby, Sir John

Jacob;, and Roger Pettiward, efq. for refufing to contribute

money for the fervice of the parliament {{. He fupported manyorthodox minifters and dutiful gentlemen, to whom he is faid to

have given 5000I. while living, and a great deal more at his

death •[[. He was knighted by king Charles I. at Greenwich on

* Stow's Survey, Ed. 1754, H. 230, faith Charely.

•^ Ibid. Mr. Gough, [Britifh Topography, vol. I. p. 676,3 mentions a pageant

on this occafion, intituled *' London's jus honorarium expreffed in fundry pageants" and Ihows, at the initiation of the r. h. Sir Geo. Whitmore, at the charge of the

*' right worlhipfuU Society of Haberdafliers, by J. Heywood, 1631."

J Mr. Nichols's Canonbury, p. 10. § Environs of London, II. p. 488.

IISee alfo " Single Sheets, &c. printed in 1641." Brit. Muf.

^ Mr. Nichols's Canonbury, p. lo. In Brit.. Muf. Bibl. Sloan. 886, I find that

« 1647-8, January 17. JohnFanlhaw Monier died at Baulmes."

May

OF SHORE DITCH. ijt

May 27, 163a*. He died here on Dec. laf, and wasburied at London on Jan. 6, 1654I. Amongft the baptifms

in Hackney Regifter, ,which have reference to this houfe, is, in

1651, the following:

" Charles the fonn of Charles Keniifh knt. and barranet*' by Lady Margret his wife .was borne at Balmcs the 1 8th.

" and baptized the 29th of May An. Dni. 1651. Sir Geo." Whitemore and Sir Thomas Whitemore godfathers, and" the Lady Wilde § of Shropfhire godmother. '»

Upon the death of Sir George, this houfe fell toi

William Whitmore,

his eldeft fon, who had, for fome time, refided at Ramfey Hall,

in Effex, but, in 1654II, removed heref^. In his advanced

years, he married Penelope, one of his menial fervants, bywhom he had one fon, William, his heir, and one daughter,

Mary, who was baptized Nov. 10, 1668**. He died-in 1678,and was buried at Jlamfey in Eflex ff

.

inOBritifh Mufeum, Bibl. Sloan. 886, is this entry:

" 1664, Feb. II, old Mrs. Pitts wife to Edw. Pitts at** Balmes, died, aged (upon report) 105 years."

i '

,

A-nd, again in

* MS. in. Heralds' Office. f Dec. 14. Peck's DeGderata Curiofa, c'le.

t Par. Reg. of Hackney. § /. e. WHde. '

il" William Rudge buried fro' the Latjy Whitaiore's, July 30, 1656." Par.

Reg. of Hackney. f MocaQt's Eflex. ** Par. R^. of Hackney.

•f-f- Morant's Effex.

s a «« 1667,

132 HISTORY ANDANTIQJJITIES*' 1667, Ap. 16, Mr. Edw. Pitts of Balmes near Hag-** gerfton, being in drink at Shacklewell, by a fall of his

*' horfe, brake his fkuU, and died fpeechlefs."

Mr. Whitmore was fucceeded by his fon and heir,

William Whitmore, Esq.

who was contradled in marriage to the daughter of Sir ThomasWhitmore, knt.* of Bridgenorth in Shropfhire, as appears

from the following entry amongft the marriages in Hackney

Regifter

:

" Mr. Wm. Whitmore the fon of Wm. Whitmore of

" Balmes, Efq. and Francefs Whitmore, the daughter of*' Sir Thomas Whitmore of Bridgworth in the county of*' Salop, were, by virtue of a licence from the archbp's

^** of Canterburies office, married Aug. a6, 1675 ;"

he did not, however, confummate his marriage, till fome time

after his father's death, which accounts for the fame entry's again

occurring in the Regifter. on Nov. 29, 1679.

He was killed accidentally in his own chariot as he was re-

turning from Epfom, being under age, and without a child.

In cafe he ftiould die without iflue, his father had by will fettled

his eftates, in the power of truftees, who were to fell them,

and divide the produce amongft about 25 legatees. The truftees

were

Wm. Marquis of Powis,

T. Wm. Earl of Craven,

Charles Lord North and Grey,

* Lyfon's Environs of London, II. 4S8.- by

OF SHORED ITCH. 133

by whom I believe this eftate was fold about 16 So to

Richard Beauvoir, Esq.

of the Ifle of Guernfey, who died July 17, 1708, aged 6y,

and was buried at Hackney, in whofe family the property of this

manfion flill remains *, belonging to Peter Beauvoir, LL.D.

Queen Elizabeth ifflied a proclamation, dated at Nonefnch,

July 7, 1580, prohibiting any new houfes to be built within

the city and fuburbs. This proclamation was fhortly afterwards

feconded by another, which however could not hinder the ftrong

propenfity of the people towards building; fo that, in 1583,,

notice was taken of it, and feveral perfons puniflied in the Star

Chamber. About this time (if tradition doth not deceive us),

an old houfe at Hoxton, nov/" known by the name of Burrows's

Workhoufe, was built by a licenfe under Queen Elizabeth's fign

manual.

Above the Cold Bath, called Dame Agnes a Clere f , on the

north fide of Old Street, is an houfe, on the front of which is

the figure of a fwan, carved in fi:one, above it E. D. and be-

neath it 1668. This was the original fi:one fign, fixed up in

the front of an houfe called the Swan Tavern, in Stocks

Market, which was rebuilt in the above year, having beendeftroyed by the fire of London. But the houfe on which this

curious fign is now fixed, is ftill more remarkable, as the place

where inoculation was firft brought to any perfedion, andwhence, in 1765, it was removed to the Small-pox Hofpital.

* "Francis Tyffen, of Shacklewell, Efq. batch elor, and Mrs. Rachel Beavoirci" of Balms, fpinfter, both of this parifli, were married in the Domeftic Chapel at

" Sbaklewell, on the i8th day of November, 17 12, per lycens." HackneyRegifter.

•f-See p. ^^.

Meeting

134 HISTOar AND A N T I QÛ I T I E S

^'pEETING-tÔUSES.

There are two Meeting-houfes in this Liberty, one in HoxtonSquare; the other about the middle, of Hoxton town, on the

front of which is

HOXTON

NEW MEETING,

1789.

It was built by a gentleman of the name of Reeves, who died

Ihortly after the opening of it.

Minifters.

1789. Mr. Barfield,

179a. Mr. Robert Simpfon, M. A.

Mr. Coward's AcAdtIvIy.

At the end of the Addrefs at the Funeral of Dr. Savage *,

is the following account of this Inftitution :

This *' Seminary was chiefly fupported by the liberality of

William Coward, of Wakhamftow, Efq. He died" April a 8,

" 1738, and the defign of his munificence, in this inftance,

will appear by the following wouds of his will, extra6ied frOm

the Regiftry of the Prerogative Court of Caiiterbury. ' And my* mind and will farther is, that they my faid Executors and* Truftees fhall and do, out of the dividends and produce of my* capital ftock in the Bank of England, receive by two half-

* yearly payments the fam of five hundred pounds every year

_ 1

* See the Funeral Sermon.

for

OF SHOREDITCH. ^35

* for ever upon the truft and to and for the purpofes in that

* behalf mentioned, (that is to fay,) that they my faid truftees,

* and thofe who fhall fucceed them in the faid trufts, do and* Ihall, after reimburfing themfelves all their charges and ex-

' pences of executing this particular truit hereby in them repofed,

< apply the refidue and remainder of the faid fum of five

* hundred pounds annually for and towards the education and* training up of young men between the fever^l 'ages of fifteen

* and twenty-two years, in order to qualify them for the Mi-* niflry of the Gofpel among the Protertant Diflenters, fo as no* one particular perfon fo to be educated have more than eighteen

* pounds in one year ; and my will is, that my faid truftees, and* thofe who Ihall fucceed them as hereinafter diredled, do take

' care, that the faid ftudents be well inftrudled in the true Gofpel* Dodtrines according as the fame are explained in the Aflembly's

* Catechifm, and in that method of Church Difcipline which is

* pra£tifed by the Congregational Churches— .'

This Inftitution was a few years ago removed to Daventry, in

Northamptonfhire, and fince to Northampton.

Divinity

Tutors.

John Eames,

1744. David Jennings,

D. D. died Sept.

16, 1762.

176a. Samuel Morton

Savage, D. D.

who refigned

1790. Hedied Feb. ai,

1 79 1.

Philofophical

Tutor.

Mathematical

Tutor.

Andrew Kippis,

LL.D.diedoa*

8, 1795*.

.Abraham Rees,

D.D.latePre-

fident of the

New Acade-

my at Hack-ney.

* See Gent. Mag. vol. LXV. pp. 803, 883, 913.

Alms

13^ HISTORY AND ANTI QÛ I T I E S

ALMS-HousESy &:c. in Hoxton Liberty.

I. Aske's Hospital

Stands at the upper end of Pitfield Street j it is an heavy edifice

of brick g,n4 ftone, with a piazza in the front, where is an

ambulatory 340 feet in length*. In the center, beneath an

angular pediment, in a nich, is the effigy of the founder, Ro-bert Ailie, Efq.f In his hand a roll of parchment, which feems

to be his lait will ; beneath him this infcription :** Roberto AJke

« Armigero^ hujus Hojpitii Fundatori, Sock. Haherda. B. M. P. C."

and on one fide, '^^ Anno Chrijii 1692, Societas HaberdaJJjerorum

" de London hoc Hofpitium condtderunt ex Legato ^ Tejlamento

" Roberti AJk Armigeri, ejufdem Societatis Socii, ad viginti 'Jenum** alimenta^, ^ totidem piierorum educationem."

" 1'be Worjhipful Company op Haberda/hers built this bofpital

** purfuant to the gift andtruji of Robert Afke, Efq. a late worthy*' Member of it^ for the relief of twenty poor Members^ and for tBe

*' education of twenty boys^ fons of decayed Freemen of that Com"** pany:'

Dr. Birch, in his Life of Archbifliop Tillotfon J, fays, " To-*' wards the beginning of the year 1689, Dr. Tillotfon, with** his friend Dr. Sharp, afterwards Dean of Canterbury, were** engaged by the will of Robert Alke, Efq. as joint executors

* New View of London, II. 747.\- Mr. Al]ie was lineally defcended from Richard Afke (a younger fon of Afke,

•)f Richmond), who founded a chantry at Howden, in the county of York,

1365; and whofe grandfon married Elizabeth, daughter of fir William Gafcoigne,

lit. judge. See the Pedigrees of this family among the Harleian Maiiufcripts in the

BrittOl Mufeum, N° 1196, f. 9, and N° 1487, f. 194. The chief feat of the

family was at Aughton, in the Eaft Riding of Yorkfhir?. Arms, Or, three Bars

Jz. Creft, a Saracen's Head bound round with a wreath or fillet.

X Edi;. 1753, p. 216.

" thereto,

Jl. Co^ ocii^/i

OF SHORED ITCH. 137^

" thereto, in regatrd to the Hofpital which he intended to fovnd** at Hoxton ; and -amongft other legacies had left each of the

" executors jT. 200. ; and ^(".400. to twenty fuch poor clergymen'' as they fliould nominate. The executors were fo prudent,

" as to let the agents of the Company (of Ha^herdaflhers, in

** whofe truft the bufinefs was ultimately vefted) have^ the cuf-

" tody of all the ready-money and bonds which were found be-

" longing to the deceafed ; or at leaft they were put into fome" common hand trufted by both parties, till the will was com-" pletely executed. This caution of theirs proved afterwards of" great importance to them, by enabling them to give full fa-

" tisfadtion to fome who had (upon falfe fuggeflions) fufpedted

*' that the executors had difpofed of fome of the Alderman's" efFeils before they delivered in the fcheûle to the Com-" pany."

Mr. W ard alfo, in his Lives of the Grefharn Profeflbrs *, has

recorded that " About December, 1691, Dr. Hooke was em-*' ployed in forming the plan of the Hofpital near Hoxton," founded by Alderman Afke. This has been generally efteemed*' an handfome building, but Dr. Hooke blamed for exceeding*' the fum allotted for it, and by that means lelTening the re-

" venue. But in anfwer to this charge he ufed to fay, though*' the fa£t was true, yet it was hot occafioned by his fault or*' miftake ; but partly by new additions and alterations of the firft

" defign, .and chiefly by his not procuring and agreeing with the" workmen himfelf."

The manor of Shingleton in the parifh of Great Chart in

Kent was given to the Company of Haberdafhers as truftees for

the fupport of this hofpital by . . . Andrews, Efq.f

* P- 106. f Hafted's Kent, III. 245.

T The


The annual expence of the hofpital, with the chaplain^

falary, amounts to about ;C8oo.

The ehapel, in the centre of the building, was confecrated

by abp. Tillotfon, Nov. 24, 1695.

Chaplains.

OFSHOREDITCH. 139

Church, in Briftol, from 1672 to 1700, where his attacks 011

the ftage were printed, -1705-6*, whence he was removL^d to

*' Newton St. Loe. a private hving in Soraerietihire-f-," foon after

which, as he himfelf informs us;!;, ^^ ^^"^^ prompted to undertake

a work on " Scripture Chronologv," by reading over the preface

to abp. Ulher's Annals, in which the primate gave his cjjiinion

concerning a more exadl method of " a Chronological Syitem

" of the Sacred Scriptures, by the Help of Alironomy and a

" competent Skill in the Jewilh Learning." After manydifficulties, Mr. Bedford flattered himfelf that he had fucceeded,

and then digefted his thoughts into fome method. Soon after

this, coming to London, to affiftin the correction of the Arabic

Pfalter and New Teftament, for the benefit of the poor

Chriilians in Alia, he fhewed his thoughts to fome friends, whoadvifed hirn to publifli them ; with which he complied, with a

delign not to have exceeded fourfcore or an hundred pages in

the whole. A few flieets were printed off, but, Mr. Bedford

having received information that a work of a limilar nature wasintended to be publifhed from the papers of Sir Ifaac Newton,and being advifed by fome friends, contrary to his firft inten-

tions, to publifh the work on a more extenlive plan, he fup-

prelTed his papers, Befide this, it was impeded by his publica-

tion of " Animadverfions on Sir Ifaac Newton's Book, intituled,

*' The Chronology^ of Antient Kingdoms amended §. London,'« 1728," 8yo.

* Barret's Hiftory of Briftol, p. 547. He had before been curate to Dr. Read,reftor of St. Nicolas's church, Briftol.

•f Preface to Script. Chron. pp. i, ii. Jofeph Langton, efq. was patron fromi7i3.toi755-

X Ibid.

§ " As for Sir Ifaac Newton (faith Mr. Bedford in the Preface to his ScriptureChronology, p. vi.) " he is contrary to ail maalciud, and tears up ail form2r*' learning by the roots,"

T 2, Two

14© HISTORY AND A N T 1 QÛ I TI E S

Two years after the publication of this work, Mr. Bedford

came again into notice by a fermon which he preached at St.

Botolph's, Aldgate, (where he was ' -afternoon-ledlurer) from

2 Tim. ii. i6, againft the then newly-ere<5led play-houfe in

Goodman's Fields : It was afterwards publiftied with an Appen-dix. The proprietor of 'the houfe, Odell, cleared jfioo a

week, till the city got him expelled. The hiftory of Mr.

Garrick would be a hiftory of this play-houfe, where he madehis firft appearance. It was pulled down about 1746*.

Amongft Sir Hans Sloane's Manufcripts in the Britifh Mu-feumf, I found the following original letter to him from Mr.

Bedford

:

" Hoxton, Sept. 20, f737»

'** Honoured Sir,

*' I intended to have waited on you this day concerning the*' printing of the Ethiopick Pfalter and New Teftament^ but*' it hath pleafed God to affli<St me with a diforder, that I cannot*' come forth. However I intend to wait upon you fome Tuef-" day morning, as foon as I Ihall be able, having that affair

** very much at heart.

"I am*' Your moft humble fervant,

" For Sir Hans Sloane, "Arthur Bedford."*' at his houfe near

** Bloomfbury-Square."

* Brit. Top. I. 688. f No-4037.

He

OP -S H O HE D I T-C H. 141

He died September 15, and was buried in the ground behind

the hof pital, two days after, 1 745 ^'\ Tradition informs us his

death was occalioned by an accidental fall whilft making obferva-

tions on the comet, which appeared that year.

Mr. Collier, who had abjured the' eliablifhed church, found

in Mr. Bedford, a minifter of it, a good fecond in his attempt

to reform the ftage, which involved him in a very brifk con-

troverCy with feveral of the greateft wits and ableft writers of

the age, in whiih he acquittejd himfelf with fo much force and

vivacity, that the mofl ronfiderable of his antagonifts (Dryden,

,

Congreve, and Vanbrugh,) were obliged not only to quit the

field of battle, but confefs that they were Vanquiflied ; and,

though fome of them did not do this with the bell grace, yet,

as their failing .in point of manners ought to be attributed to the

fmart of their wounds, it is very far from reflecting upon the

merit of our author, whole animadverfions actually produced

both repentance and amendment, and was the original caufe of

that decorum which has been for the molt part obferved by the

modern writers of dramatic poetry-f . Yet Mr, Bedford's fliare

in this laudable controverfy has remained hitherto unnoticed.

He wrote

A Second Advertifement concerning the Play-Houfe.

Brijiol, 1705, 8vo.

The Evil and Danger of Stage-Plays.

Brijlol, 1706, 8vOi

/ The Temple of Muiick- Lond. 1706, 8vo.

* Afke's Hofpital Regifter.

•f-Biog. Brit. Art. Coitier, toI. II, 1410, where fee the titles of Mr. Col-

lier's writings and thofe of his antagonifts, 1699, 1700, 1703, 1708, in note F,

firft edition, and vol. IV. 18, 19, fecond edition. See alfo Johnfon's Lives ofthe Poets, vol. III. 49, i,'^, 1783.

2 Abufe

142 HISTORY AND AN TIQÛITIES

Abufe of Mufick. Lond, 17 n, Svo,

Eflay on Singing David's Pfalms, 1708.

Serious Remonftrance againft the Stage.

Land. 17 19, 8vo.

Animadverfions on Sir Ifaac Newton's Chronology.

Lond. 1728, 8vo.

Scripture Chronology, or an Account of Time fromthe Creation of the World to the Deftrudtion of Jeru-

falem ; with a Vindication of the Hebrew Text.

Lond. 17 so, fol.

The DocSlrine of Jufiification by Faith ftated accord-

ing to the Articles ot the Church of England. Con-tained in nine Quelhons and Anfwers.

Lond. 1 741, 8vo.

Horae Mathematicse Vacuoe*, or a Treatife of the

Golden and Ecliptick. Numbers. Lond. 174.3, 8vo.

And the following fingle ferraons f :

a Tim. II. 16.— izmo. 1705. The Abufe and EfFedls of the Stage.

—8vo. 1730. Againft the PJay-houfe in Goodman's

Fields.

I. Pet. II. 13.—4to. 1 7 17. ' Affize.

Ifai. II. 2.—8vo. 1717.

Ifai. LX. 10.— 8vo. 1717.

* In the advertifement prefixed to this work, Mr. B. makes the following apo-

logy for the liJe ." The author hereof labouring under a long and painful Sciatica,

" which hath deprived him of the ul'e of his limbs, and being willing to divert his

" melancholy thoughts by fome amiifem.^nt, happened to pitch upon the compofing

"of the following I'rea'ile." 1 he original MS. of this work is now preierved in

Sion-College library, OB. iv, lo.

>f See Cooke's Preacher's Afliftant.

Prov.

O F S H O R E D I T C H. 143

Prov. ly. 34.—3vo. 17 17. Affize.

Mat. XXII. 21.—8vo. 1717. Corouat. Serm.

Luke XIX. 42.—8vo. 1717.

I Cor. XIV. i_g.— 8vo. 1733. On Divine Mufick.

Lev. V. I.:—4to, 1734. On Ref. Manners.

Roip. XIV. I.—8vo. 1738. Doftrine of Affurance.

I John. V. 7.— 8vo. 1741. 8 Strmons on the Doflr'ne of the

1 riniiy, at Lady Meyer's Lefture.

In 1719, a plan was formed for the eftablilhment of a

Syriac profeflbrfliip in the Univerfity of Oxford; the chief

fupporter of which was Dr. Chariet, who wrote to Mr. Bedtord

for advice on the fubje<5l, from whom he received the following

letter

:

" Newton St. Loe, Dec. 11, 1719.'* Reverend Sir,

" I intended to have given you fome account of the*' nature and uiefii'neis of the Chaldee and Syriack languages;"^ but, lince all that I can iay, and more than can be compre-*' handed in a letter, is contained in Mr. Ockley's Introduction

*' to the Otiental Languages, in the Appendix to the Polyglot

"Bible, and in the Appendix to Bp. Beveridge his Syriack

*' Grammar, I mull dtlire to be excufed, and refer you thither.

" I cannot but highly approve of the defign of founding a

" profeffc^rfhip in Oxford for the Syriack language; and have" reafon to hope,' what 1 heartily wifh, that the pious and*' charitable benefadtor, who promotes the ftudy of that

*' language which our bleiTed Saviour fpoke when he was on"' earth, will hear hiin fay, ' Gome, ye bleffed,' at his return" from heaven.

« The

144 HISTORT ^ND A NT I QÛ I TIES

" The manner how fuch a defign may be made moft ufeful,

*' can be better concerted among thofe who are fkilled in thole

*' ftudies, in fo famous an univerfiiy as Oxford is. But fince

" you were pleafed to defire an account thereof from me, I Ihall

" with fubmiffion to their judgenjent, give you my thoughts" thereof.

" I beheve that it would be better to fettle a profeflbr of the

" Chaldee and Syriack languages than of the Syriack alone,

" For firft ; The Chaldee and Syriack differing little more*' than the lonick and Dorick dialedls among the Greeks, may" eafily be carried on by the fame profeffor ; and he who is

" mailer of the one may alfo, in a few months' time, be mailer

" of the other.

" Secondly. There being very few books extant in the

" Syriack language, except the verfion of the Bible, I cannot" fuppofe that there would be employment enough for a pro-*' felibr in that lingle lludy.

" Thirdly. I find a canon in the council of Vienn^s; * under*' Pope Clement V. which requires, that there Ihould be a

*' profeflbr of Hebrew, Chaldee, and Arabick, in the univerfity

" of Oxford, and Ihould this be fettled in fuch a manner, it

<« anfwers exadlly to the defign of that council ; and, if the

" Syriack language is added to it, then the four moll ufeful of*' the Oriental languages will be promoted by profelTors for that

" purpofe.

** Fourthly. The Chaklee is abfolutely neceflary, not only

*' for the underftariding the paraphrafe on the Bible, but alfo

<' of the Jewilh commentators, the Maforites and the Talmud

;

* Vienni?, in Dauphiny, not Vienna, 131 1.

"fo

OF SHORE DITCH. 145

<* fp that without it, a ftudcnt cannot make a much greater

" proficiency in the Jewifh learning than what is contained in

« the Hehrew Bible.

** Fifthly. A Chaldee le£lure will in my opinion encourage

*' the Oriental ftudies more than the Syriack alone. The natural

** method is, to begin with the Hebrew Bible. Now the Bible

^' cannot be read over without fome underftanding of the

*' Chaldee ; hecaufe a great part of Daniel and Ezra, and a

^' verfe in Jeremiah, is written in that language. This done,

*' a ftudent wilt be capable of profiting by fuch a lecture. The*' affinity of thefe two languages will be an encouragement to

**' proceed to the third. And every on«, who reads the Chaldee*' in the Hebrew Bible, will be in h&pes of fuch a profefTorlliip

;

*' which may be a greater encouragement to future induftry.

** Laflly. Ths encouragement of the ChaWee language may*' be the beft means for the converlion of the Jews. The Jews*' are all fkilled in the Hebrew and Chaldee ; but they know*' nothing of the Syrikck ; and the befl arguments againft them*' may be takers from the Chaldee paraphrafe, for which they*' have a great efleem. Thus may our divines be trained up*' to confute them from their own authors, and to bafHe them** with their own, weapons. We think it plain from Scripture,

*' that a time will come when the Jews fhall be converted to the*' Chriflian Faith; and I hope the time is near. Now the fame

"-.God, who ordains the end, diredls to means ; and probably" fuch a pious benefadtor may be an infh-ument for fuch a

" glorious purpofe, arid may accpfdingly hope for the reward" (Dan. xii. 3.) of thofe who tarn many to righteoufnefs,*^ which is, to fliiae as the flars for ever and ever.

u "As

146 H I S T O R Y A N D A N T I QJET I T I E S

" As for the times in which fuch lectures fhould be read, if

" I might give my advice, it fliould be once a week both in

" Term and Vacation throughout the year, the Holidays,

" Chriftmafs, Lent, Eafter, and Witfontide, excepted ; and" that the le6tures ihould be alternately for each month in tha

"year, one month for Chaldee, and another for Syriack. Thus" all who come to keep the Eafter and Ail Terms might hear

" lectures for both languages. And, as the Hebrew lectures are

" appointed to be read in Term time, and the Arabjck in the

" Vacation, fo there might be two lectures at leaft weekly in the.

'* Oriental ftudies throughout the year, excepting the times,

*' before mentioned."

" I am," Reverend Sir^

" Your moll humble and afFe<Slionate Servant,.

** Arthur Bedford."'

2. Roger Sharleton-

who fucceeded Mr. Bedford here Oft. 22, 1745, (to whom he

had been an afliftant for feveral years) was born in 1719. Hewas chofen le6turer of Shoreditch in 1756 ; and died Aug. 30,

i7S7j aged 38 years*. '

..il'l ." !

3. Michael Marlow, M. A.

was born Jan. 28, 1710-11, and educated at Brazen-Ndfe

College, Oxford. He refided during the earlier years of his life

as tutor in the family of Mr. Hill (father of the prefent learned

Serjeant Hill) ; was firft prefented by the lord chancellor to' the

* MS. in Shor€clitch Library.

vicarage

GF SHORED ITCH. i47

vicarage of Nafing in the county of Eflex; then (i 761) to the

reaory of Lackford or Lackforth by Sir Charles Kent ; and in

1775 to that of Frefton St. Peter by the fame patron; both in

the county of Suffolk. He died Jan. 30, 179S> in the 84th

year of his age *.

4. Watts Wilkinson, M. A.

who married onfe of the two furviving daughters of his pre«

deceflbr. =:

On Hoxton Gaufey (the path which leads from Afke's Hos-

pital to Sir Geo, Whitmore's houfe) are ten alms*houfes, on the

front of which is this infcription :

<'Mus. MARY WESTBYfn:; :; Of Bocking in Eflex, widow,

/a ,')', . Ii Erected and endowed

* Gent. Mag. 'vol. LX7. p. 1 73.I

-f* She was daughter of William Sherwill of London, merchant, and widow ofThomas Weftby, efq. of Linton in the county of Cambridge, who, dying Nov.19, i747,-]lylrs.'êftby, in, 1750, was married to William Cromwell, great grand-ion of thfeProteabr; (he died March 4,' 1752, leaving Mr. Cromwell a moderatefortune. In 1750 J, Mrs. Weftby, in conjunaion with her filler Mrs. Bromfale,foujêdnhe, above-mentioned alms-houfes for ten poor widows or fmgle women, whoihoulcffie rroteftarit-Diirenters, profefling the Prefbyterian, Independent, or Anti-pasdobaptift tenets. Three out of each of thefe^congregations were impowered bythe name of to\u(tees to govern them, and ajJppiHt other^'upon vacancies happeningby death or refignation. Thefe, though neither founded by, nor for the fole benefit

of 'fingle women, are improperly called the Old Maids Alras-hgufes. See Mr,Npble's Memoirs Off Cromwell, Edit. 1787, vol. I, p. 225.

X 1749. Maitland, p. 1325.

, ul:a U 2 Thefe

l^S HISTORY ANP. AtTTICÛITrES

Thefe ten Alr^^-lionfes. - r

For ten poor Worpefiy A. D» 1 749>-

Aod appointod Nine Truftees,, } ,

A. D. 1750."

Oppofite St. Luke's workhoufe behind the public houfe knowns

by the fign of the Shepherd and Shepherdefs are the Lumleyalms-houfes. On the front:

" Thefe Ahns-houfes were built in the year 1^72, are

" the Gift of Lady Vifcountefs Lumley to St. Botolph" Aldgate and Si. Botolph Bifliopfgate, repaired 178 1 :

" Jofeph Wife, John Scott, Thomas Tucker, An" drew Toupard, Churchwardens- of Aldgate:-

" William Archer, William Collier, Churchwardens'" of Bifliopfgate." (.

>i' H'v

From " Abftra6ts of the Title-Deeds" of Lady Vilcountefi;

Lumley's benefaction it appears,; that, in 1 661, Edward Under-

wood did by will appoint that Jane Underwood his wife and execu-

trix, fhould, within two years from the time of his deceafe, pay

into the hands of the deputy, common-councilmen, and church-

wardens, of the parifti of St. Botolph's Without Bifliopfgate,

London, 100/. to buy a houfe and land forever for the ufe

of the 16 poor people, that did or fllauld inhabit his alms-

houfe in the faid parifli *.

It appears likewife that the faid Jane Underwood bqfore

March 15, 1663., had added unto the faid loo/. the farther fumof 1 1 2/. I OS. i with all which flie purchafed of William

* Originally erefled at the Weft end of the reftory-houfe of St. Botolph's

Bifliopfgate i but, in 1739, they were removed to Laml' /illey, in the feme parifhi;'

See Maitland, p. isH*Dafliwood,

, ; ; , V 1 D ^ tS H R E D I T C H. 14^

Daihôqd, I citizen and brewer, four, acres jQfpaftijre'ground lying

in the parifh of St. Leonard," Shoreditch, abutting upon the

footway leading from London to Iflington.

In 1673, on a part of the before-mentioned 4 acres of

paftiire-ground, were built by the aforefaid parifhes, 6 alms-

'houfes:' ator'Biflioplgatei and 3'for Aldgate, given^d phdqwed

by lady Lumley. " ^^^^'

.'.1 /IL- ;''.::.'

i

< Mr. Badger's Alms-houfe at Hoxton Mra^ built in 1698, pur-

fuaht- to his /will, for 6 aged women. On one iide the

dbor this infcriptionj- srii -îao •'

** "thefe fix Alms-Houfes^ 'êre thdGift of Mr.

Allen Badger, late

6f this. Parilh, deceafed,

' fbr 'fee Poor of the 'faid

Parifh,

Anno Domini,- > 1698.'^ '

For a farther account of them iee Dr. Denne's Regifter of

Benefa(5lions, No. LXL 1676, p. 23^

In Alms-houfe Yard, Hoxton, ftand the alms-houfes built

about 1 70 1 by Mr, Baremere, a Preibyterian minifter^ for 8

3 poor

JSO HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES

poor women/' who. have only a yearly allowance of half a dhal-

tlroii of coals*.- -•-' ''' -' • : '

îiti >. ; ].'. ,, --.I li-'.i .'':' ':<'(:

Nearly oppofite .to thefe are {i%. .AliTis-houfes built in 1794by Mr. Fuller, for 1.2 aged women profeffing the Prefbyterian

tenets.—-To each of Whom Mr. Fuller, allows 3J. 6d. per weekf

and a chaldron of coals, /j^r ^;2?^."

Jews Burial-Ground.,

On the Eafl fide ofnHoxton Town 'is a cemetery belonging to

Ihe Hamborough Jews, (whofe fynagogue is in Magpye-alley,

Fenchurch-ftreet). In this ground the deadi are; interred in

rows, a certain fpace being allowed for each grave. The fpot

contiguous to that laft occupied is ufed for the next perfon that

dies, whether rich or poor, e:!j.cept in very few in fiances, either

man and wife, or where a.fmaUplot of around, purchafed for a

confiderable fum, HaS;,been referved pig^ the grave of fome

near relation. Thefe cemeteries are called avn nna, or the

Houfe of the Living.

It has been a burial-ground about 90 years. On the wall

of the Eaft fide is this infcription :

"This Wall. was newly repaired , .-^ -. t

"May 29, I 78 1.

" Tof. Gompertz :i.^—

.

-Ab^Hort JGoverners.

:.:;.: ;>.;' ::-3£riluR^l^nr,SalonK)n5X(ê^rer.''' ;^m!- r^ ; ;

* See Maitland, p. 1290. ^

<• The

', OF SH.OREDITCH» 151

The lafl p^rfpn bnrijed^here was interred in Awguft, 1795 »

fpoji after wkiffh. it was ddfed up.

Preberid of HoxTON.p.

" The Prebefidary of Hoxton or HogeJJon, of old, named*' Shordich, hath the ninth ftall on the left fide of the choir

*' [of St. Paul's cathedral]; and the corps of his prebend is in^

"the parifli of St. ; Leona^fd. Shordich, or within the limits

" thereof^."

jTlie prebendal manor is thus recorded in the DomefdaySurvey, 1086. = '^ -'

la Hocheflone -hnt, canon S Bguli . 1 . hid . Tra . i . car

.7 m ibi eft . 7*111 . uiffi tenent banc tra fub cahonicis,

Paftaad pecun. H traTaluit 7 yalet :s.x-i.foJ".H«c

jacuit 7 jacet in dniq aqcctas /^ Pauli. rj ,

'" In Hoxton the Canons of St. Paul's poffefled in the Reign** of the Confeffor. i hi.cje. This land • is now aflefled at i

** ploughland, which is tenanted of the C-arions_by 3 Villans,

*' with an allawance of pafture proportionar to the number of

" cattle. It i§ Valued, as formerly, at 20^. and lies, as here-

" tofore, in the Demefne of the Cathedral.":n L.

In an old Regifter of the Cuftoms, &c. of St. Paul's cathe-

dral collected by Ralph de Baldockj dean of the cathedral, about

* Newcourt's Repertorium, vol.1, p. i6a.

the

t$& HIST OR Y i Af^ B A N T I CÛ I T I E S

the year 1300, " HsxtmU'fi ScMrdyc^y^'is taxed at 5 marks*.

Though in the cbpy of Pope Nicolas* 'fexation in his Mafefly's

Remembrancer's office in the Exchequer (Anno 1291) it is

vakied at 5/. 4J". od. as well.as in. th^ Valor of 1327^. Andin the Liber Regis at 10/. 5^.

In the Parliament Surveys of 1649 viê have

*' St. Paul's, '^ • >'^'^ X <« Clear Value

^

*« Lond®n. - * ^'^^ ^^-^^-uhrs e/,j ''^ per Annum.

*' Hoxton rThe Manor of' Hbxdeyrf in"! 'iii^/^S .

*' Years, fo. i54.<'Sh'6reditch, Rent referved I43/.J 13J, ^d."*

" Mr. Baynes. (^ \^s. ^d. J

•»n I II «

Prebendaries from Newcotirt's Repertorium, vol, I, p. 162,:. ,,J ;. . . .[3-, ''

;.

Ofbemiis Mafculiis 'i ^ •

Gaufridus, filius ejus, ' ^ 1

Hugo,,Archid. . . ,,

* From a dopy in Bp. Tanner's Colledton of MSS. at Oxford.

•f-Harl. MS. 60." In the copy of'theVdor of 1291, in the Cottofi Xibraiy,

'

Tiberius C-. X. (of wtich Mr. Gough has a Very fine tfanfcrip? from the dukeof Argyle's libraj-y) Oxton prebend is valued at five marcs; the prebend of

Halliwell at twenty marcs. The. temporalities of the dean and' chapter of St. Paul's

in the parifti of St. Leonard Shordich were 39X. j4. in Pope Nicoks* Valor

The archdeaconry of London confifted in the church of Shoredich, then taxed at

twenty-one marcs. ^^";} *' ' .Ik, "k: .• iSt;--' :.

'

I.;. Ty') 0> j <bcdW5 inthe yeai- 114*.

'

Hen.

OF SHORED ITCH. 153

Hen. filiils ejus.

Joh. Cumin ^?^/ Comyn.Robertus de Camera.

Petrus BlefenfiiS \

Magifter Walterus''.

Gervafius de Hobrugg %Tho. de Urfo.

Petrus Cantor**.

Joh. de Wenghara Praecentor*.

Joh. Maunfell^

Edm. Truffell.

Richardus Vaghan^.

Will. Bradele ^

Ric. de Ravenfere'. '^

Joh. de Ludham, non. Nov. 1363.

Tho. Grocer "".

Tho. Fereby, Nov. t8, 141 i.

Pet. de Altobofco, Aug. 1420.

Ric. More^y, LL.B. Maii 31', 1427.

* Occurs archdeacon of London, 1102.

'• He was archtêacon of London in 1197, in which year he laid the firft ftbne in the building ofSt. Mary Spittle.

*= He was chancellor of the diocefe of London, 3 Id. Julii 1214. He fucceeded Alard deBurnhamasdean of London in 1216, but was fliortly afterwards dspofed.

"• Was precentor of St. Paul''s in 1^27, and again occurs in December 123 j.° He was nephew to Henry de Wengham, biftiop of London. He occurs precentof of St.

Paxil's in 1262, being' then prebendary of Hoxton.* Newcourt, in his Repertorium, (vol.1, p. 112,) has recited his different preferments ; and

Matt. Paris, (in his Hiftory, pp. 859, 931,) has recorded his opiiJence. In 1253, this JohuIManfell, provoft of Beverley, founded a priory for Auftin Canon<! at Biljhgtm in Kent, and en-

dowpd the fame ; snd, in 1257, an alien priory at Rumney in tlie fame neighbomhood.8 He occurs 13+8.

'

^ He occurs prebendary here in 1351." T he kinggave him this picbend Sept. 15, 1361.

* He refigned the reftory of Hedingham Sible in EfTcx Dec. 6, 1378, at which time he wassdinitted reftor of Booking, and on Oft. 12, 1379, dean of the fame.

' Cokftfd to the archdeaconry of London in 143O ; and, as fuch, prefented to the viinrage

of Slioreditch in the ytar 144J. In the following year, however, he refigned his archdeaconry.

X Job.

154 HISTORY AND A N T I QJU I T I E S

Job. Derby, Nov. 2. 1443.

Job. Guntborp™, A. Mv Dec 30, 1468. •

Ric. Martin".

Job. Gigbs, LL. D°, Jun. 22, 1482.

Job. Forfter^, Nov. 16, 1490.

Tbo. Seweir', S. T. P. oa. 1512.

Tbo. BeIe^ S. T. P. Nov. 11, 1521,

Job Brereton, Aug. 5, 1530.

Nic. Wilfon', S. T. P. Dec. 14, 1542.Will. Glyff', LL. D. June 11, 1548.Hugo Evans, Dec. 14, 1558.

Job. Duffield", S. T. B. ult. Feb. 1579-Hen. Hamond", A.M. 0£l. 13, 1585.

" Admitted to the reftory of St. Mary, Whitechapel, Aug. 8, 147 1; and collated to the

prebend of Wenlakefbarn, Feb. 22, follovvia'g. In 1472,. he became dean of Wells, wherein,

Eccoidingto Godwin, he was fucceeded in 1498." He prefented to the vicarage of St. Leonard, Shoreditch, in April 1469. In 1471, he

was collated to the prebend of Ealdland, being then B. D, and died in 1480." Became archdeacon of London June 22, 1482, by the refignation of Richard Martyn, who

was likewife his predeceflbr here. He was by birih an Italian^ born in Liicca, and the Pope's

Inquifitor here in England by the title of the colleilor of the apoftolic chamber. On Aug. 30,

J497, he became bifliop of Worcefter by virtue of the Pope's bull; was inftalled April 12, 1498,and died the fame year on Auguft 12.

' Archdeacon of London, 1490. He died 1512.\'-

' Having refigned the prebend of Hoxton in 1521, he wag collated^ to that of Pancrafs, whichwas vacated by his death in 1^7.

' Prior of St. Mary Spittle, and fuffragan biftiop of Lyda ; of whom hereafter. _' He occurs archdeacon of Oxford, 1528. Dec. 20, 1557, he was admitted reftor of

St. Martin Outwich, London, which, with the prebend of Hoxton, became void by his death

in 1548.' Collated to the prebend of Twyford, Nov. 11, 1526, and to the archdeaconry of

London, 0&. 30, 1529, which he refigned in Augufl 1533 ; and was in the fame month madearchdeacon of Cleaveland, chanter of the church of York in 1534, and treafurer of the famechurch, April 13, 1539. In 1548, he refigned his prebend of Twyford, and was the fame year

ccllated to that of Hoxton. He was afrerwards made the third dean of Chefter, and died at

London in 1558," On March i, 1586, he was admitted reftor of Dengy in EfTex, which he voided by his

death.in 1589.= Collated to the vicarage of Broxbourne in HertfordOiire, Nov. 9, 1583, and to this prebend

as above, in 1585, which he refigned for that of Wenlocklbarn the fame year. He died 1592.

6 Geo.

OFSHOREDITCH. 155

Geo. Dickins^ A.M. Dec. 11, 1585.

Will. Hutchinfon', S. T. B. Apr. 10, 1591.

Joh. Simpfon % A.M. Feb. 22, 1605. .

Rob. Cottesford'', A.M. Sep. la, 1633.

Tho. Holbech", S. T. P. Aug. 33, 1660.

Tho. Beaumont, A. M. Nov. 13, 1680.

John Gohier, Feb. 2, 3710.

Chriftopher Baynes, A.M. Aug. 5, 1713.

Jac. Gibbon.

Francis Aftry^ D. D. Nov. 7, 1718.

Jac. Waller, A.M. Nov. la, 1766.

Townfend Andrews % LL. B. May 23, 1771.

y Admitted re<Slor of St. Albans, Wood-ftreet, June 21, 1580. Vicar of St. Lawrence Jewry,

1581. St. Albans, Wood-ftreet, he refigned in 1588; and May 10, that year, was admitted

reftor of St. Mary, le Bow. He refigned his prebend of Hoxton in the beginning of the year

1591, and was collated to that of Harleftoii, He died 1593." Archdeacon of St. Albans, 1581, prebendary of Wildland, 1588. He refigned the pre-

bend of Hoxton before Feb. 22, 1605.

' Collated to the church of St. Ethelburgha, London, in 1586: and, in 1590, admitted reftor

of St. Olave's Hart-ftreet. He died 1633.* Vicar of Canewdon, Effex, 1629 ; afterwards reftor of Hadleigh and Monks Ely, Suffolk.

The order for his fequeftration at Hadley paffed the Houfe of Commons Oftober 9, 1643. Hefuffered much for his adherence to the royal caufe ; but died before the Reftoration of Charles II.

took place.

' Vicar of Epping, Eflex, 1641, being then B. D. became mafter of Emanuel-college,Cambridge, March 9, 1675, ^"'^ '''^'' ''^ Oftober 1680.

'' Made an exchange with Mr. Gibbon for this prebend ; be was treafurer of St. Paul's cathedral,

proftor for the chapter in the lower houfe of convocation, 1725, and proftor for the clergy,

1754; preached a fall-fermon before the lord mayor, &c. of London, at St. Paul's, March14, 1760 ; and died 0&. 30, 1766, aged 91 years. He was reftor of St. Martin's, Ludgate,and publiihed two fermons in 4to. 1716 and 1733.

f Pi'eiented to the reftory of St. Catharine Coleman, Oft. 3, 1774.

\ X 2 III. Liberty


III. Liberty of Moorfields,

s. d.

In 1789, the land-taxi

of this Liberty produced) ^^'^ ^

Eftreats.

jr s. d.

15 IS i^

1. Moor or Finsbury Fields

formed in earlier times a dreary and unprofitable wafte; coii-

fifling of one vaft trait of morafs, interfedted by fever^ ditches^

communicating with each other ; and mofl: probably reforted to

by the different kinds of water-fowl. It " was in antient

" writings called Magna tnora, becaufe of the great extent of

" the Moor or Mere^J''' The earlieft record hereof is in the year

1068, when king William the Conqueror gave to the col-

legiate church of St. Martin le Grand all the Moorland without

Cripplegate, declaring in his charter thereto that a running water

paffed into the city from it f

.

Strype's Stow, II. 53. •f-Mon. Ang. III. 26.

«' That

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*' That part of thefe fields fijuated nigh Cfipplegate (faith

*' StoW''') was calleu Finjbury^ q. d. Fyne/bury, having been ot

" old time iifed for the culture of vines." It has frequently

•the fame appellation in the London Regifter as well as in that

of the dean and chapter of St. Paul's. Yet why we fliould

prefer the derivation of its name from a Vineyard rather than

from its Fenny ftate, I know not. Mr. Johnfon, of whomhereafter, derives its name from Sir William Fienes, a knight

of Rhodes, polTeiibr of it before the conqueft. More probably

F\n is a corruption of F^nm. vulgar pronuntiation ^ efpecially as

another part of this Avamp gave name to the pi-ebend of Mota.

Fitzftephen, who wrote his Defcription of our Metropolis

before I183, has therein introdufed a curious account of the

antient manner of fcating in this part.

The following defcription may perhaps afford amufement to

the inquifitive reader. " When that vaft lake, which waters

*' the walls of the city towards the North, is hard frozen, the

" youth in great numbers go to divert themfelves on the ice ;

*' fome taking a fmall run, for an increment of velocity, place

** their feet at a proper diftance, and are carried Aiding fideways*' a great way. Others will rnake a large cake of ice, and,

" feating one of their companions upon it, they take hold of" one's hands and draw him along, when it happens, that

*' moving fwiftly on fo flippery a plain, they all fall headlong." Others there are who are ftill more expert in thefe amufe-" raents on the- ice; they place certain bones, the leg-bones of" animali, under the fo'es of their feet, by tying them round" their ankles, and then taking a pole fhod with iron into their

• ' :* Strype's edit. II. 58.

" hands,

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" hands, they pufh themfelves forward by ftriking it againft

" the ice, and are carried on \yith a velocity equal to the flight

*' of a bird, or a bolt difcharged from a crofs-bow*."

Amongft the records in the Tower is Pat. 49 Hen. IIL rh. 5," pro mera extra murum civ. London ex parte boreali anne(5landa

" prebendce de Halliwellf;" probably that part of this fen

on which the fquare of Finfbury has fince arifen ; formerly

the receptacle for the old pavement of London. To this Moorbelonged a filhery for the ufe of the city; but, in the third year

of Edward III. Walter de Merton feized them both; which, upon*an inquifition, was prefented and complained of by the jurymenof alderman Peter Aungier's ward;]:. Soon after this it feems

to have been in fuch an unprofitable ftate, that, in the following

reign, the greater part of the fen was let for four marks only

per annum%.

In the Augmentation-office are two original grants, one fromRichard de Hopfton to Martin Elys 1|, redtor of the church of

St. Faith, London, of

* Fitzflephen's Defcription of London, 410. 1772, tranflated by Dr. Pegge,

p. 78. In a note, Dr. Pegge obferves, that " in the above defcription a rough kind" of, fcating feems intended ; of which probably this may be the firft defcription on" record. The polefhod with iron, for the procuring of velocity, is, however, now" grown obfnlete ; no,r have we any battling at this time amongft fcaters. Slips of*' iron, moreover, have now fuperfeded the ufe of the bones of animals."—Weare informed by the author of that ufeful book, " The Anecdotes of Britifh Topo-" graphy," (cd. 1769, p. 281.) that, after Domefday book, Fitzflephen's Tra<fl

affords us the earlieft defcription we have of our metropolis j "and (faith Dr." Pegge, in his preface to it) I conceive we may challenge any nation in Europe" to produce an account of its capital, or any other of its great cities, at fo remote a" jjeriod as the twelfth century."

-\- Tanner, Not. Mon.

\ Strype's Stow, ed. 1754. vol. II. p. 53.

\ Ibid.

IIAmongft the obits at St. Paul's as mentioned in the London Regifter was " 3 Non.

" Avg. Martinus Elys minor Camnieui i8j."

" quatuor

"

OF SHOREDITC H. 15^

*' quatuor acras et tres rodas p'ati fimul jacentes in

" loco vocat' k More cum p'tin' in Sbordich in com'" Midd. prout cum quodam foflat' vocat' le Mordicb

" includ' ratu' et gratu'."—*' J)at. apud Crepulgate

" in fuburbio London', odavo die Julii anno regni

" Regis Edwardi tertii poft conqueftu' tricefimo

" oaavo*:"

and the other from John de Cantebrugge, citizen and fifh-

monger, to John de Middleton, Alexander de Whiteby, JohnBays, William Stouwc, and John Taylor, of

** Plena' pacifica' et perpetua' feifinam de quatuor

" acris et trib' rodis p'ati fimul jacent' in loco vocato

" le More cum fuis pert' in Sbordich in com' Midd." prout cu' quoda' folTat' vocat' le Mordicb -j- includ'

" ratu' et gratu'."—" Dat. Crepulgate in fuburbio

*' London, decimo quarto die Aprillis, anno regni

" Regis Edwardi tertii quadragefimo nono|:."

In Madox's Form ul are Anglicanum is a feoffment in fee

fimple of meffuages and land, from William de Walworth and

William de Halden, citizens of London, to king Edward III.

and others, in which are the four acres and three roods of

meadow land with 4:heir appurtenances in the plac€ called ie

More^ which John de Cauntebrugg held for the term of his

* Anticnt Charters in the Angmentation-ofBce, Q^ 12.

"f-The More ditch was cleanfed in 1540, during the mayoralty of Sir William

Holleis, and again cleanfed and widened in 1595, though but to little purpofe.

Strype's Stow, vol.]. p, 13. It fliouldfeem by this to have communicated with the

town ditch, as the Foffedyke at York.

j; Antient Charters in the Augmentation-ofEce, Q^ 1 1

.

life,

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life, dated Nov. 23. 50 Edw. III.* Alfo a reJeafe of the fame

from the arthbifliop of Canterbury and others, joint-feoftees

with king Edward lil. to the fam€ king and his heirs ; dated the

laft day of November the fame year-f.

'>'

'

In 1415, 'Thomas Faivconor, mayor of London, opened the

poftern at Moorgate, for the convenience of the citizens, and

caufed the adjacent ditches to be cleanfed ; by means whereof

he began to drain this watery trail; but, in 1477, it was again

fpoiled by ' Ralph Joceline^ mayor, by the manufa6luring of

brick for the reparation of the city wall, hi 15 f 2, however,

Roger Atchleye^ mayor, made farther progrefs in tae draining

of thefe fields; and, in 1527, Sir 'Thomas Seymour continued_

the work by caufing the ftagnate waters to be turned by fluices

over the town-ditch into Wallbreok, an-d onward to the

Thames |. * But Stow hath^ recorded that Sir Leonard Halltday

brought it to perfc(5tion in 1606 §. His laudable proje6t,

however, for bringiijig a river through thefe parts did not take

effeail.

On April 10, 1549^, the cloifter called Pardon church-yard,

(on the walls of which was depifted the celebrated dance

of death by Hans Holbein,) together with the charnel-houfe and

chapel on the North fide "of St. Paul's, fell vi<Si:ims to facrilege,

and were levelled to the ground by the Protedor Somerfet, for

the fake of the materials, which he made ufe of in buildins:

the magnificent palace which bears his name. The tombs in

the chapel were detlroyed, and the bones (amounring to

leveral thouland cart-loads) impioufty flung into Finfbury

Fields. They were thrown into that part of the fields^ beyond

'• Formnlare Anglicanum, p. 202, cccxxxix. •fIbid. p. 389, Dccvi-

t Strype's Slow, vol.11. 54. § ibid.\\

Ibid, vol.1, p. 13.

^ Harding's Chronicle, p. 1004. '

^

Finfbury

OF S HO.REDITCH. i6i

Finfbury Court, which, Stow obferves *, had been much " over-

" heightened with lay-ftalls," whereon feveral windmills were

afterwards eredled. In Aggas's Map bf London faid to have been

taken in 1563, and re-engraved in Mr. Pennant's Hiltory of

London, three ^windmills appear. The fame number is men-

tioned by Stow (vol. II. p. 54.); but, in another part of his

work. (vol. I. p. 583.) fix are mentioned f-. That part of the

field whereon they flood was, till the building of Finlbtiry

Square, a great deal higher than the common field ; and had

the name of Windmill Hill ; but when the fite of the fquare

was raifed to a level therewith, it took the name of Windmill-

Itreet, which it now retains. Though the windmills continually

occur in Shoreditch regifter, they were iituated in the-parifh

of St. Giles, Cripplegate.

Richard Johnfon, in a thin quarto pamphlet, intituled>

** The pleafant Walkes of Moore Fields, a Dialogue between a

" Country Gentleman and a Gittizen," reprefents them • as

*' being the guift of two lifters, now beautified to the con-*' tinning fame of this worthy citty ;" and, in his addrefs " to

*' the right worfhipfuU the knights and aldermen thereof," fays

*' thofe fweet and delightful! walkes, as it feemes, a garden to

** this citty, and a pleâfurable place of fweet ayres foi* cittizens

*' to walke in, now made moll: beautiful by your good wor-** Ihipfull appointment, hath emboldened me to fearch for

** the true antiquity thereof; and farthermore, to fatisfy the

" deflres of many, I have given here a true light of the late

* Strype's Stow, vol. II. p. 54.•\ In the iurvey of the prebendal manor of Finfbury, 1567, in Scow's Survey,

edit. 1754, vol. II. p. ^8, mention is made of " the field' called the High fields or" Meadow ground, where the three windmills ftand, commonly called Finpury-

*^field" And the marginal note points thisout as the fpot ufed by the archers.

Y *' glorie

Ida HISTORY AND A N T I QÛ I T I E S

" glorie (lone unto the fame, and withal briefly Tet down a fewe

" notes of antienr recorde, of there beinge a kinde of moorifli

" ground in times paft, and by whome, and in what manner," they were brouglit to this beneficial ufe, together with many" other honors done to this citty."

The country gentleman, obferving that " of all the pleafure

*' that c(/ntents him, thefe fweet walkes of Moorefieldes are the

" chiefeil, and the caufers therefore deferve much commenda-" tion," is told the caufers were " the worthy aldermen and" commoners- of London, feeing the diforder ufed' in thefe

" fielde?, have beftowed this coll, and, as occafion requires,

' intend farther to beautify the fame," refervingv them '* only

" for cittizens to walke in to take the ay re, and for merchants'

" maides to dry clothes in, with necelTary gardens at their

" dwellings." Thefe two fields were given to the city " by tviô

" mayds, the only daughters of Sir William Fines^ a knight of*' Rhodes, in the time of Edward the Confeflbr, who dying,

** left thefe fields of Fine/berry^ after his own name, to his two" daughters, Mary and Katharine, who, refufing the pieafures

" of this world, betooke themfelves to a devout kind of life,

*' and becam-e two nuns in the monaftery of Bsdlem, when,*' having fpent their dales in the fervice of God, at their death.

'* gave there forefaid fieldes to the citty of London for an eafe

" to the cittizens, and a place for their fervants to dry clothes

<' in, and likewife builded the a crofles, the one at Bedlem*' gate, the other at Shoreditch*."

Gent. " Thefe walkes, Sir, as it feemes, beare the fafliion

M of a crofle êqually divided 4 wayes, and likewife fquaj-ed

f For an account of the crofs at Shoreditch, ' fee p. 82.

" about

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" about in pleafant walkes ; the trees thereof make a gallant

" fliow, and yields unto one's eye much delight."

Citizen. *' They may well ; for the like border of trees are

*' not at this day in all the land again, for they be in number•' within thefe \yalls two hundred fourfcore and eleven, befides

" thofe others Handing Weftward without, to the number of*' fome four or five and tllirtie."

Gent. " I've heard that many of thefe trees do carry proper

*' names." ^

Citizen. " According to the planting thereof they doe, and*' thefe which I remember fo called, now ftand on the Weft fide

" within thofe ; the firft of them at the corner of the middle

" walke Weftward was firft of all placed by Sir Leonard Hollydayy

" then lord mayor : the next on the entrance North Weftward" cf the fteppes coming downe, by a captaine, being a gentle-

" man of good reputation : a third by a cittizen, and a fonne

" to Sir Leonard Hollyday^ which ftandeth next to his father's

*' tree. There ftandeth neare unto that a tree called the Two" Brothers, planted by two little boyes and fonnes to a cittizen

*' here in London. There is likewife a tree called the Three" Sifters, by the name of three maidens that fet it ; and another

"the Three Brothers. There is a tree likewife at the North• «' Weft corner, which I faw fet up, (called Stubs his Tree), by" one Chriftopher Stubs, one of the principal porters of Black-

" well Hall, a man well-beloved, and of. good credit. Many*' others were fet up lay other citizens, which I think needlefs

" to fpeak of, nor tell of the bountie they Ihewed to the

" workmen alf the planting of thefe fame trees."

Gent. '* The charges thereof fliew their liberall minds;

*' and, no doubt but this field will be maintained time out of

; Y 3 " minde

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" minde in as good order as it is nowe kept, for what you" citt zens meane to give glory toa, no coft nor care can be*' wanting. "But I pray you, how many akars may this plot of

" ground contain r"

Citizen. "Marry, Sir, within the walls fome lo akars,

*' which was fo meafured aut, and by a plough made level!

" as it is now, a thing that never hath been feene before ia

" neare to London."

Gent. " But why are thofe ftockes of wood here proviiled

" with a large chaine of iron locked to the wall?"

Citizen. " Onely as a punilhment for thofe that lay any" filthy thing within thefe fields, or make water againlt the

*' fame, to the annoyance of thofe that walke therein, whiclv

" evill favors in times pait much corrupted men's fenfes, and*' fuppafed to be a great nourhher of difeafes."

Gent. '" That beares good reafon, and the manner of this

** punilhment I like well, and pitie it were but it fhould be*' maintained ; for it is one of the beft things that ever your*' citie befl.owed coft upon."

Citizen. *' The coft hereof they regard not, and the more** they beftow hereon, the more honour they tye unto the citie

;

*' and the caufers of thefe- walkes hath delerved high com-'* mendations, making their pofterities famous by thefe their

<' deeds."

Gent. " It feemes they intended farther grace to thefe

« fields."

Citizen. " Their purpofe is not fully knowne, but furely

" their intents are inclined to bountifull proceedings as I heare

" the

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S H O R E D I T C H. 165

** the building of certain houfes for (lielters for maidens having** their clothes lying there a drying, if at any time it fl;iould

*' chance to raine."

Gent. " But I pray you Ihew me, Sir, have they never

** been othervvife ufed ?"

Citizen. " Yes, they have, for time is often the overthrower^' of laudable cuftoms ; for Halle's Chronicle fetteth down that

" the inhabitants about London, as Iflington, Hogfden, Shore-

" ditch, before the reign of Henry the eighth had fo enclofed

*' thefe fields with hedges and ditcht?, that neyther the young*' men of the cittye migb.t Ihoote,' nor the antient perfons

'** Wiilke for pleafure in ttieie fieLJs, bii'- that either their bowes*' and arrowes were taken a.vay or broken, or the citizens

" arretted for waikine, fayino; that no Londoners oueht to ?a*' out of the cit-ty b kt ,in bye waves. This fo grieved the Lon-" doners, that injhe fixth \eare of king Hcirie VIII a great

*' number of the cittizens alTembieii themfelves in a morni-jg,

">and a turner in a fool's coat ran crying thicv^h the citty

" Shovels and Spades, Shovels and Spades^ by which means" followed fo many people, that it was a wonder to behold,

" and, within lefs than 3 honres, all the hedges about the cittie

" were caft downe, and ditclies filed up, and every thing

" made plaine. Such was the quicknefie of thefe diligeot

** workmen ; after this, the fields were never more hedged in.**

* ' St &: :'.:* ^ * * ' * " *

Gent. " But now, Sir, let us returne by the walke neere" this ditch-fide, where I am willing to iinderfiand howe thefe

<* fields came fo beautified, being in time paft, as I have heard,

" a fea or moorifh kinde of ground."

Citizen.

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i66 HISTORY AND ANTIQ_UITIES

Citizen. " To begin firft after it was given by thefe 2*' fifters to this citty, I find that in the time of William the*' Conqueror it was continually in wafte, as you fay, a great

fen or moore of water, ilretched all along betwixt Cripple-

gate and Bifliopfgatej but not in fuch good manner as it now" doth ; for all thefe whole fields of Finfburie from Hollow well'*

''^ to this place was a waft and unprofitable ground a long time,*' fo that in the raigne of Edward II.. it was let to farme for

" fome marflies by the yeare ; biit, in the yeare 1415, 3*' Henrie I. Tho. Falnerf, mayor, caufed the wall of the citie

*' to bee broken toward this moore, and builded here the

" pofterne called Moor Gate, for the eafe of- the citizens to

** walk this way upon caufies (as was then) towards Iflington,

" Hogfden, and fuch like. Moreover^ the ditches of the citie

" from Shoreditch to Houndfditch, ana fo to this moore ditch'

" along by Bedlem, to bee newe caft and cleared, by meanes

".whereof this fen or moore was greatly drayned and dryed ;

" fo fhortly after it grew fuch handfome ground, that Ralph*' Jofelen I, maior, for repayring the citie wall, caufed this moore*' to be fearched for clay, and here in this place bricks to be*' burnt."

Gent. " But, Sir, here is ftones fet upright ; what is the

•' the meaning of them ?''

Citizen. " Marry where they fland runnes underneath the

*' common Ihore from a fpring called dame Annis de Clearey*' called by the name of a rich London widow, called Annis

" Clare, who, fnatching herfelf with a riotous courtier, in the

*' time of Edward I. who vainely confumed all her wealth,

* i. e. Haliwell. -)( Fakon^r or Fawfonor, fee p. 160.

J Jofelin^, fee p. 16 J.

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*' and, leaving her much in povertie, there drowned fhe

" herfelf, being then but a Ihallovv ditch or running water,

" fince which, as I faid before, runneth by fluces arched over

" all along by thefe ftones here Handing, which , fluces or

" bridges was made in the yeare i 5 12, by Roger Atchley'^\ maior,

" who likewife caufed the ground to be levelled, as t'ley were" this laft yeare by Sir Leonard Holliday, maior, and the. other

'* worfliipfull aldermen and brethren, whereby thefe fields were" made fomething more commodious, but not fo pleafant and" drye as nowe they are, for many times they flood ftill full of

" noifome waters, which afterwards in the yeare 1 ^27, was,by" the meanes of Sir T'bomas Senior

"i-,^maior, made dry, who,

" repairing the lliores, conveyed the fayd waters over this to%vne

*' ditch into the corner of Wallbrooke flioare, and fo into the

*' Thames, and, by thefe degrees, was this fen or moore at

" length made maine and hard ground, which before

*' being overgrowne with flags, fedges, and ruthes, ferved for

*' no ufe, fince the which time all the farther and higher*' grounds beyond Fine/bury court have heene fo heightened*' with leaftals and dung, that now three windmills are fet

" thereon, the ditches being filled, and the bridges over-

** whelmed." The time when Mr. Johnfon's account was

written may be fixed to the year 1607, as in one part he

mentions Sir Leonard Halliday's improvements as efFedled " this

" lafi yeare.^'' His work is an objedt of curiofity in itfelf, yet

claims but little merit from its accuracy.

Mr. Pennant's Obfervations on the modern ftate of Finfbury

Fields Hand- thus I : "Thefe fields were, till of late years, the

* Atcheley^, fee p. 160. •f Seymour, fee p. 161.

I Hiftory of London, ed. 1793, p. 263.

** haunt

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*' haunt of raoft motley amufements, and fome of not the. moft

" innocent nature ; among them was every allurement

" to low gaming, by little fraudulent tricks. It was*' likewife the great Gymnajium of our capital, the refort of*• wreftlers, boxers, runners, and foot-ball players, and every*' manly recreation. Here the mountebanks fet up their ftages,

*' and difpenfed infallible medicines,, for every fpecies of difeafe,

*' to the gaping-gulls, who furrounded them. Here too I

" lament to fay that Religion fet up its ftage itinerant, beneath" the trees ; and here the pious, well-meaning, Whitefield

*' long preached fuccefsfully." We may add, other itinerant

preachers have occafionally followed his example, but not with

equal fuccefs ; that the famous Z)r. Leoni, of the College oj

Sapientia at Rome^ wrought wonderful cures in cancerous and

other defperate cafes, particularly in taking a very large wenoff a man's cheek, of which a wooden cut was made; and that

the exh-ibitions of wild beafts were made here within the laft

40 years.

Thefe Fields were long famous as the place of exercife for

the London train of archery. Whilft England was perpetually

threatened with invafion, the ufe of the long bow was in high

eftimation.- Statutes were enadted by our anceftors for the

regulation of the exercife, which rendered the EngliQi bowmenfuperior to thofe of other European nations. In 1363, Edward

III. forbad many rural fports, and, in their Head, injoined the

ufe of archery *. In the reign of Henry VIII. the neceffity

of its revival was frequently inforced-j-, Arthur^ his elder

brother, was particularly fond of it, infomuch that an expert

* Mr. Harrington's Obfervatjons on the Practice of Archery in England; Ar-.

chaeologia, vol. VII. p» 50. \ Ibid. p. c^t^,

bowman

OF SHORED ITCH. 169

bowman was flyled Prince Arthur -K From the *^ PoJitionsY^

of Richard Mulca/ier, firft m after of Merchant-Tailors' Ichool,

" for the training np of children, either for fkill in their booke,

" or health in their bodie," we learn that in 1581 a fociety of

archers, exilted, who termed themfelves Prince Anbury's knights.

" In the middeft of lb many earneft matters, I may be allowed

*' to entermingle one, which hath a relice of mirth, for in

" prayfing of Archerie, as a principall exercife, to the preferving

*' of health,, how can X but prayfe them, who profefTe it

" thoroughly, and maintaine it nobly, the friendly and franke*' fellow Ihip of Prince Arthur s hiyghtes in and about the citie

" oi London^ which of late years have fo revived the exercife."

Onr author afterwards mentions himfelf with " Maifter Hewgh*' Q^>" "^^^ " Syr Launcelot" as of the fame fellow (hip ; and

concludes with faying, " Nay, would not Prince Arthur himfelf,

*' maifter tbomas Smith, and the ' whole table of thofe wel*' known knights and moft adive Archers^ have laid in their

" chaleng againft their fellow-knight, if, fpeaking of their

" paftime, I fliould have fpared their names?" This fellowfliip

is unnoticed by Mr. Earrington in his Obfervations on the Prac-

tice of Archery in England.

John Lyon, who founded Harrow fchool in i 590, two years

before his death, drew up rules for its diredlion, wherel)y the

fcholars' amufements were confined to " driving a top, toffing

** a hand-ball, running, and Jhooting.^^ The laft-mentioned

diverfion was in a manner infifted upon by the founder, whorequires all parents to furnilh. their children with " bow-ftrihgs,

" ihafts, and brefters, to exercife fhooting :{:." A filver arrow

* Mr. Barrington's Obfervations, p. 66. ")» 410. 1581, pp. loi, 162.

1 Lyfons' Environs of London, vol. II. p. 581.

Z ufed,


ufed, till within thefe few years, to be (hot for by the younggentlemen of Harrow School. So much was the pradlice of

archery promoted in this country during queen Elizabeth's

reign. Annual prizes are alfo ftill given at Edinburgh to thofe

who excel in this exercife -="'.

When Henry VIII. became king, he gave a prize at Wind-for to thofe who (hould excel in this exercife, when BarlO'\,

(one of his guards) an inhabitant of Shoreditch^ acquired fuch

honour as an archer, that the king created him duke of Shore-

ditch on the fpot J, This title, together with that of marquis

of JJlington^ earl of Pancridge^ &c. was taken from thefe

villages, in the neighbourhood of Finfbury Fields, and cxin-

tinued fo late as 1683 §.

Honeft Stow hath recordedjf

that thefe fields were firfl:

occupied for the practice of archery in 1498; but, in the fixth

year of Henry VIII. the inhabitants of Iflington, Hoxton, and

Shoreditch, by their encroachments on the common fields,

occalioned a flight infurredlion. The mob, headed by *' a

" Turner in a Fool's Coat, came crying through the city, Shovels

** and Spades, Shovels and Spades ^"^ numbers went out to affift :

The hedges were demoliflied, the ditches filled, and the fields

reduced to their original flate ; after which the rioters returned

to their refpedlive homes.

"* Mr. Barrington's Obfervations, p. 59.

•f-Among the marks in Finfbury Fields one was named Barlow. See the

** Ayme for Finfburie Archers, Lend. i6a8/' pp.6, 35, 99.

\ Strype's Siow, vol. I. p. 302.

§ Gervas Markbam's Art of Archerie, 1634, lamo. Barrington's Obferva-tions, p. 57.

IISt:rype*s Stow, Tol. II. p. 58.

In

OFSHOREDITCH. 171

In the •* Remembrance of the worthy fliow and fliooting by*' the duke of Sboredhcb and his aflbciates," " upon Tuefday

"the 17th of September, 1583," by W. M-*. we are told

(p. 56.) that " the train paffed to Shoreditch church, and then

" turned down into Hogfden fields into a fair large green** pallure-ground of goodly compafsj where a tent was fet up" for the duke and the chief citizens."

Charles I. (faith Mr. Barrington) feems, from the dedication

of a treatife, intituled, " The Bowman's Glory -j-," to have been

himfelf an archer ; and, in the eighth year of his reign, he

ilfued a commiffion to the chancellor, lord-mayor, and feveral

of the privy-council, to prevent the fields near London being

fo enclofed as to " interrupt the neceflary and profitable exer-

'* clfe of fliooting," as alfo to lower the mounds where they

prevented the view from one mark to another %. The fame

commiffion

* London, 1682, lamo.

f- Mr. Barrington's Obfervations, p. ^6. " The Bowmau*s Glory; or Archery" revived

; giving an Account of the many llgnal Favours vouchfafed to Archers and" Archery by King Henry VIII. James and Charles I. &c. by ffiliiam Wood»"1682, i2mo. 80 pages. Mr. Pennant (in his Hiftory of London, edit. 1793^.p. 219) fays, that " from the prefent rage of archery, this work has been ibid,

" within thefe two years, for a guinea and an half." William Wood lies buried in

the church-yard of St. James, Cierkenwell. His epitaph begins,

" Sir William Wood lies very near th's ftonc," &c.

Maitjand tells us, (Hiftory of London, p. 1364.) that " the title of Sir was'* only a compliment of his brethren-archers, by way of pre-eminence, for Ws" dexterity in Ihootin'g."

4: In 1628, was printed at London, the " Ayme for Finfburie Archers ; or," An Alphabetical Table of the Names of euery Marke within the fame Fields," *ith their true Diftances, according to the DIraenfuration of the Line; newly" gathered and amended by James Partridge." In the preface are given the rules

by which the Archers' Company were governed; whereof the eighth and moil

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17*^-' HISTORY AND A N T I QÎT I T I E S

commiffion difeds that bridges (hould be thrown over the dikes>

and that all fliooting-marks which had been removed fhould

be reftored.

During the grand rebellion, the practice of archery feems to

have received no encouragement, but rather to have fallen into

difrepute. Sir William Davenant^ in a mock poem, intituled,

'' The long Vacation in London," defcribes the attorneys andpro<Stors as making matches to meet in Finfbury .Fields,

" With loynes in canvas bow-cafe tyde;

" Where arrowes ftick with mickle pride ;

" Like ghofts of Adam Bell* and Clymme." Sol fets for fear they'l fhcfot at him f

."

In 1676, Catharine of Portugal, queen of Charles IL bythe conlribution« of Sir Edward Hungerford and others, pre-

fented a iilver badge, weighing 35 ounces, to the marihall of

the Archers' fraternity, on which was reprefented an archer

drawing the firing of the long bow (in the proper manner) to

his ear, with the following infcription : Regina Catherina Sagi-

tarii. The fapporters, two bowmenj with the arms of England

and Portugal %.

material is " Eightly, if you name one mark, andfhoot at another, you are to

" loofe your (hoot, and they are to follow at the mark named." Subjoined to Mr.Barrington's Obfervations ; Archaeologia, vol. VII. pi, iv. is an engraved plan

of the Finfbury marks.* Mam Bell was alfo the name of a mark in thefe fields. Sec the " Ayme for

" Finfburie Archers," 1628. Adam Bell, Clym of the Clougb, and Wiliiam of

Cloudjlef, were three noted outlaws,, whofe fkill in archery rendered them as

famous in the North of England as Robin Hood and his contemporaries were

in the Midland counties. Bp. Percy's Reliques of Englifti Poetry, p. 129, 1765^\ Sir William Davenant's Works, fol. 1673, p. 291. and Bp. Percy's Reliques

of Antient Englifti Poetry, edit. 1765, vol. 1. p. 130.

\ Mr' Barrington's Obfervations, , p. 57.< In

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In 1682, there was a moft magnificexit cavalcade and enter-

tainment given by the Finlbury archers, when they beftowed

the titles of duke of Sboreditch^ marquis of Ij7ington, ^c. upon

the moft defer\/ing. Charles II. was prefent upon this occafion

;

but, the day being rainy, he was obliged foon to leave the

,iield *.

It had now degenerated from being the glory of Britifh

warriors to a mere m^nly recreation. Finfbury Fields were

unoccupied for the pradtice of this noble fcience, and the very

name of Archer feemed forgotten, till, in 1753, tangets were

ereded during the Earter and Whitfun holidays, when the belt

fhooter was Ityled captain for the enfuing year, and the fecond,

lieutenant-f-.

Of the original members of this fociety there

were only two remaining, when Mr. Barrington compiled his

Obfervations ; Mr. Benjamin Poole^ and Mr, Philip Con/table,

who had frequently obtained thqfe titles. The fociety is

now incorporated with the Archers' divifion of the Honourable

the Artillery Company.

The fletchers, bowyers, bowftring-makers, and of every

thing relating to archery, inhabited in old times Grub-ftreet,

the laft ftreet in this part of the town in being about the time

of Aggas's map of London ; all beyond as far as Bijkopfgate

Without were gardens, fields, or morafs %.

The late Mr. James Sharp, having conceived the idea of a

grand canal of communication between London and the ad-

jacent country, made choice of the fpacious area of Moorfields

* Mr Barripgton's Obfervations. -|- Ibid. p. 14.

% Pennant's London, p. 262, 3d cd.

as


as the efxtreme point to which it might be moft commodionfly

directed. With this view, about 1772, he caufed the level to

be taken from the quarters of Moorfields, in order to try whether

it would run into the river Lee ; when, to his great furprize,

he found it extend no lefs than thirteen miles and a half,

and to approach fo near 10 Waltham Abbey as to make that

place the other extreme point whence it might proceed.

In the courfe of this furvev it was obferved, that fuch a canal

would, in its progrefs, pafs through a pleafanl part of the

country ; through every capital 'village in the natural courfe

of its 'direction ; and through inclofures exhibiting .the richeft

and moft delightful rqral profpedts that can be conceived.

The gentleman Mr. Sharp employed in taking this furvey

was the ingenious Mr. Robert Whiiworth, draughtfman to the

late celebrated Mr. Brindley, who affifted in projedling itnolt of

his magnificent works.

This gentleman, upon trial, found the projedt (formed only

in idea by Mr. Sharp) not only pradticable, but much more

eafy than in moft countries through which navigable canals

have been made ; and, according to his calculation, a canal

lixty feet wide at the furface, four feet and a half deep,

and terminating in a bafon 400 feet long and 200 feet broad,

might be completed from Waliham Abbey for the fum of

52,495/. a fum inconfiderable in comparifon to the advantages

that would accrue from it to the city of London, but more

particularly to the country through which it was intended to

pafs, every foot of which adjoining to its banks would be

increafed in value in proportion to its foil and fituation.

Upon this reprefentation of the facility of carrying his defign

into execution, Mr. Sharp thought proper to proceed, and to

caufe

OF SHORE DITCH. 175

caufe a plan * to be prepared to be laid before the court of

Common Council, in order to take the fenfe of that refpedtable

body in a matter that lb highly concerned the interefts of

the city. This being a work that required time, it was not

very Ipeedily that it was completed.

But it was no fooner feen than approved, and a petition had

been already prefented to parliament for leave to bring in a

bill to enable the city to carry 'it into execution.

Previous to this prefentation, Mr. Whitworth was defired to

conlider of the manner of condudling the canal, and of the

application of it to the molt beneficial purpofes, as well with

refpedt to health and ornament as for general utility.

He was given to underftand, that the quarters of Moor-fields were fet apart as a pleafure-ground for the citizens of

London to walk in for the benefit of the air; he therefore very

juilicioufly contrived not only to fecure to them that privilege,

but to heighten the plealure of their enjoyment. He pro-

pofed to furround the bafon with a fpacious gf^vel-walk, bywhich any number of perfons might amule themfelves by the

fides of a clear flrearn, which no doubt, would be filled with

velTels of various conftrudlion, as none would be admitted but

boats for pleafure, except only thofe for carrying light goods

and paflengers to and from the country. For, be (ides this

fmaller bafon in Moorfields, which Mr. Whitworch appropriated

chiefly to pleafure, he projected one of a more ample con-

flruiStion, of a circular form, 500 feet in diameter, to be laid

out in the field between Holywell-mount and the Tabernacle

* See the engraTed plan, Gent. Mag. vol. XLIV. p. 121.

6 with


with wharfs extending 80 feet every way from the water's

edge, fkirted round with buildings for mercantile purpofes,

which would amazingly encreafe the inland commerce of the

city, and produce many great and extenfive advantages, fome

of which Mr. Sharp enumerated, and are as follow :

Health he confiders as the firft and greateft advantage; and

that, he thinks, would be promoted in an eminent degree by

a conftant circulation of free air, occafioned by the paffing and

repaffing of veiTels for pleafure and bufinefs upon a clear

flream ; and by facilitating . the communication with the

country.

Next to health he rates the advantage of being more

copioufly fupphed with provifions, the moft likely means to

reduce the price. Milk, in particular, which is now of a very

bad quality, owing to the rank, food of cows in the fuburbs,

would be brought twice a day by water from cows fed in

meadow-lands with wholefome grafs inflead of grains and

cabbage- leaves.

Butcher's meat would lae brought in like manner from places

remote from town, where cattle would be flaughtered without

being heated with over-driving, and confequently would be

fitter to be preferved by fait.

Corn, malt, and flour, at a fmall expence, would be fpeedily

tranfported to town from Ware, Hertford, Bilhop*s Stortford,

and other towns and villages at a greater diilance, without

being loaded with the expence of double carriage; and coals

and other heavy articles returned nearly as cheap as the fame

are fold in the heart of London.

Hay,


Hay, ftraw, coals, bricks, ftone, chalk, lime, fand, but more

particularly timber, would be capital articles of traffic on this

canal.

The number of horfes would be diminiflied in proportion

as the quantity of thefe heavy goods brought by water is

inereafed; fo that the faving of provender would be no incon-

liderable obje<ft.

The conveyance of palTengers by water in vefiels elegantly

built and decorated, from one end of the canal to the other,

at the fmall fare of 3^. will be of great convenience to

palTengers in general, but more particularly to thofe who may

be inclined to colledl and bring to market the fmall articles of

poultry, butter, eggs, Sec.

A large refervoir of water would always be ready for extin-

guilhing fires in every part of the city.

By means of channels of communication, the filth of the

city might all be carried off from the common fewers, at times

when the abundance of rain would make water plenty.

Thefe and many other advantages would accrue to the city of

London.

To the proprietors of land, and to the inhabitants at a

diftance, the advantages would be proportionably great; fields

would be converted into gardens, wallies into fertile fields, by

means of the plentiful fupply of manure ; and the penvu of

the poor country-labourer relieved by the profufion or the

citizen.

The' plan of this noble undertaking would ilie ^ the couile

through which it was intended to be carried, and woi:ia convev 'a

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clearer idea of its importance to the curious reader than any

defcription in words *.

From the Gazetteer of April 14, 1774, we learn that *' a

*' petition of feveral jDerfons, owners of lands, through which*' the canal was intended to be made, was read againit it, as

" likewife feveral petitions from the pariflies of St. Luke's,

" Sboreditcb, Tottenham, Edmonton, Sec. relpeitively in favour

" of it."-—" It was very evident that the friends of the city had" infinitely the better of the argument; fo much fo, indeed,

" that every reafon offered on the other iide rather made for than

" againft the meafure ; but, the country gentlemen being in a

*' great meafure prejudiced againft fuch undertakings, when the

" queftion came to be put, the fupporters found themfelves in a" lamentable minority, the numbers on the divifion being

*' Ayes 10, Noes 61." The land through which the canal was

intended to pafs was furveyed, by order of the committee of

common-council of the city of London for canal navigation,

dated June 18, 1773. The expence of carrying this canal

into execution, according to Mr. Robert Whitworth's eftimate,

returned oaober 5, I773» was ^^52495 as mentioned in

page 174.

Stowf mentions a map or plan of Moorfields as intended to

be laid out by one Leate, a citizen, which he was to have

inferted in his book. Leate was an alderman of London well

known in the reigns of Elizabeth and James L for his furveys and

projeils, many of which were executed to the great advantage

and ornament of the city:J:.v^.

* Gent. Mag. rol. XLIV. p. 121. f Edit. 1633, p. 302.

1 Granger, (vol. K p. 280,) who mentions a head of him with two lines abouf

the oval, and feven under it. (Bromley's Catalogue. Brit. Top. vol. I. p. 689.)

Monf.

OF SHORED ITCH. 179

Monf. Le Pays, defcribing the manners of London in the

reign of Charles II. fays, " There is an alehoufe near a place

<' they call Moorefields '••-, where the company are entertained

" with mufic and merry andrews, who perform in their turns

" from rhorning till night on purpofe to divert thofe who come" to drink, and where the company give themfelves up to every

" kind of gallantry. There are a number of adtors of both

" fexes, who are painted to appear fair; and, as the place is

" built like an amphitheatre, the principal fports are made upon** the open grafs-plat in the middle, v/hich being the fame in

*' this place as the flage in a theatre, a very numerous company** may enjoy the diverfions very much at their eafe f."

In this liberty are two meeting-houfes ; one (for Bapthls)

in Worfliip-ftreet ; the other (a Methodillical place. of worfliip)

in Prince's ftreet, Moorfields.

* " Note by the Tranjlator.—The alehoufe alluded to, near Moorfields, is the" Flying Horfe, and is flill diftinguiftied by the fame fign. It is on the Eaflerii

*' fide ; and but a few years fince the large yard of the houfe had an entrance into

*' Union- ftreet, which is now flopped up. According to the relation of aged*' perfons, now living, it was in this yard that the diverfions defcribed by the" French author were carried on. They remember the fmall houfes in the vard•' having their tops covered with feats, though within their memory only cudgeling*' and boxing were exhibited in that place, except that children and women ufed to*' ride upon the feats in the wings of a large wooden horfe, that had a mechanical

"motion for the purpofe upon a platform, and run in grooves. The afTemblies*' at this place being prohibited, probably on account of the gallantries alluded" to by M. Le Pays, the diverfions of boxing and cudgelling were ftill carried on" in the middle of the Upper-field ; where, till within forty years pall, the ring,*' as it was called, was under the direftion of a mafter of xhofe ceremonies, very** well known by the appellation of Old Vinegar.—Moorfields was, till within" twenty years paft, divided into Upper and Lower, by a wall, that ran from the" end of Chifwell-flreet to the oppofite frde."

•f Gent. Mag. vol. LXL p. 928.

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The congregation at Worfhip-ftreet appears to have beenformed out of one firft fettled in White-alley, Moorfields, re«

moved to Barbican, and founded, with three others here, underthe late Mr. Charles Bulkeley, who died April 15, 1797, in

his ^8th year. He was interred in this meeting-houfe, or the

burying-ground belonging to it, on the 25th*; and an addrefs

delivered over the grave by Mr. John Evans, M. A. his fucceffor,

the prefent minifter, who preached a funeral-fermon for him onthe 30th, as he had done before for three eminent diflehting

miniiters of different perfuafions, Stennet, Kippis, and Harris,

06t. 18, 1795 "i-.He alfo publifhed a " Sketch of the

*' feveral Denominations into which the Chriftian world was.

*' divided;" which has gome through two editions for the benefit

of his pupils :|:.

Alfo in Mulberry- Court, Long-Alley, are feveral alms-

houfes belonging to the Dutch church in Auftin-Friers* Oaa plane of ftone againft the center houfe is,

1'heje two 'tenements

No. 6 and 7, are the Gift

of Egbert Guede, Gent,

born at Szvoll in Overyffel one

of the 7 Provinces of Hollandon the ic^th Bay of January in

the Tear of our Lord 166 2, and

died at Bighgate in Midellefex

on the 7 Day of February 173SAged 7 1 Tears.

* Of him fee Gent. Mag. vol. LXVII. pp. 439, 587.

t Ibid. vol. LXV. p. 45- + ^P'^^' P* 5^3'

By

OFSHOREDITCH. iSi-

By his Iqft Will he endowed

T'he /aid a Tenements for the

Habitation and Maintenance

Of 4 fucb poor Menof and belonging to the

Dutch Church

in Augustine FryarsLondon.

Traders' Tokens.

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II.

JOHN. RUDUCK. At. FINSBURT. WIER DRAWER. L R. E. ,

III.

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JOHN ANNISON AT THE WITALEBON.—A Whale Bone hefween 6 Ctf 8.

NEW CHEAPSIDE IN MOREFEILDS . HIS HALFEtENr.

V.

MART FFLWOOD. LONG (A Star.)

ALT IN MORE FIELDS. M. F.

IV. LlBJlRTT

i8a HISTORY AND ANTIQÛITIES

IV. Liberty of Holywell*.

^ S' d.

Ill 1780, the Land-Tax of thisl

Liberty produced }^^' ^

1790, 581 o o

1791, 570 8 o

1792, 586 o o

I793> 534- 4 o

Eftreats

OFSHOREDITCH, i8 J

decayed*. This well was originally fituated on the Eaftern

extremity of Finfbury Fields, as w,e learn from the charter of

confirmation granted to this priory by king Richard the Firft,

bearing date, Od. .7, 11 89, wherein he confirms, inter

.alia^

" Locum ipfnm in quo praefata ecclefia fita eft, cum" omnibus pertinentiis fuis ; fcilicet Moram in qua'''• fons qui dicitur Haliwelle oritur f."

The prebend of St. Paul's, to whom it gives name, is called

the prebend of Haliwell, alias Finfbury ; and the firit prebendary

who poffeiTed it occurs fo early as 1 104 %.

Fitzftephen, who wrote his hiftory between 11 70 and 1182,

mentions this well as one of the moft efteemed §.

" Sunt etiam^ circa Lnndoniam ab aquilone fuburbani

" fontes praecipui, aqua dulcl falubu perfpicua, et ^

* Newcourt, Repert. vol. L p. 64. There were o'her holy wells about London,the chief of which, in Fiizftephen's thne, befide .h.u uovv LiXjted ot, were Clerken

well, and St. Clement's well. In S v.v's Survey 1],feveral others are enumerated, as

Skinners' well nigh Clerkenwell, Fags well nigh the Charter-houfc, Tods well,

Loders well, and R^ds well ; to which may be added Jacub's well in Barbican,

Croivder's well hy Cripplegate, and Motik well nigh Alderfgate-fticet. Of the well

or fpring of Dame A^nes a Clere in Shoreditch paiiQi, fee p. 83.

f- !vion. Ang. vol. I. p. 531.

J Newcourc, liep. vol. I. p. 5.

§ Dr. Pegge's edition of Fitzltephen's Hiftory of London, ^to. 1772, p. 61.

JlStrype's ed. vol. I. p. 35,

VARIA LECTIO.' Sunt et. H. Strype.

(( per

i8+ HISTORY AND ANTIQÛITIES

" per claros rivo trepidante lapillos [i]:"

" inter quos fons Jacer^ fons clericorum, fons fan

" Clementis nominatiores habentur ; et adeuntur ce^

" lebriore * acceffu, et majore frequentia fcholarium'',

" et urbanas juventutis in ferotinis[a] asftivis auram" exeuntis."

The place where this celebrated well was fituated, which in

Newcourt's time was overplanted with garden-plots, &;c. * is

now built upon, and a pump eredled over the fite of the

well.

This well, or fountain, together with that part of the field

or moor wherein it arofe, were given before the year 1127to fome religious women by Robert Fitz Gelran, canon of the

cathedrid of St. Paul-f

; whereon a priory was built to the

honour- of Chrift, the Bleffed Virgin Mary, and St. JohnBaptift, for nuns of the Benedi6line order, who followed the

fame rules as the monks of that order, omitting only what was

not proper for their fex %- Their h^bit was a black robe, with

a fcapulary of the fame, and, under the robe, a tunic of white

or undyed wool. When they went to the choir, they had over

* Newc. Rep. vol. I. p. 64.

•f Tanner's Not. Moa. p. 305. He was one of the earlieft prebendaries of

Holywell.

X Ibid. prcf. p. xiv.

VARIANTES LECTIONES.= Celebriori, et mox majori^ in Stoveo H.^ Scholarum. H. male.

ANNOTATIONES.

fi]' Per claros rivo trepidante lapillos'] Hexameiri fragmentum.

zj 'Serotinis'] Strotina, fubftaDtive ufurpaturn, LexicisetClolTographis ignotum eft; valet idem ac v{i^<r«.

all

OF SHOREDITCH, 185

all a bhck cowl like that of the monks; and their heads always

covered with a veil*.

King Richard L in the firft year of his reign, confirmed to

thefe nuns the-mooror fen in which the well beforementioned

arofe, together with the land which John de Hilewit had given

them; the land which Walter f (precentor of St. Paul's cathedral)

gave, confifting of 3 acres ; the church of Dunton with all its

appurtenances, &ic. and the land in Camberwell hereafter men-

tioned'; with all rents within the city of London, as mentioned

in the charters of endowment.

The fame king alfo, in the fixth year of his reign, confirmed

feveral other donations made to them, viz, half a rood of land

at Dunton given to them by Geoftry Ghamberleyn, wbigh had

before been in the poiTeffion of Grregory the prieft ; another

half-rootl' at Dunton by Gsgoffry/ de Melicho and his brother

William; one rood at Hinxteworth^: by Theobald the ion of

Fulk ; the chureh of Wurelew by Gunnora de Valoniis§, the

* Tanner's Not. Mon. pref. p. xir. In Stevens, vol. I. p. 169, is a cut of

fuch a nun without her cowl, as there is in the Mouaflicon, vol. I. p. i, of onewith her cowl.

•f-This Walter was archdeacon of Londbn in 1 197, at which time (faith Stowe)

lie laid the fbundatlon-ftone of the hofpital of St. Mary SpitaU

X Hinxworth in Hertfordlhire.

§ Gunijora was daughter to Robert de Valoniis, a great baron in the reign of

king Henry II. and great grand- daughter to Peter de Valongies or Valoines, whomBlomefield (Norf. vol. V.p. 767.)calh the Conqueror's nephew. He was a great baron,

and married Albreda, filler to Eudo Dapifer ; his defcendants made the caftle ofOxford the principal feat of their barony. Gunnora was married to Robert Fitz-

Walter, by whom flie had one daughter, Chriftiana, who was living in 1221, andwas married to-William de Mandeville, earl of Effex, (Cotton MS, Julius, C. VII.)

B b , town

i86 HISTORY AND A N T I QÛ I T I E 5

town of Luiton by the fame Gunnora * ; lands in Gatefby byJohn Gatefby, and a garden without CrippJegate,. by Juliana

Gardin.

In the manor of Weftby in Afhwell is a farm called 'turri&ks

OY -Nunzvick^ with a moated fquare of 3 acres, on the North fide

of which are 1 fmall ftone edifices adjoining to one another, that

feem to have been part of one fide of a fquare. One of thefe barns

has a vaulted ceiling lathed and plaftered^ and near the roof ©fl

the crofs beams, fhields of arms : one, a chevron between 3.

pheons, or flag^s' heads. The other barn was a narraw roomwith chimneys ; both feem to have been for entertainment.

On the Eaft fide without the moat in a pafture-ground is a fmall

artificial tumulus anfwering to the middle of the fquare ; and oaeach fide in the fame part an oblong piece of raifed ground

about I a yards by 6, at about 60 yards from, the tumulus,

anfwer to each other, and to the fquare. If this were pofleflcd

by any nunnery, Mr. Salmon fuppofed it was by Haliwell^

becaufe in Richard I's charter confirming the donations to that

convent there, there is mention of a virgate of land in Henx-^

•worthy of the gift of Theobald the fbh of Fulk. In Henxwortb

we do not find any land belonging to a religious houfe ; but, ac»

cording to the record, Peter de Valoines' eftate there had beea

''* The town of Luiton.^ here mentioned, was that part of the parifli of Leyton ia

Eflex, which belonged to Peter de Valoines (abovementioned) at the general furvey..

(See Domefday, vol.11, f. 786.) At the diflblution of religious houfes in 1540,thefe lands were granted by letters patent, 36 Hen. VIIL, to Morgan Philips alias

Wolfe, (Pat. 32, Hen. VIII. pt. 5. Feb. 11.) (by the names of Croft, HowfielJ,.

Showfield, Les Harpe, and Halliwell, late belonging to HaJiwell priory;) whofe

cldefl; fon Julinus died feized of it in 1557, (iVIorant, voL I. p. 23)^ Mr. Lyfons

(Environs of London, vol. IV. p. 164.) was unable to find how this eftate afterwards

defcended, or who is the prefciit owner. It is probable (faith he) that it became

incorporated with LeytoQ Grange, another manor in the fame parilh. (Ibid. vol. IV..

p. 160.)

takea

OFSHOREDITCH. 187^

taken out of Afhwell, and was called a berewyke of Afliwell, fo

that it might be accounted in one parifli or the other..Another

lord of a manor in Henxwortb is in the record faid to be I'etbald,

which anfwers to TbeoMIdus in Latin, and was probably the Ion

of Fulk^ and the benefadtor recorded in king Richard's grant,

and Geffrey de Melicho and William his brother having given

half a virgate in Dunton contiguous to this to the manor of

Hallywell, the conjecture is the more probable *.

' Henry de Hallingbury releafed to the nuns all his right and

claim to lands, tenements, efcheats, wards, reliefs, in the

towns of Henxwortb and Dunton, by deed dated at Haliwelly the

Sunday after St. Michael's feftival -j-;

They had tenements in Soutbminjier % \ the advowfon of the

church of Brampton §, in Suffolk ; fome intereft in the church

of Trumpington |1, in Cambridgefhire, of which they owned the

redlory^; and fome polTeffions in Bedfordlliire **.

The following account of the church of 'Trumpington (as

far as concerns the nunnery of Haliwell) is taken from Mr.

Blomefield's MS collections for Cambridgefhire, in the pofTeffion

of Richard Gough, ef(j. at Enfield.

* Salmon, p. 344. See alfo Eflibn. 10. Ric. I. rot. 26, de reddit in Effeweli

[Hertf.] verfus Fulconem filium Tbeobaldi quos Theobaldus pater eis dedit.

(Tanner, ubi fupra.)

f- Original deed in Briti(h Mufeum, cart. ant. 83 B. 32, printed in Gent. Mag.Tol. LXV. p. 569.

% Cart 19 Hen. III. in 9 & 10 Fin. Surr. 25 Hen. III. n . . Fin. com. ignot.

44 Hen. III. n. 57 de terr. in Southminfter.

\ Fin. SufF. I Ed. I. n. 151, pro advoc. eccl. de Brampton [SufF.] Fin. SufF.

12 Ed. I. n. 7. de eadem.

,11Pat. 17 Ed. III. p. 2. m. 35, pro ecclefia de 7VaOT/>/»g-/(?«.

^ See Biomefield's CoUcft. Cantab, p. 235. '

** Plac. ap. Bedf. 4 Ed. III. quo war. rot. p. 12. Cart. 10 E. III. 1932.

B b 3 " This

i88 HISTORY AND A N T IQjCJ IT I E S

" This re<fôry was taxed at 20/. and was of the patronage

** of the priorefs and nuns of Haliwell by London, and was,ap-

" propriated to them by the king's licenfe, and confent of ihe

" bifhop, chapter, and archdeacon, of Ely ; a penfion of 6s. Hd^.

" being referved to the archdeacon. Simcm *, bilhop of Elf,

" granted them the patronage which they purchaled of the

*' heirs of John de Cailes. He was fon x)f Simon de Cailes,.

*' lord of a manor in Trumpington, and patron of the ad-

" vowfon, I Edw. L

" 1290. Nicolas was reftor,, and it appears that there

" was a re£lor and a vicar : the lafl being always pre-

" fented by the former.

" In 1389, the nuns prefented the re6torf.

" 1390. yobn Bar^ re<5tor of Taverham, in the diocefe^

" of Norwich, exchanged with Wilham Stepy, of Hotoft,,

" vicar of Trumpington ; and the faid John was inftituted

" vicar at the prefentation of Ifabella, priorefs of the houfe

" of Haliwell, Lond. dioc. 26 April :|:,

«' 1392. John Eardy exchanged with William Forfl-er»

" redlor of Quendon, Lond. dioc. and the faid William;

" was inftituted at the prefentation Of the priorefs of

« Haliwell §."

" 1393* 7^^^ Bradle, prejh. fon of Luke Bradle, infti-

*' tuted upon the death of William Forfter, at the prefer!--

»* tation of the priorefs of HaUwellli, 24 March.

*,Reg. Fordbam, 21 B..n n-t. • j

~\- Thus far from the printed Colleftions for Cambridgefliire. The remainder

from Mr. Cough's MSS.t Reg. Fordham, 21 B. § Ibid. 34 A. }|

Ibid. 43 B.

'* 1395^

OF SHORED ITCH. 189

*' 1395' John Karlill was inftituted upon the death of" John Bradle, at the prefentation of the priorefs of" Haliwell *, 1 2 Dec.

*' John Hardeware occurs chaplain of Trumpington,** in a conventual leafe belonging to this priory, dated

,« Feb. 1 8, I533t-

The vicarage of Dunton likewife, co. Bedford, with the

chapel of Melo, (now deltroyed) was appropriated to this

priory % ; and, in a record in the Augmentation -office, I find

a grant dated June id, i Ed. VI. from the crown to the

dean and chapter of St. Paul's cathedral of a yearly rent of

3 (hillings going out of certain meffuages in Norton Folley §,

parcel of the late diflblved priory of Haliwell.

" The manor of Camberwell Frerne, or Fryern, (faith Mr.*' Lyfons||,) was part of the polTeffions of Haliwell priory*!^.

*' It was acquired partly by purchafe, and partly by grant*'".

*' About- the reign of king Stephen, Robert earl of Gloucefter** gave one hundred acres o|" wood to Robert de Rothomago, the

" latter gave them to the priory. The fame earl made feveral

" other contiderable grants to various perfons, particularly to-

** Thomas de Tychefey, and Reginald Pointz ; the latter took** upon him the crofs, and left his eftate at Camberwell between

* Reg. Fordham, 48 A.

\ Conventu 1 Le ifcs in the Aagraehtation-office, No. S.

X Sfe Bacon's LJber Regis, p. 486. § Or Folgate.I|

Vol.1, p. 71.

% In the Monalticon, vol. I. p. 6&1, there is mention of an agreement made1245, between the prior of Bermondfey and the priorefs of Haliiwell, relative to

tithes in Eall Dulwich.** Dugdale's Monaft. vol. I. p. 532.

3 « his

ISO HISTORY AND ANTItÛITIES

*' his four nephews ; one of whom, Nicolas Pointz, gave ten

" acres of land to the nuns at Haliwell, and they afterwards

" pnrchafed of him the whole of the fhare that. had been his

, " brother Walter's. Solomon de Bafyng bequeathed them fome' *' land, called NeWelersfield, and ten acres which had belonged

** to William Frango. After the diffolution of monafteiies, this

*' manor was granted to Rol>ert Draper^ page --f the jewels*,** whofe daughter mairied John Bowyer, efq. of Shepton** Beanchamp, in the coimty of Somerfet; and it is now, by** defcent, and under the will of Edmund Bowyer, who died

*' in 17 1 8, the property of Jofeph Windham, efq. f*

" John de Gatefbury, in the time of king John, was*' poffefled of the manor of Gate/bury, and he gave to God and*' the church of St. John Bapiift, Hal ywell, near London, this

*' manor, and the land called Gatefbury-/;i^|, with all their

" appurtenances, one acre of meadow, and three acres of land,

" which Nigell of Gatefbury held ; four acres of land, which*^ Ofbert Mead held; one part of an acre called '2otenbolei

" thirty-five acres of land in a field called Budings; and Jordan*' de Zuine, the lord of whom John de Gatefbury held this

*' manor, did confirm the fame^."

The

* Pat. 36. Hen. VI IL p. 9, July 2U

•f-Prom an old valu ition of the poflefTions of Haliwell nunnery (taken in 1544)

amongft the Harleian MSS. No. 60-, it appears, that the lands which they poffelled

in Camberwell, Peckliam, and Deptford, produced 15/ 45. od. fer annum.

X Salmon, Herts, p. 229, reads

—

-field

§ Chauncey's Hertt. 235. It feenis a miftal<e that John de Gatefbury gave the

mancr to the nunnery, for wc find it afterwards in l.iy hands ; perhaps the lands

given lay in the manor, or they might be exchanged by the nuns for other lands,

the inftrument of which exchange is loft, for we have no mention of them at the

diflbiution ; or of the original grant, except the confirmaiioa of John de Gatef-

bury's

OF SHOREDITCH. 191

The manor of Halywell in Afhe took its name of the Bene-

didline nunnery of Halywell fituate on the Well fide of the

ftreet leading from Bilhopfgate to Shoreditch in London*.

In the 14th of Edward II. the priorefs of Haliwell had certain

iberties granted for this manor in AJh f , and, at the diflblution

of religious houfes, the fame was granted by king Henry VILto Sir Martin Bowes, l^nt. who died in i 566, and was fucceeded

by his fon Williar, who, dying without iflue male, it became

the fole property of Sir Edward Fowler, who married one of

his two co-heirefles ; and his grand-daughter and heirefs carried

it by marriage to Multon Lambarde, efq. knighted at the coro-

nation of George II. and the inheritance is vefted in the iflue

of his nephew, Thomas Lambarde, of Seven-Oaks, efq. de-

ceafed; fince which it has had the fame owner as Alh :^.

There appears to have been a difpute, fome time in the reign

of Edward II. between the priorefs and convent of Haliwell onthe one part, and the prior and convent of the Holy Trinity on

bury's gift of terra de Gatejhy by Richard I % The family of Gatefbury held

lands in Braughing in rhe reign of Henry V. when they paffed away by co-

heireffes *. John de Gatefbury confirmed his grant in the prefence of Henry Fitz

Ailwin, lord-mayor of London', who, in the regifter of Trinity priory, London,is made grandfoa of Leofftan, who rebuilt Layfton church, which was called after

him 4.

* Hafted's Kent, voL I. p. 28^3.

•f-Plac. apud Cantuar. 21 Ed. L affif. Rot. 9. de terris in Afhe juxta Mepham.

Breve Reg. 7 Ed. II. Fin. Rot. & Plac- ap. Roff. temp. Ed. II. Rot. c,. de liber-

tatihus in Aftie. Plac. Rot. 8, apud terris in Land, in Ed. II. qûo warr. ut iÊd. r. p. i.^^ in. 25,,

X Hafted's Kent, vol. I. p. 285.

• Sa'mon. Herts, p. 229. *; Ibid, S Chauncey, p. 225.* MS. Le Nfcve. (See the note on " ^'fewkk" in the next page.)

the

192 HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES/'

theother part, concerning lands m Jlfewick'^"', as among ft the

records in the king's remembrancer's office iji the Exchequer -j:^

I found an antient deed, dated July i, i 2 1 7^ fetting forth that ihQ.

priorefs and convent of liahwelle had held of the king's pro-

genitors, time beyond the meinory of man, and ought of right,

ftill to hold certain lands in * Alfewyke' in the county of Hert-

ford, containing the eleventh part of a knight's fee ; and, rn Ste-

vens's Supplement to the Monallicon, vol., II, p. 212, appendix

cl.Kxii, is atranfcript of an antient deed, dated Aug. 4, i 239, from

the prior and convent of the Holy Trinity, yielding'all the meadowand pafture lapds, together with a mill andits appurtenances, to

the priorefs and convent of Haliwell, which had bLtorc been

held of the faid prior and convent by Richard de Lefllone-

church ; and nigh to the end of this inlfrument, it is faid,

'* Pro hac autem conceflione, & prefentis cartse confirmatione

** dedecuat nobis, ijiemorae prigriflT^, 8t MoniaJe feptem matcas^* IterUngoruin X.""

Amongft other perfons, the following appear to have been

principal benefa6lors:

Richard de Balmeis, eledted bifliop of London about

the year 1118, and, dying January 16, 1127, was

* This is a manor in Layfton (antiently Leofjlancherche'' in the county of Hert-

ford, ^Salmon, pp.314, 315,) to wiiofe church its chapel was united, aqd -both

were in the patronage of trinity priory, London, (Ibd. Efion.)

•\- Rec. in Scacc. penes Rem. reuis, 17 Ed. II. Mich. Rot not referred to bybiftiop Tanner. To which and lents in Effex and Kent, Fii^. 50 H. III. and lands in

Olmele (Elmeley, now Emky,) in Kent, Fin. 3:, H. 111. bloih omitted by that

indefatigable writer, and by Mr. Hafted, vo:. il. p. 6/4, but fupplied by Edw.Kowe Mores, efq.

X The original of this charter was formerly in the pofleffion of Ralph Thorefby

of Leeds.

a great

^9$

6f SH CREDIT C H. 19J

a great benefadlor hereto * ; whereupon Stow might

ground his opinion that a bifhdp of London was the

founder f.

Stephen Gravefend, bifhop of London, about the

year 131 8, was hkewife a benefacSlor, faith Stow J.

Sir Thomas Lovell, knight of the garter, was an

active man in Henry the VH's time. In 1485, whenan efquire only, he was made chancellor of the ex-

chequer for life, and the fame year had an annuity

of 40 marks as an efquire to the king's body. In

1473, Henry Heydon, efq. granted him an annuity

of 20s. out of his manor of Snoryng Parva^ called

Dorkettys, for his good counfel^ that he had already,

and ihotild hereafter^ give him. He was firft madebanneret, and in 148 7 was knighted at the battle

of Stoke, and afterwards inftalled knight of the gat-

ter. In • 1 5 02-, he was treafurer of the houfehold,

and prefident of the council; he was one of the . \executors of Henry the VII's will, conftable of the

tower, furveydr of the court ôf wards,, fteward and ,

marfhal of the houfe to king Henry VIII. He- built

the gatehoufe at Lincoln's Inn, 1518, and placed

on it the king's arms, the earl of Lincoln's, and his

own §, by which Mr. Blomefield imagines he had beenof that fociety. He built Eajl Herling-hally in Nor-folk, on _ the tower of which his arms ftill remain,

and a brafs bufl: of his own likenefs furroiinded with

* Tanner's N'otitia Moriaftica, p. 306, note (c). ;\ ; .

•! Stow'sSurvey, ed. 1754, vol. 11. p. 49.~

J Ibid.

^ Tkefe three coats are ejigraved.

G c the

m HISTORY AND ANTIQ.0ITIES

the garter. In 1508, upoii the 4€ath of Edmundlord Ros of Hamlake, without iffue, the manorof Worcefters in the parifh of Enfield came to Sir '

Thoma^s Lovell, who had married Ifabel his filter

and heir*;) where, in 15 16, he was honoured

with a vifit by Miargaret, queen dowager of Scotland,

lifter to Henry VIII. on Afcenfion day ; and there hedied May 25, 1534, and was buried in a chapel,

which himfelf had founded withiii this priory f

.

•

It may be prefumed his lady wgs buried in Haliwell with

him, and not as Mr. Blomefield:^, (and Mr. LeNeve in a MS note

in his copy of Dugdale's JBaronage §,) at Enfield, the monumentwhich he miftakes for her's in that church belonging to fome

of the RoflTes,' and bearing their arms with thofe of Lovell and

Mtifwell, who intermarried with thepij which laft are quartered

by Lovell |j.

Leland tells us that Sir Thomas rebuilt this priory 5[; Blome-

field, that he refounded it "**; and Weever, that he was a great

* She was daughter to Thomas lo/d Ros of Hamlake, 'who died in i Ed. IV.

She had before been r,iarried to Sir Thomas Everingham, and, after the death of Sir

Thomas Lovell, was a third time ingriied to Sir Thomas Grey of Werke. See

Mr. Nichols's Leicefterfhire, vol. 11. pt. 1, p. 27.

•f-Weever's Fun. Mon. p. 428. See alfo Mr. Lyfons's Environs of London, vol.

II. p. ^93.—** maff^ fynyfchid, the Abbott [of W^ltham] with them of the quyer,

" came and burled the body in his chappell, under a tomb of white marbelJ, wiche" both hit and the chappell were fonded by hym, and it ftonueth 00 the Southe' fyde of the quyre of the faid church. Heralds' College MS Funerals, LXI.

p. 82, containing a curious account of the ceremonies ufed at the funeral of Sir

Thomas Lovell : printed in Mr. Lyfons' Environs of London, vol.11, pp. 293, z(j\.

^ Norf. vol. I. p. 219.

§ In the poffeflion of Richard Gough, efq. at Enfield.

IISepulchral Manuments of Great Britain, vol. II. p. 1^9.

% Colledtanea, vol. L p. 71. ** Hiftory of Noxtolk, vol. L p. 219.

benefadlor

OFSHOREDITCH. 195

benefa6lor only*; but, after all, I am inclined to give the moft

credit to honeft Stow's affertion f, that he . was a great

'benefadlor, and built much here J; as on the front of a houfe,

two doors from the end of Holiwell lane, are the arms of king

Henry VI. which were probably fet up about i 5 ro by Sir Thomas.

Mr. Ellis,- in his Campagna of London, mentions a houfe in

the Lower ftreet, Iflington, formerly the refiderice of Henry

Dudley, fuppofed to have been built by Sir Thomas Lovell.

The arms of Lovell, quartered with thofe of Mufwell, were

carved on a ftone chimney-piece, and remained extremely

perfefl: till the deftruilion of the houfe. Mr. Ellis had been

informed that the arms of the priory of Holiwell were (179 1)

not long lince extant on painted glafs in a window of the

fame houfe §.

Sir Thomas, by his laft will, bearing date Dec. lO, 1533 |I,

willed his manfion-place at Haliwell to his coufin Sir Francis

Lovell % ; but, upon the demolition of the pyiory-church, manyhoufes were built upon its lite, which were inhabited by feveral

noblemen, 8ic**.

* Fun. Mon. p. 428.-f-

Stow's Survey, ed. 1754, vol. 11. p. 49,

J On aimoft every window (faith .Weever) was painted tiiis diftich

:

" Al the nunnes in Holywel" Pray for the foul of Sir Thomas Loud."

but Mr. Blomefield, in the Hiftory of Norfolk, gives thefe lines differently j and fays

they were infcribed on a wall of the priory-houfe :

" ailpgniinnôf^fllitoeir.

" gcai pc hati) Oap ant> nigbt

" pp7 tl)e foul ofM SCjjotnasS Unuel,

" JBljom i|a?2g tlje I'ebtntl} mabe fenigtt."

§ Campagna of London, p. 96. Qu. what were the arms of this nunnef}'?

ilThough Blomefield, (vol. L p. 219,) fays it was dated Oft. 14, 1522, and

proved Sept. 26, 1528. (See p. 190, note J.)

^ He died Jan. 21, 1550.** Slew's burvey, ed.. 1754, vol. II. p. 49. The deTnolition of the church

belonging to this priory was perhaps done immediately upon the fuppreffion of the

houfe in 1539. Willis's Mitred Abbeys, vol. II. p. 130.

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From Eaft Herling Regifler, which begins in 1538, Mr.

Blomefield made the following extra<a:s * :

" 1539. 22 May, buried Lady Ann Lovell.-— 1548. 16 J.*' mar. Thomas Verman, efq. and Dorothy, daughter of Sir

" Francis Lovell.— 1548. 29 Sept. Mr. Fee Williams fon of

"Will. Williams, efq.— 1551. ao Jan. died Francis Lovell,

" Kt. and the 12th of the fame month died Elizabeth Lovell,

«.his wife.—1553. 4 Dec. Edm. fon of Tho. Lovell, Kt.

*' bapt.—1556. 5 Aug. bapt. Mary, daughter of Thomas<* Lovel, Kt.—1557. 4 Nov. died Dorothy, fifter of Sir

"Francis Lovel, Kt.— 1559. ^7 ^^^* Tho. fon of Tho.

"Lovel, Kt. bapt.—1560. 6 Ocft. Leonard Spencer and Kat.

"Lovell mar.— 1560. Mr. Francis Sturgis and Elenor Lovell

"mar. 18 June.— 1562. 4 Sept. Elenear and Kath. D". of** Tho. Lovell, Kt. bapt.-—1563. 9 Nov. Tho. Lovel, efq. and" Alice Huddlefton, mar^"

In 1 5 1 3, Sir George Manners •^, knt. (who was Lord Ros,

1487,) being at the fiege of Tournay and Turenne in France,

with king VIII. took a very fevere illnefs, whereof, after

languifhing fome time, he died, and, purfuant to his laft will,

was buried nigh the altar in the chapel belonging to this

priory +.

Sir

* See his MS CoUeftlons in Mr. Cough's Library.

•f He was eldeft fon of Lady LovÛ's eldeft fifter, Eleanor, by Sir RobertManners. (

J In Dugdale's Monafticon, (vol.1, p. 729.) we find it recorded that "in** redeundo obiit in menfe Oftobris, Anno Domini MDxiij et fepukus Londini in

*' ecclefia monialium dc Haliwell;" (fee alfo Leland's Itinerary, vol. I. p. 109, and

Dugdale's Baronage, vol. II. p. 296.) Mr. Nichols, in hi? Hiftory of Leicefter-

fhire, vol. II. pt. i. p. 41, fays, " Lord Ros might probably be there buried, an^" after the death of his lady be removed to Windfor, where both their figures are

I *' upon

0/ SHORE DITCH. 199

Sir Thomas LoVell founded a chauntry here in' the chapel

biiilt by himfelf f, which I find thus d^fcribed in the inventory

of churches taken in the reign of Edward VI. yet remaining

in the Augmentation-office.

£ J. d.

"The chapel of'J

SirThos, rTheGrocersh^ve"| Sf James Hurft ... vij jv o*' Hally well within >Loveirs < theiaudes and >Penc' ... cs

' Shordiche poche J Qiantry ^finde J S' Richard Mary fF. . vij jv oPenc' .... cs

"

Hence it appears here were two chantry priefts, though Mr.

Willis, in his account of Penfions paid to Incumbents of

Chantries in 1555, mentions only one (then living) who, at the

diilblution, had a penlion of 5/. granted him **.

Queen EUzab';fh, by letters patent, gave to John Farneham,

one of her gentlemen penfioners, the melTuages which belonged

to the Elriugton chantry in Shoreditch church, and Lovell

chantry here. The latter is mentioned as a meffuage (and gar-

den) called the Prieji's houfe^ then or lately in the tenure of

William Wallys, iituate in the parifli of St. Leonard Shoreditch,

formerly inhabited by certain priefts who celebrated daily mafs in

the chapel of Haliwell for the foul of Sir Thomas Lowell, knt.

" upon one tomb ;" in the North aiie of the Royal chapel Qf St. George withinthe caftle, with this infciiption :

" I^cre [pctte faurgcD sjfovge matvo?^ \<^'^^< Ictde ?Joojt va|)D Dcccffeb t'je pviij Oaje cf

" >©aobcr, in tlje \tiz of cti| loroe sob ii'l©Fiij and (atin Sinne \>\^ wpfe tioteBijte: cf" anne mic|)cffe of (^.tetir.-, Cfler unta h?ng cBbteajti tijc fD;iitl)e ar.O of 2!;})oraaiJ

" ;&ontliinoa" femigtt tfic tojcbe anne DeceiTcD Hje iiij akn of aprpti in tije pr?e o£ ouc" %a^ a53& îEt^vt'bj on toijoi'c foul.::; ijoD Ijalie mcrrji, amen."

^ On the South fide of the choir of the priory- cliurch. See the Heralds' Col-lege MS Funerals, LXI. 82, before referred to.

** Willis's Mitred Abbeys, vol. II. p. 137.

Prioresses,

eoo HISTORY AND ANTIQÛITIES

Prioresses,

Agnes* occurs 1239.Julianaf 32 Hen. III.

Benigna in the fame reign.

Chriftianalf 53 Hen. III.

fifter of Matilda Mountague, 1341.Ifabella Norton ' 1390.

Clemencia § occurs 0(5t. 4, 23 Hen. VI.

Elizabeth Prudde occurs March 3, 1474.Clemencia occurs 15 21.

Joan Lynde occurs 061. i, 7 Hen. VIII. and

again in 2 9 Hen. VIII. in which

year

Sibilla Nudigate||

was made priorefs.

In the king's remembrancer's office in the exchequer, is a

*' book of an indenture, Feb. 24, fecond and third years of*' Philip and Mary between the faid king and queen and*' cardinal Poole legate from the pope, concerning charging

" all perfons with payment of ufual rents and profits to the

* Stevens's Monafticon, vol. II. App. No. clxxii.

•f* Juliana/ with the four next following, and ' Clemencia' who * occurs

* 1^21,' were very obligingly communicated to me from the MS colleflions of Mr.Edward Rowe Mores, by Richard Gough, efq. of Enfield ; to whofe kindnefs this

little work ftands much indebted.

J Chriftina (poffibly the fame) occurs izkal. Dec. 1283.

§ ' Clemencia,' with Elizabeth Prudde and Joan Lynde, from conventual leafes

in the Augmentation-office.

jlNewdegate, or Nudegate.

" clergy

O F S H O R E D I T C H. ôi

*' clergy as formerly, which are particularly fpecified in this

*' book ;" wherein we have

r Will'mi Barnes Sl Anthonii Newdigate,^

" feod. < conjundim audit« omn. poffeiT' ib'm, v ex.

(per annum - - . - - J

rSibille Newdigate p' ann' - 1/.

EleneClaver - - - Hij-f. jv^-

,, „ . Alicie Marty

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- - jvA

^"""^"'MAlicieGoldwell - - - jv/. iu. viijV.'

Beatrice Fitz Lewis - - Ivjj. viij^.

.Agneti Bolney - - .. liijj. jv^.''

Thefe penfions vere doubtlefs granted at the diffolution of

the monaftery, which was furrendered Nov. 4, 1539, 29Hen. VIII.*

Mr. Gough informs me, that he has *« fomewhere read of" paintings on the walls of (what is called) king John's palace

•f',^

" but has never been able to find them." The gateway men-tioned in the new edition of Camden | was deftroyed about

1785, and but few traces of the priory are left.

At the Diflblution, a meffuage and garden with the fite of

the monaftery were granted from Henry VIII. to George Harpur,

* Willis's Mitred Abbeys, vol. II. p. 130. by whom thefe penfions, &c. arcmentioned with a fmall yariation.

f The vulgar appellation given to the remains of Haliwell priory.

, X Vol. II. p. 30.

E> d . March

2oa HISTORY -AND A N T I Q^W I T I E S ^

March i6, in the thirty-third year of his reign *, and the fite

of the monaftery, with the appurtenances belonging thereto^

were granted to Henry Webb, by letters patent dated Aug. $',

36 Henry VllI t.

It was valued at the fuppreflionj according to Stow, at 29 3/+.

though Weever § adds los. Cd. to that fum. The fumma clara^

in the MS Valor referred to by bp. Tanner \\ and Mr. Stevens,

194/. 6s. id. Speedy values it at 347/. is. $d.\ Bacon's

Liber Regis** at 300/. 19^" 5*5?. In an antient MS. con-

ventual lurvey in the Augmentatiori-office, the fum total of itfr

value is niatlc 34 J. 14^. bd. vi^. Temporalities, 29'V. 8s. >d.

—Spiritual PoiTeflions, 45/, tj. \Qd. A MS. in the Cotton

Library !-}", makes the giots fum 347/. is. '^dt and the clear

yearly value 29-^/. ds. id. Laflly, among the Harleian MSS ;|;^.

is a valuation of the lands, rents, &c. heretp belonging, taken

1544^^, (and faid to have been formerly' kept in the Firft-

pruits-office,) which makes the grofs fum to be no more than

^73/. and the clear yearly value, 162/. ) 3J". 9^.; hut, u:)on

examining this furvey, i difcovered that feveral of their pof-

feflions were not enumerated.

* Record in the Augmentation-ofEcf..-f-

Ibid. JSrow's Survey, ed. 1754.

§ Fun. Mon. 428. || Notitia Monaflica, ed. Nafmith. ^ P. 1080, b.

** P 564. 4+ Cleopatxa, E. iV. f. 343. %% No. 605.

§§ In this furvey, the pofleflions of the nuns in Shoreditch p.rifh are valued

at 38/, 8J. od. and the " tirnf terr. infra ambitum dc. nup' Monafi" at.

10/. 6s. 8d.

A Repertort

OF SHORE DITCH. 203

A Repertory of antient Charters, 8cc. relating to

THE Priori of Haliwell,

I. Printed Deeds.

L In the Monafticon Anglicanum, vol. I. p. 531, are two

charters of confirmation to the nuns of this priory, by Richard

I. the firft bearing date April 11, 6 Ric. I; the fecond, Odt. 7,

I Ric. I; and, at page 532, is a "memorandum de terris in

Camerwell," ex cod. MS. Cotton. Vitell. F. 8.

II. In Stevens's Supplement, II. App. No. clxxii, is "carta*' Prioris et Conventus S. Trinitatis Londini de terris in Alfe-** wick conceffis monialibus de Halliwell, dat. Aug. 4, i 239."' ;

III. In the Gentleman's Magazine for May 1795, P* 3^9tis, '* Carta Henrici de Hallingber' de terris in Hinckefteworth** & Dunton ecclefiae S. Joh. Bapt. de Haliwell ;" and, with it,

an engraving of the feal *.

* The feal engraved in Gent. Mag. is entirely different from that appendant to theoriginal.

D d 2 II. Original

*04 HISTORY AND ANTIQ.UITIES

II. Original Charters in the British Museuivt.

43" A. 37. Gregorii Papse filius S. Salvatoris Winton. Dioc. 8c

S. Bartholomv:! London. Prioribus^Q Pfioriffa &: Con-ventu de Haliwelle.

Seal loji; dated Jan. 9, wth Tear of the Pontificate.

83. A. 47- Carta Rogeri de Brahi Ecclefiae S. Joh. Bapt. de

Haliwell de terr. in Duntune.

Seal appendant ''-; no date, fuppofed about 1 1 8 1

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83. A. 49. Carta Galfredi Camerarii fil. Robert! Camerarii.

Ecclefiae Haliwell de terr. in Dunton.

Seal\\ date 1239.

83. A. 50. Carta Roberti le Chaumberleyn fil. 8c her. Galfredi

le Chamberlein Ecclefiae de Haliwell de terr. in Dunton. ^Seal.

»

83. B. 10. Carta Lalirentii fil. Agnetis de Dunton Eccl. S. Joh.

Bapt. de Haliwell de ditnid. virgat. terr. in Dunton.

Seal\ no date.

83. B. 32. Carta Henrici de Hallingber. Eccl. S. Joh. Bapt.

(Haliwell) de terr. in Hincfteworth 8c Dunton.

Seal\ date i Ed. I. 1372.

* The infcription on the feal is, " Sigillum Rogeri de Bray."

f Infcribed, " Sigillum Galfredi Camerarii."

83.

OFSHOREDITCH. 205

83. B. 39. Carta Galfridi de Miilenho & Willielmi fratris fui

et Emmae uxoris Oliveri fratris eorum Eccleliae S. Johannis

Baptiftae de Haliwell de terr. in Dunron,

Seal lojl ; no date.

%2i' K. 40. Carta Willielmi fiL Galfredi de Melnho Ecclefiae de

S. Joh, Bapt. de Holiwelle juxta Lond. de dimid. virg.

terr. in Dunton.

Seal^^\ no date.

8'3. E. 45.. Carta Radulphi Starling et Adaliz. uxoris fuae 8c

Mariae & Ifabellas filiarum Thomae de Terefield 8c Sarrss

legitimae fponfae fuae Eccl. S. Joh. Bapt. de Haliwelle

de diraid. virg. terr. in Dunton.

' T'bree Seals appendant t.

83. B. 48. Carta Thomae de Terefield Ecclefiae S. Joh. Bapt.

de Halliwell de terr. in Dunton.

Broken Seal\., no date.

52. I. 12. Carta Ricardi de Langeford Ecclefite S. Joh. Bapt.

de Haliwell de terr in Brauhing.

Seal\. no. date^

* In-fcribed, " Sig Galfrid. de MELNHO."•f This deed is mutilated.

X The fragtiieat of the feal, which remains in green -wax, has, impreffed uponit, an Eagle difplayed.

III. Aug--

ao6 HISTORY AND ANTIQÛITIES

III. Augmentation Office.

Amongft the original deeds preferved in this office are fever^

leafes from the priorefs and nims of Haliwell, viz.

Midd\ Rot. I. No. 3, is a leafe dated March 3,1474, between

Elizabeth Prudde, priorefs of HaUwell, and Ralph Joffelyn,

alderman of London.

Ibid. No. T. A leafe between Sibille, priorefs of Haliwell,

.and Thomas Legh *, Dodlor of Laws, dated May ay, 29Hen. VIII,

Ibid. No. 5. A leafe dated April i, 30 Hen. VIIL between

Sibilla Newdegatc priorefs and Richard Manners.

with feveral other leafes betwixt the priorefs of Haliwell and

various other perfons. in the 7th, 17th, a ill, and 29th,

years of Henry VIII.

IV. Records in the Tower.

Cart. Antiq. W- 8, Carta Ricardi primi Ecclefias fan<Sli Joh.

Sapt. de Haliwell t.

* On the feal append int to this leafe, is " T. L." Qu. was he the ThomasLes^h, LL. D. whom Cromwell appointed one of his deputies at the vifitation ofreligious houfes?

-f Printed in the Monadicon, vol.1, p. 531.

V. In

OF SHORED ITCH. 207

V. In the Bodleian Library at Oxford,

amongftMr. Dodrworth'smanufcripts, (vol. ClI. p. 90), we find,

" Golle<5lanea quaedam ex Regiftro de l^'olywell ;" thus

mentioned by bp. Tanner, in the Notitia Monaltica ; but, upon

examination, ir appears to be nothing roore than an extradt

from a manukript in the Cott o Library, VitelL f 8, printed

in the MoDaltiion Angliearmtn, (vol. I. p. 532,) beginning,'* Mem. quod Rob'tu-> comes Glouc. &c.'' " Reg. PrioriiTae de

" Haliwell," is faid, in bp. Tanner's Notiiia Monaftica, to have-

been *" penes Edm. B.''

Holywell Mount.

Tradition^ mentions this fpot of ground as the funereal'

receptacle of thoufands who died of the plague in 1665*.Yet, from better authority -j-, we find, it was no other than

a mound of earth railed as a fortrefs for the defence of

the Hcrtfordihire or high North road, in 1642, when the city

of London was furiounded by a trench. It is faid to havecovered three acres of ground ; it was levelled about 17.87,

and feveral ftreets have arifen on its fite.

* It.is alfo defcribed as fuch in the Hiftory of the Plague, Load. 1754, 8vo.

p. 267.

f Mr. I.yfons's Environs of London, vol. III. p. 475.^ Meeting-

ao8 HISTORY AND ANTIQÛITIES

Meeting-Houses in the Liberty of Holywell-Street.

On one fide of Holywell, mount is a Methodiftical place of

worlliip; on the front of which is

" Holywell Mount Chapel, 1777."

At no great diftance from this is another, called

" Cumberland Chapel."

Play-houses in the Liberty of HoLrwELL-STREET.

L The Theatre,

Mr. Malone obferves, from its name, might probably have

been the firft building eredled in or near the metropolis for

fcenic exhibitions. Edmund Howe, in his continuation of

Stow's Chronicle, declares, that, before 1570, he " neither

" knew, heard, or read, of any fvich 'Theatres^ fet-ftages, or

" play houfes, as have been purpofely built within man's*' memory *." In what part of the parifh it was fituated is

now paft difcovery, though it could not be far from

U. The Curtain,

Both Theatre and, Curtain are mentioned in Stockwood's

Sermon at Paul's crofs on Auguft 24., 157B. And, again

in Northbrooke's " Treatife againlt Idleneffe, vaine Playes, and

" Enterludes," 1579'f',

t)y way of dialogue between youth

and age.

* P. 1004. \ 4to. 1579, p. 29. b.

Mr.

or SKOREDITCB. wy

Mr. Chalmers, m his Apology for the Believers in the

^Shakfpearian forgery *, has printed an order of privy-council',

June C4 2, 1600, for reftraining the nomber of play-houfes.

In this the Curtain was ordered ** either to be ruined or plucked

" down, or to be put tofome other good ufe." Mr. Malone, how-

ever, informs us, that, in Heath's Epigrams, 1610, it is mentioned^

as being then open ; and the HeSior of Germany was performed at

it by a company of young men in 161 5. The original lign

hung out at this play-houfe was the painting «f a ftriped'

^curtain. The performers were ftiled tlie prince's Tervifits, till

the acceflion of Charles I. to the crown ; foon aftec whieli

it feems to have been ufed only for prize-fighters.

Players.

Richard 'farreltm, X)v Tarkton^ the celebl-ated comiib iBcst of

few parts, was born at Gondover in Shropfhire, brought to tmvtt

by a fervant of ôbfcrt earl of Leicefter, firft kept an ordinary

in Pater Nofter -row, then the 'fabor tavern in GrateChtttcti;-

d[lreet; one of the queen's la players, with wages and livery as

grooms of the cliaml)er, at Barn Elmes, 1588, but difcharged

forfbme fcurrilous refleilions on Leicefter and Raleigh. His

portrait, with tabor and pipe, ftill ferves as a fign to an alehoufe

in the Borough. His ** ^fts" were printed 1611. Camdengives his epitaph f, as an inhabitant, of Shoreditch. He wasprobably engaged at XheXiurtain. The entry of his burial at

Shoreditch is given at p. 21 1.

* P. 406. rj- Gent. Mag. vol. L, pp. 324, 3a5»

E e Richard

siio HISTORY AND A N T I <^W I T IE S^

Richard Burgage, the raoft celebrated tragedian', ofr SKafc-

fpear's tiriie, was another inhabitant of this parilh ; Camden!has placed the time of his death to March 9 *, but his willi

is dated March 12, 1619. He had four daughters chriftened-

at Shoreditch ; and the entry of his interment occurs in the-

parjfli regifter on March 1.6, 161 9,.

Richard Cowley ^f an atSlor of a low clafs, lived in Shoreditchi

parifh. By his wife Elizabeth he had two fons, chriftened here..

Ben Jon/on y the celebrated poet, entered' at the Curtain very

earty in life, for which place he likewife wrote ; but never made,

any figure either as wrker or adtor. His forrI*

Benjamin Jonfoni in conjuncSlion- with Brome^ produced' as

play called A Fault in Friend/hip, which was adted here by the--

Prince's company in Odtober x6 2 3,

John Underwpody of whom ^/Ir. Malonet has given only his

laft will^ by which he.configns his (hare in the Curtain " fituatedr

** in or. ne?LT. Ho//owey [i. e. Holywell] in 'the parifli of St.,

** Leonard, London," to his five children, to be divided amongft

them in equal parts. His will is dated bit.. 4,, 1624, and he:

died in. the latter end of the fame year,

* In " Regni Regis Jacobi Annalium Apparatusyô. 16^1** * 1619, Martli;

• ^, Richardus Burbadge, Alter Rofcius obiit.'

f- See p. 211..

% HiftoriwlAccountoftheEngUfli Stage, p. 359, edit. 1793'

Entries

OF SHORE DITCH, ^ in

Entries In the Parish. Register rei,ativ:e to the

Curtain^

'" Joane Dowle the wife of Ifaac Dowle buried the igth of

" Februarie. Curtayn." 1580.

« -Oliver Stiddard the fonne of Thomas Stiddard bapt. 1 7 Feb.

*« Curtaine." 1582.

*< John Aynfworth (the player) Sep. a 8, 1582."

" Agnes Beal, the daughter of fRichard Real, was baptiized

-" ^ne 6." " Gurtaine." 1583.

.** Richard Tarrelton was buried the Sep. 3^ 1588. Halliwell

" Strfiet."

'* Humphrey . . ; from the Curtaine Garden buried the 25tb*' of Aprill.* Curtaine." 1592.

'*' James Bufbege the fonne of Gutbert Burbege buried the

<* 15th Julye 1 597'"

*' James Burbedge was buried the 2d of February 1596 from« Halliwell."

*' Cuthbert Gowlye the fonne of Richard Cowlye was bapti-zed

*' the 8th day of May from AUins." 1597.

" Richard Gowlye the fonne of Richard Cowiye was baptized**' the agth of Aprill. Halliviêll." 1599.

*' Eliz. Gowley wife of Richard buryed 28 Sep, 16 16. H.« Street."

^

** Elizabeth Burbedge the daughter of Gutbert Burbedge was*< baptized the 30th of December 1602. .Halliwell.'*

E e 2 « Richard

«4 HISTORY AND AN^TKÛITTES-

" Richard Burbadge Player was bur. ^6 March 1618-19^," Hallywell Street.*'

" Guthbert Burbardge was buryed the 1 7tii! Sept. 1 636 *.**

" Geo. Wilkin^ (Poet) Aug. 9th^. 1613, buried f.'f-

'^'

** Margery the daughter of William Bamfter and Jane his;

**^wife was bui;. 3,1ft January (1639), from* the G^rtain^« Houfe."

"' Jpikn the fonne of Wm. Hyemarth and Jbane his wife was**^ baptized the fame day from the Curtaine. Houfe.- 15th March,.

*' I)S39/'

* Gf the Burbedge family there are the following entries in the PArifh Regifter

«f St. Bojtolph Â/itho^»t Bifliopfgatc:

*' Mary da. of Thomas Burbedg and Mary bapt. 23,Sept..i6ai.*

•« The. Bjarbedg ajad A-nn Vardey were married on the 14th of this : raoneth.'*

March, 1625.

*' Ellis Burbedg buried the 30 Aug.. 162-5.'*

•fr He was the author (with W. Rowley and John Day) of

"The Travels of the three Englifli Brothers, Sir ThomaSj.Sir Anth, and Mh« Rob. Shirley," a tragi-comedy. Lend. 1 607, 410. He wrote likewife

« The Mjferics of. Enforcied Marriagie," Land, 410. 1607-, 1629, & 16.31;

) .

I-" V

Alms-

OF SHORED ITCH. aij

iÊMSHousE in the Liberty of Holywell Street."

This houfe, fituated at the bottom of Elder-ftreet at the

extremity of Shoreditch parifti, (and not as Maitland, p. 1303,in the liberty of Norton-Falgate,) was founded by Nicolas

Garret, citizea and weaver, for fix decayed members of that

company^ m 1729; they have an annual allowance of eight

pounds, a chaldron of eoak, and one dozen and an half ofi

candles.

©nthe front this infcription r

These Almshouses

were erected and endowedby the Charity of

NICHOLAS GARRET, Efq^

deceafed, a Member oif the

Company of WEAVERS ia^

LONDONfor the Reception of fix

Poor Members of tha

faid CompanyANNO DN'l

1729.

JOHN JOHNSON ]g ^jg.^,

BENJ. BURROUGHS]^^y^'**^^

PETER LEKEUXJOSEPH HAMBLE i Wardens*

l?rebendiE

Wjt HISTOR-Y AND AK TI Q.U I T 1 E S

l^rebendal Manor of Haliwell, alias Finsbury.

The manor of Halywell and Finfbury had been early granted

to the prebend of FinjQjiiry in the cathedral of .St. Paul's % In

the time of Roger., bifliop of London, a propofal was made for

exchanging this prebend with Henry, the chancellor, and appro-

priating it to the chancellorfh^p of St. Paul's ; but it never took

anyeffedl, or, if it did, continued not long. On May 22, 1315,an agreement was made Jietween Robert de Baldock^ prebendary,

of Haliwell, and John Gifors, mayor, and the commonalty of

London ; whereby Robert de Baldock, with the confent of the

/dean and chapter, granted all bis right in Mora de Halywell, to

fthe faid mayor and commonalty ; for which they were to pay

him the annual rent .of aoj ji^. The right afterwards reverted

to the church ; for, we find the following .Survey^ taken December

30, 1567, 10 EwzABETH, .of ihe Manour of Finsbury, in

the County of Middlesex, belonging to the Prebend of Halliwzi, and Finsbury, in the Cathedral Church of St. Paul, Lon-don. Wherein are particularly fpecifiedf as well the capital Mef-

fuage and Scite of the faid Manour^ and all other Meffuages^ Houfes,

Gardens, Orchards, Lauds, 'Tenements, Meadows, Paflures^ Leafures^

and other {Grounds, being of the Demaines of the faid Manour ;•

%vith the Butts and Bounds thereof As alfo the Rents and Services

belonging to the faid Manour : and the Names of the Tenents by

whom thefaid are to be paid. With Mention alfo, for what Lands the

fame Rents and Services are due ; with the Butts andBounds thereof.

The Demain Lands. The Manour Houfe, commonly called

Fin/bury Farm; a great barn, a gate-houfe, and ftables : a court

^nd orchard belonging to the faid manour houfe,

* Levegarus, the firft j^rebendary in Newcourt's Lift, witneffes a.deed 1104.

~\ Newcourt's Rcpertorium, vol. J. p. 139.

Six

O-F SHORED'ITCIT. its

Six" gardens, whereof one in the tenure of William Cbivall,

draper ; the other five feverally held by matter Lionel Ducket^

alderman; John Bully grocer ;. William Fulwood, grocer ; John

Heweij clothworker ; and William Leonard, mercer. All which

lie together adjoining to the faid manour upon the North ; and

tiie Moor Fi^ld cind Lane there, leading between thefaid gar-

dens, and other teiators and gardens,, belonging to the prebend

of the Moor ; and now in the tenure of the Merchant Taylors,^

upon the SoUthi And a garden, now divided into more parcels,

alfo belonging to the faid lordfhip, in the tenure of John God,^

merchant taylor, on the Weft, and the ditch and way there,

leading, from London towards Fin/bury Field and Halliwely on the-

party Eaft.

A lodge and certain gardens and teinter ground, in the tenure

of John God, merchant taylor,. inclofed on the North, towards^

Chifwel-Jireet, with a brick wall ; and upon a tenement and

garden belonging to Richard Marten, goldfmith; and others

upon the Weftr. And'uporra way lying between the fame, and^

certain gardens and tenters belonging to the pr-ebend; called the'

Moor, in the tenure of the merchant taylors of Eondon, on the-

South. And the great garden and orchard belonging to the faid^

manour, aow in the tenure of Jvhn Grejham, mercer, and other

gardens^ belonging to- the faid lordflîp, on the party Eaft.

A tenement, a Iddgjp, a loft over the gate,, and five gardens,^

now in the tenure of William Erdifwick, merchant taylor,,

whereof four abutting . upon Finjbury Field on the Eaft, and

ChifweUjireet on. the South j, and the lands of late. belonging to

John Conningjby, now the lands of William Eaji, gentleman, in

the right of his wife, one of the daughters of William Wakejield;.

and late in the. tenure of John Hilliard, ^gldimithf ^ on the North

4: party-.

*i6 HISTORV AND A N TIQ^tJ I T IE S

party : and upon a gate-way, leading from Cbifwel-Jlreet, as

well toward the faid gardens, as tawards a little barn there, in

the tenure of jilban CbiJJelton^ bowyer, on the Weft. And the

fifth garden Eaft, upon the faid great way ; and South, uponthe faid barn, in part ; and Weft in part, upon a tenement and

garden in the tenure of Thomas têe^ fletcher, being parcel of

the faid demain -lands, and the faid tenement, lodge, and loft,

over the faid gate, abutting on Chifwel-Jireet towards the South.

Another tenement, a garden, and the. faid oM barn, in the

tenure of Alban Cbiffelton, bowyer, butting upon the South

fide of Cbijwel-Jlreet, and next adjoining to the faid tenement,

now in the tenure of the faid Thomas Lee, on the party Eaft.

A tenement and a garden in the tenure of Hugh Green,

iletcher^ next adjoining to the faid Alban Chijfelton, on the

iEaft, and upon Chifwel-Jirect on the South.

A cottage and certain gardens, in the tenure of yobn Manf-

bridgey merchant taylor, lying in Cbijweljireet on the Souths

x:ontaining in length from South to North, ftretching along a

brick wall, belonging to the lands fometimes John Wifoes,

founder, on the Weft party, thirteen rods and eight foot of

aflife; and in breadth at the North end, butting upon the

ground or garden plots, fometimes John Conijbks, gentleman,

and now in the tenure of William 'Eaft, gentleman, from the

Eaft to the Weft fifteen rods and three foot of aflife; and in

length from the North to the South, towards the Eaft, running

towards certain gardens belonging to the faid manour, now in

the tenure of the faid Erd^wicH, fifteen rods and fix foot of

aflife ; and in breadth, at the end towards the South, from the

Eaft to the Weft, butting u^pon Cbijwel-Jlreet aforefaid, fourteen

Eods and five foot of afiOfe.

A

X)F SHORE DITCH. 417

A piece of ground converted into certain gardens, now^ in

the tenure of John Medcalf^ Ikinner, lying near Whitecrofs-Jlreety

between the pafture ground belonging to the faid manour of

Fin/buryJ

called "Bonhil-Jidd^ or 'Fin/bury -Jields, on the Eaft, and

•the ground oi John Conijbiey gentleman, now in the tenure of

'ôbn Millyard^ goldfmith, on the Weft and Soutli, and the

grounds of late belonging to the priors df Halliwel^ now belong-

ing to th€ faid ôbn Medcaij\ on the party North.

A garden 'plot, în the occupation of William Gilly ftretching

from Wbitecrofi-Jired ^n the Eaft, Weftward 165 foot of aflife

;

on the South fide of the fame ground, and on the North fide

from the fame ftreet, ftretching Weftward, 180 foot of afiife ;

and at the Weft ^nd of the feme, ftretching North and South

'^2 footef affife ; in breadth right line and plummet, from limit

to limit, arid batting iSoath îpon the lands late beloaging to the

^parifk clerks of £.ondon^ and the lands of the faid William Gill,

^late Ralf Symondss) oil the party North and Weft, and the

ifaid Wbiiecrojs-fireet on the party Eaft,

And eleven tenements 'lying on the Weft fide of Grub -/treef,

Vith eleven gardens to the fame belonging, in the feveral tenures

of David a Powelj John ^Stlham^ Nicholas Hunt, yobn Wildb(yre^

Jobn Mayes^ ^sbn ^hompfon, John Andrews, Jobn Ap Rice, Henry

Everton, Jobn Reetoe, and George Fuller, lying in the faid lord-

ftiip, and comity of Middle/ex, and acôining to a corner tene-

ment, being in tlie liberties crf^ the -city of Ijmdon, in the tenure

of William Franklin, iietcher, belonging to Henry Soutbcot, mer-cer, and the lands of the faid Henry Soutbcot^ in the tenure ofWilliam Bullen^ and a garden groiand in the tenure c£ Philip

Garland, clothworker, on the South, and exlendeth in length,

upon the faid South fide, from Grub-Jireet^ aforefaid, unto cer-

Ff tain

3i8 HISTOjRY AND' A N T I CÛ I TI E S.

tain g.ardens upon the Weft, belonging to John Whiteborne^^ and^

otheES there, 199 foot of affife;. and in breadth,, ati the Weftend of the faid ; gardens, from the faid South; fide, ftretcbing,

\\\Mo:Chifzvel'Jlfeet on. the Northj 1.83 foot of affife, and ex*-

tendeth in length at the North., fide ujôn Cbifmel-Jireet, 2jo$',

foot and a half ofj affi fe,

.

The field called. Sft«/&//f/fi^/4 belonging to the faid manour off

Fin/bury^ butting South upon the high way there, called Cbifwet-

Jireef, and extending- North upon^ the high way that leadethi!

ftoxnJ'Fenlocks Barn, to the well. called.Z)^;^^ Agês the Cleere.

The high way leading from the raanouF of Finjbmy, aforefaid,

towards Hollywel^ on the eaft party, . and the gardens and grounds

late belonging to the prioFS of Holywel,. now in-, the- tenure of

Jahn Medcalf, Ikinner, William GUI, gardin^r,. and other the

lands- belonging' to John HiUiardf goldfmith^ and certain.gardens

belonging to the faid manour of. Finsbury, now in the tenure of

the feid Medcalf\ the lands of late of John Coningsby, gentleman,

now in the tenure of Wiliiam Eaji, gentleman : And . alfo four

gardens, now in the tenure of. WiUiam<. Erdifwick^ , alfo belonging

.

to the faid manour of Finsbury, on the party Weft :, and'the fame

field, with half th& ditches meafured with the. fame, Eaft, Weftj

North, and South, . containeth twenty-three acres,, one. rod, , and

fix pole.

Whereof, four acres and a half, being at the South end of

the faid field, butting upon Chijweh-Jlreeti beginning: at the

ditch on the party Weft, extendeth towards the. ground and.

pond there (belonging to the faid manour) -on the party Eaft, . in-

breadth fixteenpole: and extendeth from Cbijwel-Jlreet an the.

South, nnlo^Bonbil on the North : in length forty-five, pole,, and-

from the Eaft fide, at the Notthend againft.the£(?«M, to the

midft

(OT SHOREt)ITCH. 219

-miiclft of the faid tlitch on the Weft party, fixteen pole ; and

from the North end upon the Weft fide, ftfetching to Finsbury

bridge^ to Cbifwel-Jireetxli^vQ South, in length forty-five pole,

€very ôle containing fixteen foot and a half. And alfo there

•is one other acre clahued for the lands late John Coningsbys,

gentleman, fuppofed to lie in the faid field, beyond the faid

-Bonhil (as it is faid). 'But it hath been occupied as parcel of

the demaines of the faid .n:^nour, .by Iheipace of forty years

laft paflfed.

The field called .the Mallow JeJd, butting upon tTie rails next

10 the Moor Jield South, the high way leading from the brick

bridge theretowards the windniils, belonging to the faid manour

of Tinsbury on the party Weft, the high -way leading from the

faid windmils towards Norton Folgatey on the North, and the

aands belonging to Jabn Worfop, ^merchant taylor, and Jobn

NicholsJ

girdler, on the party Eaft ; containing with the half

.ditch, in meafuce on the iides, Eaft, Weft, and Northj twelve

acres and a half, and twelve^pole.

The field called the .High fields or' Medo;w ground, where fhe

!three windmils ftand^ commonly called Finsbury field, butting

upon the high way that leadeth into Norton Folgate, on the

party South ; the highway that leadeth to Hollywel, and the

lands belonging to the earl of Rutland on the party Eaft; the

lands belonging to the heirs of Mafcal Brewer, and the high

wayjeading from the manour of WenlockS Barn, to the well

fcalled ;Dame Agnes the Cleer, upon the Bonhil field on the party

Weft; all which field contains in meafure forty-five acres, with

tthe half ditches that endofe the faid field on the party South,

;Eaft, and North, in the faid meafure.

Ff 2 Whereof

220 HfSTORY AND A N T I QJCTI T IE S"

Whereof John WorfophsiXh on the Eaft fide of- the faid fieldj,

butting upon the high way leading, to Norton.' Folgpte on the-

party South, the windmils and ground of t/he faid; manour on;

the party Weft, and the medow and pafture ground belonging.

to the faid manour on. the party North and Eaft,. fix. acres and at

half.

More adjoining to the faid high way on the party South, andl

next the faid ôr/opj landi there on the party Eaft, one acre and;

thcee rods of medow. or pafture ground,, belonging, to John:

NieJbolSf girdler..

The fum. of the acres of the faid three fields are eighty acres,,

three rods, and eighteen, polies,. by themeafurcs aforefaid*.

Whereof belohgeth to the faid John Worfop^ in; the High)

^(?/^ aforefaid, fix acres and a half.

To the faid John Nichols, in the fame fiield;, one acre and-

three rods*

To the maior, commonalty,, and citizens af6refaid>. in\B(>«>6//

êld aforefaid, four acres and a half.If

Siimm twelve acres and three rodSk.

So lemaineth fixty-eight acresj and eighteen poles*.

Go/ding Lane.

The Free Tenants

Of Henry Edbn, efquire, out of! certain tenements and gardens--

at the North end of Gelding lane,, fometimes mafter Ponds, and

of late Richard Calkrds, and fince Elizabeth Hays, daughter and

heir of the faid RicJbardCallerd, butting on the Weft fide of the

faid

O^F SirOREDITCir. %zx

feidlane; and on the South fidfe upon the lands late of Henry

Gletherae^ now in the tenure, of Jobtt Hilliardr i S-f* 4^-

Of the faid Henry Edon^ out of a tenement called the SiDany

and other tenements thereunto adjôining ; in the tenure of John

Cellins, gardiner, butting on the Eafir lide of the lane,, late th&:

faid CailerdSy. and. fince a& aforefaid,. ^d. ob..

Of William HalJy out of certain tenements there adjoining to

the fign of the Swan in the faid lane,, now in^ the tenure of

Richard Brake^ gardiner, 3^; obi.

Of the raafters and^ governors of St. Bartholomews>lcio{ig)ii?X inl^

Weft Smitbjield^ by the hand* of Thomas Hallway their farmer,,

out of certain tenements and gardens late Robert MelJi/beSy mer-

chant taylor^ of. the Weft' lide of Golding. lane^ at the fign of

the L.egy butting upon the lands of the aforefaid Henry Edofm,.

and upon the fouth of the lands oV William- Wakejieldy, late in.

the tenure of Dionife Wilj'on^ 3J.

Of Richard Roper^ baker, out of certain tenements and' gar-

dens at the iign of the George, on the Eaft lide of Golding lane^

and the lands now of William Gilly gardiner, '7'bomas Langhamyfilhmonger on the North, and the heirs of Gregory Nicholas onthe South,. V. 2^-

Of the heirs of John lViUoughb% fihee Peter Dovey in- the

right of jfoan, his wife,, out of certain lands and tenements onthe Eaft lide of Gelding lane, now in the tenure oi Joice Aujleny

widow, butting upon the lands belonging to Gnegory NicholaSy

now Thomas Waltony Elq, North and South, is^. ^d*

Of the dutchefs of ^^ô/^j out of a meffuage and' nine tene-

ments on the Weft fide of Golding lane^ butting upon the lands

of

1-î HISTORY A N D A N T I Q.tr I T I E S

c)f William Wakefield on the North : -and the tenements late be-

longing to the parifh of Aldermary-ov London^ now iin the te-

nure of Walter Cooper^ tyler., on the South, i .//.

Of. Richard Atkinfon^ in the riglit of his -wife, out of a cot--

tage and garden in the faid lane, butting upon the lands of

Richard Buckland^ haberdatlier, late Sir Michael Fijhers^ knt.

North and Weft, and on the South, butting upon the lands .of

Menry Keen^ upon Golden lane on the Eaft, \s. .^d.

Of Henry Keen aforefaid, tenant by, the courtefy, in -^fhe rigbt-

of Agnes his wife, daughter and heir oiHenry PKarnen, deceafed,

out of the iQu^vatnt Chequer, and other cottages and gardens on

the Weft party of Golding lane^ butting South upon .the lands

belonging fto the hofpital oi St. Bartholomews aforefaid, late the

faid Rjobert Mellijbes, now in the tenure of '3'homas Hallyway\

and North, as well upon the land of Richard Aikinjon, as alfo

upon the lands, now the faid Richard Bucklands, Jate the afore-

faid ?i]x Michael Fi/herSi Jtnt. on the party Weft, is. id.

tOf 'Thomas Wilkinfon, one of the certain tenements at the figa

of the Cocki at the North.end of GoJding lane^ belonging to ^r-

miger Wade^ Efq. u.

Of 'Thomas Walton, Efq. out of certain tenements and gar-

dens lying on the Eaft tfide of Golding lane, late called Armitage

Alley^ X'uXQ Gregory Nicolas^s, and ^before that i?/V^«r^ Jb«^j, but-

ting upon -the lands late Peter Doves, who married Joan, the

daughter and heir of John Willougbby, on the North .fide, and

the lands of the faid Gregory JSJicbolas on the South, 2J.

-Of the faid Thomas Walton^ out of certain tenements and gar-

dens at the fign of the Windmill late the afoxefaid .Gregory Ni-

solais, at the Eaft lide of Golding lane, fometimes John Mores,

^ .and

or SHORED itch; i23

amcf before that William' Wigmorepoles^ butting, upon the lands

late the faid Feter Doixes, as is aforefaid, on the South j and the

lands belonging, to St. Bartholomewi ho^îtilf late Mellijhes afore-

faid,, and now in the tenure o£ thefaid RJcbard Roper o\\\\iQ-

Northj ax, 2d.

Oijobn Hillyard^y gpldfmith,-. out of the tenement Flower-de-

lit€£f and a garden, oa the Weft fide oLGolding lane, now in

the tenure of John BankSy brewer, butting iipon the tenement

of 'J;obn Leeje,, carpenter,, on the South,, and the tenements be-

longing to the, faid hofpital oi?)t.. Bartholomews,, Izie- the faid

Robert. Melli/bes,, and in, the tenure, of. Walter Cooper, tyler,, orv«

the. North, 7//. oh;.

Beech "Lane.

Of tile vicar of St. Giles Grippkgate, out'of the comer tene-

ment at the Weft end of Bee£h lane, on the South fide of the

faid lane, in the tenure of Martin Capons,- barber-furgeon, v and

openeth, upon Redcro/s-Jireet- cm the Weft fide, .3^,.

WhitHroJs-Streeti

Of William Bligbton,. butcher, out of two tenements^ on the

Weft fide of Wbifecrojsr-Jireet, late Edmund Godwin^ butting

upon the lands late belong to the^parifli. clerks of Z/b«fife«, onthe North, and a corner, tenement belonging to the i-sSidi Bligb-

ton, on the South, ^d.

Of tbomas Perkins^ butcher, tenant of certain lands and te^

nemeutsr, of late belonging to the faid parifli clerks, , now bcr

longing to- How, gentleman^ , on the Weft fid^ ofî*//^-

crofs'

214 HISTORY AND A N T It^TJ I T IE S

crojs-jlreet^ butting upon ^he lands oi William Bligbton^ aforefai^

on the South party ; and the lands of Richard Lijler^ la.te Joljn

Cores; in the itenure of ft/jomas Versy^ brewer, on the Norths

I //. 4J. 4<f«

On Richard Lifler^ clofhworlser, out of certain Tenementsand gardens ^n the Weft fide of WMtecroJs-^JirBet^ late belong-

ing to John Core^ grocer; and fince that, 'Nicholas Carem's,,,

and fince that, Adam ^Hutchinfon'Sy butting upon the faid lands

and tenements of late belonging to tlie iaid parifli clerks, North

and South, 4J-. td.

of the faid William Gillf out of a cottage and gardens at

the Weft :fide of Whitecrojs'ftreet^ of late Ralf Symonds'Sy and

after "Thomas LangbamsJ fiflimonger; and hatting upon a gar-

den "beion^ng to the faid manour of Fin/bury, on the South

fide, and on the North part of the lands belonging unto jFoI^n

Wor/op, IS. lod.

Of JobM TravieSj in the figkt of his wife, out of a cottage

and garden on the Weft fide of Whitecrofs-Jlrêt, late belonging

to John Worfop^ fc-rivener, and before that to Lettice Ireland^

and late ^bomas Popplewely adjoining to the faid Gill, on the

Soutih, gd,

Of the faid TravieSy out of a little parcel of groan<d there,

on the North fide of the faid G/7/, \t.heretipon fometimes

Hood a mill, late the faid Worja^s^ and late the faid Popple*

welfs^ 3^.

Of Jobn Barnes^ Mercer, out of two tenement-s and a gar-

den, on the North fide of Cbifwel-Jireet^ now in the tenure of

Thomas Mountain, abutting to the gardens belonging to the

jnanour of Fin/bury aforefaid^ on the Eaft fide, and the tene-

ments

OF sh6reditoh. lii

merits of Robert Iraps, goldfmith, late ^'homas'ârnes^s^ and

before that, John Wi/hefs^ founder, on the Well fide, ij'. 4<7.'

Fin/hury Field.

Of yobn Worfop^ merchant taylor, for fix acres and a^half of

medow and pafture, lying in Fin/bury fields in the parilh fdi Rr.

Leonards in Sborefditcbj towards the windmils ; abutting u])oii

the windmil next Norton Folgate^ in the tenure of Tbomsrs Pul-

lijjpn on the party Weft, the high way leading -towards Norton

Folgate aforefaid, 6n the party South ; and rtiedow arid pafture

grounds, parcel of the demaines, belbnging to'the faid lordfhip

on the party North and Eail, now or late in the tenure of

John Popebblley /^s. lOd.

The faid yobn IVorfopt for ten acres and three rods of lancT,

lying in the faid field called the M«)or, ...butting upon the lands

aforefaid of the faid Nicholsj now being gardens, on the party

South ; and the faid Mallow field Weft ; the high .way leading

from the faid farm of Finsbury, towzrds, Norton Folgate^ on the

party North, and the lands and gardens, late Sir Martin Bows%

Eaft, 7J. ob. ' o ,.

One annual rent of twenty IhilHngs, ifluing and going put

of certain tenernents without Ludgqte^ adjpining to the. faid

gate, in the j>ari(h of St/Martin within Ludgate, of tôndont

fometi^nes in the tenure of John 5^«/o«, .haberdalher, and nowin the jenure of Chrijiophsr Harbottel, citizen and haberdafhet

of London^ i //. ,. <

Memorm^dum^ That thU Survey; was copied put of the Surve/

annexed to the laft: leafe granted to t|ie lord maior, cornmo-

nalty, and citizens of LondoHf of the faid prebend, Mar. iSs

158a. Re£. Elizabethte 35."

Gg Th<?

tt(> HISTORY AND ANTICIUITIES

The prebendary granted, -sviihjn this century, to the city a

leafe for forty-one veaTS, on v\hich a few buiUlings were eretfled.

Jt was then difeovered, that to build on fo Ihort a tenure would

be imprudent. The prebendary and the tity applied to par-

liament, and got the power enlarged to ninety-nine years. Theprebendary for the time being and the city unite in granting the

leafes. On thi**, Finjbury Square arofe, a fquare that does not

give place in beauty, and not much in fize, to the moil boafted

in the Weft end of the town. The late prebendary got for

himfelf and family above two thoufand pounds; a year for the

remainder of the leafe. It is faid, that the value of rent to the

prebendary in poffeflion, and to the city, is at this time (1793)not lefs than fix thoufand pounds a year*.

la the Valor of 1291, this prebend is valued at xx marcs.

In the Parliamientary Surveys of 1649, we have ^

Clear Value. per Annum.** St. Paul's London jT s. d.

[The Manor of"

*' Finfbury Prseb.JFmflaury rent

referved'I218 00 O* '!V0! .'(

•* Years, fo. 59." Dr. Lambe. [39/. i^s. 4^.

and in the Liber Regis it is valued at 39/p i^s. 4^/.

• There is in the Bcklleian library a^ fmall neat map of this

manor. It is dedicated to the affeiSled friends, Mr. R. Baker,

and Mr. R. Sharpe, and all other lovers of archerie, frequenting

Finfbury Fields; by William Hole^^ndfidate-âfted oii board

—meafures 9 inches by 5.

• Pennant's London, p. 265. ,

PrebEN-

O F S H O R E D r T C H. fti

Prebendaries, from Newcourt's Repertorium.

I.evegarus Cantor*.

Robert fil. Generanni ^

Magitter Radulphus*".

Walt. Proecentor''.

Joh. de Cant. Cancellarius London %

Simo de Langeton.

Phil. Fortis Brachiae.

Hen. de Cornhull Cancellarius VRic. Talebot^.

Walt, de Merton\

Will, de Ewell *.

« Occurs canon of St. Paul's cathedral in H04.^ Occurs in 11 27, as the founder of Haliwell prioiy, (fee p. 184) ; and again in iiM, Sk

witntfe to a deed.

' Prsecentor of St. Paul's. He was prebendary here when Gilbert Foliot was bifhop of Loll-'

don ; and again occiirs in 1183.

' PraEcentor of St. Paul's cathedral, and archdeacon of London,* Occurs prebendary of Pancras by the name of John de Cantuar. He wa« chancellor of St.

Paul's in 1205, as well ai when Alard was dean, who died in 1216. His name occurt amongthe witneffcrs to the confi mation of the church of Shpreditch to ths office of prsecentor.

' Occurs prebendary of Wildland. He was inade chancellor of St. Paul's in 12 17 ; after whichhe had the king's tetter of prefentation to a prebend in Capella Domini Regis de Erugti, June 6,(Pat. 10 Hen. in. m. 5.) which he refigned igHen. HL in whii-h year he was fent by that kingto the king of France, to confer with him about the ftate of that kingdom. He died April 9,

« ^^'as treafurer of St. Paul's in 1259 and 1260. He was afterwards chofen dean; and, onAuguft 18, 1262, elefted bifliop of London ; but, in the following month, disd. before theconfeca'tion.

* Had the prebend of Kentifh town given him by the king in 1258. He alfo occurs prebenJaryof Fittfifury, and granted to Will de Sandon two gjrdcn* at Fynjhuy, Dec. 7, 1272.

' O-eurs as canon of St, Paul's in 1279; and preb.ndary here in ia89, and again 101301.

G g a Rob.

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AzS HISTORY 4Kp ANTICLUITIES

Rob. de Bal lock '', 1313.1 ho. de Alleley K

Refens ap Howel, Dec. 4, 1326.Ric, de A^fton ™. -

•'''^- '

Will, de Fulboorne ".

Rog. Albryghton% Aug. 2, 1391.

Joh Burton'', Mail 24, 1393.Reginald Bray broke'', Jul. aj, 1394.Joh, Malvern \ D. D.

Nic. Herbury. .'

Ric. Cawdrjf , Jan. 9, 1424.

» Succeeded to the archdeaconry of London in 131^. After ^-i rapid fucceflion qf4)referraent»,

(»11 of which are recited in Newcourt'8 Repertbrium, vol.' I. p. 78 ) he arrived at the bifliopric

of Norwich in 1326, and foon after became lord chancellor. UîlUam de" Ayrfmin, however,

having been placed in the fee of Norwich by the Pope's aqthority, he w^s unable to r-tiin his

bifliopric. Shortly after this, he was deprived of his other preferments, and thpown into New-gate by the mob, where he died on May 28, 1327.

' Archdeacon of Lotidon, which office he refigned in 1333 for the treafurerthip of St. Paul's.

He was prebendary of Exeter and Salifcury in 1325, and of Lichfield in 1328. He died in

J348., .

" Ayas ratified by the lyt^ in this prebend and in the church of Langeton, Sept. 20, 1359.'^ Was chaplaiti to king Edward -IL wh6 promoted hi'm to a prebend in the cliapel of Pîiryn^^

Cornwall, Dec» ij, 1128,, and, tê fapne ye^r, made him one o£ the. barons of the exchequer.

He had before been reftor of Widdington in EfTex, which he refignedîn 1326,

° Refigned this prebend in 1393, and, on Auguft 20, the fame year, became treafurer of St.

Paul's. ....» Suppofed by Newcourt to be the fame John de Burton, who was admitted to the church-

of St. Mary Somerset in 1387, which became void by his death in 1394. The fame alfo whowas admitted to the vicarage of Boreham in Eflex, Nov. 21, 1389, which he refigned about

September 1391 ; and was admitted before the '27th of that month and year to the church of

St. Margaret Pattens, which he refigned in 1392.

» Newcourt takes it fbr granted that he was related to Rob. deBraybroke,then biffiop ofLondon.' Suppofed by Ne*coilrt to be the fame with John Malvertie, who was collated to the church of

St. Dpnftan in the Eaft by the archbilhop of Canterbury, March i, 1401. He became prebendary

of Chamberlain-Wood in 1405. ,

' Whom NeWcourt takes to be the fame with Richard Cawdray, who was coUateet by, the arch-

bifhopof Canterbury to the church of St. Vedaft, alias Fofter, .London, May 11, 1421, and,

re£gning it on March 16 following, was, on th? fame day, collated by him to th^ church of St.

Dunftan in the Eafl. In i43'9, he occurs dean of the collegiate church of St. Martin le Grand.

Jac.

OF SHOREDITCH. "9

Jac. Stanley ', Ang. 26, 1.458.

Had. Langley ", ,Awg. ii, 1481.

Joh.Hill% Ap. 15, 1493.Bob. Sherborne % Nov. 3, 1493.Galfr. Symeon % D. D. Aug. 19, I494«

Will. Horfey ;% D. D.

Jac. Fitzjames ''^ A. M. Jul. 6, 15 1 3.

Ric. Pace", 06t. a a, 15 19.

« Son of Thomas earl of Derby, was born in Lancafhire, and educated in the univerfity of

.Oxford. Ip 1481 he exchanged this pivbend with Ralph Langley for the waruenfliip of the col-

legiate church of Manchefter, In 1391 he became prebendary of Sarum,_and, in 1493 he occurs

dean of St. Martin le Grand , in iôo, ar^hdâcon of Richnidnd ; and, in 1506, bifliop of £,ly.

He died March' 22, 1515, and was buried in the collegiate church of Manchefter.

" Warden of Manchefter-college, 148:.

» Vicar of Witham, in Fflex, 149' ; reiSor of Finchley, Middlef^x, 1492; preb?ndary of Re-•cAilverland 1492; reftor of South Okendon, Eil'tx, 1492— 1494; prebendary of VVildland 1493;vicar of Leyton, co. ^flex, 1494— 1495; prebendary of Mapelbury 1495 He was probably

relatfed to Richard Hill, biftiop of London.' A Hampfhire man, (el.ow of New coJege, Oxford, r474; prebenda y of Wi d! nd 1480; of

Mora 1496; of Alresford, in the church of W nton, 1531; canon of Lincoln; prebendary of

Whitchurch and Benegaru. in Wells, 1493; archdeacon of Taunton 1496, and of Huning !on andBuckingham ; dean of St. Paul's 1499 ; 1504 fcnt ambaffador .0 Rome ; b fliop of St David's

1505, of Chichefter 1508, where he died, and was buried 1536, aged 96, according to Godd-win, but, according to Wood, 85, having much beautified the latter c„thedial..

» Fellow of Nfw college;proiSor of the Univerfity ; dean of ^hr chapel royal to Henry VII.

and of LincoiH 1506; died 1508, at Colerne, Wilts, where he probably was buried, fays BrowneWillis.

" Archdeacon of London, which, with tl}is prebendary, he refigned 1513; precentor of St.

Paul's 1514; chancellor to bifliop Fitzj.im;s. He preferred articles of herefy againft Richard

Hunne, the ftory of whi.h m.iy be feen in Fox's A&fi and Monumerilsf, who tells o , that after

Horfey was found not guilty of the murder, yet, having a guilty confcience, he letired to

•Exeter, and durfl not return to London. He held his precentorfliip till 153:, and was that year

collated to the prebend of Totenh.ll, which he held till' his death 1543.!>'' Son of Sir John Fitzjames, chief-juftlce of the King's Bench-,' and nephew to R'chard Fitz-

james, bifliop of London, reftor of St. Clement Danes, i5i4,and Lambourne --Fflex. 1519: B. A.of Alban hall; and chancellor of Wells 1516; redor of North Cadbury, and pre^nday ofWarminfter, in the church of Wells, 1524; afterwards dean of that church; he died in the be-ginning of the year 1541.

" (i; Archdeacon of Dorftt, 1514

—

1522: prebendary of Combe and Harnham, in the church*f Salifbury 1521-^1522; dean of St. Paul's 1519, on the death of Colet; and, before th ,t,

dean of Exeter. He was fent to Rome to promote the advancement of Wo fey to thf popedom,was a principal correfpondent of Erafmus, and a learned writer. He died 1532 „t Stepney,

lod was buried in the chancel there.

Richard

*5o HISTORY ANb ANTIQ;UITIES

Bichard Wolleman ^\ D. D. Junii 25', 15^7.

John Spendlove ", Sept. 19, 1537.Edward Mowle ", Maii 26, 1554.Thomas Collyer eg, A. M oa. 23, 1558.John Spendlove rellored.

Samuel Aelmer, Sept 14, 1581.Theophilus Aelmer"*', Sept. 14, 1583.Thomas Weeks, or Wykes ", 0(5l. 29, 1636.William Collingwood '''', A. M. Aug. 26, 1660.

" Qu. D. D. of Cambridge 1523, and of Oxford 1531, and archdeacrn of Sudbury (Wood'sTafti. V 1. I. p. 36.); vicar of Walden 1524; dean of Wells 1530; rc-ftor of High Oiigar 1532;cnnoii of Winiifor'i 532 ; died 1537; and was buried in the c'oifter of bt. Stephen, Weftminfter,

•• Rei'ôr of LitLle Bhdnw ip+

—

1575; prebendary of Ifledon 1536; reflor of Finchley 1533 f

prcbendaiy of Msi'tftury 1534; reftor of Hackney 1537 ; and of St. Andrew Underfliaft 1535 ;

deprivt-d of Finchley, Hackney, and this prebeq^dary, by Mary, but reftored to them all by

Elizabeth, and died 1581." Firbendary of Ch fwiek 1539; archd.acon of London; and archdeacon of Effex 1543;

Tcfôraf Copford I5tj5 ; died 1558.•• Prebendary of Bromtfoury 1558 ; dep ived by Elizabeth, who put in Speadlove.

SeconJ Con of Thomas Atlmcr, bifliopof London ; reftorof Much Hadhani 1589 ; archdeacon

of London 1 591 , refto of St. Magnus, Lcndc n Biidge, 1592; and chap ain to James'I. The bilhop

pur haled the minor of Much Hadham, and relided frequ.-ntly at the houfe belonging tb.r-to,

and made his fon reftor of the paiidi, ufing his t,fliftance in the difcharge of a burth.n which

uas now grown too heavy foi' him. This, as it was a great eafe to the bifliop, fo it was of gêaf

bei cfit to the dioctfc ; for Dr. Theophilus Aelmer was a mod woi thy divine, a pious andprimitive' preacher, an excellent man, and indefatigable in his duty, as appears by the articLs andmany exce lent inftrutlions drawn up by him, and clelivsred tohis clergy as archdeacon of London ;

an able and zealous preacher againft the Puritans, and charitable to fo extenfive a degree, that he

left his own farriy in but inditf.;'ent circumftances. He lived a true pattern of Chriftan piety,

and <:i-d [Jan. 1625,] heroically clofing his own eye-!'ds, and with thefe words in his mouth ; " Let" my peoj !e know that ihei.- paftor d ed undaunted, and not afraid of Death. 1 biefs my Gcd,*' I have no fea:, no doubt, no rehiiSancy, but a fu.e confidence in the fin-overcoming merits

" of Jelui Chnft." He was buiied in his own parifli-church ; and the excellent primate, Ullier,

preached his fun. r.d rermoii. He was joint-executor to h.s father with his eldeft brother, Simuil,

and educated at Jefus college, Cambridge. He prefen ed to the vicarage of Shoreditch his

filter Squire's eldeft fon, who gratefully acknowledged his obligations to turn in the dedication

cf a leriron preached at Paul's crofe 1619 (fee before, p. 27.) Stiypc's Life of Bifllop Aylmer,

pp. 127. 18+" P.ecenror of St. Paul's 1638 ; vicir of Great Dunmow 1635 ; rertor of St. Botolph, Bifliopf-

Mte i03q, of Finchley 16401 ofGrea'Tey 1644; in which year he dic<^.

»» Redor of Gicat Bi.ch, Effex, j6j8; dijd 1666.

\

William

O F S H O RED I TC [^. tî

William Johnfon ", D. D. Jun. i, 1666,

John Hall'"'", B. D. Mar. ai, 1066^7.

William VVhirReld'"", A.M. Dec. 22, 1707.

Henry Lambe "", LL. D. Mar. 16, 1716; occurs in 1729.

I anceldt Jackfon'''', MA. Jan 25, 1733-4.

Chriftopher Wilfon •'^- D. D. 1758.

Eaft Apthorp", D. D. May 5, 1792.

"' Chaplain and fub-nlmoner to Cha Its II. archdeacon of Huntingdon 1665; did 1666;

buried in the North tratvCept of Weftminfter abbey. Ath. Ox. II 797. " :n his Deus nobifcum,

" a Sermon prtached lipon a grtat deliverance at fea, 1648, he relates, that he was twice flii, -

" wrackt, and that he lived four days without any fuftenance, and lay two nights 2nd two days

" upon a rock in ths deep, &c. He was at once the moft witty and the moft pious man iiving."

Bp. Kennett's Not. son the Athena: Oxonienies in Mr Goiigh's library.

"" Recftor ot St. Critlopher ie Stocks, London, 1665; a..d of Finchley, Middiefex, 1666.

Admitted a king s Icbclar at Weliminfter in 1673; and eiefled, in 1677, to Chrifl Chu ch,

Oxford, where he took the degree of M. A. June 3, 1684. He was chaplain in or inar^ ro

king William III. in 1607, when he preached two Vilitation Sermons at Guildford, (firft

printed in 4to. 1698); and was afterwards reftor of St. Marrin's Ludgate;prebendary of Finf-

bury 1707, and of Car.terbnry 1708; pro^^ti r in convocation for the chapter of Canterbury;

and, in 1714, vicar of St. Gilts, Cripplega'.e, where he died March 16, 1716-17, and was

buried in the chancel. Seven finge Sermons ot his are in print; amongfl. which is one preached

before bifliop Trelawney at his primary VifitaticJn at Guildford, July 5, 1708, in anfwer to fome

poinls treated of in " Tb^ Rights of the Chriftian Church.''°° Was nninifter of Stratford Le

,Bow, lefturer of St. Mary Magdalien, Bermondfey, and

reftor of Nurfling, in Hampftiire. He publilhed five fingle fermons. (See Cooke's Preacher'*

Alliftant.)

»' Gent. Mag. vol. XIV. p. 108.

—

Ht was of Queen's college, Oxford; B. D. 1737,;

D. D. 1743." Was of Catha. ine-hall, Cambridge, and proftor of the univerfity ia 1742-3. He occurl

reftor of Fulham ; redtor of Williaga e Spayne, in EfTex, from 1744 to 1770; and vicar of

Halfted in the fame county from J744 to 1768 ; the former in the gift of the crown, on the

nomination ot the bifhop of London ; the latter in the gift of the biftiop of London abfolutely :

and wa;, in 1748, inftall^d a prebendary of Weftminfter, which he refigned in 1758, on beings

made a canon refidentiary of St. Faiil's. He came to the fee of Briftol in 1783 ; and held the

living of Barnes in Surrey M «««»<&/». He died April ig, 1792. fSee Gent. Mag. &c.)" Prefented to it as an option by the abp. of Canterbury.—He vsras vicar of Croydon 1765 ;

reftor of St. Mary-]e-Bow, London, 1778; author of i. " Letteri on the Prevalence of Chrift-*' ianity. before it was eftabliflied; with Olrfervations on Gibbon's Roman Hiftory, 1778." 8vo.

J. '* Difcourfes on Prophecy, particularly at isifliop Warburton'sLefture, 1785." 2 vols.Svo,

Traders'

t3« HISTORY AND ANTIQÛITIES

Traders* Tokens.

EDMOND BANNISTER IN HOLL- (a Lyon) BIVArLANE SHORDJfCH ibbi. en UAi.reBsiir. E. C.

II.

THE ROSE AND CROWNE. (a rofe crewiied.)

IN SHOREDJTCH. 1668. (a Gridiron.}

III.

RICHARD HOULDER IN (a 'winc-prep.)

SHORDICH, PATTEN MAKER. Sis b^lfpennt, 1669.

IV.

JOHN PARSON BIS HALtptKur.IN SHOREDITH. 1668. (a gridiron.)

V.

THE ROSE & CROWNE (a ro/e ero-wntd.J

JN SHORDICH. 1652. (S. P.J


THE circumilances attending the renewal of the City's leafe

from the Prebendary of Fiiifbury, under the z6i 9 George III.

as.flated in p. 226, having excited confiderable enquiry, I have,

lince the former llieet was printed, appUed for information to a

City Friend, who has kindly furniilied me with the following

authentic documents.

A Survey of the Manor of Finfbury, with the rights, members, and appurtenances

thereof, lying and being in London, in the county of Middlefex,.late part of the

poflelTions of the late Prebend of the Prebendary of Halliwell and Finfbury, and

late belonging to the late Deane and Chapter of the Cathedrall Church of Sc.

Paul's, London, made and taken, by us whofe names are hereunto fubfcribed, ia

the month of Auguft, 1649, ^V virtue of a commiffion to us granted, grounded byt"he Commons of England aflembled in Parliament, for the abolifhing of Deans,

and Deaneries and Chapters, Cannons, and Prebends, and all other Offices and

Tythes, of and belonging to any Cathedrall or|Collegiate Church or Chappell in

England and Wales, under the handes and feales of Five or more of the Truftees

in the faid Aft nominated and appointed.

ANNUAL RENTS RECEIVED. ^'ImproTfm^ntf

Imprimis. £ j. ^^The quitt rents due to the lord of the afbrefaid manor of Finfbury

within the parifh of St. Giles without Criplegate, London, holdingof the free foccage tenure, and of the manor of Greenwich, — r jq- c|

The like rents due from the freeholders within the parrilh ofLeonard's Shoreditch, holding as aforefaid — —

I ig 4*The court baron and court leet, fines and amerciaments of courts,

iflues, poft fines upon different alienations, herriotts, releifes, waiffes •

and ftrayes, deodands, fellons' goods, goods of fellons of themfelves,of fugitives, and of condemned perfons, wrecks, offenders, hawkeing,hunteing, fowleing, fifliing, and all other profittes and perquifitts with-in the forefaid manor, to the royalty thereof appertaining, we eftiraatc,

conmunibus annisy — — — 400H h There

234- HISTORY AND ANTIQÛITIES

There is a court ket kept in the manor onqe every yeare, and a court

baron every three weeks -, and the fteward of the faid court baron hath

power to try any aftion ofdebt under forty Ihilliugs by way of attachnnent.

, The freeholders of the faid manor do fuite and ferve at every court

baron ; and, ujJon default of the fame, to forfeit advoluntatem homagii.

The baliffe of the faici mannor hath power toarreft within the liberty

thereof for any matter payable in the faid court : but we are informed'

that there is a grand bay lywick belonging to the late Deaneand Chapter

of Paules that hath power to execute the (heriff's writts ; which, in regard

it belongeth not folely to this mannor, but is a place peculiar to itlelfe,

we could not tell how to value.

Memorandum. There is an antient prifon oil the faid mannor, whichbelongs particularly to the fame, and which the leflees, by their leafe,

are bound to maintainel

A Rentall of the Freeholders of the Mannor of Fintbury,, with their refpeftlve Rentst.

Whitecrofs-Jinet.

The Vicar of St. Giles; for two tennumentsin Beech-lane —'

Francis Tewnfend, for three t«nnuments and eight acres —Henry Hayward, for certain tennumcnts, — —"jDhn Carpenter, for the like, — •

—

—Edward Goodfellow, for the like, — — —William Goodfellpw, for the like, -r- -—

Francis Leake, for the like, — —Mrs. Ann Goodfdlow, for the like, — —

Golden-laine^

Mr. Wootton and others-, for certaine tennuments, "^

Mrs. Elizabeth Offley, for the like, — —The fame, out of certaine tennuments,. — —The fame, ©ut o£ certaine tennuments,. —

WhitecroJ[e-fireeP.

The" heire of Tbomas TrafCf — —Golden-laine,

q

OF SHORED ITCH. 235

I s. d.

Edward Thicknejfe ana others, for tennuments, — 022Mr. ^//f«, for a cottage and garden, — —

-

o i 10

Butchers' Clofe.

John Worfopp, eight acres and a roode of land, — 0410The fame, four acres and a roode of land, — o 2 10

The fame, fix acres and one roode of land, — — 042!Whitecrojje-fireet.

Churchwardens of Criplegatey late William Hurkle, for a little parcell of

common ground, — — o o o|

The fame, for a garden, — — 009• French-alley.

Nicholas Allin, for a meffuage and nine fliopps, — 100The' fame, for tennuments and gardens, — — 051The fame, for tennuments, — — 014

TFhitecrofs-fireet.

John Majfey, for Cx cottages and a garden, — 014,Golden-taine.

To the Mailer of 5/. Bartholomew's, for tennuments and gardens, —Richard Hodgfon and others, for tennuments and lands, —The Widdow Greene and others, — —The heires of John Barnewell, a garden, — —The heires of John Hall, for tennuments, —Nicholas Keene, out of the tennument called *The Chequer, a garden

and other tennuments, — —The heires of John Wakejield, for tennuments, —The late King's Majeftie, for tennuments, — —Rowland Backhoufe^ for tennuments, — —The heires of Mr. Hanby, two tennuments, —

•

—Fitcbt-hatch.

Mr. Jtftfr/JB, for a cottage and garden, — —. > .— © 13

Hh a 3rhe

2p HISTORY AND A N T I Q_U I T I E S

Tfie Demeafnes of the faid Manner.

All that capitall meffuage or mannor-houfe,. the fite of the faid manner, with the

appurtenances and all other houfes, out-houfes, dove-houfes, Ihopps, cellars, fol-

lars, roomes, barnes, ftallfes, yards, backfides, orchards, gardens, court-yards, andcurtillages, thereunto belonging, now divided into the feverall tennuments and

flables, yards, and gardens, hereafter mentioned; that is to fay, One garden nowor late in the poffeffion of John Marjhall; one other teiinument and garden nowor late in the poffeffion of George' Dunne ; one other garden now or late in the

poffeffion of Flewellen ; one other tennument and garden now or latein the

poffeffion of George Hudfon ; two other, tennuments and a garden now or late in the

poffeffion of i?oî?r/ fffW ; one other tennument and garden now or late in the

poffeffion of William Greene; one other tennument and garden now or late in the

]poSeSionoi William Francklin; one other tennument and garden now or late in the

poffeffion of Ed-ward Jermine; one other tennument and two gardens now or late

in the poffeffion of Edward Waikins; one other tennument or coach houfe in the

p'oSeffwii of Edward^ Doogood ; one ffiop or fmith's forge ia.the poffeffion of Ed-ward Wilde ; one other tennumeiit now or late in the poffeffion of John Bold; one

other tennument and wood-yard now or late in the poffeffion of the faid EdwardJerndne',.ox\c other tennument or garden now or late in the poffeffion of

Iron/ide; three ftables now or late in the poffeffion of Elizabeth Joyce; one other

tennument and ftable now or late in the poffeffion of Samuell Nicholh ; one other

tennument npw or late in the poffeffion of William Cox ; one other tennument, the

prifon-ho,ufe, and. one ftable, now or latein the poffeffion oi Thomas Heade ; one

other tennument now or late in the poffeffion of the wlddow Marjhall; one other

tennument, called Tjê Court-hquje, and a garden, now or late in the poffeffion of

George Fo^craft ; one other tennument now or late in the poffeffion of Mary Robin

.

foh; one other tennument now or late in the poffeffion of Jarhn Alcock;onQ other

tennument now or latb in the poffeffion of Arthur Denton ; one other tennument

and yard, and two ftables, now or late in the poffeffion of John Greene; one other,

tennument and garden now or late in the poffeffion of Robinjon ; one other

tennument and two gardens now or late in the poffeffion of Elizabeth Dunn ; one

other brick tennument, a large yard, and two faire ftables, now or late in the

poffeffion of Bently; one other tennument and garden now or late it} the

poffeffion of William Ragdale ; one other tennument and two gardens now or late in

tlie poffeffion of John Powell ; one other garden now or late in the poffeffion of

Cardivel/s ; one other tennument now or late in .the poffeffion of Tobias^

Marjhall; one other tennument and garden now or lute in the poffeffion of Walter

Wythers ; one other tennument now or latein the pofleffion of Zouch Percivall;

one other tennument now or late in the poffeffion of Robert Hollis -, one other ten-

nument now or late in the poffeffion. of Fleming; two ftables now or late

in.

OF SHOREDITCH. 237

in the pofleflion of William Dajh ; one fliopp now or late in the pofTeffion of

William Cox; one other tennument and liable now or late in the poffelTion of

Richard Smarte; one other tennument now or late in the poflTeflion of 7'Aomas

Williams ; one other tennument and three (tables now or late in the poffeffion of

Henry Davis; and one other tennument now Or late in the poffeffion ot John Hol-

land: All which faid premifes are fcituate^ lyei,ng, and being, in Finlbury aforefaid,

in the county of Middlefex, and abutting Weft of certaine lands, parcell of the

freehold of the faid inannor, now or late in the poffeffion of Thomas Shrawley ;

and South upon certaine lands belonging to the late Prebend of The Moore, nowor late in the poffeffiOn of the mafter and wardens of the company of Merchant-Taylors, London, and adjoyning Eaft upon the highway that leadeth from Moore-gate to the Windmills, and North on the highway kading to Chifwell-Jireet ; and to

containe in length from Eaft to Weft on the South fide thirty-four pole and eight foot

of affize, and from Eaft to Weft on the North fide thirty-one pole and fifteene foot

of affize, and in breadth from North to South at the Weft end fixteene pole andone foot of affize, and from North to South at the Eaft end twenty-five pole andone foot of affize, more or leffe ; and all ways, paffages, lights, eafements, water-

courfes, coramoditys, advantages, and appurtenancys whatfoever, to the faid

meffuagcs or teniiunieats, lands and premifes, or any of them, or any part orparcell of them, or any of them, in any wife belonging or appertaining; and areworth upon improvement, over and above the rerit referved, 41a/. 10s. per arm.

All thofe other m.eflliages or tennuments, fhoppes, cellars, foUars, chambers^barnes, ftables, out-houfes, gardens, yards, backfides, court-yards, and curtillages,.

with their appurtinancys, being alfoe parcell of the demeafnes of the faid mannorof Finfljury, and confifting of the feverall tennuments hereafter mentioned; that is

to fay. One tennument now or late in the pofleffion of Thomas Fletcher; one othertennument and a wood-yard now or late in the poffeffion of Paule Watts ; oneother tennument and garden now or late in the poffeffion oi David Pozaell; oneother tennument now or late in the poffeffion of George Evetinge; one other tennu-ment now or late in the poffeffion of, Thomas Wilkinfon ; one other tennument nowor late in the poffeffion of Mrs. Aujlin; one other tennument now or late in the-poffeffion lof Mr. Bridge; one other tennument and garden now or late in thepoffeffion of John Hutton ; one other tennument and garden now or late in thepoffeffion of James Wife; one other tennument and garden navv or late in the pof-feffion of John Meybue , one other tennument and garden now or late in the poffef-fion of Willum Cartwright ; one other tennument now or late in the poffeffion- ofElizabeth Riddly ; one other tennument now or late in the poffeffion ofPate; one other tennument and garden now or late in the poffeffion of AnthonyTanner

; one other tennument and garden in the poffeffion of George Greenbanck;

one other tennument and garden now or late in the poffeffion of Walter Haddon \

one other tennument and garden now or late in the poffeffion of the widdow Ran-dall; one other tennument and garden now or late in the poffefiion oi Ann-Medwell

; one other tenpument and garden now or late in the pofleffion of JamesHh 3 . Bayly

y,

238 HISTORY AND ANTICtUlTIESBayly ; one other nieffuage and tennument now or late in rhe poffeffion of RichardCofby ; one other tennument and garden now or late in the poffeffion of Willidm

Hallord ; one other tennument now or late in the poffeffion of Robert Jtkinfoni

one other tennument now or late in the poffeffion of Ifaack Plover ; one other ten-

nument now or late in th* poffeffion of William Smith \ one other tennument andgarden now or late in the poffeffion oi'Humphrey Ballard: Which faid premifes or

paroell of building are fett, lyeing, and being, in the parifh of St. Giles withoutCripplegate^ London, aforefaid, in a certaine llreet there commonly called Grub-Jireeti and abutting Eaft upon the faid ftreet, and Weft in part upon lands belongingto the faid citty of Londoh ; and partly upon the freehold lands of the faid manner ;

and adjoyning South upon certaine lands within the liberty of the faid citty, andNorth upon a certaine ftreet there commonly called Chifwell-Jlreet ; and doe con-taine in length from Eaft to Weft on the South fide twelve pole and five foot ofaffize, and on the North fide thirteen pole and two foot of affize, and in breadthfrom North to South att the Eaft end thirteen pole and feaven fodt of affize, and att

the Weft end tenn pole and eight foot of affize, more or lefs ; and all ways,p^ffages, lights, eafements, wafer-courfes, commoditys, advantages, and appur-tinancys whatfoever, to the faid meffuages or tennuments, lands and premifes, or

any of them, or any part &r parcell of them, or any of them, in any wife belonging

or appertaineing ; and are worth upon improvement, over and above the rent re-

ferved, 146/. per annum.

All thofe other meffuages or tennuments, fliopps, cellirs, follars, chambers,barnes, ftables, out-houfes, ftiedds, gardens, yards, backfides, court-yards, and.

curtillages, with theire appurtinancys, being parcell alfoe of the demeafnes of the

faid mannor of Finfbury, and confifting of the feverall tennuments hereafter men-tioned ; that is to fay. One tennument and garden now or late in the poffeffion of

Chriftopher Kirbyi one other tennument and garden now or late in the poffeffion of

Ralph Symcock; one other tennument and garden now or late in the poffeffion of

Bennington ; one other tennument and garden now or late in the poffeffion ofChrijimas; oneother tennument and garden, with a wood-yard and two ftiedds,

now or late in the poffeffion of Edward Cadwell; one other tennument now or late

in the poffeffion of fVilliam Ceoper ; one other tennument now or late in the pof-

feffion of iliV/âri Slater; one other tennument now or late in the poffeffion of

Lawrence Harkett ; two other tennuments and three ftables now or late in the pof-

feffion of John Parker; onq other tennument and garden now or late in the pof-

feffion of the widdow Juton; one other tennument now or late in the poffeffion of

James. Lann ; one other tennument and yard now or late in the pofleffion of Thomas

Hou'grdve ; one other tennument now or late in the poffeffion of Margarett Bryan;

one other tennument and garden now or late in the poffeffion of William Williams ;

one other tennument and garden now or late in the poffeffion of William Bunn;

one other tennument and garden now or late in the poffeffion of Henry Weji ; one

other tennument now or late in the poffeffion of Charles Chipperfield ; one other

tennument now or late in the poffeffion of Roberts j one other tennument

now

OF SHOREDITCH. 23^'

F.ow or late in the pofleffion of Gahriell Dyer ; one other tennument now or lat« in

the pofleffion of John Cunter ; one other tennument now or late in the pofleffion

of Edward Shcafe : one other tennument and garden now or late in the pofleffion

of 'j'nhn Stafford; one other tennument now or late in the pofleffion of Edward

-Dubber; one other tennument and garden now or late in the poflTeffion of Elizabeth

Thrajher ; one other tennument now or late in the pofleffion of Francis Wiggley ;.

one other tennument and garden now or late in the pofleffion of Hopper ;

one other tennument and garden now or late in the pofleffion of Francis Wife ;

one other telinument and garden now or late in the pofleffion of William Crojfet ;.

one other tennument and garden now or late in the poflTeffion of John Martin ;

one other tennument and garden now or late in the pofleffion of Thomas Gunn

;

one other tennument and garden now or late in the poflTeffioh of Thomas Poole;

one other terlnument and garden now pr late in the pofleffion of Jacob Launce ;

one other tennument and garden now or late in the poflieffion of John Browne ;

one other tennument and garden now or late in- the pofleffion of Stephen Street ^

one other tennument now or late in the poflfeffion of George Smylhier; one other

tennument bow or late in the poflTeffion of Ifaack Taylor; one other tennument and

garden now or late in the poflTeffion of Leonard Marjhall ; one other tennument and

garden now or late in the pofleffion of Franklin ; one other tennument and

garden now or late in the pofleffion of Elizabeth Deane ; one other tennument nowor late in the pofleffion of Walter Heynes; two other tennuments and a garden nowor late in the pofleffion of George Wynch ; two other tennuments and a garden nowor late in the pofleffiorKof John Tate ; and one other tennument and garden nowor late in the pofleffion of William Cowley : Which faid premifes are fett, lyeing, and

being, in the parrifti of St. Giles without Cripplegate aforefaid, in a certaine ftreet

then commonly called Chifwell-Jireet, adjoyneing South upon the faid ftreet, and

North upon part of the freehold tennuments of the faid mannor, and abutting

Eaft upon the way leading out of the faid ftreet called Chifwell-Jireet into Bunn-

'hill-field, along by the wall of the New Artillery Ground^ and Weft upon other

part of the freehold tennuments of the faid mannor ; and doe containe in lengtJi

from Eaft to Weft on the South fide twenty-fouer pole and fifteene foot of

aflize, and on the North fide twenty-five pole and fifteene foot of affize,,

and in breadth att the Eaft end from North to South feauventeene pole and, fif-

teene foot of affize, and att the Weft end thirteene pole and fourteene foot of

affize, more or leflTe ; and all wayes, paflages, lights, eafements, water-courfes,

eommoditys, advantages, and appurtinancys whatfoever, to the faid meffûageS'

or tennuments, landes and premifes, or any of them, or any part or parcell ofthem, or any of them, in any wife belonging or appertaining ; atid are worth upon<

improvement, over and above the rent referved, 243/. xos. per annum\

All thofe other meflTuages or tennurnents, and fhops, cellars, foUars, roomes*bames. Arables, out-houfes, flieds, orchards, gardens, yards, backfides, court-

yards, and curtillages, with their appurtinancys, Tjeing parcell alfoe of the de-

meafnes of Finftjury, and confifting of the feveral tenements hereafter mentioned^;

that is to fay, One tenement and, garden now or late in the poflfeffion of John'

Hh 4. Smarter

240 HISTORY AND A N T I QJJ I T I E S

Smarie; one other tenement and garden now or late in the pofleffion of Jo/jn Tale ;

one other tenement and garden now or late in the pofleflion of Peter Miles -, oneother tenement and garden now or late in the polTeflion ai J-Filliam Williamfin

;

one other tenement and garden now or late in the poffcflion of Pompillion;

tvvo other tenements and gardens now or late in the poffeffion of Stebbinge',

one orher tenenicnt and garden now or late in the poffeffion of Thomas Hatbar;one other tenement and garden now or late in the poffeffion of John C/i/lon ; oneother tenement and guden now or late in the poffeffion oi Anthony Clarke- oneother tenement and garden now or late in the pofltffxon of James Blackborne ; oneother tenement and garden now or late in the poffeffion of Nicholas Clarke; oneether tenement and garden now or bte in the poffeffion of Samuel Smallwoad ; twoother tenements and gardens bow or late in the poffeffion of Nathaniel W)iters

;

one other tenement now or late in the poffeffion of Riehard Felis ; one, other tene-

ment now or late in the poffeffion of John Higgins ; one other tenement now or late

in the poffeffion of Richard Fuller ; one other tenement now or late in the pof-

feffion of John Sleith ; one oiher tenement now or late in the poffeffion of JacobSlee; one other tenement and garden now or late in the poffeffion of Thomas Skyti^

tier: All which laft-mentioned pr_emifes are fituate lyeing and being in the parifli

oi St. Giles without Cripplegate aforefaid, in a field commonly called Bunbill-ficld

;

abutting Eaft upon the faid field, abutting Well: and adjoyneing South upon part

of the freehold, lands of the faid mannor now or late in the poffeffion of Juftice

Fojler, and North upon other parts of the freehold lands of the faid mannor ; anddoe"~containe in length from Eafte to Weft on the South fide thirty-two pole andfix foote of affize, and on the North fide thirty-five pole and eight foote of affize,

and in breadth from North to South at the Eaft end fifteen pole, and at the Weftend fixteen pole and fourteen foot of affize, more or leffe ; and all wayes, paf-

fages, lights, eafements, water-courfes, commoditys, advantages, and appur-tenances whatfoevcr, to the faid meffuages, tenements, lands and premifes, orany of them, or any part or parcell of them, or any of them, in any wife belonging

or appertaineing ; and are worth upon improvement, over and above the rent

referved, 103/. fer annum.

All thofe other meffuages and tenements, ffiopps, cellars, follars, gardens, yards,backfides, fhedds, court-yards, and curtilladges, with their appurtenancys, con-fifting of the feverall tenements hereafter mentioned; that is to fay, One tene-

ment and garden now or late in the poffeffion of Jarvin Kidd ; all that tenementand fhop now or late in the poffeffion of Hacke; one other tenement andfliop now or late in the poffeffion of John Porte ; one other tenement and ffiop

now or late in the poffeffion of Nathaniel Sheppard; one other tenement or Ihopnow or late in the poffeffion of William Haughton ; and one other tenement andgarden now or late in the poffeffion of Bartholomew Gibfon : All which laft-men-

tioned premifes, are feituate, lyeing, and being in the parifti of St. Giles without

Cripplegate aforefaid, in a certaine ftreet there commonly called IFhitecroJfe'-Jlreet,

abutting Eaft upon the faid ftreet, and Weft upon the yard belonging to the Fortune

4 Playhoufe,

OF SHORE DITCH. 241*

Playhoufe, and adjoineing North upon the way or paflage leading out of Whifecroffe-

Jirect aioxdnd unto the laid Playhoufe, and South upon part of the freehold lands

of the faid manner ; and doe containe in length from Eaft to Weft on the South

lide tehn pole and eight foot of affize, and on the North fide tenn pole and fifteen

foot of affize, and in breadth at the taft end three pole and tenn foot of affize, and

at the Weft end foure pole and two foot of affize, more or lefs ; and all ways,

paffages, lights, eafements, water-courfes, comm.odities, advantages, and appur-

tenances whatfoever, to the (aid mefluages or tenements of lands and premifes,

or any of them, or any part or parcell of them, or any of them, in any wife

belonging br appertaineing ; and are worth Upon improvement, over and above

the fald rent referved, 24/. per annum.

Al that other parcell of demeafne land belonging to the faid mannor, commonlycalled and known by the name o{ Rotten-row, fet, lyeing, and being, in the parifh of

St. Giles without Criplegate aforefaid, in a certaine ftreet there commonly called

Old'f.reet, adjoyning North upon the faid ftreet, and South upon a way or paflage

leading out of Old-Jireet aforefaid into the Pitcht-hatch, and abutting Eaft upon the

Cage and Prifon houfe in Old-Jlreet aforefaid, and Weft upon part of the freehold

lands of the faid manner, confifting of feverall fmall and very old cottages in the

pofleffion of very poor people, and containing in length from Eaft to Weft on

the North fide one hundred and twenty yards of affize, and at the South fide

one hundred twenty four yards of affize, and in breadth from North to South att

the Weft end thirty yards of affize, and att the Eaft end twelve yards of affize,

more or leflTe ; and all wayes, paffages, lights, eafements, water-courfes, commo-ditys, advantages, and appurtinancys whatfoever, to the faid tenements or cot-

tages, lands and premifes, or any of them, or any part or parcell of them, or

any of them, in any wife belonging or appertaining ; and are worth upon improve -

ment, over and above the rent referved, 4/. per annum.

Meadow and Pafture Ground, parcell of the Demeafnes of the faid Mannor.

All thofe two fields now commonly called or knowne by the name of The Upper

Moorjields, and heretofore commonly called and knowne by the name oiThe Mallow-

fields, whereon ftandeth certaine rows of fmall pollard elms, abutting South uponThe Lower Moorefields, and North upon the highway leading \.6 Norton- Falgate,

and adjoineing Eaft upon certaine tenements and gardens parcell of the faid freehold

lands belonging to the faid mannor, and Weft upon the highway leading fromMooregate to the Windmills, conteyning by eftimation twelve acres and a half, more•or lefle ; one other field, parcell alfoe of the faid demeafne of the faid mannor,commonly called and knowne by the name oiThe Bunnhill-field, abutting South,

upon the highway leading from Cbifwelljlreet, and Norih upon the highway lead-

ing out of Old-Jireet towards Dhme Agnes u Cleere, and foe to Shoreditch, and ad-

joyning Weft upon parcell of the demeafne and freehold lands belonging to the

Hh 5 faid

*242 histCrt and ANTIQÛITIESfald manner, and Eaft upon another field heretofore commonly called The High'

Jield, or Meadow-ground, and doth containe by eftimation twenty- three acres,moreor leffe; one other field heretofore called Ike High-Jield, or Meadow-ground, afore-

tnentioned, now commonly C3.]\tAThe Wrajlling-field, parcell alfoe of the dcmeafneof the faid mannor, adjoyning Weft upon the field lafl-bcr.e-mentionerj called

The Bunnhill-field, and Eaft upon certaine tenements and gardens in the parifli ofSt. Leonards, Shoredilch, in part, and in part alfoe upon the highway leading to

Hallyivell, and abutting North upon the faid highway leading from OldJireet to

Tjame Agnes a Cleere, and foe to Shoreditcb, and South upon the faid highwayleading to Norton Folgate, containing by eftimation forty-five acres, more or lefTe,

row or late in the poffeffion of William Dajh ; all that tenement and garden in

the poffeffion of the Common Hunt, commonly called and knowne by the name of

The Lord Mayor's Bogg-houfe, and other fmall cottages and tenements, together

with certaine taynters commonly called The new-eredled tenements and taynters,

being inclofed with a brick-wall lying at the North-weft corner of the faid High-

field; and one other garden orplott of ground thereunto belonging, now or late in

the poffeffion of Stebbing, conteyning together by eftimation nine acres

more or leflfe ; and alfoe all thofe fix windmills now or late in the feverall pofleffions

of Robert Keyes, Ihomas Goodhand, Nicholas Abbotts, Richard Keyes, Carr,

and Joel Farttridge ; and alfoe divers fmall tenements or Ihedds, in the feverall

poffeffions of John Baker, Richard Martin, Stephen Howton, John Higgins, George

Frymlyn, Lillie, Widdow Gregory, 'Widdow Paryo/zj, Richard Davis, Richard

Water/on, and Thomas Jackfon, together with fix taynters, and the ground there-

unto belonging, now or late in the poffeffion of Hodges ; and alfoe one tene-

ment and garden in the poffeffion of John Noble, which laft-mentioned tenement

and garden conteyned by eftimation one acre and a halfe, more or leffe : All which

laft-mentioned premifes are fituate, lyeing, and being, in the faid High-field, and are

parcell thereof, and conteyned within the aforefaid meafure of the faid field ; all

which faid foure fields with the inclofures, tenements, and mills, thereupon eredted,

are worth upoii improvement, over and above the rent referved, 285/. per ann.

Memorandum. Twelve acres or thereabours of the faid field called Bunnhill-field

are now inclofed with a brick wall and a pale, and commonly called or knowne bythe name of The New Artillery Ground, four acres and a halfe of which faid in-

clofed ground is freehold land belonging to the faid mannor, to which we had a

refpeft in one particular valuation of thepremifes.

Memorandum. There is lyeing in the faid field called The High-Jidd feaven acres

and a halfe, more or leffe, of freehold land, which is comprehended alfoe within the

faid meafure, to whith alfoe we had a refped in our valuation of the premifes.

Memorandum. The faid mannor lands and premifes were, by John Spendlowe, late

prebendarie of the prebend of Halliwell and Finjbury, and the late Deane and

Chapter of the Cathedrall Church of St. Paul, London, by two feverall indentures,.*^

the

OF SHOREDITCH. 243*

tfie one bearing date the fourteenth day of February, and the other bearing date

the fixteenth day of the fame month of February, in the tenth year of the raigne of

the late Queen Elizabeth, demifed to the Mayor and Commonalty of the Cittyof

London : habend' for the feverall termes of feaventy yearcs and feaventy yeares,

reddeni per ann. thirty-nine pounds, thirteen fliillings, and foure pence, on the fea-

venth day of Januaryy the eighth day of Aprill, the feaventh day of July, and the

twelveth day of O£loher, by equall porcions ; but are worth upon improvement,,

over and above the rent referved, 1218/. per annum.

The leffees to digg clay or gravel, and to digg to mend the pipes or fpring-

heads ; and to level the places foe digged by them before the end of their terms.

The leffors to prof^cute all fuites touching the premifles at the charge of the

leffees; and to deniife whatfoever fhall be recovered by any fuch fuites to the leffees

during the termes aforefaid, difcharged of all incumbrances, under the yearly rent

afore faid.

Theleflbr tofave harmekfle the leffees from all fuite, fuites, tenthes, fubfidies^

and after-dutys, due to the late Queeneand her Succeffor.

The leffees to pay theire rent to the Deane and Chapter in the vacancie of thefaid Prebendary, either by death or otherwifc, during the terme of fuch vacacion.

The leflee to fave harmleffe the leffor from all quitt-rent that ihall grawe due-

for the premifes dureing the faid terme.

The leffees not to fuffer theire fervants or yeomen to occupie as officers withinthe liberties of the faid mannor, nor to be officers there ; but the fame to be elefl:

at the courte, according to th« cuftome. The fteward only to be at the choyce ofthe leffor.

The leffees to caufe all manner of vagabonds found within* their liberties of thefaid mannor to be brought to the prifon there,^ and to none other ; and there to bedifcharged according to law.

The leffees, at theire coft and charges, once a yeare, betwixt Michaelmas andChriftmas, to deliver coppies of the rent-rolls to the Prebendarie or Deane andChapter, when they fhall be thereunto reafonably required.

The leffor to enter once in eyery twenty yeares during the leeffe, and to makea veiue and furvey of the mannor and premifes, and the leffees to . be affiftant

unto him therein -, which furvey, taken at the fequall charge of the leffor and theleffee, to be fairely written and fubfcribed by the charaberiin or under-chamber-lyne and fteward, and delivered to the deane of the faid church or to theprebendaries.

The bond of one hundred markes given by the leffees upon theire payment oftheire rent at the tymes and place limitted to be paid ; and for every time default is

made in payment thereof, the fame to remayne in force.

Hh 6 Thei-e

«a44 HISTORY AND ANTICLUITIESThere was one hundred thirty-five years of the termes aforefaid granted' by the

fîd leffees to come the feaventeenfh daye of Julye lafl: paft.

Memorandum. There is a rent of twenty flnllings^«r annum, mentioned in the

leafeof the premifes to be grajited to the Mayor and Commonaltye and the Cittizens,

out of a certaine tenement in the parifli of St. Martin's within Ludgate, which, as

wee are informed, the leffees could never find out ; nor can we make any difcovery

thereof, and therefore leave it to your Honours' confideration.

The totall of all the prefent rents and values in this furvey is 39/. 135. ^d.per ann.

The totall of the improved values conteyned in this furvey is iziÛpsr ann.

The totall of the premifes, rents, and improved values, is 1257/. 13J. 4^. per ann.

H. Dumarefq,John Yeate, „

NoahBanckes, > Surveyors.

,Thos. Bonghes,

ExanC per Will'm Webb, Supervif. Gen.

In what condition the affairs of the City- were with regard to

the Prebendal Manor, is clearly recited in the Preamble to the

A6t already mentioned, " to enable Chriftopher Wilfon, D. D.

** and Prebendary of Finfbury, to make and grant unto the

" Maypr and Commonalty, and Citizens of London, a leafe of

*' the Prebendal eftate, for a term of 99 years ;" which Fream-

ble recites, that Edward Moyle, Prebendary of Haliwell and

Finfbury, by his deed indented, made Dec. 14, in the firft

and fecond years of Philip and Mary, granted to the Mayor and

Commonalty of London the whole manor of Finfbury, with

its appurtenances, for the terra of fourfcore and ten- years, at

and under the yearly referved rent of 39/. i3J". 4^.; and that,

by indenture, bearing date 16 Feb. 10 Eliz. John Spendlowe,

clerk, then Prebendary of Haliwell and Finfbury, granted and

let to farm the fame for the term of feventy years from the

expiration

OF SHOREDITCH. 245*

expiration of the term made in Edward Mblles' leafe. It was

likewife witneffed by the fame indenture, that the faid John

Spendlowe, for and in confideration of ao fodder of lead, given

by the faid Mayor and Commonalty toward the repairs of St.

Paul's Cathedral, granted them an additional term of 70 years

at 'and under the fame yearly rent. And the A6t recites that the

Prebendary was reftrained by law from granting a longer leafe

than would extend the then-exifting period to 40 years. Hewas therefore empowered to grant a leafe of 99 years from 1768.

Dr. Wilfon fucceeded to ' the prebend in Oclober 1745, at

the age of 29; and the rental in that year was 895/. Theleafe would not expire until 1783, a diftance of ^8 years, which

did not afford much profpedt of the great advantages that after-

wards enfued. In the firft ten years nothing but light conver-

fation paffed between the Corporation and the Dodtor on the

fubjedt of renewal; but in the next five it became more ferious;

and he was defi-red to name a fum by way of fine ; which h6did, and, from its magnitude, was not even liilened to.

From the Journals of the City it appears, that ,fo early as

1760 the renewal of the City's leafe by the Prebendary was de-

bated ; and it was agreed, that two furveyors on each fide fhould

be appointed, to afcertain the term of renewal*. But as, for

reafons mentioned in the A (ft, the Prebendary could not grant a

leafe for any confiderable term, every thing was fufpended.

Time crept on ; and the Doctor, being in good health, began to

threaten to outlive the leafe, and increafed his demand. He beganwith 5000/. and foon got to 20,000/.; and, in his own wordsto the writer of this article, faid, " that whenever terms were*' nearly agreed upon, fome good friend or other ftarted ob-" jedlions in the Court of Common Council, which created far-

* City Journals, vol. L XII. f. 14. b.

H h 7« ther

*H^ HISTORY AND ANTIQ_UIT1ES

" ther delay," and always turned to his; advantage. He knewthe Chamber was pooTy and that confequeiitly a >large -fine

was not convenient ; which made him turn his thoughts to the

arrangement fettled in the A£t. The Corporation had great par-

liamentary intereft; he had himfelfa confiderable fhare, throughhis patron the Marquis of Rockingham ; aud> by way of collei^-r

ing the affiftance of the Church, a portion of the accumulating

profit was to be annexed to the Prebeivd. This fcheme provedvery palatable, as no money would be wanting, and the joint-

intereft enfured fuccefs. The rental, in J 766, had increafed to

1 800/. a year ; and the proportions agreed upon were divided

into fix fliares ; three to the Corporation, who were to have the

trouble of management ; two to the Do6lor and his heirs, to the

end of 99 years, in lieu of fine j and one to the Prebend, whichveiled -with himfelf for life.

In 1767, the Prebendary having aûally applied to Parlia-

ment, a fpecial Committee was appointed, by the Mayor and

Commonalty, to treat with him for the renewal of the leafe*;

and the next year, when the A^ had palfed, the fame Committee

was re-appointed to carry the ptirpofe^ôf it into execution.

They did not,, however, deliver in their report till March, 1770;when it appears they had perfecSted their bufinefs j a leafe having

been granted, agreeably to the A<St, for 99 years..

The Committee in 1767 had been likewife inftrucSted to treat

and agree with the Artillery Company, and all perfons claiming

under covenants of renewal refpe-dting the Finfbury eftate ; but,

on the 2ift of March, 1770, when they reported that, a leafe

of the faid eftate had been procured for a term of 99 years, no

notice was taken that they were unable to come to any agreement

with the Artillery Company, for yielding up the Artillery Ground

* City Journals, vol. LXIX. f. 7.

to

OF S H O R E D I T C H. 447*

to iKe-City, towards the beiter idiproving of the eftate. The

Artillery Company aibfolutely refufing to comply with the con-

ditions propofed by the 'City, every thing on that head dropped;

and, in 1773, the Committee appointed by the City, attended by

Dr. Wilfon, having infpe<£led feveral plans and deligns for the

improvement of the eftate, were unanimoufly of opinion, the

beft method of improvement.wotild be, to begin by building a

fquare upon the middle of Moorfields, agreeably to a fketch

then produced. Mr. Dance, the City Surveyor, was likewife

dire6ted to make another defign of the Whole eftate, introdu-

cing the faid fquare, and difpoling of the other parts to the

beft advantage, independent of the Artillery Ground -*. The

plan for improving the eftate w'as not, however, decidedly agreed

upon till 1777 f ; as, early in that yeîr, 'an oirder was made by

the Common Council, to fix in the Council-chamber a plan

for its improvement. On the i8th of June, a report was made

by a Sub-committee; when it was agreed that Mr. Dance

Ihould " make a plan for letting the Eaft front of the Artillery

" Ground, and alfo plans and elevatiohs for letting the ground<' on the Eaft and South fides of the intended South fquare, and" on the North fide of the Quarters of Moorfields, dividing the

" faid pieces of ground refpe(5lively in proper lots, and likewife

" to prepare conditions for letting the faid lots." A new ftreet

from Finfbury along the North fide of the Quarters of Moor-

fields into New Broad-ftreet, and another along the Eaft fide to

London-wall, at Moorgate, Were propofed, but did not take ef-

fect. At firft the ground in Moorfields was continually adver-

tifed to be let on building leafes, but there were no biddings.

Since that time, however, the prefent magnificent Square has

arifen on the fite. ;

* City Journals, vol. LXV. f Ibid. vol. LXFX. f. 7.

H h 8 The

*248 HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES

The Weft fide of the Square, except two houij^s at. the Northend, was built in 1777 ; and from that time it lay dormant forfeveral years, which may, in fome raeafuFe,.be accounted for bythe following circumftance: Button Seaman, , efq. Comptrollerto the Corporation, being almofl: fuperannuated by age, wasfufpended from atSlive lervice, but enjoyed the emoluments ofthe place, having purchafed it. Mr. Bufbnan, then fenior clerk

in the office, was appointed a(Ii>ftant, with a proper allowance ;

and, on the death of Mr. Seaman, in- 1785, was chofen his.fuc-

ceffor, with a falary of 700/. per annum, and the profits of the

leafes. The abilities of the new Comptroller very evidently ap-

peared, when his own benefit was united with the improvement.Plans foon came forward; and in 1789 the North fide was let;

in "1790 the Eaft ; in the year following the South; and the

furrounding flreets in progrelp.oti. The good effects were quickly-

evinced by the increafed profits ; for, in 1 7 83, the year the old leaf©

would have expired, the rents produced 4792/.; and in 179-7

they arrived to 7598/. It is worthy remark, that the increafe has

not been from leafes falling in, .but ground rents, with good

fubftantial houfes eredled ; the former rents being moftly from

citizens' pleafure-gardens, called Rus in Urbe, and fmall cottages

and old houfes, which required feveral rent-gatherers, and fb

miferably inhabited, that moft of them might be confidered as

weekly tenants, the whole of which is done away..

The Earl of Darnley pofTefTes an eftate on the Eaftrfide of Up-

per Moorfields, which in the year 1 694 was built on ; when a

wall 392 feet from North to South, and 9 to 18 inches

breadth,, belonging to the Finfbury eftate, was pulled, down^

through which there was a right of pafTage-way, and was

granted to the Earl, byleafe, for 88 years, for a fine and annual

rent. The front of the houfes was built on the foundation of the

wall,

OF SHORE DITCH. 249*

wall, which occafions the Earl to make application for a renewal

whenever an improvement is wanting to be made on the pre-

milTes, at the mercy of the Corporation. This proved ferviceable

to the making of Paul-ftreet in a ftrait line, which joins the Earl's

eftate ; and could not have been accomplilhed without fome

agreement with him; which was eafily obtained, the Earl vânt-

ing at that time to renew the leafeof the wall with the City.

The original defign was, to make the centre of the fquare a

piece of water, the ground being fo low as to be formed for it,

and that it might be a refervoir, in cafe of fire, or accident, to the

New River ; but, from the apprehenfion it would be a depofit for

filth, and unwholefome, it was changed to a garden, by far the

more a-greeable accommodation to the inhabitants. The expence

of making the area, and other matters to the amouDt of 4000/..

was defrayed by the Corporation Iblely, and muft be placed-

amongft their munificent works. Their objedl: was, to accom-

modate the merchants with dwellings, and create a refpedtablie

neighbourhood near the City ; but the Prebendary faid, " that was-

" NO ADVANTAGE TO HIM ;" and the ground on the North fidb

was let fb cheap (only 5/. 3^^. a foot), that it would not afford it.

And £0 little profpe6t v/as there of benefit to the builder at

this low price, that the perfon who took the firft three lots

of ground petitioned to be releafed from, his bargain, after the

foundations and part of the houfes were built, though they be-

came a profit to him of 5000/. in the end. It n.uft be far-

ther flated, for the credit of the Corporation in laying out this

large fum,. that the whole ground-rent of the fquare does not

amount to more than 425/. per annum, of which they have but

a moiety ; and the reverfionary value is very fmall, having onlyfeven years before the 99 expire, when it returns to the Church,,

with its valt income, unlefs the wifdom of Parliament Ihonld-

otherwife difpofe.

H h o.'

The.

*2So HISTORY AND ANTIQ.UITIES

The Church hiftory affords but few inftances of fuch an in-

creafe of value ; and ftill fewer of its individuals, that have

amafled fuch an immenfe fortune from fuch flender mean^, a

life-intereft of only 39/. i3j-. 4^. a year. It may be faid, fuch

opportunities feldom occur ; but the merit of the man muft not

be forgot, who was equal to the chance. He was an able calcu-

lator; and poffefled a perfevering fpirit, and a temper and mannersof all others, fuited to foothe and harmonize the contentions of fo

fluctuating a body as the Corporation of London in near 50years intercourfe. In tracing his benefits from authentic docu-

ments it appears that he received more than 50,000/. clear of

all dedudlions, in his life-time, without the affiftance of accu-

mulating iiiterefl ; and he charged this eftate in his will with

legacies to the amount of 50,000/. more; which, on the au-

thority of his executors, has proved ample, and will leave a

very large refidue.

He was not the only one of his family whom Fortune had

favoured with her abundance; for his brother equalled his fuc-

cefs, by early engaging in the Selby Navigation ; and, growing

wealthy in YorkQiire, (hewed his affectionate regard, by prefling

the Dodtor to take time, and ufe precaution, in agreeing to

renew the Leafe ; for he could and would support him.

The brother died firft, a batchelor ; the Dodtor, who obtained

the Bifhoprick of Brirtol in 1783, died foon after, leaving a

numerous offspring to inherit the great property of both.

The net divifion at Chriftmas 1797, after all dedu(5tit)ns, was,

to the Corporation, 3646/; to the heirs of Bp. Wilfon, 3431/;

to Dr. Apthorpe, the prefent Prebendary, 1215/.

It Ihould have been before obfervedj that, previous to the re-

newal of the City's leafe, feveral fchemes were propofed for the

improvement of the eftate ; two of which deferve mentioning

;

and the latter may one day take effedt.

In

OF SHOREDITCH. 251*

In 1766, Mr, Long preferred a petition to Parliament, to

nable him to purchafe part of the City's eftate, held under the

'rebendary of Finfbury, for the remainder of the term. His

efign was, to make a refervoir of water, whence; the City might

e fupplied; Seventeen years of the leafe were then unexpired.

?he lelTees of the London Bridge water-works had covenanted;

nth the City to fupply fuch refervoir, when made, with a fuffi-

ient quantity of water; and Dr. Wilfon, then Prebendary, was

/illing to grant a proper leafe for a fufficient term of yearfr, - but

iâs not by law empowered fo to do*.

In 1767, a number of merchants, of whom Charles Dingley,

fq. was the chief, prefented a petition to the Houfe of Com-Lions, praying that a bill might be brought in,, to enable them3 open a itreet from the Manfion-houfe, to communicate with

he Prebendal eftatet This, however, being ftrongly oppofed

»y the City, did not take place f.

In 1772, Mr. James Sharp projedled a navigable canal from

he river Lee at Waltham abbey ,^ on one level, to Upper Moor-

ields ; and another canal was propofed from Welling's farm,

ârybone, to the fame place, which was to be made a grand

lort. There had formerly' been a furvey for a canal from the

iver Coin, at Uxbridge, and another from the river Thames,

t Bolters lock, by Maidenhead,, which might be joined to the

(loorfields plan, and conftrudted large enough to bring the weft—

ountry barges to Moorfields.. The Corporation adopted the

ishcme, ordered a furvey and plans to be made; and, on the

!-5th of February 1774, prefented a petition to Parliament for

bill to carry the fame into effecSt J.

• Repertory, 64. 13. b. 18. b. -1" lb. 109. b.

4: See a particularvaccount of this prajeiEt, p. 173— 178 ; and the Report to the

loufe of Commons at large in their Journalsj vol. XXXIV. f. 637—646.

H_h 10 This

*zSi HISTORY AND A N T I QÛ I T I,E S

This application was ftrongly oppofed by a petition to the

Houfe, April 12^ from feveral proprietors, occupiers, and holders

of lands, hoiifes, mills, wharfs, &c. in the parifhes of Sf.

Leonard Sboreditcb, Hackney, 1'ottenbam High Crofs^^ Edmonton^

Enfieldf Cbejhunt, and Leyton Stone* ; and as ftrongly fupported

by feven counter- petitions, on the 14th, from the gentlemen,

freeholders, and holders and occupiers of lands, in the pariflies

of St. Luke, St. Leonard Sboreditch, St. Matthew^ Betbnal Green^

St. Jobn Hackney^ Tottenham, Edmonton^ Enfield, Epping, Chef'

hunt., and Waltham Abbey \ ; and, after a long and patient in-

veftigation before a Committee of the Houfe, to whom Mr.

Whitworth declared " that the plan was much ealler to execute

" than moft that had been made, and that he had been employed*' in things of that nature many years;" a motion being pro-

pofed, that leave be giyen to bring in a bill for making the

Canal; it was negatived, on a divifion of 61 againft 10 i.

In December, 1777, the Corporation petitioned Parliament

for powers to make a new ftreet, to extend from Moorfields,

oppolite Chifwell ftreet, towards the Eaft, into Biftiopfgate -ftreet;

and^ by another ftreet, to make an opening from Shoreditch to

Spital-fields church. This A6t pafted, and the improvement

has been effedled ; the expence of which was defrayed by a far-

ther charge on the Orphans' fund.

* Journals of the Houfe of Commons, vol. XXXIV. p. 621.

'j' Ibid. p. 637. \ Ibid. p. 646.

Charity

OF SHORED ITCH. 241

Charity-Schools of St. Leonard, Shoreditch*

The Boys' School.

In the year 1705, the parifliioners of St. Leonard, Shore-

ditch, in the county of Middlefex, being defirous of diffemi-

uating.rehgious and ufeful knowledge among the lower ranks of

the people, firft eftablifhed a charity-fchool for the education of

fifty boys, the children of honeft and well-difpofed parilhioners,*

who, having large families, or being otherwife in indigent cir-

cumftances, were unable to afford a fuitable education, or perhaps

no education at all. This benevolent defign continued to be

fupported by voluntary contributions of the parifhioners ; and,

by colle6lions occafionally made at the church-doors until 1723,when a fund was i:ollec5led, fufficient to build the prefent fchool-

houfe, and alfo to acquire Ibme property- adjoining thereto *. OnSept. 35, 1705, it was determined by the truftees to agree for

a houfe, then lately inhabited by alderman Fofter, at the yearly

rent of 4/.; foon after which they appear to have chofen a mafter

for the fchool, allowing him 3 o/. a year ^".

The income of the fchool for the firft three years was as follows

:

Income from Michaelmas 1705 to Michaelmas

17C6,, 139 16 9

Difburfements for the fame period, 83 2 3

Income from Michaelmas 1706 to Michaelmas

1707, 144 10 2iDifburfements for the fame period, 91 17 2 ^

* Account of the Rife and Progrefs, &c. of the Bo^'s* Charit}' School. Drawnup by Peter Colquhoun, lifq. lamo. 1753. .

^''".'-

'\- Minutes ot the Truftees. In addition to which he now hns an adJirional-

gratuity ot 6/. 6\s. od. and ^L a year for initruftiug the boys in pfidmody.

I i Income

242 HISTORY AND ANTIQJJITIES

#

Income from Michaelmas 1707 to Michaelmas*7°^» 141 19 4

Difburfement for the fame period, - 10 r i 11

The prefent annual expence of the boys' fchool, according to

Mr. Colquhoun's account, is 165/. and the total permanentincome no more than 70/. ; the deficiency, amounting to 95Abeing made up by four charity-fermons, and other voluntary

contributions, from the parifhioners f

.

The Girls* School

was inftitiited on January 25, 1709, on which day the fub-

fcribers thereto had their firft meeting, when they chofe JohnWaxham, Jolliua Hyam, and Percival Sergeant, truftees for the

year enfuing. It was originally inftituted for 40 girls ; as on

Feb. 23} that year, the truftees agreed to wait on Dr. Pooley

to defire that feats might be made in the church for that num-ber. On February 24, in the fame year, they took the leafe^

of a houfe in Pitfield-ftreet, Hoxton, for the term of eleven

years, at the annual rent of 5/. commencing from Lady Day

17 10. From March 1709, the truftees difcontinued their

meetings till October 19, 17 15, when it appears that there

were fifty girls educated in the fchool. In 1722, the leafe of

the houfe in Pitfield-ftreet being -expired, the truftees of both

fchools came to a determination, as before mentioned, to eredt

a fchool-houfe, the foundation whereof was laid on June 39^

1722 ; and the girls entered upon the new fchool on March 25,

17^3.

•* Minutes of the Truftees.-J-

Mr. Colquhoun's Account, p. 6.

Register

OF SHORED ITCH. 243

Register of Benefactions to the Parifli of St. Leonard,

Shored ITCH, Middlefex ; collected and compofed by the Rev.

Dr. John Denne, Vicar of the faid Parifh, and Archdeacon

of Rochefter; in the Year 1745; xMeffrs. Richard Bowles,

and Peter Buckmaster, Church-wardens,

In Mumy. Rmts per Amum.

£ s. £ s,

I. William Thornton, of this parifli,

taylor *, in 1581, gave two tenements near

the church, for a veftry-room, fchool-

houfe, and a lodging f for the parifli-derk,

for ever.

He X alfo built a gallery at the coming-

in of the great door of the church, and a

brick wall on the Weft fide of the church. § 2 10

* Old Benefadtlon-table, as compofed and coUefled in 1664, in die Parilh-

regifter, Stowe's Survey, Parifh-writings, A. No. i.

\ For ihe vicar or minifter to dwell in ; (Old Benefaftion-table and Stowe's

Survey.) The fexton lived in one of thefe tenements Oft. 6, 1670. (Orders of Veftry.)

Thefe tenements adjoined to the vicarage-lioufe and the church, but were pulled

down on re-building the church in 1735 j and a houfe fince built on the other fide

for the clerk.

\ Mr. Thornton made this purchafe May I, 1584, the 26th of queen Eliz. andMarch the.

19th, 1585 (Parifli-writings, A. No. 26.) ; but his right was contefled

in the court pf exchequer, 31 Eliz. 1589, by Dr. Hanraer, the vicar; in which,

fuit it feems to have appeared that the right was really in the parifh, and that

Thornton had made the purchafe in his own wrong (Parilh-writings, A. No. t.

3. 4.) probably, as of houfes thai were then fuppofed to have been forfeited, as

given to fuperftitious ufes ; fo tliat he afterwards took a leafe of them from the

parilh, December the i8tb, 1591, 33 Eliz. (Parilh-writings, A. No. 5)—Hewas, I believe, buried April the 29th, 1593, or, at lead, March the 15th, 1598,(Parifli Regifter.) It was u fed as a fchool-houfe by leave of veftry (Veftry-Order,

July I, 1662.)

§ So valued in the Old Table of Eenefaftions, and Stowe's Survey j thoughMaitland, in his Hiftory, reckons ihe-m at 12/. loj. -ptr annum,

I i a 11. Stephen

a44 HISTORY AND AN TICÛIT I ES

Jn Mone), Rints per Annmh

£ J* £ J..

'"II. Stephen Sky DMORE, <3//(3j Skyddye, .^

citizen ancf vintner of London, in 1585,gave, by his will *, a rent-charge, payable

after his wife''s deceafe, by the Vintner&'

company, out of his eftates in Black Friars ;

to be beftowedin wood, coal, or other fuel,

yearly, in the month of Odtober, amongthe poor, by the difcretion of the renter-

v^'arden and one other officer of the com-

pany, jointly with the churchwardens of

the parifli, and the overfeers of the poor, I q,

III. John Fuller, of Bifliop's hall, in

Stebonheath, efq. "j", one of the judges,

under queen Elizabeth, did, by his will,

dated March 39, 1591, 3,3 Elizabeth,. -

dire6l and inftru6l his wife Jane:}: to ere£t

one alms-houfe in this paridi for tv/elve

poor widows, of good name, and of the

age of fifty years or above ; to caufe them

to be incorporated ^, and to fettle on them*

a

* See copy of if, which was proved December 17, 1585 ; as alfothe Old Tableof Benefadlions, and Stowe's Survejf. This is, by miftake, valued at 26/. /xfr «»».in the New View of London, vol. I. p. 315.

f Old Table of Benefaaions.

+ Who afterwards,, according to Stowe, married Sir Thomas Mansfield,, and air

lowed the widows but 8/. per annum during her lifejprobably on account of de-

duftions for building the faid alms-houfe.

§ This being never done in due form, according to the orders of the founder. in

his will, and the Mercers' company renouncing their trufl. May 19, 1668, paymentwas

OF SHORE OITGH. 245

a rent-rharge of 50/. per ann. for ever, out

of all his eitate and lands in Lincolnfhire "'-

He appointed alfo, that this alnis-houfe

fliould be governed, vifited, and ordered,.

by eight of the moft antient perfons of the:

Mercers' company for the time being, byfuch jftatutes and ordinances as the faid

perfons Ihould declare, with the confent

of his wîfe and the overfeers of his faid

will ^. The allowance now to each womanis 4/. 3 J. 4^. per a?m. and 3 bufliels of

Goals. 50 O'

was refufed forfome years by Sir Geoi-ge Keymeys and William Herbert, efq. than

poffelTors' of the eflate : whereupon, after a long fuic at law, it was decreed in

Chancery, Oft. 29, 1668, " that an incorporation fliould be procured, and that'

a

" rent-charge of -o/. per arm. (hould be fettled according to the will of the founder."

But this affair was not finiibed without another decree in Chancery, May ay, 1687 j

upon which, a deed of incorporation was procured, June 27, 1687, by GeorgeKeymeys, appointing a warden, a fingle woman of the age of fifty years, or above,

and eleven members, poor finale women of the like age, to hav« fucceffion for ever,

•nd to be chofen or removed by him the faid Grorge Keymeys, his heirs and

affigns -. and to have likewife a common feal, with the creft of John Fuller, efq.

and this infcription round it, " Slglllum Communis Hofpit. vocat. Fuller's Hofpital in

" Shoreditch."—The viQtors by this decree are the lord-chancellor, the lord-chief-

juftice of the king's bench, themafter of the rolls, the lord-chief-juftice. of the

common pleas, and the iord-chief-barsn of the. exchequer, for the time being,

(Parifh-writings, D. No. i. 2. 3. 4. 5.) The pariflido now repair this alms-houfe,

and nominate the perfons, probably by way of corapromife for fo doing. (Veftry-

orders, Sept. 29, 1703; and Nov. i a, 1706.)* See Terriars of thofe lands. (Parifh-writings, D. No. 2.)"

•f-New View of London, vol. II. p. 765 ; and Maitland's Hiftor-y, p. 656, makes

this benefaction 4/. to each per ann. The coals are paid for by the church-wardens^

being, the gift of John Eomans, «//«jTice. (Vid»No. 15.)

146 HISTORY AND ANT IQ_UI TIESIn Money. Refitsftr .^wtuml

£ s, jC s.

IV. Thomas Daniel, gent, gave,

by his will, dated Oc5t. 8, 1593*'-, ^^ the

ufe of the poor of this parifh, a rent-

charge of a/, per ami. for ever, out of his

three mefluages or tenements f in Thames-ftreet', in the parifh of St. James, Garllck-

hythe.'

a o

V. Thomas Russel, citizen and dra-

per of London, gave, by indenture, dated

July 6, 1 593+, an annuity of 2/. \2S.

per arm. for ever, to the church-wardens

for the time being ; to be paid quarterly by

the Drapers' company, out of an annuity

granted them by the fame indenture, and

chargeable on his meffaages, lands, &c.

then known by the name of the Crown

Rents §,• in Shoreditch. The faid annuity

to be diftributed for the relief of the poor,

by the churchwardens, on every Sunday *

throughout the year, in twelve pennyworth

* Old Table of Benefadions; Maitland's Hiftory, p. 769; Stutzer's Papers.-*-

He was buried Oft. 4, 1593. (Parifti regifter.)

f- Thefe were fold, in 1655, to Lionel Newman; but, in 1664, they were in

the poflefGon of Dodfon, (Old T^ble.) lin 1723, an arrear of 13 years

was recovered from Dan. Dodfon, before a commiffion of charitable ufes (Veftry-

Order) Feb. 6, 1723; payable by Geo. Dodfon, of Philpot-lane, London,

gentleman.

t See copy of it in Old Table of Benefaftions, Stowe, and Maitlantf.

§ They were afterwards, I believe, Called Kuffell's Row, as before Rotten Row,

as being rebuilt by him. (Stowe.)

of

OFSHOREDITCH. 247

In Money, Rtnlspey Anmni.In cmmy. Rents pet Annul

of bread, accounting 13 loaves to the

dozen. a i

2

VI. William PEake, of Hoxton,

gent, gave, by his will*, dated Jan.

ig, and proved Jan. 32, 1596, one an-

nuity of 5/. 4^-. per ann. payable for ever,

out of his lands, tenements, &c. f at

Hoxton, to the church-wardens of the

parifli X for the time being, for and towards

the relief of the poor dwelling or abiding

therein, by diftributing it among them for

ever ^, weekly in bread. '5 4

VII. Robert Brainsforth, of Shore-

ditch, gent, gave, by his will ||, dated

April 9, 1608, one annuity of 9/.

per ann. to be paid for ever by the go-

vernors of St. Thomas's Hofpital, in South-

wark, who are befides thereby obliged to

receive every )ear, if need require, into

their hofpital, one dileafed perfon for his

* See copy of the will. Old Table of Bencfadlions, Stowe, and Maitland ; though

it is reckoned at no more than 3/. 4J. in the New View of London,- vol. I. p. 315.He was baried Jan. 27, 1596. (Parifh-regifter.)

•\ Then called the, rents of Mr. Wall, his nephew; (Old Table of Benefadlions.)

is now paid by Oldfield, M. T). of Bijliter-lane,. London. Stutzer's

Papers.

;J:Who have, in cafe of failure of payment for three months, power to diftrain,.

both for arrears and charges. (See copy of the will.)

§ At 2J. a week* (See Old Table of Benefaftions and Stowe.)

jlSee copy of the will, and Old Table of Benefaftions,. Stowe,. and Maitland.

recovery^

£4$ HISTORY AND ANT IQ^tJ I T I E S

In Money. Rinli ftr Atom.

Is. is,Tecovery, out of Holly wjel-ftreet; for whichpiirpoles he bequeathed to the faid go-

vernors all his freehold lands, tenements,

Sec. in Diftaff-lane ; as alfo thofe in Crut- "

ched Friars, St. Olave, Hart-flreet, knownby the fign of the Black Bull. This an-

nuity is to be applied to the following

ufes *

:

. 901. Three pounds to be diftributed among

the poor, every St. Thomas's day, before

Ghriftmas.

2. Fifty fhillings in like manner every

Good Friday.

3. Fifty fhillings in bread, to be dealt in

equal portions on every Sunday in the year.

4. Twenty iTiillings to the vicar or

preacher of the parifh, for two fermons,

for his memorial and the edification of the

people, viz. the one at Chriftmas, the

other at Eafter. Ten fliillings each fermon.

Hem. He gave 3/. to be diftributed

among the poor at the time of his burial"f. 3 o

* Thefe diflribmions to be left to the difcretion of the church-warJens andoverfeers of the poor ; but the clerk of St. Thomas's hofpital to fee that all dif-

tiibutions and payments be made according to his will.—The parifli-clerk andfexton are to have an equal portion of them with the poor. (See copy of thewill.) According to Stowe's account, fixty perfons were to be relieved on St.

Thomas's day, thirty on Good Friday ; and twelve pence to be allowed in breadevery Sunday.

'Y He was buried May 15, 1608.

2 Item.

OFSHOREDITCH. 249

In Money, S^nti fer Anmm'

Item. He gave a green carpet for the

communion-table *.

VIII. Simon Burton, of London,

wax chandler, in i59.'<, gave an an-

nuity, by his will, of thirty groats, to be

diftributed among the poor'f of this parifli

for ever, by the governors of St. Thomas's

hofpital in Southwark, every year, on St.

Thomas's day. 10 o

Item. He gave to the poor of this

parifli two pounds, a o

IX. George Clarke, citizen and dra-

per of London, in 1608, gave the fumof one hundred marks in money, to the

ufe of the poor J. 66 13

X. George Paljn, of London, girdler,

in 1608, gave, for the poor's ufe §, 10/. 10 o

*Of broad-cloth, according to the Old Table of Benefaflions, and 'Stow e.

•\ Old Table of Benefactions, Stowe's Survey, and Maitiand's Hiftory.—New-court makes this benefadion to be twenty Ihilllngs for thirty poor people ; and adds

to it fix (hillings to the vicar, tor a fermon in Lent ; but no fuch ferraon is npwpreached, nor is more paid that ten fliiiiings per ann, by St. Thomas's hofpitaJ.

(Ncwcourt's RepertQiium, vol. 1. p. 668.) It appears by the wil,that the faid twenty

ftiiilings to the poor, and fix (hillings for the fermon, were given to the pari(hof St.

Andrew Underfhaft. (See copv of the will, ''.ated May 17, 1393.)

J Old Table of Benefuftions, Stowe's Su-vey, and New View of, London, vol. I.

p. 315; though Mr. Maitland reckons this benefaction but at three pounds, ten

(hillings. His Hiftory, p. 679.

§ Old Table of Benefadions. Stowe adds, for ever.

K k XL Robert

950 HISTORY AND A N T I Q_U I T I E S

In Morrfv. Rentt per ^mimt

XI. Robert Rogers, of London,

"leather-ftller, in 1608, gave to the ufe of

the poor thirty pounds in money *, to be

laid out every year in fea-coal, at the belt

time, referving always the Itock entire-f. 30 o

XII. Agkes Spence, of London, wi-

dow, in 1608, gave an annuity for ever

of 2/. lbs. to the ufe of the poor:{:

; .to be

paid by the' Fifhmongers company at :

Chriftmas §. 2 10

XIII. Thomas Scriven, efq. in 1608,gave 10/. in money to the ufe of the poor^ • '

for ever ||. 10 o'

XIV- Agnes Smith, widow ^, in 1620,gave 50/. in money to the Drapers' com-pany *'•% upon condition of tlieir paying fft

* Old Table of Benefaftions, and Stowe ; ihough Maitland makes the gift to bel/. \ OS. per ann.

\ This ftock was increafed to 50/. in 1653. (See Orders of Veflry, Aug. a,

1653, and June 2,7, 1654.)

X Old Table of Benefadtions, and Stowe.

§ Stutzer's Papers,

IIOld Table of Benefaflions, and Stowe.

% According to Stowe, her name was Anne, and flie was late wife to Willfatn.

Nifam, deceafed.** Old Table of Benefaftions, and Maitland's Hiftor)'-.

•f-f- For this payment, fee the company's bond, dared Sept. 25, 162,0. (Parifli-

writings, G. No. 2.) Stowe makes the diftribunon to be is. each Sunday; and,

according to the New View of London, fuppoles the annual income to be 5/. 4J.

5 ,for

OF SHORE DITCH. zî

In Money. R/nfi per /^nnunt,

Is. £ s.

for ever, one annuity of fifty fliillings, by-

quarterly payments, to the poor of this

parilh, to be diftributed among them in

bread every Sunday. a loItem. She gave a pulpit- cloth and

cuihion.

XV. JohnEomans, c7//<3j-TfcE, tufftafata-

weaver, of this pariih, in 1620, gave to

the poor 10/^ in money, to be diftributed

yearly in one chaldron of fea-coal, for

ever, among the twelve poor widows of

efq. Fuller's alms-houfe -. 10 o

For the ule and maintenance of the

poorf. 100 o

XVI. Cicely Tice, late wife of JohnTice aforefaid j:, gave foon afterwards, in

1:631, the fura of 20/. § for a ftock of fea-

coal, forever]!, for the ufe of the poor. 20 o

* Old Table of Benef ,if;!ons, and Stowe.—He was burled July 27, 1621."

(Parifli-regifter.J See tnpy of will, proved Auiûft 7, 1621.

\ This was a concitional benefaftlon, on the death of his fon, before his wife,

but whether it took place is not cei-tain. (See cpy of the will, proved Augult 7,1(521.)

X Old Table of Benefaaions, and Stowe.—She foou married Mr. John Heath.

—

Died, and was buried June T, 1622.

§ The fums given by Mrs. Tice were laid out, April 9, 1633, with other be'ne-

faftions, amounting in all to the iU«i of 256/. in purchafing of Richard Middleton,

three tenements, and three acres of land, (the Land of Promifc, inHoxton), wl ich

were leafed out Feb. 7, 1636, to H. Hempfon, for 41 years, at 16L per ann. and

to Edward H.Lint, Oft. i, 1668, for 5-1 yâs, at 20/. per a;nt. and to Charles

Garret, Oft. i",, 1683, f(\ 65 years, at the lame rent : (Old Table of Benefaftioni,

and Parifh-writings, G. No. 6, 8, 9, 10.) .'ini Jately to Samuel Beightouj from

Lady-day, 1744, for 103 years, at 20/. per ann.

IIVeftry-orders, Aug. 4, -1653, and June 27, 1654,

K k^ Item.

*52, HISTORY ArND A N T I QÛ I T I E S

In Money, Rents per Annunu.

£ s. jT s.

Item. She gave 'id. in money to buya filver flaggon for the Holy Communion. 20 o>

Item. She gave 20/. in money for the

maintenance of two £ermons yearly for

ever ; the one on Lady-day in Lent, and

the other ^ on Lady-day in harveft : for

which the vicar is to have yearly i/. loj. ao q i 10

"^ XVn. Nicholas Wilkinson, alias

TooLEY, gent, of this parifh, in 16.4^gave the fum of 80/.*- in money f, to

remain as a ftock for ever, to buy 32wheaten loaves, to be given to as manypoor people at the church, every Sunday,

after morning-prayer. 80- Q:

XVin. Richard FishbournJ, mer-

chant and mercer, in 1625, gave 20/. to

be difpofed of among 60 poor men.. 20' o.

* Old-Table of Benefa6lions, and Stowe;. though the New Survey of London-makes the Turn 180/. vuK I. p. 316.

•f-This fura, with 20/. moie, was laid out Oft. 30, 1624, by the provident-

care of the vicar, church-wardens, and veftry-men, in pvirchafing of Robert Smart

a yearjy rent-charge of 6/. loj.. or 32 penny wheaten loaves; ilTuing out of the

George brewhoufe, (now George- yard), in HoUywel-ftreet ; now payable by JohnStevens, in CafUe-alley, near the Royal Exchange, Cornhill. Old fable of Bene-

îons,. and Stowe. Stutzer'S papers, A. 2, 9, \<^, See original deed.

\ Old Tuble of Benefactions,.

XIX. CHRIS'-

OF SHO'RE DITCH. .tS3

In Mo/tey, RerttJ per j4mum»

XIX. Christopher Freeman, gent.*

gave, to the ule of the poor f, loA lo o

XX. William Badgfr, of this parifh,

gardener ;[:, in 1626, gave a filver flaggon-

for the wine at the Holy Communion,value ao/, 20 o

XXI. Zachary Avlmer §, official to

the archdeacon of London, in 162^5 to-

gether with his brother Edmund Aylmer,

gent.II

gave a filver flaggon for the wine

at the Holy Communion ^. 30 o .

XXJI. A perfon unknown, in 1627,

gave a filver flaggon for the wine at the

Holy Communion**. Value 20 a

XXIII. John Leavys, weaver, in 1618,

gave a filver chalice and cover for the wine.

at the Holy Communion•j-f.

* Old Table of Benefactions.—He was buried July 20, 1625.

f This benefaction, with others, making up the funi of 305/. lOi. was laid out>

Nov. II, 1647, in purchafing, of Conradiis Hewett, 4 freehold tenements in

Hoxton, which- were leafed oiii to the faid Hewert, at zzL per ann. for 61 years,

eommencing at Chrirtmas, 1647 • and to Edward Taylor, 'or 6i years, commencingMichaelmas, 1680, at 'jL per ann. now to Francis Vanderwalls, of Crutched-friars,

from Michaelmas, 1741, for 09 years, at 7/. per ann.

X Old Table of Benefaftions, and,!~>towe.

§ He died, and was buried at Shoredirch, Aug. 3, i6if. (Parirti-regifl-er.)

jjHe died, and was buried at Shoreditch,, July 29. 1627. '(Parifh-regifter.)

<|fOld Table of Benefaftions, and Stow(>,

** Stowe, and Smtzer's Papers. -f-f Old Table of Benefa£îoPs, and Stowe.

XXIV. WiL^-

25+ • HISTORY AI?D ANTIQÛITIESIn Money, Rmli ptr jlnnum,

£ s. £ s.

XXIV. ^ViLLiAM Wood, gardener, of

this parilTi, in i6a8, gave a filver chalice

and cover "for the wine at the Holy Com-munion ; as i^llo 4 pewter flaggons *.

XXV. Isabel Jackson, widow of Wil-

liam Jacklbn, _y,rocer, of this parifli, in

1628, gave a filver patin for the bread at

the Holy Communion f.

ItcfJi. She gave an annuity | for ever

of 2/. ilTuing out of Squire's Rents, being

one houle North of Black Swan-alley, in

Holly wel-ftreet, and the feveral houfes in

the faid alley, nuw payable to Ralph Har-

wood, efq. 2 o

XXVI. Joan Smales, alias Cooke, of

this parifli §,- in i6a8, gavejj, by deed,

dated July 25, 1628, a leafc of a houfe

in Holly wel-ll:reet, for a thoufand years,

* Old Table of Benefaîons, and Stowe.

•\ Old Table of BeiictcriitioiiS, and Stowe.—Fe was buried at Shoreditch, Sept.

15, 1612; and (he. May 3, 1634. (Parifh-regifter.)

X Old Table of Bentfadiions, Maitland, and Snuzer's Papers.

§ She was widow of Mr. Cooke, but married John Smales, March 2, 1619.—She was buried iVTarch 7, 1628. (Parifli-regifter..)

IIThomas Stowe makes the gift to be 40/. :o the poor; it fliould le forty {hil-

lings yearly, befides the allowance for fermous.—The hcuie indeed was !e. led to Mr.Bifhop, at 4/ per ann. for three years from Chriftmas, i6tii, but now on Im.": to

Richard Crippin, at 7/. per ann. for twenty-one years from Ladv Day 17^,6 ; nowpayable by William Syinmonds, of Portifmouth, brewer. Old Table of Beae-

fadions, and Stutzet's Papers.

at

OF SHOREDITCH. 2^5

i« Money, Rents fer Annum

^ J-. £ s

at the rent of a pepper-corn, to the fol-

lowing ufes, .viz.' 7 ^

1. For four fermons : on St. Stephen's

day ; on the Purification of the Virgin

Mary ; on St. John the Baptift ; and on

St. Michael the Arch-angel ; i os. each

fermon.

2. The remainder of the rent to the

ufe of the poor that Ihall be prefent at ^

hearing the faid fermons.

XXVII. Mr, Jackson, brickmaker, of"

this parilh, in 1629, gave to the church,

a great brafs candleltick, with branches *.

XXVIIL Mrs. Roe, of this parifh, in

1629, gave a purple velvet carpet, em-broidered in the middle with I H S, with

gold and filk, for the Communiontable;and alfo a black velvet hearie- cloth, with

a cufliion for the pulpit of the fame, edged

with gold and filk fringe'i\

XXIX. ~ BERNARD Hyde, efq % in.

1630, gave 4/. loj'. to be diftributed once

* Old Table of Benefafl:'on<;.

f Old Table of Benefatt > ns, and Stutzer's Papers.

% He was, I believe, a benefatlor ro the parifliefs of St. Andrew, Un(5erfhaft,

ind St. Dunftan in ihe E»(l:. New View of London, vol. I. pp. 121, 215. OldTable of Benelaftions.

in

*5S HISTORY AND ANTIQÛITIESIn MoKiy, Btnfs fir Ainum.

£ s, £ s,

in ten years fucceflively for ever ^-^ to 1

6

poor widows, or maidens, at $s. each, re-

fiding in this' parifli ; whereof Salters' wi-

dows and daughters (if there be any) are

to be preferred f. 410

, XXX. Capt. James Slade, fervant to,

the Eaft India Company, in 1630, built a

gallery on the South lide of the church,

with a long feat between that and the

North gallery, for the catechifing youth

out of the pulpit J.

XXXI. Henry IJodge, of this parifh,

citizen and brewer, of London, in 1632, j :;

did, by his laft will §, dated Sept. 21,

1632, give, after the deceafe of his wife

Joyce, one yearly rent-charge of 5/. as.||

to be beftowed by is. a week for ever in

bread, among the poor of this parifh, on

Wednefdays. 5 4Item. He gave a diaper-cloth for the

Communion-table ^F-

* This benefaction is to be^ paid by the Salters' company, whereof he was a

memter.•\ The laft payment was due and received at Chriflmas, 1741. Stutzer's Papers.

^ Old Table of Benefaftions, and Stowe.

§ See copy of the will, and Old Table of Benefa.iftions.

|i Ifluing out of 4 meffuages and a brewhoufe, then known by the [name of the]

Bell, in Shoreditch, and occupied by John Byde, efq. and now by Ralph Harwood.

«fq.

f Old Table of Benefaflions, and Stowe.

Item.

OF SHORED ITCH.^

257

In M'lnty. Rmli fer Annum.

£ s, £ s.

Item. He gave.a table of benefa6lions,

which was let up in the chancel, near the

Communion-table, in 1 6 33, which is

either perifhed or loft.

XXXII. Margaret Draynor, widow *

of Thomas Draynor, efq. afterwards lady

St. John, in 1633, was a benefa6lrefs, but

the fum unknown f.

XXXIII. John Noble, of this parifh,

citizen and tallow-chandler of London |,

and another perfon unknown, in 1633,gave certain monies for two fermons yearly

for ever^, the one on Nov. 5, and the

other on St. John's Day, at Chriftide,

againft exceflive gaming ; for which the <

vicar is to have thirty fhillings. i 10Item. He gave, by will, 2.0 j. yearly

for ever ||, to be diftributed among the

poor ; 1 OS. after each fermon.

* Old Table of Benefaftions. Her hufband, Thomas Draynor, efqt was buriedat Shoreditch, June 4, 1632; and flie married Alexander St. John, Nov. 12,

1633. (Parifli regifter.)

•f- The fum, whatever it was, was laid out, with Mrs. Tice's gifts, in the purchafeof the parifli-eftate in the Land of Promife, Hoxton, as above, under No.,XVI. (n).^

X Old Table of Benefaflions ; but a gardener by trade. See copy of his will.

§ Which was laid out, in like manner as Mrs. Tice's and Mrs. Draynor's gifts,

in the purchafe of ' the parifti-eftate in the Land of Promife, Hoxton. See as

above, under No. XVI. p. 251, and No. XXXII. in this page.

IIThis annuity ought to iffue out of his freehold lands in Cock-lane, which cannot

now be found. (Sturz«r's Papers.) It was given by his will, dated Sept. 8, andproved Oft. 10, 1651. (See copy.)—He was buried Sept. 11, 1651.

L I XXXIV. Tho-

«58 HISTORY AND A N T I QÛ I T I E S

In Money. Mtitli per Aimam,

£ s. £ I,

XXXIV. Thomas Austin, efq. citi-

zen and clothworker, and alderman ofLondon, in 1634, gave the painted win-dow * that was at the Eaft end of the third

aile of the old church, but is now the

uppermoft compartment in the large win-dow over the Communion-table^

The great painted window, which wa&at the end of the great chanceL in the old

church, and reprefentsf "Our Bleffed

" Saviour diftributing the Eucharift/' and

is now in the lower cofnpartment, in the

large window, over the Communion-table, was bought J, and fet up by certain,

parifliioners.

XXXV. Robert Gootridge, of this

parifh, in 1634, gave the Three Books-

of Martyrs to the church, with a cafe

* Old Table of Benefa<flions.—This window contained threellghts ; in the firft,.

is the Vifion of Jacob ;—the fecond, his meeting with his brother Efau ;—and, itv

the third, he is on his knees, with this fcroll proceeding out of his mouth : " Minorfum cuntlis Miferationibus tins', iyViritate iud quam explevijii Servo, ttw." Gen. xxxii...

10. Over ihefe, in four fmaller lights, are the Evangelifls, with their propertypes : on one fide are the arms of the Ciothworkers' company, viz. Sable, a

chevron Ermine, between two habicks in chief, Argent, and a teffel in bafe •, the

creft, on a torce, is a ram paffant. Or.—On the other fide, a,re the arms of Auftin,

viz. Azure, on a chevron, between three lapwings Or, as many quatrefoils Vert j.

the creft on a wreath, a lapwing Argent.—Beneath is this infcriptioa ; Ex Donothotna Aujiin, Civis & Clothworker, Londini, Anno Domini 163.4.

•f-Itreprefents the Supper of our Lord; his wafliing his Difciples feet; and his

Praying in the Garden ; with the Death of Judas the Traitor,

X Old BenefaaioD-t«js}e.

a of

OF SHORE DITCH. 25?

^ In Monty, Rmtt per Aiuuai'

£ s. £ s,

of wood, grated with iron, to preferve

them *.

XXXVI. Sir John Fenner, knt.

dire6led, by his will, dat^d Nov. 15,

1633, lands to be purchafedf, and

the tenth part of the produce to go an-

nually to this parifh for ever, to the fol-^

lowing ufes, viz.

I. Six pounds for providing yearly 20

bibles of the canonical Scriptares only,

* Stutzer's Papers.

-J-The purchafe direfted for each afe were fixty and fifty pounds per am. arid of

his will, made Henry Reade, Thomas Warwick, John Blackifton, and JohnTaylor, executors; fince which, the faid Henry Reade, Thomas Warwick, and

John Blackifton, are deceafed ; and John' Taylor, the only furvivor of the faid

Henry Reade, Thomas Warwick, and John Blackifton, with the eftate, did, ac-

cording to the will of Sir John Fenner, purdiafe lands of Henry Finch, efq.

called Godlesford, otherwife Goddelsford Andrew, near Ipfwich, in the county of

Suffolk, of the yearly value of 220/. or thereabout; and, by a decree made in the

high court of Chancery, bearing date the fkft day of June, 1654, it was, amongfl:

other things, adjudged and decreed, that John Taylor, the furviving executor,

ihould, for performance of the faid will, out of the faid lands, affure to the ten

parifhes mentioned in the faid will, lands of the yearly value of i jo/. (that is to

fay) the farm, late Percival's, now Truelove's, being 85/. per am.; and out of the

farm, late Harley's, now Goodale's, -z^L per ann. to make up the full fura

of no/, per ann. (Stutzer's Papers.) it was let to William Worts at 100/.

per ann. fo that the parifh received no more than lol. to their proportion, yearly;

out of which is abated their part of the land-tax and the lord-rent. (Stutzer's

Papers.) The faid Worts hath come to an agreement with the truftees for a leafe

of twenty one years, to commence at Michaelmas, 1746, at the annual rent of 105/.

for which term the parifhes are to receive 10/. lOJ. a year, clear of all deduftions

whatever. (Stutzer's Paper's.)

N. B. The writings, with a terriar of the lands, are kept by this parifh, andare in a box, with three locks, in the veftry ; the keys of which are kept, one in

Whitechapel, one at St. George's, Southwark, and the other in this parilh. (Stut-

zer's Papers.)

LI a well-

a6o HISTORY AND ANTKÛITIESIn Money. Rtnts per ylmum,

well-bound and clafped ; to be diftributed

about Eafter, yearly, for ever, by the chief

minifter and church-wardens, to youngperfonSj who are not able to buy them.

2. And five pounds to be diftributed at

Eafter, Midfummer, Michaelmas, and

Chriftmas, among poor fick perfons, for

ever, by the chief minifter, church-war-

dens, overfeers of the poor, and fuch as

they fhall make choice of. (See the will.) ii 9Item. He gave 40/. in money *, as a

ftock to buy coals yearly, for the poor of

this parilh, at the cheapeft rate.

XXXVII. Thomas Nevitt, gent,

gave to the vicar and parilh of St.

Leonard, Shoreditch, by his will, dated

June 28, 1633, but not proved till 1638,

the yearly annuity of thirty fhillings : viz.

loj. for a fermon on Good Friday, and

aoj. to be diftributed among the poor on

the fame day. I o

* Stutzfer's Papers. Old Benefaftion-table makes it 50/. Mr. Maitland reckons

the whole of the benefaftions at 12/. los, per ann.

•f-This annuity to be paid, with other gifts of the faid Thomas Nevitt, by the

company of Girdlers, London ; for which purpofe he gave the company twenty-four

acres of land in Snave and Orlefton in Kent ; now let to Peter Belcher, of Egerton,

at 19/. a year ; as alfo i io7. to purchafe lands of 67. or houfes of 8/. a year.

XXXVIII. JAS-

OF SHORE DITCH. a6i

In Maniy, Renti ftr ^num.

XXXVIII. Jasper Yardley, gent, in

1639, fecond matter of Guildford-hofpital,

in Surry, gave, by his will *, proved June

20, 1639, the fum of 40/. to this parifh,

to be equally divided into eight fhares, and

to be lent yearly by the vicar and church-

vrardens, upon bond, for one year only,

without intereft, to 8 poor tradefmen and

fhopkeepers, living in the fear • of God,

and willing to take pains in their trades and

occupations ; but having no great ftocks,

and being young beginners -j-. 40

XXXIX. Mrs. Mary. ParADiNE, gave-,-

by. indenture J, dated March 25, 164a,-

the fum of ico/. upon condition that

the vicar and church-wardens Ihould.

lay it out § in the purchafe of lands or

houfes, and diftribute the rent thereof

among the poor for ever. 100

* See copy of his will, and Awbrey's Hiftory and Antiquities of Surrey, vol. III.

p.^97.—He died May 31, 1636, and was buried at Guildford.

f- This is faid to be given by a perfon unknown, (Old Table of Benefaftions) ;

but appears to be Mr. Yardley, by a veftry-order, Feb. 24, 16.52, when forae of;

his_ benefaftions had been embezzled, and the church-wardens were ordered to

make..fuch embezzlements good, when called upon by a commiffion of charitable

ufes..

+ See original among parifli-papers, G. No. 4. Old Table of Benefaftions.

§ With that of Mr. Freeman and others, was laid out iu a purchafe from Conra--dus Hewett, of four tenements at Hoxton. See No. XIX. p. 253.

XL. Ed-

t6i HISTORY AND ANTIQÛITIES

In Mcaiy. Sailf» Amaih

XL. Edmund Tuberville, alias TuR-viLE, efq. citizen and grocer, of London,in 1 64 1, gave to the church-wardens of

St. Leonard, Shoreditch, by will*, the

fum of 5/. yearly for ever f, to be bythem diftributed among the moli poor and

needy in the faid parifh, at their difcretion.

XLL John Byde, efq. alderman of

London, and brewer, of this parifti, gave,

by indenture, dated July 20, 1642 J, the,

leafe of a houfe §, in Holywell-ftreet H,

for 199 years ^; the rent whereof is to

be diftributed in bread among the poor,

as the veftry fhall think meet.

* See copy of the will, dated Jan. 10, and proved Jan. 29, 1641. (Old Tableof Benefaftions.)

-p Payable by the Grocers' company, London, at Grocers' hall, on demand.(See Will.) Recovered by an appeal to a commiflion of charitable ufes.—Ordersof Veftry, Sept. 9, 1686.

X Stutzer's Papers, B. 3.—'He died, and was buried in Shoreditch, Sept. 16,

1665 ; his epitaph in the New View of London, vol. L p. 315. (Pari(h-regifter.)

§ Formerly in the tenure of Richard Telkue, and now of Richard Tdvey; let

to Mr. White, at 6/. per ann. Veftry-orders, Nov. i, 1661. Old Benefaflion-

table, and Stutzer's Papers, A. 19.— Leafed to Guy Brian in 1687, and expires at

Chriftmas, 1747.

IIFor providing two dozen of wheaten loaves, accounting thirteen to the doên ;

to be diilributed every Sunday after morning-prayer. (Old Table of Benefadlions.)

^ The corner-lioufe on tlie Souih fide of Goddard's Rents' gate, on the Eaft fide

of Holywell-ftreet; on leafe to John Poole, for 31 years, commencing Chriftmas

1747 ; expires Chriftmas 1778.

XLIII. WiL-

OF SHOREDITCH. 263

Jn McHiyt Xmii fir jiniam.

^ s, Is.XLII. William Fremlin, efq. gave*,

by his will, in 1645, to the poor of this

parifh, towards purchafing of lands and

houfes in fee-fimple, to be diftributed in

fuel for ever, by the church-wardens and

overfeers of the poor. 200 o

XLIII. Mr. Atkinson, of Cree-church,

in 1647, gave a leafe of certain tenements

(the Blue Boar-inn) in Holywell-ftreet, to

the ufe of the poor-f;.

XLIV. John Walter, efq. clerk of the

Drapers' company, London, in 1658,gave certain moneys I for the building and ^

endowing an alms-houfe at Church-end,,

in Shoreditch, for 8 aged, diftreft, quiet^

honeft, and godly, poor widows,, or fingle

* Old Table of Benefaftions ; and his epitaph in the New View of London, Vol.

11. p. 311.T—He died March 13, 1645, and was buried March 25, 1646.^—Seecopy of his will, proved March 17, 1645. This benefadion, with that of Mr.Freeman, and others, was laid out in the purchafe from Conradus Hewett, of fourtenements at Hoxton. . Vide No. XIX. p. 253, and No. XXXIX. p. 261.

t'

Which being not tenantable, were fold by the parilh for the better advantagehe poor. (Old Table of Benefaftions.)—The Blue Boar was leafed to Mr.

Gotterel, during the term of Mr. Atkinfon's leafe, whogave it to the pariflr. Veftry--orders, Dec. 11, 1647, and Aug. 12, 1661.

\ Old Table of Benefaftions, and indentures between the Drapers' company, the -

vicar, church-wardens, &c. dated Jan. 1.1,, 1658. (Parifl^writings, E. No. 3.)

WO-

a64 HISTORY AND A N T I.QÛ I T I E S

In Money. Rentt fer jinnum.

jC ^' £ ^'

women*; for the building whereof, the

_parilh purchafed a rood of land f . Theallowance to each alms-woman is ^s.

monthly; and half a chaldron of coals

yearly ; to be paid for ever by the Drapers'

company |.

XLIV- William Rawlins, yeoman,

of this parifli, and vi<51:ualler, in 1658,gave, by his will §, a yearly rent-charge

of 20 J. for ever, to the church-wardens,

out of a houfe|| in Hoxton ; i oj. whereof

* The women in the fix alms-houfes towards the Weft, to be nominated andchofen by the vicar, church-wardens, and overfeers, and by all fuch of the parifh

that have born office, within fourteen days after any vacancy ; and the perfon fo

chofen, to be prefented to the company, whom if they rejedl, another meeting muftbe called for a new chance. (Indenture as above.) The two Eaftern houfes to bedifpofed of by the four church-wardens of the Drapers' company, after Mr. Wal-ter's deceafe.

-j- Of William Wall and Thomas Auftin, for 35/. byjndenture, dated May 31,1658. (Parifli-writings, E. No. i, 2.) The building was erefted in the fameyear, but after Mr. Walter's deceafe, on the Nort hfide of Old-ftreec road. (Seeinfcription on it in the New View of London, vol. II. p. 765.) This building,

with the walls and pump, is to be repaired at the expence of the parifh ; as it wasIn 1671, 1672, and 1710. (Indenture, Jan. 11, 1658; and Veftry-oiders, May25, 1671; Ofl. 3, 1672; June 13, 1710.)The Weaver's company pays ds. a year ground-rent to the pariCh for their alms-

houfe. (Stutzer's B.)

X The New View of London makes the monthly allowance to be 5J. vol. II.

P- 765-

§ Dated Sept. 3, and prove<l Sept. 23, 1658. (See copy.) Old Table of

Benefaftions.

IIThe houfe was then inhabited by Hilton, a flocking-weaver, now by

James Latour, gent. The annuity is paid by John Olmius, efq. in Cecil-ftreet in

the Strand. (Stutzer.)

is

OF SH CREDIT CH. 265

In ^lorry. Rents per Annum,

is for a fermon yearly, on Dec. 25, between

the hours of eight and twelve in the fore-

noon ; and 1 oj", to be by them diftributed

on the fame day in penny loaves, amongthe poor*. i

Item. He gave twenty dozen of wheaten

bread to be diftributed among the poor the

next day after his burial.

XLVI. Richard Saunderson, of this

pariQi, carpenter, in 1638, ,gave, by hi.s

will "[•, 3/. to buy bread for the poor. 3 o'Item. He gave an annuity of 40^. for

ever +, to buy coats for three old men,fuch as "his guardians and executors fliould

approve of j to be difpofed of about Mi-

chaelmas. 2 O

XLVII. Thomas Austin, efq. of this

parifh, in 1659, gave to the ufe of the

parifh 100/^. which fum was laid out in

* If the fermon be not preached, and the bread given, according to the will

the honfe is difcharged from payment. (See will.) He was buried Sept. 5, 1658.(Pariih-regifter.) Now payable by Gabriel Heath, of Hoxton, bricklayer.

•f-Proved Od. 2J, 1658. (Stutzer's ^Papers, B. 3. and Old Table of Bene-

faftions.)—Buried Odl. 5, 1658. (Parifh-regifter.)

X Iffuing out of his tenements at Church-end. It never appears that this annuitywas paid. (Stutzer.)

^ He died Oft- 30, 1658, (fee epitaph,) and was buried NoV. 6, 1658. (Parifh-regifter.) See Enquiries after Charitable Legacies of his Widow. (Veftry-orders,April 6, 1667.)

M m purchafing

266 HISTORY AND A N T I Q^tT I T I E S

In Money. ' Rcnii f»' j/mbtu

purchafing of Thomas Auftin, his fon and

heir, a piece of ground*, abutting Eaftward

on tlie church-yard, and fince added to

it. 100Item. He gave, for feven years after

his death, 60/. per ann. t to put out poor

houfekeepers' children apprentices ;|:.

XL,VIII. Anthony Bennet, of this

pariQi, viflualler, in 1659, gave §, bywill, an annuity of a/, to be dillributed

among the alms-people every Chriftmas-

day, yearly, during his leafe || of twenty-

three years, of 5 tenements at Church-

end. X

XLIX. Alexander Jones, of London,

merchant; in 1661, gave, by his wîll ^,the fum of 50/. to the minifter and church-

* It is a copyhold, lies in the parifh of Stepney; was furrendered at a courr

baron, Dec. 14, 1671, for the ufe of a burial-place for ever. (Old Table of

Benefadiions, April 8, 1674. Stutzer.)

\ See copy of the will, proved Dec. 15, 165,8.

+ Regard to be had to the pariflies of Slioreditch, St. Botolph Biirmfgate,

and Twickenham.

§ Old Table of Benefaftions.—He was buried Dec. 27, 1659. (Parifti-re-

gifter.)

IIThis leafe commenced at Michaelmas 1657 ; and expired at Michaelmas 1680.

His executors were MelTrs. Rainbud and Coleman, who were to be freed from

the payment by nothing but the cafuahy of fire. (Old Table of Benefaftions.)

51" See copy of the will, dated May 5, 1660; and proved 0£l. 16, 1661.

wardens

OF SHARED ITCH. a67

In }\hn€f. Renti per jlvium,

wardens, to be lent*, by 25/. a piece,

to two inhabitants, upon good fecurity, at

the yearly intereft of 4 per cent. Thefaid intereft to be by them diftributed

among the poor. 500Item, He gave a filk-ftocking frame

-f-,

with its profits, to be diftributed weekly,

on every Lord's day for ever, in bread and

money, among the poor who frequent the

church.

L. Love Branson, of this parifli,

weaver, in 1661, gave 50/. :|:for the ufe

of five poor decayed mafter-weavers in it

;

loj. to be paid to each of them yearly,

out of the intereft of it, at Michaelmas §. 50 o

Item. He gave, by will, a table for

benefadtors||names ; but, his widow and

* But this leafe failing, the whole was loft beyond recovery. (Old Table of

Benefaftions.)

•f-It was in the poffeffion of John Shardfon, of Spitalfieldsj but, the occupant

being unrefponfible, and embezzling it foon after the donor's death, the parifli wasforced to accept of a fmall fum of money in lieu thereof. (See will, and OldTable of Benefaftions.) Veftry-orders, Dec. 10, 1663.

+ See copy of will, proved Dec. 16, 1661.'—Buried Dec. 3, 1661. (Parifli-

regifter.)

. § Old Table of Benefaflions.—^This gift, with feveral others, mentioned in this

table, was laid out in purchafing of Eleanor Harrow, Dec. 3, 1663, a copy-hold

tenement in Hollywell- ftreet, then occupied by Old Guelfon, but let on leafe for

21 years from Chriftmas 1664, to Thomas Harding, at 10/. fer annum; whereofa building-leafe was granted in 1688, for 71 years, at 6/. ioj. per annum; fince

paid by William Bewley, fhoemaker. (^Stutzer, A. No. 9, 4, ii^ 19, andB. 3.)

IIWherein he defigned his own legacy to be fairly written and commemorated.

(See copy of the will.)

M m 2 ' executrix

a68 HI STOREY AND ANTIQÛITIESIn Money. Sailt ftt <*www».

executrix pleading poverty, it could neverbe obtained.'

LI. Thomas Webb,, of this parifh,

bricklayer, in 1662, by his will*, dated

June 8, 1 66 1, gave, after the death of

Mary, his wife, his freehold-lands called

Copthall, at Church-end,, to the pre-

lident and governors of Chrift's hofpital,,

London, on condition that they receive,

cloath, and educate, three children, born

in this parifli, recommended f by the

church-wardens and overfeers of the poor r

and, when they are of age, they be ap-

prenticed, and 5/. given with each of

them : and, at the expiration of the under

leafes to William Grey and George Erner-

fon, lix children are then to be received, ~

educated, and apprenticed, in like manner^

for ever:|:.

Lll. Mrs. Snowe, of Golden-lane §,

gave to the poor's ufe,'

50 o

* Old Table of Benefadîons, and Stutzer's Papers, A. 4, 11. B. 3.—Buried atr

Bethlara, Sep. 27, i66z. (Parifh -regifter.)

•f-Three children were put in, Veftry-order, Mar. 12, 1673; and as often as a.

vacancy fh'all happen.

^ The leafes expire 1753. (Stutzer.)

§ Old Table of Benefaftions; Mr. Maitland fays Mr. Snowe, and makes the.

benefaftion 2/. 10s, pr annum.

LIV. A

OF SHORE DITCH. ^^9

In Money, Jienfi fer Annum^

LIIT. A perfon Unknown ••'=, by the nameof God's Providence, gave, ' .50 o

LIV. Sir George Stawood, of Clerken-

vvelH,. in 1663, gave to the poor, 10 o

LV, Mr. Browne, in 1663 4!, gave to

the poor, 10 o

LVL John Wild, gent, of Edmonton,

but formerly of this-parifh, in 1664, gave

to the poor's ufe for ever, two copyhold

tenements §, on the Weft fide of Hollywell-

ftreet, to buy on or about the feaft of St.

Bartholomew, cloathing of Northern kur-

ieys for fix poor women ; and the refidue

of the rent to be diftributed in bread,

among the poor, every Lord's Day. 6 o

LVII. Edward Gabry-, alias Gabet,.

citizen and merchant, in i566, gave, by

his will, to the poor's ufe of this parifii |[, 20 o

* Old Table of B-nefaftions. f Ibid. % Ibid.

§ One of thefe was in the tenure of Robert Woodcock, which came to thepari-fh upon the donor's death, Dec. 1664; and Woodcock's leafe expired in 1694;rent 8/. ftr annum. They were furrendered in court of the manor of Stebtmheath,March 12, 1664. The other was in the tenure of John Lodge, and came to theparifh on the death of the donor's widow Sufanna. Ledge's 'eafe expired in 1667;rent ^j/. per annum. (Old Table of Benefaftions.)

They were both let out Jan. 9, 1699, upon a leafe of 61 years, to James Ware ;

rent 6/. pr annum. Now paid by Mrs. Mary Loubier. (Stutzer's Papers, A. i j^

19,) See copy of will, proved Jan. 12, 1664.

IIIt was paid by his executor John Gabry, Dec. 5, i666. Old Table of Beae-

faftions, and Stutzer's Papers, A, 5.

LVIII. John

zio HISTORY AND ANtI QÛ I T I E SI

In Money. ênfs per ^nmm,

X J- £ s,

LVIII. John Ferrer, efq. of tMs parifh,

in 1670, gave, by will, the fum of 50/.

which was paid to the parifli, and the in-

tereft thereof is to be applied to the follow-

ing ufes*-, viz. 50 oFor a fermon to be preached on Eafter-

Monday, loj-.

To be given to the poor in bread, loj-.

To putting out a poor child apprentice,

2/. OS.

LIX. Mr. Litchfield, in 1675, gave to

this parifli t 100/. the interelt to be an-

nually, for ever, diftributed to twelve poor

men. 100 o

LX. Allen Badger, of Haggerftone,

in this parifh, gent, in 1676, gave, by

his will I, 10/. to the poor, to be laid out

every year in buying coals, to be fold to

them at prime coft. 100Item. He gave to the vicar and church- •

wardens, th€ leafe§ of his houfes in

* Old Table of Benefaftions. Veftry-order, May 15, 1671 ; and Stutzer's

Papers, A. 5, 2.0, 21.—^He was buried April 2, 1670. (Parifli -regifter.) See

copy of will, proved May 26, 1970.

-f-Stutzer's Papers, A. 5.

;{: His will was dated Feb. 7, i«J74, and proved June 23, 1676. See copy.

(Parilh-writings, F. No. 6.)

§ See title to his houfes. Pafi(h-writings, F. No. 5.

c Sharp's

OF SHORED ITCH. 271

/« Mqiuv. Koifi Mr jfntum-

Sharp^s Alley, Norton -Falgate, in truft,

that they (hould fave and employ the en- »

creafing rent in building lix alms-houfes

for lix poor aged men of the parifh *; and

for endowing f them with 9/. per annum^

fo that each of the alms-men may have

i/. loj". per annwn.

Item. He gave the reverfion of his

freehold eftate in Whitechapel and Step-

ney, to the poor of this parifh for ever,

after the deceafe of his brother's fon, and

in default of right heirs of his kindred,

for building and endowing twelve alms-

houfes %.

LXI. Richard- Jervies, citizen and

draper of London, in 1680, gave, for

arching the fewer in the church-yard, 20/.

* Accordingly, a piece of ground was purchafed for 20/. %s. of Daniel Badger,

and Jonathan Parker, Jan. 20, 1697; thereon the houfes were built, and a de-

claration of truft was made Mar. 30, i6q8, wherein the three furviving^ rruftees

were to appoint a new lucccfliori. Parifh-writings, F. No. ^, 3, 4. (Stutzer's

Papers, A. p. 5, B. p. 4.)

The grounds are faid to be given by Dan. Badger ; (Veftry-order, Feb. 15, 1697)and to contain 9 fquare rod and 152 feet, infcription on them. See New View of

London, p. 765.

f Though thefe houfes were built in 1698, yet they could not have their full

endowment till the expiration of the leafe, which had 20 years to come : the rgnt

then' being no more, than 6/. êr annum. (New View of London, vol. I. p. 765;and Maitland, p. 659.)

\ See an account of his heirs and relations. Parifli-writiDgs, fol. 6.

Qfi

173 HISTORY AND A N T ICÛ I T I E S

In Money, 'Rcntt ftr ^^nnim.

•on condition that the parifli fhall lay out

2CS. yearly to buy cloth, to niakefliirts and

ihifts for fix poor men and women*. 2,0 o i OItem. He gave, by deed of gift, to the

•of company Weavers, London-f-,

the fum of

I do/, on condition that the faid companyIhall pay for. ever to this parifli the fum of

2/. yearly ; and the fame fum to the parifli

of St. Giles, Cripplegate, for binding out

a fon of a poor weaver in each parifli an

apprentice]:. 100 o 40LXII. Sir Charles Pitfield, knt. in

1680, gave, by will §, to the poor, the

fum of 50/. and one acre of land in Laf-

terne-field, Hoxton, for ever ||, or a houfe

for the poor to dwell in, as the minifter

and churchwardens fliall think meet,

* This money was accepted, on condition to be-clifpofed of on Chii'''fnas Eve,

bv the gift of three Ihirts to three poor people in Hoxton liberty, of civil life and

. onverfation ; and to three of the fame qualities in Holywell liberty. If the g ft be

omitted^ the money to be returned to the laid Richard Jervies, his heirs, or execu-

tors. Veflry-order, Oft. 6, i6Si; Stutzer's Papers, A. p. 5.

'\- The Weavers' company gave bond to the parifh for performing thefe con-

(]itions, July 15, 17CO, (Parilh writings, G. No. 7,) as they did before to the

benef.idor, Dec, 25, 1692. (Stutzer's Papers, A. p. 5, 11, and B. p. 4.)

X If no fuch boys to be found, then the money to be diftribucV/ imong twelve

poor widows of Weavers in each parifti, at 3^. 4^. each. (Stutzer s Papers, A.

pp. 5, II, and B, p. 4.)

§ See copy of his will, dated Odt. 9, and proved Oft. 19, 1680. So fettled by

a commiffion of charitable ufes, July 2, 1685. Stutzer's papers, A. a, 6, andB.'

4i Veftry-order, April 25, i68g.

IJTo have 5/. diflributed yearly on Chriftmas Eve, in bread or cloth.

upon

OFSHOREDITCH. inIn Money. X/nti per .itnhum.

£ s. is.upon condition a pew ^•- in the church and

a vault for a burying-place for the family

be referved. - 50 o 50LXm. Samuel Saunders, weaver, of

this pari fli, in 170a, gave 200/. by his

wilH, for purchafing an eftate ia truft for

the following ufes for ever % ; viz. 8/. per

annuMf to be laid out in cloathing three

poor freemen and three widows of the

faid company, upwards of fifty ; two out

of Norton Falgate liberty, two of Shore*

ditch parifh, and two of Biftiopfgate ; to

each a coat or gown, value i%s, a pair of

fhoes and ftockings, value 6s. \ and in

nione, aj. ^d%. ao.o o 80Item. He gave 200/. to be laid out

I|

in lands, to the yearly value of 8/.

* The pew and land rcfufed until the land be fettled and confirmed to the parifh

by his heirs. Veftry-order, Mar. 3} i6gi. Both affured to the femily by parlia-

ment, in an aft for rebuilding the parilh'church, 8 Geo. II. 1734.\ See copy of his will, dated Aug. 11, and proved Aug. 26, 1^02. Parifh-

writings, B. Stut. papers, A. 6, B. 4.

X This is payable by the Weavers' company on the firll Monday in Oftober,

yearly. Stut. Papers, A. 12, 15.

§ If neither poor weavers that are freemen, nor the widows of freemen are to.

be found, then the fame allowance is to be made to poor weavers and poor weaver's

widows in each parifli, upwards of fifty years of age. Stutzer's Papers, B. 4.

11This legacy was laid out in the purchafe of a farm, called Toogood's, at

Tillingham, in Eflfex; now let at 19/. per ann. and payable to the overfeers ofNorton Falgate, who pay the parilh three-êighths of the produce annually. Stut.

Papers, A. 12, 15.

' N n Three-

a74 HISTORY AND ANTICÛITIES

Three-eighths of the produce to be dif-

tributed in bread, among the poor decayed

weavers, houfdceepers, refident withinthe colle<Slion-book for the Long-alley

watch, every firft Friday in the month. aoo o 8 la

LXIV. Samuel Benson, efq. in 1700,gave to the pariQi a pulpit-cloth of purple

velvet*, with gold orrice upon the feams,

and I H S embroidered in the middle,, with,

the date of the year 1700 in gold; with

a culhion of the fame for the pulpit.

Item. A carpet for the communion-table of the fame, marked I H S, with the

date of the year 1700 in the fore part;,

as alfo a cufhion of the fame for the com*munion-table.

Ifem. A cloth of purple velvet for the

wall at the back of the eommunion-table,^

with a dove embroidered with filver, and.

the date of the year 1700 embroidered

with gold.

LXV. Elizabeth Benson, firft wife-

of Samuel Benfbn, efq.. ia 1710, of this

* Thefe wer-e all ftripped of their gold and filrer orrice and embroidery by fome

rogues who concealed themfelves in the churcb> and the velvet that was good was

employed ia the furniture of the new church..

pariiity

OFSHOREDITCa 175^

I» Monty. Renfs fir Annum,

parilh, gave*, by will, a 00/. towards

€re6ting a workhoufe for maintaining the

poor of the faid parifti.

LXVI. Samuel Harwar, citizen and

draper, of London, gave-f, by will,

to the Drapers' company, money and lands,

towards ereiSling and endowing X an alms-

houfe for fix men and fix women, three of

each fex to be placed by the Drapers' com-

pany, and the other three out of the parifh,, ,

,

where the faid alms-houfes ftiould be

eredled : which were erecSled in the year

1713, on the Eaft fide of Kingfland road,

in this parifli §. The allowance to each

perfon is 6s. a month, and 18 bulhels of

coals yearly.

Ifem. He gave, by will ||, to be dif- " J

tributed among the poor, 75 o

LXVII. Susannah TRioe, gentle-

woman, gave to the parifli the fum of

* The fuiti-princlpal was paid May 5, 1726, upon the ereSIng the workhoufeat Hoxton, as the intereft had been till that time. Veftry-ordcrs, Jan. 2, 1723 {

May 7, 1724; April 7, 1725; May 5, 1726.—She died Dec. 19, 1710.

•f The benefaôr's lands in Kent were left for the maintenance of the poor refiding

in the fame alms-houfes. Stnt. Papers, B. and Maitland.

:j:The parifli agreed in veftry to thefe conditions ; as alfo.to repair and uphold

the faid houfes. Veflry-orders, Jan. 3, and Jan. 24, 171 1. Stut. B.

§ Maitland's Hiftory, p. 670.

I See Veftry-order, Dec. 8, 1704.

N n 2 30/.


30/.* to be laid out, or fo much of it as

Ihould be requifite, in purchafing a velvet '

pall, for the ufe of the poor. 30 o

LXVIII. David Vollet, citizen and

glazier of London, gave for ever, by will-f-,

after the death of Elizabeth Knight, his

daughter, without heirs, fix houfes %, Sec. in

Kingfland-road and Ball-yard j one moiety

to the poor of this parifli, the other moiety

to the poor of the French church, mTbreadneedle-ftreet. 20

—

o

LXIX. Alexander PiTFiELD, efq. of

Hoxton, in 1736, gave the fum of aoo/. §

towards eredling a workhoufe. 200 o

Item, A farther legacy|j,

to the fame

tife, in 1^28, 200 6

LXX. Richard Wallis, of this pariih, '

citizen and painter-ftîiner, of London,

gave, by will proved April 1 1, 1727, the

* See Order ©f Veftry, May 11, r^ '4; as alfo for purehsî^ att Iron chefl, fwthe better fecurirg the pall and the parilh plate»

-f"Dated Mar. 6, 1724. Stut. Papers.

X Two of the faid houfes on the road-fide, and two in Ball-)'ârd, are on leafe to

Mark Ward; comnnenced at Lady day, 1738, and expires at Lady day, 1769;rent 24/. 10/.—moiety 12/. 55, The other two on the road fide are on leafe to

Thomas Dixon J commenced at Lady dayy 173S, and expires at Lady day, 1769$rent 15/. loj.—moiety 7/. i^s.

§ See Veftry orders, April 7, 1725 ; and Aug. 17, 1725.

U By will, proved Oa. 23, 17*8. *

0FSH0RE3DITCM, til

In Momy, Rtnli per Amum.

fum of %or. to be diftributed among the

poor; with fome reverfionary contingen-

ees, which ceafed on the death of his

niece, «- Mrs. Mafon, and her hufband.

LXXI. , Thomas Fairchild, of this-

parifh, gardener, in 1729, gave, by hi&

wiUf, the fum of. 25/. to the truftees of

the charity fchool and the church-wardens,^

to be by them placed out to intereft, for

the payment of aos. annually, for ever^

for a fermon on Whitfun-Tuefday in the

afternoon, on the " Wonderful Works of" God in the Creation ;" or on the " Cer-

" tainty of the Refurredlion of the Dead,

" proved by the certain Changes of the

** Animal and Vegetable Parts of the

" Creation." 25 o

LXXIL Eight new bells were pur-

Chafed %y and hung, for the moft part byvoluntary

* She died Jan. 20, 1731 j he died Sept. 17, 17^3. (See copy of his Will.) Mr.Wallis died April 10, 1727.

•f See copy- of his will, dated Feb. i, 1728, and proved Oft. 23, 1729.—Hedied Oft. 10, 1729.

X Their infcription and weight are what follows,, viz^

7 I 7I.

—

Jt proper Times my Voice T raife, l _««_And found to my Subfcribers Fraê.)

II.—Thomas Letter made Me, ~—^ —

—

7 313

15 o 20HI.—

a;^ HISTORY AND ANTIQÛITIESJn Mmiy, Rain ftt jlnnim.

voluntary fubfcription *, in 1739, ^* t^®

expence of 800

Brought Forward.III.—Thomas Lefter made Me.I v.—Thomas Lefter made Me. ^

—

V.—Tho. Dunn, Wm. Gofwell, builderi^ of the church.

Thomas Lefter made Me.'

-

VI.—Hen. Wheatley, lefturer, and John Hart, church-

warden, 1739. Thomas Lefter made Me.VII.—Rich. TillQey, and John Hiller, church-wardens,

1739. Thomas Lefter made Me.VIII.—John Denne, vicar, Wm. Tillard, efq. tceafurer

to the truftees for rebuilding the parilh-church.

* Money ralfed by voluritary fubfcription, —By metal of the old bells

By fines of parifli-offices, as by order of veftry. Mar. 31, 1740,

The principal fubfcribers were.

Rev. Dr. John Denne, vicar, and archdeacon of Rochefter,

Cornelius Witternoom, efq. — —William Tillard, efq. -_ _ _John Smart, efq. — — —Nathaniel Chandler, efq. — —John Calvert, efq. ^ — — —Paul Heafch, efq. — — —Cornelius Jeffon, efq. — — —Rev. Mr. Henry Wheatley, lecturer, —Mr. James Harwood, — — —

The expence is as follows, viz. -^

For 1 {6 cwt. I jr. 17 lb. of metal, at 61. per cwt. — 698 8 o2 cwt. o qr. 13 lb, of clappers, ac is. per lb, — n 17 o

Frames and hanging, — — — 90 o o

800 ^ o

LXXIIl. Mr.

•nut.

OFSHOREDITCH. 879

In Manej, Stntt fit Jhmm

LXXIII. Mr. Thomas Lester, in

confuleration of its being the firft peal he

had caft on his own account, in 1740,

gave, for the life of the parifh, 10 O

LXXIV- Mrs. Mart Drought, of

Iflington, in 1740, gave ao/. towards

eredting a marble-font, and purchafing the

new branches and chains in the church ^. ao aItem. By her will, to poor houfe- .

keepers, which was diftributed accordingly

by the church-Wardens, 10 O

LXXV. Mr. Richard Bowles, mafon,

of this parifh, in 1 740, gave the marble*

flab for the communion-table^

LXXVI. Mr. Ralph Fordham, ca-

binet-maker, of this parifh, in 1740,gave the mahogany-frame for the com-

munion-table.

LXXVII. The ornaments, Ten Com-mandments, &:c^ at the Eaft end of the

church, were done, in 1740 f, by a

voluntary fubfcription of 45 i©

* The whole expence of thefe was 105/. of ^^hich, fome Was- raifed by fines for

pari(h-ofEces.

•i" They were painted by Mr. Thomas Seaton, as were tbe figures of Mofes and;

Aaroo.

LXXVm. Mr,

*8q history akd ANTIQÛITIES

,Li Money, Rents ftr Atmm,

£ s. >£ s.

LXXVIII. Mr. Thomas Paq£, of this

parifh, in 1740, gave the piaures of Mofesand Aaron, as painted at the Eaft e^d of |-

the church.

LXXIX. The parifhioners raifqd, by a

voluntary fubfcription *, in 1742, the

fum of 150/. towârds purchafing the

church-clock and dials, and towards the

well-fencing and railing the Weft end of

the church-yard towards, the ftreet. 150 o

LXXX. Mary Wicks, gentlewoman,

of New Windfor, Berksj gave,, by willf,

the fum of 10/, to be diftribytiod amongpoor houfekeepers ^. 100

«

LXXXI. George. Cranstqn, g^t.

by a codicil annexed to his will, gave the

intereft of 4200/. reduced bank annuities,

in 1761, to the poor inhabitants not

receiving alms' for ever.

* The principal fubfcribera were, £ s. d.

TheRev. archdeaeon Denae, \icar, g,n4CoroeUg^Wil:teroqom, efq. 10 10 oWilliam Tillard, efq. — — — 330John Smart, a»ct Jobs Calvtrt, efqrs. — — 440"f"

Bearing date Sept. 18, 1741, and proved Feb. 4, 17^4.

I By.Mr. Dieone» and the pajjiflv-ckrk.

Note —For the particulars of houfes fituate in Blue Aochor-allcy, Limehoufe,

refer to papers io eiii^ iooa cbefl in the vellEyicooDo.

t

Additions-

OFSHOREDITCH. «5i

Additions to Dr. Denne's Regifter of Benefactionsi.

I. In a MS. in the Augmentation-office of the time of

Henry VIII. is

"P'ochia Sti Leonard! 1 TFirma unius tenetn' ib'm cum om'bus" in Shorediche com' p^'^l ^"'^

P*^'"' '" tenuiaWiiri Upchurchedc" Midd'x. I I anno *

t.

" Memorandum'—this tenement was given by Angell John's widowe to the churchc-" wardens of the faid p'ifhe to thentente that they (huWe yerely for ever difcharge

" the pore people in the faid p'iftie of all manner of dewtes and charges to be payd" and borne by any fuch pore people at Eafter as fpr the 4 offerynge dayes for tl^" how/cU and pafcall Jight."

From another MS. in tlie fame office f , . it appears, that the

vakie of her gifts, at the time of the Diflblution of Religious

Houfes, amounted to cxixj. viij^.

II. Page 247, No. yi. William Peake.—^The lands, &c.

af this benefa(5tor are the prope;;ty of Lord Sommers, and are

held by a leafe of 1000 years from Chriftmas 1690, at 2s. 6d.

per ann. The Iqafe was purchafed by the late Edward Lambert,

gent, and, after the death of his widow Chgrlotta, was fold by

au<îon, March 15, 1792, to Robert Mutter, of Little Mopr-

•* Thp gr,^jvtc« at the diflblution of Religious Houfes were Henry Tanner andThomas Bowker.

'

- . '

•\ xxxiv. 126.^

O o fields,

282 HISTORY AND ANTIQJJITIES

fields, who built a little town upon the eftate. Mr. Peakecharged it with the annual payment of

£ s. d.

To the Debtors in the Poultry Compter - 600To the Debtors in Wood-flreet Compter - 600To the Poor of Shoreditch Paridi - - 540To the Poor of Wellingborough in Northamptonfliire 540

2280III. Page 247, No. vn. Robert Brainsworth.—In the

marriage- regifter of Shoreditch, we have " Robert Braynforth" and Helen Laramore widow. Mar. 14, 1593-4."

IV. Page 252, No. XVII. Nicholas Wilkinson, alias

TooLEY, was one of the unnamed aflbciates of Shakfpeare,

Butbadge, and Hemmings, at the Globe; and was one of the

©riginal adtors, of Shakfpeare's chara(£lers. His will is printed

at large in Mr. Chalmers's *' Apology for the Believers in the" Shakfpeare Papers -*." '

V. Page 252, No. XVIII. Richard Fishbourne was a

native of Huntingdon. His funeral-fermon was preached at

Mercers' Chapel, May 10, 1625, by Nathaniel Shute, re€tox

of St. Mildred in the Poultry, which was afterwards publiftied

with the title of Corona Charitatis^ on Nehem. viii. 14.-f

At page 25 of this fermon, the preacher informs his

readers, *' fiiCh was the death of this thrice-worthy gentleman^

** whom death too foone for vs, though too late for himfelfe,

** hath, with dn Habeas Corpus^ removed intd another world."

* Pp. 4>o, & feqq. \ 4to. 1626.

Mr.

O F S H O R E D I T C H. ^h

Mr. Fifhbourne lies buried in the Ambulatory of Mercers' Cha-

I)el ; and, on the fide of his tomb, is this infcription :

" Richard FiHiborne Mercer

" A worthy Benefa6lor

" Died 8 April 1625."

VI. Page 27c, No. LX. At.len Badger—'' Six alms-

" houfes for fix poor aged men;" or, (faith the pariih-clcrk's

remarks) fix poor men and their wives.

VII. Page 273, No. LXIII. Samuel Saunders.—NoteI|

" Toogood's Farm," add—Two-good's contained, in 1706, by

eftimation, 1 1 acres of arable land, and 7 acres of pallure,

with appurtenances of barns, out houfes, &c. A leafe of the

houfe and grounds was granted on Sept. '29, 1706, to John

Cook for the term of 7 years. Another leafe was granted to

Sarah Cobbs, bearing date October 22, 17 15, at the yearly rent

of 10/. IOJ-. for the term of ai years, expiring at Michaelmas

1806.

VIII. Page 277, No. LXXI. Thomas Fairchild.—Little

more is now difcoverable of Mr. Fairchild than that he died on

October 10, 1729. Had the ledlure not been eftablifhed at

Shoreditch, it was the teftator's direction (as will hereafter be

mentioned) that it fhould be preached at St. Giles's Cripplegate.

Whether he gave this fecondary preference to the latter parifh.

frorn his having been a native of it, or from his having formerly

refided in it during the earlier part of his life, I know not. Hepublifhed a work, intituled, " The City Gardener : containing

" the moft experienced method of cultivating and ordering

" fuch Ever-greens, Fruit-trees, Flowering Shrubs, Flowers,

O o a *« exotick

!rS4 H I ST OR V AND A N T I QÛ I T I E S

" exotick Plants, &c. as will be ornamental, and thrive beft>

" in the London Gardens. By Thomas Fairchild, Gardener, of*' Hoxton. London, lyaa, Price One Shilling."—An odtavo

pamphlet of 70 pages, dedicated to the governors of Bethlem

and Bridewell hofpitals.

Dr. Denne, in the preface to the fecond fermon which he

piibliflied, preached at this le(flure, fays, " I publilh this fecond

'* EiTay on the Wijdom and Goodnefs of God in the Vegetable

" Creation ; hoping thereby to excite the fame fpirit in others,

" that was in the founder 'of this le6lure, who did according to

*' his ability, when he left the following legacy in his will^

" dated Feb. 21, 1728, and proved 06t. 13, 1729.

* Item. I give and bequeath to the truftees of the charity-

* children of Hoxton and their fucceflbrs, and the church-

* wardens of the parifh of St. Leonard Shoreditch and fheif

* fuccelibrs, the fum of 25/. to be by them placed out at in-

< tereft, for the payment of aoj. annually for ever, for the preach-

* ing a fermon in the faid church of St. Leonard Shoreditch, by

' the le6turer of the faid pari(h, or fuch other perlbn as the faid

* tfwftees and churchwardens-, and their fucceflbrs, fliall think

* proper, in the afternoon of the Tuefday in every Whitfun-week

* in each year on the fubjeit following, viz. The wonderful

* Works of God in the Creation : or, On the Certainty of the

* Refurredion of the Dead proved by the certain Changes of tlie

* Animal and Vegetable Parts of the Creation.

* Aiid in cafe default be made in preaching the faid fermon

' at the time aforefaid; thfen my will is, that the fum of 25/.

* fliall be foffeitetl to the churchwardens of the piiriCh of St.

* C3iles's Crii*plegate, London, on tlie fubje<^ and in the manneY* aforefaid.

OF SHORE DITCH. s,Ss

* afofefaid, by fuch perfon a$ the faid churchwardens and their

* fucceflbrs fhall think proper.'

" This legacy, you fee, provides but a flender recompence for

" a preacher; and eveii that is hkely to be leffen'd or loft, fince

" hitherto the truftees have not been able to place out the prin-

" cipal money upon good fecurity, fo as to anfwer the yearly

" intereft of aoj."

1

In the dedication to Cornelius Wittenoom, efq. of the next

fermon at the Fairchild ledlure publiftied by Dr. Denne, he

Vi^rites, thus

:

"'tFaving in my preface to the laft fermOn I printed on the

" like occafion, informed the world of a defign then on foot, to

" make by a voluntary fubfcription fuch an addition to Mr." Fairchild's legacy ^ of .35/. as may aiford a generous recom-

*', pence to the preachers of this ledture, for their trouble and" ex|)ence ;.J ought in jurtice to declare, that it is now fo far

*' perfecSled, as that 100/. capita! ftock in South-Sea annuities

*' has-been purchafed ; and is fo fettled, that the yearly produce•* thereof fhall be wholly applied to this purpofe ; as likewife

*,* th«t (after the deceale of the parties principally concerned*' herein) this ftock fhall be transferred to the Pre/ident, Council^

" antl Fellows, of the Royal Society^ as being the moft proper

,*/ perfons, in wliom to repofe and^ perpetuate a truft fo fuitable

"to. the very end, of their incorporation, that . of promoting• th€ knowledge of Natural Things to the Glory of God, and" the Good of Mankind."

^""

^''

It was fettled by indenture dated June 1 1, 1 746.

' ^' '. The

»36 HISTORY AND ANTICtUITIES

The following is a copy of the Subfcription-roU, dated May"^ 5i ^733» which, in juftice to the memory of thofe perfohs

who contributed to th-e augmentation of the ftipend, .ought no

longer to be v/ithheld from the public eye.

" Whereas Mr Thomas Fairchild, late of Hoxton^ Gardener*

" did, by his lalt Will, give and bequeath to the parifli of St»

" Leonard Shoreditch 25/. for the payment of 20s. annually*' for a ledlûre to be preached in the faid parifli-church on*' Tuefday in every Witfun-week upon the wonderfuU Works" of God, &c. Mr. Stephen Bacon, his nephew and execu-

*' tor, who is fince dead, and others, judging the fum of 25/.

" not fufficient to carry on this excellent defign, propofed a

" voluntary Subfcription to increafe the faid fum of 25/. to

" 100/. Now, towards eftablilhing and perpetuating the

- *' faid leiSture in the heft manner, we underwritten do fub-

" fcribe thereunto thefe undermentioned fums:

jC s. d.

" Cornelius Wittenoom -^ - - 3 3 ^

Adam Denne - - - - 2 a o

Nathaniel Pretty - - - - 220Jofeph Bayley - - -,. - #220John Calvert - - - -220Gyles Dance - - - - 2 2 6

Dirk Wittenoom - - - 220Hans Sloane - - - -320Catharine Walpole - - - 22*Coleraae - - - -220

22 I o

Johrx

OF SHOREDITCH. 287

Brought forward

John PhilHps

Charles Cavendifli

Cornelius LyddeRobert Taylor

John Richards

Robert MyreJohn Thorold

Robert Gale

Alexander Stuart

Samuel Horfeman

James Douglas

J. Rauld

John WhormleyGordon Milbourne

Vincent Bacon

James Powell y

John Goleraine

'* To which Dr. Denne, vicar, added out of

the money he had received for preaching the

faid ledlure 1 5 years

£

288 HISTORY AND ANT I Q.U I T I E S

Preachers at FAiRctiiLD's Lecture

17301 7 31

1732

1733to

1758

^759

17 6

1

17.62

17631764

[ 17651766

1767

' 1784I' 1785

17^617*87

to

1798J* Dr.'DenHc,

}

Rev. Dr. Denne. .-

'

Rev. Henry Wheatley, Lecturer of Shoreditcfa*

Rev. John Bridgen.

Rev. Dr. Denne. -, '^

Rev. Dr. Stukejey.h

Rev. John Vade, Vicar of Crdydon.

Rev. Dr. Stukeley. . . ;• J

Rev. Michael Marlow,- M. A. ^ r' -^'-l

Rev. John" Vade. •*- '^

.f

"Rev. Anfelm Baylef, LL. D.

Hev. Henry Owen, M. D* IRedor of St.

"Olave's, "Hart-rtreet.

. 1:...

Rev. William Jones, M. A. s t

Rev. Samuel Ayfoougli, FrR. A. S. Si

\jZ

o

Matt. vi. 28-30.

Gen. i. 1 1-13.

Pfa. viii. 4-6.

4to.

4to.

8vo.

1730.

1733-

J74S-

Dr, "Stukeley.

Mr. Jones.

Gen. i. II.

Gen. i. 12.

Gen, i. 25.

Gen i. 9, 10.

}3Sermons, intituled, " The Glories of the

Vegetable Kingdom difplayed."

Wifdonn of God'in fhe'.Vegeftame-Greatieni-

On the fame.

God's Regard to Man in his Works of Crea-tion and Providence.

4to. 1760.

4to. 1763.

4to. 1785. The Religious Ufe of Botanical Philofophy.

410. 17E6. Confiderations on the Nature and Oeconomyof Beafts and Cattle.

4to. 1787. Confiderations on the Natural Hiftory of the

Earth and its Minerals.

In 1790, Mr. Jones publiflied 30 Sermons on Moral and Religious 'Subjects, in 2 vols, 8vo.

—

In the iecond of which the three Fairchild Sermons were re-printed.

IX. In

r

OF SHOREDITCH.

IX. In 1791, Mr. Henry Trafford * gave five

hundred pounds, four per cent, confolidated annuities,

that the intereft thereof might be divided on the a6th

day of June annually for ever, at the difcretion of

the rainifter f and church-wardens, (they firft de-

duiSling three guineas for their trouble,) among 6

poor widows of the precindt of Hoxton. - 20 o o

X. On Dec. 24, 1794, a perfon unknown gave 100 but-

tocks of beef, lop quartern-loaves, and 100 Ihillings to be

distributed among 100 poor people of this pariflti, that they

might enjoy a Chriftmas dinner.

* He died Sept. 11, 1791.'\ It was agreed June 26, 1792, that the vicar and the two churth-wardem

(hbuld elefl two widows each as often as the money (hould be given away, Mrs*Sarah Hincks, the executrix, being prefent.

P P Original

*5o HISTORY AND ANTICLÎTIES

Original Deeds, &:c.

I.

G *. d. g. Lond. Epus Oibus—falut. Notificamus nos ecctlam Sci Leonardi db-.

Sordig quam contra Ganonicos see Trinitatis London ad dni Regis ptinere donacoenv

in curia fua publice oftenfum eft & plenario comprobatum prefentaeoe dni Regis,

magro Waltero de Witten ctico nro dediffe &conceffiffe, ipfumque in ea pfouamcolempniter conftituifle—Teftibus Walt, de Conftant Epo Line

-f-.Rico Elyens

Arcliido dni Regis Thefaur. Rado Archido Heref. dni Regis Sigillar'. Ganfrid'fil-

Petri, Almarico difpenfar'. Aylwardo Camerar'. Rob. Folet, Rado de Gliilt', Gilb.

Ban Canonicis- Sci Pduli ; Wallo fil. Walttri, Joh. Wyting^ I'ho Briton, Rob^Foliot,. Cticis..

Reg. Dec. & Cap. A. f. 5.

Ill

Charter of the Church from King JOHN: to Wm, de

Sandtae Mariae Ecclefiae Bp.. of London..

(From. NewG, Rep. L 685.),

•' Johannes, &c. Sciatis nos pro falute anim£e nofti:£e,. & pro anima Dom. Henrici

Regis Patris noftri et pro animabus omnium antecefforum noftrorum, etad petitionem

tenerabilis patris noftri in Chrifto Willielmi Lond. Epifcopi, dediffe et conceffifle

praefato Epifcopo, et Ecclefiae Sti Pauli,, London. Ecclefiam de Sordig cum omnibus,

* Gilbcrtuj Foliot.

4 Walter de Conftantiis became bifliop of Lincoln in ii8"3, and was fucceedid by St. Hugh in>

1186; which, with the death of Gilbert Foliot, bifhop of London in the latter end of the fame

year, or the beginning of 1187, fiacs the date of this charter about 1185,

pertinentiis

OF SHOUEDITCH. *9»

pertlnentiis et libertatibus fuls ad faclendam pra;centonam in prjedifla Ecclefia

S. Pauli, ita quod quicunque praecentor eandamecclefi^m in praEcentoriam habueref,

po anima n\n\ ant'cefforuu. noftrorum per fe C Prefbyter fuent, vel per

alium Prefbyterum loco fuo in memorata Ecclefia S. P^"»' '" "^^^/^^/j^^"'

miniftrabii. Quare-Quod pr^diOus Epifcopus m ecclefia SPauli London, et

eiufdem ecclefia. precentor prênominatam ecclefiam de Sordig^cum omnibus per-

tinentiis, libertatibus, et liberis confuetudinibus fuis, bene et m pace, libere et

quieta, integre & honorifice habeant. Teftibus H. Cant. Archiepifcopo, E. Lhcns,

H. Sarum, J. Norwic. Epifc. G. fil. Petri &c. Dat. per manum S. prffipoliti, &c.

apud VVeflm. 26 dLe Mart. Anno5." ^ ^See alfo Cart. 5 Joan. tn. 8, n. 65.

III.

The Inilrument or Deed of Grant of this Church from Wm. de

Stae Mar-ise Ecclefise to Benedi<5t de Sanfetun, Precentor

of St. Paul's Cathedral.

(From Newc. Rep. Vol. I. p. 685.)

" Omnibus Willielmus Dei gratia, Lond. Epifc. Salutem, ad univcr-

(itatis veftrae notitiam volumus pervenere, nos concefliffe, et autoritate, qua fungi-

mur Epifcopali confirmaffe Benedido de Sanfetun *, quem nos in Ecclefia beati

Pauli, London. Precentorise miniftraturis, Ecclefiam de Shordich, juxta ciyitatem

London, fitam, cum pertinentiis, quem venerabilis Dominus Johannes, Dei gratia,

illuftriff. Rex Anglise Precentoriê prjefatae Ecclefise tondon. de petitione et affcnfu

noftro in perpetuum liberalitatem affignavit, quod ut flabile, et inconcuffum per-

feverit in perpetuum prefenti fcripto, et figilli noftri appofitio dignum duximusconfirmandum. Hiis Teftibus

Alardo Decano Ecclefise London.Ricardo. Archid. Effex.

Magiftro Johanni, Cancellario.

RSt.":::}c»p="--

* Benedia de Sanfetun appears to have been the firft precentor of St. Paul's after that office wasendowed. (Newc. Rep. vol.1, p. 98.) From the precentorfliip he was preferred to the bifliopric

of Rocheiler, confecrated Feb, n, 1115. He died in 1226, (Godwin dcPraeful, RofFen.)

P p 2 Hen.

292 HISTORY AND ANTIQÛITIESHen. fle Pottern.

Magiftro Michaek.Wiilielmo de Hatfield.

Johanni de Waltbam.et pluribus alHs.

,

X)eQds which concern the Houfe inhabited by the Parifh-CIeik

copied from the Original hiftruments in the

Pariih-Cheft, June 28, 1795*.

IV.

<* In Libro Ordinationum Fine Decretore de Terrains

^. Michaelis Anno xxxi Reginae Elizse,

Jovis xvi die 06tb'.

*' MIddx.Whereas Wm. Thornton heretofore exhibtted hfs bill of complaint agamft Mere-

dith Hanraer, D. D. and vicar of the parifli of St. Leonard Shorediche in the

county of Middx. and otherwife for and concerning the right and title of twotenements fituate near theparrfli church of St. Leonard in Shorediche aforefaid wich

the faid complainants ciayme by fonn of agreement to him and to Nic£s. Alchernedeceafed and to theire heires and affignes for ever from Anthony Collins and JamesJMulIard who have the fame from her Majeftie by Letters Patent under the great

feal of England to them and their heires granted in fee farme as conceyled land

referving a certaine yearly rent to her Majeftie her heires and fucceffors for the

fame two tenements which fometyme belonged to the faide church of Sr. Leonard

and gyven without lycence in mortmayne to certame chauntrie prieffe and other

perfons for mayntenance of the fante priefte to fay maffe, dirges and other fuper-

ftitious ufes in that church as the plaintiff pretended while the defendent by his

anfwer did denye and claymed the fame two tenements to beparcel of the vicaridge

of the faid parifli church whereof he was and yet is vicar, but which anfwer the pi.

reptyed to and the defendant thereunto rejoyned and fo the plaintiffs defcended to

iffue and fued a comnulTion oat of this court to prove their allegations touching, the

* Tbefe throw fome light on the ftate of the parifli at the time of the Reformation.

prcmifes.

OFSHOREDITCH. 293

premlfes as by tbe fame pleading with the interrogatories and depofitlons certified

and returned into this court and there remayning of record may appeare now uponfo much as upon full hearinge of the matter before the righte Honorable the LordTreafurer and Barons of this Court in the prefence of the councell learned of either

of the faid parties that appertain tiot to this Court by the pifs. proofe that thepremifes- were conceyled, but that well appeared that the fame during memory had

' beene ymployed to the ufe of a fchole howfe and for the meting for the parifh for

the veftries and for the fufFrygance of the veftrie and wherein the churchrwardensuled to deliver upp theire accompts to the parilh for fuch things as they had receyvedand done for the ufe of the faid pariQi and that about 50 years fince a mafle prieft waslodged in a part of the chambers or lodginge over the fchole howfe by the fuffer-

iTance of the parifliioners, and that no vicar of that church within memory ever madeany title or claimeto the faid two tenements or any parcell thereof nor ever tookany proffitt there of fave the defendant onlie and that the fame two tenements havebeen during memory difpofed maynetyned and kept by the faid parifliioners to theufes aforefaid and for that the defendant proved not that the fame two tenementsought to belong to the vicar of the fafd church for the time being in right thereof.

Therefore yt is thus ordered and decreed by the faid Lord Trealurer and Barons ofthis Court that the faid two tenements fliall at all times hereafter for ever remayneand contynieu to be ufed as the pofleffion of the vicar and parifhioners of St»

Leonard aforefaid for the lodging a minifter or a fchoje mafter or a parifh dark, in

fuch place where a lodging hath been in ancient tyme and for the ufe of the keepingof a fchole by a fchole mafter to be nominated by the vicar and parifliioners, andallowed by the busfliopp of the dioceiTe, and of the faid churchwardens for keepingtherein a veftrie and for the parilhioners to meet in and fuch other good com'onufes as the fame hath heretofore been ymployed to without lett disturbance interrup-tion or impeachment of the plaintiff, his heires or alSgns or of the faid defendantor his fucceffors vicars of the faid church of St. Leonard, and of all other perfonswhatfoever clayminge by or from or under the faid defendant or any other vicar there,that hereafter Ihall be or in his or their or any of their rights, or by there or anyof their rights, or by there or any of theire meanes affents or procurements. Andthat all fuyies by the defendant commenced at common lawe againfl the plaintiff,

about the prem.fes Ihall be ftayde and that no further fuytes (hall commence againfl

the plaintiff for the fame by any of the faide defendant nor againft the defend^t bythe plaintiflf or his heires or affignes..

Ext. per me Thos. FatJhall.

The Subftance of a Depofitton of Witnefles taken in the Parifh-

Church of St. Leonard Shordytch Middx. on the 19th March

^.j4 H I S T O R V AND A N T I QÛ I T I E S

3ift of Queen Eliz. before Richard Grafton Roger BowthFabian Poftulate alias Smythe apd Wm. Gadlar by Virtue

of a Commillion ilTued from her Majefties Court of Ex-

chequer

Wm. Thornton Plr.

Meredith Hanmer, D. D.

1Richard Woodward ^

1. Thos. Haddon of IlogWon jet. 70 years depofed upon oath

2. that he knew the plaintif and defendant—& Hugh Williamfon vvhofe honfclie had remembered to have been ufed as a fchool houfe & the lodging over theveftry houfc was occupied by the dark Wmfon and.pariftiioners for thefafe guard oftheir veftry houfe.

3. That he knew a maffe priefl: called Sr. Thomas* about L years part: lodged in

a part of the chamber over the fchoole houfe by the appointment or fufferance of theparifhioners who met there for the church wardens to give up their accompts,—andhad meetings called by the names of the brotherhoodes of St. Chriftopher, St. Jamesand our ladie.

4. The bounds & limits of the church yard had ever been the

5. fame within his memory : And that the vicars have always had the benefit ofthe church yard to his knowledge.

7. that about LII years agoue the wall whereupon the houfe where Williamfon

dwelt doth ftand, was builded at the charges of the parifhioners, and in the fame

place, before there was an Ould Houfe propped up & likely to fall.

8. That the houfe over the veftry was a building longer than he could remember& to what ufe it was built he knoweth not, but it was ufed for a faveguard to the

veflrey houfe & was in times pafl verie ritche of churche ornaments & of better

times the parifh clerkes have ufed to dwell therein & it is builte over the veflary

& adorned to the foundation & building of the church & that the foundation of the

church & veftry are boath one.

10. That the tenement articulate was built at the charges of the parifh uponveflry called for that purpofe about LII years lince & that boath the Ould Houfe.inftead whereof this new one was built & alfo the new houfe were ufed for a fchole

houfe & far a place of meeting for the parifhioners & that the new building is in

the proportion of the Ould Houfe & upon the fame foyle where the Guide Houfefiood.

12. That when he was young many parifhioners of St. Leonard Shoreditch

beinge laymen & women did fundrye tymes mecte together & did make goodcheere 8e contribute their monyes towards the mayntenance & repayringe of the

Smith which meetings were termed among them brotherhoods viz. One Brother-

hood' of St. Chrjllopher & St. James, & one other of our Ladie : & the place

«f their meeting was at the houfe where 'Williamfon did dwell.

* Thomas Stoughton, of whom fee p. 7.

VI.

OP SH CREDIT CH» «j>5

VI.

Richard Auftin of Hogfdon monler aged 60 years upon oath faith be lived inr the

parifh ever fince his nativitie and that the houfe where in Hugh Williamfon did

inhabit and the tenement or lodging over the veftry at the time of his remembrance

have belonged to the parifhioners of Shoredytchc & by them have been from tyme

to tymedifpofedof and mayntained and kept.

He faith the fame that Haddon doth of the maffe prieft the meeting of the pa-

rifhioners and the brotherhoods and the boiHids of the church yard^ but thought

the tenements did not belong to the vicars about 16 or 20 years fince. One Par-

pointe dwelt in the faid lodging over the veftry and the foundation of that and theveftry were all one. And the tenement was by the faid parifhioners rebuilt, inflead

of an old ruyones houfe and both the old and new. houfe mofl; ufefully imployed for

a fchole houfe and for a place of meeting for the parifhioners of Shordytch beinge

lay people both men and women did meet for merrymente and good chere and that

he (Auftin) was of the brotherhood of St. Xtophers and St, James and alfo ourladie becaufe it was accounted creditt to men in thofe dayes to be of the brotherhoodsc

and to fpend there raonyes amongll them and this was XLII years fythence^

vn.

Henry Fettes, gent» faid he heard Mr. Treafurer give order to Mr. Wigfliore thac

Mr, Hanmer fhould have fuch money rendered again to him by the parifhioners as hehad diiburfed thereabout which was faid to be dvl. and that the parifhioners of

Shoreditch (hould have fuch title of thofe tenements afligned anew to them from her-

majeftie as had been out by one inquilition. He kneweth that Mr. Hanmer wasprevented of his purpofe by the fute of the parifli to the Lord Treafurer and hefaith he did fee iVIr. Wigmore receive 6\L to the ufe of Mr. Hanmer at the hands

ef the ("aid Wm. Thornton according to my Lord Treafurer's order in that behalfe

and he did hear the Lord Treafurer give order to Mr.-Wigmore to let Mr. Hanmerknow that; he fhould furcealfe his faid fuyte and that many of the parifhioners of

Shoredytch to the number of twenty and more did labour to my faid Lord Treafurer

of intent to have Mr. Dr. Hanmer canfed to furceaffe his faid fuyte in purpofing

to have the faid tenements found concealed and that the faid Thornton was appointed

by divers of the parifhioners to procure the puichafe of her Majelties title, and-

being queftioned whether he himfelf had advanced any monies he would not anfwer

and fo.wtas not further examined.-

TIIT*

»$S HISTORY AND ANTIQÛITIES

No. VIIT.

Jovis 1 6° die Odt. 1589.•>

Inter Wm. Thornton, queft.

et Termio Mich'isMeredeth Hanmer facre Anno Regn.theologie ^fcflbr ac Vicar S'cti R'ne ElizabethLeonardi in Shoreditch, in xxxift et

Com. Midd'x. &c, Defen. xxxij '*°.

Whereas the faid Compt. heretofore exhibited his bill of complaints in court, for

and concerning the ryghte and titelle of tow tenements fituate nere the parifli ch. of

St. Leonardes in Shorditch, in the Com. of Midd'x, which the faid Comp. claymedby force of a Grant to him, and to one Nicholas Alchorne, defefed, jointly, andto their Heires and Affignes, for and from Ant. Collyns and James Mallard', whohad the fame from hir Maj'' by letters patent under the great feal of England, to

thefe and theire Heires ^rantet in fee-farme, refervinge a certain yearly rent for hir

Mj'' hir heires, &c. and fince the faide tenements belonged to the church of St.

Leonard's, and given without licens and .in mortmayne, to ct'n Chauntry prieftes or

other p'fns, for maynetenance of the fame p'fns, to fay Maffe, dirdg, and other fu-

perftitious ufes, in that church, which the Def. did not deny, but claymed the

fame ij tenements to be parcel of the Vickaryges of the faid Ps. Ch. where he was

and is yet Vicar.

At lenghth they defcended to iffue, and upon the full hearing it plainly appeared,

that the faid tow tenements, during memory, had byn houlden by the Ps. of St.

Leonardes, and imployed to the ufe of a Schoole Houfe, &c. [See the 3d, 7th,

and loth, articles of Haddon's Evidence, p. 294.]Therefore, it is this day ordered and decreed, by the faid Ld. Treafurer and

Barons of this court, that the faid two tenements (hall at all times hereafter, foe

ever remayne, and continue to be ufed, at the difpofition of the parifliioners of St.

Leonard aforefaid, for a minifter, or a fchoolerar. or a parilh clerke ; and for the

fayd church wardenes for keeping their veftries, and for fuch other ufes as the fame

have heretofore bene ymployed without lett, difturbans, interruption, or impeach-

ment of the faid defendant or his fucceffors, vicars of the faid church of St. Leo-

nard's ; and of all other perfons whatfoever, claymeinge by, from, or under, the

faid Deff. or any other vicar theare that hereafter (hall be, or in his, or their or any

of their rightes, or by theare or any of their means, affents, or procurements j and

that all fuch by the DefF. commenced at the common law againft the PI. about the

4 premilTes

OFSHOREDITCH. 497

premifes fliall be ftayed, and that noe further fute fliall be commenced ag't the PLor the fame by any of the faid DeiF. (See No. IV.)

John Savile

^ 1589Fr. Morgan.

VIII.

The Order for Thornton

(Without a date)

fets forth, that Hanmer went about to purchafe the premifes of her Maj" as con-

cealed land, notwithftanding he pretended right thereto as vicar. The Ld. Trfa-furer ordered that Thornton (hould be rti- imburfed his monies until further order

taken, and that Hanmer had fued him at common-law; it was therefore decreed,

that Thornton Ihould have all his mony and expences which he laid out on the

premifes made good to him, and that the fame (hould be affured to him for the

ufe of a free-fcoUe, and Hanmer not to difturb Thornton after the premifes Ihall be

conveyed.

IX.

To the Right Hon. the Lord Burghley, Ld. Treafurer of Eng.

Sir Waher Mildmay, Knt. Chan, of the Exchequer, Sir Roger

Manwood, Knt. Lord Chief Baron, and to other the Barons

of the fame.

That whereas our late fovereign Ld. King Edward the VI. was lawfully feized

in his demefne, as in the right of the Crown of England, in the tenement fituate

n.eare thcparifti church of St. Leonard, in Shoreditch, Middx. and abutting uponthe Queen's highwaie. Weft, and upon the vicarage there. North, lately in the te-

nure of one Hugh Williamfon; and of another tenement, adjoining to the Weft of the

church aforefaid, lately in the occupation of Kath. Kingfmill, widow ; both whichtenements, with their appertenances, were fometime belonging to the faid church,

and given without licenfe, and in mortraayne to certaine chauntrie priefts, and to

the pariQiioners of the parifti, for the maintenance of the chauntrie priefts, to fay

raafle, dirge, and other fuperftitious matters, in the faid parifli-church, and which

in the 5 years next4)efore the making of the ftatute in the firft year of the faid

Q^q late

X

S98 HISTORY AND ANTICIUITIESlate Kingfor the fupprefling fuch fuperftitions were foufed and employed : The faid

King being feized therein died ; after whofe death the premized defcended unto the

late Queen Marie, and of force thereof Ihe was of the premifes lawfully feazed.

And afterward the late King Philip, and the fiid late Queen, being thereof feazed,

fhe died, and the fame defcended to our fovereign the Lady Elizabeth.

Yet, neverthelefs, after the diffolution and luppreffion of the faid chauntries andfuperflitions, and the faid ftatute made for veiling of chauntries and their Landsand tenements thereto appertaining in aiSuaJ, real poffeffion of ihe crown, the pre-mifes lay concealed till within 4 years laft pad, untill the comifion granted to Me-redith Hanmer, by which it was made appear that they were given In mortmayne,and belonged to the church and parifliioners.

#

[Here read the Deed which is numbered VIII.]

And the faid Alchorne died in Sept. the year 1586 ; and the Ld. Treafurer iffiied

hJs order, that the faid Hanmer was to be paid five pounds, by Thornton, for ex-

pences, and fhoiild take no advantage of her Majeflies title: yet the faid Hanmerhad a fiite depending againfl: Hugh-WilliatBfon, the late tenant, after the faid 5pounds had been truly paid, and took poffeffion of both tenements, upon a feigned

interelt, and got into his poffeffion divers inftrumenls, proving the premifes to

have been given to ufes aforefaid, and which belonged to Thornton ; and caufcd

one John Edward to bring an adlion againfl: 7 or 8 perfons, in the Court of King's

Bench, concerning premifes, all which is contrary to the meaning of the order ofthe faid Lord Treafurer, and an hindraqae to the erefting a fcholle-houfe for edu-

cation of youth. Your petitioner therefore prayeih a fupoena to be diredled to

the faid parties to appear, and that her Majeflies precept ma,j be ilTued to theiheriif, that yqur petitioner may have quiet poffefTioni

X.

Dr. Hanmer's Rejoinder

fetteth forth, that the 2 tenements in queftioUj as he verelie thinketh, appertalneth

to him as vicar, which he is rather perfuaded to believe, becaufe the one is built

over the veftrie, and of the fame foundation as the church is, and within the

church-yard; and the other, in the tenure of Hugh Williamfon, is allfo parcel! of

the church-yard, as by the adjoining and view thereof it may appear. For at fu-

nerall times, when the ground within the faid tenement hath been digged, there

have been found fkulls, limb-bones, teeth of the dead ; from whence he fup-

pofeth the dead to have been buried there, and that the premifes did belong to his

predecefTors^,

OFSHOREDITCH. 299

predecelTorSj the vicars of Shorcdj'tch ; and he thinketh that the faid Cwo tene-

ments ought to appertain to him in right of the faid church, being prefetiied

thereto by her Majefty's letters patent under the great feal, unlefs there appear

caufe to the contrary : the gift for fuperftidous ufes he denies. And this defendant

faith, after he was prefented, inftituted, and inducted, ihto the real poffcffion of the

faid church as lawful vicar, he made claims unto the two tenements, but the te-

nants refufed to hold of him, wherefore he made leafe thereof to Edmund Auftin,

who brought his aftion, but proceeded not to trial. It being noifed that the pre-

mifes were concealed, he reforted to Mr. Wigmore, who had charge of fuch lands

under Sir James Croft, knr. comptrolef of hir Majefty's hons, and compoundectwith him for certaine fum of money if upon inquifuion they fhould be found to beconcealed, that they might be procured for him and his heires; wherefore, there

was a commiffion awarded, who fat at thecaftle without Smithfield, wither mofl: ofthe pariftiloncrs reforted, but none of them gave anie fufficient evidence of her

Majeflies title to the faid tenements, upon which, mifliking his agreement with

Mr. Wigmore, he relinquiftied it : the plan pretendeth the opening a free-fcholle,

he hath digged the cellar for an alchoufe, and abufeth this honourable court with

fond uncertainties, and at the expiration of the former- leafe he again leafed it to

Edmund Auflin and John Edwards, upon which he entered the tenements underHanmer, as vicar. He denieth that iie hath any writings of Thornton's, and prayeth

to be difmiffed with reafonable cofts and charges, in this cafe wrongfully fuftained.

XI.

To this Thornton made a long reply, importing, that he ôuld prove hi& Peti-

tion, and that Dr. Hanmer's rejoinder was falfe.

XII.

Indenture, J°h" Ban.^Gardener,

a6thofÊliz^ ^^" William Thornton, Nich. Alehorne,

Richard Turner, Yeomen.

The Queen having authorifed Sir James Croft to dlfcover all concealed lands,and to conclude and agree concerning the fame, he appointed Lawrence Cokfonand Robert Curder, they therefore have made and conftituted John Ball their de-,putie, for all lands, &c. to the value of 2J. and 8d. by the year; the faid Ball dothof a certaine fum of monie to him in hand paid, fell to the faid Thornton, and Ale-rurn, and Turner, the tenement fituate near the church-yard, known by the name

Q^q 2 of


of the church houfe, or veftrie houfe, now in the occupation of the parlfli clerk,

and the cottage in poffeffion of Katharine Kingfieldj widow.

(Signed)

Witnefs, John Ball.

William Wifam's mark >i*

William Afhton I I I mark.Henry Bett.

XIll.

' The Worlhipfull Meredith

Indenture Hanraer, DD. Vicar,

Dec. 1 8, 33d &of £"«"—

Sfy Thorn, T

^j^^ y^^,î^go. William Betton, J

'

William Thornton, Taylor,

do agree that the houfe in which Hugh Williamfon, parifti clerk, dwelt, in the wayleading to the vie. houfe, and the houfe in which Kath. Kingfield widow dwelt,

Ihould for evermore thereafter remayne, continue, and be ufed, at the difpofition of

the vicar for the time being, and of the parifhioners, for the lodging of a minifter,

or a fcolemafler, or a parilh clerke, in fuch place where a lodginge hath beene in

ancient time, and for the ufe of keeping of a fcolemafter for the good education of

the youth to be nominated by the vicar and parifli loners, and allowed by the bi-

(hop of London ; and of the church wardens, for keeping their veftrie without let

or hendcrance from the faid vicar, or his fucceffors, or the faid Thornton or

his heirs, which they both allow notwithftanding their faid claymes, that the faid

two tenements be converted to fome profitable ufes, the which allfo the neceffity of

repayring the faid tenements requireth, they being at this time very ruinous and

decayed, therefore as well the faid church wardens at this prefcnt beinge, for them

and their fucceffors, and the faid Dr, Meredith Hanmer, for himfelf and the vicars

his fucceffors, agree that the faid William Thornton may have and receive all rents

and profitt, until he Ihall be reimburfed all the expences of the law-fuit, and mo-

nies laid out in repaires, and the vicar to receive fix pounds, beinge his expences in

the lawrfuit, and the parifli to meet in veftrie on the premifes as ul'ual ; and the. faid

vicar Ihall notclaime of the faid Thornton any of the premifes, or rent for them, for

the maintenance or lodging of any fcholenlafter, curatt, or parifh-clerk, untill the

faid expences be paid.

(Signed)

fWilliam Thornton Lfl mark.

l^mL^Cn, }ch. Wardens.

XIV.

OFSHOREDITCH. 3°'

XIV,

The Bill of Expences difburfed and allowed to William Thornton.

£. s. d.

Paid to John Ball - ^S ^9 ^

12to Mr. Wigmore, for the patent and conveyancing and Dr. Han- \

raer's commiffion, &c. —' J

to Dr. Hanmer, oy ordtr of the lord treafurer —-<— 500to Dr. Haniner, according to the charge of indenture —

—

600Timber for repairs 800For digging the cellar and bricks 10 o ofor the 14 actions brought by Dr. Hanmer, &c. ' 300For removing all the faid futes into the Exchequer • 18 9 8

Paid for conveyancing —— o 10 8Dr. Hanmer's part , — -- 050

XXiijxix—iiij

—

x 79 4 10

XV.

Indenture 1 ^^. c -vv

March ,9 j^7^ of Ehz,

between Anthony Collins and Jam€s Maylande, of Lond. gent, on the one part,

and William Thornton of Shordiche, iVIidd'x, taylor, and Nicholas Alcharne ofShordiche, yeoman, on the other parr.

To fell the tenement in occupation of Kath. Kingfield, (wid.) lately o'wtn in

mt)rtmain, in fame manner as Queen Elizabeth did by letters patent give and grant,

on the 17th day of May, in the year above-written, to be held as of her manor ofEaft-Greenwiche, Kent, by fealty onlye, and not by knightes fervice, at the yearly

rent of twentie pence, half at Lady-day and Michleraas, and agree to bear Williant

Thornton and Nicholas Alcharne harmlefs, and every part of the contraft to bemade good within five years.

(Signd)In prefence of Jas. Maylande.Tho. Wm. Amor, Anth. Collins.

D. Hoik* Geohefter.

XVI.

3o» HISTORY AND ANTICIUITIES

XVI.

By a Taxation of Lands in the County of Middlefex, Hail.

366, between the Years T581 and 1588, at folio 75,Thomas Trayhand, knt. la.

Valentine Browne, knt; la

HoxtonShordyche

Thomas Wylforde, gerite. in lande

Thomas Bawde *, gent, in lande

George Cole, gent, in lande

John Sarys, efqr. in lande —Richard Holland, in lande —Edward Baflaus

-f-,alien in goodes

Halliwell \f}t%'^Paramoure, in lande

i m"'. stone, wydoe, in go.

|_Alexander Terelius, .alieo^ in go.Streete.

MSS.

is

ct.

txvjt.

xxt.

xxt.

xt.

xt.

xxt.

xxt.

Lt.

xxxt.

xxxt.

XVII.

And by another Taxation which follows it, doubtlefs made about

1588, from what is faid in one of the Notes below.

Lands Fees.

SJohnCole, gent, in la. —

—

Goodes.

Thomas Draynor ;j:, gent, in g. xt.

Henry Stephenfon, in g. «— xt.

j George Clonghe, in g. — ___—

.

xt.

IRichard Auftin §, in g. — xf.

IThomas Haddon, fenior, in g. • —— xt.

tjohn Atteridge, ats Bedele^ in g. • viijt.

Hoxton&

Shordiche.

Halliwell

Streete.

Anne Lytherot, in la.

Lands Fees.

Robert Afkewe||, in g.

__Robert Atkinfon, in g.

Goodes.vjl.

— viijt.

-— xt.

* " Thomas Bawde, gent, buried Jan. 19th 1594. Hoxton." Parifh Regifter. alfo, •« Eliz'thi

Bawdc, gent, was buried Aug. 16, 1^92. Hoxton." Ibid.

f" Valentine Baflaus, fon of Edward Baflaus, gent, was buried May 21, 1600." 'Ibid.

t His wife Eliz. bjiried at Shoreditch on Sep. 39, 1603. Par. Reg.

& Richard Auftirt was buried July 29, 1603.

JlRobert Afcough, gent, was buried May 17, 1588.

««• V Xlla

OF S H O R E P I T C H,. 303

XVIIL

None Roll. 14 Ed. III. 1341, from, the Original in the King's

Remembrancer's Office, in the Exchequer.

Tax. xiiijt. lidem r' comp' de xiiijt. de Jofte de Mundene & Jofies Stowr de n.

garbar' veller* & agnor' poch de Shordych commifs' eifdem ad taxara-

una cum porcio'e nonas prebendse de Fynefbury quam tenet dns Tho-mas de Aftcle, que valuit eodem anno vs id. o'Bq. & cum porcio'e

Bonje de Wallokefbeme in eadem, qiie valuit viidq. Et porcio'ibus

nonse monetariore viJft Petri le Yqnge, que valuit viiijs, iiijd. Ecnonje Jotiis filii Rogeri le Hert, que valuit iijs. xd. oB. Et non^Rici le Yonge, que valuit vijd. q. Et nonce Rogeri le Hert, que va-

luit vijs. ijd'. oB. q. Et nopaa Wiffi le Hert, que valuit vs, xjd. oB. q,Et nonse Jbhis filii Rici le Here, que valuit vijs. ijd. Et nonffi Jotiis

le Yonge, que vajuit iijs. vijd, ob.. Et nonae Wiffi le S tour, quevaluit vjs. vd. ob. Et nonee Stephi Modyj. que, valuit vijd. q. Etnonse Jotiis M. que valuit vijd. q. Et nona5 Wiffi Norkyn, que v.

xvjd.. Et eft fumma xlvjs. unde breve hab'ent de fugercedendo om*nino XV nichiU

Norton-

S04 HISTORY AND ANTI(ÛITrE8

Norton Folgate,

otherwife Northern or Norton FoUey *, derives its adjundl from

its iituation, North from Bifhopfgate. It lies in the Tower di-

vifion of the Hundred of Offulfton, and as appears by the Exche-

quer Books was affeffed t© the land tax in 1693, (after the rate

of 4s. in the pound) at 574/. lOJ. od. the year real, eftreats

i6/. 14J. od.

The Manor of Norton Folgate was of old time, as now, pof-

fefled. by the dean and chapter of St. Paul's, as appears in the

Domefday furvey,

vîanonicl "S Paull hnt ad porta Epl.^x cot

If ff

de IX. acr. q reddt p annu. xviii. fot. 7. vi. den.

T. R. E. fimilit. tenuer. 7 tntd habuer.

" The canons of St. Paul's pollefs (as heretofore in the reign of

king Edward the Confeflbr) x cottages upon nine acres of land,

which produce xviii fhillings and fixpence per annum as for-

merly."

I find alfo in a record in the Augmentation Office that, on

June I oth, 1 E. VI. the king made a grant to the dean and

chapter of St. Paul's, of a yearly rent of 3 fhillings, going out

of mefTuages in Norton FoUey, parcell of the late diflblved pri-

* Perhaps from the Saxon FolD-pej, ibe Highway, an appellation beft explained

by referring to page 107.

cry

OF S H O R E D I T C H. 305

ory of Haliwell. As tikewife a grant of 9 (hillings going out of

the fame, parcel of the priory of our Lady without Billiopfgate.

" This Liberty, of a very antient date, is faid to belong to

the parifh of St. Faith, by St. Paul's ; but the antients of this

Liberty fay, that it is extra-parochial, becaufe they main-

tain their own poor, marry and bury where they pleafe. But,

though part of the Liberty" (within the Manor belonging to the

dean and chapter of St. Paul's) " may be fo, yet the whole is

not ; for part of Long Alley, Hog Lane, and Bloflbm Street, pay

towards the maintenance of the poor of St. Leonard, Shore-

ditch, in which parifh they ftand, but as to the watch and ward

they pay to this Liberty *.".

In a taxation of lands, &c. in Middlefex, between the years

1581 and 1594, among the Harleian Manufcripts -j-, I find

the following

:

{Stephen Vaughan J, gent, in la. —•— It.

Nicholas Saunders, gent. la. -< xlt.

Thomas Fowler, gent, in goodes Ixt.

Robert Hare, gent, in go. xxi."

And in another Taxation which follows this, made about

1588, is

Lands fTees.

Richard Henton, in la. — .. . vjt.

John Bamford, gent, in la. 1- vjt." Norton j Goods.

Falgate. jMatthew Warren, in g. viiif.

Thomas Watts, in g. — ^

—

viiiL

Edmond Moore, in g. xt.

John Turner, in g. vijit."

* Parifh Clerk's Remarks, i2mo. 1732. p. 296.

f No. 396. fol. 73. I See p. 325.

R r About

ZoC HISTORY AND A N T I QÛ I T I E S

About 171 1, after the adt for ereding fifty new churches

had pafled, propofals were made for the building one of themwithin the precin<(5t of St. Mary Spittle; as appears from the

following curious paper in the cheft of the liberty :

"8th February f^'"^**^*Goddard by deed in writing did give, grant, andfonfirm^.

, p..J^'-j to diverfe of the parilhioneis of St. Botolph'a Bilhopfgate, and the

24ti-

iz.[înhabitants of Norton Folgate, Feoffees in truft.

One annuity of 30 quarters of charcpale yearly for ever, to be ifluing and goeingout of one <;apitall meiTuage and gtiii in St. Mary Spittle without Bifliopfgate, corn-

only called the Candle-houle, and out of all orchards, gardens, backfides, and other

eafements and commodityes, to the fame raeffiikge belongeing thereunto, and to the

ufe of the faid feoffees, their heirs and affignes for ever, to be delivered, betweenthe feaft of St. Michael the Archangell and All Saints, upon truft, that they fliould

caufe and fuflfer the churchwardens of the faid pariQi, with the confent of their

parfon and two of the inhabitants of Norton Folgate, yearley,. betweene the feaft ofAll Saints and the Nativity of our Lord, to deliver and diftribute to fuch poor peo-

ple as the faid parfon, churchwardens, and two other others, dwelling in Nortoii>

Folgate, (hould think moft neceffary to be relieved, viz. one. third part thereof

amongft the poor of Norton Folgate and the Spittle, and the other two thirds

amongft the poor of faid parifli, in fuch proportion as they Ihogid think good, with

a forfeiture of 20 noin paene if not delivered by the limited'' time, and a claufe -of

diftrefs for arrears, and alfo the nom. pasne.

That as the feoffees and truftees of this charity have dyed of, and their numberbeen reduced to a few, the fame has from time to time beene kept pn foott byaffignments to new truftees; and the fame charity has beene conftantly paid andapplyed according to the intent of the donoFj fo long as the faid Candle-houfe wasftanding, but that haveing been downe for feverail years paft, and .the ground

whqreon it flood lajn entirely waft and ufelefs, and thereby th^ charity much in ar-

reac, the faid ground is not likely to be taken for re-building an hpufe on.

That this waft ground, and other Waft ground belonging tothe earle of Bullit)g«

broke thereto adjoyning, is thought a cgnyenient pl^ce for building a new church

upon, (perfuant to the late vBi for building 50 new churches) for the ufe of the

inhabitants of Nprton Folgate, and other extra parochial places, who have agreed

for the faid earle's waft ground, are willing, and defirous to agree with the feoffees

and truftees for the poor of the pariflv of Bifliopfgate, for their right and title to

the faid Candle-houfe ground, but not williiig to give, (nor is the fame worth), near

foe much as would make gppd the arrears thereof.

Qu. In regard the charity is ifttirely loft to the poor by the ground lying waft as

aforefaid, may the feoffees and truftees of the fame fafely fell and convey the faid

^ peicc

OF SHOREDltCH. ' 307

peice of wafte ground for the erefting a churcH thereon, they applying the moneyarifing from fnch fale to the. nfe of the poor generally, without appropriating it xc-

cording to the intent of the donor, it not being ("ufficient; and by what convey-

ances and aflurance beft ta be done?I conceive the trvjiees orfeoffees fannot fell, or make a good title to a purchafer,

Qu. If the feoffees can't well f^li as aforefaid,, what i-T,eaHes are mofti feafible to efFei^

the end proppfed; whether hy a decide, of a court of equity, or coramiffioners of

charitable vifes, or by a claufe to be offered to an aft about to be brought in, for

enlafgeing the tinre ef tîe lafl! aQ. limith;d to the coramiffioners for the building ofchurches, sind for putting the fame aft in execution- ?

/ am (f opinion, that the. end^proppfed cannot be effected by a decree in equity, becmife

noe decree can be obteyned to foreclofe the heires or ajfgnes of the donor ; but I conceive

that the commijfioners for charitable ufes may decree a perpetual, enjoyment of the land

itfelf againfl the heirs and ajftgnes of the donor. However, I thiii-k a clatfe in the aSi

may be mcf^ ^ffeSlual, if it can be obtained, which I doubt cannot, unleffe the hetn andajftgnes of the donor canfent, becaufe, if the legUlature Jhould take away a man's ejlate

withmt and againjt his canfint, it would be fich an irmajion of property that will cc-

cajion clamours, and I prefume the legiflature will not do it if it be oppojed.

Pv. ACHERLY."

After which is another paragraph, importing that the heirs and afligns of thedonor had given their confent, and were willing to join with the truftees in thefale of it, &c.

Signed R. A. and dated, 5 March, 17 11.

Why th€ plan of eretSling one of the fifty new churches * in

the Spittle Liberty failed, I know not. The diftrias I imaginewhere they w6re to be built were never fpecified; and the num-ber which have been ereaed under the aft of parliament fall,

probably, far fliort of half a hundred. Church-work is flowwork, as Addifon facetioufly makes Sir Roger de Coverly com-plain f . The nietropolis on the Weft fide of Temple-Bar makesftill a heathenifli appearjince when contrafted with the flecples

to the Eaft.

* A lift of thofe a^Lially built may be feen io the Gentleman's Magazine, vol.LIV. p. 499.

°

f- Speâtor, N" 383.

R r a St.

3o8 HISTORYANDANti QJU I T I E S

St, Mary Spital.*

This hofpital was founded by Walter Brune, citizen of Lon-don *, and his wife Roifia, for canons regular of the order ofSt. Augulline f ; Walter, archdeacon of London, laid the firft

ftone on the i8th of the kalends of July, 1197 | ; and Williamde Sandlae Marias Ecclefia, biftiop of London, dedicated it by the

name of Domus Dei, to the honor of God, and the bleffed Virgin.

The deed of foundation and endowment, recited in the Mo-nafticon 1|, is a curiofity to a London Antiquary, and as fucbis given in the appendix, collated with a manufcript in the BrL-

tifli Mufeum*§.

Brune and his wife {eem not to have been fole, but joint

founders with Walter Fitz-Eilred, alderman of London, William

de Elie, John Bloundie and Wymarke de Elbegate **.- They en-

dowed their priory with the churches of Shaldeford and Woge-

ner/h\\^ in the diocefe of Winchefter, together with, the chapel of

* Harl. MS. 47X, calls him " Walter Browne, Dean of Pazvks" So docs

Johnfon's Pamphlet i6i6;. fee p.. 161. He was (a mercer, and) fheriflf of Londoain 1203. As was John de Ely, a co-founder,^ the year before. Stow's Sur-

vey, ed. 1754, vol. II. p. 213.v|~ Their habit was a long black caffocj with a white rochet over it, and over

that a black cloak and hood. The monks were always ihaved; but thefe canons

wore beards and caps upon their heads. Tanner's Not. Mon. ed. Nafmith, p. xi.

\ See Newcourt's Repertorium, vol. I. p. 466. And the Monafticon, vol. IL

p. 385. But, according to Newcourt's Lift, William de Sanftae Maria; Ec-clefia was not confecrated bifliop till 1199, which is likewife attefted by Whartonand Godwin. Mr. Davies''MS. Stow, places this a£t of the archdeacon, 18 kal.

Jul. 1 172.

11.Monafticon Anglicanum, vol. II. p. 383. § MS. Gotten. Nero, C. III. 53^

** Leland's Collectanea, vol. I., p. 36;'^

•ff Sbawford zn6. Wonijht near Guilford, Surrey*.

Bromlegh

OFSHOREDITCH. $09

Bromlegb annexed to the former, by deed, dated 4th April,

H97 *. The ground on which the priory was built was

given by Walter Fitz-Eilred or Ealdred,

In 1235, the hofpital was refounded, and as a work de novo^

and not relatively to any other foundation, received the appella-

tion of 'fbe New Hofpital of our Lady without Bijhopfgate. Thelite of the church, according to Leland, was, by the newfoundation reverfed t, and the Weft door placed where before

had been the Eaft end ; before the altar of which the founder

and his wife were buried t.*•

Befide the churches of Shaldeford and Wogenefli, they were*

pofleffed of thofe of Duntesfield and Puttenhara ||, in the fame

diocefe and county ; all which were confirmed to them by king

Edward the Firft in the 33d year of his reign..

In ia79, Thomas dfe Ingaldefthorp the dean, and the chapter

of St. Paul's, confirmed to this hofpital a certain well or fpring, in

the parifti of Stepney ». The deed of grant was dated 6 Id. Aug. §

In 1328, the prioE of this hoipital held the moiety andfourth part of a knight's fee in the vill of Chalvedon, in Effex**,

under Robert Fitz Walter, lord of the manor, who died that

year. Walter, lord Fitz- Walter, held the fame eftate at the

time of his deceafe, in 1386. At the fuppreffion it was granted

to Thomas, lord Cromwell, but whether as parcel of the

* Mon. Ang. vol. IT. p. 2t^^^

•f-'Another circumftance exptanatory of tHe word lêw, implying the renewal or

revival of the church. + CoUeftanea, vol. I. p. 36,

IIPat. 16 Ed. III. p. i. in. 17. pro eccl.de Duntesfield et Puttenham. (Diec-

Winton.) § Newcourt's Repertorium, vol. I. p. 159.** In the pariih of Bures or Buers GiiFord..

poflelEonSs

3J0 HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES

poffeflions of St Mary Spittle, does not appea^r*. Upon lord

CFomweH's attainder, the manor of Chalvedcm reverted to the

crown, when it was affigaed as part of the maintenance of the

princefs Mary.

Mr. Morant f fuppofes that the ma,nor of Frerne or Fryerne,

in Newendon Parva, was, about 141 9, fevered from the manorof Bromforda, in order that it rnight be -fettled ni.)ori this hof-

pital, in which it continued till the DilTolution ; when the

grantees were, the mayor and commonalty of London, to whomit was given by king Henry VIII. 13th of January, 1546. In a

colle6tion of Conventual Surveys, taken 1544^, it appears, that

the poffeflions of this hofpital in Effex, at Seberow hall,

PYerne, Upmynfter, llford, See. &c. produced that year 30/,

3x. 4^/.

The manor of Sabur or Seboiiow Hai,l is faid to be in

the three pariflies of Orfet, Mucking, and_Chadwell, in Effex.

It antiently belonged to this hofpital ; but by whom it was

given thereto is not known. King Henry VIIL in 1543,

granted it to John Wifeman, of Felftead §.

In Stow's Survey || we are informed, " There was one John

Buckett held lands in Hackney, of the bifliop of London, who

had granted them to St. Mary Spittle, without Bifliopfgate

;

as was found by an inquifition in la E.I. concerning a licence

Ho/pitali S'le Maria extra Bijhopfgate, for lands in Hackney,

granted to John Duckett. The jnqueft found, that he held

thofe lands of the bifliop of London ; and the bifliop, of the

king."

* Morant's Hi ft. of Effex, vol. I. p. 456. f Ibid.

+ Harl. MS. 605. § Moram's Effex, Tol. I. p. 224.

IIJLd. 1754, vol.11, p. 795.

In

I

OF SHOREDITCH. 311

In 1507, king Henry the Vllth granted by letters patent to

this hofpital the priory and manor of Bikenacre *, with all their

appurtenances, in confideration of 400/. f The priory of Byk-

nacre had been long falling to decay, fo that, at the time it was

appi-opriatedto St. Mary Spittle, the obfervance of divine wor-

Ihip, the accuftomed hofpitality of the place, and other works

of piety, hadbeen laid afide. The prior was dead, and but

one canon left. After the king's death, by fentence in the Con-iiftory Court of London, Nov. 9, 1509, a penfion of i^s. 4d.

was referved to the bilhop, 6s. 8d. to the dean and chapter of

St. Paul's, and 6s. 8d. to the archdeacon of EiTex, and to their

fucceflbrs for ever ; as well as all procurations cuftomarily paid

by the prior of Bikenacre to the bifhap, in his ordinary vifita-r

tion:|:. Mr Morant, in his Hiftory of Eflex, vol. II. p. ^g, has

ftrangely confufed this part of the hiftory of Bikenacre. Hecalls St. Mary Spitde, *' the convent of Eljing Spittle without Bi-

fhopgate ;" and fays the manor of Priors, in Woodham Ferrers,

parcel of the pofleffions of Bikenacre, was annexed not to St..

* A copy of thefe letters patent, 21 and 22 of Henry VII. which contain no-

thing of any confequence, may be found in Madbx's Colleftions in the Britifli Mu-feum, vol VI. fol. 6. In the next folio of the fame MS. we have a copy of theletters patent, 23 Feb. 3 1 Plen. VIII.

-j- Stow's Survey, ed. 1754, vol. I. p.. 427.

J Newcourt's Repertorium,, vol. I. p. 468. vol. II. p, 206." Likewife the prior and convent of the hofpital of St. Mary were to maintain

for ever one chaplain, being a regular prieft, and one of the brethren of their ownbo^fe, who Ihould be continually refident at Bykenacre, where he was daily to-

offer up prayers for the fouls of Henry VII. and alfo of Henry II. vhe founder ofBykenacre, and of Maurice de Tiltey,. a benefaftor, and of all other benefaftors'

and their progenitors ; for the good eftate alfo of Henry VIII. And farther, that,

on the 27th of Oftaber every year, certain maffes fliould be faid for the fouls ofthe parties abovementioned, as well in this priory or, hofpital of St. Mary, by the

whole convent,-' as- in the faid priory of Bykenacre, by the faid chaplain; and in

each of the faid priories xx pence fliould be given and diftribured among the pooron one of the faid days yearly for ever." Newcourt's Repertorium, vol. I. p. 486.

Mary

3 '4 HISTORY AND ANTIQ^ÎTIES

Mary Spittle, but to St. Mary Bethlehem-, and, which is ftill morecarelefs, cites Newcourt * as his authority.

The priory and manor of Bikenacre were granted by letters pa-

tent, dated 23 Feb. 31 Henry VIII. to Henry Polftede and AHce his

wife, with other poflTeffions, liberties, Sec. thereto appertaining, in

K-onfideration of five hundred and fifty pounds " legalis mbnete."

The prior and canons of St. Mary Spital, in 1517, prefented

to theredlory of Woodham Ferrers, perhaps as parcel of the pof-

feffions of Bikenacre priory, united to their hofpital \.

Of the otherNbenefadions to this hofpital we know little more,

than to whom they were granted at the Diflblution.

Henry VIII. by letters patent:}:, dated ar Aug. in the 36thyear of his reign, for the fum of 1 733/. 6j-. $d. granted to

Ralph Warren and others the manors and lands following.

The fite of Newport Hofpital, EfTex, with all the lands, &c.

belong to it. All the lands called Burgoynes lands §, in Shor-

diche, Hackeney, and Stebenheth, parcel of the poffeffions of

the New Hofpital, without Bi(hopfgate. All thofe great tene-

ments, little tenements, and 48 lin.|]

of land, with appurte-

nances, in Hackney and Shoreditch aforefaid, parcel of the faid

hofpital. Two acres of land and one rod, in the Weftfelde, in

the parifh of Hackney, with the lands called Burgoyne's land

in the tenure of Richard Younge **. Other lands in Hackney

aforefaid, belonging to the faid land, called Burgoyne's land.

The manor of Foxton, in Cambridgefhire, belonging to Chateris

priory. The manor of Eaft Lathe, co. Oxford, belonging to

Bruerne priory. Clear value of the whole, 89/. os. gd.

* Vol. II. p. 206,-f-

See Newcoun's Repertoiium, vol. II. p. 6Su'

X MS. in Mr. Cough's library.

§ The annual rent of thefe lands, in 1544, was 30/. lys. Sd. Harl. MS. 605.

IIHarl. MS. 6822. has acr\

** Had. MS. 6822. re^refcnts thefe as in the tenure of Jobn Hu/ey.

Befide

OFSHOREDITCH. 3^5

Befide thefe, the canons here had the church of St. Peter

Weftcheap*;

poffeflions ad hujl. at London-f ; in the parifli of

St. Botolph Biftiopfgate ; nigh the Tower of London % ; and in

the county of Effex §. They held certain mefluages, with an

hundred acres of land, at Newenham|| ; rents in the pariflb of

St. Giles Cripplegate-*; and had confiderable poffeflions in the

parifli of Mountnefing, in Eflex, called Boughlande ; which lalt

were granted at the diffolution by King Henry VIII. to Sir Tho-

mas Sperte, knt. and Richard his fon, for the term of their

lives ff

.

PRIORY- Hoxjsfi.

Of this fcarce any veftiges remain, except pirt of one of the

buttreffes, in White Lion-fl:reet, with a ftaple on which a

pofl:ern was once hung. In Mr. Bagford's time, however, there

feem to have been confiderable remains ; for, in his letter to

Mr. Hearne on the antiquities of London ++, he fays,

* Harl. MS. 606. folio 68. \ Pat. 9 Ed. I. M. .

.

\ Pat. 9 Ed. I. Among the poflcflions of the Spital priory in its oWn tieigh*

bourhood was the Old Artillery-ground ; for an account of wljich, as the materials

are not compleated, the reader is referred to the conclufion of the work.

§ Plac. in com. Eflex. 13 E. I. affif. rot. 51.Plac. in com. Oxon. 13 Ed. I. afiif. rot. 12;

** Plac. in Middlefex. 22 Ed. I. affif. rot. 21 dorfo.

•\\ Harl. MS. 608. 76i_ b» Small bequefts of a few penCe to the (ick perfons

ftnaintained in the priory, would be needlefsly mentioned here. Suffice it to ob-ferve, that items of this kind are frequently found in antient wills. And that Tho-mas Beaufort, Duke of Exeter and Admiral of England, who died in 1426, by his.

will left to every fick perfon in the Hofpitals of St. Mary, St. Bartholomew, St.

Thomas, and St. Giles, and Elfing Spittle, all in or near London, \%d^ a-piece.

See Royal and Noble Wills, p. 250-—264.

XX Primed in Leiand's CoUeftanea, vol. I. p. Ixxviii.

S s "I fliall

314 HISTORY AND ANTIQUITIES" I fliall next obfefve the various forms ©f building, from the-

" houfes that are left ftanding in and about the adjacent parts of" this city, feme of which are worthy our obfervation, and by" often viewing may be near affigned to the age in which they" were built. The moil antique are thofe that remain, of the" difTolv'd monafteries. Molt of them are built with timber, as.

*' forae few in Great St. Bartholomew's near Smithfietd. But" the oldeft I have feen is now Itanding at the Spittle in Bi-*' fhoj^lgate-ftreet, being the Spittle Houfe, ftrongly built with" timber, with a turret at one corner, which I tike to be very" ancient."

Mr. Cough's Additions to Camden* mention part of the ruins,

of St. Mary Spittle as difcovered in 1723. And in 1725, fomepillars^ pavements. Sec. difcovered in Norton Folgate, were be-

lieved by Mr. Le Neve, who viewed them, the remains of the

hofpital f . To this we may add, that the foundations of manyhoufes in Spital-fquare, and its vicinity, are laid upon, or with,

the remains of the priory.

Apparently unconnected with the priory church, was the

chapel of St. Edmund and St. Mary Magdalen here, founded

about 1 391 by William Evefham,. citizen and pepperer of

London J.-

Befide the founder and his wife (mentioned at p. 309), the

only perfons I have heard of that were buried in the priory

church, were, John Shordich, efq> 14S0 §, and Sir Henry Pie-

llngton, knt. in 145 a H-

* Vol. II. p. 22."t"

Ibid. p. 17.

J Stow's Survey, vol. I. p. 428. ed. 1754.

§ Pedigree in Heralds Office ; printed in p. 9^3. /

IIStow's Survey, vol. I. p. 427. ed. 1754.

OF SH CREDIT CH. 315

Jn the yard of St. Mary Spittle was the

Pulpit Cross,

formed of wood. When it was eredled is unknown ; but it is

mentioned as early as the reign of Richard II. in 1398, whenthat monarch, negle6tful of public honour and advantage, ex-

cited the murmurs of his people. The Duke of Gloucefter's

defperate projedts roufed the indolent king, who began to thirik

his enemy formidable. On the 17th of September, 1397, he

fummoned a parliament in hafte at Weftminfter, the conftituents

of which " pafled whatever a6ts the king was pleafed to dictate

^' to them ; and all the lords fpiritual and temporal, and the

*' commons, bound themfelves to maintain and obferve them" by a folemn oath, on the Crofs of Canterbury, before the

" flirine of St. Edward, in Weftminfter Abbey, on Sunday; the

*^ feaft of St. Jerom, Sept. 30, 1397*." Early in 1398 (Jan.

27), the parliament met again, at Shrewfbury. And Richard,

to fecure the a(5ls they had pafled, made both Lords and Com-mons fwear anew to them, on the Crofs of Canterbury -f; but,

ftill anxious, he got them confirmed by the papal authority|,

* Rot. Pari. vol. III. p. 355. Pari. Hifl. vol. I. p. 505. Vit. Ric. I.

p. 141.

•f-Hume's Hiftory of England.

;j: In the Parliamentary Hiftory, vol. III. p. 505, it is faid that the pope's bull

of confirmation is in the anonymous Life of Richard II. p. 165. The page is wrongcited ; and the fentence of excommunrcation pronounced in Weftminfter Abbey, p.

142, feems to have been miftaken for it.

S s 2 and

3i6 HISTORY AND A N T I QÛ I T I E S

and the confirmation was pronounced at Paul's Crofs and other

moft noted places in the kingdom *.

In I478, the Spittle pulpit was ufed for a purpofe widelf

different : to commemorate the munificence of pious founders.

The Divinity-fchool at Oxford had then been recently built in a

ftyle remarkable for a freedom and elegance unknown before.

All the innovations of the profufe Gothic were moft beautifully

difplayed in. its roof. The edifice Was fpoken of as one of

the miracles of the age^;and the founders were ordered to be

remembered in every fermon at Oxford, Paul's Crofs, and the

Spittle X.

But that our pulpit was fometimes ufed for meaner purpofes,,

appears from Mr. Fox's Adls and Monuments of the Church §^

where we are told, that, in 1529, Dr. Goderidge, on Tuefday

in Ealler week, having read a bill for repairing the conduit irt

Fleet-llreet, and prayed for the foul of a perfon under the cen-

fure of the church, was called before the bifhop. Proof was,

brought that the preacher had received a groat for reading the

bill ; and he was fufpended for a time from performing the office,

of the mafs ; and forced to revoke his prayer at Paul's Crofs.

To purpofes like thefe, fometimes pious, and at others im-

pious, were Paul's and the Spittie,^ the firft pulpits of our king-

dom, ufed or proftituted.

* " Pr<»mulgari fecit Londoniis ad cnjcerh Sanfî Pauli & alils celeberrimis regni

locis." Wallinghain, Hilt. p.. J56. Ypodigma Neuilrice, p. 552. "-Ac Paul's

Crofs, and oilier places throughout England." Tyrrell, v.oL Hi. p. 783. Stow,,

p. 175, ed. 1608, adds, " »t the Spittle."

•f-Warton's Gbfervadons on Speuler's Fairy Queen, book IV. c, x, f. \u

^ Curious Difcourks, vol. U. p. 409.

^ Edit. 1684, vol. II. p. a6o.

The

f^•- O F S H O R E D I T C H. 317

The method of preaching is thus accounted for by Mr. New-court :

** It is to be noted that, time but of mind, it hath been a

** laudable cuftom, that, on Good Friday in the afternoon, fome** fpecial Ifârned man, by appointment, hath preached a fermon** at Paul's Crofs, treating of Chrift's Paffion, and upon the

" three next Eafter holy-days, Monday, Tuefday % and Wednefday,

" the like learned men (to wit), on Monday a bilhop, on Tuef-** day a dean, and on Wednefday a dodlor of divinity, have,

"by like appointment, ufed to preach in the fornoons in the

" faid Spittle on the Refurrecflion ; and then on Low^ Sunday^* one other man at Paul's Crofsj to make rehearfal of thofe four

" fermons ; and, that done, he v^âs to rnake a fermon of his

" ow^n, which in all were five in one. At thefe fermons, fo

" feverally made, the mayor and his bretheren the aldermen" were accuftomed to be prefent, in their violets, at St. Paul's

" on Good Friday, and in their fcarlets at the Spittle on holy-days,

*' except Wednefday, in their violets, and the mayor, with his

*' brethren, on Low Sunday, in fcarlet, at Paul's Crofs.

*' This cuftom continued tiil the late rebellion, in 1642,,*' which then broke it off. But, after the Reftoration of King'* Charles-ll. it was revived again ; only the fermons which" were wont to be preached at Paul's Crofs were preached in the*^ choir, becaufe the Paulas Crofs pulpit was demolifhed in thofe*' late rebellious times. And thus it continued till St. Paul's

** church was burnt down in the late conflagration of London*' in" 1666 \ lince which time, all thefe fermons (the rehearfal

* In a Colleflion of Satyrical and Mjfcellatieou? Petitions,. ,1642, folio, in the

Britifh Mul'eum, is, on a half Hieet, " A Ffalme of Thankfgiving to be fang bythe Children of ChriU's Hofpicall, on Monday in the Ealler Holidays, at St. Marie's

Spink, for their Founders and Benefaftors, anno Domini 1641,"

" only

3i8 HISTORY AND ANTICÛITIES

" only excepted, which hath ever fince been laid afide) have" been continued as before, only inftead of having been preached" at St. Paul's and the Spittle, they have been fince preach'd,

" fometimes at one parifli church and fometimes at another, at

*' the difcretiqn of thofe that appoint them. , But the Spittle

« fermons moftly at Sr. Bridget's church, fince the new" building thereof, and the Good Friday in the choir of St.

" Paul's, fince it was opened *."

In

* Newcourt's Repertorlum, vol. I. pp. 467, 468. Mr. Strype has recorded the

names of feverai of the preachers here. The titles of fuch of the fermons delivered

,from this pulpit, and afterwards printed-f',

previous to the ReftoratioD, as have fallen

in my way, I (hall here throw together. All fince that time may be met with in. the

Preacher's Affiftant. Among the manufcripts of the indefatigably inquifitive BiihopTanner, at Oxford, are fix printed fermons of Thomas Drant, between 1569 and

1572 ; which, faith Mr. Warton, are more to be valued for their type than their

doftrine, and at prefent are of little more ufe than to fill the catalogue of the ty-

pographical antiquary. Two of them were preached at St. Marie's Spittle. War-ton's Hiftory of Poetry, vol. III. p. 429, 436.

Archbifhop Sandys's Sermons. London, 1585, 4to, p. 225. fermon xiv. *' ASermon made at the Spittle in London, from Adls x. 34."

Bifliop Andrews's Ninety-fix Sermons. London, 1632, folio. " A Sermonpreached at St. Marie's Hofpital, on the loth of April, An. Dom. 1588. i Tim.

vi. 17, 18, 19." T he Pathway to Perfeftion. Wednefday in Eafter Weeke, 1593, by Tho.

Playfere, D, D. Lond. 1597," i6mo." The Meane in Mourning. Tuefday in Eafter Weeke, 1595, by Tho. Play-

fere, D. D. Lond. 1597 t/' i6mo." The Poor Man's Preacher. Tuefday in Eafter Weeke, Apr. 7, 1607, by Ro.

Wakeman, B.D. and Fellow of Balioll College, in Oxford §. Ecclef. xi. i. Lond.

1667/' 8vo-

Dr.

t In the library of St, John's College, Oxford, is a manufcript «' Sermon preached at St. Ma-

rie's Spittle in Iôndon, the 23 daye of Apiil, an'o 1576." ,h.&% xxiv. 14, 15, 16. By Tobie

Mathews, Pref. of the College 1572—^1576.

X Ames, Typogr. Antiq (ed. Herber;.) vol. III. p. 1373.

& III the ftatutes of many of the antient colleges at Oxford and Cambridge, it is ordered, that

the candidates in divinity (liall preach a fermon, not only at Paul's-crofs, but at St. Mary's

Hofpital in Bifhopfgate-ftreet, " aJ Ho/jpitak heatte Maria." Walton's Hiftory of Poetry, vol. III.

P- 430.

OF SHOREDITCH. 319^

In 1439, Philip Mai pas, (lierifFof London, gave 20J-. to the

three preachers here: in 1454, Stephen Forller, mayor, gave

40/. to the preachers here and at Paul's Crofs : and, in 1487,

Sir William Littlebury, alias Horn, mayor of London, left to

every preacher at Pavil's Crofs and the Spittle ^d. for ever*'.

On the South of the pulpit was a houfe of two ftories, the

firft of which was for the mayor and aldermen when they cameto the Spital fermons, the fecand for the prelates who might

attend. This houfe was built at the expence of Richard Raw-fon, alderman, and his wife Ifabel, in 14H8. But,, in 1594,the Pulpit Crofs having fallen to decay, was renewed, when the

preacher, who before fronted the Weft, now faced to the South

:

and a new houfe was ere£ted Eaft of the pulpit for the ufe of

the governors and children of ChrilVs hofpital -j-, at the expence

of William Elkins, alderman, then lately deceafed. Within the

firft year, however, the houfe decayed ; and the city, at a great

exj>ence, repaired it |.

The Pulpit Crofs ftood at the North- eaft corner of Spital-

fquare; nearly facing the fpot now occupied by Sir George Whe-ler's chapel. And here may be obferved, that Spital-fquare was

originally called Spital-y^rfi^, an appellation now given to an ob-

fcure nook at its Weftern entrance.

Dr. Donne*s Twent3'-fix Sermons. London, 1661, folio. P. 341, fermon xxv.

"A Sermon, preached at the Spittle upon Eafter Monday 1622."" A Sermon preached at St. Marie's Spittle on Munday in Eafter Weeke, the

Fourteenth Day of Aprill, 1623, by Walter Balcancûall^D. D. and Mailer of the

Savoy, iônd. 1623. Pf- cxxvi. 5."

* Newcourt^s Repertorium, vol. I. p. 550.

•f See note -f, p. 316.

X Stow's Survey, vol. I. p. 428. ed. 1754.

Priors

Sto HISTORY AND ANTIQ.UITIES

Priors of St. Mary Spital,

Godfry occurs about 1 2 1 8 *.

William Hortone occurs April 13, I3i8f ; and again, 3-

May, 1325 J.

William Helpelby refigned, and

/ John Mildenhale was appointed on Jan. 13, 1388 §.

Fr' Roger occurs cited to convocation Nov. 28, 1407.Fr' John occurs cited to convocation May i, 1437.Thomas Hadley ; upon whofe refignation

William Sutton wâs elected prior, April 14, 1472 |1; and,

upon his refignation,

Richard CreiTul was appointed 0<5l. 15, 1484**. He occurs

1515.Thomas Bell occurs cited to the convocation at Oxford in 15291

of whom Anthony a Wood gives the following account : " Tho-*' mas Bele, Beel, or Bey 11, was bred a canon regular of the order

<' of St. Auften, and educated in academical learning amongft*' thofe of the order, ftudying in St. Mary's-college, in Oxon, of

" which he became prior about 1508. After taking the de-

" grees in divinity ff, he became lord prior of St. Mary Spittle

" without Biihopfgate, in London ; and at length fuffragan to

*' Richard Fitz-James, bifhop of London, under the title of

* Dugdale, Mon. vol. II. p. 385.

f Cart. Antiq. in Brit. Muf. 44. F. 59. X Ibid. 5^. H. 28.

§ Reg. Lond.|i

Ibid. * Ibid.

•f-f- He became D.D» Mar. 20, 1514. Fafti Oxon. vol. I. p. 656.

" EpifcopUS

OF SHORE DITCH. 521

** EpifcQpus Lydenfis * ; which is under the patriarch of Jerufa-

" lem. He lived moftly in the town of Bury. St. Edmund," in Suffolk, where, dying about the 12th ofAuguft, T540, he" was buded in the church of our BlefTed Lady St. Mary there,

" in our Lady'^ aile, near to the head of John Holt, gent,-f-.'*

He was fucceeded here by

William Major, the laft prior, who, with Thomas Ambrosand ten- others, fubfcribed to the king's fupremacy 23 June,

1534; and the priory was foon after diirolved:|:, when it was

valued, according to Dugdale, at 478/. 6s. 6d. ; though Speed

^^ys 557^' I4J"« iO(3^. According to the return in the Firft

Fruits Office, the clear yearly value was 504/. i is. i ^d. ; and

the total, -563/. 13J. ^d. ; while a MS Valor, in Dr. Rawlinfon's

collection at Oxford, makes the grofs amount 580/. i%s. 11 d. ob.

It is, at this diftance of time, in vain to enquire why the Com-miffioners varied fo much in their returns,

* " Thomas Bele, epifcopusLyddenfis, floruit 1520—1530." Bibl. Top. Brit.

No. XXVIII. Bele, as fufFragan to the Bifliop of London, with John Sharnbrok,

abbot of Waltham, affifted at the funeral of Sir Thomas Loyel, 7 June, 1524, at

Haliwei priory. See p. 194.

•f-Athen. Oxon. vol. I. p. 569. From William Major's fubfcribing to the king's

fupremacy in 1534, it would appear that Thomas Bell had refigned.

X Willis's Mitred Abbeys, vol. II. p. 126.

T t Froia

-$it HISTORY AND ANTIQÛITIES

From the bools. in his Majefty -s iRemembrancer's Office in the

Exchequer, mentioned in p. 200, the following extract has beeti

made of the penlioris granteil at the diliolution of this priory :

" N'ovii HofpitaP 1 rRogeri Cholmeley tn"^'% capita-extra Bifshopêfgate.

J Feod' ^ lis fen'' figill' conventual'-^

annu xxvjs.

xls.

OFSHOREDITGH. $2$

vices, many others there were, regular in their condu<St, well

governed, and unexceptionable ; among which 7/^^ New Ho/pi-

fa/ of our Lady is entitled to a confiderable fhare of attention,

where, at the diflblution, were found no lefs fhan 180 beds,

for the reception of lick perfans and travellers.

Nor is it foreign to our purpofeto obferve, \hz.t Ho/pital, which

now means " a place built for th& reception of tbejick, or fupport

*' of the poor^'' originally lignified '* a place forJhelter^ or enter-

** tainment *."

" They fpy'd a goodly caftle, plac'd

** Foreby a river in a pleafant dale,

«' Which chufing for that evening's Hofpttal^

" They thither march'd."Spenser's Fairy Quecn^

And here I with pleafure prefent my readers with Sir Richard

Grefham's petition to King Henry the Eighth, when lord mayorof London, 1537 f j tranfcribed from the original in the Bri-

tilh Mufeum % :

" Moft redowted and noble prynce. My molt dradd beloved

<« and naturall fov'aigne Lprde, I your pore humble & mQ|t*' obedient s'vant ; dailly confideryng and ew' more and morp** p'ceyvyng, by your v'tuus begynnyngs 8c charitable p'cedyngs

" in all yotir cawfes, yo"^ p'fone and mêftie royall to be the

" eledled and chofen velTell of God, by whome not alonly thp

" very and true worde of God is and flialbe fett forthe and ac-

* Johnfon's Diflionary.

^ For an account of him, fee Ward's Lives of the FrofeiTorf of Grefliath Col-

lege, p. 2, and the Appendix, p. 12.

^ Cotton. MS. Cleopatra, E. IV. f. 122.

T t a ^} cordyng

SM HISTORY AND ANTIQjtJITIES*' cordyng to the trewgh and very tie of the fame, but alfo to be*' he whome God hath coqftituted and ordeyned bothe to re-*' dreiTe and reforme all crymes, offences, and enormyties, beyng*' repugnant to his. doilryne, or to tne detryment of the com'on" welthe, Sc hurte of the pore people, beyng yo' naturall fub-" jeas; and/ffarder to forefee Sz. vigilantly to p'vyde for the cha»•' ritable reformacion of the fame; which thyng bathe and yet" dothe encorrage me, and alfo my bounden dewtie obligeth me,** in efpeciall beyng moll: unworthy yo" leveten'nt &; mayor of" yo' citie royall of London, to cnforme and adv'tife yo' moft" gracious highnes of one thing in efpeciall for the ayde and*' comforte of the pore, fykk, biynde, aged, & impotent" p'fones, beyng not able to helpe them felffes, nor havyng no*' place certen where they may be refrefshed or lodged at tyll

" they be holpen and cured of theyr difeafes and fykn.es, fo it

*< is, moft gracious Lorde, that nere and w'yn the citie of Lon-" don be iij hofpitalls or fpytells, com'only called Seyn( Maryes»' Spytellj Seynt Eartholomewe's Spytell, and Seint Thomas Spy-** tell, and the new abby of Tower hyll, founded of good devo-* cion by auncient ffaders, & endowed w' great pofleffions and•* rents onely for the releffe, comfort, and helyng of the pore*' and impotent people not beyng able to helpe theymlelfFes,

** and not to the mayntenaunce of chanons, preeftes, and monks,** to lyve in pleafure, nothyng regardyng the miferable people** liyng in ev'y ftrete, oflfendyng ev'y clefie pTone paflyng by•* the way w' theyre fyithy 8c nafty favours : Wherefore may** it pleafe yo' marcifull goodnes, enclyned to pytie & compaf-** lion, for the releffe of Cryftes very images created to his own^* limilitude, to order by yo' high authoritie as fup'me head of" this chyrche of England, or qtherwife, by yo' fage difcrecion',

** thatyo' mayer of yo' citie of? London and his brethern the

" aldermen

OF SHORED ITCH. 3^S

** aldermen, for the tyme beyhg, fhall and may from hensforthe

** have the order, difpoficion> rule, and gou'naunce both of all

*' the lands, tenements, and revenewes apperteynyng & belong-

*' yng to the faid hofpitalls or any of they.m, and of the mi-*' nifters which be or Ihalbe w'yn any of theym. And then yo'

*' grace thall facilie p'ceyve that where now a fmall nombre of** chanons, preefts, and monks, be founde for theyr owne p'fette

" onely &: not for the com'on ntilitie of the realme, a great

" nombre of pore, nedy, fykk, and indigent p'fones (halbe re-

" frefshed, maynteyned, 8c comforted, and alfo healed & cured of** theyr infirmyties frankly & frely by phificions, furgeons, 8c

" potycaries, whjch fhall have ftipende and falarie onely for that

" purpofe; fo that all impotent p'fones not liable to labour flialbe

*' releieved, and all fturdy beggers not willyng to labo"" fhalbe

*' punyfshed, for the whiche doyng yo^ grace fhall not alonely

*' meritt highly towarde God, but fhew yoTelffe to be more** charitable to the pore than yo' noble progenito' Kyng Edgar*' foundour of fo many^ ilionafleries, or Kyng Henry the thyrde

" renewer of Weftrnynfter, or Kyng Edwarde the thyrde

" foundo' of the New Abbey, or Kyng Henry the fyfte fonndo""

** of Syon and Shene ; but alfd Ihall have the name of conferua-

" tor, protedtour, 8c defehdour of the pore people, w' contynuall

** prayer-, for yo"" helthe, welthe, and profTperitie long to endure." yo' homble and moft obedyent s'v*nt,

** Rychard Gresham."

Sir Richard Grefliam*s petition is a neat fpecimen of the per-

fualive eloquence of his time : nor, in juftice to his memory,fhould it be forgotten that King Henry the Eighth, a fhort time

before his death, nine years after he had received tîs petition,

founded St; Bartholomew's hofpital anew*' It

$zS HISTORY ANQ ANT I QÛITIES '

It was not till eight years after its diflbliition that the fite ofthis Priory was granted to Stephen Vaughan, efq. 34 HenryVlIL*of wliofe family the following fhort defcent is preferved amongthe Harleian MSS. t

Arms : Per Pale Barry wavy of four, Gules and Or, in chief a lion's paw erafed,

between four fleurs-de-lis, and as many leopard's heads counterchanged. Creft,

an armed hand grafping a dragon.

Steven Vaughan=p

Steven Vaughan, of St. Mary=pJone, da. of Richard Srroude,

Spittle without Biftiopfgate, I ^ of Newnam, co. Dorfet.

« ]1 r—p-j

Steven, Sir Rowland Vaughan |,=j=Frances, da. of Elizabeth §, wife to Johnfonne of St. Mary Spittle,- Sir Edward Knighton, of Baford, co.

and heire, anno 1633, Watfon, of Hertford,

unmarried. Rockingham . Dorothy ||, wife to JohnCdftle, CO. Leard, preacher, and af-

Northatnpton. ter to John Hercy, gem.Katharine **, wife to Tho-mas Spring, of Iclingham,

J

—

— com. Suffolk.

Elizabeth, da. and=pSir Pawlet St. John, Knight of the Bath,

fole heire. I 2d fonne to Oliver firft Earl of Bolingbroke.

Oliver St. John, fonne and heire, set. 10 weekes 1633 -f-f-.

* Among the fee farm rent rolls in the Augmentation Office, bundle 2. Blbmeley 12, Dated

13 April, 1653, is, Fee farm rents referved.

« The fcite of St. Mary Spittle to Steph' Vaughan 8e ux* — £.0 Ss. oJ.

A tenement called Brick Houfe in the fame priojy to the fame — 080Tenements within the precinfts to the fame — — —.028Other tenements there to the fame — — — —01 4."

) Harl. MS. No. 1476. ViCtation of London in 1633 and 1634.

% " July 16, 1641. S' Rowland Vaughan, aged So. St. Mary Spittle, kn*, buried." Parifh

Clerk's private Account of burials at St. Botolph's Bilhopfgate.

§ «' Elizabeth Vawhan, bapt. y' 1 1 of May," 1572. Parifli Regifter of Bifhopfgate.

II" Dorothy, y* dang, of M" Stephen Vaughan," bapt. " the 10 of July," 1576. Ibid.

«* " Katherine Vaughan, bur. the 7 of Dece." 1 586. Ibid. Qyery, if the fame w ith the Ka-tlierine in the pedigree. The following entries in Bifliopfgate Regifter relate to the Vaughan family.

Baptifms.—1570. " Humfrey Vawhan, bapt. the st of Marche." Perhaps brother to Sir Row.land, but probably dying before 1633 was not mentioned in th« pedigree.

1614. " Stephen, fonne of M' Rowland Vaughan, y« 22 Maye."

1620. ' Marie, da. of Auguftinc Vaughan & Kather. bapt. 16 July."

ff He had two brothers, Paulet, who fucceeded hin^ in the earldom of Bolingbroke, and

Francii. Harl. MS. in Brit. Muf. 1233. f. 135.

Since

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Since the former pages were written, I have been informed

that a houfe in Spital-fquare, inhabited by Mr. Pearfon, has long

been called Spital Houfe ; and, in the early part of the pre-

fent century, was the dwelling of the notorious Vifcount Bo-

lingbroke. That it was the fame that was inhabited by Sir Row-land Vaughan is beyond a doubt. But whether it afterwards

defcended to the perfecuted vifcount I cannot affirm with any

certainty. Soon after 1700 the eftate pafled by purchafe from

the St. John of Bletfo to the TTihard family, in which it ftill

continues ; William Tillard, cfq. being the prefent polTefTor.

Befide the Vaughans, other refpe<aable and noble families,

after the Diflblution, inhabited the Spittle, as will appear by the

following extracts from the parifli regifter of Bifhopfgate.

Among the baptifms in 1593, is,

*' Henry, fonne of Sir Horatio Paulavacino, knight *, tha*' Countefs of Shrofburie (the younge deputie), for the

*' Queene's Majeftie, being godmother, the Lord Treafnrer

" and the Earl of Shrofbury godfathers."

« Of Sir Horatio Palavicini, fomething may be found in Lord Orford's Anec-

dotes of Painting, vol. I. p. 172,410; and a longer account of him in Mr. Noble's

Memoirs of the Cromwells, vol. II. p. 173, &c. See alfo the new edition of

Camden, vol. II. p. 138, 139. His fecond fon, Henry,, here mentioned, married a

Cromwell (Noble's Memoirs, vol. II. p. 178.)} and died without iffue Odt. 14, 1615.

Sir Horatio was colleftor of the papal taxes in England, in the time of QueenMary, upon whofe demife he abjured the Romifti church, and retained the treafure

due to the pontiff. Among the antient charters in the Britifh Mufeum (XII. 69.)

are Queen Elizabeth's letters patent (with the great feal annexed), declaring that

Horatio Pallavicini, a noble Grenoefe, had lent to the queen 33,374/. 4/. ^d.

Thefe letters are thus indorfed; " Et pro majori fecuritate H. Pallavicini nos con-

filiarii privati confilii- Heginae nominibus noftris propriis & privatis promittimus &nos obligamus pro plena fatisfaftione debiti. T. Bromley, cane', W. Burghley,

R. Leycefter, F. Knollys, Chr. Hatton, F. Walfmgham."In the fame houfe which Sir Horatio, in the firft year of King James the Firft,

the ambaflador from the Archduke of Auftria_lodged with kis company. Stow's

Survey, ed. 1754, voK I. p. 427.

In

328 HISTORY AND A N T I QJJ I T I E S

In the regifler of burials, 1627,*' Lady Eliz. Gilford, wife to Sir Henry Gilford, who died

" the 6th of this month at her houfe in St. Mary Spittle,

" being the da. of Earle of Wofter, and*' was buryed at Benonden, in tiie county of Kent, 8c caryed** away by night. She,was of age. 8 Aug. Kent."

And in the parifh clerk's private accounts we have, Feb.

5» 1637,

" Mr. Henry Gilford, fon of Sir Henry Gilford, knt. \vho

" dyed at his houfe in St. Mary Spittel, being atout the-

" age of 22 yeares, and was buried in the South quier of

" y* church in y' nighte."

Where the houfes they inhabited ftood I atn not certain; but

think it probable that the handfome buildings in Spital-fquare

are tiieir fucccffors,

In the. back part of a houfe, known by the name pf the

Rofe and Crown, No. 26, Holywell-ftreet, the bottom of Nor-

ton Folgate, was a large antient bay window, containing the

arms here engraved *-, making in all ten coats, feveral being re-

peated, and two of them the royal arms ; the reft were dated

1596 and 1599. The fize and age of the window befpoke the

houfe to have been a ftately building. The frame was in many

parts fo decayed, that it was fcarcely flrong enough to fupport

the glafs. Such was the Itate of the houfe in 1776. It was

purchafed by the late Samuel Whitbread, efq. a few years after;

and the glafs being carefully preferved, was by him, in confe-

quence of an accidental enquiry after it, preferited in the moft

handfpme and unexpe<aed manner to Mr. Gough, the windows

* * See the Plate.

of

OF SHORED ITCH. 329

of whofe library at Enfield derive no fmall embellilliment from

thefe ten coats ; five of which are engraved in PI. Vlif.

1. Quarterly : i. O. a bend vaire A. and Az. between two cotifes Gu\es. Bowyer

;

2. A. on a fefs humette Gules, three lions' faces ' O. Brabanl ; 3- A. a chevronS. between three acorns G. Boys; 4. A. on a fefs Gules ', beween three an-

nulets G. a mullet of the field between two cups Or. a crefcent for difference, A.Draper

; 5. A. on two chevronels S. fix martlets A '. between three efcallops S.

Draper ; 6. Erm. on a chief Azure, three lioncels rampant O. Anger ; 7. A. ona chevron G. three crofs crofsletsO. Urfwkke; 8. Erm. on a bend engrailed Az.three cinquefoils O. Fyfield, alias Lowe, of Bromlej', Kent; 9. Erm. a fefs chequeA. and Sable, 1596. '1 he bend and cinquefoils, and the chevron and crofles are qiiar-

terings on the arms of Lowe, lord mayor, 1604.2. Boivycr impaling iJrjZ'i?;?/, quartering ^qyj. 1599.3. Fyfield, alias Lowe, quratering Kirktofte, or Urfw'tcke; impaling cûar-

terly, i. G. a fhag's head O. with a crofs patee fitche, between the horns O.Bulfirode ; 2. A. a chevron G. between three ravens' heads G. ; 3. paly of fix A.and Az. on a chief S. two fworJs in faltire A. hilted Or. Knife; 4. S. A fefs lo-

zenge A. Thomas; 5. G. a chief Az. overall a pair of barnacles A. ; 6. A. a chevron

G. between three fquirrels S. Wyoft; 7. A. a bull's head G. winged S. ; 8. Erm.

a pair of barnacles G. Spelling; 9. A. five cinquefoils G. in a canton dexter S.

a mullet and crefcent A. ; 10. A. a fefs dancette G. between three leopards

faces G. 1599.4. Boivyer quartering Brabant, impaling Draper with its quarterings. Bowyer

and Boys are erroneoufly tranfpofed in the firfl and fecond quarter.

5. Erm. on two chevronels between three efcallops S. fix martlets A. Themod common of the two coats of Draper.

Creft oi Bowyer, on a ducal coronet O. a tiger feiant A. on the firfl: of thefe coats.

PEDIGREE to illuftrate thefe Coats.

...... Anger=j=. . . daughter and heir of Urfsvick.

*" William Brabant=pAlicia dau.fjhter of Richard Boys, Thomas Draper^. . . daughter andof Burton, co. Someri'et.

|couCa and heir to John Boys. of Flintham, co. heir of . . Ang-r.

'—

I

NottinghamJohn Bowyer of Shepton:T=Joan daughter and heirefs |

15eauchamp,co.Somerfet. ( to VVilliara Brabant. Thomas Draperp ' of Flintham

John Bowyer of^Êlizabeth daughter and heirefs

Camberwell. ) of Robert Draper of Cambcrwell. |

H I

Edmund Bowyer of Camberwell, Robert Draper o£=j=Elizabeth, daughter and

J

in the Commiffion of the Peace for Surrey. Camberwell,livingJ 623. Surrey.

heirefs of John Fyfieid,

alias Lowe.

Ro/ei are drawn here, but fliould be Lions' faces.

The fefs is not engrailed here, and there are on it fwo cups. ^ Here Or,

U u A Refer-


A Repertory of antient Charters, &g. relating toSt. Mary Spital*^

I. Printed Deeds.

I.

(Mon. Ang. vol. II. p. 383.)

Carta Walteri Bruni & Roifise uxoris ejus, de fi'indatrone Novi

Hofpitalis Beatse Marias extra Bifhopfgate, London ; una cura

dotatione ejufdem.

Ex MS. quodam in Bibliotheca Collegii C. C. C. C.

" Univerfis Sanflje Matris eccIefiEe filiis, ad quos preefens fcriptum pervenerir,

IVahefus Brunus, civis London. & Roifia uxor ejus, falutem. Ad univerfitatis

veftra? no.itiam voliimus pervenire, nos charitatis intuitu, & ex fpirituali devo-

tione, quam erga Dei genetricem & perpetuarn Virginem Mariam habeuius ; pro

falute etiam animarum patruni & matrum noflrorum & omnium anteceffurum nof-

trorum, t<. omnium fidelium defuhdtorum, in puram & perpetuarn elemofinam

TDeo & Hofpitaii Beatse Mariie Virginis, quje in fuburbio civitatis London, extra

portam epifcopi, in honorem Dei & ipfius genetricis fundavimus ; dediffe, concef-

liffe, & hac piffifenti cart^ noftra confirmatFe totam terram illam, c\Mjim tValtenii

filius Eilredi aldermannus, mihi Waltero Bruno & fociis meis dimifit, ad fundan-

dum defuper pr^diflum hofpitale : qua continet in fronte fecus vicum reglum

occidcntalem in latitudine xliiij iilnas de ulnis ferreis regis Joh' Angliae-J- ; & in

capite orientali verfus campum qui vocatur Lo//tf/«;or/,6 ;}: cxvij ulnas de eifdenv

ulnis § : & quandam aliam terram qffam idem Walterus filius Eilredi mihi Waliera

* 1 he deed of foundation and endowment is here given at length from the Monafticonj for

reafons (ipecified in p. 308._

,

f The ulna, or -virga ferrea, was a royal ftandard meafiire, kept in the Exchequer, Virga ferrea>,

as a meafure of land, occurs in the ctiartulary of Leominfter priory, cited by Blount, in his LawDiflionary, in voce, anfw'eriiig to our rod. In the char er brfore us, we have " ulnas de «/«j.

/errr/j Johannis regis Anglia; ;'' and, in another of Queen Eleanor to. the hofpital of St. Kathe-

rine ||," ulna' »/?;<«• ferrea domini reigs." Du Cange, in voce, explains uha, '' modus agri

ajiud Anglos cujus menfura exa£ta ad ulnam ferream Johannis r6gis Angliae." See Gent. Mag, vol.

LVII. p. 50. % See p. 10^.

§ Here Cotton MS. Nero, C. ^3.fol. 198, arids, " &£ in profuuditate a p'd'to vico rtgio ufque ad

cmpum <iui vocit" Lvllifworth clxj ulnas de eiidem ulnis."

11 Mop. Aug. vo'. II. p. 460.

& fociis-

OFSHOREDITCH. 53^

-& fociis mels dimifit extra eandem poftam,.ex alia parte vici versus occidentem,

quffi continetTecus vicum regium in latitudine xiij* ulnas, & in capite occidental

i

xvj ulnas, & in profunditate Ixxviij ulnas, de prsediftis ulnis. Ec duas acras &dimidiam terrte lucrabiiis.

" Item totatn terrara illam quam Sywardus Carpenter milii IValtero & hasredibus

meis dimifit, extra eandem portam epifcopi, quje cOntinet in fronte fecus eundemvicum regium occidentalem Iviij ulnas. Et in capite oriental! Ix ulnas. Et in pro-

funditate 3;liij ulnas, de przedidlis ulnis. Item totum croftum quod Galjridus al-

dermannus de Cornehull 'a\'^\ Waltero & haeredibus meis dimifit extra eandem por-

tam, quas continet in longitudine a gardino, quod fuit WiLlielmi de Sakfiury f-,ufquead prsedidtum canipum, qui vocatur LoUefwortb cxviij ulnas; & in latitu-

dine xxviij ulnas de praedidtis ulnis. Reddendo inde annuatim eidem Galfrido &heeredibus fuis xij denarios ad quatuor terminos anni. Item totam terram illam

c^zm. Robertus filius Ricoldi\ mihi Waltero & haeredibus meis dimifit extra eandemportam, verfus auftrum gardini fui, quse continet in fronte fecus eundem vicumregium occidentalem v ulnas & unum quarterium § ex utraque parte xlvj ulnas

& in medio vj uliias & dimid' & in capite oriental' iiij ulnas, & in longitudine deprsdidtis ulnis. Et totam terram illam, quam idem Robertus mihi Waltero & hje-

redibus meis verfus orientem gardini fui przedidti, quje continet in longitudine aprffidifto gardino ufque ad prjediftum campum, qui vocatur Lollefworth cxvj ul-

nas. Et in latitudine xv ulnas. Reddendo inde annuatim eidem Roberto vel ha-redibus fuis duos folid' ad iiij terminos anni ||.

*' Item ;totam terram illam, quam Jacobus Herbar mihi Waltero & hseredibus

meis dimifit extra eandem portam epifcopi; quje continet in longitudine a prasdi<9:o

gardino praefati Roberti filii Ricoldi** ufque ad campum qui vocatur Lollefworth

cxiiij ulnas ; & in latitudine Ixxxxv ulnas de praedidis ulnis-f--j~.

" Item totam terram illam, quam Salomon de Stebenheth mihi Waltero & haeredi-

bus meis dimifit extra eandem portam epifcopi, quse jacet inter terram quam Jaco-bus Herbarius tenuit de pra^dido Salomone verfus aquilonem, & quam AilwinusHunne tanner tenuit verfus auftrum. Quas^continet in longitudine a terra, quaefuit Henrici majoris London' ufque ad pr^didum campum qui vocatur Lollef-

worth cxxij ulnas. Et in latitudine xj ulnas de praedidis ulnis. Et xij denar'reddit' quos idem Salomon de Stebenheth mihi Waltero & haeredibus meis dimifit

quos Godardus filius Ailredi & hffiredes fui reddere debent de crofto quod tenent de

* Cot. MS. Nero, C. 3. reads " xvj," inftead of xiij.

•|- Wili'm de Sarefbiry. Cott. MS. ut fupra. .

X Richard;. Ibid. fol. 198. _

^ ârterium, generally ufed in the meting of corn; See Cowel. Here it is evidently the

fourth part of the ulna.

IIFrom " reddendo inde" to " iiij terminos anni," omitted in Cott. MS. Nero, C. 3, fol, 198.

** Richardi. Ibid.

ft From «' & in latitudine" to '« ulnis," omitted in Cott. MS. Nero, C. 3. fol. 198".

U u 2 praedido

33^ HISTORY AND ANTIQJJITI^Sprsedl<£to Salomone"-- inter terram quam Eilwinus Hunne tanner tenuit,. & terrajTt

quam idem Godardus teniiit de Ada iêr f

.

"Et quinquefolidatas \ redditus, quos idem Salomon mihi Waltero & hseredibus

meis dimifit, quos Syward Carpenter eidem Salomoni reddere folebat, cum toto

redditu & fervitio quod debet de dida terra qnam tener. Item totam terram

illam, quam Henricus Major London mihi 'Waltero & hjeredibus meis dimifit,

qu^ jacet intra terram quse fuit Godardi filii Eilredi, verfus aquilonem, &.

terram qu£e fuit Reginaldi Herbarii verfus auftrum. Et continet fecus vicumregium in latitudine xxv ulnas & \\] quart'. ¥.t in capite oriencali xxiiij ulnas &uuum quart' & in profunditate xlij ulnas de prsdictis ulnis. Reddendo inde an-nuatim eidem Henrico yel hseredibus fuis unam libram cinnamoni infra "viij dies

fefti Sandti Michaelis. Item totam terram illam (\uz.<cn Radulphus C\mc\.K de Sti-

benheth mihi Waltero & hteredibus meis dimifit extra eandem portam epifcopi,

qu£e continet in fronte feeds vicum regium occidentalem xij ulnas. Et in capite

oriental! x ulnas. Et in profunditate xlvij ulnas de prsediiftis ulnis. Reddendoinde annuatim eidem Radulpho vel hjeredibus fuis iijrf. infra yiij dies fefti Sandtr

Michaelis. Et reddendo annuatim pro prsedidtis terris, quje funt de feodo Salomonis

de Stebenheth dimid' marcam argenti eidem Salomoni vel hzeredibus fuis ad quatuorterminos anni.

" Item centum folidatas redditus infra clvitatem Lond' fcilicet v folid' quiett

redditus de terra qu^ jacet versus orientem terrse mese, fecus cimeterium eccle--

fise S. Helenje, dc feodo ejufdem ecclefije ; quae continet fecus cimeterium xi ul-nas & tres quart', & in capite auftrali xj ulnas & dimidiam, & in profunditate xvj

ulnas & dimid' de prsdidtis ulnis.

" Item xxiiij folidatas redditus de terrra in Blankefapelton § hofpitalis lapidei de

feodo de Strides in parochia de Stanyngcherch\[, inter terram quje fuit Roberti Tine-toris, verfus orientem, & terram quse fuit Ernaldi Permenter verfus occidentem,

quje continet ffecus vicum regium aquilonarem xxiiij ulnas, & in capita auftrali xx:

ulnas; 8e in profunditate xxv ulnas, de prsediftis ulnis. Reddendo inde annuatim-

capitalibus dominis gufdem feodi iiij^. & unam libram piperis ; fcilicet Radulpbo-

de Marty vel hasredibus fuis unam libram piperis ad feftum S. Maria Magdalence.

Et ad Strodes iiijj. ad quatuor terminos anni. Item viij folidat' redditus de terra.-

* Cott.MS. Nero,. C. 3. reads " de crofto qui Godardus filius Eilredi tenuit de prediAo Sa—lamone," fol. 198.

-j- Ada (/£ Ver. Cott. MS. Nero, C. 3. fol. 198. b.

j Forlhe explanation of this term I fhall refer the reader to Cowel's- Law In-terpreter, art;

" Farding-deal," alias Farundd of land ; wiiere folidata is fuppofed to mean 12 acres of land.

^ " Blanch Apleton was a manor belonging to Sir Thomas Roos of Hamelake, knt. 7 R. II..

at the North-eaft corner of Mart-\ane, fo called of a privilege fome time enjoyed to keep a mart

long fince difcontiniied, and therefore forgotten, fo as nothing rcmajneth for memory but in the

same of Jkf<jr/-lane, and that not uncorruptly termed Mart-lane. I read that, 3 E. IV. all bafket-

Biakers, wyer-drawers, and other forraincrs, were permitted to have fheep on the mannour of

-

Blanch Apleton, and not elfewhere within this citie o. fuburbs thereof," Stow, ed. 5633, p. 160.-

I'Stamchurci ; now Allhallows Staining.

quae.

OF SHOREDITCH. 333

quse fuit WiLLiELMi Bruni patris mei, in parochia de Fancherch, inter terram

quae fuit Rich. Fener verfus orientem, & terrain qiis fuit Rofta de Fancherch verfus

occidentem ; quse continet fectis vicum regium aquilonalem xvij'uinas, & in ca-

pite auftrali xiiijulnas & dimidiam ; & in profundiiate xxxviij ulnas de prsediftis

ulnis. Reddendo inde annuatim capitalibus Dominis ejufdem feodi vji. duobusterminis anni^

" Item xvj folidat*^ redditus de terrH hofpitata lapid'juxta ipfatn terram, quae

eft de foca- de JVaremanJhaker, inter terram qu* fuit Will. Bruni, patris mei ver-

fus orientem, & terram qua fuit praedifts Roifije de Fancberch verius occidentem;

quae continet fecils vicum regium aquilonalem xiiij ulnas & dimid', & in capite

auftrali xiij ulnas j & in profonditate xxvij ulnas de prsdidtis ulnis. Reddendoinde annuatim ecclefise Sanfti Petri de Gant iiij denarios ad feflum S. Mich'. Item*. • . folidat' de terra, quam Thomas Tapimr & Walterus de C/î^w?// Carpenter tcnU-

erunt in parochia S. ]\Sirgareta'Patynz, inter terram quae fuit Rob. Wefant, verfus

auftrum, & terram quas ftfit Walteri facerdotis verfus aqxiilonem ; quse continet

fecijs vicum regium occidentalem xj ulnas, & interius xix ulnas, & unum quarter'^

& dinjidium; & interius xlj ulnas, & in capite orientali xlv ulnas ; & in profun-

ditate Ixvi ulnas de eifdem ulnis. Reddendo inde annuatim capitalibus^ Dominis^feodi ejufdem iiijj-. fcilicet haeredi Will, de Blemter 'n\]s. duobus terminis anni. Ethseredibus Dominse Agnetis fororis S. Thoma v denar'^ infra xv dies S. Michaelis.

" Item unam marcatam quieti redditus de terra quadam in parochia Sanfti Petri

Parvi, inter terram quam Folemarius Piftor tenuit de me, de feodo ecclefice- deCerencejire, & terram quam Walterus Rufus Hareng tenuit de ecclefia S* Bartholo'

»z« ; qlije continet fecus vicum regium auftralem vi'ij ulnas, & dimidiam; & in

eapite aquilonari ij- ulnas & dimid' & in proftuiditatp xxv ulnas, & dim' de prse-

didtis ulnis. Item xv folidat' & ix denar' quieti redditus in parochia S. Martini dcLudgate, de quadam terra, qu£B jacet inter foffatum caftellum Munjichet'^ dc feodoRic. Munfiehet, & teo'am quse fuit Martini Permentaria de Fleta, qua continet feciis;

vicum regium aquilonarem xxvij. ulnas- & dimidiam, & in capite auftrali xix-

ulnas & dimidiam, & in profunditate, verfus- occjdentem, xJiij ulnas, & verfus

orientem xxvij ulnas de pr^didis ulnis ; pro fervicio rotandi unam loricam femelin anno pro toto feodo, quando Dominus ipfius feodi fuper ipfum feodunv illarft

miferit.

" Item XX folidatas redditus de terra Ilia, quze jacet inter terram qua: fuit Alani

Cuner, verfus orientem, de feodo hofpitalis S. Bartholomei-, & terram qus fuit Ra-dulphi de Warre ivLtorh, verfus occidentem, de feodi hofpitalis Sanfti Jacobi ; qu£e

terra eft de feodo ejufdem hofpitalis S. Jacabi'ia parochia S. Sepulchri verfuS Hok--

:

* Mimtfipiit (Mountfichet) tower or caftie on the Thames belonged to William Baron Mount-fichet, who came in with the Conqvieror, and built it, but Richard de Mcuntfrchet being baniflied

by King John, 1213, his caflle, with other cnftles of the barons, v.'as probably deftroyed, but

not completely till 1276, when Archbifliop Kilwardby built the Black friary church with the roa-

teiials, the beft of whifih'the Bifliop of London had obtained of William the Cooqneror to re--

cdify the upper part of St» Paul's church, deftroycdby ftre. Stow, ed. 1633, p. 61.

kirn0^

^34 HISTORY AND ANTIQÛITIES

•iurtie, & continet feciis vicnm regium aquilonarem xxv ulnas ; & in capitc

adftrali xlv ulnas ; & in profunditate, verfus orientem, xxiiij ulnas ^ 8c verfCis oc-

^cidentem xxxvij ulnas de prasdiftis ulnis.- Reddendo inde annuatim capitalibus

Dominis ipfius feodi xs. ad quatuor terminos anni. Item duas folidatas quieti red-

•ditus de terra quam Rogerus Perchaminarius tenuit in parochia S. Martini de Otef-

wich, qu£e continet fecSs vicum regium auftralem v ulnas, & in capite aquilonari

iij ulnas ; & dimidiam : Et in profunditate x ulnas de prsediftis ulnis.

" Quare volumus & concedimus firmiter & fideliter, quod hsc omnia prjedidla

integre & finaliter remaneant prjedidto hofpitali & fratribus & fororibus ibidem Deofervientibus, in puram- & perpetuam elemofmam, faciendo inde fervicium annua-

tim capitalibus Dominis feodorum, ficut prasdiftum eft. Ut autem ha;c noftra

•donatio & conceffio & confirmatio perpetua firmitate confiftat, earn in honorem

yefic Chrijli & ipfius genetricis & perpetuas Virginis Maria prsefenti fcripto liollro

coxifigBamus, & figillis noftris roboramus. Hiis teftibusj &c."

II.

(Men. Ang. voL II. p. 385.)

Compofitio inter Priorem & Conventum Hofpitalis Beatas Mariae

extra Bifliopfgate, 8c Re6torem EcclefiEe S. Botolphi.

Ex MS. quodam, nt fupra.

" Omnibus Sanftas matris ecckfiffi filiis, ad quos prsefens fcriptum pervcTierlt,

magifter Johannes Witing, reftor ecclefiffi S. Botolphi extra Eijhopfgate, Land.

seternam in Domino falutem : Nova-it univerfitas veftra, quod hsec eft compofitio

fadta inter ecclefiam difti S. Botolphi & me ex una parte, & domum Dei & Beatse

Maria extra Eijhopfgate, & Godefridum priorem & canonicos 8c fratres ejufdem loci

€X altera, parte, fuper jure parochiali quod ecclefiffi prsefatai S. Botolphi debebatur,

de territorio & curia prasfatas domus Dei & Beat« Maria, prsefente Domino W.

Lond. epiCcopo& affenfum prsebente, cum capitulo S. Fauli ; videlicet quod didti

prior Sc canonici & fratres 8j eorum fucceffores jura & libertates prefata ecclefi^

S. Botolphi, quantum ad eos pertinet, fervabunt illaefas ; 8c fingulis annis eidem

ecclefias, pro jure parochiali, 8c pro omnibus decimis 8c obventionibus territorii

praefati & curias praefatse, quae incipit de Berewardejlane *, verfus auftrum, 8c ex-

* Btrwards (probably Bear-wards) lane, now Hog-lane. Stow, ed. 1633, p. 175, where this

(Comj>ofition is abridged. The fite is now occupied by Petticoat-lane,

tendit

OFSHOREDITCH, 3^5.

tendit fe in ktitudin-em ufque ad parochiam, Sandti Leonardi de Soreditch verfuS'

aquilonem'; & in latitudine a vico regio verfus occidentem, ufque ad campum Do-^mini Londori qui vocatur LoUefword, verfus orientem, decern folidos fterlingorum

perfolvent ad quatubr rerminos anni ; fcil' ad Pafcha duos folidos,, & fex denar'.

Et ad nativitatem S. Jghannis Baptiji<€ duos folidos & fex denar'. Et ad feftum S.

Michaelis duos folidos & fex denar'. Et ad Natale Domini duos folidos & fex^

denar'.

" Sciendum quod de omnibus terris aliis fuis in pradidla parochia extra praeno-

minatas fines decimas perfolvent. Veruntatem fervientes eorum, qui non funC

converfi, vel qui vote Domini eorum non funt aftrifti,, quater in anno, & in fefto-

S. Botolphi, venierlt ad diftam ecclefiara, & omnia facramenta ecclefiaftica, quse

didtis diebus fient ibidem, recipient. Et omnes alii a jure pgrochiali erunt ini

—

munes. Praefati vero prior & canonici & fratres, eorum fucceffores, nullum deparochianis diftie eccIefiÊ vivis vel defunftis ad oblationem feu aliquod officium

ecclefiafticum ; nee aliquid ab eifdem parochianis eidem ecclefiie debitum maliciofe

in, ipfius ccclelis vel perfons prasjudicium, vel damnum admittent : Nee etiam adfepulturam, nifi prius prefatse ecclefias fatisfecerit competenter. Ut autem omniaprtedida fine dolo & fraude fideliter a prsediftis priore & canonicis & fratribus ob-fcrventur, Godefridus prior prsefatfe domus coram Domino W. London' epifcopo,.

cautionem prasftitit juratoriam, & omnes fucceffores ejus, coram Domino Lond\,qui pro tempore fuerit, vel ejuS fifficialibus ad hoc deftinatis, confimilem gr^fta-

bunt cautionem. Et ut ha;c compofitio ficut prsfenti. fcripto cirographato conti.^

netur notata, perpetus firmitatis robur obtineat, prsefens fcriptum ligilli mei ap—pofitione corroboravi. Hiis teftibus Roberto decano ecclefise San<9iiJP«K//j & aliis.T

(Mon. Ang. vol. IL p. 385.);,

Carta Regis Edwardi Primi, de advocationibus Ecdefiarum- de-

Shaldeford^ Woghenerfli, Puttenham, &: Duntesfeld,, &c.

\ Cart. 33 Ed. I. n. 49,

" Rex archiepiftopis, &c. falutcm. Sclatis nos pro falute anim^ noftrse, &'

animarum progenitorum noftrorum quondam regum Anglic ; necnon ad augmen-tationem cultus c^lVini in hofpitali Beatas Maria extra Bijhopfgate, Lond\ fuften-

tandi ; ac etiam in fubyentionem fuft^ntationis pauperura ibidem venientium, & irp

eodem hofpitali dfgentium, dediffe h conceffifle, pro nobis & ha£redibus.noftris,i

4, dileflis.;

^-6 HISTORY AND ANTIQÛITIES:>o

dileftls nobis in Chrifto priori & conventui ejufdem hofpitalis, duo meflliagi^

quinquaginta & duas acr^s terra;, tres acras prati, & duas acras bofci cum fervitiis

libere tenetrtiurti, & omnibus aVus perUnentiii (uh in Sha/de/erd : Et advocationes

ecclefiarum de Shaldefor'd, Woghenerjh, PutUnham, & Duntesfeld, Wyntonieofis

diocdis, & noftri patrodatus. Habendas & tenendas eifdem priori & conventui &eorum fuccefforibus de nobis & hasredibus noftris, regibiis Anglias, cum advocatione

capellse de Bromlegh didtas ecclefiie de Shaldfford annexe ; necnon cum mercato &feriS & omnibus aliis ad praedidta mefuagia, terram, pratum, bofcum & advoca-

tiones qualitercumque fpedantibus, in liberam, puram, & perpetuam elemofmam.'* Et infilper conceffimus eifdem priori & conventui pro nobis & hsredibus

noftris, quod ipfi prsdidtas ecclefias de Shaldeford, & Ifoghenerjh, cum prjedifta

capella de Bromlegh, di£tse ecclefis de Shaldeford annexa, fibi & hofpitali praedidlo

appropriare & eas fie appropriatas tenere poffint fibi & fuccefforibus fuis, in libe-

ram, puram & perpetuam elcmofinara (Sec). Data per manum noftram,apud

Weftm', vjij die Aprilis."

II. Original Charters in the British Museum.

44. F. 39.. Licentia Fundand' Cantar' in Eccl' Novi Hofp' Sc

in Eccl' B. M. Bothawe*. Dated 13 April, 13 18.

* This charter, rather mutilated, fets forth that James de Botiller, citizen and draper, who

died the 4th day of February, 13 17, by his laft will and teftament, left, after the death of his

wife Agnes, to this priory, a tenement, with its appurtenances, in the parifli of St. Mary Bo-

thawe, formerly in the tenure of Walter de Londonefton, with fix ftiops annexed to it, of which

two were in the faid parifli of St. Mary Bothawe, and two in St. John's Walbroke, with another

ihop in Candelewyke-flreet, fol- the finding and fupportitig four fit chaplains, daily to celebrate for

ever for the fouls of James Botiller and his wife Agnes ; for William and Olive, father arid mo-

ther of James ; Walter de Londonefton and Chriftian his wife ; and for the fouls of all faithful

peifons departed'} two of the chaplains from among the canons of the hofpital, there to celebrate,

and two others, feculars, to celebrate in the church of St. Mary Bothawe, where James de Botiller

was buried, and on his obit day, viz. 4 Feb. one penny of the current money of England (monete

turfah'ilis Anglia) is ordered to be given to each fick perfon in the hofpital. The deed continues,

that the prior and convent fwore, for them and their fucceffors, to keep the faid James de Botil-

ler's will; and pronounced the curfe of the greater excommunication upon themfelves, or their

fucceffors, fliould they either break their compaft, or prove negligent in the performance of it

;

and agree, if negleSful, to undergo fuch ecclefiafticai cenfures as fhall feem moft expedient for

the welfare of their fouls, '^ prout falubrius animabus d'c'orum difnnSonim 'oiderint expedite" The

tvhole is confirmed by the Bifliop of London ; whofe feal, with that of the priory, was formerly

appendant. Dated 13 April, 1318.'

44. F.

OF SHORED IT CR 357

44. F. 40. Carta Fund' Gantariie in Ecclla SVi Jacobi de

Garlekehyth *. Broken feal f . T. E. H.

53. H. 28. Carta Fund' Cantar' in Ecd'ia Novi Hofpitalis 8t

in Ecd'ia S'c'i Georgii j. 3 May, 1325.

* This deed declares, that, by the unanimous confent of the canons, and in confideration of

300 marks given them by Robert Newton and Henry Jolypace, chaplains, in their great neceffity,

for the relief of their houfe, which was grievoufly in debt, ([ua are alieno graviter onerata, they

granted to Thomas Prefton, chaplain of the chantry, at the altar of St. John the Baptift, in the

church of St. James Garlekhyth (founded by the royal licence), and to his fucceflbrs in the chan-

itry, twelve marks a'year, to be received from all their lands, tenements, and rents, with their

appurtenances, in the parifli of St. Martin Vintry, St. Peter Cornhill, and St. Botolph Bifliopfgate.

\ On this feal is a reprefentation of the Virgin Mary and child ; infcribed, " sigillum

. LONB."

J This charter fets forth, that Roger dc la Bere gave a meffuage, with its appurtenances, in

St. Botolph's lane, by Billingfgate, in the parifli of St. George, London; and one other mef-

fuage, in Candlewicke-ftreet, in the parifli of St. Mary Abchurch, to this priory ; for the finding

of three chaplains to celebrate daily, for the foul of Henry Wodlok, formerly Biftiop of Lin-

coln ; for the good eilate (profaltibrijlatu) of Roger de la Bere, while he might live, and for his foul

when he fliall have gone the way of all flefli (pojlquam viam camis humana fuerit ingreJjTusJ ; for the

fouls of his father and mother; and for all faithful perfons departed this life. Two ca«ons re-

gular of St. Auftin to celebrate in the priory church ; and one fecular chaplain in the church of

St. George. The deed was executed at St. Mary Spittle, in the prefence of Roger de la Bere, 3

May, 1325. When the prior and convent appointed brother Robert de Corne, and brother

Henry de Crefsbroke, of their houfe, chaplains for the two chantries in their church, and JohnDavey, the fecular chaplain, to celebrate in St. George's church. They likewife agreed annually

to celebrate the obits of the Bifliop, and Roger de la Bere's father and mother, and his owawhen dead (cum ab hocftcula tranfmigraveritj^ io a folemn manner, with the tolling of bellj, &c-.'

William de Horton, prior.

X X III. Cotton


III. Cotton MS. Cleopatra, E. IV, folio 203.

(Pat. II E. II. p. 2. m. 24.)

Index Benefadlorura.

if

Gilbenus le fferon dedit vj folidat' qnieti redditus pcipiend' de terr' & tent' quefuer' Algar le fferon in pochia Sci Clementis in Eftchepe.

Nichus filius Gervafii leSirer vna mcata quieti redd' de quadam domo in pochiaSci Michis Woodftrete.

Serlo mcer «5es terr' fuas in pochia Sci Laur' vfus Thamefin *.

Martinus fili' Jo' de Ely, & Joha foror' ejus vna mcata quieti redd' in pochiaSci Anthonii.

Tho* pfona ecctla Sci Petri de Magna Walfingham o(fto mcas quieti redd*, dequibufdam feldis in foro Londi in pochia oim Scor' in Hony lane.

Petrus GiBun capitale mef q fuit pris fui in pochia Sci Jacobi,juxta vinetar'.

Wiltus Junevall totij cellar' q fuit Jordani Pev'ell in pochia Sci Mictiis vbi bla-

dum venditur -f".

Hen' filius Hen' Crifpi totu capitale mef fuu in pochia Sci Benedî Serhoge cutoto iure q huit in advoc' dee ecctie & de oihz terr' & redd' q huit in London &extra.

Warinus de turr' Lond' vnu mef in Wodcrowell in pochia Sci Olavi de Thon-gate, Lond'. Ac Agnes que fuit ux' Warini le preacher remifit jus fuum q huit

in vno mef in Woderoulane in pochia Sci Olavi de Thongate iuxta Turr' London'.

Juliana' que fuit vx' Walteri de Tundrefby tota terr' & domus quas huit hi

pochia See Ma' Wulnoth.Laur' le Efcote xij denar' quiet' redd' de una (hopa in peffmaria in garda que

fuit Alani de Balm in pochia Sci Nichi.

Wiltms Camer redd' ij^"^' folidatarum de terr' qm Nichi de Belvors de eo emit.

Hen' Pikebon totu ius fuu in tota terr' qua tenuit de eiufdem pore & ffibj in

pochia Sci Sepulchri.

Margeria que fuit vx' Simonis capellar' dedit tota terr' in do.mibus quas huit in

pochia oim Scor' in Berekyngeth.

Alicia filia Galfrid' Boffe dedit totu jus fuu q huit in ij""" domib? in pochia Sci

Dunftani vfus Turr' London'.

Martinus filius Martini Wodyn dedit reddit' qua huit in pochia Ma' de Arcub'.

Robcrtus de Curlingh^m ded' iiij denar' redd' de domib' q tenuit de Simone

m atore in pochia See Trinit' Lond'. <

* Q, St. Laurence Poultney. f St. Michael's Comhill.

Ni-

OFSHOREDITCH. 339

Nlgdlus capellarlus dedit ofto folidat' quieti redd' de teiit' & dotnib' que The-obald de Alegate de eo tenuit juxta porta AUegate.

RaSus filius Wiltmi filij Baldewini dedit medce terre qm funt de Reginaldo filio

Rogeri in ôchia Sci Georg' Suwerke.

Edelina que fiiit vx' Radi pdci dedit fuam medte lerr'-qm ipa & pdcus Radusemer' de Reginald pdco in |>ochia pdca. Vendicoem etca c|m WiltrHs filius Petri

de Horma de fecit prior' & frib' pdcis de fepte folidat' redd' & vn' libr' pigis dequada terr' que fuit VVilttni itin' nicer in pochia Sci Aug' in veteri pifcaria.

Edia la Blund dedit vn' mef in pochia Sci Dunftani.

Eadem Edia ded' aliud mef in eadem pochia.

Hen' le Lutre dedit xxiijj, i]d. quieti redd' de tent' que tenuit abfee Be Marie deStratford apud Ludegate in pochia Sci Martini & Londonesftane in Candlewickftrafe

in pochia Sci Clementis & Sci Micbis in Candlewickftrate Eftchep & Limeftrate.

GilBus de Affyngdon dedit redd' fex nicar' & di' de quadam Senda que fuit

Hen' de Coventre in foro occidentali in pochia Sci Pancrafii. Et ij meat' redd' dcScnda qm ide (jilbertus tenuit in pochia be Ma' de Arcub' Lond'.

Jolies Adulphus dedit', redd' vij denariat' de mef q fuit Hen' le Cuttder in "vica

Sci Clemen' iuxta Candelwickftrate.

Galfr' de Hundefdich dedit totum domu fua qm !iuit in pochia Sci Botelphi extr'

porta epi Lond'.

Jofies de Stanes civis Lend' dedit xiiij fhopas in pochia Sci Olavi vfus Turr'.

Bartlius de Caftro cticus civis Lond' dedit terr' & domos fupedificat' quas huit

in pochia Sci Albani de Wodeftrete London'.

Galfr' fili' Hen' at Barre dedit vj deaar' quieti redd' de tent' in pochia Sci Bothextra Alegate LotKlon'.

Simon' de Paris civis London' ded' Selda cij quodam bratmeo in pochia Sci Petri

de Wodftrete London'.

Jo' Tony dedit tent' cu fliopis folar' & gardinls que fcuit in pochia omn' fcor'

de Staningcherch & See Catherine Lend'.

Nichus de Haleweford' ded' totu ius & clam/ que ftuit in xx folidat' redd' detent' in Efchepe in pochia Sci Leondi London'.

Walterus de Colcefter cticus & Ifabella vx' ejus deder' xl folid' redd' de terito

q huer' in vico de Flete in pochia Sci Martini de Ludgate Lend'.

Pdcus Walt' & Ifab' dedeft vna alia domu cu trib' ihopis in vico de Flete in

pochia pd'.

Wimart de Ebbegate* dedit xix meat' redd' quas huit in London' & extr'.

Walterus de Verdon ded' centu fofid' redd' de marifco q emit in pochia de WeftTilber'.

Wiltins filius Johis de Langedon ded' totii marifcu in Chanonhae que vocat'

Langedone mfh,

Jo' de Lancaflcr ded' quanda p . . . . terr' in pochia de Chaldewell.

* Wymaik de Elbcgate, a co-founder. See p. 308.

X X 2 Wil-

340. HISTORY AND ANTIQÛITIES.

Wiltiis le Marfliall ded' tota terr' fua in villls de Weft Tilbury.Martinqs fili-us Rad'i de Gorewall ded' tota terr' fua in Weft Tilbury.

WilJms de Hobruge ded' teir' fua in Chalveduna.Andr' de Honindon cticus ded' terr' in pochia de Opmenftr' *.

Petrus de Newport archid' London' ded' campu apud Yneney.Ide Petrus ded' ptu in Sutholm in pochia de TotenKm fup ripa Luye. Et svic'

ad ipm ptin' de iij acr' pti in Souiholm cu foffat' adjacent', &c.RoBtus de Kyngeflon dedit totu ins fuu in xij acr' terr' in pochia de Hakeneya.Robtus de Button ctic' ded' totia ius fuu. in v folidat' & vj denar' redd' in

Knontesfeld 8c pochiis de Hakeneia & Stebenhethe.

Hen' de S,abricefworth ded' xix acr' terr' in Hakeneya.

Roger' vicar' de StBheth ded' viij acr' terr' & di' jacent' intr' Watfeld & Fowe-lane & vna acr' terr' & di' que vocat' Bethelmcrofs & homag' Salanionis Wiburg& Jo' Helm.

Egidius de Wodham ded' x acr' terr' 8e di' in Hakeneya & x]s. M]d. redd' in

eade vill'. Et vij acr' & di' in eade viU. Et vna acr' & vn* roda pti in Wilder-

neffe & vn' mef in Champrichale-f*.

Walterus Grimbaud dedit tota terr' fua in Hakeney & vj. redd' in Stebehe.

Ide Walterus ded' iiij acr' terr' in Hackeney.

Ide Walterus xij^. redd' de iiij acr' terr' in Hakeney.

Ide Walt' dedit vna acr' terr' in Hakeney.

Ide Walt' dedit redd' v folid' de terr' in Stebehe.

Alicia filia de Stebehe ded' x acr' & di' terr' in campo qui vocat' Golsfreland.

W°" fiiius Edrici de Alegate dedit tota terr' lua extra Alegare voc' le Wodland.

Prioriira & convent' de Halywell deder' cs, quieti redd' de duabus marifcis ia

com' Effex quos huer' de domo Phi Baflet.

WiltSis coes EfTex ded' tota terr' & man' de Ditton cu advoc' ecctie & ptu in

Thaldwod q vocat' Horfmede & 3 folid' redd' in Thalewod cu molendino & xvs.

iijfi?. redd' in eadem villa. -^

RaSus de Plavar ded' maner' de Ditton cij ptin'.

Ada fiiius Duranti de Enefeld ded' ptu in marifco de Enefeld.

Johes de Cadamo ded' maner' de Bello monte in pochia de Ceftrehunt.

Matilda Attenok ded' tota terr' fua iac' inter terr' dcor' religioforu & Wiltmi My-dleton' ctici, Et vna acr' pti in Woremeled-mede J in pochia de Ceftrehunt.

Stephus fiiius de Ceftrehunt ded' ius fuu in vn' acr' terr' in Ceftrehunt.

Hugo de Honesford & Chriftina vx' ejus deder' jus fuu de-mef in Ceftrehunt

& V acr' terr' in ead' villa & vn' acr' pti.

Ric' fiiius Rogeri pifcatoris ded' terr' fua in Ceftrehunt & vn' acr' pti in Ran-

itey.

Radus Cardun ded' quodda afferm' cu paftur' & crofto voc' Coclefcroft in Chefil.

Jo' fiiius Rogeri de Sweberg ded' vn' acr' & di' in Mocking.

* Sc. Upminjier, Effex. See p. 310. f (i. Camlrirlge heath, J f. Wormhy mead.

a Gil-

OFStlpREDITCH. 341

Gil^tus fillus Rici de Sco Andoem* ded' horaag' & svic' de dimid' feodi mil' in

Weft Tilbir'& Eft Tilbir'.

Jolies filius Rogeri.de Seueberwy ded' vn' acr' terr' in Orfethe.

Ide Jo' ded' vn' acr* terr' in Mocking.Walter filius ded' ten' fuam in eadem villa.

Jo' fil' Roberti de Brok ded' iij acr' terr' & dim' in Cbaldewell & iij acr' & di'

& medietatem vnius acr' pd in Orfeth, & 5 virgat' terr' in Cbaldewell *.

Ric' de Sco Andoem' ded' terr' fua in W'ft libber'.

Anaftafia que fuit vx' Barttii le Forbur' de London' ded' t£rr' & mef in Littel-

bury.

Robertus filius Nichi Rivelent ded' terr' cu meffuagiis in Chaudeweli.

Galfr' le Widefeld ded' 7 acr' terr' in Orfete.

Wiltms fill' Ade civis Lond' ded' totu marifcu fuum voc' Horfeword.

Walter' de Kentoys ded" quietu redd' ij denar' de marifco de Horfeworth.

Robertus del Brok ded' vn' mef in Chaldewel.

Jo' filius Rogeri de Seueberga ded' iij acr' terr' in ijochia de Making.Kic' fil' Hen' Strogman ded' viij denar' -redd' de tentis in Mucking.Beatrix filia Martini de Seueberwe ded' croftu que fuit Robti Kete & vna acr*

terr' in Seueberwe.

Mahiliat AbbiJTa & convent' de Berkyng deder' tentu in Seueburg q fuit de

dono Wiltmi Pover.

Robertus abb' & conv' de Stratford ded' iiis fi3u in iiij folld' redd' de tento ipor*

abb' & covent' in Mockyng & Hornyndon.Walterus Ruffus ded' terr' & tent' in Mockyng & Hornyndon.

Jo' fir Rogeri ded' vn' acr' terr' & di' in Orfete.

Steph' Sorth ded' med' vni' acr' terr' in Weft Tilber'.

Ide Steph' remifit redd' v denar' de quoda mef in Weft Tilber' & vna denar'

redd' in quadam paftur' in eade vill'.

Jo' Sheyl ded' tota terr' fua in Weft Tilber*.

Jo' fili' Rogeri ded' vn' acr' ten* in Mucking.Wiltms fil' Srephi le Marfliall ded' tota terr' cu hopis in Weft Tilber'.

Tho' fir Roberti de Graveftiend pbr' ded' vn' acr' terr' in Parva Tilber'.

Ric' de Serbury ded' paftura ad xj animalia in hope de Tunemanlafe in marifco

de Weft Tilbery.

Ide Ric' ded' xv acr' terr' in Weft Tilber' cu libis introetib* & exit'.

Ide Ric' ded' tota terr' in Weft Tilber' in tenur' Barthol' le Furbur* & Anaftafie

vx' eius.

Ide-Ric' ded' tota terr' fua in eade vill' q WiltiSs Godye tenuit.

* Of thefe lands in the parifhes of Orfet, Mucking, and Chad-wtU, in Effex, fee p. 310..

•}• Mabilia de Bofebam was abbefs of Berking in 1*15,

The

342 HISTORY Al^D ;AN T I QÛ I T I E S

The Girls School of Norton Folgate

was inftituted in 1703, for 25 children, who are completely

cloathed twice a year. In 1 7 30, Mr. William Tillard, treafurer of

the fchool, gave to the truftees a houfe in Bloflbm-ftreet. In

the following year, five more girls were added to the former

number. The falary, of the raiftrefs, originally but 11/. has

been increafed to ai/. per annum, exclufive of i/. for inftru6ting

her fcholars in finging. The children belonging to the fchool

attend on Sundays at Sir George Wheler's chapel, where an an-

nual fermon is preached for their benefit.

The Court House, and Turner's Free-school.

In the middle of Norton Folgate High-ftreet formerly flood the

Court Houfe; the upper part of which had long been ufed for a

free-fchool, founded early in 1691 * for 30 boys, and fupported

by the voluntary contributions of well-difpofed perfons, of whomHumphrey Seymore and Richard Turner "j", efqrs. were the chief;

the former, by will, dated April 13^ 1700, left to the fchool

the ground rent of an houfe in Lombard-ftreet (after the de-

ceafe of his wife), in the truft of the goldfmiths company ;

* It was tlie fecond inflitution of the kind in London ; tlie boys fdiool at St.

Botolph's Aldgate (fet up in 1688) being the firft.

-j" He died in 1738.

but

OF SHOREBITCH, 343

but the goklfmiths refufing to accept the truft, the fubfcribers

to the fchool proceeded to a6t ; and^ on September to, 1731,leafed it to John Beft, at the annual rent of 1 8/. clear of all de-

dudtions for taxes or repairs. Upon the demolition of Norton

Folgate Court Houfe, in 1743, the fchool was removed to an

houfe in White Lion-ftreet till 1775. In this year the truftees

under whofe care it had been left by Richard Turner*, jun. efq.

chofe a plot of ground, on a leafehold for 60 years, in Prim-

rofe-ftreet, upon which, at the expence of 687/. they built a

handfome fchool-houfe ; the revenue of the fchool then con-

lifting of 5000/. 3 per cents, left by Mr. Turner, and the

ground-rent of the houfe beforerpentioned of 1 8/.

In 1 77 1, the number of the boys was increafed to 40, whoare taught reading, writing, and arithmetic; they are completely

cloathed once, and fupplied with the fmaller articles 6f drefs three

times, a year,

Almshouses in Norton Folgate Liberty.

In Elder-ftreet are feveral almOioufes, with this infcriptiont,

•*- Thefe almfhoufes

were eredled and endowed .

by the charity of

Nicholas GarRet, Efq.

deceafed ; a member of the

company of Weavers, in i

London,

J Anno Dom.

)

1749."

Son of the former, who died in 1768. -

Adjoining


Adjoining to thefe are fix others, where the workhoufe ofthe Hberty is now kept, with this infcription :

" Thefe Almnioufes

were built in the year

1728, '

for the benefit of the poor of

Norton Folgate.

. Jer. Mather,! ^^ „ ôverfeers.

'

Geo. Bruce, J

Sir George Wheler's Chapel.

Connected with the Hberty of Norton Folgate (thought in the

parifti of Chrift Church, Middlefex), is Sir George Wheler's ta-

bernacle.

The worthy knight built it for the ufe of his tenantry in Spi-

tal-fields (who, fituated at the extremity of a vaft parilh, were

frequently unable to attend their church), and was himfelf their

firft minifter.

Thomas Sharp, D. D. prebendary of Durham 1722, was

the next minifter whofe name I have difcovered. He was fuc-

ceeded by the,

Rev. William Lamplugh*, in February, 1731 ; and, in

1734, the

Rev. John Craner occurs, who continued here many years.

* Son to Thomas Lamplugh, archbi(hop of York (1688—1691). He was af-

terwards vicar of Devvlbiiry, in Yorkfliire.

In

OFSHOREDITCH. 345

In 1756, the tabernacle having fallen ta decay was re-built

with bricfc, at the expence of the neighbouring inhabitants

;

and, as an acknowledgement, they were allowed to chufe their

minifter. After this, the right of prefentation again reverted to

the defcendants of Sir George.

The chapel was opened with two fermons on September 5,.

1756 ; and, on the 2 2d of the fame month, the contributors

to its re-buiiding aj)pointed the

Rev. Parker Rowlands their miniiler for the morning. Theafternoon preacher was the rev. Herbert Mayo**, M. A. then cu-

rate of Spital-fields, by virtue of his re£tor's claim.^ He fuc-

ceeded Dr. Simpfon both here and at St. George's in the Eafl-^

He is now, Auguft a 6, 1 7 9 S, minifter.. Mr.. Rowlands was

fucceeded in 1784 by the.

Rev. John Hutton, M. A. to whom the chapel itfelf had been^

given by Mr. Granville Wheler, The prefent euratfe is the

Rev. J, J. Ellis, M» A. joint lecturer of Shoreditch.

The connection of the prefent pofTeflbr of the xhapeL witlx;

the family of Wheler is here ihewn from Mr. Hutchinfon's-

Hiftory of the County Palatinate: of Durham.

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OF SHOREDITCH, 347

Old Artillery Ground, or Artillery Garden,

In expe6lation of more copious materials than thofe I was in

poffeflion of, I referred the reader to the conclufion of the workfor an account of the Old Artillery Ground, which was entitled

to an earlier infertion, among the poffeffions of the Spital pri-

ory. My enquiries have, however, been difappointed ; and I

have' added to my ftock little more than a few references to the

regifter and minute books of the Artillery company, whofe an-

tient archives were loft in the civil wars of the laft century.

THe Old. Artillery Ground^ or Artillery Garden^ had antiently

the name of 'feqfel Clofey from the Clothworkers, to whom it

"was let, planting in it one of the three fpecies of Teafel called

Carduus fullonum.y of peculiar ufe in railing the knap on woollea

cloth. It wa^ afterwards let to the crofs-bow makers, who ufed

it in fhooting for games at the popinjay *.

Mr. Bagford, in his Letter on the Antiquities of London f^mentions " a defcription of a Roman camp and place of exer-^

cife in the Old Artillery Ground, between Whitechapel and

Biihopfgate-ftreet, by a judicious author, in the latter end ofQueen Elizabeth's reign; a valuable quarto pamphlet.". lut,,

as no other authority can be cited, we cannot lay any great ftrelS'

on Mr. Bagford's aflertion.

* Strype's Stow, ed. 1754, vol. I. p. 426*\ Prefixed tp Leland's CoUedânea, p. W.

Y y % Certain


Certain it is that the Artillery Garden once formed a part of

Lolefsvorth-fields, and that the upper part was a Roman ceme-tery *.

William Major, the laft prior, with the convent of St. MarySpital, Jan. 3, 1530, leafed it for the term of thrice ninety-

nine years to the " Fraternity of Artillery in great and fmall'* ordnance" (or gunners of the Tower), incorporated by char-

ter from King Henry VIII. In 1584, a propofal was made for

the confirmation of their charter, and re-eftablifhment of the

fraternity, under the dire<5lion of the officers of the ordnance.

And the rules and dire(5lions how the art of gunnery was to be

taught, are recited in Stow -f. But the whole fcheme came to

nothing.

In the following year, the city being wearied with continual

mufters, a number of gallant citizens, many of whom had

ferved with credit abroad, here voluntarily exercifed themfelves,

and trained others to the ready ufe of war ; fo that, within two

years, there were near 300 merchants and others, fufficiently

fkilled to train common foldiers in the managing of their pieces,

pikes, and halberts, to march, countermarch, and ring. In

1588, fome of them had coramiffions in the camp at Tilbury ;

but their aflbciation foon after- fell to decay J. In 1 6 1 1 §, it

was again revived, by warrant from the privy council, and the

volunteers fbon amounted to 6000 men H. In the year 1614

(faith Mr. Pennant **) there was a general mufler ; and the

* See p. 105. -f-Survey, ed. 1754, vol. I. p. 427.

J Howes' Clironicle, 1632.

§ Regifter of the Artillery Company ; the only book faved in the Civil Wars.

IIStow's Survey, ed. 1754, vol. il. p. 571.

** Hiftory of London^ cd. 1793, p. 270.

citizens,

OF SHOREDITCH. . 349

citizens, bravely furniftied, under twenty captains, made a moft

creditable appearance. Though a contemporary writer * affures

Us, that " the fouldiers for their armes and furniture were well

" and rightly appointed*;" but " in their demeanor he noted

" thefe two defe6ts, ignorance of order, and negle6t of their

*' captaine's command." And here it may be necelTary to obferve,

that Mr. Pennant is not the only writer who has confufed this

part of the company's hiftory. He fays f,*' The old place of

*' exercife being too fmall for the purpofe, they removed to the

" New Artillery Ground'^ and, " in 1622, they began to build

*' on one fide an armoury, which is excellently fupplied." It

was in the Old Artillery Ground, where, by warrant from King

James, in 1632, they ere(5led their armoury + ; toward the

building of which, and fupport of the company, in 162 1 and

two following years, the chamber of London gave 316/.

13J. 4^. § -It was not till 1640 that they entered upon the

plot of ground in Bunhill-fields, leafed to them by the city, for

139 years, at the referved rent of 6s. 8d. which Alderman

Leate || was long preparing for them**. Nor even then did they

entirely quit their old field of difcipline. In 1657, they fold

their armoury in the Artillery Garden to Richard Wollaflon,

* NiccoUs's London Artillerie, p. 104.

•f Ut fupra.

X This armoury was furnifljed with 500 fets of arms, of extraordinary beauty,

which were loft in the Civil Wars. Their captain, during a part- of thofe af-

frighted times, was a Mr. Manby, who irrecoverably detained for his own purpofes

the arms, plate, money, books, and other goods of the company. The Proteftor

was folicited to enforce their being replaced ; but in vain. Minutes, in the archives

^f the Company.

§ Regifter of the Artillery Company.|| See p. 178.

** Stow's Survey, ed. 1754, vol. 1. p. 583.

4 ,,,, efq.

35° HISTORY AND A N T I CÛ I T I E S

efq. matter gunner of the Tmver, for 300/.*; and, in 1754,built their prefect armoury ; and the ground, which was ori-

ginally 1 1 acres, 2 roods, and 4 perches, has, by the buildipjgs

on its fides, been reduced to 8 acres and a quarter. The leafe

from the city expired in 1780, and v/as made renewable every

14 years, by the fine of 100/. each renewal f.

In 1794, '^^ nature and eftablifliracixt of the Companyhaving been by many perfons mifunderftood, the court of affif-

tants put forth " An Addrefs to the Inhabitants of London,"whence the following is extraSed

:

*' This company is of very antient date, has at all times been** fteady in fupporting the conftitution, and government, and

* Minutes, in the archive of the company. ' Upon the dd armoufy was this-

infcriptioD, copied by Maidand, p. 799 :

** London's Hououri and her Citizens approved Love, €xei:cifi.ip^g Arms in the

Artillery Garden^ London.

This architefture, phoenix of our age And William, prior of the hofprtal

(All Europe cannot fliew her equipage), , TJien of our bjefled Lady, which, we call

Is Mars his miftrefs, which retains the ftore Saint Mary Spittle, without Bifliopfgate,

Of Mars his arms, being Mars his paramour. Bid pafs it by indenture,. Bearing datq

This fabrick was by Mars his foldiers fram'd, January's third day, in Hjenry's time.

And Mars, his Arnjouries this building nam'd, Th'eighth of that name; tbeconvent did coajorai.

It holds five hundred arms to furniih thofe Unto the guile of all ai;till?rjr.

That love their fovereign, and will daunt his foes. Crofs-bows, hand-guns, and of archery.

They fpend their time, and do not care for coft

;

For full three hundred years, excepting three;

To learn the ufe of arms, there 's nothing loft. The time remaining we, (hall' never fee.

Both time and coin, to do their country good. Now have the noble council of the king

They '11 fpend it freely, and wilLlofe their blood. ConfirijiM the;fame,and, under Charles his wing.Our city London is a royal thing. We now do e^êrcife, and of that little

For it iscall'd " The chamber of oiv king:" Teafel of ground, we enlarge St. Mary Spittle.

Whofe worthy fenate we muft not forget

;

Trees we cut down, and gardens added to it.

Their grant and our requeft together met

:

Thanks to the lords, that gave us leave to do it.

They cherifli us, and we do honour them : Long may this work endure, and ne'er decay,

Where foldiers find true love, thgy '11 love again. But be fupported to the lateft day.

The ground whereon this building now doth All loyal fubjefts to the king and ftate

ftand. Will fay amen, maugre all fpleen and hate.

The Teafel Ground hath heretofore been nam'd. Marifcallus Petowe conpofuit."

•f-From the information of Mr. William White, fccretary to the Company.

" has

OFSHOREDITCH. 351

*' has frequently experienced the moft honourable diftindlions-

*' Many of the nobility and great perfonages of old were en-** rolled in it, and learned and pra6tifed the military arts in the

*' ground belonging to the company, and in the fields in which*' the members retain the right of eXercifing.

' *' The title, according to modern acceptation, may convey to

*' fome the erroneous idea, that the Company is devoted chiefly

" to the management of ordnance. The lead attention, howe-** ver, to its military arrangement will fet this matter right. This*' corps is a regular battalion of infantry, confifting of grenadier,

" light infantry, and hat divifions ; together with the matrofs

" divifion, for the ufe of two field-pieces, prefented in the year

" 1780 by the Gity, in confideration of the fervices of many** of the members, then of the London Military Foot Aflbcia-

" tion. There is alfo kept up a divifion of archers'*; archery

" being

* Since the pages on archery were ccmpofed, the following memoranda have

occurred, which may claim infertion, in this place, as the Finflaury fociety is

now incorporated in the archers divifion of the Artillery Company

:

P. 170. In 1675, 350 archers, moft richly habited, appeared in Moorfields to

compliment Sir Robert Viner, then lord mayor: from thence they marchedthrough Wood-ftreet into Cheapfide ; then they paffed by the North fide of St.

Paul's, and marched round into Cheapfide again, and fo to Guildhall, where theywaited to receive the king, and the then lord mayor. When the king had viewed

and paffed by the archers, they marched to Chrift church, where a noble dinner

was given, at the expence of the. lord mayor. Their ftandard was guarded by fix

crofs-bow men. All the -officers wore green fcarfs, and every bow-man a green

ribband. Hargrove's Anecdotes of Archery ; York, 1792, p. 61.

P. 171. note X- Harl. MS. 5898. Bagford's MS CoUeftions for the Hiftory

of Printing, fol. 224, mentions, " Ayme for Finfbury Archers, by E. B. andI. I. printed at London by R. F. 34°, and are to be fold at the Sign of the Frier

in Grub-ftreet by T. Seargeant, 1601."•' Aim for Finfbury Archers, '&c. i6?6."

Harl. MS; 5900. Another volume of Bagford's CoUeftions, contains his cata-

logue of books relating to arms. The following, not generally known, are here

j;nentioned for the ufe of thofe who are curious in the hiftory of archery : ^« The

35a HISTORY AND ANTICLUITIES*' being the art cultivated by the Company, in days when the*' bow was an inftrument of war. The coramand of the bat-** talion is vefted in officers annually elected.

" The Confipany may alfo have been thought to brauch out^*' or be part, of the City Militia. On the contrary, 'it has at

" all times maintained its own independence^ unconne6ted with.

" any other corps, however it may have been reduced in^

" numbers during periods of peace, and internal tranqjaillity.

*^ This municipal ?corps prefents peculiarities of excellence^

" that merit general attention.. It poflefles every advantage

" The antient Order, Senate, and laudable Cuftom of Prince Arthur and theKnights of the Rouijd Table, in praife of Englifti Archerye. Tranflated out ofFrench into Englifh by Richard Robinfon,, a Londoner born, in 4to, Printed, by*

x5:-->" ..." London's Artillery; briefly containing the noble Pra6life of y' worthy So-ciety, w'** the modern and antient Maptial Exercifes, Nature of Arms, Virtues

Magiftrates, and Chronography, and Glory of this Hon''''^ City ; a Poem, with,

large Annotations. London, printed by Thomas Speed and Bernard Alfop.

104 Pages, 4to, 1616."" The Neceffity and Excellence of Archery, by T. S". y' Dedication to y*

Nobility and Gentry of England, by the Company of Bowyers and Fletchers ofLondon. .Printed in London,, by Richard Jones, at the Sign of the Rofe and'

Growne, next above St. Andrew Church in Holborn."" The Artillery Garden, a Poem, dedicated to the Honour of tKofe Gentlemen:

whopradlife Military Difcipline there, written by Thomas Dickerin, 410, 1616."

Mr. Herbert's edition of Ames's Typographical Antiquities,, vol. HI. p. 1320,mentions a ballad " Defcrybing the Vallures of our Eftg. Arches and Shott that

accopanied the Black Prbce of Portugall their Gov'nor into the Fields," 1596.

* The title of this book is more correftly given by Mr. Herbert.

"The auncient Order, Society, and Unitie laudable of Prince Arthure, and his knightly Ar-

mory of the round Table : with a Threefold Affertion friendly jn Favdv.t ;'.nd furtherance of

Englifli Archery at this Day. Tranflated and correfted by R. R. (Richard Rohinfon). Pfal»,

cxxxiii 1 and 4. Imprinted by him, &c. 1583. In verfe. M, in fours. Quarto." Ibid. '

" A learned and true Affertion of the original Life^ A£les, and Death, of the moft noble,.,

valiant, and renowned Prince Arthure, King of Great Brittaine. Colle£ted, snd writttn of late.

Years in Lattin, by the learned inglifh Antiquarie of worthy Memory, John Leyland. Newlytranflated into Englifh by, Richard Robinfon, citizen of London, 1582." H!s d.vice. Im-printed by hm, dwelling in DiftafF Lane, 1582, 4*0, 47 leaves. Ames's Typographie»r Aati-

qjiities, vol. U. p. 17*^

OF SHOREDITCH. 353

of the pureft volunteer body, on the moft legal eftablilh-

ment. It is authorized and privileged by many royal

patents and warrants ; "and, particularly, by one of his pre-

fent Majefty, under the royal fign manual, whefein his royal

Highnefs the Prince of Wales is declared captain-general j and

is governed by rules and orders of its own forming. It more-

over ppfleffes independent and improving funds, whereby the

expence attending a volunteer corps is confiderably leffened

;

and, what is of higher recommendation, it enjoys within it-

felf every requifite that fuch a corps could wifli, in a fuperior

ftyle of accommodation ; namely, a large and commodious

piece of ground, for the exercife of its members, which for

fitvtation and convenience is perhaps unrivalled, and an

armoury-houfe, with fpacious rooms, in which the company

at large, and its committees, meet and hold their delibe-

rations .

" Refpe6lable from time, rights, and poffeilions, and thus

fan6tiohed, the Company confifts of gentlemen of chara<5ter

and property, bou«d<by a folemn declaration and obligation of

attachment and fidelity to the King and the Conftitution; and

of readinefs to join m fupporting the Civil Authority, and de-

fending the Metropolis ; and is regulated by a Court of Aflif-

tants, confifting of a Prefident, Vice-prefident, Treafurer, the

Field Officers ; the Lord Mayor, Aldermen, and Sheriffs, of

the City of London, for the time being ; and twenty-four

ele<5live members."

Z z HAVING

[ 354. 3 .

^ HAVING now finifhed the Hiftory of Shoreditch, it remains

to return thanks to thofe who have aflifted me. The Dedication

has already declared how much I am indebted to the firft patron

of Antiquarian Learning in the prefent age. In various ' early

pages I have exprelTed my obligations to Mr. Denne ; nor am I

lefs indebted to Mr. Nichols. By the kind attention of the^fev.

Mr. Ayfcough, my little work has been enriched from the Bri-

tilh Mufeum ; and the friendly communications of Mr. Price

have pointed out many valuable particulars from the Bodleian

Manufcripts at Oxford. For a variety of curious notices ia the

earlier pages, I am much indebted to Mr. George Limming : as

well as to Mr. Galey, for the unlimited ufe of the Augmentation

Records. Nor with lefs pleafure do I acknowledge my obligations

to Ralph Bigland, efq. Richmond Herald ; and to James Browne,

efq. of Stoke Newington. Though I wifh it not to be thought

that I have mentioned thefe with any defign to enhance the me-

rit of my performance, or to boaft the afliftance of men, emi-

nent for their know^ledge in my favourite line of refearch. In

reciting the names of thofe by whofe. communications I have

been benefited, my view has been honeft.

$lua non fecimus ipji

Fix ea nojlra voco.

H. E.

I iS5 ]

ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS.

P. I. note-f-.

Magdalen-college, Cambridge.

P.' 2. 1. 3. r. acquaintance. j,^

Ibid. 1. 18. after 'P'l&xs Vlovjmz.n place \\,

V. 5. 1. \o. r. Weft fide of the church,

'•Ibid. Shoreditch churcK^ " beiiig repaired in ,1704, is very ;de,eent, pavinggood pews,' a cedar pulpit, a neat altar-p'iece, and c6rnmunion table, eficlofed witbrails and baniftefs, and a gallery at the Weft end." Mag. Brit. Antiq. & Nov.vol, II. p. 195.~. P. 6.1:'25. for 24. 126 r. 34. 126

P. 7. 1. 17. The grantees of thefe two acres of woodland at the Diflblution

were John Wilfdn ahd^Bartholotnfew Brokfelby. The chantry was fouiided by Sir

John Elrington in 1483. ' Pat. in Turr. 22 Ed. IV; p. i.'rn'. 26.

^, n' r d • r cr T 1- T71J • .. ' 1 !• s. d. f S"^ Tho. Stoughton 1 li." St. Leon^ m S^ John Eldnngton s^ g ^.ôwe maffe

^

Shordiche.I

chauntry..,,..J ^ ^^.^^^ penc'-cs.

The mefluages which belonged to this and the Lovell chantry at Haliwell, weregranted by-Queen Elizabeth to Jott^ Farflehafn; one of her gentlemen penfioners.

See page 199. ,

P. 8. 1. 16. In the margin of th? Eaft view of Shoreditch church by Toms,1735, mention is made, that! the pafifliidners petitioned parliament in 171 1, that

Shoreditch might be included in the 'number of the fifty new churches. For this

affertion I have as yet no better~auchority.

P. 9. after line ^.' 'add^ Prom a variety of mifcellaneous notes and hints, com-municated by Mr. Denne, I have extrafted tlie following :

" The hiftorian of Shoreditch, it miybe prefumed, is aware, that there weretwo adls of parliament for re-building the church of St. Leonard ; becaufe, fromthe inadvertency' of the foficitor, or'6f tfie clerk of the Houfe of Commons, em-ployed in carrying the bill through that houfe, fuch an error was committed .in

the firft aft, as to render an explanatory" aft abfolutely neceffary.

" Ihe church was built by borrowing money ,on life annuities, and the church-wardens' accompts will ftiew how many years the annuities continued ; S. D. be-lieves that fome of the annuitants deceafed in a fhort time ; and he is certain that

Dr. Denne lived long enough to fee the parifti difcharged from this incumbrance.Zz2 "S.D.

356 ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS.*' S, D. has preferved the underwritten items of the expences of building

:

" Receipts for building Shoreditch church :

I. s. d.

Granted by parliament —— 8000 o oFor lead off the old church — — 83 13 o

&083 13 o

Building the new church 6700 o oOrnament of ftone work —— . z^p o oAdditional brickwork —— .81^^ oThe tabernacle — 180 00Tabernacle fences, &c. — 24 9 6—

—

204 91 6Charges in procuring the a(3: of parliament —

—

195 4 aSurveying the old church a,nd charges — — 29 7 6Paid Mr. Scott one year's falary to Midfummer 1 736 — 25 o a

< .• .,'? ;'—

7485 5 2Remains to build the veftry, and wall round the cburdi-yardj

and levelling the ground,. Mr. Scott^s faiary, &c. — '598 7 10

8083 13' o"

P. 9. note ;);. Yo\. Ill, article Sf. Leonard. '

P. II. note -j*. Not the two windows^ but the large compartment (with thelaft fupper), is marked at the lower ôrner, -•' baptista svtxon, 1634."

P. 15. note -f. /or 137a, r. 1327.P. 16. " Houfeljfig people." " HoFspt, the HoJy Eucbarift, Johnson.

Q^ whether by howfclyng people might not be meant perfons fuppofed to be qua-

lified to receive the Communion, fuch as might be ftyled communicable perfons,

rather than communicants ? lii like manner as we fometimes hear, efpecially in

Scotland, of c&tech'izable perfons?" Mr, JSichols's Hiftory of Canpnbury, p. 18.

P. 17. 1. 44. Oa. 14th, 1767.

Ibid. 1. 45. r. "John Blake," April nth, 1780.

P. 20. " William Flefhmonger, D. D." On the 13 of Odlober, 1530, he wasprefented to the church of Tungmer, in Kent. Reg. Warham, f. 403. a.

P. 21. as a note. *' 1559? Sept. 3, one Makebray, a Scotchman, and lately an

exile, preached at Paul's Crofs." StPype's Life of Grindall, book III. p. 26.

P. 24. 1. 2. r. the degrees,

P. 26. note J, 1, 2. for 184 r. 84.

P. 29. Upon the fequeftration of Mr. Squier, March 17, 164^-3, MatthewClarke, B. D. was appointed his fucceffor.. See the Journals of the Houfe of

Commons, vol. III. p. 105.

P-33-

ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS. 357

P. 33. 1. 22. fer 1772 r. 1777: Among Dr. Rawlinfon's papers, for the conti-

nuation of Wood's Athenae, at Oxford, is an account of Dr. Denne, by himfelf.

P. 34. 1. 39. r. fpiricaal.

P. 35. 1. 7. Archbifhop Pêrring was affifted in his anfwer to Bifhop Sherlock's•* Option," by Archdeacon Denne and Paul Jodrell, efq. Anecdotes of Bowyer,2d edit. p. 605.

P. 40. 1. 4. Mr. Day, vicar of Roydoti, EfFex, 1752, and, 1798, curate ofParndon Parva, in the fame county.

Ibid. 1. 8. add, from the Journals of the Houfe of Commons, vol. II. p. 464.2 March, 1641, it is '• ordered, that Ger. Smyth, an orthodox divine, be recom-mended to the parilh of St. Leonard Shoreditch to be their iefturer; the parifhioners

maintaining him : and Mr. Squire and his curate, are hereby required to permit himthe free ufe of the pulpit, to exercife his miniftry every Sunday in the afternoon."

Ibid. p. 543. 26 April, 1641. " Ordered, that Mr. Thomas Owen, an or-

thodox divine, Qiall be recommended by this houfe, to be leiSturer to the parifhion-

ers of St. Leonard Shoreditche, London, to preach there every Lord's-day in the

afternoon; this houfe being informed, that Mr. Smith, who was formerly recom-mended tO' be their lefturer, is removed to another place : and the minifter of that

parifh is hereby required to permit the faid Mr. Owen the ufe of his pulpit to

preach there accordingly."

Ibid.]. II. Mr. Mil bourne was inftituted to the reftory of St. Ethelburgha

June 14, 1 704. Reg. Lond.

Ibid. 1. 22. r. Dr. Moun/fort.

P. 49. In the autumn of 1796, the friends of Mr. Pattrick came to a eompro-mife with the vicar, and the other parifhioners ; and, on the 2d ef December, Mr.Ellis and Mr. Pattrick were licenfed joint ledurers of Shoreditch, by the Bifhop ofLondon.

P. 52. note -f. Among the Harleian Manufcripts in the Britilh Mufeum, No,liio. fol. 39. b. and No. 10/4. fol. 123. are defcentS'of ii/r/«^/o«,

P. 53. note *, add, nor of the Hungerfords of Black Bourton, Oxfordfliire.

Ibid, note §. In Randal Holme's CoUedions, Harl. MS. 2040. fol. 21.7.

is a pedigree of the Starkey family : it begins with " Richard Starkey de Stretton,

32 Henry li." and ends foon after 1653.

P. 54. 1. 18. " ^Si"^" Stow's Survey, ed. 1754, has 1535.. To the ac-

count of the monuments in this page may be added,

"^Sb^^ J^"' i^'^h, the Lady Chaloner, wife of Sir Thomas Chaloner, one

of the clerks of K. Edw. VI, and wife of Sir Thomas Lea, of Hogflon,

was buried honourably in Shoreditch church." Strype'5 Eccl. Mem.vol. III. p. 311.

**1 55 1, Septemb. 20th, the Lady Southwell, wife to a privy couhfellor of ^

that name, was buried at Shoreditch." Ibid. 450.And the- following, in the New View of London, 1708 (vol. I. p. 313.), were

before overlooked :

"On

358 ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS.

_ " On the South fide of the church is a fmall monument, in merao'ry of Ann,vj'iie oi Thomas Dixon. Arms: Azure, a fleur delis Or, chief Ermine, impaledwith Sable, a lion rampant Or."" Alfo another monument for Ann Slater."

P* 75- ^' 54- A character of Mr. Becon may be found in Sfrype's Life of Grin-dall, pp. 274, 275.

P. 88. 1. 1 1. /or 1397 r. 1307.P. 89. note *, 1. 8. as abbot Curdington.Ibid. I. 4. The fecond John Shordich occurs in Sir W. Dugdale's Hiftory of

Imbanking and Draining Fens and Marfhes, pp. 271, 272.P. 89. J. de Shordich attefts- the king's writ, 12 E. III. granting a mint

to the abbot of Reading. Martin Leake's Hiftory of Englifli Money, p. 92. fromNicolfon's Hifliorical Library, p. 256, folio edition,' where however it is printedSbflrdiche.

18 E. n. 1324, John de Shordich was joined with John de Stonore to fwear for

the King of England, " ad firmandura per juramentum in animamnofiram prse-

ftandum," to the confirmation of certain difputes with France, concerning the"caftle de Montepreffato ; and tbefe two commiffioners iflued their letters accordi-

ingly \ In another inflrument of the fame year, he is called dodtor of laws\A proteftion was granted, the next year, among others,, who were to attend the

King to France, to Matter John Shordich '. 1329, he was commiffioned by Ed- -

ward III. to treat about certain requefts of the people of Amiens 4, and to atffift

the Bifhop of Norwich in a treaty with France 5. Next year we find him a com-miflioner on the requefts from Amiens, and ftylfd juris civilis profejhr^; and,fora marriage between' John, eldefl fon of the King of France, and Eleanor, the

King's fifter'; on the homage to be performed for Amiens^; about certain

treaties of peace between the two Kings'; to treat with the king of France about

certain requefts '° and debts" ; alfo concerning a fecret expedition te the HolyLand 1332^. He was fent to the Pope's nephews 1333, being then a knight,

with Richard de Bury, the King's fecretary, afterwards Biftiop of Durham 'Vappointed to manage a truce with France 1334'* ; about difputes and debts'^;

9 K. III. a marriage between the King of Aullria's fon and the Princefs Joan, the

King's daughter "*; to treat about an alliance with the Archbilhop of Cologne

and the Earls of Brabant, Hanau, and Gueldres, 1335 "'; to pubhfti in the coun-

'Pat. 18 E. II p. I. m. 37. Rymer, vol. IV,. p. 65. * lb. p. 66..

.3 Pat. ig E. II. p. I. m- 27. Rymer, ib. ibz.

4 Fat. 3 E. JJl.. p. 2. m. 22. Rymer, ib. 403. 427. 437. 443.5 6 Cl.uf. 3 K. III. m. 4. d, lb. 407.* fat. 4 E, III. p. :. in. 50. Ib. 410, ,

' Ib. 4: i. 42S. 444.' Pat. 4 E. III. p. I. m. 44. lb. 413. . ' Ib. 414, 415.

'" lb. 464. " Ib. 465.'^ r.v, 6 E. III. p. I. m. 6. Ib. srg. 604. '' Rom. 7 E. III. m. 5. Ib. 548.'- Vafc. S E. 111. in. 12. Ib. 597. 600, 601. " lb. 603. 629.

'" Ib. 655. 682. " lb. 680.

. '' ties

ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS. 359

ties of Sonierfet and Dorfet the bonds (ebligationes) entered into with the King of

France to lêep the peace 1337 "' ^° coilett froui the clergy in the province of

York, the aid for a war with France, fame year '' ; to borrow money in the King's

name i'3,'.o'^''. In 1:^43. he aione was authorized to receive and hear complaints

and appeals to the King, as to the King of France, in Aquitaine^'. IJ43, he wasjoined with other proxies to treat with the King of Caftile^^; to fettle difputes be-

tween the fubjedls of the two powers 1344 ^

John Shorediche was one of the (henfFs of London 1405, 6 H. IV. to whom a

writ was addreffed to borrow money to defeat the purpoles of the French, in aid-

ing the rebels in Wales and Aquitaine "-*.

Among the rare books and charters at Strawberry Hill, was " the charter of fo-

refts, one of the original copies, finely preferved, with the great feal appendant;found at Hackney 17^3, among writings of the antient family of Shordich, byPvobert Bygrave

;prefented \>y him to Sir Edward Walpole, and by him to his

brother Horace." Lord Orford's Account of Strawberry Hill, in the fecond vo-

lume of his Works, p. 449.P. 104. 1. 3. " S?o«^-ftreet," probably from the Ermine ftreet's 'having been

paved.

P. 106. note *. r. Mr. Cough's Camden, III.

P. III. 1. 6.- " John Taylor." Q;_ if the fame with Richard Taylor, men-tioned by Dr. Walker, in the Sufferings of the Clergy, part II. p. 51. as ejedted

from this prebend by the rebels ?

Ibid I. 10. " Jofeph Syms, 1755." See Mr. Nichols's Anecdotes of Bowyer,

p. 625. note.

Ibid. 1. 1 1. " Samuel Carr, D. D." collated May 8, 1776. He was prefented^

to St, Martin Ludgate redlory on July 16, 1767, and to Finchley Oft. 2a, 1770.Reg. London. _ , ui

Ibid. 1. 21, r. AthenjE Oxon. 11. 234.Ibid 1. 29. r. reClor/.

Ibid. 1. 37. r. vicar of St. Helen's.

P. 121. 1. 20. rî685.

P. 138. 1. 16. Arthur Bedford. Mr. Bedford communicated fome memorandaof himfelf to Dr. Rawlinfon, which remain among the Dodtor's MSS. at Oxford.

I have pffen fought for, thetn, but without fupcefs. A paper in the doctor's handgives an account of him to this effeft : He was the fon of Richard Bedford^ and.

was born at Tiddenham, in Gloucefterfhire, where he was baptized September the

8th, 1668. Having received the rudiments of learning from his fathpr, he was,.

in 16S4, at the age of i6, admitted commoner of Brazen-Nofe-qollege, in Ox^-

ford, where he acquired fome reputation as an Orientalift. In 1687, he became

B. A. and in the following year received holy orders from the Bifliop of Glou—'Yi'C- • • 11*-

••

•

" Rymer, vol. IV. p. 804. '« lb. 828. '" lb. vol. V. 172.

« lb. 388. "lb. 398. 'Mb. 41s** ID. VUI.413.

I ccfter*.

36o ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS.cefter. About this time he removed to Briffol, and became curate to Dr. Read,redtor of St. Nicholas church, with whom he continued till 1692, when, havingtaken prieft's orders from the Bilhop of Briftol, the mayor and corporation of the

town ptefented him to the vicarage of Temple church. In Mr. Ayfcough's Cata-

logue of MSS. in the BritiQi Mufeum, No. 4917, " Obfervations on Mufick, madein 1705 or 1706, by the Rev. Mr. Bedford, Chaplain to the Haberdafliers Hofpi-

tal, at Hoxton."P. 155. 1. 10. Dr. Aflry was prefented to the rcftory of Orfet, in Eflex, on

June 26, 1717. Reg. London.Ibid. 1. II. " Jac. Waller." He was prefented to the united redlories of St.

Andrew Underfhaft and St. Mary Axe, on July 5, 1764; refigned the prebendary

of Hoxton in the year 1771 ; and on May 21 that year was collated to the prebend

of Mora; and on April i, 1773, to the archdeaconry of Eflex. Reg. London.*

P. 160. 1. 21. The miftake of Hans Holbein's having painted the Machabre,or Dance of Death, on the walls of Pardon church-yard, is unaccountable. Stow *

has recorded that it was put up at the expence of John Carpenter, town clerk of

London, in the reign of Henry V. Indeed it was not an unfrequcnt appendageto the walls of cloifters. Holbein's painting was executed at Bafil.

P. 181. Liberty of Moorfields. Traders' tokens.

VI.

(Greett'heufe)

IN LITTLE MOORFIELDS. ' 1666."S. A» '

VII." TORN GREENHILL IN LONG (3 Tonns

)

ALLEY IN MOREFEILDS (HIS HAXFFENY, 1671:.)"

VIII.*' (henry YOUND i°) NEARE BEDLAM GATE

IN MOREFEILDES [a Still)"

P. 185. ]. 7. Helyas, capellan, was prefented to the church of Dunton by the

^riorefs and cenvent of Haliwell, in 1220. Rot. Hug. Wells, Line. Epifc. fub

ann. 12.

Ibid. I. 17. In 1222, 5 H.IH. the prioreis and convent prefented to the

church of Welewes, in Huntingdonftiire, a penfion being referved to the nuns of

five marks. MS. Dodfw. in the Bodleian Library.

P. 187. add, From a record in the Augmentation-office, dated June 19, 37Hen. VIII. the priory of Plaliwell appears to have poflfeffed an iriclofure between

Finfbury-field and Hoxton, nigh Pitfield-ftrect, the referved rent whereof amountedto 8j. Ad.

* Edit. 1754, vol. I. p. 310.

P. 187.

ADDITIONS AND CORUECTIONS. 361

p. 187. notet|.

Trumpington is a village two miles South of Cambridge, me-/morable for the miller in Chaucer's Reeves Tale; the ruins of the mill ftill remain.

See the new edition of Camdeii, vol. III. p. 140.

P. 188. as a note to " Simon Bifliop of Ely," add, Simon de Montacute wasbifliop 1337—134s. And Simon Langhartl from 1352— 1366.

P. 207. Charters, &c. relating to the priory of Haliwell. In a copy ofCowel's Law Interpreter, with MS notes by Bilhop Kennet, in the Bodleian li-

brary ; V. Domefday Book, the bifliop rnentions a charculary of this priory whichhad the name of Domefday.

,

Ibid. 1. ult. Holywell Mount is fituated within the prebendal manor of Finf-

bury. In the City Journals (vol. LVII. f. 39. b.), 1765, it is ordered by the city,

that any perfons laying foil-, dirt, or rubbifh, for the future, on the Mount, fhould

be profecuted ; but whoever (liouy have occafion for any of the foil or dirt which

compofed it, might take whatever quantity he fhould think proper, gratis. Hencewe may date its derjioUtion.

P. 241. note *, 1. 2. r. Patrick Colquhonn.

P. 277; In a daily paper of 1735-40, Mr. Dennc pointed out to me this ad-

vertifement

:

"St. Leonard Shoreditcb, March \o." To the charitable benefaSions given in the late fevere feafon to the poor of this

pari(h,which have been already ackfiowledged in this publick manner, the vicar thinks

himfelf, in juftice, as well as gratitude, obliged to add, that he has (over andabove the money brought into the general account) diftributed, among 113 fami-

lies, the following benefaftions, which he received 1. s. d.

From a clergyman, defiring to be unknown, — 20 o oA gentleman unknown, diflrlbuted in bread, -— S 5 '^

¥ 5 o"

The following letter to Dr. Denne, informs us who the unknown clergyman

was :

*' Mr. Archdeacon, out of love to your parilh of St. Leonard in Shoreditch,

and compaffion to the calamitous circumftances of fome of its inhabitants at this

ri<»-orous feafon, I have taken the liberty to fend you enclofed a bill on my nephewfor 20/. which I defire you to diflribute in what manner you think fit, without

naming the donor, to, fuch of them as Ihali be found to be in the prefent greateft

diftrefs.

" I am now, as I have been for fome months paft, out of order ; or I would

have done myfelf the pleafure to have waited on you in perfon with my mite, ha-

ving ftill a freih remembrance of the favours you formerly conferred on, dear fir,

your moft affectionate, and obliged humble fervant,

•* Erêld, Middlefe^, 14 Feb. 1739. John Bridgen."

' A a a P. 254.

362 A-DD IT ION'S AND CGRRECTIONSVP. 294. 1. 2r. r. agone.

P. 309. In an ancient manufcript, called the Cuftoms of London, aboutîô:;.It IS recorded th»t the prior of St. Mary Spittle was obliged by antient prefcriptiobto repair the middle part of a bridge over Walbrook. See Stow's' Survey, ed>.1754., vol. I. p. 25.

P. 321. The arms of the priory are thus noticed by Mr. Edmondfon, in his-Complete Body of Heraldry, " Gu. a lion rampant, barry of 8, Ar. and Sa."

P. 326. The arms of Vaughan were granted by a. patent under the. hand andfeal of Chriftopher Barker, Garter, 14 April, 1539, 30 H. VIII. Harl. MSS. 1476.,

P. 344. Benefactors to the Poor of Norton Folgate..

I. ViKCENT GoDDARD, 1581, whofc "benefadtion is recorded in page 306.II. Mrs. Beatrice Awbry,. by will, bearing date January 8, 1652, left the:

annual fum of 5/. ifiuing from the rents and profits of certain tenements fituate inSt.Târy Spittle, to be diftributed to the poor: weekly,, on Saturdays, the one,half in bread, the other in money. This gift is now loft.

in. Samuel Saunders, 1702; with whbfe gift the overfeers- of the libertypurchafed the farm called Toogood's, at Tillingham, in Effex. See Dr. Dennc'fcRegifter of Benefadtions,, p. 273..

Ibid. Trader's token: - .

"ABRAHAM LE KEux (Three ToHs)

in NORTON FALGATE."There Is. a pewterer of this name now in Sun-ftreet..

P. 8 . " On Monday night laft, there was an appearance of numbers of people being'

affembled in a very diforderly manner at Shoreditch, near Spitalfields. Their cryand complaint was of being underworked, and ftarved by the Irifli, down with the

Irijh, &c. But that night the numbers were not very great, and they difperfed of

themfeJves, without doing any mifchief. It is neceflary here to explain what is

meant by this complaint agaioft the Irifh, which is founded upon greater numbersthan ordinary, as is faid, of Irifhmen being here, and not only working at hay andcorn harveft, as has been ufual, but letting themfelves out to all forts of labour

confiderably cheaper than the Englifli labourers have ; and numbers of them being

employed by the weavers upon the like terms. This iaft particular, together with

an incident that happened in thefe parts, is thought to have occafioned the fcene

being laid at that end of the town. They are building a new church at Shore-

ditch, where I am told the mafter workmen difcharged at once a great number of

all forts, of labourers, and took in at once Irifhmen, who ferved for above one-

third lefs a day, and thi& I am at prefent, and as yei of opinion, is the principal

caufa

ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS, 363

cjcufe of the uneafinefs tliat has ftirred up the mob, or at leaft, I think, is the only

caufe that numbers of them knew any thing of. Upon this pretence the tumulcbegan on Monday night. On Tuefday evening they aflembied again in greater

bodies, and were about feven o'clock thought to be 2000 in number. Tiiey nowgrew more riotous ; they attacked a public houfe kept by an Irifhman, where the

Irifh reforted and viduaJIed, broke down all the doors and windows, and quite

gutted the houfe. Another houfe of the fame fort underwent the fame fate. Bythis time (thofe places being within the jurifdiftion of the city) the mayor and de-puty lieutenant of the Tower hamlets were affembled in order to difperfe them.The proclamation was read ; but the mob, v/holly regardlefs of the proclamation,increafed every minute, and wei-e thought to be about 4000 ftrong. The magif-trate upon this gave orders for railing the militia ; and in the mean time the deputylieutenants wrote to the commanding officer at the Tower to fend to their afliffance

fuch a number of the guards as they could fpare, upon which an officer withabout 50 men was fent by major White. Upon the appearance of the guardsthe mob retired, fliifted from one ftreet and alley to another, and gave no refiftance,

and by break of day were all difperfed. All Wednefday things feemed very quiet,

till evening, when the mob rofe again to as great a number; but the militia of theTower Hamlets being then raifed, marched againfh them; but the mob in thefame manner retired before them wherever they came, and gave not the leaft re-

fiftance. The deputy lieutenant upon this wrote to the officer of the Tower that

they did not want their affiftance, and in this fituation things remained all Wed-nefday night, the mob continuing in great bodies till the appearance of the mi-litia, but as conftantly running away upon the fight of them, and fo difperfed

themfelves before the morning." Sir Robert Walpole's Letter to his brother Ho-race, July 29—Aug. 9, 1736 ; and the Duke of Newcaftle's to the Earl of Walde-grave, Aug. 5—16, 1736. Walôle Correfpondence, publifhedby Mr. Coxe, vol.

III. p. ^4g.

A a a a Report

§64 ADDITIONS AND CORREGTIONSj.

Report made upon a View of Daljlon ax\d' I/IingfOn Waters.

To the Honourable the Coramittte appointed by the Right Honourable the Lord'

Mayor, Aldermeai, and Commoners, in Common Council aflembled.

In purfuance of an order of this committee, datfd the thirteenth day of this in-

ftant Dec£?nber, vice have, with the affiftance of WilUam Cooper, one of the citty-

labourers, viewed the fprings and waters at Daljion; and find the fame to be reduced

to two feverall heads, walled and inclofed, fituate in two fields near Daljlo-n, andfrom thence conveyed in two pipes of lead through fundry fields croffing the foot-

-way from Shoreditch to Hackney, fomething Eaftward of a tenement there called

^he Virginia Houfe, and from thence croffing Swann-Jield, on the Weft of Brick"

lane, under a tenement now in the occupation of one Williams, a bricklayer in.

King-Jlreet, arid from thence croffing the faid ftreet under certaine tenements near

^he Golden Heart into Phcenix-Jireet, and fiom thence croffing the faid ftreet under

a tenement at the upper end of Gray Eagle-ftreet, in the occupation of one Cajlle,

and fo down the middle of the faid ftreet to the akns-houfes at the corner of Cor^

butt's court, and from thence up the faid court to the upper end pf Browne's lane,.

eight foot deep, where the faid two pipes are united into one, which conveys the

water from thence down a ftreet on the Eaft fide of Spittle Fields, about nine foot

deep, and under fome tenements at the South-weft corner of the faid ftreet, and fo

crofs White-Rowe-Jireet, and under a tenement on the South fide the faid ftreet into

and crofs a centre field to the South-weft corner thereof, where a ftone is eredtcd,

and from thence Under a tenement in the occupation of one Gantam, a wyer-drawer,

into Bell-lane, and from thence down the middle of the faid lane through Mounlague-

Jlreet and Wenford-Jlreet into Ttttycoat.-lane, and fo along the micidle of the faid lane

fifteen foot deep, into Whitecbappel-ftrêt,. and from thence up the Weft fide pf the

faid ftreet (from fourteen to eighteen foot deep) to the conduit at Algate.

And we cannot be informed that the faid pipes or any other from the faid fprings

are employed to any other ufe than the fervice of the faid conduit, except a quill

laid into a tenement in the faid Bell-lane belonging to one Sheppardy to. whom (as

wee are informed by the faid Cooper) the fame was granted by the Citty about five

years fince, in confideration of laying their conduit-pipe through and under the

faid tenement now in the occupation of Gantam, which then belonged to the faid

Sheppard. And we find the faid conduit very plentifully fupplied with water.

And we have alfo, in further purfuance of the faid order, viewed the fprings andwaters belonging to the Citty neare IJlington', and find the fame in two heads, onecovered over with ftone in a field neare Jack Straw's caJlUf which is fed by fundry

5 fpringe

AbDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS. 365

fprings in an adjacent field, and is ufually called The White Conduit, the waterwhereof is conveyed from thence in a pipe of lead through Chambery park to theother conduit in Chambery field ; and from' thence the water of both the faid headsfo united is conveyed in a pipe of lead crofs The New River in a cant into TheGreen Man fields, and, entering from thence a garden heretofore belonging to onePerter, vintner, at about forty foot diftance from Frogg-lane, and, croffing thecorner thereof and alfo Frogg-lane into a field on the Eaft fide thereof, and fromthence crofs the North-eaft corner of a garden at the hither end of Frogg-lane into

a field belonging to the Company of Clothworkers, and from thence through the

field next to and Well: of the foot-way from IJlinglon unto the ftile by the Peft-

houfe, where it croflTeth the faid way, and lo along the Eaft fide thereof crofs theroad at Old-Jireef, and under the bridge there into Bunnhill fields, and from thence

' on the Welt fide of the faid field lay The Artillery garden croffing Chifwell-Jlreet

into and down the middle of Grubb-fireet Mio Fore-fireet, and fo on the South fide

thereof to the conduit at Cripplegate i And we cannot find that the faid waters are

employed to any other ufe than to the fervice of the faid conduit.

Alfo we humbly certify that both the faid conduit-heads of Daljlon are out of

repaire ; the firft wanting two pillars for the window and a copeing-llone j and the

furtheft wants one fide of a ftone door-cafe and a new door, the old being broken

by fome perlons that have broke up the infide pavement and the curb-flones round

the ciftern of lead, and taken away about three yards of waft pype and two leaden

boffes out of the faid ciftern theire, and the hinges and hooks of the door;, andwe find one of the jambs of the window is alfo broke, and the roofe wants repaire

in cieling.

And we conCeive that the pipe from the furrheft conduit-head to that in Cham-

hery-field beyond IJlington is fliopped, for that the ciftern in the firft is full of water,

and the water joining to the latter is not above a quarter pipe, whereas it hathufed to come full pipe; alfo that the planks of one of the draines feeding the faid

furtheft head is broke abouc fix foot fquare, and two flones wanting in the covering;

and alfo the hke quantity of plank is broke over the cefs-poole at the head "mChamberyfield. All which we humbly certify, this twentieth day of D^cember^

anno Domini 1692*.

Thomas Glentworth^

James Nalton.

Ko. Tarlton^

RfiPORr"

366 ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS.Report of the Views of the Conduit-head beyond the Dogg-houfe.

To the Honourable Committee appointed to make Provifion for the Orphansot London.

In purfuance of an order of this committee, dated the twentieth inftant, weehave (with more care) vciued the waters neare and beyond The Dogg-houfe, beingaffifled therein by William Coiper \ and wee find three fprings, wz. one in a field

Weft of The White Hou/es by Hogfdon in the occupation of Harrolh.another in a fieW Wefl; of that,- now or late in the occupation of i Burton ;

and another in a field now or late in the occupation of one Jnderfon ; the water ofwhich three fprings are conveyed in draines ot brick, to a conduit-houfe in the laft-

mentioned field, from which a pipe of lead lyeth for the conveyance of the faid

waters to London by another conduit-head in the next field Southward called

Cunduit -field, from which lad head is alfo layd a pipe of lead for conveyance ofwaters to London, thofe by the pipe from the other heads ; which two pipes lye as

foUoweth, viz. from the faid laft head crolle the roade from Oldjiteet (about three

foot Eafl of the foot bridge and path-way there) into Bonhill fields, where a branchwas formerly layd to the. faid Dogg-houfe, but now difufed, croffingthe new church-yard about forty foot from the Eaft end thereof, and foe through 'The /Artillery

Ground, and crofling Chfwell-Jlreet, about thirty foot from Finjbury-roade, andunder the corner-tenement on the South of the faid flreet, and fundry other tene-

ments and yards, through Mr. Wilcox's yard at Fin/bury; from thence along the

infide of the front walls of the reft of Finfbury houfes Southward, entering Little

Moorfields about three foot Weft of Finjbury-roade, and foe crolTe the field in a

diagonall line to the South-wefl thereof under a te.nement in Fore-Jlreet in the

occupation of one Ewin, and from thence through, feverall tenements and yards

to the common fewer at the Southêafl of the yard of one Plynton, carpenter, andfoe through London-wall ; one of the faid pipes going to the conduit there on the

infide thereof, and the other by the faid conduitt up the middle of Cekman-Jlreet,

where a branch was formerly laid to ferve a cock by Coleman-Jlreet-church, called

Jack'Slow, but now difufed, and from thence into Lothbury, and foe downe the

JNorth fide thereof, to or neare a platt of ground, where, before the generall fire in

London^, Hood a conduitt by Loa/hbury church ; which being demoliflied by the faid

fire, we are informed by fome antient inhabitants there and others, that the cocks

and remaining lead of the faid conduitt were then taken away by the citty-founder

and plumber, and the faid pipe was then alid there by them flopped up, and never

been open fince ; and w€« cannot find that any of the faid two pipes have beentaken up in Coleman-Jlreet or elfewhere, but find one of the faid conduitt-heads

quite demolifhed and the fpring flopped, and the other head and draines much out

of repalre. All which wee humbly ccrtifie, this thirteenth day of December^ 1691.

James Nalton.

Ro. Tar 1 ton.

Thomas Glentworth.

INDEX.

C 367 3

N D E y»

A.

jfHi/on, Richard, 26.

Almflioufes, Badger's, 149. 28'j.

Bareniere's, 149.— Dutch, 180,

Fuller's, 115, 116. 150. 244»Garrett's, 213,

-^ Geffrye's, 113-,

: Harsvarr's, 113. 276.• Lady Lumley's, 148.

Morrel's, or the Goldfmiths, 112.

Walter's, 116. 263.—^—^—— Weavers, 117.Weftby's, 'or Old Maids, 147, 148.

Archery, anecdotes of, i63 to 173. 240Ârms of Auftin, 68.

Auger, 319.BeniuD, 67.Bowyer, 329*Boys, 329.

' Bulflrode, 329,.

Byde, 64.Clarke, 71..

• Cook, 114-Crofsley, 66.

Dixon, 358.Draper; 329. ,

'- Eiringfon, 51-— Fyfield, 329.Gernon, 98-HarrfBy,- 5 9-

Hungerford, 53.Ichingham, 52.

Kirktofte, 329., Knife, 329.

Leigh, 53.— Lowe, 329.— Northannpton, 87..

— Shoreditch, 88-— Skory, 56.;

— Spelling, 329.— Thorney, 329.— VavafOur, 58.— Vaughari, 326. 36r..

— Urfwicke, 329.— Wyott, 329.ill the windows of an old houfe in Ho-

fywell-ftreet, 329.Artillery Ground, 1 06.JJ0ey Robeft, 1^6,

JjHe's hofpital, ij6 t<5 13?.—chaplains, 138 t«

149.

Aifield^ Artihrofe, 30.

^..Aiabiey, Beatrice, 362.Aylmer, Zaehary and Edmund, 27. 84Âyk'vjard, William, 21.

B,

Badger, Allen, 270.*

JSa/weV hoiife, 124 to 133..

Balnies family, 124,125,Bafon intended in Finfbury fquare, sî*^Beauvoir, Richard, r33,-

BeMtt, Thomas, 7;.

Bedford, Arthur, 138. 146; 359.Benefaftions, Dr. Denne's fegifter of, 243 tw

280.—addiiions to, 281 to 289. ^dl,

Bele, Thomas, 320-Bell inn, 86.

Betton, Mr. rr4.

Bijhopfgate, antiquity of, 104.

Blal:e,]Q\m, 17. 48. j<j.—^his benefaftiOHj 369*Bridget!, John, 37. ^. 360.Brune, Walter, 308'.

Bulkeley, C harles, iSo,-

Butbage, Richard, 210.—^Family, 21 1, 210.

Burials, chriftenings, and marriages, compared^from 1558 to 1579, 80.

» in the plague years, 8i.-

Bjfield, Dr. William, 122.

Canal, navigablej intended in Moorfieldfi- ij^

—

178. 251*.^

Carr, Dr. 358.Chantry in Shoreditch church, 6. 7. 354.—at

Haliwell, 199.Charity fchools, 241.Gharke, Robert^ 22.

Cholmeky, fir Roger, roo.

Churches, one of the fifty new, propofed to be:

built within the Spital precinft, 306, 307.-

Clarke, Matthew, 36. 356-Conduit, 365.Cook, Mary and John, 114-.

Cooter, John, 19.

Cclhrd-, meaning of, 79.Co'zuari/*J- academy, 134. 1^^Cu'wley-i Richard, 210,

D. Darais^

?€« INDEX,IX

Darnley, earl of^ his interefl; in Finfljiiry-fijuare,

248*.

Day, Mr. his contefl for the lefturefliip, 42, 43.

iS7-£>i:iwe, John, o. 31 to 35. 42. 44 1047. 2.84 to

287. 357.—accountof, 357.DUon, Anne, 31; 8.

Donaefday, extracfts from, 96. 118. iji.

Don îxote, h'.t bifto'ry in tapeflry, J26.

liTiih, bituminous, 120, 121.'

'Eaton, Guy, 2^.

Eirington, fir John, his chantry, 6.—monument,

51, ?2.—famiLy, 73. 357.Eimi7i flreet, 102 to 107-Evans, John, 180.

FffirciilJ, ThomsLi, his benefadlions, 277. 283 to

287.—lefture and preachers, 288.

Finfiury, 157.— fields, 167. 225.—archery, 168

to 173. 240.—prebend and prebendaries, 214to 240.—i'quare built, 24S*.—bafon intended

in, 34.9*.

Fijhbcurne, R. ^t,^. 282.

FJiz-Stephen^s Defcription of London, 158,Flejimonger, William, 20. 356.Foliot, fir John, 84.

/»/&r, judgej 115, 116. 244.

p.

Garret, Nicholas, 2 13^

Geffrey, {it 'S^tihtti, 113.

Gernon family, 97, 98.Gilford, fir Henry, and lady, 32S,

GoJJard, ymcent, 362 •

Grant, James, 47.

Cuede, Egbert, i8g. '

H.

Haggerfton manor, 9^ to loi.—family, 95.

Hanmer, Meredith, 23—25.

Hanjby, defcent of, 59.

Marwarr, Saniuel, 113.

Heji, William, 113.

Boli'well liberty, 182 to 207.—priory, 183 to

314.— prioreffes,' 200.— valuations, 202,—charters, 202 to 207,—mount, 207. 361.

H<i»ke, Dr. 137. \

Hotham, John, 35, 35-5.

Honfel, meaning of, 356.Hoxton, 118,119.—balfarnic wells, 120 to 1*3.

—Jews' burial-ground, 150.— prebend aiid

prebendaries, 151 to 155.

1 and J.

Jews' burial-ground, 150.

Inoculation, where begun, 133.Jon/ott, Benjanaiti» 210.

irijh labourers hired to Shoreditch churcbj riot

about, 363,

Le More, 1 57 to 159.

Let'turers, 40—^44.

Lefturefliip of'Shpreditch, contefts for it, 42. 4^.Lee, Richard, 36.

Lefier, Thomas, bell-founder, 279.L^. Robert,' 37.Liberty of Church-end, 4.

Haliwell, 182.

- Hoxton, 118.

————— Moorfields, 156.

Lelefworth fields, 104.

Lovell, fir Thomas, account of, 193 to 199 —pedigree, 196, 197!

M.

Manners, fir George, 198, 199.Mark-lane, manor of Blanch Apleton.in, 332.J/ar/ow, Michael, 146. 147,

Mafle^fon, George, ,36.

Maykebrayer, John, zr. ^-—Meeting-houfes, 134. iSo.—Baptift, i8i,

Milbomne, Luke, 40, 41, 357.Monument of, Auften, Thomas and John, 68.

Benlon, Elizabeth, 6,7. 27.J.' T Burbage, Cnthbert, 61.. Byde, John, 63,

Clarke, Francis, 69.. Cook, Mary, 1114.

Crofsley, Elizabeth, 66.Dixon, Anne, 358.Draper, Sufannah, 6;;. — Mar-

tha, 66.

chard, 60.

Gadde, John, 53.Gips, George, 58.Gregory, Mary, 1 14.Hanfby, Jane, 59,Hatighton, Efther, 64.Leigh, fir Thomas, 54. — Ri-

MQnument

INDEX. 3%

Monument -of Liveley, Catharine, 61.

Manners, Anne, fir Thomas, andThomas, 57.

Mafon, Jofeph, 65.Nevil, lady Katharine, 57.Newfom, Jofeph, 69.Pitfield, Winifred and Maria, 64.Rutland, lady Eleanor and lady

Margaret, 57.—family, 74,' 7S- 77-—--^ the Rutland family, 56, 57.St. John, fir Alexander, 61. 73Seymore, fir Thomas, 54.Skory, Elizabeth, 55, .56.

Slater, Anne, 64^ 3J8.Stafford, lady Catharine, 56.Starkey, Humphrey, 53.— Thremlin, William, 62.

Vavafour, ThiecSdore, 58.r- Wallis, Richard, 65.

Yonge, Robert Hary, 54Moo'fields, \ ^6. 179. — walks, iSi to 167.

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map, 178.— caral propofed, 173 to 178.Morrell, Richard, 112.

Mmntfichet family, 97, 98.—caille, 333.

Korthampton, John, 87.

lôrion Falgate manoi', 504, 305,^benefaftions to

the poor, 362.

O.

Old flreet, 107.-^—— prebend. and prebendai'ies, loStaiii.Oiuea, 'Thomas, 337.

P.

Palavicifi!, fir Horatio, 327.Farifli Cl&rks, jg:Players, 209 to 2-12. 282.

Playhoufes—Theatre—Curtatn,' 208, 309.'

Plefington, fir Henry, 314.Fwley, Giles, 30.

Portrait of Baliiies, 1 26.

Pulpit crofs at St. Mary Spital, 315,.

R.

Regifters ; entry of Becon, T. 75.• Cam, Thomas, 77._ Chaloiier, lady, -ii;7.

Cliitholm, William, 76.

_ Draynor, Robeit, 76.

_ Greene, Walter, 76.

—. Halton, fir Roger, 78: ^-

— Hare, fir Thomas, 73.— Jordan, Richard, 78.

— KentjSufan, countefs dowager of, 78.

— Lee, Robert, 77.— Manners, lady, 77.— fir Thomas, 77.— Middleton, daughters of Hugh, 71.

— Mountjoje, lady, 76.

— Nafmith, Alexander, 78,— Parker, Henry, 71.— Parker, Nicholas, 76.— Parker, Roger, 73.— Pitfield, fir Alexander, 74. 272.— Rutland, lady Elizabeth, 77. *

lady Ifabel, countefs of, 77.Sandys, archbilliop, 72.

Scory, 73.Southwell, lady, 357..

Tavernor. Nicholas, 78.^

Taylor, Thomas, 77.Thornton, William; 76.

Refervoir intended in Finfbury-lquare, aji**Riot in Shoreditch, 363.Roman roads, 102 10 107.

S,

St. Mary Sp'ital, 308 to 325.—pr'ors, 320 to 322.

—Cr Richard Grefliam's petition for, 323.

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priory houle, 313.—pulpit crols, 3,15.—Spital

fermons, 31710319'.Saunders, Samuel, 362.Shackhtoti, Roger, 42. 146.—arms, 362.Shore, Jane, i.

Shoreditch, name, I.—divifion,. 3.—church,,

5. chantr)', 6. church re-built, 8. riot

on that occafiori, 363——windows painted,

10, II, library, 12. views of the

church, 13. vicars, 14. 17 to 38. parifh

clerks, 39. lefturers, 40—47. conteft for,

" 42, 43.-^—curates, 37. raonnments, ô

to 71.—regillers, 71 to 81.—crofs, 82.—fpring

at St. Agnes le Clere, -83.— vicarage-houfe, 84to 86,—Bell inn, 86.—manor, 87.—family, 88

to 94. 3^7, 3i;8.— workiioufe, 117.—new bu-

rial ground, 117.—benefaiiions, 242 to 280.

281 to 289. 361.—window painted, 258.—bells,

277.—Thomas Lefler, bell-fonnder, 279.

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font, 279.—clock,, 2S0.—deeds relative to the

church, 290.—to parifli clerk's houle, 292 ten

301.—taxations, 302.—nones, 303.

John, 93. 314. 359, 360.Spitalfi&lds, 105.

Square, Hoxtoii, 120.

Charles's, 120.

. Finfbury, 248*.Ebb SquieVy

370 INDEX.Sûitr, John, a6— 30. 40. jj6, j};,Stanley, Francis, 31.Starkey family, 53. 357.

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StoDpes, Robert, 21.

Streeta from Finlbury fquare, 2^1*, t<x*.Swan, fignof, 133.

T.

Tarleteit, Rkhafd, ioo.Taxation, pope Nich61as's, io8.Taylor, John, 359.loolejf a 82.

Trader's tokens, 181. 232. 359, 360. 361.Trumpington (co. Cambridge), rectors of, i£

1S9. 360.

U and V.

Vaughan, Edward, 36.

pedigree, 326.—arms, 361.UntienuooJ, John, 210.

W.

Wfl/i5)wl bridge, 36*. -

Waller, fames, 360.Walter

f^ John, 116.

Waltham, John de, 19.

Waters of liCngton and DaMtou, report an,

363—365.Wetd, pedigree of, 128,

Wells, balfamic, %z, 23.—St. Agaci Ic Clere, 8^,;—holy, 183.

fTeJiy, Mary, 147.WheatUy, Henry, 41.White, John, 19.

/sT/i/'/jwor-f, pedigree of, i2ff.'-

fir George, 130.'— William, 131, 132.

Wilkinfon., Watts, 147.Williams, Griffith, 20.

Wtlfm, Dr. prebendary ofFinftury, his fortuoatciiijprovement of his prebend, 245*. 25a*.

Wittenor, Walter de, 18.

DIRECTIONS for placing the PLATES.I. The Old Church of Sc. Leonard Shoreditch Toface the Title.

— — — —P- 9 -II. New Church

III. New Church, 1798 — — —IV. Monument of Sir Thomas Leigh, and Figure of St. George

V. Rutland Monument — — —VI. Sir John Elrington's Tomb — —

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_VII. Afke's Hofpital — — — _ ,

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VIII. Five Coats in the Library of Richard Gough, Efq. at Enfield

(p. 329); with the Lovel Arms, &c. from the Gatehoufe at

Lincoln's Inn — — -~ —''^93

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1798 St. Leonard, Shore Ditch