built in the year 1430. 8 H. 6. Sir William Eastfield Mayor William Russe and Ralph Holland Esqs Sheriffs and the Commonalty granted of the Common Ground of the City Three Foot and an half in Breadth on the North part and Four Foot in Breadth toward the East for the enlarging thereof This Ancient Church belonging to the Black-friers before the dissolution of such places by H. 8. was one of the most spacious and fair Churches in London but afterwards demolished Anno 1613. The Inhabitants of Black-friers purchased so much Houses on the South-side of their Church as was 36 Foot in Length and 54 in Breadth the Purchase whereof together with the Vault for Burying and other Rooms under that part of the Church c. cost 1546 l. 6 s. Anno 1632. The Inhabitants of the said Black-friers purchased the Rooms directly under an upper Room formerly converted to a Church to repair the Walls and Foundations whereon the Church stood at the cost together with the Repairs of 500 l. The Sum of all bestowed upon Black-friers Church since the Reformation amounted to 2600 l. 4 s. till the year 1633. It was burnt down Anno 1666. in the great Fire and not yet Re-built XVI St. Anthonieâ— Church vulgarly called St. Antlins or St. Antholins in Budge-Row in Cord-wainer-street Ward was a fair parish-Parish-Church Sir Thomas Knowles late Lord Mayor of London lieth Buried there who Repaired and was a great Benefactor to it It was Repaired and Beautified Anno 1616. towards which Sir William Craven Mr. Henry Jay Aldermen Mr. Adrian Moore Mr. Thomas Boothby Mr. Francis Dorrington Mr. William Parker Mr. Cleophas Smith Citizen and Draper of London were free and bountiful Benefactors the cost amounted to near 1000 l. XVII The Parish-Church of Augustine vulgarly Austin in Watling-street in Faringdon-Ward-within was a fair Church and well Repaired And was in the years 1630 and 1631 in part Re-built and Beautifully adorned at the charge of the Parishioners which cost 1200 l. XVIII The parish-Parish-Church of St. Bartholomew Exchange at the end of Bartholomew-lane was new Built by Thomas Pike Alderman with the assistance of Nicholas Yoo one of the Sheriffs of London about the year 1438. Sir John Lepington's Lady founded a Chauntry there in the 21 of Edw. 4. Sir William Capel Mayor added a proper Chapel Anno 1509. on the South-side James Wilford Taylor one of the Sheriffs 1499. appointed by his Testament a Doctor of Divinity every Good-Friday to preach a Sermon there of Christ's Passion for ever from six a clock till 8 before Noon This Church was Repaired and Beautified at the charge of the Parishioners Anno 1620. XIX The Parish-Church of St. Bennet which of Robert Fink senior who new Built it is called St. Bennet Finck stands in Thread-needle-street in Broad-street-Ward which was a proper Church It was Repaired and Beautifully adorn'd at the Parish-charge Anno 1633. at the cost of above 400 l. XX. In the Street formerly called Grass-street but vulgarly Graces or Gracious-street is the Parish-Church called St. Bennet Grass-Church of the Herb-Market kept near it but vulgarly Grace-Church in Bridge-Ward-within This Church was Repaired and Beautified Anno 1630. with a new Clock-Dyal and Chimes added Anno 1633. XXI St. Bennet Pauls-Wharf in Thames-street in Castle-Baynard-Ward was a proper Parish-Church with several Monuments in it XXII The Parish-Church of St. Syth hath an addition of Bennet-Shorne or Shrog or Shorehog and is vulgarly called St. Bennet Sherehog The ancientest name of these is Shorne of one Benedict Shorne sometime a Citizen and Stock-fishmonger of London who New Built Repaired it or was a Benefactor thereof in the time of Edward II. so that Shorne is corruptly called Shrog and more corruptly Shorebog Being very much decayed it was at the Parish-charge very amply Repaired and Beautified Anno 1628. It is near Needles-lane in Cheap-Ward XXIII The Parish-Church of St. Botolph in Thames-street in Billingsgate-Ward was a handsom Church and had many fair Monuments in it but now defaced This Church was Repaired and Beautifully adorn'd at the Parish-charge Anno 1624. XXIV Christ-Church was founded by King Henry VIII who gave the old Parish-Church of St. Nicholas to the Mayor and Commonalty of London towards the maintenance of this New Church to be erected in the late dissolved Church of the Grey-fryers called St. Ewin which Parish-Church with the aforesaid Parish-Church of St. Nicholas and so much of St. Sepulchres Parish as is within Newgate were then made one Parish-Church by the name of Christ-Church Of the Hospital there we shall speak under its proper head There was a fair and spacious Gallery erected in the North Isle of this Church Anno 1628. which cost the Parishioners 149 l. 10 s. which was not only necessary but graceful and beautiful It is in Faringdon-Ward-within XXV In Broad-street-Ward near the Stocks-Market is the Parish-Church of St. Christopher To which Richard Sherington Anno 1392. gave Lands so did the Lady Margaret Norford Anno 1406. John Clavering 1421 c. But above all the charity of Robert Thorne Merchant-Taylor and a Batchelor is to be perpetuated who lay Interred there in a fair Tomb of Touch and gave by his Will 4445 l. to pious Uses This Church was Repaired and Beautified at the cost of the Parish Anno 1621. XXVI St. Clements East-Cheap in Candlewick-street-Ward is a small parish-Parish-Church William Chartney and William Overie founded a Chauntry there It was Repaired and Beautified at the cost of the Parishioners Anno 1632. XXVII At the South-west corner of Lime-street in Langborn-Ward stood the fair Parish-Church of St. Dionis called Back-Church new Built in the Reign of Henry VI. to which John Bugge Esq was a great Benefactor John Darby Alderman added thereto a fair Isle or Chapel on the South-side and was there Buried Anno 1466. He gave besides sundry Ornaments his Dwelling-house besides other Houses unto the said Church The middle Isle of this Church was new laid in the year of our Lord 1629. The Steeple was repaired a new Turret built new Frames were made for the Bells and the Church very decently beautified Anno 1632. XXVIII The Parish-Church of St. Dunstans East is so called for difference from another Church in the West of that Name It was a fair and large Church of an ancient Building and within a large Church-yard There be many rich Merchants and other rich Tradesmen in that Parish chiefly Salters and Ironmongers In this are divers Monuments of worthy persons There are also Seven shillings three pence given to the Poor every Sunday throughout the year in ready money besides Bread and other Gifts according to the Wills and Dispositions of Sir Richard Champion and Alderman Heardson with Coals given besides at certain times One man hath given yearly on Ox to be distributed by a quarter thereof quarterly and a Peck of Oat-meal therewithall to the Poor But so ordered that they that have the quarter of Beef and Peck of Oatmeal at one
and beautified Anno 1609. In the South Isle there hung a very fair Picture of King James with the Figures of Peace and Plenty on either side of him Peace with her Olive Branch and Plenty with her Sheaf of Wheat in her hands being the Gift of Robert Plonker then Church-Warden LXII The Parish-Church of St. Mary Sommerset at the South-end of St. Mary Mounthaw-lane over against Broken-Wharf is also in Queen-Hith-Ward and a proper Church it was repaired and beautified Anno 1624. LXIII The Parish-Church of St. Mary called Stayning because it standeth at the North-end of Stayning-lane in Aldersgate-Ward was repaired and beautified at the cost of the Parish Anno 1630. LXIV Near Stocks-Market in Walbrook-Ward is the Parish-Church called St. Mary Wooll-Church so called of a Beam placed in the Church-yard which was thereof called Wooll-Church Haw of the weighing of Wooll there used for amongst the Customs of London written in French in the Reign of Edward II. there is to be found a Chapter intituled Les Customes de Wooll-Church Haw Wherein is set down what was there to be paid for every parcel of Wooll weighed This weighing of Wooll was there continued till the 6th of Richard II. till John Churchman built the Custome-House upon Wooll-Key to serve for the said purpose This was and is now a fair and large Church LXV The Parish-Church of St. Mary Wolnoth in Langborn-Ward was a proper handsom Church with some few Monuments in it LXVI In Ironmonger-lane in Cheap-Ward is the Parish-Church of St. Martin formerly called Pomary possibly of Apples growing where now Houses are built It was repaired and beautified at the Parish-charge Anno 1629. LXVII The Parish-Church of St. Martin by Ludgate in Farringdon-Ward-within was a proper Church to which Anno 1437. viz. 15th of H. 6. Sir John Michael Lord Mayor and the Commonalty granted a parcel of Ground containing 28 Foot in length and 24 in breadth to build their Steeple upon LXVIII The parish-Parish-Church of St. Martin Orgar in Candlewick-street-ward is a small Church Sir William Crowmer Lord Mayor built a handsom Chapel on the South-side thereof and was buried there in an ancient Tomb Anno 1533. it was repaired 1630. at the cost of 122 l. 6 s. 6 d. There was a rich and very beautiful Monument in the Chancel of Sir Allen Cotton Knight and Alderman of London and sometimes Lord Mayor who dyed the 24th of December Anno 1628. with a large Inscription concluding with these Verses When he left Earth Rich Bounty Dy'd Mild Courtesie gave place to Pride Soft Mercy to bright Justice said Oh Sister we are both Betray'd While Innocence lay on the Ground By Truth and wept at eithers Wound The Sons of Levi did lament Their Lamps went out their Oyl was spent Heaven hath his Soul and only we Spin out our Lives in misery So Death thou missest of thy End And kill'st him not but kill'st his Friend There was also a delicate Monument of our famous Queen Elizabeth LXIX The parish-Parish-Church of St. Martin Outwich is on the South-part of Threadneedle-street in Broad-street-ward it is so called of Martin de Oteswitch Nicholas de Oteswich William Oteswich and John Oteswich Founders thereof and all buried there as appeared by their ancient Monument There was Interred Richard Staper Elected Alderman of London Anno 1594. the greatest Merchant in his time and the chiefest Actor in the discovery of the Trades of Turkey and the East-India He was prosperous wealthy bountiful and a good man he died Anno 1608. Sir Henry Row gave 5 l. yearly for Ever to the Poor of this Parish to be bestowed in Bread and Coals And Mrs. Sotherton yearly for Ever in Bread 50 s. LXX The Fair Parish-Church called St. Martin Vintrey in Vintrey-Ward was sometimes called St. Martin de Beremand Church It was new built Anno 1399. by the Executors of Matthew Columbars a Stranger born and a French Merchant LXXI The Parish-Church of St. Matthew Friday-street Farringdon-ward-within had divers Monuments in it It was repaired and beautified at the cost of the Parish Anno 1633. AS TO LXXII The Parish-Church of St. Michael called St. Michael at Basing-hall in Basing-hall-ward LXXIII The Parish-Church of St. Michael Cornhil in Cornhil-ward LXXIV St Michaels Crooked-lane in Candleweek-street-ward LXXV St. Mich. Queenhith in Queenhith-ward The are handsom Churches affording no Remarkables but what will fall under other Heads LXXVI St. Michael ad Bladum or at the Corne corruptly called St. Michael Querne is in Farringdon-ward-within and was a fair Church with divers Monuments in it amongst the rest one for John Leland the famous Antiquary and others as John Banks Esq Mercer who by his last Will written with his own hand gave to pious and charitable Uses 6000 l. which his Executor Robert Tichburn carefully discharged LXXVII St. Michael Royal in Vintrey-ward is a fair parish-Parish-Church It was new built and made a Colledge by Sir Richard Whittington Mercer and four times Lord Mayor for a Master four Fellows Masters of Art Clerks Conducts Chorists c. There was also an Alms-house for thirteen poor men The College was suppressed in the time of Edward the Sixth the Alms-houses with the poor men do remain and are paid by the Mercers This Church was beautified at the proper cost of the Parish Anno 1630. at the charge of 130 l. 9 s. LXXVIII The Parish-Church of St. Michael in Wood-street in Cripplegate-ward was a proper Church in which were divers Monuments Here was Interred the Head of James the Fourth King of Scots of that name slain at Flodden-field Here was also a Monument of Queen Elizabeth LXXIX The Parish-Church called St. Mildred Bread-street in Bread-street-ward had divers Monuments amongst the rest one for Sir John Chadworth or Shadworth Kt. some time Mercer and Lord Mayor of London who gave a Vestry to this Church an House for the Pastor to dwell in and a Church-yard to the Parishioners wherein to bury their dead He deceased the 7th of May An. 1401. In Memorial of whom there was a fair Inscription on the Wall in these words Here lies a Man that Faith and Works did even Like Fiery Chariots mount him up to Heaven He did adorn this Church When words were weak And men forget the living stones will speak He left us Land This little Earth him keeps These black words Mourners and the Marble weeps At the upper end of the Chancel was a fair Window full of cost and beauty which being divided into five parts carried in the first of them a very artful and curious Representation of the Spaniards great Armado and the Battel in 1588. In the 2d the Monument of Queen Elizabeth In the 3d of the Gun-powder Plot. In the 4th of the lamentable time of Infection 1625. In the 5th the view and lively portraicture of that worthy Gentleman Captain Nicholas Crisp at whose sole cost among other this beautiful piece of Work was erected as also the Figures of his virtuous Wife
Re-built about the Reign of Henry the V. or Edward the IV. one of the Pophams was a great Builder there namely of one Fair Chappel on the South-side of the Quire as appeareth by his Arms there c. Here are divers Monuments There has been much money spent in Repairs upon this Church In it there is an Excellent Organ and a very good Ring of Bells It is in Farringdon-Ward-without XV. Anno 1552. The Citizens of London having purchased the void suppressed Hospital of St. Thomas in Southwark in the Month of July began the Reparations thereof for Poor Impotent Lame and Diseased People so that in November next following the Sick and Poor People were taken in The Church of this Hospital remaineth as a Parish-Church for the Inhabitants thereabout by the Name of St. Thomas Southwark The Steeple was Repaired New Leaded and from the Ground to the Top Coated with a Beautiful Rough-Cast and Inriched with a very Fair Turret in the Year 1633. It is in Bridge-Ward-without XVI In Portsoken-Ward is the small Parish-Church called Trinity Minories there was first a Monastery of Nuns of the Order of Sancta-Clara called the Minories Founded by Edmond Earl of Lancaster Leicester and Derby Brother to Edward the I. Anno 1293. Which was Demolished in King Henry the Eighths Thirtieth Year Anno 1539. There were built Store-Houses for Armour and other Martial Habiliments with divers Work-Houses for that purpose and near it this Church for the Inhabitants who at several times Repaired and Beautified it In the Body of this Church is a Monument with this Inscription Vivere Cornices multos dicuntur in annos Cur vos Angusta conditione sumus We shall now proceed to the out Parishes in Middlesex and Surrey I. As to Christ's-Church we refer the Reader to another place where he shall have a fuller account than we can give here II. The Parish-Church of St. John at Hackney is an antient and handsom Church and kept in good Repair there are divers Monuments in it but our Discourse being Principally of the City of Londoâ— it cannot be expected that we should enlarge much more than the bare mention of generals having things much more Material that require our dispatch But the Fair Parish-Church of III. St. Giles in the Fields is a very Neat and well built Parish-Church in a handsom Church-Yard It was formerly an Hospital Founded by Queen Matilda Wife to King Henry the I. about the Year 1117. at which Prisoners convey'd from London to Tyburn to be Executed were presented with a great Bowl of Ale thereof to Drink at pleasure as to be their last Refreshing in this Life In this Church are several Monuments It began to be Raised a New Anno 1623 and was Finished in two Years and incompass'd with a Fair Brick-Wall in the Year 1631. To which there were many good and great Benefactors many of whom would be concealed This is a very large Parish and next to St. Giles Cripple-gate and Stepney is reputed to be the most Populous in England if not in Europe it being thought by such as have made an Estimate that it contains above 100000 Souls besides Strangers who are very Numerous IV. The parish-Parish-Church called St. James Clerkenwell in the North-West Suburbs was formerly a Priory so called of Clark's Well adjoyning It is a handsom large Church with divers Antient and some Modern Monuments And it had sundry Benefactors William Hern a Master of Defence and Yeoman of the Guard 1580 gave Lands and Tenements to the Cloathworkers in London they to pay Yearly for ever fourteen pound to the Church-Wardens of Clerkenwel and fourteen pound to the Church-wardens of St. Sepulchres towards Reparation of those Churches and Relief of Poor Men. More he gave after the Death of one Man eight pound a Year for ever to the mending of High-Ways Thomas Sackford Esq one of the Masters of Requests gave to the Poor of that Parish forty shillings a Year for ever out of his Alms-House at Woodbridge in Suffolk where he is buried Henry Stoke Gardiner buried there gave twenty shillings a Year for ever towards Reparation of that Church The Priory was valued to dispend 262 l. 9. s. per annum and was surrendred 30 H. VIII and is now a Parish-Church It was Repaired after the fall of its Steeple which spoil'd a great part of the Church and finished Anno 1627. at the cost of 1400 l. V. The Parish-Church called St. Katharine-Tower because near the Tower of London On the East-side was an Hospital of St. Katharine Founded by Queen Matilda Wife to King Stephen There lye buryed besides many others in this Church the Countess of Huntington Countess of the March in her time 1429. John Holland Duke of Exeter and Earl of Huntington 1447 and his two Wives in a Fair Tomb Thomas Walsingham Esq and Thomas Ballard Esq by him 1465. This Church was Repaired and throughout Trimmed and Beautified Anno 1618. Inlarged with a Fair Gallery 1621. The Walls and out-side cloathed with a Beautiful Rough-Cast at the Charge of Sr. Julius Caesar Anno 1626. Mr. Stephen Scudamore Citizen and Vintner of London gave 20 s. per annum to be bestowed in Fuel amongst the Poor for ever Mr. John Boum Baker gave 5 l. per annum to be bestowed in Bread among the Poor for fourty Years VI. In the Church at Lambeth are very many Monuments which for brevity we pretermit VII The Arch-Deacon of London is always Parson of St. Leonard Shore-Ditch and the Cure is served by a Vicar There were divers Honorable Persons buried there and there were many Bountiful Benefactors to the Church and Poor John Fuller of Bishops-Hall Esq gave a Sum of Money for the Building of twelve Alms-Houses for twelve Poor Widdows of this Parish who receive fifty pound per annum of his Gift William Peak Esq gave two shillings a Week to be distributed in Bread for ever on Sundays Robert Brainforth Gentleman gave eight pound Yearly for ever to the Poor Thomas Russel Draper gave twelve pence Weekly for ever to be paid by the Drapers George Clark gave to the Poor one hundred Marks in Money c. VIII The Parish-Church of St. Magdalen Bermondsey was built by the Priors of Bermondsey near the Abby of Bermondsey which was surrendred to King Henry the VIII it was much enlarged Anno 1608 at the Charge of 860 l. so that it became and is a Fair Church IX The Church of St. Mary Istington And X. The Parish-Church of St. Mary Newington are Fair Parishes with some Monuments but being so Remote we pretermit them XI St. Mary White-Chappel is as it were a Chappel of Ease to Stepney-Parish and the Parson of Stepney hath the Gift of it 't is a handsom Church and in good Repair There are some few handsom Monuments in it XII The Parish-Church of St. Pauls in upper Shadwel was also lately made a Parish-Church the Parish being too Numerous for the Church of Stepney It is a handsom
quarter must stay till other Poor be so served and that it comes to their turn again There are other Charities which came in Gifts of ready money and are accordingly truly distributed This Church being decayed began to be Repaired in the year of our Lord 1631. and was fully Repaired and curiously adorn'd Anno 1633. the charge of it amounting to above 2400 l. to make up which many worthy Parishioners did very bountifully contribute XXIX The Parish-Church of St. Edmond King and Martyr commonly called St. Edmond Lombard-street by the South-corner of Birchover-lane is also called St. Edmond Grass-Church because the Grass or Herb Market came down so low In this Church were divers Monuments and several pious Benefactors contributed to the Relief of the Poor of which more in its proper place under the Head of Benefactors This Church was Repaired and Beautified very richly at the charge of the Parishioners Anno 1631 and 1632. It cost 248 l. XXX The Parish-Church of St. Ethelburgh stands near Little St. Helens in Bishopsgate-Ward It was Repaired and Beautified at the charge of the Parishioners Anno 1612. And Anno 1620 the Steeple was Repaired Anno 1630 a Gallery was built in the South Isle at the charge of Owen Santpeere an Inhabitant of that Parish XXXI At the West-end of Jesus Chapel under the Quire of Pauls was the Parish-Church of St. Faith commonly called St. Faith under Pauls which served for the Stationers and others dwelling in Pauls Church-yard Pater-Noster-Row and places adâ—oining The Chapel of Jesus being suppressed in the Reign of Edward VI. The Parishioners of St. Faith's Church were removed into the same as being more large and lightsom Anno 1551. As to the Repairs of this we will only say what was anciently said of it that This Church needs no Repair at all Saint Faith's defended by Saint Paul XXXII In the midst of Fenchurch-street stands the Parish-Church called St. Gabriel Fen-church to which Helming Legget Esq by Licence of Edward III. in the 49 year of his Reign gave one Tenement with a Curtelage thereunto belonging and a Garden with an Entry thereto leading to the Parson and his Successors as a Parsonage-house and the Garden to be a Burying-place for the Parish This Church was inlarged Nine Foot and very richly Beautified at the charge of the Parish Anno 1631 and 1632. which cost them 537 l. 7 s. 10 d. XXXIII The Parish-Church of St. George Botolph-lane in Billinsgate-Ward is small but had divers Monuments It was Repaired and Beautified at the Parish-charge Anno 1627. XXXIV Adjoining to the place where Lollards Tower stood called the Bishops Prison where they committed such as gain-said the Opinions of their Church is the Parish-Church of St. Gregory appointed to the Petty Canons of Pauls This Church was repaired and richly adorned at the cost of the Parishioners Anno 1631 and 1632. which amounted to above 2000 l. XXXV The Parish-Church of St. Hellens in Bishopsgate-Ward was sometimes a Priory of Black Nuns founded in the Reign of Henry III. which was demolished the 30 of Henry VIII The whole Church and the Partition betwixt the Nuns Church and Parish-Church being taken down remaineth to the Parish and is a fair Parish-Church This Church was Repaired and Beautified at the charge of the Parishioners 1631 1632 1633. which amounted to above 1300 l. XXXVI The Parish-Church of St James Dukes-Place in Aldgate-Ward was built in King James's time and consecrated Anno 1622. Sir Peter Proby being Lord Mayor John Hodges Esq and Sir Humphry Hanford Kt. Sheriffs and Aldermen It was built where the Priory as they called it of the Holy Trinity formerly stood the Parishioners obtaining License of King James to build themselves a Parish Church having long been destitute to the building of which many worthy Persons were Benefactors It is a very beautiful and handsome Church and at the time of re-edifying it was called Trinity Christ Church XXXVII The Parish-Church of James Garlick-hithe or Garlick-hive because on the River Thames near this Church Garlick was usually Sold in former Days This was a handsom Church It is Recorded that Richard Rothing one of the Sheriffs of London new built it in anno 1326 and lyes Buryed there c. The North Ile was New Built and the whole Church Repaired at the charge of the Parishioners anno 1624. which amounted to above seven hundred Pound This is in Vintry-Ward XXXVIII The Parish-Church of St. John Baptist called St. John upon Wallbrook because the West end thereof is on the very Bank of Wallbrook by Horse-shooe-bridge in Horse-shooe-bridge-street was some Years before the Fire new built For in the Year 1412 License was granted by the Lord Mayor and Commonalty to the Parson and Parish to enlarge it with a piece of Ground on the North part of the Quire one and twenty Foot in length and seventeen Foot in breadth and three Inches and and on the South side of the Quire one Foot of the common Soyl. The most Memorable Monument there was that of Sir Henry Fitz-Alwin Draper the first Lord Mayor of London in the Tenth of King John anno 1208. who continued by many Elections in the Mayoralty several Years His dwelling House in that Parish was divided into two or three Houses and given to the Drapers for which they pay a quit-rent in his Name yearly for ever So that Mr. Stow's avouching that he was Buried in the Priory of the Holy Trinity within Ald-gate now called Dukes-place is a mistake The Curious in this matter may be satisfied in the Drapers-Hall This Church was Re-edified and Adorned anno 1621. It is in Wallbrook-Ward XXXIX On the East side of Friday-street so called of Fishmongers dwelling there that served Fridays Market is the Parish-Church commonly called St. John Evangelist in Bread-street-Ward It was Repaired and Beautified at the cost of the Parishioners anno 1626. And a new Gallery was Built and Beautified at the proper charge of Thomas Good-year a Citizen and Draper of London that dwelt in the Parish XL. At the North-West Corner of Maiden-lane in Alderâ—gate-Ward is the fair Parish-Church of St. John Zachary Thomas Lichfield founded a Chauntry there in the Fourteenth year of Edward the Second Sir Nicholas Tâ—yford Goldsmith and Lord Mayor with Dame Margery his Wife lye Interr'd there Of whose Goods the Church was made and new Built with a Tomb for them and their posterity Anno 1390. Amongst many other Pious and Worthy Persons and Benefactors to the publick we cannot omit a Monument erected there in Memory of Sir James Pemberton Knight who being Sheriff of this City at the coming in of King James entertained near Forty Earls and Barons when the King was proclaimed Anno 1612. he was Elected Mayor of this Honourable City of London He Erected a Free-School in the Parish of Ecleston in Lancashire sixteen years before his Death and gave Fifty Pound by the Year for the maintaining thereof for ever He gave also five hundred pound
to Christs-Hospital and two hundred pound to the Company of Goldsmiths besides many liberal Gifts to the Poor of his Kindred and many other most Charitable uses He Died the Eighth of September 1613 Aged Sixty Eight Years This is the substance of the Inscription with these Verses Marble nor Touch nor Alabaster can Râ—veal the Worth of the long buryed Man For oft we see Mens Goods when they are gone Do Pious deeds when they themselves did none Mâ—ne while I liv'd no goodness did express 'T is not Inscriptions make them more or less In Christ I hope to rise amongst the Just Man is but Grass all must to Worms and dust There are many other Verses but our intended brevity will not admit of Transcribing them The Repairs of this Church from the Year 1616 to 1631 cost 120 l. 11 s. XLI Next Northumberland-House in Aldgate-Ward is the Parish-Church of St. Katherine Coleman which addition of Coleman was taken of a great Haw-Yard or Garden of old time called Coleman-Haw in Trinity Parish now Christ-Church and in the Parish of St. Katherine and All-Saints called Coleman-Church Sir James Dean hath given two Shillings weekly in Bread to the Poor for ever which is duly performed every Friday and the Parishionners give as much every Sabbath day This Church was Repaired and Beautified Anno 1620. And 1624. their Vestry was built and a Gallery new made for the Poor of the Parish to sit in XLII The parish-Parish-Church of St. Katharine christs-Christs-Church in Aldgate-Ward commonly called cree-Cree-Church stands in the Caemitery of the Dissolved Priory of the Holy-Trinity and is a very fair Church Mr. William Gilborn a Draper gave Four Marks Yearly for ever to be bestowed in one Dozen of Bread and to be distributed on every Sabbath day to the Poor of the said Parish which is duly paid he gave twenty pound towards building a Gallery in the said Church Mr. John Smith Mercer gave three pound yearly for ever to be distributed amongst the Poor every Christmas yearly Mr. George Lee Sadler gave twenty Shillings yearly for ever to the Poor Mrs. Dane a Widdow gave Eight Shillings yearly for ever Mrs. Alice Bateman gave forty two pound six shillings to the Parish the profit to be distributed to the Poor for ever Mr. John Bedow Gent. gave ten pound to be distributed in Bread yearly to the Poor Mr. George Hothersal Merchant-Taylor gave four and twenty shillings yearly for ever out of his Land to the Poor of this Parish Mr. John Waddis Cook born in this Parish gave to the Poor thereof three pound to be distributed among them in Bread yearly for ever Stephen Roberts Cook gave also four and forty shillings yearly for ever to be distributed in Bread These good Persons are remembred as such whose Memories are worthy to be perpetuated and to be upon Record as an Example for others to imitate But more under the head of Benefactors The Foundation of this Church was lay'd the twenty third of June 1628. It is said in Stow's Survey pag. 839. Edit 1633. That digging under the South Row of Pillars they found the Scull of a Man the thickness of which was three quarters of an Inch and better measured by many and admired by all as well they might that saw it The Structure was built of the best Free-stone that could be got and finished anno 1630. There were many bountiful Benefactors and Contributers to it And a curious Table one of the fairest in the City set up as a Monument of our Renowned Queen ELIZABETH but the giver would be concealed XLIII Southwest from Guild-Hall in Cheap-Ward stands the fair and large Church of S. Lawrence-Jewry which addition viz. Jewry was because of old time Many Jews Inhabited thereabouts It had diverse Monuments Mr. Stow tells us That Seventy years before his first Edition of his Survey which was 1598 that is now 163 years ago he saw the Shank-bone of a Man as it was taken twenty five inches long by the Rule and remained before the Fire fastned to a post of timber noted more for the thickness hardness and strength thereof then the length for when it was hanged on the Stone Pillar it fretted with moving the said Pillar and was not it self fretted nor did it grow lighter by remaining dry but how found or discovered we cannot learn Also a Tooth of a very great bigness he says of a mans Fist hanged up for a show in a Chain of Iron upon a Stone Pillar but conveyed from thence long since the credit of this rests upon him This Church was repaired and richly beautified at the Charge of the Parishioners Anno 1618. Amongst other Monuments we must not omit that of our celebrated and most Illustrious Queen Elizabeth in this Church with these Verses Here lyes her Type who was of late The prop of Belgia stay of France Spains foil Faiths Shield the Queen of State Of Arms of Learning Fate and Chance In Brief of Women ne'er was seen So great a Prince so good a Queen Such Vertues her Immortal made Death envying all that cannot Dye Her Earthly parts did so invade As in it Wrackt self Majesty But so her Spirit inspir'd her Parts That she still lives in Loyal hearts c. XLIV The Parish Church of St. Laurence in Candlewick Street and Ward was increased with a Chappel of Jesus by Thomas Cole for a Master and Chaplain which Church and Chappel was made a Colledge of Jesus and of Corpus Christi for a Master and seven Chaplains by Sr. John Poultney Lord Mayor of whom this Church was called St. Laurence Poultney or Pountney Confirm'd by Edward the Third in the Twentieth year of his Reign This College was surrendred in the Reign of Edward the Sixth the Steeple of the Church was new Leaded Five new Bells were hung and the Frames new made all the â—les new raised and levelled and the whole Church within and without most beautifully repaired at the cost of the Parish Anno 1631. and 1632. XLV On Fishstreet-hill in Bridge Ward within is the Parish Church of St. Leonard milk-Milk-Church so termed of one William Melker an especial Builder thereof but commonly called St. Leonard-East-Cheap because it standeth at East-cheap corner The Church and Steeple were repaired and beautified in the Year 1618 1619 1620 and 1621. at the cost of Eight hundred and fifty pounds XLVI On the West-side of Foster-lane in Alders-gate Ward is the Parish Church of St. Leonards called St. Leonards Foster-lane for them of St. Martins le Grand A great number of Houses being built in place of the Great Collegiate Church of St. Martin the Parish is very much increased It was inlarged repaired and adorn'd at the Parish charge Anno 1631. To which John Trot Citizen and Merchant was a bountiful Benefactor the cost amounted to above Five hundred pounds XLVII On the East-side of Bridge-Ward stands the fair Parish Church of St. Magnus in which were buried many Eminent men it had many
repairs and charges in the Years 1623 1624 and 1625. which cost above Five hundred pound in the Year 1629. it was very richly and beautifully adorned all at the proper cost and charge of the Parish XLVIII The fair Parish Church of St. Margarets Lothbury in Coleman-Street Ward stands upon the Water-Course of Walbrooke which was Reedified Anno 1440. Robert Large gave to the Quire of that Church One hundred Shillings and Twenty pounds for Ornaments and to the Vaulting over the Water-course of Walbrook by the said Church for the inlarging thereof Two hundred marks This Church was repaired and richly beautified at the charge of the Parishioners Anno 1621. XLIX In Friday street in Breadstreet-Ward is the Parish Church of St. Margaret Moses so called of one Moses that was Founder or Newbuilder thereof It was Repaired and Beautified at the cost of the Parishioners Anno 1627 L. In the same Wardon Fishstreet-hill stands the Parish Church of St. Margarets New Fish-street which was a Proper Church but without any Monuments of Note LI. St. Margaret Pattens in Rood-lane Billings-gate Ward being much decayed was Repaired and Beautified at the charge of the Parishioners Anno. 1614. who from that year to 1632 expended 275 l. five s. 6 d. upon it LII St. Mary Abchurch standeth near unto the South-end of Abchurch-lane in Candleweek-street-Ward upon a rising ground and was a Fair Church with sundry Monuments in it It was Beautified and Repaired at the proper cost and charge of the Parishioners in the year of our Lord 1611. LIII In Alderman-bury-street is the Fair Parish Church of St. Mary Alderman-bury with a Church-Yard and Cloyster adjoyning in which Cloyster as Mr. Stow says was hanged and fastned a shank-bone of a man in length Twenty eight inches and a half of a size larger by three inches and a half than that in St. Laurence Jewry but not so hard this is Monstrous for it is more then after the proportion of Five shank bones of any Man now living amongst us The Church was repaired and beautified An. 1633. at the cost of the Parish LIV. Alder-Mary Church on the South-side of Budg-Row by the West corner thereof in Cordwainer-street-Ward is so called because older than any Church of St. Mary in the City Sir Henry Keble Grocer and Lord Mayor who deceased 1518 gave a 1000 l. by his Testament towards the Rebuilding it It was repaired and beautified by the Parish Anno 1632. LV. At the upper end of Hosier-lane toward West Cheap is the fair parish-Parish-Church of St. Mary-le-Bow vulgarly bow-Bow-Church This Church in the Reign of William the Conqueror being the first in this City builded on Arches of Stone was therefore called New Mary Church or St. Mary de Arcubus or le Bow in West Cheaping The Court of the Arches is kept in this Church and taketh Name of the place not the place of the Court 'T is in Cordwainer-street-Ward We read that anno 1090. the Third of William Rufus by tempest of Wind the Roof of this Church was overturned wherewith some persons were slain and Four of the Rafters of twenty six Foot in length were pitcht with such violence in the Ground of the high street that scarce four Foot of them remained above Ground which were fain to be cut even with the Ground because they could not be plucked out for the City of London was not then paved but a Moorish ground Anno 1271 a great part of the Church fell down and slew many people Men and Women John Rotham or Rodham by his Will Anno 1465 gave the Parish wanting room in their Church-Yard a certain Garden in Hosier-lane for burial of their Dead which so continued near a hundred Years but now is built up and converted to a private dwelling The old Steeple was Re-edified Anno 1469 so that it was ordained by a Common Councel that the Bow-Bell should be nightly Rung at Nine a Clock to maintain which viz. the Ringing of Bow-Bell John Denne Mercer by his Testament dated 1472 according to the trust of Reginald Langdon gave to the Parson and Wardens two Tenements with the Appurtenances since made into one in Hosier-lane This Church has been Re-built very gorgeously since the great fire and the Steeple finished with that Elegancy of rare Architecture height and curiosity that it excels any in Christendom of which more hereafter LVI On the South-side of Walbrook-Ward from Candlewick-street in the mid way betwixt London-stone and Wallbrook-corner is the proper Parish-Church called St. Mary Bothaw or Boathaw because adjoyning to an Haw or Yard wherein of old times Boats were made and Landed from Dowgate to be mended It was repaired and beautified at the Charge of the Parish in the Year of our Lord 1621. LVII The Parish-Church called St. Mary-Cole-Church in Cheap-Ward is so named of one Cole that Builded it upon a Vault above Ground so that Men were forced to ascend thereunto by certain steps It was repaired and beautified at the Parish charge Anno Feb. 1623. LVIII In St. Mary-Hill-lane is the fair Parish-Church of St. Mary on the Hill because of the ascent from Billingsgate In the Year 1322 Richâ—rd Hackney one of the Sheriffs of â—â—ondon was buryed there Stow. p. 227. and Alice his Wife as Robert Fabian writeth saying thus In the Year 1379 in the Month of April as Labourers digged for the Foundation of a Vault within the Church of St. Mary-Hill near unto Billingsgate they found a Coffin of Rotten Timber and therein the Corps of a Woman whole of skin and of bones undissevered and the joints of her Arms pliable without breaking of the skin upon whose Sepulchre this was ingraven Here lies the Bodies of Richard Hackney Fishmonger and Alice his Wife the which Richard was Sheriff in the 15 th of Edward II. viz. anno 1322. So that her Body was 175 years after she had been buried found uncorrupted It was kept above ground three or four days without Noyance but then it waxed unsavoury and was again buried This Church was repaired and beautified at the charge of the Parish Anno 1616. LIX In Milk-Street in Cripple-Gate-Ward stands the Parish-Church of St. Mary Magdalen in which were several Monuments amongst which one for Queen Elizabeth It was repaired and beautified at the charge of the Parish in the year 1619. LX. Over against the North-west end of Lambert-hill-lane in Knight-Riders-street is the Parish-Church of St. Mary Magdalen commonly called so with the addition of Old Fish-street It was repaired and beautified at the charge of the Parish Anno 1630. which came to 140 l. in this was a Monument of Queen Elizabeth it is in Castle-Baynard-Ward LXI The Parish-Church of St. Mary de Monte also commonly called St. Mary Mounthaw is situate on the West-side of Old Fish-street in Queen-hith-Ward It was built to be a Chapel of the House of the Mounthaunts and the Bishop of Hereford is Patron thereof It was in part new built and very much inlarged
and Children with the Arms belonging unto them Upon the story of 1588 were these Verses Star-gazing Wizards sate upon this year Matter of wonder and did threaten fear Towards us insomuch that Rome and Spain This Land accounted their assured gain But mark how God did quite their hepes confound Both ships and men we did see flee and drown'd Queen Elizabeth's Monument Marvel not why we do erect this Shrine Since Dedicated in to Worth Divine Religion Arts with Policy and Arms Did all concur in Her most Happy Reign To keep God's Church and us from Plotted Harms Contriv'd by Romish Wits and force of Spain The Powder-Plot 1605. When Force could not prevail nor Plots abroad Could have Success Sin now invents new Fraud Guy Faux is sent Ambassador to Styx And thence returning furnisheth with Tricks His damned Crew who forthwith all conclude To blow up King the State and Multitude The Great Plague 1625. The Story 's past God's blessings to the State Do clearly shew but sure we were Ingrate For now behold instead of sweet protection Thousands are swept away by foul Infection But mark God's mercy in midst of greatest crys He sheath'd his Sword and wip't tears from our eys The Founder's Figure with their Wife Children and Arms. These Ensigns which you see and Monument Are not so much to represent The Founder's Person as his zealous care T' express God's Love and Mercies rare To this his Vineyard for to that sole end Did he these Stories thus commend To After-Ages that in their Distress They might God's Goodness still express LXXX In the main Body of Cheap-Ward stands the Parish-Church called St. Mildred Poultrey The Founder is not to be read in any credible Record but it appears by certain ancient Evidences of the said Church that from the beginning it had not so much spare ground about it as to make a Church-yard of until Anno 1420. And the 8 of H. 5. Thomas Morstead Esq and Chyrurgeon to the Kings H. 4. H. 5. H. 6. and afterwards Anno 1436. was Sheriff and Alderman of London gave unto the Church a parcel of Ground lying between his dwelling House and the said Church adjoining to it towards the North to make a Burying place of containing from the course of Walbrook towards the West 45 Foot and in Breadth from the Church towards the North 35 Foot Besides other Monuments here was one for Queen Elizabeth with several Copies of Verses some of which are before recited for there were Monuments for Her in several Churches and She well deserved it as being a most Heroick Princess that check'd the Plots and Incroachments of the Pope and his Adherents and is therefore to be perpetuated to Posterity and therefore what we have not elsewhere met with shall be inserted On the top of the Monument were these Lines If Prayers or Tears of Subjects had prevail'd To save a Princess through the World esteem'd Then Atropos in Cutting here had fail'd And had not cut her thrâ—ad but been redeem'd But pale fac'd Death and cruel Churlish Fate To Prince and People brings the latest Date Yet spight of Death and Fate fame will display Her Gracious Vertues through the World for aye Under Her were these Verses Th' Admired Empress through the World applauded For Supream Vertues Rarest imitation Whose Scepters Rule Fames loud voto'd Trumpet lauded Vnto the Ears of every Foreign Nation Canopied under powerful Angels Wings To her Immortal Praise sweet Science sings LXXXI The Parish-Church of St. Nicholas-Acons in Lumbard-street in Langborn-Ward was Repaired and Imbattled by Sir John Bridges Draper and Lord Mayor Anno 1520 who was buried there It was afterwards Repaired and Beautified at the Charge of the Parish Anno 1615. There was the Monument of John Hall Master of the Worshipful Company of Drapers who dyed the Nineteenth of November 1618. Aged Ninety three Years and Fifty eight Years a House keeper in that Parish and had Twenty seven Children all born there LXXXII Towards the West-end of Knight-Riders-street in Queen-Hith-Ward is the Parish-Church called St. Nicholas Cole-Abbey formerly Cold-Abbey which was an Antient and proper Church In the Twenty sixth of Edward the III. Thomas Frere Fishmonger gave a piece of Ground to the said Parish-Church of St. Nicholas containing Eighty Six Foot in Length Forty three Foot at one end and Thirty four at another in Breadth for a Burying place or Church-Yard It was Repaired and Beautified at the cost of the Parish Anno 1630. LXXXIII On the West-end of Bread-street-Hill also in Queen-Hith-Ward is the Parish-Church called St. Nicholas Olave wherein were divers Monuments Thomas Lewen Ironmonger Alderman and one of the Sheriffs 1537 gave his Messuage with Fourteen Tenements in the said Parish to the Ironmongers and they to give Stipends to Alms-Men in Five Houses built in the Church-Yard of that Parish His Monument with Agnes his Wife was Revived and Beautified at the Charge of the Right Worshipful Company of Ironmongers Anno 1623. LXXXIV At the North-west corner of Sydon-Lane in Tower-street-Ward is the handsom Parish-Church called St. Olave Hartstreet in which were many Monuments It was Repaired and Richly Beautified at the Parish Charges in the Years 1632 and 1633 at the cost of above Four hundred thirty seven pound LXXXV In the Street called the Old Jewry in Coleman-street-Ward is the Parish-Church called St. Olave Jewry in old Records called St. Olave Vpwell in which were several Monnments LXXXVI At the North-end of Noble-street in Alders-gate-Ward is the Parish-Church called St. Olave Silver-street It was New built in the Year 1609 and inlarged in Breadth above seven Foot and Anno 1619 Repaired and Beautified and inriched with a Fair Gallery Anno 1632. LXXXVII In Needlers-lane in Cheap-Ward is the Parish-Church called St. Pancras Soper-lane Here was a fair Monument of James Huâ—sh Citizen and Grocer of London who by two Wives had twenty nine Children he dyed the twentieth of August 1590. he was a good Man and Charitable upon his Tomb was an Elegant Latin Epitaph Mr. Thomas Chapman in the Year 1617 gave a very fair and costly Table bearing the Figure of the Monument of the Renowned QVEEN ELIZABETH LXXXVIII At the South-West corner of Wood-street in Farringdon-Ward within is the handsom Parish-Church called St. Peter-Cheap In which are but few Monuments Sir John Shaw Goldsmith and Lord Mayor deceased 1503 appointed by his Testament the said Church and Steeple to be New built at his cost with a flat Roof Yet Thomas Wood Goldsmith of the Sheriffs 1491 iâ— accounted a Principal Benefactor because the Rooâ— of the middle Ile was supported by Images of Wood-Men It was Repaired and Beautified at the charge of the Parish in the Years 1616 and 1617 which came to 314 l. LXXXIX The Parish-Church of St. Peters in Cornhil is an antient building there is in that Church a Table fast chained wherein it is said thâ— Anno 179 King Lucius founded this Church anâ— made it an Archbishops See
and the Metropolitan or chief Church of this Kingdom and so endureâ— Four hundred Years then the Archbishops See anâ— Pall were removed to Canterbury But whetheâ— the Church that King King Lucius built be thiâ— or St. Peters Westminster is controverted by Historians and therefore we shall not wrangle about it To the Poor of this Parish were sundry Benefactors as Lancelot Tompson of London Draper who amongst other Charities gave one hundred pound to the Drapers Company and they to allow Five pound yearly for ever for Bread and Coals for the Poor of the said Parish whom several other well minded People imitated It was most richly Repaired and Beautified at the Parish Charge amounting to about one thousand four hundred pound in the Year 1633. XC The Parish-Church called St. Peter-Pauls-Wharf was in Queen-Hith-Ward wont to be called Parva or Little because it was a small Church it was Repaired and Beautified Anno 1625. Therein was a Monument for Queen ELIZABETH XCI In Broad-street-Ward is the Parish-Church vulgarly called St. Peter-Poor peradventure so called because the Parish was Poor formerly but now they are otherwise or to difference it from others of that Name here are sundry Monuments and several Benefactors to the Poor of the Parish The Lady Payton gave 40 s. Yearly for ever in Bread the Lady Ramsey gave four pound Yearly for ever Mr. John Quarles Citizen and Draper of London gave the Sum of five pound Yearly for ever c. It cost in sundry Repairs from the year 1615 to 1630. the Sum of one thousand five hundred eighty seven pound all which except four hundred which Sir William Garway Knight gave was the proper charge of the Parishioners XCII The parish-Parish-Church of St. Stephen in Coleman-street and Ward had divers Monuments and Benefactors but I cannot omit the Verses on the Monument of Barne Roberts Esq who Dyed Anno 1610. they are so Elegantly expressive of his Wifes affection she was eldest Daughter to Sir William Glover Kinght and Alderman of London who Erected the Monument Anno 1611. at her own Charge If human worth could have preserv'd him still He had been much too strong for Death to kill Yet being Conquer'd he got by the strife A better being in a better life So that great Victor over Nature left him More happiness ten fold than he bereft him This Church was sometime a Synagogue of the Jews then a Parish-Church then a Chappel to St. Olaves in the Jewry and 7 E. 4. it was Incorporated a Parish-Church It was Repaired and Beautified at the Parish Charge Anno 1622 and a very fair Gallery added in the South Ile Anno 2629. Here was also a Monument for Queen ELIZABETH XCIII In Wallbrook-street and Ward is the fair Parish-Church called St. Stephen-Wallbrook Sir Robert Chichely somtimes Lord Mayor in the Year 1428 6 H. 6. gave to this Parish one Plat of Ground containing two hundred and eight Foot and a half in Length and sixty six Foot in Breadth to Build a New Church and for a Church Yard on the East-side of the Old Church the place of the Old Church being converted to a Parsonage-House This Ground he bought of the Grocers for two hundred Marks which was Lett before for twenty six Marks Yearly He gave over and above one hundred pound to the said Work bore the Charges of all the Timber-Work on the Procession-way and laid the Lead upon it at his own Post He gave also all the Timber for the Roofing of the two Iles and paid for the Carriage therefore It was finished 1439. The Breadth being sixty seven Foot the Length 125. The Church-Yard Ninety Foot in Length and thirty seven in Breadth and more It had many Repairs to the Year 1632 amounting to five hundred and ten pound fifteen shillings and six pence XCIV The Parish-Church of St. Swithins is also in Wallbrook-Ward on the South-West corner of Swithins-lane wherein were divers Monuments XCV In Knight-Riders-street in Vintry-Ward is the proper Parish-Church of St. Thomas Apostle In which was a neat Monument on which was an Elegant Epitaph in Latin Verse composed by Mrs. Katherine Killegrew for her self in her life time And another in neat Greek Verse by her Sister Elizabeth for the said Katherinâ— when she dyed besides two more expressing the great Learning and Accuteness of those Noble Sisters But our intended brevity permits the Recital but of two and that for a â—aste and to shew what Women may arrive to if Studious What she Writ her Self was Dormio nunc Domino Domini virtute resurgam Et 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 meum carne videbo mea Mortua ne Dicar fruitur pars altera Christo Et surgar Capiti tempore tota meo Here was another Epitaph by Andrew Melvin Palladis Phabi comes una Pieris una Pieridumque soror Pieridumque Parens Gratia suada lepas Gravitas Constantia Candor Religio Pietas pudor probitas Atque Palestinae Latiae Graiaeque Camenae Clausit olim uno omnes pectore nunc Tumulo It was Repaired and Beautified at the Parish charge amounting to three hundred pound Anno 1630. There was also a Monument of Queen ELIZABETH but the Verses being the same we had in other places we omit them to avoid prolixity XCVI In Knight-Riders-street is the small Parish-Church of the Holy-Trinity To which John Bryan Alderman in the Reign of Henry the V. was a great Benefactor c. It was Re-built at the Parish charge being lamentably decayed Anno 1607 and 1608. To which the Worshipful Companies of Merchant Taylors and Vintners were very Bountiful Benefactors As also these Aldermen Sir Thomas Cambel Sir John Swinnerton Sir John Gore Sir William Craven Sir Thomas Middleton XCVII The Parish-Church called St. Vedast alias Foster in Farringdon-Ward-within was a Fair Church had had many Benefactors and in it were several Monuments To this Church at the Chancel end the Breadth being twenty Yards and above was added twenty Foot of Ground which Ground was given to the Parish to Lengthen the Church out of a Fair Court then belonging to the Sadlers-Hall Having given a brief Account of the Churches within the Walls as they were formerly reserving their present State to another Head there being Eighty seven Destroyed by the Fire of which many are bravely Re-built c. We shall proceed Alphabotically to those sixteen without the Wall And I. The Parish-Church of St. Andrew-Holborn stands at the very corner of Shooe-lane in Holborn In which are several Monuments but we cannot omit that of Râ—lph Okey of Lincolns-Inn Esq because of his Piety and Bounty in Legacies He was Master of St. Katharines and one of the Masters of Requests to Queen ELIZABETH he Dyed the Fourth of June 1596. He gave by his Testament to Christs-Hospital one hundred pound To the Colledge of the Poor of Queen ELIZABETH in East Greenwich one hundred pound To Poor Scholars in Cambridge one hundred pound To Poor Scholars in Oxford one hundred
pound To Prisoners in the two Compters of London two hundred pound To Prisoners in the Fleet one hundred pound To Prisoners in Ludgate one hundred pound To Prisoners in Newgate one hundred pound To Prisoners in the King 's Bench one hundred pound To Prisoners in the Marshalsea one hundred pound Which is Eleven hundred pound Besides twenty pound to the Prisoners in the White-Lyon And to the Poor of St. Katharines twenty pound And to every Brother and Sister there forty shillings He hath a Curious Monument in the Wall of the Quire expressing in Latin his Descent Employs Deâ—erts and Piety c. II. In treating of the Parish-Church of St. Bartholomeâ—-Great in Farringdon-Ward-without it is necessary to say somthing briefly of its Original On the East-side of Duck-lane near Smithfield one Rahere a pleasant wittied Gentleman Founded the Priory of St. Bartholomew about the Year 1102. He placed Canons there and became himself their first Prior and so continued while he lived and was Buried there in a Fair Monument Renewed by Prior Bolton who was the last Prior in that House this Priory was New built Anno 1410. King Henry II. Granted it the priviledge of a Fair to be kept Yearly at Bartholomew-tide When it was surrended in the Thirtieth of H. VIII it was valued at six hundred fifty three pound fifteen shillings per annum Six Bells in a Tune belonging to it were Sold to the Parish of St. Sepulchres And then the Church being pulled down to the Quire the Quire was by the Kings order annexed for the inlarging of the old Parish-Church adjoyning and so was used till the Reign of Queen Mary who gave the Remnant of the Priory-Church to the Friers Preachers or Black-Friers and was used as their Conventual-Church until the first of Queen Elizabeth Then those Fryers were put out and all the said Church with the old Parish-Church was wholly as it stood in the last Year of Edward the VI. given by Parliament to remain for ever a Parish-Church to the Inhabitants within the Close called Great St. Bartholomews Since which time much cost hath been spent in Repairs upon it III. The Hospital of St. Bartholomew now the Parish-Church called St. Bartholomew the less was Founded by the above mentioned Rahere This was confirmed by Edward III. in his Twenty sixth Year this Hospital was valued at the Suppression Anno 1539. in the Thirty first of Henry VIII at thirty five pound six shillings and seven pence Yearly It Remaineth now the Parish-Church to the Inhabitants in the Precinct of the Hospital In the later end of July Anno 1552. This Hospital was Repaired New Endowed and Furnished at the charge of the Citizens IV. The parish-Parish-Church of St. Bridget or Bride in Farringdon-Ward-without of old time was a small Thing but increased since with a large Body and side-Iles towards the West at the charge of William Vennor Esq Warden of the Fleet about the Year 1480. All which he caused to be brought about in the Stone in the Figure of a Vine with Grapes and Leaves c. The partition betwixt the old work and the New some time prepared as a Screen to be set up in the Hall of the Duke of Somerset's-House in the Strand was bought for eight score pound and set up in the Year 1557. This Church was Repaired and Richly and Curiously Beautified at the Charge of the Parishioners 1630 1631 1632. The Battlements were New built the middle Roof and a very Fair Gallery on the North side of this Church answerable to that on the South erected Anno 1607. V. As to Bridewel Precinct we refer you to the Section of Hospitals with respect to that Foundation It was Enlarged and Beautified at the proper cost and Charge of the Governors and Inhabitants of the Precinct Anno 1620. Sir Thomas Middleton being President and Mr. Thomas Johnson Treasurer There was above twenty four Foot in Length added to it It is a Beautiful Chappel that commends the care of its Governors We must not omit to insert that close by the Pulpit hangs the Picture of King Edward the VI. that truly Religious and most Vertuous Protestant Prince with the following Lines This Edward of fair Memory the sixth In whom with Greatness Goodness was commixt Gave this Bridewell a Palace in old times For a Chastising-House of Vagrant Crimes There is likewise a Monument of Queen Elizabeths but the Verses being before Recited we shall for brevity here omit them VI. In Alders-gate-Ward and in Britain-street so called of the Dukes of Britain that lodged there is the Parish-Church of St. Botolph called Aldersgate There was a Popish Brotherhood Founded there Anno 1377 indowed with Lands above thirty l. per annum a great Sum then but suppressed by King Edward the VI. In this were divers Monuments amongst the rest was a Fair Pyramid erected against a Pillar with this Pathetick Inscription not unworthy to be Transcribed Katharina Mountague obiit 7. die Decembris anno Domini 1612. What Epitaph shall we afford this Shrine Words cannot Grace this Pyramid of thine Thy sweet Perfections all summ'd up were such As Heavens I think for Earth did think too much Religious Zeal did thy pure heart command Pity thine Eye and Charity thy Hand These Graces joyned with more of like degree Make each Mans word an Epitaph for thee Calm was thy Death well order'd was thy life A Careful Mother and a lâ—ving Wife Ask any how these Vertues in thee grew Thou wast a Spencer and a Mountague VII The Parish-Church of St. Botolph-Aldgate is a very Fair Church not far from Ald-gate in Portsoken-Ward It is a Populous Parish and there are several Monuments in the Church Amongst which for his Charity which deserves to be Remembred we shall Remark that of George Clark Citizen and Vintner of London who gave these following Legacies For a publick School in the University of Oxford the Sum of two hundred pound To the use of the Poor of the four Precincts of the Ward of Portsoken being in this Parish two hundred ninety three pound six shillings and eight pence To the Parish of White-Chappel for the Relief of the Poor there one hundred and six pound fifteen shillings and four pence To the Company of Vintners ten pound To the Poor of Christ's Hospital five pound That is eight hundred forty five pound two shillings and two pence He Deceased the fourteenth of April Anno 1606. Aged 63 Years This Church was Repaired and Beautified Anno 1621. There is a Memorial Erected by the Right Worshipful the Company of Merchant-Taylors for Robert Dove Esq Citizen and Merchant-Taylor of London Master of the same Company and one of the Customers in the Port of London who gave in his Life-time Three thousand five hundred twenty eight pound ten shillings and eight pence for Charitable Uses for ever to divers Poor Brethren of the same Company and other Uses for the said Company viz. To Christ's Hospital To St. Sepulchres-Parish To
the Two Compters To Ludgate and Newgate To the Poor of this Parish To St. John-Baptist's Colledge in Oxford To Queen Elizabeths-Hospital at Bristol c. He Dyed the Second day of May 1612. at the Age of Ninety Years His Arms under him Three Doves He lived Vertuously all his Life and Dyed a sincere Professor of the True Christian Protestant Religion in the Eleventh of King JAMES who is remembred as being a Worthy Example to the living and deserves a Memorial in All Ages VIII The parish-Parish-Church of St. Buttolph-Bishops-gate in Bishops-Gate-Ward stands in a Fair Church-Yard adjoyning to the Town-Ditch upon the very Bank thereof inclosed with a comely Wall of Brick Repaired by Sir William Allen Lord Mayor Anno 1571. Because he was born in that Parish where also he was buryed Mrs. Wood the Wife of Robert Wood gave large Gifts and Legacies to this Parish she Dyed November the twenty fifth 1600 and lyes buried there John Heyward Citizen and Alderman of London by his last Will and Testament Inrolled in the Court of Hustings in the Guild-Hall of London Anno 13th of Edward the IV. gave 25 Quarters of Charcoals Yearly to be delivered by the Company of Tallow-Chandlers betwixt the first of November and the twenty fifth of December with a Penalty of Forfeiture of twenty shillings for the first quarter if they be not Delivered as aforeâ—aith forty shillings for the second quarter four pound for the third quarter and eight pound for the whole Year if they be not delivered and so double still from quarter to quarter if defect of Payment herein be made John Bricket Citizen and Tooth-Drawer by Will dated the Eleventh of Feb. 1554. gave for ever Twelve Sacks of Charcoals to the Poor of this Parish to be paid at Easter Mrs. Mary Wilkinson gave them Sixty Quarters of Coals to be paid in November and December for ever provided that out of each Load being Four in all Thirty Quarters being two Loads the Overseers of the Precinct of Norton-Folgate shall have Ten Sacks to be by them given to the Poor of that Preâ—inct Sir William Allen gave thirty shillings for ever to be distributed by the Ironmongers to the Poor in Bread every Year Sir Stephen Scudamore Twenty shillings paid likewise by the Company of Vintners Mary Webster gave ten shillings for ever so be paid to the Poor on St. Thomas Day Mr. William Hobby gave the Tenor Bell. Mr. Ralph Pinder Citizen and Draper of London gave to the Poor in Money Sixty pound for which is given to Thirteen Poor People every Sunday in the Year two pence a piece in good Wheaten Bread Anno 1626. Nicholas Rieve gave the Sum of Forty six pound five shillings to the Parish with which they purchased Lands at Stratford and Bow worth twenty five pound per annum In the Year 1628 on the twentieth of June the Earl of Devonshire then deceasing at Devonshire-House without Bishops-gate gave one hundred pound for ever to the Poor for which the Church-Wardens give every Sonday in the Year to Fifteen Poor People of this Parishâ— two pence a piece in good Wheaten Bread T. C. Citizen and Armourer of London gave a 100 l. to the Chamber of London for which 5 l. yearly is to be paid to buy five Waste-coats and five Kirtles of good Kersey or Cloth each Wastecoat and Kirtle to be worth at least 15 s. five pair of Stockings each worth at least 18 d. five pair of Shoes each worth at least 2 s. for five poor aged Widows to be received on St. Thomas the Apostles day for ever These Charities are briefly remembred as Examples for others There is a Remarkable Monument in Petty-France at the West-end of the Lower Church-yard of this Church without the Church-yard wall erected to the memory of one Coga Shawsware a Persian Merchant principal Servant and Secretary to the Persian Ambassador with whom he and his Son came over He was aged 44 years and buried the 10th of August 1626. now almost 55 years ago the Ambassador himself young Shawsware his Son and many other Persians mournfully following him to the Ground about Nine in the Morning Their Ceremony was the Son sate cross-legged at the North-end of the Grave did sometimes read and sometimes sing both intermixt with sighing and weeping for about half an hour Some of them morning and evening came precisely at six for a month together and might have come longer but that the Rudeness of our People disturbed them The Son at his own charge erected this Tomb of Stone for him with an Epitaph in Persian Characters IX The parish-Parish-Church of St. Dunstan called West to distinguish it from that in the East is a fair Church with divers fair Monuments William Crowch Citizen and Mercer of London one of the Common-Council besides other Legacies gave 10 l. a year for ever to be distributed among 36 poor People of honest life of this Parish He dyed April 16 Anno 1606. this is his pious Epitaph Lo thus he Dy'd For vain and frail is Flesh Yet lives his Soul by Faith in endless Bliss By Faith in Christ whose Grace was so inlarg'd That by his Blood mans sin he hath discharg'd X. Over against Suffolk-place in the Borough of Southwark and Bridge-Ward-without is the parish-Parish-Church of St. George sometimes pertaining to the Priory of Bermondsey Mr. William Evans of the Right Worshipful Company of Merchant-Taylors deceased July 1590. gave 10 l. 8 s. to the Poor yearly for ever to be distributed in Bread by which 208 poor People are served every Sunday as appears by his Epitaph James Savage gave 5 l. yearly for ever for the same use This Church Steeple and Gallery was Repair'd New Pew'd and Beautified and the South I le inlarged by the Parishioners with the assistance of several Benefactors amongst which several of the Companies of London contributed 166 l. 10 s. Anno 1629. XI The fair and large Parish-Church of St. Giles Cripplegate is without the Postern in Cripplegate-ward which was burnt 1545. 37. H. 8. In it were divers Monuments amongst which we must not forget John Fox the learned godly and famous Author of the Book of Martyrs an indefatigable Searcher into Antiquity and a most faithful Assertor and Defender of Gospel-Truth who revived the Marian Martyrs as it were Phoenixes from their ashes He lies Interred in this Church and dyed the 18 of April Anno 1587. that is in this present year 1681 94 years ago in the 70th year of his Age in whose Memorial his eldest Son Samuel Fox upon a very fair Marble Stone on the end of the South-wall of the Chancel placed his Epitaph which we shall insert though we are sure his Name will ever live in that Never-dying Monument his stupendious and most elaborate Work viz. his great Martyrologyâ— to all succeeding Generations The substance of his Epitaph you have before in English but take it in Latin too CHRISTO S. S. JOhanni Foxo Ecclesiae Anglicanae Martyrologâ—
Fidelissimo Antiquitatis Historicae Indagatoâ—â— Sagacissimo Evangelicae Veritatis propugnatorâ— acerrimo Thaumaturgo admirabili Qui Martyres Marianos tanquam Phoenices ex cineribus redivivos praestitit Patri suo omni pietatis officio imprimis colendo Samuel Foxus illius primogenitus hoc Monumentum posuit non sine lachrymis Obiit die 18 Mens April An. Dom. 1587. jaâ—â— Septuagenarius Vita vitae mortalis est Spes vitae immortalis There is a fair Plate Engraven on a fair Stone in the Chancel under the above Monument where he lies buried with these Verses Sacra sub hoc saxo tria Corpora mista quiescant Gulielmi Bullen Medici Fratrisque Richardi Ac Johannis Foxi qui tres mihi crede fuerunt Doctrina clari rari pictatis alumni Gulielmus Bullen Medicamina semper habebat Aeque pauperibus danda ac locupletibus aeque Sicque Richardus erat benefacere ipse paratus Omnibus ex aequo quibus ipse prodesse valebat At Foxus noster per multas hos Parasangas Vita praecurrit studiisque accedimus omnes Extant quae scripsit tormenta cruenta piorum Extans perdocte permulta volumina scripta Quae scripsit Foxus Nulli fuit ipse secundus Obiit An. Dom. 1587. Apr. 18. Though the Learned need no interpretation of these Verses yet for the satisfaction of the English Reader I will adventure to paraphrase them having a great Veneration for the Memory of this good man to whom all Protestants in Europe are so much beholden This is what English my Extemporary Muse can give them Three Sacred Corps beneath this Stone do rest Of William Bullen who with skill profest Physick with Richard his dear Brother and John Fox No three more famous in the Land Of pious Doctrine they Promoters were In Life and Holiness Examples rare Bullen had Med'cines for the free Relief Of Poor and Rich to ease them of their Grief Richard was still a ready Benefactor For common good where he would be an Actor But our Great FOX did largely these out-do In course of Life and lib'ral Studies too His Works are extant where he did describe Saints cruel Torments by a hellish Tribe The Learning in his pious Volumes shown Do still proclaim him Second unto None On the same Stone are these words Here lieth buried William Bullen who dyed the 17th of January 1576. Vnder this Stone sleepeth the Body of Richard Bullen a Faithful Servant and Preacher of Jesus Christ and was buried the 16th of October Anno Dom. 1563. Roger Mason of this Parish Citizen and Vintner gave to the Poor of this Parish 200 l. wherewith a yearly Rent of about 16 l. per Annum is purchased for ever to be bestowed on ten Gowns of Black Cloth lined to be Yearly given to ten Poor Men of Freedom of this Parish upon All-Saints-day he dyed the Third of September 1603 Aged thirty seven Years William Day Citizen and Vintner of London gave to the Poor of this Parish Eighty pound with which the Yearly Rent of six pound is purchased for ever to be bestowed upon twelve Coats of Green Cloth for twelve Poor Orphans upon All-Saints-day Other Benefactors were Thomas Busby Cooper who gave fourty Dozen of Wheaten Bread and four Loads of Charcoal to the Poor for ever Yearly Mr. Blighton Butcher gave forty Dozen of Wheaten Bread and two Loads of Charcoals to be Yearly distributed Mr. Charles Langley Brewer gave twenty Gowns for Men and Women and twenty Shirts for twenty other Men and twenty Smocks for twenty Women Yearly for ever on All-Saints-day and a remainder of money to be given amongst the Poor people that day and forty shillings also that day allowed for a Sermon Mrs. Ann Harvist gave forty Tenements of twenty pound Yearly Rent to be distributed quarterly to twenty Poor Widows by five shillings a quarter each Mr. Robert Smith gave four Bibles in Octavo well buffed and bossed to four Poor Mens Children such as can best deserve them by Reading to be given every Easter for ever A very good Act. As also fifty two Dozen of Wheaten Bread every Week one Dozen for ever Mr. Richard Hanbury and Mr. Richard Bud gave six Common Prayer Books and fifty Dozen of Wheaten Bread in the same manner to be distributed Mr. Roger Bellow Brewer gave twenty pound per annum of which ten pound Yearly to the Poor and ten pound to be reserved to purchase Land for the Relief of the Poor Here is also the Monument of John Speed the famous Geographer and Historian who dyed July 28. 1629 in his seventy eighth Year As also his Wife Susanna who was his Wife 57 Years and had by her twelve Sons and six Daughters who dyed in her seventieth Year the twenty eighth of March 1628. Here are divers other Monuments but for brevity we omit them XII The Parish-Church called St. Olave Southwark stands on the bank of the River Thames in Bridge-Ward-without the Parish is large And in the Church there are some Monuments amongst the rest one for Queen Elizabeth XIII The Fair Church called St. Mary Overy or over the Rie that is over the River vulgarly called Sâ—viours Southwark was formerly a Priory For from a House of Nuns it was converted into a Colledge of Priests And Anno 1106 Founded again for Canons Regular William Gifford Bishop of Winchester Builded the body of the Church Anno 1106. 7 H. 1. It was surrendred to Henry VIII in the thirty first of his Reign Oct. 27. Anno 1539 valued at 624 l. 6. s. 6. d. per annum The Inhabâ—tants of the Burrough in December following purchased the Church of the Priory of the King whereof they made a Parish-Church for the Parish-Church of St. Mary Magdalen on the South-side of the Quire out of St. Margarets on the Hill which were made one Parish of St. Saviour In it there be divers Monuments as of John Gower a Famous Poet and a great Benefactor to this Church who lived in the times of Edward the III. and R. II. The Monument of that Famous and Learned Bishop Andrews who dyed in the Eleventh of Charles the I. Anno 1626 Aged Seventy one Years Here is likewise a very Fair Monument of Dr. Loclyer that Famous Physitiar There are also divers bountiful Benefactors to the Poor of this Parish and other Pious Uses This is a Stately and Spacious Church and has been from time to time kept in good Repair and with much cost has received many Graceful and Useful Additions Here is a Monument of Queen Elizabeth with these Verses ELIZABETHA REGINA St. Peters Church at Westminster Her Sacred Body doth inter Her Glorious Soul with Angels sings Her Deedâ— live Patterns here for Kings Her Love in every heart hath Room This only shadows forth her Tomb. XIV The Fair Parish-Church of St. Sepulchres stands without Newgate in a Fair Church-Yard but of late much Incâ—oached upon as being part of it Lett out for Buildings and a Garden-Plat This Church was
in Smithfield on Thursday goes out on Friday Coventry in Warwickshire John Mitchel's Wagon comes to the Bell-Savage on Ludgate-hill on Wednesday goes out on Thursday William Mitchel's Coach-Wagon comes to the same place on Friday goes out on Saturday Roger Roberts Wagon comes to the same place on Saturday goes out on Monday Copel in Bedfordshire John Patenam Carrier comes to the Red Lyon in Aldersgate-street on Tuesday goes out on Wednesday Coliasby in Northamptonshire Edward Allein and James Rants Carriers come to the Castle in West-Smithfield on Wednesday goes out on Thursday Clapham John Day 's Coach comes to the Spread-Eagle in Gracechurch-street in and out every day in the week Crandon in Northamptonshire Thomas Edwards Carrier comes to the Bear and Ragged-staff in Smithfield on Wednesday goes out on Thursday Chelmsford in Essex Shadrech Cooper's Wagon comes to the Spread-Eagle in Gracechurch-street on Monday Wednesday and Friday goes out on Tuesday Thursday and Saturday Arthur Palmer's Coach comes to the Cross-Keys in in Gracechurch-street on Monday Wednesday and Friday goes out on Tuesday Thursday and Saturday And his Wagon to the same place comes on Tuesday and Friday goes out on Wednesday and Saturday Mr. Spicer's Wagon comes to the Blue Boar without Aldgate on Tuesday and Friday goes out on Wednesday and Saturday Thomas Robinson's Coach comes to the Ipswich Arms in Cullum-street in and out every day in the week Chipton-Norton in Oxfordshire Robert Bridgeman Carrier comes to the Bear and Ragged-staff in West-Smithfield on Wednesday goes out on Thursday Colchester Abraham Vall's Wagon comes to the Spread-Eagle in Gracechurch-street on Thursday goes out on Friday Thomas Starchpoole Coachman comes to the Kings-Arms in Leaden-hall-street on Monday Wednesday and Friday goes out on Tuesday Thursday and Saturday Cockthrop near Oxford Mr. Whiting's Wagon comes to the Bell in the Strand on Tuesday goes out on Wednesday Croydon John Windham's Coach comes to the Greyhound in Southwark in and out every day in the week Henry Batchellor and Norwood's Coach comes to the Katherine-Wheel in Southwark in and out every day in the week Chinord near Thame in Oxfordshire Mr. Mallard Samuel Bardal comes to the Bell in the Strand on Thursday goes out on Friday Cramborough in Kent John Botten Carrier comes to the Kings-head in Southwark on Wednesday goes out on Thursday Clare John Rash Carrier comes to the Spread-Eagle in Gracechurch-street on Thursday goes out on Friday Chichester Mr. Barnes Carrier comes to the White-hart in Southwark on Thursday goes out on Friday Mr. Tuff Carrier comes to the same place on Wednesday goes out on Thursday Cranbroke in Kent William Woollett Carrier comes to the Talbot in Southwark on Wednesday goes out on Thursday Chittenstone in Kent John Harrison Carrier comes to the White-horse in Southwark on Thursday goes out on Friday Crookhorne and Evill Mr. Clark and his Son and William Matthews Carriers come to Gerrards-hall in Basing-lane on Friday go out on Saturday D. Dusely in Glocestershire Mr. Church's Wagon comes to the Rose on Holbourn-bridge on Thursday goes out on Friday Little Didlington in Bedfordshire William Curphe's Wagon comes to the George in Aldersgate-street on Tuesday goes out on Wednesday Denby Rexham and Ruthen William Harrison Carrier comes to Blossoms-Inn in St. Lawrence-lane on Friday goes out on Saturday once in three weeks Dreyton in Buckinghamshire Joseph Sare Carrier comes to the Mermaid in Carter-lane on Tuesday goes out on Wednesday Daventree in Northamptonshire Thomas Moore 's Wagon comes to the Bell-Savage on Ludgate-hill on Saturday goes out on Monday Humphrey Barker Carrier comes to the Castle in West-Smithfield on Saturday goes out on Monday Dâ—â—stable George Boswel Carrier comes to the Three Cups in Aldersgate-street on Monday Wednesday and Friday goes out on Tuesday Thursday and Saturday Dunchurch in Warwickshire Thomas Southam Carrier comes to the Castle in West-Smithfield on Wednesday goes out on Thursday Derinton and Wellingborough in Northamptonshire Mr. Cole's Wagoâ— comes to the Castle in West-Smithfield on Wednesday goes out on Thursday once a fortnight Dorset Salisbury and Blandford Edward Cooper Mr. Minchel and Michael Minchel come to the Castle in West-Smithfield on Wednesday and Saturday go out on Monday and Thursday Dover Thomas and Stephen Gibben's Wagon comes to the Kings-head in Southwark on Wednesday and Saturday goes out on Monday and Thursday John Gibbens Carrier comes to the Rams-head in Fenchurch-street on Wednesday goes out on Thurs Darking Widow Moore 's Wagon comes to the Greyhound in Southwark on Tuesday goes out on Wednesday Dulwich Will. Hicks Coachman comes to the Katherine-wheel in Southwark in and out every day Dorchester William Cooper Michael Minching Coachmen come to the Bell in the Strand on Wednesday and Saturday go out on Monday and Thursday Dunmore and High-Ruden in Essex Peter and William Wescoat Carriers come to the Rams-head in Fenchurch-street on Monday and Thursday goe out Tuesday and Friday Francis Cramphorne's Wagon comes to the Three Nuns without Aldgate on Wednesday goes out on Thursday E. Exeter Mr. Whiffen's Wagon comes to the Rose on Holbourn-bridge on Saturday goes out on Monday John Lowry John Baker Arthur Baker Wagoners come to the Kings-Arms on Holbourn-bridge on Tuesday goes out on Wednesday Thomas Morris Carrier comes to the Sarazens-head in Friday-street on Friday goes out on Saturday Benjamin Flemen John Booth William Baker John Smead Coachmen come to the same place on Tuesday Thursday and Saturday go out on Monday Wednesday and Friday East-Ham in Essex George Holloway's Coach comes to the Three Nuns without Aldgate in and out every day Will. Golding's Coach comes to the Blue Boar without Aldgate in and out every day Ely Simon Jackson's Wagon comes to the Bull within Bishopsgate on Monday goes out on Tuesday Enfield Robert Hockley's Coach comes to the Bull within Bishopsgate in and out every day Edmonton Thomas Boulton comes to the same place in and out every day John Blower comes to the Green Dragon within Bishopsgate in and out every day both Winter and Summer Egham in Surrey The Coach comes to the Black-Lyon in Water-lane on Monday Wednesday and Friday goes out Tuesday Thursday and Saturday Elstree in Hertfordshire Mr. Mouâ—tague's Wagon comes to the Angel in St. Giles's on Monday Wednesday and Friday goes out on Tuesday Thursday and Saturday Epsom Thomas Wells Coachman comes to the Kings-head in Southwark in and out every day Thomas Bird Coachman comes to the Spread-Eagle in Gracechurch-street on Monday Wednesday and Friday goes out on Tuesday Thursday and Saturday Robertâ—Bird comes to the Cross-Keys in Gracechurch-street in and out every day Eatonbridge in Kent Thomas Saxby Carrier comes to the White-horse in Southwark on Monday and Thursday goes out Tuesday and Saturday Eversham in Worcestershire John Robert's Wagon comes to the Castle in Woodstreet on Friday goes out on Saturday Epping in Essex John Cornish's Coach comes to the Nags-head without Aldgate on Monday and Friday goes out on Tuesday and Saturday