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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30714	The survey and antiquitie of the towne of Stamford in the county of Lincolne with its ancient foundation, grants, priviledges, and severall donations thereunto belonging : also a list of the aldermens names, and the time when they were chosen : with the names of 10 Lord Majors (of the Hon. city of London) borne in the foresaid county of Lincolne / written by Richard Butcher, Gent. ...	Butcher, Richard, 1583-1665?	1646 (1646)	Wing B6261; ESTC R2120	34,702	55

plant themselves in fairest plots For Pasture Wood and spring No griefe nor care comes to their lots When others sigh they sing For in and about this Towne they had no lesse then Eight severall Cells or Monastories as namely the Gray-Fryers the White-Fryers the Black-Fryers the Augustine-Fryers St. Leonards being a Cell belonging to the Abbey of Durham Newsted Monastory the Hermitage being the place where now the Spittle-house standeth and a house of Nunnes in Stamford-Baron Heere hath been likewise in former times as I said before thirteene Parish Churches besides three Chappels namely St Maries All-Saints St. Thomas St. Michaels St Iohns Trinity Church Paules Church Peter Church St. Georges St. Andrews Clement Church St. Stephens and St. Martins in Stamford-Baron Also Benet Chappell St. Thomas Chappell and Magdaline Chappell These are now all reduced into five Parishes within the liberties and St. Martins without namely St. Maries All-Saints St. Michaels St. Iohns and St. Georges and yet none of all these six Parishes excepting All-Saints hath so much maintenance belonging to any of them as wil competently maintain a Minister in them a thing which may seeme very strange when sixteene severall Benefices are reduced to the number of five or 6. But I conceive the reason to be heere as it is in the University of Cambridge which hath in it as I take it 15 Parish Churches and yet not any one of them of any competent maintenance because the fellowes of the severall Colledges do officiate in those severall cures for the better exercise and practice of their Ministery as having their chiefest maintenance from the Colledges even so the Munks of the severall Monastories in this place whilest those Monastories stood did officiate in the severall Parishes here having their principall maintenance from the Monastories which being dissolved most of these Parishes became united especially those that had any maintenance unto them for the support of the future Ministery and those that had meerely nothing were totally ruinated This Town hath in it to the number of a Eleven indifferent faire Streets and 10 small streets or Lanes well replenished with houses but in former times as appears by the ruines of many ancient buildings it was much more populous then now it is the reason of which hereafter appeareth in the proper pl●●e The names of the Streets and Lanes are as followeth Peter-hill Street St. Maries Street Pauls Street S. Michaels Street S. Geo●ges Street Clement-hill where the Friday Market-Crosse s●●nds Clip●●ill St. Maries Market Street All-Hallowes gate the Bridge-street the Market-street Cle-ment Lane Star Lane Goldsmiths Lane Manerly Lane Chenie Lane S. Thomas Lane S. Iohns Lane S. Maries Lane Castle-dike and Pillory-nooke where the white meate Market is kept The Towne is watered by two common Conduits as namely by St. Michaels and Pauls Conduits besides it hath foure common wheel-Wells belonging thereunto All-Hallowes Well St Georges Well Poule Well and Clement Well the Conduits are fed by pipes of lead which descend from a spring called the Conduit-head being twelve-score or thereabouts without the Walls upon the North-east of the Town in the common field and hath the Land next adjoyning to it for the benefit both of the Spring and Conduit CHAP. III. The Antiquities ancient Priviledges and ancient owners of the Towne of Stamford MAster Cambden in his learned Britania in the County of Lincolne describes the scituation stctruure and generall Priviledges anciently used in this Town in these words In limite ad Wellandum fluminū Stamford sed et è Saxo structili unde et nomen aedificatum oppi●um frequens et varijs immunitatibus 〈◊〉 muroque firmatum Geldum per duodecem hundredis et dimidi● dedit in exercitu navigio et Dane-gelt ibique fuerunt sex custodiae With this in part agrees the Booke of Crowland which makes mention of Stamford and Stamford-shire Moreover Iohn Stow in his Chronicle reports that in the time of King Athelstone before the conquest there was a Mint for the coyning of Money in Stamford-Baron so that without doubt the limits of the Iurisdiction and liberties of Stamford have been farre beyond what now they are The ancient owners of this Town have been many but all holding from the Crown in chief the Tower roll makes mention that King Iohn gave the Castle and Town of Stamford to William Earl Warren after the death of which Earle Warren Henry the third seised the Castle and Towne and gave the same to Edward his sonne who held them and when he came to be King he gave the same to Iohn Earle Warren Iohn Earle Warren ga●e amongst other things the said Castle and Town againe to the King after his death the said Iohn dyed the 21th of Edward the third seised of the said Castle and Town for life the remainder to the King as appeares by the inquisition upon the Tower Roll taken after the death of the said Iohn in the 21th yeare of the said King Edward the third Edward the third after the death of the said Iohn Earle Warren gave the said Castle and Towne to William de B●hume Earle of Northampton and to his Heires males and in default of such issue the remainder to the King The said William Earle of Northampton dyed without Heires Males whereupon the reversion of the said Castle and Town did againe returne into the Crown and so continued till the first of Edward the fourth in which said first yeare by Letters Patents bearing date the 1. of Iune the said King Edward the 4. th granted the said Town and Castle to his Mother Sisley Dutches of York for the terme of her life the remainer to the King and his Heires after the death of the said Sisley Dutches of York the same remained in the Crown till the time of Queene Elizabeth at what time William Cecell then newly made Lord Burleigh a man great in the State and also lately become great in possessions in and about Stamford being trusted by the Townsmen for the obtaining of the Fee-farme therof for the use of the Corporation he obtained the same for himselfe in whose posterity it as yet remaineth to the great disadvantage of the said Town CHAP. IIII. The ancient Government of Stamford the first Incorporating thereof by Letters Patents the reason why the Kings of this Land have from time to time nourished and cherished Corporations the Priviledges and immunities of Stamford by the new Grants and late Charters the Power given them there to make Lawes for the better regulating the same and the lawes made particularly set downe THe Government of Stamford was long before their written Charter held and used amongst themselves by an ancient Prescription which was called the Aldermanry of the Guild as strong and as large if not more strong then now the same is setled by the Charters of the first and 15th of Edward the 4th who was the first that did incorporate the Town by Letters Patents For it appeareth upon the