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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A04568	The pleasant vvalkes of Moore-fields Being the guift of two sisters, now beautified, to the continuing fame of this worthy citty.	Johnson, Richard, 1573-1659?	1607 (1607)	STC 14690; ESTC S109194	11,911	24

well to this place was a wast and vnprofitable ground a long time so that in the raigne of Edward the second it was let to farme for foure Markes by the yeare but in the yeare 1415 the 3. yere of Henrie the fift Thomas Falnet Maior caused the wall of the Citie to bée broken toward this Moore and builded here the posterne called Moore-gate for the case of the Citizens to walk this way vpon caus● as was thē towards Isllington Hogsdon such like Moreouer he caused the ditches of the Citie from Shoreditch to Houndsditch and so to this Moore ditch along by Bedlem to bee newe cast and clensed by meanes whereof this Fen or Moore was greatly drayned and dryed so shortly after it grew such hard ground that Raph loselin Maior for repayring the Citie wall caused this Moore to be searched for clay here in this place brick to be burnt Gent. But sir here is stones set vpright what is the meaning of them Citiz. Marry where they stand tunnes vnderneath the common shore from a spring called dame Annis de Cleare called by the name of a rich London widow called Annis Cla●e who matching her selfe with a riotous Courtier in the time of Edward the first who vainely consumed all her wealth and leauing her in much pouertie there drowned she herself being then but a shallow ditch or running water since which as I said before turneth by sluces arched ouer all along by these stones here standing which sluces or bridges was made in the yere 1512 by Roger Atchley Maior who likewise caused the grounds to be leauelled as they were this last yeare by Sir Leonard Holliday Maior and the other worshipfull Aldermen his brethren whereby these fields were made something more commodious but not so pleasant and drye as now they are for many times they stood still full of noisome waters which afterward in the yeare 1527. was by the meanes of sir Thomas Semor Mayor made dry who repairing the sluces conuayed the sayd waters ouer this Towne Ditch into the course of Wall-brooke shoare and so into the Thames and by these degrées was this Fen or Moore at length made maine and hard ground which before being ouergrowne with flags sedges and Rushes serued for no vse since the which time all the further and higher grounds beyond Finesbury court haue beene so heightned with leastals and dung that now thrée Windmils are set thereon the ditches being filled vp and the bridges ouerwhelmed Gen. But now I pray you let vs walke backe againe to Moore gate go into this narrow lans called the posterne betwéene Moore-gate and Criple-gate because it hath at either end a doore to be shut in the night season Cit. This is a posterne belonging to Criple-gate so called long before the conquest only to kéepe night-walkers out of the subberbs but now I haue named Criple-gate I thinke it not amisse to shew the antiquity thereof and why it was so called at the first Gen That would I gladly vnderstand for I haue heard diuers reports thereof Cit. I haue read in the history of Edmond King of England written by Iohn Lydgate Munke of Berry that when the Danes spotled part of his kingdome a reuerent bishop of this land caused that body of king Edmond martyr to be brought frō S. Edmonds bury to London in at Cripplegate a place saith he so called of cripples begging ther at which gate it was saide the body entering Mirracles were wrought as some of the Lame to goe away praising God This Gate was sometimes a Prison whereunto such Cittizens and others as were arested for debt or common trespasses were committed as they be now to the Counters This Gate was new builded by the Brewers of London 1244. Gent. This hath much contented my desires and considering it is yet far to night I will request you to turne back into the walkes and there to discourse of further antiquities Citiz. Withall my heart Sir I cannot spend my time better Gent. Then I pray you tell what course Sir hath this common shoare thorough the Citty into the Thames Citiz. This Citty in old time as I finde it recorded was deuided the one halfs from the other which is East from West by a faire brooke of swéete Water which ran frō these fields thorough this wal into the riuer of thames which diuision to this day is maintained without charge which water is called Wall-brooke The course frō hence runneth directly first to Saint Margrets Church in Loathbury from thence from the lower part of the Gracers hall about the East of their Kitchin vnder Saint Mildreds Church somewhat West from the stockes Market from thence thorough Bucklers-bury by a great House built of stone and Timber called the old Barge because in times past Barges out of the Thames were rowed vp so far into this brooke on the backeside of the Houses on Wall-brooke stréete which streete taketh the name of this saide brooke then by the west end of Saint Iohns Church vpon Wall-brooke vnder Horshee bridge by the West side of Tallow Chandlers Hall and of the Skinners Hall and so behinde the other houses to Elbow lane and by a part thereof downe Gréenwitch lane into the riuer of thames this is the right course of this water which of olde time was bridged ouer in diuers places for passage of Horses men as need required but since by the means of increasement on the bankes thereof much annoyances bee done therein But at length the same by a common consent of this Citty was arched ouer with Brick and paued with stone equall with the ground whence it passed thorough and is now in most places builded vpon that no man may deserue it and therefore the trace thereof is hardly known to the common sort of people gen Now I pray you let me know how this vaute or Riuer is made cleane considering so much Channell durt runnes therein Citi. Where these stones stand as I said before there is a long hollow Cesterne or shoare arched ouer reaching into the Citty into the which once a yeare as it is the custome of our Citty to sée it made cleane there entereth diuers labouring men with Links and Torches lighted with a Taber and a pipe or other such Mellody that the Merchants whose Uautes and Houses of offices stand ouer may hear them and by such meanes they may know what is amisse and wanteth mending and still when this busines is effecting the owners of those houses spare not for cost which they giue downe at the Grates as they passe along Gent. This is a good order and an incouragement to such an intricate businesse but to let that passe and shew me the antiquity of your Aldermens going to the Sermons to the Spittle neare Soreditch in Easter wéeke which in my mind is a most memorable custome Citi. First to shew you the first antiquity thereof that place was in times past an Hospitall commonly called Saint Mary Spittle