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land_n	hold_v	king_n	ward_n	3,240	5	11.1785	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35234	Historical remarques and observations of the ancient and present state of London and Westminster shewing the foundation, walls, gates, towers, bridges, churches, rivers ... : with an account of the most remarkable accidents as to wars, fires, plagues, and other occurrences which have happened therein for above nine hundred years past, till the year 1681 : illustrated with pictures of the most considerable matters curiously ingraven on copper plates, with the arms of the sixty six companies of London, and the time of their incorporating / by Richard Burton, author of The history of the wars of England.	R. B., 1632?-1725?	1681 (1681)	Wing C7329; ESTC R22568	140,180	238

confirm their Charter was to make himself less than a King and the Lords thought as long as that was denied they were no better than Slaves and as the King could endure no Diminution so the Lords could endure no Slavery But the King might keep his own with sitting still the Lords could not recover their own but by motion And hereupon they confederated together the chief among them being Richard the Brother of William late Protector and now Earl Marshal who repair to the King and boldly tell him of his faults and require satisfaction Whereupon the King presently sends for whole Legions of French men over and withal summons a Parliament at Oxford whither the Lords refuse to come After this a Parliament is called at Westminster whither they likewise refuse to come unless the King would remove the Bishop of Winchester and the French from the Court and more than this they send him word that unless he did this they would expel both himself and his evil Counsellors out of the Land and create a new King Upon this threatning Pledges are required of the Nobility for securing their Allegiance and Writs are sent out to all who held by Knights Service to repair to the King by a certain day which the Earl Marshal and his Associates refusing the King without the Judgment of the Cou●● and his Peers causeth them to be proclaimed Outlaws and seizeth upon all their Lands which he gives to the French men and directs out Writs to attach their Bodies where-ever found Upon which some of the Confederate Lords went over to the King and the Earl Marshal is persuaded to do the same which he refusing a design is laid to draw him over into Ireland to defend his Estate there which was seized upon by the King where being circumvented by Treachery he lost his life Yet the King disavows being concerned therein and lays the fault upon his Officers An easie way saith the Historian for Princes never to be found in any fault After this the Lords went into Wales and joined with Prince Lewellin whither also came Hube●t de Burg Earl of Kent Hereupon the King is advised to go himself thither who complained That he was not able in regard of his wants saying that his Treasurers told him all the Rents of his Exchequer would scarce maintain him in Clothes Victuals and Alms. Whereupon some of his Lords answered That he might thank himself if he were poor since he gave so much of his Revenue to his Favourites and had so far alienated his Lands that he was onely a King in name rather than for his Estate though his Ancestors were magnificent Princes who abounded in all worldly glory and wealth and had heaped up vast Treasures onely by the Rents and Profits of the Kingdom The King being stung with this just Reprehension began by their advice to call his Sheriffs Bailiffs and other Officers to a strict account and squeezed great sums of money out of them forcing Ralph Briton his Lord Treasurer to pay him a thousand pound and others very considerable sums whereby he at this time filled his Coffers After two years affliction a Parliament is called at Westminster wherein the Bishops admonish the King by his Fathers Example to be at peace and unity with his People and remove from him Strangers and to govern the Kingdom by Natives of the Realm and by the Laws otherwise they would proceed by Ecclesiastical Censure both against himself and his Counsellors The King ●●ing no way to subsist but by temporizing removes all Strangers from about him calls his new Officers to account and restores the Lords to their places and possessions Soon after another Parliament is called which the King would have to sit in the Tower whither the Lords refusing to come a place of more freedom is appointed in which Parliament the Sheriffs are removed for corruption and the King would have taken the Great Seal from the Bishop of Chichester who refused to deliver it as having received it from the Common Council of the kingdom In the 21 Year of this Kings Reign another Parliament is called at London where the King requires a great sum of money which being directly opposed the King promiseth by Oath never more to injure the Nobility so they would but relieve him at present and that he would use onely the Counsel of his Natural Subjects and freely grant the inviolable observation of their Liberties Whereupon a Subsidy was granted him but with this condition that four Knights in every County be appointed to receive and pay in the same either to some Abby or or Castle where it may be safely kept that if the King fail of performing his Oaths and Promises it may be restored to the Country from whence it was collected About this time the King to please the Lords ordered Peter de Rivalis and some other of his French Favourites to appear in Westminster Hall as Delinquents and he him self coming thither sate in person upon the Bench among his Judges And Peter de Rivalis being first called the King looking sternly upon him spake thus to him O thou Traitor by thy wicked advice I was drawn to set my Seal to those treacherous Letters for the destruction of the Earl Marshal in Ireland the C●tents whereof were to me unknown And by thine and such like wicked counsel I banished my natural Subjects and turned their minds and hearts from me By the bad counsel of thee and thy Accomplices I was stirred up to make War upon them to my exceeding loss and the dishonour of my Realm for thereby I wasted my Treasure and lost many worthy persons together with much of my former honour and respect I therefore require of thee an exact account as well of my Treasure as the Custody of the Wards together with many other Perquisites and Profits belonging to the Crown To whom Rivalis denying nothing whereof he was charged but falling to the ground thus answered My Sovereign Lord and King I have been raised up and enriched with worldly goods onely by you confound not therefore your own Creature but please to grant me some time to make my defence against what I am charged with Thou shalt said the King be carried to the Tower of London there to deliberate of it till I am satisfied And he was sent accordingly But Stephen de Seagrave Lord Chief Justice whom the King likewise called most wicked Traitor had time till Michaelmas to make up his accounts and so had others But afterward by Mediation and paying very great Fines to the King they obtained their Liberty and were a while after again taken into grace and favour In the midst of these distractions and troubles it pleased God to inflict upon this City and the Kingdom the Plague of Famine as well as the Sword whereby the Poor miserably perished for want of Bread The Authors of those Times relate this Story very credibly to shew how displeasing Unmercifulness and want of

may be sheltred in side Porti co's the whole Fabrick cost above 50000 Pound one half paid by the Chamber of London and the other by the Company of Mercers There are 160 Shops above let at 20 l. Rent each and 30 l. Fine and several Shops below on every side and large Vaults underneath which yield considerable Rents so that it is the richest piece of ground perhaps in the World the ground whereon this goodly Fabrick is erected being but 171 foot from North to South and 203 foot from East to West very little more than three quatters of an Acre and products 4000 Pound yearly Rent Cornhill Ward begins at the West end of Leadenhall and so down to Finch-lane on one side and Birchin lane on the other half of which are in this Ward and so to the Stocks-Market In this Ward is the Church of St. Peters Cornhill counted the oldest in London and the Church of St. Michael both which with the greatest part of this Ward were burnt down but are since nobly rebuilt as well as the rest of the Streets St. Michael's Church had ten Bells formerly and John Stow writes thus I have heard my Father say saith he that upon St. James's night certain Men ringing the Bells in the Loft a Tempest of Thunder and Lightning did arise and a thing of an ugly Shape was seen to come in at the South Window which lighted on the North for fear whereof all the Ringers sell down as dead for a time letting the Bells cease of their own accord when they came to themselves they found certain Stones of the North Window razed and scratcht as if they had been so much Butter printed with a Lions Claw the same Stones were fastened there again when it was repaired and remain so to this day He adds That one VVilliam Rus or Rous gave a Bell to this Church to be rung nightly at 8 a Clock and for Knels and Peals which was rung by one Man for 160 years together In this Ward there is an Alderman his Deputy and five Common Council Men four Constables four Scavengers Wardmote Inquest sixteen and a Beadle 8. Langbourn VVard so called of a long Bourn of Water running out of Fenchurch-street down to the end of St. Mary VVoolnoth Church in Lumbard street then dividing into small Streams it left the name of Sherebourn-lane In this Ward is Fenchurch street Lumbard-street half Lime-street half Birchin-lane St. Clements-Lane down to St. Clements-Church St. Nicholas-Lane beyond St. Nicholas-Church Abchurch-Lane and part of Bearbinder-Lane Formerly St. Gabriel's Church stood in the middle of Fenchurch-street but was taken away since the Fire likewise St. Dionis Backchurch Alhallows Lumbard-street St. Edmund Lumbard-street St. Nicholas Acons and St. Mary VVoolnoth Church In it are six Parish Churches and Pewterers Hall in Lime-street there is an Alderman his Deputy and nine Commoa Council Men 15 Constables 9 Scavengers Wardmote Inquest 17 and a Beadle in this Ward The Post-Office is kept in Sir Robert Vyners House in this Ward most of which was burnt down and all the Churches but since rebuilt 9. Billingsgate VVard contains part of Thamestreet Rood land Puding lane Love lane Buttolph lane St. Margaret Fattons lane Billingsgate Somers Key Smarts Key Boss Alley St. Mary Hill-lane likewife five Charches St. Buttolph Billingsgate St. Mary Hill St. Margaret Pattons St. Andrew Hubbert and Saint George Buttolphs Lane This Ward was all burnt in 1666 but now rebuilt with most of the Churches There is an Alderman his Deputy and nine Common Council Men 11 Constables 6 Scavengers Wardmote Inquest 14 and a Beadle 10. Bridge-Ward within so called from London Bridge begins at the South end and comes over the Bridge up Fish-street hill to the North corner of Grace-Church In which were 4 Churches St. Magnus at the Bridge-Foot St. Margaret new Fish-street St. Leonard Eastcheap and St. Bennet Grace Church all these Churches and all the Ward except part of London-Bridge was burnt down two of which are rebuilt but upon the place where St. Margaret's Church stood there is erected by Act of Parliament a Pillar in perpetual Memory of the dreadful Fire in 1666 which first began in Pudding-Lane behind that Church This Monument is built after the Dorick Order 170 foot high all of solid Portland Stone with a Staircase in the middle of Stone coped with Iron with an Iron Balcony on the Top not unlike those two ancient white Pillars at Rome erected in honour of those two Excellent Emperors Trajan and Antoninus which though they were built above 1500 years ago are still standing entire the Pedestal of this Pillar is 43 foot square In the Bridge VVard are an Alderman his Deputy and 14 Common Council Men 15 Constables 6 Scavengers Wardmote Inquest 16 and a Beadle 11. Candlewick VVard begins at the East end of Great Eastcheap passeth West thro little Eastcheap into Cannon-street so to the North end thereof thence to the West end of St. Laurence Pountneys Church-yard part of St. Clements-Lane most part of St. Nicholas-Lane almost all Abchurch-Lane and most part of St. Martins-Lane are in this Ward It was wholly burnt down in 1666 but handsomely rebuilt There were in this Ward 5 Churches that is St. Clements-Eastcheap St. Mary Abchurch St. Michael Crooked-Lane where was the Monument of Sir VVilliam VValworth Lord Mayor who killed VVat Tyler St. Martins Orgars and St. Laurence Poultney which were all burnt down the three sirst are rebuilt and St. Martins is now a French Church This Ward hath an Alderman his Deputy and 7 Common Council Men 8 Constables 5 Scavengers Wardmote Inquest 12 and a Beadle 12 VValbrook VVard begins at the West end of Canon-street by Budge-row where is St. Swithins lane VValbrook the Stocks-Market four or five Houses in Lumbard-street Bearbinder lane and part of Bucklersbury This Ward was wholly destroyed by the Fire and six Churches that is St. Swithins in Canon-street St. Mary VVoolchurch St. Stephens VVallbrook St. John Evangelist and St. Mary Bothaw St. Swithins and St. Stephens VValbrook are handsomely rebuilt but St. Mary VVoolchurch the Church-yard and Stocks-Market are pulled down and made a handsome Market place in the Front whereof toward the Street is a Conduit and a Statue of King Charles II on Horseback with a Turk or Enemy under his Feet erected by Sir Robert Vyner This Ward hath an Alderman his Deputy and 7 Common Council Men 9. Constables six Scavengers Wardmote Inquest 15 and a Beadle In this Ward is Salters Hall 13. Dowgate VVard begins at the South end of VValbrook VVard over against the East corner of St. John Baptist's Church and goes on both sides the way to Dowgate wherein there were Elbow-lane Chequer-Alley Fryer-lane Grantham-lane the Stilyard Church-lane Alhollows-lane Cole-Harbour Ebgate-lane Bush-lane and Suffolk-lane This Ward was wholly consumed by the Fire and three Churches Alhallows the Great Alhollows the Less and St. Laurence-Poultney the first of which is again