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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

Church being the small ●ene of a shop in Stamford-Baron but who gave the same to the Church I cannot find All-Saints Mr. Marshall Citizen and White-Baker of London gave 10. l. to this Parish the interest of which summe to be to the use of the poor of this parish also the said Mr. Marshall gave 20 marks per annum for a weekly Lecture in this Parish which for a time was maintained but the lecture ceasing the Mony was ●nd still is detained Mr. Iohn D●●ham gave 5. l. to this Parish the interest whereof yeerly to be to the use of the poor of the same Mr. Robert VVarner gave 5. l. to the said Parish the interest to be to the use of the poor thereof Mrs. VVinifred Browne the wife and Executrixe of Iohn Browne late of this parish Esquire gave 10. l. the interest of which summe to be to the use of the poore of the said Parish VVilliam Fisher late of Bourne in the County of Lincoln Gentleman gave Six pence a weeke for ever to be given in br●ad for the use of the poor of this Parish VVilliam Browne Marchant of the Staple 200 yeares or there about● now past at his own proper costs built the Steeple belonging to this Church being a very curious and excellent Fabrick likewise he built a great part of the Church it self and both he and his wife lye buried in a Chappell proper to his Family on the North side of the said Church towards the Quire The Lady Bu●● gave the summe of 20. l. to this Parish the interest of which summe is yeerly to be distributed to the poor of the same St. Georges Mrs. Iane Cecell Widdow Mother to VVilliam Lord Burley ●ave 15. l. for ever the interest of which to be to the use of the poor ●f this Parish Iohn Chir●● late of Stamford-Baron Gentlem●n gave 20. ● per annum for ever to the use of the poore of ●●is Parish the 〈◊〉 to be payd to them every quarter VVilliam C●●e Esquire now living at the Black-Fryer● in the same Parish hath given 40. s. per annum for ever to the said parish to provide bread and Wine for a Communion to be ministred vpon the first Lords day of every Month in the yeare The foresaid VVilliam Fisher gave to this Parish 12. d. a weeke for ever to be distributed to the poore of the same in Bread There is belonging to this Parish 7. l. per annum being the rent so divers Tenements in the same but I can not learne who gave the same to this Church St. Iohns The foresaid Lady Bucke gave 20 l. to this Parish the interest whereof to be yeerly distributed amongst the poore of the same There was a Tenement given to the Parson of this Parish and his successors for ever by Mr. George Trigge vpon this condition that the said Parson and his successors should yeerly distribute to the poore of this Parish the summe of 27. s. St. Michaels I cannot learne that there ever was any Benefactor either to the Church or to the poore of this Parish St. Martins in Stamford-Baron The Lady Dorothy Cecell gave Lands forever of the yeerly value of 12. l. 6. s. 8. d. to this Parish to the uses following That is to say part therof to be payd to the putting forth of poore children of the said Parish to be Apprentizes an other part to be weekly alowed to some honest person which shall teach the poore children of this parish to reade English a● other part thereof for the buying of Wooll Flax and He●p to set both young and old poor people of this Parish to work an other part thereof to be allowed to some honest person to teach the said poor people to work and also 20 s. to be yeerly allowed out of the profits of the said Land to the Vicar and Church-Wardens of this Parish for them to joyn with the overseers for the poor to see the said poor kept at work and that the overplus if any be shall be bestowed weekly upon the poorer sort who though endeavouring themselves are not able to find themselves by their labours The foresaid Lady Bucke gave 20. l. to this Parish the interest of the same to bee yeerly distributed amongst the Poore of the said Parish Lord send us Mercy Truth and Peace That Benefactours may increase That when a new Edition 's made More Pious people I may adde CHAP. X. The ancient and publike sports of Stamford AS touching the ancient and publike Sports used at this Town they are not many in all but two and to many by one The one a sport savouring of Manhood and Gentry and of a ●oncourse of Noblemen and Gentlemen meeting together in mirth peace and amity for the exercise of their swift running Horses every Thusday in March The prize they run for is a silver and gilt Cup with a cover to the value of seaven or eight pounds provided by the care of the Alderman for the time being but the Money is raysed out of the interest of a stock formerly made up by the Nobility and Gentry which are neighbours or well-wishers to the Town The second sport though more ancient then the former yet more Beast-like then any It is their Bull-running a sport of no pleasure except to such as take a pleasure in beastlinesse and mischief It is performed just the day six weekes before Christmas The Butchers of the Town at their own charge against the time provide the wildest Bull they can get this Bull over night is had in to some Stable or Barne belonging to the Alderman the next morning proclamation is made by the common Bell-man of the Town round about the same that each one shut up their shops-doo●es and gates and that none upon payne of Imprisonment offer to doe any violence to Strangers for the preventing whereof the Town being a great thorough-fare and then being in Terme-time a Gard is appointed for the passing of Travellers through the same without hurt That none have any ●ron upon their Bull-clubs or other ●●affe which they pursue the Bull with Which proclamation made and the Gates all shut up the Bull is turned out of the Aldermans house and then hivie skivi● tag and rag Men Women and children of all sorts and sizes with all the Dogs in the Town promiscuously running after him with their Bull-clubs spattering dirt in each others faces that one would think them to be so many Furies started out of Hell for the punishment of Cerbor●● as when Thes●●● and Perillus conquered the place as Ovid describes it A ragged troupe of Boyes and Girles doe pellow him with stones With Clubs with whips and many nips they part his skin from bones And which is the greater shame I have seen both Senatores majorā gentiū matr●●● de eodem gradu following this Bulling busines I can say no more of it but only to set forth the Antiquity thereof as the tradition goes William Earle Warren the first

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

following Verses which in part doe resemble the free and large liberties and graunts to inferiour Corporations The King gave him for his Inheritance The County of Chester with the appurtenance Made a sure Charter to him and his succession By the sword of Dignity to hold it by might And to call a Parliament to his will and fight To order his Subjects after true Iustice As a praeporent Prince and statutes to devise This Hugh Lupus for the better ayding of him in his Government and for the more compleating of him in his Parliament which shou●d bee the fountaine of his Lawes to rule by substituted and made under him these Eight Barons That is to say 1 Robertus filius Hugonis Baron de Malpas 2 Richardus de Vernon Baron de Shibbrooke 3 Willielm●● Malbanc Baron de Nampwich 4 Willielmus filius Nig●lli Baron de Halton 5 Hamo de Mascy Baron de Dunham 6 Gilbertus de Venables Baron de Kilb●rton 7 Hugo filius Normandi Baron de Hawardin 8 Nicholas de Stock-port Baron de Stock-port In like manner as this Earle and his Barons assembled in the great Hall in his Castle of Chester had the power to make Lawes and Constitutions for the government of that his County so hath this lesser body aggregate the survey of which I now write a power within themselves in their common Hall assembled to make Lawes as peculier and proper rules for their better Government the said assembly being a little Court of Parliament if it be lawfull for me to compare small things with great or like a Cosmographer to frame a modell of the great World in one small skin of Parchment for in this small modell is a representation of the highest and greatest Government For here the Alderman as the chiefest Magistrate represents the person of the King his Brethren the Comburgesses sitting round about him as so many Peeres of the upper house the Capitall Burgesses which wee here call the 24 being Senatores minorum gentium are the representative Body of the whole Towne and in their place doe symbolize with the lower house of Parliament The Recorder being the mouth of the Court doth represent the Speaker in this Michrocosme the Town-clarke the Register or Clarke of the same The gilded Mace-bearer the Serjeant at Armes and the Iaylor being the arresting Serjeant in the Liberty the Knight of the Black rod Now in pursuance of that power given to this Corporation for the making of good and wholsome Lawes for the better government of the same Richard Wolphe Gent. Alderman of the said Towne at a common Court or Hall there held the 15th day of March in the Sixth yeare of the Raigne of our Soveraigne Lord King CHARLES that now is c. With the advice and consent of the Comburgesses and Capitall Burgesses in the Common Hall assembled Did ordaine and constitute as followeth I. THat no new Habitation shall be erected in the said Town unlesse it be made fit for the dwelling of such person or persons as shall be Cessed or fit to be cessed in the Subsidie at xx s in Land or iij.l. in Goods at the least excepting Hospitals and houses of Correction upon peyne to forfeit to the Alderman and Burgesses or their successors the summe of x.s. for every Moneth that such Cottage or new building shall be used for habitation 2 That no Barnes or other houses shall be converted into Tenements and no ancient Tenement shall be devided into sundry habitations except the same so devided shall be made fit for the dwelling of Subsidie men of xx s lands or iij.l. goods the erecter to forfeit x.s. Monethly and the tenant v.s. monethly to the use aforesaid 3 That such who take in Inmates shall forfeit x.s. monthly to the use aforesaid 4 That none shall let or assigne any Tenement to any one not assessed or fit to be assessed at xx s lands or iij.l. goods except to Fréemen that have not discontinued from the Towne with their family by the space of one yeare before unlesse the Landlord become bound with the tenant or one other sufficient suerty in 40. l. to save the towne harmless upon peine of five pound forfeit for the contempt and x.s. monethly for the continuance by the Landlord and v.s. monethly by the tenant to the use aforesaid 5 That these orders extend not to any that take in tenants of xx s land or iij.l. goods in ye subsidy except they be Inmates 6 That the Alderman for the time being with two of the 〈◊〉 Camburgesses to the place not being offenders shall be iudges whether such erections be meet for the habitation of such Subsidy men 7 That the Stréets and Lanes in the said towne be clensed every Saterday by the adjacent Inhabitants or the parties delinquent to forfeit for every offence vj.d. and the Constables in that precinct to forfeit for not presenting every offence at the next Sessions after the same is committed ij.s.vj.d. to the use aforesaid 8 That no Alderman shall presume to make any a Fréeman out of the Town-hall unlesse the same be granted in the open Hall and the fine for such Fréedome there assessed upon peyne to forfeit v.l. to the use aforesaid 9 That no Tradesman whatsoever except Fréemen by birth or service shall presume to open any shop or to sell any wares untill they have agréed for their Fréedome upon peyne of forfeiting x.s. for every Month they shall so do to the use aforesaid 10 That all the Conduits common Wells and Pumps about the said Town shall from time to time be repaired at the Town charge upon pain of forfiture of vj s.viij.d a peece by the two Chamberlains to the use aforesaid 11 That so many of the Comburgesses or Capitall Burgesses as shall be dwelling within the parish where the Alderman or his Deputy for the time being shall dwell having no lawfull excuse to the contrary shall attend upon the said Alderman or his deputy to and from his parish Church upon every Lords day both before noone and after noone if there be any Sermon at the said Church upon pain for every one offending to forfeit for every offence the summe of iiij d to the use aforesaid 12 That all such as have built upon the Town walls or upon the Rampier thereof or made any doores or gates out of the said walls within the space of 40 yeares before these ordinances shall take Leases from the Town of the said passages or shall forfeit xij d for every Month they shall continue the same without Leases to the use aforesaid 13 That the Pinder of the said Town shall impound and take i.d. for every beast that he finds in the Town stréets and in the liberties thereof not put before the common Heard 14 That all the forfitures aforesaid shall be payed to the Chamberlaines for the time being who in default of payment shall recover and leavie the same by action or actions of debt or