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The present state of London: or, Memorials comprehending a full and succinct account of the ancient and modern state thereof. By Tho. De-Laune, Gent
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De Laune, Thomas, d. 1685.
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and in the midst of the Cross upon mighty high Arches was the Tower built It was a very magnificent Structure for Beauty Dimensions and Proportion as William of Malmsbury says adding That it ought to be numbred among the Number of the most excellent Edifices the large Arched Vault and the Church above it being of such a capacity that saith he it may seem sufficient enough to receive any Number of People The Caemitery or Church-yard was of a very great Dimension for it reached North as far as St. Nicholas Market-place West almost as far as Lud-gate South near to Baynards Castle I my self this last year viz. January 1680. saw in the place where the New Conduit is a building where they digged to lay the Foundation several Coffins and Bones so that it extended farther by far on that side and probably on all sides than it does now As to its Benefactors and its being consumed by the dreadful Conflagration in 1666. more shall be spoken under their proper Heads As to its Situation it was built on the highest part of the City and so more conspicuous perhaps than any Cathedral in the World His present Majesty in the year 1673. having with great cost pulled down the Burnt Walls removed the Rubbish and cleared the Foundation has laid another Foundation which is considerably advanced and for Magnificence Splendor Solidity Figure and Curious Architecture will probably excel any to be seen elsewhere Besides this stately Cathedral there were destroyed in the dreadful Fire of 1666 Eighty seven Parish Churches and six Consecrated Chapels a great many of which are since Re-built far more stately and magnificent than ever they were before of solid Stone with very curious Workmanship beautified with excellent various Towers and Fronts of true Roman Architecture Of the Churches in City and Suburbs we will give a brief Account beginning with Westminster Abby and so on with the rest Alphabetically Westminster Abby was founded by Sebert King of the East Saxons out of the Ruines of a Temple of Apollo which stood there and fell by an Earthquake in the time of the Roman Emperor Antoninus Pius about the year of our Lord 605 and had its Name from its Situation as being West from London and its Minster It was dedicated to St. Peter and destroyed in the furious Wars of the Danes but Reedified by Bishop Dunstan by the favor of King Edgar who gave it some few Monks Afterwards King Edward called the Confessor built it anew and richly endowed it but about 160 years after King Henry III. Rebuilt it from the Ground with that rare Architecture now seen It was the work of 50 years complete The King himself laid the first Stone and covered the Roof with Lead in the year 1220. The Abbots much inlarged it afterwards to the Westward And King Henry VII Anno 1502. bestowed 14000 Pounds in Building that admirable Chapel which Leland calls the Wonder of the World for if we respect the admirable and artificial Work without and within Beauty and Elegancy it can scarce be parallel'd in the World And it is the judgment of the most Exquisite Architects that it comprehends whatsoever is rare and delicate in that Noble Art Here is to be seen his own Tomb and Monument made of solid and massie Brass The Form of the old Building as an old Manuscript shews was That the principal Plot or Ground-work of the Building is supported with most lofty Arches cast round with a Four-square Work and semblable Joints But the Compass of the whole with a double Arch of Stone on both sides is enclosed with Joined Work firmly knit and united together every way The Cross of the Church which was to compass the Mid-quire of those that chaunted unto the Lord and with a twofold supportance that it had on either side to uphold and bear the lofty top of the Tower in the midst simply ariseth at first with a low and strong Arch then mounteth it higher with many winding stairs artificially ascending with a number of steps but afterwards with a single wall it reacheth up to the Roof of Timber well and surely covered with Lead But the new Work of King Henry III. far excels that for rare Workmanship being supported with several Rows of Marble Pillars in very curious Order and the Roof covered with sheets of Lead When the Monks were driven from this Church it had 1 A Dean and Prebendaries 2 Afterwards one Bishop viz. T. Thurlby who having wasted the Church Patrimony was removed 3 Queen Mary set the Monks and their Abbot in possession But 4 They were by Queen Elizabeth and the Parliament cast out and it was converted to a Collegiate Church and a Dean placed therein with 12 Prebendaries and as many old Soldiers past Service Petty Canons and others of the Quire to the number of 30. And ten Officers belonging to the Collegiate Dyet a Schoolmaster and an Usher Forty Scholars who are in their due time preferred to the Universities they are called the Queens or Kings Scholars Twelve Almsmen with plentiful Maintenance for all Twelve poor Scholars besides Stewards Receivers Registers Collectors and other Officers the Principal whereof is the High Steward of Westminster who is usually one of the Prime Nobility The Dean is intrusted with the Custody of the Regalia at the Coronation honoured with a place of necessary service at all Coronations and a Commission of Peace within the City and Liberties of Westminster The Dean and Chapter invested with all manner of Jurisdiction Ecclesiastical and Civil not only in the City and Liberties of Westminster but within the Precincts of St. Martins le grand within the Walls of London and in some Towns of Essex exempted in the one from the Jurisdiction of the Bishop of London and in the other from that of the Archbishop of Canterbury There is a fair publick Library free for all Strangers to study both morning and afternoon always in Term-time William the Conqueror and all our Kings and Queens since have been Crowned in this Church The Monument of King Henry VII in the New Chapel was made and finished in the year 1519. by one Peter a Florentine for which he received of the Kings Executors 1000 l. The King with Elizabeth his Queen lie Interr'd in it being as was said a Tomb of solid Brass compassed about with these Verses which for their Elegancy and because they describe him to be so Renowned we shall here insert Septimus Henricus Tumulo requiescit in isto Qui Regum splendor lumen orbis erat Rex vigil sapiens comis virtutis amator Egregius formae strenuus atque potens Qui pâ—perit pacem Regno qui bella peregit plurima qui victor semper ab hoste redit Qui natus binis conjunxit Regibus ambas Râ—gibus Cuncti foedere Junctus erat Qui sacrum hoc struxit Templum statuitque sepulchrum Pro se proque sua conjuge prole Domo Lustra Decem atque annos
a Garden-Plat till the time of Queen Elizabeth and then Built upon and made a Store-House for Merchants Goods The Church was Beautified and Repaired in the Year 1613. III. On the East-side of Bread-street at the corner of Watling-street is the Church of All-hallows Bread-street wherein were divers Monuments This Church had a fair Spired-Steeple of Stone which in the Year 1559. September the Fifth about Noon by a great Tempest of Lightning and a great Clap of Thunder was struck about Nine or Ten Foot beneath the Top out of which fell a stone that overthrew a Man and slew a Dog but the Spire was taken down to save the Charge of Repair This Church was Repaired and Beautified at the Parish Charge Anno 1625. IV. Great All-hallows in Thames-street was a fair Church with a large Cloyster on the South side in which were Sundry Monuments but now Ruinated It was Repaired and richly Beautified at the Parish Charge Anno 1627. and 1629. In the year 1632. all the Iles to the Chancel were raised a Foot and a half and the Pews a Foot above that for conveniency of Hearing which cost six hundred Pound There was a Monument of Queen Elizabeths with these Verses If Royal Vertues ever crown'd a Crown If ever Mildness shin'd in Majesty If ever Honour honour'd true Renown If ever Courage dwelt with Clemency If ever Princess put all Princes down For Temp'rance Prowess Prudence Equity This this was She that in Despight of Death Lives still Admir'd Ador'd ELIZABETH Many Daughters have done Vertuously but thesâ— excellest them all In the Figure of a Book over her were these words They that trust in the Lord shall be as Mount Sion which shall not be removed On the one side Spains Rod Romes Ruine Netherlands Relief Heavens Jem Earths Joy Worlds Wonder Natures Chief On the the other side Britains Blessing Englands Splendor Religions Nurse the Faiths Defender Under her I have fought a good Fight I have finished my Course c. V. In Hony-lane near the Standard in Cheap-side is the small Parish-Church called All-hallows Hony-lane Repaired at the Parish Charge anno 1625. At the cost of above Fifty Five Pound VI. In Thames-street is the Parish-Church of All-hallows the less which stood on Vaults and said to be Built by Sir John Poultney sometimes Mayor of London the Steeple and Quire stood on an Arched-gate which was being fallen Re-built by the Parish anno 1594. The whole Church was Repaired and Beautified at the cost of the Parishoners anno 1616. Here was also a Monument of Queen Elizabeths VII In Lumbard-street stood the Parish-Church called All-hallows Lumbard-street begun to be New Built anno 1494. and finished 1516. To which the Pewterers were good Benefactors the Steeple was finished 1544. about the 36 of H. 8. Here were also divers Monuments It was Repaired and Beautified at the Parish-charge Anno 1622 and 1623 and cost 177 l. 9 s. VIII The Parish-Church of Alhallows-Stayning or as commonly call'd Stane-Church lies on the South-side of Langborn-Ward somewhat within Mart-lane in which were divers fair Monuments as of John Costin a Cirdler who dyed 1244. and gave the Poor of the Parish an Hundred Quarters of Charcoals yearly for ever John Mann Citizen and Mercer who gave an Hundred Pounds towards the Repair of the Church and dyed in the year 1615. It was Repaired and Beautified at the Parish-charge Anno 1630. IX The Parish-Church of Alhallows the Wall so called because it stands close to the Wall of the City in Bread-street-Ward It was Repaired and Beautified at the Charge of the Parishioners Anno 1613. Again most curiously Repaired and Beautified Anno 1627. at 220 l. Cost Queen ELIZABETHS Monument Read but her Reign the Princess might have been For Wisdom call'd Nicaulis Sheba's Queen Against Spain's Holofernes Judith she Dauntless gain'd many a glorious Victory Not Deborah did her in Fame excel She was a Mother to our Israel An Hester who her Person did ingage To save her People from the Publick Rage Chaste Patroness of True Religion In Court a Saint in Field an Amazon Glorious in Life Deplored in her Death Such was Vnparallel'd ELIZABETH Born Anno 1534. Crowned An. 1558. Jan. 15. Reigned years 44. mon. 4. days 17. Dyed An. 1602. Mar. 24. X. The Parish-Church of St. Alphage The principal Isle of this Church towards the North was pulled down and a Frame of Four Houses set up in the place The other part from the Steeple upward was converted into a Parish-Church of St. Alphage And the Parish-Church which stood near unto the Wall of the City by Cripplegate was pulled down the Plat thereof made a Carpenters Yard with Saw-Pits This being decay'd the Parishioners Repaired it Anno 1624. and being Beautifully finished Anno 1628. it cost the Parish 500 l. XI St. Andrew Hubbard or St. Andrew in East-Cheap is situate in Love-Lane in Billingsgate-Ward which was Repaired and Beautifully adorned at the Cost of the Parish Anno 1630. amounting to above 600 l. XII St. Andrew Vndershaft stands at the North-West-Corner of Aldgate-Ward a Fair and Beautiful Parish-Church so called because every May-Day in the morning they were wont in old times to set up a high Shaft or May-pole in the Street before the South-door which when fixt was higher than the Steeple But this practice was discontinued since Evil May-Day when there was an Insurrection of Apprentices and other Young Persons against Foreigners Anno 1517. The said Shaft being laid along under the Pent-houses of a Row of Houses upon Iron Hooks till the 3d of Edw. 6. the People Saw'd it in pieces after it had lay'n 32 years every man taking the length of his House Which was occasioned by the Preaching of one Stevin who at Pauls Cross said It was an Idol as giving Name to the Church It was New Built by the Parish Anno 1520. to which Stephen Jennings Merchant-Taylor sometimes Lord Mayor was a great Benefactor as also John Kerby Merchant-Taylor sometimes one of the Sheriffs John Garland Merchant-Taylor and his Executor Nicholas Levison and several others and fully finished Ann 1532. It was afterwards Repaired and Beautified at the Parish-charge Anno 1627. They had at the lower end of the North Isle a fair Wainscot-Press full of good Books the Works of many Learned Divines where at convenient times any that would may read XIII The Church of St. Andrew Wardrobe was a proper Church in Baynard-Castle-Ward but few Monuments in it John Parut founded a Chauntry there it was Repaired at the Charge of the Parish Anno 1627. XIV On the North of Pope-Lane so called of one Pope that owned it is the Parish-Church of St. Ann in the Willows or St. Ann Aldersgate so called as some think of Willows growing formerly thereabouts It was Burnt in part 1548. but since Repaired It was afterwards much decay'd but beautifully repaired Anno 1624. XV. St. Ann Black-friers it seems was built in the Reign of Edw. III. It was new