tres plus compleverat annis Nam tribus octensis Regia Sceptra tulit Quindecies Domini centenus fluxerat annus Currebat nonus cum venit atra Dies Septima termensis lux tunc fulgebat Aprilis Cum Clausit summam tanta Corona Diem Nulla Dedere prius tantum tibi saecula Regem Anglia vix similem posteriora Dabunt This Church is famous for the Monuments and Tombs of our Kings Queens Nobility and other eminent Men as Sebert the first Christian King of the Eastâ— Saxons Harold the Bastard Son of Canutus the Dane King of England King Edward the Confessor and his Queen Edith Maud Wife to King Henry the First the Daughter of Malcolm King of Scots Henry the 3. and his Son King Edward the 1. with Eleanor his Wife daughter to Ferdinando the first King of Castile and Leon. King Edward the 3. and Philippa of Henault his Wife King Henry the 5. with Katherine his Wife Daughter to King Charles the 6. of France Anne Wife to King Richard 3. Daughter to Richard Nevil Earl of Warwick King Henry the 7. with his Wife Elizabeth Daughter to King Edward the 4. and his Mother Margaret Countess of Richmond King Edward the sixth that most Religious and truly Vertuous Prince who lyeth under the Brass richly Gilded Altar most curiously wrought with Excellent Workmanship Anne of Cleave the 4 th Wife of King Henry the Eight Queen Mary and the Renowned Queen Elizabeth upon the Remove of whose Body from Richmond where She Dyed to White-Hall by Water these Lines were Written which may for their Elegancy and in Remembrance of that most Illustrious Protestant Queen be inserted The Queen was brought by Water to White-Hall At every stroake the Oars their tears let fall More clung about the Barge Fish under water Wept out their Eyes of Pearl swam blindly after I think the Barge-men might with easier Thighs Have row'd her thither in her Peoples Eyes For howsoe'er thus much my thoughts have scann'd Sh 'ad come by Water had she come by Land Prince Henry eldest Son of King James the First Monarch of Great Britain King James Himself and Queen Ann his Wife and the first Male born of King Charles the First dying an Infant Of Dukes and Earls and Lords Degree Edmund Earl of Lancaster second Son of King Henry the Third and his Lady Aveline de fortibus Countess of Albemarle William and Andomar of Valente of the Family of Lusignian Earls of Pembrooke Alphonsus John and other Children of King Edward the first John of Eltham Earl of Cornwall Son to King Edward the Second Thomas of Woodstock Duke of Glocester the youngest Son of Edward the Third with other of his Children Eleanor Daughter and Heir of Humphry Bâ—hun Earl of Hereford and of Essex Wife to Thomas of Woodstock The young Daughter of Edward the Fourth And King Henry the Seventh Henry a Child of two months old Son of King Henry the Eighth Sâ—phia the Daughter of King James who died as it were in the first Day-dawning of her Age. Philippa Mohun Dutchess of York Robert of Henault in right of his Wife Lord Bourchier Ann the young Daughter and Heir of John Mowbraâ— Duke of Norfolk promised in Marriage unto Richard Duke of York younger Son to King Edward the Fourth Sir Giles Dawbny Lord Chamberlain to King Henry the Seventh and his Wife of the House of the Arundels in Cornwall John Viscount Wells Frances Brandon Dutchess of Suffolk Mary her Daughter Margaret Douglas Countess of Lenex Grandmother to James King of Great Britain with Charles her Son Winefrid Bruges Marchioness of Winchester Ann Stanhope Dutchess of Somerset and Jane her Daughter Ann Cecil Countess of Oxford Daughter to the Lord Burleigh Lord High-Treasurer of England with Mildred Burghley her Mother Elizabeth Berkly Countess of Ormond Frances Sidney Countess of Sussex James Butler Viscount Thurles Son and Heir to the Earl of Ormond Besides these Humphry Lord Bourchier of Cornwall Sir Humphry Bourchier Son and Heir to the Lord Bourchier of Berners both slain at Barnetfield Sir Nicholas Carew Baron Powis Thomas Lord Wentworth Thomas Lord Wharton John Lord Russel Sir Thomas Bromley Lord Chancellor of England Douglas Howard Daughter and Heir General of Henry Viscount Howard of Bindon Wife to Sir Arthur Gorges Elizabeth Daughter and Heir of Edward Earl of Rutland Wife to William Cecil Sir John Puckering Lord-Keeper of the Great Seal of England Frances Howard Countess of Hartford Henry and George Cary the Father and Son Barons of Hunsdon both Lords Chamberlains to Queen Elizabeth The Heart of Ann Sophia the Daughter of Christopher Harley Count Beaumont Ambassador for the King of France in England bestowed within a small Gilt Urn over a Pyramid Sir Charles Blunt Earl of Devonshire Lord-Lieutenant-General of Ireland Geoffrey Chaucer the Prince of English Poets in his time Edmund Spencer an eminent Poet. William Cambden Clarencieux King of Arms. Causabon the Famous French Writer Michael Drayton c. Then there is George Villiers Duke Marquiss and Earl of Buckingham Favourite to King James and King Charles the First Also the Earl of Essex and several others Interr'd there during His present Majesties Absence from His Government There is also Interr'd George Duke of Albemarle Father to his Grace the present Duke whose Funerals were Solemnly performed the Thirtieth of April 1670. The Dutchess of Albemarle was also Interr'd in King Henry the Sevenths Chappel the twenty eighth of February 1669. in Westminster Church There is likewise Interr'd that Celebrated Poet Mr. Abraham Cowley under a Monument of Exquisite Curiosity at the Charges of his Grace the Noble Duke of Buckingham Having done with Westminster-Abby we shall give a Brief account of the other Churches Alphabetically as they were before the Fire And of such as are Re-built which are now far more Durable and Stately than before the Reader may expect an Account hereafter I. St. Albans Church in Woodstreet is of great Antiquity being Dedicated to St. Albans the first Martyr of England Another mark of Antiquity was to be seen in the manner of the turning the Arches in the Windows and heads of the Pillars There were also Roman Bricks found inlay'd here and there among the Stones of the Building it was Anno 1632. being wonderfully decay'd pull'd down in order to be Re-built In it were diverse Monuments which for brevity sake are omitted II. On the North side of the East end of Tower-street is the Parish-Church called All-hallows Barkin a very fair Church standing in a large Church-Yard on the North side whereof was built a fair Chappel by King Richard the first whose heart 't is said was buryed there under the high Altar This Chappel was Augmented by King Edward the first And a fraternity setled there by King Edward the fourth King Richard the third new Built it and founded therein a Colledge of Priests which was suppressed in the Year 1548. in the Second of Edward the sixth and the Ground made
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
built in the year 1430. 8 H. 6. Sir William Eastfield Mayor William Russe and Ralph Holland Esqs Sheriffs and the Commonalty granted of the Common Ground of the City Three Foot and an half in Breadth on the North part and Four Foot in Breadth toward the East for the enlarging thereof This Ancient Church belonging to the Black-friers before the dissolution of such places by H. 8. was one of the most spacious and fair Churches in London but afterwards demolished Anno 1613. The Inhabitants of Black-friers purchased so much Houses on the South-side of their Church as was 36 Foot in Length and 54 in Breadth the Purchase whereof together with the Vault for Burying and other Rooms under that part of the Church c. cost 1546 l. 6 s. Anno 1632. The Inhabitants of the said Black-friers purchased the Rooms directly under an upper Room formerly converted to a Church to repair the Walls and Foundations whereon the Church stood at the cost together with the Repairs of 500 l. The Sum of all bestowed upon Black-friers Church since the Reformation amounted to 2600 l. 4 s. till the year 1633. It was burnt down Anno 1666. in the great Fire and not yet Re-built XVI St. Anthonieâ— Church vulgarly called St. Antlins or St. Antholins in Budge-Row in Cord-wainer-street Ward was a fair Parish-Church Sir Thomas Knowles late Lord Mayor of London lieth Buried there who Repaired and was a great Benefactor to it It was Repaired and Beautified Anno 1616. towards which Sir William Craven Mr. Henry Jay Aldermen Mr. Adrian Moore Mr. Thomas Boothby Mr. Francis Dorrington Mr. William Parker Mr. Cleophas Smith Citizen and Draper of London were free and bountiful Benefactors the cost amounted to near 1000 l. XVII The Parish-Church of Augustine vulgarly Austin in Watling-street in Faringdon-Ward-within was a fair Church and well Repaired And was in the years 1630 and 1631 in part Re-built and Beautifully adorned at the charge of the Parishioners which cost 1200 l. XVIII The Parish-Church of St. Bartholomew Exchange at the end of Bartholomew-lane was new Built by Thomas Pike Alderman with the assistance of Nicholas Yoo one of the Sheriffs of London about the year 1438. Sir John Lepington's Lady founded a Chauntry there in the 21 of Edw. 4. Sir William Capel Mayor added a proper Chapel Anno 1509. on the South-side James Wilford Taylor one of the Sheriffs 1499. appointed by his Testament a Doctor of Divinity every Good-Friday to preach a Sermon there of Christ's Passion for ever from six a clock till 8 before Noon This Church was Repaired and Beautified at the charge of the Parishioners Anno 1620. XIX The Parish-Church of St. Bennet which of Robert Fink senior who new Built it is called St. Bennet Finck stands in Thread-needle-street in Broad-street-Ward which was a proper Church It was Repaired and Beautifully adorn'd at the Parish-charge Anno 1633. at the cost of above 400 l. XX. In the Street formerly called Grass-street but vulgarly Graces or Gracious-street is the Parish-Church called St. Bennet Grass-Church of the Herb-Market kept near it but vulgarly Grace-Church in Bridge-Ward-within This Church was Repaired and Beautified Anno 1630. with a new Clock-Dyal and Chimes added Anno 1633. XXI St. Bennet Pauls-Wharf in Thames-street in Castle-Baynard-Ward was a proper Parish-Church with several Monuments in it XXII The Parish-Church of St. Syth hath an addition of Bennet-Shorne or Shrog or Shorehog and is vulgarly called St. Bennet Sherehog The ancientest name of these is Shorne of one Benedict Shorne sometime a Citizen and Stock-fishmonger of London who New Built Repaired it or was a Benefactor thereof in the time of Edward II. so that Shorne is corruptly called Shrog and more corruptly Shorebog Being very much decayed it was at the Parish-charge very amply Repaired and Beautified Anno 1628. It is near Needles-lane in Cheap-Ward XXIII The Parish-Church of St. Botolph in Thames-street in Billingsgate-Ward was a handsom Church and had many fair Monuments in it but now defaced This Church was Repaired and Beautifully adorn'd at the Parish-charge Anno 1624. XXIV Christ-Church was founded by King Henry VIII who gave the old Parish-Church of St. Nicholas to the Mayor and Commonalty of London towards the maintenance of this New Church to be erected in the late dissolved Church of the Grey-fryers called St. Ewin which Parish-Church with the aforesaid Parish-Church of St. Nicholas and so much of St. Sepulchres Parish as is within Newgate were then made one Parish-Church by the name of Christ-Church Of the Hospital there we shall speak under its proper head There was a fair and spacious Gallery erected in the North Isle of this Church Anno 1628. which cost the Parishioners 149 l. 10 s. which was not only necessary but graceful and beautiful It is in Faringdon-Ward-within XXV In Broad-street-Ward near the Stocks-Market is the Parish-Church of St. Christopher To which Richard Sherington Anno 1392. gave Lands so did the Lady Margaret Norford Anno 1406. John Clavering 1421 c. But above all the charity of Robert Thorne Merchant-Taylor and a Batchelor is to be perpetuated who lay Interred there in a fair Tomb of Touch and gave by his Will 4445 l. to pious Uses This Church was Repaired and Beautified at the cost of the Parish Anno 1621. XXVI St. Clements East-Cheap in Candlewick-street-Ward is a small Parish-Church William Chartney and William Overie founded a Chauntry there It was Repaired and Beautified at the cost of the Parishioners Anno 1632. XXVII At the South-west corner of Lime-street in Langborn-Ward stood the fair Parish-Church of St. Dionis called Back-Church new Built in the Reign of Henry VI. to which John Bugge Esq was a great Benefactor John Darby Alderman added thereto a fair Isle or Chapel on the South-side and was there Buried Anno 1466. He gave besides sundry Ornaments his Dwelling-house besides other Houses unto the said Church The middle Isle of this Church was new laid in the year of our Lord 1629. The Steeple was repaired a new Turret built new Frames were made for the Bells and the Church very decently beautified Anno 1632. XXVIII The Parish-Church of St. Dunstans East is so called for difference from another Church in the West of that Name It was a fair and large Church of an ancient Building and within a large Church-yard There be many rich Merchants and other rich Tradesmen in that Parish chiefly Salters and Ironmongers In this are divers Monuments of worthy persons There are also Seven shillings three pence given to the Poor every Sunday throughout the year in ready money besides Bread and other Gifts according to the Wills and Dispositions of Sir Richard Champion and Alderman Heardson with Coals given besides at certain times One man hath given yearly on Ox to be distributed by a quarter thereof quarterly and a Peck of Oat-meal therewithall to the Poor But so ordered that they that have the quarter of Beef and Peck of Oatmeal at one
and Children with the Arms belonging unto them Upon the story of 1588 were these Verses Star-gazing Wizards sate upon this year Matter of wonder and did threaten fear Towards us insomuch that Rome and Spain This Land accounted their assured gain But mark how God did quite their hepes confound Both ships and men we did see flee and drown'd Queen Elizabeth's Monument Marvel not why we do erect this Shrine Since Dedicated in to Worth Divine Religion Arts with Policy and Arms Did all concur in Her most Happy Reign To keep God's Church and us from Plotted Harms Contriv'd by Romish Wits and force of Spain The Powder-Plot 1605. When Force could not prevail nor Plots abroad Could have Success Sin now invents new Fraud Guy Faux is sent Ambassador to Styx And thence returning furnisheth with Tricks His damned Crew who forthwith all conclude To blow up King the State and Multitude The Great Plague 1625. The Story 's past God's blessings to the State Do clearly shew but sure we were Ingrate For now behold instead of sweet protection Thousands are swept away by foul Infection But mark God's mercy in midst of greatest crys He sheath'd his Sword and wip't tears from our eys The Founder's Figure with their Wife Children and Arms. These Ensigns which you see and Monument Are not so much to represent The Founder's Person as his zealous care T' express God's Love and Mercies rare To this his Vineyard for to that sole end Did he these Stories thus commend To After-Ages that in their Distress They might God's Goodness still express LXXX In the main Body of Cheap-Ward stands the Parish-Church called St. Mildred Poultrey The Founder is not to be read in any credible Record but it appears by certain ancient Evidences of the said Church that from the beginning it had not so much spare ground about it as to make a Church-yard of until Anno 1420. And the 8 of H. 5. Thomas Morstead Esq and Chyrurgeon to the Kings H. 4. H. 5. H. 6. and afterwards Anno 1436. was Sheriff and Alderman of London gave unto the Church a parcel of Ground lying between his dwelling House and the said Church adjoining to it towards the North to make a Burying place of containing from the course of Walbrook towards the West 45 Foot and in Breadth from the Church towards the North 35 Foot Besides other Monuments here was one for Queen Elizabeth with several Copies of Verses some of which are before recited for there were Monuments for Her in several Churches and She well deserved it as being a most Heroick Princess that check'd the Plots and Incroachments of the Pope and his Adherents and is therefore to be perpetuated to Posterity and therefore what we have not elsewhere met with shall be inserted On the top of the Monument were these Lines If Prayers or Tears of Subjects had prevail'd To save a Princess through the World esteem'd Then Atropos in Cutting here had fail'd And had not cut her thrâ—ad but been redeem'd But pale fac'd Death and cruel Churlish Fate To Prince and People brings the latest Date Yet spight of Death and Fate fame will display Her Gracious Vertues through the World for aye Under Her were these Verses Th' Admired Empress through the World applauded For Supream Vertues Rarest imitation Whose Scepters Rule Fames loud voto'd Trumpet lauded Vnto the Ears of every Foreign Nation Canopied under powerful Angels Wings To her Immortal Praise sweet Science sings LXXXI The Parish-Church of St. Nicholas-Acons in Lumbard-street in Langborn-Ward was Repaired and Imbattled by Sir John Bridges Draper and Lord Mayor Anno 1520 who was buried there It was afterwards Repaired and Beautified at the Charge of the Parish Anno 1615. There was the Monument of John Hall Master of the Worshipful Company of Drapers who dyed the Nineteenth of November 1618. Aged Ninety three Years and Fifty eight Years a House keeper in that Parish and had Twenty seven Children all born there LXXXII Towards the West-end of Knight-Riders-street in Queen-Hith-Ward is the Parish-Church called St. Nicholas Cole-Abbey formerly Cold-Abbey which was an Antient and proper Church In the Twenty sixth of Edward the III. Thomas Frere Fishmonger gave a piece of Ground to the said Parish-Church of St. Nicholas containing Eighty Six Foot in Length Forty three Foot at one end and Thirty four at another in Breadth for a Burying place or Church-Yard It was Repaired and Beautified at the cost of the Parish Anno 1630. LXXXIII On the West-end of Bread-street-Hill also in Queen-Hith-Ward is the Parish-Church called St. Nicholas Olave wherein were divers Monuments Thomas Lewen Ironmonger Alderman and one of the Sheriffs 1537 gave his Messuage with Fourteen Tenements in the said Parish to the Ironmongers and they to give Stipends to Alms-Men in Five Houses built in the Church-Yard of that Parish His Monument with Agnes his Wife was Revived and Beautified at the Charge of the Right Worshipful Company of Ironmongers Anno 1623. LXXXIV At the North-west corner of Sydon-Lane in Tower-street-Ward is the handsom Parish-Church called St. Olave Hartstreet in which were many Monuments It was Repaired and Richly Beautified at the Parish Charges in the Years 1632 and 1633 at the cost of above Four hundred thirty seven pound LXXXV In the Street called the Old Jewry in Coleman-street-Ward is the Parish-Church called St. Olave Jewry in old Records called St. Olave Vpwell in which were several Monnments LXXXVI At the North-end of Noble-street in Alders-gate-Ward is the Parish-Church called St. Olave Silver-street It was New built in the Year 1609 and inlarged in Breadth above seven Foot and Anno 1619 Repaired and Beautified and inriched with a Fair Gallery Anno 1632. LXXXVII In Needlers-lane in Cheap-Ward is the Parish-Church called St. Pancras Soper-lane Here was a fair Monument of James Huâ—sh Citizen and Grocer of London who by two Wives had twenty nine Children he dyed the twentieth of August 1590. he was a good Man and Charitable upon his Tomb was an Elegant Latin Epitaph Mr. Thomas Chapman in the Year 1617 gave a very fair and costly Table bearing the Figure of the Monument of the Renowned QVEEN ELIZABETH LXXXVIII At the South-West corner of Wood-street in Farringdon-Ward within is the handsom Parish-Church called St. Peter-Cheap In which are but few Monuments Sir John Shaw Goldsmith and Lord Mayor deceased 1503 appointed by his Testament the said Church and Steeple to be New built at his cost with a flat Roof Yet Thomas Wood Goldsmith of the Sheriffs 1491 iâ— accounted a Principal Benefactor because the Rooâ— of the middle Ile was supported by Images of Wood-Men It was Repaired and Beautified at the charge of the Parish in the Years 1616 and 1617 which came to 314 l. LXXXIX The Parish-Church of St. Peters in Cornhil is an antient building there is in that Church a Table fast chained wherein it is said thâ— Anno 179 King Lucius founded this Church anâ— made it an Archbishops See
French or Latin He knew the state of Foreign Princes perfectly and his own more He could call all Gentlemen of Account through his Kingdom by their Names And all this when he had scarce yet attained to the Age of Fifteen Years and dyed before Sixteen That from hence we may gather It is a sign of no long Life when the Faculties of the Mind are ripe so early His Pious and Religious Life was Remarkable as may be seen in the whole series of it and his Death was no less for the hour before he dyed he was over-heard to pray thus by himself O Lord God deliver me out of this miserable and wretched life O Lord thou knowest how happy it were for me to be with thee yet for thy Chosen's sake if it be thy Will send me life and health that I may truly serve thee O Lord God save thy chosen People in England and defend this Realm from PAPISTRY and maintain thy true Religion that I and my People may praise thy Holy Name for thy Son Jesus Christ's sake So turning his Face and seeing some by him he said I thought you had not been so nigh Yes said Dr. Owen we heard you speak to your self Then said the King I was praying to God I am faint Lord have mercy upon me and receive my Spirit And in so saying his blessed Spirit departed to take possession of an heavenly Crown when he had enjoyed an earthly Crown six years five months and nine days He was buried the 9th of August in Henry the Seventh's Chappel at Westminster near the Body of the said King Henry the Seventh his Grandfather This small Digression I hope will not be unacceptable to all true Christians being in memorial of that Peerless and Never-enough Bewailed Prince but he was too good for the World and rests now in endless Happiness In the year 1552 began the Repairing of the Gray-Fryers House for the poor Fatherless Children and in the month of November the Children were taken in to the same to the Number of almost 400. On Christmas-day in the Afternoon while the Lord Mayor and Aldermen Rode to Pauls the Children of Christs-Hospital from St. Lawrence-lane end in Cheapside towards Pauls all in one Livery of Russet-Cotton Three hundred and forty in Number and at Easter next they were in Blue at the Spittle and so they have continued ever since but they were this Year at St. Sepulchres This indeed was a work of extraordinary Piety and in my judgment it is a very Comely Sight to see the Poor Boys when they Sup all together with what Decency Order and Neatness they are serv'd and Governed by the respective Persons in that Office how plentifully they are provided with good Dyet Washing Lodging and Learning to fit them for business which the City takes care to settle them in according to their respective Capacities and it is known that many of them came to be Men of Note Wealth and great Usefulness in their Countrey Christs-Hospital Bridewel and St. Thomas are Incorporated by the Names of the Mayor Commonalty and Commons of the City of London Governors of the Possessions Revenues and Goods of the Hospitals of Edward King of England the Sixth oâ— Christ Bridewel and St. Thomas the Apostleâ— c. St. Bartholomew-Hospital is Incorporated by thâ— Name of the Mayor Commonalty and Citizens 〈◊〉 the City of London Governors of the Hospital 〈◊〉 the Poor called Little Saint Bartholomews near to West-Smithfield of the Foundation of King Henry the Eighth In the Year 1533 the 10th of April Sir George Barnâ— being Mayor of this City was sent for to the Court at Wâ—itehall where the King gave him 〈◊〉 was said his House of Bridewel and 700 Marks of Land late belonging to Savoy Hospital and all the Bedding and other Furniture c. for Bridewel and St. Thomas in Southwark The Gift was confirmed by Charter dated June 26. following And in the Year 1555 Sir William Gerrard Lord Mayor and the Aldermen entred Bridewel and took possession thereof according to the Gift of the said King Edward the same being confirmed by Queen Mary This Bridewel is now buâ—lt in a very curious and stately manner To reckon up the several Eminent and Bountiful Benefactors to these Hospitals would be endless they except some that would be concealed are to be found in the Records of those places to which the Reader is referred Only it being a very singular Example of Honesty Industry and Piety not to detract in the least from any Worthy and Bountiful Benefactor I will Remark one Richard Castel oâ— Castellâ—r Shoemaker dwelling in Westminster a Man of great labour and care in his Faculty with his own hands so that he was called the Cock of Westminster because both Winter and Summer he was at his Work before Four a Clock in the morning This Man thus honestly and painfully labouring for his Living God blessed and increased his Labours so â—bundantly that he purchased Lands and Tenements â—n Westminster to the yearly value of 44 l. And having no Child with the consent of his Wife who survived him and was a virtuous good Woman gave the same Lâ—â—ds wholly to Christs-Hospital aforesaid to the Relief of the Innocent and Fatherless Children and for the Succor of the Miserable Sore and Sick harboured in other Hospitals about London Sir William Chester Kt. and Alderman of London and John Calthrop Citizen and Draper of the same City at their own proper Costs and Charges â—â—ade the Brick-Walls and Way on the Back-side which leadeth from the said New Hospital unto the Hospital of St. Bartholomew and also covered and vaulted the Town-Ditch from Aldersgate to Newgate which before was very Noisom and Contagiouâ— to the said Hospital Sir Rowland Hill Lord Mayor in the 3d Year of this King besides many large and bountiful Charities on other things gave this Hospital 500 l. in his Life and 100 l. at his Death In the Year 1552 the Citizens of London having purchased the void suppressed Hospital of St. Thomas in Southwark in the Month of July began the Reparations thereof for Poor Impotent Lame and Diseased People so that in November following the Sick and Lame were taken in II. Of all the Hospitals that ever were Founded in Christendom there is none can parallel that of Thomas Sutton Esq called Sutton's Hospital which will commend to all succeeding Posterity the duely deserved Praises of that truely Worthy and Never-to-be-forgotten Gentleman the Phoenix of Charity in our Times The Dissolved Charter-house by West-Smithfield belonging to the Right Honourable Thomas Earl of Suffolk after Lord Treasurer of England is sufficiently known to be a very large and goodly Mansion beautified with spacious Gardens Walks Orchards and other Pleasures Enriched with divers Dependencies of Lands and Tenements thereunto belonging and very aptly seated for wholesom Air and several other Commodities All which Commodiousness of Situation and largeness of Circuit gave occasion to this well minded Gentleman
Mr. Sutton to affect that House as the only Place whereon to build the Foundation of his Religious Purpose For among other his Christian Determinations he had formerly intended to build an House at Hallingbury-Bouchers in Essex to be an Hospital for such Poor Men and Children as he himself in his life time or future Governors for the same to be Deputed should think fit to be Lodged and Relived there Also for a School-Master and Vsher to Teach Children to Read and Write and instruct them in the Latin and Greek Grammar with a Learned Divine likewise to Preach the Word of God to them all And a Master beside to Govern all those People belonging to that House But finding this Goodly Mansion of the Charter-House to be much more convenient for the purpose he became an earnest Suitor to the Earl of Suffolk to purchase that House of him acquainting his Honour with the alteration of his mind concerning Hallingbury and his earnest Desire to make the Charter-House the Hospital The Earl being Honorably inclin'd to so Godly a motion the Price being concluded on the Bargain and Sale was assured The Sum disburs'd for this purpose amounted to 13000 l. which was Paid down in hand before the unsealing of the Conveyance Then he became Suitor again to his Majesty to perform all that at the Chartor-House which he had formerly intended at Hallingbury Whereto the King readily yielded being Graciously affected to so Charitable a Work and Granted His Letters Patents to the same effect This Gentleman lived always a Batchelor and by sundry Employments and Parsimony grew to great Wealth which he well Employed to his immortal honnour He endowed 〈◊〉 Hospital with above 3000 l. a Year in Land viz. All and singular the Mannors Lordships Messuages Lands Tonements Reversions Services Meadows Pastures Woods Advowsons Patronages of Churches and Hereditaments of the said Thomas Sutton whatsoever Situate lying and being within the County of Essex Lincoln Wilts Cambridg and Middlesex or in any of them with all and every of their Rights Members and Appurtenances whatsoever Except all his Mannors and Lordships of Littlebury and Haddestock with their Appurtenaâ—ces in the County of Essex In this Hospital he placed Fourscore Poor Men with convenient Lodging Dyet and Allowance of Money for Apparel also Forty Poor Children with the like Provision and a Grammar School with a Master and an Vsher to Teach them over all whom he ordained a Learned Man to be Master of the Houshold to be chosen by the Governors whom he appointed for the present by the Authority of the Kings Letters Patents to be George Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Lord Elsemore Lord Chancellor Robert Earl of Salisbury Lord Treasurer John Bishop of London Lancelot Bishop of Ely Sir Edward Cook Chief Justice of the Common Pleas Sir Thomas Foster a Judg of the Common-Pleas Sir Henry Hubbard the Kings Attorney-General Doctor Overal Dean of Pauls Doctor Mountain Dean of Westminster Henry Thursby Esq Master of the Chancery Richard Sutton Esq Auditor of the Impress Geoffery Nightingale Esquire John Low Gentleman Thomas Brown Gentleman and Master of the Houshold for the time being to be always one and as any of those Sixteen Governors should die the Survivors to make present Additions of others Towards the building of this Hospital Chappel and School-House he gave 5000 l. but he lived not to see it performed but what Death bereft him of he left to the performance of his Faithful Executors Mr. Richard Sutton and Mr. John Low Men of Religious and upright Souls who carefully accomplished the Work so that the Monday after Michâ—â—â—mas day being the 3 d of October Anno Dom. 1614. The Captains Gentlemen and Officers entered into their Famous prepared Hospital to the Glory of God Honour of the King's Majesty Credit of the Governors and Joy of Honest minds and the Eternal Fame of the Noble Founder who is laid in a goodly Tomb in the Chappel of his own Hospital With this Inscription Sacred to the Glory of God in Grateful Memory of Thomas Sutton Esquire Here lieth buried the Body of Thomas Sutton late of Castel Camps in the County of Cambridge Esq at whose only Costs and Charges this Hospital was Founded and Endued with large Possessions for the Relief of Poor Men and Children He was a Gentleman born at Knayth in the County of Lincoln of Worthy and Honest Parentage He lived to the Age of 79 Years and Deceased the 12th Day of December Anno Domini 1611. Though we Design to avoid all Prolixity yet 't is hoped it will be Pardoned if we Transcribe an Epitaph made upon this Worthy Man by a Friend to Piety and Goodness for he being a Rare Example challenges as his due Merit a more than ordinary mention When bad Men die the Memory Remains Of their Corruptions and ungodly ways As Merit to their mis-applyed pains Out of ill actions forming as ill praise For Vertue wounded by their deep disgrace Leaves Fame to their posterity and Race When Good Men die the Memory remains Of their true Vertue and most Christian ways As a due Guerdon to their Godly gains Out of good Actions forming as good praise For Vertue cherish'd by their Deeds of Grace Leaves Fame to their Posterity and Race Among these Good if Goodness may be said To be among the seed of Mortal Men In upright Ballance of true Merit weigh'd Needs must we reckon Famous SUTTON then In whom as in a Mirror doth appear That Faith with Works in him did shine most clear And let us not as is a common use Measure him by a many other more In Death to cover their bad lifes abuse To lanch out then some bounty of their store No SUTTON was none such his Hospital And much more else beside speaks him to all For as God blest him with abundant Wealth Like to a careful Steward he emplo'd it And order'd all things in his best of health As glad to leave it as when he enjoy'd it And being prepared every hour to die Disposed all his Gifts most Christianâ—y In Abrahams bosome sleeps he with the blest His Works they follow him his worth survives Good Angels guide him to eternal rest Where is no Date of time for Years or Lives You that are Rich do you as he hath done And so assure the Crown that he hath woâ—â— To conclude in a word this Famous Hospital with the value of the Lands laid into it the Purchase of the House Stock laid in which he hath given into the Treasury or Store of the said Hospital to begin with and to defend the Rights of the House being 1000 l. and Allowance towards the Building also the Remainder of his Goods unbequeathed his large Gifts and Legacies to divers Honorable and Worthy Friends besides great store of far more inferior account which would puzle me to number and the residue of 20000 l. left to the discretion of his Executors may truly and deservedly be said to be
sumptuous Fane The Lands Chief Seat that challengeth for hers Kings Coranations and their Sepulchers Then goes along by that more beautious Strand That shews the Wealth and glory of the Land Such sumptuous Seats within so little space Th' all-viewing Sun scarce sees in all his Race By London leads which like a Crescent lies Whose Windows view with the be-spangled Skies Her rising Spires so thick themselves do show As do the Reeds that on her Banks do grow There sees his Wharffs and People-crowded Shores His bosom spread with shoals of labouring Oars With that great Bridge that doth him most Renown By which he puts all other Rivers down This Noble River hath her Original out of the side of an Hill in Cotswold Downs a little above a Village called Winchcomb in Oxfordshire where it was antiently called Isis or the Ouse running to Oxford and by the way receiving many small Rivulets and Brooks joyning at that City with the Charwell then by Abington Dorchester where the River Thame and Isis joyn from whence it is called Thamâ—sis or Thames thence by Reading Maiden-head Windsor Stanes and several other considerable Palaces Towns and stately Houses to London and receives the Medway a considerable River that runs by the City of Rochester and Waters all the Southern parts of Kent The length of it being at least if measured by the Journeys at Land 180 Miles and Ebbs and Flows as before near 80 Miles The Common difference betwixt Tide and Tide is found to consist of 24 Minutes which wanteth but 12 of a whole hour in 24 by which they come later than the other Mr. Stow tells us that in his time the first Edition of his Survey being Printed above 80 years ago there were 2000 Wherries or small Boats whereby 3000 Water-men got their Living their Gains being most in Term-time but now there are a great many more this River being a Nursery to breed young Men sit for the Sea to Serve His Majesty or the Merchants c. Besides these there is an Infinite Number of Wherries Tide-Boats Tilt-Boats Barges Hoys c. for Passengers or to bring necessary Provision of all sorts from all Quarters of Oxfordshire Berkshire Buckinghamshire Bedfordshire Hartfordshire Middlesex Essex Surrey and Kent unto the City but of the Navigation of London we refer to the Chapter of Trade and the Rates of Water-men to a distinct head to be Treated of hereafter The Extent of the Jurisdiction and Prerogative of the Lord Mayor Commonalty and Citizens of London on the River Thames c. THe Lord Mayor of LONDON for the time being and his Successors for ever in that great Dignity have full Power and Authority over the Rivers of Thames and Medway to inflict punishment upon all Transgressors relating to the said Rivers the Water-Bayly of London being his Substitute The Extent of this Jurisdiction begins at a place called Colnie-Ditch a little above Stains-Bridge Westward as far as London-Bridge and from thence to a place called Yendall otherwise Yenland or Yenleete and the Waters of Medway This Authority and Jurisdiction belongs to the Lord Mayor Commonalty and Citizens of London by divers Grants Charters and Confirmations made by the Kings and Queens of England besides sundry Acts of Parliament Yet there have been some contests betwixt the Lord Mayor and the Lord High Admiral of England about it but after a fair and Judicial Tryal in open Court the Controversie was decided in favour of the City and the Lord Mayor was adjudged to be Conservator of the Thames There were also some Controversies about the Rivers of Thames and Medway but all differences were absolutely concluded Anno 1613. Sir John Swinnerton being then Lord Mayor and Thomas Sparry Esq being then his Deputy in that Office So that the Lord Mayor bears always since as in former times the stile of Conservator of the said River within the said Limits and Bounds And whereas there was a Company of Fishermen called Tinckermen that with unlawful Nets and other devices made an infinite destruction of the young Brood or Fry of Fish to feed their Hogs by the singular care and cost of the Lord Mayor and vigilance of the Citizens they were many years ago supprest and a regular and orderly manner of Fishing brought in use that such a havock may not be made of the young Fry As also sundry other abuses by unlawful Fishing and some annoying Timbers in Tilbury-hope dangerous to Passengers and destructive to the young Brood of Fish and Fishermens Nets were also to general benefit reformed Likewise they took care to clear and cleanse the River Westward of about 79 Stops or Hatches consisting of divers great Stakes and Piles erected by Fishermen for their private lucre and standing ill-favouredly for Passengers near the Fair-Deep but none now are left except such as stand out of the passable high stream that can prejudice none The like Course was kept in the time of Henry the 4 th and Henry the 8 ths times There is also a watchful Eye that no Carrion nor Dead Carkasses be thrown into the River to pollute or infect the stream To all these intents and purposes the Lord Mayor and the Aldermen his Brethren with the under Officers meet eight times a year in the four Counties of Middlesex Surrey Kent and Essex and have a Judicial sitting for Maintenance of the Rivers Rights and Priviledges where they have power to Impanel Juries to make Inquisition after all Offences committed upon the River within their Exteâ—â— and as the Verdict given by the Jury makes it appear so they proceed to the punishment of the 〈◊〉 sors according to the quality of the offence whereof it may be proper to give this Memorable Instance as it is Recorded by Mr. Stow in his Survey page 20 Printed Anno 1633. and more briefly delivered by Mr. Howel in his Londinopolis Printed Anno 1657. page 15. Thus. Sir John Rolls Knight and Lord Mayor of the City of London and Conservator of the River of Thames and Waters of Medway assisted and accompanied by the Aldermen and two Sheriffs then contemporary and attended by the Recorder and the Sub-conservation or Water-Bayly with 50 Officers and Servants took their Barges at Billings-gate the third of July 1616. and in a few hours arrived at Graves-end in Kent where a Session for Conservancy of the said River was kept before the said Lord Mayor and his said Assistants at which place and time a Jury of the Free-holders of the said County being sworn to inquire of all Offences committed in any part of the River whatsoever within the said County The Common Sergeant of the City the Recorder being then absent upon extraordinary occasions Delivered them a Charge to this effect That for as much as there had not been any Session of Conservancy in many years passed kept by any Lord Mayor of London in that place it was probable and evident they could not be well informed neither of the Lord Mayor's
West yea a considerable share of the richest Merchandizes of the World c. so that this Famous River may be said to be as it were the Radical Moysture of London and its best Friend which was hinted by the Lord Mayor to King James for the King being displeased because the City would not lend Him a Sum of Money told the Mayor and Aldermen that he would Remove His Court with all the Records of the Tower and the Courts of Westminster-Hall to another place with further expressions of that kind The Lord Mayor calmly heard all and at last Answered Your Majesty hath Power to do what You Please and Your City of London will obey accordingly but She humbly Desires that when Your Majesty shall remove Your Courts You would please to leave the Thames behind You. Besides the inestimable Benefit that this Noble River brings to the City and the Adjacent places by the easie conveyance of all Sorts of Goods and Merchandizes almost all the Fuel for Firing being also brought by it from Newcastle Scotland Kent Essex c. It supplies the City in very many places with excellent wholsom Water convey'd into all the Adjacent Houses by Water Engines of great cost and Artifice So much for the Thames The City of London is supply'd with pure Spring-Water from above Twenty Conduits so Commodiously placed that they serve all the Chiefest parts of the City And in all parts though on the highest Ground It is abundantly Served with Pump Water and those Pumps in many places hardly Six Foot deep in the Ground Of the New-River This Famous and never-to-be-forgotten Work brought by the Liberal Charge and Exquisite Skill of one Worthy Man Sir Hugh Middleton Knight and Baronet Citizen and Goldsmith of London deserves an everlasting Memorial Several Wells and Springs of sweet and fresh Water with which the City was served being Decayed sundry Projects were on Foot to supply that want but this Principal Device was found out by the aforesaid Gentleman and the Difficulties and vast Expence made it for some time to be retarded but Courage and a Resolution to promote the Publick Good prompted him on to the Atchievment which since hath proved happily Commodious and of infinite Utility to the whole City so that the brave Adventurer deserves a Statue to Eternize his Name and Transmit his Memory to keep it Fresh like his Waters to future Ages Now as Mr. Stow speaks very ingeniously if those Enemies to all Good Actions Danger Difficulty Detraction Contempt Scorn and Envy could have prevailed by their Malevolent Interposition either before at the beginning and in the very Birth of the Attempt and a good while after this work had never been accomplished Queen Elizabeth granted Power to the Citizens by Act of Parliament for Cutting and Conveying of a River from any part of Middlesex or Hartfordshire to the City of London with a Limitation of ten Years time for the performance thereof But She dyed before it was undertaken King James Granted the like but without limitation of time And when others would not undertake it Sir Hugh Middleton did with infinite Pains and vast Charge both begin and finish it He brought it from Amuel and Chadwel two Springs near Ware in Hartfordshire from whence in a turning and winding Course it Runs threescore Miles before it reaches the City At the North-side of the City at Islington he built a large Cistern to receive it and from thence it is dispersed in Pipes serving the highest parts of London in their lower Rooms and the Lower parts in their higher Rooms It was begun the 28 th of February Anno Dom. 1608 and finished in five Years It can hardly be imagined what difficulties and rubs there were in the way through which the Water was to pass some being Ozie Soft and Muddy other again as Hard Craggy and Stâ—ny in some places the Channel is Thirty Foot deep in other places it is carried over Valleys in open Troughs betwixt Hills which Troughs are supported by Wooden Arches some of them fixt in the Earth very deep and rising in Height above 23 Foot Over this New-River are made 800 Bridgs some of Stone some of Brick and some of Wood and six hundred Men have been at once imployed in this Great Work The River being brought to the said Great Cistern the Water was not let in till Michaelmas Day Anno 1613. Sir John Swinnerton then Lord Mayor and Sir Thomas Middleton Brother to the said Sir Hugh being Elected Lord Mayor for the Ensuing Year In the Afternoon Sir John Swinnerton and Sir Thomas Middleton with Sir Henry Mountague the Recorder of London and many of the Worthy Aldermen Rode in a Solemn manner to see the Great Cistern and first Issuing of the strange River thereunto which was then made Free Denizen of London and the Solemnity was thus A Troop of Labourers of the Number of Sixty or more well Apparrelled and wearing Green Monmoth Caps after the Brittish manner all alike carried Spades Shovels Pickaxes and such like Instruments of Laborious Employment and marching after Drums twice or thrice about the Cistern presented themselves before the Mount where the Lord Mayor and the Aldermen were with a Worthy Company besides and one Man in the behalf of the rest delivered a handsom Speech in Verse at the Conclusion of which the Flood-Gates flew open and the Stream ran Cheerfully into the Cistern the Drums Beating and Trumpets Sounding in Triumphant manner and a Gallant Peal of Chambers gave a Period to the Entertainment Upon which brave Man these Lines were made Ad Hugonem Middleton Equitem Aurat um De stupenda hac aquarum opera Compita qui fluvium per Londinensia Duxti Vt jam quisque suis vicus abundet aquis Non Aganippe tuas satis est depromere laudes Haec scaturigo novae quam tibi fundit aquae Before we leave this Head although it is noâ— necessary to give a particular Account of every Conduit whereof there are many in and about the City as was said and one now a Rearing in the place of the Old Conduit at the West end of Cheapâ— side which is intended to be a Stately one and beseeming the Magnificence of the City and that Gallant Street where it is to be Erected c. Yeâ— that neatly-wrought Conduit in Stocks-Market aâ— the West end of Lumbard-street is not to be omitted whereupon is placed a very Magnificent Statue of KING CHARLES the II. on Horseback Trampling upon an Enemy all in Excellent White-Marble at the Sole Cost and Charges of Sir Robert Viner who was Lord Mayor of London in the Year 1675. There is likewise a very Magnificent Statue of King CHARLES the I. on Horse-back all ofâ— Solid Brass at Charing-Cross the Figures of both which are here Exhibited THE K. AT THE STOCKs MARKET THE K. AT CHARING CROSs CHAP. IV. Of the Government of London IN this Chapter we shall briefly Treat of the Government of this Renowned City
purchase of outward peace forced me to insert and perhaps it were more fit for a Divine and for another Treatise in this Section of the Ecclesiastical Government of this Renowned City There belong to this Cathedral besides those mentioned before A. Chaunter a Chancellor five Arch-Deacons viz. London Middlesex Essex Colchester and S. Albane a College of 12 Petty Canons 6 Vicars Choral and Choristers c. In the Bishop of London's Diocess there is contained the City of London all Middlesex and Essex and a part of Hartfordshire SECT 2. Of the Temporal Government of the City of LONDON THis great and populous City is governed with that admirable Order and Regularity that it is even astonishing For therein as in most other things she excells all the Cities in the World To handle this at large would make this small Tract swell beyond bounds we shall therefore give a brief abstract of it for Methods sake under these heads 1. Its Magistrates and Publick Officers 2. Its Charters and Priviledges 3. It s Particular or By-laws 4. Its Courts 5. Its Prisons 6. Its Watches 1. Of the Magistrates and Publick Officers of London This Renowned City in the time of the Romans was made a Praefectura and the chief Magistrate call'd a Prefect which continued about 300 years In the time of the Saxons the name was changed into a Portgreeve that is Custos or Guardian and sometimes Provost of London After the coming in of the Normans the chief Magistrate was called Bailivus from the French word Bailler tradere committere that is Commissarius or one that hath Commission to govern others and there were sometimes two Bayliffs in London till King Richard the First in the year 1189. changed the name of Bayliff into Mayor which hath so continued 482 years The first Lord Mayor was Henry Fitz-Alwin Draper who continued in the Mayoralty from the first of Richard the First untill the 15 th of King John which was above 24 years He was interred in the Parish Church of S. Mary Bothaw near to London-Stone where he dwelt not S. John Baptist as was by mistake affirm'd p. 39. which the Reader is desired to correct by this c. In this place before we come to treat more particularly of this great and honourable Magistrate it may not be amiss to give a List of all the Lord Mayors and Sheriffs from that time to this present year 1681. Richard the First began his Raign July the 6th 1189. A. D. A. R. Lord MAYORS SHERIFFS 1189 1 Henry Fitz-Alwin Henry Cornhil Richard Reynere 1190 2 The same John Herlion Roger Duâ—e 1191 3 The same William Haverel John Buckmote 1192 4 The same Nicholas Duke Peter Newly 1193 5 The same Râ—ger Duke Richard Fitz-Alwin 1194 6 The same William Fitz-Isabel William Fitz-Arnold 1195 7 The same Robert Besaunt Joke de Josne 1196 8 The same Gerard de Antiloche Robert Durant 1197 9 The same Roger Blunt Nicholas Ducket 1198 10 The same Const Fitz-Arnold Robert le Bean. 1199 11 The same Arnold Fitz-Arnold Ri. Fitz Bartholomew King John began his Reign the 6th of April 1199. A. D. A. R. Lord MAYORS SHERRIFFS 1199 1 Henry Fitz-Alwin Arnold Fitz-Arnold Ri. Fitz Bartholomew 1200 2 The same Roger Dorset James Bartholomew 1201 3 The same Walter Fitz-Allice Sim. de Aldermanbury 1202 4 The same Norman Blondel John de Ely 1203 5 The same Walter Browne W. Chamberlaine 1204 6 The same Thomas Haverel Hamond Brond 1205 7 The same John Walgrave Rich. de Winchester 1206 8 The same John Holy-land Edm. Fitz-Gerard 1207 9 The same Roger Winchester Edmund Hardle 1208 10 The same Peter Duke Thomas Neal. 1209 11 The same Peter le Josue William Blound 1210 12 The same Adam Whitbey Stephen le Grass 1211 13 The same John Fitz-Peter John Garland 1212 14 The same Randolph Eyland Constantine Josue 1213 15 Roger Fitz-Alwin Martin Fitz-Allice Peter Bate 1214 16 The same Solomon Basing Hugh Basing 1215 17 William Hardel John Travers Andrew Newland King Henry the III. began His Reign the 19th of October 1216. A. D. A. R. Lord MAYORS SHERIFFS 1216 1 William Hardel John Travers Andrew Newland 1217 2 Robert Serl Thomas Bokerel Ralph Holyland 1218 3 The same Bennet Senturer William Blundivers 1219 4 The same John Wail or Veil Josue le Spicer 1220 5 The same Richard Wimbledon John Wail or Veil 1221 6 The same Richard Renger John Veil 1222 7 The same Richard Joyner Thomas Lambert 1223 8 Richard Benger William Joyner Thomas Lambert 1224 9 The same John Travers Andrew Bokerel 1225 10 The same The same The same 1226 11 The same Roger Duke Mar. Fitz-Williams 1227 12 Roger Duke Stephen Bokereâ— Henry Cocham 1228 13 The same The same The same 1229 14 The same William Winchester Robert Fitz-John 1230 15 The same Richard Walter John de Woborn 1231 16 Andrew Bokerel Michael of St. Helen Walter de Enfield 1232 17 Andrew Bokerel Henry de Edmonton Gerard Bat. 1233 18 The same Roger Fitz-Mary Roger Blunt 1234 19 The same Ralph Ashwray John Norman 1235 20 The same Gerard Bat. Rich. or Rob. Hardel 1236 21 The same Henry Cobham Jordan Conventry 1237 22 The same John Tolason Gerv. the Cordwainer 1238 23 Richard Benger John Codras John Wilhall 1239 24 William Joyner Reymond Bongy Ralph Ashwy 1240 25 Gerard Bat. John Gisors Michael Tony. 1241 26 Reymond Bongy Thomas Duresm John Voyl 1242 27 The same John Fitz-John Ralph Ashwy 1243 28 Ralph Ashwy Hugh Blunt Adam Basing 1244 29 Michael Tony. Ralph Eoster Nicholas Bat. 1245 30 John Gisors Robert Cornhil Adam of Bewly 1246 31 The same Simon Fitz-Mary Lawrence Frowick 1247 32 Peter Fitz-Alwin John Voil Nicholas Bat. 1248 33 Michael Tony. Nicholas Fitz-Josue Geoffry Winchester 1249 34 Roger Fitz-Roger Richard Hardel John Tolason 1250 35 John Gisors Humphrey Bat. Will. Fitz. Richard 1251 36 Adam Basing Lawrence Frowick Nicholas Bat. 1252 37 John Tolason William Durham Thomas Wimborn 1253 38 Richard Hardel John Northampton Richard Richard 1254 39 The same Ralph Ashury Robert of Limâ—n 1255 40 The same Stephen Doe Henry Walmond 1256 41 The same Michael Bokerel John the Minor 1257 42 The same Richard Otwell William Ashwy 1258 43 The same Robert Cornhill John Adrian 1259 44 John Gisors John Adrian Robert Cornhill 1260 45 Will. Fitz-Richard Adam Browning Henry Coventry 1261 46 The same John Northampton Richard Pichard 1262 47 Thom. Fitz-Richard John Taylor Richard Wallbroke 1263 48 The same Rob. de Mountpeter Osbert de Suffolk 1264 49 Thomas Fitz Thomas Fitz-Richard George Râ—kestey Thomas de Detford 1265 50 The same Edward Blâ—nt Peter Anger 1265 51 William Richards John Hind John Walraven 1266 52 Allen de-la-Zouch John Adrian Lucas de Batencourt 1267 53 T. Wimborn Custos Sir Stephen Edward Walter Harvey William Duresm 1268 54 Hugh Fitz-Ottonis Custos of London and Constable of the Tower Thomas Basing Robert Cornhill At this time the KING Granted the Choice of the Mayors and Sheriffs to
the City it Self 1269 55 John Adrian Walter Potter Philip Taylor 1270 56 The same Gregory Rochesly Henry Walleis 1271 57 Sir Walter Harvey Richard Harris John de Wodeley King Edward the First began His Reign the 16th of November 1272. 1272 1 Sir Walter Harvey John Horn. Walter Potter 1273 2 Henry Walleis Nicholas Winchester Henry Coventry 1274 3 Gregory Rokesley Lucas Batencourt Henry Frowick 1275 3 The same John Horn. Ralph Blount 1276 5 The same Robert de Arar Ralph L. Fewre 1277 6 The same John Adrian Walter Largley 1278 7 The same Robert Bâ—sing William le Meyre 1279 8 Gregory Rokesley Thomas Box. Ralph Moore 1280 9 The same Willliam Farrendon Nicholas Winchester 1281 10 Henry Walleis William le Meyre Richard Chigwell 1282 11 The same Ralph Blunt Hawkin Betuel 1283 12 The same Jordan Goodcheap Martin Box. 1284 13 Gregory Rokesley Stephen Cornhill Robert Rokesley 1285 14 Ralph Sandwich Walter Blunt John Made 1286 15 The same Thomas Cross Walter Hawteyne 1287 16 The same William Hereford Thomas Stanes 1288 17 The same William Betaine John of Canterbury 1289 18 The same Fulk of St. Edmund Solomon Langford 1290 19 The same Thomas Romain William de Lyre 1291 20 The same Ralph Blunt Hamond Box. 1292 21 The same Elias Russel Henry Bole. 2293 22 The same Robert Rokesley Martin Awbery 1294 23 The same Henry Box. Richard Gloucester 1295 24 Sir John Briton John Dunstable Adam de Halingbury 1296 25 The same Thomas of Suffolk Adam of Fulâ—â—m 1297 26 Henry Walleis Richard Refham Thomas Sely. 1298 27 Elias Russel John Armentor Henry Fingene 1299 28 The same Lucas de Havering Richard Champnes 1300 29 Sir John Blunt Robert Collor Peter de Bessenho 1301 30 The same Hugh Pourte Simon Paris 1302 31 The same Will. Combmartin John de Burford 1303 32 The same Roger Paris John de Lincoln 1304 33 The same William Causon Reginald Thunderley 1305 34 The same Geoffry at the Conduit Simon Billet King Edward the II. began His Reign the second of July Anno Domini 1307. 1307 1 Sir John Blunt Nicholas Pigol Nigellus Drury 1308 2 Nicholas Faringdon William Basing James Butler 1309 3 Thomas Romaine Roger le Palmer James of St. Edmond 1310 4 Richard Reffam Simon Cooper Peter Blacney 1311 5 Sir John Gysors Simon Metwâ—â—â— Richard Wâ—â—ford 1312 6 Sir John Gysors John Lambin Adam Lutkin 1313 7 Nicholas Faringdon Robert Garden Hugh Garton 1314 8 Sir John Gysors Stephen Abingdon Hammond Chickwell 1315 9 Stephen de Abington Hammond Goodcheap William Bodeleigh 1316 10 John Wingrave William Caston Ralph Balancer 1317 11 The same John Prior. William Furneaux 1318 12 The same John Pointel John Dalling 1319 13 Hammond Chickwell Simon de Abington John Preston 1320 14 Nicholas Faringdon Reinald at the Conduit William Prodham 1321 15 Hammond Chickwell Râ—chard Constantine Richard de Hackney 1322 16 The same John Grantham Richard de Ely 1323 17 Nicholas Farindon Adam of Salisbury John of Oxford 1324 18 Hammond Chickwell Bennet of Fulham John Cawston 1325 19 The same Gilbert Mordon John Causton 3126 20 Richard Britain Richard Rothing Roger Chauntclere King Edward the III. began His Reign the 25. of January 1326. A. D. A. R. Lord MAYORS SHERRIFFS 1327 1 Hammond Chickwell Henry Darcy John Hawton 1328 2 John Grantham Simon Francis Henry Cobmartin 1329 3 Richard Swanland Richard Lazer William Gysors 1330 4 Sir John Pountney Robert of Ely Thomas of Worwode 1331 5 The same John Mocking Andrew Aubery 1332 6 John Preston Nicholas Pike John Husband 1333 7 Sir John Pountney John Hammond William Hauford 1334 8 Reginald at the Conduit John Kingstone Walter Turk 1335 9 The same Walter Mordon Richard Vpton 1336 10 Sir John Pountney John Clark W. Curtes 1337 11 Henry Darcy Walter Neal. Nicholas Crane 1338 12 The same William de Pomfret Hugh Marbler 1339 13 Andrew Aubery William Thorney Roger Frâ—sham 1340 14 The same Adam Lucas Bartholomew Morris 1341 15 John of Oxenford Richard de Barking John de Rokesly 1342 16 Simon Francis John Lâ—ufkin Richard Killingbury 1343 17 John Hammond John Steward John Aylesham 1344 18 The same Geoffry Witchingham Thomas Leg. 1345 19 Richard Lazer Edmund Hemenhall John of Glocester 1346 20 Geoff. Witchingham John of Croydon William Clopton 1347 21 Thomas Leggy Adam Brampston Richard Fas or Bas. 1448 22 John Loufkin Henry Bicard Simon Doleby 1349 23 Walter Turk Adam of Bury Ralph of Lynne 1350 24 Richard Killingbury John Notte Will. of Worcester 1351 25 Andrew Aubery Iohn Wroth. Gilb. of Stenineshorpe 1352 26 Adam Francis John Peace John Stotly 1353 27 The same William Wood. John Little 1354 28 Thomas Leggy Will. Nottingham Roger Smelt 1355 29 Simon Francis Thomas Foster Thomas Brandon 1356 30 Henry Picard Richard Nottingham Thomas Dolsel 1357 31 Sir John Stody Stephen Candish Bartholom Frostling 1358 32 John Loufkin John Barns John Buris 1359 33 Simon Doulseby Simon of Bemington John of Chichester 1360 34 John Wroth. Walter Borny John Dennis 1361 35 John Peche William Holbech James Tame 1362 36 Stephen Candish John of St. Albans James Andrew 1363 37 John Not. Richard of Croyden John Hiltoft 1364 38 Adam of Bury John de Metford Simon de Morden 1365 39 John Loufkin John Bukilsworth John Ireland 1366 40 The same John Ward Thomas of Lee. 1367 41 James Andrew John Tarngold William Dickman 1368 42 Simon Mordan Robert Goideler Adam Wimondham 1369 43 John Chichester John Piel Hugh Holdich 1370 44 John Barns William Walworth Robert Gayton 1371 45 The same Adam Staple Robert Hatfield 1372 46 John Piel John Philpot. Nicholas Brembar 1373 47 Adam of Bury John Aubery John Fished 1374 48 William Walworth Richard Lyons William Woodhouse 1375 49 John Ward John Hadley William Newport 1376 50 Adam Staple John Northampton Robert Laund Richard the II. began His Reighn the 21. of June 1377. A. D. A. R. Lord MAYORS SHERIFFS 1377 1 Sir Nicholas Brember Nicholas Twiford Andrew Pikeman 1378 2 John Philpot. John Boseham Thomas Cornwallis 1379 3 John Hadley John Helisdon William Barra 1380 4 William Walworth Walter Doget William Knighthode 1381 5 John Northampton John Rotu John Hynde 1382 6 The same Adam Bramme John Sely. 1383 7 Sir Nicholas Brember Simon Winchcomb John More 1384 8 The same Nicholas Exton John French 1385 9 The same John Organ John Churchman 1386 10 Nicholas Exton William Stondon William More 1387 11 The same William Venor Hugh Falstalfe 1388 12 Nicholas Twiford Thomas Austin Adam Carlehul 1389 13 William Venor John Walcot John Love 1390 14 Adam Bamme John Francis Thomas Vivent 1391 15 John Hinde John Shadworth Henry Vamere 1392 16 William Stondon Gilbert Mafield Thomas Newington 1393 17 John Hardley Drew Barintin Richard Whittington 1394 18 Sir John Froyshe William Bramston Thomas Knolls 1395 19 William More Roger Ellis William Sevenoke 1396 20 Adam Brown Thomas Wilford William Parker 1397 21 Sir Rich. Whittington John Wodcock William Ascham 1398 22 Sir Drew Barintin
John Wade John Warner King Henry the IV. began His Reign the 29. of September 1399. 1399 1 Sir Thomas Knolls William Waldren William Hende 1400 2 Sir John Francis John Wakel William Ebot 1401 3 Sir John Shadworth William Venor John Fremingham 1402 4 John Walcot Richard Marlow Robert Chichely 1403 5 Sir William Ascham Thomas Falconer Thomas Pool 1404 6 John Hinde William Louth Stephen Spilman 1405 7 Sir John Woodcock Henry Barton William Cromer 1406 8 Sir Ric. Whittington Nicholas Watton Geoffry Brooke 1407 9 Sir William Stondon Henry Pontfract Henry Halton 1408 10 Sir Drew Barentine Thomas Buck. William Norton 1409 11 Richard Marlow John Law William Chicheley 1410 12 Sir Thomas Knolls John Penne. Thomas Pike 1411 13 Sir Robert Chicheley John Rainwell William Cotton 1412 14 William Waldren Ralph Lovenham William Sevenoke King Henry the Fifth began his Reign the 20th of March 1412. 1413 1 Sir William Cromar John Sutton John Michael 1414 2 Sir Thomas Falconer John Michael Thomas Allen. 1415 3 Sir Nicholas Wotton William Cambridge Alan Everard 1416 4 Sir Henry Barton Richard Whittington John Coventry 1417 5 Richard Marlow Henry Read John Gedney 1418 6 William Sevenoke Jo. Bryan Jo. Barton John Parvess 1419 7 Sir Rich. Whittington Robert Whittington John Butler 1420 8 William Cambridge John Butler John Well 1421 9 Sir Robert Chicheley Richard Gosseline William Meston King Henry the Sixth began his Reign the 31th of August 1422. A.D.A.R. Lord MAYORS SHERIFFS 1422 1 Sir William Waldren William Eastfield Robert Tatarsal 1423 2 William Cromar Nicholas James Thomas Watford 1424 3 John Michael Simon Seaman John Bywater 1425 4 John Coventry William Milled John Brokle 1426 5 Sir John Rainwell John Arnal John Higham 1427 6 Sir John Gedney Henry Frowick Robert Otely 1428 7 Sir Henry Barton Thomas Duffhouse John Abbot 1429 8 Sir William Eastfield William Russe Ralph Holland 1430 9 Nicholas Wotton Walter Cherssey Robert Large 1431 10 Sir John de Welles John Aderley Stephen Brown 1432 11 Sir John Parveis John Olney John Paddeslye 1433 12 Sir John Brokle Thomas Chalton John King 1434 13 Sir Roger Oteley Thomas Barnewell Simon Eyre 1435 14 Sir Henry Frowick Thomas Catworth Robert Clopton 1436 15 Sir John Michael Thomas Moriseed William Gregory 1437 16 Sir William Eastfield William Hales William Chapman 1438 17 Sir Stephen Brown Hugh Dyker Nicholas Towe 1439 18 Robert Large Philip Malphas Robert Marshal 1440 19 Sir John Paddesley John Sutton William Wilinhale 1441 20 Robert Clopton William Combis Richard Rich. 1442 21 John Aderley Thomas Beaumont Richard Nordon 1443 22 Thomas Catworth Nicholas Wyford John Norman 1444 23 Sir Henry Frowick Stephen Foster Hugh Witch 1445 24 Sir Simon Eyre John Darby Godfrey Fielding 1446 25 John Olney Robert Horne Godfrey Bullen 1447 26 Sir John Gedney William Abraham Thomas Scot. 1448 27 Sir Stephen Brown William Cotlow William Narrow 1449 28 Sir Thomas Chalton William Hulin Thomas Canning 1450 29 Nicholas Wilford John Middleton William Dear 1451 30 Sir William Gregory Matthew Philip Christopher Wharton 1452 31 Sir Geoffry Fielding Richard Lee Richard Alley 1453 32 Sir John Norman John Walden Thomas Cook 1454 33 Sir Stephen Foster John Field William Taylor 1455 34 Sir William Marrow John Young Thomas Oâ—dgnavâ— 1456 35 Sir Thomas Canning John Styward Ralph Verney 1457 36 Sir Godfrey Bullen William Edward Thomas Reynor 1458 37 Sir Thomas Scot. Ralph Joceline Richard Medham 1459 38 Sir William Hulin John Plummer John Stocker 1460 39 Sir Richard Lee. Richard Flemming John Lambert Edward the Fourth began his Reign the 4th of March 1460. 1461 1 Sir Hugh Witch George Ireland John Lock 1462 2 Sir Thomas Cook William Hampton Bartholomew James 1463 3 Sir Matthew Philip. Robert Basset Thomas Muschamp 1464 4 Sir Ralph Joceline John Tate John Stones 1465 5 Sir Ralph Verney Henry weaver William Constantine 1466 6 Sir John Young Jo. Brown Hen. Brice John Darby 1467 7 Sir Thomas Oldgrave Thomas Stalbrook Humphrey Heyford 1468 8 Sir William Taylor Simon Smith William Herriot 1469 9 Sir Richard a Lee. Richard Gardner Robert Drope 1470 10 Sir John Stackton John Crosby John Ward 1471 11 Sir William Edwards John Allen. John Shelley 1472 12 Sir Will. Hampton John Brown Thomas Bledlow 1473 13 Sir John Tate Sir William Stocker Robert Belisdon 1474 14 Sir Robert Drope Edmund Shaa Thomas Hill 1475 15 Sir Robert Basse Hugh Brice Robert Colwich 1476 16 Sir Ralph Joceline Richard Rawson William Horn. 1477 17 Sir Humph. Heyford Henry Collet John Stocker 1478 18 Sir Richard Gardner Robert Harding Robert Bifield 1479 19 Sir Bartholom James Thomas Ilam John Ward 1480 20 Sir John Brown Thomas Daniel William Bacon 1481 21 Sir William Herrot Robert Tate Richard Charey Will. Wiking 1482 22 Sir Edmund Shaa William White John Matthew Edward the Fifth began his Reign the 9th of April 1483. Richard the Third began his Reign the 22d of June 1483. 1483 1 Sir Robert Billesdon Thomas Newland William Martin 1484 2 Sir Thomas Hill Richard Chester Tho. Brittain Ralph Astry King Henry the Seventh began his Reign the 22d of August 1485. A.D.A.R. Lord MAYORS SHERIFFS 1485 1 Sir Hugh Brice John Tate John Swan 1486 2 Sir Henry Collet John Percival Hugh Clopton 1487 3 Sir William Horne John Fenket William Remington 1488 4 Sir Robert Tate William Isaac Ralph Tilney 1489 5 Sir William White William Capel John Brook 1490 6 John Matthew Henry Cote or Coote R. Revell Hugh Pemberton 1491 7 Sir Hugh Clopton Tho. Wood. William Brown 1492 8 Sir William Martin William Purchase William Walbeck 1493 9 Sir Ralph Austry Robert Fabian John Winger 1494 10 Sir Richard Chawril Nicholas Alwin John Warner 1495 11 Sir Henry Collet Thomas Kneesworth Henry Sommer 1496 12 Sir John Tate John Shaa Richard Hedon 1497 13 Sir William Purchase Barth Rede Thomas Windew or Windout 1498 14 Sir John Percival Thomas Bradbury Stephen Gennings 1499 15 Sir Nicholas Aldwine James Wilford Tho. or Rich. Brond 1500 16 William Remington John Haws William Steed 1501 17 Sir John Shaa Lawrence Aylmer Henry Hede. 1502 18 Sir Bartholomew Rede Henry Keble Nicholas Nives 1503 19 Sir William Capel Christopher Haws Robert Wats 1504 20 Sir John Winger Roger Acheley William Browne 1505 21 Sir Tho. Kneisworth Richard Shoare Roger Grove 1506 22 Sir Richard Haddon William Coppinger T. Johnson Will. Fitz-Williams 1507 23 Sir William Brown W. Butler John Kerby 1508 24 Sir Stephen Jennings Thomas Exmuel Richard Smith Henry the VIII began His Reign the 22d of April 1509. 1509 1 Tho. Bradbury Sir William Capel George Monox John Doget 1510 2 Sir Henry Kebble John Milborne John Rest 1511 3 Sir Roger Acheley Nicholas Shelton Thomas Merfine 1512 4 Sir Will. Coppinger Sir Rich. Haddon Robert Holdernes Robert Fenrother 1513 5 Sir William Brown Joh. Daws Jo. Bruges Roger Bosford 1514 6 Sir George Monox James Yarford John Mundy 1515 7 Sir William Butler Henry Warley Ri. Gray Will. Bayly 1516 8
Sir John Rest Thomas Seymour John or Ri. Thurstone 1517 9 Sir Thomas Exmewe Thomas Baldrie Ralph or Ri. Symons 1518 10 Sir Thomas Merfine John Allen. James Spencer 1519 11 Sir James Yarford John Wilkinson Nicholas Patrich 1520 12 Sir John Burgh John Skevington John Kyme ali Keble 1521 13 Sir John Milbourn J. Breton or Brittain Thomas Pargiter 1522 14 Sir John Mundy John Rudston John Champnies 1523 15 Sir Thomas Baldrie Michael English Nicholas Jennings 1524 16 Sir William Bayly Ralph Dodmere William Roche 1525 17 Sir John Allen. J. Caunton or Calton Christopher Askew 1526 18 Sir Thomas Seymour Stephen Peacock Nicholas Lambert 1527 19 Sir James Spencer John Hardy William Hollys 1528 20 Sir John Rudstone Ralph Warren John Long. 1529 21 Sir Ralph Dodmere Michael Dormer Walter Champion 1530 22 Sir Thomas Pargiter W. Dawsey or Dancy Richard Champion 1531 23 Sir Nicholas Lambert Richard Gresham Edward Altham 1532 24 Sir Stephen Peacock R. Reynolds J. Martin N. Pincâ—on J. Priest 1533 25 Sir Christoph Askew William Foreman Thomas Kitson A.D.A.R. Lord MAYORS SHERIFFS 1534 26 Sir John Champneis Nicholas Levison William Derham 1535 27 Sir John Allen. Humphr Monmouth John Cotes 1536 28 Sir Ralph Warren Robert or Rich. Paget William Bowyer 1537 29 Sir Richard Gresham John Gresham Thomas Lewin 1538 30 Sir Will. Foreman Will. Wilkinson Nicholas Gibson 1539 31 Sir William Hollys Thomas Ferrer Thomas Huntlow 1540 32 Sir William Roch. William Laxton Martin Bows 1541 33 Sir Michael Dormer Rowland Hill Henry Suckley 1542 34 Sir John Cotes Henry Hobblethorn Henry Amcoats 1543 35 Sir William Bowyer John Tholouse Richard Dobbes 1544 36 Sir William Laxton John Wilford Andrew Judâ— 1545 37 Sir Martin Bows George Barne Ralph Allen or Alley 1546 38 Sir Hen. Hobblethorn Richard Jarveis Thomas Curteis King Edward the VI. began His Reign the 28th of January 1546. 1547 1 Sir John Gresham Thomas White Robert Chertsey 1548 2 Sir Henry Amcoats William Lock Sir John Ayleph 1549 3 Sir Rowland Hill John York Richard Turk 1550 4 Sir Andrew Jud. Augustine Hind John Lion 1551 5 Sir Richard Dobbs John Lambert John Cowper 1552 6 Sir George Barne Wi. Garret or Gerard. John Maynard Queen Mary began Her Reign July the 6th 1553. 1553 1 Sir Thomas White Thomas Offley William Hewet 1554 2 Sir John Lion David Woodroffe William Chester 1555 3 Sir William Garret or Gerard. Tho. Lee or Leigh John Machel 1556 4 Sir Thomas Offley William Harper John White 1557 5 Sir Thomas Curteis Richard Mallory James Altham 1558 6 Sir Tho. Lee or Leigh John Halsey Richard Champion Queen Elizabeth began Her Reign the 17th of November 1558. 1559 1 Sir William Hewel Thomas Lodge Roger Martin 1560 2 Sir William Chester Christopher Draper Thomas Roe 1561 3 Sir William Harper Alexand. Avenon Humphry Baskervile 1562 4 Sir Thomas Lodge William Allen. Rich. Chamberlain 1563 5 Sir John White Edward Banks Rowland Heyward 1564 6 Sir Richard Mallory Edward Jackman Lionel Ducket 1565 7 Sir Rich. Champion John Rivers James Hawes 1566 8 Sir Christoph Draper Richard Lambert Ambrose Nicholas Jo-Langley 1567 9 Sir Roger Martin Tho. Ramsey John Bond. 1568 10 Sir Thomas Roe Jo. Oliph Ro. Harding James Bacon 1569 11 Sir Alexand. Avenan Henry Beecher William Dane 1570 12 Sir Rowland Heyward Francis Barneham William Box. 1571 13 Sir William Allen. Henry Mills John Branch 1572 14 Sir Lionel Duckes Richard Pipe Nicholas Woodroffe 1573 15 Sir John Rivers James Harvey T. Pulloccel of Pullison 1574 16 Sir James Haws Thomas Blanke Anthony Gamage 1575 17 Sir Ambrose Nicholas Edward Osborne Wolstane Dixie 1576 18 Sir John Langley William Kempton George Barne 1577 19 Sir Tho. Ramsey Nicholas Blackhouse Francis Bowyer 1578 20 Sir Richard Pipe George Bond. Thomas Starkie 1579 21 Sir Nich. Woodroffe Martin Calthrop John Hart. 1580 22 Sir John Branch Ralph Woodcock John Allot 1581 23 Sir James Harvey Richard Martin William Webb 1582 24 Sir Thomas Blanke Will. Roe Jo. Haydon Cuthbert Buckle 1583 25 Sir Edward Osborne William Mashaw John Spencer 1584 26 Sir Thomas Pulloccell Stephen Slaney Henry Billingsley 1585 27 Sir Wolstane Dixie Anthony Ratcliff Henry Pranel 1586 28 Sir George Barne George House William Elkin 1587 29 Sir George Bond. Thomas Skinner John Catcher 1588 30 Sir Martin Calthrop Sir Richard Martin Hugh Offley Richard Saltonstall 1589 31 Sir John Hart. Richard Gurney Stephen Some 1590 32 Sir John Allot Sir Howland Heyward Nicholas Mosely Robert Brook 1591 33 Sir William Webb Will. Rider Bennet or Benedict Barnham 1592 34 Sir William Roe Jo. Garret or Gerard. Robert Taylor 1593 35 Sir Cuthbert Buckle Sir Richard Martin Paul Banning Peter Haughton 1594 36 Sir John Spencer Robert Lee. Thomas Bennet 1595 37 Sir Stephen Slaney Thomas Roe Leonard Hallyday 1596 38 Sir Thomas Skinner Sir Henry Billingsley John Walls Richard Goddard 1597 39 Sir Rioh Saltonstal Henry Roe John More 1598 40 Sir Stephen Some Edward Holmdon Robert Hampson 1599 41 Sir Nicholas Mosely Humphrey Walde Roger Clark 1600 42 Sir William Rider Th. Smith Th. Cambel William Craven 1601 43 Sir John Garret or Gerrard Henry Anderson William Glover 1602 44 Sir Robert Lee. James Pemberton John Swinnerton King James began His Reign the Twenty Fourth of March 1602. 1603 1 Sir Thomas Bennet Sir William Rumney Sir Tho. Middleton 1604 2 Sir Thomas Low Sir Tho. Hayes Sir Roger Jones 1605 3 Sir Leonard Holyday Sir Clem. Scudamore Sir John Jâ—lles 1606 4 Sir John Wats William Walthal John Leman 1607 5 Sir Henry Row Geoffry Elves Nicholas Style 1608 6 Sir Humphrey Weld George Bolls Richard Farrington 1609 7 Sir Thomas Cambel Sebastian Harvey William Cockaine 1610 8 Sir William Craven Richard Pyal Francis Jones 1611 9 Sir James Pemberton Edward Barkham John Smiths 1612 10 Sir John Swinnerton Edward Rotheram Alexander Prescot 1613 11 Sir Tho. Middleton Thomas Bennet Henry Jay 1614 12 Sir Thomas Hayes Peter Proby Martin Lumley 1615 13 Sir John Jolles William Goare John Goare 1616 14 Sir John Leman Allen Cotton Cuthbert Hacket 1617 15 Sir George Bolles William Holyday Robert Johnson 1618 16 Sir Sebastian Harvey Richard Hearn Hugh Hammersley 1619 17 Sir William Cockain Richard Dean James Cambel 1620 18 Sir Francis Jones Edward Allen. Robert Ducie 1621 19 Sir Edw. Barkham George Whitmore Nicholas Raynton 1622 20 Sir Peter Proby John Hodges Sir Hump. Hantford 1623 21 Sir Martin Lumley Ralph Freeman Thomas Mounson 1624 22 Sir John Goare Rowland Heilin Robert Parkhurst King CHARLES the I. began His Reign the Twenty Seventh of March in the Year 1625. 1625 1 Sir Allen Cotten Thomas Westraw Elias Crisp died Jo. Pool Chr. Cletherow after 1626 2 Sir Cuthbert Hacket Edward Bromfield Richard Fen. 1627 3 Sir Hugh Hamersly Maurice Abbot Henry Garraway 1628 4 Sir Richard Dean Rowland Backhouse Sir William Acton Knight and Bar. 1629 5 Sir James Cambel Humphry Smith Edmund Wright 1630 6 Sir Robert Ducie Bar. Arthur Abdy Robert Cambel 1631 7 Sir
amongst the highest Nobles of the Kingdom which serve on that Day in other Offices He presents the King with Wine in a Golden Cup having a Cover of which the King Drinks and the Lord Mayor receives the said Cup for his Fee The first Lord Mayor that went by Water to Westminster was Sir John Norman Draper Anno 1453. the 32. of H. 6. that is 228 years ago The two Sheriffs of this City are also Sheriffs of the County of Middlesex and are annually Chosen by the Citizens from among themselves in the Guild-Hall upon Midsummer-day a high Priviledge among many others anciently granted to this City by several Kings and Queens of this Kingdom but they are not Sworn till Michaelmas-Eve and then are also presented at the Exchequer to be allowed by the Barons and Sworn after which they enter upon their Office If the Persons so chosen refuse to hold they incur a Penalty unless they will take a Solemn Oath that they are not worth 10000 l. In the Year 1199. that is 482 years ago King John granted the Sheriff-Wick of London and Middlesex to the City as King Henry the First before had done for the sum of 300 l. a year which is paid into the Exchequer to this Day He gave them also Authority to Chuse and Deprive their Sheriffs at pleasure In the 1. of R. 1. the Citizens obtained to be Governed by two Bayliffs which Bayliffs are in Divers antient Deeds called Sheriffs according to the Speech of the Law which called the Shire Ballâ—va c. which King also as formerly said gave the City liberty to be governed by a Mayor as their Principal Governour and their Bayliffs were changed into Sheriffs The Sheriffs of London In the Year 1471. were appointed each of them to have Sixteen Sergeants every Sergeant to have his Yeoman and Six Clerks viz. A Secondary a Clerk of the Papers and Four other Clerks besides the Under-Sheriffs Clerks their Stewards Bâ—tlers Porters and other in Houshold many There are Twenty-six Aldermen that preside over the Twenty-six Wards of the City of which more when we speak of Wards when any of these die the Lord Mayor and Aldermen chuse another out of the most substantial men of the City If any so chosen refuse to hold he is usually Fined 500 l. All the Aldermen that have been Lord Mayors and the Three eldest Aldermen that have not yet arrived to that Honourable Estate are by their Charter Justices of the Peace of this City In the Year 1555. Seven Aldermen Died in less than Ten Months The Recorder of London is usually a Grave and Learned Lawyer that is skilful in the Customs of the City who is to be an Assistant to the Lord Mayor He taketh his place in Councels and in Courts before any man that hath not been Mayor and Learnedly Delivers the sentences of the whole Court The Present Recorder is Sir George Treby an eminent Gentleman and a Worthy Member of our last Parliaments The Chamberlain of London is at present Sir Thomas Player a Gentleman that has deserved very well of this City and the Protestant Interest in General both in that Station and as a Member for this Honourable City in the last Parliaments The Chamberlain is Elected by the Commons upon Midsummer-day so are the Two Bridge-Masters The Auditors of the City and Bridge-House Accounts the Surveyors for BEER and ALE. There is also a Town-Clark or Common-Clerk and a Remembrancer who are Esquires The Chamberlain of London is an Officer very considerable in point of power for without him can no man set up Shop or Occupy his Trade without being Sworn before him no man can set over an Apprentice to another but by his Licence he may Imprison any that disobeys his Summons or any Apprentice that misdemeans himself or punish him otherwise On Munday and Tuesday in Eâ—ster-week all the Aldermen and Sheriffs come unto the Lord Mayor's House before Eight of the Clock in the Morning to Break-fast wearing their Scarlet Gowns Furr'd and their Cloaks as also their Horses attending When Break-fast is ended they mount their Horses and ride to the Spittle which is an ancient Custom not changed but once in 300 years and that upon extraordinary occasion till this year when they went to S. Sepulchres the Sword and Mace being born before the Lord Mayor There they hear a Sermon and then return to Dinner and some of the Aldermen Dine with the Sheriffs and some with the Lord Mayor On Wednesday in Easter-week they go thither in the same manner only the Lord Mayor and Aldermen wear their Violet Gownes and sutable Cloaks But the Ladies on the former Days wearing Scarlet on this Day are attired in Black On Whitsunday all the Aldermen use to meet the Lord Mayor and Sheriffs at the New-Church-yard by Moorfields wearing their Scarlet Gowns lined without Cloaks there they hear a Sermon appointed for that Day and so return to Dinner When they chuse Parliament-men all the Aldermen meet the Lord Mayor and Sheriffs at the Guild-Hall by nine of the Clock in the Morning wearing their Velvet Gowns and their Cloaks either furred or lined according as the time of the year requireth when they are to be chosen and they sit in the Hastings-Court untill the Commons do make Choice of them The last Honourable Members that served for this Renowned City were Sir Robert Clayton Knight that was Lord Mayor the last year Thomas Pilkinton Alderman Sir Thomas Player Knight and William 〈◊〉 Esq of whose real worth courage fidelity and wisdom in the management of that great Trust the City is very sensible as appears by the publick demonstrations deservedly given of it and no less sensible was the last Parliament but one of the Cities Loyalty Fidelity and great care to preserve his Majesties Royal person and the Protestant Religion that the thanks of the House was order'd to be given them which was accordingly done by the Worthy Members aforesaid What the Office of the Constables in the City of London is you may gather from their Oath which is thus Ye shall Swear that ye keep the Peace of our Soveraign Lord the King well and lawfully after your power And ye shall Arrest all them that make Contest Riot Debate or Affray in breaking of the said Peace and lead them to the House or Compter of one of the Sheriffs And if ye be withstood by strength of Misdoers ye shall rear on them an Out-cry and pursue them from Street to Street and from Ward to Ward till they be Arrested And ye shall search at all times when ye be required by the Seavengers or Beadles the Common Noysance of your Ward And the Beadle and Raker ye shall help to Rear and gather their Sallary and Quarterage if ye be thereunto by them required And if any thing be done within your Ward against the Ordinance of this City such defaults as ye shall find there done ye shall them present to the Mayor and
of Trade and Shop-keepers which are towards the Street whereas if they were as is usual in Italy and elsewhere built towards the great and principal streets no City in the whole World could go beyond it for beauty and magnificence Near the Bridge of London where this Dreadful Fire began is now erected as was ordered by Act of Parliament a Pillar in perpetual Memory of that great Incendium It is of the Dorick Order 175 Foot high from the Superficies of the Ground and 15 Foot Diameter all of solid Portland-stone with a fair Stair-case in the middle of black Marble and a large Iron Balcony at the top from whence a man may have a gallant prospect of all the City and Country this is commonly called the MONVMENT the Pedestal is likewise all of Portland-stone and is 21 Foot square and 40 Foot high Carved with most exquisite and significant resemblances or figures to the Street-side and on the other sides it bears these Inscriptions carv'd in large Letters Anno Christi MDCLXVI Die IV Nonas Septembris Hinc in orientem pedum CCII intervallo quae est hujusce Columnae Altitudo Erupit de media nocte incendium quod vento spirante hausit etiam longinqua partes per omnes populabundum ferebatur cum impetu fragore incredibili XXCIX Templa Portas Praetorium Aedes publicas Ptochotrophia Scholas Bibliothecas Insularum magnum Numerum Domuum CMâ— 00 00 00 CC vicos CD absumpsit De XXVI Regionibus XV funditus Delevit alias VIII laceras semiustas reliquit Vrbis Cadaver ad CDXXXVI jugerae hinc ab aree per Tamisis ripam ad Templariorum Fanum illinc ab Euro Aquilonali porta secundum Muros ad Fossae Fletanae Caput porrexit adversus opes Civium fortunas infestum erga vitas innocuum Vt per omnia referret supremam illam mundi exustionem Velox Clades fuit exiguum tempus eandem vidit Civitatem florentissimam nullam Tertio Die cum jam plane evicerat humana Consilia subsidia omnia Caelitus ut par est credere Jussus stetit fatalis ignis quaquaversum elanguit On another side CAROLO II C. Mart. F. Mag. Brit. Fran. Hib. Rex Fid. D. Princeps clementissimus miseratus luctuosam rerum faciem plurima fumantibus iam tum ruinis in solatium Civium Vrbis suae Ornamentum providit Tributum remisit preces ordinis popu li Londinensis retulit ad Regni Senatum qui continuo decrevit uti publica opera pecunia publica ex vectigali Carbonis fossilis oriunda in Meliorem formam restituerentur Vtique aedes sacrae D. Pauli Templum a fundamentis omni Magnificentia extruerentur Pontes Portae Carceres Novi fierent Emundarentur alvei Vici ad Regulam responderent Clivi Complanarentur Aperirentur Angiportus fora Macella in Areas sepositas eliminarentur Censuit etiam uti singulae Domus Muris integerinis concluderentur Vniversae in frontem pari altitudine consurgerent omnesque parietes saxo quadrato aut â—octo latere solidarentur Vtique Nemini liceret ulâ—ra septennium aedificando immorari Adhaec lites de terminis orituras lege lata praescidit adjecit quoque supplicationes annuas ad aeternam posterorum Memoriam H. C. P. C. Festinatur Vndique Resurgit Londinum Majori celeritate an splendore incertum Vnum triennium absolvit quod seculi opus credebatur Incepta Richardo Forde Equ Praetore Lond. A. D. MDCLXXI Perducta altius Geo. Waterman Eq. Prae. Roberto Hanson Eq. Prae Guliel Hooker Eq. Prae. Roberto Viner Eq. Prae. Josepho Sheldon Eq. Prae. Perfecta Thoma Davies Eq. Prae. Urb. Anno Dom. MDCLXXVII The substance of these Elegant Latine Inscriptions is a brief account of the Fire and the Devastation it made its swiftness and stop His Majesties gracious care for the rebuilding of it the Tribute laid upon Coals for the building of Churches and other publick structures c. the regularity uniformity and Model of the New Buildings And that all should build in seven years the Act for erecting a Judicature as before-mentioned concluding that it is a doubt whether the Resurrection of London be with greater â—elerity or splendor since three years compleated what was Judged to be the work of an Age. This was begun Sir Richard Ford being Lord Mayor 1671 raised higher Sir Geo. Waterman Knight Sir Robert Hansen Knight Sir Will. Hooker Knight Sir Robert Viner Knight Sir Joseph Sheldon Knight Lord Mayors finished Sir Thomas Davies Knight Lord Mayor in the Year of our Lord 1677. So much for Fires only amongst many that may be mentioned I cannot forget a lamentable accident that happen'd to a Family to which I was nearly related one Mr. De Laune that liv'd in Lothbury a Merchant who above twenty years ago with his Wife who was then ready to lie in the Daughter of Sir Thomas Allen of Finchly and all their Family were burnt in their House there and no account but conjectures can be given how the fire came In the first year of the Reign of K. H. 7. in Autumn towards the end of September that is about 196 years ago there began and reigned in the City and other parts of the Kingdom a Diease then new which of the accidents and manner thereof they called the Sweating-sickness This Disease had a swift Course both in the sick body and in the time and period of the lasting thereof For they that were taken with it upon twenty-four hours escaping were thought almost assured And as to the time of the Malice and Reign of the Disease ere it ceased It began about the 21 st of September and clear'd up before the end of October It was a Pestilent Feaver not seated in the Veins or Humours for there followed no Carbuncle no purple or livid spots or the like the Mass of Blood or of the Body being not tainted only a malignant Vapour flew to the Heart and seizsd the Vital Spirits which stirred Nature to send it forth by an Extream sweat And it appeared by experience that this Disease was rather a surprize of Nature then obstinate to Remedies if it were in time looked into For if the Patient were kept in an equal temper both for Clothes Fire and Drink moderately warm with temperate Cordials whereby Natures work were neither irritated by heat nor turned back by cold he commonly Recovered But infinite persons dyed suddenly of it before the manner of Cure and Attendance was known It was conceived to be not an Epedemick Disease but to proceed from a Malignity in the Constitution of the Air gathered by the predispositions of Seasons and the speedy cessation declared as much The Remedy of this Disease which hapned again in the 9 th of K. H. 8. Anno 1517. and of which vast numbers died remarkable by this Circumstance that Englishmen were taken with it in any Country but no others and therefore termed by Foreigners Sudor Anglicus that is the English-sweat is
given by Polidor Virgil p. 561. Thus Quibus Rebus ita usu venit c. by which means it grew to a Custom that after a vast destruction of men by this Distemper this kind of help was found effectual If any person was taken with this Sweat by day he must go to Bed with his Cloaths on If by night and the party be in bed then he must rest and not stir for 24 hours compleat in the mean time he must be so covered as not to provoke Sweat but let it proceed of its own accord he must neither eat nor drink any thing but what will just serve to keep him alive he must not so much as put forth hand or foot to be cooled for that 's death unavoidable If the Patient observes this he is certainly cured else lost and this Disease saith he invaded only England or English-men which men at that time made portentous constructions of This Mortal Distemper was succeeded by a rageing Plague which swept away many so that the King was forced to remove his Court from one place to another By that Sweating-sickness in H. 8's time infinite multitudes of People dyed in several places of England especially in London sparing neither rich nor poor for even in the King's Court the Lord Gray of Wilton and the Lord Clinton and many Knights Gentlemen and Officers died of it The like Sweating-sickness hapned in the 20 th year of his Reign which began in London and afterwards spread it self into all parts of the Kingdom so that the Term and the Assizes were adjourned In the 20 E. 3. as Baker says p. 131. there died in London of a Plague 57374 persons In the 4 th of Queen Mary hot burning Agues and other strange Diseases took away much People So as between the 20 th of October and the last of December there died 7 Aldermen of London namely Henry Heardson Sir Richard Dobs Sir Will. Laxton Sir Henry Hobblethorn Sir John Champney Sir John Ayleph and Sir John Gresham of which some were Lord Mayors c. I find that in the 8 th of Qu. Eliz. there died in ten Months seven Aldermen of London viz. Edward Banks Richard Chamberlain Sir Martin Bowes Sir Richard Mallory Sir William Hewet Sir Thomas White and Richard Lambert one of the Sheriffs for that year In the 36 th of Qu. Eliz. there dyed of the Plague in London and the Suburbs 17890. besides the Lord Mayor and three Aldermen and Michaelmas-Term was holden at St. Albans The first of King James viz. 1602 there died in London and Liberties 38244 whereof of the Plague 30578 yet the next year though the City was increased with a great number of Strangers there died of all Diseases but 4263. There broke out likewise a great Plague in the First of King Charles the First whereof more died than in the beginning of his Fathers Reign Many other Plagues have been in the City but I shall conclude this subject with a brief account of the great Plague in 1665. In the beginning of May the Bill of Mortality mentions nine that died of the Plague and decreased the next Week to three then increased to fourteen next to seventeen next forty three and then great Persons began to retire into the Country In June the Bill increases to 112 next 168 next 267 next 470 then do many Tradesmen go into the Country and many Ministers take occasion to absent themselves from their Charge In July the Bill rises to 725 then to 1089 next 1843 next to 2010 Now most Parishes are infected a vast number of Houses shut up no Trade at all and the number of dying persons still encreasing although so many thousands left the City In Aug. the Bill rises to 2817 next 3880 next 4237 and then 6102 all which died of the Plague besides other Diseases Now there is a dismal solitude in London-streets every day looks with the face of a Sabbath observed with greater solemnity than it used to be in the City Shops are shut up very few walk about so that grass begins to spring in some places A deep silence every where no ratling of Coaches c. no calling in Customers no London Crys no noise but dying Croans and Funeral Knells c. In September the Bill rises to 6988 the next falls to 6544 but then rises again to 7165 which was the greatest Bill There were but four Parishes that were not infected and in them few tarried The next Bill falls to 5538 then to 4929 then to 4327 then to 2665 then to 1421 then to 1031. First Week in November it rises to 1414 but falls to 1050 then to 652 then to 333 and so lessened more and more to the end of the year when we had a Bill of 97306 which died of all Diseases which was 79000 more than the year before and the number of them which died of the Plague was reckoned to be 68596 that year but others say that there died of that fatal Disease in little more than a years space near 100000 persons in London and some adjacent places I shall proceed to remark briefly some few things more which are Miscellaneous Collections of my own from Divers Authors In the time of Edward the Second when the workmen were digging the Foundation of a Work about Pauls there were found more than 100 heads of Oxen which confirm'd that opinion that of old time it had been the Temple of Diana and that there was the Sacrifice of Beasts In the 3 H. 5. It is said that seven Dolphins came up the River of Thames whereof four were taken In the Fourth of Q. Mary before Harvest Wheat was sold for four Marks the Quarter Malt at 44 s. the Quarter Pease at 46 s. 8 d. Yet after Harvest Wheat was sold for 5 s. the Quarter Malt for 6 s. 8 d. Rye at 3 s. 4 d. In the Country Wheat was sold for 4 s. the Quarter Malt at 4 s. 8 d. and in some places a Bushel of Rye for a pound of Candles which was 4 d. I have read that in the Third of King James a Whale came up within eight miles of London whose body was seen divers times above water and judged to exceed the length of the largest Ship in the River but when she tasted the fresh-water and sented the Land she returned into the Sea I find recorded by divers Writers that the 17 th of July 1619 one Bernard Calvart of Andover rode from St. George's Church in Southwark to Dover and from thence passed by Barge to Callice in France and from thence returned back to St. George's Church the same day setting out about three in the Morning and returned about eight in the Evening fresh and lusty being 184 miles which was very strange In the 14 th R. 2. on Christmas-day a Dolphin was taken at London-bridge being ten Foot long and a monstrous grown Fish In the 37 H. 8. On Tuesday in Easter week William Foxely Pot-maker for the Mint