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A short account of the Company of Grocers from their original : together with their case and condition (in their present circumstances) truly stated : as also how their revenue is settled for payment of their charities, and provision made for the well-governing their members and mystery, to preserve a succession in their society : designed for information of all, and benefit of the members, and for satisfaction and encouragement of their friends and benefactors.
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Ravenhill, W. L. D.
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Wing R325; ESTC R32274
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Anno 1666. at his own proper charge erect out of its ashes the fair Pile of Building now the great Parlour and entertaining-Room over it and again was chosen and held Master-Warden Annis 1685 / 6. And also in kindness to the Company Annis 1686 / 7. was Assistant and Locum Tenens to the Right Honourable their then Master-Warden And this present year 1688. in their greatest Exigence when others whose turn it was declined them consented to be chosen the fourth time their Master-Warden Under whose happy conduct the Company 's Revenue hath been settled as a most righteous Sanction to secure the due payment of their yearly Charities And the Members now restored to act in their several Capacities according to their Seniority and Merit in order compleat the Company 's Deliverance SIR JOHN MOORE Knight and Alderman and late Lord Mayor a Member of this Company at his own charge repaired and beautifyed the Body of this Hall Annis 1680 / 81. whose leading Example therein gave such encouragement to other Worthy Members liberally to contribute towards enlarging and compleating it with additional Building so as to make it the most Commodious Seat for the Chief Magistrate in this City in grateful acknowledgement of whose kindness the Company afterwards caused his Picture and this Inscription as a Memorial thereof to be here set up This HALL BEing situate in the centre of the City was designed and adapted for the Seat of the Chief Magistrate at the expence of 4800 l. in new Building and accommodations added to the Body of the Hall Kitchen and Sir John Cutler's Building on this Confidence that as it is every way the most Commodious Place for that Publick Use and would yearly save the Lord Mayor so great and unavoidable Charge elsewhere so it should be considered accordingly and in some proportion augment the yearly Revenue of the Company for support and discharge of their yearly Charities and other incident charge of Repairs and Duties c. Annis 1679 and 1680. Sir James Edwards Alderman and late Lord Mayor Master-Wardens John Beale Warden Thomas Bourne Warden William Buckeridge Warden Annis 1680 and 1681. Sir Henry Tulse Alderman and afterwards Lord Mayor Master-Wardens Ralph Box Warden William Winch Warden Roger Reeve Warden Justice and Charity Revived IN a most Righteous and Voluntary Settlement of the whole Revenue of the Company of Grocers by Inquisition Decree and Coveyance in Trustees for ever to secure the due payment of the yearly Charities appointed by their Donors and Benefactors Annis Domini 1686 1687. The Right Honourable Sir Thomas Chicheley by Sir John Cutler Knight and Baronet and Sir John Moore Knight Master-Wardens William Hart Warden Thomas Horton Warden Edward Sheerwood Warden Annis Domini 1687 1688. Ralph Box Esq Master-Wardens John Banks Warden Stephen Coleman Warden Jonadab Balaam Warden Edward Underhill Esq Alderman Master-Wardens John Banks continued Warden Robert Knight Warden Francis Lasco Warden Thomas Short formerly Warden assisting therein Samuel Brewster formerly Warden assisting therein All Glory be to GOD. There are several other Charities wherewith the growing Revenue of the Grocers will be chargeable appointed by pious and well disposed Persons who in like manner left several Summs of Money which were laid out in improving the Company 's Lands by Building and consumed by the same unhappy Fate particularly FOR support and relief of decayed Members and their sickly Families as also for their Widows and Children in like distress For augmentation of maintenance for Godly Ministers where Livings are small For encouragement and advancement of Maid-Servants in Marriage who have faithfully served Members for a certain number of years And for defraying the charge of sober Anniversary Festivals in moderate Entertainment of the Members to maintain and encrease mutual Friendship and Christian Conversation in the Fraternity as well in Ease as for Encouragement of the Members who should successively happen to be Stewards whose Burthen is in the mean time made light by the present Ordinances whereby all other charge of Members is also made very easie to the end the Stewards and Members who are to contribute towards the charge may be as merry themselves as their Guests at those Festivals All which are faithfully recorded to take place and be discharged out of the yearly Revenue of the Company which will be very great upon expiring Leases all decreed and settled so as to be improved to the utmost to answer those great Trusts so reposed in the Members at the Helm as being first so well designed by the Donors and now again made Sacred for such uses And let Anathema be pronounced by every Faithful Member against every one and who can be now ignorant that is concerned as a Trustee that shall knowingly attempt or endeavour to alien take away to themselves or again misapply the same And may the great Pilot of Hearts quicken and incline many others to whom God hath lent large Talents from the Example of those worthy Benefactors whose Names are now here revived with a sweet smelling savour when their Bodies have so long peaceably slept in the dust to build on their Foundation in chearfully contributing towards the support and relief of such numerous Objects of each kind as the present Age affords in whom the voice of God calls aloud for it till such help shall arise from the Holy Seed here sown for a better supply in a future Harvest from thence There would need no motive to this Sacred Duty would Men consider that they are no Proprietors but Stewards in Trust of all they have for which as well as for what they leave of it to Posterity without such allowance as is here spoken of they shall most assuredly render a strict Account And therefore the best and surest way to entail a Blessing on their Children and Posterity in what they leave them when they die on like Trust to improve for the good of others for the property can never be altered is by thus taking care and liberally providing for the miserable and helpless Members of their Masters great Family And certainly had many Men especially such as made profession of Religion in their life-time foreseen how soon a Vicious Consumption hath been made by their Children or Successors of all they left them for want of a better insurance of it by thus disposing some considerable part of their Lord's Estate according to his own Will they would if it were to doe again most willingly have disposed of more to such uses as these And therefore I hope such as are convinced of this Truth and have been Eye-Witnesses of such sad effects in others will begin in their life-time and prevent the fraud or negligence besides other contingencies attending their Executors in disposition of their Charities when they are dead for when their own Eyes are Overseers of such God-like disposition they may sweetly taste that Peace and Comfort in their own Bosoms whilst they live which the World cannot give and persevering
his last Will and Testament dated the 17th Day of July 1556. gave for ever to this Company all his Lands and Tenements in Canning-Street and the several Lanes adjacent whereon are now erected many fair Dwelling-Houses by the Lessees after the late dreadful Fire To maintain a School-Master and Vsher and seven Alms-men and a Woman to attend them at Gundle in Northamptonshire and the Surplusage to support their Charities The Bodies of these two Worthy Members and Benefactors were both laid in one Vault in St. Mary Aldermary Church with fair Monuments over them demolished by the said late Fire The said Sir Henry Keble at his own proper Charges built the said St. Mary Aldermary Church BENEFACTORS From whom the Company have received their Revenue designed for the Support and Relief of their poor Members and Discharge of other charitable Vses BENEFACTORS Who gave the Company Summs of Money to purchase Lands and Tenements which with much more they laid out in improving the Lands and Tenements so given by other Benefactors that the same might also answer the yearly Charities appointed by those Donors of such Moneys The DONORS Names and the Streets and Places where their Lands and Tenements so given are situate Sir Henry Keble Broad-Street Sir William Butler Thames-Street Mincing Lane. John Maldon Botolph-Lane Thomas Gore Grace Church-Street Lombard-Street John Billesdon Cornhil Sir William Laxton Canning-Street Bush-Lane Abchurch-Lane St. Nicholas-Lane Eastcheap Sherborn Lane. St. Swithins Lane. John Wardall Walbrook Thomas Knowles St. Antholins Emme Bachus Wood-Street Steyning-Lane Sir Thomas Middleton Baynerd's Castle William Robinson Grub-Street Elizabeth Burrel Cheap-Side Peter Bloundell Donning's Alley Sir John Hart Shore-Ditch Lady Anne Middleton Montgomery-Shire Cornwall  lb Lady Conway 1441 Gilbert Keate 600 William Robinson 400 Alderman Saunders 210 Francis Tyrrel 700 John Heydon 100 Edmond Turvill 1000 Robert Lambert 100 Nicholas Stiles 100 Sir John Peachy 500 Richard Haile 200 Mr. Wheatley 100 Humphry Walwyn 600 Mary Robinson 500 Total Summ 6551 The present Rents with some small Addition from the casual yearly Profits do discharge the whole yearly Charities of both kinds and the Arrears of each Branch are secured to be paid out of the first Fines on renewing Leases and other Improvement of the same And to preserve and augment their Revenue they have made provision to prevent adding to any Term whilst five Years remain in being and not to reserve less than 10 l. per Cent. per Annum of the full improved yearly Value on Demise of any part thereof Benefactors WHO gave Summs of Money to be lent to young Members of the Company on small or no Interest at the Discretion of the Wardens and Assistants wherewith the Company having charged themselves the same are now decreed to be raised out of the first Fines on renewing Leases or other Profits arising out of their Revenue above their yearly Charities immediately after the Arrears of their yearly Charities shall be discharged and for ever to be continued a Stock for these and to be applied to no other Vses whatsoever  l. s. d The Lady Slaney 100 0 0 Edmond Turvyll 100 0 0 Henry Anderson 100 0 0 John Newman 100 0 0 Gilbert Keate 50 0 0 Thomas Wheatley 50 0 0 Sir John Lyon 200 0 0 Edward Elmer 50 0 0 Thomas Farmer 100 0 0 Lettice Deane 200 0 0 Richard Lambert 100 0 0 Edward Jakeman 200 0 0 Katharine Hall 100 0 0 Roger Knott 100 0 0 John Heydon 100 0 0 Sir Thomas Ramsey 200 0 0 Peter Houghton 400 0 0 Thomas Ridge 100 0 0 John Grove 100 0 0 Gilbert Keate 50 0 0 Thomas Dawkins 20 0 0 Robert Brooke 100 0 0 Mary Robinson 200 0 0 George Holman 100 0 0 Richard-Hall 100 0 0 Thomas Westraw 100 0 0 Robert Bowyer 50 0 0 John Hudson 100 0 0 Sir Robert Nappier 100 0 0 William Pennyfather 100 0 0 Thomas Moulston 200 0 0 Stephen Abberley 250 0 0 John Mevil 100 0 0 Thomas Gamull 200 0 0 Constance Wrightman 100 0 0 Sir Edmond Wright 50 0 0 Thomas Freeman 100 0 0 William Pennyfather 233 6 8 This was not only a great Encouragement for young Men so to behave themselves during their Apprenticeship as by a good Report to recommend themselves capable of such a Favour from the Company but is a great Obligation on such of them as by God's Blessing on their Endeavours shall from small Beginnings gain ample Estates to become themselves also liberal Benefactors IN the Reign of King Henry the IV. Henry Chicheley the Eldest Brother being then Lord Arch-Bishop of Canterbury his two younger Brethren were both Aldermen and Members of this Company viz. Sir William the Second and Sir Robert the Third both in their turn Sheriffs and Sir Robert afterwards twice Lord Mayor who purchased the Ground whereon St. Stephen's Church in Walbrook now stands which he built at his own charge the Advowson whereof remains in the Company of Grocers to this Day which Church being consumed by the Fire Anno 1666. The Right Honourabie Sir Thomas Chicheley also a Member of this Company who descended in a right Line from the said Sir Robert late Master of the Ordnance afterwards Chancellor of the Dutchy of Lancaster and to King Charles the Second and some time to King James the Second of Their Majesties most Honourable Privy Council laid the first Stone and was a liberal Benefactor towards rebuilding thereof And being their Master Annis 1686 / 7. at his own charge built the Company a new Barge and purchased them the Tennant Right of a Barge-House in grateful remembrance whereof they have caused his Picture and this Inscription to be here set up If I were to give a Title to this following Table I humbly conceive it might be not improperly called The Insurance Office. That the Heir may not sooner prodigally waste than his Ancestor frugally got the Estate ΑΠΟΚΑΛΥΨΙΣ ιδ. ιγ. * Rev. 14.13 They rest from their Labours and their Works do follow them 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ALthough Good Works or well-husbanding our Talent lent for Improvement be not Meritorious yet in the Dialect of the Apostle they are esteemed the best Evidence of Faith and Obedience and remain a surviving Testimony of a Faithful Steward when silent in his Grave And it is observable that in all Ages Honour and Estate have been most lasting in their Families who have most abounded in Works of this Nature So that if it were modest to assign the Cause why so many great Estates have been sooner wasted by a Prodigal Heir than gotten by his Frugal Parent we may with humble submission conclude it is from a defect in this great and necessary Duty so generally Crown'd with a Blessing on Posterity SIR JOHN CUTLER Knight and Baronet a Worthy Member of this Company having Fined for Sheriff and Alderman nigh forty years since was chosen and held Master-Warden Annis 1652 / 3. and did immediately after the dreadful Fire