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
and the Metropolitan or chief Church of this Kingdom and so endureâ— Four hundred Years then the Archbishops See anâ— Pall were removed to Canterbury But whetheâ— the Church that King King Lucius built be thiâ— or St. Peters Westminster is controverted by Historians and therefore we shall not wrangle about it To the Poor of this Parish were sundry Benefactors as Lancelot Tompson of London Draper who amongst other Charities gave one hundred pound to the Drapers Company and they to allow Five pound yearly for ever for Bread and Coals for the Poor of the said Parish whom several other well minded People imitated It was most richly Repaired and Beautified at the Parish Charge amounting to about one thousand four hundred pound in the Year 1633. XC The Parish-Church called St. Peter-Pauls-Wharf was in Queen-Hith-Ward wont to be called Parva or Little because it was a small Church it was Repaired and Beautified Anno 1625. Therein was a Monument for Queen ELIZABETH XCI In Broad-street-Ward is the Parish-Church vulgarly called St. Peter-Poor peradventure so called because the Parish was Poor formerly but now they are otherwise or to difference it from others of that Name here are sundry Monuments and several Benefactors to the Poor of the Parish The Lady Payton gave 40 s. Yearly for ever in Bread the Lady Ramsey gave four pound Yearly for ever Mr. John Quarles Citizen and Draper of London gave the Sum of five pound Yearly for ever c. It cost in sundry Repairs from the year 1615 to 1630. the Sum of one thousand five hundred eighty seven pound all which except four hundred which Sir William Garway Knight gave was the proper charge of the Parishioners XCII The Parish-Church of St. Stephen in Coleman-street and Ward had divers Monuments and Benefactors but I cannot omit the Verses on the Monument of Barne Roberts Esq who Dyed Anno 1610. they are so Elegantly expressive of his Wifes affection she was eldest Daughter to Sir William Glover Kinght and Alderman of London who Erected the Monument Anno 1611. at her own Charge If human worth could have preserv'd him still He had been much too strong for Death to kill Yet being Conquer'd he got by the strife A better being in a better life So that great Victor over Nature left him More happiness ten fold than he bereft him This Church was sometime a Synagogue of the Jews then a Parish-Church then a Chappel to St. Olaves in the Jewry and 7 E. 4. it was Incorporated a Parish-Church It was Repaired and Beautified at the Parish Charge Anno 1622 and a very fair Gallery added in the South Ile Anno 2629. Here was also a Monument for Queen ELIZABETH XCIII In Wallbrook-street and Ward is the fair Parish-Church called St. Stephen-Wallbrook Sir Robert Chichely somtimes Lord Mayor in the Year 1428 6 H. 6. gave to this Parish one Plat of Ground containing two hundred and eight Foot and a half in Length and sixty six Foot in Breadth to Build a New Church and for a Church Yard on the East-side of the Old Church the place of the Old Church being converted to a Parsonage-House This Ground he bought of the Grocers for two hundred Marks which was Lett before for twenty six Marks Yearly He gave over and above one hundred pound to the said Work bore the Charges of all the Timber-Work on the Procession-way and laid the Lead upon it at his own Post He gave also all the Timber for the Roofing of the two Iles and paid for the Carriage therefore It was finished 1439. The Breadth being sixty seven Foot the Length 125. The Church-Yard Ninety Foot in Length and thirty seven in Breadth and more It had many Repairs to the Year 1632 amounting to five hundred and ten pound fifteen shillings and six pence XCIV The Parish-Church of St. Swithins is also in Wallbrook-Ward on the South-West corner of Swithins-lane wherein were divers Monuments XCV In Knight-Riders-street in Vintry-Ward is the proper Parish-Church of St. Thomas Apostle In which was a neat Monument on which was an Elegant Epitaph in Latin Verse composed by Mrs. Katherine Killegrew for her self in her life time And another in neat Greek Verse by her Sister Elizabeth for the said Katherinâ— when she dyed besides two more expressing the great Learning and Accuteness of those Noble Sisters But our intended brevity permits the Recital but of two and that for a â—aste and to shew what Women may arrive to if Studious What she Writ her Self was Dormio nunc Domino Domini virtute resurgam Et 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 meum carne videbo mea Mortua ne Dicar fruitur pars altera Christo Et surgar Capiti tempore tota meo Here was another Epitaph by Andrew Melvin Palladis Phabi comes una Pieris una Pieridumque soror Pieridumque Parens Gratia suada lepas Gravitas Constantia Candor Religio Pietas pudor probitas Atque Palestinae Latiae Graiaeque Camenae Clausit olim uno omnes pectore nunc Tumulo It was Repaired and Beautified at the Parish charge amounting to three hundred pound Anno 1630. There was also a Monument of Queen ELIZABETH but the Verses being the same we had in other places we omit them to avoid prolixity XCVI In Knight-Riders-street is the small Parish-Church of the Holy-Trinity To which John Bryan Alderman in the Reign of Henry the V. was a great Benefactor c. It was Re-built at the Parish charge being lamentably decayed Anno 1607 and 1608. To which the Worshipful Companies of Merchant Taylors and Vintners were very Bountiful Benefactors As also these Aldermen Sir Thomas Cambel Sir John Swinnerton Sir John Gore Sir William Craven Sir Thomas Middleton XCVII The Parish-Church called St. Vedast alias Foster in Farringdon-Ward-within was a Fair Church had had many Benefactors and in it were several Monuments To this Church at the Chancel end the Breadth being twenty Yards and above was added twenty Foot of Ground which Ground was given to the Parish to Lengthen the Church out of a Fair Court then belonging to the Sadlers-Hall Having given a brief Account of the Churches within the Walls as they were formerly reserving their present State to another Head there being Eighty seven Destroyed by the Fire of which many are bravely Re-built c. We shall proceed Alphabotically to those sixteen without the Wall And I. The Parish-Church of St. Andrew-Holborn stands at the very corner of Shooe-lane in Holborn In which are several Monuments but we cannot omit that of Râ—lph Okey of Lincolns-Inn Esq because of his Piety and Bounty in Legacies He was Master of St. Katharines and one of the Masters of Requests to Queen ELIZABETH he Dyed the Fourth of June 1596. He gave by his Testament to Christs-Hospital one hundred pound To the Colledge of the Poor of Queen ELIZABETH in East Greenwich one hundred pound To Poor Scholars in Cambridge one hundred pound To Poor Scholars in Oxford one hundred
pound To Prisoners in the two Compters of London two hundred pound To Prisoners in the Fleet one hundred pound To Prisoners in Ludgate one hundred pound To Prisoners in Newgate one hundred pound To Prisoners in the King 's Bench one hundred pound To Prisoners in the Marshalsea one hundred pound Which is Eleven hundred pound Besides twenty pound to the Prisoners in the White-Lyon And to the Poor of St. Katharines twenty pound And to every Brother and Sister there forty shillings He hath a Curious Monument in the Wall of the Quire expressing in Latin his Descent Employs Deâ—erts and Piety c. II. In treating of the Parish-Church of St. Bartholomeâ—-Great in Farringdon-Ward-without it is necessary to say somthing briefly of its Original On the East-side of Duck-lane near Smithfield one Rahere a pleasant wittied Gentleman Founded the Priory of St. Bartholomew about the Year 1102. He placed Canons there and became himself their first Prior and so continued while he lived and was Buried there in a Fair Monument Renewed by Prior Bolton who was the last Prior in that House this Priory was New built Anno 1410. King Henry II. Granted it the priviledge of a Fair to be kept Yearly at Bartholomew-tide When it was surrended in the Thirtieth of H. VIII it was valued at six hundred fifty three pound fifteen shillings per annum Six Bells in a Tune belonging to it were Sold to the Parish of St. Sepulchres And then the Church being pulled down to the Quire the Quire was by the Kings order annexed for the inlarging of the old Parish-Church adjoyning and so was used till the Reign of Queen Mary who gave the Remnant of the Priory-Church to the Friers Preachers or Black-Friers and was used as their Conventual-Church until the first of Queen Elizabeth Then those Fryers were put out and all the said Church with the old Parish-Church was wholly as it stood in the last Year of Edward the VI. given by Parliament to remain for ever a Parish-Church to the Inhabitants within the Close called Great St. Bartholomews Since which time much cost hath been spent in Repairs upon it III. The Hospital of St. Bartholomew now the Parish-Church called St. Bartholomew the less was Founded by the above mentioned Rahere This was confirmed by Edward III. in his Twenty sixth Year this Hospital was valued at the Suppression Anno 1539. in the Thirty first of Henry VIII at thirty five pound six shillings and seven pence Yearly It Remaineth now the Parish-Church to the Inhabitants in the Precinct of the Hospital In the later end of July Anno 1552. This Hospital was Repaired New Endowed and Furnished at the charge of the Citizens IV. The Parish-Church of St. Bridget or Bride in Farringdon-Ward-without of old time was a small Thing but increased since with a large Body and side-Iles towards the West at the charge of William Vennor Esq Warden of the Fleet about the Year 1480. All which he caused to be brought about in the Stone in the Figure of a Vine with Grapes and Leaves c. The partition betwixt the old work and the New some time prepared as a Screen to be set up in the Hall of the Duke of Somerset's-House in the Strand was bought for eight score pound and set up in the Year 1557. This Church was Repaired and Richly and Curiously Beautified at the Charge of the Parishioners 1630 1631 1632. The Battlements were New built the middle Roof and a very Fair Gallery on the North side of this Church answerable to that on the South erected Anno 1607. V. As to Bridewel Precinct we refer you to the Section of Hospitals with respect to that Foundation It was Enlarged and Beautified at the proper cost and Charge of the Governors and Inhabitants of the Precinct Anno 1620. Sir Thomas Middleton being President and Mr. Thomas Johnson Treasurer There was above twenty four Foot in Length added to it It is a Beautiful Chappel that commends the care of its Governors We must not omit to insert that close by the Pulpit hangs the Picture of King Edward the VI. that truly Religious and most Vertuous Protestant Prince with the following Lines This Edward of fair Memory the sixth In whom with Greatness Goodness was commixt Gave this Bridewell a Palace in old times For a Chastising-House of Vagrant Crimes There is likewise a Monument of Queen Elizabeths but the Verses being before Recited we shall for brevity here omit them VI. In Alders-gate-Ward and in Britain-street so called of the Dukes of Britain that lodged there is the Parish-Church of St. Botolph called Aldersgate There was a Popish Brotherhood Founded there Anno 1377 indowed with Lands above thirty l. per annum a great Sum then but suppressed by King Edward the VI. In this were divers Monuments amongst the rest was a Fair Pyramid erected against a Pillar with this Pathetick Inscription not unworthy to be Transcribed Katharina Mountague obiit 7. die Decembris anno Domini 1612. What Epitaph shall we afford this Shrine Words cannot Grace this Pyramid of thine Thy sweet Perfections all summ'd up were such As Heavens I think for Earth did think too much Religious Zeal did thy pure heart command Pity thine Eye and Charity thy Hand These Graces joyned with more of like degree Make each Mans word an Epitaph for thee Calm was thy Death well order'd was thy life A Careful Mother and a lâ—ving Wife Ask any how these Vertues in thee grew Thou wast a Spencer and a Mountague VII The Parish-Church of St. Botolph-Aldgate is a very Fair Church not far from Ald-gate in Portsoken-Ward It is a Populous Parish and there are several Monuments in the Church Amongst which for his Charity which deserves to be Remembred we shall Remark that of George Clark Citizen and Vintner of London who gave these following Legacies For a publick School in the University of Oxford the Sum of two hundred pound To the use of the Poor of the four Precincts of the Ward of Portsoken being in this Parish two hundred ninety three pound six shillings and eight pence To the Parish of White-Chappel for the Relief of the Poor there one hundred and six pound fifteen shillings and four pence To the Company of Vintners ten pound To the Poor of Christ's Hospital five pound That is eight hundred forty five pound two shillings and two pence He Deceased the fourteenth of April Anno 1606. Aged 63 Years This Church was Repaired and Beautified Anno 1621. There is a Memorial Erected by the Right Worshipful the Company of Merchant-Taylors for Robert Dove Esq Citizen and Merchant-Taylor of London Master of the same Company and one of the Customers in the Port of London who gave in his Life-time Three thousand five hundred twenty eight pound ten shillings and eight pence for Charitable Uses for ever to divers Poor Brethren of the same Company and other Uses for the said Company viz. To Christ's Hospital To St. Sepulchres-Parish To
Re-built about the Reign of Henry the V. or Edward the IV. one of the Pophams was a great Builder there namely of one Fair Chappel on the South-side of the Quire as appeareth by his Arms there c. Here are divers Monuments There has been much money spent in Repairs upon this Church In it there is an Excellent Organ and a very good Ring of Bells It is in Farringdon-Ward-without XV. Anno 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 next following the Sick and Poor People were taken in The Church of this Hospital remaineth as a Parish-Church for the Inhabitants thereabout by the Name of St. Thomas Southwark The Steeple was Repaired New Leaded and from the Ground to the Top Coated with a Beautiful Rough-Cast and Inriched with a very Fair Turret in the Year 1633. It is in Bridge-Ward-without XVI In Portsoken-Ward is the small Parish-Church called Trinity Minories there was first a Monastery of Nuns of the Order of Sancta-Clara called the Minories Founded by Edmond Earl of Lancaster Leicester and Derby Brother to Edward the I. Anno 1293. Which was Demolished in King Henry the Eighths Thirtieth Year Anno 1539. There were built Store-Houses for Armour and other Martial Habiliments with divers Work-Houses for that purpose and near it this Church for the Inhabitants who at several times Repaired and Beautified it In the Body of this Church is a Monument with this Inscription Vivere Cornices multos dicuntur in annos Cur vos Angusta conditione sumus We shall now proceed to the out Parishes in Middlesex and Surrey I. As to Christ's-Church we refer the Reader to another place where he shall have a fuller account than we can give here II. The Parish-Church of St. John at Hackney is an antient and handsom Church and kept in good Repair there are divers Monuments in it but our Discourse being Principally of the City of Londoâ— it cannot be expected that we should enlarge much more than the bare mention of generals having things much more Material that require our dispatch But the Fair Parish-Church of III. St. Giles in the Fields is a very Neat and well built Parish-Church in a handsom Church-Yard It was formerly an Hospital Founded by Queen Matilda Wife to King Henry the I. about the Year 1117. at which Prisoners convey'd from London to Tyburn to be Executed were presented with a great Bowl of Ale thereof to Drink at pleasure as to be their last Refreshing in this Life In this Church are several Monuments It began to be Raised a New Anno 1623 and was Finished in two Years and incompass'd with a Fair Brick-Wall in the Year 1631. To which there were many good and great Benefactors many of whom would be concealed This is a very large Parish and next to St. Giles Cripple-gate and Stepney is reputed to be the most Populous in England if not in Europe it being thought by such as have made an Estimate that it contains above 100000 Souls besides Strangers who are very Numerous IV. The Parish-Church called St. James Clerkenwell in the North-West Suburbs was formerly a Priory so called of Clark's Well adjoyning It is a handsom large Church with divers Antient and some Modern Monuments And it had sundry Benefactors William Hern a Master of Defence and Yeoman of the Guard 1580 gave Lands and Tenements to the Cloathworkers in London they to pay Yearly for ever fourteen pound to the Church-Wardens of Clerkenwel and fourteen pound to the Church-wardens of St. Sepulchres towards Reparation of those Churches and Relief of Poor Men. More he gave after the Death of one Man eight pound a Year for ever to the mending of High-Ways Thomas Sackford Esq one of the Masters of Requests gave to the Poor of that Parish forty shillings a Year for ever out of his Alms-House at Woodbridge in Suffolk where he is buried Henry Stoke Gardiner buried there gave twenty shillings a Year for ever towards Reparation of that Church The Priory was valued to dispend 262 l. 9. s. per annum and was surrendred 30 H. VIII and is now a Parish-Church It was Repaired after the fall of its Steeple which spoil'd a great part of the Church and finished Anno 1627. at the cost of 1400 l. V. The Parish-Church called St. Katharine-Tower because near the Tower of London On the East-side was an Hospital of St. Katharine Founded by Queen Matilda Wife to King Stephen There lye buryed besides many others in this Church the Countess of Huntington Countess of the March in her time 1429. John Holland Duke of Exeter and Earl of Huntington 1447 and his two Wives in a Fair Tomb Thomas Walsingham Esq and Thomas Ballard Esq by him 1465. This Church was Repaired and throughout Trimmed and Beautified Anno 1618. Inlarged with a Fair Gallery 1621. The Walls and out-side cloathed with a Beautiful Rough-Cast at the Charge of Sr. Julius Caesar Anno 1626. Mr. Stephen Scudamore Citizen and Vintner of London gave 20 s. per annum to be bestowed in Fuel amongst the Poor for ever Mr. John Boum Baker gave 5 l. per annum to be bestowed in Bread among the Poor for fourty Years VI. In the Church at Lambeth are very many Monuments which for brevity we pretermit VII The Arch-Deacon of London is always Parson of St. Leonard Shore-Ditch and the Cure is served by a Vicar There were divers Honorable Persons buried there and there were many Bountiful Benefactors to the Church and Poor John Fuller of Bishops-Hall Esq gave a Sum of Money for the Building of twelve Alms-Houses for twelve Poor Widdows of this Parish who receive fifty pound per annum of his Gift William Peak Esq gave two shillings a Week to be distributed in Bread for ever on Sundays Robert Brainforth Gentleman gave eight pound Yearly for ever to the Poor Thomas Russel Draper gave twelve pence Weekly for ever to be paid by the Drapers George Clark gave to the Poor one hundred Marks in Money c. VIII The Parish-Church of St. Magdalen Bermondsey was built by the Priors of Bermondsey near the Abby of Bermondsey which was surrendred to King Henry the VIII it was much enlarged Anno 1608 at the Charge of 860 l. so that it became and is a Fair Church IX The Church of St. Mary Istington And X. The Parish-Church of St. Mary Newington are Fair Parishes with some Monuments but being so Remote we pretermit them XI St. Mary White-Chappel is as it were a Chappel of Ease to Stepney-Parish and the Parson of Stepney hath the Gift of it 't is a handsom Church and in good Repair There are some few handsom Monuments in it XII The Parish-Church of St. Pauls in upper Shadwel was also lately made a Parish-Church the Parish being too Numerous for the Church of Stepney It is a handsom