builded houses one that sometime belonged to the Prior of Monte Joves or Monastarie Cornute a Cell to Monte Joves beyond the Seas in Essex it was the Priors Inne when he repaired to this City Then a Lane that leadeth down by Northumberland House towards the Crossed Fryers as is afore shewed This Northumberland House in the Parish of St. Katherine Coleman belonging to Henry Percy Earl of Northumberland in the 33. of Henrie the sixth but of late being left by the Earls the Gardens thereof were made into Bowling Alleys and other parts into Dicing-houses common to all commers for their money there to bowl recreate themselves But now of late so many Bowling Alleys and other houses for unlawful gaming have been raised in other parts of the City and Subburbs that this which was used to be the ancientest and only Rendezvouz of sport is left and forsaken of the Gamesters and therefore turned into a number of great Rents small Cottages for strangers and others At the East end of this Lane in the way from Aldgate toward the Crossed Friers of old time were certain Tenements called the Poor Jurie of Jewes dwelling there Next unto this Northumberland house is the Parish Church of St. Katherine called Coleman which addition of Coleman was taken of a great Haw-yard or Garden of old time called Coleman Haw in the Parish of the Trinity now called Christs Church And in the Parish of St. Katherine and All-saints called Coleman Church There are some handsome Tombs in this Church and particularly of Sir Henry Billingley Knight and Lord Mayor of London who was a Benefactor thereunto Then have ye Blanch Appleton whereof we read in the 13th of Edw. the first that a Lane behind the same Blanch Appleton was granted by the King to be inclosed and shut up This Blanch Appleton was a Mannor belonging to Sir Thomas Râ—â—os of Hamelake Knight the 7th of Rich the 2d standing at the North-East corner of Mart Lane so called of a priviledge sometime enjoyed to keep a Mart there long since discontinued and therefore forgotten so as nothing remaineth for memory but the name of Mart Lane and now corruptly termed Mark Lane Of the fourth Ward or Aldermanry of London called Limestreet Ward WE will now give a visit to Limestreet Ward which takes its denomination from the street and the street from making Lime there in times passed In Limestreet are divers fair Houses for Marchants and others there was sometime a Mansion house of the Kings called the Kings Artirce as it stands upon Record in the 14th of Edward the first but now grown out of knowledge We read also of another great House in the West side of Limestreet having a Chappel on the South and a Garden on the West belonging to the Lord Nevill which Garden is now called Green Yard of the Leaden Hall This House in the 9th of Rich. 2. pertained to Sir Simon Burley and Sir John Burley his Brother and of late the said House was taken down and the forefront thereof new builded of Timber by Hugh Offley Alderman At the North-west Corner of Limestreet was of old time one great Mesuage called Benbridges Inne Raph Holland Draper about the year 1452. gave it to John Gill Master and to the VVardens and Fraternity of Taylors and Linnen Armourers of St. John Baptist in London and to their successors for ever They did set up in places thereof a fair large frame of Timber containing in the high street one great house and before it to the corner of Limestreet three other Tenements the corner house being the largest and then down Limestreet divers handsome Tenements All which the Marchant-Taylors in the Raign of Edw. 6. sold to Stephen Kirton Marchant-Taylor and Alderman who gave with his Daughter Grisild to Nicholas Woodroffe the said great House with two Tenements before it in lieu of an hundred pounds and made it up in money three hundred sixty six pounds thirteen shillings four pence This worthy man and the Gentlewoman his Widow after him kept those houses down Limestreet in good reparations never put out but one Tenant took no fines nor raised rents for them which was ten shillings the piece yearly But whether that favour did over-live her Funeral the Tenants now can best declare the contrary The next is Leaden-Hall of which we read that in the year 1309. it belonged to Sir Hugh Nevil Knight and that the Lady Alice his Wife made a Feoffment thereof by the name of Leaden Hall with the Advousions of S. Peter on Cornhill and other Churches to Richard Earl of Arrundel and Surrey 1362. Moreover in the year 1380. Alice Nevil Widow to Sir Iohn Nevil Knight of Essex confirmed to Thomas Cogshall and others the said Mannor of Leaden-Hall and the advousions c. In the year 1384. Humphrey de Bohun Earl of Hereford had the said Mannor And in the year 1408. Robert Rikeden of Essex and Margaret his Wife confirmed to Richard Whittington and other Citizens of London the said Mannor of Leaden Hall with the Appurtenances the Advousion of St. Peters Church S. Margaret Pattens c. And in the year 141â— the said Whitington and other confirmed the same to the Maior and Comminalty of London whereby it came to the possession of the City Then in the year 1443. the one and twenty of Henry the sixth Iohn Hatheyrley Maior purchased Licence of the said King to take up 200. fodder of Lead for the building of Water Conduits a common Granary and the Crosse in West Cheape more richly for the honour of the City In the year next following the Parson and Parish of St. Dunstane in the East of London seeing the Noble and mighty Man for the words be in the Grant Cùm Nobilis Potens vir Simon Eyre Citizen of London among other his works of piety effectually determined to erect build a certain Granary upon the soil of the same City at Leaden Hall of his own charges for the common utility of the said City to the amplifying and inlarging of the said Granary granted to Henry Frowick then Maior the Aldermen and Commonalty and their Successors for ever all their Tenements with the appurtenances sometime called the Horse Mill in Grasse-street for the annual Rent of four pounds c. Also certain evidences of an Alley and Tenements pertaining to the Horse Mill adjoyning to the said Leaden Hall in Grasse-street given by VVilliam Kingstone Fishmonger unto the Parish Church of St. Peter upon Cornhill do specifie the said Granary to be builded by the said Honourable and famous Marchant Simon Eyre sometime an Upholster and â—hen a Draper in the year 1419. He builded it of squared stone in form as now it sheweth with a fair and large Chappel in the East side of the Quadrant over the Porch of which he caused to be written Dextra Domini exaltavit me The Lords right hand exalted me Within the said Church on the North wall was written Honorandus
Company by Sir VVilliam Bridges Knight first Garter King at Arms in Blazon are thus Three Sun Beams issuing out of three Clouds of flame crowned with three Crowns Imperials of Gold upon a Shield Azure From this Hall on the same side down to the Grates and course of VVallbrooke have ye divers fair houses for Marchants and other from the which Grates back again on the other side in Lotisbury so called in Record of Edward the third the thirty eighth year and now corruptly called Lothbury are Candlestick founders placed till ye come to Bartholmew Lane so called of Saint Bartholmew's Church at the South-east corner thereof In this Lane also are divers fair builded Houses on both sides and so likewise have ye in the other street which stretcheth from the Fryers Augustines South gate to the corner over against Saint Bennets Church In this street amongst other fair buildings the most ancient was of old time an house pertaining to the Abbot of Saint Albans Iohn Catcher Alderman after dwelled there Then is the free School pertaining to the late dissolved Hospital of Saint Anthony whereof more shall be shewed in another place and so up to Thred-needle-street On the South part of which street beginning at the East by the Well with two Buckets now turned to a Pump is the Parish Church of Saint Martin called Oteswitch of Martin de Oteswitch Nicholas de Oteswich William Oteswich and Iohn Oteswich Founders thereof and all buried there as appeareth by their Monuments There is also there a fair engraven Stone with a Latine Epitaph upon the Lord Iames Fulkes Treasurer of Holland and Ambassador for the States of the united Provinces here in England Sir Thomas Row gave 5 l. to perpetuity to this Parish to buy Bread and Coals for the poor Some small distance from thence is the Merchant-Taylors Hall pertaining to the Guild and Fraternity of Saint Iohn Baptist time out of mind called of Taylors and Linnen Armorers of London For we find that King Edward the first in the eight and twentieth of his Reign confirmed this Guild by the name of Taylors and Linnen Armorers and also gave to the Brethren thereof authority every year at Mid-summer to hold a feast and to choose unto them a Governour or Master with Wardens whereupon the same year one thousand three hundred on the Feast day of the Nativity of Saint John Baptist they chose Henry de Ryall to be their Pâ—lgrim For the Master of this Mystery as one that travelled for the whole Company was then so called untill the eleventh year of Richard the second and the four Wardens were then called Purveyers of Alms now called Quartredge of the said Fraternity This Merchant-Taylors Hall sometime perteining to a worthy Gentleman named Edmund Crepin Dominus Creepâ—ng after some Record he in the year of Christ 1331 the sixth of Edward the third for a certain sum of money to him paid made this grant thereof by the name of his principal Messuage in the Wards of Cornhill and Broad-street which Sir Oliver Ingham Knight did then hold to John of Yakeley the Kings Pavilion-maker This was called the New Hall or Taylors Inne for a difference from their old Hall which was about the back side of the Red Lion in Basing Lane and in the Ward of Cordwayner street The one and twentieth of Edward the fourth Thomas Holm alià s Clarentiaux King of Armes for the South part of England granted by his Paâ—ents to the said Fraternity and Guild of Saint John Baptist of Taylors and Linnen Armorers to beat in a field Silver a Pavilion between two Mantles Imperial Purple garnished with Gold in a chief Azure a holy Lamb set within a Sun the Crest upon the Helm a Pavilion purpâ—e garnished with Gold c. After this King Henry the seventh was himself a Brother of this Fraternity or Guild of S. Iohn Baptist of Taylors or Linnen Armorers as divers others of his Predecessors Kings had been to wit Râ—ohard the third Edward the fourth Henry the sixth Henry the fifth Henry the fourth and Richard the second And for that divers of that Fraternity had time out of miâ—e been great Merchants and had frequented all sorts of Merchandizes into most parts of the world to the honour of the Kings Realm and to the great profit of his Subjects and of his Progenitors and the men of the said Mystery during the time aforesaid had exercised the buying and selling of all Wares and Merchandizes especially of Woollen Cloth as well in grosse as by retaile throughout all this Realm of England and chiefly within the said City therefore â—e of his especial grace did change transfer and translate the Guild aforesaid and did incorporate them into the name of the Master and Wardens of the Merchant-Taylors of the Fraternity of S. John Baptist in the City of London Some distance West from this Merchant-Taylors Hall is Finkes Lane so called of Robert Finke and Robert Finke his son James Finke and Rosamond Finke Robert Finke the elder new builded the Parish Church of Saint Bennet commonly called Finke of the Founder his Tenements were both of St. Benuets parish and Saint Martins Oteswich Parish the one half of this Finke Lane is of Broad-street ward to wit on the West side up to the great and principal house wherein the said Finke dwelled But on the other side namely the East not so much towards Cornhil Then without this Lane in the aforesaid Threed-Needle street is the said Parish Church of Saint Bennet a handsome Church in which are sundry old Monuments There happened lately a great fire in Threed-Needle street over against Merchant-Taylors Hall which ragâ—d as far as Saint Bennets Church Walls and there the fury was sâ—opped otherwiâ—e it might have destroyed all this City The French Reformers have their Sermons in this Church and the exercise of Calvâ—nâ— Religion On the North side of this street from over against the East corner of St. Martins Osteswich Church have ye divers fair and large houses till you come to the Hospital of St. Anthony sometime a Cell of St. Anthonies of Vienna For we read that King Henry the third granted to the Brother-hood of St. Anthony of Vienna a place amongst the Jewes which was sometime their Synagogue and had been builded by them about the year 1231. But the Christians obtained of the King that it should be dedicated to our blessed Lady and since an Hospital being there builded was called St. Anthonies in London It was founded in the Parish of St. Bennet Finke for a Master two Priests one School-master and twelve poor men after which foundation amongst other things was given to this Hospital one Messuage and Garden whereon was builded the fair large Free-School and one other parcel of ground containing thirty seven foot in length and eighteen foot in breadth whereon were builded the Alms-Houses of hard Stone and Timber in the Reign of Henry the sixth Which said Henry the sixth in the twentieth of
Buildings did much increase and the Suburbs strerch'd forth from the Gates a great way on every side but Westward especially which may be said to be best peopled and the civillest part For there all the twelve Inns of Court are situate for the Students of the Law whereof fower being very fait and large belong to the Iudicial Courts the rest to the Chancery Besides two Inns more for the Servientes ad legem or the Sargeants at Law â—ere such a number of young Gentlemen do so ply their Studies in all kind of Sciences and other civilities besides the Law that for a choyse way of Education and Gallantry Sir Iohn Fortescue in his Treatise of the Lawes of England doth affirm It is not inferior to any place of Christendom The said four principal Houses are the Inner Temple the middle Temple Graies Inne and Lincolns Iune The two former stand in the very same place where in times pass'd during the Raign of King Henry the second Heraclius Patriark of Ierusalem consecrated a Church for the Knight-Templers which they had newly built according to the form of the Temple neer unto the Sepulcher of our Saviour at Ierusalem for at their first Institution about the yeer of our Lord 1113. they dwelt in part of the Temple hard by the Holy Sepulcher whereof they were so named and vow'd to defend Christian Religion the Holy Land and Pilgrims going to visit the holy Sepulcher against all Mahumetans and Infidels professing to live in chastity and obedience whereupon all men voluntarily and with candid Christian hearts embrac'd and honor'd them so that through the royal munificence of Princes and other devout people having got very fair possessions and exceeding great wealth they flourish'd in a high reputation for piety and devotion yea out of an opinion of the holiness of the men and of the Place King Henry the third and many Noblemen desired much to be buried in their Church among them where some of their Statues are to be seen crosse-legd to this day for so they were used to be buried in that Age having taken upon them the Crosse to serve in the holy Warres and vow'd the same accordingly among whom was William Marshall the elder a powerful man in his time VVilliam and Gilbert his Sonnes Marshals of England and Earls of Pembroke Upon VVilliam the Elder there were in the upper part engraven these words Comes Pembrochiae and upon one side this Verse Miles eram Martis Mars multos vicerat armis But in process of time when with insatiable greediness they had hoarded up much wealth by withdrawing Tithes from many Churches and appropriating spiritual Livings unto themselves and by other meanes their riches turnâ—d to their ruine which may be one day the fortune of the Jesuites as I heard Count Gondamar once say For thereby their former innocence and piety began to be stifled they sell a clashing with other Religious Orders their professed obedience to the Patriark of Ierusalem was rejected they drâ—w daily more envy upon themselves and an ill repute insomuch-that in the yeer 1312. this Order was condemned of impiety other hainous crimes all this by the Popes Authority but specially by the instigation of the French King they were utteâ—ly abolished Nevertheless their possessions here were by Authority of Parliament assigned unto the Knights Hospitalers of St. Iohn of Ierusalem lest that such Lands given to Religious and good uses should be alienated against the pious Donors Wills Yet it appeares in ancient writings that this place after the expulsion of the Templers was the Seat and Habitation of Thomas Earl of Lancaster and Sir Hugh Spencer King Edward the seconds Minion afterwards of Sir Aimer de Valence Earl of Pembrook and in the end turned to two Colleges or Inns of Court for the study of the Lawes The other two great Inns were also the mansions of Noble men Grayes Inne of the Lord Grey of Wilton and the other of the Earls of Lincoln Neer unto this Henry the third erected between the two Temples a House for Converts as they call'd it for the maintenance of those that were conâ—erted from Iudaisme to Christianity which Edward the third afterwards made an Archive to keep Rolls and Records in and therefore 't is called to this day The Rolls In the yeer 1381. the Rebels of Essex and Kent among other places destroyed and pulled down the Lodgings and Houses of this Temple took out of the Church the Books and Records that were in hutches of the Apprentices of the Law carried them out into the street and burnt them The House they spoiled and burnt also out of an hatred they bore to Sir Robert Hales Lord Prior of St. Iohn of Jerusalem which was a place of so high a Dignity that the Prior of St. John's was accounted the first Parliamentary Peer of England But the said House at sundry times was repaired again and touching the Gate-house of the middle Temple Sir Amias Paulet did build it up while he remained Prisoner having incur'd the indignation of Cardinal Wolsey for an old grudge The great Hall in the middle Temple was built about the yeer 1572. in the Raign of Queen Elizabeth The Temple-Church had of old a Master and four stipendary Priests with a Clerk for the ministration of divine service who had allowance given them out of the Revenues of St. John of Jerusalem and that Hospital but now by the revolution of time and Ecclesiastical alterations they have but one Minister to serve them Of fresh water Rivers Aqueducts Conduits and Fountains that belong to the City of LONDON AS the principal thing that conduceth to the health of humane bodies is the blood that runneth through their Veins so the chiefest thing that tends to the welfare of a City is to have Springs and Conduits of fresh water run within her therefore we will proceed now to give an account of those ancient and present Rivers Brooks Boorns Pools Wells Conduits and Aqueducts which serve to refresh the City of London In former Ages until the Conquerors time and long after the City of London was watred besides the River of Thames on the South part with the River of Wells as it was then call'd and on the West with water call'd Wallbrook running through the midst of the City to pay Tribute unto the Thames There was another water or boorn which run within the City through Langborn Ward watring the East part In the West Suburbs was also another great Water call'd Oldborn which had its fall into the River of Wells Then were there 3. principal Fountains or Wells in the other Suburbs to wit Holy Well Clements Well and Clarks Well Near unto this last named Fountain were divers other Wells viz. Fags well Skinners well Tode well Loders well and Rad well All which Wells having the fall of their over-flowings into the said River much encreased the stream and in that place gave it the name of Well In West-Smithfield
West end of this Iesus Chappel under the Quire of Pauls also was and is a Parish-Church of St. Faith commonly called St. Faith under Pauls which served as still it doth for the Stationers and others dwelling in Pauls Church-yard Pater Noster Rowe and the places near adjoyning The said Chappel of Jesus being suppressed in the Reign of Edward the sixth the Parishioners of St. Faiths Church were removed into the same as to a place more sufficient for largeness and lightsomness in the year 1551. and so it remaineth In the East part of this Church-yard standeth Pauls School lately new builded and endowed in the year 1512. by John Collet Doctor of Divinity and Dean of Pauls for a hundred fifty three poor mens Children to be taught free in the same School for which he appointed a Master a sub-Sub-master or Usher and a Chaplain with large stipends for ever committing the over-sight thereof to the Masters Wardens and Assistants of the Mercers in London because he was Son to Henry Collet Mercer sometime Maior Near unto this School on the North side thereof was of old time a great and high Clochier or Bell-house foure square builded of stone and in the same a most strong frame of Timber with four Bells the greatest of England these were called Jesus Bells and belonging to Jesus Chappel The same had a great spire of Timber covered with Lead with the Image of St. Paul on the top but was pulled down by Sir Miles Partridge Knight in the Reign of Henry the eighth the common speech then was that he did set one hundred pounds upon a cast at Dice against it so won the said Clochier and Bells of the King then causing the Bells to be broken as they hung the rest was pulled down This man was afterward executed on the Tower-Hill for matters concerning the Duke of Summerset the fifth of Edward the sixth In the year 1561. the fourth of June betwixt the houres of three and four of the Clock in the Afternoon the great Spire of the Steeple of St. Pauls Church was fired by lightening which brake forth as it seemed two or three yards beneath the foot of the Crosse and from thence it burnt downward the spire to the Battlements Stone-work and Bells so furiously that within the space of four houres the same Steeple with all the roofs of the Church were consumed to the great sorrow and perpetual remembrance of the beholders After this mischance the Queen Elizabeth directed her Letters to the Maior willing him to take order for speedy repairing of the same And she of her gracious disposition for the furtherance thereof did presently give and deliver in gold one thousand Marks with a Warrant for a thousand Loads of Timber to be taken out of her Woods or else-where The Citizens also gave first a great Benevolence and after that three fifteens to be speedily paid The Clergy of England within the Province of Canterbury granted the fortieth part of the value of their Benefices charged with first fruits the thirtieth part of such as were not so charged but the Clergy of London Dioces granted the thirtieth part of all that payd first fruits and the twentieth part of such as had paid their fruits Six Citizens of London and two Petty Canons of Pauls Church had charge to further and oversee the work wherein such expedition was used that within one Moneth next following the burning thereof the Church was covered with boards and Lead in manner of a false roof against the Weather and before the end of the said year all the said Iles of the Church were framed out of new Timber covered with Lead and fully finished Pauls Church was full of great Monuments the ancientest are of King Sibba and King Ethelred two Saxon Kâ—ngs There are two ancient Bishops of London viz. Erkenvald and William Norman who being of the privy Councel to William the Conqueror not only preserved by his Mediation the old priâ—iledges of London but got them inlarged whereupon it was the Custom of the Lord Maior and Aldermen upon solemn dayes when they came to Pauls to walk to the Graves stone where this Bishop lay and Sir Edward Barkham caused a Table to be hung up there with Verses thereupon called the Monument of Gratitude Touching other remarkable peeces of Antiquity which belong to St. Pauls Church I leave them to such a Person of knowledge and industry who may haply make it his sole task to preserve the memory of so stately a Temple from the injury of time Without the North Gate of Pauls Church from the end of the old Exchange West up Pater Noster Rowe by the two Lanes out of Pauls Church the first out of the Crosse Isle of Pauls the other out of the body of the Church about the midst thereof and so West to the Golden Lyon be all of this Ward as is aforesaid The Houses in this street from the first North Gate of Pauls Church-yard unto the next Gate were first builded without the Wall of the Church-yard by Henry Walleis Mayor in the year 1282. the rest of those Houses go to the maintenance of London-Bridge This street is now called Pater Noster Rowe because of Stationers or Text-Writers that dwelled there who wrote and sold all sorts of Books then in use namely A. B. C. with the Pater Noster Ave Creed Graces c. There dwelled also Turners of Beads and they were called Pater Noster makers At the end of this Pater Noster Rowe is Ave-mary lane so called upon the like occasion of Text-writers and Bead-makers then dwelling there And at the end of that Lane is likewise Creed-lane lately so called but sometime Spurrier Rowe of Spurriers dwelling there And Amen-lane is added thereunto betwixt the South end of Warwick-lane and the North end of Ave Mary Lane At the North end of Ave Mary Lane is one great House builded of Stone and Timber of old time pertaining to Iohn Duke of Britain Earl of Richmond as appeareth by the Records of Edward the second since that it was called Pembrooks Inne near unto Ludgate as belonging to the Earls of Pembrooke in the times of Richard the second the eighteenth year and of Henry the sixth in the fourteenth year it was after called Aburgaveny House and belonged to Henry late Lord of Aburgaveny but the Company of Stationers have since purchased it and made it the Hall for the Meeting of their Society converting the Stone-work into a new fair Frame of Timber and applying it to such serviceable use as themselves have thought convenient Betwixt the South end of Ave Mary Lane and the North end of Creed-lane is the comming out of Pauls Church-yard on the East and the high street on the West towards Ludgate and this was called Bowyer Roue of Bowyers dwelling there in old time now worn out by Mercers and others In this street on the North side is the Parish Church of St. Martin wherein there
same with the Goldsmiths To God only be all Glory 7. The Merchantaylors were compleatly incorporated by Hen. 7th Anno 1501. their Arms Argent a Tent 3. Robes Gules on a chief azure a Lion passant regardant or with this Motto Concordiâ— parvae res crescunt 8. The Haberdashers calld of old Hurrers were incorporated a Society of St. Katherine 26 Hen. 6. Anno 1447. And they were confirmed 17. Hen. 7. and named Marchant-Haberdashers their Coat Nebulee argent and azure on a bend gules a Lyon passant regardant or the Crest and Supporters granted Anno 1571. with this Motto Serve and obey 9. The Salters had the Arms of a Society given them the 22. of Hen. 8. Anno 1530 the Crest and Supporters by Queen Elizabeth The Coat party per cheuron azure gules 3. Salts covered overflowing argent with this motto Salsâ—pit omnia 10. The Ironmongers were incorporated in the 3 year of Edw. 4. Anno 1462. their Coat Argent on a cheuron gules 3 lockets capted or between 3 steel gads a zure 11. The Vintners are more ancient being incorporated by Edw. 3. by the name of Winetonners and confirmed by Hen. 6. their Coat Sable a cheuron between three Tuns argent 12. The Cloathworkers grew to be a Company 22 of Hen. 8. at which time they had Arms first granted them which are Sable a cheuron Ermyne in chief two crabets argent in base a beazel or with Supporters and Crest and this Motto My trust is in God alone Next to the twelve chief Companies the Marchants by whole Sale may well claim room in point of Dignity 1. AMong Marchants those of the Staple may challenge the precedence who were incorporated by Edw. 3. in whose Raign they had their Staple of Wooll at Callis They have a fair Coat of Arms with this Motto God be our Friend 2. The Marchant-Adventurers were incorporated in the Raign of Edw. 4. but their priviledges were much enlarged by Queen Elizabeth they have also a fair Coat with the same Motto as they of the Staple God be our Friend 3. The Marchants of Russia were incorporated by Edw. 6. and confirmed by Queen Elizabeth they have also a fair Coat with this Motto God be our good Guide 4. The Marchants of Elbing became incorporated by Queen Elizabeth 5. The Society of Levant Marchants commonly called the Turky Marchants being first incorporated by Queen Elizabeth had their Charter enlarged by King Iames. 6. The Company of Spanish Merchants were incorporated by Queen Elizabeth 7. The Company of East India Marchants were also first incorporated by Queen Elizabeth 1600. 8. A new Company of French Merchant-Adventurers had a Coat and Crest of Arms granted them by Garter and Clarencieux Kings of Arms in the 14th of King James with this Motto Reddite cuique suum 9. The Merchants of Virginia the Bermudus Summer Ilands began also in Queen Eliz. Raign but â—ince they are mightily encreased and planted in the Charibbi Ilands Having put this Parenthesis between viz. the Noble Company of Marchant-adventurers or Traffiquers we will now return to the rest of the home-Corporations and first of the Dyers 1. The Dyers were first incorporated by a special Charter of Hen. 6. Their Coat a cheuron engrail'd between three Wooll-sacks argents 2. The Brewers had a charter of Incorporation of Hen. 6. and confirmed 2 Eliz. Their coat Gules on a cheuron engrailâ—d argent three Tuns Sable 'twixt 6 Garbes Salterwayes or 3. The Company of Lethersellers is ancient for they were first incorporated in the 6th year of Rich. 2. and for their Arms they have 3. Bucks trippant regardant gules 4. The Pewterers were a Society in the Raign of Edw. 4th their Arms azure on a Cheuron or 3. Roses gules between 5. The Barber-Chirurgions were first incorporated by Edw. the 4th but confirmed by every King and Queen ever since their Arms a crosse quartered gules a Lyon passant gardant or in the first quarter a cheuron between 3. in the â—econd party per pale argent vert a Rose gules crown'd with an Imperial Crown the first as the 4th the second as the third 6. The Company of Armorers were incorporated at the beginning of Hen. 6th and the King himself made himself one of the Society their Arms Argent on a Cheuron gules a Gantlet between three Swords in Saltire on a chief Sable a Buckler Argent charged with crosse gules 'twixt two Helmets of the first 7. The Company of White Bakers are of great antiquity as appears by many Monuments in their Hall They were a Company in the first year of Edw. 2. Their Arms gules 3. Garbs or on a chief an Arm issuing out of the Clowds proper holding a pair of scales or between 3. Anchors of the first 8. The Company of Wax-Chandlers are also of an ancient standing and of great doings in the time of the Roman Religion their Arms azure on a cheuron between 3. Lamps argent as Roses gules The Brother-hood of Tallow-Chandlers is also of much antiquity yet they were first formally incorporated in 2 Edw. 4th their Arms a pale counter-changed argent and azure between 3. Doves argent volant with Olive branches verd 10. The Company of Cutlers were incorporated at the beginning of the Raign of Hen. 5th their Arms 6 Swords Salterwayes proper 11. The Girdlers are not inferior for antiquity to either of these yet came they not to be incorporated till the twentieth year of Hen. 6th their Arms azure or a pale between 3. Grid-irons azure 12. The Butchers came not to be incorporated till the 3d year of King Iames at which time they were incorporated by the names of Master Wardens and Comminalty of the Art of Mystery of Butchers yet the fraternity is ancient their Arms azure two Axes Salterwayes argent between two Roses argent as many Bulls Heads cowped of the second attir'd or a Bores Head gules 'twixt two Garbs vert 13. The Society of Sadlers must needs be of long antiquity from the time of Edw. the first their arms a cheuron between 3. Saddles or 14. The Company of Carpenters were incorporated by Letters Patents of Edw. 4th by the name of Master Warden and Comminalty of the Mystery of Freemen of the Carpentry of the City of London their arms azure a cheuron engraild between 3. Compasses argent 15. The Company of Shoomakers call'd Cordwainners of old were first incorporated 17. of Hen. the 6th and confirmed since by all Kings their arms azure a cheuron or between 3. Goats heads drafed argent attir'd or 16. The Company of Painters having the addition of Painters Stainers are of high antiquity yet were they not incorporated till 1580. by Queen Eliz. their arms quarterly in the first azure a cheuron between 3. heads erected or in the second argent 3. Escuchins azure the third as the second the fourth as the first 17. The Company of Curriers are also ancient yet they were not reduc'd to a Company till the third of King Iames their arms azure
a Crosse engrail'd or between 4. Sawes Salterwayes argent 18. The Company of Masons otherwise call'd Free Masons were us'd to be a loving Brother-hood for many ages yet were they not regulated to a Society till Hen. 4. their arms sable on a cheuron between 3. Castles argent a pair of Compasses of the first 19. The Company of Plumbers were erected to a Corporation 9th Jacobi 20. The Company of Inholders came to be reduc'd to a Corporation 6. Hen. 8. their arms azure a cheuron quarterly or and gules counterchang'd between 3. garbs or 21. The Company of Founders were incorporated on the 18th of Septemb. in the 12th year of King James their Coat gules a Spoonpot betwixt two Candlesticks or 22. The Company of Embroiderers came to be a Corporation 4th Eliz. their arms barry of 8. argent and azure on a fesse or a Cup argent between as many Lyons passant regardant 23. The Company of Poulters became a Corporation in the 19th of Hen. 7th their arms are three Swans of the first as many Herons of the second 24. The Company of Cooks became a Corporation in the 12th year of Edw. 4th their arms are a cheuron Sable between three burray branches proper 25. The Company of Coopers was reduced to a Corporation the 16th of the Raign of Hen. 7th by the name of Master Wardens or keepers of the Comminalty of the Freemen of the mystery of Coopers and the Suburbs thereof Their arms party per pale gules and or a cheuron between three hoops in a chief azure 26. The Company of Tylers and Brick-layers though very ancient yet were they not made a Corporation till the 10th of Queen Eliz. Their Arms azure a cheuron â—r between a Flower-de-lice or in chief 'twixt two gads of Steel of the second 27. The Company of Bowyers though of much antiquity and honor to the English Nation yet their Incorporation was but in the 21. of King James their arms Sable on a chief 3. Mallets of the first between 3. Sawes of the first 28. The Company of Fletchers are also a Corporation their arms Sable a cheuron or between 3. Arrowes argent 29. The Company of Smiths or Black-smiths a very ancient Fraternity were first incorporated by Queen Eliz. 20th of her Raign their arms Sable a cheuron between three Hammers crown'd or 30. The Company of Joyners or Seelers were incorporated by Queen Eliz. 13th of her Raign their Arms gules a Cheuron 'twixt two Compasses and a Globe argent on a chief pale gules charg'd with an escalop or between two Roses of the first 31. The Company of Playsterers were incorporated into one fraternity in the Raign of Hen. 7th Their arms azure an Escucheon or a Rose between two Flower-de-luces gules two Hammers and a Brush argent 32. The Company of Weavers were of very ancient note indeed as having three several Societies of themselves viz. the Woollen Weavers the Arras Weavers the Linnen Weavers their arms azure three Leopards heads with three Shuttles in their mouthes argent on a cheuron gules or between 33. The Company of the Fruterers were incorporated 3d Iacobi their arms argent the Tree of Paradice between Adam and Eve proper 34. The Company of Scriveners became a Corporation 14th Jacobi their arms an Eagle volant holding in his mouth a penner and an Inkhorn 34. As for Bottle-makers and Horners though they may plead antiquity yet are they no Incorporation 35. The Company of Stationers of great antiquity before Printing was invented their old dwelling was in Paternoster Row and the adjoyning parts yet were they not incorporated till the third of Philip and Mary their arms argent on a cheuron between 3. Bibles or a Faulcon volant between two Roses the Holy Ghost in chief 36. The Company call'd the Marblers or Sculpters are in one fraternity with the Masons yet have they a differing Coat viz. a cheuron between two and a Mallet argent 37. There was a Company of Wooll-packers in the time of the Haunce when the staple of Wooll flourish'd their Coat azure a Wool-sack argent 38. The Company of Farriers had their rise from Henry de Ferraris a Norman born who was Master of the Horse to the Conqueror and had given him the honour of Tutbury which was the first preferment of the Ferrars their arms three Horshooes azure 39. The Company of Paviours are ancient their Coat argent a cheuron between three rummers Sable 40. The Company of Lorinors or Loriners have for their arms gules on a cheuron argent three Horscombs 'twixt three Roses argent 41. The Company of Brown-Bakers were incorporated 19th Jacobi their arms gules a hand issuing out of the Clouds a chief barry wavie or and azure on a cheuron gules 41. The Company of Wood-mongers came to be incorporated 3d Jacobi their Coat argent a cheuron 'twixt 3. Faggots Sable 42. The Company of the Upholsters or Upholders give for their arms Sable three tents gules on a cheuron or 3. tents of the second 43. The Company of Turners came to be incorporated 2d Jacobi their Coat azure a Katherine Wheel argent 44. The Company of Glasiers give for their arms two Crosiers Salterwayes Sable 4 sprigs on a chief gules a Lyon passant gardant or 45. The Company of the Clarks commonly call'd Parish-Clarks is ancient having bin incorporated 17th Hen. 3d their arms azure a Flower-de-lice or on a chief gules a Leopards head 'twixt two Books or 46. The Company of Watermen have for their arms barry waive of six azure and argent a Lighter proper on a chief gules a pair of Oares Salterwayes 'twixt two Cushions or 47. The Company of Silk-throwers were made a Fellowship of this City 19th Jacobi they were incorporated by the name of the Master Wardens Assistants and Comminalty of the Trade Art or Mystery of Silkthrowers of the City of London 48. The Company of the Apothecaries having separated themselves from the ancient Society of the Grocers grew so much in favour with King James that he us'd to call them his Company and therefore gave them a Charter of Incorporation the 15th of his Raign Thus have we visited all the publick Societies and Corporations of this rich and renowned City who may be called her best sorts of Children for increasing of her Wealth and advancement of Trade Now every of these Companies hath a handsome and well-furnish'd stately Hall with a Clark and other Ministerial Officers thereunto belonging to attend them when they meet there to consult and inorder what may conduce to the better regulation of the Society and promoting of the publique good They also use to meet there frequently to rejoyce and make plentiful Feasts for the increase of love and good Neighbourhood among themselves And though there be some who hold such Corporations and little Body politiques of this kind to be prejudicial to Monarchy yet they may be said to be one of the Glories of London and wherein she surpasseth all other Cities The Perambulation of LONDON
may bear your Body Cloke This Shaft was not raised any time since evil May-day so called of an insurrection made by Prentices and other young persons against Aliens in the year 1517. but the said Shaft was laid along over the doors and under the Pentises of one rowe of Houses and Alley-gate called of the Shaft Shaft-Alley being of the possessions of Rochester-bridge in the Ward of Limestreet It was there I say hanged on Iron hooks many years till the third of King Edward the sixth That one Sir Steven Curate of St. Katherine Christs Church preaching at Pauls Crosse said there that this Shaft was made an Idoll by naming the Church of St. Andrew with the addition of Under-shaft he perswaded therefore that the names of Churches might be altered Also that the names of the dayes in the week might be changed the Fish dayes to be kept any dayes except Friday and Saturday and the Lent any time save only betwixt Shrovetide and Easter This man forsaking the Pulpit of his said Parish Church would preach out of an high Elm Tree in the midst of the Church-yard And then entring the Church forsaking the Altar to have sung his High Masse in English upon a Tomb of the Dead towards the North But his Sermon at Pauls Crosse took such effect that in the Afternoon of that present Sunday the Neighbors and Tenants to the said Bridge over whose doors the said Shaft had lain after they had dined to make themselves strong gathered more help and with great labor raising the Shaft from the Hooks whereon it had rested two and thirty years they sawed it in pieces every man taking for his share so much as had lain over his door and stall the length of his house and they of the Alley divided amongst them so much as had lain over their Alley gate Thus was his Idoll as he termed it mangled and after burned Soon after was there a commotion of the Commons in Norfolk Suffolk Essex and other Shires by means whereof streight Orders being taken for the suppression of rumors divers persons were apprehended and executed by Marshal Law amongst the which the Bayliffe of Rumford in Essex was one a man very well beloved he was early in the morning of Mary Magdalens day then kept Holy-day brought by the Sheriffs of London and the Knight-Marshall to the Well within Aldgate there to be executed upon a Gibbit set up that morning where being on the Ladder he had words to this effect â—ood People I am come hither to die but know not for what offence except for words by me spoken yester night to Sir Stephen Curate and Preacher of this Parish which were these He asked me what newes in the Country I answered Heaâ—y newes why quoth he It is said quoth I that many men be up in Essex But thanks be to God all is in good quiet about us and this was all as God be my Iudge c. Thus much by the By. Now again to the Parish Church of St. Andrew Under Shaft for it still retaineth the name which hath bin new builded by the Parishioners since the year 1520. every man putting to his helping hand some with their purses others with their Bodies Stephen Iennings Marchant-Taylor sometimes Mayor of London caused at his charges to be builded the whole North side of the great middle I le both of the Body and Quire as appeareth by his Arms over every Pillar graven and also the North I le which he roofed with Timber and seeled Also the whole South side of the Church was glazed and the Pewes in the South Chappel made of his Costs as appeareth in every Window and upon the said Pewes He deceased in the year 1524. and was buried in the Grey Fryers Church John Kirby Marchant-Taylor sometimes one of the Sheriffs John Garland Marchant-Taylor and Nicholas Levison Mercer Executor to Garland were great Benefactors to this work which was finished to the glazing in the year 1529. and fully finished 1532. Now in the second way from Aldgate more toward the South from the Well or Pump aforesaid sieth Fenne-Church street on the right hand whereof somewhat West from the South end of Belzetters lane is Ironmongers-Hall which Company was incorporated in the third of Edward the fourth Richard Flemming was their first Master Nicholas Marshall and Richard Cox were Custodes or Wardens And on the left hand or South side even by the Gate and Wall of the City runneth down a Lane to the Tower-Hill the South part whereof is called Woodroof-Lane and out of this Lane toward the West a street called Hart-street In this street at the South-East Corner thereof sometime stood one house of Crowched or Crossed Fryers founded by Ralph Hosier and William Sabernes about the year 1298. Stephen the tenth Prior of the Holy Trinity in London granted three Tenements for 13 s. 8 d. by the year unto the said Ralph Hosiar and William Saburnes who afterwards became Fryers of S. Crosse. Adam was the first Prior of that house These Fryers founded their house in the place of certain Tenements purchased of Rich. Wimblush the 12th Prior of the Holy Trinity in the year 1319. which was confirmed by Edward the third the seventeenth of his Raign valued at 52 l. 13 s. 4 d. surrendred the 12th of Novemb the 30. of Henry the 8th In place of this Church is now a Carpenters yard a Tennis-Court and such like the Fryers Hall was made a Glasse-house or house wherein was made Glasse of divers sorts to drink in which house in the year 1575. on the fourth of September burst out into a terrible fire where all meanes possible being practised to quench it notwithstanding as the same house in a small time before had consumed a great quantity of Wood by making of Glasses Now it self having within it about 40000 Billets of Wood was also consumed to the stone walls which nevertheless greatly hindred the fire from spreading any further Adjoyning unto this Fryers Church by the East end thereof in Woodroffe Lane towards the Tower-Hill are certain Almes-houses 14. in number builded of Brick and Timber founded by Sir John Milburn Draper sometime Maior 1521. wherein be placed 13. aged poor men and their Wives these have their dwellings rent-free and 2 s. 4 d. a peece the first day of every Moneth for ever Next to these Alms-houses is the Lord Lumleys house builded in the time of King Henry the 8th by Sir Thomas Wiat the Father upon one plot of ground of late pertaining to the aforesaid Crossed Fryers where part of their house stood And this is the farthest of Aldgate VVard toward the South and joyneth to the Tower-Hill the other side of that Lane over against the Lord Lumleys house on the wall side of the City is now for the most part or altogether builded even to Aldgate Then have ye on the South side of Fenne-Church-street over against the wall or Pump amongst other fair and large
famosus Mercator Simon Eyre hujus operis c. In English thus The honourable and famous Marchant Simon Eyre founder of this work once Maior of this City Citizen and Draper of the same departed out of this life the 18th day of Septemb. the year from the Incarnation of Christ 1459. and the 38. year of the Raign of King Henry the sixth he was buried in the Parish Church of St. Mary Wolnoth in Lumbard street he gave by his Testament to be distributed to all Prisons in London or within a mile of that City somewhat to relieve them More he gave 2000 Marks upon a condition which not performed was then to be distributed to Maids Marriages and other deeds of Charity he also gave 3000 Marks to the Drapers upon condition that they should within one year after his decease establish perpetually a Master or Warden five secular Priests six Clerks and two Queristers to sing daily Divine Service by note for ever in this Chappel of the Leaden-hall Also one Master with an Usher for Grammar one Master for Writing and the third for Song with Houses there newly builded for them for ever the Master to have for his salary ten pounds and every other Priest eight pounds every other Clarke five pounds six shillings eight pence and every other Chorister five Marks and if the Drapers refused this to do within one year after his decease then the three thousand Marks to remain to the Prior and Covent of Christs-Church in London with condition to establish things as aforesaid within two years after his decease And if they refused then the three thousand Marks to be disposed by his Executors as they best could devise in works of Charity Thus much for his Testament not performed by establishing of Divine Service in his Chappel or Free-School and Scholars neither was it known how the stock of three thousand Marks or rather five thousand Marks was employed by his Executors he left issue Thomas who had issue Thomas c. True it is that in the year 1464 the third of Edward the fourth it was agreed by the Mayor Aldermen and Commonalty of London that notwithstanding the Kings Letters Pattents lately before granted unto them touching the Trouage or weighing of Wares to be held at Leaden-hall yet Suite should be made to the King for new Letters Pattents to be granted to the Mayor of the Staple for the Trouage of Wools to be holden there and order to be taken by the discretion of Thomas Cooke then Mayor The Councel of the City Geffrey filding then Mayor of the Staple at Westminster and of the Kings Councel what should be paid to the Mayor and Aldermen of the City for the laying and housing of the Wools there that so they might be brought forth and weighed c. Touching the Chappel there we find that in the year 1466 by Licence obtained of King Edward the fourth in the sixth of his Reign a Fraternity of the Trinity of 60 Priests besides other brethren and sisters in the same Chappel was founded by Rouse Iohn Risby and Thomas Ashby Priests some of the which sixty Priests every Market-day in the fore-noon did celebrate Divine service there to such Market people as repaired to prayer and once every year they met altogether and had solemn Service with procession of all the Brethren and Sisters this foundation was in the year 1512 by a Common-Councel confirmed to the sixty Trinity Priests and to their Successors at the will of the Mayor and Commonalty In the year 1484 a great fire happened upon Leaden-hall by what casualty it was not known but much housing was there destroyed with all the Stocks for Guns and other provision belonging to the City which was a great losse and no lesse charge to be repaired by them In the year 1503. the eighteenth of Henry the seventh a request was made by the Commons of the City concerning the usage of the said Leaden-Hall in form as followeth Please it the Lord Mayor Aldermen and Common-Councel to enact that all Frenchmen bringing Canvas Linnen cloth and other Wares to be sold and all Forreins bringing Woolsteads Sayes Stamins Kiverings Nayles Iron work or any other Wares and also all Forreins bringing Lead to the City to be sold shall bring all such their Wares aforesaid to the open Market of the Leaden-Hall and no where else to be shewed sold and uttered like as of old time it hath been used upon pain of forfeiture of all the said Wares shewed or sold in any other place than aforesaid And the shew of the said Wares to be made three daies in a week that is to lay Monday Tuesday and Wednesday It is also thought reasonable that the common Beam be kept from henceforth in the Leaden-hall the Farmer to pay therefore reasonable rent to the Chamber for better it is that the Chamber have advantage thereby than a Forreign person And also the said Leaden-hall which is more chargeable now by half than profitable shall better bear out the charges thereof Also the common Beam for Wool at Leaden-hall may pay yearly a rent to the Chamber of London toward the supportation and charges of the same place for reason it is that a common Office occupied upon a common ground bear a charge to the use of the Communalty Also that Forrains bringing Wools Felts or any other Marchandizes or Wares to Leaden-hall to be kept there for the sale and market may pay more largely for keeping of their goods than Freemen Thus much for the request of the Commons at that time Now to set down some proof that the said Hall hath been employed and used as a Granary for Corn and grain as the same was first appointed leaving all former examples this one may suffice Roger Achley Mayor of London in the year 1512 the third of Henry the eighth when the said Mayor entred the Majoralty there was not found one hundred quarters of Wheat in all the Garners of this City either within the Liberties or near adjoyning through the which scarcity when the Carts of Stratford came laden with Bread to the City as they had been accustomed there was such press about them that one man was ready to destroy another in striving to be served for their money but this scarcity lasted not long for the Mayor in short time made such provision for Wheat that the Bakers both of London and of Stratford were weary of taking it up and were forced to take much more than they would and for the rest the Mayor laid out the money and stored it up in Leaden-hall and other Garners of the City This Mayor also kept the Market so well that he would be at the Leaden-Hall by four a clock in the Summer mornings and from thence he went to other Markets to the great comfort of the Citizens We read also that in the year 1528 the twentieth of Henry the eighth Surveyers were appointed to view the Garners of the City namely the
the West side but not so far on the East Then the aforesaid street from this Finkes Lane now Finch Lane runneth down by the Royal Exchange to the Stocks and to a place commonly called the Scalding-house or Scalding wicke but now Scalding Alley by the West side whereof under the Parish Church of St. Mildred runneth the course of VVallbrooke and these be the bounds of this Ward Here stands the Parish Church of Alhallowes in the Wall so called of standing close to the Wall of the City near Moorfields and over against Winchester house which was so vast and spacious a Mansion that it has been many years since cut into divers habitations For the Glasse-house stood in part of it the Spanish Ambassadour had another part And now of late the Excise Office hath bin kept in another part On the other side of the street among many proper Houses possessed for the most part by Curriers is the Carpenters Hall which Company was Incorporated in the seventeenth year of Edward the fourth Then East from the Curriers row is a long and high Wall of stone in the foresaid Winchester house enclosing the North side of a large Garden adioyning to as large an house builded in the Reigns of King Henry the eighth and of Edward the sixth by Sir William Powlet Lord Treasurer of England thorow his Garden which of old time consisted of divers parts now united was sometimes a fair foot way leading by the West end of the Augustine Fryars Church straight North and opened somewhat West from Alhallowes Church against London Wall towards Mooregate which foot-way had Gates at either end locked up every night but now the same way being taken into those Gardens the Gates are closed up with Stone whereby the people are enforced to go about by Saint Peters Church and the East end of the said Fryers Church and all the said great place and Garden of Sir William Pawlet to London Wall and so to Moorgate This great House adjoyning to the Garden aforesaid stretcheth to the North corner of Broad-street and then turneth up Broad-street all that side to and beyond the East end of the said Friers Church It was builded by the said Lord Treasurer in place of Augustine Fryers House Cloyster and Gardens c. The Fryars Church he pulled not down but the West end thereof enclosed from the Steeple and Quire was in the year 1550 granted to the Dutch Nation in London to be their preaching place The other part namely the Steeple Quire and side Iles to the Quire adjoyning he reserved to houshold uses as for Stowage of Corn Coal and other thingâ— his Son and Heir Marquiss of VVinchester sold the Monuments of Noble men there buried in great number Paving stone and whatsoever which cost many thousand pounds for one hundred pounds and in place thereof made fair sâ—abling for horses He caused the Lead to be taken from the roofs and laid Tyle in place which exchange proved not so profitable as he looked for but rather to his disadvantage for there have been some remarkable judgements upon that Family since On the East side of this Broad street amongst other buildings on the back part of Gresham House which is in Bishopsgate street there are placed eight Alms-houses builded of Brick and Timber by Sir Thomas Gresham Knight for eight Almes-men which be now there placed rent-free and receive each of them by his gift six pound thirteen shillings four pence yearly for ever Next unto Pawlet House is the Parish Church of Saint Peter the poor so called for a difference from other of that name sometime peradventure a poor Parish but at this present there be many fair Houses possessed by rich Marchants and others In this little Church there be some fair Monuments one of Sir Thomas Lowe and another of Sir VVilliam Garaway with Iohn Lucas Esquire of Colchester Then next have ye the Augustine Fryers Church and Church-yard the entring thereunto by a South gate to the West Porch a large Church having a most fine spired Steeple small high and streight that there are few the like founded by Humphrey Bohun Earl of Hereford and Essex in the year one thousand two hundred fifty three Râ—egnald Cobham gave this Messuage in London to the enlarging thereof in the year one thousand three hundred fourty four Humphrey Bohun Earl of Hereford and Essex re-edified this Church in the year 1354 whose Body was there buried in the Quire The small spired Steeple of this Church was overthrown by tempest of wind in the year one thousand three hundred sixty two but was raised of new as still it might have stood had not private benefit the only devourer of Antiquity pull'd it down Both that goodly Steeple and all that East part of the Church hath lately been taken down and Houses for one mans commodity raised in the place whereby London hath lost so goodly an ornament and times hereafter may more talk of it This House was valued at fifty seven pounds and was surrendred the twelfth of November the 13 of Henry the 8. There were many great Monuments in this Fryers Church one of Edmond first son to Ioan mother to Richard the second Guy de Meryke Earl of Saint Paul Lucie Countesse of Kent Richard the great Earl of Arundel Surrey VVarren Sir Francis Atcourt Earl of Pembrooke Iohn Vere Earle of Oxford with Aubery de Vere his son the Lady of Bedford with Edward Duke of Buckingham and very many more persons of quality On the South side and at West end of this Church many fair houses are builded namely in Throgmorton street one very large and spacious builded in the place of old and small Tenements by Thomas Cromwel Master of the Kings Jewel-house after that Master of the Rolls then Lord Cromwell Knight Lord Privie Seal Vicar General Earl of Essex high Chamberlain of England c. This house being finished and having some reasonable plot of ground left for a Garden he caused the pales of the Gardens adjoyning to the North part thereof on a sudden to be taken down two and tweâ—ty foot to be measured forth-right into the North of every mans ground a Line there to be drawn a Trench to be cast a foundation laid and an high Brick Wall to be builded and this was suddenly and no warning given nor other answer but when any spake to the Surveyers of that work they said their Master Sir Thomas commanded them so to do so that no man durst go to argue the matter but each man lost his Land Thus the sudden rising of some men causeth them to forget themselves The Company of Drapers in London bought this House and now the same is their Common Hall This Company obtained of King Henry the sixth in the seventeenth of his Reign to be incorporate Iohn Gedney was chosen to be their first Master and the four Wardens were Iohn VVotton I. Darby Robert Breton and T. Cooke The Armes granted to the said
his Reign gave unto Iohn Carpenter Dr. of Divinity and Master of St. Anthonies Hospital and to his Brethren and their Successors for ever his Mannor of Poinington with the appurtenances with certain Pensions and Portions of Milburn Burneworth Charleton and Up-Wimburn in the County of Southhamton towards the maintenance of five Scholars in the University of Oxford to be brought up in the faculty of Arts after the rate of ten pence the week for every Scholar so that the said Scholars be first instructed in the rudiments of Grammar at the Colledge of Eaton founded by the said King In the year 1474. Edward the 4th granted to William Say Batchelor of Divinity Master of the said Hospital to have Priests Clerks Scholars poor men and Brethren of the same Clerks or Laymen Queristers Procters Messengers Servants in Houshold and other things whatsoever like as the Prior and Covent of St. Anthonies of Vienna c. He also annexed united and appropriated the said Hospital unto the Collegiate of St. George in Windsor The Protectors of this House were to collect the benevolence of charitable Persons towards the building and supporting thereof In the year 1499. Sir John Tate sometime Alebrewer then a Mercer caused his Brewhouse called the Swan near adjoyning to the said Free Chappel College or Hospital of St. Anthony to be taken for the enlarging of the Church which was then newly builded toward the building whereof the said Tate gave great sums of money and finished it in the year 1501 Sir John Tate deceased 1514. and was there buried under a fair Monument by him prepared Dr. Taylor Master of the Rolls and other Walter Champion Draper one of the Sheriffs of London 1529. was buried there and gave to the Beadmen twenty pounds The Lands by year of this Hospital were valued in the 37. of King Henry the eighth to be 55l 6 s. and 8. pence One Iohnson a Schoolmaster of the famous Free-School there became a prebend of Windsor and then by little and little followed the spoil of this Hospital he first dissolved the Quire conveyed away the Plate and Ornaments then the Bels and lastly put out the Alms men from their houses appointing them portions of twelve pence the week to each but now I hear of no such matter performed for their houses with other be letten out for rent and the Church is a preaching place for the French Nation as was touched before This School was commended in the Reign of Henry the sixth and sithence commended above other but now decayed and come to nothing by taking that from it which thereunto belonged Next is the Parish Church of St. Bartholmew at the end of Bartholmew Lane Thomas Pike Alderman with the assistance of Nicholas Yoo one of the Shetiffs of London about the year 1438. new builded this Church West from this Church have ye Scalding Alley of old time called Scalding House or Scalding wick because that ground for the most part was then imployed by Poulterers that dwelled in the high street from the Stocks Market to the great Conduit Their Poultry which they sold at their stalls were scalded there the street doth yet bear the name of the Poultry and the Poulterers are but lately departed from thence into other streets as into Grasse-street and the ends of St. Nicholas Flesh-shambles This Scalding wick is the farthest part of Broadstreet-Ward and is by the water called Wallbrook parted from Cheap-Ward Of the Seventh Ward or Aldermanry of the City of London called Corn-hill Ward NOw Cornhil Ward comes to consideration corruptly called Cornwel by the vulgar It was called Corn-hill of a Corn-Market time out of mind there holden and is a part of the principal high street beginning at the West end of Leaden-Hall stretching down West on both the sides by the South end of Finkes Lane on the right hand and by the North end of Birchoven Lane on the left part of which Lanes to wit to the middle of them is of this Ward and so down to the Stocks Market and this is the bounds The upper or East part of this Ward and also a part of Limestreet Ward hath been as I said a Market-place especially for Corn and since for all kind of Victuals as is partly shewed in Limestreet Ward It appeareth by Record that in the year 1522. the Rippiers of Rie and other places sold their fresh Fish in Leaden-hall Market upon Cornhill but forraign Butchers were not admitted there to sell Flesh till the year 1533. And it was enacted that Butchers should sell their Bief not above a half peny the pound and Mutton half peny half farthing which Act being devised for the great Commodity of the Realm as it was then thought hath since proved far otherwise for before that time a fat Oxe was sold at London for six and twenty shillings eight pence at the most a far Weather for three shillings four pence a fat Calf at the same price a fat Lamb for twelve pence pieces of Bief weighing 2. pounds and a half at the least yea 3. pound or better for a peny on every Butchers Stall in this City and of those pieces of Bief 13 or fourteen for twelve pence fat Mutton for eight pence the quarter and one hundred weight of Bief for four shillings eight pence at the dearest What the price is now I need not set down many men thought the same Act to raise the price by reason that Grasier knew or supposed what weight every their Beasts contained and so raising their price thereafter the Butcher could be no gainer but by likewise raising his price the number of Butchers then in the City and Suburbs was accounted sixscore of which every one killed six Oxen a peece weekly which is in forty six weeks 33120. Oxen or seven hundred and twenty Oxen weekly The forraign Butchers for a long time stood in the high street of Limestreet-Ward on the North side twice every week viz Wednesdayes and Saturdayes and werâ— some gain to the Tenants before whose doors they stood and into whoâ—e houses they set their blocks and stalls but that advantage being eâ—pied they were taken into Leaden-Hall there to pay for their standing to the Chamber of London Thus much for the Market upon Cornhill The chief Ornaments in Cornhill-VVard are these First at the East end thereof in the middle of the high street and at the parting of four wayes have ye a Water-Standard placed in the year 1582. in manner following A certain German named Peter Morris having made an artificial Forcier for that purpose conveyed Thames-water in Pipes of Lead over the Steeple of St. Magnus Church at the North end of London-Bridge and from thence into divers mens Houses in Thames-street New Fish-street and Grasse-street now Gracious-street up to the North West corner of Leaden-hall the highest ground of all the City where the waste of the main Pipe rising into this Standard provided at the charges of the City with four spouts did
yet remaineth in the Body of the Church This William Walworth is reported by some to have slain Jack Straw but Jack Straw being afterward taken was first adjudged by the said Mayor and then executed by the losse of his head in Smithfield True it is that this William Walworth being a man wise learned and of an incomparable Manhood arrested Wat Tyler a presumptuous Rebel upon whom no man durst lay hand whereby he delivered the King and Kingdom from most wicked Tyranny of Traytors the Mayor arrested him on the head with a sound blow whereupon Wat Tylar furiously stroke the Mayor with his Dagger but hurt him not by reason he was well armed The Maior having received his stroke drew his Basâ—â—liard and grievously wounded Wat in the Neck and withall gave him a great blow on the Head in the which Conflict an Esquire of the Kings House called John Cavendish drew his Sword and wounded Wat twice or thrice even to the death and Wat spurring his Horse cryed to the Commons to revenge him the Horse beats him about eighty foot from the place and there he fell down half dead and by and by they which attended on the King environed him about so as he was not seen of his Company many of them thrust him in in divers places of his Body and drew him into the Hospital of St. Bartholomew from whence again the Maior caused him to be drawn into Smithfield and there to be beheaded In reward of his Service the people being dispersed the King commanded the Maior to put a Basenet on his Head and the Mayor requesting why he should so do the King answered he being much bound unto him would make him Knight The Mayor answered that he was neither worthy nor able to take such an Estate upon him for he was but a Marchant and had to live by his Marchandize only Notwithstanding the King made him to put on his Basenet and then with a Sword in both his hands he strongly struck him on the Neck as the manner was then and the same day he made three other Citizens Knights for his sake to wit John Philpot Nicholas Brember and Robert Launde Aldermen The King gave to the Maior a hundred pound Land by year and to each of the other forty pound Land yearly to them and their-Heires for ever After this in the same year the said Sir William Walworth founded in the said Parish Church of St. Michael a Colledge of a Master and nine Priests or Chaplains and deceasing 1385. was there buried in the North Chappel by the Quire but his Monument being amongst other by bad people defaced in the Reign of Edward the sixth and again since renewed by the Fishmongers for lack of knowledge whatsoever before had been written in this Epitaph they followed a fabulous Book and wrote Iack Straw instead of Wat Tylar It hath also been and is now grown to a common opinion that in reward of this service done by the said William Wallworth against the Rebel that King Richard added to the Arms of this City which was Argent a plane Crosse Gules a Sword or Dagger for so they terme it whereof Mr. Iohn Stow makes a doubt but to the contrary he alledgeth that in the fourth year of Richard the second in a full Assembly made in the upper Chamber of the Guild-hall summoned by this William Walworth then Mayor as well of Aldermen as of the Common Councel in every Ward for certain affaires concerning the King it was there by common consent agreed and ordained that the old Seal of the Office of the Majoralty of the City being very small old unapt and unâ—omely for the Honour of the City should be broken and one other new should be had which the said Mayor commanded to be made artificially and honourably for the exercise of the said Office thereafter in place of the other In which new Seal besides the Images of Peter and Paul which of old were rudely engraven there should be under the feet of the said Images a Shield of the Arms of the said City perfectly graven with two Lyons supporting the same and two Serjeants of Arms in the other part one and two Tabernacles in which above should stand two Angels between whom above the said Images of Peter and Paul should be set the Glorious Virgin This being done the old Seal of the Office was delivered to Richard Odiham Chamberlain who brake it and in placethereof was delivered the new Seal to the said Mayor to use in his Office of Majoralty as occasion should require This new Seal seemeth to be made before William Walworth was Knighted for he is not there intituled Sir as afterwards he was and certain it is that the same new Seal then made is now in use and none other in that Office of the Majoralty which may suffice to answer the former supposition without shewing of any evidence sealed with the old Seal which was the Crosse and Sword of St. Paul and not the Dagger of William Walworth In this Church are sundry ancient Monuments of Mayors and Sheriffs of London West from this St. Michaels Lane is St. Martins Orgar Lane by Candlewick-street which lane is on both sides down to a Well replenished with fair and large Houses for Marchants and it is of this Ward One of which Houses was sometime called Beauchamps Inne as pertaining unto them of that Family Thomas Arundel Arch Bishop of Canterbury commonly for his time was lodged there The Parish Church of St. Martin Orgar is a small thing William Crowmer Maior builded a proper Chappel on the South side thereof and was buried there in an ancient Tombe 1533. where are some others of Maiors and Aldermen Then is there one other Lane called St. Lawrence of the Parish Church there This Lane down to the South side of the Church-yard is of Candlewick street VVard The Parish Church of St. Laurence was increased with a Chappel of Jesus by Thomas Cole for a Master and Chaplain the which Chappel and Parish Church was made a Colledge of Iesus and of Corpus Christi for a Master and seven Chaplains by Iohn Poultney Maior and was confirmed by Edward the third the twentieth of his Raign of him was this Church called St. Laurence Poultney in Candlewick street which Colledge was valued at seventy nine pounds seventeen shillings eleven pence and was surrendred in the Reign of Edward the sixth In this Church Robert and Henry Radcliffe Earls of Sussex lie buried Of the Twelfth Ward or Aldermanry of the City of LONDON called Wallbrook Ward WE will now proceed and make a Perambulation of Walbrook VVard which beginneth at the vvest end of Candlewick Street VVard It runneth down Candlewick street vvest toward Budge Rowe It hath on the North side thereof St. Swithens Lane so called of St. Swithens a Parish Church by London-stone This Lane is replenished on both the sides with fair builded Houses and is vvholly of VVallbrook VVard The said Parish Church
of St. Swâ—then standeth at the South vvest corner of this Lane Licence vvas procured to new build and increase the said Church and Steeple in the year 1420. Sir Iohn Hend Draper and Maior was an especial Benefactor thereunto as appeareth by his Arms in the Glasse vvindows even in the tops of them which is in a Field Argent a Chief Azure a Lyon passant Argent a Cheueron Azure three Escalops Argent Ralph Ioceline Maior of London among others hath a Monument in this Church having bin a benefactor to it On the South side of this high street near unto the Channel is pitched upright a great stone called London stone fixed in the ground very deep fastned with Barres of Iron and otherwise so strongly set that if Carts do run against it through negligence the VVheels be broken and the Stone it self unshaken The cause vvhy this Stone was there set the time when or other memory thereof is none but that the same hath long continued there is manifest namely since or rather before the Conquest for in the end of a fair written Gospel Book given to Christs Church in Canterbury by Ethelstane King of the vvest Saxons mention is made of Lands and Rents in London belonging to the said Church whereof one parcel is described to lie near unto London Stone Of latter time we read that in the year of Christ 1135. the first of King Stephen a fire which began in the house of one Ailward near unto London stone consumed all East to Ealdgate in which fire the Priory of the Holy Trinity was burnt and vvest to St. Erkenwalds shrine in Pauls Church and these be the Eldest Notes that I read thereof Some have said this stone to be set there as a Mark in the middle of the City within the Wall but in truth it standeth far nearer to the River of Thames than to the Wall of the City Some others have said the same to be set for the tendering and making of payment by Debtors to their Creditors at their appointed dayes and times till of latter time payments were more usually made at the Font in Ponts Church and now most commonly at the Royal Exchange Some again have imagined the same to be set up by Iohn or Thomas London-stone dwelling there against it but more likely it is that such men have taken name of the Stone than the Stone of them as did John at Noke and Thomas at Stile William at Wall or at Well c. But the most probable opinion is that it was placed there by the Romans for a Milliare as was observed elswhere in this Discourse Down West from this Parish Church and from London-stone have ye Wallbroke corner from whence runneth up a street North to the Stocks called Walbrook because it standeth on the East side of the same Brook by the Bank thereof and the whole Ward taketh name of that street On the East side of this street and at the North corner thereof is the Stocks Market which had this beginning About the year of Christ 1282 Henry Wallis Mayor caused divers houses in this City to be builded towards the maintenance of London-Bridge namely in one void place neare unto the Parish Church called Wooll-Church On the North side thereof where sometime the way being very large and broad had stood a pair of Stocks for punishment of offenders This building took name of those Stooks and was appointed by him to be a Market-place for Fish Flesh in the midst of the City other Houses be builded in other places by Patent of Edward the first it doth appear dated the tenth of his Reign After this in the year 1322 the seventeenth of Edward the second a Decree was made by Hamond Chickwell Mayor that none should sell fish or flesh out of the Markets appointed to wit Bridge-street East-cheap Old Fish-street St. Nicholas Shambles and the said Stocks on pain to forfeit such fish or flesh as were there sold for the first time and the second time to lose their Freedom Which Act was made by commandment of the King under his Letters Patents dated at the Tower the 17th of his Reign then was this Stocks let to Farm for forty six pounds thirteen shillings four pence by year this Stocks Market was again begun to be builded in the year 1410 in the eleaventh of Henry the fourth and was finished in the year next following In the year 1507 the same was rented fifty six pounds nineteen shillings ten pence And in the year 1543 John Cotes being Mayor there was in this Stocks Market for Fishmongers five and twenty Boards or Stalls rented yearly to 34 pounds 13 shillings 4 pence There was for Butchers 18 Boards or stalls rented at 41 pounds 16 shillings 4 pence and there were also Chambers above sixteen rented at five pounds thirteen shillings four pence in all eighty two pounds three shillings Next unto this Stocks is the Parish Church of St. Mary VVool-Church so called of a Beam placed in the Church-yard which was thereof called Wool-Church Haw of the Tronage or weighing of Wooll there used and to verifie this we find amongst the Customs of London written in French in the Reign of Edward the second a Chapter intituled Les Customes de VVooll-Church Haw wherein is set down what was there to be paid for every parcel of Wooll weighed this Tronage or weighing of Wooll till the sixth of Richard the second was there continued John Church-man then builded the Custome-house upon VVooll Key to serve for the said Tonnage as is before shewed in Tower-street Ward This Church is reasonable fair and large and was afterwards new builded by Licence granted in the twentieth of Henry the sixth with condition to be builded fifteen foot from the Stocks Market for sparing of light to the said Stocks the Parson of this Parish is to have four Marks the year for Tyth of the said Stocks paid him by the Masters of the Bridge-house by a special Decree made the second of Henry the seventh In the year about 1500 John VVingar Lord Mayor gave two Basons of silver to this Church And Richard Shore Sheriff of London made the Porch at the West end they lye both there entombed From the Stocks Market and this Parish Church East up into Lombard-street some four or five houses on a side and also on the South side of VVooll-Church have ye Bear-Binder Lane a part whereof is of this VVallbrook Ward Then down sower in the street called Wallbrook is one other fair Church of St. Stephen builded new on the East side thereof for the old Church stood on the West side in place where now standeth the Parsonage House and therefore so much nearer to the Brook even on the Bank This Church was finished in the year 1439. The breadth thereof is sixty seven foot and length one hundred twenty five foot the Church-yard ninty foot in length and thirty seven in breadth and more Robert VVhittingham made Knight
is ordered by our Soveraign Lord and his Parliament that the said Marchants of Aâ—main being of the Company called the Guild-hall Theutonicorum or the Flemish Geld that now be or hereafter shall be shall have hold and enjoy to them and their Successors for ever the said place called the Steel-house yielding to the Maior and Commonalty an annual Rent of threescore and ten pounds three shillings foure pence c. In the year 1551 the 5th of Edward the 6th through complaint of the English Marchants the liberty of the Steel-yard Marchants was seized into the Kings hands and so it resteth Then is Church-lane at the West end of Alhollowes Church called Alhollowds the more in Thames-street for a difference from Alhollowes the lesse in the same street It is also called Alhollowes ad faenum in the Ropery because Hay was sold near thereunto at Hay-Wharf and Ropes of old time made and soâ—d in the high street This is a fair Church with a large Cloyster on the South side thereof about their Church-yard but fouly defaced and ruinated Dr. Lichfield a learned man and an Authour who died 1447. lieth here buried with other Benefactors At the East end of this Church goeth down a Lane called Wharf-lane now lately a great Brew-house builded there by one Pot Hen Compion Esq a Beere-Brewer used it Abraham his Son since possessed it Then was there one other Lane sometime called Woolseys Gate now out of use for the lower part thereof upon the Bank of Thames is builded by the late Earl of Shrewsbury the other end is builded on stopped up by the Chamberlain of London I. Butler Draper one of the Sheriffs in the year 1420. dwelled there He appointed his house to be sold and the price thereof to be given to the poor it was of Alhollowes Parish the lesse Then is there the said Parish-Church of Alhollowes called the Lesse and by some Alhollowes on the Cellars for it standeth on Vauâ—ts it is said to be builded by Sir Iohn Poultney sometimes Mayor The Steeple and Quire of this Church stand on an Arched Gate being the entry to a great House called Cold Harborough the Quire of late being fallen down is now again at length in the year 1594. by the Parishioners new builded Touching this Cold Harborough I finde that in thirteenth of Edward the second Sir Iohn Abel Knight demised or let unto Henry Stow Draper all that his Capital Messuage called the Cold Harborough in the Parish of All Saints ad fanum all the puâ—tenances within the Gate with the Key which Rob. Hartford Citizen Son to W. Hartford had ought the foresaid Rob. paid for it Rent 335. the year This Ro. Hartford being owner thereof as also of other Lands in Surrey deceasing without issue Male left two Daughters his Co-heires to wit Idonia married to Sir Ralph Biggot and Maude married to Sir Stephen Cosenton Knights between whom the said House Lands were parted After the which Io. Bigot Sonne to the said Sir Ralph Sir Iohn Cosentâ—n did â—ell their Moyeties of Cold Harborough unto Iohn Poultney Sonne of Adam Poultney the 8th of Edward the 3d. This Sir John Poultney dwelling in this House and being four times Mayor the said House took the name of Poultneys Inne notwithstanding this Sir John Poultney the 21. of Edward the 3d by his Charter gave and confirmed to Humphrey de Bohune Earl of Hereford and Essex his whole Tenement called Cold Harborough with all the Tenements and Key adjoyning and appurtenances sometime pertaining to Robert de Hereford on the way called Hay-wharf Lane c. for one Rose at Midsommer to him and his Heires for all services if the same were demanded This Sir John Poultney deceased 1349. and left issue by Margaret his Wife William Poultney who dyed without issue and Margaret his Mother was married to Sir Nicholas Lovel Knight c. Philip St. Cleare gave two Messuages pertaining to this Cold Harbrough in the Ropery towards the enlarging of the Parish Church and Church-yard of Al-Saints called the lesse in the 20. of Richard the second In the year 1397. the 21. of Richard the 2d John Holland Earl of Huntington was lodged there and Richard the second his Brother dined with him it was then counted a right fair and stately house But in the next year following I finde that Edmund Earl of Cambridge was there lodged notwithstanding the said house still retained the name of Poulâ—neys Inne in the Reign of Henry the sixth the 26 of his Reign It belonged since to H. Holland Duke of Excester and he was lodged there in the year 1472. In the year 1485. Richard the third by his Letters Patents granted and gave to John VVrith alias Garter principal King of Arms of English men and to the rest of the Kings Heralds and Pursevants of Arms all that Messuage with the appurtenances called Cold Harber in the Parish of Al-Saints the little in London and their Successors for ever Dated at VVestminster the second of March Anno regni sui primo without fine or fee. How the said Heraulds departed therewith I have not read â—ut in the Reign of Henry the eighth the Bishop of Durhams housâ— neer Charing Crosse being taken into the Kings hand Cuthbert Tunstall Bishop of Durham was lodged in this Cold Harber since the which time it hath belonged to the Earls of Shrewsbury by composition as is supposed from the said Cuthbert Tunstall The last deceaâ—ed Earâ— took it down and in place thereof builded a great number of â—mall Tenements now letten out for great Rents to people of all sorts Then is the Dyers-hall which Company was made a Brother-hood and a Guild in the fourth Henry the sixth and appointed to consist oâ— a Gardian or Warden and a Communalty the twelvth of Edward the fourth Then be there divers large Brew-houses and others till you come to Ebgate Lane where that Ward endeth in the East On the North side of Thames-street be divers Lanes also the first is at the South end of Elbow Lane before spoken of West from Downgate over against Greenwich-lane then be divers fair Houses for Marchants and others all along that side The next Lane East from Downâ—gate is called Bush-lane which turneth up to Candlewick-street and is of Down-gate Ward Next is Suffolk lane likewise turning up to Candlewick-street in this Lane is one notable Grammar School founded in the year 1561. by the Master Wardens and Assistants of the Marchant-Taylors in the Parish of St. Lawrence Poultney Richard Hills sometimes Master of that Company having before given 500 l. toward the purchase of an House called the Mannor of the Rose sometime belonging to the Duke of Buckingham wherein the said School is kept Then is there one other Lane which turneth up to St. Lawrence-hill and to the South vvest Corner of St. Lawrence Church-yard then another Lane called Poultney-lane that goeth up of this Ward to the South-East corner of St.
is now called Bacon-House because the same was new builded by Sir Nicholas Bacon Lord-Keeper of the Great Seal Down on that side by Serjeant Fleet-Woods house Recorder of London who also new builded it to Saint Olaves Church in Silver-Street which is by the North-West End of this Noble-Street Then have ye Maine Street of this Ward which is called Saint Martins lane in cluding Saint Martin on the East side thereof and so down on both the sides to Aldersgate And these be the bounds of this Ward within the Wall and Gate Without the Gate the main Street called Aldersgate-Street runneth up North on the East side to the West end of Hounds-ditch or Barbican-Street a part of which Street is also of this Ward And on the West side to Long-Lane a part whereof is likewise of this Ward Beyond the which Aldersgate is Goswell Street up to the Barrs And on the West side of Hidersgate Street by Saint Buttolphs Church is Briton-Street which runneth West to a Pumpe and then North to the Gate which entreth the Church-Yard sometimes pertaining to the Priory of Saint Bartholomews on the east side on the west side towards St. Bartholomews Spittle to a paire of posts there fixed And these be the bounds of this Aldersgate Ward without The antiquities be these first in Stainâ—ng lane of old time so called as may be supposed of Painter-stainers dwelling there On the East side thereof adjoyning to the Aaberdashers Hall be ten Almes-houses pertaining to the Haberdashers wherein be placed ten Almes people of that Company every of them having Eight pence the peece every Friday for ever by the gift of Thomas Huntlow Haberdasher one of the Sheriffs in the year 1539. Then is the small Parish Church of Saint Mary called Staining because it standeth at the North end of Staining lane Then is Engain lane or Maiden lane and at the North-West Corner thereof the Parish Church of St. John Zachary a fair Church with the Monuments well preserved of Thomas Lichfield who founded a Chancery there in the fourteenth of Edward the second On the East side of this Foster Lane at Engane Lane end is Goldsmiths Hall a proper House but not large and therefore to say that Bartholmew Read Goldsmith Mayor in the year 1502 kept such a feast in this Hall as some have fabuled is far incredible and altogether unpossible considering the smallnesse of the Hall number of the Guests which as they say were more than one hundred persons of great estate But of late years the said Goldsmiths Hall is much enlarged and in a stately and sumptuous manner in so much that it may compare with any other Hall in London Then at the North end of Noble-street is the Parish Church of St. Olave in Silver-street a small thing On the West side of Foster-Lane is the small Parish Church of St. Leonards for them of St. Martins le Grand A number of Tenements being lately builded in place of the great Collegiate Church of St. Martin that Parish is mightily encreased Then in Pope-lane so called of one Pope that was owner thereof On the North side is the Parish Church of Saint Anne in the Willowes so called I know not upon what occasion but some say of Willowes growing thereabouts but now there is no such void place for Willowes to grow more than the Church-yard wherein do grow some high Ash-trees to this day Then in St. Martins Lane was of old time a fair and large Colledge of a Dean and Secular Canons or Priests and was called Saint Martins le grand founded by Ingelricus and Edwardus his Brother in the year of Christ 1056 and confirmed by William the Conqueror as appeareth by his Charter dated 1068. This Colledge claimed great Priviledges of Sanctuary and otherwise as appeareth in a Book written by a Notary of that House about the year 1442 the nineteenth of Henry the sixth wherein amongst other things is set down and declared that on the first of September in the year aforesaid a Souldier prisoner in Newgate as he was led by an Officer towards the Guild-Hall of London there came out of Panyer Alley five of his fellowship and took him from the Officer brought him into Sanctuary at the West door of St. Martins Church and took Grithe of that place But the same day Philip Malpas Robert Marshall then Sheriffs of London with many other entred the said Church and forcibly took out with them the said five men thither fled led them fettered to the Counter and from thence chained by the Necks to Newgate of which violent taking the Dean and Chapter in large manner complained to the King and required him as their Patron to defend their Priviledges like as his Predecessors had done c. All which complaint and suite the Citizens by their Counsel Markham Serjeant at the Law Iohn Carpenter common Clerk of the City and others learnedly answered offering to prove that the said place of St. Martin had no such Immunity or Liberty as was pretended Notwithstanding after long debating of this Controversie by the Kings commandment assent of his Councel in the Starr-Chamber the Chancellour and Treasurer sent a Writ unto the Sheriffs of London charging them to bring the said five persons with the cause of their taking and withholding afore the King in his Chancery on the Vigil of Alhallowes on which day the said Sheriffs with the Recorder and Counsel of the City brought and delivered them accordingly afore the said Lords where the Chancellour after he had declared the Kings Commandement sent them to St. Martins there to abide freely as in a place having Franchises whiles them liked c. Without Aldersgate on the East side of Aldersgate-street is the Cookes Hall which Cooks or Pastlers were admitted to be a Company and to have a Master and Wardens in the two and twentieth of Edward the fourth From thence along unto Houndsditch or Barbican street be many fair Houses on the West side also be the like fair buildings till ye come to Long-Lane and so to Goswell street In Britaine street which took that name of the Duke of Britain Lodging there is one proper Parish Church of St. Buttolph In which Church was sometime a Brotherhood of St. Fabian and Sebastian founded in the year 1377 the fifty one of Edward the third and confirmed by Henry the fourth in the sixth of his Reign Then Henry the sixth in the twenty fourth of his Reign to the honour of the Trinity gave Licence to Dame Joane Astley sometime his Nurse to R. Cawood and T. Smith to found the same a Fraternity perpetually to have a Master and two Custos with Brethren and Sisters This Brotherhood was endowed with Lands more than thirty pounds by the year and was suppressed by Edward the sixth Of the One and Twentieth Ward or Aldermanry of the City of London called Faringdon Ward Intra ON the South side of Aldersgate Ward lyeth Faringdon Ward called